skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is failing because greed has become the norm. People's attitudes have gone from help your family and friends to help yourself. It has moved away from community to individualism. That's what's changed.

I thought the United States was all about rugged individualism and self-interest? Either way, individualism is not the problem, and has always been a staple of American life. Nor is it "greed" (which has always been present), unless you also define spontaneous order brought by catallaxy to be a form of greed.

The issue is the Protestant work ethic has always been nothing but a feel-good tale that is obviously and demonstrably a plain falsehood, or at best an oversimplification. Of course, it's a part of cultural identity and gives people the fuzzies, so it remains believed due to the illusion of control it brings. Also because people are inclined into thinking in terms of the just-world fallacy, again so as to maintain illusion of control and teleological certainty.
You need to be a lot more than "academically gifted" to make it in today's America. In fact, "academically gifted" probably means you have crushing student debt.
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If that logo looks like underwear. What does the ycombinator logo look like?
Except when the movie was announced it literally crashed every online ticketing site known to man, and last I heard first day sales were something like 8x the previous record. Star Wars is biggest in geek circles, but it is a full on cultural phenomenon.
You are talking as if construction were a large part of the economy.
The day I got georeferenced, shaded, 3d terrain working for a synthetic vision system, singlehanded, in bare OpenGL ES 2.0.

Friend of mine at work took my picture seconds after I got it working, you can see the crazed look in my eye.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24025582@N03/4150935582/in/dat...

The worst day of my professional life was probably the day Derek Sivers canned me because, "I want to do your job myself."
MongoDB 3.2 what's not to love
The latest version of MongoDB 3.2 will be coming out later this year. This release will include the `$lookup` operator (aka join), partial indexes, and document validation among other things. Check it out at https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-mongodb-3-2?jmp=community-hub.
No.

My retirement funds have, as some of their holdings, a comparatively small handful of shares in companies, as part of a fund managed by an institutional investor, whose goal is to deliver shareholder value to people who hold shares of the managing organization, which may be completely separate.

Saying "Your interests should be aligned with exceedingly wealthy individuals because you hold shares in some companies which they control." is wrong at best, and disingenuous at worst.
Google is testing its ad technology on outdoor billboards
I have to agree especially with your third third paragraph. I am finding that friends of mine are picking up drugs and alcohol again at around age 50 even though they became sober post college. I suspect it is the emotional pain of poor life choices, feeling irrelevant, and no savings due to not being as educated as the new economy demands.

I lost a friend suicide and what perplexes me is why to do depressed people gravitate towards depressants like alcohol and Vicodin?
Bouncing Ball Game Using HTML5 Canvas Element – Part 2
FWIW, there's no way of knowing those houses are actually ancient artifacts.
We're using different dictionaries then. Vengeance would seem to agree with my definition.

noun

1. a member of a vigilance committee.

2. any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.

adjective

3. done violently and summarily, without recourse to lawful procedures
Should probably use Webpack instead of Gulp + Browserify.
"and why that is the one type of future outlawed by congress"

I was intrigued enough to follow this up, although I didn't listen to the podcast. From wikipedia:

During the hearings, the Commodity Exchange Authority stated that it was the perishable nature of onion which made them vulnerable to price swings. Then-congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan sponsored a bill, known as the Onion Futures Act, which banned futures trading on onions. The bill was unpopular among traders, some of whom argued that onion shortages were not a crucial issue since they were used as a condiment rather than a staple food. The president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, E.B. Harris, lobbied hard against the bill. Harris described it as "Burning down the barn to find a suspected rat". The measure was passed, however, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill in August 1958. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga#Regulatory_acti...
Perhaps this is the support you need:

https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/9ecc4732a583...
I wonder if they opt-out of Google Now on Tap. Google has made its spying the default on Android 6.0, and developers have to know to opt-out of it, otherwise private Signal communications could be collected by Google.
Crawling your own site to output a static site seems so simple it is genius. Set up a cron job every X minutes. Just... so... simple. I will do this!
It's even dumber than that. This isn't fossilized carbon, that hasn't been a part of the carbon cycle for a few geological epochs. No, this is carbon that is an active part of the current carbon cycle, that has in just the last few decades/centuries been pulled out of the air and turned into plant/tree matter.

It is utterly irrelevant that it is being released now. It will be reabsorbed when the forests regenerate. If those trees had died of non-fire causes, they likely would have rotted in the open air and released methane anyway. This is just natural noise in the carbon cycle, which would occur if the human race didn't exist. Global warming is the theory that by digging up FOSSILIZED carbon, that isn't part of the current cycle and releasing it we are forcing the system out of the prevailing equilibrium.

Classic stuff from good old George Moonbat, who is notorious for struggling with the science bit of his job.
IntelliJ 15 is released
TLDR + Sarcasm: "Today we made twitter a little bit more like facebook, because lets face it, some people are confused by stars and the word favorite."
I know of no modern population in the American Southwest that produced pottery and stone houses on mesas. It seems a pretty safe bet. The other preserved sites in the area are estimated at 500 years old. Not terribly ancient; but worth preserving.
If the only things you feel are bad, you may gravitate towards things that suppress your ability to feel anything.
> t's the idea that through blood, sweat, and tears, we can shape our own lives.

Which is a lie.
Thanks for this! Seems to cover most of my bases. Secure, on F-Droid and gappsless. Here's hoping for a mainstream XMPP resurgence. Not holding my breath though. I had played with Jitsi before too, have to see how these compare.
I'm glad they're focusing on fixing major problems such as newcomers finding the functionality of the favorite button confusing, instead of trying to find new ways to deal with abuse on Twitter.
I do remember Greymatter when blogging was young, it was Perl-based and it was mostly replaced by Movable-type, also Perl-based before WP finally came to dominate the scene. Textpattern was also popular for a while. I believe Wordpress derived form ExpressionEngine?
5 CSS Features Available Cross Browser Today
I sometimes wonder if there is still a mindset passed on from the 20's and 30's prohibition era that alcohol is illegal and therefore cool/badass. Before that was it just a way of life or was it always like this? I constantly hear family members and other grown adults talk about it like its the greatest thing ever. All of their social events revolve around it and it's just so cool to talk about drinking and getting drunk. It really drives me mad. These aren't raging alcoholics either (at least most of them). Isn't there a lot more to life than alcohol? Why does everyone want me to drink with them so badly? I might honestly enjoy trying various craft beers and such if everyone's obsession with the stuff didn't annoy me so much. /rant
"The ability to penetrate human brains through BCI will add a new dimension to physical and cyber security."

Brain infosec needs development desperately, and there's plenty of testing ground for it in figuring out how to repeatably train people _today_ to resist the more simple, high-latency, advertising/propaganda/religious hacking attempts.
A Bubbly Late-Stage Market? The Data Tells the Story
If you like something and want it to stay around. The best thing you can do is pay for it.
Codex Sinaiticus: the earliest manuscript of the complete New Testament
If by "commercial use" you meant "proprietary use": requiring payment for proprietary use seems like a well-established business model that works reasonably well, and I don't see any problem with contributing to such a project. In an ideal world, I'd suggest doing so in a way that doesn't require a CLA, such as a carefully written license exception referencing an updatable list of licensees.

If you actually meant "commercial use", such that the default version prohibited commercial use, that's a non-starter, as it's incompatible with the standards for either Free Software or Open Source Software; you would massively curtail both contribution and usage of the project by doing so. You'd also, in the process, likely prevent anyone from contributing to that project in the course of their job, which doesn't seem like your intent.

(Requiring submission of contributions back to the original project rather than only to those you distribute a binary to is also slightly questionable, though some will accept it. Prohibiting commercial use is the dealbreaker.)
>Blizzard has no idea how to make money from mobile

Uhh, Hearthstone?
It gets messy fast.

Can a terminally ill child choose to die? What if they have a significant life long illness that isn't terminal?

What if they have no illness?

Not saying it is impossible to work out all of these problems, I've just never seen anyone do so.
Three Must-Follow Principles to Attract a Technical Cofounder
While it would be virtually impossible to argue that the rich aren't getting richer, it is because they're capturing most of the gains. That means for the rest of us schmucks, stasis is the name of the game. In the presence of shortened lives and relative economic stagnation, are you arguing that people are effectively dying of jealousy?
There is a large difference between suing 100 people and 100,000+ people. Feel free to come up with a successful single suit with more than 50,000 defendants. In then end mass lawsuits are really related suits where each defendant get's to defend themselves individually.

PS: It's a question of overhead, there are some downloading lawsuits with large numbers of defendants but they tend to be worth ~3k / person and are settled individually. With a max payout < 10$ it’s just not worth it.
You can accomplish the same idea with less features DIY with a low cost provider (like a $5 digital ocean box), which is what I have done for years.

I don't think the price point would change my mind either way, but sometimes that convenience is alluring.
How do i code Certain websites
I am asking this for educational purposes i am planning on going to collage for computer programing i would like to know the specs of coding if you could just throw some out there in the comments i would be very greatfull an if you can help me out even farther you can email me at jordan1eastman12@gmail.com but please no spam im asking nicley?
Anyone know of anything like this that integrates well with ZNC?
If it's hard then you are doing it wrong. The point of the post you are replying to is that people shouldn't "go on a diet" and spend weeks or months not enjoying their life. Instead you should find a way to eat a normal amount of food and enjoy it. Then you'll lose weight and never gain it back.
>but on the whole reduction in Government intervention during an economic downturn is just not how bureaucrats roll.

We had this exact experiment after 2008. Austerity in Europe, stimulus in the US. The results are pretty clear.
What is a hack?
Why would you think you can get a software engineer at 50% the price of one in the US? Particularly given Canada's median income is now roughly on par with the US.

The US is a very large place with a lot of cities, it has 30 cities the size of (or larger than) Vancouver. You can find good software engineers across the entire nation, including in lower cost locations. From Portland, to Las Vegas, to Kansas City, to Raleigh, to Atlanta, to Detroit, to Pittsburgh, to Tulsa etc. You have dozens of cities to choose from that will have good engineers.

There's no reason you'd need to pay bay area salaries or locate in Silicon Valley (or NY). Unless you're trying to build the next juggernaut tech-startup and are going to take on the VC to match (in which case that pays for the high salaries).
I like how readable it is, but nesting selectors:

.parent .child .element {

is bad for performance — thus BEM's:

.parent--child__element {
The irony is that VWs are actually made in Mexico.
That's the problem with acronyms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export
> Backup tapes and cassette tapes are obviously a completely different thing, lets not even go there.

Backup tapes are cassette tapes. Audio cassettes and backup tapes are different (not "completely" as the technology is actually quite similar), but backup tapes are magnetic tapes that come in cassette cartridges. They quite literally are cassette tapes.

> Yes, fax machines are still used. That doesn't make them not obsolete.

I guess that depends on your definition of "obsolete". Google defines it as "no longer produced or used" and fax machines are still manufactured and -as I described before- used quite common. So definitely not obsolete.

It should be noted that I wasn't advocating the use of fax, but I feel the need to address your other points since you've posted quite a specific and one sided opinion on facsimiles:

> Fax is ridiculously slow

Sending a fax isn't slower than having to manually scan your documents and then email the resulting PDF. Which is the main usage I see it still being used for. In fact in many instances, the alternatives to fax are more laboured even though the actually communication protocol for fax is slow and outdated.

> [Fax] requires both participants to have fax machines

An endpoint is required with all communication mediums. Even e-mail would require the recipient to have an e-mail address. Plus your point is moot when talking about technology that has already been adopted. If anything, the reason fax is still used is because people already have one so make use of it.

> [Fax is] super insecure.

This is sadly very true. It is probably the best reason not to use fax but it's also worth baring in mind that even for all it's flaws, fax is still no less secure than a telephone conversation (let's all replace telephones with something! :p) or the depressingly high number of SMTP servers who don't default to TLS. Thankfully that e-mail criticism is now changing at a significant pace.

---

Please be mindful that I'm not trying to advocate the usage of fax machine nor magnetic tapes. The tone of your arguments would suggest that you think I am promoting their usage, but I'm really not. I'm just being pragmatic about things. :)
I have a big problem with this line of thinking. It's like saying the key to not having a fever is to keep your temperature down. Maybe you have a high temperature because you just don't have the willpower stop from shaking when you get the chills? Obviously we know that is not the case, but why do we assume that obesity is strictly a willpower issue?
Libertarians have a lot of cognitive dissonance about things like externalities and information costs, it's true. They have to have considered arguments about externalities because externalities are quite inconvenient for lots of libertarian theory, especially because externalities are one of the most powerful rationales for government intervention in the private sector. It's easier to just handwave them away. But yes, then you're stuck hammering your screws and tapping in the nails with a screwdriver. But the problem there isn't the lack of hammer, screwdriver, nails, or screws.
There was a reason for that though. Before the latter half of the 20th century Japanese go scene kind of dominated for several centuries (thanks to official shogun sponsor).
> Many countries have stars in their flags/coats of arms.

And the meaning of stars on flags is definitely not "this is something I really like." It's not a clear symbol of anything.
that's a good answer: capitalize to disambiguate
You're right that the comparison won't work for everyone. Here's another: Franz-Josef-Dickhut, currently the 54th strongest player in Europe[1] just won 3-1 against Zen, a top program. He did the same last year against CrazyStone, another top program. There are strong European players, but much fewer than in China, Japan, Korea or Taiwan. So there are thousands, perhaps even ten thousand humans still stronger than the best programs.[2]

However, the ELO figure seems high to me. A go handicap stone is probably more than 100 ELO at those levels, because high level players are good at conserving small advantages. Additionally, the players in these exhibition matches are usually themselves not the top players in the world. For instance, Zhou Junxun or Ishida Yoshio are two I recall off the top of my head.[2]

[1] http://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/createalleuro3.php?country=...

[2] If you know how many humans can run a 2:45 marathon, let me know! I know Boston lets you in with a 3:05 time if you're 18-34, and tens of thousands of people run that (some of them are older or women, but many eligible people don't compete...). I'm kinda spitballing on the exact times, but that's roughly how I want to do the comparison.

[3] (http://www.goratings.org/).
FYI: Join the "movement" and start a static site user group. For example, I've started the 1st one in Europe, that is, Vienna.html [1]; others in the U.S. include Static Web Tech in San Francisco [2] and {Static is} The New Dynamic in New York City [3]. Cheers. [1]:http://viennahtml.github.io [2]:http://www.staticwebtech.com [3]:http://www.meetup.com/The-New-Dynamic
Israel Is Already Selling Kamikaze Micro-Drones That Will Change Modern Warfare
Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases
This could actually be very invasive and in a gray area privacy-wise.
I guess this is a matter of not having expectation of privacy in a public place where the camera/sensors are being set up?

I live in Mexico and had no idea this kind of techniques were being used, let alone by politicians.

Recently there has been a lot of enforcement here on privacy policies being displayed physically in places where the business may be collecting your personal data, yet I've never seen an ad saying "I'm recording your reaction and using this for research".
I wrote a little guide on how to set it up:
http://o9i.de/2015/10/23/howto-gmscore.html

Has been working reasonably well for ~10 days now. Note that I'm on Android 4.2, so I might have missed something with regard to newer Android versions.
Planes have pretty disastrous failure modes, and useful lifespans in the decades. An accelerated test cycle seems... unwise.
Thanks for making this! Just signed up for the master package, can't wait to start watching the videos. <3
ClearTax (YC S14) helps India file tax returns in ‘less than five minutes’
And for those interested, H2Se has an LC50 about an order of magnitude lower than H2S. Fortunately S/Se in crude oil is likely to be >10000. It smells like garlic.
You can often type some text that you remember from the URL or title in the URL bar and browsers will search the history and present you a set of pages you visited including the one you want.

Effectively it's like bookmarking everything and then using the keyboard to navigate among the bookmarks.

Normal bookmarks are still necessary if you need to record a set of multiple pages that meet some criteria.
Because I'm suggesting that there might be less community support today than in the past because fewer people today attend church which historically has been a major source of social interaction within a community? I fail to see how this is a ridiculous hypothesis. It might not be true, but ridiculing someone for their hypothesis instead of addressing the hypothesis itself doesn't speak well to your own level of maturity.
It's not just the forests burning, peat is also burning. It can take thousands of years for the peat to accumulate.
> and that includes alcohol by the way)

Give me a break. Having the occasional beer is not substance abuse and shouldn't be criminalized.
After reading Confessions of an Economic Hit Man[1], by John Perkins, it sounds like this has been standard practice since at least the cold war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
People seem to very readily believe that things which they enjoy are bad for them. It's a funny thing. So the appeal of "low x" where x is something generally nice will probably not go away.
Well, it's the model that works for almost everyone until some sort of shift happens.

For example, the ease of Adsense is the only reason why my forum is still alive. It's a medium-sized collaborative fiction writing forum with a userbase composed of mostly teens without money (I've tried scavenging for donations once).

Every year my banner ad makes me less and less money. And when it stops breaking even with its rent, I will close it down.

Now, some people in these threads, even perhaps yourself, would argue that my forum simply shouldn't exist since it's dependent on ads or because "I'm too lazy" to spend time trying to find a business model for a forum that already makes me almost no money, but it would be a loss for my users.
Does their logo mean something in some part of the world?
HN throws about 20k - 40k visitors over a day or so, in my experience (off the top of my head, without looking at stats). My stuff tends to be tangential to the primary interests of the userbase, though, so if you were very codey / techie you might see a lot more.

Reddit depends wildly on the size and activity of the subreddit you're featured on. Imgur shows view stats, so you can get some idea from that.

For scale on whether nginx can handle that sort of load, I've had tiny VPSes sitting there happily handling 200 SIMULTANEOUS users serving static files, which translates to between 500,000 and 3 million uniques a day, maybe more depending on your site design.
But that would require you to modify the markup.

It would also stops you from having general styles declarations.

You couldn't do .button{color:red;border: 1px solid white;} and then .box>.button{width:100%;} unless you make your markup <span class="button pricebox--box__button"> and that would be pretty ugly, wouldn't it?

Correct me if I am wrong.
America is full of high-earning poor people
I want to buy a couple just to support the entrepreneurship.
And yet, crude, as a staple good, gets no such protections.
It's common in Ireland as well, where beef and dairy are big: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27754408
There's quite a famous hotel in Krakow, Poland, which used to be called "Boner Palace":

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/194/529341550_1a979f8746_z.jpg...

But after English-speaking tourists pointed out what "Boner" means the name was quickly changed to an adjective in Polish, hence "Bonerowski Palac":
https://alucockabroad.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dscn2157.j...