skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably has to do with how the YBB+ portrayed some teacher in a bad light. The integrity of those 'excellent' professors and tenured careers has to be protected.

I wish my university even had all those reviews we do at the end of the year available for all to see. They don't do sh*t with it. I once wasted my time by suggesting my university create an API for students to easily get any data about the school. B/c then we would all see how 'great' some of our professors are and what we each think about them.

Sure 3rd party website like 'ratemyprofessor' are good, but they don't have the ease of acquiring rating data like schools do that pass out reviews to each student at the end of a semester. They have to protect the 'wizard of oz' lest we all see who really is behind the curtain.
I don't think many people complain about the $10 price tag of these clients. Looking to replace Sparrow, I just purchased both Mail Pilot and Unibox (hadn't heard of either until this article).

The reviews of both apps don't contain complaints about price — unless the app is not working for the customer, which is a pretty reasonable complaint.
NodeJS is usefully to write tiny servers working together for specific purposes (nodes).

It was never designed to replace rails or django in what they do best : classic web apps with a lot of static pages served from server-side templates.

So if you are designing an online news paper, a blog or e-shop ,you shouldnt be using it.

However,you might want to send 100000 mails to your customers each week. Node can help you with that.You might want to fetch loads of data from a 3rd party api, Node can help you with that, or add real time functionalities... Node can be a component of your setup(like a RDBMS,a proxy,...),it doesnt have to be the core.

The real issue is not Node,it's all the craze around it that makes people give up solutions that work for the new hotness,so you get people trying to port rails or django to node, which is stupid.

So please dont bash Node because of the way some people try to sell it to everybody for everything.
These people will go away soon and jump in the next bandwagon,but NodeJS is here to stay.
Perhaps we ought turn the question around:

Under such circumstances, how is anyone going to keep bitcoin out of Argentina?
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As someone in an entirely different country (and lives in a state where they've decided a 30% increase in public transport prices every year is acceptable and not idiotic...) can someone explain to me why there is such a fuss around companies making their employees lives easier by taking care of transport for them?

It is a rather complicated situation that involves a number of factors:

If Google was an SF company (or had a large SF campus that these employees could work at), the city would at least be collecting taxes from them that could be used to support all the public infrastructure that these employees and these buses use.

On top of that, it is horribly inefficient to have people commute 40 miles (~64 km) to their office. There is certainly some animosity towards these kinds of commuters who often spend very little time actually in San Francisco, pay little to no city taxes, but want to live here.

But when it comes right down to it, Google pays people extremely high wages that are a bit out of whack with what local companies pay which drives up rent in San Francisco. The thought goes that if the Google buses end, at least some portion of the employees would find it too big of a hassle to commute and actually move near where their office is.

You hear arguments about gentrification, but there are plenty of fully gentrified neighborhoods in San Francisco with people who would be happy to see these commuters go away. This is about rent prices, housing shortages and a general feeling that these commuters have no skin in the game.

Of course, really we need more housing stock too, but that's a more difficult problem.
PHP and Node.js happen to be the two languages/platforms I am most proficient with. I don't think one can be completely replaced by the other for all situations. It really depends on what you are planning to do with it. If you use PHP to develop websites/apps and you aren't facing issues with scaling/load, you can continue with PHP, which has a bigger ecosystem compared to Node.js.

If you want to deploy a real time app or a socket or tcp server, or even a high load API, you can give Node.js a shot. Node.js can do normal web stuff too, but I don't know any good reason why you would want to learn and use it when you are already proficient with PHP.

For the sake of simply learning it, just go ahead and learn it.
I wouldn't say a CEO is necessarily the visionary. The CEO's most important distinction is the fiduciary responsibilities he or she has to shareholders, namely increasing shareholder value.
There are a lot of differences with China. For example, China produces a lot of goods locally where Argentina "can't" produce a reliable refrigerator... and depends on a lot of foreign components in every industry.

Argentina, obviously, produces some high quality goods but in another scale.
I agree. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to configure different ciphersuites for different versions of TLS. With issues like BEAST, it would be highly beneficial if Apache, Nginx & others would supports ciphers preferences per TLS versions.

That still wouldn't help old clients. For them, only one solution: upgrade!
Odd. The link you posted directly contradicts your point. It says that Reds are at that time unproven and that the Greens are the way to go for ZFS. Basically it is saying that ZFS does not require TLER so that part is not an issue. On top of that it is saying that the Green drives are both common and well tested.
Maybe that wasn't the most precise term, apologies. I assumed the immediate clarification of what I meant by "cross-platform" was sufficient.
Here in the US, I walked into an ATT store a few months ago. My options for a '$99' phone included a couple of Nokia 900 series Luminas, a Samsung Galaxy S3, an LG Optimus G Pro, and the iPhone 5c.

That's about as head to head as it gets.
Such a fucking paid nonsense. I an in India right now. It is Samsung and iPhone country. It was Nokia Symbian country before Samsung and Android era, and you would never see a Lumina phone outside a shop window. Low level Nokia Asha phones are selling well, but they are S40.
Online dating is tilted much more in favour of women odds wise than "real life dating".

If you are at all able to approach a woman in real life and introduce yourself, do that instead. You'll get far more social interactions far faster (you don't even need to successfully ask anyone out to start improving).

As suggested elsewhere - joining a dance group or something is great for an easy environment for introductions. But even walking up to total strangers on the street and introducing yourself typically gets better responses than online dating. Where online dating beats "real life" is in using sheer volume to compensate.
I second the dance idea -- I took up salsa dancing and similar styles years ago, for a couple years straight, and it made a huge difference. Your posture, your comfort around women, your confidence -- it'll do wonders.
Why would you need an operator for it? I just use assert False, with the TODO as message.
Segregating Bitcoin’s value systems
Silicon Valley is seen by young people as really boring suburbia with no culture. San Francisco, on the other hand, has a long tradition of being hip. That's why tech is shifting from the valley to SF.
I'm working on a project for a large company that recently made Windows Phone 8 its corporate standard.

I have to say that I've been impressed with the phone since I started using one for development. The display, camera and interfaces feel smooth and fun to use.

It's easy to bash Microsoft and dismiss its products altogether, but it's important to give them a shot, if only to avoid the mistake of limiting ourselves to the Apple / Google technology that is most prevalent.
That's exciting. I looked at Docker briefly, and it has the "Ooh, cool project, can envision the potential" bit in spades but unfortunately is at that unhappy stage of maturity where e.g. betting AR's future on it not blowing up or shutting down would be a bit more risky than the benefits currently warrant. I'm really looking forward to when it's production-ready.
The official docs are quite friendly. Try implementing a small project in node. You'll have extra fun if you find an excuse to use web sockets.
The funny thing is that a lot of the protesters are recent transplants themselves. They just don't work in a profession that pays enough that they can make rent in the SF rental market, so they're pissed that they have to leave.
A variety of factors -- some strange rent laws intended (ironically) to protect tenants, lack of new units, overabundance of millionaires -- have resulted in a situation where housing in San Francisco is rapidly exceeding a price where ordinary people can afford it. If you're not making 100k+ per year, you will have trouble finding a nice one bedroom home, let alone more bedrooms. At the same time, many of the newly rich CS folks don't actually work in the city -- they work an hour away in the valley.

So companies have provided the awesome service -- as you mention -- of running busses. The buses sometimes use bus stops reserved for city buses. That itself isn't such a big deal. But within this specific context, the buses have become a symbol of the class strife in the area.

From the perspective of long-time SF residents: Here you have private buses illegally stopping in a zone reserved for the public, paid for by the taxes of the long-time residents quickly getting priced out of their own [rented] homes, which each day take their new neighbors to jobs that pay the wages, inflated by the economies of scale that come with the internet, that are the cause of the meteoric housing price rise.

From the perspective of San Francisco's nouveau riche: real estate is just another market, and SF is a market undergoing rapid change in which there will be winners and losers, and while it sucks to be a loser, that is inevitable as the "rich" and "not rich" zones of housing move around geographically, as they inevitably always will.

The stance of most people on both sides is, of course, somewhere in the middle, empathetic to the situation both sides find themselves in.
Woot! Very excited! :)
Or make them pay something towards the cost of those public spaces. Which is what the city is doing. I don't think $1 per bus per day is enough though really - it seems so obviously a token amount that I'm sure its going to go up.
This Google Glass user went to the movies. He got interrogated for four hours.
Ah. Criticizing the intentional use of sloppy generalizations is "pedantic" and sloppy generalizations are sometimes used against women so this justifies the use of sloppy generalizations against men. Got it.
Late to the party? It's an internet party!

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Seems like his main mistake was raising $3.6M before getting any traction. Remember Color? Really, it shouldn't cost 3.6M to build a relatively simple ipad app.

0.5M MAU is a pretty decent user base, and would bring in a few thousand bucks a month in advertising. The problem is that once you've raised $3.6M you really need to have a plan for earning big bucks, and that never seemed likely with this app.

The other mistake is making it ipad-only. It would make more sense to have an html5 version.

Just out of curiosity: how much are the AWS server costs? You should be able to run this site for $50/month, but my gut tells me they might be paying a lot more.
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Williamsburg is already pretty expensive, even for the tech elite. (Well, I couldn't afford it when I looked a couple years ago, anyway :)
I am also in India and I have to say that while Lumias are not everywhere, they definitely have a decent market share. and iPhone country? I don't think so.
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Well, it would be possible if the Argentinians adopted a "South American" Bitcoin variant with their own Genesis block: restarting the BTC valuation process based on their local economy would capture the actual local value.

You'd be in a competition at some point with the larger "Western" Bitcoin variant, but that's not an issue in the short term.
What numbers are you referring to? Curious, I live in AU too and all I am observing is the rise of android against a stagnant MS and dwindling iPhone and BB market shares..
Argentina economic potential is high and there are many companies that provide state of the art products and services.

The problem is the economic environment making impossible to survive for a standard business. The tax pressure is incredible high and there are not incentives for doing fair businesses.

Imagine this simple case: a company exports for ~7 pesos per dollar while imports its components for ~11. And we are not talking yet about the paperwork and bribery involved in commercial transactions.
Are the actually ending homelessness for good? Or are they placing a bandaid on the problem and possibly making things worse?

Hawaii has a homeless problem because it is a very forgiving place for the homeless to live, mainly the favorable temperature imho.

Vancouver/Victoria B.C. have a much larger visible homeless population than Toronto. Again, because the winter temperatures won't kill you in Vancouver, buy they very well could in Toronto.

In time, once "word of the street" gets out that Utah is giving away free houses to homeless people whether they follow their suggested rules of living or not... I think we might be seeing a few more thumbs on the highway with signs for Salt Lake City.
What are you doing??? Didn't you just condemn[1] this nonsense? ...now you're doing it.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099199
Many credit unions that have a relationship with such a car-buying service typically advertise as such on their website.
That's not the case anymore (ever?). There are iOS apps written in C#, Ruby, C++, and of course JS/HTML care of Phonegap.

I think the only real opposition to alternative stacks Apple publicly displayed was to Flash.

Edit: Actually it looks like Adobe Air also works:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air-on-ios-faq.html...
>What I still read here is a ridiculous claim that Unix permissions prevent viruses

Not ridiculous, scientific. Perhaps you can't think straight. The fact that you can write viruses taking advantage of mechanisms such as buffer overflows to create privilege escalation, doesn't mean that permissions don't prevent the kind of viruses which are based on simple copy propagation. You know, like all the popular viruses back in the DOS, early Windows, Amiga, Atari etc era.

And I don't really appreciate the strawman you resorted to use (using "unix permissions prevent viruses" as if I said they make them impossible, instead of prevent certain classes of them).

>When confronted with counterpoints you just say something along the lines of "I never knew about that so I must have been right all along."

Are you kidding me? What counterpoints? I know everything you said about Windows XP. How about actually quoting what I said (it's just above your comment), instead of putting strawmans in quotes and pretending it was mine?

FACTS: Windows XP has a default admin account. Most people had full permissions to install and touch anything, and nether bothered, neither did the OS nagged them, to create a restricted account. Heck, the admin account even had empty password in most installations (as was the default).

That you could set up restricted accounts and permissions doesn't mean a thing. And I never said that I didn't know about them (another strawman you had to resort to) -- I said they were irrelevant because most users didn't use them and the OS didn't force you to.
In Williamsburg, we're a few years past that point. The new "in" thing is to complain about being priced out of Bushwick. At this rate, neighborhoods all the way down to Kennedy Airport should be fully hipsterized by 2020 or so.
$1 per stop is chump change for a company like Google. I don't see how this fee will create any difference for what the protestors are demanding.

And this type of fee reminds me of a Freakonomics article that talked about how a daycare started charging parents a late fee of $3 and it had an unintended effect of increasing the frequency of late parents, because it rid the parents of moral guilt for being late. In a similar way, despite the fee, the big tech companies are going to continue doing what they're doing, but now they won't feel as bad for it. I don't see how this solves anything.

Freakonomics article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/0515-1st-le...
If a "South American Bitcoin variant" was created, purely for south americans, why would anyone holding a world currency (Bitcoin) trade it for currency only recognized in south america?
This is one of the reasons I only purchase AMD-based systems. Well that and the fact that AMD's CPU/GMU combo has better graphics performance.

It's either that or support a company whose market advantage is based on anti-competitive practices and who will spend a significant portion of their profits on reducing consumer's choice of CPU (up to the point they no longer have to of course).
San Francisco is the only thing resembling a dense urban core in the area. There are many other nice places in the Bay Area, but very few of which will afford you the archetypical car-less transit-centric lifestyle that many people desire, while maintaining commutability to suburban offices. Many places are anti-urban by choice.

At the risk of being a bit flippant, it's not that people find SF so appealing, but that they find everywhere closer to work unbearable. By any measure I can think of SF is a deeply dysfunctional city with incredible failures in basic quality of life - but it is the only city around that even begins to offer a lifestyle that many people want.
100% fashion.
I can think of two ways to handle this that minimize your wasted time:

1. Call in and record the idiocy. I use Skype and a headset, so I can get work done while on hold. When the rep answers and asks "Who am I speaking to?", say "This is so and so on a recorded line.", just like your stockbroker, etc. does. If their standard blurb says they "may" be recording the call for "training and quality control", then you don't have to announce anything, as the call is now recordable by either party. Collect and post these idiotic exchanges, audio and transcripts. Shame and name.

2. Bypass the call center. Look up the registered agent of the corporation in your state. Send them a very threatening letter, return receipt requested, stating the facts and your demand for whatever they are doing to stop. Give them a time limit to stop, and then threaten to sue them in small claims court. There are these standard letters all over the net. Note: whether you actually sue them eventually is beside the point, and entirely optional. Trust me, an actual lawyer will have to respond to your letter, and it will be very expensive for them. You are also on record for any future court actions, and they know that. The letter templates are easily found with google, your state secretary of state may charge a dollar or two for the address of the registered agent, and certified return receipt costs about $6. Cost on their end, probably $200 to start in attorney's time. Much easier than hanging on the phone and being served by idiots.
Getting used to people touching is already sort of weird. It is odd because of how different it is even amongst Americans. Being born and raised in Seattle, guys never really hug (hah some days the handshake is even uncertain!), but I have recently made friends with groups from other areas of the countries and it is interesting seeing different standards of expected physical interaction.

But yeah, dance classes have been recommended to me. I'm doing improv right now, which is already helping a good deal, it is a different set of experiences.
Do something exciting for you. More than anything, employers want to see you get excited and energized about something. So if there's some really cool problem that you want to work on and you create/help maintain an open source project related to it - that's great. Or make your own app. Whatever: it doesn't really matter, it just matters that you're into it.
It was a special time in Windows history, though, since it marks when the server and consumer OS started using the same kernel. That's why I think 2000 belongs on the list but not NT4 or Server 2003.
Of course, Argentinians could attempt to bootstrap their own cryptocurrency..

It's ironic that one of the cryptocurrency experts is Argentinian: http://bitslog.wordpress.com
> Because as developers, you don't develop for a specific piece of mobile hardware, you develop for an OS.

Speak for yourself, I develop for the web.
I have an actual real-life case study that supports this. I know someone who is currently outsourcing development to Argentina (close time zone, technical population and he gets to practice his spanish).

His current method of paying them is to pay a US residing relative of theirs who is basically holding the money as a stateside retirement account for the Argentinians.

He offered over a year ago to start paying them in BTC so that they could actually spend they money he was paying them (for which I'm sure they are kicking themselves for turning down now).

So while there are all sorts of issues with BTC in terms of liquidity, exchange and security its probably a mark of how bad it is in Argentina that BTC looks sane and stable in comparison.
Don't bother pointing out that you're new (that'll be clear from your resume). Say what you've done and tie previous work to that as well.
Is this still how pg claims HN ranks stories?
Yeah, but they're not very good at it, so they want to charge $1,350/year plus an extra $500 per year for the first year for the privilege of getting them to do their job.

(see this for an example of them not being good at their job: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2053380/network-solutions-inv... )
The point about the orange car was meant to be self deprecating!

(The $10 inflatable dolphin is supposed to be cute, ends up being really freaky looking, go figure!)

The dolphin was actually something I brought into work for my team to play with, we had a good chunk of the building watching as we flew it around our atrium. The problem is, it is hard to capture that I am the sort of person who is always thinking of ways to help make his team happy without writing really lame sentences like this one!

I do write more sane messages, to a girl who had mentioned that she liked eating animals,

What is your favorite mammal to consume? I've been on a lamb kick lately, lamb burgers stuffed with basil and spinach are so good! Put some goat cheese in the very middle, and life is divine!

and in other food related messages!

There is a place in the ID that sells durian milkshakes. The shakes are a bit on the strong side. :)

What other sorts of weird things have you had? I think squid jerky was one of the more interesting foodstuffs I've tried.

Overall, after 4 years of trying I've yet to find a good way to write messages. :/
Sure it does. They're just choosing the WPs based on price.
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Who's going to offer bitcoin? Nobody living in Argentina has any to offer. American and European tourists? Why wouldn't they keep their (appreciating) bitcoins at home and just offer to pay in Dollars or Euros?
Ask HN: How simple is the HN ranking algorithm?
Over 2,000 days ago, pg claimed that HN was ranked like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231209

I just tried to submit this link as an Ask HN article and it was marked [DEAD] instantly for some reason?

I am curious if anybody has a working MySQL implementation of the reddit ranking algorithm.