skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's torture, there's no doubt about it. Especially when it goes on for more than a few days, then the psychological damage can become becomes permanent. In this case he was in there three months.

Many prisoners tortured this way become so psychologically fractured they can no longer defend themselves in court, such as the case of Jose Padilla, kept in solitary for years, and who went completely insane as a result.

Burning someone with hot irons leaves marks on the outside, but you can get over it. The damage done from solitary confinement doesn't go away.

Another article on the practice - http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/03/2011371259...

Interestingly, at the time that was written a year and a half ago they stated "In Europe, solitary confinement has largely been abandoned, and it is widely viewed as a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, in violation of international human rights conventions".

And yet here is Sweden implementing this practice, recognized in Europe as torture, for someone accused of copyright infringement. Certainly not a violent crime.
I'm confused, isn't Bravo already airing a parody of Silicon Valley?
I doubt that many people see these posters as a substitute for hard work and managerial talent. Why not put your core values on the walls? It is a reminder of what the company thinks is important, which is a step above what we often have at my job.
I thought scheduling was one place where the kernel had branches for architecture types.
I recently moved my domains to NameTerrific, and I would definitely recommend them. I love the management interface and they're very simple. Much, much better than the bloated GoDaddy.
Their merchant page says "coming soon".
Dvorak keyboard
Do not buy. These are from the evil LeadLander guys: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891637
You can't just spray anything on the board. Most coatings would separate from the board over time with due to thermal or mechanical stresses. There are many coatings that do work for this, but cause additional expense due to additional labor in finishing, and possibly design to make sure the components that need protected most can actually be coated.
Ask HN: What happened to my saved/upvoted links?
Hi,
I believe the link "saved stories" on ones profile page used to display all the HN-posts one had upvoted. Today when I wanted to find an old page, I found that my "saved stories" page only had posts up to 44 days ago. And I am pretty sure I've upvoted many posts prior to 44 days ago.

What happened to my saved/upvoted links?
FriendsForMinecraft comes out of private beta
I like option 1: "You can fire me. I won't quit!"
Netzob: Reverse Engineering of Communication Protocols
It is extremely unlikely that interactive performance has any human-detectable relation to CPU switching from 1.5Ghz to 3ghz or whatever.

The I/O and Ram paging situation far dominates.
I think the philosophy behind the BSD license is to write great code and to maximize it's usage across the world without expecting anything in return. This is especially good for standardization of things, like the TCP implementation that even Windows used.

So, I guess the developers must be happy at it being widely used in the form of iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches, even if BSD doesn't see a dime of the $100B+ in cash and billions more every quarter that Apple made leveraging it.
The posters here say the opposite of demanding perfection.
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> you have to give it with authority and sound convincing.

I don't think there's anything special you have to do here. Dogs respond to rewards, not authority. To make a dog respond to your commands, he has to be trained to do so, using some kind of reward. Say "sit", he does the right thing, he gets a treat (or a hug, or to play, or whatever). Do this 50 times, and you have a dog that responds to the "sit" command.

No amount of gravitas in your voice is going to help him "sit" if he hasnt been trained.
Yes, but my core values are not outsourced to StartupPosters.com
Apple has a developer page that lists exactly which parts of FreeBSD they've used, and which parts of OS X are different (mainly, the parts of Mach they added to the FreeBSD kernel):
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwi...

Some of the Apple additions/inventions are also merged into FreeBSD proper: http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/16/freebsd_adds_suppo...
I'm surprised that even the desks and chairs have improved.

Their swivel workstation chair would be $450 in today's dollars. My chair is much nicer for much less money.

Sometimes we get fixated on how Moore's law or related effects are churning out better tech, but forget that this is against a backdrop of refinement towards better quality, less expensive consumer goods overall.
Massive subsistence farming in Ireland was not caused by the size of the population. If there were half as many people in Ireland in 1945, there would not be twice as much food to go around. The half-sized population would still have been packed into as little land as they could survive on. A crop failure would still mean starvation.

There was no surplus to fall back on, not because the population was so large that it overwhelmed reserves, but because the surplus wealth of Ireland was being systematically extracted so no such reserves could be built.
I dont care what critics say, i love that movie. Unfortunately its frighteningly close to reality
I would guess that also Bitcoin is nowhere stable enough to be taken seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bitcoin_exchange.png
Is there a website that consolidates data on tech nonprofit finances?

Like givewell or whatever with a tech filter?
This explains the general issue: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/10/why...

The basic problem is the same as in the US: a patent-only court which is captured, or at least intellectually swayed, by those with an interest in lowering the standard of patentability. This is worse, because the Federal Circuit can never ultimately escape the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court should it choose to act. But the European Patent Court is a separate international institution, so if it is given sole jurisdiction over the European Unitary Patent, then there will be little to check it.
doesn't seem a situation so dire that it warrants being disgusted to the point of installing wine to me.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=apple+coregr...

no vulnerabilities in 2012, one in 2011 and two in 2010.
Is there a possibility of an allergy at work?
But there are many other "Big Corps" specified on the FreeBSD portal. Aren't they obligated in some form or the other to be funding FreeBSD?

500k appears to be quite a nominal amount when you put all these "Big Corp" names together. Or is this fund raising set apart from what the "Big Corps" pay?
Not sure how this works...
How would I get started?
Is it currently working? I tried a simple URL (below) and it's said "Loading" for quite a while:

https://www.google.com/search?q=test

Looks interesting though!
The charts show nginx has lower availability at 200 concurrent connections except for the large JPG test where availability is the same (97.55%). The labels are goofed up on the second chart (they're off by a column), so maybe that's what confused you.
You weren't the intended recipient of my verbal abuse, and I think you know it :-| Do you work 18 hours a day?
I really like the idea, simple and straight to the point.

What I am not that sure about is your pricing structure. I am not sure if it works as this kind of a stand-alone service. Maybe you could get existing Facebook oriented marketing service to offer it as an up-sell? Maybe some form of personal touch about you/team, or at least a "real" address in the contact section could give it more credibility.

Also I am curious: How did you get these testimonial brands?
Ah - based on Chrome Web Inspector console, looks like it's trying to load http://192.168.2.99:3000 which surely doesn't exist on my network.
If the functionality loss is caused by these whiskers shorting circuits, why can't one simply restore functionality by lightly scraping the soldering to knock off the whiskers?
It has nowhere near the traffic to give the resolution it claims based on simple counting.
> Here's my view of the Valley from 1997

Exactly - lots of idiosyncrasies, but the rich guys don't act like assholes.
This is the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) that was introduced in the 2.6 Kernel. It basically does round-robin scheduling with variable time quanta based on niceness/priority. Here is a good overview of the RBTree implementation it uses:

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/sched-desi...

I don't know how this deals with distributing tasks across multiple processors however; the basic idea was to improve on the fairly naive runqueue implementation in 2.4 and prior.
Why would you ever want to make a web app without constantly testing it in a browser?
As nice as they are these posters won't motivate anybody.

I best advice I got years ago (from HN): burn the boats, put pressure on yourself and you don't need motivational poster anymore.
Way to make a name for yourself under the Be Evil brand--democratizing access to abusive user-hostile technology. It has the same feel as an open access community meth lab.
The 'Donors' page on the FreeBSD Foundation website shows both corporate and individual sponsors (and roughly, the amount donated):

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml

Sadly, the number of corporate ($$$) donors has dropped off in the last couple of years...
BTW, I had a TI-99 4/A. It was an okay machine, but not part of the troika, and I think I was the only kid I knew with one. I do remember when TI decided to get out of the business and do a fireside sale of all its inventory. The computer which had been so expensive ended up under $99. But I still couldn't afford the expansion box which was needed to handle a disk drive.

Also, while it's been covered in HN before, you might be interested in Jimmy Maher's ongoing series on the history of interactive fiction, including how it's tied into the mainframe hardware of the 1970s and micro hardware of the 70s and 80s. It's at http://www.filfre.net/ .
So I'm going to buy a "Don't compromise" and put it right in front of a "Done is better than perfect".
Gotta say that I find it very questionable how many people dump on nzbmatrix or say that it was not necessary anyway.

Sure, if you only watch high quality stuff like Skyfall and listen to Lady Gaga, a site like nzbmatrix is probably useless to you. But for those who appreciate things that aren't that easy to come by, it is essential to have some sort of an index to even HEAR about them. My estimate is that at least half of the movies and games I got through nzbmatrix, I had not heard about anywhere else.
And as every usenet user knows, it's basically just not possible to "browse" the usenet itself.

Then there are software releases where 95% are fake or bug-ridden. Where it saves a LOT of trial & error if people help each other out by posting only those that are for real.

And I found no other nzb site as useful when it comes to finding all new releases. And I have looked at them all because I did not appreciate nzbmatrix's own censorship.
I think your company should form its own culture, not try to synthesise one by propping up posters of vacuous bullshit that basically tries to tell you how to do your job.
Couldn't agree more. We all only have one life, and to burn our best years solely on work seems like such a shame. There's a lot to be said about the value and satisfaction of good, hard work, and I'm sure no one here would disagree with that, but there's more to life than work. So much more...
If you into it you will find tea is popular with monks for sustaining meditation. Tea has more than caffeine, there are other useful compounds as well. Much better for focus than coffee.

If you are good at power naps (i.e. can drift off in under 10 minutes in the right conditions) you can try a tea rebound nap; make a strong cup of tea and drink it quickly just before you lay down for a snooze. You'll drift off before it hits and by the time your 20-25 minute timer finishes your brain is doubly refreshed.

I find the 'hard-reset' aspect of a nap to be essential some days, and it is completely different in nature than the 'energy' aspect. More to do with unresolved problems to solve than actual energy.
That data is guaranteed to be public, per the rules governing the domain name registration system.
Ethernet Basics [pdf]
Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends
If you're looking for scene releases, just use a pre database like preDB.com. Find a release on preDB, copypasta the release name to binsearch, create the NZB, done.

Generally speaking it's very easy to find material just using binsearch. If you want a 1080p copy of a particular film, just search for the film name along with '1080p' and you're almost guaranteed to get relevant results on the first try.
This is horrible. Flagging it
I didn't even know they were fundraising. Added my donation.

Edit: Not sure if you're aware, but the paypal donation mechanism is triggering your spam detection:

This is an automated message.

The message you sent (attached below) requires confirmation
before it can be delivered. To confirm that you sent the
message below, just hit the "R"eply button and send this
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Also, it's encoding non-alphanumerics within the ASCII range in the forwarded message from Paypal. For example, "$" is being encoded as "=24", which makes it look like Paypal took two orders of magnitude more money than donated.
Panopticlick also glosses over the fact that the browser characteristics it uses for 'fingerprinting' change over time. In the time it took me to write this comment, Chrome updated itself three times, for example.
Tom Cruise starring in Oblivion
A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race. The arrival of an unexpected traveler causes him to question what he knows about the planet, his mission, and himself.
Pretty Visualisation of Sorting Algorithms Using Canvas
This may be a byproduct of a memory-saving optimization we did recently. I'll investigate.
SOme of that goes on. But there's also the 'free market death spiral' where things get a little cheaper and a little worse in each iteration, until you can only buy broken crap for almost nothing. Or you can buy boutique goods at 1000X the price.
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Do we really need FreeBSD anymore when we already have Linux? I am genuinely curious from a technical point of view what important differentiators there are in FreeBSD,i m not interested in license or philosophy differences.
I like to do what I call mind-candy or life-candy. Simply, it is just to engage in enjoyable acts.

Some of mine are: Watch an engaging documentary, read part of a book, take my laptop to an interesting place to work, (museum, park, cafe with a great view) cook a great meal or even buy a snack I love. Have coffee someplace nice, go for a walk in a scenic area, call an old friend, play with a dog.

I also like to watch documentaries or other factual programming. I DVR nature shows--the life of the ant was a good one--and sometimes even play them in the background while working. Being a skier and outdoor enthusiast, watching some ski movies pumps me up and helps me work. (Warren Miller movies are my favorites.) This may be more encouragement than brain health. Letting the Dick Proenneke documentaries play in the background is inspiring.

These activities can take a lot of time if you let them, but you can also be done with little commitment. I cook dinner anyway, with proper planning, making a special meal adds a negligible amount of time. Having a meeting somewhere? Do it in a public area of the museum or other inspiring setting.
Hi. thanks for the feedback, i will look into putting our team information onto the site. Those brands are our clients for our analytics platform.
NZBMatrix Shuts Down Citing Piracy Troubles
You don't need a usenet indexing site to learn about good indie movies or music. There are dozens of websites that review and discuss these things without releasing them for free against the authors wishes....
Well, you left place for interpretation ;-) I was thinking that you were talking about rules that are constantly changing because of democratic process and that they are most clearly visible in tax area.
Google is even moving into the territory of scraping content to display. Relevant wikipedia snippets are now being displayed on the search page as a side bar. While Wiki probably doesn't care...there are plenty of other sites that would not like Google to scrape the content and display it on the search page.
Hi there, good point. I didn't explain myself very well. You can do this with intigi, too. You can filter both at the content and the source level. So you could set up an interest that presents you with results that

a) appear in the HN RSS feed AND
b) that don't appear in the r/politics feed

In order to do set operations on URLs reliably, we also solve the issue of canonicalization (resolving redirects, removing tracking markers, etc.).
This isn't a specific draw to PHP, for example several Python frameworks have some flavor of 'debug toolbar' which does the same. Nice feature if you do use PHP otherwise, though.

The downvotes may be partly because you are using an article about a specific Ruby project as a jumping off point to promote another language, which is slightly obnoxious - make a thread for your new PHP stuff you are interested in, people who are happily using Ruby don't need to be exhorted to use other languages for no specific reason
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Happens for me, too. Mentioned for larger sample size.
Square launches gift cards (video)
ZhouTong is a thief and con man.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95738.0

He WILL steal your money.

Do not trust him.
Here is a link to the discussion concerning NZBMatrix.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4894401

It is currently on the front of HN
If all successful systems shared some characteristics, and social creatures seem hardwired with them, those characteristics would be in some real sense fundamental, no?

I guess the way I see it, morality tries to answer the question how do I act. That assumes actors exist, and others exist that can be acted upon. Then assume they share enough that they can communicate their individual values, eg I want to survive, avoid pain.

There are moral systems that are going to allow them to cooperate. Those moral systems are going to have some things in common, eg, reciprocity, or don't unnecessarily hurt others.

Nature tends to hardwire those, experiments show. Those would be universal moral values.

Beyond that, societies are going to evolve more complex systems, e.g. relieve yourself in the toilet, not in the public square; drive on the right. Some are going to follow more or less directly from universal principles given the environment, some are more like local maxima that people agree on.

One could say that a moral system that allows a bigger and more varied group to cooperate more successfully in more complex ways is better. So beyond the universal principles one could distinguish moral systems in more or less objective ways, as well as subjective ways like how repugnant they seem.

So, I'd agree that a lot of things people have strong moral views about are just fashions. Also that you can't get to one ideal moral system. Also that you need some first principles about how to determine harm. But I think there is a lot of morality that flows from simple first principles and is hardwired.
The whiskers are often far too short for that to work, and that assumes the whiskers are even exposed such that you could "scrape" them. Furthermore, there'd be a risk you'd end up depositing the whiskers elsewhere on the circuit...
> I assumed that you were aware that most historians accepted that WW2 claimed the largest number of lives in human history:

Largest number, but not largest proportion. A human alive during WWII was far more likely to survive that war than a human alive during the Mongol conquests or the An Lushan rebellion was to survive those. The Mongol conquests were about as deadly as WWII, yet happened in a world with only 1/5th of the population. Those two events killed 5-10% of the total world population, while WWII "only" killed about 3%.

This business where literally everyone who replies to disagree with me only looks at absolute numbers is getting pretty irritating. It just makes no sense.
Powerful and enlightening.
Thank you for the link.
I think the parent was asking for a comparison of Random Forests to Wisdom of the Crowds, which isn't a totally bad comparison. With every ensemble technique there has to be a way to deal with the many votes from your ensemble. You could average their answers (as the anecdote in the WoC wikipedia article does) or use a first-past-the-post voting scheme, or use the historical success of a subset of models to pick which models should be listened to. So yes, there are similarities, but the specifics are quite tricky :)
The Real Drought in Indian Startup Ecosystem is of DOERS
We need FreeBSD the most because of both license and philosophy points of view, and Linux has still a lot to learn from the BSDs from a technical perspective, too.

The only thing that keeps me using Linux is that nowadays a significant portion of self-proclaimed Unix software is in fact mostly Linux software with absolutely no interest being compatible with other Unix systems.

And let me add that the community around BSDs are far far greater than any of the Linux ones I've come across.
Why the downvotes? The dude is genuinely curious.
You claim to have worked with Python for some time, yet you don't seem to recognize the parallel between installing several gems and installing several packages. Sometimes you come across a package which doesn't work with some specific OS, that's not the language but the package.
You exaggerate. "Information overload" in the fully modern sense was invented before the first ARPANET node sent its first packet in 1969.

For example, ISI was talking about "data scientists" and the "information explosion" back in the 1960s. Here's part of an ad from theirs in the 1966 "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" at http://books.google.com/books?id=WAgAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49...

"Despite the deluge of scientific and technical papers, only a small fraction falls within the area of each individual's specific interests. ... So your problem may not be one of information overload at all. You may actually have a shortage of information."

(I'm reading through a collection of essays, written during the 1960s from the founder of the ISI. The complaints about there being too much information haven't changed in the last 40+ years.)

BTW, the earliest Google Books hit I could find with that phrase comes from 1963: http://books.google.se/books?id=jPgqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22inform... .
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Binsearch [0] usually does the trick for me. Admittedly I'm not a hardcore user.

[0]: http://binsearch.info
Apple’s Stock Price: Should Apple Just Break Itself Into Two Companies?