skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't follow... how does having student loans put a stranglehold on your ability to set off on your own? Saying you're "forced" to work for others seems a little dramatic. Self employment isn't about working in your PJs as much as it is about being on the hustle every day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5betFZRICVg). There will always be a million and one reasons why working for yourself is harder than having a job, if it's not student loans it will be something else (age, family, etc). You have to look past that.
Or not sharing passwords between services.
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You're right, though I don't share passwords between services, I'm curious just the same.
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>That's a bit like saying "search is done" before Google entered the market.

All depends on where you think we are in the market for podcast apps.
> It's very frequent that "Team A" works on a software product and gets some of it done. Then the work gets sent to "Team B".

First: why is that? Are there good reasons for this, and does this happen for those reasons?

Now, knowing nothing about the company, if I learn that every other project suffer a change of team before going into maintenance (officially and actually), then it's substantial evidence that something is wrong with management.

Whether one should quit of course depends on how wrong.
He is a pretty smart guy. He set aside some "feel good" philanthropy and seems to go straight to the heart of things. He's done a lot of good, beyond the money he brings to the table.
I would say in any other medium-sized US city entry-level would be 40-50K for a developer.
I think the idea was that it already has an open source license, it just has never been distributed. And that the version he was working on had been forked off of Tumblr years ago.
well, let's say the majority of people are "smart" enough to not comment on something. Then you only get comments from the "stupid" people, giving an appearance those comments are from the majority, rather than a less constrained minority.
The site isn't being used to distribute an exploit. There were problems in the past and the page linked in this story describes what happened and what members of drupal.org should do to protect themselves.
For sprints, either. For marathons, neither.

Knowing which is which is half the battle.
It divides development effort.
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> If seeing how the poorest live is the purpose of this trip, I am not quite sure I understand why meeting Aamir Khan, the Bollywood star, is a highlight of it and the only one that has a picture in the beautiful poster.

To understand this, you may want to look into Aamir's show titled "Satyamev Jayate" [0]. Each episode of the show picks up various issues from healthcare, female foeticide to manual scavenging. All episodes of the show are also available online on Youtube (I assume).

[0] http://www.satyamevjayate.in
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Heh ... agreed. A comment here would definitely not go amiss.
I have heard of the Ballmer Peak, but for me even a single pint of beer totally kills my ability to write code. My creative peak seems to be the first few hours after a really good night's sleep.
I suspect this is a possible case incomplete journalism.
Thanks for the catch. Added a source element but Medium doesn't let you link photos so I credited it in the sentence before: http://cl.ly/image/0G0Q2S2D2h3L
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that super rich individuals are themselves a product of their surroundings, and the country that supported them - and that just maybe Bill Gates shouldn't have so many billions. Maybe a lot more of it should have gone to the US in the form of tax, and then the US as a whole could decide how best to help fellow humans around the world. I think you can probably discount this though as the rantings of a 'socialist European'! I never used to be so lefty in my twenties...
Do templates have to live inside the application logic? If so, this is a really poor decision.
Drupal is at first a CMS and WordPress is at first a blogsystem.
You can not really compare them in the full spectrum of possible sites.
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It wants me to log in with Twitter. Why?
I know you can search within Calendar/Invites.

The issue arises if you know the message you want is somewhere under Calendar, but you're not sure whether it's in Calendar/Invites or Calendar/Rejected or Calendar/DateNotSetYet. As far as I know, it's not possible to search them all at once, just by searching under the tag Calendar.
This.

Recounting bits of my history...well, I could go on for days. Writing software is just what I do and enjoy.
There were several incidents where it took leaks and third-party releases for the truth to come out, and if they'd done a big audit they'd have announced it for the "we're taking concrete steps" cred.
Thanks for the FYI. I'd consider swapping the order and list the offline method first, since that's the more common approach people take (I'd hope), and it's easier to grok at a glance.
Okay, so ketosis (ketogenesis?) is one step before breaking down proteins, i.e. first you smell like ketones, then you smell like ammonia?
The public is already allowed to use the Hubble. You just have to send a proposal that is compelling enough for them to grant you time on the scope.
Apple was late in MP3 players too but just dominated the market.

Although I'm more invested in the Android/Google ecosystem, I'd like to see Apple release their own products too.

Android has improved a lot and big part of that is its competition with iOS.
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I discovered another approach recently that works great.

If an email needs a reply, I hit reply and save it as a draft.

My drafts is now my one and only email to-do list.
"I had to email their support and explain that I had not even used their application yet, and then they reset my trial."

How many clients get lost in this kind of shuffle? Millions. Eliminating this sort of pain point could save many companies from extinction each year.
That's spurious. How do you propose to reallocate that development effort so it moves one project forward faster?
Well honestly the main reason I don't want to run the code in your literal scenario is the phrase 'java applet'. I wouldn't be very happy with a permanent one either. I think it's fair to focus on the downloading aspect, and ignore the issues of convenience/java. Then we see that people like AnIrishDuck are perfectly happy with such a scenario.
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I like it, great work Maxim!

Some slides here (from Synrc Institute from Kiev):

http://synrc.com/framework/web/
Yes, you miss out. :-)

Here is one of my standard references. tl;dr: According to present understanding, coffee is surprisingly healthy. (For most people; some have problems with e.g. stomach or their enzymes are bad at breaking down caffeine.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee
Arguably, this problem happened to Java web frameworks.

Too few and you lack innovation and fresh ideas, and things get driven to ideological extremes that aren't healthy or suitable for everyone (I don't want to start a flame war, but I feel a bit that way about Rails).

Too many and none of them get enough community or support to reach critical mass. What this meant for Java is that most people ended up being forced to use J2EE frameworks designed by committee which were awful, and drove a lot of people away from Java altogether.
FWIW: I feel exactly the same way. I use this on my personal email, and it hasn't gotten anything wrong in months, while successfully moving a lot of the stuff i only want to tangentially care about to where it belongs.
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Is this you?

https://twitter.com/bowerbird

BTW, the only reason I block people on Twitter is if they tell me to shut up (directly or indirectly) or if they make personal comments.

I've now read several of your rants here, and it doesn't surprise me one bit that I blocked you on Twitter.

You're a very inspired writer, but your inspiration is very very dark! Maybe you should write gothic novels with your fabulous writing tools. ;-)
This is truly excellent - nice work Degreed!
Only yesterday it was announced "China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783373
Why not just short cut the event and just collect the donations?

Because events punctuate people's calendars and bring people who want the same thing together and gives them a chance to socialise and network.

I find it weird that you start out complaining that the poor don't have enough joy in their life, then turn around and complain that joy shouldn't be used as a mechanism to help them.
I wonder if people would be as vocal if he decided to buy a private island…

Buy a private island, few care and those who might, will most likely fawn in amazement. Decide to take an interest in helping human beings you might not identify/associate with, welcome to the "The White-Savior Industrial Complex"[0].

[0]: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the...
i like the looks of opa too: http://opalang.org/
You can rather easily use DETS (Disk Erlang Term Storage) for simple applications and Mnesia for larger ones. This is a simple approach that works quite well IMHO.

This looks really great, Elixir plus this would be quite a nice web stack.
> "For starters, aren't there causes of ignorance, corruption, or not giving a shit about others?"

Not really. It's the default state of human kind. Individual rights, scientific enlightenment, and all that were invented by Europeans in the 1500s. Before that, all of human history is pretty brutal and poor.
Do you mean people who bought MS software, or other billionaires like Warren Buffet who gave money to the Gates Foundation?
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I think India needs the exact opposite of Bill Gates. We need more people who could industrialize India fast, employ masses of people and take us on par with China,Japan or Korea. India's political parties are left leaning and try to create Europe styled social safety nets. We need more libertarians and rich lobbyists and more copies of Ayn Rand to change the anti - laissez faire policies we have. It's still easy to start a Delaware C corp over internet from India than to register for a local corporation in most states.
You will almost certainly be considered. I've negotiated my offers up anything from 20% to 50%, which means usually my first counter-offer was higher than that.

I'd never just say yes.

By the time someone has made the decision to make you an offer, they have invested time in you, and will be psychologically invested in their decision - nobody likes "losing out", and so they will look for reasons to meet you. As long as your counter-offer is not ridiculous (and tacking on 30% is not), they will negotiate.

Just don't across as making hard demands, and give reasons even if they're total nonsense. People yield more easily if you give them an excuse to.

The irony is that people also tend to feel they made a better deal if they have to fight for it, even if they end up giving a lot.
Can I ask you which part of that you're having a problem with?

Can you identify a business problem a taco truck has? (I'm assuming taco trucks are something within your experience. If not, assume I said "the last restaurant you ate at") Even if you know nothing in particular about taco trucks, you can go the the reliable old standby that absolutely every business in the world feels its revenues could be higher and its costs could be lower.

Let's focus on revenue. Do you understand how a taco truck generates revenue? They sell tacos (and some other stuff), at a particular price. If they sell more tacos, holding price equal, their revenue goes up. (Take on faith that tacos are incredibly high margin and that selling more of them is a win, OK? I strongly believe this to be true for the typical taco truck. If you don't know what high margin even means, that's fine, because it doesn't change this analysis.)

So our problem is now "Sell more tacos, with software." Can you do that? If not, ignore the software bit -- can you dream up ways to sell more tacos? Can you just brainstorm twenty of them?

+ Get more people to hear about our taco truck.
+ Always ask people "Would you like a second taco for the road?"
+ Sell tacos at a better location.
+ Sell tacos to companies in big batches, then anchor your retail business at the company's location for a day.
+ ...

Now look very hard at your list. Is one or more of those amenable to being implemented, in whole or in part, in software? I suspect the answer would be yes.

You don't have to be bitten by a radioactive spider to make businesses money, and it equally doesn't require superpowers to do that with software. If you absolutely, positively feel you can't do it, I strongly suggest working in industry for a year or three. Any industry will do. Applying technology to discrete problems is a learnable skill.
They only develop one new product category at a time, so they wouldn't start on anything new until the iPad came out.
-.-?
They can leave their systems open to hackers and then charge the customers to fix the damage to their boxes and VPS instances afterwards.
I'd love to learn how you approach decision making. Any tips?
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Go water! I find it helps me stay focused and energized over the long haul. My drinking routine is based on the assumption[0] that thinking burns as much energy as physical work, and thus I need to stay hydrated.

[0] Related comic: http://wondermark.com/930/
Any reasons behind this?
Hah!

When i was younger and trying to educate myself into a higher class, I read a couple of his books. The only good one was From Beirut to Jerusalem, which was published in 1989. Everything after that was just crappy analogies.

I really don't understand how an "expert" in Middle East affairs could think that the USA going to war in Iraq was a good idea.
Everyone is talking about wearable computers but no one knows yet what it should look like (heck, I don't either, but certainly it isn't cyborg glasses). It was the same with tablets. Apple's strategy seems to be focusing on launching good products or nothing at all so it's understandable if they are late to the game.

The interview is sad though. The interviewers are too rude at times, it seems bashing Apple is the new thing.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a "search" on HN?
i started a subreddit for people interested in compile-to-js: http://www.reddit.com/r/altjs/

not gained much traction so far, but it's a useful place to post interesting links as i find them.
I'm guessing this would be the new way to write FB apps, and could be how they will support apps running in mobile FB.

I wonder though if Apple would ever allow their FB iOS app to run FB apps, as iOS guidelines forbid apps from downloading "code in any way or form".
Are poor Americans inherently superior humans to poor Indians? Why does nationality matter?
SCSS actually makes this easier, given that you can have partials; it makes it easy to separate out layout and visual style and then combine them into a compressed stylesheet automatically.
Can this be used for taking payments quickly from users?
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I'll also add that I do understand what you're saying. I have been self employed for 16 years and my wife worked as well so there was somewhat of a cushion. Back in 2008, though, my first son was born 3 months premature and I had this "oh shit" moment where I thought, "ok, wife isn't working, I have a sick baby, we have a mortgage and two car payments, there is no way this is going to end well". I stepped up my hustle big time and five years later we have two kids, very little debt and things are fine. You really just have to take look at the glass as half full. As a software engineer, you're in a sellers market. There are SO many companies out there looking for people like you, you just don't realize it yet.

Either way, best of luck. If you do want to strike out on your own, please don't wait until you're "comfortable" because it will be too late.
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Anyone else doing this?
livescript is a more haskellish descendant of coffeescript: http://livescript.net/
Google Labs is a place where they incubate awesome ideas and features.
Then they launch it into the main project and people hate it.
Then they kill it.

I would rather they just left it in labs.
More number of js frameworks there are for serving similar needs, more fragmentation there will be. Fragmentation leads to in stagnation in development process (slower bug fixes and feature delivery) and broken community support that can't gain critical mass.

Ruby community somehow avoided this fate, and almost everyone pushed for Ruby on Rails as the single dominant web framework of choice for Ruby. Sure there's Sinatra, but it's miniscule compared to Ruby.
I get that some people don't trust Linode with their data and I think that's fair. But it doesn't really have much to do with managed vs unmanaged. Surely if you don't trust them with a managed server you should also not trust them with an unmanaged one.
India has some incredibly promising science in the pipeline that has the potential to change the world such as, for instance, a true male contraceptive:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/

I love that he highlights that he's going to "Discuss how Indian-made vaccines can save lives in other countries too. . ."

Very cool - I hope that his mission helps bear light on the fact that these emerging world economic powers have much to contribute to the world besides the often reported technology-piracy.
Actually what I've seen with Java is that the committee-designed J2EE frameworks failed to keep up and got left behind. In the last five years, the only times I've heard of teams using EJB or JSF were either moving away from them or embarrassed by them.
I just want to point out that there are very poor, desperately poor people in America, and that perhaps his statement "But we don’t have everyday experience with the problems of the poorest. We don’t see people living in extreme poverty next door or pass by them in a slum down the street. " might lead some to think otherwise.

Yes, there are worse places, and while I've never traveled to Mumbai, I do know people who live there, and there are plenty of people with money there, and it's not all slums.

There are rich everywhere, and there are poor everywhere. The reasons for poverty are diverse. It's not: America is rich and India is poor as he seems to show.

But what do I know...
I'm confused, every example is 100 times the code I would write using straight html... Is there a benefit I'm missing?
This isn't like most super-resolution techniques, that take multiple images and align them to a higher-resolution grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution#Geometrical_o... This is about having a model of what a face should look like, and fitting the data to it. It's like taking a handful of data points and plotting a curve, then interpolating/extrapolating other data points. Except instead of something simple like a bell curve, the model is of a human face! (That means you could feed it random data and it would still come up with a face - grotesquely distorted perhaps, but the model can only make faces.)
there is... at the bottom of the page.
It's true, it's easy to not think about this kind of stuff happening to you until it does. I had similar feelings about running a startup as Wade three years ago. Then the following happened:

- I was forced to vacate my apartment twice, once because of building damage and once because of owner move-in eviction.

- I was suddenly let go from my job.

- I suffered from chronic back problems for two years.

- Five of my family members died, including my brother and my father.

These things completely shook my self-confidence, and they were personal things that were beyond my control. I also have a wife and two children, and the wife recently decided to stay home full-time to take care of the kids. It wouldn't have been fair to my family to take on the risk of running a startup without guaranteed steady income and health insurance, and at the same time being a basket case around them from all the shit that was hitting the fan.

I'm not looking for pity or trying to get in some sort of victim contest. I really consider myself lucky as I'm healthy, I'm working at a fun startup (not running it), my family has been great and supportive, and I've grown a bit and learned a lot from my experiences.

In all fairness, I also never realistically had a startup opportunity or idea to pursue. But I was in no frame of mind to run a startup during those past few years, and if I did I would not have done so responsibly. You may be able to do so, in which case you and I are probably cut from a different cloth.
Then you are perhaps not the target customer. Rackspace Cloud offers very nearly the same service at a similar price.
I think i also got confused the first time i saw that syntax (being used to C-like languages hehe). It started making lots of sense once i got familiar with the concept of currying and functions as first-class values.

Suppose you have a function f with type Int -> Int -> Int (you can read it as "it takes two integers and returns an integer" or "it takes one integer and returns a function that takes an integer and returns an integer"), then:

f

is the function itself, and it is a usable value.

f 42

is a function of type Int -> Int, and a perfectly valid value too. And

f 42 33

is just and Int.

It's like with each application you take one arrow from the function type; until you get something that's not a function any more :)
You were pointing out details of his character, saying talking to him was a, sarcastic, pleasure; and pointing out some less than desirable activities he's admitted to doing in the past, presumably with your correspondence there.

In my reading of what you said, it felt as though you had a bias against this person. In my previous misunderstanding of the article, I read your argument as "well, maybe he doesn't deserve an unbiased judge" and you were providing an exert of a conversation with him that was intended to make us, too, displeased with him.

If I misunderstood what you said and your intent in saying it, I apologize
I'm not sure what you mean by "templates" here.

React gives you a set of tools to generate markup safely. The syntax we prefer to use for it is JSX, but if you'd prefer to do it your own way, that's great too. You can organize your app however you want by splitting the DOM generation code into separate files if you wish.
If he bought a private island instead of doing the charity stuff, then I imagine people would be less vocal just because he would be in the news far less often. Were he to do both, I doubt people would be less vocal. I mean, the guy has got plenty of yachts right? I don't see why an island would be much different.

Dean Kamen bought an island. Few know, even fewer care, and I would say that even fewer fawn in amazement. And he acts outlandish with it! People would care even less about more dull island owners.
Hmm, I looked before and didn't find much, but you're right. Still, on page 1 of the list of 'conversations' there only seem to be 9 that are genuine dialogues, the other 41 are just singular essays or people all answering an open question. But yeah, thats a bit more like it. Still some way to go before it becomes a bubbling forum of discourse though.