skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US employer here (who all hires for some EU-based roles): I view failed entrepreneurs very positively, assuming the candidate can reflect reasonably on what went well and what went poorly.

PS: you probably mean stigma, not stigmata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata
I don't suppose you could share your best code so the HN community can criticize it to the point of breaking and use that as a straw man argument to wipe your language of choice off the face of the planet?

As evidenced by all sorts of open source software, you can write horrendous things in the most elegant and designed of languages.

Yes, PHP has quite a mongrel history. But it has its uses, and its spheres of excellence. The past couple of years have seen a great increase in concerted efforts to improve the language and to introduce a more robust and disciplined ecosystem.

(I know I really shouldn't feed the trolls, but these arguments always annoy me so lets put this down to a one-time rant.)
This isn't a Facebook app. This isn't using Facebook API. It's effectively as if he had written a custom browser that displays the Facebook page in a way he likes: a script like that is basically a functional rather than visual stylesheet. Facebook only gets to push some HTML, CSS, and JS to its customers.

If I understood that correctly then Facebook has absolutely no say about that piece of software. Because if they had, they could also tell us not to distribute a browser that displays Facebook "badly". Or an operating system that does that. Or blueprints for hardware that does that. They could forbid using such a software in the account terms for each individual user but that would be highly unenforceable (as in as soon as the data gets to my computer, I can and will mangle the bits whichever way I happen to like).

What Facebook can do is to terminate the author's Facebook account: I assume he might have broken some legal terms regarding his own account. However, writing and distributing a piece of software is absolutely out of their limits. It's sad and disappointing to see Facebook use the legal card, a multibillion company threatening a one-man party with costly lawsuits.
IMO it boils down to how to give uses a 'reputation score' in a fair way that lets in new users, but detects 'rude people' so that their negativity can be filtered out. It's the most challenging problem in social media today, I think, because there are so many jerks out there making life miserable for the 'good people'. A workable approach may be using Facebook logins, so that people can't as easily hide behind anonymity, but then again I hate forcing users to be on Facebook just to use some other thing. Perhaps there is a business model here (business to be made), in a company that can validate that this is a 'real' person, eliminate anonymity, and perhaps be able to 'shame people into being nice online'. So that aspect of it of course comes down to how to verify true identity online.
Yeah, I read through the forum to set whether this was a mistake in the article. I think my point was that the lazy author was the source of confusion of the name.
Does Arch trace its history to Slack?
He was an exec at a funded startup, and then was asked to do some very shady crap to screw over the equity slices of employees by co-founders (or VCs) because the employees didn't 'deserve' it.

It can be understandable why he doesn't like them.
I don't have a link to hard data, but it's a widely reported fact.

> An estimated 90% of all mortgage issuance is government-related (either Fan/Fred or Ginnie). The government now bears 50% of the credit risk of the entire mortgage market. For all intents and purposes, the U.S. mortgage market is more or less nationalized.

(Source: http://marketrealist.com/2013/08/role-fannie-mae-freddie-mac...)

> Currently, the government backs about 90 percent of newly issued mortgages, more than ever before. The proportion fell in the years leading up to 2007 as subprime loans proliferated and then soared after that market collapsed. Since then, the Federal Housing Administration has expanded its role in backing home loans on the low end of the scale.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/business/report-lays-out-p...)

> After all, more than 90% of all loan activity is underwritten, insured, or owned by the government and its affiliated entities.

(Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2013/10/01/heres-h...)

And from 2010:

> Government-related entities backed 96.5% of all home loans during the first quarter, up from 90% in 2009, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

(Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870409320457521...)

Any way you slice it, the government has a HUGE role in mortgage issuance in the US. And they have said:

> The federal housing agency, which regulates Fannie and Freddie, on Thursday made clear it doesn't intend to let this happen. The agency said it would instruct Fannie and Freddie to 'limit, restrict or cease business activities' in any jurisdiction using eminent domain to seize mortgages.

(Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/08/business/la-fi-emine...)
The approach of Bedrock Linux is very interesting. It makes use of Linux-specific features like bind mounts and tries to unify several linux distributions into one meta-distribution, which gives the framework for the multi-distribution operations. They could also use namespaces for a more strict separation of clients, but that's a detail.

The idea to move completely to musl is a little bit utopistic, because musl libc is in a very early phase if you want to compile any piece of software of the base system with it. It's mostly C99/C11 and POSIX compilant, but there are several GNU-specific libraries missing, and in a world which uses GNU userland on Linux it's not simple to overcome that limitation.

The mentioned /etc problem seems to be the same problem as solved by ip-netns(8). Take a look at the source if you need further information, it's based on other bind mounts.

But I don't think Bedrock Linux is the next-generation approach for Linux distributions, or rather software distributions in general, though they don't claim that. I'm working on my own Linux distribution since about a year and it's based completely on a ports tree, as known from FreeBSD, but with a simpler code base and simpler Makefiles. At the moment, I'm trying to create a stable commit, which will build without issues in several configurations, but that's hard work, especially because Linux or rather the Linux userland is mostly a ghetto™ (you won't get information about much low-level software).

But I think, as you should noticed, that Bedrock Linux has a right to exist, but it won't be the next-generation approach.
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Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, there's a gap between what many lean approaches advocate (Adwords), what startups think they need (features/press) and what actually works.

The most effective way to learn is to go out and find the people who should be using the product, and talk to them.
The link is currently down, but there's a useful explanation of the topic at SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9765453/gits-semi-secret-...
About 22 hours, actually. Hacking started about 11am Saturday, and ended 9am Sunday. It was a really short one!
I want to be sure that we're on the same page.

No.

3pt14159 said that he used to use distro-packaged Ruby, but stopped because his distro used a compile-time option that didn't play well with his vendor's hardware.

3pt14159's solution was to start using rvm on production boxes.

I think that is a bad idea, and that either:

1. 3pt14159 should just pull down the package source, change the compile time option, rebuild the package, and use the mildly customized package in production.

2. 3pt14159 should not waste time working around hardware weirdness, and just switch to a vendor that doesn't have these problems.
I've never taken a formal debate class, but I think what you are arguing falls under the Fallacy of Relative Privation. Can someone more skilled than me in logical fallacies verify this?
"The data is adjusted for inflation"

Yes, that's why I said "in real terms". The situation is worse in inflated dollars -- even if we'd held the budgets steady in real dollars, we'd be losing to inflation.

"Funding rose about 50% in the early 2000's and leveled off after that."

Non-defense R&D climbed from 1996-2003, then declined. Defense R&D increased from 2001-2003 (thanks mainly to 9/11), held steady for most of the decade, and began to decline in 2010. Defense R&D is not spending on "science" by any conventional definition (most of that money goes to the defense industry), but it does employ some scientists, so we count it.

"I'm not sure what political point you think I'm trying to make."

You were arguing that the data doesn't support the thesis of the story, and implied that those who supported the thesis were making "political points" (at the time of your comment, almost all of the other comments were in support of the thesis).
While some other JVM languages are usable at an experimental level with Android, the only realistic choice for a complete beginner is Java.

Since you say you don't know any language yet, you should start with a very basic book on Java, like Head First Java. Then you should get a more-comprehensive book like Thinking In Java to refer to as you start your first project.

While there are some good Android-specific beginner's books, I would start with the online tutorial and see how far that takes you. By that time the 2nd edition of Learning Android will be out.
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I live Play, but that deployment only works for the simplest solutions.

Need versioned assets? Need multiple versions of assets in prod? Play doesn't do it out of the box.

Need a specific version of the JVM? Play can't help you there.

Need to change your start script to do something different (ports, SSL, JVM config). Play can't do it.

Play is very far from deploy script.
sudo apt-get install -y xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install -y lubuntu-desktop

Give me a little while, I think I've exceeded my experimentation quota for today
You are offended that someone shared a link they own? Who appointed you the authority to censor people?
Thanks for the link. I can't believe I never knew about that. I've always been making .gitkeep files to get around this. Not sure if it's worth the hassle, but definitely cool to know.
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Please read my comment again. "Humanity ... voting, through their wallets" is punting for short-term gains and missing the bigger picture.

The economic impact of malaria and bilharziosis is immense. They place a heavy burden on already overstretched public health systems, they discourage investment, and patients cannot work or attend school. If these two could be brought under control, sub-saharan Africa would look entirely different.

Let's note that the Panama Canal could only be built after yellow fever was under control in the area.
Thanks for the links. I needed this help promoting my site product!
No, that's not true. It only gives us the rights to (a) display your photos to you and those with whom you share them, (b) auto-organize your photos for you, and (c) delete photos stored on our serivce (when you click delete photo or delete source or delete your account).

We can't (and don't want to) use your photos commercially, browse through your photos, distribute them to people you haven't authorized to see them, turn them into ads, etc. And we've never had any sort of government request to access an account.
One of the challenges of running a production application based on Ruby is the fact that relying on distro packages will fail miserably. Rubygems, in particular, does not work well with distro installed Ruby interpreters.
When social networks die
I think lispm was being facetiously hyperbolic with his "who cares" comment.
prior art :) - http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Bistromatics
I don't think the movie had many scientific "errors" per se. Error implies that they mad a mistake or didn't understand the science and got it wrong as a result. But in this movie, most of the inaccuracies were intentional breaks from reality, not unintentional mistakes.
A company researching the markets in which they operate in order to do so legally? Why does AirBnB get a free pass on this one?
I'll also say Java - Scala's possible, but slow and fiddly (last time I tried it, you had to tree-shake the app using Proguard because the Scala stdlib has a real hard time fitting into Dalvik's hardcoded limitations of 65K ish symbols).

Kotlin is a doddle to get working, but it's alpha as hell, so only use for experiments.
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Also recommend Glacier via Arq. I have hundreds of GB of astro photos that I don't need immediate access to, but want securely backed up. Arq/Glacier are ideal for this kind of long term storage. Just be aware that there is an AWS $$ penalty for deletion of recently uploaded data.
How is it shown? Is there a picture for comparison?
iPhoto has some sort of archive/database file that can get corrupted, I think.
By all means then... because we are all thoroughly tired of bloat, conceptual flaws and security issues in our code... enlighten we simple peons as to the language we should rather be writing our web apps in.

And you can't say C, because PHP is already a wrapper for C, and of course PHP is terrible.
What happens when app 1 has been tested against libxml 2.7 and app 2 needs libxml 2.8?

I wouldn't want to worry about dynamic library loading flags.
Definitely the next feature I'd like to add in. I wanted to get the MVP out as quickly as possible before iterative improvements became crippling to shipping :)
Since it is in a future/alternate reality Hubble and ISS might be in different orbits than today. I even makes sense for them to be nearby each other - easier maintenance of Hubble. Also might make sense for Chinese space station to be nearby - both for emergencies and cooperation on missions.

It just seems like their space suits had to endure lots and lots of abuse. Not sure why they would be designed for this even in the future/alternate reality. Seemed believable but just barely.

Not sure which "major physics failures" I dismissed - the long lasting jetpack? You can get much much greater energy densities using something other than the ultra safe compressed nitrogen in previous jetpacks.

The ISS orbits every 93 minutes and the Hubble every 96-97 minutes[1][2]. If the debris cloud was geosynchronous, as most communications satelites are, it would make sense that they might pass thru every 90 minutes or so. Not sure if this makes sense given different orbit heights.

Overall I am quite impressed how very realistic this movie was while still being very entertaining.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
Of course there's a difference (as reflected by MongoDB's relatively tiny valuation). The question is how likely it is that they can expand significantly from their current position. The trajectories of Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP — all of whom had similarly inauspicious beginnings — suggest that it's at least possible.
Many submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).
I consider lip-movement during reading a mental disorder. It means your cerebral cortex is connected to your motor cortex in a flawed way. It's a significant 'brain wiring' issue, and would severely limit how fast one can read as well. It's not as bad as "mouth breathers" but close.
I have no experience, but alternatively check out sedo.com, they have escrow too.
We built something really similar at the Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon recently: http://www.shopornot.co/

I know the other two team members are pretty interested in continuing work on it if you want to reach out :).
Why won't someone just set up an alternate site off shore that doesn't charge tax.

I thought it'd lower the barrier of entry.
SteamOS hardware tiers could open console gamers to world of PC gaming
very nice. what are some of the wider/long-term implications of this?
I hate to be that guy but...if your justification/explanation for taking or not taking risk involves more words than numbers, you don't understand risk. References to popular science books scores double points. You're merely tricking yourself into thinking that you do so you can feel better when it goes to shit.

You must, must, must, do a) the research, and b) the math. Everything else is fluff.
Apple has experienced periods of decline before. In the mid to late nineties, before Jobs returned, Apple stuck to polishing OS9, which was simply too archaic to compete with Windows 95, NT, and subsequent MS OS's of the nineties. They flip flopped on clones and ultimately maintained a losing status quo. This era also brought such blunders as the puck mouse, but towards the end Apple got a bit of a lift from the candy colored iMac. Still, had Apple not started branching out as they did, the dire predictions were probably true.

Is Apple in decline today? Their profits don't appear to be. Today's Apple also has a truly gargantuan nest-egg that could see the company through a protracted period of difficulty. It's too soon to tell if the company has become less innovative, but they are in a far superior position now than at any point in the past. The Apple brand isn't going anywhere for decades.
Doing this can be handy with Creative Commons licensed items, so that you have proof of it. I started doing this when I noticed that some people will change the license to something that is non-CC.
The cloudy headed thing is almost certainly due to a too-large dose. gwern recommends somewhere around 1/10th of the dose you are taking. I've been splitting 1mg pills in half.
P-value does not stand for profit
The arguments for Apple's failure seem to focus on what Apple isn't doing, rather than what it is doing.

E.g.

- they aren't establishing or milking a monopoly
- they aren't making commodity hardware
- they aren't engaging in predatory pricing

What these things have in common is that they are easy to understand.

The general negative commentary seems to be of the form "We can understand what everyone else is doing, but we don't understand what Apple is doing, therefore Apple must be doing nothing."

There's nothing new about this. The only difference when Steve Jobs was alive was that they could say 'We don't understand what Apple is doing, but Steve Jobs is a genius so that explains their success."
>Plenty of high-level professionals use opiates (pills like Oxycontin)

Perhaps, but I still question the likeliness that the mainstream pot dealer would move to selling pills still distributing from the same source. Pot, cocaine, mdmda, etc are available in bulk from illicit sources. Prescription pills usually come from a legal source at some point and come in smaller quantities. From what I hear opium is more expensive because of the difficulty to transport it in its raw form, and therefore sought after.

Wealthier clients usually have a doctor that will write them the prescriptions for a fee. It's not unfathomable that his dealer also had a line on prescription pills, and he did note that he went dry from time to time but still...
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Strongly disagree for the first few customers.

If you're going B2C or B2SmallerWebsites then you're aiming for much less per sale, and therefore to get legs you'll need to be able to sell to a lot of them. So potential sales targets are all around. You won't be able to find them in sufficient volume to make a difference until after you have advertising turned on. But you still need to figure out your business. And talking to people in person is a great way to do that.
Did Stack Exchange staff members assist in the apprehension of Ross Ulbricht?
Are there any benchmarks out on how the battery life compares to previous versions of OS X?
One rule of thumb I heard for freelancers was your day rate should be 100x your desired salary in K.

Ie if your targeting income of £30k a year your day rate should be around £300 - though of course you should as much as the market will stand.
Your Personal Brand Is Your Currency
When your customer is anybody from a forum on toyotas to donuts, how do you find them. I am currently advertising, not with too much success. I'm just following the points of this article that you don't know whether it's bad ad copy or product.
Oh my God, a new Ted Chiang story.

I have to say, having read everything he's written, I'm curious what a full novel would look like, though I'd be happily content if he just came out with a short story/novellete/novella a year forever. He just puts so much thought into his world-building it's incredible.
A more obvious example is minified JS versus regular JS. Briefer? Definitely. More expressive? Definitely not.
From: https://thoughtstreams.io/higgins/permalinking-vs-transience...

For me, permalinking is a much deeper thing than a mere pointer to a resource, because the web is inherently transient, and forever shifting. Link rot is what defines the web. Very few people grok the concept of "evergreen domains", and "citable resources".

A domain must be kept renewed for, at least, ten years for it to be evergreen, and content must be citable if you want to go down in history for your efforts. How we go about implementing citable resources is tricky.

Unless you are a Zen Warrior and quite enjoy Sand Mandalas, then you shouldn't be reading this. This article is for those that want to be found on the web for their work in the foreseeable future, and for those who don't want their work attributed to other people. You want authorship of your resource to be correct.

Nobody ever really owns a domain. Much like land, it trades hands with numerous parties before it belongs to any one person; in which case that person can then sell it off and buy new land. Everything is borrowed. You own nothing, really. Imagine these scenarios:

- Domain expires for financial reasons; content can not be found.

- Webmaster dies; so he/she can't renew it indefinitely.

- Your content is simply sold because you got greedy, and you don't have authorship anymore.

- Domain stays up for 20 years, but the TCP/IP stack is rewritten, and Meshnets now dominate. You fade into darkness. (You are no longer discoverable).

- URLs point to the correct resource, but require proprietary software to view them. Only the intellectual elite can view the content.

- Cached copies exist, but only at the whim of Archivists who slurp the web using Historious / Pinboard / Archive.org / Google Cache / Reverse Proxies / Many Others... You can't rely on these people / companies for keeping your content permanent.

And so I conclude that permalinking is a much deeper concept than a mere URL that points to a resource. It entails a slew of other topics that all center around the age old philosophy of permanence versus transience. It's not just something bloggers use in Wordpress!
As somebody who has used both sides of Airbnb, I think of them more as a transaction facilitator than as the vendor. Sort of like EBay, in that if I by something off EBay, I'm buying it from the seller, even if money does technically flow through their Paypal arm.

Personally, as a customer, I would like to see them take care of collecting any necessary taxes, so that I can use the service in good conscience. If putting my place up on Airbnb requires me to collect extra cash and figure out how to get it to the city, there is no way I'm doing that.
Thanks for this.

But be definition, the current approach is never the next generation approach.
Here's how I handle photo backups:

http://www.brianlane.com/automatic-backup-of-files-to-s3-and...
So does expedia.com