skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Docker 0.4.0 release note
To New mobile developers that got their start on mobile (like I was) without back end experience, Its highly appealing to let someone take care of it. (most people just need a basic CRUD api anyway, why spend time writing yet another crud app?)
"a liberal education has mostly just given us liberally educated people, but not liberal learners."

I would argue this is a specific problem, and not the intention or desired result of a Liberal Arts education. The intention is as this article states: to learn how to think correctly across boundaries of fields and within them. To solve problems better, not just be more general.

Of course this is sort of a No True Scotsman, but arguably any kind of education isn't working if it's not creating a positive impact on the value and ability of the person being educated.
There's another hidden cost directly related to this article. It's call opportunity cost. If you're interested in starting a company you are drawn to these kinds of articles, and ultimately they just waste your time. It's startup porn, and it takes away from time you could be working. [Raises right hand and swears to stay off HN the rest of the work day.]
As the other reply points out, Quack indents exactly like DrRacket but your other reasons for sticking with DrRacket are totally valid. My primary motivation to move to emacs is that I find myself doing too much of "C-x o" in DrRacket!
Yes, because you can always relinquish your citizenship and leave the country if you don't want to pay taxes. It should be noted that all "voluntary" market transactions occur pursuant to the implicit threat of force. When I buy something, I reserve the right to invoke the state's use of force if the product is say defective, while the seller reserves the right to invoke the state's use of force if my payment is say counterfeit currency. Per your definition, there are no voluntary transactions in any country with even the most basic government. Which is certainly a self-consistent definition, though it's arguably not that useful unless you believe that full-fledged anarchy is feasible.
Poll: What Cloud provider do you use?
What cloud platform are you using to build your SaaS product? If multiple, select the one you depend on most heavily.
Windows Azure
Parse, Firebase or Similar
Why  'Just Go Do It' is Great for VC's, Bad for Entrepreneur
The comments point out that the printer algorithm gets to choose the next piece; however, it is possible to manipulate the next piece you get through the timing of dropping the previous piece, so in theory this algorithm could produce emulator inputs for a Tetris cart that would draw similar pictures. (Albeit limited to the "resolution" of that tetris field, unlike the extra-wide field used in the video.)
Silicon valley's toxic history.
He wrote the book On Intelligence. Probably one of the most illuminating books that exists.
When Time Dies (A MySQL mystery)
Pearson's Correlation between Github Projects
Talk is cheap. You write a game with the same rules on his old platform, and then come back and tell us about the giant inefficiencies in the other guy's code.

Claiming to be better doesn't make you better
Android is KING in the Internet of things
Say a Craigslist service exclusively for bitcoin. Would the glorious state of Virginia have a problem with this?

An eBay auction exclusively for btc? Where service wets beak with $$ only, or also/with btc micro payments? A problem?
I once listened to a lecture/book from Neil deGrasse Tyson and he mentioned that for distanced over 500 lightyears, it is pretty much impossible to see any kind of artificial light from a planet. The telescope would have to be kilometers in diameter. I think the main problem is the local star and its brightness.

Similar information: http://www.space.com/13514-alien-city-artificial-lights-extr...

Interesting question regarding telescope limits: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/17881/is-there-a-...
or just use safari reader/iReader for chrome.
Stalin has always been under-rated in the United States. Truth was, he was a hero who helped to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. But saying that undermines those who want Churchill and FDR to take all the credit.
I'm hosting a bunch of things with DigitalOcean right now, and they seem pretty good. Don't have years of experience with them, but I'm battering my VPS pretty hard, and it's staying up.
It just seems like such a bizarre game we are required to play. I am picturing you jeering at us to "dance monkey dance".
What a bunch of fluff. Most jobs involve "making things" it's just that the opportunities for leverage are low. Being an employee versus an entrepreneur isn't "selling your time" versus "making things" it's about how much leverage you can utilize in the things you make.
Matt, no amount of hand-waving will convince people when there is ample evidence of negative SEO, including meticulous case studies published online.

As well, the very fact that Google has given in and introduced the disavow tool, it is incontrovertible proof that negative SEO is effective.

Google had a good run but you have not been able to keep up with those who have striven day and night to beat your algos. The question is, can google play catch up? and do so in time?

Several billions of dollars are riding on that question.
IRS spent $50 million on staff conferences
YOU DON'T GET IT, MAN. ALL-CAPS INCREASES VISIBILITY.

DO YOU NOTICE HOW VISIBLE MY COMMENT IS?
Good point, updated the title to be a bit more clear.
A score is punishment or reward by consensus. I always thought the reason was psychological. There's a (very difficult to subdue) urge for a lot of people to punish those they disagree with; individual merits of the argument be damned.

I've seen it here, and it can't be discounted as just a downvote for tone. I think the wisdom of not being able to downvote someone who has replied to you really shines here (along with Slashdot's more extreme example of killing any mod points on a thread you're participating). It sort of forces you to be more objective before dishing out punishment.

The positive distribution may be skewed due to self-censorship to some degree. People tend to look at their score if it's displayed (one of the reasons, I wish "karma" was not shown and instead showed a Slashdot style label score for community standing). There may genuinely be more likable things than unlikable things since scoring of some sort with a very specific number is involved.

I'm more inclined to believe the negative review assessment. It is true that most folks just browse away to something more uplifting if the conversation or the story itself has become toxic.
Definitely not in the list for either server.
AppleDOJ Prezi - Day One - It Appears The Publishers Are Buffoons
is it my eyes or the image has some filament structure?
I must be a very strange/negative person, as I tend to downvote much more often than I upvote, be it on SE[0] or HN.

I also killfile people much more quickly than others, or so I was told. Maybe I’m just angry and hate everyone =)

[0] Not really using it anymore, though.
Alternative interpretation: governments couldn't give a rat's ass about Bitcoin, but care deeply about financial institutions (at least, those too small to purchase legislators) actually following the rules.

This company is transmitting money, Virginia requires companies that transmit money to be licensed, this company is not licensed, seems pretty straightforward to me.

One can argue about the merits of the regulation in question, but since regulations like this long predate Bitcoin, it's clearly not any sort of reaction to Bitcoin or any other virtual currency.
The lack of an option for the author to change the verb really does suck. People wanting to show empathy to someone's post on facebook about something shitty which has happened ends up in a long thread of sad faces, which kind of shit up any real conversation which takes place.

Being able to make a thumbs down available for select posts would solve that.
Twitter: Sorry Apple, 6 Seconds of Video Only For Android
I need to see a free demo of it before I'll sign up. With Google shutting down Reader, plenty of people have come out of the woodwork with "the best Reader replacement" that turns out to not be that great (or at least not the way I use reader). It does both of us a disservice if I sign up, use it for 5 minutes and then never return.
And over two years ago, Google began a major attempt to reinvent themselves. I hear it's called "Plus".
You're looking at the "learning how to think" problem from a specialized viewpoint, trying to define it and pin it down. I don't think it works that way. It's hard to define, but it's more about understanding how to learn and how to be productive with your brain. However you do that is fine by me, as long as you're using your brain to its full capacity and creating value from it.

I recognize greater value in people who focus on a field and have a diverse and broad knowledge background than in those who are specialists alone. Surely the depth of the specialists is required, but the adjunct skills of the generalist turn out to be more important for knowledge work such as software and business, and important in unmeasurable and undefinable ways. They are all around more productive people, better problem-solvers, better learners, more collaborative, more well-rounded, and many more buzzwords which actually turn out to have true meaning in this case.
Tiny Platformer: Creating a small platform game with HTML5 Canvas
Most police chases end when the car being pursued stops.

This could be the result of a driver coming to one's senses, an erratic move resulting in a single car accident, or it could be the result of a police blockade with spikes or a PIT maneuver. The last is an example of one technique police departments employ to end police chases more safely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIT_maneuver
Apple signs deal with Warner for streaming music
Ah yes I confused genders yet again. Embarrassing. I'll just stop now.
You can't dislike something on Facebook because users will feel discouraged. The whole point of Facebook is to share content with people you know and have content shared with you. By participating in the "negative" this goes counter to that idea.

Facebook is an identity/friend/family driven network, you wouldn't like seeing that John and Mary disliked your marriage. This works perfect in an HN/Reddit environment since you can dissociate yourself and provide pseudonymity.

As for Facebook Pages, maybe there is potential here. Though again unless you are a big brand, I don't know with certainty whether a post with 10 dislikes and faces attached to them is better than no likes at all.

The OP has an interesting way to look at it, though, I'm pretty sure this has been explained more than once by Facebook Engineers.
This is not the reason. "Like" and "+1" are endorsements, which draw advertisers and marketers to these platforms. The reason they exist is not to be social, but to use you, the user, to market other content. Celebrities are compensated handsomely for their endorsements, the rest of the population is tricked into doing it for free.

Not only do marketers not want a negative endorsement, they're likely to avoid platforms that present the opportunity. Why not go to the platform that only has good things to say about you? For these business objectives, negative signals offer nothing.

It's not a coincidence that "sponsored stories" involve the same mechanism. They display an ad and include people from your network who endorse the advertiser (as in, who has previously clicked their Like button).

Related to this, it's legally grey whether or not you can endorse something online without disclosing a positive benefit. The FTC have been cracking down on bloggers, and have been asking questions regarding tweets and facebook likes. Companies are trying to get these endorsements using contests and rewards, but those endorsements don't include the disclosure that you normally see required of bloggers reviewing products. The FTC has suggested that this is misleading consumers, because if an individual sees their friends "Like" something, they are more likely to purchase it. What they don't know is that the "Like" was bought, and isn't a true reflection of their opinion.
You don't think a dialogue around work-life balance is relevant to entrepreneurs & startup employees?
Two problems - this disavow tool is not prominent in webmaster tools, second - have no clue how long it takes. Recently I found TONS of obviously spam links pointing to my site and tried to use this tool. After two weeks - no noticeable results. I.e. no feedback.

Overall - whole no-feedback nature of your SE is what bothers me the most. Just put rules upfront, give some feedback to webmasters and ignore seo gamers.
It actually is not bad, i have been using it for a couple month now. I did run into problems but support resolved the problem really fast. You should definitely try them.
Yeah; I'm not a shrink. I'm going off what people tell me that they've been diagnosed with, like by a psychiatrist. diagnosing people myself is, at best, quite rude.
Ask HN: How did Hacker News take off?
I've been an avid Hacker News reader for the past 6 months. I like the content and the discussions that spawn here. But I'll put it straight: usability sucks. And it's ugly. How did such a badly designed website became so wildly popular? I know that the content is responsible for a lot of traffic, but why didn't anyone just build a better alternative in the last 2-3 years?

This is not a rant or anything, I'm just trying to understand how Hacker News became what it is today, with such a simple implementation.
Wrong. This company does not sell Bitcoins - they buy them (the state's "initial investigation" - which likely consisted of reading a complaint filed anonymously by a competitor - had this entirely wrong). They are only "transmitting money" in the same way that people who buy things from Amazon or eBay are when they buy products. By your definition, I guess I need to become a licensed MSB next time I buy a replacement power supply on eBay.
How many websites that are concerned with SEO cannot find somebody who can know what that means for them?

And what are the chances that if somebody doesn't know what that means they will mess it up? It is not like UTF-8/ASCII is something that you have to go out of your way to choose.. it is going to be what is defaulted to.
Here's a minimal Linux kernel module in Rust, by the way: https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko
Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices
My heartfelt condolences to the Atul's family, friends and the team at PCQ.

Atul Chitnis, thank you for your writing and introducing me and many others in India to FOSS.

Peace and Goodwill.
Why is this on HN? What has this got to do with tech?

It seems certain non-tech topics are allowed to be upvoted, while others get yanked.

This kind of censorship is no different than the media blackouts happening in Turkey.
It should be opt in by default.
Haha I have the same thing. Every few weeks I'd get a few notifications to renew domains. They provide a laugh every time.
We've tried to take a fresh perspective on fantasy cricket. Encouraging you all to take a look and provide your feedback and suggestions. Its been a fun journey trying to do this while having a full time job. Reply back if you are interested in finding out about our technology stack or anything interesting like that.
Liking People Makes Your Website Convert Better
Full Details of China's New Tianhe-2 Supercomputer, Said to Be World's Fastest
Not every optimization problem has a global optima, but just as importantly, not every problem is a zero sum game with a bajillion shitty Pareto optima.

Variety is good for the brain.

Yes I'm sure you're addicted to the hedonic treadmill of your b2c webapp idea (ok, some folks are b2b, and some folks are doing things that aren't webapp). Recognize it, and manage it. Cognitive variety is healthy.

Ask yourself this: once you're professionally accomplished and have nothing to prove, what will you be focusing on professionally and how will you juggle various priorities.

Now ask yourself: why aren't you doing that already. Go do that. Unless its a bizarre fantasy that isn't possible in reality.

:-)
We can use the term "full-stack developer" without having a definition, checklist, or example. In fact, I think it is pointless to do otherwise. We use the term as a shortcut in a highly context dependent manner, and will followup with details and specifics afterwards as context demands. I don't think there is such a thing as a "full-stack developer"; instead I think there are developers who use the term "full-stack" to refer to their skillset and/or interests. Recruiters aren't trying to hire "full-stack developers"; instead they use the term to cast a reasonably appropriate net, and then verify key skills and aptitudes at the appropriate time.

Also, "experience" and "full-stack" should be considered orthogonal modifiers. An inexperienced baker may not know how to bake some items; but that doesn't make them not a baker.
Out of all of the changes they made the all caps menu is probably the most stupid in the history of Visual Studio.

Thank god for http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2012/06/14/turn-off-...
they try to argue an indefinite (Japan would have surrendered if we hadn't done this) against a definite (We bombed them and they surrendered immediately)

No, the article is not arguing against a factual claim like that, but against a causal one: that Japan surrendered because of the atomic bombs. The latter may be the mainstream view but it's just as "indefinite" by your standard. And causal claims can be weakened by evidence, which is what most of the article tries to do.

Also, one of the article's major claims is that Japan didn't surrender immediately. That argument is more intricate and interesting than I expected.
Consider the burgeoning community of Redditors.
Up-vote AND down-vote are integral to Reddit's success.

The article's hypothesis needs MUCH more work/research.
Atmospheric distortion?
How is this really any different from Western Union?
Care to elaborate or point out some well written reviews?
Participate in CUFP this year
It's disappointing that this is the highest-ranked comment on the thread.

The government of Virgina is not terrified of Bitcoin. As a state, Virginia does not have the power to issue monetary currency. What Virginia cares about is that money transmitters--of any currency--which send money into or take money out of the state are subject to regulations to protect the citizens and residents of that state.

A legal suspension is a very different thing from a voluntary shutdown. One is the state's use of legal force--the other is the business choosing not to challenge a form letter before any legal proceedings have even begun. A form letter, legally speaking, is like a boxer saying he's going to destroy his opponent--before the match has even been arranged.
No one wants to sit through a philosophy class in High School. It was the "boring class" we had to pass. It was "too soon"

Except, presumably, those kids who choose to do the philosophy bac?
Don't blame the mirror :) The ads shown may be the ads placed through exchange where they were targeted based on profile you matched. For example, checking some HDD prices, i see HDD ads everywhere the few days following it.
Better advice would be to know what you're time is worth, and don't sell it for less - even to yourself.
The Quest for the Excel Custom Function Tooltip
A hero who was a megalomaniacal mass murderer who killed any and all who had the audacity to speak their mind.

Ask any Jewish person what they think of Stalin.
The Hacks to Rule LinkedIn
Oh Dear - Google Glass Gets first Porn App
If I buy Euros, am I not transmitting money? There's a difference between Bitcoin and power supplies, namely that the former is money and the latter is not. The law applies to currency.

Bitcoin advocates can't seem to make up their mind as to whether Bitcoin actually qualifies as "money". It's money right up to the point where the law starts talking about "money", then magically it's just some arbitrary good that's not actually a currency at all.
Some of the discussion here may be PART the reason...but only a small part. If you really think about what Facebook and Twitter are trying to do, they're trying to construct 'graphs' -- a social graph or an interest graph, depending upon which suits your cup of tea; and graphs are based upon connections. When you "like" or "retweet" or "follow" something/someone, you establish and create a link in this gigantic web of connections. Think of it like developing a system of telephone wires.

Therefore, in this model, it doesn't REALLY make sense to have a dislike or a 'dis-retweet' option because you can't create a 'non-connection' more than leaving a void space between you and said other object. That's why these words aren't in the vocabularies of these tools mentioned.

At least that's the visual mental model that I have, and I would encourage others to consider this.
No mention at all about missing C++11 features. I hope their continued silence is not an indicator of nothing to come.
http://cpprocks.com/c11-compiler-support-shootout-visual-stu...

It should be noted that features listed as included in the VS2012 Nov CTP, such as initializer lists, variadic templates, etc., should not in my view be listed. The CTP does not work via the Visual Studio interface, but only from the command line compiler. And the CTP is not included in either Update 1 or Update 2.

Meanwhile GCC and Clang are both feature complete:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1N...
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GCC-4-8-1-is-C-11-fea...
Quick link to Jeff Hawkins book On Intelligence which describes the theory:

http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B003J4VE5Y/
Part of the purpose of the 'like' button is obviously help form a more complete profile of a given user in order to more effectively customize advertising - would incorporating a 'dislike' button make this task any easier? That is, would an approach that refines advertising content by filtering out subject matter a user actively dislikes have a substantive advantage over an approach that just focuses on homing in on what the user actively likes? My guess is that it doesn't, otherwise it would have been implemented already.
Yes, this is certainly the route some people will follow, and we need you to! People studying specific subjects at great depth is still entirely necessary. I just think it's ultra-common and over-encouraged these days, so we should tip the balance in the other direction. Or at least provide the opportunity and encouragement to those for whom generalist knowledge is an appealing route.

We have the specialists. We need the generalists to make sense of them.
I liked SimpleHTTPServer so much that I've implemented equivalent of it in Go:

https://bitbucket.org/densh/static-go
Law school applications continue to slide
Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and Shutter NY, LA Offices