skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair... I've made jokes like that, if you're saying it to somebody who knows you're joking then there's nothing threatening about it at all. They neither threatened the person with murder (I presume he was unaware) nor, as far as we know, made any plans to do it. Let's hate them for better reasons, that clearly exist, than making jokes about murder.

(Also, IANAL but pretty sure under those circumstances there wouldn't be anything to successfully prosecute, nothing to do with them being government-appointed millionaires.)
I didn't just mean between nations. Have you moved cities? Neighborhoods? Streets?

Please explain, if it's "telling" that the concept of a nation has little significance to me (and I would completely agree that it does not, for me) then what exactly does it tell you?
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"Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess." Wow.
That is a "threat" only under the loose definition that the government likes to use to arrest facebook users and the like.
It's an interesting design, but I find myself wondering how often license-plate forgery happened.
...some of my old buddies in Brooklyn to pay Mr Tetrick a visit.

Based on the picture in TFA, they better bring the whole gang. I don't know if it's the egg-free mayonnaise, but the dude is ripped.
To be fair, I don't think making jokes about killing someone is ever appropriate.
Why the fuck is this relevant to what he is saying? Why is it trotted out every single time his name is mentioned on HN?
Richard Stallman is paranoid.

I don't know in what world he lives, but it's not real. Like most people here, he values privacy way too much and doesn't seem to realize that we need as much information as possible about everything (including people) to make educated decisions as a society.

He's socially inept, and in no way a hero.
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Step 1: Tell us what the product IS and DOES.
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It's definitely brain work, but it is concrete, physical 3D space kind of thinking.

Programming, and especially software architecture, tends to be more abstract thinking.

FWIW, the Kolbe test methodology [1] has a good way of quantifying this sort of natural aptitude. 90% of programmers I know who have taken the test [2] are very good at abstract thinking, and not as good at the physical kind.

[1] kolbe.com

[2] Maybe 2 dozen programmers. So, not a huge sample, but enough to see a trend.
Right, hot thermal storage is used to store electricity. And yes, hot thermal storage does not solve the world's energy problems by itself.

To your point about electricity being 1/3 of energy consumption, I still think it's important to celebrate and invest in technologies that store electricity. Even though electricity is just one part of the energy picture, electricity is far more expensive to store than other kinds of energy such as liquid fuel (which can be stored in barrels and tanks), natural gas (which can be stored in the ground or in tanks), or solid energy sources like coal or nuclear (which can just sit in a box).
Not when normalized with read/write speeds. I can personally confirm this by scaling the PCIe bus speed of my own SM951 down to 2x lanes on 2.0 (which limits the r/w to about 550MB/s).
And yet a remarkable number of his predictions have come true, in particular about abuses.
That's not a huge concern, since in the UK there's a record of voter id -> ballot paper id kept. With access to that and the ballot papers you can tell how everyone voted.
I'm sure there's a sunny side to it though.
I tried to but it's not as keyboard friendly as emacs so I'm still waiting to switch.
Yeah I am assuming OP doesn't realize that patches are sent to the Linux kernel through emails.
> the mammalian talent for live birth

Monotremes are egg-laying mammals so the author is identifying with placental and/or marsupial mammals, and not mammals as a whole.

("Technically correct - the best kind of correct.")
The examples show two nodes, but the cost sheet obviously 3x are needed. 1-Master, 2-slaves at the least...

I'd still love to see this functionality baked into PostgreSQL... having to rely on bolt-on services/proxies for this type of functionality is one of the reasons I'm less likely to consider PostgreSQL when HA are absolute requirements. Unless there's someone else whose job it is to keep it all up and running...

I'd much rather work on other things, writing software, over having to figure out N technologies in order to cobble together a viable solution. These days I'm much more inclined to reach for RethinkDB first... Though I think with a good HA story, PostgreSQL + plv8 + binary json is pretty compelling.
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If I scraped it myself, there'd be over 400 pages. Looks like they don't do async fetches for the main pages until you use the risk indicator (e.g. to try different age ranges to see when you're most likely to have a health problem).

So, as long as they don't ban your account for scraping, you could probably write a script to get most of it. I see personalized data in the view-source, which is a good sign (it means they server-render the personalized bit).
This looks substantive. Please email hn@ycombinator.com if you would like us to send you a repost invite. (This is an experiment we're working on to give good stories a second chance at attention on HN.)
The title of this post is misleading. A few paragraphs in he writes:
"I quickly began to write Arduino code to simulate a failing BBU. I also wrote some code that acted as a DAC to take in the signals from the BBU."

Should really be titled "How I won a Facebook hardware hackathon"
Anyone who really wants my genetic data for nefarious purposes will probably be able to find a way to collect it.
Again, the "cannot" here is probably imprecise. In Japanese, r and l exist as a single sound, making differentiation difficult for the average Japanese speaker in other languages. The original research by a Japanese linguist into this phenomenon in the 70s suggested it was impossible because of the way phoneme and allophone acquisition happens in childhood. But this claim had been mitigated by subsequent research that suggests it is context dependent, as well as less certainty about phoneme vs. allophone distinctions.
>FE-Schrift has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates of Germany since November 2000, except for plates issued to military-registered vehicles, which still use the former DIN 1451 typeface.

Interesting that the the military vehicles don't get it. It makes some sense that they wouldn't need it, but I can't imagine that it would hurt to have it.
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Agreed. It's the kind of thing where you can't ever completely write it off as a joke. Even if only for the sake of the person who made the joke: if anything terrible and mysterious were to happen to Tetrick, having previously joked about killing him unnecessarily makes him a suspect.
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Wow, does that article ever bury the lead by not describing what Hampton Creek's product is until the very last paragraph.

For those who didn't make it all the way down, Hampton Creek makes a vegetarian mayo alternative called 'Just Mayo' that is a threat to egg-based mayonnaise, and is evidently gaining popularity. As such, the American Egg Board has been attempting to destroy them.
but he did found the Free Software stuff while being intermittently homeless.

Do you mean the FSF, or the preceding GNU project? Because we were roommates when he founded the latter, and he most assuredly wan't homeless then. His willingness to be "homeless" later might in part be an artifact of a couple of kids playing with matches and kerosene burning that building down (in a not so good part of Cambridge, MA) and his losing his worldly possessions. Not that he was, to my observation, very materialistic.

As for "being crapped on and disrespected", well, if you've spent enough time with him, you'll understand why that was a common reaction, he's ... a difficult person, and is proud of ignoring a number of social norms, including ones that tend to keep a person and their friends alive.

But a lot of it after the GNU/FSF started was due to his extreme abrasiveness towards many people who didn't entirely buy into his mission. We were, for example, called "Software Hoarders" (this, while working for for Unipress, the legal licensee of the version of Emacs he stole to start Gnu Emacs, and we ran on a "gated open source" model, if the licencor of a piece of software agreed, you got a copy of the source, you just couldn't distribute it, but you could share patches with other customers). His regular imputation of ill will when there is none (well, to start with), his gross distortions of the historical record (especially as seen in Levy's Hackers, but also see GNU/Linux) ... they lose him a lot of support he might otherwise get.
Two things of question/curiosity regarding this that immediately spring to mind. It wasn't immediately obvious from the abstract, and I don't have journal access.

Did the faculty subjects know that they were being tested? Sure the testers + subjects didn't know whether they had female/male students, but they might still know they are part of an experiment.

Secondly. Could we not perhaps attribute the rating of male candidates higher (or females lower) due to perceived "corrective" bias in a field? One common theme among individuals that are against affirmative-action-type processes, is that the candidates are picked not on merit but rather by quota. With that in mind, could the bias shown in the study not be personal-bias being externalized to fix the unfair/unjust bias within the great affirmative-action/quota environment?
Some snakes give birth instead of laying eggs.
> We typically apply that word to people who put themselves in harm's way for the greater good and my father, my ex, my ex's father and grandfather all served in the military.

Weirdly, the US has become a place where anyone joining the military is now a 'hero' (and military opponents are never described so graciously). It used to be that you had to show uncommon valour in the military to be called a hero; now it's just signing up that gets you the appellation.
Specifically for Node.js, I found NodeSchool to be an amazing resource: http://nodeschool.io/

If you want something specifically about functional programming techniques in JS, this is good: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read
Technically, Slack dropped the React team. :)

("Slack decided we were too big and disabled invites.")
Aside from any moral, ethical or legal consideration surrounding this issue, I must say that I admire this guy's determination and perseverance that he set a goal to reach and worked very hard to realize it.

Now back to the story, I find it quite telling that he insisted on making the journey to the North and not to the South where his sister in Saudi Barbaria was helping him financially wiring the money for the smugglers payment.

He knew it that living in a hellhole like Saudi Barbaria isn't worth it even if you make tons of money and making a a modestly good living in Sweden is still the most prudent choice to make.

I wish him the best and that he be as tenacious in his efforts to integrate in Sweden as he's been during this long journey and I can't see why he can't do it.

Syrian and Lebanese people did it in the 19th & early 20th century when they immigrated in droves to South and Central America fleeing wars and political turmoils as usual and built a flourishing diaspora there that's the epitome of assimilation and integration in the society.
property taxes are virtually never the cause of foreclosure because every state law I've looked at (about 10) have long lead times before the government can sell the property at a tax sale to collect.

What happened in the last crash (2006 peak to 2009 trough) was a sharp decline in property values and reassessment at those lower values. So many / most homeowners did see their tax bills fall. (Exception would be in states like California which have Prop 13-like freezes on the ability of the state to increase the assessed value from year to year.)

The foreclosure problem was cause by values dropping and hence Loan-to-Value ratios going above 80%, which is about the highest it can go for a refinance loan. Couple that with the pick-a-payment / interest only loan terms and lots of folks were locked into loans that they couldn't get out of, only to find that exactly when unemployment hit their payment went way up.
That's a lot of money for something that ostensibly already exists. This terribly busy website has a bit better content as to why they are doing this: http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29007119/faceboo...
"Suddenly, they know how you voted."

Why would that be a bad thing? Short of police-state type scenarios, I can't think of anything decently plausible.
The most interesting takeaway for me was that Microsoft seems to privide the only(?) free git hosting that includes LFS?

Does anyone know if their repos supports forking in combination with LFS too?
Just because something makes a more efficient society doesn't make it right.

Well, not in my view. There are political views in which the efficiency of society trumps all.
Not really sure if this falls within your master's area of interest, but "the sharing economy" and how it transforms business relations between particulars using IT.

(Are people making less money because there is a middle-man, or are they making more because the number of contacts.. etc)

This could be an interesting thing to look into.
Probably the best intro to COWL is the video of Deian Stefan's OSDI presentation here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
Nice to see this work moving forward.
The post seems hyperbolic. I'd love to hear GitHub's rebuttal.
They still use pull requests, though, just in the form of email-based ones.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
Remember the Guy Who Gave His Employees a $70,000 Minimum Wage?
Sounds like a reasonable system.

Now let's talk about how NU screwed William Dyche, the guy who raised the money for their stadium. Despite a 1926 resolution declaring that Northwestern's football stadium would always be called "Dyche Stadium", the school simply blew it off and deleted the family name from the stadium at the drop of a hat in 1997: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-09-18/news/970918025...

This is why you never give money or anything else to Northwestern. They don't appreciate it. They rip students off whenever possible. And they ignore their own rules.
no, in the US at any rate property taxes are scaled exactly by land value. Usual scheme is 1% or so of assessed value, which is typically recalculated yearly. Some states have "homestead" exemptions where the first, say, $150,000 of value on a primary residence is exempt from tax. There are also (at least in California) special assessments for a fire or water district that are put on top of the yearly property tax, usually because of state laws that limit the rate at which assessed value can be increased or super-majority provisions for altering property tax rates, and so on.
http://www.theprimaryschool.org/ Didn't see a link in the article.
Future proof
Interactively compare the sizes of bodies in our solar system – WebGL and src
Interesting; there have been so many comments or threads on HN lately about the problems with Atom, it is refreshing to hear someone say something positive about it.

I used LT when learning Clojure but once you graduate to doing major production work, it's not really the best tool, too limiting.
Do you mean the FSF, or the preceding GNU project?

I read his biography, but I don't follow his work or life very closely. So I used a vague, hand-wavy term because I have a vague, hand-wavy understanding of it all. Therefore, I cannot clarify.

As for "being crapped on and disrespected", well, if you've spent enough time with him, you'll understand why that was a common reaction, he's ... a difficult person

Yeah, I get called "difficult" all the time. I have a life threatening, incurable medical condition. I am pretty laid back, inclined to go along, to get along, and a conflict avoider. But, unfortunately, in order to be socially acceptable, I would need to politely die a slow gruesome death. Failing to go along with that plan for me has caused me shitloads of social problems.

Thus, I am inclined to be sympathetic to rms. Many of his predictions have come true. There is no telling how much more problematic things would be had he not stuck to his guns.

"Difficult" sometimes just means you aren't going along with social norms. If you firmly believe those social norms to be a very serious problem, it is foolish to go along with them. In my experience, no matter how politely you decline to go along with them, and no matter how compelling your reasons for politely declining, simply declining will get you a fuck ton of backwash.
Well, I did it a lot, every 12-18 months for about ten years before the ACA, and between trying to find out if a given plan actually covered something like maternity care (and under what circumstances), trying to gather and provide medical records for as much as ten years prior to initiation of coverage, and dealing with the first attempt to get a claim covered (when invariably the company in question would start making attempts to claim a condition was preexisting), there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that what we have now, while imperfect, is absolutely better than pre-ACA.
Forget about smartphones for a moment; with minimal exceptions, he doesn't use the web interactively (https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html). That very much makes him a "relic", and detached from so much knowledge, the Zeitgeist of the times.

Good luck getting people to adopt to this behavior, when we are so massively leveraged by what we can look up on the web. It works to an extent for him because of where he's been situated since 1970, but try telling a kid who's not in The Athens of America (the Boston area) that he should cut himself off from most of the world's useful, and cheaply obtained info, and you're not likely to get many sales.
I'm 38. The only issue I have with older engineers is they sometimes get stuck in a rut and don't want to learn new things as much. But, it's definitely not all of them, but in my experience it's more common among people over the age of 35 or so.
Speaking of Facebook, does anyone know if this is true?

https://www.youbetrayedus.org/facebook/
Interesting: "it was tested at the University of Giessen's Dept. of Physiology and Cybernetic Psychology." That's quite a name, sounds like it was lifted straight from Command & Conquer.
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The final demo didn't include any code. Writing the code for the arduino was a waste of time in terms of what we actually build. The main part of the post was about the pivot and how we won with a simplified codeless solution
well, that's exactly what the farmer in Texas (and her grandfather, and grandfather's grandfather) have been doing since Texas became a state. That's called property taxes and have been around for more than a century in the US. Not at all unusual.

Mostly the property taxes go to the state and then back to the county to pay for schools. That's where the bulk of it goes. So yeah, the farmer in Middle of Nowhere, Texas send her kids to school for years and paid property taxes to fund those schools. And the buses. And the football team. And the fire department, police, water pipes, etc etc.
Other criteria exclude those snakes. The author said:

> But there is a danger in pushing the borders of affiliation so far out that they no longer have any resonance. Placing an emphasis on our mammalian identity is a reasonable compromise between a restrictive anthropocentrism and a vapid all-inclusiveness.

> Mammalian awareness embraces our affinity with our hairy and milky fellow mammals,

Snakes neither have hair nor provide milk to their young.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10061938
If there is a Trojan, it can read the clipboard data. But most ppl save their password unencrypted. And can then be found by exploits in browser, java, flash, etc. Or unknowingly sharing the password file on a file-sharing network :P

It's more secure to write it down on a piece of paper, then saving it on your hdd and copy/paste into the password box.
can we please leave the pun threads on reddit?
That's a really cool example. I'm sure there aspects of being a mechanic that really helped him learn to code.
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I'm amazed that these "checkoff" organizations are still allowed to exist in the US.

Do we really need to pay more for food to subsidize adverts for milk, eggs, pork, and beef? How is it fair to force producers to pay for marketing that they might not even support?
I'm pretty surprised by your comment here.

I wasn't crabbing at you or trying to argue.

You said I hadn't been attacked, which was mistaken (an entire comment only consistent of "You are a hypocrite,") and I poited out your mistake.

I told you I appreciated your advice.

I pointed out that this kind of meta-conversation is only acceptable to me because it has been disconnected from the main thread, and by that I was trying to demonstrate that I am trying to behave ethically. In other words, I'm trying to say "I don't want to keep flaiming the issue, but I think it's OK to have this out-of-band conversaiton."

So what is your problem?

> "I don't agree but I am not going to argue it" instead of deleting your comment is still arguing it.

I don't agree with this. The comment I was responding to said:

> Your "rational argument" amounted to "people are stupid, fuck 'em."

And that is a malignant distortion of what I said.

I think it's fine for me to state that, while I'm not going to offer a rebuttal, I don't agree that it is accurate.

tl;dr your aggression here is unwarranted. You come in supposedly offering "wisdom" and trying to help and you just become aggressive when I take you up on that and actually try to talk to you. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I guess the sentiment of what I was saying to you didn't come across.
There was a funny discussion on an MIT mailing list this summer when an (apparently) tone-deaf email was sent out by MIT Professional Education entitled "4 Ways You May Be Enabling Hackers"... which warned about the dangers of cybersecurity-style hackers.

RMS's response was:

> These MIT professors ought to know better than to smear us hackers by using the word "hacker" as synonymous with "security breaker".
There's a lot of assumptions here about GitHub being greedy. I've got no idea how much money it costs GitHub to support Open Source projects, but it must easily be in the millions. I think that by this point GitHub deserves the benefit of the doubt before launching into vicious accusations.
A glorified blue collar worker no doubt.
He was a linebacker in college.
Uh, yeah, I realize that. I guess maybe I should have said something like "Nifty off topic observation/ did you know?" kind of thing. (Or, you know, kept my mouth shut.)
I have no doubt that the AEB is responsible for a variety of unethical things. But Hampton Creek's no "angel" either; consider this article as well:

http://www.businessinsider.com/hampton-creek-ceo-complaints-...

You could argue that it's a hit piece, but there's some pretty interesting observations that seem factually correct.
When self-driving cars drive the ethical questions