skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I won't try to guess why people upvoted it, I can only tell of why I submitted it: the article (which I haven't written, only come across) is not just moaning about a cancelled series. It discusses the science that permeates it, and its geek appeal. Which I thought fitting for hacker news.
That's the issue. Who has the problem this is solving?

Last week I needed a new copy of my house keys. The next day I was going out to lunch and noticed there was a bicycle shop that copied keys down the street. I said "I'll meet you inside", got the copies made in about 2 minutes, and made it to the restaurant before the waiter had even come by to take the order.

If I were a shut-in, I suppose this could be easier, but if I were a shut-in I wouldn't need more copies of my keys.
There is less verbose repeating of verbosity. But the types did not change in anything like the way that I would like.

Try to translate http://perl.plover.com/Stream/stream.html into C++ iterators to see how the current abstraction limits the ways you can think about a program. By contrast suppose that my hypothetical iterator< foo > type was required to have a pointer overload, and supported the methods done() and next(). Now go back and try to translate that article - you'll find that it is pretty easy.
I think most people understand what the business-side of a business does and what purpose it exists for and why those things are important.

What most people don't understand is why the business-side, and especially at the executive level, deserves to be paid so much higher (sometimes exponentially more) than the technical side where the product/brand value is usually being directly or indirectly created? Especially in a tech-oriented business, which more and more U.S. businesses are now-a-days. An article explaining how these effects come into fruition (whether it is that business-people tend to be equipped with better negotiation skills, are better at selling their own skillsets in an interview setting, etc.) might be better received.

edit: though this will quickly lead to a discussion on the merits of (late) capitalism as a whole because these problems extend well past the tech world. It's just that now that our economy is decidedly service-based, technical products (or products that at least depend on technology and therefore technologists) are beginning to dominate the landscape but the unbalanced pay for workers/programmers vs. managers/upper-echelon is more pronounced than ever.
This seems really interesting as a concept, and much more so as a working product!

Is MapD written to any specific GPU language, like CUDA or OpenCL? I'm in the market for new GPU and this might be a factor in purchasing... ;)

Also, I can sympathize to the mismatch of creation vs running business.
Often looked upon as a waste of time by Sherlock(s). They’d rather fix an IE bug than sit through a meeting with investor.

This is correct.

The dirty job of talking to people about stuff they don’t get / care about isn't something they are often good at. Dr. Watson (a business co-founder) is likely to come with people skill.

This is incorrect and likely has led to the collapse of more startup partnetships than almost anything else. Simply because a techy is good with computers doesn't mean he somehow is less able to interact with the real world or understand customers. If you are buffering your technical team away communication with real customers, you are going to fail. The technical team is not just tapping at a computer and making magic come out - they are directly solving deep and intrinsic logical problems in your business-customer-offering interaction. Their understanding of the problem is the key to your startup succeeding.

Simply creating a plan and then having a technical team 'execute it' does not work in practice, as the details of the execution are just as important as the bigger picture, and the details must tie up perfectly with the bigger picture. The technical team must be involved in strategy and business, and the business team should be involved in important technical decisions. Best of all, you really shouldn't have a divide at all in the part of your startup that needs to be most cohesive, and both founders should be technical and business founders. Or at least, respect and understand both sides.
I think there could be some simple improvements to improve this situation in the future.

1. Break off the users working on identifying suspects into a non-public sub-reddit (or other site) and anyone who wants to join should have to read about how to do this kind of work responsibly and read about what went wrong last time.

2. There should a warning to any reporters who try to join the closed site that this is a work in progress and nothing except the official status reports of the group should be reported on.

3. If anyone starts witch-hunting in the public threads then moderators and users (it should be part of reddediquite if it's not) should point those users to the closed forum. (and obviously immediately delete anything accusing a specific person.)

4. Like someone else also said, reporters need to be educated to not report directly from Reddit. It's the raw internet.

What do you guys think? What else could be done to improve the situation?
A better question is: "Who doesn't find tracing packets from 39,000 feet interesting?" =)
That's the only question we should ask here.

Who made you "the only question we should ask" police?
I find that cunt can still be just as powerful if you say it the right way - maybe over time that will change, but if it does I suspect new words will appear which are as strong.

I also disagree about nigger, it didn't make me flinch at all despite the fact that I know neither racists who use it, nor black people who use it about themselves (i.e. I don't hear it regularly). I'm not sure I even consider it a swear word, just a racist word.
I think you'll see in part 3 (should be published tomorrow) why I'm arguing that "objects-only" is the MUCH simpler way to get [[Prototype]] styled code (that is, "behavior delegation"). However, it requires you to stop using constructors and "new" and .prototype and so forth. Part 2 (today) will argue why all those things are actually "distractions" from the simpler model.
I agree that that's not the point, but that's a nice hack.
“Right click and save as” needs to go away
> Your comment boils down to little more than saying "Not true!"

My comment boils down to the same point as the blog post: it's very diffiucult to show benefits of any educational intervention, especially long-term benefits. Corollary: it's very hard to be certain that pumping $100M into the City University will have significant positive results.

> think of countries like Finland or Norway who have an excellent public educational system

Finland is somewhat exceptional but European educational systems are otherwise on par with the American one[1]. Except for the top/prestigious universities where Americans dominate and only Britons keep up[2].

I both live and vacation in Europe. The popularity of English here has more to do with Anglosphere's cultural domination than it has with the school system. If you want anecdotal evidence, English is my second language and I learnt it primarily from trashy American television on cable and then the Internet.

[1] http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

[2] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
>I suppose Stephen Fry hasn't noticed, but many people who use several swear words in every sentence actually don't seem to have a large working vocabulary.

What Fry noticed is that many people use several swear words in every sentence period full stop <blink>.</blink> He's claiming it's orthogonal to working vocabulary size.
As an avid Sherlock Holmes fan, this analogy is extremely apt. Holmes would literally starve to death without Watson.
Looks like your getting downvoted, but I do agree with you.

While it's the nice thing to do in this case for the owners of Reddit to apologize, I'm not sure what meaning it really has, or should have. They don't have control over the people using their site. Things like this will continue to happen just as they always have.

I mean, I wouldn't expect Google to apologize because people sent threatening emails using a gmail.com address.
You can get 25 years for stealing a pair of socks in parts of the US.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/cruel-and-unusual-...
> Are you American?

Nope, Greek. I know "cunt" has lost its power in the UK (hell, Charlie Brooker says it five times per show), but I think americans still flinch a bit.
Thanks for that. I was wondering where the transition from air to land was. Makes sense they route through Satellites. It makes it more interesting because your packets are going from 39,000 feet to space then to land. Awesome
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Where internet-related words come from
I think its not so much what you said, but how you said it.

The way I read it, is that by saying that you found it odd that people were impressed by this, it can be felt that you were implying that people impressed by this demo and code are some how backward in their knowledge or thinking. And by pointing that out, you must there for be implying your own superiority. So, bolstering self image and suggesting its ego driven fits with that.

Do you see what I mean?

You could have just said, "yeah very cool, and here is some additional info for those who are interested." But instead, you implied a negative value judgement on people who liked the demo and code. People don't like that much.
I don't think that's it. I think they are increasing prices due to high demand. I mean why increase the prices twice?
I work startup founded by two awesome dudes, who very much respect each other. I can relate to what is being said here.

It is not for those who already understand value of what the other one is doing but many others [parters and mostly employes] who don't get it.

"Technical" things are likely to be more visible, trackable and tangible than "business".
I think you're going to see in part 3 (tomorrow) that it actually is quite simple and elegant to define "objects-only" delegation. You have to do away with constructors, "new", .prototype, and all that other stuff, which in part 2 (today) I'm going to argue are just distractions that keep us further from the simple power that is JS's [[Prototype]].
People "just wanting" something without regard for the consequences to others are acting like sociopaths.
It's also a strategy that's so hard to follow that even Johnson & Johnson has had trouble replicating it in later disasters (it also didn't hurt that J&J was completely blameless of the original charge). On The Media had a nice story about it in reference to the Toyota "unintended acceleration" issue:

http://www.onthemedia.org/2010/feb/12/better-safe-and-sorry/
(transcript:
http://www.onthemedia.org/2010/feb/12/better-safe-and-sorry/...)
Can someone share some details on how the rocket is stabilized? There are a few different ways to do it -- how does this one work?
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For those of you who haven't seen it, here is SpaceX's fantastic animation of their ultimate goal for Falcon 9 (complete with soundtrack by Muse):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFFiubtC3c

This will give you an idea of how grasshopper fits into the full flight plan.
Communist!!

;)
But this is only a problem if you use i, j, and k as unit vectors. I found $\hat e_{x,y,z}$ or even $\hat{e}_{1,2,3…}$ etc. to be the usual convention in physics, as it generalises much nicer to more dimensions.
One of the few rules reddit has is to not post "personal information". The admins and mods obviously ignored that for the "witch hunt".
>No. But those in the tech community have an unproportional influence over those on the outside.

Or so they like to think. Didn't work that much for Linux on the Desktop though...
As I said, my C++ experience is limited.

Thank you for demonstrating a better way to do it. Hopefully I'll remember that the next time that I need it. (Which is likely to be several years from now.)

Also you're right that I would like streams and generators. But, to me, it is the same abstraction as iteration. See, for instance, how Python does it.
As seems to be the norm these days, the initial HackerNews comments miss the whole damned point.

Yes, Reddit is a platform. However, it's a platform that they do moderate- usually heavily. Reddit actually has quite a history of stopping witch hunts, ever since they started having problems with people posting user information, or inciting people to harass someone off-site. They've been quite successful at it, and the community is thankful.

However, those were always related to cases that didn't have any reason whatsoever to have large groups involved- they were to harass community members, some small-name celebrities, or people with opinions that are unpopular on Reddit. This was the first time that it was something that theoretically, Reddit could do some good with- and has had a bit of luck in doing this, albeit for much smaller crimes, in the past, by digging up license plate numbers, or giving advice that led to figuring a suspect out(usually stuff like hit and runs, or technology robberies).

Obviously, this taught them that there is no good time to let the Reddit hunt go. That it should always be moderated, every time, out of existence. You could say that they should've known that going in- but then again, CNN, The New York Post, Twitter, and HackerNews fucked this shit up as well. Everyone but the feds did. So get off the high horse.
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The fact that Objective-C has a term "delegate" does not mean I can't argue that "behavior delegation" is an accurate term for any prototypical-inheritance mechanism, specifically JS's.

Objective-C taking a specific meaning for that term is nowhere near as ubiquitous as the point I made that "inheritance" has been so well defined across so many class-oriented languages (for decades!) that borrowing the term for [[Prototype]] is a confusing mistake.
We considered doing something like that briefly, but decided against it since it wouldn't be easy to get an organized list of the current requirements. With some of our more zealous clients, business rules might have modifications every week. With that amount of changes going through, I could see Jira getting unwieldy.

If you had to change a requirement, would you create a new one delete the old requirement or update the existing one? If there is a complex system with a couple hundred requirements, how would you organize them? Nested "folders" would be our ideal choice, but I think that we would just have to stick to some kind of label system in Jira.

I don't think it's a bad idea, but for me it doesn't feel like the requirement is driving the project management. By convention it certainly could be, but I don't like having to rely on people following the convention.
We were talking about swimming against the stream or not. In those two languages the author's preferred programming style would be considered going with the stream.

ES6 sounds great since it would offer the best of both worlds, but it's going to take quite a while before you'll be able to do your everyday development in ES6.
>Receiving an SMS while roaming is usually fee.

No, it's not. Depends on the carrier though.
1) a "witch hunt" can be taken in the metaphorical sense to mean a hunt for any enemy/dissenter.[1] I think the term is used rather judiciously.

2) "It is likely" isn't good enough. You're hypothesizing. Could they have found them? Maybe. Could they have not found them? Maybe. All we know is they didn't find the bombers but instead slandered a number of individuals and family names in the process.

3) I'm not sure what your background is but I like to believe that our federal law enforcement (FBI, Police, SWAT Teams, etc.), while not perfect, is pretty well-trained and collectively has thousands upon thousand of YEARS MORE experience than I do in collecting evidence, timing its release, and generally fighting crime. As such, I imagine the timed release was not to delay or elongate the process but was very intentional.

I do agree with you that it seemed to take longer than is desirable to find the suspects (especially since once they were found, one got away) but a "better system" is by no means the hive mind of untrained "armchair investigators."

Perhaps in the future there will be a way to crowd source information but the responses of Reddit 4chan, and yes, even some here on HN were well-intentioned but harmful. An apology from Reddit seems perfectly acceptable.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Metaphorical_usage
Well, if possible, I'd really prefer to actually posess my identity (like I possess my GPG keypair) and be the authoritative source of it, not lease it.

I really don't want others to define who I am, and prefer them to merely assert my own definition of myself.

Unfortunately, modern trends of the Web is to make things work in exactly the opposite way.

(Original comment was edited from one-liner to a more verbose explaination.)
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/

That is where you will find the best info for the space industry more than likely. A lot of the info is in the forums though and you will have to kind of hunt it down. They also have a private section of the site that you can pay to gain access that has a lot of insider info.
When it comes to GAE it really doesn't seem like Google's heart is in it.

Which given their history is a bad, bad sign.
None of this is mystifying if you realize one fact; they are idiots.

So much hand-waving in here, and I think that in itself tells the biggest story. We don't know if what this was; but IF it was a false flag thingy, it could and would be explained away in the same fashion. When something bad is done and the media rub it in deeply enough, anything you can say about the hated villain will be accepted as long as it makes them look even worse, and makes yourself feel superior. When worse things happen and the crickets chirp, well, let's go ride bikes.

You can rationalize it however you want, you can moderate, flag and pout all you want; you've been trained well, and your comment is projection. You project your own irrelevance.

Also the whole "Numbered List of Things" article format is a cancer on the internet and has been for a long time. It's unworthy of Mother Jones and it's unworthy of this subject.

Your response is unworthy of that article and the subject. It's not even a padded list, so wtf do you think you're spouting other than sophistry?
Actually I've enjoyed reading your papers and would love to talk... will email you!
If I'm interpreting the 'reasonable excess' requirement correctly, I think you can get a total sum of 3 coins?

Lbh cnl jvgu bar gjb-uhaqerq cyhf bar gjragl, naq erprvir bar svsgl-crapr va punatr.

Edit: Duh, on re-reading I totally misunderstood, you're trying to minimise YOUR remainign coins, not the number used in the transaction. Back to the REPL'in board.

[1] http://www.rot13.com/index.php
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The next two paragraphs after the one you mentioned were possibly more relevant:

Opponents predict a bookkeeping nightmare. Online retailers would have to keep track of more than 9,000 sales-tax regimes. Internet companies in states with no sales taxes — Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon and Delaware — would have to build a collection apparatus from scratch.

Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, called the legislation “a targeted strike against the Internet and a targeted strike against the digital economy.”
For now I don't care because (1) I'm already paying sales tax and (2) This is a US centric thing, if anything it levels the playingfield / is an advantage depending on where you are.

The fact that there was a time when you did not have to pay sales tax should be seen as a gift, if there is one thing that seems to be a certainty over the long run it is that if there is a flow of money sooner or later it will be taxed.
My thoughts:

The colours don't work for me. Changing the blue on the title bar may help, make it darker. Have you ever used Adobe Kuler?

The Green colour doesn't add anything

The search placeholder text is not centered (vertically) and spoils the flow when reading from left to right

Try and get your font sizes consistent.

Make the margins of the title bar consistent with the in-page gifts.

Centre the login/password boxes

On Find the Perfect Gift, all the options are buttons making me think that when I click them, I'll move onto the next section.

I like the wizard aspect, just needs to be improved. Perhaps the title bar should appear once the wizard has been completed, or cancelled, so my eyes are not all over the place on first visit.

Try improving how the bookmarklet works.

When I click 'Save It' a new tab opens (in Chrome) and prompts me for my username and password. How about an in-page popup instead?

One for the future, how about some localization? I'm in the UK and want to buy things off Amazon.co.uk.

Good luck with it!
Love OnTime; great to see GitHub integration.
I HATE sites that force downloading! I often have a 50+ MBit/sec connection and want to be able to choose between having a PDF (e.g. a invoice - all I need is the amount and the bank data) render in the browser so I can discard it after using (here: wiring the money) and not having to do:

1) download it

2) open it

3) do what I want to do

4) delete the file (which requires me to open the download folder, locate the file and delete it).

If I forget step 4, I usually end up with a clusterfuck of a download directory (mine has 20 GB already in half a year, most of it is one-off downloads!).
Companies like Avalara http://www.avalara.com must be drooling right now
The FBI identified them early Wednesday morning and were going to hold the photos because they didn't want to enable blood thirsty vigilantes and risk having their suspects killed or detained by non-law-enforcement types for numerous reasons (if you can't imagine/understand these reasons on your own then I don't know what to say to you).

It was sites like Reddit and publications like NY Post that forced their hand to release the photos because, again, rampant amateur detectives/vigilantism is dangerous and there had already been wrongly-identified suspects whose lives' were truly in immediate danger.

The FBI doesn't owe you an apology. They are trained professionals who were able to get a positive ID on the suspects ONLY THROUGH tedious, labor intensive poring over photography and video frames (the digital technology needed to accomplish this task of a reasonable positive ID is just not there today, there was another post on this on HN a day or so ago) and then ultimately through an eye-witness testimony from the guy recovering from getting his legs blown off in the hospital.

All sites like Reddit did was hinder or at the very least alter (perhaps the effect was adiaphorous or benign, perhaps not) the investigation. If it weren't for fear of a public witch hunt/lynch mob situation, it is possible that a much slimmer/streamlined law enforcement operation could have been set in motion to capture both brothers alive without locking down the entire city. But we'll never know will we because the public is full of blood lust and everybody was suddenly an amateur internet detective. Good intentions be damned, that type of reaction is poisonous.
Agreed.

The whole "those useless business people..." mentality may pop up in large corporations where roles are siloed off strictly and contact between groups is minimal, but if it's popping up in your startup it speaks to a failure to build a culture of mutual respect and transparency.
I assume it's some sort of gimbal control/vectoring of the thrust (since I don't see any 'extra' exhaust further up the rocket)
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