skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your detailed and good faith reply, which is more than most of the replies to my comment have been.

I think you may have stopped reading right before the main point of the Kessel article:

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Over and against these examples of “good” people whose cruelty is justified, even an act of friendship toward its objects, we have the “bad” people whose mistreatment of others, unlike that of Graff and Ender, springs from bad motives: Peter, Stilson, Bernard, Bonzo. We are never invited to wonder whether (and it is hard to imagine that) they might have a good motive for any of their actions. Bernard is a sadist from word one. Stilson is a bully. Peter is a psychopath. Bonzo is consumed by jealousy and hatred.

Card thus labors long and hard in Ender’s Game to create a situation where we are not allowed to judge any of his defined-as-good characters’ morality by their actions. The same destructive act that would condemn a bad person, when performed by a good person, does not implicate the actor, and in fact may be read as a sign of that person’s virtue.

The doctrine that the morality of an action is solely determined by the actor’s motive rests on a significant assumption: that the good always know what their motives are, and are never moved to do things for selfish reasons while yet thinking themselves moved by virtue. Ender has perfect knowledge of his own motives and the motives of others. Ender never suspects himself of doing other than what he thinks himself to be doing, and indeed, in Speaker for the Dead he makes a career of delivering faultless moral judgments of other people.

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As I understand the argument, Ender gets a pass and the "evil" characters don't.

Re: the Hitler comparison, I don't know enough about Hitler or Ender's Game to make a detailed response, but why would that many parallels exist, to the detail and degree that they do if it was unintentional? I would copy and paste the examples, but it would pretty much be the entire Radford article.
JavaScript is a messy language, but ignoring that, the module ecosystem is a mess. There are many duplicated modules, many of them done in a half-assed manner by inexperienced developers and rarely updated.

For example, the Node community absolutely loves MongoDB for inexplicable reasons, and support for other datastores is terrible. Despite Postgres supporting hstore for years and Node being popular for years, the two hstore modules are "node-postgres-hstore" (7 stars on github) which hasn't been updated in 1 year and "node-hstore" (17 stars on github) that hasn't been updated in 2 years. Everything I've seen indicates that this is typical for modules in Node.

Meanwhile, Ruby and Rails support Postgres extremely well at this point.

Similarly, node has several migration libraries, all of which are pretty limited. One of the popular ones, "node-migrate" by one of the most prolific node module developers, still has an open issue from 2 years ago about using timestamped migrations, with the developer commenting as if the concept is news to him (https://github.com/visionmedia/node-migrate/issues/2)
There's an elephant joke to be made here...
Downvoted for the unnecessary negativity x2. Fine, you think it's a stupid idea - just move on and close the tab then. Your opinion is just that: one person's opinion. If you want to offer the guy feedback on his app, go for it. But there's just no need to comment on HN on every app/idea you don't like/hate/think-is-stupid with "I think it is a stupid idea." Surely you have better ways to spend your time (as do I).
It's only the mixed metaphor to which I object.
Absolutely. I'm not particularly familiar with which of GoDaddy's offerings require high-touch sales (I've used them for domains a couple of times), though I'm sure they exist.

Similarly, I'm not gonna be surprised to see a post-IPO Twitter start pumping resources into their sales departments as well. A lot of their high-value partnerships and channels are going to require a little bit more personality than what they've put into the current Twitter Ads offering.
Nah, that’s fine. I used my own experiences to show how consumers in general might actually prefer Newsstand magazines over magazines placed elsewhere in the App Store. Of course that opens up a discussion and that was the point. If I didn’t want input, I should’ve just kept it to myself.
my godaddy up times are better than my media temple up times..
Checkout http://ghost.org/, which just opened to the public, if all you're doing with WP is blogging. Otherwise you may want to consider signing up on Wordpress.com, which isn't all that bad (just very limited in configurability).
The day any comment thread can be closed because it satisfies some criteria for a "flame war" is the last day I'll even think about posting here again.
True, and that’s why I followed up.
Media Temple was the first hosting service I remembered the name. It was around 2007, when I started web design. I was immediately fascinated by their brand, their design, and their philosophy. It looked honest and reliable. I actually never had the opportunity to become a customer because I didn't need an American-based server (I live in Europe)...

Well... until a month ago. I finally had a project that required a server based in North America. I chose MT quite rapidly, feeling confident about my decision and/or not caring enough to analyze the market.

And today, this (not so good) news. GoDaddy has had a very bad press for the last couple of years, and it seems like the philosophy gap between the two companies will be hard to handle. I guess it's just bad timing on my behalf but I'll try to stick to MT for the beginning.

Although yesterday I would have indisputably pursued my experience with MT for many years, I will now closely watch any subtle change in their customer policy and probably leave at the first signs of trouble, no matter how slight they can appear.
I'm using JRuby in the code I'm developing for my startup, in order to access Java libs I need. The biggest issue has been that it doesn't support Ruby 2.0 yet, which is merely aesthetic at this point for me. JRuby hasn't given me any grief since I got it going.
A fair question. I think it has parallels to Intel's itanium vs AMD's x64.

I cannot pretend to know what is best in a perfect world. Yet I am willing to pretend to know what is the more practical way forward.

Native Client is and was an interesting approach, but it requires buy in. Buy in which it was not getting, and it had several years to get said buy in.

When asm.js got announced I can only saw I was shocked. asm.js is brilliant! Brilliant in the same way utf-8 is. It does not require heavy changes yet could bring 90% of the benefit. It does not require a new sandbox. It is cross-platform and cross-architecture!
Got to haze the newbies somehow.
Are you 100% sure that no department has ever used or commissioned software that runs Ruby? My experience is that most companies have and still do.

Be aware that this includes deployment automation for some software. Two of the behemoths in that space are written in Ruby.
Random suggestion - check out NearlyFreeSpeech (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/).

I use them for a few sites and like their vibe and offerings. It's mostly pay-per-traffic I think. The dashboard isn't really a dashboard, more of a set of config screens. I find it intuitive but may not be what you're looking for.

You can easily set up an account and transfer sites over.
Would you be upset if they were slowly fading MacBook Pros out and instead replacing them with the retina MacBook Pros? From a different perspective, what if they were trying to drive the cost down to produce the rMBPs? Biding their time.
I've been using Linode and DigitalOcean with great success if anyone is looking for a recommendation.
Finally Custom Sources Added to Hourly News for iOS
I think you should assume that people may have a conceptual knowledge but not a working knowledge. If they had a working knowledge then your tutorial would be obsolete IMO. Other than that confusion I found it enjoyable.

FYI some of your examples are returning 404's
Awesome! I've updated my profile with the email.

I think also a server-side library would be useful. You might think to use a service like Mashape to avoid the problem of choosing a language.

Edit: oh, and mobile. We're having a lot of troubles replicating the same embed experience on iOS (and I have no experience on android/windows phone, so I assume the worse ;)
I didn't even know that GoDaddy was doing a redesign and new marketing push. I went to their site and was happy to see fewer bikini girls. However, in the about us, they still sound like they're trying to be brogrammer central:

Like a Stanford dorm room on steroids, our Sunnyvale office is 40,000 square-feet of Bay Area badassery, brimming with some of the biggest brains on the planet, dreaming up digital masterpieces and keeping time in agile sprints.
I like the concepts behind iframely better than those behind oEmbed, because you get an iframe URL, which is safer to embed than 3rd party HTML and you can change the size of the iframe on your own (no need for another request to get the embed code of another size). Their endpoint isn't free, but their software is. So you can run your own iframely server, if you want.
https://github.com/itteco/iframely
http://iframely.com/
http://iframely.com/debug

I submitted a few patches concerning HTML parsing, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Magnatune.com, OCReMix.org, Firefox Marketplace, Tindeck.com (and a few tiny bugfixes).
New iPhone and iOS Release Shakes Up App Rankings According to Distimo Report
Unfortunately, voting rings work. They work because the number of people actually reading the new page is vastly smaller than the number of posts being submitted.

I actually did a semi-controlled experiment a while back and submitted a series of blog posts I was writing, all on the same topic. There were seven of them all together. On four of them, I asked a small number (a single digit) of people to upvote the story. For the other three, I didn't. All four of the gamed stories ended up near the top of the home page. The other three didn't get a single upvote. If you do the math you will find that this is a statistically significant result. (And I have since submitted many other stories. Not a single one has gotten more than one upvote.)

The trick is to get enough upvotes early enough to get onto the home page. It doesn't take much, it just has to be fast. Once you're on the home page, people actually pay attention and you get a lot of organic traffic. But your odds of getting off the new page at all unless you game the system are extremely small.

Some changes that would help the situation:

1. Provide some incentive for people to read the new page. I'm not sure what this incentive would be, but the fact that very few people read the new page is the nub of the problem.

2. Incorporate the submitter's karma into the ranking of the new page to allow stories submitted by high-karma users to stay there longer. Depending on the time of day, a story typically has between 30 minutes and an hour before it drops off the new page, after which it will surely never be noticed.

3. Don't start the timer on a story when it is submitted. Instead, start it only after some time has elapsed (at least a few hours) or it gets its first upvote.

4. Make it cost something (like a karma point) to submit a story. Throttle the cost so that submitting a large number of stories in a short period of time costs more.
I used this to introduce high schoolers at a STEM summer camp a few years back and they loved it. There appears to be an android/iphone app as well now, but I haven't personally tried it http://light-bot.com/
As somebody who's been chatting with people over at GoDaddy about their upcoming plans to improve their services/ui/support/etc, I've been giving them a chance because it sounds pretty great.

However, that fruit has yet to bare so I am 100% not happy with this at all. I'm actually really disappointed/frustrated/mad right now. This was my safe haven away from everything that budget hosts like GoDaddy did, stood for, provided, etc.

These kind of acquisitions always starts with "We won't be making any major changes" and then the company pulls a Yahoo and begins to slowly deteriorate.

This is the worst news, in regards to my every day business, that I've heard all year. I have 20 clients with DV servers, as well as my own servers and I am now feeling uneasy about this.

Also, have we not forgotten the anti-sopa / anti-godaddy coupon codes MediaTemple was giving out when people were bailing from GoDaddy during the SOPA/PIPA uproar? What happened to that? Nooooooo.
I know an english major who graduated still unable to distinguish between "your" and "you're." Who would you rather have in college, her or me?

Well, she apparently needs further education more than you do!
Yea exactly. You just can't win with a small host provider. They will always get acquired. Always. Though I did get the sense that MT was large enough to stay independent. Really uncomfortable feeling knowing its GoDaddy now
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I have flagging, in the ~1000 karma range, so it still exists. I've hardly ever used it.

I'm not sure that flagging is meant for shooting down topic matter you'd rather not see on HN. And that's why the ability is removed from those who overuse it. Flagging is for blatant spam or personal attacks or other abuses, it's not a content-selection mechanism. Upvotes select content.
I was a client in 2007/2008. The server was laggy and I'm pretty sure they overselled their VPSs.

Good riddance.
We're not talking about what's safer, were talking about NaCL vs asm.js, and the primary purpose of those is to run native C code in your browser without significant rewriting (e.g. emscripten)

The target for most of this is porting C games to the Web, and many modern C games use all kinds of multithreading and blocking I/O. Game programmers are not interested in safety, they are interested in performance.

Yes, message passing leads to fewer bugs. It also leaves a lot of performance on the table if you are trying to maximize usage of CPU resources on an SMP architecture.
I'd actually say the poster child for Ruby is Github. GitHub is a collection of small Sinatra Web Apps.
25 questions can only paint broad strokes. Given that it's on pbs.org, it's probably best at gauging how much exposure to "archetypical" America the PBS / NPR demo possesses.
Momentous news: GoDaddy & (mt) Media Temple
You mistake 'foolish' for a value judgment. It is a statement of fact. Participation in this conference offers enormous benefit to any Javascript developer; to consider absenting oneself, because of a political disagreement with a keynote speaker, evinces that poor judgment which is the very soul of foolishness.
I think you'll find the negative response from developers to be way larger than you anticipated. (Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have gone through with this.)

I still respected MT for their independence, even if the service was unbearable for a few years there. You were just starting to earn a good reputation again, now you're right back in the dark days.
I keep seeing allusions to this new, improved GoDaddy...can you provide some details about this? I haven't heard anything about it since moving my domains away from them after the SOPA/elephant stuff.

I know MediaTemple is a good company and wouldn't sell to GoDaddy without reason, so hopefully you can provide some solid justification for staying with you. The current FAQ/blog post don't address GoDaddy's toxic reputation in the tech community at all.
Ooh, I didn't consider transclusion. For the example I used (an attribute directive), would I make its template literally

<div ng-transclude></div>
I actually just wrote a blog post on Ghost! http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-15-i-ain-t-fraid-of-no-ghos...

It's really cool but I don't think it's ready for primetime yet.

I want to be able to host static sites and WordPress all from one hosting account with great support and features. Seems like MediaTemple was the only service to offer that...
What is it like to sell your company to Google?
I admire your courage and honesty to directly engage with the GoDaddy detractors (of which I am one, sorry). Maybe you can prove us all wrong and help improve them from within.
GNAA Relaunches Subreddit.
AnyPerk (YC W12) is hiring a B2B demand gen marketing leader and a Biz-Dev
BlackBerry pleads for patience in open letter to customers, partners
Today I experienced music in a new dimension
In the spirit of interesting discussion and congenial disagreements, I believe you're committing the argument to moderation fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

The existence of two parties arguing does not imply that:

1. All views are more-or-less represented
2. All views fit on a one-dimensional spectrum
3. A middle view is more desirable than either "extreme" view (or even desirable at all).
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Does anyone have the link to Robert Plomins paper?
Orson Scott Card could do a lot of telling if he wanted. He's actually pretty fiercely conservative and anti-gay, for example. That said, I've read the books, really enjoyed them, and wouldn't have realized if I didn't know. It's pretty amazing how he keeps it out of the books and doesn't just write tea party rantings constantly or something. Telling people isn't a good way to convince them anyway, I suppose.
Computer Science Education Week, December 9-15 2013
App.net and HootSuite Integration
Ah, cool. Maybe consider AWS or Azure then?
It's great that you'll have more funds. But you are associating yourself with a very negative company. I'll give you a simple example why I hate GoDaddy. About a year ago, some affiliate of our product sent an email to a potential client who reported it as SPAM. Since our domain was bought on GoDaddy, GD sent us a threatening letter saying we have to pay $X upfront to continue to use their services or $Y (about $200) to move to another host. This was no short of blackmail. We tried to explain but it was of no use. We Googled further and found hundreds of other victims.
so a week ago it was CFML and this week its Ruby. is there going to be any week that the languages i program in doesn't get bashed on the net ;)
Agreed, I think the author has mis-understood what it means. Quite a common one to get wrong though, for anyone wondering it generally means that stating an exception proves/ establishes/ implies that a general rule exists.

E.g. You may not play ball in the park within 20 metres of the road implies that the general rules is that you can play ball elsewhere in the park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
I bet ChromeOS is just not optimized for ARM. The original CR48 got incredible battery life (more than 10 hours), as did the Series 5 (the first for-sale Chromebook). Both of those used Atom processors. Since the majority of Chrome use is on the desktop with x86 computers, my guess is that this is the reason.
What on earth for?
I agree with the Rails-centrism issue. Even alternative web frameworks have a hard time in the Ruby world.

I disagree with the assumption that Ruby is web only. E.g. Chef and Puppet are huge efforts that have no direct connection to frontend web, both written in Ruby. Vagrant as well. Ruby is big in the infrastructure world.
Above-the-counter currency-exchanges are still pretty heavily regulated by the Chinese government. See, the ongoing China scam works like this:

* traditional Chinese culture would have the children care for their parents and grandparents in their old age

* one-child policy means that each child has two parents and four grandparents to care for exclusively, so that's not going to work out so well, therefore:

* everyone saves like crazy

* the state-run banks pay negative real interest rates (less than inflation)

* the state-run banks loan to big state-owned firms at negative real interest rates (and you can do amazing things when paying for capital at negative interest rates)

* the people in charge of the state-owned firms live lavish lifestyles off the profits and provide political support for the regime

* from time to time the government has to work to suppress riots over high food prices and other consequences of inflation

This breaks down if the ordinary people can get hold of a currency that isn't full of inflation. So, capital controls limit how many dollars people can get a hold of.

Of course, Bitcoin in the mix could be interesting. Or rendered illegal. Or both.
Ha. Thanks.

Isn't the point of this to save time or remember someone's name. Actually think about how your interaction with another person would go and how this app fits into that....It makes the interaction awkward and you probably won't even find their text message in time (your messages screen is a most recently used list...the message will be buried).

Where is the plus side? I think the idea is stupid. If they like they are free to prove me wrong and show me it is a good idea.

edit: I think sugar coating opinions so they have to be positive is pointless. Maybe me saying the app is stupid helps them realize some problem with their app that helps them improve it and make it much better (and then prove me wrong).

If we were to Sugar coat all feedback then the feedback of horrible products will be indistinguishable from good products which makes it pointless.
We are well aware of their past, but we're also well aware of what they've been doing to improve their business. Check out our FAQ http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/10/15/faqs-about-the-goda...
While a radical departure from the old school methods, Montessori is not intrinsically "progressive". It is built on the idea that there is a clear curriculum with the very big difference being children are primarily responsible for choosing from that menu of options, trusted that their own interests are an adequate guide.

Someone who definitely falls outside the progressive reformers would be John Holt, yet he passionately argues along similar lines as what Kubrick is saying here.

Holt: "... the human animal is a learning animal; we like to learn; we are good at it; we don't need to be shown how or made to do it. What kills the processes are the people interfering with it or trying to regulate it or control it."

By modern definitions, Holt is not even exactly "homeschooling". More accurately, he advocates what would be called "Unschooling" -- the idea that home life observing adults is a more than powerful enough motivator for young children to acquire basic skills.
I'm with you, and I think it's pretty clear which creators Newsstand is for, from who's building effective experiences and who isn't.

Old media complained about losing access to readers and hasn't invested in this new medium beyond an Adobe export tool. Native digital publishers with low overhead are happy about the new distribution channel and a way to assign value to their content by periodicalizing it, and embrace new digital tools with their constraints.

After presiding over the app revolution, who do you think Apple designed Newsstand for?
> So a minority of users can remove stories the majority wants to see.

You mean, they want to see it here. And that's the problem. Just because a majority want to see it doesn't mean it should be seen here. And yes, a minority of users who've proven themselves over the years to understand the difference between on-topic and off-topic should have some power of this process.

HN is curated, and it's not just curated by the majority. And me, and many others are fine with that. It's what makes HN the way it is. Removing that effectively turns HN into Reddit.
>And on top of that, iPad issues are much cheaper than physical copies.

I haven't really noticed that. Most of the Conde Naste magazines will run you $4.99 an issue. A subscription is much cheaper, but it's much cheaper in physical copies too.