skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Adoption.

The IQ of children is highly correlated with the IQ of parents. Adoption is not, for educated couples, an alternative to having their own children.

> A woman who wants to raise a baby at some point has to make tough choices about formula, breast pumping, bonding, and her other priorities in life.

You can make things as equal as possible, but no more. My wife and I have almost identical educational backgrounds. We accepted very similar jobs out of school (she will technically be making more money than me considering benefits). We had our baby her last year of school so she wouldn't have to take maternity leave, with the negative stigma associated with that. I'm taking a couple of years off from working at a large law firm so I can work a 9-5 with a judge and take more baby responsibilities and allow her to focus on her career. We're trying extremely hard to make things as equitable as possible between the two of us.

But at the end of the day if my wife had suffered a complication in child birth (it is still the most dangerous thing most people do), it would have fallen to me to provide for her and the child. I was not the one who had to take that bodily risk, therefore I assumed by default the "provider" role, or at least had to be fully prepared to assume that role. Therefore, it was totally rational for her to have been concerned, pre-marriage, about my ability to do so.
I'm not sure the point of your hypothetical.
This case isn't just about buying books elsewhere, though. It's about buying them elsewhere and selling them here.
It would be nice if one of the parties of all this would put up a blog post explaining what happened (behind the scenes) and the conclusion to it all (how/why it's back up). It would be nice to see how it was all resolved and the outcome, whether it was good or bad.
I'm not sure the point of your hypothetical since it's irrelevant.
I've stopped building on Rails because of things like this. Point releases shouldn't break functionality. I got tired of regression testing my apps for framework changes.
I don't think anyone doubts github's trustworthiness, but as an enterprise customer, I do wonder if they have tight enough controls. Marketing emails are an area that companies should be spending extra time testing as those screwups tend to be irreversible.
Please, that's because the hacker / DIY community took to it first.

Would you say investment clubs are dollar user communities?
It's only by growing up in a county that does an amazing job that you end up with the stupid idea that countries are unemportent. Hint other people want your stuff and somebody needs to protect it.

PS: Some people where shocked that Greece defaulted ignoring. "Greece faced economic hardships and defaulted on its loans in 1826, 1843, 1860 and 1893." Why? Because as nation they can get away with it do why not?
This speaks about Internet scale and the vast problems of security we shall face in the coming decades

I mean rtm's Internet worm was supposed to be the great wake up call - and thirty years later look !
Yes but in this case, they (TC) know that Arrington is a partner at SoftTech VC, and they also know that SoftTech VC is investing in this particular startup being covered (They mention them specifically in the article) so the ignorance argument is invalid.

Since someone within TC stands to profit from the company they are writing about, isn't a disclosure a good idea? I agree that it's not entirely clear-cut what to do here, but IMO to build any sort of journalistic integrity a media outlet should err on the side of disclosure.
Email address isn't secret, the use of certain tools for some however is. Enterprise is a different game than your usual early stage web/product startup. Politics are real, exist and credibility is on the line when you stick your ass out to vouch for a company/product outside of the company standard. Base cost for this software is $5k/yr for one seat pack (20 devs), whereas the competition - Atlasssian is incredibly price competitive (10 users for $10, 25 users for $1,800) - keep in mind competition also exists in the form of TFS (ergh) which is free for MSDN subscribers and included in most enterprise licensing agreements.
I'm not sure why you found it necessary to post this comment. I found the original article to be a well-written warning about a rather serious bug that might affect a lot of people. But your comment seems to be sarcastically suggesting "move along, nothing to see here."
Comics, not blogs. DevOps Dave - Buried in Logs
SABDFL pushes in Unity 7 changes after Ubuntu 13.04 feature freeze
"The difference is what they actually do to make money - by creating value or by putting in money."

Are you seriously telling me that the next XYZ social media startup is creating more value than the VC that's investing in new technology? the 2010-2013 landscape is much different than you seem to think.

" most entrepreneurs put it all on the line when they try to bootstrap a startup (remember most startups don't successfully raise)."

Many if not most entrepreneurs already made their FU money or already had a cash reserve. Do you think Dorsey was putting it all on the line with Square? Do you think Bill Gates was putting it all on the line with Microsoft (his grandfather already set up a million-dollar trust fund in his name before he started)? Do you think that Mark Zuckerberg would be on the street if Facebook flopped? Do you think Bill Nguyen was putting it all on the line with Color?

"Most people would very comfortable with 100K, NYC or not... just the fact you have a decent, dependable salary for several years makes it cushy compared to a startup."

If the business could blow up tomorrow or in six months, the salary is far from dependable. (unfortunately I'm also in a precarious position) And yes, in many startups the people are drawing living salaries.

"Entreprenuers put much more in a startup than money"

And VCs don't? It's an exaggeration perpetrated in particular by accelerators. Most VCs offer something on top of money -- be it connections, mentorship, opportunities to sell to friends. Speaking from the side of having invested in others' startups, it's not a worthwhile investment if I can't actively do something to help improve the odds of success. While it doesn't seem like hard work, making and keeping connections involves lots of time and energy.
Daring Fireball: Everything Else
Maybe it's a play on words, initially as the author participating in the act of "google quitting" but also meant to be interpreted as google itself quitting being the google it was.
If they wanted to experience how it works, wouldn't they just be able to sign up under an alias? Also, I am not American, so I might be out of the loop a little, but why does everyone consider CIA to be some big bad wolf like in the films? There are probably people risking their lives (maybe not in an action movie way) right now, trying to make the world a safer place from terrorist ducks.
Salient point:

"The people who are getting the “Apple never did anything like this before” vapors from Apple’s throwing of sharp elbows in the direction of Samsung seem to forget that this is the same company that ran the John Hodgman/Justin Long “Get a Mac” campaign."
What does the cost of manufacturing have to do with an item's utility? You can get a cheap knockoff TV that looks the same as the expensive brand too... It will look the same from a distance, anyway. Just like a cheap knockoff purse.
A complete cloud based approach to academic publishing: writeLaTeX to figshare
Absolutely I agree with you there. But you can't just excuse a wrong in one situation by saying that some injustice in some other unrelated situation exists... so there. And anyways, with cars you actually have a purpose... you use it to transport yourself. Sure we're burning fossil fuels, but at least there is some gray area here, there is some room for debate. There's an unquestionable utility there you have to account for -- not so with the ring, as we've discussed in another parent comment.
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Frigging auto correct. I meant terrorist dicks.
> ... including the ability to run the SQL engine on top of any key/value store ...

Note that you can do that today with the virtual tables interface in SQLite 3. For example several people have written virtual tables where the underlying data is in a csv file, I wrote one that backends into CouchDB etc. It is a little ugly in that SQLite semantics bleed through the interface (eg BestIndex method) but does work. http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html
Most Cisco gear I've worked on (not ISP level) is extremely susceptible to local "attacks". I've never seen "disable-password-recovery" turned on in a config, and I've gone in and changed the CONFREG values dozens of times in order to grab an old config which no one knew the password too.

I always assumed that Cisco kind of passed off physical security to the owners of the equipment, which actually made some sense to me, as long as the users were aware that the device wasn't physically secure.
MIT CS class (6.047) I just took had a mix between course notes and a textbook. It started as a compilation of course notes and then each year, was improved by the class. During each lecture, one or more people were assigned to update the relevant chapter of the book to reflect this year's lecture/changes in the field. Some chapters that were the core of the class or didn't change from year to year were really good and some were only a basic framework. He also recorded all his lectures, so that helped with any places where the book might not be ideally up to date.

http://compbio.mit.edu/teaching/book.pdf
Are you aware of the historical precedent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Iron_Jewellery
Not really. They thought they were emailing administrators at the one organisation. From the recipients point of view, it would be much easier to deal with if you saw who it was going to. A bunch of BCC recipients within the same organisation is going to lead to confusion.
You can stop your argument right at the start. Google Reader has more activity than Google Plus: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/google-reader-still-sends-...

Every conclusion derived from here is then flawed.
Your logic is technically sound, and I'm not faulting you for thinking that way, but for me personally that's an unfortunately regressive way of looking at the world. I'm unsure where the idea that being principled requires being foolish comes from, but I myself would care more about the character of my daughter's husband (and incidentally, the assumed father of my grandchildren). I'm not even sure what one would be trying to optimize for with this line of thinking. Couldn't this same concept lead to: "I'd prefer a man who knows exactly how much to cheat and steal and hurt others, as long as he makes sure the direct cost to him is less than his benefit"?* Is that really a man you'd like to see raising your grandkids?

*Just to clarify, to avoid making this seem like a strawman: I'm creating a deliberately extreme example that to me seems like the logical extension of optimizing for "success" (or minimizing headwinds) at the expense of character (personified in your example by someone who's principled as opposed to a follow-the-herd type person). The purpose of this is to highlight the fact that this is someone you're accepting into your family, and the importance of that becomes particularly clear when you consider that the man he is will in large part shape the men and women you're grandchildren are.
Can you comment on the EnterpriseDB Postgres "cloud" offering? http://www.enterprisedb.com/cloud-database
A lot of enterprise spam filters are triggered by a burst of incoming mail from a single sender, sending one email with a bunch of to: is less likely to trigger them.

I've had to deal with too many stupid spam filters in my life.
A car has some level of re-sale value though. UNlike a Diamond or a Wedding.
I predict more and more "interesting research" will be done anonymously, like this. This time was blatantly illegal, but simply releasing security vulnerabilities, if you're not willing to comply fully with a vendor's requests, might be prudent to do anonymously as well.
It's not much of a tradition at all. De Beers started pushing the use of diamonds on engagment rings in the early 20th century as an attempt to sell more diamonds. A tradition that the average American thinks has always existed is rather new and was artificially created by one of the most despicable companies to have existed[1]. I do credit them for creating one of the most brilliant marketing schemes of the past 200 years, but personally, I find it lamentable that they did for our society's sake.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring

> Before the 20th century, other types of betrothal gifts were common. Near the end of the 19th century, it was typical for the bride-to-be to receive a sewing thimble rather than an engagement ring.[1] This practice was particularly common among religious groups that shunned jewelry (plain people). Engagement rings did not become standard in the West until the end of the 19th century, and diamond rings did not become common until in the 1930s in the United States, as a result of an extensive nationwide marketing campaign by the diamond industry. The phenomenon arose even later in other countries.[1] Now, 80% of American women are offered a diamond ring to signify engagement.[1]

> The idea that a man should spend a significant fraction of his annual income for an engagement ring originated de novo from De Beers marketing materials in the early 20th century, in an effort to increase the sale of diamonds.[1] In the 1930s, they suggested that a man should spend the equivalent of one month's income in the engagement ring; later they suggested that he should spend two months' income on it.[1] In 2007, the average cost of an engagement ring in USA as reported by the industry was US$2,100.[9]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers#Controversies
Just a heads up. I'm having trouble with the docs page navigation on my 13" macbook in Safari. The navigation is taller than the screen, which shouldn't be a problem, but when I try to scroll while hovered over the navigation it is scrolling the page instead of the navigation most of the time. I'm having to find certain spots that will allow me to scroll the navigation instead so I can reach the bottom options.
Sorry, still not sure I follow. So the issue is that, for example, the corporate office could discover that a certain department is using what--in their opinion--is an overpriced solution?
> So what happens when you switch jobs? In general, your future employer will lure you out of your position with money or prestige, offering a 15% or more increase in salary.

This works until it doesn't.
Scientists Want to Bring Some Animals Back from Extinction
This is a "longstanding tradition" that was invented out of whole cloth in the 1930's and 1940's, by a series of De Beers advertising campaigns involving product placement with the Kardashian analogues of that era, culminating in the "A Diamond Is Forever" radio ads. Shaming America's male and female populace into buying into their cartel, the 'customary price' they recommended for diamond rings to demonstrate love rose continuously, not only in absolute terms, but as a share of personal income. It's an arms race with both zero objective value to anyone, and significant negative externalities.
Minor correction : Magazine now works on web too if you have a subscription.
When I read the blog, the first thing I thought was "boy am I glad I don't use rails". I realize all frameworks and toolkits have issues, but Rails seems to be particularly bad.

I think the big take away here is the importance of apparently redundant sanity checks....
Videos and slides from Linaro’s Hong Kong conference
I suspect there are spam-filter considerations. Also, some email clients distinguish between "email addressed directly to me" and "email I happened to get through some mailing list or bcc".
You're being forced to apologize for being a victim of today's McCarthyism. I'm sorry.
Yes. For an excellent introduction to writing copy, I highly recommend everything on www.copyhackers.com
I like to think I just contributed to the internet in some small way. :)
We are a species where, thus far, the burdens of
motherhood are associated with a single gender

I agree with you here. I don't know why the HN crowd is refusing to see this point... an infant in its early months really needs the mother.

But I disagree on the point that the role of motherhood inextricably falls down on a woman's turf for the years to come. As a male I can say that I would be happy to be a stay-at-home-dad after the infant is of a certain age -- and I have met many women who're okay with this idea (of the man staying at home while the woman makes money).
Why are you shutting down instead of rebranding?
What would be some potential alternatives?
You may be right, but being a tech press darling does not make them less or more successful.
Some great consumer Companies are succeeding with very few tech press mentions (Tango, WhatsApp come to mind), while others get a lot of tech mentions (Foursquare, Taskrabbit), and it is debatable whether they will be real success in the long run.
Marissa Mayer Loves Paperwork, And It's Driving Some People Nuts
Are you seriously requiring a tweet to get a download link?
I'm not sure why you found it necessary to post that comment, or why I found it necessary to post this one.
An overpriced insecure solution.
"regrets building on Rails."

I'm surprised they haven't tried to build their own framework / programming language (like Facebook with HipHop). It wasn't a bad idea to start with rails, but now they subject themselves to the issues of Ruby and Rails without an alternative
And the translate API is still available[1] and the Google Base Data API (sic) looks like it's just subsumed into other APIs[2].

[1] https://developers.google.com/translate/

[2] http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-shopping-...
Appeal to tradition.
Appeal to common practice.
Naturalistic fallacy.
Appeal to emotion.

Forunately none of these things prescribe (or justify) human behavior.

It's not an "alternate" world when many of us are already living here and welcoming others.

No, an end to population growth isn't good for economic growth, luckily that's not what life's about.
It's a sad reality. I'd add that it's often not necessary to go so far as leaving the job. Rather threatening to leave can be enough to render the same boost, assuming you've got the stomach for playing that kind of game.
It would look awkward tied to your finger, no? Diamonds are pretty and sparkly -- they are just radically too expensive at retail by any objective measure.

Really, I don't think diamonds would be much of a problem at all if it were possible to sell them for anywhere close to what they cost.
Ignoring whether that's true or relevant to family planning, I never said you can divide up roles randomly without ever making tradeoffs. Just that it's coercive to adhere slavishly to distributions of labor which are 1) monolithic and 2) bound to gender.
I don't think the GP is criticizing the article, he's using the article to criticize Rails. Not so much "nothing to see here" as "well, what did you expect from Rails?".

(I'm explaining what I think the GP meant, not my position; I'm an old Perl guy, still undecided on the overall trade-offs offered by Rails)
At one point in time I knew some people that did contract work at National Institutes of Health, and the way they talked about it, NIH might as well stand for Not Invented Here.
A CS science degree will give you a broader view of computer science field and how to approach solving problems which is great but they do not focus programming/coding in particular, especially mobile. They just introduce you programming as one of many tools in CS. Best you can do is get a degree + work on your coding skills on your own on codecademy or something like that.

However if you want to just learn to code as quickly as possible than just start on a site like codecademy, or my personal favorite, treehouse. They also have mobile(ios, android) courses, but they focus on web. You will probably need both, and other tutorials to really learn. You can get a refferal link for 50% discount for first month in my profile.
I remember reading this story when it came out and reading this comment: So what made you join Microsoft?

Still no answer from the guy.
> I like to play devil's advocate every now and then to see how people react

Easily interpreted as trolling. I think you're doing yourself a disservice.

One person telling another to "shut it" is not censorship. Both have a right to speak their minds. Censorship is when you're told by someone with authority that what you're saying/writing/expressing should not be expressed for whatever set of reasons.

You telling someone to "just go away" is equal to this.

There's a standard in the US that your right to free speech shall be upheld but not in the case of hate speech or insighting unrest and violence (also known as trolling). This is for very good reason (ask Weev what he thinks) - which is that we need some form of law to protect us from one person riling up a mob to violence, or a single deranged person from stalking and harassing another.

Trolling a community to provoke thought and discourse is a time-honored profession that predates the internet by millennia (Jesus is often considered one of the best trolls in history).

Taking a contrary position "just because" or for sport is rude. But it's tolerated. How much of me would you like to tolerate in person? Here, online, I'm just a name in a message thread. In person it's a whole different deal. You have rights to protect you from my thoughts, and I have rights to express those thoughts.

Where the twain shall meet?
I took it more like "oh look, another Rails security flaw, big surprise". Not "move along, nothing to see", but rather "take pause and reconsider using Rails".
Hard things shouldn't remain undone, nor should they be forgotten.

You're trying to handwave over the fact that you're accepting something instead of dealing with it temporarily.

And if you're doing that, you've already lost, you just haven't admitted it to yourself.

Don't you get it? Here, right here and right now, is where we're having a conversation about what we want to value. And you're on the side that says we should still value it, and trying to excuse yourself by saying we're not having all of the other conversations.

But we are. Just not here.
Good, LayerVault was really just fishing for some free ads.

None of LV's claims are true, the graphics is different. You cannot copyright an inspiration and not like LV were first there anyway. A lot of their gfx was inspired by some other work.
We're not talking about a thief who took the car. To complete your analogy, the intruder installed a GPS device and gathered real-time traffic data. Illegal? Probably. But not theft.
Bitcoin is not anonymous. All the transactions take place between cryptographic pseudonyms (the ECDSA keys used to sign transactions). Just how much information you can infer from the resulting anonymous social graph is unclear, but it's probably a fair amount.
FYI the software behind the "information radiator" is actually something we wrote at Pivotal, Project Monitor. We open sourced it, so you can check out the repo here to get started:
https://github.com/pivotal/projectmonitor/

I'm the PM so feel free to shoot any questions/complaints/feedback my way.
How does »acing real analysis« help understanding number theory? As far as I'm aware they're not really related at all.
I don't see what's bad about it, well except for the bug itself.

Computer software is bound to have bugs, and if you ask me. a company that discloses those bugs, thoroughly explains the cause, addresses how to avoid them the future and apologises to their customers is on the right track.

Don't get me wrong, you software should be very stable, but when the inevitable happens, well this is the way you address it.