skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but this characterization is plain wrong. The experts on EE got VIP treatment when I was there, and they were getting good consulting work as a result of their answers.

EE also had teams working on improving the question/answer experience long before SO came around. I'd agree that SO is better now, but to say "no value added" is applying a blanket statement that isn't true.

EE's business model ended up losing out in the long term, but that's all that really happened. The characterizations and generalizations made about EE are pretty silly when you take a hard look at it.
1. young children grow up

2. every long flight i've been on has had screaming babies

3. especially the ones to/from asia
Would you be able to build some sort of fence/gate system to deter visitors? Would that be legal?
Off-topic: You'll be disappointed to learn that I also use an 18-pt font in my editor. I happen to like big readable text, maybe something to do with my age and my prescription being -5.5.

P.S. the font-size is actually 1.5rem
this is nothing new... this is stuff straight out of the automatic millionaire by David Bach..wanna get rich? First step is pay yourself and get out of debt... then build up some solid investments.. real estate is a good way to build assets and wealth flipping or rentals..rentals for long term obviously.

Or do what 80% of us reading hn plan on doing ...build something awesome and get bought out for 10 mill.
Outburst Highlights Conundrum for Twitter
>Having bandwidth is one thing, utilizing it to its fullest potential is anther thing.

It's the same thing if you stop coding in javascript
A lot of your concerns are around ops, and I agree that docker has a pretty immature approach there. That said, most of the sysadmin world has the same problem. Hell, people still do things manually or with PFCTs (post-facto configuration tinkerers) ... without prior testing!

Cfengine delivering a single change on a single file to a dynamically-assigned set of nodes is a lot faster, lower overhead, and direct than deploying a Docker change.

To container-based architectures' credit, cfengine-style changes are not as 'known', since there are aspects of the environments that may differ. Containers can be 100% accurately cloned so significant testing can be performed before deployment. Of course, you could test with cfengine as well, it's just that when you attempt to set up nodes to do the tests against you'll suddenly realize the utility of container-based virt ;)
IT students and Linux
ha! and you thought a Libertarian paradise was the way to go with your money.
Yea I gotta agree. I've only ventured downtown Detroit once to go to the MDOT HQ. It's a bit awkward that it's surrounded by barbed wire, and the neighborhood around it doesn't look great at all.

I've also been around Baltimore, not the worst parts, but still, it isn't that much different.

I don't know where this Detroit people == zombies thing comes from. That can describe how a lot of people in the ghetto look.
People said this when this Bitcoin started years ago, but nooooooo, it was different. ( they always are. )
Since when Quora too make the cut to the baddies?
Fortran

Perl

R

Python

Are the languages I see in talking with biology/biochem PhD students.
Poll: Exposing the hacker cliche - Do you live in your parents' basement?
When I tell people I'm passionate about computers, I often have the archetypal overweight, soda-in-hand, neck-beard hacker, living in mom's basement projected at me. I thought it might be fun to create a poll.
Man, people really need to listen to the actual quote instead of repeating BS. Gabe said ONE GUY had made just over $500k OVER THREE YEARS. Not lots of people were making 1/2 a Million every year.
Steven Greer Presents: 'Sirius' The Documentary (FULL) [video]
> rebuilding a city takes time.

How much time? Detroit began its decline in the late 1960's, and the current financial crisis started in earnest in ~2004 when they lost a bunch of Federal funding[1]. The Tigers abandoned Tiger stadium (which was demolished in 2009, and the land remains undeveloped) and the Lions abandoned the Pontiac Silverdome in 2000 for the Comerica Park / Ford Field as part of the push to "revitalize" downtown Detroit. The Casinos were brought in because it would bring people downtown, and to generate tourism. To this day there are multi-level abandoned buildings just down the street from the Comerica Park / Ford Field complex[2][3]. Sorry, "it takes time" is a hollow answer in my book. If people really were working to turn the city around, that might hold some weight, but there are a lot of people looking to mooch off of it on the way down, while the suburbanites migrate further and further from Detroit-proper.

[1] The population fell below 1 million in the 2004 US Census. For comparison, the population of Detroit was around 2 million at its height.
[2] http://goo.gl/maps/oMzfZ
[3] http://goo.gl/maps/n7MIm
You'll unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) find that military strength costs vastly more than land. Even a billion dollars buys you a ton of land most anywhere, but it buys you vanishingly little security if sophisticated entities want to take it from you.
Yeah, more or less :) I think admitting/deciding upfront what you want to be imperfect is a good start.
Must be Russian! :) Not because they were poor planning- they just didn't want to waste vodka on mix.
Me either. That info really should have been in the announcement. I read through the whole thing and still had no real idea what Concord is.
What basis for judgements of correctness would you suggest, if not facts about how English speakers speak English?
Yeah, I saw that. The main problem for us is that we need on-disk encryption due to regulatory issues and the encrypted SQLCipher build was causing us no end of grief. And we don't really need a SQL database, it's just what the developers of our iOS app were doing and--it being our first Android mobile app--we thought it was a good idea to do the same. V2 is ripping that out both for perf and for code-sanity reasons.
3D-Printed Rocket Injector Passes NASA Test
You can build anything you want. It's your property.
Oh, I agree with that in general. I've just never been able to get a 2-3 year old car to be worth keeping for more than another 3-5 years (either previous owner got rid of it early because it was a lemon, or didn't take care of it [oil changes, garage kept, easy driving, etc]). Whereas a car I've owned from day one (since year 2000) has only needed minor repairs (most of which I do myself, except when the fuel pump went out far from home). Once it starts costing me more than a couple thousand a year for repairs, or becomes unreliable, it will be time to trade up. If I keep it for a couple more years, it comes out to about $1500 a year. Heck, I may keep it for 20 years. I just can't see me wanting to keep a car I bought used for 20 years though (or till the car is 20 years old even).
Managing caches with software
' They also won't be seeking solutions to the problem I solve. Every last person I interviewed reacted in a "shit, I do waste time doing this. But what option do I have?"'

To me, that implies SEO is less likely to be a big payoff compared to paid advertising on subject-matter-relevant sites or publications. You need to work out where these designers "hang out", and how to get ads in front of them proposing your solution to them in an eye and mind-catching enough way. Maybe try advertising somewhere like SmashingMagazine – but carefully measure your costs and conversions, it's _very_ easy to spend way more pre conversion than your customer LTV if you aren't measuring things.

Another thing to consider, can you think of a bunch of keywords you could pay for (for example in Adwords/Adsense) or perhaps Facebook demographics you could target - which might let you get ads in front of designers while they're searching for information related to the existing solutions? I suspect finding keywords/demographics that convert at profitable rates is likely to be hard...
Well, I'm sure that the parallels with manufacturing and riots also had something to do with the choice of Detroit.
This is the best solution I have heard yet! I wish this would get implemented.

For now, a public wiki like system to which anyone could submit claims made against them for patent infringements in order to find others in the same situation, in order to join forces, would be great.
Looks very promising! It would really help the adoption of such new projects if there was a bit more effort to present the current status as well as a roadmap.
libphenom strives to be a core component for server applications. It also has to compete with similar Open Source projects that have been around for a while, with well known strengths and limitations. A more clear statement of its current status (is it used in production for Facebook? is it in beta? are there known caveats?) as well as the future goals would help to build confidence in the project.
Just to be able to do the normal things you would expect to be able to do: vote down/up, flag things, edit a wiki. That's right, I couldn't even make it to 10 rep...
Why Haven't Humanities Ph.D. Programs Collapsed?
Ah, I see -- it is a problem borrowing from 401k if you pay it back out of your existing contributions. Makes sense -- I've just never thought of it that way. To me, it only makes sense if you are substituting it for a regular loan, and not touching the contributions overall. In other words, if you are in a good financial situation to take out a regular loan, then a 401k loan could make sense also.
First of all, i don't know enough about your service and target market, so take this with a grain(actually, plenty) of salt.

Since you have a beta ready, first get a handful of customers pay and get value from your service. This is to iron out any issues that you might not have thought about. Most importantly, it will also validate if your target customers will really pay. Think of this as a dry run. Zero marketing.

Next up, is to take this from handful of customers to say, a bucketful of customers. I am guessing you can do this again, without much trouble, given you know about your target audience. This might be a good time to put up a website and include pricing details.

As to how you should market your service, you don't have to necessarily spend it on ads. You can try to reverse engineer marketing (aka growth hacking). I blogged about it here:http://goo.gl/zVw0Hd).
41% of working age Americans are jobless. The official unemployment calculation is a joke.
I left this as a comment on The Atlantic but think it relevant here too:

First, arts and humanities students aren't necessarily the most career-minded or pragmatic individuals; they go to school to study what they love, then hope for the best.

This is an important point. I'm an ABD in English lit at the University of Arizona, and I noticed that most of my classmates, prior to enrolling, were either straight out of undergrad or another grad program, or had been working somewhat marginal jobs at bookstores, coffeeshops, and what not presumably for around $10 / hour. The U of A grad stipend pays about $20 / hour. That's still not a huge amount, given that it ranges from $14K – $ 17K or so, but supplemented with random work it's not insanely terrible.

My reading is that many humanities grad students view grad school as a lottery ticket.

I've written in more depth about "What you should know BEFORE you start grad school in English Literature: The economic, financial, and opportunity costs" (https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-kn...), but innumerable essays and posts like mind appear to have had little impact on the numbers.
Yep, cause making single thousand K poly models and full mods are the same thing. Just like bespoke that one bespoke metalworker made the entire 2013 line of camrys or that 8 year old t-baller who started for the yankees the next year.
Announcing the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize
I would have shared this post with others, but the first graph is serioualy racist-looking. Regardless of how accurate it is, there is no reason to show faces with the names that show skin color going with a significant rise in debt.
Those that love making music will find real jobs and do it on an amateur basis

I reject your implication that making music is 'not a real job.' Is graphic design a real job? How about journalism? Playing sports at a professional level? Do you consider musicians unworthy of payment because they seem to be having too much fun?

Those who were only in it for the money will quit.

This is not how it actually works in the real world, where unlicensed sampling and ghost producing have become the norm. I suggest you look beyond your model and consider some empirical data. I agree that the means of production are cheaper than ever (also true of cinema) but that doesn't mean production is effortless by any means - mastery of instruments takes as long as it ever did, marketing and publicity still cost quite a bit of money.

in-it-for-the-money indies

I don't know what this is suppsoed to mean/ 'Indie' is short for 'independent' and describes labels that are not affiliated with one of the large global music publishers (and to a lesser extent, bands signed with said labels.' why you equate this with 'in it for the money' is beyond me. I'm getting the impression that you don't know anyone who actually works in this sector, but are speaking purely as a consumer.
I was for the longest time enamored with rails and the income potential of becoming a rails Dev...until I had finished a small ecommence app that I wanted to deploy on a cheap Linux host like hostgator or site5...both of which do support rails but only specific versions and getting everything to work was going to be a nightmare.

that's when I decided I needed to find a globally method to deploy which brought me back to php. Which initially pissed me off cause I was Loving Ruby's syntax.

then I discovered laravel..and holy shit I finally learned how to be a good php developer and use namespaces and really build some awesome stuff. It is rails on php and a hundred times easier to deploy on just about any lamp stack.
The whole page is just one big flash blob?
How is this a news story? News reporting is at a cross roads in America. Discuss
"Compared to duck typing, interfaces are statically checked and documented through their declaration..."
Baha, that's hilarious.
I got better than anything else I could have invested in. That's what matters to me.
I appreciate Stack Overflow even more when I think about it in terms of a broader trend.

A paper published earlier this year showed that online comments can affect Americans' perceptions of science. In fact, the comments posted on science articles can persuade readers more than the articles themselves. [0]

This got me thinking: every year more people are turning to the Internet for advice about serious subjects — medical advice, technical advice, a basic understanding of science. This fact, combined with the findings about the persuasiveness of comments, suggests that comments are tied to a growing ethical responsibility.

In other words, if you manage a website that deals with, say, health care, science or technology, you have an ethical obligation to a) recognize the potential harm that can result from misinformation in comments; b) take action to minimize that harm and facilitate a productive dialogue.

This brings me to Stack Overflow, which has a responsibility to offer accurate, useful feedback about programming. The stakes can be high, considering that a malicious or misinformed user could easily convince others to execute harmful code.

I think Stack Overflow is an excellent example of how sites can use rewards systems to encourage positive feedback and punish (i.e. downvote) those who disseminate misinformation or off-topic questions. The feedback as a whole seems very focused and accurate.

I hope other sites that offer serious advice will become more aware of their responsibility to solicit accurate comments. Now that we know comments can seriously affect readers' perceptions, it seems that an anything-goes comment form can be unethical. Stack Overflow may be a great role model in this respect.

[0]http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/40.summary
Zen and the art of management
I used these when interning at Khan Academy this summer for an internal tool for video creators. Really very easy to get up and running, and looks good to boot.
> The etsies of the world

Etsy was launched in NYC. Other than that, I agree. I'm struggling to think of a SV company other than Facebook, Twitter, and Google. And as far as I'm aware, Google is the only one of those three with projects outside SV. Maybe it's easier to think of more if you're in SV and not on the other side of the continent.
Thanks; good feedback. It's not currently in production at Facebook, but like just about everything we do, we're quickly iterating.

Regarding roadmap, we'll try to keep the issue tracker on Github sync'd up with the broad goals and milestones, and we welcome feedback there too; they're a bit more dynamic and easier to update in real time than the docs and website materials.
You probably do have such a thing, why are you assuming the contrary? 'Undocumented' doesn't mean lacking any identification documents whatsoever, it means lacking the documents that allow residency and employment in the US.
You'd still be plenty wealthy due to dividends. Raw price indexes hide the true wealth.
What's the going rate for an island these days?
> and when I weigh up the decision between rebooting to Windows to play something, or just stay in Linux and play one of those. I always stay.

I can relate to that. I also play on Windows with a dual-boot install, and since Steam came out on Linux I just boot up Windows way less for gaming. I end up playing much more the titles which are available on Linux rather than wanting to reboot to play other games.

In a sense, this proves one thing: convenience wins, again. And that's definitely a great sign for Steam, since many Linux users are probably feeling the same way we do.
> events are what you have under the pile of turtles.

What a timeless reference.

I have to agree though, the AP is over reaching a fair bit with that statement, there are plenty of ways to implement message based systems that don't suffer from a god complex.
Let's not forget Wargame: European Escalation, which is far from being an indie game. Probably close to a AAA category.
As long as it is 75 feet back from the "ordinary high water line" and complies with 126 pages of local zoning rules and several hundred pages of proprietary building codes included by reference.
This falls under the same 'PvP' randomness of Mario Kart 64 giving 8th place lightning bolts and stars. These games leverage perceived randomness as an equalizer.
Well, my experience on windows was always that the 'getting it wrong' was just choosing to play the game exclusively on the primary display. This at least leaves the game playable, and it never bothered me, I could never get used to paying attention to two screens joined into one for gaming. The result on linux is to literally make the game unplayable unless you manually disable extra displays.
But why rebuild it? What's the value proposition of Detroit? Why should capital -- both monetary and human -- flow to Detroit when there's already plenty of excess capacity available in other well-established American cities? And please don't say low COL, because that's a function of Detroit not attracting aforementioned capital.

I'm genuinely curious.
Are you saying I let them use it for free, iron stuff out, and then ask them to pay to continue using the service?

I expect issues. The service has a pretty long, horizontal and vertical series of steps to complete. I don't know if I can make them pay what I expect and have them experience something awful.
Of course I can't claim that my personal experience is representative of all people. But you're the first person I hear say that did not feel any psychological effects of doing a PhD.

Every single person I know that did a PhD (including myself) has mentioned feeling frustrated/isolated/depressed/etc at different stages in their PhDs. It is interesting to see that some people are actually not affected that much.
Of course.

A Roth IRA almost always makes sense, which is why they are so limited.
Home decor on a budget
Linux distros have had the run all your software from the 'app store' concept before Mac and Windows. The only difference is that Linux distros assume that all their users are more computer literate and know what they are doing when they install third party binaries. If you are writing a general purpose, mass market consumer OS, you want to clearly indicate to your user when they are doing something risky.
Halifax has a population of around 500,000 people.

He probably has better coverage than I do.

I live in PEI his neighbor to the north.
Just put ?share=1 at the end of any Quora link to view the full page without any login.
In general, because G' is a signed quantity, I would expect any experiment to be quoting double-sided errorbars. If G increases, one thing happens, if G decreases, the opposite happens, so the difference is discernable.

I'd take 0.0 to be their reported central value.
Nope, actually do everything to get the first few to pay. Once you do that, you can at least be certain that there are people willing to pay for your service/product. You can focus on growing your customer base after your paying customers give you great feedback.
> Descriptive declarative languages that aren't

Sounds like Ruby! I mean that in a good way.
Seems like a bold move. I feel like if I tried doing that, I'd get requests for refunds and a lot of bad press. But I guess your point is that at least I'd have to learn why, and then fix that for my next trial.
I would bet on the LTE access to be constant or reliable...personal experience from living in Ontario and using both Bell and Rogers.
I think you're right about Wine. For games Circa 2003 and earlier I often have much better luck with Wine than I do on a modern Windows install if I'm using original media.

Not to mention that every game I've ever gotten from GoG has worked pretty smoothly (IE close to effortlessly) with Wine. I've only run into trouble with stuff like installing 3rd party infinity engine mods.

I think in some ways Linux is a better platform than Windows for retroclassic games.
Startup Business Lessons from the Founders of Rockstar Games
…or as I've recently taken to calling it, 2k plus 8.
I was being a jerk. When someone makes an argument that, to me, is so tragically flawed, I have a hard time holding back. I genuinely think I have a problem. :(
While I have found DataTables to be useful in the past, there are (thankfully) many other alternatives available today with a much saner API.

DataTables might have the worst API I've ever seen in a Javascript library. Powerful, yes, but it has the most insane naming conventions I've ever seen. To this day I do not understand why so many properties are prefixed with random letters.

There was a time when there wasn't anything else out there that was even close to as good, though.
Minsky talked about the 'society of mind' involving competition between many autonomous modules a very long time ago; funny that he isn't even mentioned.

The brain-as-computer analogy needs more qualification than it is usually given. When one says that, people tend to think of a computer very abstractly; as some Turing-machine like substrate on which one can run any computation. The brain isn't like that at all; it's built out of all kinds of ASICs that have evolved for very specific functions. The reality is probably much closer to 19th century phrenology than 50s cybernetics.
Sorry, legacy gaming support comes in the form of emulation, not physical media drivers. See every past device/format/drm locked gaming system.
Alexis,

Any chance when you're in Ann Arbor that you can also head up the road to Michigan State in East Lansing? Be glad to connect you with the right people up here.
wow, it seems like StackOverflow has been there forever.