skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phrase "gnostic atheism" does not have a Wikipedia article (or even be referenced in other articles), so can you be more clear about what you mean?
I knew exactly how she felt? That's really the best title you can come up with? This "use the original title" guideline is stupid, and makes for a shittier site because there's absolutely no way to scan headlines and decide which ones may be interesting.

Think about the difference between:

"I knew exactly how she felt" or "Is this what it's supposed to feel like?"

and

"Exoplanet discovery count by year" or "Earth's core far hotter than we thought?"
Any business where people who use a different windowing system to get to their editor and shell "don't fit in" is not a business many high level hackers would be interested in at all.

Even PG's Lisp versus Blub argument is tenuous. Languages and OSes are a dime a dozen. What matters are algorithms and real world results. If you don't see that that's fine, but some real machine learning company thinking at the level of algorithms and not tools will eventually come along and eat your (company provided) lunch.
You are right, but it is a really useful geek skill to share knowledge without making other people feel stupid. It is one of the differences between being the geek who runs the company, and the geek who is just as smart, but gets stuck on projects no one else wants.
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Just as good programmers are those fluent in many languages, a good programmer should also be fluent in many operating systems.

Hypothetically, if Mac went under and ceased to exist, do you really want to be that business that relies entirely on Mac ecosystem?

IMO Linux is simply the safest OS to rely on because it's open source.
Perhaps he's referring to a product manager - who if he's doing his job right is the guy with the deep domain expertise who spends his time talking to customers instead of dealing with project-management administrivia.

I do know lots of developers who don't think there should be product managers either - but in my experience they either have incompetent product managers or are working on a developer-centric product where they themselves have the domain expertise they need.
Rationing by the government makes randians "foam at the mouth" because as the government has proven over and over again, it is inept at thinking about every possible scenario that could exist, and rigid rules often fail to take into account a situation in which the best social good may be free market prices. Say there is a 2 gallon every two days ration. Now, if someone has their huge suv and uses it only to drive back and forth once a day between their house and school a mile a way but has an empty tank when the hurricane hit, under the ration they would be entitled to a lot of gas that they do not need. However, a private delivery business owner who makes all of his deliveries in his own car may use a tank a day, but now can only use a gallon a day. The deliveryman may be willing to pay a x% premium to make his deliveries, while the suv owner would not. People are going to be screwed in either case: either no gas available or cannot afford it. But people should at least be allowed to make the decision of whether or not to buy expensive gas.
Sure, you will miss people, and you will miss good people. But since there is (according to you) some correlation, it might act as a heuristic, employed when it is simply not feasible to implement better tests.
Actually, it's one of the problems, not /the/ problem. There were many more listed :) I would really like to sit down with a netbeans fan to convince me. I have tried my hands on it a few times but I never understood why some people use it. Intellij, sure, netbeans... not convinced :/
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I think of it as short for "frat brother," so yes, the drunk idiotic party boy.
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I love Parse. But with Facebook's acquisition I'm thinking about switching to other service. What are the best alternatives to Parse?
not a valuable mindset at an early startup?

This is what irks me, too. The startup I was working at (somewhere in Europe) was always short on money (there wasn't any VC funding), and I get it that this meant having to cut corners anywhere. But then the owner started to outfit every new employee with the latest mac book and a cinema display - for roughly 9000$. I had a (good) Thinkpad and a standard 24" monitor for a third of that price. Why they decided to throw out that much money on Apple while I couldn't order a spare keyboard I don't know.
Ubuntu 13.04 came out yesterday, the people upgrading might be reinstalling all there programs
Who toes have you stepped on recently, I wonder?

Also, pattern-wise - most of the traffic in the video seems to be hitting a single .asc file.
You should take into account that schools in Europe are not necessarily the same as schools in the US (it was an event in London). I felt quite at home in my school’s physics and chemistry classes, and maths was sometimes boring, but overall okay, too.
Which online converter did you use? What I like is that your animated gif ended up being quite small (15 sec => 600KB) enough so as you don't feel bad including it in your repo.
We're hackers when we aren't developers. Developer means developing a system, hacker implies grinding a result. Sometimes.
Sounds too good to be true for Europe also since credit card fees are included apparently.
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Has anyone here used them? It looks very good for a few ideas I have up my sleave that I was waiting for balanced to launch in the UK for.

I'm quite astonished at there rates, its very good! There must be a catch.
It's similar to literate programming, which consists in exchanging the focus between code and comments. I believe that Coffeescript just got a literate processor, so the community may benefit from this in the near future. Because GHC supports it, it is also very popular in the Haskell community.
Scaling a startup with database sharding
Sure. I basically take the async callback and wrap it in a coroutine before I invoke it. If the coroutine yields back a function, I assume that that function can be repeatedly invoked until it returns a truthy value indicating it wants to resume. Unfinished coroutines are then kept in a table, and after each event from the ComputerCraft environment, I check the table of unfinished callbacks to see which ones can be resumed.
Yeah, there are many legitimate reasons to prefer Mac to Linux or Windows, not the least of which is that Ruby gems just work better on a Mac because they are developed there (regardless of whether you will have to figure out those problems when you deploy to your Linux-based production environment in AWS :P). The issue isn't whether you use Mac or PC but in the holier-than-thou attitude about it. You are recruiting a team of (potentially) one-trick ponies who are religious about making judgement calls.

Probably a looooooooong stretch from just saying "Justify a PC" to you are building a uncompromising team but I would just say "The Best Equipment (We mostly use Apple)" would accomplish the same goal with less annoying language
Indeed, but here is a person (Harris) who avowedly disbelieves in god(s) but says "we don't know what happens after death", which seems to allow for something happening. That same sort of fuzzy allowing-for-possibilities, if applied to the question of god(s), would yield something other than what I understand Harris's position to be.
I am just trying to double check to make sure I understood so bear with me. Are you telling me that stock prices systematically went down for decades and no one took this into account to make money? there is hope after all...
This could work if the seller is located outside europa (like latin america)? I'm looking for a solution that work for startups outside USA/UK...
Another day, another instance of someone saying "Stephen Hawkings" or "Jony Ives".

The biggest impediment in my mind to alien contact is time. Intelligent life could have evolved any time in the past 13 billion years or any time in the next googol years. The probability that we would cross temporal paths in our few thousand years of viable existence seems low.
Many (around 5) years ago I wrote a library that parsed PHP files and generated logical "anchors" after classes and functions. I combined that with a simple CRUD application that allowed anyone to view source code in the browser and add/change comments dynamically.

No one cared.
This developer broke Twitter’s rules, says the site should ‘shut him down’
(As I've said before...) To paraphrase Jack Valenti: the future is to the past as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone, with the windows open, listening to her favorite DRM-free digital audio files. Don't blame iTunes for successfully serving the market.
Lev Grossman's The Magicians, and rereading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I just finished Ed Sweeney's biography of Cochise a couple days ago.
My guess would be because this has already been discussed many times on HN so they felt it was better to just call it what it was.

I'm not saying I agree, just making an observation.
One of the things I think about on long runs while training for a marathon is precisely how not fun running often is while training. Running through pain, heat, cold, rain exhaustion, etc. is not fun and certainly not easy, but it's precisely those difficulties that makes crossing the finish line such a triumphant moment. All those moments of struggle are like little deposits towards an immense payoff; the sum of everything you've endured.

There's something satisfying about doing things the hard way. If this stuff were easy or fun all the time, it would get boring.

The difficult part is maintaining that drive to do things the hard way. When hard things get harder, and then impossible, its hard not to start to feel depleted. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance[1] calls this reservoir of inner strength "gumption" and points out that you have to make an effort to keep the tank full. I see it as a kind of faith, not in God, but in yourself; faith that you can and will overcome whatever insurmountable obstacle you face. I try to keep that tank topped off by running, reading, and, despite how hard it is, taking regular vacations where I step away to disconnect altogether. That way, I can feel anticipation in the face of a challenge rather than fear or despair; anticipation of a journey that won't be easy, but will certainly be rewarding.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry... - I read this book every 5 years and each time I find something completely new. It's a remarkable work.
Candid question: Volumes doubled and overall revenue got divided by 3 in 10 years. Is music 6 times cheaper than it was back then?
I think there's always a difference in hustle required between a founder and an employee and how "big" you want to go.

You can live a beautiful life making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as an employee and raise a wonderful family. It's a wonderful thing about being an engineer and there's nothing wrong with that.

That being said, if you are doing your own thing, and are shooting for the stars as the article mentions, you're going to need to have the hustle on your side.
There are people who are interested in the contents of those ponds, and they already have been studied.

The people who are curious about the ponds (planets) are the ones that would be put on the ship.

Not to mention your analogy is terrible. Those ponds aren't interesting to me because they are nothing special. They don't contain anything that we aren't constantly surrounded with everywhere.

On the other hand in the galaxy, planets with life on it are special. And intelligent life even more so.

Your argument is extremely, extremely weak. As I said, it's obvious, if aliens were cruising around the universe the whole purpose of it would be to find other intelligent life and inhabitable planets and interesting stuff. If we were doing it, that would obviously be our purpose, there's no reason to think that wouldn't be the purpose of any other intelligent life.
This chart could use some piracy (and online streaming) data as well, though I am not sure what it would look like.

Also, make sure to sort by sales too.
I agree, but it is largely a waste of time these days considering return on $/hr.

That's important to a business; not so much at home.
> We still have tons of interest and even affection for animals on our own planet who are far less advanced than ourselves.

Actually, as far as our interactions with other life forms go, we either ignore them (intestinal bacteria), keep them away (diseases), exterminate them (pests), or harvest and devour them (farming), or kill them for sport (hunting). The utterly insignificant fraction that become objects of our affection are those that are extremely close to us on the evolutionary scale. This wouldn't be the case with a civilization advanced enough to visit. Not even close.

If someone somewhere discovered a new breed of cockroach, would you care?
A design comment on 42 floors:

- The grey-on-grey of the overview map is an odd choice - why not use the green for the markers?

- Listings without a price should either be removable, or otherwise marked. Feels kinda scammy, and just introduces unnecessary friction

- Google is probably a partner for the listings images, but is it also a requirement for you to show a "y we have no imagery f" image with Google logos?
Same argument about Nazi's vs. Jews. Nazi's didn't put them in internment camps, the specific solders in the army did it. The rest of the army was not to blame.

Of course if the Nazi party hadn't existed at all, those soldiers wouldn't have had any reason to do it. So you can't completely absolve Reddit from blame. But really the fact that anyone used a reddit forum to report or investigate to begin with is laughable. That would be like going to Somethingawful forums for dating advice.
Humans have spent a massive amount of time and effort studying other forms of life on this planet. As a species, we clearly have an intense interest in that, demonstrated in everything from what we look at on Reddit, to what books are purchased to what types of vacations people like to take, to gardening and cultivation, to the number of people that work in fields directly related to the environment or animals.

Your premise is invalid.
I always tell people I'm a developer; and IT is "did ye try tairnin' it off and back on again?"
> > They're a uniform. It's how we id the friendlies on the battlefield
> I'm not sure about that. I think people tend to wear things they feel good about.

Both of these things can be true. There are deep-seated reasons that people seek to project their identity through personal appearance and other techniques... :)
> makes a event for women in IT

> does not understand why women does not participate in broader (i.e. non sexist) events in IT

sound logic.
It's also very possible to abuse a local, bricks and mortar key duplication service.

To abuse the online service, you need a valid credit card not in your name or traceable to you, a valid anonymous dropbox to ship to, a clean shot of the key, and an anonymous or well concealed IP address.

To abuse the local service, you need the key, some cash, and about 20 minutes.

Neither is immune to abuse.
We tried with both Tweet it or Share on Facebook. 83% people clicked on tweet it only button. 12% clicked on both and rest 5% on Share on FB only. All the new users that we got from this "Got_Followers" social sharing where from twitter only. Yes, zero converted from Facebook posts. Hence, we decided to stick with twitter only.

Another test we ran on our Facebook page (http://facebook.com/pinwoot) was to have a tab called "Try Now" which was basically connected to our Facebook connect app - that was great, many many conversions. So, we are still using it.
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If aliens aren't coming to this planet, clearly this is a market ripe for disruption!

I'm now looking for a cofounder who will shake up the L2L (lifeform to lifeform) market with a new disruptive social media platform for unmotivated hypotetcial advanced beings to share pictures of intergalactic felines.
I wish I could understand what the relationship between Star Wars and technology/hacking/software engineering is, that everyone is talking about here. (P.S: I'm a Software Engineer but never watched Star Wars).
honestly you guys are crazy if you think shark is gonna help you learn machine learning. Its ideal for deployment of ML on things like embedded computer, robotics, games etc. where real time learning is required. Machine learning requires alot of experimentation and C++ is a terrible medium for that.
There are loads of good machine learning libraries implemented for python and matlab. Pretty much every good paper in machine learning is accompanied by an algorithm implemented in matlab or python or R. learn using those reference designs. Once you figured out what you want, then deploy on a system in C++ by all means using shark. I do robotics for a living, and I do go from scripting to C++. Unless its absolutely necessary I avoid C++. Only things like vision which is so CPU hungry that it has its own computer do I require C++, every other algorithm stays in python.
Great post. I think startup folks forget the negative connotation "hustle" has generally has had for years.
>>This article seems to gloss over the hypothesis that aliens evolved under evolutionary pressure, and are thus likely to want to reproduce and expand.

Remember though that we've already seen that people in rich nations are not driven to reproduce and expand like bunnies. Is there some evolutionary pressure on you that drives you fuck woman and have children with them? Is the impulse so strong that you cannot help yourself? We can have as much sex as we want, but without the children because of birth control. Why would it be any different for Aliens?
If it were a Mars cockroach, we would desperately care.
Every modern car I've bought has a chip in the key that it won't start without.
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> For Lisp, i get from the SBCL site or the proper site (SBCL, Clisp, Clozure CL) I am using

I'll try that approach. Never really tried SBCL or Clozure CL.

> And i compile the source each time

You mean that you compile, for instance, Clisp? I tried to do it once, because FFI usage is dependent of a the flag --with-dynamic-ffi being set in the ./configure step [1][2]. I don't remember exactly why, but I got some difficulties in the build process, but I managed to do it.

This may be a little out of scope, but does anybody know about a common lisp implementation that is more FFI-friendly?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130636/how-to-compile-cli...
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3901698/is-there-a-way-to...
I have quite a few female friends who have mostly male friends (just because of being interested in a particular technical field). And, to be honest, I have never got idea why someone _needs_ to have friends mostly of the same gender.

Once someone has interest beyond cliche "gossip, fashion, diet & nail painting" or "football, cars, sports, binge drinking", well, then why to lock contacts inside only one's own gender? And if it turns out that most of people interested in X are of the opposite gender, is it wrong? (Unless it is them who make a barrier.)

Especially as when there is a heated discussion between two people interested in (say) the respiratory system of Drosophila melanogaster (a fruit fly, not to intimidate anyone), then the simplest social characteristics (i.e. gender and, to some extent, age) very often go away.

And, in fact, what I like _the most_ about people being passionate about their interests, is that very, very often it goes beyond social status (sometimes even if one is talking with a professor, who is 50 older than a teenage geek).
Life usually makes me feel silly for using the term `never`. As a rule, I don't.
Worth mentioning that two of these libraries are by the post's author.
On iOS I store that info in the keychain. In database I believe it is usually stored in plain text as the user can at anytime remove access to the credentials on the 3rd party's site.
When I finally got it to work it worked great, but took me a good few hours to figure out some stuff that should of been documented at the time, but couldn't find it. That's just apart of trying something new though. I tried it when it was first announced so should of improved documentation since then.
I think Vernor Vinge has something like that in one of his end-of-civilization post-singularity novels, let's see... Marooned in Realtime, yes. (Great read, too.)
Physical locks are not that resistant to attack to start with. A $20 lockpick set in the hands of someone who has put in less than 100 hours of training can open up almost any door or padlock in a matter of seconds.
I used http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-gif
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Cubesats are always secondary payloads, usually jettisoned after the first main stage burn. Their mass is insignificant compared to the main payload, so they usually ride for free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
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I'm going to annoyingly meta on this one because I'm feeling really philosophical today.

There is a constant dissonance in the western world between assumptions about "ideal" or "moral" statistical probability distributions and actual statistical probability distributions over a large sample size when it comes to any politically sensitive topics like the one implied in the article (i.e women having an interest in science and technology).

This happens over and over again. There are thousands of articles a year on this kind of thing and millions of human years spent mulling why the ideal curve doesn't match the actual curve. It's the perfect topic for non-productive rambling because it's always dissonant and it never goes anywhere.

The dear reader probably already knows this, but to the idealist, the ideal always equals the actual in a just world and evidence of a mismatch is evidence of injustice. Those who accept or tolerate the actual not matching the ideal are presumed to support injustice.

These arguments are endlessly repeated. Nevertheless, seemingly endless repetition is a very effective means of political discourse. I realized this most profoundly when studying religious texts. Points that are intended to be remembered are mentioned over and over again to the point of mind-numbing boredom. Repetition is good for remembering and people only believe what they can remember. Thus the most effective strategy of any activist is to repeat their message over and over again and have the adherents do the same and approve the same and ostracise those who criticize and those who don't care, thus spreading the idea through the society via social psychological principles and the pure intellectual brute force of repetition.
There are other rich nations that treat breast cancers with chemo/radiation ~25% as often as American doctors, and get the same overall breast cancer mortality rate.

That is extremely strong evidence that American doctors are applying a painful & damaging treatment far more often than can be rationally justified.
Wow that's cool! :)
Oh come on. That analogy is so weak I can barely believe you're serious.

See my response to the other guy who brought up a similar analogy.
So the new CEO caused the layoffs.