skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting those links!

While I do think the Hitler-Ender link is a bit too far to stretch, the Kessel essay does articulate some of the discomfort I had about Ender's Game. When I read Card's quote,

“The humans in Ender’s Game never imagined that they were obliterating another species; rather they thought they were destroying an invading species’ ability to make war. Genocide was the result of not understanding the effect on the buggers of the death of the hive queen.”

all I could think of was the careful set-up of how Ender didn't know he'd killed Stilson and Bonzo.
While I do not disagree with any of the proposed features, I am not sure, what they would accomplish. Could someone point out, what kind of applications would benefit from those changes?

Is this just about making ruby more like node (substituting callbacks for promises)?

Also, do all of these features really need to be implemented on the interpreter level?
Depends on the country. But really, why do you need to know? Just set a high limit, like 20 or 30 digits.
How would he know what you found via Google Search without disclaiming it, or even mentioning that you had searched at all? "Anything other than X, Y, and Z?" would be more polite.
Great job so far!

Funding decisions should always be about goals. What are the goals for raising the money here?

VC's want to see how a 1x investment turns into a 5x return. If you can't communicate that now, it might be a rough pitch.

It sounds like you're on the right path, see if you can squeeze a revenue stream from advertising and continue to iterate on that. If you can prove (to yourself, first) that an investment in advertising your site will significantly change those revenues then you can start considering VC capital.

I would suggest reaching out to partners that can help you with traffic first and foremost, a VC will want to know that you can manipulate the growth levers, not just organically.

In the meantime, keep up the hunt for an angel who's as excited about the space as you are, they're the best fit because they'll share your vision, invest in infrastructure, and be a little more patient.

Remember, funding means added pressure to perform, and milestones that need to be hit. Make sure you're ready for those pressures before you take the check!

Good luck!
.NET Portable Class Library now available on all platforms - even non-Microsoft
Bully for you that you don't perceive an issue here.

The fact is beyond dispute that the social services in widest use actively turn your friends into informants on you. If that doesn't bother you, fine--but don't mock the people for whom that is an uncomfortable reality.
So it's stack ranking by a different name.
Right, I got that from the overall context. It's just that when one reads a comparison worded the way yours was, one expects the latter item to be the stressed and greater one. Eg:

Beth is nowhere near as good looking as Tricia.

Without other context, I'd assume that Tricia is much better looking according to the author of the comment.
Or any of the amazing small studios EA has picked up and discarded.
I love www.passpack.com

http://blog.danielfischer.com/2011/05/12/its-time-to-start-u...
As far as I know, 1Password has Linux support. It's a browser plugin, not a native application. I'm using it right now on Arch.
You should almost always avoid working for low-margin businesses. Sure, if they are new and growing, there's an exception, but if their whole growth plan is premised around being low-margin, it's not going to be a great place to work and advance your career. Expenses such as compensation are always on management's radar.
There's a UX thing that is really nice right now that is limiting the number of characters, it does a button animation when and drops the keyboard when you're done filling out the contact. I'd like to find a way to keep it, but maybe I'll just do an international version that doesn't have that and set the limit to whatever.
Software is really good.

I have an error on emailing invoices. It says just "Error" in modal.
I am so jealous of any product or startup with a perfect domain name. I'll definitely use this.
And why does this Baidu subsidiary care about this damage?
Seems pretty US-centric. Governments outside the US are doing great things with open source too. The entire UK government website is open source, for example:

https://github.com/alphagov
Elliot's Blog Rebrands as DomainInvesting.com
Thank you very much. How did you do it (so I can do it right next time)?
Cool stuff. Reminds me of www.waveaccounting.com, is it ad supported as well?

Looking forward to taking it for a test drive.
I agree, although I'd also like to see OpenCL on the Web as well (WebCL).
Subconscious Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day
Weird that it works fine on my 6-year-old Dell laptop.
Getting a team is hard! And if you've found one, you are worth more than a regular hide.

Demonstrating skill through building a product is also hard, and also helps build value.

I think of the math like this: are the next 1000 engineers at Facebook worth 1% of their market cap? Yes, the math works.
I had a similar issue. I tried to buy a domain that was on their website and after a few weeks they finally emailed me and told me that it wasn't for sale. It pisses me off even more that it's still up on their site.

When I finally was able to reach someone I heard back from - William Simmons <william.simmons@stylate.com>

Good Luck - it's too bad that they don't do a great service as the $250 seems right for domain + logo and should be a start for any project!
Given that there was a bitcoin rally led by the Chinese bitcoin exchanges before this news[1] and now this amateurish announcement, it seems like somebody at Baidu Jiasule is doing a pump and dump.

[1] http://imgur.com/jgwRMJo
I didn't realize they were re-branding. I just looked at their site for the first time in a while and their rendition of the "flat ui" craze looks horrible in my opinion.
Indeed. Just because you're reasoning from first principles doesn't mean the people trying to understand what you're doing need to reason from first principles.

One of my first principles for customer acquisition is that potential customers are looking for any excuse whatsoever to ignore you. Making understanding difficult for them is a very straightforward way to turn them off.
You've just given me an amazing moment of clarity!
Sent the link to a family member who still uses Quicken 2000. The invoicing looks great!
Apparently this is the software currently being used to replace Outlook: http://www.expressolivre.org/modules/conteudo/conteudo.php?c...
How I bootstrapped from start to exit -- with tons of trauma along the way
You mentioned performance and packaging. There's also concurrency issues but those are improving.

The most interesting critique of Ruby I've heard recently was from Tom Stuart @ Ruby Manor this year:

http://lanyrd.com/2013/ruby-manor/scffpd/

In this talk he demonstrated how the multi-paradigm nature of Ruby makes it hard to fully realize the benefits of a single paradigm like FP or OOP.

This is obviously not something that CTOs are bringing up in tech provisioning discussions, but I think it does prevent ruby from having the kind of strengths that would make it a go-to language for certain types of projects the way that Go, Scala, Node.js or Haskell are able to do these days. I think Ruby's biggest appeal is to programmers who care a great deal about aesthetics and expressiveness of code.
If I read this correct you are safe against this kind of attacks as each save uses a new random IV. http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html#secencrypt
Sums up a lot of my issue with the flat approach. Yet it seems like so many companies. Including multi-billion ones still seem to suffer some of the bad examples pointed out.
Talely: interactive digital stories for everyone
You should work on integrating this into various niche apps, like WHMCS (webhosting control panel), VOIP panels, basically any reseller panel you can find. It'd take off.
There was nothing to "set up", she created a Google account and that was about it. The biggest difficulty she had was learning to type with a QWERTY keyboard, since she had never used a typewriter or computer before. So she instead uses the mazec2 Handwriting Recognition keyboard[0] with a stylus. That's something you definitely could have never done on Apple's locked-down platform.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metamoji.m...
This was my story from Mixergy. Hope that this community finds it useful.
Bit off topic, but I actually just disabled all my social media, and you know what? I don't miss a single soul and I feel really good again, more energetic and enthusiastic even. I just realized I really only do have about 5 people I should keep in contact with. Everyone else was a relationship that was kept up just from virtue of existing, relationships that would never make it into real life.

I feel free.

For the first time I took a walk in the park yesterday, rolled a joint, went for a nice breakfast and coffee at a local diner, read the newspaper, and just sat in the park. It was amazing not feeling pressure to make everyone immediately aware of how fucking awesome of a morning I've had. It was actually unreal. I just sat there looking at a bird and I almost just broke down and cried of happiness.

I felt zero pressure doing anything.

It felt as though I was obligated to post everything cool I did, so when doing those things, I'd do them differently just to fit the specific paradigm that I post in just to one up others.

A feeling has left me that I hadn't identified before that I mistook as depression. I was growing more apathetic, sad, and cynical due to social media because it felt like every little thing I did was in competition in some form or another to others online, and when I failed, I just felt more isolated and lonely.

I'm able to do things consistently without the need to constantly check my phone and compare that specific frame of my life against others. Facebook on the toilet, while cleaning, running, on the bus, at work, on the commute home, too much.

The weeks following deleting my social media I got so much shit done so fast with no distractions. Absolutely amazing. I think I'll write a blog post about this. I bought a tablet, loaded my favourite books on it, and have filled in all my pointless social media time with reading.

I'm actually discovering the city alone for the first time ever and it's wonderful because I don't care what anyone else thinks of what I'm doing, I'm doing it for me.

I'm going to grow my beard, cut my hair, buying some jeans, buying some chucks, and then I'm going to relax in a field somewhere and just spend time not caring.
I made no such assumption.
Interesting. Maybe they should hire a small training department to teach their programmers how not to be hackers.
You don't get any broken loops on lower-case 'g's?
our company is filled with shirts and signs that say "Build"

Do you need special sunglasses to see them?
These issues are present for every acquisition. Having a minimum price doesn't make them go away. Often the price is much, much more.

I mentioned Instagram: $1B for 13 people and a product that makes no money (yet). You don't think the most recent 1000 employees at Facebook are wishing they joined a small startup instead?

Dealing with this is non-trivial, I'm not trying to dismiss it. I'm just saying the idea and this problem aren't as causal as you're implying.
The quoted price is not for a single email account, but for the whole setup on a dedicated machine/vm. You're free to use up all the resources your machine has available, we will not introduce any arbitrary limits.

If you know 15 friends/co-workers that you want to share your private, secure mail-setup with, you're already below the 2,5/mon and have the assurance that your email and userdata will never be mined or even looked at by a provider. You will be able to move your mails (or even the whole VM dump) somewhere else anytime.

You basically pay for managed hosting of your own complete mail-stack, without any vendor lock-in.
How is the ZTE Open for dev purposes? I'm not familiar with how Firefox OS handles OS updates, but will I (essentially) always be able to update it?
This is really cool. I sent a request to my City to join. I'd be happy to donate some time improving their website if the source were public.
Using OpenSSL for license keys [2004]
I have appended the post to include the fact that I have a copy of my password physically printed and hidden in a secure location.

As for mobile, I have not tried the workflow on iOS but I hear you can use the USB camera connection kit to connect your Yubikey.
PiracyData.org: Are the top 10 most pirated films available legally online?
VMware Acquires Desktone, a desktop as a service provider
amazing potential. but in the end - out of scope. If you go through the least each org has only few repos with little interest. One of the more interesting ones is: https://github.com/opengovplatform
Plastic (pollution) Merges into China's Farmland.
For those who have tried it out: what kind of options does it offer for taking out/exporting your data?
Go it alone as long as you can.
I wouldn't say that being a "hacker" or "hacking code" necessarily implies doing a low quality job, or anything of the sort. But from a cultural standpoint, there does seem to be a bit of a dichotomy between "hackers" and "software engineers", although I think an individual can be both.

When the day comes that Fogbeam can hire employees, my goal is try focus on hiring engineers more than hackers (with the above caveat in mind). I'd like to establish a culture of people who take a great deal of pride in delivering a well-engineered, high-quality product, that maximizes code reuse, maintainability, modularity and all of those other things. I'd even say I want people who value gasp process gasp, -- as long as the process isn't overly top-heavy, bureaucratic and burdensome.
I think it was more proving just how far you would have to go to really be untraceable, and that it's an essentially impossible goal for a normal person.
Admitting it's totally beside the point, what is the deal with the "trademark" Campfire emoji at the end of the post? Soon(tm)? In-joke?
I seriously can't see any upside to the acquirer. I don't believe "corp dev" teams' mission is to acquire "deal flow" by having failing startups pitch them as a source of million dollar engineers. Even if it was, I don't think there are any failing startups too ignorant to talk to Facebook and Dropbox without being incentivised by a marketing gimmick. Acquihires are not a seller's market. Other potential acquisitions that consider themselves to have a potentially viable business model, defensible IP or some strategic value aren't going to be in the least bit interested in being acquired by you just because you have a "minimum price", but they might negotiate a lot harder when you do bid for them because "1.5x the minimum" just doesn't sound as attractive as 15 million dollars. And the VCs, who know that some of their portfolio's founders will cash out at $1million-per-engineer and some will earn nothing due to liquidation preferences, will just think you don't understand.

The only behaviours I can see it encouraging are perverse ones, like failing companies that have had enough introductory meetings to anticipate an aqui-hire offer hiring a couple of extra engineers to bump the minimum sale price.
Just curious, but what is the app written in? Is it something like Adobe Air?
1Password does not support Linux. Password Anythere (1Password 3), however, can be used with Linux of course:

http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/1passwordanywhere.html
I think the most interesting part of the article is when it mentions that anecdotes about an employee's performance most-often dominate these OLRs. It seems that a company with as concrete of a business goal as Amazon's would have the ability to use a more objective means of measuring employee performance.
I thought this was open source ;_;
I think that this might answer your question:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/fok/causal_universes/

Also this is somewhat relevant too: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qp/timeless_physics/
The Market for U.S. Debt — Too Big to Disrupt
A horrible article.

Offline? The lady has a tech-startup in SanFrancisco.

Untracked? Still possible to track her. There is nothing you can do to prevent it. If you want to buy a house, you're going to need credit, if you want credit then you're going to be tracked. That's just the way it works in developed nations.

It is one thing to be mindful of security. Protecting your data, understanding the limits of cryptography, not giving away important information via social media or to people who don't need it, is all important things to know.

In a digital world you leave behind a digital footprint. Having one isn't the problem. Controlling it is.

edit: Being untraceable is impossible and a thing of the movies. The moment you are born and issued a birth certificate, your digital footprint has started.

The thing to remember is that isn't a bad thing...
Why not change it to include interspecies marriage next? Man+sheep+frog. What about inanimate objects! A man and a lamp? May as well allow people to marry trees while we're at it.

I am suggesting that yes.
They are so well connected

That VCs are thought of as a group of people who are well-connected, presumably to other well-connected people, does it make logical sense to think of them as a cartel?
Why (no pun intended) should I use this over sinon?
Of course you can. If you read some datasheets you'll see that's how batteries are rated.
It's written in C#. I'm using cross-platform GUI framework http://github.com/picoe/Eto
Thanks for the information. William's email address is the one that shows up if I try to cancel the payment in Google Checkout. I've sent an email to that address and haven't heard back.
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Sans ActiveSupport, you can achieve the same things by just opening class/module eigenclass:

module Foo
class << self
attr_accessor :bar
end
end

Foo.bar = "baz"
Here is my clear stand and let's be realistic here: nothing can escape political system. As a civilization, there is law. And law is created and written by people with political agenda. It is sad but that's the nature. Whether or not you like it, Bill of Rights is a political, legal document created and written by politicians who want to protect the interest of the people.

I don't discriminate gays at all. I have my opinion on gays, abortion, education and government reform. We all do, right?

What people are doing here is making a difficult call for organizers and attendees. Should they attend this talk they could be called "criminals" since no one should be looking up to someone opposing gay rights. And I think that call is difficult.
Basically, if you can be observed by a person, then you can definitely be "tracked" by a computer.

The thing is, I've never been that upset about this. Technology has only made something that was possible into something that's now feasible, namely observing the public actions of many people to determine what they're doing.

I've always known, even as a kid, that if we scattered many small detecting devices (cameras, microphones, RFID tags) throughout the world, something that is not illegal or bad in and of itself, that we'd pretty much all be track-able.

Did no one think that putting RFID chips all over the place might make a rough point cloud out of nearly everything in the world? Or that simply by interacting with any computerized system it's possible it can be tracking literally ever bit of your interaction with it? Or that it's possible to make cameras so ubiquitous as to make most of the world monitor-able?

Seriously, did the world not see this coming? I know one of the first things I thought of when I saw lots of security cameras somewhere like the airport as a kid was "I bet you could design something to track all the people in this airport using those cameras. That would be sooo cool."
Perfect linkbait for this crowd.
I thought it was good too. It stands in great contrast to a series of hiring posts from another payroll startup earlier this year. Those posts emphasized the exact opposite - I think one even talked about developing on the production branch - and saddened me as a result.
Freedom in learning is so, so important. This case study illuminates that pretty well. It's a great look into an example of allowing children to truly learn at their own pace, with gentle guidance regarding subject areas and provided with the resources they need to discover new knowledge. The story is heartwarming and a great read, and a useful comparison to the modern American style of education.

As others have pointed out, there is no magic bullet. This method would work incredibly well for 90% of subjects taught in elementary school. However, for non-English language learning, additional guidance would be needed - the teachers could nudge them towards Duolingo, various online multilingual dictionaries, etc. I do believe that this system could be used as the core of a new teaching paradigm, but it is not solely sufficient for a complete learning experience to the standards that we have come to expect in America.

For developing countries (which, sadly, Mexico bears much resemblance to), this could be an incredible tool. An internet-connected computer and guidance from involved teachers can easily produce students who are ready to help lift their countries out of economic malaise. In this way, I believe the internet can serve as the Great Equalizer many of us hoped it would someday become. If this method used alone is capable of producing students 70% as capable (by some nonexistent perfect metric) as those in first-world nations, that would still be an enormous leap forward for developing nations. I think these guys are really on to something in this regard.

I find it interesting that as our civilizations mature, we find ourselves oscillating back away from the industrialized American education system paradigms and towards a more holistic, broadly-focused educational strategy using qualitative methods rather than quantitative objectives. Students are not a homogeneous population, and historically we have tried to deal with this issue by ignoring it and cramming them all into the same mold, with minor variations. It makes me glad to see that we are starting to consider that we should instead allow for this variance by designing systems with broader definitions and qualitative goals, to allow the students to grow in the directions they are best suited or disposed to.
Just copy/paste the URL in comments section with the prefix http://. It does not work in the text section of the submission though.
I think more fundamentally the prevalence of aqui-hires proves that software management isn't working.

In the kind of world where the government can't get the federal Obamacare exchange working, and people pretend that Waterfall is a competitor to Agile while really, the most common alternative is no process at all. Most companies are highly effective at demotivating software developers, and if you get hired through the usual process you'll start out on the bottom of the pyramid and behind the 8 ball.

If it costs them $1M+ to hire you there's just a chance they'll behave as if your time is worthwhile.
Applicative Programming In JavaScript With lodash.js
Learning to code gets more fun, relaxed and personal. I like it.
It's more like the happy path from start install to finish install is one of a million paths. Throughout each installation I'd hit a new detour, which in turn led me even further astray, and so on, and so on, until I never got back on the happy path and had to restart. That was my situation.
I saw a TED talk about using GH as a form of collaborative democracy once. I am so shocked (in the best way) that momentum is building this quickly.