skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that I've ever been more torn about a comment than this one. I worked in both "core dev" and professional services development, and have seen what comes from well-architected software design, the sort of architecture that only experienced top-line CS graduates (or several-decades-worth-of-experience autodidacts or engineers) seem capable of producing (IMHO, YMWV)...

...and have seen many, many 1.0's, shelfware, etc.

A CS grad from a top-flight school with excellent experience is worth their weight in gold, at least on teams of multiple people developing big systems - you want at least one, they will take care of data design, software architecture, etc., and likely cause your code to be more robust, more maintainable, etc.

But motivated college grads (I'm Canadian, not sure what the US term would be), talented engineers, and autodidacts can crank out code like nobody's business. I don't know that I'd want to built a multi-year "core services" library out of it, but PoCs, MVPs, 1.0's, and demoware? Why not? And the top-flight CS grad might be wasted there.

I'm torn because I care about quality, but really high quality only matters for the really long-lived system, the health-and-safety-critical system, and the system that must survive on its own with minimal human intervention and maintenance.

Were I building a radiation control for healthcare, I would want electrical engineers and CS grads from top-flight systems. Ditto military avionics.

If I was building apps, apps, apps, servers built atop well-architected OSS libraries, etc., I'd want code, fast, and I'd balance quality Vs lifetime to maximize profit, and probably hire less experienced, less well trained devs who "give good face", understand requirements, and code fast.

The libraries themselves? Good question....

I don't have a conclusion. But j45 is right, customers don't care so much - but they don't want 3AM bugs, either. It's a trade-off.
I personally find a lot of inspiration visiting the Disney Family Museum here in SF (http://www.waltdisney.org/). Whenever I feel like I need a bit of a kick to see how a man can go against all odds to realize his dreams, I visit the museum. It may be dull to some, but the quotes alone make it worthwhile.

I find I might owe to Disney and his product some of the push I have. It may pay off for some of you to take a visit.
I'm glad to see someone addressing this. I've been thinking about howto do this with devise in a more proper manner.
This seems to vary by state. In Colorado, for example, a dealer is someone who sells more than three cars per year with profit in mind. So as long as you're keeping each car for more than 4 months, it seems you'd be fine in Colorado.

Georgia, on the other hand, defines it simply as selling for profit. So to comply with the law, you wouldn't be able to mark up the cars at all.
This is the problem when agencies are allowed to govern themselves, with no proper over site.

> Perhaps most egregious is the case of Magdy Mahmoud Mostafa el-Nashar, a former acquaintance of the perpetrators of the 2005 London transit-system bombings....The FBI had, in other words, created its own unnecessary delay, then used the story to claim it needed more power.

Rather than accept responsibility, they turned this embarrassing case into a win by spinning the story to show they did not have enough access.
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To be perfectly fair, HackerWeb is the best web application I'm terms of cross platform performance I have ever ever seen.

Edit, wait oops I thought you meant http://hn.premii.com but HackerWeb is well done too!
Client side JavasScript, all you need is a json document and a lot of heavy lifting on the client. Not a good solution for sites with a lot of content, but for the simpler ones... yeah. You won't get search, but still... For things like `popular posts`, you could probably have a task that queried your analytics data and generated a page. Once tasks are automated, it's not that much of a hassle. CMSs will still have much more to give though.
I'm not sure it's entirely ad hominem to point out past PR stunts and quixotic crusades.
It doesn't matter that it isn't "fair". There are going to be people who are willing to pay the increased rate.

The alternative is no drivers on the road, so the increased demand pricing probably comes out on top in terms of number of rides completed.
The code is the test. If the code runs without compilation errors, then use it for healthcare.gov </sarcasm>
Thanks. I'll fill it all out in the next 24 hours
Stackoverflow had the same problem with expertsexchange early on, they didn't resort to it which rapgenius shouldn't have. I am just saying that really the best content should win, here it isn't due to manipulation by other entities not just rapgenius. It might be more of a google problem.

rapgenius might say here, 'don't hate the playa hate teh game son!'
It's not about good ideas, its about their implementation's good design.
But that doesn't matter. Uber provides a service, at a price they set. Those who don't want to pay the price can just find an alternative. It's not as if their mission is to provide some kind of community service.

Lots of other businesses operate the same way.
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I don't need to validate an obvious facet of communication. When someone is wearing shades, their emotions are harder to read. It's a large form of insecurity on their part, not on mine. When you have three dudes, who are heads of the company, wearing sunglasses indoors, it shows a level of insecurity and immaturity. You can attempt to hide your eye contact through shades but everyone is going to know that you're not being straight. These guys are total tools. I have nothing to work on, I don't find it necessary to tolerate fools and people who find it cool to be disrespectful.
The British government has already issued an apology.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8249792.stm
I didn't say anything about increasing fertility. I was responding to your comment: "Why should companies (in particular the ones who hire women) be forced to pay for the life choices of their employees?"

Parenting isn't a "life choice." Reproduction of the species is a basic function of society. Our economic system is deeply dependent on the assumption of at least stable if not growing population. Companies benefit from people who perform that basic function, and therefore it isn't wrong to force them to pay for benefits like parental leave. Otherwise, companies have an incentive to free-ride.
RapGenius is my favorite lyrics site, it's a shame they have to do crap like this.
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Look at the code, Java like, no? But a lot nicer.
Part of me suspects there's a very smart marketer/psychologist working with them, who's intentionally using that language to not just target their core demographic, but also to actively deter people not in their demographic - much the same as the speculation that some spam email is so badly written because the spammer is intentionally appealing to less educated people and actively discouraging people who value "proper" grammar and spelling. "We want the Beliebers to look up to us as their cool older brothers, and we want our competition and the tech crowd (and specifically Matt Cutts) to ignore us and disregard us as ignorant 'bros…"

The other part of me suspects they're actually idiots as they seem - and that Andreessen Horowitz's $15mil investment in them is just proof that the handbasket we're all traveling in has crossed the event horizon…
If I understand correctly it will by ready for production by 2013-03-18

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones
I'm pretty sure symlinks aren't anything any regular xcode ios sdk project would end up delivering in normal use, though.

Plus, old binaries break all the time due to incompatible software or hardware changes (AVFoundation, GL shaders, UDID bans, etc.).

And new builds certainly get new requirements imposed (forced minimum SDK version etc)
OpenWorm: Building the first digital life form.
It's fun to see bitcoiners get mad about it.
Being founders, they also have the responsibility to connect with their audience. Rap Genius is a music site, so it's not a bad idea for the founders to emulate the antics of the musicians that create the material people go to Rap Genius to see. You can call it unconventional, but you can't say they don't know their audience.
The right way to encode HTML5 video and audio
> No doubt true in general, but how about land mines?

Not when you throw them at someone.
Ok, but did you read the article? Snowden is talking about the mission of starting the conversation, which he has done.

“'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.'”
Split into 6 parts? Why not start with 2 and see where you get?
I wish I hadn't seen that potato chips have that much more calories than pizza.
It seems to me that the fitting thing to be issued here is an apology, not a pardon.
RosettaCode is a site that might be of interest.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
I don't see how, wouldn't wordpress still give you more control over the content?
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Of course, in an ideal world we wouldn't have a black hat SEO arms race. But as you mentioned, Stack Overflow managed to flourish without resorting to those tactics. The context is important, but it doesn't forgive their actions.

> rapgenius might say here, 'don't hate the playa hate teh game son!'

That's a nice phrase, but I think I'm going to go ahead and hate both.
You might try the fouriernc package. I don't know if it's superior, but I do find it easier on the eyes.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fouriernc/
If you don't mind me asking, why is this such a big deal to you that you would stop going to Rap Genius? As a music lover myself, I consistently go back to Rap Genius because I know they have the most interesting content.

I don't understand why you would be willing to abandon that because a claim (although it seems to be justified) that they might be breaking a rule created by a corporate entity that is often used to enforce their own agenda - putting Google+ results up top in results seems much, much worse than this to me!

How can the proprietary Google ranking algorithm be such holiness that a simple infraction causes such vitriol?
I can only say that I stopped at "they are terrorists."
You, sir, stimulate my stunted capacity for amazement at the blithe and careless foolishness of which my fellow men are capable -- no mean feat, that, and I salute you for it.

Let us proceed from there to demolish your argument. You declaim as follows:

> guns are a very effective tool for killing humans

This is quite true.

> and nothing else

This, on the other hand, is false to the point of absurdity.

There are many, many people, in parts of the United States where the endless cornucopia of Uncle Sam's largesse unaccountably fails for the most part to reach, for whom a few hundred pounds' worth of venison in the freezer means the difference between a winter depending on whatever scant charity happens to be available, and a winter free of worries about where the kids' next meal will come from.

(I realize, of course, these people are neither fashionable nor well represented in any debate on this subject, but they are my family and the people among whom I grew to adulthood, and they mean considerably more to me than, for example, you do.)

In any case, this leaves your point, to borrow Artemus Ward's delightful phrase, in "ruther a shattered state." It hinges, after all, on the assertion that "guns have only one use," which I concede would greatly simplify the matter, were it only true. Since it is not, the concession means effectively nothing.

I could leave the matter thus, but I can't quite resist picking out one more howler, in order to demonstrate how little it does to improve your argument:

> muzzle loaded hunting muskets

Have you ever tried to hit what you aimed at with a muzzle-loader? Have you ever tried to shoot your supper with one? For that matter, have you ever fired any sort of firearm? Had you done, you'd likely have a better grasp of the fact that muzzle-loaders have precisely the same relevance to modern hunters as, say, a TI Explorer might have to a modern full-stack web developer -- specifically, they are far from common and mostly owned by collectors, and their competent use is a niche skill which mostly nobody bothers to attain any more, because there are much more expedient means available to produce the same result. Whether you recognize the existence of these drawbacks, which inhere in the act of discarding a century and a half of innovation in hunting technology, has no slightest effect on the reality of them -- not, of course, that they would affect anyone you care about, am I right?

And in closing, a cavil, but an amusing one: If you're so red hot on the subject of banning guns, then why describe yourself in your HN profile as a "gun for hire?" Is your ultimate desire that you should put yourself out of business, sir?
I'm sure there is a resource somewhere that can be used to jump-start this repo with a bunch of implementations.
I wish Snowden would roll up his sleeves and start working on the same problem in Russia, where he now lives, and in China, where he stayed briefly on his way to Russia. His mission has hardly begun.
Firefox OS remains highly unlikely to go anywhere with the current direction. They need a rethink, fairly fast, as Android has got the "we're not iOS" market sewn up at this point. (MS are about the only group left with any hope whatsoever, and that's fairly slim). As has been repeatedly demonstrated web technology based operating systems simply don't run well on mobile, especially if (like FFOS) you haven't got completely GPU accelerated graphics, which is a slight problem on lower res screens like the Open, but is completely essential for anything in the 720p or greater territory.

Chasing Chrome OS in netbook land would be enormously more entertaining, and far more likely to actually get some traction, especially with the recent negative noise about any cloud services.
I really like Pelican. I think a lot of people commenting here are missing the point about why some people would want a static site. It's not really about performance, it's about simplicity. It's trivial to set up a web server to serve static HTML pages. All I needed was Apache, SSH, and rsync. I keep all of my blog posts in ReStructuredText files which are stored in a git repository. When I want to publish, it's as simple as `make rsync_upload` and I'm done. No database, no web interface for managing content. Just plain text and command line tools.

I am having one small issue with Pelican, though. When I change my theme from the default, it uses the new theme's templates but the default theme's stylesheet. As expected, the result is awful. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
That's true, but for the average person, it would be worthwhile, even with zero profit.

According to my cursory internet research, the average US household spends 1.5% of their annual income on car repairs[0]. The average adult works 1,300 hours per year[1]. The average household has 2.1 adults[2]. So in a five month period, the average household puts about 17 hours into car maintenance.

So if you live in an average household, you'll come out on top with this scheme as long as you spend less than 17 hours on the process each time.

[0] http://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/cost-of-car-own...

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-13/how-average-america...

[2] http://www.popcouncil.us/pdfs/wp/144.pdf
I look at this from the other side as well. I've worked with brilliant people with ivy league CS degrees who wrote much messier and less maintainable code than me, an autodidact designer/js dev with 1.5 years of experience. Maybe I'm wrong, and there was something in their code that I wasn't seeing, but I don't think so.

There can also be a bit of an attitude, like the person is thinking "of course this is good, I went to Stanford". But maybe that's my imagination. Another explanation is that these people are just so good that they are able to read messy and convoluted code no problem, and us mortals need to step up our game.

On the other hand, these people would easily be able to reason about complex performance and security issues beyond me. I think that the hardcore CS issues are a science, while writing clean code in a web framework, browser, and API design is more of a craft.

If you hire too many computer scientists, your code base could be full of fascinating technical tricks, but creaky and hard to work with. Too many craftsmen, and you'll get stuck on simple problems. It's a balance.

EDIT: Downvotes? Please explain. Perhaps I am not able to fully comprehend the issues at hand.
> “If I defected at all,” Snowden said, “I defected from the government to the public.”

He can't run til 2020, but I'll cast an early vote now.
http://www.braeunig.us/apollo/apollo11-TLI.htm

Not exactly complete, but an interesting look at how they avoided the Van Allen belts.
Chinese concept train can pick up (drop off) passengers without stopping.
For the political side, here is a per-county view:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/in-calif...

On the practical side, a division into 6 parts
avoids the usual North/South argument, or the less
frequent North/Central/South version, and could be
walked back to a 5, 4, or 3-way split.

That said, I recall a survey not long after Prop 13 that had
Californians liking a 2-way split, as long as the
part that each respondent lived in 'got' Disneyland,
and the other part got Sacramento. This proposal seems
about as likely to happen as that one.
His mission to save the world from itself?

He wasn't born tomorrow.
An experiment in paying through the nose for “unnecessary care”
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I suppose it depends on the scope in which you define the terms 'attack' and 'defend'. If I lay a minefield ahead of a position, so that it may better absorb and break a counterattack intended to slow or halt my invading army, then am I attacking, or defending, or both at once?
Thanks, but already submitted and already on front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957882
I would hope you enjoyed computer science! Learn up on the arts, politics, etc in your spare time. These are the fun subjects.
What are good open source or free social icons?
Bootstrap no longer includes fontawesome icons, and I need icons which they do not have. Does anyone know where I can get icons for meetup, github, goole, and facebook?
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> My understanding is that the "pardon" implies there was nothing wrong with the law as such, just that Turing is forgiven for having broken it.

The fact of a pardon neither implies that the law was wrong nor that it was correct.

A posthumous pardon is naturally of largely symbolic import, in this particular case, the Royal Pardon is a kind of symbolic capstone to the earlier apology by the previous government in which -- while it was directed to Turing -- condemned the execution of the law more generally (the Prime Minister, when issuing the apology, stated "Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly."
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If the "terrorists" are following this whole story, wouldn't now be a prime time for another attack?

This could have the effect of validating the NSA's activities in many Americans' eyes ("see, the NSA is unable to its job without invading our privacy") and we would see a whole new round of new laws capitalizing on Americans' fears of terrorists (which means their terrorism succeeded).
Especially when it's from the "head of the webspam team at Google". It's the start-up equivalent of being called into the principles office.
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>They prided themselves on getting big without radio airplay

I can't tell what country you're from but in the UK we've always had a diverse selection of music broadcast on the BBC. Back when Iron Maiden were in their late-formative years (after Paul Di'Anno joined in '78 and when "Iron Maiden" was released in 1980) you heard them played on Radio One by presenters such as Tommy Vance [1] on The Friday Rock show [2] all the time.

They also got plenty airtime on MTV and Top of the Pops back in the 80's when their first album was released, for example:

"Running Free" was released as a single on 23 February 1980, reaching No. 34 in the UK Singles Chart. The band also performed the song on the UK TV show Top of the Pops, refusing the usual tradition for artists to mime and thus becoming the first group to perform live on the show since The Who in 1972

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Vance

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Rock_Show

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_(album)#Songs
Touring scales by playing bigger venues. Do you know the mean wage per hour for an average artist for their album sale if you divide their profits from the studio time? In theory recording an album can be a fixed amount of up-front labor that then pays out like a passive income, but is that really what happens for all practical purposes?
This Page has more accurate dates:
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/
The value of a degree is what you make of it. I think the most important aspect of college/grad school/etc. is that you have the opportunity to push the bounds of your mind. I spent 4 years in grad school for math at an excellent program, and to most people, it would probably be considered a waste since I use almost none of it in my daily work (programming). However, the value for me has been to push the limits of my ability to abstract concepts, and see how other similar high level minds perform.
He didn't call Glass a founder. He implied Glass wrote all the early code and essentially built Twitter, and said he deserves all the credit for that early building out. I really don't have a problem with putting it that way. That's true based on everything I understand about the Twitter backstory (and confirmed by Noah, Ev, Biz, Jason, and Jack himself).