skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being the Google bar on the screenshot in French and the name servers on a Moroccan hosting provider I think it's clear where these script kiddies are from :)
I'm not sure how to reconcile this analogy with the existence of government programs (carpool lanes, tax incentives for hybrids) that encourage the use of more efficient cars with more people in them, on the grounds that it's better overall for the ecosystem.
I have distinct feeling that some people think they have an objective definition of pretty (and of course it completely fits their favorite tool).
Wait, HN doesn't mind reposts? Shut the front door! o_O

Also, I wistfully disagree with you about the "highlighting creation" bit. I mean, FSM knows I want to agree with you but my experience so far says otherwise. In all the time I've spent on HN (most of it as a lurker) I've found HN to be quite snobbish about the show-and-tell attempts.

Then again, maybe I am experiencing sour grapes since my own Show HN posts seem to disappear rapidly even before I can say, "Hey HN, loo-"...

:(

I'm thinking of creating an HN spin-off for young, upcoming devs to do a Show-And-Tell about their recent attempts at learning/developing. Heck I've been dying to give discourse ~~(the django-based discussions platform)~~ a try, maybe I'll finally get around to it now. In fact, I'm going to go and write it now... (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) Not meant as a dig.)

Question is, should I do a Show HN, when it is done? :P

EDIT: Turns out discourse is rails-based, not django-based. Still gonna give it a try, I guess... :(
I often believe that these arguments over which language is better are a detriment to actually getting stuff done. But here I am commenting on stuff, rather than coding... so what does that say about me? :)
Even Godwin himself said that his law has been misinterpreted.

http://reason.com/archives/2005/07/14/hands-off-hitler
P.S.: Not implying anything, just adding information. I've re-read my comment and it looks a bit wrong.
I have strong foreign accent and I can tell you: it is much harder to be a CEO with heavy accent than not.

Look this way... The job of a CEO is to hire and sell. And having heavy accent is a big disadvantage when doing these two things. So if you have strong foreign accent you should be aware of that and try to "hack it" and somehow use it in your advantage.
There is a good chunk of us down the in south bay that would use something like this too. Coming up to SF doesn't work for us.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/58649/russia-s-anti-gay-la...
Despite your sarcasm, that is a significant part of actually solving a problem: getting the solution into people's hands. Would you be very impressed with all the improvements if Ford's new line of 100% safe cars all cost millions of dollars?
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Yes, I absolutely agree. I wish the US had a single payer healthcare system.

But that's not the reality we live in (yet, hopefully). So if these sorts of opportunities exist, presumably we should consider them.
I know... it's like the high end VW engineers forgot and thought they were working for Audi. If that had been an Audi, it might have worked out better...
Basically an update broke undocumented functionality that doesn't meant there won't be an option to stream local media, as Google explains:

We’re excited to bring more content to Chromecast and would like to support all types of apps, including those for local content. It's still early days for the Google Cast SDK, which we just released in developer preview for early development and testing only. We expect that the SDK will continue to change before we launch out of developer preview, and want to provide a great experience for users and developers before making the SDK and additional apps more broadly available.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/25/4657202/google-blocks-chro...

I think the jokes are already on Gruber, his "comments" are getting tired and predictable.
Try doing this for previous datasets, so that you can compare maps and extrapolate trends over time. Say, the 2000, 1990, 1980 census data.
Looks like it's broken for everything but the smallest and largest layouts. EDIT: It's fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.
Well, his software business wasn't an outgrowth of his libertarian views on affairs unrelated to the state, I imagine. I'm not saying he's an indolent sloth; I'm just saying he hasn't put much action down next to his words, as recorded by Wikipedia.

I'm just sort of unsettled that a single radio-talk host is your entire hope for libertarianism as a philosophy larger than "government bad individual good".
Good point, we're just proving a sustainable revenue model first, but plan on expanding to the south bay, as well as other cities.
I would have liked to have seen some examples or research affirming the assertion. The research all seemed to deny the other-way-around.
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That seems a best a very bad caricature of what happened in the Soviet Union. What's happening in Communist China now?
Reminds me of a Keynes quote: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

In this case, the pendulum can remain autocratic far longer than your life is worth it - if you feel that fighting is not possible, perhaps the best move is to worry about your own (family's) safety first.
In my opinion, the only problem PHP suffers is that it's populated by many young, inexperienced developers. It's ease of use and low barrier of entry is a double-edged sword.

Many developers (especially ones building upon CMSes primarily) don't need to move beyond knowing Wordpress, ExpressionEngine or CodeIgniter.

So many "easy to use" products are built on it (Wordpress alone powers ~18% of "the internet") that it makes sense that we see so many mis- or un-informed developers crowding Google and StackOverflow.

You can make good code in PHP. You can also learn other languages. You can, more importantly, learn when it's a good idea to use other languages. However, if people don't need to learn more, many won't. That's human nature.

Saying "PHP sucks" is missing the point that other people have other needs, other experience and other education levels from you.

PHP, as a language with low barrier to entry, can fulfill many's needs without requiring a CS education, and without writing their own framework/cms.

Source: 18% of internet: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/27/wordpress-now-power...
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PHP is already powering hundreds of "next start ups".
Now, this is not really an argument but more of an emotional response, isn't it? What I see is that PHP is already losing popularity by every passing day. How many newbie developers are starting with PHP these days? Why would they? It's not as bad as people make it to be but there are just too many better alternatives, which are also easy to learn. I honestly don't get this kind of defense.
For most countries that I'm aware of, when you apply for permanent residency you need to submit a criminal background check from your home country. They don't want to let in fugitives or violent criminals.

For US citizens, that means the FBI (although you generally have your fingerprints taken by your local police, and send the fingerprint card to the FBI). Since I was already in South America, I had my fingerprints taken at the Paraguayan Interpol office. I sent them to the FBI in the US and waited about 75 days to get my results back.

I also had to get fingerprinted for a criminal background check by the Paraguayan police, even though I had never been in Paraguay before.

Other than that, the process was fairly simple - a copy of my birth certificate (certified by the Paraguayan consulate in the US), a couple of visa-sized photos, and US$5000 to deposit in a local bank for the duration of my application (to prove I'm financially solvent). If you're married or divorced, you'll also need to have those papers legalized.
Also, just assume every gun is loaded until you've checked, and check every time the gun leaves your sight.

Also, please don't point them at people even if you think they are unloaded.

https://twitter.com/jdavidgoodman/status/369482641944227841/...

https://twitter.com/Todd_Harwood/status/369588780023312384
Americans will become more interested in school and less in tv when the actual reality in the U.S. becomes as hierarchical as in Europe.
How does it compare to an older phone, say, a Nexus S?
Queen's University loves saying Elon went there. He left though ...
Having attended both a private high school as well as an Ivy League college (would rather not say which one) one of the things you gain is also exposure to people from families that are tremendously committed to education and were raised with certain values. Not that that doesn't exist in other schools but the difference in attitude is striking at those types of schools at least when I attended and from my observation.

Even the kids at the private high school that were on scholarship and came from poor families were not the same as the kids from poor families at the public high school (once again, as a group individual kids of course could vary).

Add: I came from a middle class family.
So it's Ford's fault that people aren't buying new cars? Weird.
In the case of Postgres, it has indexable json and hstore datatypes that enable the use of a table as a key-value store.

And, it has good performance when compared to MongoDB: http://thebuild.com/presentations/pg-as-nosql-pgday-fosdem-2...

So in this case, it is using Postgres as intended by the datatype designers.

May be you are thinking of the Ruby Rails ORMs.
In London, the Lee Rigby murder and the flash mob violence has brought tensions between English and immigrants to the headlines.
Why would you keep looking at php.net when there are better, modern, easier to write alternatives? Cheap hosting? Come on, we're living in the days of 5$ VPSs.
I don't think that's totally correct.

"...in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania - 125 U.S. 181 (1888), the Court clearly affirmed the doctrine, holding, "Under the designation of 'person' there is no doubt that a private corporation is included [in the Fourteenth Amendment]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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That's a pretty good book, although in some ways it recapitulates a lot of this one:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0887307280/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=de...

Here's my summary of Built to Sell, fwiw:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2011/05/23/summary-built-to-sell-...
In my eyes this is not an article about a failed indie, but about one who never started. And yes that is exactly what is the biggest source of failure: Not starting.

You still didn't make that iOS/Android game with simple mechanics! You still didn't earn even 1ct by selling any kind game! You still didn't start to be an indie developer. Maybe it's still too hard to finish a 3D game with so many different programs and IDEs. But maybe it would be easy to make a Candy Crush clone for Android and sell it for $0.5

edit: Btw I'm sexist, but living off your wife's pay check with a mortgage and children in the house? Wtf?
Not "simple" and certainly not "extremely simple".
I wouldn't say zippers are really "overcoming" anything, they're very nice and elegant data structures, particularly because any data type has an associated zipper form.
> What I see is that PHP is already losing popularity by every passing day.
And where are you observing this at? I hang out in PHP communities and I am seeing more and more new faces daily. Lots of new people starting with PHP because of it's easy use and the fact that the most popular open source projects to get your site off the ground are PHP based.
We would be a lot better off as a society if we just acknowledged bad people do bad things and its their fault. Accidents happen and people aren't born bad[1], but bad people could change their ways.

Sadly, its the nature of politics / media to blame something other than the person who did it. Searching for reasons is good, but don't let that blind you to that one person's decisions.

1) ok, I have heard people say this is a might bit untrue, but I'm not sure how
According to this article, 14% of the top 500 CEOs are non-native to the company's homeland.

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2013/07/08/global-50...

Even empirically your dataset consists of startups that target USA markets mostly and hence this conclusion. I am guessing CEOs are good and can come from anywhere, its perhaps "sales" that really needs the idiomatic speak.
Of course, I sometimes forget if a function is function_name or functionname so I may as well just give up and just spend all my time learning a new language, all because I can get a VPS for $5... Sounds logical. Let me tell my boss he's gonna pay me to learn a new language because I couldn't remember a function name and tell all my clients they're gonna pay me to rebuild all their stuff in another language for the exact same reason!
To add to this, there is also a form of this known as as Astral Projection [1] and there is a great body of esoteric teaching about the common experiences of people who have achieved this. One may achieve access to a "place" known as the Astral Plane[2] that is said to be occupied by certain energies and entities, some of which can impart wisdom and some that can actually inflict psychic damage.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to make up their own mind on the legitimacy and effectiveness of such practices. I think, like any practiced meditation, it is a matter of deep personal preference whether one sees through the mysticism or is stopped short by it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_plane
What's so strange in it? It looks pretty much exactly like JS, for example, with one small addition of "use" clause. It has very little to do with "backwards compatibility" - since there's nothing to be backwards compatible to, closures didn't exist before.
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Personally I've also found that I like to mix a little psychology books into my business readings, here are a couple that I personally liked: Influence - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BD2UUC/ref=kinw_myk_ro_... and What every BODY is saying - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010SKSTO/ref=docs-os-doi_...
Hi (creator here),

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've added a disclaimer to the GitHub page regarding Pywikipediabot and plan to make changes to fully comply with MediaWiki API etiquette. The last thing I'd want to do is inadvertently cause problems for the site or foundation.
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If you think OSTree needs filesystem snapshot support, you
aren't understanding how it works. Or perhaps we don't
have a shared definition of "robust" - for me, assuming
correct behaviour at the filesystem and block layer, I
believe deployment changes to be atomic.

While OSTree itself may not need filesystem snapshot support, for "robust OS upgrades" (the original title of the ycombinator story) you do need some sort of snapshotting mechanism. Whether that's in the form of ZFS-style snapshots, or boot environments is up to the implementer.

Also, I'd argue that assuming correct operation at the filesystem and block layer is a pretty big assumption :-) Even if the software itself works correctly, time has proven that trusting the hardware is not a good thing.

With that said, yes, I think OSTree needs filesystem snapshot support if admins are to rely on it to provide "robust" OS upgrades.

How do you determine reboot-needed=true? Is that
something assigned by the package developer statically
(i.e. kernel is reboot-needed=true)? Determined
dynamically at update time (like in the package metadata
for a specific revision?)

Currently, reboot-needed is determined by the package creator at the individual item level by tagging individual "actions" in a package manifest. It's a way for a package creator say "this component can't be safely updated on a live system, so force the creation and use of a boot environment clone when updating it."

Further refinement of this functionality is planned when applied to specific types of actions found in a package manifest, such as "driver" actions. But it will be handled by the package system transparently.

Do you attempt to control for local configuration?

In what sense? pkg(5) allows an admin to force the creation and use of a clone boot environment as part of any package-modifying operation.

If you're talking about service configuration, that's handled via SMF (the service management facility) which has its own snapshot system that services use.

If you're talking about legacy service configuration that uses flat files on-disk, then package creators have the option of using service actuators to trigger a restart or refresh of the service whenever the configuration file changes.

You'd have to be more specific.

Is the X server package reboot-needed=true?

No, because any files that the X server needs are already loaded into memory so updates to the on-disk files won't generally affect it. Any changes made to the X server binaries and libraries on-disk won't take effect until the X server is restarted.

An incompatible change in the X server itself (such as a protocol change, which is very rare) will likely come with a related kernel change which would require a reboot. But again, the package creator is in control of that.

Also, the "reboot-neededed" tag doesn't force a reboot per se; it just forces the update of a given component to be performed in a clone boot environment.
If you bought on an online store, an it used an insecure third-party payment provider which leaked your CC number all over the web, would you say the same?
I have some admittedly old Python code to work with Census data here: https://github.com/peterlandry/django-census

The small talk I gave introducing python geeks to census data is here: http://files.meetup.com/3119472/census%20data%20for%20python...
Reason to use MySQL: It's easy to find people comfortable with it that won't accidentally shoot off a toe doing simple things.

The "Don't use MySQL" argument smells like the "don't use bcrypt" argument to me. You're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, for 95% of the usecases where you're doing something dumb like using MongoDB or homebrewing something, MySQL is a better choice--even if it isn't often the best choice.
>There's nothing about gender in an of itself that makes you drive badly, even if 80% of women get together at a secret meeting and agree to drive badly. In that case, the 20% would be suffering discrimination purely because of their gender.

Look at it the other way around. By not taking it into account, 100% of men would be suffering because of the 80% of women.

In any case, this isn't any different with all other factors. Age and profession for example. There are really good 16 year old drivers, why should they have to pay higher insurance? By your logic making any predictions is wrong if they aren't 100% accurate. Gender is just a subcase.
Expected? By whom? Technologists like us, yes, but not many of the general public. Walking around with $100s is a false analogy; accepting tracking cookies is completely invisible to the user. Furthermore, even if one does walk with $100s, theft is still illegal.
It is amazing how much value and change in the world has occurred because of ycombinator companies, direct and follow on effects. And all of this for the paltry sum of 1.7 billion (ish) dollars.

The 1,467 Billion we've spent on the war(s) so far could have made ~850 ish entire ycombinators, on the order of 450k startups. As well as exhausting the entire io and ly domain name spaces.
The excess capability is the reason for owning a full-size. I don't follow the full-sizes. Lighter duty trucks are being carefully pared down in some aspects, but they are hardly being made into sissy-wagons- today's quarter-ton trucks, for example, are commonly rated for 3/4 ton load capacity and 3 tons of towing.

I didn't mean most of the US population was rural, just that the majority of the US by area is rural.

Anyway, I'm getting a bit bogged down in the details. I just object to your characterization of trucks as a niche vehicle. While it may be technically accurate- as everything can be described as addressing a niche in the market- it implies the subset of the market is very small, and I don't think that's accurate, particularly not in relation to many other categories of vehicle.

I do share your fears of trucks becoming too "soft" though. I already had to flee the SUV market and put a camper on a light truck instead, because of how SUVs have been changed. My hope is that the market demand for actual trucks is large enough to resist the trend.
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While I agree with you that some languages can be prettier than others, I don't really get why this would be a problem, if you're talking about syntax. You could say the same about Javascript, yet projects like Node.js are gaining popularity and are quite popular with the HN crowd.

Rather, I think a lot of the gut reaction against PHP comes from the fact that there is a lot of crappy PHP code out there. So if you ever had to deal with some PHP code, it would not be a pleasant experience.

Likewise, Java has improved a lot over the years, but the popular way of writing Java code with layers upon layers of abstraction, XML config and build files etc. will just turn a lot of people off, regardless of whether it's possible to write elegant and nice code in that language.
Why do you care about 90% "silly features"? Don't like them, don't use them.
I didn't get the impression that the author was implying this was the norm; rather, that it was prevalent among rich (vs. middle-upper class) helicopter parents.
If you're out in your town & find someone working a customer service job & they impress you, why not invite them to interview. That says more than any resume would.

Perhaps contact a short term agency in your area and give a few candidates a test run.

If there are any technical or industry skills that would be useful alongside the role, advertise on those specific boards too.

If you ever would consider making it a remote role, I'd certainly be interested.
CoreOS runs on Xen, QEMU/KVM, and we will do bare metal soon too.

Vagrant is just one of the options for running CoreOS that lots of people like because it is easy to test out. It isn't the only option though. What do you mean by paravirt?
If I had to choose between the two I would pick a Nexus S running something like CM10 for my "daily driver", but everybody's needs are different. As a "first smartphone" I could see lots of people going for FFOS over a featurephone.
Great to hear. Is someone making compatible hardware/software that interoperates?
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