skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is getting drunk enough to throw up and have a hangover inherently "abuse?" I mean, apart from the obvious "alcohol kills brain cells and causes cancer," why can't even binge drinking be done responsibly? Sure, it's not healthy, but for some it may be worth the fun, even in the long run.
I just got around to checking that out; thanks!
As someone who has never joined Facebook and is not even tempted, I have to wonder - I mean the web is not like a TV set with just channels 2-13, or even channels 2-100

The web has hundreds of thousands channels. Facebook doesn't own them any more than Google owns search - they are just better at it for now so more people tune in - build an alternative and they will come - slowly at first, but they will come.
I've been living across an ocean from my family for over 10 years, deactivated my FB account 2 years ago and never turned back. So I really don't understand your "ridiculous to even consider" -- there are many other ways to keep in touch, and doing without the firehose of low-quality information (wall posts, movie recommendations, etc.) pouring through FB gives you more time to focus on the high-quality information that can be better communicated through other media (phone, email, etc.)

I understand that leaving FB (or never using it) is not for everybody, but "ridiculous to even consider" goes way too far. I think actually it would be great for a lot more people to consider it, even if they end up deciding not to actually do it.
Roundcube can take plugins too - someone could write them.
Games? Imagine Google giving away augmented reality glasses (let's call them Googgles) that help you find your way in the environment by allowing you to do a local search ('where are my car keys?'), by adding name tags to people you have seen before but do not know well, etc.

Now, that giving away comes at a price. Frequently, when a Dr. Pepper can enters your visual field, that can becomes an animated advert. Your glasses will know how to time those adverts so that they stay (just) below the nuisance point, because they will have read your gmail and that of your friends, and will know what you ate.
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The foreclosure system was designed for a neighborhood bank to go down with its papers and foreclose. But now, the mortgage process is decentralized, so the lenders are taking shortcuts to satisfy the paperwork requirements.

However, a homeowner does not enter the foreclosure process unless he is not paying his mortgage. This is not due to any fraud by the bank.

On the other hand, this is exactly what happens when you have the government take over an industry because government entities like Fannie Mae have very little accountability or oversight. They should be abolished and the free market allowed to compete for the business.
You will always see a bevy of antiques on the road anywhere the roads aren't salted during the winter.
I don't like idealizing 50s and 60s parenting, and I firmly believe most things have gotten better (as described by other commenters), but the article was a good read.

A single family cannot change everything though.

Traffic has increased so much around schools (with parents in a hurry to work) that even parents that would normally let their kids walk often drive their kids. This was not the case just a decade ago.

Another thing is non-supervised play. Kids used to play and do sports in their neighborhood, now there's no one available for your kid to play football, because everyone else is at organized football practice.
Stays up to date and you can't lose it.
[quote]I still don't really like it, but I don't have problem with drinking it in social situations anymore.[/quote]
I think the author wanted to express precisely that point you implies: in social situation people who doesn't want to drink is used to fell forced from others' thought (or from circumstances) to drink.

None will say that aloud, because everybody knows that it is some sort of social rule, like wearing robes (you should truly put those pants up, Mike), and it's embarrassing for both sides pointing out the anti-social move.
Thinking that those who won't drink would be boring or spoil the party(<--classic excuses) to the good guys, who simply follow society rule like "ought to drink in meeting", is a really spread notion, in which even I found myself.
p.s.
a less idiot excuse imho is that, when you drink with others, there is a mutual and tacit agreement to "relax" social boundaries, to be more natural, to not feel constantly judged ("Come on! I was drunk! I really didn't meant that"<<classic). But when there is one who won't agree putting on this kind of "shelter" or "mask" (not to spoil social relaxation but because he can't sustain the shelter itself), everyone feels embarrassed because you are not sure that this kind of social outcast is going to respect or not the tacit agreement without the ritual drinks.
I hope I've been comprehensible.
Well, the studios themselves have the rights, so why they don't digitize it is strange to me. Well, the big ones I can see, obviously they don't see enough $ in it. But small, national ones like the BRT in BE or something, they have a duty to the tax payer (who pays to make these shows happen) even to do this in my eyes.

I would pay for 'series and movies' nobody wants to see and so would many others, so if not only for posterity, then do it for some profit. I wouldn't sign up for some modern subscription, but if these were included I would. It's just a matter of being complete.

But yes, you are right, the copyright issue sucks; no-one cares about these series/movies, so why not remove the (c).
Because you learn that its just another beverage rather than some forbidden fruit.
I'm a bit confused about why you and others* put this as the product of United States regulation-- what we're seeing here is the tyranny of local government, exactly the thing that those who oppose national regulation would like to see in charge.

It seems very dangerous to mix up the broader inter-state health and commerce regulation for which the Federal government is responsible with this kind of admittedly oppressive state and local regulation.

*Realizing you don't necessarily speak for the article you linked, of course.
No. Stallman do care about the freedom of the people. The problem is, he focuses almost entirely on negative freedom[1]. If one restricts oneself to Free Software, he can do whatever he wants with it (except restricting others' freedom, which is precisely what negative freedom is about). But there are additional degrees of liberty[2] to be gained if you also use proprietary software from time to time. Some capabilities just aren't in the realm of free software (the latest fashionable computer game, some device drivers, the Raspberry Pi —it uses some proprietary code).

Now, note that even someone very much aware of positive liberty could act the same way Stallman is acting. This is because we'd all be more capable if all software were free.[3] The only way to do that is stop using and making proprietary software. The problem with that is that it requires a personal sacrifice. At the consumer end, it means not enjoying some software (the proprietary ones). At the producer end, it means making less money.

In other words, we have a prisoner's dilemma[4]. Stallman is currently cooperating, and is urging everyone else to do the same. The GPL by the way is consistent with this: to some extent, it forces you to cooperate. You seem to think this is unacceptable. You'd prefer to be able to defect. But then I ask you: how do you justify this ? If you plan to cooperate, you don't need the freedom to defect. If you plan to defect, what is your moral basis for making the world a slightly worse place ?

This works even if we do not talk about you. If you think people should cooperate, why give them the freedom to defect ? If you let them defect (and they do defect), it again makes the world a slightly worse place. How would you justify this? (Note: my own moral alarm went off when I wrote that last paragraph. I suppose yours have as well. Just remember that this is probably a false positive, for the GPL actually is a give & take licence. Something like a clever Timeless Decision Theory[5] agent that will cooperate if and only if it knows you will cooperate if and only if you know it will cooperate if… infinite recursion resolved by symmetrical information —the text is laid out for all to see.)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty

[3]: This point is central. If you don't believe it, the rest of my argument doesn't work. That's why if anyone has reasons to reject it, I'd like to know about it (links to high walls of text are okay).

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

[5]: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Timeless_decision_theory
> However, a homeowner does not enter the foreclosure process unless he is not paying his mortgage. This is not due to any fraud by the bank.

the article proves this wrong
I think he meant "all of which".
1. a) Find the highest person at the company who you can get an intro to.
b) Find the highest person at the company whose email address you can get a hold of.
2. Email them with a short email describing who you are, what you're doing and why you think it could help their site. Seek a meeting or at the least a call to discuss how it could improve their x, y or z.
3. Follow the email up the following day with another email and add an additional detail your first email missed. An additional opportunity or similar.
4. Call the person if you don't get a response.
5. Find the next company in a similar field.
6. Repeat.
A swarm of micro-quadcopters
i believe those are optional
I love how ``It is always possible to add another level of indirection'' is described as corollary to moving problems around instead of solving them :D
There's certainly an irony to the idea that such inexorable privatization of "the web" has occurred within the last 4 years that there's no point in even trying to effect any future change in a positive direction. My only real take away from this article is that if you are a Scoble-magnitude tech pundit then you are pretty much forced to use proprietary tools to maximize your audience. It's a bit like reality TV stars who have to join a trashy television program to get the attention they crave—it's a shortcut to a certain end, but it's not the way work that matters is done.
I've used Avast before I switched to McAfee. I also noticed that my computer slowed down after the switch but I never thought that McAfee was the reason. Thanks for the info.
http://bashcookbook.com/
Yes but NeXTSTEP could have bought created a fully closed source compiler.
Their no down time feature is just them holding a cache'd copy of your site. It could technically not work for you and still work for someone else.
I usually think these "CSS tricks" are neat but I would never use them. This is actually a very nice design and used in the right context could easily add to the UX. Well done!
Why do you think you might be wrong?

The only real reason it might be "wrong" is that it might be excessively expensive in the hear-and-now to do compared to how easy it will be in the next few generations. Although SpaceX and other companies are bringing down costs so quickly regardless that such a point might be moot.

Nevertheless, consider. Right now it costs on the order of a dollar per gram to put anything in orbit. And considerably more to maintain something like a space station in orbit, or to launch something to another planet. This is independent of the cost of the thing itself, which tends to be even more expensive. However, imagine what the fruits of improving technology could bring. Imagine if we could make 100% automated factories where bulk materials go in one end and fully constructed launch vehicles come out the other end (with robotics, 3D printing, and who knows what else in the middle). Imagine if we had computers and simulations so good that you could make a digital model of a launch vehicle and you could simulate launch and reentry with enormous accuracy, including exploring possible failure modes. Imagine if you then apply a genetic algorithm to existing proven launch vehicle designs with the goal of reducing launch costs and improving reusability as much as possible, and with the massive computing power of the future at hand you can pop out incredibly advanced and incredibly cost efficient designs for getting to orbit, and then build tons of them with your robot factories.

In short, in the not too distant future we could easily end up in a situation where building orbital spaceships is on the scale of building automobiles or airplanes, and it's as easy to get into space as it is to travel on airplanes today, or possible easier. That would make today's inefficient and expensive methods look like a waste of effort in comparison.

However, that's generally true for just about anything we do today anyway, so I think it's probably worth keeping at it despite the difficulty.
Weird. I'm the one that submitted the story. You joined HN one day after I did.
Case in point: Even the BBC has managed to "lose" a lot of the early Dr Who (they taped over a lot of it before someone started thinking about archival), and have resorted to recovering some of it from versions taped from broadcasts, but bits and pieces are still missing and will likely never be found.

A large part of what has been recovered has only been recovered because of a lot of effort from both the BBC and volunteers.

This is a series with massive cultural impact in the UK.

Now consider all the less popular series that don't have scores of fans pushing to ensure as much as possible of it is restored and made available...
I too use search and enter to navigate quite often. But I also use middle mouse button to open targets in background. This doesn't work when there is no target. And I think every link should have an target. So buttons are all right if they just modify the content of the page. Buttons for opening new pages are bad. Anchors opening new pages (usually sized pop-ups) just by javascript, having no real target are horrible and I want to punch someone responsible every time I see something like that.

Funny enough, the google plus linked above is horrible at this.
Sweave support? You could hand off to an EC2 instance and include n hours of computation time in tier x.
It's true what you say about the happy parents, and probably you can't generalize to all kids. They are all different.

However, I also had a feeling that since the baby is totally dependent on me (he could not even turn on his belly in the first weeks), it was asked too much for him to entertain himself. Why do I get to decide what is enough for him (well fed and diapers cleaned has to be sufficient)? He could not even change his view without my help. This is just a very personal thing, though, everybody will feel different.

On a related note, I just read a book about sleep research and one experiment they did was exposing people to extreme boredom. That is they were made to lie in a bed for days and not even allowed to read or anything - so their situation is quite similar to those helpless babies. Turns out they would settle into a 4h sleep pattern, similar to babies.
Challenge pages cannot be totally disabled. From CF's admin page:

Adjust your basic security level to modify CloudFlare's protection behavior. A low security setting will challenge only the most threatening visitors. A high security setting will challenge all visitors that have exhibited threatening behavior within the last 14 days. Essentially off will act only against the most grievous offenders. We recommend starting out at medium.
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Not from a "keeping up with the Joneses" basis. Or from a "you spent less because you had to spend less" basis.

The first assumes that a large amount of spending is done in order to signal or gain social advantage. Signaling would be ostentatious consumption to express a higher social status. Gaining would be, say, buying a house in a good school district in order to gain social advantage for your children. A perverse logic of a constrained-resource economy may be that such socially-driven spending may increase, not decrease.

The second assumes that one didn't need to go out to eat, because one spousal partner (OK, the wife) stayed home and incorporated the roles of cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc., which are now frequently treated as external expenses. Likewise shorter commutes with cheaper gasoline.

There is no contradiction.
Ours must be the only generation ever willing to blame the previous one for just about everything. Also, by what measure is the world a worse place today?
No they don't. Only because a person has more disposible income does not mean they /have/ to consume more. The poster has actually a point. In a "consumerist" culture however, "instant satisfaction" is much more important and constantly promoted as important.
Personally I find this to be very inelegant. There is an incredible amount of HTML cruft and Javascript with a bunch of CSS hard-coded into it.

http://lab.simurai.com/css/umbrui/ has some awesome examples of how this sort of thing should be done, using nothing but native HTML 5 form inputs and CSS.
That is the dumbest piece of advice you could give a founder.

A start-up that outsources its core competency is doomed.
If you have an idea, and can't find a technical co-founder, learn to program yourself. PHP aint that hard.
"A friend of mine, after watching mad men, was waxing nostalgic about how nice things seemed back then."

Wow. The main failure of that show is that there's people who think this after watching it. I mean, things in the show are enormously screwed up, the only thing that is nice is the scenery, which to me only makes the contrast more obvious, but apparently for many people that pulls attention away from the main subject of the show.

Also, yeah, long ago parents had their children walk to school alone even when said children where 9. And did other silly stuff. Silly stuff makes for good stories, though, and you can get to use the "what doesn't kill me" line as if it was science.

/rant
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=1925&eid...

Mark Nottingham's update on the speed of light.
The student loan industry is interesting. If it collapses, higher education is going to get hammered. On the other hand, it's much harder to abandon a student loan commitment than a mortgage, so such a collapse could be a long time coming.
While this wouldn't be a bad idea (for this reason) if every IP-number was only linked to a single person behind the screen, I would expect a lot of people on HN to be hidden behind VPN's and other solutions for masking IP-addresses. These normally use the same IP-addresses for several people.
what problem is this solving?

Why can't someone just use the regular youtube URL?
Why is restricting free trade of talent in the best interest of the people?
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Your comment is rude and inappropriate, people are varied and wonderfully complex, don't judge.
Yeah, but a good film none the less, and for those who know about Tesla, it was a very pleasant surprise to see him turn up.

Also, in some weird way, having Tesla as the inventor leant an air of credibility to an other wise ludicrous plot point.
nupark2 is correct. There's less maintenance involved in running SpamAssassin than there is in running Firefox.
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We disabled Cloudflare after a month because of their awful nLayer routing. We were getting complaints of slow accesses from Telia customers in Europe. Now we're back with SSD Nodes and much happier with SoftLayer's peering and transit connections (they peer directly with Telia).

Your mileage may vary.
cursor: pointer; anyone?
It's a quick way to share a number of videos, say perhaps some new songs that you would want to share with your friends
SpamAssassin takes care of this for you by automatically downloading new filtering rules. You host the spam filtering software, but the actual rules are out-sourced by default. It even includes configuration for multiple DNSBLs, DNSWLs and RHSBLs by default. You can add your own local rules if absolutely necessary too.
Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
Link hinting and following scripts in many vim-like browsers allow you to click or focus buttons by an index or the button text. Example in luakit: http://i.imgur.com/qTOPz.png
We have been including a similar thing in our project base for some time and have been through quite a few iterations & ways to implement something like this. Thus far we are using something very similar: https://github.com/theorm/django-bootstrap-forms
Fascism? For real?

I knew from the fact that the link title contained the word "Stallman" that it'd get Godwinned. Congratulations.

Do you honestly believe that you can separate what you describe as "freedom of software" from "freedom of individuals"? Does DRM or Tivoization serve the freedom of individuals? Does not being able to modify your computer make you more free?
yes, it's pretty stupid but it's the product that the commercial team sells (your own small managed private mail server). Some of the servers have more than 2000 accounts but others have 6 or 10... A few years ago, until 2006, the servers where small appliances installed on the client's office. Now they work the same way but mostly virtual and since most of the clients are small bussiness.. some have really few accounts.

On our shared mail system we have about 40k accounts in 2 cyrus servers (with 2 more for HA)
Take one 250 mg Disulfiram pill and prevent http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A29443179
>Stuff like 'secret valley' (AU tv series) is unfindable.

This makes me really, really sad. Although I would likely find it juvenile and not as good as I remembered it, it was one of the best things on TV growing up and I'd love to share it with my future kids. Flour-bomb fight!

Edit: So it's listed on the AFSA website... does this mean the masters are still in the archive?
Interview with Chris Torres, Creator of Nyan Cat
More damaging evidence on open plan offices
There's no force. Just a requirement that if you do X, you also do Y. You do not have to do X if you would prefer to not have to do Y.
To which jwz replied: "Safety regulations are great. The bureaucracy we have here goes far beyond that into attempted cultural engineering."
"When he would use things like the iPad from time to time, he would understand that convenience is the biggest threat to open source. Nobody cares how free Stallman's device really is. When he would speak for better open source devices, he would actually make progress. Right now is Shuttleworth advancing the free software movement to be accessible for everyone."

I'm pretty sure he understands in his rude comments after Job's death he said:
“Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
and
"Jobs saw how to make these computers stylish and smooth. That would normally be positive, but not in this case, since it has the paradoxical effect of making their controlling nature seem acceptable."

I think Stallman knows he just don't care much about it for personal use. The FSF does list

Gnash — the free software Flash player
Free software replacement for Skype
Free software video editing software
Free Google Earth Replacement
Help GNU/Linux distributions be committed to freedom

as top priorities people should donate time and money too.

The distros and stuff like android is where a lot of ease of use stuff happens and that is why the FSF lists (
Help GNU/Linux distributions be committed to freedom) and a 100% foss android named replicant under the under the reverse engineering priorities list .