skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear no end of non-techie people cursing Windows 8 and its metro interface. As a latest example, one of my friends said he wanted to buy a new Windows laptop, but walked out of the store after being really confused using Windows 8 (quote was: "I don't know how I will be able to get work done in this.").

Personally, just the sheer learning curve to help someone set up a new Windows 8 laptop was ridiculous. I had to search the web for answers on things like locating the control panel.

Whereas Vista had quality and "annoyance" problems (new security UI), Windows 8 seems to have all the quality, but behind a blunderous user experience.

This tells me that Microsoft has really screwed this up. We techies quickly learn the new UI and adapt to it, figuring out how it works. It seems like the new UI was developed with a techie mindset, and but people outside of tech don't get it.

Or perhaps there's a simpler explanation. The Windows 8 UI really is an awkward meshing of "tablet-like" and desktop-like experience, with both experiences compromised. And it's filled with bad decisions, such as Metro-only Skype that requires you to convert your existing Skype account to a Windows login. Don't want to mess with your Skype account? Then you install "desktop" Skype. Two Skypes. Two different experiences. Seriously? You have gotta be kidding me. How could you ship that?
Isaac isn't just some guy who read a website and made a blog post, he has been at the forefront of the search for Luke, and is (rightly!) using his profile as the maintainer of Node to call attention to the dedicated website that has been set up.
Interesting. He didn't describe their motivations on having so many children.
Go to your local library or BN and learn everything you can about sales/marketing. Work for free. Under promise over deliver. Build up your portfolio. Ask for referrals.

Your skills mean nothing if you can't sell your skills.
You're smart. Get your GED.

Get a Junior level position. People have been telling you your whole life that you can't get anywhere without a college education, which is horse shit.

You're in one of the few industries where the professional work you've done and the skills you have determine if you can get a job, not what college you went to.

If a company snubs you because you dropped out, you probably don't want to work for them anyway.

Source: I dropped out of HS, got my GED, dropped out of college, twice. Fell back on my Computer skills, now a dev at a startup making more money than all my friends who went to college.
At some point prior to WWI, the Chinese built a small temple on the island.

The temple/s you mentioned was built on the Paracel Group of islands, which is an entirely different group of islands from the one China intends to invade.

Pag-asa island is part of the Spratly group of islands, which is much further south than the Paracel group of islands. The Philippines has never claimed the Paracel group. It is much nearer to Vietnam, although China is claiming the Paracels as well.

Below is a map indicating both groups of islands, as well as the surrounding countries and their exclusive economic zones (EEZs).

http://tiananmenstremendousachievements.files.wordpress.com/...

EDIT: for italics
Maybe the War On Christmas, Religious Bigotry, Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny, Gun Fanatics, Big Oil Companies, Global Warming Denial and Government Deregulation got started a little late.
Just comment out the line that uses caller and always pass your arguments.
UK SMS messages dropped by 7 billion in 2013
Boutique vinegar is hardly new, it's just not mainstream yet. Alton Brown predicted this in 2005 (Good Eats season 9 episode 8 "Good Wine Gone Bad")
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> display of global ambition

Ding ding ding! China is slowly but very noisily attempting to tighten it's grip along her Pacific coastline, and it's a very wide grip that stretches from the far north to the far south.

The regional hegemony is very murky and relationship-of-convenience is the norm, especially since there is a lot of very dark history between major regional powers (China, Korea, Japan) and minor ones (Vietnam, Thailand/Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia). I'm not even going to attempt a short analysis of China's reunification policies towards Taiwan, other than both sides would prefer to remain amicable.
Take 2 years and study yourself.
>After spending hours scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Flipboard our mind feels tired. We feel intellectually bloated, and yet completely unsatisfied.

Standard reaction to an excess of intellectual carbs. Paginating that crap would be like individually wrapping each slice of that cake you bought for yourself - a misguided strategy to slow yourself down that you'll blow right through when you're sugar-crazy.

These services have no end because they have very little structured content at all.
A few links to the paper the author couldn't find:

http://www.disi.unitn.it/~montreso/ds/papers/p27-ben-or.pdf

http://bayfiles.net/file/13Oqj/1Q46fJ/p27-ben-or.pdf

https://mega.co.nz/#!VU4nWbDK!NcqVDGI6iuE-EJ07sB9glV_UEPFlMV...

This entire concept has blown my mind. One of my basic assumptions of how consensus works was completely wrong.
This is also a basic Getting Things Done principle: do first whatever is currently in front of your head and constantly nags.
Yeah, I think it's a joke. A self-censoring hip-hop website with an "eye candy" section?
Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report
Ask HN: Startup Idea
I'm not one to hold back start-up ideas or require NDA's because I know from past experience that it's not the idea that is successful but rather the execution. So, I am hoping we can spark a small debate here regarding an idea I have.

Essentially I would like to set up a anonymous to anonymous donation site using bitcoin. Here's a quick overview of what I'm thinking:

1. People donate bitcoins into a pool that will be dispersed at a variable interval.
2. People who need a some help can write a 1000 character short story and those stories can be voted up or down by the crowd (kind of how hacker news works now).
3. The pool will be divided up at an even split (say divided by 10) and then dispersed to the top 10 stories.
4. If a story requires $1000 but only receives $100 they will stay in the queue until they either reach their goal or get voted out of the queue.

Let me know your thoughts.
What is most unfortunate about Kurzweil is he doesn't speak about possible social or culture improvements. Technology is his crutch and bandaid to what ails the world, and technology drives Google's profits.

Vilém Flusser's essay on the Object: 'Design: Obstacle for/to the Removal of Obstacles'

> An 'object' is what gets in the way, a problem thrown in your path like a projectile(coming as it does from the Latin Obiectum, Greek problema). The world is objective, substantial, problematic as long as it obstructs. An 'object of use' is an object which one uses and needs to get other objects out the way. ...
> I overturn some of the obstacles (transform them into objects of use, into culture) in order to continue, and the objects thus overturned prove to be obstacles themselves.

– page 58
http://books.google.com/books?id=2vVGCdt0EAkC&printsec=front...

The bigger the techno solution, the bigger the side effect. Technology offers fast benefits, the side effects take a long time to be noticed or materialize.

I am interested in folks looking at social, philosophic and non-objective improvements and solutions to our big problems, particularly those of a more conservative and less progressive nature.
These are not Ray Kurzweil's predicts. These are mankind's dreams.
sure i can give it a go. though i'm currently stuck in an airport going on 14h. i'll ping you when i get around to it but could be a few days
I wasn't thinking about Django middleware but a more generic message routing engine running as a separate process that speaks websockets on one end and has a bi-directional REST interface on the other exchanging messages with the Django backend.

edit: karneges points out Hookbox and Pushpin can fill this role.
Opsview, Icinga, Groundworks, Nagios XI, etc... also put a decent UI on top of Nagios Core.
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I think it's a very nice platform and I do not see why it has to be weaponised as a Wordpress competitor or why it should be labelled as having superpowers or lacking features.

The debate I see here is no different to the whining about Golang we've all seen recently. The bottom line is that you should know what your requirements are and thus you should know what the best solution will be. There should be no ideology about it.

Ghost is FOSS and if you do not like it, no one compels you to use it. It might seem like it is a commercial machine due to the fact, though that the software is free, it is far from a doddle to host freely. As far as I know, OpenShift is the only place to offer free, one-click hosting, and it doesn't exactly challenge paid hosts like Ghostify which offer straightforward FTP access for adding themes. That is not the fault of the platform.

For me, Ghost makes for the perfect personal blog where I just want to write some markdown and be done with it. For others I can see that it has limitations for some clients, and those limitations are intentional—just like those perceived in Golang. Ghost is there if you want it, not to supplant the ubiquitous WordPress.

All said and done, I'd still wait until 0.6 brings the eagerly awaited dashboard before I recommend it over alternative platforms.
Is this the Maes-Garreau 'law' in effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maes-Garreau_law

(i.e. the possible bias that people like to predict events will happen in their lifetime)
"cellphones should be waterproof."

It would be nice if they were. But all manufacturing involves design and price tradeoffs.

I have a Sony Rx100ii (great camera) and it would be nice if that were waterproof. But it's not and Sony (and others) offer a different camera that is waterproof (but doesn't have the features of the Rx100ii). Any feature adds to cost (or maybe makes something else not practical or not as good). Even a slight increase in cost can change the demand curve. Or performance (take a car with 4 wheel drive vs. 2 wheel drive). Etc.

By the way my own example of "should be" involves desktop or rack mounted servers having at least a nominal surge protection or UPS. Obviously that has been thought of and ruled out for various competitive reasons. (Weight, size, cost, demand).
major difference between the two is that bitcoin is frustrating and difficult, while dogecoin is fun
Quick tip for developers who use OS X
OSX Terminal: hold option and click a position in the current line to move your cursor to that position. #yearslost
The dependency issues are solved if you reuse a given docker image; as you said.

Yes, the procedure of generating the image (Dockerfile) is basically a glorified installation script.

But I don't understand why you use the properties of the image creation tool to refute runtime properties of docker images.

EDIT: like if when discussing the properties of a perfect headache free binary package management system, you mention that the code is still not guaranteed to be the same because when the packages are built, two builds of the same package could be slightly different. The purpose of the binary packaging scheme is to use the built artifact. Repeatable builds are a secondary goal.
If you don't have any kind of life plan and you take on crushing debt because all your friends are doing it, whose fault is that?

Nobody whines while they're in school living on borrowed money, until reality starts to intrude and they realize that they have to pay it all back, with interest.

http://goo.gl/Up53dD
Google really REALLY needs to up their game. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046240

I don't feel safe using their services anymore.
Has anyone preferred Specter (http://brislink.github.io/specter/) over Ghost? It seems a little less fleshed out than Ghost but also a lot less "commercial" as some have noted of the latter.
I saw a reference recently that summed up why I dislike The Big Gang Theory: "Nerd Black Face." It is treating the nerds and geeks on the show as unself-aware fools for "real" society to laugh at.
As somebody on the other side of the world from SV I find it difficult to gauge how common this type of dishonest behaviour is. It certainly seems like most startups who become popular have at least one negative tale of dishonesty associated with them. Stories of the kind where it is obvious that the behaviour was a deliberate strategy sanctioned by CEOs and probably VCs as well.

One thing I do find telling is the reaction when these stories break. Powerful VCs and incubators seem happy to defend the behaviour. Examples that spring to mind:

- Path CEO and SV heavyweight Dave Morin defending stealing users address books as 'industry best practice'[1]

- pg defending a YC company that was selling a malware bundling installer service by claiming that people 'choose' to install spyware: 'The apps that get installed are "crapware." This one seems a matter of opinion. A lot of the world's most popular apps and sites seem like junk to us. But the users are choosing to install these things.'[2]

- Josh Hannah of Matrix Partners defending JustFab which was (is?) engaging in various scams like negative option billing[3] dressed up as a one time purchase. [4]

- pg defending the spamming and blackhat seo tactics of AirBnb

Generally the tone is one of surprise that people are even upset about these things, followed by talk about how the spammers in question are really 'nice guys'. The only conclusion I can come to is that this is endemic in the culture of SV startups. The people funding startups are happy to stand behind spammers and scammers. The only thing I don't know is if they are just turning a blind eye or are actively encouraging this behaviour in their startups.

To quote the YC application page: "If this wasn't already clear, we're not looking for the sort of obedient, middle-of-the-road people that big companies tend to hire. We're looking for people who like to beat the system."

I think it's pretty clear what that means…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563639

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_option_billing

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455575
Works for me (OS X 10.9, latest Chrome), but the "glitching" removes the bottom 75% of the image and only seems to manipulate the top portion.
How was it for a techie mindset?

Hit windows key, type in 'environment'. Where the hell is change environment variables?

A lot of the really important techie menus items are missing from Windows 8, it's actually pretty useless as a techie interface without modding vanilla, which I'm not a fan of because I use so many different machines.

Also try using server 2012 with a remote desktop connection. Nightmare.

NB: This was true last time I was using a win 8 machine, may have changed now.
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It is not a matter of risk. If the USA fails to liveup to its obligations we are done as a world power, period. There is no calculation here in which we would back down.
I prefer to see it in a bit more relaxed light -- they're checking to see who will pick sides, and which side they will pick, when the shit hits the fan. So they're poking and prodding mainly from a curiosity's standpoint.

It's nasty and nobody likes to be pushed around, but nowadays there's a very large difference between what you say and what you do.
To paraphrase John O'Nolan in his original Kickstarter video for Ghost, Ghost is designed for users, not to please investors or potential acquirers. You can hear the original here: https://ghost.org/features/ starting around 2:05 in the video.
Needs an active FB session to read.
I think you're reading a dismissal into a harmless jab. raverbashing probably upvoted the comment.
The problem with this approach is that you basically lose all IDE support and static code checking - it's a good solution in extreme cases, but I prefer not to use it as the default.
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I'm not sure about that. The doc [0] says that there are some static files that should be distributed by whatever HTTP server you want (they suggest python's simple http server) After that, it's all js in the browser.

Edit: I see what you mean: Pouchdb-server [1] is a couchdb-compatible server that speaks the same sync protocol. If you don't want to install it, you can work with any hosted couchdb-speaking cloud instance, such as iriscouch [2] or cloudant [3]

[0] http://pouchdb.com/getting-started.html

[1] https://github.com/nick-thompson/pouchdb-server

[2] http://www.iriscouch.com/

[3] https://cloudant.com/
"After two years building Branch and Potluck, I am thrilled to announce that we will be continuing our mission at Facebook!

We will be forming Facebook's Conversations group, based in New York City, with the goal of helping people connect with others around their interests. Their pitch to us was: "Build Branch at Facebook scale!"

Although the products we build will be reminiscent of Branch and Potluck, those services will live on outside of Facebook. A more thoughtful note and details to come soon but I am writing this haphazardly from a mountain in Japan (I was tipped that the story was going to leak while on vacation).

In the meantime, a huge "thank you" to our investors. Especially, Jason Goldman, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Ryan Freitas, John Borthwick, and Jonah Peretti, who all spent an extraordinary amount of time with us.

Most importantly though, a big congrats to my eight teammates who have worked tirelessly,
often behind the scenes. So much and admiration: http://branch.com/company#team - on we go!"
>Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers".

I am wondering about this. I tried Ghost a few months ago, when digitial ocean was offering a free couple months if you tried it. I used it for a little bit, and found it much, much worse than wordpress for even simple blogging. I really like the ability to change things around easily if I don't like them.

What did I miss?
Scroll wheel on my mouse isn't working either.

Nor are arrow keys.

Someone tried a little too hard to optimize for Safari and OSX and forgot that's like 8% of the market.

Chrome on Win 8.1. Site is nearly un-usable (I can click in their custom scrollbar to make it move).
I did not know this. Thanks! Very helpful tip.
Many countries do this sort of thing sometimes... but because China's government stays in power at its own pleasure, without the aid of elections to lend it popular legitimacy every once in a while, and because it's freer to pursue goals that may not have the support of the populace, it may have to resort to such measures more often than governments in other countries.
I like how it says top ten stories. It's a cool concept of sharing a win. More importantly you'd need to find out how the top ten is decided though, because ironically the best way to find out what people believe in is where they choose to put their money. A ranking system aside from letting them directly fund doesn't let them decide that.
Binary thinking... option 3 don't use electricity (at least not much) at night.

It may be that aluminum electrorefineries and data centers simply have to be installed next to hydro plants instead of solar plants. And CNC machine tool plants will only operate when the sun is up. So be it.
Big Data Checklist
Do you have big data separated from the rest of your product?
Do you have established metrics?
Do you have a live dashboard?
Do you have the fastest possible prototype-evaluate-ship-repeat cycles?
Do you log everything?
Do your designs enforce repeatability of results?
Do you run live experiments?
Do you run regression tests?
Do you have infrastructure ready for big data?
Do you understand the importance of organic data?
Do you know how much headroom you have?
Do you do research outside your main task?
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Feelancing is your only hope?

Take a look at the fine print of IT/programming jobs ads:

Master Degree in Computer Science blah blah blah... or equivalent experience.

If you translate 'equivalent experience' into it's true meaning, it reads: you are able to do the work.

Companies know as much as anyone that it's a crap shoot whether an engineer with a degree will do any better than one without.

The owner of the near 30 person company I work at, a very capable and respected programmer himself, dropped out of high school, and does millions of dollars in business.

As far as your age? That makes no difference whatsoever these days.
Student loans aren't removed in a bankruptcy (in the US, which is what is under discussion here).

Also, while 'Nobody forced the loan down your throat' might be sort of technically true, for most Americans born after 1980 their entire life was to a drum beat of college prep. "Getting students ready for college" is the sole purpose of middle school and high school. Every parent, teacher and adult that you trust and interact with has been telling you that you need to go to college since you were in kindergarten.

At best, smart millenials realized they should major in something with decent job prospects (STEM, business, etc) but I can easily forgive those who didn't. Many were told to do what they loved and the money would follow or that as long as they had any degree jobs would be easy (this was a common belief in blue-collar America in the 90s). Many saw how easy white-collar boomers lives were and didn't realize the rules had changed.
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The role you don’t want to be in.
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Feelancing is your only hope?

Take a look at the fine print of IT/programming jobs ads:

"Master Degree in Computer Science blah blah blah... or equivalent experience."

If you translate 'equivalent experience' into it's true meaning, it reads: you are able to do the work.

Companies know as much as anyone that it's a crap shoot whether an engineer with a degree will do any better than one without.

The owner of the near 30 person company I work at, a very capable and respected programmer himself, dropped out of high school, and does millions of dollars in business.

As far as your age? That makes no difference whatsoever these days.
I was thinking the same thing.

That and I'm not understanding from the page how this is used in the first place. Is the `arguments` implicit variable being passed in some place? (EDIT: yes, via `Function.caller`.) Are the argument values accessed through the result of calling `Args`?

For a non-macro implementation of this, it might be interesting to use function decorator syntax instead, to put the argument processing outside the function body entirely. Basically, the argument processor decorator function would take an options array and a target function, which has all possible parameters, explicitly named. The decorator would spit out a new function that invisibly does all of the wrangling of `arguments` and then finally calls the target function. An advantage is that I think this would be the most minimal pure JS solution from a syntax perspective, and it would keep the actual function body uncluttered. A disadvantage is that it could only really be used with function expressions (not declarations).
And they wouldn't be wrong -- the US is quite timid towards China, despite all of the saber rattling in American politics.

Methinks China would prefer this timidity to be obvious to everybody rather than quietly hidden among diplomatic undertones -- very devious indeed, and quite dangerous because there are quite a few on both sides that would like to see an escalation of tension.