skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suppression of dissent during WWI. Hayes' "corrupt bargain" and Southern "redemption". The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Teach them BASIC first, not the HTML+CSS+Javascript mess.
http://www.freebasic.net/get
Then let them loose on this site: http://www.petesqbsite.com/
Are you kidding me? You are the one who needs to regret it since you would never be respected equally amongst your colleagues if all other skills are equal between you and them.
Thanks! That's funny, I thought the guitar was the main selling point. :)
Are you actually recommending suicide to all would be inmates,
or just to the depressive HN readers who might be on a tight spot right now?

Your comment strikes me as absolutely irresponsible and out of touch with reality. Prison is not a joke, but there's a reason the capital punishment is death.

Why increase the sentence on your own?
Yes, then you start thinking about the workload of the average webapp...
This seems like a much better idea than /somereddituser.

Also, if @OP keeps the same scheme with /username, you need to have an "Edit" button. I typoed the first time, and now I'm stuck with a bad redirect.
I hope he made this point clear to the North Korean people when he visited them.
I like Dan Ariely, and most of what he says in this video is true. However he doesn't address the whole Lance Armstrong story, and there is one correction to be made.

He says that it's possible that Lance Armstrong took EPO as a cancer patient, and that made it easier for him to keep taking it as a performance enhancing drug.

Lance tried a similar tactic in his interview last night -- he explained that his cancer changed him. It made him more of a bully, and more of a fighter, and he kind of justified taking testosterone since he had testicular cancer. However, Oprah had to point out that he was taking performance-enhancing drugs BEFORE he had cancer. So the cancer is a scapegoat.

Second -- people don't really fault Lance Armstrong for doping. I'm sure it's true that everybody was doping. And Ariely correctly points out that that makes it much easier for someone to justify to themselves.

What distinguished Armstrong is going over the top to destroy people who were telling the truth. He was vicious about attacking and suing people who told the truth, and trying to ruin their reputations, while he knew he was in the wrong. Oprah confronted him on this and he was like "oops ... sorry"

I watched the whole Oprah interview last night. I don't have a big interest in competitive cycling, nor have I really followed the Lance Armstrong story very much. But I did come away with the impression that he is emotionally "different" or verging on psychopathic. I don't want to venture too much into pop psychology, but he does seem to follow the stereotype of a "psychopath CEO". The only thing he cares about is results (and it worked spectacularly for a time), and he has literally no emotions about the tactics that got him there. I'm not trying to cast moral judgement, but just saying what is pretty apparent.

But in retrospect this is obvious... anyone who could so viciously and baldly and publicly lie for decades, when so many people knew otherwise (all the cyclists he rode with), has some weird psychology going on. It's not normal.
Your point of view is certainly not unique, but neither is it anything close to universal. Many people myself included comfortably reconcile belief in a "soul" and a "higher power" with the demonstrated accomplishments of scientific research and study.
Make sure it's the one pixel in the very bottom left corner, or it'll just make the desktop icon that displays go away. And once on the desktop you still can't do anything; there's no start button or menu or anything. I guess if I spend a weekend on Google I could figure out the magical secret. Seems to me it should be a bit more intuitive than that.
I get 'Error: no such table: LSQuarantineEvent'
I think that the battery is used to restart the engines in some emergency situations. Do you really want critical components that have been tested for many hours/weeks/months in the aeroplanes systems to be replaced without an approval process?

Now would you let Boeing make that choice? The customers American Airlines, Al Italia, Aeroflot, Air Timbuktu?

Remember the rules have to apply to all planes, manufacturers and airlines including the ones about to go bankrupt.

In my view the answer would be a definite YES although I would hope the approval could be expedited if there are clear issues with the existing solution and good reasons to believe the new solution will solve it without causing other issues.
What he did wasn't wrong. It was just exploiting a hugely inefficient market. I think engineers would rather build stuff and make things more efficient when they see something like that -- salespeople would like to exploit it (and in the process make the market more efficient). It is more an aesthetic choice than anything else.
After 3-4 years of high-profile CPA-2 attacks on TLS, .NET, Java, and other systems, you'd think we'd all be a lot more skeeved out about cryptosystems that demand known-plaintexts. There's already an obvious conceptual attack (beyond file confirmation) in naive "convergent encryption", which is that you can leverage small amounts of known plaintext to learn unknown plaintext.
I expect Verizon will get tons of love from Google... right after they start running VoLTE on that sweet, sweet open-access band.
The comment appears to be countering the argument that the torrents containing malware should earn this warning.
I don't know if this is heretical to say, but when I think about services that people should look up to in terms of architecture, I don't think of Netflix.

See all the downtime they have despite the 1000 posts on their blog about how wonderfully available their architecture is.

I can point to 10 other sites running on a boring LAMP stack with similar availability.
Cassandra uses a technique known as consistent hashing to allow each node to independently determine what nodes are replicas for a given row. The process really just involves hashing the row key and then comparing the result to the token of each node in the cluster. If the hash falls in between a node's token and the token of the previous node in the ring, then that node is a replica for that row. There's not really any way that nodes can disagree on this.

Given that nodes cannot disagree on the set of replicas for a row, quorums must (by definition, and the pigeon hole principal) overlap by at least one replica.
Gruber lives in a distortion field where Apple is the driver for everything.

Did they reset the bar on smart phones? Absolutely. But Google, Microsoft, Kiipt, Skype, Rdio, Spotify, Flipboard, Harvest, and Facebook (just to name a few) are all flat (some of them since inception) because of the Retina display? Of course not.

Designers are running from skeuomorphic designs because they are becoming tired and cliche. THAT was caused by Apple.
The problem is that this is a link to DataStax. :)
There have already been several 1080p phones announced that have screens of the right size. 4k TVs are coming out now which will drive down the price of the control chips required. And OLED can scale to extremely high DPI.
Without network neutrality legislation, an incumbent can simply pay for the privilege of having no viable competitors. Is there a strain of capitalism that doesn't hold it critically important that new entrants should have unfettered access to the market?
Ever go to a mall and see all those little carts selling things? You think people go online to verify whether those carts are selling the real deal? What about products purchased online through Amazon, Zappo, etc?

Also, there is a whole world of non point of sale branding. When you give a gift, you pony up for a real Kate Spade bag instead of a perfect knock-off (which are probably made in the same Chinese factory!) You might get those awful D&G glasses with the obvious branding instead of a perfect replica. A lot of the value of branding is rooted in the fact that humans are basically monkeys and we buy products to show the brands off in our social circles. A lot of people would knowingly buy knock-off D&G glasses if they could get the same effect for less money.

Now, I'm not arguing that this would be a bad thing. It'd save parents a lot of money if their kids could show off their "Nike Swoosh" shoes without paying a huge markup for something made in a Chinese sweatshop. But the fact that we can't do that is certainly quite valuable to Nike (and D&G, and Ralph Lauren, etc), and the inability to protect their brands in that way would certainly reduce their incentive to invest so heavily in them through advertising.
Brainstorm: A team of scientists invents "the Hat", a brain/computer interface that allows sensations to be recorded from a person's brain and converted to tape so that others can experience them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)
I think you meant strncmp. Nobody ever wants strcmp, not if they know what it does.
You clearly don't know what 'insane' means and I wonder if we even read the same article.

Gruber has been a very vocal critics of Apple's hard on for skeuomorphism for a long time. When he says the "timing of this trend, and the fact that iOS — and the iPhone in particular — is its leading edge, is not coincidental" he is most certainly not talking about the OS itself. This should be obvious because in the very next paragraph he says that "the whole default iOS look" is made up of "phony effects". But I guess if you're just here to get your HN rubber stamp upvotes by calling Gruber a one dimensional Apple shill you might have missed that.
Have you heard anything about ALICE or Phrogram? seems like they were made for kids
Opera mobile doesn't render on the server, just Opera mini.
"get help from the best electric car company in the world"

Tesla has revenue of 200m/yr. At this rate, it'll be 160 years before Tesla pulls in revenue equal to the R&D on this plane.

Tesla doesn't even manufacturer their own batteries.

Boeing doesn't need to go ask Tesla for help, they can buy the company with the change in their pocket if they thought there was anything there of value to them.

This is nothing more than a publicity stunt.

Did I already mention that Tesla does not manufacturer their own batteries.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Try reading the comments on any Boston globe article about this affair. Ortiz has strong support from law-and-order voters and many people in Massachusetts outside of tech; in addition to Swartz, she's been very aggressive in her prosecution of corruption and misconduct in the state government. She has a compelling back story and (at least before this) was blessed by Deval Patrick.

I think she could definitely replace Martha Coakley as state Attorney General, at minimum (Coakley also did many odious things as a prosecutor and has never, to my knowledge, paid a political price for it). And a decade from now, long after Aaron has disappeared from the press cycle, she'll make a run for Senate or Governor and his prosecution will likely be nothing more than a subsection of her Wikipedia bio. These are the sad realities of politics in Massachusetts.
Top Web Development Tools & Platforms to watch in 2013
The technical details can be found here: https://www.aspectsecurity.com/uploads/downloads/2012/12/Rem...
Where can I take this course? I live in the Bay Area.
That's why I use *__t (two underscores).
I'd be interested to hear from anyone at y combinator.
Oh well I live with two roommates so $120 cable + $40 water + $60 electric = $220/3 = $73+.

And yes auto insurance is something I forgot at another $100 :)
It is also worth noting that Namenode isn't a spof in Hadoop 2. Namenode HA[1] has been in for a while and QJM[1] went in more recently.

[1] https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/CDH4DOC/Software+Configurat...
[2] http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/10/quorum-based-journalin...
FoundationDB, RethinkDB
This is very true and your next comment is also excellent as well (re: weed vs. drug traffickers, or antitrust vs. mergers). People want the DOJ's force to be used in causes they approve of and not in causes they don't approve of. Another option, of course, is to agree that there are some things that might be worthy of a penalty like shame rather than a legal penalty, and demilitarize more of human behavior.

That is: a better alternative is to convince people you disagree with, even lead boycotts if you must, but don't use your time in power to increase the power of the government ...because soon that power will be used on you.
> The new UI is horrible.

Agreed. Maybe MS plans to sell training on how to do the things that were obvious before?
Please enlighten us with a cluster database that enables guaranteed consistency with dynamic node membership. They all have quirks handling membership (unless you're looking at a shared disk setup).
Been using http://minimotivation.com/ for a while. This looks really similar.
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They're handing integration with Unity and UDK, so that's a lot of devs who will be able to use it with minimal effort. Whether they do also depends on enough consumers owning them that devs feel it's worth the time.

Bit of a chicken and egg problem; I hope they can pull it off. The 8000 units sold on Kickstarter suggest there's enough demand to make it work.
I'm an Information Security Professional by trade, but I love to learn about CS and programming in my free time.

If there is one thing in this life that I am certain of, its that programmers are NEVER going to take back the term "hacker."

We as programmers find ourselves in the unfortunate situation of being right about something that the entire world doesn't give a shit about. As long as mainstream media keeps making money off of selling fear and hysteria, you will not make even the slightest amount of progress.

I sincerely hope that you will prove me wrong.
New HIPAA rule – Omnibus (Medigram YC W12 Blog)
Retina is a brand name and mainly is just a higher resolution. You are never going to see a 'Retina' display on a Windows or Linux machine. Because you are using an Apple marketing term.
One problem is https urls don't seem to work properly, the colon seems to be stripped from the input.

https://duckduckgo.com changes to https//duckduckgo.com, which doesn't work, so you have to resort to the unsecure version.
I'm glad that worked for you. And medication is probably not the answer for millions of students although there maybe tens or even hundreds of thousands for whom it is necessary and life changing.

"I therefore all" is clearly a fallacy although a very popular one. It is really a form of anecdote and deserves no more weight than any other particular anecdote.
Why type systems are interesting (2004)
Ugh why redirect after exactly five seconds? Stressed out or what?
Reddit, Soundcloud, Twitter, Spotify, etc. it's pretty popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Unfortunately, I can't get the numbers to fit, even with accounting for 00, and using an actual roulette board order.
I administer some servers running a third-party java application under tomcat. How can i tell whether it uses Spring or a vulnerable template?
DFW predicted the rise of an entertainment so engrossing that people lost interest in doing anything else[1]. From bookworms to couch potatoes to video game addiction[2], we have seen ever-enriched simulations develop over the last few hundred years. People are already dying from neglecting their "meatspace" selves[3]; this will only increase in popularity. This does give some hint as to what people will "do" post-singularity[4].

1: Infinite Jest

2: Videgame Addiction was rejected from the next DSM, but I believe that we will see a form of it added within our lifetimes.

3: This has been happening for almost ten years: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy
And all those google TVs that eric schmidt kept going on about.
You joined here two days ago. Please provide the list of these ten LAMP sites with similar scale and availability. Otherwise you just look like a troll account.
299 days ago - 132 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752447

168 days ago - 26 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332971

Not complaining at all about the repost, but I remembered previous discussions and people may find comments of interest there.
Not only that, but he was the first person to be convicted under CFAA.
I've looked at your user profile to suggest you're a troll account. Please elaborate on the observations you have that led to this conclusion.
http://www.teslamotors.com/it_IT/forum/forums/electric-car-b...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/07/tesla_roadster_recal...

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/tesla-recalling-4...

http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/100k-electric-vehicle-b...

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/fisker-karma-evs-caug...

http://www.leftlanenews.com/16-fisker-karmas-catch-fire-at-p...

http://priuschat.com/threads/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-...

What were you saying?
12Society Sends Out Plain, White Plate in Subscription, Chaos on Twitter Ensues
Suicide is a viable option to what Aaron was facing, no depression needed. His life was all but ruined anyway. Plenty of people chose suicide on 9/11 rather than face something worse. Doubtful they were all irresponsible, depressed, or out of touch with reality. More likely they just made the best choice as they saw it.
> and you need to be sold on the "value" I am creating, maybe this is not for you

That's a rather closed-minded approach. Since you are trying to sell this to us, why not try and make this idea appeal to us? To say that someone needn't bother if the abstract idea you've presented doesn't seem to work for them... that's pretty weak and (forgive me if I'm misinterpreting) even comes off as arrogant. If you have a specific user base in mind, fine, but then say so. Those who have posted so far haven't a clue the benefit they are getting out of it. You might have a great product, but it never will be great if people don't know about it/use it because it affects your bottom line. Instead of brushing off this person's valid point, why not try and convince us about how "fun and interesting" your product is? What about more specific use cases? Not just "here's my product. Try it."

Overall, the reason the value is requested here is that we need to understand beyond what your new product actually does. Why is it making our lives better? Why should we want/need to go to it? Is the intent to solve some fundamental need or frustration? If so, how does it do that?

The difference between your product and pure Google Earth is that Google Earth was made by a large company that is exploring many different avenues, with an already established financial base. Were you looking to monetize this particular product in some way?
Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism
My favorite reaction: http://i.imgur.com/2z0Li.png
A lot of the science looking at physical measures of stress and anxiety reduction from meditation find that you get 80/20 benefits at 20-30 minutes a day. I enjoyed the bootcamp approach of the Goenka 10 day retreat, but I also think that the hardcore nature of the recommendations can make the perfect the enemy of the good. You feel like you need to keep up the 2 hours, and you want to after the retreat, and when you slip up you end up doing no mediation. I do believe that there are larger cumulative benefits to be had with full program, but 20 minutes is definitely going to make a big difference over doing none.
Motion sensors with true accuracy are probably still a few years away before they are more than just gimmicks in games, but it would be interesting if you could "interact" with the game with your hands, too, while seeing the virtual weapon that you have through Oculus, in your hands, and using it would be so accurate that it wouldn't feel disconnected from that "real" virtual reality you're in through Oculus. You'd actually feel as if you're fighting with a sword and killing that monster in front of you with it, even though you wouldn't have anything in your hand in the real world.
I always find these video logs to be a very inefficient way to communicate. Having watched through the whole thing, the main argument that Ariely is making here is that there is a much larger problem than just the "Lance Armstrong problem." People do these PEDs because they have a sense that "everyone else is doing it."

Now, it's not clear if everyone else was doing it in this case, or whether the crooks were convinced (falsely) that everyone else was doing it. Ariely doesn't draw this distinction, but it is critical. If you want to clean up the sport, it's not sufficient to make sure that everyone is clean. It has to be so sparkling clean that no one should even suspect that others could be cheating. Unless all the participants are convinced that everyone else is clean, they will have the motivation to cheat themselves, which in turn makes others cheat, and so forth.

And the vlog didn't get into Armstrong's psychology. I would have liked to hear how the cognitive dissonance between his private reality and public (fake) persona change his personality. I would suspect that, even if one does not begin the game as a sociopath, living for decades with a lie would turn one into a sociopath.
I get that some of the commands are meant to have some connection with "the trees concept", but I doubt these terms are easier to remember than standard git comments.

Some are much clearer though, especially switch, sync and publish.
Bearing in mind that Lance Armstrong is as much a cyclist as Red Bull is an energy drink it might be of interest to watch an advertising and marketing centred discussion of whether the strategy of losing the doping war but winning the PR battle is a good one.

> Is there a point where running away is the right PR move? How much immunity does a cancer charity buy you? Why are his sponsors standing by their cycling-man?

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruenplanet/pages/s3583424.htm

Episode on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/48928785
(Lance Armstrong discussion starts @ 3 minutes in)
More info here, close to the bottom:

https://answers.stripe.com/questions/does-stripe-have-settin...

@pc: Why would anyone want that behavior? Could you elaborate?
Or Here: https://twitter.com/jcmorgan/status/292305277208895488
Congress is THE body which has say in the matter. Obama's attempts to move suspects to the continental US from Guantanamo were suppressed by Congress. If you are going to excuse Congress, then who are you going to hold responsible?
The Map of Athletic Performance
Definitely not. I pay $1600 for a 250sqft studio in Manhattan. It's quite nice actually.
Also: Strange Days, Total Recall and Blade Runner.
I find sigfpe's explanation of monads to be very clear. This blog post links to the blog posts he made about monads: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2010/03/partial-ordering-of-some-cate...
This assumes that the voting process was fair to begin with, when it wasn't. There was plenty of intimidation, disenfranchisement and blatant cheating done by Republicans that skewed the numbers in their favor significantly. It also happened in 2008 and 2012, but Obama won despite it.
No that is the highest comment because people don't have a clue about the actual court case. Your strawman comparisons are nonsense.
Roulette board order doesn't matter. It's calling the RNG sequence.

My mistake was feeding the mod 36 output back in as the next seed; it's the output from the RNG itself, and a good thing too...
The Productivity Fallacy
Gruber knows Ive took over UI; this post is just a preemptive "I told you so" that no one asked for to be carted out after the next iOS release.
And if you examine the causes of Netflix' downtime, is it because of their usage of Cassandra? Would a LAMP service running on the same AWS ELB nodes have avoided said downtime?