skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Depends. E.g. see some Judaic takes on it:
http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/7872/which-parts-...
I'm sure there are different takes on this among Christians and Muslims too.

2. Not really.

3. Not at all.

The idea that you can make God do things by thinking about some stuff sounds strange to me.
However, nothing I know about Avraamic religions suggests you can do that. Of course, the scripture contains examples of people - called prophets or Holy Ones, etc. - communicating directly with God and even causing change is God's behavior (the latter is exceedingly rare, but you could find some examples) - but a normal regular person is not expected to do that.
If I were getting started on FB and social media now, I would also default to 'public' and treat posts accordingly. However, I first got involved when it was private and I treated it very differently (this was before I became aware of what I was really giving access to).

I'd also question your comment about having nothing in particular to hide. Everyone has things they don't want to make public but perhaps you won't appreciate what they are until someone exposes them for you? You're using a pseudonym here but would you post the following information:

Who you are, where you live, how much you earn, whether you ever had any STIs, the last time you told a little white lie (to whom and and about what), whether you have kids (what school?).

If your reaction to the above is that it's none of my business, you'd be absolutely right but if you really have "nothing to hide" then why not post answers here for the world? Perhaps some of it is 'public' anyway and I could dig up and post it for you but if I did, how would you feel? My point here is that you do have many things you don't want broadcast to the world and I'm trying to provoke you into thinking about them. Privacy is a complex thing and you might find the following article interesting.

https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/12...
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It's also possible to add other vendor prefixes "for free", but that didn't stop WebKit-only prefixes from appearing all over the mobile Web. Developers do what is easiest.
indeed, here is a non-that-fancy loading indicator in SVG:

http://rendro.github.io/SVG-Spinner/
Eck - muh script. Two syllables, same as java
Couldn't agree more. I've seen a few "job applications" that are more like marriage proposals, and its sickening.

Hey actually that gives me a great idea: maybe I should spend 100 hours preparing a marriage proposal for that college girlfriend who dumped me.
Unless I'm not understanding my way around the project, this seems to be a very small library of regular expressions. As one would expect, Perl's offerings blow anything else out of the water: http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2013031301/lib....
I just posted because the domain is cool. Also, it is SFW
Exactly my thoughts when I read that. The police, prosecutors, government officials at all levels get away with "bending" the rules all the time. In fact, they can out right break the rules and rarely get punished, and often are praised.

Example- in Missouri, the state constitution requires that ALL proceeds that come to government officials from asset forfeiture go to a fund for the public schools. Yet, routinely I see news articles praising county Sheriffs for using the proceeds from asset forfeitures to buy bullet-proof vests and other stuff.
Js gained wide adoption thanks to favorable comparison on specific traits when compared to other languages.

- ubiquity
- lower barrier to entry as far is toolchain setup is concerned. Nothing to install to build a Hello world.
- no weird concepts to grasp at first: many commonalities with other languages, meaning you don't start the learning curve with a big step.

I could go on but the gist is that JS is kind of like the pop music of programming languages: easy to like, with room to grow (as opposed to Justin Bieber or Miles Davis who miss one of these traits.)

To the question of what will be the next "buzz" (Js is a buzz, but those have different timelines and emotional loads than "leave Britney alone") the answer is:

Something even easier to grasp and access with a barrier to entry, smoother learning curve and wider applications.

It might even be an abstraction like those of Brett Victor.

I'd say that's not so much the language but what it allows beginners to achieve that is wave-defining.

Development has become mainstream and JS is the Pop Music of our days.
I have heard that string operations (and I thus suspect JSON parsing too) is slower on Erlang. Maybe it is not included as it was not built for raw speed but rather stability, hotswapping code etc?
I was amused by the part where the cop saw him spraying the second stencil onto City Hall, ignored it and drove off. And the part where he tried to turn himself in five times and wasn't allowed to.
Tech media needs a "terms of service" beat
The author does explicitly note that in the readme:

> Please note that this module is currently English/US specific.
I see far more failure by way of deeming oneself unqualified and not applying than I do by way of train wreck interviews.

For me, job applications are like college applications - the best attitude is not to get my heart committed to anything outside my control, and not to take anything as a statement about who I am, and always will be, but rather on what, at a particular point in time, I can offer a particular person. I've had my ass handed to me in an interview before - It was a great experience - I learned what I needed to get better at to get the type of position I wanted, and through applications, failures, and learning, I eventually found a great position.
Regarding nesting, I've always followed the use-nesting-instead-of-prefixes model, so I might use ".big-button .title" and ".main-article .title" classes in a project, but because each title is nested in a different component or whatever, it's easier to read, less redundant, and more "semantic". A project might easily have 50 different ".title" classes, but you know you don't have to worry about collisions. But that's really just a matter of formatting taste, ultimately.

But you say:

> If you're constantly needing to use a mixin to re-define those styles, something else is wrong

> realistically how many different color variations of those buttons do you need to make?

> if you didn't use a mixin... (slightly more verbose maybe, but way more maintainable)

That's an awful lot of presumption, and it's just totally wrong, at least in my case. To use my gradient example: I probably apply this model to 50 or 100 types of elements across a site that's not even that big -- to buttons, to backgrounds, to panels, etc. because the designer likes subtle background variations -- flat design, but not too flat. So nothing is wrong, there are tons of variations, and using mixins is the just following the "dont-repeat-yourself" model.

Obviously, you could call this a model of "tight coupling", but that's a good thing, not bad -- you define a single model of mixins for your site, just like you have a single global CSS reset. It just makes up for certain common deficiencies in CSS, and helps in the creation of a common visual identity of your site where CSS classes themselves just aren't flexible enough. (There's another whole reason to use mixins used exclusively within specific components, but you seem to agree on that above.)

The "slightly more verbose" alternative you propose would actually be incredibly verbose (maybe 7 CSS properties per element instead of 1, if used on 100 types of elements, meaning 700 lines of code instead of 100), because nothing's being reused. If a new browser comes out which requires a slightly different tweak, you would need to manually fix it in 100 places instead of 1, which is horrible. Mixins simply allow you not to repeat yourself, which should be the goal with all good programming. CSS without mixins is kind of like programming in Python without being able to define functions.

(And asking people to version their mixins makes as much sense as versioning functions in a C++ project because changing a function changes its behavior. I.e., not much with rare exceptions. If you change a mixin you've been using for a while, then it goes without saying you inspect where it's used in the site to make sure it doesn't break things.)
>>Isn't it more likely to be in graffiti than via Morse coded gnome hops?

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/12/11
> So, it might be far from perfect, but than again, Javascript is far from perfect too, C++ is also flawed and Java has tons of bad decisions in its design (and culture). Still, those are some of the more widely used languages.

Still, I wouldn't take a job in any of them. Javascript is crap, only used because it runs in the browser. C++ is pretty crap, only used because it has manual memory management. Java has its problems, but it has a decent design at least for the time; there is a terrible culture that I think adopted Java because it was popular rather than the other way around.

But yeah, in 2013 there are really much better languages than PHP available; if you want a similar-feeling replacement Python or Ruby are much saner, if you're willing to step further afield there are wonderful modern languages that push the boat a bit further (I'm in love with Scala at the moment).
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I was going to mention roots. I have always used roots as my WP starter theme if I needed Bootstrap as a base.
He was convicted of a crime. The punishment can include random searches, drug tests, ankle monitors, etc., as long as it is provided for by law.

When I read the parent comment, I didn't see someone surprised that it CAN be done, but someone surprised at where the line of when it is an appropriate remedy had been drawn.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're white. (Or at least, you're not black or Hispanic.) How'd I do?

[I strongly question whether "based on looks" is a simpler hypothesis than "based on race", by the way. Given the long, well-documented history of racial discrimination in the US, I might actually lean in the opposite direction.]
> Same property damage, same punishment, IMO. "Justice is blind" and all that jazz...

Justice is a solution to a problem, not an end in itself. "Kids are marking up property as a prank" and "kids are marking up property to demarcate gang territory and intimidate people" are two different problems that are only superficially related, and warrant two different solutions.

> What is life "about" then? Do you have any principles, or is it just "let me get mine and f%#@ everybody else"?

Safer cities don't just benefit me, but the vast majority of people who live in them. I think the right of that majority to live free from insecurity and the collateral damage of gang violence is a bigger concern than the rights of individuals.

> Easy to say when it's not your head being cracked.

Sure, but that's easy to flip around too. It's easy to wax philosophical about policing methods when you're not the one getting mugged, you're not the one afraid to walk home at night, etc. It's easy to talk academically about the civil rights of flash mobbers when they beat and rob people on a different street than the one your girlfriend uses to walk home late at night.

Most people I've met who actually live in New York, Chicago, in the city proper, have a more pragmatic view of policing methods than people who would have to get in their car and drive to see a poor person.
Yes but most of the time you can still get cheaper flights to Hamburg or Aalborg. And here we are talking old slow-speed trains.
> If you haven't tried GoLang yet, you should try writing your own framework.

Why ? Wouldn't time be better spent learning a language on the JVM that has a whole array of stable, well-tested, production ready frameworks i.e. all of them.

Switching from the JVM to Go is like taking 1 step forward and 100 steps back.
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Damm maybe i should look for a job in Germany.
Its kind of big, like "teach me about computers". You can learn a lot from practical applications. I find these blueprints and finished clocks extremely aesthetically pleasing and instructive:

http://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm

I have no connection other than owning some of the plans and very slowly in the process of building one of the simplest clocks, one with a classic Verge escapement. I wanted specifically to build a retro Verge escapement and I don't know enough to advise if that's the best choice for a noob, unless you've also got a bug to build a Verge...

If you're willing to spend a ridiculous amount of money (like $1 per page!) "My own right time" by Philip Woodward could be a reasonable book to start. Borrow it at the library or interlibrary loan. One thing I learned from the book is the spouses of time nuts are apparently at least as tolerant as the spouses of ham radio and computer nuts (which is saying a heck of a lot).

This is an area where I know enough, to know I only know enough to be dangerous, so if anyone has better information they should respond.

(Edited to add I would consider clockmaking to be a separate craft from metal machining or wood butchering or 3d printing and would not advise trying to learn both at the same time, unless you're very patient. I think learning fine woodworking and clockmaking at the same time would be highly challenging. Or machining and clockmaking, etc.)
I absolutely agree that ISPs are the nexus point for a truly decentralized internet. I've honestly been surprised that ISPs haven't leveraged/abused their oligopoly more than they have.

> If any wifi mesh net appears, it would be a good start, but I'm skeptical it would become widespread.

We do have cjdns, Project Meshnet and the Hyperboria network in Seattle. Still pretty fledgling, though.

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

https://projectmeshnet.org/

http://hyperboria.net/
Great job, ross, brenden, harry & matt!
Having said that, TV tax does fund the BBC.

Which also makes money from various other sources, and which also provides numerous radio and Internet services at home in some cases to people who don't need a TV licence, thus demonstrating how silly it is that the government funding element of the Beeb's income wasn't switched to general taxation long ago...
> "I can't imagine the charges the children would get today if they were brown."

The answer is "threatened with expulsion, arrested, and charged with multiple felonies". Google or HNSearch "Kiera Wilmot".
Oh wow, I see now. The green circular part pretty much locks the crescent and thus the red gear into place. That's why there is a gap in the circular part where the gear is supposed to turn. Thanks!
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Same thing...

Have you seen American Psycho? (Of course you have...)

I always had this 'alternate theory' that the movie is about how the top of society can pretty much do as they please.
We're spread out across the USA (and one person in CAN and one in UK) therefore our salaries are more in keeping with national averages instead of SV.
I think the right of that majority to live free from insecurity and the collateral damage of gang violence is a bigger concern than the rights of individuals.

And this is why we will probably never agree on anything. :-)

As far as I'm concerned, the rights of individuals are far more important than "the right of the majority to ..."
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Wow, I wish I could upvote this a dozen times. No surprise here, the guy painted the story in the most supportive light possible.

This is not news, this is a political piece. He's free to publish such a thing, but people need to be more discriminatory when giving so much weight to his "facts".
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Yay EmberConf! Anyone have any idea where it might be?

Sidenote, this was really fun to read for some reason, like eating a bunch of little mini cookies.
When I talk about the "end of history", yes, the web is the correct focus to read it.

Yet, companies are demanding the devs to be more than frontend or backend devs. Look at the DevOps movement. JS allows your developers to work on both sides of the network with a single knowledge. It may become more than a blip, though I doubt it could ever takeover the backend or smartcards for instance.

So your point (correct me if I'm wrong) is that we'll be going down from JS to a lower-level paradigm, then "something" will bump and from this diaspora you're talking about, one language will prevail, I guess.

It's interesting to see JS as a high-level language that will force vendors to open VMs to allow more languages that will eventually compile to the same bytecode. Sounds very much like the "Java" part of Javascript :)

I like your perspective of viewing JS as the first native inhabitant of an island called "browser languages". Yet I'll need to think more before I can agree or disagree.

Thanks for the input!
We have two offices (PDX and ORL) but roughly 50% of Treehouse works from home so that definitely helps keep overheads low.
(Disclaimer: I work with Dan at LivingSocial) This has been a much nicer solution than my previous techniques which mostly involved grep and hope. Runtime analysis is just what's needed here. Great stuff.
Being phsyically exhausted certainly helps. I was into hiking and spelunking and somehow in the mountains there is no need for an alarm clock, the sunrise just wakes you up. Also, there's a lack of stress and anxiety about work or what tomorrow holds, you sort of live in the now.
I think he meant it is practically impossible to argue intelligently against the need to add capacity to the WCML, so nobody mentions it because they would rather argue against the strawman of 'policians are only doing HS2 to look good'.
In general, I've come to believe that it's very easy to look at decisions as "severe cases of NIH" by looking at available tools and assuming that something must fit the bill.

Especially in the young ecosystem that is JavaScript, there are often areas where the existing out-of-the-box solutions just don't satisfy the use cases of other open source projects.

As Stef said, our first attempt was to build a grunt-based build solution, and it may still be possible to do so, but it wasn't as simple and drop-in as you might expect. When the work to build on top of existing solutions becomes significant, it's not longer an obvious and "severe case of NIH" to consider more home-rolling. Sometimes those home-rolled solutions even become useful for the broader ecosystem (for example, git).

I don't think that Ember should build a huge, monolithic build tool system tightly coupled to Ember. We're already looking at bringing together the best in breed of existing tools and working with people who are building other tooling components that satisfy some of our needs. We absolutely plan to use bower for package management, for instance.

NIH is a really easy accusation to throw out, but real life, especially with large open source projects and young ecosystems, is hardly that simple.
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Perhaps, but I question the value of such buttons. With my data set of 1, I can tell you that I personally find them intrusive and ugly. If I want to submit a page to HN or some other aggregator, it will get submitted irrespective of a little button's existence.
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>Because while he was playing his little game, to "prove" that police profile people

I infer from your belittling description of his activities as his "little game" and putting "prove" in skeptical quotes that you don't see the value in this particular piece of journalism and aren't swayed by the evidence presented therein. So while I doubt you can swayed otherwise, I will say that I did find it to be valuable and his experience adds another anecdote on the collective pile of evidence that the cops and prosecutors treat brown and black people vastly different for comparable infractions of the law. And both as a native New Yorker, and moreover as a citizen of the United States, I think this is a very big problems worth paying attention to.

>I'm not justifying that that diabetic guy who wanted his sugar pills should be denied his pills. I'm not justifying that the police handle the lower socio-economic cases more brutally, giving them bruises and cuts that the suburban white boy somehow was spared. I'm not justifying racial profiling.

Yeah, but you kind of are; in your very next paragraph in fact.

> Yet, to walk a mile in their shoes, both the police and the criminal justice system as a whole, is to see the world a little differently from the average Atlantic Monthly reader or Hacker News reader.

We really need to get over the cops-jobs-are-so-dangerous-we-can't-question-anything-they-do mantra. The statistics show, in fact, it isn't nearly as dangerous as they'd like us to believe, and even if it were, it still wouldn't justify the kind of double standards the article was shining a spotlight on.

And for those that, quite frankly, don't really care one way of the other about racial profiling (I imagine because it won't ever affect them), I'd argue that everyone should care when the justice system clearly retaliates against a citizen for exposing problems in it's institutions. It shouldn't be okay for a judge to hand down a harsher than normal punishment because screw you for embarrassing/pissing us off.
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Can't help you with Windows, but I'm interested to see what happens under Ubuntu. It's on my todo list for tomorrow (by date, not by priority).
I am not well versed enough to directly answer, but it seems as if this might point you in the right direction. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14400839/combine-meteor-a...
I'm rather surprised to see rack-jruby up as high as it was. I discounted ruby as an option for a very high performance http service, but I guess I'd be wrong to do that. Don't get me wrong, I love ruby and I use it every day. I just didn't expect to see it in the top performance contenders list.
Erlang was included in round 6 of the benchmark.
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What are some great "marketing strategies" for startups on a budget?
After more than 12 months of development time, I've recently started a course/educational website and we're facing the egg and chicken problem:
Without courses, no students, without students, no teachers (who offer courses).

What are some effective (and maybe crazy) marketing ideas to get some traffic (from both sides) to the website?

We tried spreading flyers and scraping the web for school/teacher email addresses (email campaigns), but both ideas were not very effective without having 5 figures to spend on it.

Thanks for any input :)

PS: I live in Switzerland, which is quite small and only has a population of 7.x million people..
Sounds awesome! Can't wait to try it out!
"though they have a reputation of claiming to fly you to one city, only to land in a different one because its airport fees are slightly cheaper"

Well, even though I dislike Ryanair, their information on that aspect is as good as it gets.

They advertise "Paris Beauvais" airport which, ok, is not known by many people but I'm not sure how they could do it better.
Yup. Developers and Designers.
None of these numbers are significant! Give me something that tries hundreds if not thousands or tens of thousands of simultaneous requests. Then we have a real benchmark that will probably push a lot of these over the edge in terms of mean latency and especially tail/peak latency.
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I bought it, but will be requesting a refund. It interferes with my Magic Mouse when it's in use and my mouse will skip around.

This is on the Late 2013 rMBP 15" and a 5S.
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That's on the individual project maintainer, though. Any valid CSS3 file is also a valid SCSS file, so you can add enhancements on top of that exactly as much as you want to.