skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how similar or different the numbers would be if the sample was a perfect representation of the world population?

I don't know what the situation is like everywhere in the world, but having visited Europe since the 90's, it was pretty clear Hollywood dominated movies/music (and obviously here in Canada too). So while we might all have our specific picks that are influential to us (whether it's a thought-provoking European movie or an American epic movie), it may end up being not so different in the end? Though the billions in Asia may sway it :)

This is probably an interesting read for those who care: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic152447.files/rose...
Throwing Money Away (Buying vs Renting)
High five to my fellow Monocle readers (subscribers?) ;-) Just as a FWIW, I'd totally love a Hacker News-style site for Monocle-esque topics (i.e. the blend of culture, design, business)..
Because here "client-side bot" includes bots written in Javascript served up from arbitrary pages on the web.

I don't understand your second question, like, at all.
Probably because we came of age when Fight Club, American Beauty, and AdBusters were popular and questioning the American dream. Home ownership usually implies suburbs and crushed dreams to people born in the 1980s.
> The map/reduce idiom stinks in Python.

Actually multi processing has a reasonable implementation.
> PRISM collaborators

You mean companies that comply with US law? So your advice is to work outside of the US?
Can cultural issues cause plane crashes?
Nice, I hope you can build something good with this.

Personally, I like the HN frontpage because so many news items fit on it. So a little too much whitespace for my taste.
I had to look up what 'Neue Haas' was. For all the extolling of simplicity and clarity in the original post, it wasn't very clear.
The client model does not have to be the server model, and it probably shouldn't.
Except:

DON'T panic! And don't forget your towel.
What is the solution if you don't mind sharing?
A truly marvelous solution too big to fit into the comment thread? ( =

What's the broad strokes idea?
Oh, it's not human nature so much as complexity. Carpooling is most popular for regular commutes at set times, for exactly this reason.

When I decide to visit the hardware store on Saturday, there is probably someone I have never met that I could carpool with. But how do I contact them and arrange a carpool in minutes? If I have to post a listing a week in advance, it just isn't worth it.
James Coglan did a good introduction of promises on his Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional: Node’s biggest missed opportunity[1] (HN discussion here[2]).

The author of Promises/A+ also wrote a nice blost post on his You're Missing the Point of Promises [3]

Promises are actually a part of a of a very well understood programming mechanism that involves Futures and Deferred as well[4]

[1] http://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/03/30/callbacks-are-imperative-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5466872

[3] https://gist.github.com/domenic/3889970

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_%28programming%29
Agreed. Even if it's true, I hope that the HN community can all agree that comments like this reflect poorly on us -- lets certainly not reward them.
Los Angeles has earthquakes too.
Just curious, how offensive is "chick"? I catch myself accidentally using it every once in a while (a vestige of shitty, all-boys Catholic high schooling). Should I be mildly embarrassed or mortified?
You might be right. I can't remember where I read about it. I do think it does have some impact.
Happy to hear this about Mozilla and I hope other companies follow the same culture. Balanced cannot possibly be completely open in the sense you refer to since it is a financial services company. For example, the fraud filtering algorithms/rules cannot be open to public (for obvious reasons). So, there are limits. To this end, "open" must not be treated as binary. Balanced is much more "open" than most other companies since it opens up (among possibly others): 1. It's dashboard (which is core product) 2. Specs (again, core product) and openly discusses product features - including limitations in public.
I doubt you would have said the same thing if the post started with "that dude" or "that guy".
really, a story about a prominent female engineer, and the first paragraph is about how she dresses? I'm hardly a feminist, but this is kind of rediculous.
"chick"

I don't have to go past that word, to have a problem with your comment in this context.
There were plenty of foreclosures and short sales in 2010-11, indicating overbuilding (be it because of over-buying / over-lending, regardlesss) in the previous few years (2006-2008).

The article is from 2012. There are 140 projects under construction RIGHT NOW.
Would having the solution public make it no longer effective?
I think you are confusing "demand for cars" with "demand for what a car provides", i.e. transportation from one location to another.

A driverless car isn't necessarily "making cars better" but rather making transportation easier. So the demand for transport may increase while demand for individual car ownership may decrease.

Personally I don't think I'm in favor of a driverless car, and I certainly can't imagine the impact it they will have.
What do you mean by PRISM collaborators? I am genuinely curious because I feel like I missed when/where that was established.

To my understanding, and please correct me if I am wrong, PRISM isn't a system that companies subscribe to, but more of a government portal for requesting information from a number of companies in a legal fashion. Is this not correct? I admit I have not kept up with all of the bits of information released due to the high volume of speculations generated by just about everyone that talks about it.
If you live in Switzerland legally, you are allowed to sign the petition.
I did not. That's really cool!
>The point is if the "gui" can be keyboard operated, then it can be displayed as text, by the shell, with no need to augment/modify the terminal emulator to do it.

Maybe, but that makes the GUI look worse.
The great thing about Promises/A+ is that it's so small. I have implemented it in 375 bytes, and was even able to add two convenience functions: https://github.com/timjansen/PinkySwear.js
Interesting.. I just looked at their status panel, and the downtime is there, including all of the messages. They were definitely missing the day after it happened.

Still disappointed they don't send out emails when there's downtime..

Would probably use them again the future. (This was my one negative experience with them, btw)
so you don't think there's a categorical difference here? This may come as a shock to you, but being unemployed is not exactly the end of the world. If you're a good person, there are usually people who will step up to help you out in a time of need, and even if you aren't there are social services.
According to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/08/asiana-boeing-77...

the Korean Asiana pilot was an experienced pilot with little experience with Boeing 777, while his co-pilot had a lot of experience with Boeing 777. It's unlikely, but possible that cultural issues were involved in the crash.
This sort of reminds me of how Russia and its dash cams have sort of changed how people (such as myself) perceive the act of driving. In the past, dash cams were largely limited to police officers on patrol, but now anyone can put one in their car for $40 and have it set to record as soon as the ignition is turned.

Some dash cam videos that have made the news recently include the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ufuY5W7K0 (plane crash in Afghanistan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqFDsKq5DA (plane crash somewhere in Russia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66OHiB_p4I (meteor in Russia)

I think that Google Glass will lead to more videos like the one linked and the ones I included. Perhaps we'll eventually have just news dominated by reports by a single individual as opposed to a reporter and a camera man.
Couldn't that "location" be a parking lot? The article did mention that some 25 - 30% of a city is devoted to the car today. Some of that is the street, street parking and parking lots. Why would the car circle instead of 1) returning home 2) performing a secondary function (delivery, driving another family member) or 3) parking?
You're correct that the article is a puff piece, twisting the notion that suddenly all streets are going to be parking free. Your vision of cars endlessly circling events and houses day and night is even more absurd and completely disregards the cost of petrol.

But, somehow you then end your argument with: "therefore driverless cars are bad". As if this stupid future envisioned by the article is now the only possible future for driverless cars.
Not posting this to support his argument, but for the record some of the high end unix hardware available (for a price, no idea what these cost):

32TB RAM 1024 Cores (64 x 16 core), 928 x PCI Express I/O slots:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sp...

16TB RAM 256 cores (probably multiple threads per core), 640 x PCIe I/O adapters:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/795/specs.html

4TB RAM 256 cores (512 threads), 288 x PCIe adapters:
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/spar...
The property of distributed message passing systems that everyone likes is the arbitrary scalability. Subsystem performing slowly? Add more nodes! The cost of this arbitrary scalability, as you have noticed, is brittleness, single points of failure, and complexity that will drive even the most seasoned of engineers nuts.

In the end though, the users want their tweets and they don't care how it works. Complexity is why we make so much money, after all.
Agree on that, will try to make it more compact.
For all the extolling of simplicity and clarity in the original post, it wasn't very clear.
You get +1 internet points for that.
drivebyacct2 you are hellbanned, time for drivebyacct3 i guess
I'm not so sure that there's as strong a correlation to age as you think. I was born in 1983, so I don't think that I missed the window that you're talking about.
Yes, but at a less abstract level, SF can't have nice thing A (tall buildings) because they currently do not have nice thing B (the ability to build earthquake proof buildings).
unimaginative? I see plenty of ideas, and wouldn't call all of them obvious.

I also think there is at the very least a core of truth in it. For example, that 30% time gain in not looking for a parking spot. If people now want to spend an hour on travelling and gain 10 minutes that way, it isn't strange to assume that they will be willing to move 10 minutes driving farther into the suburbs (cheaper house, larger garden, etc).

So, I expect traffic to increase. An extra reason for that to happen is that time currently spent operating your car could be spent in other ways. For example, you could watch a full-length movie/do some yoga on your way to work every day. For a movie/yoga enthusiast, that could make the 1.5 hour trip preferable over the 1 hour one, especially since it will come with the cheaper/better housing.

"the downstream effects are hard to predict but undoubtedly will follow the same path all automation has: more efficient, less polluting"

You mean as in "living in a suburb and driving a SUV to work is less polluting than living in the center of town and driving a bicycle or walking to work?"
Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital
20 Lessons I Learned Leading A Growth/Marketing Team
From the article:

"New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory
that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon
after undergoing costly training."

This doesn't seem crazy, but I'd like to see if they actually have data showing a higher turn-over rate for high IQ people they accepted in the past.

The cost of training is high, so filters seem appropriate, if they can filter out people with low scores (and by proxy IQ), then they can filter out people with high scores.
Are the streets really free? Don't property and gas taxes pay for them? Is it really that hard to imagine a system that charges per-mile for driving on them? I don't think the three options you list are the only three and I also don't think this is an intractable problem.
I'm looking forward to hearing his thoughts on the upcoming NeXTSTEP 10.9.
It's a reaction against the "home ownership is doable and always a better idea than renting" sentiment that the previous generations knew to be true. The answer is probably a bit more nuanced in that sometimes ownership is great and sometimes it's a terrible idea, but I think it's just a case of the pendulum swinging the other way.
The nice parts of LA are just as expensive as SV (e.g. $1mm Santa Monica cottages) and transportation is equally bad.
The 3D Printing Revolution You Have Not Heard About
A wrapper is totally fine really, actually better in some cases (see later). It still allows the programmer to map his intentions directly to the code, and make that intention directly visible to the reader. This adds to the "user experience" for the programmers.

Agreed that such wrappers are then easily built by the programmer himself. But then comes the added pain of including those definitions in everywhere within a project and in-between projects. They become one more dependency to handle.

Then come these wrappers or even whole data structures from third-party libraries. Nearly in every case I see, there is some impedance matching issue with some other libraries, requiring glue-logic to convert from one format to another. [Edit: Plus the added licensing/cost issues for those libraries.]

If a set is just a wrapper around some more generic data structure, it is OK to implement it like that in the library to avoid duplication of code in that library. However, by not making that wrapper, the system is resulting in much more amount of duplicated code in the user space and now with the mentioned impedance mismatch or with weak mapping of programmer's intentions to the code.
What, exactly, is "crazy" about it? As a renter, you don't control your own destiny. You're at the whim of your landlord. As a home-owner, or better yet, a property-owner, you have much more control over your living situation. Don't like the paint color? Change it. Don't like your stove? Get a new one. Want to plant some new flowers? Go for it.

Want to move to San Francisco to work at a new startup? Oops, you have a house, you're fucked. Breaking a lease is a lot easier than selling/renting your home. Being mobile is a lot better, for job prospects if you aren't in one of the hot spots already.
Maybe because neither of those words connote vapidity?
I would use workspaces for that.
Saying "their goals overlap" is a fundamental misunderstanding of the anarchist position

Right, but I didn't say that. Not as a universal statement, anyway. I'm saying that there are certain, specific situations / circumstances where they do overlap.

Ancaps and anarchists have almost nothing in common.

Agreed, but the word I'm focusing on is the "almost". Where there is something in common, we could all probably accomplish more by working together a bit. But, in my experience, an-caps are often open to collaboration with anarchist-socialists / left-anarchists / whatever-term-you-prefer, but those guys usually don't want anything to do with us. I guess I'd say it's that we don't see "traditional" anarchists as our enemy, but they see us as theirs. But what can ya do? shrug
"San Francisco, I love you But I'm Bringing You Down"

FTFY
und jetzt hier: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hw3n1/stop_the_su...

(Excuse the assumption you speak german! ;) )
It's hard to get promoted at Google unless you launch things, and the Internal Tools team never launched shit. So they just latch onto any excuse to launch whatever they can, even if it makes no fucking sense. You'll see this a lot with other Google products too, Gmail being one of the worst offenders (totally unnecessary UI changes that piss everyone off, changing Gtalk into Hangouts just to have a chance to launch a new app, etc).

The Gtalk one is particularly ridiculous if you buy into their disingenuous arguments about combining disparate forms of messaging, especially given the spectacular failure of Wave, which tried to do the exact same thing. But if you view it through the lens of "Gtalk hadn't launched anything in a while, and their engineers wanted to launch something" it makes perfect sense.
It is a magical technological cloud city. For certain business models.

If the company in question is betting on very strong growth, then it needs a large pool of experienced talent to draw upon. Paying 3X or 5X as much to get top talent can easily save money in the long run.

If you want to be taken seriously by big fish VCs, you have to be able to speak intelligently about how to spend more for a disproportionately positive payoff. The problem here is not the VCs, but the aspirations of the founders.

Finding less experienced talent for cheap may be the smarter move. For other business models.
Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing
Maybe you should be more open-minded then.
What's the feminine alternative to "dude"?
Have you tried setting Quick-Edit for your command line? The right-click copy/paste works well enough (though not nearly as good as a linux terminal). But the highlighting is still garbage.
Or let's just not put words in my fucking mouth by declaring what connotation I had in mind by my use of the word "chick".
Probably older, probably more experienced, subject of a news story, in a fairly professional context? Kind of offensive (IMO).

I think outside of common terms like "chick flick", this is just like using "girls" to refer to adult women - think to yourself, if you replaced the term with something like "boy" or "dude" how would you sound?

I don't really go on crusades about these particular uses of words because I feel there are better fights to fight, but I would never refer to a man in this particular context as a dude. Maybe I'm overly politically correct, but I try to be respectful to everyone.
Do you really think an autonomous car will seek out and join a traffic jam? How many times do you think an owner of an autonomous car will have to be left stranded because their car intentionally got itself stuck in a traffic jam and couldn't pick them up before they trade that vehicle in for one without such a short sighted "optimisation"?
It depends. If you're using it in a negative statement, it tends to connote a woman who isn't very smart. If you're making a positive statement, I think it would be roughly equivalent in formality to calling someone a "babe," without the connotation of being pretty. So still don't use it to talk about someone in a professional context.
Or they left something, cameras, ethernet sniffers, or other recording devices.
sam don't waste your time this is a joke
None that occur to me off the top of my head, at least not when speaking about someone negatively. You could always go full-ninja-turtles and call her a dudette. Chick certainly isn't it, though.
If you're a PC douchebag who actively seeks out opportunities to be offended by things, then, sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.
Absolutely depends. Some people find "chick" just about as offensive as "nigger", while some people don't care in the slightest. I've known a number of women who freely use "chick" to refer to themselves or their friends.
just fyi, 2.8 million for 4096 core 16TB
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019153-264.html?part=rss...
> but it's still an almost unthinkable amount of data to try and make sense of.

It's only money, and compared with keeping a division supplied in Afghanistan or putting an enormous reconnaissance satellite in space, it's an obvious winner in the minds of the people running the security apparatus.
>You mean companies that comply with US law? So your advice is to work outside of the US?

1. Or work in areas which do not handle data that the US requires by law. You can find software jobs in the US that do not require collaboration with governmental domestic spying. For instance many people choose not to work for companies that build weapons of war for a variety of reasons. These people can still work inside the US.

2. Additionally non-US residents work for Google. Being outside the US doesn't really have much relevance to the discuss.

3. I also reject the notion that Google had no choice. Google may have been able to comply with the letter of the law without giving up user data by using e2e cryptography. One can support or question their actions, but they are not powerless victims in this drama but active agents that can be held responsible for what they do.
Sounds like they were inspired, at least in part, by Thoughtly. "Quantifiably Good Content." But I'm partial.

http://thoughtly.co
They have the ability to build those buildings, even if they have to contract with Japanese companies to do it. What they apparently don't have is the infrastructure to regulate and inspect such buildings. They probably don't have that infrastructure because they don't actually want tall buildings regardless...

They don't have a chicken because they don't have an egg.. they don't have an egg because "Fuck chickens; move to Manhattan if you want chickens."
living in tenderloin/bayview/hunters point, furiously searching craigslist for gems, living in the east bay, being a live-in boyfriend/girlfriend
So what? Got to start isolating interface from the implementation. That implementation inside has overlaps does not mean the interface should be compromised. The latter needs to be designed according to the common needs of the user (here, programmers) rather than the implementation alone. Think "user experience" people!
I'm only responding to this because your comment is #1 on the page right now.

The factuality of your comment has nothing to do with it.

Calling her a "chick" is like calling Larry Page a "boy toy" -- the word is used largely in sexual situations ("picking up chicks"), and is incredibly unprofessional and demeaning in a professional context like the workplace, or Hacker News.

And talking about the Internal Tools team as "that shit" is equally unprofessional and demeaning to everyone who works on it.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
Nxt rdr - Uncluttered online feed reader.
Hello ppl,

I'm just writing to let you know that I'm making an open and public beta of an online RSS reader app I made for myself, but as it grows I think I could share it with the community. The main idea behind this work is to make a clean, uncluttered yet easy to use feed reader. As I don't like all that "share with this, share on that" stuff, all I needed was an app that centers its content on the feeds and nothing but the feeds. Thats why I dislike apps like Feedly, Flipboard and such. I'm not saying those are bad feeds apps, its just I find those apps so overloaded with functions I never use and decide to make one by myself.
This was a summer project, and I think if I find this app useful to read feeds maybe someone else could also find it useful too. :-)
You can register an account, go to Feeds and start adding your feeds URL in the input box. Import OPML is a work in progress.
You can use W to go backwards in the list and S to go forward. I will be adding more keybindings to make navegation a breeze.
The site is responsive, so you can visit an expect some decent navigation with your smartphone as well.
The feeds sources auto updates every 10 minutes.

Let me know your comments or suggestion if you wish to: templar.dev@gmail.com

The feed reader URL: http://nxtrdr.dyndns.info

Best regards.
Same here. The new beta fares much better, and the Bold option totally alleviates the issue.
It is insane when you pay sky high prices for a house. Otherwise, it may be a good decision.