skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that was my reaction to this story to. "Can't replicate it" (a.k.a. It Works Fine On My Machine) is a classic move to dismiss complaints from users about problems with software by shifting the blame from the software to the user -- if it works for me and not for you, you must be the one who did something wrong, not me.

After long experience, the users understand this, and don't like being dismissed.
The longer (maximum) sentences are to reflect the magnitude of the damage that can be done. A single instance of 'hacking' can cause millions or billions in damage (depending on the situation). As others have stated, there needs to be a tiered system so that lesser crimes committed 'with a computer' aren't under the same blanket law as criminals that hack into financial institutions in an attempt to steal money.

Sort of how a death can result in a manslaughter charge, or various degrees of murder charge (each having different maximum penalties and distinct qualifications).
Trusted/controlled source.
How to make the non-intuitive neo-Darwinian synthesis more intuitive
These studies just want to cram everyone in America into one cliche stereotypical lifestyle. Have you seen the the lifestyle of the Average Joe?

Diet of terrible, unhealthy processed foods and fast food. Chain restaurants like Applebees for a special night out. Overworked, with minimal employee protections and benefits. Limited traveling/vacation time. Living in isolated, distant suburbs with soul crushing commutes in traffic.

I'm not knocking these types of people, but I doubt many on HN would be content with that standard of living. For that lifestyle, $75k/yr is more than enough. But I would hate that lifestyle, so $75k simply isn't enough.
Like a lot of mental illnesses, the diagnosis is determined by symptoms that show up in "normal" people also. If there isn't a physical test, how would you propose we determine which people need help?

qEEG has been very good at matching up people who have been diagnosed with ADD versus normal people. It's the first real test that provides some indication without going off behavior.
>Can exploiting human nature be a positive thing?

It becomes a matter of semantics. Certainly human nature can be used in positive ways. There are techniques you can use to hack on your own brain. For example, if you want to become more conscientious and involved in improving society, signing petitions and donating to charities is a way that you can trick your brain into making you do so. Merely writing down statements and signing your name to them can actually cause you to change your beliefs.

But I don't know if "exploit" is the best word for that.
Wow, what a great opportunity here! You have highlighted the hard chunk of your customer conversation, omitting most of what led up to it.

A very productive way of dealing with this is to dig out of it with your customer. That person will likely become a great ally.
other than just being able to focus on the task at hand, i dont really remember feeling anything.
He's doing his best to be comparable to Google and it provides a thin veil of legitimacy. The core business will still be based around copyright infringement, this is all just "plausible denyablity" in action. Interesting to see how it plays out.
A lot of people end up married, and when you put two $75,000 salaries together, it can make living and saving much easier. Unmarried people in big cities often have roommates, which makes it much easier to save and pay off debt. When I first moved to the DC area, I had three roommates and paid around $500 a month in rent and had no car.

Let's also not forget that around half the people in New York do not pay market rate for their rent. Talking about income and rent in NYC is more complicated than this thread would lead you to believe.

And if you live in a major city, you often have significantly lower transportation costs. Yes rent is high in urban areas, but transportation costs are very low. The two should be added together to compare cost of living between two areas.
and if you're married and have kids..... multiply by 3 at least.
Nope. When I realised, I thought holy shit, I pretty much speak French already. Learn some glue words then any word ending in 'able' or 'cial' (and a few others i forget) pronounced in a 'Allo 'Allo [0] accent and you are pretty likely to be talking French. :-)
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allo_Allo!
Elon Musk offers to help get the grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner back in the air
I loved about the course:
- Amazing food
- Donation/karma-driven sustainability. Sort of Open Source Meditation :)
- Silence (no bullshit talking and no bullshit listening for 10 days)
- Heightened sense of creativity achieved
- Heightened sense of humor achieved
- Great attention to needs to everyone from organizers.
- It's funny - I always gave funny nicknames to everyone.

I didn't mind:
- Goenka parables.

I didn't like:
- After suddenly switching to raw/vegetarian food - you'll be running to the bathroom for an explosive, nasty dragon fart breaks day and night.
- No clear plan to maintain gains. They suggest 1-2 hours daily meditation afterwards which is impossible to maintain.

Overall: five stars (Quebec mountains location)
Hmm, it seems that the URL is taken from the database. If I delete the relevant row, the URL is no longer shown:

http://i.imgur.com/Ks03r.png
I would add that, whatever else it may have done wrong, the government didn't kill Aaron Swartz. Full stop. So I'm all about advocating for change. But I think saying he was killed only serves to demonize and dehumanize the opposition. Exactly what we need much less of in this country...
In the US insurance isn't free.

Credit is not unlimited, it is 3-5x income max.

And income has to pay for retirement as well, unless you want to work until you die.
Sorry but this is just nonsense.

Cassandra with PlayORM/Astyanax has been the easiest database for me to install, use and manage out of the 10+ I've tried. Far simpler to install/manage than MySQL Cluster or Riak, far easier to use than PostgreSQL and infinitely better to scale than MongoDB.

You don't have to understand ColumnFamilies, consistency or the different topology strategies. The defaults are fine and if you are a Java developer life couldn't possibly be simpler.
So, to sum up your comment: "Yes, we were indeed in the wrong, I just thought this was a great reason to make a blog post"
I'm not a Mac user but wouldn't the test therefore be to clear the DB entries and re-open the file. No prompt implies the link to the sqlite db and not the file attr.
> "cant replicate it"

Holy shit, if you were providing a service and sent me (a customer) an email like that I'd leave you in a heartbeat. Talk about a "fuck you".

I get customers can be hard but "can't replicate it" translates directly into "find another service provider".

Really, if the relationship has moved to this level a canned "We're sorry but we are going to have to terminate this relationship, here's a generous timeline and a few freebies to make us look like the better person" response would have been MUCH better.
> "language is not a logical system" -_communication_ is not a logical system, but language is.

Care to explain this?

From most NLP classes I have taken and work I have done, I have always understood that languages are logical only in a very loose sense of that word. It is pretty hard to express grammar systems in formal logic for most practical human languages as far as I know.

Maybe I am missing something?
How is Amazon not disseminating other people's content? (Note: the word 'disseminate' doesn't preclude payment for what is being disseminated)
A few months after the takedown I went in search of a particular documentary that I knew existed. It's specific to a small subculture and a particular point in time; to the best of my knowledge it's never been released on DVD and most likely never will be. Arguably it would be no great loss to history if it were gone forever - but it was interesting to me. More than the big, famous things, it's little works like this that make up our culture.

I searched, and searched, and couldn't find it - just hundreds of dead links to Megaupload. There will be a copy in the BBC archives, but will anyone ever see it again? That experience makes me take Mega's side in all this.

(I eventually found it on an fserv that I swear was being hosted on dialup, but that's another story)
Rao's claims are nonsense, according to computational linguist Richard Sproat (Bell Labs, University of Illinois, OHSU, now at Google):

http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/~sproatr/newindex/indus.html
I don't think his example is helping his argument at all.

He cherry picks optimizations for the Haskell, such as using Data.Vector.Unboxed instead of the regular lists and removing calls to isLetter, but then he rolls his own linked list and uses getc in the C version. He doesn't even have the correct return type for main.

Haskell written by decent Haskell programmers is faster than C written by poor C programmers. Not very surprising.
While I'm glad the author got useful insights into conventional reality, the article sets a counterproductive tone about the point of the practice.

Vipassana is about directly seeing impermanence, dissatisfaction, and lack of self in all sensations. The point of practice is to elevate your skill in seeing those. Because direct comprehension of the so-called three characteristics can reboot the mind in a way that is very analogous to how we reboot the computer and remove malware.

Vipassana is not about helping you deal with your psychological issues at the level of content. Its not a therapist-substitute. In fact it will often make matters (temporarily) worse, if you actually follow the instructions and do the practice.

Spending your meditation time pondering your "issues" is the biggest rookie mistake you can make. People can do this for years, and never get anywhere in their practice.

If you want to spend some time alone and contemplate your life, thats great and quite possibly useful, but don't call it Vipassana.
You seem to be doing this part time. I've seen other people (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) giving similar advice about real estate investments for years, but my question has always been: How is the market still that inefficient? I don't think you could do the same thing on stocks or bonds. Are there just a ton of localized laws and market quirks that keep the market from clearing?
We might be talking about two different thing. OP was referring to a feature of gmail that recognizes anything before a + as your username and still delivers the email to you, regardless of what's after the +. A common use of that feature is to put a note to yourself about where you used that email, like so michaelapproved+hackernewskolya@gmail.com. So, when you see a message to that address, you'll know where the person got your email from. I don't believe all email services/servers behave this way.

What you might be referring to is the syntax of the email address. Yes, it is syntactically correct to use a + in an email and not all email services/servers and web forms properly recognize that it is correct to use the plus.
FDR's court packing scheme. Oppenheimer's persecution. The alien and sedition acts. Lincoln's suspension of Habeus Corpus. Lyndon Johnson's disputed election.
You could live like a king on $75k in many places in the US. Pretty much anywhere far enough outside of a big city and that's not close to the water.
You guys are making the US tax code out to be much simpler than it is. The more you save for retirement, the lower your taxable income is. We also have deductions for mortgage interest and student loan interest. Our system is also progressive, so a lot of people making less money have very little taxable income. Maybe you make $90,000 a year and can't fathom how someone could live off of and save off of $75,000 a year, but the difference in your take home pay is not $15,000.
Guys, guys, watch out, I just noticed that my computer has a copy of all my files on it. Who gave Apple permission to do that? Privacy is dead!
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I was talking about the TSA, not DHS.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/national/12SECU.html

The Bush administration had earlier indicated that it could support the bill despite preferring legislation that would limit the government's new role at airports to oversight rather than hands-on screening.
Inflatable spacecraft
I like having the city and state filled from the zip code. That way the user can see that it is being used and will not be confused. Plus, pushing a button to enter text that you normally would have to spend time filling out feels like a reward.
I really like the idea of the Yubikeys, but I had one fail on me after I touched it and experienced a static shock.

Another problem is they don't work if the OS is configured to an alternate keyboard layout. The default hex encoding assumed QWERTY, but I use Dvorak. Perhaps this has been remedied in newer models.
You are extremely out of touch with the day to day reality of most of New York. One hour commute is really the norm, and people making 60,000 a year are on average quite comfortable here, all throughout Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. 75k is really comfortable. Rents for nice 2 bedrooms are from 1300-1800 within an hour of the city in really nice neighborhoods.
Even if there was a long conversation leading up to this, the sudden, curt tone of "can't replicate it" would all but guarantee aggravation and insult to the customer (I'd most certainly feel insulted). A more appropriate response would have been "I'm sorry, but we just can't replicate it on our end. We'll keep trying, though."
I'm 24 and don't work most of the time, hence the lower salary, and I still manage to go out a lot and enjoy the city.

There's just so much free or cheap entertainment here, you don't need a car, and it's usually sunny enough that if you get bored, just walking around is a pretty viable option. Living here doesn't have to be expensive, people just make it that way.
He's created many a Schmidtstorm with his off-the-cuff remarks.
I am not a huge fan of the term "bully" in this conversation because it keeps us from having a nuanced conversation.

The easiest counterpoint is noting so-called "bully-like" behavior from prosecutors in cases that ended up putting someone genuinely dangerous behind bars or into confessing a crime they committed but wouldn't confess to without the so-called "bullying".

So, if we want to talk about this from the perspective of a bully, let's begin by defining what it is and isn't.
This thread & the thread yesterday on cost of living in SF miss some vital, real-world data. Most people simply don't live like this. I worked 4 years in Goldman Sachs, downtown Manhattan. One thing every MD consistently told me was that only fools live in Manhattan proper. Every one of these MDs had multi-million net-worth, liquid even, & still took either LIRR or NJ Transit or lived in Brooklyn/Queens/Jersey City/Hoboken/across GWB & took the Path & A train & whatnot. I lived in Fort Lee in a comfy gated $900 1-bdrm & took a bus + the A train - very adequate.
Now I live in the Bay Area & take the BART & am able to land $1.5K 2-bdrm houses in the east bay very easily, stone's throw from the bart. When I hear my colleagues complain about the insane $3K studio rents in Nob Hill SF, I don't know what to say. Live in the burbs, wake up an hour earlier & take the BART. Nob Hill can wait.

Your best friend is the local realtor. Talk to her over a starbucks latte & she will tell you how the locals hack real estate.
The contradiction of "C is always faster than everything" (apparently shown untrue by comparison on the reverse-complement problem) is not "Haskell is faster than C".
hardly, it could be because I block all their trackers on the site, but I just see a spinning circle.
> prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age.

Ritalin is nearly 60 years old.
Sheesh! And that doesn't even come close to what some people pay. NYC > Manhattan. It's insane! I live 10 minute bike ride from Manhattan, and pay just under $500.00 a month w/ two roomates (GF and best friend) for the first two floors of a brownstone, plus basement and backyard. I've had about four apartments in the past 10 years in this range in my area, it really does pay to live just a little out of the way! I do pretty well for myself these days and am stashing around 50% of my income away. I feel like people who pay some of these whopping amounts of money don't even get to enjoy the true treasures of the city, and money is tied to everything. Stressful.
Does anyone on HN go to training anymore? Effective customer service, hiring practices, how to treat your employees, etc are all solved problems. One can pick up a book and/or have an educator teach you how to do these things effectively.
The New Gangnam Style?
ADHD is kind of interesting because I think it's significantly under- and over-diagnosed. That said, I don't think it's as over-diagnosed as it's made out to be. More than anything, I expect it's just pretty common.
What do you mean by "from what I can tell" ?

Have you actually experienced this issue or just making it up ?
"Have you seen anyone sad on a jet ski?"
>'Maladaptive neuronal connections'

That's a mouthful, and just as obscure for most people. Might as well go with "Sarkana" - it's easier to pronounce. Besides, the script worked well for a few thousand years now, there is hardly a reason to change it now.

But yeah, if you're scientifically inclined and the ancient Indian mythology is rubbing you the wrong way, you can safely skip it, and it still makes perfect sense in the end.
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It might be $75k per person. Certainly +100% for a spouse and more for kids.
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I'm not the person you are responding to, but I suspect it is a matter of what is "enough". I suspect living in Manhattan is unnecessary and it is 100% luxury.

Spending 1700 a month for a 180 sq ft studio seems beyond idiotic to me. 1700 is enough to cover the mortgage on a 380k house. 380k on a house = incredible mansion in 98% of America. In Nashville where I currently live (nice city btw) it gets you between 3500-5000 sq ft. In small town America it's even nicer.

Especially with the remote and work from home options these days it seems absurd to pay so much for so little. (I understand not everyone can work from home, but you don't have to live in Manhattan)
You sound like an idealistic young man who is just discovering the bizarre sausage-making quality of reality. The comforting idea that things were better in the past is a fallacy and if you believe in evolution and market forces, then as painful as it may seem, we are already on the optimal path. Everyone views this tragedy through their own lens and tries attach whatever is atop their grievance list and that is only natural. I tried to explain this story to a student from the Ukraine and she could not fathom it. I think sometimes we forget how good we really have it.
I live in London and need a new gym. Which one was it? Thx.
You could always RTFA and find out, you know.
They didn't have the internet.
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Yeah, I saw this for a bit and thought my cache was busted. It's back now.
The sizeof operator begs to differ.
> $100 in utilities

That seems really low. I live in a small house and here are my utilities:

Phone: $50

Internet: $60

Water/sewer/garbage: $100

Electricity: $80 (less in the summer, more in the winter)

Gas: $10

And you left out mandatory insurance which is ~$150 for car + home.

Total: $450/month
Can India claim rights to Australia?
It's not clear to me what you are envisioning here.

ActiveMerchant is a payment gateway abstraction layer, and in fact it already supports Stripe. It has two use cases: A) legacy gateways with shitty APIs and libraries (eg. Authorize.net) and B) theoretical portability between gateways. At my company we recently swapped out AM for the Braintree gem because the lowest-common denominator made it inferior for interfacing against Braintree, and the payment interface surface area in the app is small enough anyway that the theoretical advantage if we switch payment providers is negligible anyway.

Stripe if anything has a better API and ruby library than Braintree (Stripe uses a lot of Ruby internally is my understanding), so what's missing?

A higher-level gem that gives you plugin payments would necessarily start making assumptions and compromises that would quickly whittle down the number of ideally-served use cases, whereas the Stripe API as it stands now is at the granularity to fit the maximum number of use cases without being over-complicated. If you want to make something easier I think you veer into clumsy high-level components that is more akin to Drupal than Rails.
I see now that my remark about the coffee and my tv could be misinterpreted as sarcasm, but I was 100% sincere. I no longer get cable tv and I don't go to Starbucks anymore now that I have an Aeropress.

(The couponing mention was a joke, by the way.)
Yup, exactly option 1. But browsers need to support this intrinsically and universally. By salting with the domain name, you remove phishing.

Password managers (especially in terms of built-in browser support) are generally a one-machine solution. Yes, there are ways to sync them to mobile devices and the cloud and such, but there's a lot to be desired in terms of portability. I currently use 1password, and it works great for me. I set my mother up on it, too, but it's only a 90% solution for her as she's not quite technically proficient enough to ensure it works all the time.

My question was more if there'd be a smart way you could add one more level of indirection such that: 1) individually compromised passwords could be changed and 2) the master password could be changed without affecting every single site.

Ideally neither situation would be necessary, but servers will be compromised.
YMMV, but as a person who has been on ADD medication and started having to ratchet dosage up and up as my body built up tolerance, I started researching online for more information. I found that my situation was VERY VERY common for others taking ritalin/adderall/vyvanse-like drugs.

Very conspicuously, whenever I read "official" research on these medications, the studies were always short term like 6 weeks, maybe 12. One of the drugs I was prescribed had been out for years yet the only study available was for 6 weeks. Isn't that odd? Wouldn't you think that with the drug's having been on the market for years and with lots of online accounts of decrease in effectiveness after a few months that someone would have done a study? Doesn't the FDA require any follow-up studies be done after a drug is released to show a lack of side effects or continued efficacy?

It's really not surprising to me that now that medical practitioners are gaining years of experience prescribing these drugs that this long-term efficacy issue is going to become more of a subject of discussion.
The conclusions are offensive and over-broad (even if there are good points in the article). The biggest problem is that this is a child researcher and fails to understand how his statements appear to adults.

> Finally, the illusion that children’s behavior problems can be cured with drugs prevents us as a society from seeking the more complex solutions that will be necessary.

Illusion? Plenty of professionals in the field believe there are a number of ways to combat the symptoms of ADD. Everyone knows that the drugs combat symptoms and don't provide a cure. He is providing a straw man here.

> But just because it's a real thing doesn't preclude the possibility that it is over-diagnosed and/or over-medicated in children. I've seen a lot of evidence that it's both.

it's almost a tautology that it is over-diagnosed. Since it is behavior based, there are going to be more false positives than misses.