skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to be cocky about anything. I'm not saying that Stockholm is a good market for Uber. I don't know shit about what's happening here beyond what this post has written. What I do know is that all of the arguments for making them make changes has been one of the following:

1) It's just the way that things are done. Everyone else plays by these rules, so deal with it.

2) Uber is not doing enough to inform their customers about their pricing structure.

I assert that the first argument is extremely weak as a position. If you can't defend the rules themselves, then don't bother. The fact that exemptions are granted indicates that it's understood that organizations should be able to bend these rules if they meet certain requirements. What are those requirements? Why does Uber not meet those requirements? Why are those requirements as they are? Do they not meet the spirit of those requirements?

As for number 2, look, pricing is all over everything. You can talk about ways in which they could technically comply, but I think you're sort of assuming ignorance on the part of the consumers that doesn't exist. You can go to a website, or pull out your phone, and see a price.
This is slightly less stupid/mean than it seems. Supporting only one set of systems (only mac, on latest OS), is much less complex and makes surviving hardware failures easier. At this stage, they probably don't have a guy managing hardware and helping when things break, so it really helps to reduce the number of moving parts, or (in this case) the diversity of moving parts.
This article seems to gloss over the hypothesis that aliens evolved under evolutionary pressure, and are thus likely to want to reproduce and expand. So no matter how advanced they may become technologically, they might still want our resources and our planet, simply because they're reproducing themselves at an exponential rate--especially if they've solved the immortality problem, which is likely. Even with advanced birth control, aliens may still want to have cute alien babies. They could chose to simulate their lives in a computer instead, likely it's cheaper to acquire a real planet than simulate one.
"Hotter" in terms of temperature, not heat flux. Temperature is just a statistical thing that measures the relative motion of matter. You might read about experiments where matter in a near-vacuum reaches insane temperatures, even hundreds of millions of degrees. In these experiments there is almost no matter involved and it's whizzing past other matter at nearly the speed of light, hence at high temperatures. But there's very little energy involved. The temperature is more of a statistical stunt than anything, really. At some point they stop measuring it in degrees and start measuring it in KeV.

Anyway, you can have very high temperatures without a lot of heat, just the same as you can have extremely high power without a lot of energy. If I drop my phone on a rock, the instantaneous power of the impact might be extremely high, maybe even megawatts, but only for a microsecond. The total energy involved will not be remarkable.

TL;DR: temperature != heat.
The moderators were heavy-handed, in my opinion. Original title was great. It wasn't misleading or link-baity. Not sure why it was changed.
Wow, I don't know what hit my blog yesterday but the post has had 10000 views since then. It was an old blog so I had to read it again and I can still stand by the points I made back in 2010.

The deal with eclipse: I have certainly used eclipse and IntelliJ more than just once :) Eclipse's background incremental compile is unrivaled. Maven breaks this (at least broke this in 2010 when I wrote the post). It is the /one/ killer feature in eclipse and it is hard to be without once you get used to it /EVEN IF/ intelliJ and netbeans imports maven projects like charm.
Importing projects is not the issue, it's nice to have that automated and all but the issue is that the kick ass builder in eclipse was downgraded to a below average one with the eclipse plugin. I'm sad to see that people actually think that eclipse is as bad as it with the maven stuff installed :)

IMO it's better to just generate eclipsprojects from maven and stay away from the eclipseplugins at least was in 2010. Or use another IDE if one must use maven. Unlike your die hard Eclipse-user I tend to use what others in the teams are using IDE-wise which has given me experience both with IntelliJ and Eclipse and have actually come to prefer Eclipse over IntelliJ over the years... different discussion.

There were many other points other than IDE's in the post too :)
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As someone else pointed out Maven actually does assume there is one right way to build and you're disagreeing that it's a bad thing.
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The enterprise argument is a bit of a strawman that people tend to use when others don't agree with them. I've been in small and large organizations. "Largeness" is not an important parameter other than a belief that "things are supposed to be big hard and complicated" is more common in large enterprises.

Standards are nice, I haven't had a curly brace discussion with anyone for years now (other than to make user everybodys save actions and code formatting-settings are in sync which everyone agreed so far is a good thing). I used to have those discussions a lot years ago, I think it's a maturity thing.
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You are right that declaring a POM in YAML or a DSL is pretty much a change for changes sake (as I have understood is the case in Maven 3). The real benefit would be if one would actually do something different with the language than declare a POM.

Thank you so much for the attention!
A friend and I have both recently started familiarizing ourselves with Jekyll, and your guide has been fantastic. Thanks for making it.
TL;DR "The GPL is not appropriate for Django Apps. ...our community doesn't use it. If your code isn't 'bsd mit lgpl apache mpl' I can't use it."

That's a statement with considerable consequences. I wish he'd spent more than 1.5 seconds on the explanation. I tend to like both the gpl and django.
The Challenge of Transporting the A-12s to Area 51 - V.2
Getting unfair reviews sucks, but can you imagine the mess if companies could go after individuals or organizations for giving them bad reviews?

Regardless it shouldn't be law. Let people opt-in or out. For example a review site might require the reviewers to agree that they can be sued for making false statements, or vice versa, that the reviews are not guaranteed to be accurate and reviewers can say whatever they want. I know this is not a perfect solution, but censorship is easily abused and seems absolutely unacceptable to me.

People have always said libelous things to each other. But until recently it was just spoken words to each other. Now that much of our communication is in text or available publicly, it's so much easier to target individuals or prove defamation. I suspect that almost everyone is guilty of doing it. The laws were established for print media where there was an expectation that it was supposed to be reliable and truthful. Not for private conversations or between anonymous interneters where that expectation doesn't exist in the first place.

For the most part companies don't abuse the laws because they don't want to get bad PR, but there are always people that don't care about pr and have an incentive to abuse it.
Is a bro equal to a drunk idiotic party boy? If so, female nerds don't like them then either :)
Lifelong geek here, and I can totally understand the appeal of this story. Reading some of the comments is kinda depressing though. There's no "us" and there's no "them". There are groups of people in the world with similar clusters of interests, and I guess that one of those clusters corresponds to traditionally geeky interests. But sometimes it seems like people internalize the whole us and them thing way too much. I guess it makes social navigation easier but it gets in the way of really understanding people (and yourself) if taken too far.
Linux/Cdorked.A: New Apache backdoor being used in the wild to serve Blackhole
See my answer above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5614106. It's more rational, and more about focus than it seems.
This. I used to attribute it to douchiness, and sometimes it can be. Some people seem to feel the need to flaunt some kind of (mostly imaginary) superiority over others. That said, the curse of knowledge is also a good explanation. Some people just assume it is common knowledge because for them and others they talk with it is, so when they encounter someone that doesn't know it, it is easy to think "they must be an idiot". I have heard countless people express this exact sentiment (privately) when so and so doesn't know X, which is odd, since the set of all things one is not an expert in / knowledgeable about generally contains many different Xs.
What did you tweak in nginx?
Migrating from Parse? Why You Should Join StackMob
It really speaks pages that the first thing comming to your mind after hearing about BJJ is BDSM tournaments, and that it stayed the only thing long enough for you to reply that.
Never is a strong term.

But on the whole, not a viable collection of answers to the Fermi Paradox, even with the usual qualification that it is most likely a machine phase civilization that would come knocking rather than its biological ancestors. All it takes is one faction within one species to decide on self-replicating probes that can recreate its own biosphere at each stopover, and the whole galaxy will be visited in a time that is very short compared to its lifespan.

That species will be us unless the Great Filter makes itself known sometime within the next century or two; I haven't seen any compelling suggestions as to what it might be at this point, however.

Further, the article fails to consider the value of data, which I think is the most likely trade good for any sort of interstellar commerce. I think one could make good information-theoretic and game theory arguments as to why you really have to send an intelligent data extractor/compiler of some sort to a very remote source in order to maximize the rate at which you can obtain the data that's most valuable to you.
Ha, thought i was the only one who felt AWS insta-fear. Maybe i should try this just as a learning experiment.
Varnish FTW.
Why is this guy being downvoted? Isn't that button for people who aren't adding to the conversation? (i.e. not for posts that express an opinion you disagree with)
I'm not exactly clear on how he's using coroutines to handle async callbacks. Can anyone help explain it?
Hard = Time / Interest.
I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned http://www.launch.co - @jason's news ticker.

Switching to just that has been the most productive thing for my time, and still feel comfortable I'm not missing any relevant news.
I read the post and got the opposite. He saw the shirt and wanted to know the meaning. He even knew the context in which it should have that meaning. I'd say he's earning the right to wear the shirt with pride right there.
if they are like us but more advanced, that's better. remember what happened to american indians? ;)
That will simply turn off some people and there is no reason for a self-interested business to do that.

Actually, judging by your comment and the ensuing replies, it looks like listing the benefit this way is doing a great job attracting the people they want and filtering out those who wouldn't fit in there.
The legality of information you obtain is not about whether you obtained it independently, but based on whether it is public knowledge (or can be derived from it) or not.

Let's say you are not connected to company X, but you have a friend that works there. One day your friend tells you material fact. Now, your friend probably broke a couple of rules, but _you_ cannot control what people tell you and you cannot be held liable for what you hear. However, acting on this information is illegal. Even if you presumably do not use this information, but trade shares of company X before the information you know becomes public, you are in murky waters.

Same with Google. Google cannot control what people search for. However, acting on this information would be illegal, unless they are absolutely sure that information in the search terms is consistent with public knowledge about the company.
I would suspect DDoS attacks to be akin to terrorist attacks in that somebody typically claims responsibility for them.
Love how YC backed companies get free reign for spamming around here. Balanced has been particularly notorious in both submissions and shill comments.
One of the largest CubeSat (the form factor of these satellites) conferences is actually happening right now. It can be live streamed or replayed here:
http://mediasite01.ceng.calpoly.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/pages/...

You can find out more about who else is building this type of hardware here:
http://cubesat.org/index.php/collaborate/suppliers
Second of all, the reason that it's expensive to live in New York basically boils down to the fact that a lot of people want to live there.

Actually, it's demand inelasticity (small shortages => huge price spikes) and regulatory corruption/malfeasance that prevents the supply from properly expanding to meet the need.

"A lot of people want to live in New York" is not a useful statement because there's also "a lot" of housing here. It's just tied up by foreign speculators (who really shouldn't be allowed to own; we need a six-months-and-one-day rule in NYC where if you don't live here, you must sell) and rent-control (I have no problem with the people for whom it was originally intended having it; not their upper-middle-class grandkids) and worst of all, those NIMBY assholes who block supply expansion.

the price of housing is dictated by supply and demand.

There's way too much malfeasance in the urban real estate markets of most big cities for there to be a fair market. See above.

Thirdly, real estate developers are entrepreneurs, too - they typically take on huge risks over long periods of time to create actual products that are (hopefully) incredibly valuable for their customers.

Actually, RE developers are not the ones I am talking about. I agree: if you build something, you have the right to earn for the work you did. Land ownership makes no sense in urban areas. The fact that the concept still exists makes me feel like I'm in the 1700s.

Finally, in the case of property owners (not developers), they're simply holding onto an asset and trying to optimize their returns.

If you're passively earning rents, fine. Good for you. If you're one of those assholes who votes down new development for the purpose of keeping your properly values high, then you deserve to be eaten by piranhas.
I can see a legitimate reason.

This allows you to keep a digital copy of your key. In the event that something unexpected happens, like you are in a different state and you misplace your car keys, you have a digital backup that can be turned into a physical key.
That was fast https://www.stackmob.com/parse/
Yes the only problem is the snark. I prefer Linux; still if a job wanted me to use OSX I'd be totally fine with it. But a remark like this just puts me off.
Ok, I never use the host os package manager for certain key things, including Lisp, Ruby. For Lisp, i get from the SBCL site or the proper site (SBCL, Clisp, Clozure CL) I am using. And i compile the source each time. (Obviously to bootstrap you gotta pull the binary the first time). After that, everything is a piece of cake.

I have done less with ruby lately, but as I recall the only way to survive was to use RVM or apparently now chruby to get everythin and compile it up.
There's a place for PMs. If you're willing to step into shoes other than your own, start by reading PeopleWare [1]. And then dig into the origins of self-managing Scrum and have a read through Takeuchi and Nonaka's paper[2].

When you're done, I'd love to hear your thoughts on PMs, and why we're still making the same mistakes we made, and wrote books about, 30 years ago.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0932633439/

[2] http://hbr.org/product/new-new-product-development-game/an/8...
They must take into account the effects of raw aether upon sailcloth!
Somewhat tangential: Are there many start-ups that allow talented tech people to build their own PC? I used to think most programmers knew hardware, but that apparently isn't or was never the case. Building PCs is second nature to me, and I could build a PC two times more performant than a Mac and probably half as expensive.
I know, I was inquiring about the Pro version. Is the 19$ monthly, yearly or one-time. Its weird that they don't mention on the site.
Does anyone have any commentary on using S3 with analytics software (Google or others)?

The process of creating a specific 'www.example.com' bucket just to do the redirects seems to break my analytics software (Piwik) and as a result, it doesn't track referrers properly. That is, anyone who visits by a www.example.com link will have no referrer and just say "Direct Entry" since they hit the redirect then arrived at example.com
Google Closure Cheat Sheet
I use Uber all the time. Regardless of marketing slogan, most people in SF use it like they would a car service or taxi. It's not like the private cars are Bentleys, although that might be a cool option.
Indeed, culture and education are likely more important. But, they start at home.
I do. Sample size = maybe 3 (I've moved around a bit). I'm in the US, have lived in Southern California (Edison Electric), Phoenix (SRP?), San Francisco (PG&E), and Boston (NStar pronounced N-Staaahhh by my Mass. friends).

I thought all utilities were on a tiered pricing model. It's actually a technique employed by Arcata, CA to fight pot growing houses [1][2] that use > 600% of the baseline usage.

Also, I have lived places where middle of the day pricing is higher. My utility company just sent me an offer for tiered pricing by time of day. Smart meters help with implementing time of day pricing.

[1] http://www.arcataeye.com/2012/08/measure-i-the-grow-house-el...

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/03/pot-tow...
Works great on small projects, does not scale to very large projects. There is a non-zero amount of communication, scheduling and cross-team coordination that needs to happen. If you want developers to do it, that is fine, it just means less development time. If you have never met a good PM it is easy (but intellectually lazy) to write off the discipline. Once you have worked with a good PM you realize by off-loading that drudgery (well, drudgery from a dev perspective) everyone wins.
I guess it's not that easy, just look at Libreoffice, it still struggles with somewhat-complex files.
It seemed like a good use for Mustache. It's for sending a few hundred emails in your normal client. Also a nice tool for learning the template language.
i actually find docco-style docs more difficult to read with mostly single-line notes due to the spacing :(

some sort of block folding would help a lot to follow code progression like a story. i'm not certain this is the best display type for all commenting styles.
Office Web actually handles the files server-side, as does Google's own Docs/Drive. This is a purely client-side extension.
Free app on iOS but a paid app on Windows Phone Platform - OK or not?
What? No, no, no, NO. That is completely wrong. There are cases where a warrant is not necessary, such as immediate danger to an officer. However, a warrant is issued only upon probable cause. This still needs to be reasonable, and the judge is the one who decides if the search is reasonable.
I seem to remember hearing this is based on Quickoffice (which Google acquired)
> The bottom line is that if an alien race is capable of getting here, all the other technology they've requisitely developed in the meantime would make the trip unnecessary at best - and more than likely, simply meaningless.

This argument is structurally similar to the argument that God exists because God is perfect, and a necessary attribute of perfection is existence. It begs the question.

Personally I think the real reason we'll never meet aliens is that such travel is physically impossible.
My theory is that once a life form gets advanced enough, their brains start penetrating a hidden dimension that we know nothing about. This dimension is so much richer than "our universe", that they never come back to this one.
Thanks for posting this - Preview is a pain for office documents.
To be firmly and insistently ('hardcore') atheist suggests to me ruling out the idea that there is anything diety-like, because there is no good evidence for it. The question of experience after death seems to me very similar to the question of the existence of dieties. The fact that beliefs about dieties and about the afterlife are usually linked in the same belief structure increases my confidence that the two subjects are often reasoned about the same way.

I would therefore expect someone who thinks, after considering all evidence (or the lack thereof), that there are no dieties to also believe, based on similar evidence (or lack thereof) that there is no experience after death. Harris has not (as far as I know) said that "we don't know" if there are dieties.

Indeed, here's an old interview where Harris criticizes agnosticism as "not an intellectually honest position":

http://web.archive.org/web/20100313075830/http://www.truthdi...
That's probably why, when building a skyscraper, modern construction practices dictate that all the subcontractors just "do their own thing" and sort out with each other when it's OK to put in walls, pipes, wiring and structural alterations.

The N^2 communication overhead is OK, because PMs are just useless overhead anyway.

I heard sometimes building projects fail because the PM only understood what was supposed to be happening and who was responsible for what, as opposed to having advanced plumbing, HVAC, electrical and structural engineering knowledge.

</sarcasm> (I don't usually resort to it... promise...)
Cannot add from hackernews.
"It's easy to get lost in the numbers thrown around - there are billions of stars and planets in our galaxy and billions of galaxies. Humans are rather bad at fully understanding such large numbers."

Speak for yourself.
Yes, but it's different than in say, SF Bay or Portland where you don't have to say you "successfully avoided" them. You have to go out of your way to find the bros. That said, bros in Chicago are probably in about the same concentration as Boston or Manhattan.
>>The idea that advanced aliens wouldn't bother talking to us / visiting us if they could because we're too primitive is obviously wrong.
We still have tons of interest and even affection for animals on our own planet who are far less advanced than ourselves.
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Look, there are many ponds of varying sizes, a couple of meters to hundreds of meters in diameter, in the woods near my home. Some of them most likely have life of some form. How interested are you in going there and study that life or even just check out what life there is? None? Right. That is the whole point of the article. You already know there is life there, it is not unique. Why bother?

Your are making the exact mistake the author cautions against. We think we are important, most likely we are a dime a dozen in the vastness of the galaxy.
That might work if the "project" is full spec'ed and defined as if it were the output of a Waterfall design process. I can't imagine that most projects are actually like that, though.

Having a good PM ensures that when ambiguities arise, they can be solved in a single way to allow those doing the coding to continue on unaffected.

Having 10 different people "take ownership" of a single project is itself a recipe for a different type of disaster.
I neglected the international angle. Thanks for that.
This was my first thought as well. I live in Kansas City and would be happy to work for a "sexy" startup like 42 Floors. Apparently it's not an option, though.
so all of your emergencies must come through your boss... that would not work for me