skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's probably the worst product name in history.

It certainly gets people's attention, though, doesn't it?
Except a TOS agreement violation with a person who is obviously trolling.

Normally I would be right there with you - but in this case it was a troll who was asked to anonymize his clearly defamatory attacks, and predictably he blew up over it.

DO is a private provider, not government affiliated, so 1st amendment doesn't apply and they are protected under §230, but still they have a TOS that prevents it from becoming a safe haven for cyber bullies like this troll. TBH I'm okay with this, especially since the troll agreed to the TOS to begin with.
I have really only experimented with Scala, so I'm not in a position to really judge it. But my initial impression is that Scala makes it awfully easy to write "write only code" that no one else can read. The amount of optional syntax, and the multitude of different ways to do the same thing, doesn't sit quite so well with me.

OTOH, I have generally been a fan of languages with static type systems, and I believe Scala tends to be a bit more performant than Groovy. I'll probably revisit Scala at some point, but right now Groovy is working really well for me.
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I don't see money as a "store of value." It represents value. It does not store it. It's primary value is in lubricating trade so you don't have to trade a whole bunch of stuff to get the one thing you want. You can just get money and then go get Thing You Want.

I don't agree with your conclusions but the history part was interesting. Thank you for sharing that.

Edit: Also, 12 trillion dollars divided by 311 million people in the US is only $38585.20900321543 per person. Not such a crazy high number for the money supply given that this is a wealthy nation.
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Well if you read what Joel says about working conditions and look at the office pics where you can see that in practice it just makes sense that fogcreek can attract the best people.
Look how everybody has is own office.

I still dont get it why people keep thinking that to cram puzzlers on a noisy heap with all possible (social, visual, audio) distractions saves money in the end.
If Joel can offer programmers sane working conditions in NY, so can every office around the world.
The costs of your own hardware are significant. A decent initial foray will be at least $1m when you think about servers, routers, switches, etc. Against VC money flowing around, that doesn't seem like much, but it is a big stretch for many start-ups to have that much cash tied up in Capital.
The complication were because its a 3 partner LLC who have full time jobs and live in different parts of the Bay Area, so Chase suggested we file forms in the branches closest to us and they will be sent intramail to the same guy who would then open our account.

Well 2 out of 3 forms submissions went smooth but the last one was lost in the branch TWICE, all sorts of complications ensued and by the time everything got resolved, the state of CA posted the CANCELLATION of our LLC online
Could anyone in the know point to an open-source alternative platform (like R, py) on which these concepts may be applied?

not so keen to tie any datasets to Google anymore.
> Just because they're largely minors doesn't, to me, mean that their parents have the right to deny them a future in favor of whatever their personal reasons may be.

No, that's exactly what being a minor means. One's parents have the right to teach one whatever values, facts and fictions they wish, while one is a minor.

But don't worry too hard about it: teaching is _not_ hard. Almost any parent who cares enough to homeschool is capable of teaching his or her children better than a public school would (which is not a very high bar to clear).

As for your anecdotal belief that the homeschooling families you encountered were incapable, I wonder if it was really your belief that they would not teach what _you_ think is true and correct.
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I find it really interesting and awesome that Rails and PHP are both (at the same time) in the process of (re)discovering the architecture described in Evan's DDD and Fowler's PEAA.

What's old is new again! Rails has existed long enough to have a need (and a vocal chunk of the php community has matured enough) to think of apps architecture with a longer term in mind.

I think devs are seeing frameworks as a tool to implement an application instead of being the application itself (as originilly conceived before Rails revolutionized RAD).

Great!
The reasons for Obama's "we need to move on" are, as nabla9 commented:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7395233

"If Bush & Cheney administration goes down, so goes Clinton & Gore. (...)
The CIA was granted permission to use extraordinary rendition (torture flights) in a presidential directive signed by Bill Clinton in 1995. The practice was started by George H. W. Bush in 1993."

The story starts at least 20 years ago. And as Marcy Wheeler suggests, the directive for drones was probably signed by G. W. Bush and Obama still uses them.
> it has one of the worst product names I've ever heard of

I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick
> What I find interesting about this is that the Google Drive is now significantly less expensive than Amazon S3

Which shouldn't be too surprising, since the (more expensive than Drive) Google product that is more of a direct competitor to S3 (Google Cloud Storage) is still an order of magnitude less expensive than S3 (Cloud Storage is $0.085/GB for the first 1TB.)

EDIT: Well, actually, that's not true; parent's cited prices for S3 were wrong. GCS and S3 are, at least for the first TB, exactly the same price at $0.085/GB.

> This means that any service built on top of Amazon S3 will never be less expensive than Google Drive. Period.

That depends. With drive you pay for allocated capacity, with S3 don't you pay for actual usage? Depending on the level of overcommit, its possible for less expensive per GB "capacity" priced service to be profitable on top of a more expensive per GB "usage" priced service.

Plus, its at least theoretically possible, especially if a lot of the stored content is not efficiently compressed on its own, that the consumer capacity-priced service could also use compression and/or deduplication to further reduce usage on the usage-priced backend.

> Google Drive is not programmatically accessible like S3.

Google Drive most assuredly is programmatically accessible via an API.
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The scorpion one looks awesome, but I feel like I would be too tempted to nap at that incline.
Paying attention to what?
There are also other possibilities why they preferred English (Swiss here, so take it with a grain of salt when I refer to Germans).

To show off their English skills. Although this can even happen when their English is worse than your German. Especially Germans are really proud to be "international" even though it's not always justified.

Or they don't want you to stagger about in a language you don't know very well. So some want to be polite and spare you the trouble to speak it. Of course that doesn't help you but you should then insist and say something about "learning this beautiful language" and then usually they can't deny you this.

In IT it's quite custom that anybody speaks English when somebody is around that doesn't speak German as you are expected to know the language well enough. After all in IT, you need English every day. For Zurich, which has a great number of foreigners, this applies as well.

For Switzerland in general, remember that the Swiss dialect is quite different from Standard German and there are many Swiss who are not that comfortable speaking Standard German so switching to English is an option when they actually don't want you to notice how bad their German is.
I'll have to go with B) upsetting reasons

I usually just say that I'm frugal, but one has to be when all that comes in, goes out.
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'directory/index.js' is another of those. Also, module.exports. Bigger would be like knowing that express has one hoof at the glue factory because koa is bringing mad generators.

Also, there's just some stuff you know when you're working with Node all day. Same thing with every profession and specialities. If you work in Rails all day, your'e going to know a hell of a lot more about it than me. I can't just pick up what you know in a weekend.
But I don't want to stick my own 1u junk server (although I do have those, 4 cores, 8gb). The low end SSD back VPS are phenomenal for what you get.
Their price tag is not an indicative on whether they're interested in helping poor people or not.
The logic you present is correct from the incumbent's perspective. But followed to its logical conclusion, it leads to the downfall of the incumbent according to Christensen's model of disruptive innovation. The incumbents will continually cater upmarket to their higher value customers while the challenger picks up more and more low value customers. But there's only so far upmarket you can go until you run out of customers and that's when the low end challenger has completely consumed the incumbent.

I think much of this thread is a testament to the lower value customers being ignored. Things about how DO is much less complex, simpler and as a result cheaper.

Here's part of a great talk from Christensen describing the same logic but in the Steel industry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FxFfymI4g
"Studies have shown" is the equivalent of the Fox, "some people say." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw
I have an RSVP bookmarklet that lets me read selected text at 500 wpm. What is interesting about it is that adaptation is a serious problem. If you don't move your eyes, your vision fades. So I find myself having to consciously have to make small eye movements to prevent that. But other then that it sort of works.
I am curious about what characteristics you have uncovered. And do you think they are accidental?
where did the commenter say it was immoral?
Seen on the Register:

Phase 3: Increasingly desperate attempts to monetize the user base. A short but pivotal phase of the social network lifespan that quickly slides into:

Phase 4: The vicious spiral of lame.
So you're not interested in the product, why do you care that it goes away?
Would you mind giving the details on how you got the cost that low?
How long should your pitch deck be? 10 slides
"it has one of the worst product names I've ever heard of"

It's memorable. And FWIW, 1) the book had no cannibalism, and 2) most kinds of "SoyLent" were not made from people even in the movie.
The counter to that argument is that an advertiser may not care that you will click the ad, they just want you to be exposed to the product.

Coke has done this for years and many claim this is their key to their globally recognizable brand.
@zippergz: I do ads at a performance based marketing company. For some clients Facebook is great at driving tons of volume with good performance. I've also seen clients who pay a bunch for user-signups and it doesn't back out to sales for their particular product. Buying likes is something people do more for brand awareness (not so different than say McDonalds buying a TV commercial but can't measure the exact ROI).

I think the difference often comes down to how well you set up your campaign. There is often a razor thin line between profitability and losing money in a performance-based campaign you're tying directly to sales.

If you'd like to ping me at jonathan@hypedsound.com or let me know through here what your product is, I might be able to guess at whether it seems feasible.
I agree with you that figuring out how to structure debates in an automated fashion is a Hard Problem, but that's not the only way a debate site can add value. Finding primary sources and extracting relevant information from them is such a difficult process that disturbingly few people do it, even though it really ought to be central to a good debate. Reducing friction in the resource-finding process, curating already-discovered relevant resources (one sentence summaries + search), figuring out a way to reward evidence-based arguments, and punishing fabrications would all be huge value-adds. The real trick, of course, is figuring out how to keep people at the lower end of the spectrum engaged.

I recently had the pleasant surprise of stumbling across procon.org, which appears to address some of those value-add categories (it looks curated, so there's still space for somebody to automate the process, thereby extending it to small or recent issues). I was investigating healthcare reform, so I landed here:

http://healthcarereform.procon.org

Pay particular attention to to "Projects" sidebar on the left. It's a goldmine of relevant quantitative information and the arguments surrounding their interpretation. This is what arguments should look like. Anyone who can figure out how to structure a forum system to organically generate something akin to the "Projects" sidebar might have a shot at making themselves a "citation hub" and becoming the Wikipedia of arguments.

The world doesn't need another opinion network, but it does need another way to argue, and such a site might arise out of an especially clever opinion network.
Great explanation in document form of these patterns. Also very succinct and easy to reference.

For those that would rather read this in presentation form: http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1

And for those that would rather watch a video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
Personally I found watching films with subtitles (the original subtitles, I mean - same stuff they're saying on the screen, like a version for hearing-impaired people) very helpful in learning
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Both those links are in the original article, but they are not the same content.
> AWS has this nasty outdated SOAP API that you don't want to touch by hand with a 10-foot pole, you had better have a good AWS library for your existing language of choice or know how to make sense of a WSDL.

Um, no. Every AWS service has a REST API. The only difficult thing is calculating authentication headers, but that's nitpicky for a good reason.

S3's API is extremely RESTful -- not perfect, but really good. Some of Amazon's newer APIs aren't as RESTful, but they're usually still better than what many people call "REST" today (i.e. "Hey it's not SOAP, so who cares if every flipping thing is a GET request, it must be REST!").
Google drive is very integral to chromebook use.

If they dropped drive it would mean millions of chromebooks would be made almost useless.
I wonder if I can legaly use the drive as an online backup storage (containing "buckets" with client-side encrypted content - mostly photos; encryption will obviously prevent from smart de-duping in the cloud). I was trying to find "fineprint" (like S3 and Amazon Glacier), no luck. It's just too good to be true, I still can't believe the 1Tb has such low price.
Another interesting thing: SLA (do they have disaster recovery setup, etc.)
I'd say Westgate was a proper attack, no?
toString is only used to parse the function signature to get the list of dependencies. If you use the other syntax it doesn't have to do the "magic" at all. I haven't looked at the output (though the magic function itself is pretty simple) but I would imagine it just creates the explicit version that you can choose to write manually.

I'm a little torn myself; on the one hand, I prefer explicit code without magic. Having said that, you often need quite a few dependencies and it's a pain, and ugly, to write them all out twice on all your signatures.
> Except for the fact that it is integrated in gmail, google plus, android and probably some other services I forgot.

Its central to the "Chrome everywhere" / Chrome web store / Chromebook strategy, and central to Google Apps for Business (both because "Drive" subsumed the office suite that used to be "Docs & Spreadsheets", and because its a platform for second/third-party apps for Apps users.)

But the Drive desktop sync application is pretty peripheral to any of those things that provide confidence that Drive itself will hang around for a long time -- so if people are thinking of Drive primarily as a desktop sync solution and worrying that Google might cancel that, well, that's probably not as unlikely as the idea that Google is likely to cancel Drive itself anytime in the forseeable future.
Anyone who doesn't have much faith in php probably hasn't been paying attention to the changes in recent times.
I've not met a single person that "likes" advertising, but it works very well despite people's disdain for it (look at coke's market cap and tell me advertising isn't effective).

Advertising is a tricky science, it might be effective on you or it might not. But it is effective on most people, including I would wager, the vast majority of people who block ads.
That's why ODbL has a contract layer as well as a copyright layer - so that it applies in the US as well as the UK.
Funny that we both mentioned coke... that's the power of advertising.
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Meet in person to exchange keys and go from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Do you have data to back up the CPU claim? With Linode, it really depends who you're sharing a server with. I don't have as much experience with D.O. However, dollar for dollar, I think D.O. is slightly faster.
Read the licence. It's not just a licence of copyright, it's also a contract.
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>The real problem is with the paperwork and the penalties for screwing things up.

When I lived abroad I just used a competent CPA. I'm not disagreeing with your statement, I'm just pointing out a viable solution.
It's silly to worry about the risk of Google abandoning something as strategically important to them as Drive, when there's an infinitely greater risk of you losing all your storage because your account gets disabled. This is something that happens infrequently but still routinely, and for sometimes quite innocent reasons, with rather little recourse in the case it was a mistake on Google's part (let alone for the case where there's a legitimate reason they blocked your account).
"This rice protein is the highest mesh size on the market, which results in a smooth and creamy mouthfeel." This is why I backed Soylent. For the mouthfeel.

mmm.
What I share with my 1000 friends at Facebook may be different from what I share with my 1000 friends at Google, which might be different than what I share with my 1000 friends at Amazon, my friends at Verizon, and my friends at PG&E.

Things that can be inferred by combining all of these may well be things that I would expect to be private.

http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/TMIA.png
He mentions in the part about Casa Bonita that he's from Tulsa (which is also where I grew up).
Maybe, maybe not (I don't know), but two things come to mind:

1) Speeding is illegal. This is a law that is broken every day by millions. Obviously the law and the punishments aren't working as a deterrent, and the next steps usually involve control rather than deter.

2) Do you know how reaction time and braking time change for every 5mph faster you're going? It might not make you cause an accident, but it sure doesn't help trying to avoid an accident.
We use an interactor pattern with organizers to keep domain logic dry and reusable. Skinny models and controllers.
http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2012/06/28/wheres-yo...
I tried DO for a side project last year.

The Good:
- easy setup via the Web UI
- instances provision fast
- They had a 960GB instance type for only $960/mo

The Bad:
- Support was lackluster, kind of like "stuff happens, so your servers may or may not keep working"
- DDOS mitigation was overly aggressive. A DDOS likely targeted at the prior owner of the IP caused DO to take the box offline for two days with no warning or even a note saying it had been done. It took ~30 hours for them to even figure out that they had done this.
- No SAN storage, so no practical way to store data in excess of what the largest instance type will hold. This limits the utility of the largest instance type.
- The killer: they have no capacity of 96GB droplets, so if our box died, we would be unable to restore from the DO snapshot. This ultimately caused us to migrate off of DO (to AWS).

So I still run a couple of nonessential projects there (total spend < $20/mo), but I wouldn't trust my paycheck to services run at DO just yet.
Can't speak for who you're asking directly, but: lentils, rice, beans, frozen veggies, corn tortillas. Can make delicious meals with a well-stocked spice rack (which costs an initial hundred bucks or so upfront, but depreciation maybe adds at most a couple quarters to each meal).

Fresh veggies are doable too, if you're smart about where you shop and what you buy.
I didn't used GDrive enough to see your problems but for me, the missing "right clic" -> "copy public link" to get a DIRECT link on a public file is what's stopping me from even considering it as an alternative to Dropbox.
Breaking the speed limit to pass another vehicle is against the law. At least in my state, you can't legally pass unless the other car is going 5mph under the speed limit, and then you can only pass at the speed limit, not over.
"Q. Aren't most traffic accidents caused by speeding?
A. No, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) claims that 30 percent of all fatal accidents are "speed related," but even this is misleading. This means that in less than a third of the cases, one of the drivers involved in the accident was "assumed" to be exceeding the posted limit. It does not mean that speeding caused the accident. Research conducted by the Florida Department of Transportation showed that the percentage of accidents actually caused by speeding is very low, 2.2 percent."

from http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/faq

Q: Is the National Motorists Association a reliable source for this data?

A: I did the 30 seconds of work to go and Google this, go find your own stats if you don't like mine.
Unless I'm missing something, that's talking about the standard autofill functionality which still exists.
I'm almost sure there is no way this will lead to blow back - no way this comes back to us. /s
Old dessert. Meanings of words change. Hence probably not a horrible "product name" back in the day.
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Although, it's based off on Chromium. So, there's no need for much "polishing" since most of it is just HTML, CSS & JS.
Results in: http://3v4l.org/koVpq

Reasoning: 0wz++ = 0xa (converted from hex to dec) = 10++ = 11

Not sure why 0wz++ = 0xa, but if you increment strings I'd expect oddities (or some sort of ascii increment).
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Ask HN: How to furnish our startup office for $500 total?
We have a 14.8ft (4.5m) square room that the three of us will share. Three sides are floor to ceiling smooth (metal) walls and the other side is all window. Other than office chairs and a couch how would you furnish this space in a creative way with a $500 budget. Any ideas will be much appreciated. We have an IKEA nearby.
I would assume Scala or Clojure