skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having good blogging software is not as simple as generating a data structure.

There's plenty to be said for having a good admin UI (that non-developers can easily figure out). The flexibility and depth you get out of the box is not going to be matched by anything you can do yourself in a short amount of time.

> You can rebuild ANY feature or plugin in the WP domain very easily in Rails

This is just false - there's so many well matured products in the WP ecosystem that would take way too long to quickly develop no matter what language you're using. There's a lot of plugins built specifically in mind for a marketing / brochure type website that have had years of development that you can benefit from immediately (SEO plugins, contact forms, ecommerce..)

I'm not suggesting that WP as a frontend is the way to go, but I would not throw it out with the assumption that you will be able to rebuild it easily.

I would weight the decision entirely on how much integration will need to be done and what your marketing needs are. A couple of questions I'd ask are:

1) Is there going to be someone constantly tinkering with the site to tweak SEO as much as possible?

2) Will content be frequently updated, or will the site act more as a landing page with just occasional updates?

3) Do you ever need to authenticate a user on the marketing site? (I find cross-application authentication to be one of the harder integration problems to tackle and a good reason to not use a separate CMS system)

If it's just a landing page with only occasional updates, building it out as a simple view within your existing app framework may work just fine (or heck, just some static HTML files may fit the bill).
repost (again)
Rails, leaflet.js. I parsed the museum locations from http://www.the-athenaeum.org/. Hoping to add more paintings in the future.
Something I wish I had in my (European) Amazon shipping a couple weeks ago - they used a package carrier instead of the postal service, which used to be the norm. I had to call to set up a new delivery to a work address a week later.
The Future of Education: 10 Trends To Watch
I posted this, not to rag on the guy for his mistake, but because many of us have been in this very same place, stuck in between multiple painful decisions.

I'm also a backer and interested to see how creative the HN community can be in recommending solutions.
Hilarious Christmas Video Song to Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke
I'm not aware of any myself but I wanted to say thanks for submitting this. I picked up a few myself on technologies I wanted to learn.
isn't the title wrong? it says 2.5b money transfer, but it's really 2.5B market cap based on it's current valuation, right?
Nuevo Video del Juego Tera Online "Matando Bams"
Snowden was an IT guy. He was not a spy. He was not an agent. He did not run assets.

For comparisons sake, calling Snowden a spy is the same as calling the guy who unclogs the toilets at a police station a "cop."
I was expecting a one-time-use site such as http://www.whatwouldmyharvardgrade.be/
Forget Hipster, Go Offeringo!
#Offeringo is launching in early #2014 with a #bang from #London. Wanna find out what Offeringo is? Come on, you know the drill :) Offering free and exclusive Beta Access for the first 2000 users.
Release: Docker 0.7.2 for ARM
If you break up the presentation into sections:
- Hook with related humor (great song by Jonathan!!)
- Acknowledge the issue at hand briefly
- Show the positive side first, back up with hard data, show the bigger picture
- Trivialize the negative side, back up with hard data
- Ensure that people know that you take even trivial problems too seriously and act for your users
- Still uplevel the game and offer generous solutions to what you deemed were trivial problems
- Sandwich the problem with good news at the end again and promise a brighter future

There is a good wisdom in there about the way to handle big corporate crisis. Clearly Steve had not left half of his family back in Hawaii for a trivial issue !!

Thanks Shawn & Jonathan for reminding us of this great lesson in history!
it is British -- not Scottish -- oil.
Original link (~6 hours ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966260
You honestly think that Fishkin doesn't know his SEO? Thing is, he has to keep his reputation squeaky clean because unlike black hats he actually wants it to last beyond the next ranking update. Most black hats and their clients get caught sooner or later and then you find them bitching and moaning around the web how Google's latest ranking algorithm update is unfair and running them out of business. Guys like Rand Fishkin are smarter than that.
I would love to see traffic enforcement increase - as Lon as it is fairly and evenly distributed and not tied to illegal substance possession enforcement.
200 Things
As another commenter already mentioned, what's there to include on Oracle's side for cloud offering. I obviously talk about two large corporations, both with more than 100k employees and tens of billions revenue. Pretty comparable I think.
Majority shareholders can't just vote to take away equity from minority holders. There are laws about minority shareholder rights. The OP better have some really specific agreements in place.
I do significant amounts of pair programming. But even more so, I don't think that your coworkers using your workstation should be a <1% use case even if you never pair.

My contention is that:

1. Work environments -- including ones that don't formally pair -- should be highly collaborative.

2. It's typically massively less efficient to help someone past a block or communicate a new coding technique via telling them what to do rather than doing it. Much less anything even remotely iterative, where you need to, say, write some code, look at some output, and write some more code.

3. The difference between "a basically good development environment" and "a development environment that is specifically optimized for just specifically you" is actually quite small. There's no real need to sacrifice much of anything in order to get an environment optimized specifically for you.
7 Deadly Sins of Mobile Websites
I created an account just to upvote this, I think this is brilliantly put :)
When I started my career in software at a large corp, it took me four years to figure why passive behavior was pervasive in my team and how I could counter it. I can humbly attest to a lot of the ideas in your post as they did work for me as well.
I also feel that most people do not feel very comfortable in interfering with team dynamics in a peer role as they mostly consider it a job for the managers. But in my opinion, one is entitled to work towards fostering an environment he/she would like to be in. Whether that is benefiting or hurting the team is a judgement the management can make and act on it.
$0? Ya know, oracle is a public company.. So it's easy to check and see you're clearly wrong.

Try $1 billion annually in saas revenue

https://m.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1961632
That's sad about the attitude of the political parties - I always had the Netherlands pegged as a quite progressive, open-minded country.
I'd recommend you just read them in chronological order. The universe evolves over time and there are many surprise appearances by a lot of characters -- notably Death -- in many of them.
I believe he was referring to this, generally:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/
Would you recommend buying a web biz through Flippa?
Interesting- I wonder if that's just project pages. I keep my blog (http://jordan-wright.github.com/blog) on Pages, had a few things hit the front page but never reached a limit.

Thanks for the heads up, though.
Twitter’s Ballooning Market Cap
It's funny that artist have to go through the exact same experience as entrepreneurs.

No one believes in you, everybody tells you to get a job. But no, you believe in your ideas and just knowww that one of them will be a hit.

So you publish the next app and the next, some of them completely fail, but some get a bit of traction. Then you improve and you improve and bam, after several years of hustling you're the "overnight" success. ::)

Exchange apps with songs for musicians, paintings for painters, novels for writers.
Ah, I see Dell and Google do background checks the same way. Google just waits a couple months.
>Then what resources would the remaining co-founder have to go through the US court system?

To bet on this would be to bet on the new company being a failure.

Because if it ever does become successful, plenty of lawyers would be willing to work on behalf of the ousted cofounder on contingency.
> I would google "Rideshare OR Carpool + Service OR Startup OR App"

How many of those search modifiers still work with Google, and does it give the parsing he expects? I haven't seen anyone do a search like that in a decade. I notice that removing the plus gives the exact same SERPs for example.
No, we do not expect to monetize it this way.
We will open mp3-podcast later.
You know, nine women can't make a baby in one month. That surplus they have is very hard to spend effectively. And amazon is growing much faster than Oracle, that's why they can spend their surplus on that growth.
What We Learn When We Learn Economics
In Ohio, the law at a four-way stop is: one car, rotating clockwise around the intersection. NOT whoever got there first.
I never use it in examples, but mainly because of feedback that I get. When I use them, beginners tell me they can't figure out what's going on. When I don't use them, no one tells me things! :) So for a beginner text, I think it's reasonable.
Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
Ask HN: Developers to Designers
There's many intro tutorial to becoming a developer on the web that I've ran into. Any many designers eventually take on development work, even if it's just html/css. I would love some pointers for developers that wanted to learn how to design. Tips, resources, etc.. anything is welcome.
I still do it, though you might be right that it's deprecated and just doing "rideshare carpool service startup app" would be the exact same.

EDIT: Just tried it, and it does return different results. The search modifier OR seems to work, but the + might not be doing much. I definitely find the search with the modifiers to return more relevant results.
You think that you get a visa for living in the EU if you have a criminal record?
Anecdata for anecdata: United may have come through with your pets and laptop, but they lost someone else's child.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/airline-loses-couple-s-10-year-...
I've found the best approach is to use something like middleman to build the front end / marketing site. Good ol static pages and the rails app is isolated from the static page. Middleman also has a blogging plugin which makes I easy to keep it updated. Doing SEO is also straight forward since they are just static pages
It works on mobile, but please add an on page button to clear card, since I don't have a space bar.
Reverse Engineering
It is both.

Anyway, so was India or Ireland or the USA, that argument justifies any abuse.
I wonder if this is out of the norm, for all airlines and for United. I've never flown with pets or lost any property flying, so I don't know.
> Their product has a monopoly in most of the world.

Yeah.. it really doesn't. The DoJ would be all over their ass if there was really a case to be made there.

> Therefore it's a rule for the internet.

That doesn't even logically follow if we assume the first. It is more than possible to use the internet without giving a shit about google's product. Even if it were a monopoly this would be true.

Google changing how their product reacts to RapGenius does not effect anything other than how their product reacts to RapGenius. Just because RapGenius cares a lot about how Googles product reacts to their own does not mean that the rules of Googles product are rules "of the internet".

If Google had the power to set "rules of the internet", then the MPAA/RIAA would have won their battle when Google changed how their product handles search results for torrents. Of course they did not, because Google cannot.
Yes, we see beauty in symmetry, so any junk becomes beautiful when arrayed in a pattern, and the junk creator can feel proud of creating a work of art, when in fact the aesthetic is mostly provided by the symmetry engine.
I would recommend that anyone else reading this take note: you need someone on the board who is your ally. You can't let your partner fill it with his own people.
To cancel it, you can just hit escape when the correction is displayed.
> First of all, I wouldn't be surprised if you had reasons to try to discredit my claims :).

Well, if I were Satoshi, wouldn't I be encouraging you to fixate on Wei Dai...?

> I don't know. His website says that he's a lecturer at 'Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus'.

It does? Are you sure you are looking at the right Wei Dai, the Wei Dai of http://www.weidai.com/ ? It's not a unique name. There's more than one of them.
"I'm shocked by the responses you are getting"

Because you're reading it different than most people, just like the parent comment.

"I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities."

Person you're upset with doesn't = potentially violent criminal. It could be a co-worker and the choice is to express yourself to them like an adult or immediately go to HR.
I would give you $1,000 to make it a week in medium, but I wouldn't want to be party to your murder.
Putting a single word in quotes is the same as using a plus used to be.

+searchterm has been replaced by "searchterm"
SUMMARY:
The holiday’s were great for Amazon and lousy for UPS.

The holiday's what?
If losing your MacBook is a single point of failure for your crypto-coins (in terms of both backup and encryption), can you really say you own them at all?
Perhaps what you have is worth fighting for, and you will therefore be willing to incur significant costs (in time, energy, opportunity and likely money) battling your co-founder. But I think you should consider the facts you have presented in your question and responses to other comments:

1. Your co-founder has the same level of ownership as you.

2. He controls the company bank account, passwords, etc.

3. His relationship with the board is stronger than yours.

4. Your employees like him.

5. He is aware of your desires and has made it clear he is willing to fight your efforts, apparently even if it means sabotaging the company.

Given these facts, I think it would be wise for you to consider what you can realistically achieve even if you are successful in removing your co-founder. You may find that the question, "How do I fire my co-founder?" is not the first one you should be asking yourself.
You appear to have an error. You write:

(ϵ + 1)(ϵ−1) = −1, or alternately (1 + ϵ)(1 − ϵ) = −1

That alternative should surely be:

(1 + ϵ)(1 − ϵ) = 1

Not least, in a commutative system (1+x)(1-x) = 1-x^2. Thus

(1 + ϵ)(1 − ϵ) = 1 - ϵ^2 = 1
There are a bunch of threads on the FreeNAS forums about running FreeNAS on virtualization:

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/kvm-freenas.13040/

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/absolutely-must-virtualize...

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/please-do-not-run-freenas-...

Those are just the first few I saw -- if you search the forums, I'm sure you'll be able to find threads with additional information.
At present moment the no-links ranking technology from Yandex is vaporware, though I certainly think it may be better for some of the queries.
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Your muses drop inspiration just as your head hits the pillow, but they don't manufacture an irresistible drive to create. In an emotional inspired burst, you leap into your project, only to peter out as the novelty wears off. "Fanatic" implies emotional involvement, but you've noticed that when the ardor cools you've got no impetus. And the thing you so lovingly begun turns into drudgery. Into work.

You're not, ex nihilo, going to create within yourself some sort of relentless will to create. Worthwhile endeavors are hard. Becoming more fit. Building a product or company. These goals aren't fully achieved in one inspired surge of energy. And our brains seem to be wired towards amusement after our basic needs are met. Intentionally doing hard things is the evolutionary equivalent of repeatedly touching a hot stove; your brain's going to keep telling you to knock it off.

So, you've got to take advantage of what we know about our brains to "trick" them into doing work. Here are a couple things to read that might help you figure out what "hack" will work for you:

1) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... is an article about shopping habits, that contains a couple of interesting gems about how companies actually do the same thing ("hack" your habits) in order to bring about desired consumer behaviour. It's adapted from the book: http://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/ which I haven't read but suspect just has many more examples.

2) http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/ff_feedbackloop/all/. Figure out a positive feedback loop that you can take advantage of. For me, when I was working on a book, one thing I did was build a script that would count the words, make a note of the count in a journal, and post an update of my progress to my Facebook wall. I'd get encouraging comments from my FB friends, presto: positive feedback loop. Related: What gets measured improves. What gets measured and reported improves again. I'm not sure where I'd heard that quote, but its proven true for me.

3) Along those lines: "Don't break the chain". http://lifehacker.com/5886128/how-seinfelds-productivity-sec....

Good luck. It's a lonely lot of work becoming productive.
I think you should take a look at some of the top HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/best

The WordPress and Hacker News audiences are different, too, yet here we are comparing WordPress to a static site generator.
> just as there are geeks and hackers who don't like The Princess Bride

Inconceivable!
I got the point that your argument was nonsensical, I wasn't aware you were doing it for effect.
There were at least 3 african-americans in my batch (which was large so I'm probably missing some). But I am not sure whether they'd want to be identified as anything else other than as hackers/founders. Feels weird to even try and count in my head, as I see my batchmates as simply batchmates.

I don't think explicitly adding ethnicity to the YC app would be good for anyone .. for one, these are (mostly) teams of 2 or more. Accepting or not accepting a team/idea/application doesn't reflect judgement of the individuals within the team, regardless of their background(s).

Since there is only 1 application per team, it may also introduce unnecessary and awkward questions between the founders even prior to YC's evaluation.
> I already talked to him about lowering his share options (which he currently holds about 40%, (same as me, after seed round dilution))

if you're a co-founder and all you have is options and not a significant chunk of real equity, i'd say the problem is not that he isn't pulling his weight, but you (that's you, not him) got short-changed for the amount of work you are doing. and you are probably upset about that.

if he's a CFO/money type that's been charged with fund raising, money management, records, dealing with vendors and HR, etc, his compensation (no actual equity?) is probably correct, or even under-valued.

in which case, if you go to the board, you are going to be forced into a position of justifying why you want an increase in compensation for your work, instead of lowering his compensation for the work he's doing.

these are the kinds of things you learn so that your 2nd and 3rd time around are easier.
I don't fully understand... are you talking about Git submodules? Or just allowing to generate the docs for any Ruby project? The latter is already high up on the feature list... :)
(feel free to reply in the Disqus comments on ruby-docs.org, I don't check the comments on HN very often)
you should probably add a few more fields to this:

- Have one, but don't use it

- Had one, but deleted it
Valid points. Wish auto redirect GOES AWAY. Many of us use private browsing.
> "My monitor was supposed to be delivered on the 24th. It will not arrive until the 27th. Huge let down by UPS, because I had to spend the holidays with my family instead of staring at 144hz of beauty! </sarcasm>"

Try instead: "My gift to my niece was suppose to be delivered by the 24th. It will not arrive until the 27th, but her family flies back home on the evening of the 26th. Now I have to wait for it to be delivered, reship it myself at personal expense, and cannot watch her open it."

Believe it or not, reliable package delivery during Christmas actually is a big deal to consumers...
I assume you mean publishing date?
Building High Throughput APIs with Ruby — Part 1
What other papers did he author?

This is a curious paper. It's a rigorous derivation of (positive) real numbers without the use of 0 or negative numbers anywhere. It isn't very useful, although the fact that this can easily be done is by itself interesting.

I have sometimes thought about the possibility of us encountering an advanced alien civilization and trying to match our math to theirs. Someone told me recently that if aliens were able to get into space, we can take it for granted that they knew negative numbers (in addition to more advanced concepts). I disagreed. Negative numbers are very convenient, but all the math that's needed for modern physics can, I think, be built up without them in a way that's more bulky and awkward, but not an order of magnitude bulky. This paper is weak evidence of my position.
I would pay for a service that clean [my] phpBB forums!
So This Is What It Feels Like to Be A Millionaire
Ask HN: How to Evaluate ISP. Diagnosing timeouts. 
Hi HN,

I'm visiting my sister for the holidays. She owns her own start-up business and questions the reliability of her existing Internet connection and asked me to help evaluate.

I tested the Comcast-provided Arris TC-862 modem/router by monitoring the RSSI Signal, SNR, and Tx Rate. As far as I can tell, the router works fine. The MCS index falls between 11-15. The Tx rate seems quite reliable, so I don't suspect any problems with the router.

Normal transmission rates however around 240ms. However, when I ping Yahoo.com, I occasionally see connectivity issues like this:

64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=96 ttl=42 time=178.174 ms
...
Request timeout for icmp_seq 102
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=101 ttl=42 time=2272.216 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 104
...
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=102 ttl=42 time=5060.234 ms
...
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=104 ttl=42 time=9104.651 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 114
...
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=105 ttl=42 time=14243.274 ms
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=106 ttl=42 time=13242.296 ms
...
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=115 ttl=42 time=4356.262 ms
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=116 ttl=42 time=3384.265 ms
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=117 ttl=42 time=2385.716 ms
64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=118 ttl=42 time=1398.363 ms

Notice the transmission times out and then suffers long completion times.

What can I do to find the source of these timeouts? I suspect it is the ISP and not the router. What information can I collect to confirm this?

Thanks,
Myles