skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article requires that you accept that 'shame mobs' are real, and a threat to free speech on the internet.

If you, like me, don't know what that term means, then did that article make sense to you? Here are the uses of the term 'mob':

"You may be liable to legal sanctions or a twitter shame mob." - in the context of 'like-minded souls [who] via social media ... hold you answerable to their moral standards'.

"The shame mobs that spontaneously form" - that being those people who learned about Hunt's sexist comments at a meeting to support women in science, and attended by international journalists, and who then spread the word. It did not qualify which actions were mob actions.

"The internet allows ordinary people to exercise 18th Century mob justice in a 20th Century way, destroying people's lives bloodlessly from their mobile phones thousands of miles away." - That's an analogy .. and really should be the 21st Century, not? Plus, we've got 20th Century lynch mobs, so there's no real reason to reach back a couple centuries.

"Full scale shame mobs are still rare or course, but that is not all we have to fear.". I think it's appropriate to quote Alice's Restaurant here:

> And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in, Singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said Fifty people a day walking in singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and Walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement.

"Third, we could call on the government to save us from the mob [... for example] installing fire-breaks in social media networks that make the formation of flash mobs less likely making it illegal to fire the target of a shame mob without cause and due process" - "flash mob" are also considered good things, like the dance flash mobs that sometimes appear. So "mob" itself isn't the issue, but something more specific.

The author wants there to be legal job protections against the targets of a shame mob. There are already projections for those who complain about discrimination (on the basis of sex, race, religion, and a few other protected categories) in the workplace, so many of the people who protest against sexist comments are already protected.

It's mostly only those who advocate sexism which don't have these protections. So if I read this correctly, it's arguing for more protections for those making sexist and racist comments. And I wonder how the law might define what "shame mob" means in an actionable way.
Why did you rule out using Google Test (https://code.google.com/p/googletest)?

(In case you mulled over using it.)
It's supported encryption since last year or thereabouts. I really like the look of camlistore and have done a bit of playing around with it. Was considering deploying it a while back but the docs are [still] lacking and far as I can tell doesn't seem to have gotten to a production ready state yet.

Here's a gist showing how to configure an encrypted store on s3: https://gist.github.com/cknave/3ddae29cc466663cb40e
Ten years back, when I was fresh out of college, I joined a startup - not as a founder but as the first employee. A lot of it was driven by reading Paul Graham's essays, and I was naive and immature enough to believe that I was doing something great (as an aside, I came from an economically disadvantaged family; and every cent of my assets today is something I have earned and not something which I have inherited or obtained from anyone including my family). Two important things I learned from the experience -
1. The experience as an employee is completely different from being a founder; a lot of my friends have deluded themselves into believing that early employees enjoy as much benefits as the founders.
2. It is very hard to take risks when you are not financially secure; yes, I am pretty sure that there are counterexamples but I believe my statement is true on average.
Now after ten years mostly working in large companies, I have some savings which will allow me to last two years in case I lose my job. Also, I like to think that I have enough skills not to die of hunger if it happens. This has resulted in me being much more "entrepreneurial" and I am already working towards starting a company in the next two years.

TL, DR; On an average, it is much easier to start a start-up if you have some basic level of financial security in your life.
I'm on Chrome 44 and it seems to work fine. Strange
I have to agree with pavlov and say that while I sympathize with your situation, I can't say I'm surprised. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: You have decided to rewrite everything from scratch.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html﻿
Euro fintech unicorn Klarna kicks off its attack on the US market
Thus began the Day of Unproductive Hackers, as the number of cat photos on the internet grew by a significant 1%.
Will these insights induce the next paradigm shift in the science of torture? Simply hook the victim to a brain stimulator and alter his perception of reality. Can be administered by the press of a button and is even cleaner than water-boarding.
There's an old saying:

"If you want something done ask a busy person."

Busy people always come through for you. I used to think this was because they were super efficient, super disciplined.

But maybe your task is a welcome distraction from something even worse?

And besides, everything we do is a distraction from the most looming, vaguest, most intractable deadline of all.

The End.
Not Bro science If you have diabetes eating bread, sugar, pasta, or any other high carbohydrate food/drink raises your blood sugar. That is the issue is blood sugar levels in your body not what it starts out as.

I down voted due to "Bro Science" remark that is something not for communication sake but to just make someone mad. Not a fan of that technique in communicating ideas or debating.
We still do it in Bulgaria but I hate smoking.
Indeed, I'm good at that ;)

It could probably be improved (subject to the nuances of S3 which I'm not fully familiar with). One way to fix it would be to copy the concept of SQLite's WAL mode. Use an appended write operation on S3 (if it supports it) to append to an existing file that contains the transaction log. Then at certain intervals (say every few thousand transactions) one can finally flush that log to be stored in the main database file.

This would substantially reduce the number of times the database would need to be re-uploaded in full.
> The solution is providing a social safety net that enables...

In other words - "to each according to his needs"?
I'd spend it on other people.

this guy helped 20,000 people with about $4 million https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvtLC7L2YLo
Portus: Authorization service and front end for Docker registry (v2)
This sort of strategy has worked quite well for me over the years. It takes a bit of practice to get right, and probably isn't for everyone.

For me, it's mostly about knowing the things that I have to do, and just doing them whenever I feel like it. So long as I feel like it some time before the due date, it works out great! In the case where I never feel like it, then I force myself to start with sufficient time before the deadline and power through in one sitting. I find that so long as you know what I need to get done, and give myself enough lead time to stay ahead of my deadlines, it's a workable strategy.
(To hopefully avoid some arguments I should probably preface this with saying that I am 100% in favor of something like basic income.)

> The solution is providing a social safety net that enables that bulk of the population to pursue their dream.

I don't think that will make most people into successful businesspeople (let alone "entrepreneurs" in any non-facile sense of the word), and I don't think that was entirely the point the article was trying to make.

Even with basic needs supported, you still need capital to get a business off the ground "correctly". Unfortunately, in a basic income environment, I bet the people taking full advantage of it still wouldn't have access to that kind of capital.

I've had my own small business for several years now, but I'm looking for work again. The business has several promising irons in the fire, but I lack either the skill or resources to make any of them take off. Having access to basic income wouldn't substantially change my predicament; having access to good credit, capital, or talent would.
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> If your people won't breed, your civilization will die out, along with all its values, culture and legacy.

Does it matter in the long run? All civilizations eventually die out. If it doesn't matter in the long run, why does it matter in the short term? Let's not pretend like we care about future generations. Clearly, the baby boomers don't care about what they have done to our generation. No offense but when people talk about culture, legacy,and pride all I hear is "keep grinding and don't stop to think for yourself, peasant".

I doubt the glorious Roman empire or the Egyptian empire were worth anything to ordinary folks living at that time
Funny how the X11 "Fixed" bitmap font [0] is chosen as the default font on my system. This appears to be caused by 'fixed' being set as a fallback font instead of 'monospace', which, on most systems, is an alias for the default monospace font which is usually an antialiased one.

Otherwise the editor seems to work very nicely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_%28typeface%29
I've been having a similar experience. I wrote some software (http://docs.happyfuntimes.com) that connects lots of users to a local web server. I've personally used 5 different routers with it and others have used more. The AirPort Extreme is the only one that hasn't had any issues so far.

I'm hoping the OnHub will be good but I need a way to configure it without Internet
Unfortunately most of the discussion seems to be going down in Japanese.

That said if you don't mind just reading diffs you can get an idea of the state of the project by taking a gander at their github: https://github.com/pg-strom/devel
With that approach Netflix will still have to setup the same infrastructure and get a lesser cut of the pie with how much it seems to cost them to stream as it is i don't see it working out.

Whats worse it won't give them the ability to control their content offering which means they can't really steer their business.

Also since broadcast licensing is a steaming pile of shit outside of the US you can't rely on smaller companies handling that it takes a giant to uproot existing right holders in Europe and in other regions and Europe is already a mess with tons of streaming providers in every country that have to geoblock everyone else because the licensing laws pre-date the shared market and also have to yield to local guilds when it comes to translations and dubbing.

People have chosen Netflix in the past because it was a reliable way to have something to watch these days it might not be the case anymore. Their library is much more fluid and much of the content is being rotated in and out every couple of months to a point were their old 3 months notice period is no longer maintainable.

2 Years ago i could log into netflix and know for sure there will be something worth while to watch today I usually have to browse 3 services to find something. Their original shows are great House of Cards is amazing, and Narco's that came out just over the weekend and it rocked but it's becoming not worth keeping a sub if we are all honest.

Gabe Newell said it best - the only way to combat piracy is to deliver a better service than the pirates and sadly Netflix and the other streaming providers are slipping behind. When I can get a better library and better quality from popcorn time why should i pay 20 GBP a months for streaming providers which force me to go trough 3 different libraries to find watchable content? Heck I've goot a Roku streamer just so I could have a single place to search through all the content providers i subscribe too instead of having to load Now TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC Player and other nonsense on my TV and It's still not as slick as PCT....
Maybe I'll read this later.
I was just doing some experiments and, while writing CSS selectors, the preview pane highlighted the matched elements. Pretty cool!
Many of these sites have started supporting iOS. Wouldn't it be easier to spoof iOS Safari and then only have to dig around in JavaScript?
No, the conclusion is, people should stop just saying that anybody can do it, that all it takes is willingness to take chances, to dare to fail etc. These are important things, as the article also takes care to clarify, but if you fail to mention the importance of a safety net, or you fail to mention the fact that most entrepreneurs come from well-off backgrounds, then you're implying (probably unwillingly) that people who don't go into startups are simply lazy or cowards. While in reality there exists a pretty good reason why many might not dare to take the leap just yet.

It's basically giving people complexes. And it might be further exacerbated by the need we all have to ascribe our success exclusively to our own work, never to any external factors (luck, rich parents).
Is Donald Trump our final hope?
Distribution is crucial, but I think pkorzeniewski was highlighting how marketing and networking can trump product quality, and his disillusionment with realizing how often this happens.

For many products distribution is correlated with marketing and networking, this isn't true for all products (e.g. web-apps).
You are apparently not in the target audience of this article.
Clearly there is a 50:50 shot you get heads or tails from the coin. In your model of it's a 50:50 coin then you would have 50:25:25. The problem is waking up the second time does not reduce the odds of waking up the first time thus 50:50:50.
UK bank opening and closing times in one place
People seem to forget, but Notch was miserable well before he sold Mojang. In 2012, it was a breakup [0] followed by the sad story of a father with a history of substance abuse and depression killing himself [1]. Given the ~50% genetic component of depression [2] and the well known fact that large monetary windfalls do not affect baseline mood [3] I think it's fair to say that the only surprise here is that anyone is surprised.

What I would do? I would stash the money away in low risk vehicles while I take all the time I need to study things I find interesting and/or potentially important, and assemble a prioritized list of topics and relevant people. Then, probably many years later, I would finalize a long-range plan to pursue the 1-3 top priorities I've identified, and maybe support a few more further down the list.

Yes, this is "to Musk [4]" (behold, Notch gave us a new verb!) and yes, it brings the risk of exposure to assholes. That's inevitable if you don't want to feel isolated [5], but having a few billion $ at your disposal does bring advantages like the ability to hire a personal assistant or ten to manage those assholes for you.

It would also help to stop trolling the interwebs with asshole-bait depicting you as a miserable, hence exploitable, walking wallet.

[0] https://twitter.com/notch/status/235746965823033345

[1] http://notch.tumblr.com/post/37823268132/i-love-you-dad

[2] http://depressiongenetics.stanford.edu/mddandgenes.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill#Major_empiri...

[4] https://twitter.com/notch/status/637565210266570752

[5] https://twitter.com/notch/status/637563038258868224
The rich and powerful lionize the rare exception who does make it out of poverty because it justifies the (largely) unfair system.
No, obfuscation doesn't make them public property. But with good OPSEC, one can create virtual public property on leased assets. The primary goal is to protect the provider from negative feedback, so they don't nuke your VPS. And for sure, the provider could block Tor. So then you access Tor through a VPN service. Or whatever it takes to get enough slack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131429 :)
Julia – The base language, future directions and speculations [video]
So what you want is the service to be very cheap and have a massive amount of content available.
I imagine this isn't production ready. Or is it? It looks very cool and like a good direction to go in. You'd need a VPS with GPU access though.
> It is very hard to take risks when you are not financially secure

There's a caveat here. It depends on your responsibilities. If you have children, fixed expenses, then absolutely.

If you have nothing to your name and no responsibilities, it's very easy to take risks without anything to fall back on. After all, you have very little to lose.
I agree. I just dropped my cable subscription and switched to Netflix 6 weeks ago. I switched not because there was nothing to watch on cable but because the prices had gotten so far out of whack.

Netflix had enough to watch at a reasonable price to make it a good deal. But, outside of Daredevil, I don't find its own content very compelling. (Too much "Soap Opera In Disguise" for my tastes. I blame "Game of Thrones" for that trend ... but I know I'm in the minority here.)

Now they want to become another channel with the suggestion being subscribe to us and cable to get the shows you want. WTF Netflix!

I want one service where I can stream _any_ show. Not multiple services where I have to decide which have the most shows I like, subscribe to a few and skip the rest. I want streaming Blockbuster/Redbox for and and all shows and movies!
The average guy doesn't have the time to read enough about cryptography to have the sort of knowledge you're wanting. This very article debates an understanding created by incomplete and poor cryptographic knowledge.

If there's anything I've learned by studying cryptography, it's that the average person needs to invest significant resources to become a pseudo-expert in cryptography - all before they can make any meaningful decision.

Applied Cryptography is not a terribly good starting point for cryptographic understanding these days. That's just another facet of difficulty: where does one even start? Do you want a theoretical baseline understanding? Do you want the high-level, quick-and-dirty overview which only gives a summary? (That'll make it hard to make real, informed decisions...)

If we really want to make cryptography accessible to many developers, the best solution is for the cryptographic community to make our libraries and interfaces better. At the same time, there comes a point where a developer has to stop and say "this is beyond what is standardized in ${widely used library}; we need to hire a cryptographer." In that sense, we need to instill a better anti-crypto ethic.
I got excited until I saw CUDA instead of OpenCL...
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I remember being very intrigued by the article back in the day and I revisited it at least twice to find out if steve ever confirmed what language he was writing about.

Today people seem to take for granted that the NBL was in fact javascript, but I still cannot find any source for this.

Does anyone know more and can point me in the right direction?
The concentrations are actually known, there are rating scales, with UMF being the most popular where the honey is tested for its bacterial killing properties, and each honey is labeled accordingly.

Yes, the testing isn't perfect, but at least it's something, and for many people with diseases like ulcerative colitis, where the doctor's recommendation is to remove the entire colon, this honey has offered many an alternative way to manage their disease and keep their colon.

Now, if it were me, personally I would try the honey first, even if it's never been through clinical trials, before removing my entire colon. I mean worse case I eat a bunch of honey.

I get where you're coming from, but until the science is there, there's no reason not to try foods that we already consume regularly.
Currently go to school in the city, Temple University. I have both lived in the city on Spring Garden Street and lived in the suburbs of the city all my life. I live around the Main line area and like eatonphil said it is the nicest area of the suburbs.

First Ill talk about the main line, it is a great place to grow up/ or live if you are in your mid to late 20s. From Ardmore, Lower Merion, Bryn Mawr, Malvern, Paloi, Exton, and continuing on to King of Prussia have a lot of great places to live and a lot of companies. Espically in Malervn their is a large presence of companies. I take the regional rail train from the suburbs into the city for school and it is super easy and kind of relaxing.

In the city, certain areas of the city are blowing up right now and it really is a fun place to live. I lived around 12th and Spring Garden and apartments were being built in every empty lot and there are so many young people its a great place to be. There is so many great bars to go too and amazing restaurants throughout the city its awesome.
getrandom(2) uses a CSPRNG under the hood and can be treated as a pre-seeded one.

It's unfortunate that it's so recent, though.
upgrading your app to iOS 9 – 7 things you don't want to forget
[Infographic] How Ready Is Your Startup for Success?
I used Coder for Raspberry Pi [0] when teaching my eight year old nephew how to code and it worked very well. This seems like an easier-to-setup substitute, well done! Can't have enough tools like this for those learning.

[0] https://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder/
Putting Thought into Things (2014)
Reactive Kafka 0.8: at-least-once-delivery with manual offset commits
Online editors are a great idea but I usually DON'T use them for the following reason.

1) Lag. I hate it when I type and I see any kind of lag. After decades of quick response on typing anything out of a few ms makes me think something is wrong with my computer.

2) Work flow change. Can't use git and I do like my text editor of choice.

3) I can't write a script to do things to files like I can locally. I love scripting dumb task and use whatever language I use.

4) My language isn't supported normally. I love syntax highlighting personally.
ergo, the condition is necessary, but not sufficient.
Robert Monroe wrote 3 books on OOBEs. He used to try to correlate his experiences out of body with things in the real world.

He did one set of tests several times. His wife put a number of nails in a locked box next to his bed and he'd put his phantom hand inside and try feel the number that were inside. He never got it right enough to be statistically significant.

He also tried something similar with an object downstairs, but he said he'd have such weird experiences even going downstairs OOB that repeated tests were impossible. He suggested the process of trying to test something skewed the results or made his subconscious resist in someway.

On the other hand there were one or two things that were very unusual, specific events that correlated very strongly, so it's tricky to discount the phenomenon as completely fabricated.

I think that whether they're objectively true experiences or not, if you could get deeper into your subconscious and look around it'd be fascinating.
That's really cool! I hope it gets merged...
This is how you bring back movie piracy
You Can Now Buy Special Ammo Just for Shooting Down Drones
This post helps explain the why and how of thimble really well. Recommended read!

http://blog.humphd.org/thimble-and-bramble/
I think I'd be willing to pay more to offset higher content costs for more theater/blockbuster type movies. If Netflix was say 14.99 instead, I wonder what that would do to help? Perhaps splitting the content between tiers? It would shrink their "user base" for the purposes of streaming, allowing higher per-user payments on a title-by-title basis.

Sad part is, I know they are trying to lower that amount, and show that content providers need them as much/more than Netflix needs their content, but as a consumer, I'd like the options.