skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power...:
"In 1990, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ranked the failure of the emergency electricity generators and subsequent failure of the cooling systems of plants in seismically very active regions one of the most likely risks. The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) cited this report in 2004. According to Jun Tateno, a former NISA scientist, TEPCO did not react to these warnings and did not respond with any measures.[35]

Filmmaker Adam Curtis mentioned the risks of the type of boiling water reactors cooling systems such as those in Fukushima I,[36] and claimed the risks were known since 1971[37] in a series of documentaries in the BBC in 1992 and advised that PWR type reactors should have been used.

Fukushima had been warned their seawall was insufficient to withstand a powerful tsunami, but the seawall height was not raised in response"

Still no indication of greed, sloppiness, cut-corner mentality and general incompetence?
Small margins and low growth though.

And many would argue that it'd be hard to do better.
Kind of based on an assumption that using JavaScript at all is a good thing. For me the idea is to avoid using it where possible. Can we stop the web monopolisation/locking/despotism and drop specific languages from titles and ideas? How about "Isomorphic Applications that give developers freedom and a choice of language"?
>Linus's flames also tend not to be personal: they're more like "this architecture is shit" than "you're shit".

I don't see how it gets much more personal than starting off a mail to a new contributor with the line:

*YOU* are full of bullshit.

Even the supposed 'meat' of the argument was a thinly veiled personal insult:

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
How common are flames like "How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?"? Those seem very personal, even if the target isn't specifically named. Is it 40%, or more like 10%? Since to me 0% seems like the right level.
To your point, PayPal is also seen as a very negative brand and they continue to thrive.
I don't know where you have taken taxis in Spain, but all taxis I've taken in Barcelona are incredibly clean and the drivers are incredibly efficient (given that I'm Spanish and know the best routes for these trips, too, of course)
It is however a rather small step to such a 3. party app being bundled with your branded phone, which you've opt-ed into by buying the phone.
I think that it´s an easy position to take.

If the government sides with Uber it loses the money he get from the (outrageously expensive, like you said) licenses, and has a lot of unhappy voters (taxi drivers).

What would it gain ? Better service ? Lower prices, more fares ? Happier citizen ? That is really all to be demonstrated.

It´s a very rational decision in my opinion, on part of the government, although I might not agree with it.

On the human side, I agree that taxi drivers deserve sympathy, but no more than other owners of traditional businesses that are made obsolete by progress (small CD shop owners, bookstores, photo development shops)...
There's a thing called PRISM in case OP forgot. Get this click-bait off of here.
> I don't know much of the drama around systemd, but this sounds like a typical "everyone's an asshole except me" post.

He's discussing technical topics, there is no point in having such responses coming to one just because of a technical disagreement. For what it's worth, I have stuff flying my way too because I do not agree with the direction Python is doing and I don't think the tone that flies my way sometimes is justified.
Not in Barcelona, at least, since fare prices are shown in the windows (IIRC this is also the norm in the UK, and I thought this was also done Spain-wide, but it's been a while since I took a taxi outside of Barcelona.) Of course, nothing prevents the taxi from driving around needlessly. But this can happen anywhere, Uber or no Uber.
My reply to the same nitpick (but other guy, you're not alone!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8238504
I lived in Madrid for some time, and I rarely used taxi (in fact, only in cases when I needed to get to the airport in late hours).

The public transportation is pretty good, one can get anywhere in Madrid by using metro. http://www.expatica.com/es/essentials_moving_to/essentials/P...
Why do you think Uber is an "innovation"? It's simply an unregulated, unsafe and uninsured taxi service. It's just like those illegal scalpers offering rides in any airport, except with a smartphone app. That's not innovation (useful and popular taxi apps existed before Uber), and whatever it is, it's not being stifled. Uber is free to apply for permits just like everyone else. I think that instead of being sad you should be proud that your country doesn't automatically adopt any potentially harmful idea that comes from America.
I think it's just a vocal minority.

It's hard to say that "closed source" even has a community, so of course it's easy to point out assholes in the open source community.

I find (about half the time) submitting an issue on just about any github project run by "professionals" is a good way to be met with hostile behavior. It makes me wonder if the same things happen behind closed doors at places like google, Apple, MS, etc. I read a report a few months back about how the general atmosphere at google was one of pretentious content for fellow employees.

Maybe the tech community needs to get off its high-horse as a whole, including Lennart, who isn't 100% not-guilty of ever being "rude".

What tech related ecosystem has a "friendly" community?
SF is a broader church than you might imagine from the outside, and many people (including me!) will give you a list of "classics" that are actually quite a narrow slice because that's the subgenre they're into. I'd recommend starting from something like the Locus top 100; populism has its problems but will at least ensure you don't completely miss any major areas.
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would love to see an open source initiative in this space. Might even give it a go, anyone interested? Would love to host my own trigger / web hook service that i can use across applications.
I'd say its not only Linux community, but pretty much any community that has communication based on the Internet what makes people behave much worse than they mostly do in their 'real life'. However, there are communities that do care about this problem a bit more than others - if you're not treated well by Linux guys, there are other free operating systems like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD, their userbase is smaller, so they actually care about bringing new people in. Linux is not the only nor the best OS choice out there! ;)
Your whole comment is irrelevant, worse, detrimental even to the discussion. The discussion is about the violence. I think your stance on this is disgusting. You suggest that if it would deter the guy from building his software you would participate in his torment? That's weak, perhaps the foundation of this situation is that some of these open source communities attract people with especially weak personalities.
Ah ok yea thanks for clarifying that. I was under the impression that Square only works with credit cards. I can understand I guess the convenience of using a small card reader attached to your phone instead of a bulky POS terminal.

I guess what's more difficult for me to understand is the value surrounding wiring money. My bank in the Netherlands doesn't charge me a fee to withdraw money at any ATM in the world and I can transfer to any European account given the IBAN free of charge too.

So just curious as to what pain point Square and other payment companies serve in that case.
The article mentions a leveling off and "even contract(ing) over the last decade" of federal funding. I take the statement at face value, someone else might substantiate it.

Your point is taken. As we're producing more of these PhDs, we should be taking advantage of them; Not solely as cheap labor but as the scientific minds they were trained to be.
Did you ever think that maybe the majority of the Linux community knows better than you?
Do you mean new custom components? I was also asking that question to me. I noticed a "Want More?" box in the bottom right corner of the component list: "Tell us which service you would like to have."
Coming from a controversial figure in the community and the dick behind Systemd. Was reading through it until I actually read the name.
It's a backbone network, not something you use to terminate in a single server.
Yup. We already had our taxi disruption in Poland when iCar and the like appeared. They used a legal trick to get around requirements for taxi license. A dozen media storms, few slashed tires and a law change later, they were made to operate under taxi law, and everyone seems to live along well. The primary important features introduced by iCar, et al. was a) fare based on distance, therefore known before the ride, and b) use of GPS to navigate around the city.

I actually switched to iCar mostly for b) - I trust GPS more than taxi driver's instinct.

I don't see anything new Uber can bring here. We already have a taxi network with an ordering app anyway.
submitting an issue on just about any github project run by "professionals" is a good way to be met with hostile behavior

I would hesitate to equate what the author is describing (raising funds to have him killed, for example) with a little rudeness from a professional developer.
Pretentious content?

Lennart concedes he's been guilty of being less than admirably professional in that post.

I'm sure we've all spent some time in various free software communities that are always friendly, rarely rude.
hmm a quick google and i have discovered bipio[1]. Anyone else know of any?

[1]https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio
> I could write a lengthy blog post about the unnecessary problems that PulseAudio and systemd have thrown up over the years (problems I'd never had an issue with in all the years of running Linux and other UNIX-like platforms), but those topics are done to death now

I haven't been keeping up with the linux side of things, could someone give some links to descriptions of this?
Except that it's not just a technical disagreement. Or at least, his detractors don't see it as one, and if he tries to characterise it as one he's being hopelessly naive. He's seen as using his political position to force through a technical solution, regardless of its merits.
Sorry about that, I tried searching for it first.
You mean typewriter manufacturers should have been kept afloat forever using taxpayers' funds so as to not fire workers?

(That's what "the worker comes first" despite the consumer not wanting the product would mean, I think. If not, then the question is where you draw the line and how you measure the harm done to the average worker when he is forced to support other workers who are unproductive compared to available alternatives. For instance, rich people have private cars and sometimes private drivers and don't need taxis that much. Who needs a taxi? Someone without a car who needs to quickly get from A to B. Could be a rather poor chap. Of course, taxis, that regulated brand of public transportation, are hardly affordable on a regular basis to "poor" people. Whether this helps or hurts "workers" is not obvious to me. All of which is not to say that I'm "on Uber's side" or some such, I'm too uninformed to take a side on this one. Just wondering about your "pro-worker" statement.)
Watch the Windows 10 launch video
I had a similar thought. It is quite common at our office to get loud about certain topics that specific devs may feel very passionate about (perhaps they made the decision to implement something and someone is arguing it should be done a different way, etc).

I can't imagine this is very different from what we see in open source.
As someone with no knowledge of the situation, can someone explain to me why the opinions brought up by a google search of his name are invalid?
First one looks good but how can it be a meal replacement with 0 cholesterol?

Also it's $3/serving, but each serving is 300 calories, so you'd have to eat at least 6-7 servings per day = $18-$24 per day.
Why My Digital Health Startup Failed
People could just order Cabify in Madrid. 100% legal, cheaper than a taxi and more cars on the street.
Yup. In Poland the rule of thumb is that you order a taxi from a taxi network - the ones parked outside airport or train stations are usually scammers.
There are many ways of looking at this, most disturbing. I imagine that my own experience working to support PhD candidates and post-docs a decade ago is instructive. The TL-DR: failed start-up.

I went back to school during the post-2001 recession and found myself with a job writing signal processing software to make sense of the data coming off an experimental mass spectrometer. I was offered a job by our lead researcher (a post-doc) upon graduation who saw an opportunity to turn a grant into a private lab. There were some political and University-inspired patent spin-off aspects, too.

The lab was built to create a product that used, but had little to do with, his research. I got a rag mag and a poster session publication credit from the early company efforts to build an in-house mass spectrometry device before he left and returned to being a post-doc (he is now a tenured professor). The people left steering the company ballooned the corporate efforts using off-the-shelf tech to rush a product to market just as the 2008 crash impacted and the targeted customer base (people wanting spa-like boutique medical tests to determine which vitamins they should take) evaporated. I was dismissed in the first wave of the toilet spiral and the company ceased to exist 18 months later.

The point behind my story is that as the pool of post-docs increases, we are more likely to see more adventures like the one I went through. Some of these start-ups will succeed, leading to a survivor-bias feedback loop at the policy level that we need even more STEM students to feed the start-up machine, leading to growth.

I have no doubt that this will, in fact, work as a growth engine. My question is whether this can be made more efficient by providing a few more prestigious fellowships and other funding to keep the most brilliant in the game before they kick off into business.
Go to your local town hall and threaten to kill the mayor because you don't like his opinions/work. Try to explain all your neighbors that that was okay, because "Tempers are gonna flare".

This is, by the way, an offense you can end in jail for, for good reasons.
Do you live in the same Madrid as me? I can't figure out what kind of 'innovation' Uber is bringing to the table.

There are plenty of taxis and free services for you to book one, I have never waited more than 10 minutes to get one, and most drivers are respectful and will turn the radio off or leave you alone if you say so. You can even ask them to take a particular route and they won't have any problem in doing so
You must not forget that many distros moved to systemd out of necessity rather than desire, and for some (Debian) the decision was lengthy, splitting and controversial.

EDIT: By "necessity", I mean things such as GNOME (which is a very often used graphical shell in a majority of distributions) and udev (which is getting integrated into systemd, is used by most distros, and, bar Busybox's mdev or Gentoo's eudev fork, has no alternative) depending or planning to depend on systemd.
Just upon arriving to Barajas Airport in Madrid, I went outside to the taxi area and could delight myself with taxis not respecting the queue (allowing clients instead of referring them to the head of the queue) and the image of two taxi drivers fist fighting for some clients. Yup.

Not to mention they wanted to charge me over 100 euros for going from the Airport to the main train station.

From my experience the taxi industry of Spain is highly inefficient and overpriced.
No, since one of the bigger benefits of isomorphism is having fast initial page loads.

The standard SPA experience of having to wait for JS to download and execute before the page appears is terrible for large classes of apps (ex. media), and isomorphic JavaScript solves that while preserving the benefits of SPAs.
I've got a simpler explanation for why the Gentoo community seems more hateful to Pottering than those of other distributions: Pottering has deliberately, openly designed software to break on Gentoo.

Linus should be less dickish, I agree with that much. But Pottering, when you deliberately break the software on other people's computers, I think they are justified in hating you.
This can solve the backend of many simple web apps. That leaves us with the space between Bootstrap and Stamplay. I guess that many customers would accept an interface made by standardized components if that means that they could pay ten times less. Is there any tool like that for the frontend, better if it can work in combination with Stamplay?
Bananas and eggs could solve world hunger - and in fact are available and affordable to many people who you might classify as hunger. Sure, some kind of protein shake in liue of peanut butter might be a good handout in periods of starvation - but hunger is a way more complex issue than lack of physical access to calories or nutrients and there is certainly no powder or "technical fix" for the issues involved wit hhunger.
>when I was younger I did not always stay technical in flamewars, but nowadays I am pretty good at that

I would have really hated to see him younger then.

These days every project he is involved with is pretty much a textbook case of how not to handle your community. If someone has a grievance with what you're doing, listen, explain why you don't care/can't do anything about it and let them feel like they had some impact on you. Instead there you have the "you're doing it wrong", "I'm more important than you", and "you're too stupid to understand how awesome this actually is" syndromes in full force everywhere.

Poettering and everyone who has anything to do with redhat expects users to thank him for shitting on them for free when Steve Jobs asks people to pay money for the privilege. If we wanted that we'd be paying Apple, we aren't because a long time ago we decided that certain thing were a lot more important to us than that. And he along with the people like him have decided that we need to be more like Apple for our own good.
Is Apple a startup then, having pivoted from computers, to music players, to phones?
I live in Spain. I hate spanish laws. Living here is like living in socialism. 3 months to create your company because of bureaucracy, laws agains Airbnb and Uber, we want some liberty.
>People who think they're practicing Zen without a trained instructor are just deluding themselves.

How can a new practitioner know if the instructor is actually enlightened or is only saying they are enlightened?
I agree with most of your post. His attitude toward keyscript users is less than inspiring. But I still try - yesterday I spent 4 hours tweaking my VM builds against debian sid; by the end I had found a way to segfault systemctl, filed a bug, and still have absolutely no debugging info that explains why docker.service doesn't start at boot on its default network.target.

But the elephant in the room is that distros have adopted systemd and pulseaudio en masse. There must be buy-in for a reason. This outpouring of faux outrage is being leveled at an individual, what of the distro vendors?
Oh, come on.

Poettering wants to show how his community is nice and welcoming, and he does it by... making gratuitous attacks at Gentoo? Sounds legit.
Right, with isomorphic JavaScript your server isn't trusted either. A good paradigm for this is to have a completely separate API server, which is secure, while the "frontend code" (which might run on either the server or client) isn't trusted.

Also, the benefit of isomorphic JavaScript isn't chiefly for SEO (there are other solutions to that problem, such as PhantomJS), it's in being able to have fast initial pageloads even for rich JS apps.
There's a similar thing in Pittsburgh, where streets are named after locations of battles in the Mexican War. I was a bit confused the first time I saw this.
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>The Linux community is dominated by western, white, straight, males in their 30s and 40s these days. I perfectly fit in that pattern, and the rubbish they pour over me is awful.

Maybe you are the problem. I don't know a single OSS developer that is more hated than you. Ever wondered why this might be?
Common sense and politics[1] usually provide the answer. I'm not talking about keeping dead industries afloat, but protecting certain necessary ventures through regulation, to ensure that the workers get compensated fairly for their required service. It is better to have customers wait another 3 minutes for a taxi, than taxi drivers not being able to make ends meet. The important thing to remember is that we aren't supposed to work for the sake of the economy; the economy is meant to work for us. What that means in practice, is left for each country, with its own culture and customs, to decide.

[1]: Although I mean politics in its very common denotation (i.e. the work of politicians, and not "politics of oppression"), it does provide a very good mechanism for groups to bargain over interests. It doesn't always come up with the same answer your common sense would give you, but it's sometimes better (though more annoying): it allows groups to consider various proposals as a package, rather than fight it out over each one in isolation (e.g. we won't oppose increase in gas tax if you don't allow unregulated taxi services).
This article makes it sound like this is a new problem, e.g., "But in recent years, the postdoc position has become less a stepping stone and more of a holding tank." As was pointed out in the comments of the article, the grey-haired postdoc problem in biology has persisted for decades. It's difficult to sustain sympathy for people trapped in a endless postdoc when the problem is not a secret.

Also, have to say, the article picture showcases a great pet peeve of mine with media pictures of scientists in the lab: where is the rest of this guy's PPE? One of the nice things about industry is that safety is far more likely to be taken seriously.
talking about tools ...which can make your documentaion look better ....go for sphinx (python based) .. excellent tool...usd it...loved it !!
So I will go what appears Off-Topic but I think this is a pattern.

KDE 4.0 is release and KDE specifically says that they don't want Distros making packages for the .0 release. Distros do make packages because the community was excited to see it. Then a storm hits over what a 4.0 vs 3.99 release means.

PulseAudio comes out. Is stated that it is not a solid release yet and Distros please don't install. It gets installed and the whole community freaks out on PulseAudio.

KDE 4 and PulseAudio are SOLID and probably best of show in their categories now. BUT the community always will spread out hate (and even lies) to both projects because it wasn't solid on day one.

SystemD is considered bad because it is made by the same person that head up PulseAudio. That is enough for the community to never let go of the acceleration peddle on hate. SystemD got out of the trap that caught C# and Mono on Linux.

There is a reason why SystemD is on most systems. It is the best solution for the vast majority of people. I personally find it so much better then what was there before in practice and MUCH easier to understand.