skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. I don't browse like you do. That would take forever.

I wonder: Are you afraid Google is sitting at home drooling over the fact that you bought your shoes from JcPenny?

You’re not a name, you’re not a face, you’re a knode. a cookie. literally, a number in trillions of records.

Secondly, you sit on the web writing openly about privacy issues, while overtly displaying your information on those "Identity tracking" services you use, like Facebook, which If you spent the same amount of time you spend writing about how Google is out to get you, perhaps would understand that while you're browsing incognito, Google is having a frenzy with your gmail content, building a profile on you that you may never see.

At the end of the day, someone is always going to be collecting information on you, and your information will be again, one dot tied to your one number- among trillions of other records. There will always be internet ads.

To wrap this up, my point is that if you really don’t wan’t to be tracked, then cancel your credit card, pay everything in cash, disable your GPS, avoid connecting via Wi-Fi, forget doing ‘good deeds’ like filling out surveys, or giving your name and number to a blood drive. Oh and completely disconnect your router.
Great feedback thanks:

Yep right again, I should try and make money. What price points would you think is acceptable? I was thinking around $4/mo $35/yr. Great idea on PAYG, a one off project for $7 which could actually get a lot of sales, that would have to be time limited to say 2 months however because people could just switch the content in and out. You are correct I would never delete the content, the cost is so low. Actually getting the money is another problem, Im based in London so the best option is currently paypal, I would like to hold out for stripe but who knows how long that will take....

Scaling, You are right that it could get bad, I've been chatting to a guy who's pdf compiles down to a 28 meg. The next step would be breaking the compiling out to a different server, the code is nicely decoupled so it would not be hard to implement. It wouldn't be to hard to have multiple compiling processes getting jobs from a que. Other than that I've not thought to much about it.

For simplicity sake I am planning on having 1 owner who's account is 'debited', other users could be of any type. Interesting idea like Browsershots, I will have to look at that a bit more.

This is great advice, please keep it coming.
This must be one of the most vapid pieces I've ever read via HN. It just doesn't seem to be about anything in particular, and there is absolutely no connection between the title and the text.

This is just one step away from one of those fake articles generated by bots for content farming purposes. Oh wait, did I get it?
In the case of Fast and Furious, I bet most of the budget went to actor's salaries and CGI.

Tarantino doesn't like to use CGI at all, so I think that keeps his costs down in comparison.
What about http://www.codecademy.com ?
Modern day way to learn to program or waste of time?
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You are right. It is a little too harsh toward Ed.

I think the general point is correct, though. The management failure here is much deeper. The culture apparently tolerates interruption of important work. Firedrills over relatively trivial problems. Leaning back and watching teammates fumble. And just generally not solving problems in efficient ways, looking for and resolving root causes.

It is clear that Ed is not happy or fired up. The company sounds lame. I'm sure this is not the first time something like this has happened. Otherwise, why complain about it? And rather than leaning back and watch the slow motion car wreck over and over, I think erdevs is right... this is pretty lazy and lame. The company sounds lame too. Seems like the Hacker Way would have Ed either leaving such a lame place, or intervening at this place to try to help level the company up as best he can.
Add Anachronox, which was mediocre at best.

Anachronox was a damn good game. It used non-traditional narrative techniques and did a fine job of utilizing the diverse set of characters to help the storytelling. It had great writing and humor, as as well as an interesting universe with many diverse, interactive areas to explore. The locations were probably the best part. They were so dynamic. When you were on a space station there were places with displaced gravity to make you feel like you're really on a space station. When you went to a dock, you could see space ships coming and leaving. Even now there are very few games that go to that level of detail, especially on such large scale.
Not a very appealing setup in 2012.
fertility rates are dropping worldwide. At some point in the next 30 years, it is expected to fall below replacement level.

Check out this graph comparing fertility rates. China and Iran (!) now have fertility rates below that of the U.S.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
i like this movement, despite the other posts here. perhaps "less-social" would be a better term, or "slower"?

slow-social?

something like slow food?

the problem is that per-click and per-view economics tend to drive users towards shorter operations. i suspect game mechanics do too. and this connects to something that has been worrying me for a long time - that there are "deep" social mechanisms, which we don't understand well enough to use in a wise, balanced way, that are being exploited for financial gain. to some extent that's always been an issue - i wouldn't be surprised to learn that advertising has been leading sociology / psychology for years - but it seems to be getting worse as the medium (the web v magazines, for example) becomes more immediate.
Well there are 24 different possible combinations - assuming the 0's are different

4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 24

is this incorrect for me to use this as a solution?

edit:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550753

This is what I was trying to convey - I guess he's the big winner!
depending on where he lives, he can still be tracked by CCTV, when he fills out his taxes, renews his driver's license, or any other number of things
It's been going on for over 400 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_in_Northern_Ireland
Nasty registration wall :-(
Well, not the best way to expand your horizon.

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.

Reminds me of these ultra leftists, who declare their own government and live without electricity and fresh water. What do they achieve in the big picture? They do this just to feel better themself.

Linus Torvalds is the man who made everything possible. Google/Facebook would never have existed with a Hurd kernel and Git is now the big accelerator of open source. Stallman started it, but what did he achieve significant in the last 20 years?
Not a very appealing setup, period.
You're right. I just found the whole article rather poorly thought out when compared to the articles that I usually find posted here and was a little irritated. Could have explained why that concept won't work rather than just abuse.

1. How will you find out people's income? The only way is to let them tell you. The people who report their correct income are the sort who would have bought your DVD at your price anyway. And the people who are the sort to lie to save money would rather get it for free right? There's also the problem of people not wanting to disclose their income to any tom, dick or harry who asks.

2. Any sort of price discrimination is generally a bad idea regardless of the basis of discrimination. A better idea is to push the price per unit down to the point where it's a no-brainer to buy it. (I think it was Lady Gaga who sold her latest album for a buck per copy and generated huge sales volume)

Besides, we don't need some newfangled solution that is so hard to implement. The problem is that the people who produce content like music/movies have gotten into a rut in the way they think. We need a Steam (the software by valve) for movies. Just buy a movie and you own it forever. Lost a hard disk and want to watch The Godfather again? Just login and re-download a h264 rip LEGALLY. Have a blue ray player and a fast internet connection? Download the blue ray disk. So many people already download content. The idea should be to make downloading content from legitimate providers a better experience than piratebay and charge a premium for it. Push down the prices and push up the volumes.
The author can use separate chrome profiles for each logged in service. This way you can stay logged in while isolating your tracking to that tab.
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200,000 years ago is the approximate consensus for the arrival of Homo sapien; however the commonly held belief is that behavioral modernity occurred approximately 50,000 years ago.

Most of that doesn't really end up mattering because the last 10,000 years (marked at the origin of agriculture, 8000 BCE in the BBC table) have contributed disproportionately to the 107B figure. An extra 150,000 years at a baseline 1M population wouldn't throw the figure off more than 10-15%.
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone explain in simple terms what a unit test is?
Indeed.

It is often more effective to ask the right questions so that the other part can arrive at the correct conclusion by themselves instead of telling them the conclusion from the start.
Doesn't this set up 'probable cause to search' because the LEOs get a complaint of suspicious behaviour from a civillian? It certainly seems to be an easy way to bypass the 4th.
The developing world has birth control but, in large parts of it (e.g. most of africa), most people aren't using it. This is for economic reasons.

I would argue that in many, if not all, of these places this is instad due to poor education, misinformation or religious opposition.

Edit to add: It's also important to distinguish when men have access to birth control and when women have access to it. Fertility rates won't drop until women can control how many children they have.
"piracy" is a misnomer for "copyright infringement." Libraries don't infringe on copyright. For example, a purchased book can be lent, according to long established law and practice.

Ergo, promoting this thought is not only wrong, but it serves to feed the voracious posssiveness of the large-scale copyright holders who want to take away rights we already have.
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I knew this one was going to bite me :). I meant mediocre in a product-market-fit way. It definitely had its high-points (and not accidentally), but it also suffered from the fact that Ion Storm Dallas was already burning when it was released. The cult following definitely showed that a lot of things were right about the game.

This was strictly a personal note, I didn't enjoy the game as much as I could have and still consider it a wasted opportunity for greatness.
School textbooks, probably the worst example you could have picked as a counter point.
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You are right. As a developer, I would browse something like this:

1) Chrome incognito windows to test what people see before they sign into a service.

2) If I like the service, I would switch over to a normal Chrome window to see what a "typical" person would see.

3) If I want another identity I open another browser.
If you eat very fresh meat, a lot of the plant biased nutrients haven't decayed yet. For instance, very fresh beef has quite a bit of vitamin C in it, but by the time many people in the US eat it, much of that is gone.
I was also hoping to learn more about modern airship making. :(
So...

-If you ask for a raise without an offer in hand, you have a weak bargaining position

-If you ask for a raise with an offer in hand, you are “holding them hostage”

What is an employee to do then? Simply expect fair raises to come periodically, initiated by the employer, and quit if they don't?
And I bet he is still waiting to find a laptop that his free and open to replace is yulong
He isn't a developer, he is a front man for a decades old movement.
To your first question, there is a concept called PPP (purchasing power parity), which measures the cost of a basket of items across regions (a famous implementation is the Big Mac Index), so you wouldn't really go around asking people their salary, it is more in terms of a region or a country..

As to the question about price discrimination it already exists as a result of free market/supply demand.. Bread costs 50 cents in India vs 2.50$ in the US.. That is simply because people as willing to only pay 50c.. But with media, there exists no "need", people consume whatever is given to them, so there is a need to artificially regulate prices, in the long run that will benefit the media houses, they are just too short sighted to see that..
Practically? No. From the ultra-geek perspective? Yes.
Google and Facebook would never exist the way they do today without the free software movement. Both of them rely on a huge stack of open-source technology. Stallman's ideas are what makes it possible for a college kid to run a web startup today essentially for free.
On the other hand, "mail is what [he does] most of the time". I don't mean to belittle his achievements, I'm generally a fan of Stallman, but if that's really the case, then maybe we should call him a manager, rather than a developer.
but now you're the Amazon Web Services guy! That can't be too shabby...
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these AMD videos are even better, thanks for pointing these out.
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Any program written in open source for antichess??..if yes..plz share
> You're probably saying "WHAT?!! How am I supposed to implement a counter then?!", and that's solved entirely by the fact that you can use recursion.

Yes, true, but IMHO the author ought to have explained that in most cases the compiler turns this apparent recursion into more efficient code that doesn't recurse unless it must, so you get the best of both worlds -- a pure function in source, and efficient code for the machine.
This is probably going to raise some ire, but am I in the minority of people who are tired of "How I learned to program?" type posts showing up on HN?

You're probably not the only one, but I rather like many of these posts, and I think they're useful for the large minority or small majority of HN readers who don't program. They're also handy encouragement to non-programmers in general: someone says "I could do it," describes how, and perhaps that'll act as an impetus and example.

Sometimes I learn something new from these kinds of posts.
I guess the standard answer is because games cost more to make now so publishers are less willing to risk that money on doing something adventurous. IMO this is incredibly shortsighted but I suppose I'm not quite their target market any more.

Totally sympathise about Syndicate Wars too. One thing I don't miss is that most games now seem to have a better balance of difficulty - I found that one amazingly frustrating and never finished the last few missions without cheating either. Oddly, that's one game I'd love to see a modern version of (not interested in that upcoming FPS which looks to be in name only) - IMO Syndicate Wars was hugely limited by the technology of the time.
Christians run into problems because of that guy. You know, that guy who wants to execute gays and believes in Creationism.

Oh well, not really. Christians are privileged as hell in every respect.
Ah, that I can agree with. The graphics in particular was quite outdated, even by the standards of those times.
The real geeks I know what to get work done, not send email all day.
"Now we know that computers don't help children learn"

I should have stopped reading there. We "know" nothing of the sort, and indeed this is an absurd claim on its face. I learn stuff using Google every day that would've taken hours of library research or hundreds of dollars worth of books in the past, if the information were even available. Now, sure, there have been plenty of ill-advised and poorly-implemented school technology programs, but that's not an indictment of "computers" per se. If you gave kids books without teaching them how to read, they wouldn't learn much, but that wouldn't be the book's fault.

"in the mainstream view of the academic psychologists, the brain is another pancreas, except that its function is to secrete thoughts as opposed to insulin"

Total crap.
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You have to give the guy some credit; Stallman believes in the free software movement, fights for it, and refuses to compromise his rights or values.
There is one IE9 feature that I miss in Chrome or Firefox:

"Preserve Favorites website data" under Delete Browsing History.

With that I can delete all cookies after a session but my logins stay active. And I don't need an extension for it. Every browser should support that. And the OS integration of IE9 on windows 7 is superior to the competition.
Keys get pretty unmanageable at scale. The biggest part of key management is changing keys, which is a really important part of security.

Use Kerberos and a Directory Service if you can, unless you have a solution to SSH key changes.
Apple removes blatant copycat apps from App Store
Interesting, so why would i choose to use you guys over someone like say Facebook who i can simply do single sign in with (and retain minimal data on my end)? Whats your policy around exporting data if someone wanted to leave? and how do i store custom data fields?
This will never happen while we have cheap human workforce (like those working for Foxconn).
And even then, I'll prefer robots to Humanzees.
Put another way: the volume of space we can reach in time t is O(t^3), while the population is O(e^t). Therefore, there is a value of t for which we will overpopulate our light-sphere.
> This is a poor article since few readers will have any idea what point he is making.

The author explicitly states that the text should be taken as an aseptic catalogue of facts:

> Below I present an incomplete list of PC games where the developers no longer receive payment for their creations. I wont offer an editorial, think of it what you will.

(emphasis mine)
I'm creating a web app builder for non-technical people. It uses iUI for the generated apps (lightweight, gives a decent native-like look and feel) and jQM on the builder side (lets me leverage the tons of jQuery code out there).
You get paid a lot less per hour to write textbooks than games.

Not saying that's the only way, but there IS a difference.
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derek sivers almost has a comparable setup on the software end

http://derek.sivers.usesthis.com/
I'm not sure I understand.. "won't know who picked what", and "without risk".. Are you trying to solve the problem of people being afraid to report that things aren't going great?

I think that's a dysfunction that should be repaired, not institutionalized.
And if the other fellow believes that there's a little man who perches on his shoulder, travels with him and tells him what to do? I knew someone who had this specific symptom - the diagnosis was "schizophrenia".

How does that differ from the fellow who believes that the Man in the Sky tells him what to do? I knew a fellow who heard the Voice - the diagnosis was "madness" (a diagnosis made decades ago when psychology was still in the Dark Ages).

And how does that differ from the fellow who believes that the Man in the Sky tells him what to do? But this time, no voice - the answer just "comes to me."

If someone believes foolishness about technology, sports or politics we're free to enlighten them. Like a fellow who believed that he could better his odds of winning the lottery by choosing numbers with a random-number generator. So why should we not criticize "religious thought"? Humans believe wrongly in every field. They should always be open to correction. There's nothing sacred about religion.

It is impossible to respect other peoples' opinions - there are too many of them, they conflict and they can't all be right. But you _can_ respect the other people. I believe that is what etiquette is for. Good manners can save the day.
TDD with Jasmine will help you maintain control as your codebases get larger.
These methods are also very useful, however, tags have been beneficial in many ways in other communities. Specifically, tagging could be useful for determining location, as seen recently, we now have hackful, an entire site just for the EU.

We have potentially lost additional insight, thoughts and view points that could be very useful for the HN community.

If tags were available, one could quickly sort for types/areas of posts/comments and allow experts or rookies in that area to interact. Similar to stackoverflow or reddit. It is a thought and suggestion to test.
DAAAAMMN thats a fine definition.
Yup, this also reminds me articles that used to be showing up on Damn Interesting (http://www.damninteresting.com/category/greatest-hits/) few years ago. Too bad they haven't touched this subject.
He runs a modern full featured gnu/linux distribution like a lot of people, just rarely boots into the desktop.
Interesting. That ssh is full of scary options.

I don't think it would work directly through scp. From what I can tell from skimming the source, it is really just a wrapper over ssh. Meaning: it forks an ssh, with the commands 'scp -t/-f' on the distant side, and does its magic to connect the pipes where they should go. 'scp -v' gives the exact command, but I don't think it works without previously having a shell.

But, if you have access to the filesystem through other means, you could use the .ssh/rc trick to bypass /bin/false, and get ssh access.
...and so have mankind said at all times in history. To believe that we live in a golden age is no different from what the Romans or Egyptians thought.
> We were learning from childhood that sharing is a good thing.

I don't know about your upbringing, but I have not learned that it is good to force others to share if they do not want to.
I closed this webpage as soon as a stupid minute long video advert for "airwick" started playing and I found the buttons to pause or mute didn't work!

Overzealous intrusive adverts really turn me off...

(Yes I know should be using adblock plus etc., on friends computer right now!)
What sort of ultra-geek uses that sort of setup? The current generation of that notebook has a processor that runs at less than 1GHz! The only reason he gets away with it is that he mostly does mail on emacs from console.

It's too minimalist for any present day software development work
I don't think there's anything new there conceptually; Stallman is quite aware that convenience is one way that proprietary software wins over users, because that was also true in the 1980s. What benefit would there be if RMS used an iPad? He's not a UI designer for any GNU software, so he doesn't really need to do it for field research. The main software he's involved with at all (mainly GNU Emacs these days, afaik) is not really targeted at the same demographic as the iPad anyway.