skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if we are going to truly embrace that premise, then I see little room to be upset. Discussions being flagged off is the HN system acting undemocratically to shape the discussion to its tastes.

The flamewar detection system isn't smacking down topics, it smacks down types of discussions. Certain topics seem to generate little but flamewar and get regularly smacked down, indicating to me that HN has little interest in (or perhaps more accurately, ability to) discuss[ing] those topics reasonably.

tl;dr: I agree, HN isn't for discussing everything. Far from not being okay with that, I think it is a good thing.
Incidentally, you also wouldn't say "you designed a lovely picture of a house." So the parent's point stands.
what are the new web programming paradigms?
Thank you. Far too often it's the same story, over and over again. Whether it's ageism, anti-gay or anti-women it's always the same issue and the same discussion that comes up. Everyone laments at the situation and then goes back to hiring young white male developers.

I feel the NSA stories are the same. We get it; they're intercepting as much internet traffic as they can get and trying to break SSL (which they haven't succeeded at it without the help of 3rd parties providing signing keys). It's always the same comments (my personal favourite are the Americans who are mostly outraged at the fact they're being targetted, like the rest of the world's privacy is somehow lesser) and adds nothing to the conversation.
Probably someone thought the Model X was neat so they posted it, then HN folks who hold TSLA shares voted it up because it's in their best interests to do so.
Rather than just saying it's overrated, why don't you give some examples of the same kind of thing done better?
- I flagged one story in my time on HN (< 2 yrs). It was obvious spam (referrer included and went to a webstore; unrelated title).

- I see newer stories thanks to some chrome extensions showing a 2 column layout. I rarely upvote though as I feel I am too inexperienced to decide what others should find interesting.

- I upvote comments that made me learn something. I downvote "redditism", flaming etc.

Just as another data point.
That's nonsense as management advice. The best way to implement a superior solution is to convince someone to implement it not do it yourself. Delegate!

If you have a better way to shovel stuff in bags, the most efficient and profitable way to implement "shovel stuff in bags 2.0" is to convince the guy in charge of 1.0 to upgrade, not go to the immense effort of creating a competitor, or start shoveling yourself. At least not as the very first step.

If you want to make a competitor, just do it, you don't need "cover" of some minor 1.0 vs 2.0 issue. Either way its not workin.
I'm just surprised that the options are RWD and AWD... in the North American market, RWD is the province of sports cars and Euro imports. I'd expect to see front drive on a family car like this.
Data journalists need to meet designers MORE than half way
Or they could ask a few questions about your income et. al. and let you window shop. Which would also allow you to see how you'd fair under different financial circumstances, which is rather important since as I recall there are some nasty cliffs where making one more dollar/year results in massive cost increases. Someone else used another web resource and claims that he could not find any scenario where being married didn't cost more than living together, and that would be another financially useful thing to be able to know, albeit at a serious cost to society.

The process that the article is claiming doesn't allow researchers or individuals to ask these sort of "what if" questions. Wondering why is entirely legitimate.
I know some people lost their ability to flag while doing exactly that (the 'flag' link is removed entirely when that happens, the removal of the ability isn't invisible to the user it happens to), but I am unaware of anybody being hellbanned for it.
When you download ANY Newstand app, ANY Newstand app at all, you're running third party software that is making connections to third party servers.

Perhaps you believe that iOS is so locked down that the third party doesn't have your info to send to their own servers and monetize? But in the wake of oh-so-many "app uploads all of your info" situations, I find it surprising to believe this.

Yes, Apple isn't forwarding your payment information but that doesn't mean that nothing at all goes to the publisher. They're going to get info on you, both through Apple and through their app on your device. They thrive on getting that info, and more than one is likely going to monetize that info as best they can.

It comes with the territory but please do not think that because Apple handles billing, magically all of your data is safe.
Sports doesn't mean literally sport (as in an organized competition), it means that the car is built with a sporty character.

I think you might be surprised at the number of people who take their sporty every day driver to a track though. Still, I'd be surprised if it passed 1%.

There are many levels of automotive sport, and at the bottom tier, you have fairly common activities like autocross and HPDE (high performance driving event). Both are low cost, low barrier of entry activities that are a lot of fun.
From his media trainer, certainly...
The hype is dying. I also think the web is moving beyond the Rails model...
Given that you will have to figure out scaling issues eventually anyway, the speed of compiled languages should NOT be weighed heavier than programming ease in your decisionmaking. Programmer time is FAR more expensive than hardware these days.
Many Rails folks have moved on to other things, many of them to Node.js, and in general development is becoming less homogenous (i.e. Go services interacting with a Rails app/middleware, and an Angular.js front-end). This is a good thing; we are seeing people more willing to use the right tool for the job rather than trying to use one language for everything.
Oh God, I certainly hope so.
How can there be this much hubris in a single post?

Do you really think our generation is better than the 25,000 before it? Do you really think you are making the world a better place? We don't even know what the future will be like so we have no way of determining whether today's choices will be right for our descendants.

You don't even know what your kids will be like. How can you be sure you will support them?

The world will judge our generation once we have lived long lives and done much. Until then, it's incredibly arrogant to claim ourselves to be the best out of countless past lives.
Don't forget PBS. Lacking cable growing up I pretty much watched nothing but PBS and a few Saturday morning cartoons. I think that worked out pretty well :).
NSA Alexander Admits He Lied about Phone Surveillance Stopping 54 Terror Plots
Wait? These are TheCitySwig guys? Just to let you know your last website was so horribly insecure. It was like a whois who of Owasp Top 10 issues. Just letting you know in case you build something like that again...

On topic of WeHighFive, I think it is a stupid idea. Takes one more step away from the paradigm of 'face-to-face' communication.

At the very best, you're saving 30 seconds of time writing the text message, and wasting 3 minutes looking through all the texts you have to remember the person's name.

Either ask the person their name again or say it a couple times in your head when you first meet them. With your app, when I re-meet someone, I have to look at my phone and figure out who they are again.
I just started looking into Core Data over the weekend. My use case is that I need to sync a couple of sqlite tables( only 3 tables) in iCloud. Core Data seems to be the best way to do this. Is there a way to manage my own transactions if I do all the SQL myself?
"One is if you lose your key you won't be able to access your coins, right?"

Right but that is life. Make back ups when you have something critical like that.

"two, how is tax going work?"

The same way it works with anything else. The government will come in, assert that you own X in taxes on your Bitcoin income, and you will pay it or go to jail. You will probably need to pay with something other than Bitcoin, of course, which adds in transaction fees (but you just pass that cost on to your customers, right?).

"Third, bitcoin price goes up and down so rapidly"

By extension, your prices change daily. You'll probably charge a fixed fee in your local currency (Yuan?) and adjust your Bitcoin prices according to the market value.
Most of the country gets snow in the winter without going into the mountains. I fish-tailed my RWD car into a bridge railing last winter just tooling around suburban New York in light snow...
Nice piece of work. Can we know how you made 'em? Which tools did you use, steps that you followed? Can people fork it and add those missing glyphs to make it complete?
I think it's important to note that Ender's Game was only written to provide the necessary backstory to Speaker for the Dead. With that in mind, when you take both books as one, it becomes more a story about dealing with abuse than the abuse itself.
Relaxation Drinks: The Opposite of Energy Drinks
Java and .NET are also backed by ginormous corporations (Oracle and Microsoft), which big business also generally views as a major risk-mitigating factor.

(It isn't really -- in fact it's the opposite, "corporate" platforms tend to die out faster than open-source ones, at least in my experience -- but they think it is, which in this discussion is all that matters.)
[rant] If you're going to claim that your strong opinions are facts, please treat them as such and give citations or back them up yourself. [/rant]

Ruby is not my favorite language anymore, but I still use it and see evidence that there is a huge place it fills in the dev community and ecosystem. I have never used a more expressive language. I'm stating this as a fact from what I have experienced, and I'm giving points that back it up. There are dozens of actively maintained Ruby projects, some of which are the most popular repos on GitHub. I don't see any evidence that the Ruby ecosystem is on a downward trend of activity and is "dying", so I have no reason to think otherwise.

This kind of stuff reminds me why I take breaks from HackerNews every once in a while -_- Yuck.
GoldieBlox Breaks into Toys R Us
My voting behavior on HN is very different from other websites. Since the saved stories and upvotes are the same, and upvotes cannot be taken back, I use the upvote as a "save story" button. There are many submissions which are not of a good quality, but the ensuing discussion on the wider topic prompts me to save the submissions as there is no option to save comments. I maintain a separate database of my saved stories, which I keep preiodically updating and pruning, primarily for NLP and ML experiments. So that is my personally "curated" list of HN bookmarks. Though I must say my visits here have become less frequent.
Thanks for sharing this! However, i think there is a bit of a contradiction in following 2 points:

- The more stability the rest of your life has, the easier it’ll be to deal with the massive instability of a startup

- People without life responsibility (kids, wife, etc) are at a serious advantage in the beginning stages

So what would your conclusion be here? Are people with stable love-life in advantage, or are single people the ones that have better chances?
Why is node.js a mess?
Lets face it - Ruby is a great language

I'm not sure that is a premise that can be tossed out as axiomatic before making an argument.
You know how you can tell if someone went to Stanford? You don't have to, they'll tell you...
Why don't we just admit that this whole post is just a response to offense at a single post

But it isn't, though - the post you replied to was specifically discussing that. The OP said:

a place focused on particular subjects [...] collects people with similar life experiences, interests, worldviews, etc.

which makes it sound very much like people from different backgrounds are going to face social rejection. If we're fine with that then so be it, but some of us would like to imagine we are more inclusive, and that as a community we could do more. The fact that tech keeps trying to portray itself as a pure meritocracy doesn't help.
So we've built Feedly for our startup Fashiolista.com
It's quite a large project for a team of 4 though. Therefor we are actively looking for more contributors. Let us know if you're interested in helping out.
I've got several 'magazines' in my newsstand app, Science News, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Scientific American, Economist, "Distro"[1], and Smithsonian. For the last few days the WSJ has vanished and the tech support guys aren't sure what is up with that.

So I use the Newstand every day. And in so doing it suffers from none of the issues that the OP discusses.

That said, I've got all of my non-serious apps (games and puzzles), all shoved to a single 'page' at end of my scrolling set of apps. My travel apps collected on page 2, the 'built in' apps on page 1. But the manual arrangement is not has handy as newstand. Unfortunately there isn't a user controlled nesting strategy.

Perhaps the home screen should be tags (user created) rather than App icons. Selecting a tag moving into a group of icons that have that tag. It would probably work well for me if it existed.
How about a text field that allows you to write something about them.
"Dude with weird hair, works for Widgets Inc. Said he was divorced but had a daughter in college."
Then make that info available when he calls me.
"It's anti-educational."

What a rubbish, blanket statement. Something you hadn't thought about until 5 minutes ago should now be created for free.

Get off your high horse, if you want this to be free, by all means go and make it. Some great math books are free too, and some great ones you have to buy. To claim either is anti-educational is nonsense.
+1 this: sensational headline = controversy = hackernews frontpage
Asked my gf to post two stories that she sent to me, because I found them interesting. When she did, I naturally upvoted them... from the same IP. Now I seem to have lost my voting privileges.
If you love a tool, it won't die. Period.

And lots of people (myself included) still love Ruby.

And I finally released a potentially useful gem for medium to large Ruby/Rails codebases. Are unmitigated monkeypatches complexifying your codebase to the point of pain? I wrote a gem to help manage that...

https://github.com/pmarreck/pachinko
I believe that (enforcing fuel efficiency equals more deaths) to be a myth. There's little correlation between fuel efficiency and safety.

SUVs ARE safer in front crashes.. but they're otherwise no safer than a car of equal price, which are usually way more fuel efficient (US cars in general are not fuel efficient at all).

It is also true that the least safe cars are all small cars, but that's more correlated with price than with size - an Audi A4 is considered a midsize car by US standards, yet it's one of the safest cars around.

Sources:

http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4204.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_sport_utility_vehi...

www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/suvs-are-safer-than-cars-in-front-crashes-but-there-is-more-to-the-story/index.htm

Also, I work for an insurance company and hear lots of myths.
Frequently YC’s advice is applicable at the aggregate but not individual level. Like in the grand scheme the biggest number of successful startups would be produced if all of them followed this advice, but you personally would not have your YC Expected Value maximized by following it.

This is the most interesting and counter-intuitive point, I think.
There's also the "large institution", scratch that, clueless organization---since most of us have seen it in small companies as well---mandate to deliver requirements late and make last minute changes. We've heard the latter was still going on for major stuff in September, and that serious code cutting didn't start until February (the source said all, a HN commentator said it wasn't quite that bad).
Peanut gallery comment here, on what is a really handsome font. On the S, the angularity at the two ends of the middle stroke seems at odds with the larger radii almost everywhere else. The slant of the stroke stands out in a pleasing way, but the corners are jarring. I wonder if rounder corners would preserve the first effect while mitigating the second. I suppose 2 and 5 would have to be reworked a bit if you go down this road.
Where does your product fall in The Startup Happiness Matrix?
Nor was this presented about the entirety of Russia. The NYT has featured the infrastructure and inequality problems in America dozens of times. If you actually read the paper it's a theme that appears almost daily (healthcare is a big part of this). Here's a very recent example that I remember reading titled "Inequality in America: The Data Is Sobering":

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/business/economy/in-us-an-...
There are 20-30 ruby conferences every year in the US alone. I've been to about 7. They all had > 200 attendees. Even the less-known ones tend to sell out well in advance.

Freelance rates for ruby developers are crazy-high. In Seattle, at least, I'm seeing $200/hr as not uncommon.

And on a side note, PHP has been around for about 80 years now and it's still moving along.

So I don't think ruby/rails are going to "die" any time soon.
- I flag stories only if it seems like the story is abusive, not just off-topic (e.g., overly self-promotional, complete noise, etc). This happens very rarely.

- I don't usually upvote stories. I only do so if I have a very immediate "holy shit this is amazing!" reaction to it.

- I upvote comments frequently, particularly if it's a good, well-argued point done in good style (i.e., more factual than rhetoric). I downvote a lot more than I used to, but usually reserve it for posts I consider abusive. This means ad hominems and egregious displays of fundamentalism/extremism (e.g., "all laws are paid for by big corporate interests", which comes up every. single. time. AirBnb or Uber is mentioned).

That last part is subject to some personal bias naturally, but I do think it's important to reward posts that provide a holistic, nuanced view of issues rather than the fiery rhetoric of people banging on black and white drums. I've noticed a lot more of this sort of drumbeating on HN nowadays.

There are some topics that show up on HN frequently, but the discussion is incredibly poor every single time. I've given up on upvoting/downvoting any such discussions and simply don't read them anymore. This includes everything on sexism in tech.
The story that Big Business is not using Ruby is just that - a story. On the first RailsConf i've been to (RailsConf Europe 2007), most attendees were actually working for Big Biz.

I have spent most of my ruby career in large companies, even for Padrino work. No one builds a multi-million dollar project in Ruby. But one or the other frontend for that. Some of the services. The deployment tooling, be it Chef or Puppet. Ruby is a surprisingly flexible language and can be successfully used on or off the JVM, which large companies just _like_.

This blog post reeks of negativity and speaks of a willingness to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I don't want to sound like I'm being negative because this is really cool. When you promise that it will always be free, my immediate thought is that it's unsustainable. You're putting yourself into the position of one day breaking your promise or shutting down the service if you don't find some other business model to build on. Why not leave the door open for charging later on?

oEmbed is a standard, therefore you're not locking anyone into your platform by making it free now and charging later. If they don't like the price, they can just switch back to Emed.ly or some other provider.
for interest sake, its called the Flynn effect [1]. Lots of reasons have been given for it, of which better schooling is just one.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
If your computer is a means to an end, I suggest installing Kubuntu and never looking back to MacOS. I install it daily on end-user and developer workstations as a MacOS replacement.

If you're curious about how Linux works, I'd start with Gentoo or Arch.
For the context of this article I think there's a distinction to be made when it comes to choice and flexibility. Sure, when you go to buy an Android you're forced to choose. But when it comes to using an Android device a lot of decisions are made by default you just have the option/flexibility to change the behavior (ie there's a default keyboard but you can swap it out if you'd like). Ultimately I think the flexibility is a good thing, day to day with my Android tablet I don't feel bombarded with choices yet if there's something I don't like about it I'm more likely to be able to fix it then with iOS.
You don't need data to back up bold claims when your ego is the size of a watermelon.
> There are some very good, very innovative novels out there

Source? (Links please?)
"...affecting change in the current system is almost impossible."

As the kids say, nowadays: This. Any major change in education will take a cultural shift. And cultural shifts are generally very, very slow to form.
This post really needed to follow up on the whole "Ruby is dying" part with some sort of "and here's how Rubinius X can help" part.

The way it's written has caused everyone here to debate whether or not Ruby is dying and completely ignore the announcement. I'm sure the title of the HN link isn't helping either.
The type of performance, guarantees of commercial support, and quality of product that only serious multi-billion enterprises like CGI federal can provide!

There are no silver bullets in software development; all projects can fail. The only difference is that with ruby or other dynamic languages, it'll fail faster and cheaper.
YES!

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.

It's a pain to rely on a bunch of different services to see if the DNS record has updated, so happy that this now exists.
i sincerely think that what ruby just needs is just a really good wordpress alternative.
Actually it matters a lot. Since when the programmers manage servers? More servers = more people managing them. And if for a compiled language you need 2 data centers for Ruby you need 20... And level 4 data centers are expensive.

Ruby is great at what it does. I don't see Node.js replacing it anytime soon. But Ruby won't be in enterprise anytime soon also.
Interesting, as that's very much how my mental model of how Rails works:

1. The routing layer is all about declaring a resource which gives you all 7 major REST operations, and

2. there's a nice facility for responding_to any data format (html, json, js, text, etc) you want.

With rails scaffolding, you can pretty much get all boilerplate code written for you, and have it very simply implement a REST backend for a more "heavyweight" javascript framework (angular, ember, etc).

I wonder if the issue is that rails didn't originally start out this way, and now people assume that Rails is stuck in the past?

I think the article gets it right in that Ruby needs better concurrency primitives (promises are a nice idea), and esp better performance. If Javascript can be as fast as it is with V8, there should be nothing stopping Ruby from achieving similar levels of performance.
> For instance, you meet John. John's eyes seem like

By the start of the second sentence I've already forgotten the name.
16 Ways To Build A Business Not A Startup
If you are that smart you don't need college. Just go at it on your own.
Those stories are barely more than gossip and belong on mainstream news sites. It doesn't look like they were generating much of interest in the comments either, just the usual go-my-team rhetoric and unfocused outrage in a random direction.