skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a world of difference between libertarianism and anarchism. Part of the reason why I'm a libertarian is that I think it's really important for government to stay focused on the things it is actually important for it to do, such as public safety and fire protection (among other things), because when it gets too big and too bloated and eventually collapses, the whole thing comes down, not just the big and bloated parts.

Too many people, especially in comfortable first-world countries, have political ideologies that don't account for the fact that governments can fail and/or collapse, in whole or in part. When you rush to centralize every service you can on that foundation, you are putting a lot of eggs in one basket, and it's not a magical invincible basket... it's just a basket.
A generalized version of that:

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ssh-chain

It will let you do

ssh internal-dev.example.net^external.example.net
That's completely unnecessary and potentially risky for the attacker. Your theory is not based in reality. DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
This is advice for non-fiction ebooks. :) The most important thing really is to learn how to do marketing right. It's not that hard at all and will yield great results.
An attacker can do an offline brute-force attack on the "secret key" in this scheme, since attackers can be presumed to know at least one valid password in the system.

Just use a random string as a primary key for a token table in a database and be done with it.
From Wikipedia:

On September 7, 2012, Roth wrote an open letter to Wikipedia in the The New Yorker in which he dismissed critics' earlier suggestions that his novel was inspired by Anatole Broyard.[13] He said that he had used an incident in the life of his friend, Melvin Tumin, professor of sociology at Princeton, and created everything else about his character, Coleman Silk. Roth used details from Tumin's experience in the events that led to Silk's resigning from the college.[13] Roth acknowledged that he had met Broyard, but wrote that he barely knew him.[13] He said, "I’ve never known, spoken to, or, to my knowledge, been in the company of a single member of Broyard’s family. I did not even know whether he had children."[13]

Bliss Broyard, the daughter of Anatole Broyard, posted a response on Facebook:

"I think it’s completely reasonable that Roth should be allowed to have the last word on who inspires his characters and even obfuscate about the sources if he wants to… BUT I don’t think it’s reasonable that Roth gets to dictate what conclusions other people draw about his characters, which is effectively what he was trying to do with his objection to Wikipedia’s description of the book as 'allegedly' having been inspired by my dad."[14]

She said her father had introduced her to Roth at a literary party when she was 22:

" 'Bliss,' my father said, rather pompously, 'this is one of our most important American novelists.' He [Roth] turned to regard me. 'So lithe and pale,' he pronounced. 'Like a ghost.' It was a brief encounter—one I’m not surprised that he might have forgotten—but I am sure you all can understand why I haven’t."[14]
Are you missing the fact that we're talking about using C as a substrate for a higher-level language?
The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.
hah -- any one of you would do the same faced with an overzealous auto-linker js on IRCCloud, a discussion there about the README.md it points to and access to a corporate credit card. it was very funny at the time, i promise. here's our "announcement": http://blog.echonest.com/post/9332881544/new-pyechonest-on-g...
Most of what's written here isn't true.

You can ask the (black car) Uber drivers, and they'll tell you Uber "just" takes 20% of fare. And every single driver I've talked to about it has been happy with this. Uber is basically smart lead generation for drivers.
Its both actually. Take the riots from the 60s and 70s, and the blight of the 80s (when I was there!), white flight led to a huge implosion of property taxes. They tried to make that up in business taxes, which then forced out the businesses, and the death spiral continues! Cities are pretty fragile places, one disruption can set off a chain reaction and...bam! It will take some revolutionary thinking to save Detroit.

You are completely wrong that "those places" will turn out like Detroit. Their ecosystems are very healthy, NYC went from bankrupt in the 70s, via some good public policy and not just wall street, back to the premiere world city that it was. The only at risk city on the list is Philly, but it seems to be doing pretty well recently. These are healthy ecosystems, even with taxes (or you could say, using taxes to pay the police to enforce laws is a good thing).

There is no great migration of people to red cities (cities in red states with low taxes), and even those red cities are quite blue (Atlanta in Georgia, Houston in Texas). Cities are just against libertarian principles, dense societies need to pull resources together to survive and thrive.
It is no easier to extradite Assange from Sweden than it is from the UK, where he currently resides; both countries are parties to the ECHR. In fact, it's probably harder, as the consent of both the UK and Sweden would probably be required to extradite once he was removed to Sweden.
> You're constraining yourself to a wrong definition of what a number is.

That's your problem, not mine. You keep trying to say that Pi is defined by our approximations of its value.

> Pi is one single value.

So, tell me, which part of "Pi is an infinite sequence" are you actually disagreeing with?

> There are many ways to compute this value.

You persist in confusing Pi with our efforts to approximate its value.

> Other techniques were used before, and they are still valid.

False. 22/7 is not valid. 355/113 is not valid. This is valid:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/423ieio63bsuaat/pi_w.png

The reason? Pi is a mathematical idea that happens to have a numerical value, but the idea transcends the value. The value is a coincidence, which is why choosing to express it as 1 to the base Pi changes nothing, and why arguing about the size of its approximations changes nothing.

> The only advantage of infinite series is that they are easier to calculate ...

No, they are much more difficult to calculate, but they convey more meaning. Infinite series are why Pi isn't just a number, any more than e is.
But... what commercial projects can possibly be on GitHub that worth this trouble? Facebook's C++ compiler? ....

If there is such commercial product, it would have been self-hosted. Not GitHub.
Dalton Caldwell two years ago presented on why not do a music startup.
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272400211
So this person is in jail for facilitating the ability of others to share restricted patterns of 1s and 0s. I hope this is as absurd to everyone as it is to me.
>>> But, of course, if you spend so much time with a client, you always see the person behind the headlines. It all starts with a little boy under a Christmas tree, playing with toys and it ends up very tragic. Somewhere along the line, everyone is a victim

Just depressing.
I love YC's loyalty with their own companies, but in this case I hope they upload this year's videos to YouTube.
This is a response by a person who works for the Wikimedia Foundation (a personal response, not an official response): http://quominus.org/archives/979

"There’s only one problem with this: Roth’s open letter is at best the (justifiably) aggrieved and confused ramblings of a man ignorantly discussing what he does not understand or remember..."

It's long and probably worth reading to get a more balanced view of the situation.
Sure there is. Sweden is a signatory to the ICCPR, like most of the world, and the ICCPR prohibits arbitrary or indefinite detention, requires due process, and forbids torture and cruel punishment.

Here's the most recent Periodic Report I could find for Sweden; these reports break down the ICCPR articles, provide some context for how the article is interpreted in the reporting country, and calls to light any issues the country has that complicate the interpretation:

http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G07/456/75/PDF/G0...

To head off a very boring message board argument: having ratified the ICCPR (or, for that matter, having a strong constitution with guaranteed rights for the accused) doesn't automatically mean Sweden invariably respects those rights. But Sweden isn't a police state.
It's worth mentioning that the original mouse wheel API by Microsoft was explicitly written to support analog wheels. But it never took off, and it was actually the applications themselves who were ignoring the analog input and just converting it to a step.

Having used a mighty mouse which has a miniature trackball for a mousewheel though, I'd disagree about it being equivalent though, for the simple reason that dragging fingers on a small wheel or ball with real inertia is more restrictive than on a large free flat surface with simulated inertia. Particularly being able to fling at high speed and then catch it again, stopping on a dime, is actually a really fast way to get around.

Of course, it's only the confluence of good hardware, drivers and applications that makes this shine, and on that point we agree. But it's undeniable that Apple has an amazing lead on this, and using a magic trackpad on OS X feels like the biggest upgrade to how I interact with a desktop since Exposé.
Windows 8 Killed The Start Menu, Pokki Brought It Back
Zero possible positives? Ideally, hackers, not crackers, are supposed to HELP companies and organisations to discover their loopholes before it was too late for them. So many attacks are friendly. Many hacker groups (not crackers) would steal stuff and post the irrelevant stuff online just to remind the infrastructure team that they did a bad job.

But on the other hands, Github is a popular site, and it attracts many users so people can spawn lots of PC to create mass attack. Why not? It's a popular site so they want to test how well their tools can keep up with GitHub. People would assume that as of today, 2012, operation engineers have learned enough to protect and recover from DDOS.

GitHub team did a very good job recovering. Not bad. But certainly the infrastructure is still not able to handle such DDoS. GitHub needs to invest more money on that to secure service.

Whatever the reason might be, it's not necessary to speculate. In some movies, we even had banks / investors hired others to crack their own banks or stores next to the bank to destroy critical evidence (financial loss). That's a scam. Maybe we should speculate if it was GitHub's own DDOs? God knows. Everyone will call me crazy if I believe in such thing. No I don't think it was GitHub, but let me remind everyone these strange things happened before in both fiction an real life. But the point I want to make is no one knows and it shouldn't matter.

Whoever attacks it is not important at all. GitHub will learn from this and make the service more reliable.
Yes, there are lots of little knobs used by those wacky Gentoo folks, and those dumb old shells on Unix of decades past. My ideal replacement would get rid of those checks and assume you have a working POSIX shell and C89.

However, there are also optional dependencies. SoX can use FFTW to make spectrograms, but it's optional. You can use x264 from ffmpeg but it's not necessary. Emacs will build with GTK 2 support, GTK 3 support, or neither; and it will use whatever PNG/JPEG/XML/etc libraries happen to be installed but doesn't care if they're not present. GCC will use Graphite whet available. A few programs will happily play audio through libao or Core Audio or ALSA. There's combinatorial complexity there in theory, but it's not hard to isolate optional dependencies in practice, most of the time.

And suppose you want to use some feature available on new Linux kernels. It's just easier to write an autoconf test rather than try to come up with some convoluted preprocessor test.

There are also important knobs to tune: look at LibGMP, ATLAS, or FFTW for examples. Old PowerPC Macs could run 64-bit code if you asked but ran 32-bit by default, so you'd compile GMP for 64-bit and get a huge performance boost.

And some options are only useful to developers, like enabling -Werror (which should never be enabled by default in a source release). The configuration step bakes these options into the makefile so you can still just type "make".

You have a good point about hard failing when dependencies aren't present, and the configuration step allows you to fail early and provide an intelligent error message.

I'm not convinced that eliminating a configuration step improves reliability. Just think of how dirt-common autoconf scripts are, in spite of how much of a pain autoconf is to learn.
I don't think any scientist questions that the brain is integral to the experience of consciousness, but there are quite a few cogent scientists that challenge the mainstream proposition that consciousness is merely an epiphenomenon of the brain. It does seem that mainstream scientists feel married to a mechanistic/material/reductionist world view.
The Hoaxer, The Troll And Running The Digital Herd
As the author I can say that I was speaking about my own experiences making a band not actually punk rock itself.
Even though I don't consider myself dyslexic, I am intrigued enough to have installed the font on my OS X and set it as the default face in Emacs.

ADDED. It would make a better Emacs font if it were fixed width.
A consistent hash ring is a similar concept, I think. We're quickly approaching the out-of-my-depth line, though.

It's about maintaining the property that you can route information from many different places and have that information end in a consistent place, no matter where it's sent from. And, assuming the consistent place doesn't go offline, a large number of servers can fall over without warning before that property is changed. It's about making discovery of nodes in your cluster reliable, and passing information in between them.

The use cases for that are many, and each has their own nuances, which is why this is so confusing and hard to talk about.
While I generally tend to stand with McIntyre on the Bayesian vs frequentist debate (whether it is much of a debate anymore given recent advances in AI due to Bayesian techniques for ML is another discussion) I feel that he doesn't adequately explain our 'wrong' intuition on the Monty Hall problem. While he goes on a tirade against the frequentist hold on our education system as being responsible for our mistaken intuition in this regard, he doesn't explain the fact that largely all of us are duped by this problem (having taking courses at school taught by evil frequentists or not). If indeed Bayesian probability theory is innate in us and we have just been brainwashed in school, it would seem to me then that those of us not taught frequentist statistics would be able to solve the problem better than the rest of us. I think this would be an easy experiment to conduct but I have not seen any experiments done to confirm this though.
Maybe nobody wanted to show him trotting around in a shirt which said something about "bitch".
> This is wrong. You think one day all the white people said "Hey, wait a minute!

Pretty much exactly this, between school desegregation and the construction of interstates through the cities that made suburban commutes easier.

> Yes, and eventually those places will end up like Detroit. Hell, NYC almost went that way in the '70s and was only rescued by the financial industry they seem intent on driving away today.

All of these cities have growing GDPs and populations. Some are growing faster, like Houston or Atlanta, but that was driven by cheap housing and has collapsed dramatically with the end of the housing boom. Indeed, the country is urbanizing and more people are moving into the cities.
Didn't this already make the aggregator rounds a few months ago when it first came out?
sigh. Right, because less government in our lives equates to anarchy and no laws.
It's sick and it's twisted. The ones who should be in jail are the ones running the labels and movie studios.

They're playing with fire with their reaction to the pirate bay. Soon they'll be the ones locked up.
> There is no great migration of people to red cities (cities in red states with low taxes), and even those red cities are quite blue (Atlanta in Georgia, Houston in Texas). Cities are just against libertarian principles, dense societies need to pull resources together to survive and thrive.

As someone who lived in Atlanta for a long time and now lives in Chicago, I find the idea that southern boom cities are less taxed and less regulated to be laughable. Atlanta is completely owned by the democratic party. The boom in these cities is being driven by housing prices, not business climate.
There are often off the record portions of YC content.
Did everybody get so busy that they forgot how to find things out for themselves?

Try both. Figure out what variables you have to control for and control for them. If you can't tell, it probably doesn't matter.

Obviously some people prefer one or the other. If glossy gives you headaches and matte doesn't, does it matter how many people prefer glossy? So why ask them when you can get the data yourself?

If you think the difference affects your health and performance, isn't it worth the experiment? If it doesn't, why bother asking?
I'm always impressed by tech artistry like this. Eventually, we'll have so many specific, one-off, easy to use tech art tools that we won't even need specialized artists anymore.
My college town has a private bus service aimed at drinkers that has been running for twenty years now, shuttling people between the student neighborhood and the bars on Thursday-Saturday evenings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%27s_Bus

The interesting part is that it's not even a good business - after about ten years, the founder ran out of money and then sold the business to the owner of one of those bars. I'd speculate that the bar business slightly subsidizes the bus service, run as something of a service to the community (reducing drunk driving).
Operating system - What is good about the BSDs? - Server Fault
Ben Horowitz: Every breakthrough idea looks stupid
So, speaking as a citizen of Indiana, what do we do with these people?

What is the ideal prison system?
I don't agree that he should be in jail, but the "restricted patterns of 1s and 0s" bit is like saying that murdering someone with a gun is just facilitating the journey of a piece of refined earth that just happens to go through some watery carbon mass.
http://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html
Nonsense!

As long as I can remember the Detroit metro area has always included the entire state of Michigan. And Toledo, Ohio. And Indiana. All of indiana.

(Some joking aside, Indiana as the destination of the next round of white-flight from the Detroit suburbs is amusing to me.)
New Project: Mailchimp Integration in Magento
Hi guys. We are launching a new service that integrates analytics from Mailchimp in Magento to automatically segment clients based on their email campaign purchases. What do you think?
Right. It sounds like one of those problems that can be solved in many ways, and a DHT is designed to deal with a specific constraint. Thanks for the details!
FPGAs have gotten pretty cheap nowadays. They also aren't that difficult to program if you know Verilog.
What is Windows RT? Redmond, We Have a Problem.
The problem is if HR is slack or you give a few political managers toeholds, the whole system goes sideways. I've worked in a place and seen this happen with a change of about 20% of the divisions management in 18 months and the entire forced ranking system became a political circus.
what were they called? (sorry i was so negative; it just seemed a little, err, is aspirational the wrong word? misappropriation?)
I see no reason sticking with Haml at this point. They are easily interchanged and have tools available to convert one from the other. Do your own testing, of course, but Slim feels even more productive to code in than Haml. It just feels like the way forward.
Locking people up should only be reserved for people who are a physical threat to other people around them. Once you apply this kind of rule, you would basically remove a large number of currently jailed people.
I would assume the material wasn't itself sensitive so much as the tone of the presentation -- for a VC, you presumably don't want to be too edgy/raw in video recorded content which might get viewed by a very conservative LP (the investors in the VC funds -- pensions, universities, etc.).
It's cool. The band was called The Rank Deluxe.
http://fat-cat.co.uk/site/artists/the-rank-deluxe
> It is a completely unnecessary constraint because nowadays everyone is able to install great languages like Python, Ruby, Scheme and many others much more suitable for writing build configuration systems than shell script. There is no point anymore in using the M4 language to generate a 1000 line configure script when a 50 line Python/Ruby/$OtherNiceScriptingLanguage would work just as well.

First, autoconf isn't a build system. It's just a 'configure' script generator.

It's nice that the configuration script runs anywhere you can find a POSIX environment. It's not actually that hard, either; it mostly just runs commands and checks the result code. The bulk of the knowledge stored in autoconf is the knowledge of how to write those tests, which tests are necessary, and what flags you need on various platforms.

I think the big problem here is not that the configure script is a portable shell script, but rather, that it's generated by an M4 script. Don't forget that Python itself has a configure script, and writing the configure script in Python would create a bootstrapping problem (it would add Python to the list of programs that need to be cross-compiled on new systems).
This "Google has no support" is a myth that I see consistently repeated on Hacker News that I can't understand it's repeated. Google's support situation is actually the same as Microsoft's: if you pay (i.e. have a Google Apps for Business) account, you get 24/7 phone support. I'm pretty sure that it's for any service linked to your Google Apps for Business account (including Voice), but not completely sure since I've never had to use it.

You can find it here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/request.py
I'd say speed and syntax are the main reasons. I've used both Haml and Slim over 5 or so projects and the jump doesn't feel all that significant. If you know Haml, you can pickup Slim within a couple of days at most.
Viewport-relative CSS units landing in Firefox Nightly
I don't intend to be harsh, but all of those things are basically baseline expectations. I can't help but think that you are damning the city with faint praise.
The title is stupid, and titles matter. PayPal is PayPal not because you can send money based on email addresses but because it was the company that figured out how to do it in a way and at a time that won the market. Making a PayPal like website has little to do with why people know the name PayPal, or the company's significance. It's like setting up a toy online book store and saying "How I created Amazon in five days". It's meaningless and stupid. And sometimes things are so stupid they're not worth being "constructive" about.
8 Reasons Why Your Vote Doesn't Matter [video - 7:30]
Asking is cheaper than performing the experiment. The asker probably can’t afford buying one matte and one glossy monitor just to try them out. They also might not know anybody else with the other kind of monitor to compare with. That is especially likely if they’re buying a laptop with a built-in display – it’s unlikely that they’ll know two people with that model of laptop, with the same size of display, but one display matte and the other glossy.