skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the story goes: I and a friend were walking down the street. A robber came up and demanded all of our money. I pulled $80 out my wallet, looked over to my friend and said, "oh, here's the $40 I owe you" while passing it over. The robber became so mad over this grave injustice, and demanded that my friend loan me back the $40 plus the rest of my friend's money. The robber then stole the lump sum from me. I now owe my friend $150!

In any case, I think you're missing part of the equation. Value isn't a stand-alone concept. It isn't "the value we place on a dollar" but in how much each of you values family meal time. Your youngest sister, at that time, placed a low value on it, compared to other possibilities that she could do with the money.
"the USA, currently the world's leading first world country," citation needed.
This is no different than saying "you should be looking for a wife on a dating site". You should be looking for people you would trust with more than a side project and the best way to do that is to do many different projects with many different people over time and getting to know them on a deeper level. You will either get invited by them to do something bigger, or have a range of options when you are ready to do your next big thing.
It's a combination of hubris and intentional ignorance on the part of OP and others like him.

It's really fascinating to see otherwise intelligent people completely unable to challenge their own beliefs about the nature of the world.

Is Obama simply reacting to new information he has been made privy to since becoming the president? Is it possible that there are genuine threats to America that are not made public? Is it possible there are realities of foreign affairs that we may not understand?

No, the world is just as I conceive it and Obama is a liar prone to malfeasance.

Accepting otherwise would challenge the safe bubble of the reality I have constructed. One where everyone fundamentally shares my value system and I have the necessary information and skills of deduction to construct an accurate conception of reality.

I wonder if it's something particular to technically skilled people. They have a knack for figuring out things that most people in society don't care for or don't have the aptitude for so they assume that that applies to all things, even things outside of their sphere of experience or aptitude.
Surely agreeing to their ToS and proceeding past the point of agreeing to it explicit consents to anything that they put in there?
You can represent arbitrary C++ code as a string, too, and C++ has a fairly decent string type. Does that make C++ homoiconic? I wouldn't say so, because the structure of the code is lost when you represent it as a string and because C++ doesn't give you any way of using the code represented thus (e.g., there's no standard way to compile it).

(The second of those isn't strictly part of what's meant by homoiconicity. You could, after all, write your own compiler, just as you might write a metacircular evaluator in Lisp. But it seems like an important part of the spirit of the thing.)

Tcl may be homoiconic -- it's been years since I looked at Tcl and I don't remember anywhere near enough details to try to pronounce on this -- but if so, it isn't merely because it represents everything as strings. It'll be to do with simple string operations being able to do all the parsing you need (on account of the syntax being simple and/or there being string operations that do things like parsing out a {...} block of code), and with there being a usable eval.
RIP OpenBSD
A special report of 9 articles with these leads:

Platforms: Something to stand on PROVIDING THE RIGHT platform is sometimes all it takes. Instead of planning new pedestrian plazas by the usual bureaucratic means, New York City’s department of transportation just marks an area on...

Building companies: Rocket machine WHY BOTHER WITH accelerators? Why not just hire a bunch of clever youngsters, provide them with the necessary cash, support and technology, and tell them to pursue a business idea with a proven suc...

Tech startups: A Cambrian moment ABOUT 540M YEARS ago something amazing happened on planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as the “Cambrian explosion”. Until then sponges and other simple creatures ha...

The dark side: Founder’s blues A YEAR AGO Jody Sherman shot himself. His online shop, Ecomom, which sold eco-friendly and health products for children, was running out of cash. A few weeks later the business closed its virtual d...

Accelerators: Getting up to speed IT FEELS LIKE some prayer meeting. Two middle-aged men start by telling the audience how important it is to pitch in. A booming voice announces the acts, greeted by loud cheers; then some enthusias...

Creating a business: Testing, testing “WE EVEN HAD to host the servers in our own office.” Naval Ravikant laughs as he describes how in 1999 he and some friends founded his first startup, Epinions, a website for consumer reviews. They ...

Venture capitalists: From leafy to lofty TECH MONEYMEN LIKE altitude. In Silicon Valley the leading venture-capital firms cluster on a leafy hill overlooking Stanford University. And when Benchmark Capital opened a branch in San Francisco...

Hardware startups: Hacking Shenzhen OH NO, NOT another accelerator, you may think. But this one is different. On the tables are not just the obligatory laptops and smartphones but circuit boards, cables, screwdrivers and a few items ...

Business communities: All together now BLOCK 71 HAS long been slated for demolition. A look at the tenant list for the seven-storey industrial building on Singapore’s Ayer Rajah Crescent helps explain why it is still standing: nearly 10...
When using the two tools I much preferred VWO editor that allowed to setup the tests. Besides that I found the tools to be quite equal.
One Senator wields 0.5% (ish) of the authority of a branch of government that State Department officials and staff don't (directly) work for. The President wields 100% of the authority of the branch of government that the State Department officials and staff work for. I think these things are different in both kind and degree.
If I met a person who struck me as great co-founder material, I would, of course, embrace that. But I don't particularly want a co-founder; I prefer to solo. I don't care what the world of VCs think. My start-up is for me, not for anyone else, and if the Universe hands me a co-founder, great, but they aren't necessary.

Starting in April, good Lord willing and the creeks don't rise.
I agree that writing skills are important, but I also think that strong mathematicians are skilled writers as well. One general drive in mathematics is to lay out complicated ideas in ways that make the resulting theorems and questions seem completely natural and even trivial. It's no small task, and in my experience it has drastically improved my technical writing skills (where before math I only had historical/literary/debate writing skills).
My Microsoft Experience: from Promising Start to Personal Hell
Do you consider the machine compromised if the attacker has only managed to gain access to a non-privileged account? It isn't clear the bad guys got root access here. It's a genuine question (I'm not a security person).
Well if he/she were "normal" they might not do anything to draw attention to facts about their education.
Yeah, the power structure in DC has gotten way too comfortable for the people living there. Look at how unaffected the DC housing market was by the crisis over the last 6 years.

The people in Washington aren't going to relinquish any of their power, though. An Article V convention of the states is about the only hope.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/enacting_the_liberty_...
GEM isn't an acronym. It's just a name.

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Flagged.

This article has nothing to do with hacking or technology: it's almost entirely religion and politics, and done without any of the background philosophy or discussion that would otherwise redeem such an article.

Moreover, it's pretty obvious flame-bait: as seen already in this thread, you have the band-wagon of whiskey-swirling "mmm yes religion how droll" neckbeards, you have the "haha fuck texas more like backwater amirite" jerks, and you have the "homeschooling cannot possibly educate anyone" folks. All of these are trivially proved false, but that doesn't matter, and instead we're just going to get a gigantic circlejerk of people either attacking or defending something which is, at best, a regional concern.

You know, as opposed to any of the things which impact the world of tech at large (NSA, Snowden, RSA compromises, new programming languages, web framework of the day, etc.).

I appreciate that it's a lot easier to make fun of Texas than it is to make any meaningful change in your own little pocket of reality, but don't take up space here to do it.
More anecdotes: I was mostly not home-schooled. Maybe for a year or less altogether, for various reasons. I lack social skills to some degree. :-)

But more interestingly, I have absolutely no recollection of being taught about the civil rights movement in school. Certainly I have learned about it, but if I learned anything about it in school, I don't remember it.

Seymour Papert asked a rhetorical question in his book The Children's Machine:

On my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in the [school] curriculum is well under a millionth and diminishing fast. I simply cannot escape from the question: Why that millionth in particular?
I've done very little but it seems really concise. I like that.

One place some predict it will emerge is in the Web API arena, and I could totally see that happening.
No clear winner when npm has more dots than all of the others? What's the point in even comparing them, then?

I think npm's approach is pretty cool -- it sacrifices disk space for portability (package dependencies are always installed in the node_packages directory of the package root), so while you might effectively have 3 or 4 of the same coffee-script folder in your install, you don't have to worry about virtual environments for development and you don't have to worry about dependency upgrades breaking some other package. I think the nature of javascript allows this to be effective considering that many dependencies are smallish snippets of code.
Some simple resolutions would be: a freak lightning strike disables the robot's button-pressing hardware. Or a cosmic ray flips a bit in its machine code, causing it to shut down. Or the robot's designer suffers a heart attack before turning it on.

These may seem like contrived examples, but when you eliminate all outcomes that aren't self-consistent, it may be that _all_ the remaining possibilities are contrived. Probability gets weird when time travel is involved.
The Spying can happen through Software too, this phone is garbage.
No one is denying your right to believe in unfalsifiable and unjustified theology.

Of course creationism itself isn't anti-scientific, but the majority of people who deeply believe it do have anti-scientific agendas.

Is it stupid and backward? I'm not going to conclusively comment on this, but you seem to think that just because it's a choice, it has to be legitimate. No, it can be a wrong choice.

Schools shouldn't teach students to be religious, but they should teach them to understand religion... and not just as a cute, prehistoric way of explaining things that science now has exclusive domain over. Religious beliefs, as non-scientific beliefs, are non-falsifiable. Students need to understand this. Modern science does not falsify religious beliefs. It provides an alternative based on empirical evidence. But there is no requirement that everyone on Earth only accept things based on empirical evidence. It may seem odd to you to deliberately choose to believe something which isn't based on empirical evidence, but many people do (knowingly at that) and that is their right.

Argumentum ad populum. Just because a lot of people resort to superstition to explain natural events does not mean it is legitimate or correct.

The right to believe in unsubstantiated claims doesn't shield you from criticism on the illegitimacy of your claims.
Yeah! Who needs to target 75% of the desktop market!

http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
The NSA existing in a state that doesn't stop terrorist attacks is the status quo (it's the same as them not existing at all). It doesn't need proving.

If they want to spy on everyone in the world all the time and their reasoning is that it makes Americans safer, then the burden of proof is very much on them.
Most important. Desktop. Utility. Ever.

I'm surprised of how few people even in our industry know about it. There hasn't been a single case where I show it to someone and he/she wasn't impressed. I'm so accustomed to using it that if for some reason it stopped working I believe my productivity would suffer at least 40%. Especially for those long winter hours it's a life saving app.

Where's the damn donate button?
Was just working on this with the npm developers. https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4131
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_capital

T'was ever thus.

Don't forget that acid/tekno/jungle was itself stepping on other peoples' shoes, namely the UKs established dancehall/ragga soundsystems:

http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2004/06/4/17/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-o_N9rCujM

EDIT: jungle was also briefly referred to as "future ragga"! imagine how many people that must have pissed off, even in '92:

http://www.djhistory.com/features/ragga-techno

That article reads exactly like one written today about dubstep or whatever, except with less pessimism. Which is understandable I guess, it must have been hard to be miserable writing about hardcore rave music in 1992.
The funniest this is that's creationism is a side effect of a strange, but very popular view of "tolerance". We are told that tolerance means that various points of view on any issue must be accepted, regardless if they make sense or not.

As a result with hava a wide stream of various absurdities comming from "the left" (gender people claiming that there are no differences between boys and girls) and from "the right" (creationism) are propagated instead of radiculed and thrown away. The same with Homeopathy and countless other things.

Another interesting thing is what happened with protestant churches. Once they were seen as progressive and modern (in Calvin, Luther times). Now they are either bunch of annoying old bishop-ladies ignored by everyone, who think that having gay priests is the most important thing on the World (Church of England) or radiculous morons who claim that earth was created 6000 years ago.

BTW it's somehow incorrect to call them Christians. They do not follow tradition and intellectual heritage of Roman Catholic Church. I guess that Thomas of Aquin and other great Christian philosophers are rolling in their graves seeing such widespread grow of stupidity among people who call themselves Christians.
For monitoring the article mentions Pingdom. I have found New Relic's server monitoring [1] to be quite nice as well.

The nice thing is how it integrates with other New Relic monitoring for your app and that it actually is free.

[1] http://newrelic.com/server-monitoring
RDS MySQL: Multi-AZ and Read Replicas, why you should use both
This sounds almost like extortion. I would not suggest doing this with security.
None of the offices in Holmdel had windows either. The article only had pictures of the large atrium and the hallways. Technical Staff had 10x12 winodow-less "office" shared by two people. You can shut the door to work but when more than 3 people want to have a meeting it felt cramped.
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I think it is not that Japanese culture is risk-averse, but that doing startup in Japan is actually more risky. These two are not the same statement.

No, they're not the same; however, I think both are largely true Japan. The culture is risk-averse in that no one wants to be wrong or different, or to be labeled wrong or different, to the extent that their reliance on consensus and avoidance of commitment and confrontation can fairly be called risk aversion.

Part of the risk of attempting a startup in Japan is that it marks you as a nonconformist, particularly in terms of your employment history. The drastically reduced chances of finding stable employment if you spend any time outside of the corporate world during your working life very reasonably feed risk aversion.
Alan Watts, Music and Life [video]
High-Precision Floating Point Libraries
This program is so good and beneficial to the eyes that I don't mind a repost. Spread the word.
Based in Japan here.

First, I don't think the author claims that the risk is the same; quite the opposite IMO. He clearly states that getting a high exit is very difficult here, that sales cycles are longer, ... which, all the same, make for a higher risk. It's however the task of the entrepreneur to take this into account and be successful within this frame.

Having said that, it is an undeniable fact that, in general, Japanese are culturally more risk-averse. Case in point are for example the low seed rounds that can be raised amongst the Japanese investors (i.e. VC not being an entrepreneurial endeavour), the popularity of the idea of life-long employment, ...

"lack of disruptive ideas" actually does ring with me, at least when it comes to web-based companies. "Unique ideas", no doubt about that. But disruptive ideas as 1) having a major impact, 2) being viable, and 3) not a localised clone of a successful foreign company... I do challenge you to name me some.
Good for you for assuming the best in people.
I have to disagree with this statement: "They learned from the failures of other package managers. It’s almost prefect!"

I find the following cons with NPM:

- shrinkwrap does not work as well as the alternatives in Bundler (yes, that's plural).

- specifying versions as git hashes does not verify the hash on "npm install"

- npm link is more awkward than using :path => in Bundler.

The big difference between NPM and bundler is that NPM allows common dependencies of dependencies to have different versions. This is usually awesome, except when it isn't -- it can cause subtle breakages if you try to pass an object from one dependency to another. This is very rare though, and if I had to choose, I'd choose the NPM behaviour.
No Nuget?
Google Brain
The mere hand-wringing that current leaders are doing over this is so disturbing to me because of where I see it taking the country. It's not hard to imagine, say, Carl Rove or his ilk giving someone at the NSA a wink and a nod that they'll be taken care of if their candidate wins office. The NSA leaks or hands off information that tilts the election their way. Given that collection of all of this data is A-OK, no step in this process is blatantly illegal anymore. If I were Ron Wyden, this is what I'd be saying. "Do you want your representatives picked by the NSA? Because that's the logical path we're going down."

The ability read/listen to all electronic communication without warrants gives the NSA too much power for this not to happen.
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance
My major pain with f.lux is the inability to manually specify when it should start shifting colours. I work in a brightly lit office until way after the sunset (esp. in winter), and it makes no sense for my screen to start colour shifting at 5PM.

My current 'solution' is simply manually starting f.lux when I get home, and killing it when I go to the office. Tedious!
> still have no idea which folder a program will install to

Why would anyone want to know where the program installs? I want to run programs, not look at them with a filesystem browser.

> And you can't say that BSD and Linux don't bear scars of their predecessor, a half-assed copy of AT&T Unix

It's more like AT&T Unix and BSD evolved together. There was a point when AT&T was selling BSD software with the copyright notice removed. And, if we are building copies, it's much better to be a copy of Unix than of CP/M.

> Any time I have to hit the command line to do something that should really have a proper GUI over it

I can't imagine what kind of activity you were trying to perform...

It's not trash-talking software. It's pointing out its warts.
I might be more amenable to an argument like this if I saw any possibility of "forward movement", as you describe it, existing in a conversation like this one. I don't, so I'm not; my participation is directed at the goal of amusing myself, nothing more.
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It gives you the capability to extend the language itself, something you can't really do in most other languages. Tcl, Forth and Lisp are the only ones I can think of. These days you get "monkey patching" and so on, but it's nowhere near as nice.
also, code examples: http://musicmachinery.com/2014/01/16/new-genre-apis/
This may not apply to entrepreneurs, but in my experience working in large corporations there appear to be 2 kinds of people:

1) Those who will cut you some slack if you make an error, on the understanding that we are all human and we all make mistakes and one day you may mean forgiveness yourself

2) Those who operate to extremely high standards of perfection and expect everyone else to do the same.

Type 2 people often achieve great results, until they make an error and all the people they have "punished" in similar circumstances get their revenge.
Indiana Jones like map aka Google Map fun experiments
Plum Analytics Becomes Part of EBSCO Information Services
AFAICR, CPAN is PM's PM, and it's been that way for as long as I can remember. When is the next Perl resurrection ?
Interesting. I've never worked with Tcl, is it possible to write Common Lisp loop macro in Tcl?
Rails session store and security
TiVo used to use it pretty heavily. I'm not sure if they still do.
Sorry, that was mostly a joke.

I have never lived in any of the other major cities in Texas, so I certainly don't understand the full dynamics of their politics. I do understand that at the heart of the major cities they tend to be more liberal, which is expected of just about any major city. However, as an Austinite I can say it feels like the liberal bleeds more into the suburbs here than in the other major cities. This may be because of Austin's relatively small size or just bad anecdotal evidence. Take that as you will and I hope I didn't rustle too many jimmies.
Cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk on pedestal
Fucking weird.
So, with the recent hipster attitude of posting a “State of ” every year...*

This is off-topic, but, what? The concept of an annual State of X report is nothing new, and I don't see how it ties to "hipster attitude" in any way.

That word means less and less every day. Sure, who cares, but it's just lazy to throw it around any time you want to be edgy.
Thanks to the open-source community, a bunch of improvements and fixes have been made on this:

- merged @lifthrasiir's PR.
- counts in both directions
- easing optional
- supports IE8
- optional callback on animation complete
- coffeescript and minified versions available
The US is not San Francisco, and this is an opinion piece that doesn't really say anything interesting about the comparison you're making. I agree with you that it's riskier, but this link is not what I'd call particularly compelling with respect to your point.
The artifact approach is unambiguously better for any production deployment.

Which is precisely why many Linux distributions use them, and "app stores" were already a thing in Debian in the mid-90s. Every time I read about a programming language's "package manager" I can't help but feel that the creators of such are reinventing the wheel, poorly, and mostly to paper over issues in backwards OSes that don't have proper package management.