skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most notable terms of the current start-up scenario is the variation of the term 'hacker'.

The best example I can give you is 'Growth Hacker' (basically a marketing guy/girl who does some extra work). So many start-ups and marketing teams abuse this term so much that the value of a true hacker has become so vague.

It was confusing at first. But later on, you get used to it..
The coffee shop isn't really comparable business-to-business because that's a whole different thing altogether.

There's a lot of effort and a bit of luck going into running a coffee shop (which can still succeed), but you have to still treat it as a business which sadly, a lot of people don't do because... well, it's a coffee shop they run for love.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...

I think dad was wise enough to see the difference.
I'm not sure that a music video of an abridged version of the talk is better than just reading the whole thing.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.margina...
Not AFAIK. I've attempted to get data out of Brighton & Hove buses before. But again, they represent a tiny minority of the UK population. Traveline's data is the closest I've come to blanket coverage.
Ask HN: Have you had RSI?
If so, how did you deal with it?
What do you do to prevent it from coming back?
Congratulations on launching your first store! I've always been a fan of vintage propaganda posters myself.

I ran into a problem though: I wanted to browse through the posters on the homepage but there were no links to do so. I was kind of wondering what to do next. (Your "Shop" page was more along the lines of what I was expecting with the links at the bottom.)

The posters seem a bit on the expensive side. Maybe there's a reason for that! Is it high quality paper, or do you offer incredibly fast shipping, or is there some other reason I should choose you instead of a competitor? Maybe your pages (should) have historical context for how or why the poster came to be and you're the historical poster expert.

Keep up the good work and keep us posted on how things go with your new store.
A journey from From online poker to daytrader
Why would you want this if you are not on a Mac? The only point in the files is telling Finder how to lay out the folder's contents. Some people (like me) go out of the way to hide them.
More than many techcrunch posts :P
> Stalinist Italy

Fascist Italy is a more precise term, if you're thinking of the Mussolini regime.
Were the Nazis actually obsessed with efficiency?
Oof, the better word would have been Fascist -- still, Stalinist is a pretty acceptable adjective (at least according to my way-back-when history professors.)
An algebraic "variable" is perhaps better called an "unknown"
Thanks for your thoughts. The one thing I'd have over Google Now is that I wouldn't be trying to anticipate people's information needs; they could just give me a list of a hundred things to check. Setting them up might take an hour per customer, and that would be labor that was plainly bet in the hopes of continued business. If people wanted to change things all the time, that would, in fact, be a nightmare. And I don't think anyone, even in a cheap country like the Philippines, would be excited about their share of $10 a month. So it looks like there are a bunch of insurmountable cons.

Maybe this is something I should just pitch to friends. I could handle the scripting load for 30 people, and 30 customers is $900 a month.
Not the OP, but this theme (Germany as economic powerhouse, Germany having a large population, Germany being more organized, than say, Russia) is the main theme in Brendan Simms's book "Europe The struggle for supremacy 1453 to the present). You could read that. Its about 500 pages (about a year a page!) and I'm cautious about some of the points, but I figure it will back up the OP.

Churchhill's post second world war writings also cover this, but don't make the full claim the OP makes.
100% correct -- edited my comment.
In environments with exhaustive partitions and automatic 'promotion' (i.e., Common Lisp but probably not Ruby, etc.), your overflow would result in a correctly calculated bignum.
The businesses are not comparable per se, but the emotions that the operators feel might be.
Do real .ds_store files have this inside?

https://github.com/emre/macster/blob/master/macster/__main__...
Well, I lose. It's not even 18 hours and I'm breaking from my self-imposed HN break. Dammit, I suck. Or, we'll just call this thread an exception, because I really want to contribute to this discussion.

Neat idea, but probably not. The problem with job boards is that they all turn into ghettos. The technology is fine. The material (sometimes on both sides, but almost always in terms of employers) usually ain't.

I was talking to an investor, years ago, about a dating site and he pointed out a mistake I was making. He said, "you think the problem with these other sites is technology, but that's wrong. The sites are fine; the people are broken."

We think that the recruiters peddling horrible subordinate corporate jobs are somehow unaware of HN and how geeks really think; but reality doesn't bear that out. We're damn easy to fool. If a sociopath can hoodwink a venture capitalist, then he can pretty easily hire nerds.

I don't want to get into a long-running HN thread (I have good reason for my month-long break that I just now broke from) but if you'd like to talk offline about some thoughts I've had about fixing the job market, I'm michael.o.church at gmail.
Only actually, Mussolini's trains ran even less reliable. See http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp
I personally prefer forums (linear, non-nested comments) to what is on Hacker News, but people disagree vehemently on this, so that will be litigated for years to come.

Ironically, pg has implemented measures to prevent deeply threaded discussions, so he seems to be somewhat aware of innate disadvantages to using this format of discussion.

I think that, by and large, CMSes at best can serve to remove obstacles to creating content and having discussions. It still falls on the community and admins to nurture a culture and atmosphere that resulting in said content and discussions.

Generally, though, there are nested/threaded comments (HN, reddit, Disqus), and there are linear (forums), and between the different CMSes in each categories, we're overstating the differences vastly, especially with regards to advantages and disadvantages. In other words, types of CMS can have a huge difference, but individual CMSes of the same type don't differ as much as the people touting them would like us to believe.

Places like NeoGAF and Something Awful are practically held together with scotch tape, but they're still amazing communities in their own right.
Ask HN: Moving/moved from the UK to the Bay Area?
I'll be making the move to silicon valley in Sep/Oct. I've looked around for advice wrt housing, location, cost of living etc and there is some good information.

However, I can't seem to find any active communities or groups of people who have either made the move or are about to. I thought posting to HN there would be a good chance of a few people in the same situation or have already made the move.

Moving to somewhere you know absolutely nobody is a little daunting! Especially if you have wives/children. So I was wondering a couple of things:

1. Is there any interest in getting to know others who are about the make the move? It's possible you live near to someone right now. Or even just a way of sharing information others might find useful.

2. If you already made the move, is there anything you would like to have known that you didn't find online previously?

(although I specified UK, that' more from a meetup angle)
Probably a very snarky reference to, if you're uninterested in the four big features of docker, which are implied to be the only reasons for virtualization, and aren't even accurate anyway, then its not better than VMs, it might even be worse.
Procedural Terrain Generation In Sid Meier’s Civilization V
I want the T-shirt!
well, fake ones doesn't include that either.
We use Mailgun for the crypto challenges (often-repeated 1:1 email exchanges with ~4800 people) and it's been great.
Probably the best primary account of the inefficiencies of the National Socialists was by Albert Speer, Hitler's foremost technocrat. In "Inside the Third Reich" Speer gives an account of just how much the Germans struggled to mobilize during the war. Though Speer was able to introduce streamlined methods of mass production and remove some excessive bureaucracy, what strikes me most was the admission that Germany never hit production levels seen during WWI.

The Second World War, by John Keegan

Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer
The Apple logo inside the .DS_Store files is a Quantum apple – it disappears immediately when you try to look at it.
I get the sense from reading some of these comments that most people who try Dojo don't really have a clear understanding of what it is, or how to separate and leverage the individual tools that it provides. Too bad, since it's a really powerful toolkit. I'd suggest anyone looking for MVC structure to not neglect looking at Dijit templated widgets.
Actual adults aren't the only ones browsing the Internet. If my children can have pornographic content suggested while viewing an otherwise "reputable" site it makes monitoring their usage much harder.

Expecting that minors will respect an "adult" label is laughable, and anybody suggesting so knows it. It only takes a moments ill conceived curiosity to see something that will stay with a kid (or a person in general) forever.

Personally I hope that a company currently lead by a woman takes a hard stance on this issue.
Wow I am being downvoted all over the place, even in old posts...
Btw, my point was that someone that achieved horrible things through (among other things) lying, should never be a source. Is not only about him: Lying was and is a fundamental aspect of his profession.
And Yes, he was very effective.
And Yes, also both a War criminal and a Peace criminal. An effective one though.
I'd like to read more about that. I have lived in Germany, and don't recall the Nazis there being seen as more efficiency minded than other Germans (or Austrians).
I'd like it better if Mac users stopped obnixiously including __MACOSX directories and files, which conflict when extracting, in their zip archives.
"Last week it emerged that, despite £4.2bn of UK sales, [Amazon] paid only £2.4m in corporation tax in 2012. In the same year it received £2.5m in government grants ... What elevates Amazon's activity is the fact that it applied for government grants. The elegance of that corporate choice is like the ambiguity of the Mona Lisa's smile, the ruthlessness of Mike Tyson's punch and the adaptability of the malaria virus combined. There is no point in criticising anyone or anything that can do that. They can only be admired or destroyed.

The grants > tax paid thing is pretty amazing, it has to be said.
Not *nix only, Linux only. Solaris and FreeBSD have totally different container mechanisms, which honestly are probably better understood and vetted at this point than the LXC approach.
Not a dup of those - their URL and text content is different.

However those links are useful as the coversation is on topic, even if the source material is different.
There needs to be files named ._README.md, ._setup.py, and ._tests.py to complete the package.
Bravo. I love seeing those files and the __MACOSX folder in zips. Especially when it's a (relatively) big open source project. I just chuckle, I've owned several Macs, they're a parasite.
> you'll find there are a lot of girls who spent their 20s getting their careers in order and amassing life experience

yeah, in other words, they spent their best years on someone else (probably LOTS of someone elses), and now that they're hitting the limits of what their youth/sex appeal can get them, they want some guy with a paycheck who they can slowly mold into a schlub, only to divorce him later.

if you read your post carefully you say the exact same thing, just in 3 or 4 different ways.

if you want to land a good relationship you HAVE to expose yourself to women at an early age and actively work on attraction/improving yourself, or else you're going to be the fucking sucker who picks up the tab later on in life. the illusion of dating being "better" in your 30s is simply women with fewer and fewer choices settling for less favorable selections, which is a recipe for disaster.

the problem is so many guys, especially in IT, are completely CLUELESS to this dynamic and just go all-in the first time a reasonably pretty woman 'chooses' them.

if she wouldn't have dated/slept with the you in your 20s, you sure as HELL don't want to get involved with her when you're in your 30s.
smart person, writing a long article full of facts completely missing the point.

the nazi efficiency is defined by the holocaust and is measured against the performance of the nazis against other organizations attempting the same. the article points out that it is inefficient to kill all these skilled workers - as if the author came from an alien planet not understanding that the extermination of the jewish race (and later the complete untermensch) was at the core of the nazi ideology. as for their other actions - any country can go to war, nothing special there.

other nations have killed more, more quickly (in percentage to overall inhabitants), but mostly within their own borders. nazi germany annexed territories and then went on to systematically exterminate a race. figuring out family trees, measuring pureness (ariernachweis) then either sending you off to the camps or the ostfront (my granddad was a beutedeutscher aka loot german, enough german to be sent to stalingrad).

visit some of the camps, mauthausen, treblinka, whatever - the fact that they went from shooting to exhaust fumes to zyklon B. the fact that they systematically went trough the possessions of the arriving victims, even harvesting gold teeth and hair from corpses. the fact that they wiped out approx. 25% of poland, uprooting a large population from europe, forever.

this and other facts make the nazis the most efficient genocide machine so far and hopefully forever. could they been more efficient? of course, modern nerds with no social consciousness could come up with even better ways, or to put it that way, imagine the nerd-energy behind google/facebook/amazon/HN moved from ad-click generation to a peoples extermination.

"Fellow students remembered him as studious, and awkward in social situations." - a quote about Heinrich Himmler. "We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution." and that is Himmler laying it out, scientifically, clear.
I don't think he sees that as a Problem. Only he thinks using it explicitly is not to his taste. I have a similar attitude: make it explicitly a new var if it is going to appear in the code.

Your example is perfectly OK.

TIMTOWTDI, really.
I downvoted you. I think the request for a full sentence is unnecessary because the one-word comment "sources?" effectively communicates an understandable message in a compact form. A full sentence would be a more standard (and, some would say, perhaps a more polite?) form of doing the same, for sure. But I don't think more syntax automatically adds more value in this particular case.

What is being asked for is a source for the parent comment. You say you're tired of the single-word, zero-effort "sources" or "citation" meme. I can't follow that reasoning. Minimally, as I work in academia, I find the request for a citation normal. But also, I cannot agree with your opinion that only those comments can be valid that require from the author an effort that is greater than what you define as zero. I would think that your parent is actually interested in engaging in a discussion, but would like to do some background checks first - hence the request for sources.

I don't find that asking for a source is creating a hostile environment, either. You've summed up possible reasons why someone might ask for sources in your second paragraph, so I have no doubts you understood the motivations of your parent.

It's not quite clear to me, whether you're complaining about the content of your parent's post (that they are asking for sources) or the form of the post (that it's just a one-word post). In any event, I don't think it's fair to downvote someone because they ask for sources, just because that request was not written in a way that pleases you.

EDIT: On second thought, I feel my comment is a bit wanky. I wish I could re-upvote you, I think I acted prematurely. I'm sorry. :-/
Or you could just do

find -type d -exec touch {}/.DS_Store \;
Saw Drupal, stopped reading.
> [...] but what they were doing (murdering people) was never done in such a factory-like manner, [...]

I'd like to believe that, but I am afraid you are underestimating human brutality in general.
85k is a reasonable offer for an entry-level generalist developer role. Entry-level in other cities is even lower (65-75).
Common Lisp has a robust and comprehensive numerics facility. Poking around the CLHS and reading about ratios, fixnums, bignums, etc., will lead you to the conclusion that you can get your numeric work done (albeit in many cases much more slowly than you would like).

Add one of the pattern matching and term rewriting packages and you'll be very close to the foundation of the core of Mathematica. It will be a SMOP and adding to the library of facts enabling recognition of reducible terms.
What would be nice is being able to choose between nested or flat layout, and to have folding. I actually like the "expand" feature Livejournal and other forums currently use which just appends the next level onto the current thread... though all of this would probably require javascript which a lot of HN users wouldn't really like.

Still, I think the more users can customize their own experience, the less likely they'll be to complain about it.
Very cool. Signed up.
I have yet to see another example. Can you provide one?
That behaves just like a function: the values of the variables change each time you call the function but not within. When you do a new exercise, it's really a bunch of new variables with the same name--variables cannot affect each other between exercises!

That's not analogous at all to mutation.
Fantastic Distortions of Perception : Neuroskeptic
Clicked out of interest but hit a signup wall. You should put the posts up front.
And the .pdf file of the slides: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materials/D1T3...

(The link is on the video of the full talk.)
Wow, what an egregious straw-man argument. The article sets forth its goal, to prove that violence aside the nazis weren't efficient, then proves that point. You're complaining that the article proves a point it explicitly didn't set out to prove.

That's pretty disingenuous.
See elance.com / article writing sections. There is a market. The offshore teams are there already.
Have you seen how much complexity Java has just for hello world!? It's truly absurd. And, as somebody who's tried teaching Java to complete beginners, I can attest that it isn't intuitive at all.

There's no way this Java thing will catch on. Why would anyone choose to deal with it?
http://transportapi.com/ has real time public transport data available everywhere it's provided in the UK, with a much simpler API than other sources (eg SIRI XML feeds from network operators).
Prefs (liquidation preferences)
If you're in the Bay Area, come talk to us. Do good with Django. https://mobileworks.com/jobs
Ask HN: Is there any quiz creator web app that can schedule questions?
like Q1 appears on 10.00 am; Q2 appears on 10.10am and so on.
Smart High Schooler Is Smarter Than Google, Wins Intel Science Fair
I tried to register but it's "invite only"

I guess I can be happy to just follow it for now.
Completely OT, but I quite like the photograph of early evening San Francisco. I wouldn't mind a link, if it's available somewhere -- for my private enjoyment; not to duplicate the blogger's design.
I had mostly the Soviet Union, Communist China and North Korea in mind. Of these, the Soviet Union started there atrocities earlier than Nazi Germany. Some quick web searching gave e.g. this somewhat tasteless list (http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-horrific-genocides-in-his...). (The treatment itself is bearable, but just the idea of a top ten of genocides makes me cringe.)

Wikipedia has an article as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history The USA was pretty determined in killing off the natives. Even though they never seemed to have industrialized the process.
I've read dpkg has `dpkg -i --force-not-root --root=$HOME/.local package.deb` options, but I haven't ever tried those myself.
Nintendo did eventually create a game with consequences for swearing. (Animal Crossing)
I don't think that's what the guy meant.
He probably meant something along the lines of "I've lived in Germany and don't remember the perception of Nazis there being efficient"
OKCupid was great for this in the early and middle days. They'd present a lot of analysis that showed some particular group of insights based on their data. This was before 'big data' was on the CEO's radar and, even with the presentation of their analytical methods, had a feel of 'magic'. It also increased confidence that, if they could use their data to find out and disclose actionable ways in which people could increase the probability of success, they would be able to generate more probably matches than their competitors.

A similar example, Wolfram's team has moved a number of similar posts from the journal and other channels to the blogs, and it's fun as well. They keep it light-hearted in tone but show off some of the "look how easy this is" with the system.

What I like about the Mathematica examples is that they are reproducible by anyone with the software (OK, a non-zero barrier to entry there) or, with effort, the time to write the part of the stack employed in the solution.

This is an awesome way to generate 'popular' interest while marketing your product. Coupling this with Wolfram waking up and offering the 'Home Edition' for some of their products and they're rebuilding a base that has been eroding since mma was de-emphasized in University educational programs.
What about 13.04, which is what I'm running?
A common thought I hear from fellow Germans is the Autobahn is an outstanding achievement of Hitler's. I can manage to curb my anger at this, barely. It's like saying "He started a war with more than 30 million deaths, but hey, at least he built some Motorways!
> What did I say that isn't true?

Actually, I was wrong. The terms incorrectly stated that past subscribers couldn't have access to the Free Weekend. That's what was untrue and has now been fixed.
As a lover of blind speculation I would love to see more of these. Can you point me at a few nice ones?
In that were the case, Buddhism would lacking. But it isn't the heart of Buddhism.
Blank comments in Facebook
If you comment with only "0" (zero), it'll appear as if you didn't comment anything (blank comment). Is this a bug or a feature?
I was talking about the original Nazi, but about more recent views on them ("[...] the Nazis there being seen as [...]"). The Nazis did not put much stock in intellectual pursuits (as opposed to the communist dictators that came to Germany later), and would only tolerate voelkisch inventiveness and creativity at most.
Lifestyle business sent us to Google the term when we first encountered it.
Very easy to use. I like it. A stats page would be very cool; especially if you listed the Twitter comments along with the votes and stats.

Keep up the great work. I can't wait to see the next iteration.
I can see them being used by the quants for fast pricing. But really, for accounting? Where do the missing cents go?
Or Just (+5) <*> Just 4 as it turns out.