skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About Jack Kerouac's and Gary Snyder's climb of Matterhorn Peak, I wrote this in my trip account (see link in my original comment):

"No other book has shaped my youth—and much of my adulthood, for that matter—as much as Jack Kerouac's 'The Dharma Bums.' [...] In particular, I always remembered how Kerouac said that the performance of these three guys on Matterhorn Peak, Morley who stayed down at the lake, Kerouac who gave up just below the summit, and Gary Snyder who made it to the top, mirrored each man's personal Karma. This made me think that perhaps I could find out about my own Karma by trying the same thing. So really, this hike was all about Finding My Own Personal Karma. Wow, that ought to be fun."

And although I'm being sort of facetious about the Karma thing here, I kind of did find my own personal Karma there, as I explain on the last page of my trip account.

In the case of Nabokov and Lone Peak, it was part coincidence that I was house sitting in Sandy, UT at the time, with a perfect view of Lone Peak from the hot tub in the back yard. So I had to climb the darn thing anyway; it left me no choice. Then I met a girl at Sugar House Coffee in Salt Lake who knew much more about Vladimir Nabokov and his stay in Utah than I ever will. It became sort of an obsession for us to retrace Nabokov's steps, do what he did, see what he saw, savor the feeling to sit on that breathtakingly lofty rock in the sky where he sat.

So I guess the answer to your question is, I see an artist's work, be it a writer, musician, painter, what have you, as an act of sharing with the rest of us. By conversely sharing an experience like a mountain climb with them, be in the same place as they once were, I mean literally, your butt being where their butt was, perhaps we can intensify that feeling of sharing. That may be an illusion, but it's a pretty darn good illusion, especially if you share it with another person.
“A few minutes later, DHS agents confiscated all my electronic devices including my personal cell phone. Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property. In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices,” Silva said.

"Silva was not allowed to leave the airport until he gave his passwords to the agents"

Silva was also told he had “no right for a lawyer to be present” and that being a U.S. citizen did not “entitle me to rights that I probably thought.”

'Because 9/11'.

As an aside... He could have just said "no comment" to every question. Really. How long can they politically hold the mayor (or anyone) hostage?
I'm quite amazed that the article does not mention Zen Buddhism, given that it's all about the "quiet ego".
BeingSkilled – Micro Tutorials for Building Skills (Request for Feedback)
Seems like a rebranding of old ideas. We should be expecting new book soon I guess.

All this has been talked about by various western authors and scholars before(Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Carl G. Jung etc.) and as far as I understand them, they all agree on one thing: western people are good at being individuals, having an ego, and it would be mistake to start removing this part of ourselves and think about it as something bad. Of course we should be integrating mindfullness and controlling our narcissistic behaviour, but without antagonizing our ego.
October 9th 2014
Why is this a valid perl program? I was trying to create a syntax error
I agree in principle but BuiltWith is quite different to most startups/business which warrants different behaviours. It's good to know what you're doing wrong but it still has to past the "does it change my behaviour test".

Significant flow of ideas and feedback of which only a few are executed.
ARrgh: A newcomer’s angry guide to R
Theory vs. Being Practical in Life
But fetuses aren't people, and in any event, a vast proportion of pregnancies terminate naturally anyway. Nobody howls in outrage at those, attempts to pass laws to stop them, or composes absurd analogies to compare failed pregnancies to the mass murder of homeless people.

There is no objective basis for a moral judgment here, and in government, objectivity is a requirement for (good) lawmaking.
Peanut butter in porridge you say, I shall have to try this! Add some honey and a banana too and you could call it "Elvis porridge".
I fail to see how it is off-topic, since Stalin's heirs were the first (widely known) nomenclature children to skip Russia, but far from last.

If we're not counting the White Emigration, of course, since it's obvious that Tzar's heirs and kin live in the West too. Some took the Eastern route, of course, via China, but end up in civilized world.
It's a lesson on Javascript's insane type system viewed through the prism of your impending mortality.
Thanks, corrected the later.
The requirement to read line by line is ridiculous.
Is this drawing thing in court rooms specific to US? And why is drawing allowed and not taking pictures?
Off topic: site totally unreadable on my phone. The content is in a huge font, wider than the screen, and zoom behaviour is disabled...
Η+Google+λαμβάνει+υπόψη+και+συνδέσμους+από+σελίδες+404+-+SEO+|+WEB+DESIGN
A 7 Figure Amazon Exit 12 Months After Getting Started
Nice idea, but is the risk of being slightly off target and having your linac destroyed by a high-speed projectile worth the savings?
Coffee based beverages don't explain childhood and teen obesity. Those two categories don't drink nearly as much coffee as adults.

Yes and no; if you go into Pret with a kid they will give you a free "babycino" which is some sort of caffeine-free but presumably fat- and sugar-laden hot drink. Kids are being trained early on to drink this stuff.
> At some point though, which I think is right about now, we cross the point where less than 50% of the jobs can be done with a two-digit IQ. We no longer need manual labourers, we need people who can design and maintain robots. And the fact is that 50% of the population is of below-median intelligence and will have trouble doing these new jobs.

There's still tons of jobs where you don't high IQ to do. Shopkeepers, bartenders, and the whole artisan category where more qualification is required but not that much either (plumbers, bakers, farmers and the like). And it will be very hard to make them go away anytime soon (and probably not worth it even if it's possible). On top of that there's a resurgence of the value of handmade stuff vs industrial articles (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy for example) since richer people value stuff that's unique rather than what's cheap.

Again, just like every single time of Changes in History, people adapt.
This unfortunately reads like Deepak Chopra to me. The idea of Endless Joy/Nirvana is quite nice, but there is no documented evidence of anyone attaining it. We can supposedly only journey towards it, but never reach. Or, there's a dragon in my garage.

We're also talking about 'ego' as if there is one universal definition we all agree to. It can mean self-centredness and haughtiness, or it can mean the continuous self that one person goes through from birth to death - essentially our memory. It can be many things to many people, and different thing to the same person, at different times.

But within the context of Upanishads that you've quoted, ego is all that is negative about ourselves. But then - letting go of all that is bad is very logical, although not original.
Seems like exactly what trademark law was designed to prevent.
Bogus PayPal App used to spread a banking Trojan
I think that clip supports my statement.
And the Oracle legal shenanigans seems like a good argument for Clojure on the CLR. I don't know how mature the CLR ecosystem is on Linux, but the licensing at least seems ok.
Not so much the preferred spelling, rather the correct spelling. Source: Am Australian.

It's also the correct spelling in the land that invented the English language.
I suffered (probably still do) from myopic retinopathy and I underwent dynamic laser treatment about 10 years ago, it was very effective and I haven't progressed since. Basically they inject you with something that has to be activated by a certain wavelength of light and by timing the injections with the laser pulses they can just burn the new blood vessels and not the retina in front of the vessels.

My mom suffered from the same ailment a few years later and it appears that the treatment of choice is now an eye injection. It seems to me that the field is moving very fast, and the author of the article has been very unlucky not to have this just a few years later. Here's to hoping that we find a stable non-invasive cure in the very near future.
Overview of conferences for developers
I'm there for the text, not the font

Me too. In Firefox on OS X, I simply set Lucida Grande as my default font, and I uncheck the box that allows pages to choose their own fonts. I don't think I'm missing much.
Over 8,400 NASA Apollo moon mission photos just landed online, in high-res
NB I still get a broken character and not the magnifying glass on your site: https://imgur.com/a/3Rb7t
Sounds like you might have the premise for a movie there.
Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing
I hope no down votes, but in Middle East this stats will cause:

Why America doesn't start yet another 1500 wars towards gun violence if ratio between gun violence/terrorism is 1500 and they start war in lots of places
Because you have to draw the line somewhere.

It's kinda similar to how you can take notes, but not record.
While we are discussing web fonts, I think I should point out my Chrome extension that disables Web Fonts on all websites (or tries to). Uses Request filters, and I made it because I was trying to minimise bandwidth usage on a metered EDGE connection long time back. (Opera Turbo is best for that, but Chrome is a better browser).

[0]: http://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/olmabeadgbpmhllgdk...
The Phoenix Framework uses Cowboy at its core along with a Rack like middleware called Plug. There isn't much bloat in the stack so I'd assume performance is quite close to bare bones Cowboy. It doesn't quite have everything that Rails does, but it's getting there and fast!
Hangman in Haskell and some tips for idiomatic Haskell
it's not working because they are on the opposite of the "rMBP binary" side you chose

It's a losing cause. It's not just the person you're responding to, even Apple does the same.

I'm running OS X 10.10 on my desktop and it is OK, so I tried it on my non-retina Macbook Pro. But the overall appearance, including the fonts, was just "yeech". I'm not a graphic designer and so I couldn't put my finger on exactly what was wrong. But a bunch of fiddling around with fonts and Accessibility didn't help.

So I reverted to OS X 10.8 and everything is nice again. Time Machine made it so so so easy to revert.
You can see a demo at http://demo.youtransfer.io
The insurance company will exempt itself from anything that could be caused by your type 1 diabetes, there are many of them [1], regardless of how well you keep your levels under control. I understand their position as treatment costs are very high, but that does not make it easier to be on the receiving end.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complications_of_diabetes_mell...
Lesson One: Don't go on ##java@freenode and ask homework questions.
Usually more responsive than a javascript interface in my experience.

Evernote native vs web
Sublime Text vs Atom
Mail Client vs Web mail
etc.
Nice java code comments
UNSW researchers to reveal breakthrough in quantum computing
Run `pip install instantmusic` to download any song
It's standard in the UK too.
You, I and common sense may believe that. However highly paid lawyers at very big companies has told me otherwise in no uncertain terms.
Probably not. Are there any welcoming IRC channels? I know of #phpmentors but what about for other languages?
As old as the web can feel at time, we are so blessed to have Georgia as one of the standard fonts. It is such a good serif font, which is also why I think a lot of the typography out there is more ornamental than necessary.
The tiny voices in your head #shopaholicconfessions
Question: I'm curious to hear other people's experiences with "4. Stop asking questions". I ask questions quite a bit. It does slow me down. But I feel like if I understand something, I can move faster in the longer term, besides the value derived from just understanding how the system/abstraction works.
> the constraint of "all the code has to be in this language."

No that is not a usual constraint, many implementations use third party libraries. E.g., regexdna implementations usually rely on some regex library and pidigits just measures libgmp.
I started lifting weights a year ago for no other reason than for keeping in shape.

My tinnitus (I'm a long time sufferer) has also become less severe over the same period.

Until now I had not connected the two - mainly because I've made some other lifestyle changes such as improving my diet and avoiding stressful situations.

So it could be coincidental, but an interesting idea nonetheless.
From my experience it's the channels that don't have a lot of active members, maybe like 10 or 20 people logged in at all times. The value of conversation is increased majorly in those channels.
Infinispan: Hibernate Second Level Cache Improvements
Ha-ha. I initially spent quite a lot of time to make my website nicely styled, with fonts and JS. But then I decided that all those bells and whistles just not worth it and used pure HTML as you did. Probably I'll add just a little bit of styling anyway, but it works fine as of now. And it works fine on tablets and smartphones without any effort :)
Wouldn't this break sites using icon fonts (e.g. Font Awesome)?
Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems (2010)
Where descendants of former Soviet rulers went to live (2013)
Personally, I've always read '=' as meaning the left hand side was equal to the right. So if I see

x = 5

then I'm already assigning the value of 5 to x, because they're equal! Does that make sense? Curious to see what others think, because before reading this article, I didn't even realize that was a particular tripping point for anyone looking to start programming.
Back then I was disappointed with the state of C++ compilers across vendors and OSes (the standard was still being defined).

Meanwhile, I also had discovered that it was possible to use a GC enabled systems programming language for writing OS (Oberon and Modula-3). And was exposed to Prolog, Caml Light, Smalltalk and Eiffel.

So Java seemed a nice compromise for industry adoption. Our university adopted it right away for its distributed computing and compiler development classes.

However I never liked the religiosity about a JIT, preferring the .NET way of having a choice between JIT and AOT.

So I still like C++ a lot, but unless I am shaving off ms or bytes from a specific algorithm or writing portable code for mobile devices, I tend to use other languages.
> Equals is a lie: = ≠ =

This has occurred opposite to me while learning Mathematics. As a programmer, who has been learning fundamental mathematics from the past year, the whole assignment/equivalence thing screwed me up so many times.
Human Connectome Project: correlations between brain architecture and behavior
When's the last time you had your blood pressure checked?
Here is a good video that shows how the (older) delta flume was used in the application of developing "living shorelines", as noted at the bottom of the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDwoq71bCPw
Is there any hard science that supports that you can generalize the entire population into two categories: introverts and extroverts? I find this impossible to believe.
+1 for getting rid of hibernate (and JPA et al). We've been mucking around with JBDI recently it really seems to work well. We haven't done anything extravagant yet, but initial impressions are good
Android Java is J++ relaunched.
So how is a quiet ego measured? I understand those four facets in the article are supposed to correlate with the quiet ego, so it would be interesting how the loudness of your ego is measured before those 4 questions. Otherwise is seems like imposing your own bias to create a category that fits your per-conceived western Buddhism bias.

For example "Facet #1: Detached awareness", I don't really see what "detached" adds to the category of awareness if it only involves those 3 questions mentioned in the article. I can easily imagine people that also score low on those questions but who practice "involved awareness" feeling really attached to what they are doing in a very aware state of mind.

Same with the rest of facets, the idea that "Facet #3: Perspective taking" involves quieting your ego is a point of view that is not obvious and you will have to prove somehow. I think for a lot of people empathy intuitively involves feeling the pain of others as your own, which is not a detached feeling at all, and involves a strong involvement of the ego.

And I really can not see how the last point of personal growth is supposed to fit with the rest of them. It seems like the typical Western Buddhist marketing, they start speaking about how alienated we are in our consumerist way of life, some love and compassion follow, but the real selling point is that with their help and a little bit of detachment you can even be MORE successful on the consumerist game.

All in all I don't buy it unless there's more to it.
Gentrification is good for the poor
Brings back happy memories. I built a few of the modules of the Elektor Formant synthesizer in the early 80s. I got as far as building a VCO and VCF but ran out of money then.
Speaking of readability, I cannot stand these 200 weight thin fonts that only look good on a "retina" device places choose to use sometimes
Same here. I knew that something was broken, but meh ;)
It's never clever to blame the user for not using the product the way it's intended to. UX101.
Thanks for the insight.
Isaac Asimov, when he predicted self driving cars in 1953, called them automatomobiles.

The story's good. Killer quote:

"We take it for granted now, but I remember when the first laws came out forcing the old machines off the highways and limiting travel to automatics. Lord, what a fuss. They called it everything from communism to fascism, but it emptied the highways and stopped the killing, and still more people get around more easily the new way."

http://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/82060/20/Isaac_Asimovs...
> In fairness, I don't think this is a model that Facebook can easily cater to

It's not a model they're asked to cater to, it's a model they break with a poorly-thought-out verification mechanism.

It's NOT ABSURD to be friends with people whose face you don't know. And I know a lot of people with HUNDREDS if not thousands of friends on facebook, most whose names they certainly do not remember.
OK, here's the breakdown from all those slides to get parallel loading (on new browsers) and avoid FOUT (flash of unstyled text) each pageload:

http://piratepad.nl/ep/pad/view/rirCTCqTPZ/HFjj5IyqJD
"The unlawful behaviour of engineers and technicians involved in engine development shocked Volkswagen"

Trace the source all the way to the top. There is no way in an engineering culture like VW this was an isolated rouge operation.
I think the main problem is that popular icon fonts like Font Awesome don't use ligatures.

Is there any reason why they don't? It seems it would indeed be much better.
Why Schools Should Use Free Software
I'm sorry there are people out there who think adding a scoop of icecream to their soda would make it in any way healthier.
Wow, I was looking forward to see what other acronym people can think of in the Software-Defined-Something family (SDx).

I'm wondering if other BMS (Battery Management Systems) used in other domains are not already doing what they propose in the paper.
Instacart (YC S12) Is Hiring a Senior Data Engineer
This is an excellent collection of insight, thanks for sharing.
Show HN: CloudParty – play games with friends in the cloud
Can you add a button in the browser for turning it on and off? :)

Thanks for the extension.
Disclaimer: we are very alpha.

TL:DR; We are building a service were users can easily spin-up private game servers to play with friends.

Basically we support launching VM on multiple cloud providers (mainly thanks to jclouds), then we provision a game server via docker container on a vanilla ubuntu 14.04, finally the user can get the IP address of the VM and play.

Game servers are launched with pre-defined configurations, but the user can override the command line flags of the game server and restart it, directly from the control panel.

With this platform, we would also love to help multiplayer indie developers to host and sell their shiny new game server to users.

If there are HN gamers reading this, feel free to suggest any game that you should be available.
Stoic week is coming up in early November. I did it last year and it focuses on fostering virtues very similar to the ideas listed in the article.

http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/2015/09/12/announcin...
Asking for mentoring and asking someone to do your homework are two different things. There's always been and there always will be freshmen who attempt to short cut their way through classes by trying to make someone else do solve their homework. It is and should be frowned upon.

Politely asking smart questions about how to progress in your homework, on the other hand, is just fine.
What is the best area to stay in Dubai?
Some things never change. I surf the web since 1995 and I've seen the designers and "designers" not caring about the readability since then, now it's really 20 years. As soon as it was possible to put the background images on the pages, almost every random page became unreadable unless you've turned off the images altogether.

Then the designers recognized they can reduce the size of the text to the unreadable sizes. They did that too, because it's about the design, they don't care about the text anyway, and the ants droppings look better on the page than these letters.

More recently, some claim that they read better gray text on the lighter gray background. I always used IPS screens and it was never readable. I guess these guys turn their brightness and contrast controls to 110% then wonder that the black text is not readable. Repeat after me: the readers don't set the screen like you.

And all these pages with long of nothing because their Njdxjdfj font is the only one which can present their glorious design. Yes it's annoying.

I'm extremely happy there's a reader mode in iOS and in Firefox. But guess what? The most annoying pages are almost by rule also not available in the reader mode. I wonder how they manage to achieve that. Do they tweak the page until the readers can't show it? Or is that just grandiose ignorance?

And remember these glorious Flash-only pages?

One thing I'm sure: whenever the technology gives some chance for some to produce unreadable pages, they will produce unreadable pages. The last 20 years were consistent with that.

My favorite old page, fully readable:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Compare with the current home page of Bell Labs:

https://www.bell-labs.com

Is the goal of the modern design, when used as in this example, to convey information or to confuse?

The designer is certainly not the only responsible. The title of the page is: "Redefining Our Relationship with Information." Yes indeed.
What's interesting in these comments is the egos clearly trying to defend themselves. Introspection begins with the question: do you own your ego or does it own you?
Sure, I will try to get around to it later today. Not sure why we can't discuss it here though, I can't think of any aspect of a book conversation that would be necessary to keep private.