skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that Buzzfeed, still, commits the crimes for which I first indicted it (if only in my own mind). Which for numerous and profound reasons I see as a Very Bad Thing.

Tossing the occasional sacrificial treat to those who prefer real meat, while continuing to attach their weaponized clickbait to their site's pages, does nothing to redeem them.

I'm aware that dang is a mod here, though I'd share my PoV. He's welcome to consider it or not. But I flagged this item and will continue to do so for other Buzzfeed, or similarly weaponized-clickbait-laden sites.

As for banning sites -- HN has apparently been doing that without significant notice to date. If you've got an issue with that, take it up with dang.

I feel that a mix of user-selection and site editorial voice is one of the few ways that a site or channel can maintain its focus -- see the degredation of numerous reddits (e.g., /r/dataisbeautiful is rather much more "data is interesting". I've not seen a truly innovative graphical presentation of data there for quite a while, and numerous craptacular infographic presentations (prohibited by subreddit guidelines) where the primary focus seems to be that the underlying data, or more usually, the subject of the underlying data, is intruiging. While that's fine and good, it's not the focus of the subreddit.

Others I can think of do markedly worse.

A good curation system will balance what's happening in the outside world, reader interests, and editorial voice. There's no surefire method, there's an art to it. I actually really like several of the posts dang's submitted (which I'll note go through the same moderation queue everything else does), even the ones which don't hit the front page.
My thinking about this is based on humans being very bad at handling situations where they don't really need to pay attention. I think if the system is only good enough that an attentive driver/passenger can use it well, then it needs to be made better before it is licensed for everyday use.

The stop to change control thing makes sense to me.
Great batchmates building a great company. Many congratulations to John, James, Andrew, Nate and the whole team.
By minimum wage territory I guess you mean the range of $50 - $100/day? You must have a pretty low ecpm to only earn that much from 100k visitors/day. My experience is at least 6x that range.
It's not scabbing if it's a totally different service. Would a guy riding a pedicab be scabbing? Am I scabbing if I offer my neighbor a drive to work during a transit strike?
For the first time, the U.S. high school graduation rate tops 80 percent
Socialcam mobile A/B testing
Bitcoin is the future of money according to these MIT alums
> Which makes me question Uncle Bobisms, because it reeks of lack of practical experience.

The thing people need to realize is that these two come from very very different worlds. Sure, Uncle Bob may pale in experience compared to DHH when it comes to agile rapid development of simple opinionated SaaS apps, however he has a world of experience in handling large enterprise application development.

I think this leads to their different take on the issue here, because how software is developed in these two different environments is very different. Which is why I tend to think what DHH advocates works very well for what DHH does, and what Uncle Bob advocates works very well fro what Uncle Bob does.

The lack of understanding that different people, projects, languages, frameworks, companies, etc may require different strategies, tools and techniques is what frustrates me about this whole argument more than anything. I suspect most of us developers lie in the middle ground between this extremes and rather than focusing on which method we should 100% follow, it is perhaps best to pick and choose things from each position that we find helpful to our own practice.
It's really too bad that they're mixing the in-depth coverage and the crap on the same domain. It indelibly taints their better articles with the stink of their low-quality drivel. On the whole, the site is a worthless spam farm that steals content from reddit and other sources. The existence of a handful of good stories isn't enough to overcome that reputation.
What does a complete lead mean?
While it's true that Erjang translates BEAM code, BEAM itself also does this to yet another more modern internal code (. I'd still consider both BEAM implementations.
They are, often on a huge scale. The DLR[1] in London is entirely automated (although sometimes the ticket inspector will sit at the front with the backup control panel open, presumably so they can pretend to drive a train), and the Central, Northern, and Jubilee lines also run semi-automated, and I'm pretty sure the bits that aren't automated are due to union lobbying rather than any particular need.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
Like the law to come to a full and complete stop at every stop sign, including the four ways that blanket every neighborhood? No thank you; cyclists treat stop signs as four-dimensional yields for some damn good reasons.

There's a lot of terrible bike-riders (riding on the left side of the road around a blind corner...), but there are also a lot of terrible laws and signage. Don't delude yourself into believing that strict adherence to rules will solve the world's problems.
I’m a Man and I Write Code
Offline versions: https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19880069935
Taleb has a statistics paper that shows measurements of the exact sort Piketty is making are biased. Here is the paper.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbzRrRkhhc1RNY0U/...

So far as I can tell (I'm only halfway through Piketty) he has no math. Just a bunch of pretty graphs and lots of words.
They're not saying that we need to mine asteroids to go to Mars, more like the experiences and new technologies involved will add a great deal of value to all future missions, including any potential missions to Mars.
Okay, a pre-auth vulnerability is a plausible option I didn't consider; you are right.
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"The lack of understanding that different people, projects, languages, frameworks, companies, etc may require different strategies"

This is the right answer.
Oh. My. God. This stretches the upper boundary of uselessness another parsec.
I'm confused how this is better than just using an alias/profile?

Maybe it is just me, but I prefer to dump all my custom commands and aliases into .zshrc so they are easy to backup/track/find.
>>> PS: Title feels very "sensational"...

They all seem so sensational. The TLDR version of this post is "I don't like Twitter so much anymore so it's kind of dead to me"

wc has that at 62 chars. Enough for a Tweet :)
I should change the whole website purpose :)
Tim Cook is inviting you to lunch appl HQ (to help Human Rights)
https://www.charitybuzz.com/timcook
Not getting into a fruitless debate and/or antagonizing somebody that doesn't have any interest in being reasoned with.

It's quite possible that he reported you to Adsense specifically as a petty demonstration of the "power" he wields. And while your site may have been your only income, his was probably one of dozens more, so it didn't really matter to him.

Short version: you had a lot more to lose and nothing to gain compared to him.
I just noticed FreeNAS defaults to `PermitRootLogin without-password` and doesn't have a GUI option to change it to `no`. I'm not sure if that's the default on FreeBSD generally, but it surprised me.
I think that this will make or break Famo.us.
My experience has been about $1 per 1,000 visitors. But that was a while ago and I didn't publish content about mesothelioma. Mostly programming stuff.
What's the best way to get in touch? I'd like to hear more about the project. My email is in my profile.
If you read the actual memo (as opposed to the transcription below it), there's no "The". It's interesting that whoever did the transcription put in the definite article, because usage has changed in the last twenty years.

(The memo as a whole, it seems, goes back and forth between "the Internet" and just bare "Internet".)
So heres what I have so far:
I have created a site to share people the deals I find. In the past I use to send a text to friends and family about the deals I found and they all appreciated it. So i thought let me create a site instead.
So now I am trying to branch out to other people.
I know they are sites like these already out there, so not to worried about it that much but I thought if i can help someone find a good deal why not.
Yes I added google adsense.
Yes, I have been updating my site daily or weekly.
Ars Technica experimented with the stuff last year. It looks like a lot of fun :) http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/the-internet-demanded...
I'm tempted to agree, bu maybe your "tune" would be more persuasive if it weren't coming from a throwaway account?
Because no one posted that trivial detail, and he didn't share it on Facebook?
This is slightly off-topic, but I didn't notice the donation button in the sidebar until typing ⌘+F, "donation"[1]. My inner patio11 thinks that evilsocket is missing out on some cash-moneys. It's probably a good idea to make a more prominent donation widget and add a call to action at the bottom of the post.

Edit: Digging deeper (actually clicking on the donate button), I see https://pledgie.com/campaigns/22257 and it makes me sad. The video is dead, and it's unclear what donating will help with. Will it add new features? Is it to support ongoing development? Does the team have any previous work that shows what they're capable of?

If you want to improve your donation page, I think NeoVim[2] is a good example to follow. The author explains what NeoVim is, what's been done so far, what he'll do with the money, and why he's the right one for the job.

1. That didn't find it. It just scrolled the page so my eye noticed the button. You'd have to search for "sponsor" to find the widget.

2. https://www.bountysource.com/teams/neovim/fundraiser
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Thanks! I didn't realise this. This looks really useful.
I'll bet you 0.5 bitcoin that in 20 years the financial industry is bigger in San Francisco than in New York.
(author here) It definitely does! But the point was to play with hypermedia (REST), not really solve FizzBuzz.
No, as far as I know, alpaca is the first of its type. As the author of the code, I can guarantee good quality of the generated client code. I have written the templates such that they follow their respective language conventions and ecosystems.
Unfortunately it's pretty cloudy even when you apply it right. If not for that, it would be great for windshields and helmet visors etc.
There is online courses that go through the maths with you. Which are usually better teachers than most undergraduate courses.
You can start here: http://okdork.com/2014/02/09/grow-blog-100000-visitors-less-...
Hi,

This guys name is "Martynas". He is from Lithuania. I have strong belief his lastname is "Palaima" althought it is possible that it is fake.

His other handles: koawe, baseuse, martyboy31

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mydreamvoyage
Profiles on other sites:
http://uzdarbis.lt/t265784/nauja-rippln-plinta-kaip-vesulas/
Serious question: Does the HN moderating staff have any ethical concerns about supporting Buzzfeed, regardless of article quality? Not even delving into their business model (which can be politely defined as "parasitic"), I'd guess at least half of all their content is blatantly plagiarized... at best "lightly" ripped from others. Last time I checked they also continued to use copyrighted and restricted licensed content without permission or payment.
They actually are. Depends on what you consider the river. If it is just the molecules of water, probably not. But if you look at the whole ecosystem of a river, you will be amazed. And in this situation with beavers building dams and changing the course, and everything doing its bit, yes, the river will do amazing things and will show to have a life of its own, just like the ant colony.
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"Do you know that what you are actually doing with dsploit.org is illegal?"

It is ? Certainly it's crummy and dishonest and just the worst sort of blah blah blah ... but is it actually illegal ?

How is it illegal ?
They'd still have to pay the extra to drivers, and it would be larger than at 1x surge... unless their overhead is more than 50%?
So pretty much just a hydrophobic coating, which is the same as properly sealed and waxed paint.
You could also prioritize your search area, assuming you're searching official Wheres Wally? images.

"53 percent of the time Waldo is hiding within one of two 1.5-inch tall bands, one starting three inches from the bottom of the page and another one starting seven inches from the bottom, stretching across the spread."

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/where_...
Making security logs usable can (note the word) be a very important part of a security setup. Lots of people don't have the bandwidth to pay attention to noisy log files to look for anomalies.
Can the improvements in loading time be attributed to angular alone?
Unity is adding a IL to C++ compiler (Goodbye Mono?)
Ask HN: do we need a Posix version of Amazon S3?
Yes, I know, s3fs is already out there but it's costly due to how it uses s3 and it is not so performant at least.
Still, do you/we really need a mountable version of Amazon S3 or we're already changing all our apps to integrate s3(or one of its competitors)?
It looks great. Sadly doesn't have the specific tools I need, and regardless the license is prohibitive if I ever wanted to publish something on the App Store (regardless of if I open sourced it myself), so it's not really an option. Not that that's GSL's fault of course.
Webmux – A web-based terminal multiplexer.
> First, the mosquito they're trying to eradicate is a non-native species.

I really don't get the environmentalist emphasis on the world being, and staying, the way god ordained it at the beginning of the universe. Mosquitoes have a generation time measured in weeks; for any practical purpose, there's no such thing as a non-native mosquito. Assuming a mosquito generation length of one month, and a human generation length of 25 years, we can see that a mosquito population that's been around for 5 years is the equivalent of a human one that's been around for 1500.

Trying to distinguish between "native" species and "non-native" species makes all the sense of distinguishing between "anthropogenic global warming" and "natural global warming". There's no point. A phenomenon is good, or it's bad; it's not bad just because you can finger a particular cause, it's not good just because things were that way 100 years ago, and it's not bad just because things were different 10 years ago. Judge by the effects.
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Designing the experiment is also a problem they have to figure out. A part of the challenge is designing hypotheses that best represent the physical phenomena that are also testable. So instead of going for the whole enchilada, work on parts of the project and build to up to a whole. Solyent is pie in the sky the way Elon Musk's hyper-loop is: a bare minimum sketch (not literally, but in scientific terms) that requires a lot of sub-systems to work and a lot of theories to fall in place to be practical.

Answering your question directly, you could give the control-group a Solyent-type drink that is devoid of nutrients, and to the other group you can give a true Solyent drink. This can test if people report feeling better simply because they are drinking something healthy as opposed to the improvement being caused by the nutrients in the drink.
It's not a throwaway account, per se. It's an anonymous account.
Ignoring all the drama, the best arguments I've seen for TDD come from the book, "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan and Pike. The entirety of Chapter 6 is dedicated to testing, and is the least dogmatic and most useful guide to developing tests for programs I have ever seen.

I think this is what happens when the authors actually come from a place where they have prior experience developing complex and novel systems. By novel, I don't mean writing another web app framework, just in a new cool language. I mean doing something that didn't exist prior to you doing it.

This is why there is so much one can gain from looking at the writings of people who made their living off actually developing complex systems, there is a wisdom that comes from experience, and an authority that comes from actually doing that you cannot replicate no matter how many clever blogposts or books you write.
No worries man, hope everything is going great :)
We just disagree, then.

To pick a tiny, arbitrary example from the keynote, he criticises this method[0]…

def age(now = Date.today)
now.year - birthday.year
end

…as opposed to his preferred version…

def age
Date.today.year - birthday.year
end

“Is [the method with the parameter] better? Is it simpler? Is it clearer?” He makes fun of it as though the second version is obviously simpler and clearer, presumably because it uses fewer characters/parameters/concepts, but in reality it’s not obvious. It depends what you want!

The first version makes it “clearer” that the method’s result is date-dependent, which makes it “simpler” to understand how it will behave as part of a larger system (e.g. is it cacheable?); this is a win for composability. If you want to call it from inside another method, you’ll need to get a date from somewhere — maybe you’ll already have the appropriate date to hand, or maybe you’ll choose to pass that responsibility onto your caller in turn, or maybe you’ll decide that this is the right place to reach for Date.today. Either way, you get a chance to think about it, and to be aware of how another part of the software is going to behave without needing to go and look at its source code. (This argument is essentially “referential transparency is good”.)

Now, it’s entirely plausible that you don’t care about that benefit, and you’d rather have a shorter method that works in the easiest possible way without regard for referential transparency, because your system is small, or this method is hardly called anywhere, or everything else in the application is time-dependent anyway so you don’t need to be reminded of it. That’s fine too! But DHH doesn’t go into any detail on the tradeoff; he just makes fun of the version that takes an argument, because it’s testable for the sake of it, and why would anyone bother with that?

He doesn’t seem interested in exploring the situation, or in interrogating what testability implies in this case, only in laying out his prejudices as if they’re indisputable common sense. They’re not.

[0] Since this is just example code, it’d be churlish to point out that it’s not the right way to calculate someone’s age in the first place.
And you won't tell us which foods are evil?
While that would be nice from a cleaning perspective, from an eating perspective that might make certain meals awkward to eat and prepare.
Mind-bending !
And this is a great example of how religious/fundamentalist TDD sounds to non believers.

Let me briefly summarize the above two comments. "We want our code to be modular, composable, and reusable therefore ... you should write your tests before you write your implementation".

Notice the logical leap? Notice the near obsession with the pieces of this phrase that isn't the important part? And tell someone you don't write your tests first and prepare for looks of disgust thrown your way, a public shaming. And Bob himself does this.

> If you aren't doing TDD, or something as effective as TDD, then you should feel bad.
I'm not sure mining at the bottom of the sea is very analogous to mining an asteroid.

One is traveling at breakneck speed, the other is (relatively) stationary.

One is at negative pressures, the other at ~15,000 psi.

One requires you to burn millions of gallons of fuel to access, the other only requires a brief jaunt out onto the ocean and then hopping off the boat.
It's also a question of if you are looking in the right places. NY startups tend to be less pure technology plays that need lots of VC money, and tend to be tied to information intensive industries like advertising and finance. Fintech startups frequently are cash flow positive by the time they hit 20 employees. These aren't game breakers that will get multi-billion dollar valuations, but they build from strength and don't need to become monsters.

The biggest hold-up is actually the cost of living in NYC. It's worse than the Bay Area, and there is less pride in being a starving entrepreneur.
"If it’s a nightmare to isolate a piece of your implementation in order to test it, what does that tell you?"

The outside world (from a software point of view) is not so nice.

You may need interface classes that need a lot of information from different parts of your software.

Usually not so common on CRUD software, a lot more common if your software is something else than Forms+DB+some reporting
The cost of reapplying would be pretty high. Look at the amount of masking-off and prep work they do. You go in for an oil change and tire rotation which would normally take an hour but instead have to pick your car up the next day because it has to dry.

I get a free car wash with each service of my car. That takes long enough.
Mono is not “cross” platform. It infects your environment with .NET which is very much a platform.
I've seen this behavior from both the Uncle Bob and DHH camps. Then again, how many Rails devs out there are using Rspec or alternative Rails stacks?
I like the smell of competition by the morning.
The different perceptions of what a ;) suggests is also fun to watch.
He was, but he had no idea what is was, and tried to discover a new kind of healthy lifestyle.
Seth Roberts was an innovator, a teacher, an original thinker -- and he was an inspiration to me. I'm reminded of the Grateful Dead t-shirt that says, "They aren't the best at what they do. They're the only ones who do it".

I've been following his Shangri-La diet for over four years now. Here's a page about my results, although it's a bit out of date:

http://www.astrocyte-design.com/shangri-la-diet/
"I still really like the .NET environment and C# language, ... "

This is not my case, but I really do find value in learning a technology that helps you build cross-platform solution. I seriously considered using it.

"Thankfully, there is the Mono .NET implementation that I can use and it is really well supported."

But it's kind of unsupported and most of the time it lags behind. Currently on my brand new ubuntu system, it's version 3.2, on my "stable" ubuntu its 2.10. The current version is 3.4.

" As well as being open source, Mono also has a company, Xamarin, sponsoring its development as they use the mono system for their IOS and Android ..."

You cannot develop iOS nor Android application on Linux with Xamarin, You need Windows or OS X.

This is old bug still accurate.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142

This is an actual deal breaker for us. Haft of the team is using OS X and the other haft Ubuntu.
Here's what I put in my .bashrc:

alias compile-ssh-config='echo -n > ~/.ssh/config && cat ~/.ssh/*.config > ~/.ssh/config'
alias ssh='compile-ssh-config && ssh'

Compiles all your ~/.ssh/*.config files into a single ssh config file. It's simple and stupid and seems to do the trick.
Thanks – sadly, for myself, the algorithms I need aren't part of Accelerate (I've most recently been using SciPy for its spatial algorithms). The benefit of SciPy is that there's just so much breadth, along with an easy way of moving data between different parts of SciPy, and good documentation too. There's just nothing else like it that I know of.