skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conforming to the norm leads to stagnation as progress requires change. Teams don't change the status quo, they just get known tasks finished faster.

Sure, if you just want to get by in life and be moderately happy then your advice is reasonable.

If you want to surpass the norm your perspective must be radically altered.
Curing Diseases by Gazing at the Heavens
His wish might just come true. Investors are also wary of twitter and it's ability to monetize. The huge userbase alone won't work forever.

The end game for twitter will look in the shape and form of a buyout at a huge discount by an already hugely profitable company.
What you might call "understanding the universe", seeing how it works, the mechanisms by which conscious experience happens... a religious person might call that "knowing god" and both of these are reasonable views of the same whole, just taken from opposite sides.
And his Twitter feed is nothing but promotional one-way blasts (not to mention his tweet-followers-following numbers are consistent with shady accounts).
How to Make a Forum or Online Community More Active
The New Heroin Epidemic
>But what about the rebelliousness that brought about the hyperlink, the mouse, and the iPhone?

Are those really rebellions? TBL was a pretty milquetoast guy who built on top of a lot of things before him: TCP/IP, server OS, interconnected networks, and of course text-based predecessors to the web like Archie. He didn't wear all black and call everyone an idiot and magically produce something wonderful. He stood on the shoulders of giants and reached a little further.
Hence, my prefix "Not saying it's University of New Mexico". Surely, the purpose of a discussion forum is to foster discussion? I didn't exactly go digging deep for this information and hitting the frontpage of HN would virtually ensure this exact line of reasoning will be repeated many places elsewhere.

The author strikes me as someone who carefully weighed the consequences of sharing the story.
I guess another way of phrasing the original article's claim is that although communities do form, they have no straightforward way to exclude strangers, interlopers, and even griefers: and except for incessant use of hashtags (which could eat up valuable space), there's no simple way for a person who is part of multiple communities to direct comments to only one community.

That's a recipe for both serendipity and uncomfortable moments (or worse) if someone has strong opinions on, say, computer science, religion, and animal rights. People who chose to follow them over one thing will constantly see their opinions on other things. That might be great under some circumstances because it will promote more interesting and broader discussions or lead people to learn about ideas that they wouldn't have naturally come across in their own filter bubble. But it might produce some serious disruption in the conversation too, especially if that person's views are offensive or upsetting to some readers.

I know a Twitter user writes a lot about computer science and a lot about sex and sexuality. I find both sets of posts frequently insightful, but the latter would be off-topic in a forum devoted only to computer science, and they do sometimes produce offense.

It seems like the best case for avoiding really bad forms of conflict is when a group of people tweet almost exclusively on a single topic that outsiders don't find upsetting or offensive (or simply don't know about). But a lot of people do want to have at least some discussions that others will inevitably be offended by, and the broadcast medium can be a challenge for that if you didn't want to get into it with the strangers (or for that matter have some of them insult you, threaten you, or even dox you).
What's hurt people in this situation is to remove them their right. If you do an action with the goal to remove right from people, even if it's small, even if it's really indirect, if you do it with the goal to remove right from people, then yeah I believe it's wrong.

We are all equals, we should have equals rights. Having equals right doesn't hurt anyone but having different rights does.
While I agree it's a positive thing for him to talk about, I don't care much for the way he's phrasing it. What does it mean to be "proud" of something you are? Isn't that what we criticize white supremacists and other bigots for?

Take pride in the things you do, the things you create. My only reaction to someone who takes pride in his or her race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation is quizzical indifference.
It's rapidly moving into hardware development as well, eg:

https://tessel.io/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-javascript...

http://nodebots.io/

This is what programming is now.
> He claims to want to encourage conversations, but comments are disabled.

That bothered me as well, especially his flippant attitude about it ("Comments are never going to happen. Stop trying to make comments happen"). I get the joke, it's from that Lindsay Lohan movie. But the cognitive dissonance that it creates is annoying.

He's basically saying "I want Twitter to die because they don't allow proper conversations to take place. Oh and by the way, don't bother commenting on my post because I don't believe in blog post conversations."
Far too many need to believe that people won't buy the products because of his sexuality to bolster their own feelings of superiority than would actually not buy the products. Looking the anti-religious zealotry within this thread is evident of that, far too many just believe the worst in others because they are themselves too bigoted/closeminded to think otherwise.
Slightly side topic - does anyone else feel like they "need" to use Twitter because it's a good distribution platform (the "human RSS"), but generally don't particularly enjoy it?

I personally find myself thinking "oh maybe I should post that stupid comment that's in my head on Twitter...last time I did it I got X followers, so I should probably continue to do it"
Great advice!

I’ve seen PG/YC recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People from time to time, so I should probably get myself a copy.
fantastic. glad they went through such lengths to keep a non-invasive user experience
Interesting use of ultrasonics. I get that you can't hear them but at the power levels necessary you might begin to feel them :-). There was also a room surveillance device at one time that put ultrasonic energy into the room. It was a variation on the 'monitor the window glass' sort of thing with the exception that ultrasonics would conduct through more solid surfaces than glass.
This looks really great. It has one critical flaw though: Facebook has depricated their chat api[1]. I.e. in a few more months this product wont work at all.

[1]https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/
gg, same name and timing
so, how were those sites made? The article gives alot of examples, but none of those examples is a proven fact.
He was forced out, as everyone is well aware. You are advocating for a society where political intimidation is acceptable. There are many examples of such countries around the world. None have worked out well.
If the substantive bulk of someones work is loonery, I don't have to accord them any serious consideration because they got some minor detail right. That's exactly the approach all woo-peddlers use...find some triviality to establish credibility for a pack of bunk.
Dead pool? Or maybe we should call it a fewer-arrows more-wood pool. Or even "haha you gave us your data" pool. If I were cynical, a "do you dumbasses ever learn" pool.

I've got $10 on Oct 2016. A nice round 2 years.
There is no "burn all the carbon we wanted" regardless of climate change because we're eventually going to run out of cheap oil. The cost of recovering it will eventually exceed the cost of renewable energy. The problem is that waiting until that point to stop burning oil and coal would do catastrophic damage to the planet.

The thing that makes much better sense is to have a carbon tax and use the money to subsidize non-fossil energy on a per KWh basis, and set the amount such that it makes non-fossil energy cheaper. Do that and the market would sort it out in short order.
> I really think that a minimum number of sick days should be mandatory as a public health measure.

In some states it is, though the minimum number, when there is one, tends to be very low.
Before assembly, people wrote in binary machine code.
I don't get the fuzz. This is like the 3rd or 4th submission about this function. And all it does is testing that

> ((SIZE_MAX / nmemb) >= size)

before doing the size_t multiplication. That's no rocket science. Anyone who's worried about his size_ts overflowing should be able to come up with this.
Libhelium, rbhelium, and the Helium API
For context, Eitaro Fukamachi has been working on a whole bunch of things relating to the low-level parts of Common Lisp web development: A fast HTTP parser, a fast URI parser[0], a libuv-based web server[1] (That outperforms Node!), and he's also written Clack[2], which is Common Lisp's Rack/WSGI.

[0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/quri

[1]: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo

[2]: https://github.com/fukamachi/clack
>>You, and the rest of the liberal lynch mob that forced him out, are doing nothing more than suppressing his rights.

You have to admit, using your rights to take someone else's rights away.... is a dubious position to hold.
Exactly. Shotgun-blast your puerile thoughts to your dozens/hundreds/millions of followers. Don't bother reading any responses it might garner—they're going to be just as base.

Now you're in the habit of just shotgunning statements into the crowd, so when you do the same thing on Facebook, you've forgotten how to engage in a more lengthy, rational discussion.

Or, even worse, you've grown up with Twitter and don't understand that people can have lengthy, meaningful conversations via the internet.
Decomposing involves releasing the carbon from the plant fibers back into the atmosphere as CO2 usually.

To quote the EPA "Composting also results in biogenic CO2 emissions associated with decomposition, both during the composting process and after the compost is added to
the soil." - http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/downloads/compos...
I think your logic is good, but your application is lacking. Same-sex "sexual activity" is not what has been outlawed in Singapore. There is no law that fits the description you have outlined and it is essentially a straw-man argument.

The law that exists states explicitly that anal and oral sex, only between members of the same sex, is illegal. Both of these acts have been specifically made legal for a heterosexual pair.

The only difference between these two scenarios? The gender of one participant. A woman may receive anal sex from a man, but a man may not. Discrimination based on gender.
Ok, forced out. Is that more palatable? He was, for all intents and purposes, fired. For expressing a political opinion. In a country that prides itself on being a democracy. If that isn't stifling political discourse, what exactly is it?
Take out the windows phone specific stuff and I'm fairly certain there isn't a device on the market with this feature set anywhere near this price point.
Twitter is an example of product design by technical limitations, not what people need.

Nevertheless, they hit very well, b/c the two were somewhat closely aligned for a decade or so. Now that it's being strained, some of its limitations are showing...

...But no matter what, I do not predict its imminent demise... Especially since they are mainly a technical layer, there is still a world of protocols they can implement on top of it to make it more like e.g. IRC, or whatever other comm. network people desire.

Then again CB radio rose and fell quite hard without ever completely going away.
Sounds very good. I’ve been impressed by how many interesting and IT-related Meetup events there are in Stockholm.
I used to use Google Notebook and Google Reader. I saved many notes and tagged many articles. Google suddenly discontinued both. I am not going to invest any effort into learning/using any Google service without some assurance that it is going to be supported at least 5 years.
I want to add: I love to watch English movies (and TBBT) with English caption also (Austrian-German is my native Tongue). This allows me to fall back to the English written word should I have missed the spoken one. The meaning of single words is usually easily deducible from context. It also helps to correct my pronunciation of words I use to pronounce incorrectly.
I totally get what you're saying and am happy to hear that it works that well but, I haven't seen anything like that in the shots. The only thing I've seen is the "do not disturb" mode which is probably what I'll do when I get it.

I'd love to hear more about what you like about it and how it is. My main concern was basically not having yet another phone-like device that will annoy the crap out of me. And the Band is begging for it.
> It seems that what this person wants is that everyone he talks to think like he does.

It's interesting that you say that, given that this is the same person who started a firestorm of drama by pull requesting gendered documentation in Node.js.
> My experience in the real world is that people don't want to burn their valuable PTO, and continue to come to work when they have a minor illness.

Forcing this tradeoff is the entire reason that firms have single-pot PTO; this isn't an issue when sick leave is separate from vacation.
This is an amazing post.

So, if this is available in libbsd it means that is also available for linux too, I'm right?
Polyamory Is Boring
Please read the other part of my comment, wherein I claim that he does not have a right to suppress rights. The context is extremely important: totally uncritical tolerance is not useful to society, and erodes tolerance. We need to be able to defend society against intolerance in order to maintain tolerance.

You cannot divorce the actual issue he is expressing his opinion on from the fact that he is expressing an opinion. The context matters. You can't consider a different particular instance and expect the same conclusion, because the context changes.
> Most companies provide better benefits than what is legally required

Cool, let's just bank on the generosity of companies.

> Unlike something like cancer pregnancy is not an accident. If you can't afford to pay for children, don't have them.

Did you even read the article? These people can obviously afford to have children. They can't afford to become unemployed because they had children. Short of being independently wealthy or raiding your personal savings, no one can afford to become unemployed for an extended period of time because they're raising a child.

Let's not even get into the fact that this is obviously disproportionately affecting women. I don't need to take sick leave because my wife gave birth - I don't have anything to physically recover from.
The problem with your approach is that unless you invest a non-trivial amount of time and effort into something, you're just not qualified to question things on a level where you can do a wholesale dismissal. Unfortunately, many don't adhere to this. Thus the endless diatribes about the evils of vaccines and Thomas Edison.

Rebelliousness is typically a shortcut to thinking. Its not actual thinking. From my experience, most self-styled intellectual rebels are dilettantes who are socially rewarded for their loudmouth views. From a scholarly or historical perspective, they believe and preach garbage.

The successful types, even in fields we agree tend to be rebellious, are almost universally the more milquetoast and calm personalities able to work with others who took interesting but usually incremental turns. This is why we all know who, say, Lou Reed is and accept his contributions to rock, but may not feel the same about guys like G.G. Allin or Marilyn Manson.
When code is bulky, you can excuse your ego because your visibility is limited in a literal sense. But when it's dense like this you actively know, as you try and fail to skim it, that you can only usefully focus on a small segment at a time. So you blame the code instead of yourself.
> Calling something "Ideology" is not a "get out of criticism free" card.

Of course. It is after all entirely different than:

Calling someone "Gay" is not a "get out of criticism free" card.

Or:

Calling someone "Jew" is not a "get out of criticism free" card.

Or:

Calling something "Black" is not a "get out of criticism free" card.

Or:

Calling someone "woman" is not a "get out of criticism free" card.

Or:

Calling someone "Muslim" is not a "get out of criticism free" card.

Right.

Obviously our public sphere is full of criticism of Islam (a.k.a. islamophobia), Black people (a.k.a. racism), women (a.k.a sexism), Jews (a.k.a. antisemitism), Gays (a.k.a. homophobia).

And YES I would take a racist for CEO - if he is more qualified than others - each and every time. Because I truly believe in a society where gender, sex orientation, race, religion, ideology - do NOT matter.

See, this is a paradox. You can't have that, and you just admitted it. Cultural Marxism is full of paradoxes like that. It's impossible to truly have society where gender, sex orientation, race, religion, ideology - do NOT matter. Thank you very much for providing evidence that you see a paradox there as well.
What's the maximum sampling frequency? What are the accuracy and precision like? How susceptible is it to changes in the weather? I'm asking seriously, because I could severely use a module like this (actually, the BLE is not a concern), but haven't found anything suitable in an attractive price range.
Thank you for this thoughtful comment, I think your writing precisely embodies what nevergetenglish was referring to.

> "It is brutally hard for most people (after the age of puberty, and perhaps especially for males) to learn to attend to sound distinctions that don't exist in the learner's native language."

I'm a native French speaker who learnt English in Scotland when I moved there (been living in mostly English-speaking countries ever since). As far as most people I meet are concerned, I have a very weird accent; the perception ranges from "he's Scottish" to "what the hell?" depending on where I go and who I talk to. In any case, while phonology is clearly very important, I would argue that it is not completely necessary for expressing yourself properly, at least in writing.

> "[...] another huge task for any language learner is acquiring vocabulary, and this is the task on which most language-learning materials are most focused. But often the focus on vocabulary is not very thoughtful."

This is sadly very true, though I honestly don't think there's a silver bullet when it comes to learning vocabulary. One additional source I would add to your "royal road to learning vocabulary" would be exposure to colloquial language, or slang at the extreme, i.e. listening to day-to-day conversations between "commoners". This is how I realized that there is often a "correct" way of saying something (as in purely grammatically correct), and the "natural" way (i.e. as expected by native speakers).

> "Every language has hundreds of tacit grammar rules [...] which reveal a language-learner as a foreigner when the rules are broken"

Continuing from my previous point, I think the opposite sometimes applies too. For instance, back in Scotland, I had to force myself to say "If I was" instead of "If I were", because the mistake has become so systematic that it has almost become a rule.

I think grammar is at least as important as vocabulary, particularly in a language like English where the language is so modular that words can fairly easily be made up, to the extent that they are understandable within a logical context, even if incorrect.

Finally, I would add culture as a possible fourth big task to add to your list. This may just be me, but there seems to be a dimension of language closely tied to the culture associated with it. There are idioms that make complete sense to me, yet I cannot explain why to my (French) family. This is ostensibly related to linguistic relativity[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I had a boss who was gay. Actually lot of gay people in that company. It was actually the best company I had ever worked for.
Go 1.4 Beta 1 is released
If you want a more detailed critique of Twitter's design and the effect it has on conversations there, I wrote one last year: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/

/end self-promotion
You're right: gay people shouldn't feel the need to declare that they're gay. But there's a reason they do, and if you actually read the article that was posted instead of getting upset that someone used the words "openly" and "gay" in the same sentence, you might see why.
Composer: It’s All About the Lock File
Have you read the packaging tool recommendations[1]? And the packaging glossary[2]?

For the little of npm I've seen its equivalent is pip, and package.json maybe pip's requirements files.

[1] https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/current.html
[2] https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossary.html
Won't the wrapper be inlined and the condition branch-predicted? In that case, you literally aren't letting a single machine cycle be wasted.
Twitter doesn't have a design flaw, it sets out to do what it wants and it does so spectacularly. Twitter is a platform for announcements not for conversations (although many try to use it for that very thing).

People who think twitter is a conversation platform are #doingitwrong. Period. People who try to use twitter for conversations and get angry when it doesn't work well or some random stranger barges in and starts hurting their feelings obviously need to realize that there are a ton of other platforms that solve their problem. Namely message boards, any form of chat (irc, IM, etc), blogs, etc.
How Paras Chopra Bootstrapped an $8M SaaS Business
> You subscription to Out magazine must have lapsed.

Heh, I thought this was a joke at first. It's kind of funny that lots of people didn't know, yet he has literally been featured as #1 in Out Magazine. I guess it does still fit, that he hasn't personally, publicly acknowledged it, even if others have acknowledged it publicly.
you should think about moving to west coast or a large city.
Behavioral Patterns of a Spam Network
3-Creating a company now makes you feel like the next Newton.
Show HN: Another World Ported to MP3 Players (Rockbox)
Any advise for a person who had success, then had compound PTSD surface, get mingled with the concept of ego, leading to a negative sorts of ego death, and is still trying as hard as they can to become genius? I can't get the concept of being past my prime, out of my head, and I think that is precisely what is holding me back.
That's what I like about Twitter-- it's a global cocktail party. People tweet to one another about anything regardless of whether they know each other or what their relative socioeconomic background is.

It is what it is. It's not for everyone. But the net is more interesting with it than without it.
If I understand your position correctly, then if there really was a prop to ban interracial marriage we should all be okay with that? I don't see any difference between a ban on gay marriage and a ban on interracial marriage.

I just want to be sure I understand your calibration settings. If you think a prop on banning interracial marriage should be just as acceptable as what you seem to be saying for prop8, then I'm done discussing this with you.
FYI, there is a https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ which is a completely different service.
What is a "big" company which links to this in your footer: http://big.vc/?
Where do you live? Because the climate would put a kibosh on that in a lot of places pretty quick. (Even if you're personally fine with being outside in -20°F (244 K) weather, there are rather serious mechanical issues with biking through deep snow and on glazed ice with a thin layer of loose snow on top.)