skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory quotes from McCandless' wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless):

Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote:

"When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn't even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he [had] had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament [... ] Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide.[11]"

Sherry Simpson, writing in the Anchorage Press, described her trip to the bus with a friend, and their reaction upon reading the comments that tourists had left lauding McCandless as an insightful, Thoreau-like figure:

"Among my friends and acquaintances, the story of Christopher McCandless makes great after-dinner conversation. Much of the time I agree with the "he had a death wish" camp because I don't know how else to reconcile what we know of his ordeal. Now and then I venture into the "what a dumb--" territory, tempered by brief alliances with the "he was just another romantic boy on an all-American quest" partisans. Mostly I'm puzzled by the way he's emerged as a hero[13]"
To me it appears that there are teeth on one "side" of the gear, but on the back of it is a flat surface. The valley between the teeth is sloped from front to back, going from a deep valley to no valley at all. At least, that was what I took from that picture.
It's also the least interesting thing to say on this topic, because it comes up every time there's an item related to Voyager.
>Even stranger is that the issus doesn't keep these gears throughout its life cycle. As the adolescent insect grows, it molts half a dozen times, upgrading its exoskeleton (gears included) for larger and larger versions.

Gotta catch em all.
It really does read like an unsubtle add for the honey service.
Bitcoin ATMs? Prayers answered!
Into the Wild is probably one of the best movies I have ever watched. It's a very powerful and emotional story.
> > "Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex."

> Talking about sex or using crude sexual humor is NOT sexism

Creating a selectively hostile environment is a (fairly significant) legally recognized form of discrimination based on sex, and both of these can be (and not infrequently are) mechanisms that create such an environment, so it is, at best, an oversimplification to say that they are not sexism.
I dont understand how MongoDB can stay as a shiny tool given its long list of shortcomings. It is so elastic that I think it really has no true form (object cache, mq, relational??, key-value bucket).

Lately I haven't read any news about a company migrating to Mongo, but rather most were either departing from mongo because of some catastrophic outage or some mission impossible operation to handle the shortcomings, like this one.

In its current state it looks more like a prototyping tool that allows you to delay some tech decisions until your product matures, rather than a production tool. Or it is just me that wants at least 5 major versions on his production database.
I love this post because everyone in this community takes the Lean Startup truths to be self evident, however, the rest of the 99% still ascribe to truths that are unbelievably archaic. I see this all the time in bschool (luckily bschool entrepreneurship curriculums are teaching Lean methods now) as well as on matchist, where the #1 question entrepreneurs ask me when they submit a project is: "How do I make sure developers don't steal my idea?"

Generally, I know by this question that this person will not make it past that phone call/email because if they are so worried about a developer stealing their idea, there is likely nothing there/they haven't done their research/they are not serious.
And you wrote the answer you were looking for as another post in the thread right!
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I made my own personal pilgrimage to The Magic Bus in summer '09 [1]. It's an extremely special place like none other I've visited.

Completely coincidentally, one of my close friends where I now live in the far North was with the girl who tragically drowned trying to cross the Tek River in summer 2010.

Also co-incidentally, just today I gave an interview for someone writing an article on the anniversary of Chris' death. She was at the Tek river a few days ago, and watched three backpackers get swept downstream, luckily without major injury.

It's amazing how this place and Chris' story have impacted so many people's lives. I'm making plans now to go back in the winter/spring, when the river will be frozen and the scenery will be spectacular.

[http://theroadchoseme.com/the-magic-bus]

EDIT/UPDATE: I'll add that there is no doubt in my mind Chris helped me find the courage to quit my Software Engineering job, sell all my stuff and spend 2 years driving from Alaska to Argentina. No doubt it was the best decision of my life so far.
> You didn't find racism

FWIW, the author never claims he did.
Exactly. Everyone's going to spin this as being about women lacking the institutional power men have, but actually it's the other way around: it's a story not because of the merits of the issue but because feminist groups have far more influence over the media and people's perceptions than the tech industry.

This is fairly obvious if you compare the media potrayal of this and how they handle the institutional bigotry problems within feminism. In particular, feminism has a really substantial transphobia problem, including prominent activists publicly outing trans women with photos and full addresses, passing laws designed to deny them access to rape counselling, contacting their doctors to pressure them into denying medical treatment... Anyone who isn't OK with this is shunned by more influential feminists, and the media has fairly consistently sided with the transphobes and against those who point out these issues, even if they'd normally oppose similar transphobia.

Basically, if someone can use a significant chunk of the media to tell everyone how powerless they are, you ought to think about the contradiction before believing them.
And, sometimes, expensive doers.
My tests with it showed a drop in disk size of about 20-30%.

Unfortunately the read/write improvements weren't high enough to justify the massive engineering feat it would take to replace MongoDB with TokuMX, mostly due to the lack of commercial support for Toku.
Am I just missing something obvious or does that product not offer any way to actually interact with and/or design a database other than raw SQL? Like, how do I add a new table, or change a column in an existing table?
I wonder if you know which storage provider does not do this. As far as I each of these storage providers offer preview (including embeded images) thus they do need to open arbitrary links.
Some of the most valuable insights/learnings have happened to me when I'm sharing advice with people. Often, I don't even realize I knew something until I've shared it.

Startups are also built on reciprocity- I'm only here because mentors took time away from their successful companies to help me. Now, I'm helping others.
I thought that the mail hosting package that comes with Office 365 is called Exchange Online? It uses Outlook Web App for webmail access and is a totally different thing from the free Outlook.com.
Actually on behalf of is correct. If you know about DKIM and SPF then you'll work out what an arse pain all this is.
I understand where you're coming from, but there is an actual problem here - and it's not that these women can't take a joke. When a woman speaks at a tech conference for the first time and audience members shout "show us your tits", that's a hostile fucking environment, and it's a problem with men, not with women. When women write about how experiences like that make them feel uncomfortable in our industry, and men respond by threatening to rape and murder them, that's a problem with men, not with women.
Except "House of Cards" was a political soaper (west wing) with a charismatic anti-hero (the shield, etc.)

"The IT crowd" as a goofy farce had no American counterpart and was pretty much doomed to failure. Better translation examples would be the American "The Office" (based on other office-based comedies) and the American "Coupling" (a "Friends" clone.) "Coupling" failed because the first American episode was nearly a shot-for-shot remake. You might have been able to get away with that in the 90s, but not in the Netflix/Bittorrent era.
The title originally said something like 'How I Found Racism Using Yelp', which I thought was inaccurate. The linked article was clear about the distinction.
If you're referring to point 3.11, then I don't agree. This is not the intent of this provision. This is clearly targeted at malware or other software that prevents the proper working of Facebook against the user's wishes.
Otherwise, it would be a violation of their TOS to disable Javascript, change your font, or use custom CSS in your browser.
> I have family photos that aren't backed up anywhere else there.

Obviously those need to be backed up. Problem solved.
It's also interesting how well the boundary is blended, as compared with other camouflaging animals.
you can redirect it to Outlook. :)
Can someone explain what this means? I don't get it:

> Most other bugs synchronize the quick jolt of their leaping legs through friction, using bumpy or grippy surfaces to press the top of their legs together
Read carefully. 20% of 20% == 4%
Not only health, also social life and stuff. And if your dream consists mostly of money, I don't think it's a good one. But yeah, that's subjective.
Top comment is pretty much, "this changes my whole theory of nonsense which I just invented." It's a pseudoscientific strawman and I can't believe it was upvoted. As a mechanical engineer I see tons of mechanical components in the human body. Diaphragm pumps, ball and socket joints, pinned joints, tensile supports. None of this makes you a cyborg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
The narrator said the texture is matched by sight. It wasn't clear how the color is matched, though reflective skin spots were mentioned.
Ironically my browser blocked a plug-in on this page.
The negotiations for the most recent seasons of Breaking Bad and Mad Men were not because AMC is in financial trouble but rather because they were trying to be ruthless with not having to pay more money to the creators who know that they have the best shows in TV, and that AMC really wanted them.
The reason this is a "big deal" is because the finger print ID is one of the 3 (or so) main reasons anyone would/should upgrade to the new iPhone, and if one of the 3 reasons to upgrade isn't a reason anymore due to it's issues, then it's important to make a major mental note of that.

Also, keep in mind that there are a lot of features on the iPhone (such as the key-pad ASCII password option) which even tech-savvy folk don't know about, let alone the layman. This option of using a PIN could be just as hidden unless a big deal is made out of this (educated speculation, I know).
The narrator also said that how they did it was a mystery right now.
An analogy might help: If people like more sugar in their food, and adding sugar to it increases sales, then what we ultimately will get is not food, but candy, labeled "Food".

Therefore, even giving paying customers what they not only ask for, but actually do want, might still not be a good idea.
The author posits that it wasn't stupidity that killed McCandless for eating a plant not known to be toxic, but rather ignorance.

However the reason he (and the rest of us) were ignorant of the danger of the potato seed is that the potato seed isn't dangerous to anyone except those in a severe caloric deficit and still undergoing physical exertion.

In other words he applied knowledge gained in one situation (normal persons eating potato seed) to a situation far outside of the experiments that seemed to show no issues with potato seed.

Call it ignorance instead of stupidity if you want, but he's still just as dead (and apparently wouldn't have died had he maintained something other than a caloric deficit which must have eventually led to his death anyways).
I got the impression that sight is used for textural changes but colour matching is via some other mechanism that isn't well understood.
Of course deals would get done if bankers couldn't work at night, but they'd take longer. To put it in programming terms, it's about latency not bandwidth. In many cases, reducing latency will make tasks complete faster even if it comes at the cost of bandwidth.

Deals involve a tremendous amount of back-and-forth, changing deal terms, changing financing details, etc. Bankers could simply go home at 6 pm and get to requests the next day, but that would make deals take longer. While a deal is in progress, it's fragile. Parties can decide to back out, prices can go up, third parties can swoop in. That's the sort of thing that causes shareholders to get pissed, lawsuits to get filed, etc, and is generally to be avoided. Also there are the usual deadlines of corporate life: we want to get this off the books this quarter, we want to get the merger done this fiscal year, etc. All that results in C-suite execs picking bankers who will turn things around as quickly as possible.
"Controller" is one of those terms that has meant a lot of different things at different times and in different systems. I agree that the same code asset (whether it's called a controller or whatnot) that handles user input should not be responsible for implementing a rule like "new users get emailed." At the same time, I also don't think such a rule belongs in your model layer. It should go in its own class (sometimes called a service, sometimes also called a controller). So the controller-managing-ui calls the controller-defining-behavior to make changes to the model.
That is a very valuable statement, however, in longer term commitments like friendship and marriage, the prerequisite you can continue to like the people around you, is that you must first like yourself. You will eventually start to see yourself in their eyes.
Sift intern here.

We use the time zone of the customer rather than of the website for scoring riskiness. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

As for customers including birth years in their emails, you're correct that this would be counter to the general trend. However, a fraud detection system like Sift has many data points on which to score a customer. Hopefully, the person would otherwise look benign and thus not have a very high overall score.
If the restaurant is doing poorly isn't more of an incentive for the owner to pocket whatever he can from the business?
Agree. Congrats. BTW, the game is just great. Keep working.
Looks quite good, actually.
Shame and security
You found not racism, but ranting caused by frustration as you are writing it in your blog.

Clean, pure racism can be found not in the crowd and not in any pub, but in silent people's mind.

It does not hurt, it does not rant. It will only silently kill when it sense it's family in danger. A danger which is coming from a different culture. You can call it racism, but it remains natural instinct of subsistence.
> Why isn't Comcast regulated like a utility?

good question.
> The question is not "Why are there so few women in IT?", it's "Why are so many men in IT such jerks?"

Both are questions, neither is the question, and the second is an important question in large part because its premise is part of (but not all of) the answer to the first.
What about WebKit! Now they're down to Apple, GTK+, EFL and BlackBerry (until they go bankrupt).

EFL is funded by Intel and Samsung for Tizen (insurance policy against Android?). GTK+ is supported by consulting and occasional grants. If everyone but Apple leave WebKit will it stay open?
"Why I left Google"
The natural processes that drive this sort of "innovation" never work as cleanly as we do when being intelligent about such things. There are elements of "microprocessor-like" components in creatures, things that will do AND, OR, NAND and NOR type logic computation through neurons, but they're not packaged into an integrated circuit.

If there was evolutionary pressure to produce an integrated circuit, some form of one would undoubtedly evolve eventually.
I don't know much about biology, but I imagine that if your legs were very lightweight and bumpy, and you pressed them firmly against each other, they would probably stick together pretty well, and so if you tried to move them both in the same direction, but with differing amounts of force, they'd probably stay together and therefore press down in sync.
I think the point is that he was an independent thinker, and thus was disillusioned by all the BS in modern society. Sure he made some mistakes and he had some back luck, but he chose to find meaning in his life instead of being another sheep. Can you say the same for your own life?
It's a 'needed feature' to avoid the hassle of passwords in general. Unfortunately Apple has, as usual, snatched lame from the jaws of awesome by rendering the fingerprint reader inaccessible to apps.
I agree, and it had a great soundtrack. In real life, it was a silly death though.
Do airplanes shake your "faith" in gravity?
I call that xenophobia.
> Restaurants are already threatening to end automatic gratuities

Please... do it. I don't mind tipping. In fact, I generally tip pretty well (only shorting when service truly deserves less). But it really irritates me when places add the tip in automatically.

Having said that, I don't think it is such a tragedy that some of the server's tips are included in their paycheck. Not many jobs let you take home part of you money everyday. I have to wait 2 weeks to get any of my money.
The Genius of Hong Kong Public Transit
Please stop spamming this on HN.
Keep tumblr bullshit on tumblr.
I agree it may be a offensive environment but how is it selective or discriminatory though? People can be offended by just about anything. Doesn't mean they are the target. Religion offends me—being around it makes me uncomfortable—but that doesn't give me the right to tell people to stop talking about.
Didn't Jobs say "Great Artists Steal."?

Users who are artists must heed these wise words.

All Hail the Cult Leader.

As for this "poem", I've seen better from kids in elementary school. This speaks to the creative aptitude of Apple's kernel engineers. Certainly not the strongpoint of their workforce.

What sort of royalties or up-front payments did CMU get for letting Apple use their kernel?
Instead of trying to make improvements to Apple's (or whoever's) stuff, let's stimulate consumer demand for great looking _enclosures_ for (small form factor) hardware. There should be a market for enclosures that look as good as Apple's (or whoever's). Note I said "as good as" not "just like".

Give consumers the option to mix and match enclosures with the cheap electronics that go inside and see what happens.

The growing market for RaspberryPi enclosures stands as proof that it is possible to have many different enclosures, made by third parties, for the same PCB. And that consumers will buy them.

I've long wondered why there should not be a wide variety of enclosures to choose from for various popular small form factor "development" boards. Would such enclosures sell? Why not? The growing number of third party Pi cases being sold is testing that assumption.

I'd even go so far as to guess that if you give consumers great looking enclosures to choose from, you will actually sell more development boards.
This is a very narrow view of mentorship. Mentorship is incredibly selfish: often the person doing the mentoring gets more out of the conversation than the mentee...case in point. Here, the author was challenged on basic ideas that led him to think more broadly about what he assumed was obvious. This could and often does lead to more creative thinking and applications in his company. As long as he doesn't do this all the time, I think it's silly to assume that a CEO should spend 24/7 working on a company. In fact, it's degenerative, unhealthy, and produces poor results for companies (as many studies show).
Everything is bigger in Texas.
In fact they look much like spider gears.
Yup -- you're correct. Sorry about that. I guess I got confused because the outlook.com domain is in all of the email headers. Hadn't tried logging directly into outlook.com, but indeed it won't let me.
It's pretty clear that the OP doesn't really have a strong understanding of the mechanics of the TV business.

For anyone who is interested in learning more about the mechanics of the TV business, I strongly recommend the book "Difficult Men" by Brett Martin. It's nominally about shows like the Sopranos and their creators, but there is a lot about the industry that is "quality television".
I highly recommend reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild if this story interests you - it's the story of McCandless in all its gory detail.
> This is clearly targeted at malware or other software that prevents the proper working of Facebook against the user's wishes.

Facebook could be defining anything that blocks or interferes with their advertising and revenue stream as malware.
Exactly. A single bump on each leg might convey a slight advantage, and then the creature that gets two pairs of bumps that mesh together would be even better off. From there it's just a matter of time before creatures with multiple bumps emerge.

Being able to jump quicker than your less-able siblings could convey a huge evolutionary advantage. This quickly weeds out the less-able and strongly encourages this kind of structure to develop once the process has started for whatever reason.
The Psychology of Programming: Looking Into Programmers' Heads
The Open Hand Project: A Low Cost Robotic Hand
Do you also object to parents reading Hacker News? What about doctors or nurses?
How do you compare to Ask Ziggy? It seems you have created an interface similar to theirs
Open-face peanut butter and tomato happens to be an excellent sand which, BTW :) requires a good tomato. Sprinkle with a tiny bit of garlic salt or chili powder.
OP here.

In past startups I would have agreed with you. When I did my first startup, I worked on it exclusively. I skipped vacations. I skipped classes (I was in school at the time). I did practically nothing else.

I burned out.

The title of CEO doesn't define me as a person. I'm just a guy that started a company. I get stressed. I need help at times. I have things I like doing unrelated to my company.

Blogging is one of those things. I blog because I love writing. Writing startup stuff for the HN community gives me purpose to that writing. It's a sweet bonus that many of our users are on HN, but that's not actually my top motivation. It's just because I like doing it.

As for 45 minute phone calls to help a friend. I'll bet the karma gets paid back nicely. But even if not, I'm not sure I could I look myself in the mirror if I became so self-important that I lacked the time to be generous.
ThresholdTest
Give me a break. The guy was most certainly not an independent thinker. Nor was he a critical thinker. Nor did he have any respect for the challenge he was taking on. He was an angst ridden teenage boy captured in an twenty something's body that never learned the difference between fantasy and reality. Most importantly, he never learned that in the real world there are consequences for stupid actions.
This point has been rehashed again and again and again every time McCandless is mentioned. We get it.

Aside from that, what is your point? Did you even bother to read the article, which despite mentioning this detraction, has nothing to do with it? Or were you just looking for easy upvotes?
If having "some bad luck" and living a "meaningful life" means I die of starvation / poisoning alone in a forest, then I guess you can count me out.
I don't agree. I prefer to work and be alone.
So assuming we can one day mimick this feat of engineering, can I look forward to my car literally dying on me in traffic?