skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steal? Please. The poor founder or student who crashes the event, he couldn't have afforded it in the first place, so wasn't gonna attend that event anyways. Instead, now that he has attended that event, has more knowledge and network, goes onto creating something better that can help the world.

Look at the big picture brother!

Sometimes it doesn't hurt to bend the "norms" if you're not hurting anyone and in fact, you will use the new opportunity created as something that can help the rest of the world.

An example,

we crashed a wedding almost three years ago, and as a result, we thought of a way to help wedding couples capture their guests' photos & videos.

Imagine, a wedding couple, that just had their wedding the night before, the next day they are in the airport and on their way to their honeymoon, they open their Eversnap app and they see all the guests' fun photos & videos from the night before.

They get an immense amount of joy from that.

In addition to that moment of joy those photos and videos are what is going to strengthen their bond 10 years from now, when they look back and they remember the best night of their lives. That results in a better marriage, therefore, a better family, and therefore better kids, and therefore successful kids that will do good in their life and make the world a better place!

To date, over 15,000 weddings have used Eversnap to collect their photos & videos.

Now, what was the cost of creating 15,000 happy couples who will have successful kids? Crashing a wedding. Who did it hurt? Who did it steal from? I'd happily pay that price anyday if it means that I can make a global impact and create something better in people's lives.

& that's just weddings. Now we've had over 100,000 group experiences where people are collecting the complete stories of what happened during their group experience and sharing it with each other. What does that mean? That means now for the first time ever people can easily document their group trips, parties, anniversaries, graduations, mitzvahs, from everyone's perspective. But the most amazing thing that we see is that people start having a deeper bond with each other now that they have documented and shared their group experience between themselves. What does that mean? That means documenting history & creating a stronger bond between people's families and friends. Why is creating a stronger bond important? Human beings are social animals, the value of the whole is bigger than the sum of individuals. A stronger bond means, stronger friendships, stronger families, more good deeds, more happiness, and more opportunities to happiness for more people in their lifetime.

What was the cost? Crashing a wedding. What was the benefit: Eversnap has made 270,000 people happier than they were ever before. And not only that, those 270,000 people will now share their happiness with millions of other people. What's the goal of life anyways? Isn't it to make other people happy? Isn't it to bring opportunities to people who've never had them before?

Please brother, look at the big picture.
Because the graph is not accounting for population increase. The deaths increased, but the population increased even more. The percentage decreased.
While watching footage of when Hitler came to power, I got a pop up on YouTube to the effect of Obama wanting to take away guns & how I'd vote. It's nice they put it up on YouTube so the masses can see this amazing footage (I saw the Wright Brothers' flight for the first time there). But watching that ad pop up just drove home the point that we just traded humans for pigs to run our farm.
I have the same habit as you; almost exclusively upvote.

But I do think that downvotes should require the downvoter to leave a comment-reply in order to downvote.

As opposed to selecting from a menu of reasons; they need to actually type something.
Ask DigitalOcean if they're wiping data on droplet cancellation and snapshot deletion yet. They've fucked that one up several times since the inception of the company and each time get a little more defensive about it. For a while there, I could spin up a droplet and get database passwords, keys, data, all day long from the previous owner. Then they told the guy that reported it that he was mistaken, and basically lied in a blog post and said no user data was at risk.

I'm told that's just the beginning of security faults in their platform, attributable to being a younger company and discovering these things for the first time; I have been personally shown evidence that DigitalOcean's platform initially trusted a hidden field called "userid" and allowed a user to operate on any other user without authorization, including restoring images, shutting down droplets, and so on. Their system at first had no protection against spoofed packets exiting a droplet, either, so ARP poisoning the gateway was (and possibly remains) a viable attack.

Linode is far more mature, obviously.

Every provider has security issues. It's how they rectify and move forward that should concern you. Watching DigitalOcean react to being informed that the issue they got burned on once had reappeared basically told me to never use their services.

Also, and I actually consider this very important and not a grammatical nit, Linode doesn't sell droplets. They sell virtual servers. You're asking for a Pepsi from Coca-Cola. You might consider this a minor nit, but it's actually a serious confusion issue that I already see happening.

Allow me to promise you -- not predict, promise -- that DigitalOcean will be compromised just as badly. It's going to happen. It's a matter of when and how they react.
It all depends on your habits.

If you're satisfied with pure CSS and Javascript, the only thing you really need is a build tool for concatenation, minification and gzip. And livereload. And probably normalize.css.

-> I use uglifyjs and uglifycss

-> I use tiny-lr for livereload (https://www.npmjs.org/package/tiny-lr)

-> I use a Makefile, because it's the most simple to modify and adapt. When I have several targets of the same type (ex: build.min.js and debug.min.js), I use a yaml file with a custom python script for concatenation. See gulp.js and a thousand others for alternatives, YMMV (my Makefile nowadays: https://gist.github.com/idlewan/11012492). Magical bit for running make every time a file changes:

watch:
@inotifywait -m --exclude ".*\.swp|.*~" -e moved_to,close_write -r . | \
while read; do make -s; done

To get more from just CSS, you need a CSS precompiler.

-> I use Stylus with the nib library (https://github.com/visionmedia/nib). Alternatives: LESS, SASS, and some others. You might want to add some grid and 'responsive shortcut' mixins on top.

bigger($minwidth)
query = "screen and (min-width: " + $minwidth + ")"
@media query
{block}

// usage:
.my-div
font-size 20px
+bigger(520px)
font-size 30px

For webapp needs, you need a template library (some people prefer using a fat framework that does everything for them, e.g. Angular).

-> I use Jade (https://github.com/visionmedia/jade), because it runs on the server for Python, Node.js and soon Nimrod, and on the client with precompiled templates. Alternatives: Mustache and a thousand others, YMMV.
You'll likely produce many deformed babies before you get it right. Horrific.

Note that they haven't managed it yet on monkeys (surprised me).

Prediction: when it's been working perfectly on all primates for quite a while, these laws may start to change... perhaps at first for special cases, such as infertile couples (or a clone of an infant who died of non-congential causes - I don't know what to make of that, it's simultanesouly creepy and tugs at my heart-strings). IVF programs have similar restrictions.
Most of the things I want to do end up meaning that I need a logical framework in which to build a type theory. I use Agda for that, but this is not its strength (try building a non-trivial term language with binding, for instance).
Trying to lay the bill for making your systems secure at the feet of the individual hackers who got into your systems seems wrong. I'm not arguing that what these guys did was legal or good or that they shouldn't be prosecuted, but something about that grates; it's an expense the company (should have) paid beforehand and these guys wouldn't have been able to do what they did.

If a system is on the internet, securing it is a cost that has to be born by the retailer.
I think that most of the “funny” comments usually decrease the signal to noise ratio. But I have a personal rule of not downvoting them when they are already gray. I only downvote gray comments if they are very offensive.
I will definitely watch, and pardon me for focusing on the least important part of the content. :)
> It's safe to say Snowden, in so far as he doesn't want to - at minimum - get his asylum revoked - has no choice.

Of course he has a choice. The fact that he has not exercised that choice leads me to conclude it's not coercion at all, but that he's willingly cooperating.
I can't wait. I wouldn't expect to pay a fee related to the size of my library (I am doing that to S3) but wouldn't hesitate to pay a moderate monthly or one-time fee for the product.
Blonk: Building “Tinder for Jobs” with Meteor for Mobile
Is The New Twitter Profile Page Good For Business Marketing?
You may like Rudulfo Anaya, or Isabel Allende. Also, Salman Rushdie.
If the user adds one, or new data enters from an outside source (pub/sub, sockets, etc)
I also once phone interviewed with Picturelife but it was cut off because the recruiter organizing our interaction was an asshat. I'm very happy where I ended up (Heroku), but would have loved to work on Picturelife, fwiw.
The majority of 14.04 installations will actually occur after 14.10+ comes out, from corporations currently sitting on 12.04, who will take a few months to evaluate 14.04, and then, finally, upgrade to it. It will be stable by the time they do this.

Because these corporations behave this way, it excludes them from the set of people Canonical has to worry about pleasing at release. So LTS releases, right on release, are actually allowed to be less stable than non-LTS releases. Because the majority of their useful lifetime, when anyone that matters is actually running them, will be spent stable.
It's better for the environment. One vehicle making multiple stops to customers is better than each of those customers going round trip to the store.

This article summarizes but has a link to the actual study http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2013-04/home-deliv...
I've seen plenty of downvotes around from people who didn't understand what was being said/wanting to exert opinions. To be honest, that partly gets me to just not want to contribute thoughts since they may be unpopular/do not jive with a hive mentality, and has gotten me to visit the site less for the comments, especially with the recent tweaks.

It'd be nice if something could be figured out to discourage this behavior through reduction of the value of the downvotes of such, especially if a comment has not had a response to explain the downvote.
Yes, be transparent about who you are. Try to make a friend out of your target user, learn about them. As part of the feedback loop, you may even ask-- what do you think a app/tool like this should cost? Early adopters/promoters who provide good feedback could earn a discount. Book suggestion: Gitomer's "Little Red Book of Selling"-- basic premise "people don't like to be sold, but they love to buy."
According to HBO? The cable networks.
Building a railroad is different from developing steam engines, designing locomotives, and devising railroad-related technologies.
Question for you or Python users in general:

Why web.py over flask or django?
Are comments ever deleted or hidden from view completely? I've been reading HN for a year or two, and I've never noticed an issue with comment quality. In topics with a larger number of comments, you get one or two heavily downvoted posts, but that's it.

My question, is there an issue with comments I'm not seeing? Do the popular topics on the homepage have dozens of spam or troll comments that are pruned out constantly, so I don't notice the problem? Or is the issue those 1 or 2 downvoted comments I mentioned earlier?

HN receives a small number of comments, so fine tuning algorithms isn't a big deal in my opinion. This isn't Reddit, where the number one post right now has 4,000 comments. That presents a lot of complications, since they need to try and cycle new comments so they all receive some visibility, allowing them a chance to rise if they're of high quality. On HN, you have 20 comments, or 50 comments, so regardless of the sorting, nearly everything gets read. As long as HN generally sorts comments, they're fine.
Some perhaps relevant excerpts from the author's CV:

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2009

Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security, 2005-2009

General Counsel, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004-2005

General Counsel, National Security Agency, 1992-1994
The author's hilarious use of the Medici family[1] as an example of government contributing to great advances of civilization aside, one of the things that is often overlooked is not that government has successfully contributed to some major technological advances, but why, and whether government contributions were really necessary.

The examples of government successes range from those that almost certainly required government backing to those that almost certainly did not. I have a hard time imagining that anyone but a government is going to finance atomic research. The profits simply aren't there to justify it, particularly when compared to existing means of energy production.

But I have an equally hard time believing that the internet or pharmaceuticals wouldn’t have come to market if government had nothing to do with them. The profit potential, even in those early years, was simply too staggering for the market to ignore. The fact that, in many cases, companies were able to persuade governments to share their costs or flat-out underwrite their research doesn’t change this. And so, because government was persuaded to share or pay for many of these costs, I think we get a distorted view of history, including success stories that can be attributed to government involvement, even though we don’t know whether government involvement was really necessary at all. [2]

[1] If you're unaware, the House of Medici became so wealthy that they were able to essentially buy control of Florence, then most of Italy, and turn it into their own little kingdom. They used their wealth to foster wars that expanded their sphere of control, but are now generally known for underwriting the production of some of the great art of the 15th century. Shockingly, much of that art lionized the House of Medici. Claiming that the House of Medici is an example of a government contributing to the advancement of the arts is like claiming Brunei contributed to the advancement of the automotive industry because the Sultan spent a billion dollars on Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bentleys, and crazy one-off concepts.

[2] Another example from the article highlights this: touch-screens. Once it was clear computers would eventually be more than simply adding machines, was there any doubt that users would eventually want touch-screens? (The Jetsons, in the early 1960's, featured consumers using touch-screens, for reference.) And is there any doubt that this is something that absolutely could have been developed privately?
That's an interesting approach; it would cause comments that are really good to float to the top no matter when they are posted. In terms of Bayes' theorem:

P(upvote | good post) = P(good post | upvote) * P(upvote) / P(good post)

Let's neglect that opinions vary, and assume P(good post | upvote) = 1. P(upvote) should be proportional to P(post is read); but the readership at the bottom of the page (or wherever latecomers are dropped) is quite small.

But this begs the question: what does it mean to "float to the top" if highly-rated comments are being placed in a random location?
I believe the next season of Orphan Black starts this Saturday.
Here's another historical film archive: http://europeanfilmgateway.eu/
Oh chill out buddy, #1, you're being a jerk. #2, you're wrong, Borges had more to do with it, but really it was there long before them anyway.
I saw someone familiar in the article
Was coming here to say that ; I don't mind Adsense at all. Popover-unders-interstitials and that kind of mess is... But I don't mind paying as long as it's easy. I pay often if there is a donate button or a fee for removing ads if the product is actually worth paying for and if it's easy and convenient.
Awesome. Keep up the good work. I am definitely enjoying the new HN much more. The quality of articles is way up and the comment noise is way down.
"Cobbler's children have no shoes."[0]

Busy consultants and developers rarely have the time to work on their own site.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoemaking#In_popular_culture
I absolutely adore this man. I was lucky to be given a portuguese-translated copy of "one hundred years of solitude" at the age of 16. I read it back then and loved the story itself and specially the beautiful writing style. About four or five years later I read it again in the original (even though I don't speak spanish very well) and was even more amazed about the beauty of it and about how _my_ interpretation of it changed. I loved everything I have ever read from him, but I loved "one hundred years" so much I even feel ashamed of trying to use my own words to describe it.
Many, many stories about this already:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=clinkle#!/story/sort_by_date/0/cli...
I was about to correct you and say that was Bertrand Russell but apparently it was neither of them - http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/.
This was absolutely fascinating.

The use of Microsoft's own dictionary to pin down definitions was particularly interesting.

I'm no Microsoft fan, but I have to agree with the general sentiment that this use of dictionary definitions is a bit absurd.
/r/science won't allow it so here 're my questions
First off, let's be clear, this is not a religious topic. Only reason I am asking this, I can't get Evolution Theory, even though It's not like I completely disagree with it.

1. We are perhaps the only intelligence species that exists or have existed on earth.

Does our Intelligence had any part in the formation of our physical body. Let me ask you in layman terms, If our body was like Elephants, Could we have made as much progress as we did today. The physical body we have, totally support our intelligence, is it mere coincidence?

2. It's little weird, that every sci-fi movie (avatar) features ET life according to the atmosphere of their planets. Why it isn't in reality true so far. Again in layman terms, Who said 'O2 and H2O2' are the standard for life.

If life had to begin at its own, like it did on earth, why could'nt life2 or life3 begin on other planets according to their own atmospheres, as depicted in Avatar Movie.
You could say it's a snipe at the weak type system that Javascript has.

I dunno, as someone without much experience with Javascript, it is a little odd that arrays return the index alongside the value by default.
> At no point was the government itself the source of the creativity. Which makes sense, since those who create are scientists, artists, industrialists, etc. etc. ... not politicians and bureaucrats.

No doubt, but you could just as easily have said that about the USSR and been right. The inventor of Tsar Bomba was a scientist, not a politician, after all. Does that mean a Communist planned economy is a bad way to advance science?

When people are saying government needs to be involved in science it's almost never because they think the government itself should be training administrative clerks to do science and then engaging in research. It's because they want the government to ensure that our existing pool of trained scientists are tasked with doing research, either directly or indirectly.
My personal future shock is bound up in the fact that we are now discovering planets outside of our solar system. Somehow, I just never expected that to happen in my lifetime.

The milestones keep getting knocked down: planets, multiple planets in the same system, super earths, now earth-size planets in the habitable zone. Wonderful stuff, and very exciting to think what we'll find next. It's not impossible to imagine that we'll develop the technology to conduct spectrographic analysis of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, maybe one day even discovering methane.

My assumption is that all solar systems orbit in more or less the same plane as their host galaxy. Is this why we're able to detect so many planets by this occultation technique? Presumably this is because the Milky Way and all it contains started out as one large accretion disk. Am I way off base?
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I always liked The Rise of Worse Is Better in explaining why C and its derivatives became the standard.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
"Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo."
That's not quite right either, because in this case there was some sort of casual relation, not merely a barrier in time.
Do both, flag and downvote. Think of flagging as something used by data-mining that the moderators are doing offline; when you flag something, you're calling it to their attention. Not every bad comment needs to be brought to the mods attention, so be a little bit thoughtful. But not too much; my understanding is that not enough people are flagging.
Many of the early Valve games (HL2, CS:S, Portal, etc.) are certainly well under the proper numbers. Counter Strike: Source, at the very least, would be far higher on the list if hours before 2009 were counted.
I get a "404" at the moment.
I'm very intruiged by this idea, because I'm in a somewhat similar situation. I'm a fullstack developer all the way and love building products, but I haven't quite figured out a way yet how to make an income from that. Good luck and I would love to hear hot it's going.
I love the idea - but I wonder why the price? it does seem really low. At 19 bucks and hour pro rata, you are not storing up cash to get through the hours when you are not earning, like marketing, talking to clients, understanding what they want.

It did get me thinking though - really good luck.
The link 404'd for me

EDIT: Working now
I had the oddest thing happening with me. As soon as I finished reading this story on Tuesday, a co-worker that had started on Monday quit without saying a word to us.
I have to respectfully disagree. I have coded for years in a lot of C-style languages, mainly C, Java, Python, Ruby & JavaScript and I've been struggling with the Clojure book (and various tutorials) for over a year. It's not just marketing, it's a very different mindset and one I'm not convinced is ever going to appeal to a large class of smart programmers (yes I guess I'm saying I don't think I'm dumb and hope I'm not alone in this feeling).

I've heard Lisp described as an autistic language, and I think there's something to that. I don't think it's for everyone. I'm not on board that macros, homoiconicity and some of the other stated benefits of lisps are worth 'giving up syntax' for and I am far from convinced that lisps are the future of programming.

I'm a huge fan of Rich Hickey and I want to love Clojure, I just can't. It's not for me and it's not a marketing thing. Rich is the best marketing a language could hope for.