skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe their sub 50K "every-man" car is the next one after this SUV. Success might bring the price down, but they need the money from this to finance a more mass-market version.
Yes we are considering adding HBase. In general adding new backends is quite easy.

It however takes a while to figure out the backend dependent performance tweaks. So a company running HBase and Feedly in production would be of great help.
When I first read the book, I did think it was very compelling. But, as the book seems to have become core curriculum for every course on science fiction, I've come to think of it as really overrated. There are some very good, very innovative novels out there, and yet people keep teaching this one over and over.

I've also been around a lot of science fiction writers (I went to Clarion) and learned that Orson Scott Card is kind of an ass. I know that shouldn't change my judgement of the novel itself, but I still feel much less enthusiasm for it. (the sequels also soured me on the original a bit.)
That makes sense, then. I was simply going off the list in your original comment, where none of what you listed required Newsstand.
Can't see how that fact can be but not to be OK.
Orwell participated in the Spanish Civil War, which had two "left" sides (anarchist-syndicalist versus communist) versus the "right" (monarchist-fascist).

Within the Communist side, there were further factions (NKVD:Stalinist, POUM:other Marxist). Orwell joined POUM. As a result, he was condemned by Stalinists and had to flee back to England. He spent much of his career warning against Stalinism, from a position on what might be called the social democrat left.
"The few exceptions prove the rule".

I don't think this means what he thinks it means.
MIT's "Kinect of the Future" Can Track You Through Walls
The post date. Someone got nervous from not seeing a Model X front-page post in a month so they took it upon themselves to remind us it exists.

You're welcome.
A wise man once said,

"Seeking clarity is more valuable than agreement."

That changed the way I think about writing, and sharing my opinions or discussing other people's ideas. If you go into a disagreement looking to better understand what led the other party to their beliefs, you typically have a more mature and interesting discussion. Plus, why someone believes something I completely disagree with is more interesting than the what, anyway.
It is likely in the end that you both may agree to disagree, (a lost art in this age), but at least you can converse respectfully about complex ideas like adults.
This is fine but kind of getting away from my main point, which is that the NYT is denigrating Russia, not because of it's economic and social problems which are real, but because it is an independent country that is rich in natural resources, therefore a target for the West. But it is too powerful to be threatened militarily, hence articles like this about its problems instead.
My heuristics go as follows:

- I flag stories only if they're poorly-written and completely unrelated to tech, or if they are opinion pieces that fail to back up their assertions (two or three short paragraphs)--in those cases I'll try to comment on why I flagged it.

- I upvote stories if they're technically interesting or socially relevant; I try to make a pass through the new section at least once every day.

- I upvote comments that are thoughtful or witty but on-topic, and downvote comments that are poorly written, severely off-topic, or mean in a non-clever way (dumb trolls).

The practice of downvoting because you don't agree with something is tricky--it makes sense (I can more easily pick out comments that probably run counter to the community and thus have better entropy) but also is kind of detrimental, because it conflates "This is a bad, poorly-worded off-topic comment" with "This is a comment I find disagreeable".
> For those who lived through the PC era...

Oh wait! what?!

So the PC era is gone and no one told me about it?

Typing this on a laptop and I just helped my dad to get a new desktop last week.
Just a few of my cats are male. This proves that all my cats are female. Right?
The best way to remember people's names doesn't require an app or any technology to speak of. When you meet someone, key in on their most unique, memorable physical feature or personality quirk. Come up with a quick story or catch phrase that revolves around that feature. The weirder the feature and the story, the more likely you are to remember their name.

For instance, you meet John. John's eyes seem like their closer together than most people's eyes are. So you could say to yourself "John, John, stared at his nose for too long". Every time you see John and his funny close-together eyes, you'll remember the story you made up and thus remember his name.

Once you get good at this you'll never forget another person's name. It works like a charm. I find it helps to make the stories especially strange or even offensive. The more of a caricature you can create in your mind about them the better. Just don't accidentally say what you're thinking out loud :)
> Also, a large part of why you have cheap healthcare and access to lots of drugs because we paid the cost to research and make them.

Not entirely sure about that. It seems like many (most?) of the 'important' drugs worldwide were either developed by educational institutions or laboratories (some belonging to corporations) from a wide variety of countries, not just the US.
You can debate about emotional topics, but you need a really active group of moderators. HN's moderators, for good or for ill, seem completely invisible, except when someone is quietly struck by lightning and is hellbanned.
>SUVs in Spain are used by mothers when they go to school to pick up their kids.

You're already lucky. My experience is that many SUV owner just use them to go alone to work in city's center.

I'm not against SUVs (or big cars, in general), they're just overkill for many people that still buy them for the "cool" factor.
FreeBSD's current implementation behind /dev/random is more sophisticated that Darwin's - just look at the manpages. I don't see how you can tell if Darwin doesn't have enough entropy, which you can with both Linux and FreeBSD.
"inspire lots of discussion"

inspire lots of repeated, rehashed discussion.

Hey you probably don't know this, but some guys working in sausagefest industry segments, like IT, exhibit uncivilized behavior around women, and I theorize acting like apes doesn't exactly encourage ladies to help us fix the sausagefest problem, bet you never heard about that story before! However, story 234243 on that topic adds nothing so it gets flagged. Aside from adding nothing new, its often of the anecdote - generalization anti-pattern which also adds little to the conversation. "Once, postgresql didn't work, therefore it always universally sucks for everyone and all applications". Eh, flush it.
Now Chinese cyber-criminals can setup load balancing with full anonymity?
Similarly, C and Java are dying since nobody touts their use of them in PR materials. Also Postgres and HTTP. /snark

Technology hipsterism != technology vitality.
Why you should choose UCSF over Stanford
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick
...until people realize the mess that is node.js. I would rather say Rails is dying because it no longer fits the new web programming paradigms.
Which subreddits in particular?
Just want to back up your statement. Evernote Hello is one of those "Wow, that's awesome to look at" but was painful to use. To much work and effort for what needs to be a fast and simple thing.
A) I was not aware the author was generalizing, and b) are you saying that the article only applies to gypsy settlements? What about the other topics?
I heard about a guy getting hellbanned for flagging all but one of the "Steve Jobs is dead" stories on the day Steve Jobs died. Each time my finger hovers over the "flag" button I wonder ". . . is this really worth the hassle?" Then I close the tab and go off somewhere else.

(I've flagged probably 10 things total.)

EDIT: jlgreco corrects me. The guy I was thinking of was flag-banned, not hell-banned.
The main point of the article is what appears to be an intentional gross misinterpretation of a single quote.

"the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies."

Yes. So? There's basically three ways they could have approached this:

1.) They could show the "lowest possible price" anyone could get, and then have individuals suffer sticker shock when they log in and it turns out they make more than $5k a year and don't have 8 kids (or whatever else entitles you to the best discounts).

2.) They could show the highest possible price, and have individuals not even bother to sign up, because they assume they can't afford the insurance, even though they may get huge discounts due to their particular circumstances.

3.) They could force you to log in first, so they make sure they only show you prices that apply to you, avoiding either of the sticker shocks above.

#1 is underhanded and misleading (and is what typical corporations do with "up to 80% off or up to $3000 cash back!! (some restrictions apply)"

#2 would scare away the people who are among the people who need insurance the most and would get the most help from the law.

So... they went with #3. It's a usability faux pas, but at least they're being honest without scaring people away.
The government created the SUV market by enforcing dangerous CAFE standards on regular autos. (SUVs were considered trucks and exempt). CAFE kills many people every year because it has reduced car weight in the name of fuel economy. Since you can't buy a safe big sedan for your family, you buy an SUV instead.
Hey thanks! I'm sure a lot of people will have the same initial reaction - it's a very simple app that does, what I thin are, some very powerful things.
Hope it helps you out!
This is why Hacker News should stick to Hacker News.

It's ridiculous to think Ender's Game has anything to do with "Nazi superiority", whatever that is.

I read the book as a kid and liked it immensely. As an adult I discovered that Orson Scott Card is a Mormon and that a lot of people just have blind ignorant hatred of Mormons. This was a sad discovery, but it did have the benefit of allowing me to dismiss their diatribes.
Um, wut?

This post is so confusing. I see some half thought out ideas, but no solutions.

Ruby may not be Java or JavaScript, but why would you want it to be? You have Java and JavaScript for times when you want to use Java or JavaScript.

Use the right tool for the job.
A different side of the same problem!
>>But Rails is

I was about to mention this. I know of at least two (very) hot S13 YC companies that either built their web app in Rails or explicitly deal with Rails (not sure if One Month Rails is built in Rails or not, but it is pretty explicitly pro-Rails). Does Rails prevalence preclude Ruby from being a dying language? Depends on what you mean by dying. The dominance of Rails is probably something of a blessing and a curse for the broader Ruby world. I'm too new to it to have a strong position, but I will say that as a novice developer, I went with Ruby and Rails because there is a fantastic suite of tools for learning from scratch.
Not sure what niche the all wheel drive fills. Most people I know with that kind of vehicle justify it as something they take up to the mountains every winter. While I'm sure it would handle great on icy roads, I could see the range being a problem, especially as this probably is less energy efficient with the higher profile. The other thing vans and the like are good for is packing heavy on road trips; same problem.
I knew that the British communists (funded by Moscow) refused to give him a journalist visa for Spain, because he wouldn't promise to write whatever they told him to. His writing on Barcelona 1936 is very good, and I visited "Orwell Street"[1] there recently.

[1] It's obviously not called that, and it may be a square not a street, but I remember the street sign. :)
No, Ruby died last month, but now it's cool again in a retro sort of way. Node.js is what's dying this week. Next month, Tcl is going to make a comeback.
That quote, and entire post, is really just a clumsy (read: "classy") way of plugging his newest venture. There's no real assertion to disagree with, just a filler sentence written for PR.

cute title + 500 words = free marketing press release disguised as a blog post
A Real Estate Hackathon at the Moscone Center
"There are no social problems in the technology industry. We have always been at war with Eastasia."

Boy oh boy, I sure love me some Orwell references.

Referencing 1984 should be on par with referencing Hitler. It's just a lazy debate tactic. If you have a good point you can make it without resorting to these much-too-often used references.

Orwell himself went against it his essay "Politics and the English Language". Read it. It'll do you good.
I don't want a balanced story, and such 'balance' tends to be struck between reality and what appears to be lunacy.

Apologies, I shouldn't have used the word 'balanced' as apparently it has been debased so much by its use in a Fox News slogan that the original meaning has been lost.

I didn't mean a sort of false balance which parrots two opposing sides of a political debate, no matter how insane both sides are, I meant the sort of balanced reporting which tries to verify facts, reports not just what was said but what was done, reports and verifies the claims of all parties involved in a dispute, and most importantly tries to see past and acknowledge the very real bias and blind spots of journalists themselves.
Rails is dying.

Ruby isn't. It just isn't as popular amongst hipster web programmers anymore...

There's some very interesting things going on in the non-Rails and non-web framework Ruby world...
Hacker News was a social echo chamber long before there was flagging or flamewar detection. I think it's just an inherent law in any small, passionate community.
I think the book makes the case that none of them are really children, but really adults in children's bodies (with the exception of the first boy Ender accidentally killed).

The book grapples with these issues, and Graff is brought to trial for this.
OpenPi SipPhone project
/diy/ has some really great maker resources, /g/ has good consumer information (mixed in with a lot of flamebait; daily programming threads are useless), the cooking board and the comics board have some good stuff.

Basically, the reason it can do these things is that nobody takes themselves too seriously--the whole affair is rather tongue in cheek.
The post doesn't point to any data proving the point. I'm curios from where he had concluded that ruby is dying...
Businesses (meaning Big Business, I suppose) don't reject Ruby because it's "a dying language". They reject it because they're inherently conservative. Java and .Net rule the roost because they're seen as safe, respectable choices.

The appearance of risk is more important to most businesses than actual risk. Ruby isn't dominant, therefore it is perceived as risky. Java's complexity might actually threaten the survival of a small project, but it's not "risky" because it's dominant.
No, but they are held up as potential views of the future.... Much like the article.
They're traditionally called "gull-wing doors" [1], but I guess falcons are sleeker than gulls.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull-wing_door
What if we treated marketing like we did code?
I would put "Does P = NP?" up there.
Breaking through Cancer's shield
Not a Tesla-specific dig, just a general car-naming whinge here. What % of cars with 'sports' in their title actually get used for sports?
This might be pedantic but I wouldn't consider jQuery a framework at all.

For the OP: Most of the frameworks out there have different advantages/disadvantages. Some are relatively easy to just dip part of a project into, while some will completely take over how you structure your project. I would continue learning JS until you really know you could benefit from a framework and why. Don't fall into the trap of looking for the 'best' framework, because there is not one.
Your latter point is incorrect because we're hearing this from people who have insurance and are finding their policies canceled or drastically more expensive. I don't know if it was part of the plan, but rather obviously that should happen before or soon after the website opens, so they'll know they have to go to it, or should go to see if they can get a better deal.

You're claiming it's "a very small handful" simply tells me your normal sources of information aren't seriously covering this problem.
Good idea. Do make an Android version! Also consider letting the user add photos and custom fields to contacts (those could range from "research interests" to "hair color" to "college class" to "favorite drink" and so on), not just an unstructured, unsearchable mess called "notes". If you do decide to support custom fields do not force every contact to have every kind of field.

--

However, (and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this) what I'm really waiting for is the obvious "ultimate" solution to this problem: an augmented reality device and app combo that would show people's names hovering above their heads. Making the names "glanceable" would make a huge difference and there would be potential for a lot for extensions. Add research/technological interests in highly visible large letters and conferences suddenly get a lot more interesting; add "going to <city name>" and it's a hitchhiking app; add "single" and it's a dating app (use at your own peril); add selectable multilingual subtitles (e.g., at an official speech) and it's a live translation app, etc.

I wonder if this could somehow be made viable without advanced augmented reality glasses.
Rails is a curse. Because of it, Ruby (which is a fantastic language) has been reduced to a web language, when it's really much more than that.
I get why systems like that exists, I just dont understand how I got caught in that flag. If we are sitting in a coworking space and all come from the IP, does that flag us as a ring?
What's "uncharacteristic" about the name? It's the actual doors that are silly and gimmicky, so the naming is apt.
I think you should change it. You won't win fans by confusing people.
The model X is more appropriately called a cross-over, and those are very useful cars. They're much smaller and easier to park in the city than a mini-van, but have more room than a sedan. The higher seating position is also great for visibility and shleping stuff in and out of the car without bending down.

I'm curious. Do you have kids? A few years ago I might have said the same thing as you, but with a car seat and pee-diapers in the back seat,[1] I'm really feeling the need for more room than I have in my 3-series.

[1] That in addition to being stuck in suburban Philadelphia hell.
You should visit new and upvote the interesting links, and consider flagging the links that should not be here.

Yeah, I know... I spend so much time on this site (it's my primary news feed) I really need to make more of an effort to do that.
> I'm not against SUVs (or big cars, in general), they're just overkill for many people that still buy them for the "cool" factor.

That's exactly my point.

You can add to my point that in Spain also, it has to be diesel (even if you are going to do only around 1000 miles a year).
So very much this.

I never really learnt Rails, to be honest. I dabbled, but never got fully into it. The thing is, the way I'm writing web apps now (nice API's over straight classes, composable libraries, and a routing layer over the top to give it a REST interface) doesn't fit my mental model of how Rails works.

Similarly, I've somewhat abandoned "MVC" for web-apps. Nice API's with the ability to have any front-end, not kicking out HTML from my framework, and the like -- that's what I'm doing now.

Don't get me wrong -- I know that Rails (especially 4) can do all this as well. Heck, there's not much stopping me from doing what I'm doing here with straight Ruby, a couple of libraries and Sinatra (I have a good friend who does exactly that). But for some reason, I've instead written off ruby entirely for that use-case.

I'm merely the n=1 here though, and as a non-ruby programmer, my opinion doesn't mean much I guess. But I find it curious how I ended up skipping it.
Lets face it - Ruby is a great language and wrapped with Rails it allows to craft napkin idea to working, real-world prototype in record short amount of time.

These capabilities prove to be golden for Silicon Valley startups where speed of execution means difference between life and death (VC or nothing).

Once done - startups are praying for a quick exit until the issues of gems mess, scaling, performance and deployment nightmares start raising their ugly heads and requires ample continuous investments in administration and management talents to keep things afloat.

Serious multi-billion enterprises need performance, guarantees of commercial support from big vendor, speed of compiled languages and cannot afford to use interpreted languages and have their feet stuck in all that swamp.

Hence they use Java and dot NET. That's a fact of life.
Well there's a broad range of applications that simply can't be built with Rails. And that's shame. It's a corollary to the other commenter saying that Rails no longer fits the new web programming paradigms.
Bitcoin has much deeper issues as a cryptosystem than that. There is no actual security definition, just vague concepts about what should not be possible. Even under the vague notion of Bitcoin's security, there is a known, efficient, and technically feasible attack -- at best all anyone can say is that it is an expensive attack, in the low billions of dollars to pull off. Preventing that attack would require half the computing resources in the world to be devoted to Bitcoin at all times.
The most charitable interpretation of the claim I could think of was that the author meant the few exceptions illustrate why the other companies are moving away from ruby.
How about less blogging and more work on your company?
At First,You Won’t Have Enough Customers.But Your Mini-Brand Will Rescue You.
Do You Live in a Bubble? A Quiz
What is the evidence that Rails is dying? The programming bootcamp movement is primarily Rails-based, One Month Rails just came out of YC, and I know of at least one other S13 YC company who built their web app in Rails. What seems to have changed is that not every startup is being built with Rails anymore, which I'd say is a positive thing that does not mean Rails is dying.
Thanks! Getting up early makes you do silly things...
But my start up isn't cool if we aren't using the newest and greatest buzzword technologies.
Make bad data visualizations
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Diverse is the general idea, we want to have talks on the wide area of things for which python is used and good general development talks as well. We are also striving to be an affordable alternative for those that can't make it to Montreal for PyCon this year for whatever reason. We'll never be on that level, but we're aspiring to be a nice regional supplement like PyOhio, PyTexas, PyCarolinas, or PyArkansas.