skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's treat all fellow human beings this way.
We are all kids at heart.

We are all seeking approval.

Why admonish or dismiss anyone?
What good does it do?

I don't mean to diminish from your point, because I think it is absolutely correct.
Actually, some would say his greatest achievement was spurring the grass roots movement that shouted down SOPA. It's not just that he was a strong programmer, but that he passionately cared about civics. He was someone who could've easily had a comfortable life in the tech sector but decided to take on, as they say, the big problems.

There are of course, many who are just as passionate about civics as Aaron, but few with the same technical prowess that is needed to turn a cause into a modern well-oiled movement.
I have a spare Android phone I keep on with a SIM card in so work can call me for server emergencies even when my regular phone is on silent. With 3G, Wifi and data access disabled, it lasts for over a week on standby, even with not-so-great reception.

If you're fine with returning to the feature set of that era, modern phones have huge batteries and highly optimized chipsets that exceed the performance of the old phones.
To clarify: I understand that getting another dyno would solve this problem. I love heroku but I think that they need to rethink the idle process. Some users only need 1 dyno and a bunch of addons. If we are paying decent money then the idle threshold should be increased, in my opinion.
Even without trying to optimize.

But I think the main issue is that "new" people don't realize most of their beloved languages aren't self hosted and are C compiled and/or that they're calling the C library for almost everything.

Thus, knowing C matters a whole lot. Using it is another matter, and albeit the flexibility of C makes programs a lot more efficient every single time (when you have time and skill), it's understandable to use other languages.

Still, some tasks should still be done in C instead of starting one of these countless runtime of the new language on the block. I'm slightly tired of the huge interpreted programs running extremely slower than they should these days. Even thus the hardware has gone way faster we still manage to reproduce 10y old programs that run slower than they did when we first made them.
| also faces the challenge of middle class couples not
| wanting to have children because of, among other
| things, the enormous costs of child care. I feel
| like one problem is a built in solution to the other
| problem.

This assumes that your parents are willing and capable of childcare.

| we either tax working people more so the elderly can maintain
| independent lifestyles, or we reduce benefits to older
| people and force them to depend more on their children.

You're assuming that everyone elderly has children. How do you factor in reducing benefits to someone with no relatives to turn to?

[Queue, "they made their bed, now they should lay in it!" responses by extreme libertarians.]
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/09/reliability_of_new_drug...

The problem is that there is a lot of incentive to publish peer reviewed articles and very little incentive to publish articles confirming another paper. In my experience, the reproducibility of papers is tested in the worst possible way: during the process of more novel research.

If we are to continue this exponential growth in technological and scientific progress we need to set up a far more efficient way of reproducing the papers, independently of ongoing novel research. This seems like a great way, especially considering the benefit it will give to startups and other companies that can allow new R&D to rely on papers that have been tested outside of the peer review/slow meta-review process in science.
Not if Aubrey de Grey, Eliezer Yudkowsky or a number of other people succeed. Donate. Death is not the end of everything but it will be the end of you.
IMO you can make C as fast or slow as you want it to be. If you write terrible C it's going to be slower than good Haskell.

If you write common C (and by common I mean what you see in well known daemons, kernels, etc) its generally at the very least on par. That's mostly because most of the functions come from libraries that have been optimized, in both cases.
Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS"
He asks for almost $12000, in a lump sum, with interest added, in 1865 dollars, which is roughly $200k in 2013 dollars.

As a lump sum.
Aaron did a huge number of small things, a few moderately important things (the ones you mention), and one important thing: he organized the opposition to COICA/SOPA/PIPA. Without Aaron, you'd be typing your comment on a COICA-encumbered internet, which means, practically speaking, an internet without Wikipedia.

Tim Berners-Lee doesn't go around calling 26-year-olds his "mentor" or his "wise elder" just because they killed themselves.
I hear what you're saying, and I think american cultural relationships with the elderly is made more complex by our leveraging of end of life care to prolong existence long past self-sustainability. If you've got someone who is being kept alive through severe morbidity, you really have no option but significant professional care. Nursing Homes are expensive, but compared to home-care they are a bargain. Many of the families who place their older relatives into assisted living or nursing homes feel great guilt about the decision, but financially don't know how else to make it work given their relative's needs.

Professional group care facilities are also a symptom of the steady loss of purchasing power for the middle class and those who have less means. We can point fingers at the baseness of the decision to put relatives into these institutions, but the alternatives of home-based care are almost exclusively available to the wealthy, so it ends up being a class-based critique that could do more to empathize with the financial and emotional toll these decisions take.

American culture is not perfect in this regard at all, and I think your point about a general stigma against multigenerational living is well-made. I also think that it's more complex than selfishness or corruption. I'm sure though that we could find some examples of people who prove me wrong and are just assholes to their grandparents, but I don't think that's representative of the general population.
Very cool project!

Would be nice if you could browse through the proxy for a bit and have it record the overall usage of CSS for your site.
Yes. I'm glad something's happening to prevent recurrences, but I hate that it was necessary at all. It's more than likely that no politician would have cared at all if he hadn't killed himself and that had caused a large amount of PR/public outcry.

I can't remember the last time I saw a post on Hacker News about donating to Aaron's defense fund, or about how ridiculous the charges against him were. (We already knew about JSTOR--why didn't we care?) There have been at least 300 different posts about him after he killed himself.

I blame myself for not doing enough, too, but I don't do something _because_ he committed suicide. This piling-on of posts seems odd and morbid to me. I'd hate to live in a country/world where the best choice if you want to effect change really is to kill yourself.

(As a thought exercise to show how the death was "necessary": How much time have you spent caring about/working to assist in a similar, active case after Aaron's suicide?)
The only way I could see someone forming this opinion is if they had read only the lede of a piece about him before closing the tab.

I was speaking specifically to those things that have been singled out as the items that make his story so newsworthy (the RSS one being a particularly odd one, the history completely distorted in the retelling for the purposes of narrative invention). I am fully aware of the various initiatives that Aaron was involved with.
This whole thing is making the FBI look like a bunch of clowns...
How else is a citizen supposed to hold an unelected federal prosecutor accountable? Do prosecutors ever screw up? Did they screw up in this case?

Getting her out of office is going to require a big push but it will send a message to every single federal prosecutor in the nation. It's our duty as citizens and as hackers to see justice served here.

As for "valid issues", please enumerate them. What exculpatory facts are there? She's made her statements, twice. She's presented her case in her own words. Zero regret.
Thanks you must be one of the few K5 users who like me alive. Most told me to "kill yourself" when I posted a diary. I think it started a K5 trend to post "kill yourself" after a Blastar-like diary.

I am learning how to program all over again. I started with ANSI C and GCC and worked up to C++ with G++ in Unbuntu. Just small programs I'll move on to bigger stuff later.

Just hope I don't end up like MDC, I hear he's been 5150'ed again in California.
Umm it's a book, and the piece was written by The Guardian... So not sure what you are talking about...

Also, there are 2 Koreas, you talk as if there is only 1. No one is suggesting that South Korea is crazy or belligerent. I didn't even see that assertion with North korea... What are you referring to?

Also I'm quite sure the standard of living is not better in North Korea (than in the US), or are you referring to the south? if so, why?
Indeed the conditions described in the novel were more unpleasant than horrid (if I remember right). My favorite section though was regarding day light savings time. Ivan estimates the time based on the position of the sun and is corrected by one of his fellow inmates that high noon is no longer noon as per "Soviet Decree."
Take a look at how Feynman did it: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html
We use Pingdom to keep a couple low-traffic sites alive without issue. I think we could provide you with more help if you posted a condensed sample of your Heroku logs.
Cool way to test nodejs right in the browesr
This is the kind of thing that Apple continually gets a free pass on. Sure, other companies make similar mistakes, but Apple gets lauded for its "elegance" when in fact it ignores real-world use.

For example, my dad has dozens or hundreds of pictures on his iPhone. I made sure that iTunes was set to sync photos on his computer, and yet this function has never worked on ANY system I've tried it on. No photo is ever synced from the phone to the computer. I don't even know what tool Windows users are supposed to use to get pictures from their iPhones to their computers. On the Mac I wind up using Image Capture, but WTF does Apple expect most people to use? Total detachment from reality.
Is there any other way to stay sane?
Nice timing - I just heard about "Pick and Place" machines on the "New Disruptors" podcast. Turns out, for relatively small volume, you can build your own manufacturing line with a dozen or so of these devices.
This conversation is not good for mental health.
Was there ever a response?
he organized the opposition to COICA/SOPA/PIPA. Without Aaron, you'd be typing your comment on a COICA-encumbered internet, which means, practically speaking, an internet without Wikipedia.

Citation required. Just about everyone in the tech industry, including most of the titan organizations of tech and everyone with a voice that could be heard spoke and acted against SOPA. Now it was all Aaron?

This is exactly the sort of thing that makes this whole thing bizarre (and to steal a word another poster used, ghoulish). His legacy grew ten fold the day he died, and his influence and contribution pushes back through time.
> but from my current perspective they seem corrupted and perverse.

Thank you for sharing. I was wondering would it make a difference at all if someone else, (a friend, therapist, partner) would say how the current perspective is corrupted or warped. Would that make a difference? Would it help in that situation? If not, what does help, if anything to get out of that mode?
In recompense for 32 years of chattel slavery, any dollar amount would be a laughable pittance.
Strangely enough, the observed / estimated mortality rate is around 93% -- the seven billion living people haven't yet died.

On another somber note, even if we could transcribe our consciousness to machines, achieve singularity, etc -- all we do is delay it by another number. The sun is going to burn out, explode an expand, and eventually stars in general will run out of fuel. Is only hope is to change your conscious understanding of life and existence to accept non existence?
This is kind of an annoying problem if you have a lot of small sites for whatever reason. I think their policy is reasonable and they are upfront about it, so I certainly don't begrudge them, but it is still annoying.

What is the best way to host a bunch of low-traffic sites for less than $35 (I believe that is what it costs for the second dyno, required to keep your app from being spun down) each per month? The usual answer is "PHP", but I sometimes wonder if there'd be a market (and way to make money) for Heroku-like ease of deployment/management, billed based on resources (much like a VPS) rather than per application.
I agree but have one nagging doubt that won't go away. Is it really ridiculous to want one "adults only" community of professional peers that isn't invite-only or purposefully hard to find?

I find it enormously fulfilling to mentor younger programmers and have luckily had many chances to do so. But my personal development always suffered at those places compared to the places where I was working mostly with those near my level or above it.

An online community can't serve two masters, it is either mainly for peer discussion (and elitist) or it is mainly beginner friendly. Beginner friendly often wins out because: "won't somebody please think of the children" is a discussion ender.
Fedora 18 review - Bad Bad Bad
Americans are afraid to die, sure, but there's something we're much more afraid of which explains all of this so much better.

We're afraid of old people fucking.

We're afraid to know our parents had sex. We're afraid for our kids to know we have sex. We're afraid of what happens when we get old and wrinkly. We're afraid that when we're old and wrinkly, nobody taut and sexy will want to have sex with us. We're secretly afraid when we're old and wrinkly we won't be able to get it up. And, of course, we're terrified that our widowed grandparents might be having sex with other widowed grandparents.

I think the whole youth and beauty thing falls out of this.
This discussion should have a professional hot line number attached. Real people could get really hurt venturing into this area.

1-800-273-8255
I'd be curious what dsower's heroku logs look like. Would you mind posting the portion of this where it happened?

The logs should show 'idling' when idling and also show the 'pings' from pingdom and/or new relic. Looking through that it'd give us all something concrete to discuss - because quite possibly this is just a bug with Heroku's dyno idling that could have simply been submitted as a support ticket.
Really? Because it's pretty inexcusable that Apple lets this (which shouldn't have existed in the first iPhone OS, let alone years later) continue to plague users: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
What luck, there is no you.
1. Reducing a half-megabyte image is hardly "fine tuning", especially on a basic information page.

2. It matters to every user that loads the page, regardless of how much traffic you're getting.

3. As a side note, this info page is nearly 2MB on wire. Turn on gzip (like 700KB+ of JS/CSS and stuff) and figure out what else is taking up so much transfer.
I am so going to suggest that on the YouTube help desk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Anderson#Aftermath
The distortion around his contribution to RSS is strongest in mainstream news articles written by people who don't really understand the history. When you read pieces by people in technology, activist, and art circles, especially people who actually knew and worked with him, you find many other projects he created or contributed to. And if you're fully aware of that, I think it's disingenuous to point to what a confused journalist thinks Aaron Swartz did and act like that's the full story.
Thanks! Are there any HN meet ups in Beijing?
Reading stories about Shenzhen makes me terrified for the future of electrical engineering in the United States.

Here in Silicon Valley I often have to wait a week to get a board fabbed and another week to get it assembled. I usually have to order the parts myself from Digikey, which takes a few days, and then manually build the kits. If something goes wrong during the bring up, I need to either spend boatloads of money on overnight shipping (and get the order in before _ pm) or... well... there is no other option as pending time going to Jameco or Halted would likely be wasted, especially with even slightly uncommon or specialized parts.

In Shenzhen, however, everything is within reach and ridiculously fast. All of the factories and assembly houses are there and they even have malls that contain just about every electronics part you can imagine so if you need some rare IC you are almost guaranteed to have it the same day. Not to mention the EE communities like bbs.eetop.cn which contain not only software that is almost impossible to find through English channels (stuff that is prohibitively expensive specifically), but also many many datasheets and documentation that is usually under NDA and can sometimes be impossible to get if you can't convince the manufacturer that you might buy tens or hundreds of thousands of chips in the future.

What strikes me is how practical this guy's setup is. He isn't a Maker, he is a hobbyist manufacturer. I don't often see DIY pick n places and other more industrial manufacturing equipment this side of the Pacific (although this may just be a result of my ignorance).
"the well are without mercy"

This line jumped out at me, as if taken from my own thoughts of the day. I have found, anytime that I am functioning at anything less than 100%, that almost every other human becomes like a jackal. Nonchalantly, politely divesting me of whatever scraps are left of my spirit, dignity or bank account, with a smile.

The same goes for people who are thought to be helpers, like doctors, nurses, counselors, social workers and the like. Human instincts to prey on the weaker seem to trump professional narratives in many cases.

I see this in the way doctors treat my grandfather. I see it in the way well-off members of the family treat poorer. Life is brutal, and as ever, it's we who make it so.
wow, didn't know dribbblers lurked hn. nice to see that.
Which parts of this account do you believe are untrue?
"all we do is delay it by another number"

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Thanks, I was confused about the motivation and that cleared it up. I think the slogan "A PostgreSQL Database for Every Test Case" is clouding the purpose for me. It sounds from that slogan like you've solved the problem of having a clean database state for each test in your test suite by creating a new ad-hoc database for each test case. But everything I've read, mostly from you, seems to suggest that this is not about solving that problem at all, but rather making it easy to spin up a clean, ad-hoc database with no installation necessary.

So I'm really curious how that slogan is meant to be understood.
Awesome talk from Mint's CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups
There is a say in my language "Birds born in a cage too have wings". Sometimes its hard for me to digest how a society that has 99% literacy rate, could continue living like this, under NK regime.
But that is for deductive reasoning.
Using one person's past experience only as a reference to judge is not wrong.
That's why things like Curriculum Vitae is useful.

By applying your logic, I can also suggest a wiki page for you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization
So we end up with a fairly bizarre situation: a country that is in crisis about how to take care of retirees, and also faces the challenge of middle class couples not wanting to have children because of, among other things, the enormous costs of child care. I feel like one problem is a built in solution to the other problem

As someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about this, I feel that the status quo will be remembered as a peculiar little historical blip.

It is so outrageous to me that my kids' grandparents are lonely as heck wasting away in their 55 & older retirement community in an inhospitable desert wasteland at the same time I have spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on child care. Whenever I see other grandparents actively grandparenting, I am filled with jealous resentment.
heh, heh, is sanity even possible given the circumstances?

born to die, blink of an eye, gone, become, everything.
Heroku scheduler runs in a separate dyno so that wouldn't impact idling of the web dyno.
The article is a little wrong to link to the Emancipation Proclamation, because Lincoln specifically exempted Tennessee from that. According to the easiest links to dig up on Google [1,2], Tennessee was the only state to free its slaves by popular vote and didn't do so until February 1865, less than six months before Jourdon dictated his letter and certainly well after he had left the farm, since the letter makes clear that was 1864 at the latest. That explains why Anderson (the master) shot at him when he was leaving: he hadn't actually been emancipated yet. What it doesn't explain is how he got his "free papers" in Nashville in 1864. Since Nashville was obviously in Tennessee too, why would he have been any more emancipated there? My bet is it had something to do with joining or supporting the war effort. Tennessee was under Union control.

Another thing I didn't know: the Governor of Tennessee at the time was Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln was killed.

1. http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/stories/emancipation — this web page says it's "for kids"; one wishes all web pages were so informative.

2. http://www.afrigeneas.com/states/tn/
Really enjoyed the interview.

A small side note: http://i.imgur.com/nUfqDsF.png I was confused for a second--couldn't remember what link I had opened--and only accidentally noticed the scrollbar. (1366x768 resolution.)
One may argue that the denialist approach to mortality is even worse for mental health.
> Werther effect

That is screwed up. Reading these comments and Aaron's death is pretty hard. I hope it really helps some by having a place to share and discuss but just reading and thinking about _it_ is dangerous. Can't explain it, it is messing me with head too.
That's not a justification for punishing white hats.

In the meantime, until we can make this understood, we need to make the workaround understood: if you find a security flaw in a system you don't own, and you haven't been formally hired for the specific purpose of finding that flaw, ignore it and get on with your life; it's not your problem. Going out of your way to help people in normal circumstances is noble. Going out of your way to help people who will reward you with a knife in the back is a mistake. Don't make that mistake.
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