skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of what you think of wine, trying to extend this to cover things like sushi, or beer, or cheese, seems like a mistake. Yes, taste is subjective, and that affects other things too than just wine, but the cultural expectations of other foods are different than with wine.

Take for example sushi. Yes I'm sure there are plenty of sushi restaurants that substitute cheaper fish when they think their customers won't notice. But these aren't going to be particularly good sushi restaurants to begin with, I'd wager. If you go into a really good sushi restaurant, and order Omakase (where you sit at the bar and the sushi chef serves you whatever he wants to), you're going to get the best fish the restaurant has, and you're really going to taste the difference.
Hmmm... I really expected you to break and at least hint that you were joking...
I can think of three possible reasons (I claim no expertise here) to doubt that FISA orders and phone metadata are completely useless against terrorists even if (as seems likely) serious terrorists know to steer clear of Skype, Facebook and friends.

1) By monitoring Internet services like these, the NSA denies their use to the terrorists. It's not as if exclusively using couriers, dead drops and the like has no costs to an organisation (say, have you moved off GMail yet?) Apparently some fairly serious terrorists are using the Internet in more secure ways, but the spooks have some ability to go after those too.

2) Any big network or organisations is going to have slipups, no matter how good it is. It would be hard to imagine that no serious terrorist ever gets lazy, or decides to take a risk under time pressure.

3) There have to be a lot of guys who start out as Facebook jihadis, and only later get serious and realise (or have it explained to them) that they need to stop making it easy for the authorities to track them. But by that time they'll already have left a useful trail of contacts and activity through FB. (By the way, that's one reason why I think it's wrong to assume that PRISM has been useless even if it hasn't stopped any specific attacks. Realistically, that kind of intelligence is going to be less about discovering big plots just in time and more about gathering enough information to locate and move on terrorists - espcially if you can then turn them into informers. Running "touts" is central to effective counterterrorism, if history is any guide.)
Ask HN: OSX vs Ubuntu for Ruby/Rails Development
i use OSX since 5 years. Now i think about mac mini or PC. But i don't know which one OS to chose . Any pros for leave OSX for Ubuntu? HELP ME
Yeah, that last paragraph is kind of trolling the readers. When you say fast food restaurants "dilute the quality of their meat," you're actually talking about possible jeopardy to human health stemming from awful factory-farm practices or poor quality control w.r.t. suppliers -- so price is (by and large) an indicator of a very meaningful qualitative difference. Not at all the same scenario as with wine.
> Look, for the Heat, the interesting fact isn't whether or not the NBA acknowledges them as World Champions. It's that they referred to themselves as World Champions.

We disagree about what's interesting.
Honestly, just use the CAPSLOCK key as a CTRL key.

1) it's more comfortable.

2) Now, the place of the FN key doesn't matter anymore! :)
Why Instagram Added Video
If you don't need anything that it's offering, fine, don't use it.

I need lots of branches amongst my team. I tried to use Perforce branching and I found out I was pounding nails into my eyeballs.

I'd be surprised if any of the other SCMs that can do what git does have significantly different models of behavior. I know Darcs is quite similar (though it can be a little smarter about merges sometimes).
Something very similar happened to me the other day. A cab driver refused to let me pay by credit card. He said that he loses money on every ride that uses a credit card.
You're confusing taxi services and car services. Taxis are for street-hail, but that's not what Uber does; Uber is a car service. Their app handles the dispatch and payment processing, but is otherwise the same business that car services have always had. (Car services aren't supposed to be "on demand", however, but find me one car service in the world that won't come get you immediately and we'll talk...)
well, if he spends the evening in a Havana hotel he won't be that far from USINT.
> not due to quantum computing - a theory that has originated in the 1980-1981 and that has yet to yield actual machines that we can use.

Uhm – classical computer science originated sometime in the early 19th century (possibly earlier) in the form of analytical engines and the first actually usable machines[0] were created just a bit before World War II. General relativity originated before WWI and was first used well after WW II. Quantum mechanics was invented at the beginning of the last century and the first usable LASERs were built in the 1960s.

Really, 30 years is not that long in the context of ‘hard’ science. Even in the ‘fast-moving’[1] field of software engineering, people still use SMTP (1982), TCP/IP (1975) and FTP (1971).

[0] ‘Usable’ in the same sense that QC are not usable yet because people can perfectly factor 15 without Shor’s algorithm.

[1] Because it’s young and hence easy to discover new stuff.
Here is my conjecture from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901649

In summary, I think it's because containers, although open source, are a relatively commercial technology. Interested in any comments from people were there in the 90's when lots of hosting providers started using Linux.
For those who find the closed subjective questions useful, we are trying to build a home for them at slant.co, would love to hear any feedback.
Great advice. I don't have much to add except that I urge you to make it a priority to manage your stress level during this difficult time, and to not make important decisions in a fragile mental state. Try to be a rock for the other team members, and be professional. Lean on your wife for support, and be honest with others about your situation. Bottling all this up inside is counter-productive and makes it worse. There is no shame in your situation - you took a risk and tried to do something really hard.

Having said that, a month to live is still a month to live. Talk about the situation with your team members and advisors and try to figure out whether or not it's salvageable. Perhaps, after making some difficult choices, there's a way that you can still continue. There have been moments in my own startup experience where things seemed really bleak and hopeless, and it seemed time to give up, but in the end we actually got past it. Another friend of mine had a situation where he literally had no money left in the bank and took the company to Vegas on credit card (I don't advise this!), when someone threw him a $200k life preserver at the 11th hour.

I guess the question you really have to ask yourself is whether you still believe in what you're doing. If the answer is no, then I think your involvement with the company has to end, which may or may not be fatal for the startup overall. I feel for you OP - my own startup failed 18 months ago and it's no fun. However, you'll get through it and I hope you decide to try again.
The practice of commenting on articles without reading them produces funny results, sometimes!
Why not use a QR code to link the mobile device with the form instead of/in addition to SMS?
also, I'm fairly confident he's traveling on asylum papers from Ecuador. US passport is irrelevant.
> They have these amazing things called IP addresses that tell you what country traffic is coming from.

I'd be embarrassed for our intelligence agencies if that's all they looked at. (a) Americans travel abroad, an American Skyping home should be completely covered under the 4th. (b) Foreign actors are perfectly capable of using proxies, either human or electronic.

> "Private" for the purposes of the 4th amendment means "inside your desk drawer" private, not just "not public."

If I mail a letter to Bob, it is private to both Bob and I. If I save a document to Google Docs over https, it is private to both Google and I. Assuming Google honors that privacy (big assumption, I know), how does that not qualify as "desk drawer private"?

> The Constitution determines the rights and obligations of Americans to each other and those on U.S. soil.

Absolutely; I'm not arguing a legal imperative not to spy indiscriminately on foreigners. I'm stating a moral imperative not to do so. There are ways in which I believe the current spying activity violates the Constitution as-is, and yet I also believe we need to new laws to safeguard the values of human liberty that the Constitution is meant to enshrine and defend, for all humans and not just citizens. (And yes, that includes restraints on corporate power in addition to government power.)
I'd like to see a per-year (or even per-month) compensation scheme for recruiters, because it would give them an incentive toward more successful placement. The current system seems to encourage churn.

That said, the "both must stay" provision here will cause people to stay longer than they should. Paying people to stick around when there really isn't anywhere for them to go doesn't make a lot of sense. Perhaps that recruiting bonus should be independent of the salaried role (and therefore continue to recur) since it is a separate job.
All I see is the Win8 spinny dots. I can't tell if it's actually going to load something, or if a connection is being blocked (by my gamut of ad and data prevention plugins) and I'm waiting for a timeout.
I don't think you know. 1h of running could double the productivity of the hours you put in afterwards. And, most probably, the issue stems from product/strategy decisions. Not from spending 1h a day running and clearing his body and mind.
Oh, this was about wine, whine and not /wine/, /wine/. For playing pc vidjah games.
"I’m looking forward to new discoveries now that I can store and process large amounts of performance data."

There it is. The central dogma of "big data".

But there is a dissenting view...

Jaron Lanier said, and I paraphrase: A computer will pass the Turing Test when the human running it becomes dumb enough to be fooled.

I have been very skeptical that the "discoveries" that big data presents to us will only be useful inasmuch as we dumb down our criteria for what discoveries are.

I suspect that anyone that has tried to model data and find real insight with it for any amount of time shares this skepticism.
There's plenty of whites that aren't sweet at all - although I doubt I'd mistake a Californian chardonnay for a red, I'd also never describe one as sweet and sticky. For that matter, there's also tons of sweet red wines. I can tell you've never been subjected to a glass of Manischewitz on high holidays. (Lucky you.)

I don't know why the article makes such a big deal about mistaking a red for a white. For example, I could very easily mistake a red lambrusco for a white champagne - they taste pretty similar.
Scotch, IPAs, double IPAs, etc. I found cheap reds were mostly distinguished by thinly veiled alcohol content and bitterness, but the difference in bitterness between a good wine and a poor wine is much smaller than the difference between a poor wine and a glass of scotch.

As for not enjoying the taste, my tongue is not yours, but is your issue simply with the flavor? Or do you find it too bitter/alcoholic? If it was the former, that's a matter of taste. If it was the latter, I would indeed be surprised given your affection for whiskey.
Fail: Nook sales plummet 34%. B&N seeking a tablet partner.
The Startup Bias
This looks awesome. I looked through the docs and didn't see much information on what happens in failure cases. If one node that is storing a replica of my data goes down how long until the data is replicated to a new node?
This tutorial literally changed my life.

Props for making the best RoR tutorial available.

Thank you mhartl
The 3 Skillsets that Make Successful Product Managers
I enjoy all Priceonomics articles. I also enjoy the service they provide to users. I hope the experience at that company is as enjoyable to work for as the content is to consume. I started using the service after reading the blog posts from HN. The blog has the right dash of math, data, and readability. The blog reinforces the company's structure and path while building a great image.

It saddens me that they have not penetrated the market as expected. I am still hopeful they will find another feature to make their site reap the well deserved rewards.
I'd love to chat. Can you hit me up? @jiyannwei?
unfortunately it because the servers are getting pretty hammered at the mo :/
Is there a Rails Tutorial style book for Django?
Doesn't the fact the Uber drivers come to the passenger alleviate that fact? Also, anecdotally, from experience living in bad neighborhoods in my city taxi cabs are generally less likely to visit.
Ok, thanks. Yeah, I probably have only been exposed to a small cross-section of reds. I started with merlot and pinot, liked what I had, and haven't felt the need to branch out yet.
For his passport to be revoked and that to mean something, until he comes back to the US, he can still use it freely
It's a site with questions and answers.

In our field, again, there are a great many questions which seem to only be matters of opinion--and that's okay! That's fine! That's how people work, and to pretend otherwise is foolish.

Many architectural decisions in computing are heuristic, right? Many solutions are the result of opinion, because nearly everybody outside of hard-core mathematicians and computer scientists lacks the language to even describe their problems in such a way as to avoid opinion. Even the folks that do have that ability are likely working on a problem where the assumptions are incomplete and ill-defined anyway.

This is a faulty binning of questions into "is question about opinion" and "is question that is not matter of opinion". I posit that the former bin is quite useful and shouldn't be worked against.
It's easy to show how Uber isn't in everyone's best interests: cabs are required to service well-defined metro areas at a standardized fare; in return for agreeing to operate under a set of regulations that makes them part of the transit fabric of a city, regulated cab services is granted a monopoly.

That system doesn't work if cabs are forced to compete at a disadvantage with other services that don't operate under the same constraints.
Whatever you do, do not submit McLibel as a favorite moment. They have no sense of humor about it.
I think the poster himself [0] is more interesting than the idea - which I have to imagine has been kicking around in sci-fi forever.

0: http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikhyypia
If you've recruited 2-3 new hires, and their salary is similar to yours, that's a 20-30% raise a year, a not-insubstantial amount.

I could easily see people coming to expect these bonuses, starting to rely upon them to pay for their holiday shopping, etc, to the point where politics and drama could result.

Of course on paper, even one 10% referral bonus would be better than most existing ones, but people don't behave rationally about money, and we quickly get used to our "bonuses"...
Remember that thing about headlines that are questions?!

The same applies here. Especially with such sensationalised and over generalizing headline.

Drink your wine and enjoy it, you don't need to go to the higher priced wines.

And anybody should be able to tell a $2 wine apart from a $10 one (or better, alcoholic grape juice from wine)
Happens all the time here. Only once has a cabbie ever let me pay with card, he was angry at all the other taxi drivers who only accept cash so as to not report the income.
I asked a similar question recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634319
Conveniently, the first person leaving might go to work
for another company that has a similar policy, and start
referring their co-workers from their previous employer,
who then move to the new employer, referring one another
as they go.

It is not quite a Ponzi scheme or chain letter, since
(presumably) only one referrer could collect the bonus,
but it might produce patterns where many people in one
department follow the lead of the first one to migrate.

OTOH, if the bonus is linked to the starting salary,
HR may now have an incentive to low-ball the start, and
then increase to retain.

Cui bono?
I've been solving real-world problems with Clojure for some time now, and haven't had any problems with immutable state or functional programming. Perhaps you haven't used the language enough to really get a handle on how things are done?
Given that the death camps didn't start in earnest until the very end of 1941 I would hope Hannah Arendt hadn't heard of it until then.

I coincidentally just finished a WWII history the other day, Max Hastings's "Inferno - The World at War - 1939-1945" and though he only briefed discussed the Holocaust in general, it was fairly clear that there was at least some level of awareness that something very sinister was going on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Holocaus... also has a bit to say, and a link to some books about the very topic.

What you can say is that Germany was not alone in its treatment of the Jews. The Nazis provided the impetus for the Final Solution but found many willing co-conspirators, not just the Germans.
so green dot bought a bank?
How Does Your Organization Perceive Network Risk?
I often say, tongue firmly in cheek, that if Google doesn't know something it is not meant to be known - or exist. Obviously this is not true. I would hate to think that in the future if "intelligence" does not exist in an NSA database then it does not exist. Unfortunately, I feel this will be the case. Let's take the recent Boston Bombing, not only did the US get a tip off but certainly they had sigint from various sources. Were they able to connect the dots? No, they were not.

"Intelligence" is more than just rows in a database.
I have had a $100 bottle of wine that I loved and a $100 bottle that I didn't. Same is true of a $10 bottle. Overall, I know what regions and years I tend to like. Which is something the article doesn't really mention. The 2005 growing season in New Zealand was awesome and a lot of Central Otago Pinot Noirs for that season are unavailable, which drove the price up future seaons. Some have been good, others haven't. There is no way to tell someone what taste they will like nor what seasons are going to be great. But if you find a region you like (syrah from the russian river valley), try other years. Contact the winemaker and see if you can get on their mailing list, possibly buy futures.
My Startup has 30 Days to Live — In 30 days, my startup will be be dead
Have you looked into whether your local cab companies are required to service every area of the city? It's illegal for an NYC cab to refuse service within NYC's regulated area; it's also illegal for them to, for instance, drop you off short of your destination --- my wife found this out when her cab to LGA dropped her off halfway there because he had to make an appointment, and an NYC cop immediately stopped and ticketed him.
I only tested SendGrid and Mandrill for transactional email.

I switched off SendGrid after seeing quite a bit of gmail owners got their email sent into spam (but I believe they fixed the issue).

I use DKIM/SPF with Mandrill and nobody mentioned a spam issue since then.

On SES: I cannot find back the precise article I was thinking about right now (a benchmark if I remember well), these are just my memories.
I was thinking the same thing. The text is way too sharp, so it's rather anachronistic to see the right color scheme with modern fonts. There has to be a slightly pixelated font out there, based on the pixel pattern of the green CRTs. Of course, it wouldn't be practical on the blog, but it would look cool on his home page (jwz.org).

Just for the record, all the people complaining about jwz's green text have no idea what they're talking about. It might be old-fashioned and out of style, but it's totally readable. There are way worse websites, even among designers who should know better. What's funny is that it never fails that someone criticizes the green color, and says something about not taking the content seriously, every time jwz's posts get hackernewsed.
I feel the same way. Best replacement I've found so far is Feedbin.me and Press (for Android).

Feedbin's web client acts pretty strangely sometimes, but it's the one that best fits my Reader workflow.
Why are there so many wine-hating posts? Some beer lovers here?
> Why use a neural development disorder as a derogatory term?

Because it's derogatory to accuse someone of disordered neural development.
> So we went from a world where we were spying on the Russians (which nobody has an issue with)

I used to think that was true, but witness the reaction here on HN to the very idea that the NSA might still by spying on China or Medvedev.
> should you also avoid sushi and seafood restaurants because you know that cheap fish can be just as enjoyable

Uh, yeah. Sure. I'll just head to my local grocer and grab whatever cheap salmon they've got sitting out, take it home, and make nigiri out of it.

You'll be paying my medical bills, right?
I do not get it. How does the referral scheme described in the OP cause anyone to be almost assured of a job for the next decade?
Node.js vs Ruby on Rails
It used to be called reveal.io, it's by Hakim El Hattab, the guy behind reveal.js http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/# and plenty other stuff http://hakim.se
Microsoft announces Microsoft Ventures
Totally. Just earlier today I was reading something about how the IRS taxes citizens who have their wealth abroad. People were very angry! But these are the same people who want more taxes on the rich. All I could think was, 'Hold up a second guys, aren't you familiar with the key ways the rich avoid taxes?'
Well, he would need to get a National Security Letter or a FISA warrant to do that, so it may take awhile to get back to you. :P
I've been told by cabbies that it takes the cab companies a week or so to process (at least in LA) and that's why the drivers hate it so much.
For one, I think the cPanel interface is very out of date graphic design wise. Secondly, it's your typical last decade software that has a million features. I think it's also probably too technical for the average shared hosting user. Defeating cPanel probably is a lot like defeating craigslist. I think like callmeed is saying, you're not going to do it by creating a cPanel competitor, but rather making replacements for specific features of cPanel that can stand on their own.
That's exactly right. "Good" and "bad" are objective, for sufficiently loose definitions of "objective" (go away, Kant). "Like" and "dislike", are subjective, matters of personal taste. Not only can you dislike something that's "good", you can like something that's "bad".

This is what's meant by good taste. If you develop your taste in a particular subject, you can easily make the good/bad objective distinction, without letting like/dislike mislead you.
I wouldn't say wine is bullshit. But it does have a light bullshit aroma, backed by flim-flam notes and an astringent scam aftertaste.
The problem with opinions is that, to someone who is not knowledgeable, it may not be immediately clear which opinion holds more weight

If only there was some facility in Stack Overflow to let users add weight to an opinion, either by signaling agreement or explicitly rounding it out with comments--man, that'd be really useful, wouldn't it?

Opinions aren't something that are bad. Facts, especially to somebody that doesn't know what they don't know, are often less useful. If you punish opinions, you also discourage people from answering with extra background on a topic and creating useful discussion.