skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great argument. But, not quite the same. I run my personal blog on a $5/mo digital ocean box - I'm too cheap to shell out $100/mo for a managed SingleHop box.

I don't know how to use terminal too much, I just learnt how to reset mysql AFTER my server crashed yesterday.
I got interested in #1 link, and cant understand what that description of the US concerning Russia is so different to how US is run? They are just using words like racketing, extortion and "governement support criminal activities", who defines the criminal activities and isnt taxing extortion? Isnt US supporting criminal activities. The same description can apply to USA or China. The US has much more advanced techniques of performing the same activities Russians do. We are all humans.
Really the sweet spot for consumer web is applying new technologies/innovative approaches that are changing to people's desires that are not changing.

People will always want to socialize + internet = social media

People like sharing photos + everyone now has a camera & internet on their phone = Instagram

People like to travel + internet sharing economy = Airbnb

This is a very similar observation as one from a recent post by Sam Altman [1].

1. http://blog.samaltman.com/electrons-and-atoms with a HN discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6291934
Quote: "I’m 26 years old, unmarried, and childless. The comments are starting."

Some advice -- avoid the mistake of defining yourself by listing all the things you aren't.
I don't think it is a reasonable restriction at all. Besides the most devoted fans, I don't believe many families would purchase multiple licenses to a lot of games just to be able to play them simultaneously. These kinds of terms don't really increase revenue but they unnecessarily damage the experience at the same time. This is exactly the sort of stuff that makes pirating more convenient. As I've mentioned in another comment, the Mac and iOS App Stores don't really have these limitations.
This is fun! Great work.

One small suggestion: consider using replaceState instead of pushState, pressing the back button just removes one skill point when it should probably leave the site (or at least remove all skill points).
Google "Chrome vertical tabs" -- there are a number of extensions which may do what you want.
I was personally surprised as i thought there are more users.

But still 4M developers are quite a lot. Love using Github.
Linus on /dev/random: "We actually know what we are doing. You don't."
I believe this is a very important counter point to the general opinion that Putin is quite literally the devil.

Usually these claims are made by people who have never been to Russia, don't know anything about Russian culture or history and who takes US news articles about russian politics at face value.
Thanks! I appreciate the detailed post you've written. The more I think about it, the more my case sounds like yours. I'm now thinking it's less "something happened to my brain" and more "my habits caused this problem". I'll attempt the same thing you've done to see how it goes.

You just quit procrastinating cold-turkey though? How did you force yourself to read? Every time I pull out a textbook at a time that isn't the night before a test or HW assignment I fall asleep reading it or end up staring at the wall instead.

Meditation is an interesting idea... I've never given that a try before.
> A better name, and this is literally off the top of my head, would be "Business Layer, View and Event Translator".

That's not far off the original meaning AFAIK. It used to be called MVCU - model-view-controller-user. The "model" is the idea of the data as it exists in the users mind, the view is how the system presents it, and the controller works with what the user "do" with the model through the view.

It gets confused if you don't realize there are two data models: the "data" model - how the data is modelled in the abstract (and confusingly, internally in the program/database) -- that is distinct from the model in MVC. So the original MVC "model" is closer to "domain model" than to "data model".

Now, in the dark 90s, when everyone had forgotten that users existed, something that no-one would realize until "agile" emerged and surprised everyone, these two "models" got mixed up -- and no one was able to understand this MVC thing ;-)
We're you checked for thyroid dysfunction? I had similar symptoms in high school. I became tired easily, 12 hours sleep were not enough (thus I overslept regularly) and my grades became bad. I also couldn't grasp new concept as easily.

After I was diagnosed (which was a lucky coincidence) and started to take medicine it all reversed.

Ask your doctor. The test is a simple blood test.
Their idea looks great. I want to see this in action. Could this be NFC killer?
> However, you seem to misunderstand the meaning of "double-blind". It does not mean "blind" in the literal sense. It only means that neither the experimenter nor the subject are consciously aware of which piece of equipment is under test.

I'm sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. Allow me to restate in somewhat better terms (I hope).

I maintain that our choices are uniquely and indivisibly (a) personal, (b) subjective, and (c) the product of all our senses. Take one away, and what's left isn't really a 'choice' any longer.

I agree that a double-blind test isn't about literal blinding, but it does blind one or more of your senses. Let me illustrate using two hypothetical examples:

- if I do a double-blind test b/w the iPhone 5, 5s and 5c, masking everything else but their screens, are we all so confident that we'd pick the very same model that we picked up in a store or a website? All I've done is to 'blind' you to the exterior appearance of the phone, which means (per the double-blind enthusiasts), you're then judging the phones based on only features like speed, animation smoothness, screen quality etc. etc. Worse, if you end up picking a different model than what you'd done IRL, did that mean Apple tricked you?

- say there are two different flavours of ice-cream, both of which look the same and come from the same company. But one of them is 25% more expensive, and contains an additional ingredient that makes it smell 'better' than the other to you. Now what if I design a blind test that blocks your smell and I ask you choose the better ice-cream. Would you still pick the same? I don't know. Because your choice of ice-cream was made using all your senses. Now it's entirely possible that the company is making more profits from the more expensive flavour merely by adding some relatively inexpensive flavour. Should you then change back to the other flavour because that's what your 'objective' test tells you? If you did, are you sure you'd enjoy the ice-cream just as much as you did earlier?

I'm not defending snake-oil peddling audiophile equipment makers, just saying that the value of what they (or anyone else, like, heck Bose!) sell is personal and subjective. Like most HN skeptics, I stay clear of them, but I also remain open-minded to the idea that there may be folks who find value in them and that I will never be able to truly understand why.

> Or, put another way, you may want all of your vinyl blessed by the pope, but I'm not going to pay extra for it.

Totally agree. Sure, do any number of tests and research before making your own choices. But don't expect that others will feel bound to those tests the same way. Which is what the original discussion was about, namely that "advocates of DSD are skeptical of double-blind experiments".

They have a right to. And we cannot "prove" them wrong.
> Suddenly, new subjects became incomprehensible. The ease at which I previously absorbed new material was gone. Nothing "clicked" anymore. I'm in graduate school now and still nothing "clicks". I attend department seminars where visiting professors present their research, and it may as well be alien gibberish. I feel like I'm just faking my way through grad school at this point. I can still manage A's and B's in classes without ever understanding the content only because of the way the grading system's designed. Luckily, I seemed to have retained my programming capabilities.

Once you've gotten past basic calculus, you can't learn as much because all the resources are poor. Sure, you can read research papers (which are written for people who already understand 90% of them), or a PhD thesis (maybe a better option, as PhD students pad them with lots of exposition to make up the page count); but they suck compared to a well-designed undergrad text. Did you learn calculus by reading a single proof, or did you do a lot of example questions? How much are you practicing the basic techniques, or are you just saying "yeah, in principle that bit's already been done ... nothing to do there".

You also sound like you are losing motivation, and suffering a bit from "impostor syndrome", both of which are very common in grad school. You need to learn when to relax, when to push yourself, and when to just keep plugging. I find that forcing myself to relax when I'm getting distracted can "reset" my ability to focus. If you find yourself reading something that's just crap (this sentence?), look away from the monitor for as long as you can.
Speaking of Sinatra-inspired web frameworks on the JVM have a look at Scalatra:

http://scalatra.org/

https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra
If you state that you feel dumb(er), can this be measured quantitatively in any way? Can you re-take some tests where you know previous results to see if there are significant differences?

The described experience makes it hard to distinguish between reduced intelligence as such, versus disbalances in motivational/emotional systems that affect what you[r brain] choose to do, instead of the ability of what you can do. Both can be limiting, but in very different ways.
You speak English, i'm sure.

Another thing Microsoft has severely lost in the last decade is catering to the needs of customers outside the US. Case in point: Bing
List of Seattle Startups
I think it is a nice way to do it. :)
To be fair, developing for an iPhone is a lot closer to developing for the 3DS, because there tends to be one per year. Android devices vary, even if not by much, it's not the same. Especially when it comes to demanding games.

So while Android wins out on bluetooth support, it loses on the standardized console platform aspect.
With Apple getting behind BLE it's pretty much a done deal. QR-codes and RFID also dead.
Reality for Windows developers: Users want Android, iOS apps
Why would you post here on HN that you'd rather write on medium when you hardly participate here to begin with?

If it were a post with some actual content I can see why you'd want to post it here for discussion but it is a meta post about the medium you write on, not an actual post. Not exactly hacker news. Personally I think medium is the new geocities, it'll implode one day and leave another big hole in the web unless archive.org or archiveteam get there first.

Beware of who you give control of your content.
Even if you no longer own or control the content?
If you really want to target the web, what's wrong with JS/CS in the browser or on Node.js for desktop apps?

Of course, you could always use C/C++ with emscripten, and target the web that way...
However, the downside is that if there's not enough developers to make the software on GPL terms, the users don't have freedom to use the software because there's no software worth using. Of course, it's not true for many GPLed projects, but may be true for some.

As for being malicious, I don't see how GPL adds anything to any other open source license.
>"The stars fade in one by one in a and they continue to fade in and out in a subtle fashion. The clouds also go left to right continuously."

Until I read your description I didn't even notice it.

Your homepage has a lot of scrolling and too little (and too vague) information. Looking at it I don't know who you are, what you do, and what you are offering.

Your website is certainly nice and modern looking, but it doesn't tell me what I want, as a visitor, to know. Consider answering the following questions on your homepage:

Who are you?
What do you do?
Why would I want what you're offering?
How do I contact you?

P.S. I'm sorry if I come across as overly negative (or rude). That was not my intention.
Well done Sean!
I'd say blogging on a "platform" as opposed to a self-hosted/controlled solution would have some benefits over a self-baked one.

But at the end of the day, if you're blogging for your business/startup it makes more sense for it to be under your control as you can leverage the analytics and if possible turn them into conversions.
As a regular Vim user, I don't understand why some of these features, like Ctrl-P are not implemented natively in C, rather than to have to rely on Vimscript or Ruby plugin.
This was in 2001 where just a single server colo would cost ~$300/mo. Other costs have come down as well, while technologies have developed to make a full stack web app development possible for a single person to do. The average dev is easily 10x more capable today than 12 years ago.
> News flash, half the population is dumber than average

Probably not true. What if the mean is skewed by outliers like incredibly smart people or incredibly dumb people; we could very well be living in the world where most of the people are stupid and the average is what it is because of a very few incredibly smart people.

Humorous tangent apart; I can't even imagine thinking like this so-called smart person. If I feel the problem is too easy, I am always trying to figure out harder problems to solve. So much so that I am comfortable with the feeling of being stupid and being befuddled. It merely means I am pushing myself to the edge.
Most of that code still exists, extensively modified. Here are some things that don't:

- Talking to files with libaio -- we now only support use of blocking I/O calls in a thread pool.

- Use of block devices instead of files, and code optimized for older SSDs that spread writes to different parts of the disk.

- A fsck utility and a utility for extracting data from a corrupted file.

Most other stuff has been rewritten and refactored, though -- RethinkDB was once implemented entirely using callbacks on an epoll loop. Then we introduced coroutines (cooperative green threads that sit atop an epoll loop) into the codebase. Nowadays almost everything is implemented in terms of coroutines -- there aren't many APIs left that take a callback and say it'll get called sometime later. There's even still a secret memcache interface.

The storage engine itself does a bit more now than it used to. Support for secondary indexes, MVCC, efficiently bringing back out-of-date replicas, and better on-disk storage are the main ones I can think of at this hour.
On modern server hardware memory is seldom an issue, but I would agree about the culture of complexity BeanSingletonProxyAbstractWorkerListener
First of all, you have to dump Janus. It is bad for you. Learn to use stock Vim and gradually integrate plugins as needed. I recommend NeoBundle to manage them, as it is able to compile plugins if required.

I've been using vim for years and the only plugins I use are vim-airline[1] and vim-bufferline[2]. Of course, my editing needs may not be as complex as yours, but in reality most things you think you need a plugin for can be done with plain Vim. Feel free to check out my humble .vimrc[3] for some inspiration.

1: https://github.com/bling/vim-airline
2: https://github.com/bling/vim-bufferline
3: https://github.com/wolfcore/air-dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
Hey - it's me, @lizTheDeveloper.

We only take the top 5% because we only have space for the top 5%. We're not a huge organization that can just spin up 20 new dynos and laterally scale. We scale horizontally, which is frustrating for everyone, including us. The rest of them we try to direct to resources that DO scale, like http://teamtreehouse.com/ and learnpythonthehardway.com/book

But yeah, we'd love to help the other 95%. Got any thoughts?
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Anyone with hands on experience to compare Deis to something like salt cloud (from saltstack) ?

I know one is using chef and the other is using saltstack, but i'm talking configuration, ease of deployment and reliability.
I agree. I really looking forward on what he will say. My notepad and pencil is ready!
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I really want to make a sarcastic comment about how half of American adults must have this disease but it sounds kinda serious so not going to make fun of it.
Freedom of the press in not a good analogy. Better analogy would be a source of information - such as a research group - that allows you to print their information only if you allow unlimited reprints - i.e. refusing to talk to journalists form Wall Street Journal or New York Times because they have paywalls. While it is a completely legitimate behavior, it's hardly synonymous with the freedom of the press as one usually understand it.
I feel, like Ballmer, that enterprise just lags consumers by 10 years. Giving up consumers means loosing enterprise somewhere in the future.

They must execute better if they want to survive.
You're right. I was more active on Inbound.org vs Hacker News simply because I used to primarily write marketing content. The post I wrote yesterday which was actually a rant about the growth hacking buzzword hit the first page of HN momentarily. That obviously caused a server crash which made me want to switch ship to Medium / Quora.

Medium's editor was just a lot nicer.
What use is owning it if nobody reads it?
Look, university is a bit harder than high school. There's quite a step. Maybe your gifts don't apply that well to university and you have to figure out a way to learn that stuff – really learn it.

Feeling like you don't get stuff in grad school could be, because you lack the foundation you should've built earlier in college.

The solution might be as simple as: Get the foundation right, learn that stuff from the first years again and learn it in such a way that you have a good understanding. And then digest grad school material the same way.
I would argue, as a modern professional, propagation of your FQDN is also very important.
And, I was talking about Medium vs my personal blog. Not really talking about Medium vs HN.
> it sounds kinda serious

It is.

> not going to make fun of it.

Thank you for that. Lyme is a very easy to contract disease depending on where you live and the progressive symptoms are devastating.
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In addition to the original stuff on MVC, the newer stuff on DCI[1](Data, Context and Interaction) is also illuminating wrt one way to progress with software architecture for interactive/event driven applications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_Context,_and_Interaction
I do totally write blog posts on the internet with comments open in order to shield myself from all criticism.
If a child steps into the road without looking and is in imminent danger of being killed, I'd scream at them, as would any other sane parent.
Definitely something that was needed, microframeworks are great. Restlet I used long ago but still very Java enterprisey. Play! is like Java's Django/Rails and now Spark is the Sinatra, simple and minimal. Scalatra mentioned here looks great as well, all these wonderful minimal Java toys.
As a hard core atheist, it is good for me to see really religious guys like Larry Wall which are so laid back that they can make fun of their own opinions.

For the record, I have met a few.

A little bit like when, as an Emacs user, I see a post on a really informative blog about their Vi configuration. Or at a conference when the speaker connects the computer -- "wtf, he use Windows!?" :-)

(And as a metal fan I mostly avoid the lyrics, it might destroy the music if they are too stupid. But I'm a wimp which listen mostly to technical death.)
Isn't this just Chrome OS?
Larry Page, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla should've been speaking there, get the YCers thinking big.
Totally fucked up that wording, sorry 'bout that.
Edited, fixed.
Also, numbers and research : http://lizthedeveloper.com/pedagogy-and-why-we-only-accept-w...
I suppose, but why? Reading the sibling comments, I don't get the GPL vs BSD thing here. I understand the differences between the two (GPL has more requirements on how the source must be treated, etc. See the other comments), but what I don't get is _why does this matter?_ The resulting binaries are still yours, and yours alone (no?) — what material difference does it make that the toolchain is GPL or not?
Of course they should look at their own interests first, but this doesn't mean hostility to America or other countries. Just that there are limits to friendship.
This is great, I'm considering moving up to Seattle when I graduate from college, so knowing the startup culture there is alive and kicking is awesome.
I'm happy to read that you're complaining about the Humble Bundle's attempt get EA market share. That's as if someone were to complain about Orval trying to get Anheuser-Bush Inbev market share because their lead brewer once said he would buy a Budweiser.
"Shebang"
> When the truth is he could easily not veto and intervention would be lawful.

Allow me to point out America's veto record:

"Eighty-three times the US has exercised its veto. On 42 of these occasions it has done so to prevent Israel's treatment of the Palestinians being censured. On the last occasion, 130 nations supported the resolution but Barack Obama spiked it. Though veto powers have been used less often since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the US has exercised them 14 times in the interim (in 13 cases to shield Israel), while Russia has used them nine times. Increasingly the permanent members have used the threat of a veto to prevent a resolution being discussed. They have bullied the rest of the world into silence." [Source: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/09/obama-r...]
Yeah, because there aren't any open jobs in the tech sector. We'll have to kick out some of the men in order to make room for the ladies.
The difference is that Russia, unlike US, seems to use their veto EVERY SINGLE TIME when there's some thance that UN might do something.
UN Security Council could have had a role in the world - but Mr. Putin is a major reason making UN Security Council useless and nonfunctional.
That's a lot more than I thought. Proud of my city!
Yep, I'm probably in that boat, too. I like to say that I have very good "understanding" skills and pretty bad "learning" skills. In school, I hated when we had to learn and recite lyrics. But a well-understood math problem - I could run a lesson on it on my own, doing better than the teacher (who learned it, but didn't very well understood it). Self-discipline is the only thing I can do to remedy that problem - I'm very much aware of that. Not overdoing this is the second. I need time to refocus, and not everything can be forced immediately.
No. I went to Francis Lewis HS.