skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for others here, but part of the reason why I frequent HN in the first place is that the articles are worth reading, and are necessary to read in order to have a meaningful discussion in the comments. Telling you what the author was writing about is easy. Conveying the tone and details is less so, and you'd be better off to read it yourself as the desire for comprehensive comprehension increases. Realizing this, when I see an HN thread, I evaluate its interestingness and decide if I'm going to read it, or if the title gives away the content, just the comments. HN is a community of diverse interests serving interesting content to those interests, and I choose which ones I pursue.

I propose that getting a TL;DR will be worse than simply forgetting this article exists. A press release announcing Half Life 3 can be TL;DRed without any lack of information, but this article is more introspective and most of its value would be lost in truncation. I am beginning to believe that the high incidence of such entries is one of the primary factors separating HN from e.g. reddit et al.

The other aspect of my desire to read HN stems from its comments. Whether by communal composition or moderation, I find the comments here to be of significantly higher quality than I typically find elsewhere. This is one of precious few well-used forums in which people who fundamentally disagree can have a meaningful conversation. This happens with the bar of entry being the understanding of the article or link in question. Where goes the quality of diving into an article, so goes the discussion engendered thereby. The TL;DR attitude is why most popular subreddits are unreadable anymore.

I would like to apologize for the lengthy comment, and please don't take this as a slight to you or your curiosity. I've tried to point out why it may benefit you to take the time to dive into deep content. I hope you'll consider it in the future. It's significantly more rewarding than skimming links the way I used to.

Also, I wanted to make this comment long partly out of spite. If you'll read this, but not the article, there's some serious cognitive dissonance at play in your mind.

TL;DR actually read it.
The answer from an intelligent alien who was context-naive might be something like so:

Aunt Minnie is a human being living in the 21st century Western culture of Earth. When humans in this region and time period become sick or injured, relatives and friends, or medical workers working on their behalf, will transport them to a hospital for treatment. Aunt Minnie was injured on a sidewalk made slippery by seasonal ice. Such injuries aren't uncommon but are treatable with various surgical and therapeutic techniques. This demonstrates the humans vulnerability and heralds our inevitable victory to harvest them as a source of food.
> ethics is dictated by the market

Maybe we can start trading in ethics? /s
Why was the Fed looking at Goldman's conflict of interest policy at all then?
I really don't have much grasp on the macro-econ stuff. Do you have an idea on what would such a cliff would be? Liquidity trap?
Unfortunately, there just aren't many good metrics for future potential scientific value. It's not like you can just give NSA / DARPA / NIH one impact factor, as weird as that sounds.
These things are not impossible to certify but I agree an online multiple choice test is not sufficient. Advanced subjects would have to be assessed by another expert using whatever methods work: live Q&A, a major project, working the in field. I can't really say as each area could have vastly different ways to best measure competency.
"The whole book is an excellent sales pitch for the fonts. It's hard to believe you didn't design it that way, because you did everything right. You establish credibility as an expert. You give the reader a gift of useful information. You explain at length the value of the product. You even help the reader see herself as someone who's savvy enough to buy the product (copy like: "You are not apathetic" in the Times New Roman page.)"

...you flog the fonts at every opportunity...

Really, reading the book, the "...or you could buy my fonts" and the "because you're not apathetic" comments being repeated at every opportunity was my biggest complaint.
We're not focused on curriculum, but rather a collection of content around a subject at https://curiosity.com.

Wiki, text, video, audio...people learn different ways in different order unless they're made to do otherwise. We're focused on the always curious person. MOOCs serve a different purpose so hard to see them going more unstructured.
... many of the principles it was against eventually became defining aspects of post-Mao China. As a social revolution, it seems to be alone in this regard.

Maybe I misunderstand what you're saying, but isn't that the typical outcome of revolutions? Something along the lines of "thesis - antithesis - synthesis", I guess.

If you look at the French Revolution, the post-Revolution society in France oscillated between the Royalist and Republican extremes for the better part of two centuries before settling on a balance where both the left and right segments of French politics can today claim to be inheritors of the Revolution.
Thank you for this. It's nice to have it straight from the horses mouth instead of the many different types of RSpec folklore I've heard about its origin.
You would definitely have to make sure that the person a) has a clue and b) is, in fact authorized to make binding commitments.

Sending out a "politician" type who specializes in speaking at length while saying nothing is worse than not doing anything, IMO.

(edited to add that I think Stripe handles this extremely well... they could be a model for others)
Court Upholds Ban on Uber in Berlin
Thanks very much! Re: API, yes absolutely. Our web and mobile apps already use an internal API that uses RESTful JSON routes for reading tables, updating rows, etc. If you want to chat more about it or discuss the specifics of what you need from the API, you can reach me directly at howie@airtable.com
Latter would be more preferable.
I would argue that online textbooks are the first step and video lectures are a step backward.
"Remember, Facebook used to be ad-free, somewhat closed, had no data mining, and didn’t force you to sign up with your real name."

good point.
Now taking pull requests @ https://github.com/wreiske/shellshocker
According to the Verge article, it's not. You'll have to buy the seasons individually or get the disc via Netflix mail service.
We'd never stand for something like that today. Today, government is supposed to step out of the way and let the business world take the lead. That's why we've cut back on federal regulatory enforcement in everything from securities to environmental protection since the 1970's. And it has been a bipartisan effort. I mean, just look at how the tech industry reacts to regulatory enforcement when it comes to Uber and AirBnB. Guess what: people in the finance industry feel the exact same way. And the public largely agrees. Our liberals are post-Clinton liberals use the same small government, free-market talking points the conservatives made popular with Reagan. Even when they call for regulation they are supremely sensitive to the idea that its an illegitimate intrusion into private business.
The issue of certification and grades is a big one. Especially in terms of functionality of skills and hire-ability. Grades are what I lovingly refer to as "third-party perspective" on your knowledge. I can tell you whatever I want, but a grade or a certification or a degree, that's some measure of corroboration of your own self-perception. I totally agree that it would be great to be measured upon past achievement, but to play devil's advocate, think about trying to get your first job. Every application asks about your experience. Well, in order to get experience, you need a job, and in order to get a job, you need experience. In a way, an education and a degree, particularly from a renowned university, is a form of advanced recommendation, and at the very least, scholastic experience. But to the point of being measured upon accomplishment, this is, naturally, heavily biased against the less experienced, who may have much to offer, but not have yet had the opportunity to display and demonstrate their potential.

Maybe there should be two tracks for the MOOC -- degree/certification/program based and the casual/intense/driven supplemental learner… the latter of which gets his or her material and supplementary exercises and resources in lump sum. The alternative, of course, is to do like you do with Netflix - wait for the entire season of [insert addictive show] to become available and commit 24 hours to watching the entire thing with minimal bathroom breaks and pausing to get a bowl of soup - wait until the course is almost over, then sign up, and you can go through everything all at once…
Interesting! You make a good point and Diaspora certainly has potential if not the "push" it needs to mass adoption (which may be a factor of grass roots / timing / zeitgeist). What saddened me was the line about the suicide...I just read an article posted by the Kauffman Fellows Academy in which one of my former instructors and VC, Brad Feld talks about the importance of dealing with emotional challenges of being an entrepreneur.

http://plus.url.google.com/url?sa=z&n=1411757693253&url=http....

This speaks to the EQ necessary in leadership. One must be able to discern how to deal with lows without losing employee or investor confidence and how to build personal, human, relationships that inspire those parties to believe in and support founders through those lows.

Sometimes it's a matter of who a founder discloses what to. A mentor or coach can be a confidante who a founder turns to in order to ease the emotional burden without compromising team confidence.

A good support system and being resilient / tenacious (through nature or nurture) certainly helps.
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Well, that's not really the whole story, though. Look at Linux. Linux is "open." Linux is also a much harder target to write software for than OS X or Windows, because a lot of people do a lot of different things with that openness, and so you can't count on a specific version of certain APIs or ABIs being there. If modern CPUs looked like modern Linux distributions, a lot more effort would be required to make software portable and to run widely. (The irony here is that ARM resembles this Tower of Babel situation a lot more than x86 does.)
You don't have to be Google to build an artificial brain
Ask HN: Hacker or Hustler?
I was recently at a entrepreneurial presentation which said there are only two types of people; Hackers and Hustlers. I was surprised by this statement and wanted to see if this aligns with the good folks that read HN. So are there really only two types of people, Hackers and Hustlers, or is there another category people could fall into?
Do you do embedded/native development? Which tools do you use for that that aren't mentioned in the blog post?
Very cool. Interested in learning more. Would like to list your courses on our site (https://curiosity.com).
Some of the nuggets:

"Digital Transcription System" (that can handle foreign languages). This would be awesome to release OSS. Finally the tech giants wouldn't have a monopoly on good voice recognition.

"All Fiber Optically-Controlled Optical Switch" So they have all they need to make optical processors/routers. If this is the declassified tech, it's time to start paying attention to http://pqcrypto.org/

"Port Protector Assembly for D-Sub Connectors" I haven't heard of much spying happening by someone hooking something up to an unused DVI port. Good to know.
I think it works with any setuid binary (which VMWare Fusion is) that also calls bash internally.
If you click through the link in this HN post ( https://airtable.com/invite/a3sz9t7b ) it has an invite code embedded in the URL. Once you're signed in, if you visit airtable.com/templates you will be able to browse through and directly add a template to your workspace. You can also visit airtable.com/templates without an invite code and browse (but not add)
The dissent is totally acceptable if there were degrees or shades of opinion (i.e. is the policy acceptable or not, does it meet established requirements, is it being enforced).

The issue is when she knowingly states as fact something that is not accurate (i.e. there is NO policy). That crosses the line into slander since it can cause reputational and financial harm to the institution being investigated.

Even more importantly, by one regulator giving the appearance of "gunning" for Goldman it jeopardizes the work of countless others who also have findings and research that may actually be true.
I just lost a really close friend about three weeks ago to epilepsy. He had a massive seizure and died in his sleep. His roommate found him next to his bed the next morning. I can't help but think about how his death could have been avoided, so I absolutely see the value in this feature. As far as I can tell, notifications would be THE feature of a system like this.
It's just CyanogenMod
At first I thought it was just a prettier, easier to use version of Excel. Then you showed me the filtering and I had an "Aha" moment. Excel is quick and easy, but it's hard to ask questions about your data. Databases make it easy to ask questions, but it's not quick and easy. You guys seem to have taken the best of both worlds, added in some super simple short-cuts, and there's a mobile app to boot. Kudos!
Yeah, I can imagine how playing DF by exploring the actions might suck. There are lots of them and most don't make sense, especially in the beginning of the game.

The value of the tutorials is that they show the smallest working set of actions and how they interact.
I suspect you're right, but doesn't a weight scale help you make medical decisions too? Is that a medical device?
> If you are homeless - they won't treat you?

If you do not have insurance, do not have means of payment, yes they will not provide treatment. You cannot be denied in an emergency room, but you're not looking to get emergency room cancer treatment.

> The cancers and many other diseases have the best chances to be treated in the US.

If you can pay for treatment. That's why it's a false comparison.

> How is that better?

Do you want capitalism? Then the cost is that you have to pay to get the 90% chance. I'm highlighting, this is what you said you wanted, and you have it available to you.

I'd ALSO like to have 60% chance to people who can't pay the outrageous fees involved.

> EU is great at being mediocre.

No. Absolutely incorrect. EU is great at being mediocre, if you as an individual can't afford more.

You absolutely have the opportunity to achieve the highest peaks of the United States. You can BUY that 90%, if you can afford it.

So, EU has a mediocre low (taxpayer provided), and the highest peaks (if you can afford it.)

The US has the lowest valleys, and the highest peaks (if you can afford it.)

> Or do you think that everybody should have the same chances no matter what they do in their lives?

You're presenting the false alternative. If you can afford better treatment, you can buy better treatment.

> Put your foot where your mouth is!

I vote.

> They deny them entry? How does it look like "technically" ?

Roughly like what it looks like when you order a Big Mac at a McDonalds and can't pay.

> Was at the ER once

The ER is different, they can't deny you treatment.
Python is very readable; those users can usually understand it if they try.
The Python API looks horrible, basically Java code with Python syntax.
The Weight Test: The Wrong Way to Measure Your Content's Value
Really? I think somehow the blandness of its site echoes its historical context - it seems like a website built at the inception of websites, just how I associate NASA and space exploration. To each his own.

Despite the arguments in past years that funding NASA and space programming is a waste of government and private dollars, sure to have nothing other than futile and novelty implications, I have always been in favor of it. There is something about it, as I see it, that represents possibility, limitless thinking, and optimism. If we scrap the funding, it seems to me a sort of surrender to cynicism, insularity, and mediocrity.
99 Problems but a Bit Ain't One: Why My Startup Failed
Mike Innes gave a talk/demo of this at the Boston/Cambridge Julia meetup [1] last night and it was really impressive. Some highlights:

- interactive sliders to manipulate input parameters

- support for inline plots (like IJulia)

- very nice code completion

[1] http://www.meetup.com/julia-cajun/
Based on available evidence, it seems that there are two basic outlines that can be drawn around what transpired:

(1) What the Goldmanite said was innocuous (and the regulator simply didn't know what to make of it -- i.e. yes, he must have not known about exemptions for accredited investors); or

(2) What the Goldmanite said was potentially quite troubling (and the regulator knew it), for reasons we don't know yet (due to the missing context).

Which it was, or even likely was, of course I cannot say. But the basic point is that the fact that the regulator tried to hush his colleague up in this situation is by itself quite troubling. Especially if it's part of a larger pattern.

(2)
For those that don't follow the bond markets, his former company, Pimco, would be the Google or Microsoft of bond traders.

Tangentially, Bill Gross, the other pillar of Pimco just announced today that he was leaving as well.

Pimco's funds are reportedly being hammered with withdraws. Estimates are that they could loose up to 30% of their managed assets, and with almost 2 trillion managed that's market moving news!!

See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/pimco-with...

So if you think you are having a bad day......

Imagine you are at Google and in the span of a few months both Larry and then Sergey unexpectedly announce they are leaving.

> Mr El-Erian used to leave home for work at 4.30am each morning

I always wondered why someone who trades in the markets would live out West where you need to be ready at 6:30 for the market open.

I'm guessing someone has a smart ass comment lined up about how being around for your kids should be the default, or how if they made 100 million in a year that they'd quit too, but I think articles like this are good, in that it reminds hard charging people to stop and look around once in a while.
ECC is nice, especially coupled with ZFS.
In what sense? Matching dev to prod? If so, I think the question ought to be: what justification is there for not matching prod?

I know some devs like their Windows desktops. That's fine. But it's 2014 and we have nice things like virtualisation, vagrant, containers, puppet and ansible.
I think you should use homebrew to get an update. Apple hasn't updated bash since like 2007.
Great... but could be useless without an API.
https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#airtable.com
Ello: Inside the Social Network That's Stealing Facebook's Lunch
Better off using your own solution with Nagios or something similar.
Clashes and Shooting Broke Out in the Suburbs
What a glasshole.
Giving your enemies all your tech is not wise. Thankfully hipster dufuses have no real power.
Nice! Are you gonna automate checks for each submitted link or this is a one-time thing?
I would say it is not Constitutional to restrict their choice of jobs. How about we provide a bounty for turning in wrong-doers? A percentage of the money involved and they wouldn't have to worry about a job after collecting the bounty. And the bounty, of course, would be paid by the offending bank.
Yes: http://www.imore.com/apple-working-quickly-protect-os-x-agai...

They're working on getting a patch out. I'm disappointed with how Apple downplays the risk in their public statement. Some of the vectors for vulnerability are pretty insidious (e.g. the DHCP client vuln). Worth noting, it appears that OS X DHCP is not vulnerable to shellshock[1].

[1] http://complexitydaemon.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/bash-os-x-d...
The US Constitution grants us the legal right to pursue happiness, and for some, that was consuming and/or making a living brewing alcohol. Elliot Ness and his goons were a bunch of arrogant asshats who wanted to trample on that.

They go down in the historical category of bad people who get off by forcibly inflicting their immoral, mistaken ideology on others.

Comparing this persent witch hunt to that one is, ironically, very appropriate, I think.
Here's one use case: i tried importing a 500+ row wine spreadsheet into it (it has columns like type, producer, name, vintage, rating, source etc).

I had to save the file as CSV and import it -- or at least that's what I thought, but filepicker seems to support picking from google drive. I don't know if it would have accepted a spreadsheet.

Your app seems sluggish to scroll compared to Google Docs at that size, and the record density seems low (I see 29 records per page vs 50 on Google Docs). This is using Chrome 38 on Linux.

The "link to another table" seems interesting, but my data came denormalized so I have a column with e.g. 10 different repeated values on 500 rows. Maybe it would be nice to automatically clean that up somehow. For example, I could Copy the column and have a some Paste (unique values only) option. Maybe the dialogue that comes up (suggesting to expand the spreadsheet) could even tell you about that. Or maybe there could be an option to convert a text field to a separated linked table.

I had some conditional formatting set up via Google Docs, which could be nice to have here; e.g. red wines have a red background in that wine type table.

I don't have a simple primary key -- it's really a composite of {wine producer, wine name, vintage}. The app didn't mind importing non-unique values into that first column. I don't know what the alternative might have been -- an auto-generated primary key?

Having said all of the above, I really like Google Docs and it will take some amazing features to make me switch to anything else. Multi-user planning and documentation via docs is great -- I have a shopping list everyone can update and I can see it change real time on the phone in the shop while someone is changing it from their desktop, and it's always up to date.
Who "exploits and manipulates" developers? If the answer is their dev manager/lead, good, that's their "job" (being sarcastic here); but yeah, I expect from my boss to give me some direction when needed.

However, I think you are pointing out that devs get "exploited and manipulated" by, surprise, other PMs. I really can't think of someone else that is good at this. So yeah, just remove PMs that are specialized in "politics".

Now, if you remove "politics" PMs then you could argue that customer support, cross-team requests, etc. will impact developers. In this case, dev managers/leads should prioritize those requests and it should be painful to take away dev time to serve other tasks. If it's painful you will probably invest time in fixing the customer support issue rather than managing your customers. If you are spending too much time serving marketing requests, maybe you just have a bad product that needs improvements before it gets shipped, etc.

I really don't believe easing politics is the way to go.
Making a Rails app without a database
"I try to remember to disable my adblocker for sites I like."

Do you ever buy things from the ads? If not, there is no real difference between blocking and displaying the ads.
Many developers do not ever touch anything mac, do not use IDEs other than Emacs or VIM, do not care about browsers, etc.

So a title is extremely misleading. For a large proportion of the developers most of the listed tools are pretty useless.

And not to mention that "most open source tools and frameworks were developed for OSX, then ported to Windows or Linux" is very far from being correct anywhere outside of the tiny web-development world.