skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For one, I completely disagree with the idea that the government has no right to tell people what they can or cannot put in their own body. Depending on the moral principles that a government is founded on, it very well may have that right.

So you are saying, a government of the kind that you approve of has the right to demand that people be vaccinated, and one of the kind that you disapprove of does not.

This does not compute, the outcome is the same, as is the science.
Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal!

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)
Winelib can be used by game developers to link their games against, to just provide them with Windows APIs their games expect.

The results can be very good, an example is Picasa.
As long as money and power give a leg up to the dumber children of smart people, it's not really a meritocracy.

Exhibit A: George W. Bush
"meritocracy sounds great in principle. And, we can agree that it's leagues better than aristocracy"

Meritocracy is a form of aristocracy. The word "aristocracy" comes from the Greek words for "best" and "power," or in other words a system where those who are most fit to rule will be the leaders of society. It sounds great in principle, the only problem is the definition of "best."
What Do You See? Is your brain East or West?
Visualization: The Richest People In The World
Direct link to the Bloomberg site: http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2013-01-31/aaa
Works great with "mtr" (known as "mtr-tiny" in Debian?) - much better than with the regular traceroute :)
What's a watchdog? A lap dog you can wear like a watch? I suggest to call it "watch dog" then, just so it doesn't get confused with http://www.google.com/search?q=watchdog&tbm=isch
Logic and Games
Definitely! This was the most line of reasoning in the article with the most impact. Property taxes are often progressive, disproportionally affecting the relatively wealthy. That's good. But when the benefits are collected and spent too locally, it means areas with higher property values also get better services. It takes away the progressive quality of property taxes.

Continue this to an extreme: property taxes that I pay are only spent on my household. The city/county maintains my property, educates my children. There's no more progressive distribution.
That's so awesome. I can't believe this exists. How did they make it?
>> There are very few examples of startups which start
with a product with features highly specific to one
group of users and then expand out successfully to
a huge market.

There are very few examples of startups when successfully address a huge market with any strategy.

Succeeding in a vertical is a positive step, which most startups fail at.
For one thing, it give you enough money to keep trying for a larger success.
For the less technically able amongst us, how does this work?
So he is actually saying that too few people use Linux. And few people use Linux because it has so few good games. What surprise.

P.S.: I'm really happy how Valve pushes forward with Steam and am surprised to "already" see some bigger games like TF2 and CS:Source available in Linux. All that with games i bought many many years ago and now can play in Windows and Linux (and i suppose Mac as well), nice!
You're correct. Religious belief is an evolved memetic/genetic survival mechanism.

Those parts of the human brain were never about logic and accurate observation of the material world - so they are safe from new facts and logic for now.

Probably at some point (assuming we survie), our own genetic/cybernetic modifications will so increase our intelligence, that religion will fall away completely... but that's beyond the Singularity.
I get an Internal Server Error. This is all very meta.
Keepass (and LastPass, etc) is vulnerable to the same problem -- if you forget the master password, you can get locked out of everything. While it is useful, it is not the only answer. If the encrypted information is mission critical, then you must have a paper backup of the password stored somewhere safe.

Then again, if you don't, there is also a keepass2john [1].

[1] https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/blob/unstable-...
https://dazzlepod.com/ip/?ip_address=216.81.59.173
Measles cases are at "an 18 year high" in the UK because people don't immunise. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/measles-cases...)
I've witnessed situations like the attorney there and more.

Spending 8 hours a day browsing porn for weeks at a time. Printing 3x5 foot pictures of the worst stuff you can imagine. Openly discussing all sorts of incriminating stuff via email or SMS on company phones. Assuming that somebody actually has to watch all the security cameras when they're actually streaming x264 to a server with months of capacity.

It must be dangerously easy to think yourself invincible once you get away with something a few times.
this is why valve says this:
Faster Zombies!
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

so they benefitet from linux and windows does too...

Oh a few people use tool X so tool X must be bad!? strange kind of logic...
True, but I didn't suggest they were pro stealing, rather that they justified it by being against the industry itself.
Hey Guys --- the course ended last year, and it was an internal workshop we held at our company.(We're based in Toronto).

We will be starting a public facing workshop in the next coming weeks, you can check it out at http://www.theymc.com/.

I will definitely try get some recorded screencasts up for those of you not in Toronto.
Dan that is very kind of you and such a good deed.
Also, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -- Stephen Hawking
The thing about Carmack and Linux is, that everything he says is based mostly on the QuakeLive port id did a while back (edit: he says this here http://youtu.be/wt-iVFxgFWk?t=45m26s). The port was released as an afterthought and quite a while after the Windows version), it wasn't publicized anywhere so naturally, people ignored it. From this experience he concluded that Linux isn't financially viable and/or there are no people interested in gaming on the platform.
Now I'm not saying that Linux is financially viable, I don't know that. I just think that

- a lot of people do pay for games on Linux (look at Humble Indie Bundles, look at the indie titles or the recent titles on Steam)

- I know people who pay for games but are stuck on Windows because they play games. My guess is that these people would ditch Windows in a heartbeat if their games were playable under Linux.
I can access it via Google cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
> Unlike the iPad you basically get a usable tablet UI for free with Android.

I just posted two screenshots showing otherwise.

> Android's fragment API makes it a lot easier than he iPad to adapt to a proper tablet UI if you want.

And this is just ridiculous. Regardless of whether you prefer iPads or Androids, iPads are most decidedly easier to design tablet UIs for because there are so few screen sizes.
Technical Debt Will Kill You Dead (If You Let It)
Didn't DHS also declare that 100 mile range from the border is basically Constitution-free? This is mighty convenient, as they can now search everyone like this within that 100 mile range.
If you use your Keepass vault every day, there is little chance of forgetting. And there is always paper backup, which can be hand encrypted.
Well to be fair, some data is better than no data, regarding how financially viable linux is for gaming.
Using ssh keys instead of passwords protects your server regardless of how seldom you access the server from your Nexus 7. If you are connecting to publicly-accessible servers over ssh anyone else can connect to it as well and try to hack your username and password.
On Ubuntu `traceroute` only goes 30 hops by default, but you can see more with this:

traceroute -m 100 216.81.59.173
WINE is 20 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

I remember how 10 years ago I thought that it would be the answer to help bring Linux into the mainstream. No, native Photoshop? Not a problem. Unfortunately, the problem has turned out to be much harder to solve.
They probably set up a long series of gateways along the route, and added reverse DNS names to match up.
So, remember a few months ago, when people like me were saying that the third parties are the only hope in America's democracy? Then a bunch of people said that Obama was worlds different from Romney, and that comparing Obama to Bush was lunacy.

I have to wonder what happens when those Obama supporters with left-wing sentiments read an article like this.
Great points --- will add them to the list.
If Valve releases the Steam Box and ends up selling at least 10 million of them, Carmack will come around to it (considering Valve's own Steam Box will be based on Linux). Valve even said Steam for Linux will have more titles than Mac.
> Enlightened

Huge, unfounded assumption.
Changing the notation is fine. Changing it without explaining what the new notation means is where the problem lies.

Maybe it would help if we put papers online with the ability for anyone to annotate and add explanations, or links to other papers for context.
Yup, still 5 years to go before hitting the big 60. Anyone who thought I was on the other side at 63 needs to revise their maths!
No color for me:

Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one.

The difference is in the visitors...

Je bent een Stoere Bikkel, aka You Rock.
traceroute defaults to 30 hops, hence the trim. Depending on your location you may need to bump it up to 40-50 if not more to get the full version.
So setting aside people's emotional considerations of Linux being a second class citizen, a library of games in Steam and DVDs including alternative executables using Winelib seems like a great way forward.

Most games these days are designed to run on a range of graphics detail settings, and it's not a big deal if you just have to turn a few things down a little on the latest games.
Yes, basically that.
Companies have been doing this for years.

This is why many torrent clients have blocklists built in, though how helpful they actually are is dubious.
Like Stuxnet?
Poor guy. I bet he's already getting emails about this but an Android dev out there would do well to help him out by sending some flowers to his wife, help him with his code, and write a blog post about it.
I bet EA will bring Origin to Linux since they've done the work to get it on a Mac. That should help solve the chicken/egg problem
Are you referring to this quakelive.com? He said it's a failure as a free 2 play game online. What does that have to do with Linux? I don't think it even works on Linux, actually.
The ACM already makes a lot more on conferences than dues, I think.
Oh but there is data. Linux users on Humble Indie Bundles constantly pay more per head than OS X or Windows users.
http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281...

My point is that Linux users are willing to pay for games, if they know about them.
"Ethernet was developed in the context of the internet with its seven levels of the ISO reference model," he said. "So we had a job to do at level one and two, and we didn't burden Ethernet with all the other stuff that we knew would be above us. We didn't do security, we didn't do encryption, we didn't even do acknowledgements."

Very interesting story—I wish it had been more detailed in places, but I love this middle section, about how simplicity sometimes beats complexity.

It's also amazing how prevalent Ethernet still is, even when wireless is a competitor. The other day I left this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052448 on HN, because in some circumstances running a cheap ethernet cable from a router to a desk, couch, or other work station can still be a real win, especially given how inexpensive even very long ethernet cables are from Monoprice.com.

They last forever, aren't subject to the level of interference wireless is, and, in many conditions, have faster data transfer speeds. Ethernet is still great.
Are you making some kind of joke I don't understand? Also the image results it's giving me are all dogs that keep watch.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that something being widespread makes it morally correct. Maybe it makes the law unworkable, but morals are generally a personal choice.
Well, exactly because humans are not replaceable.

I think we could all agree to send Paris Hilton to Mars.
This reminds me of what happens if you hack this in your terminal:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
I'm a programmer, albeit not a game one. I have an honest question: How difficult is it to write a game whose source code is portable?

I understand that Carmack and Id work on the kind of game which needs very strong optimizations, and I can imagine they need OS-specific system calls or to manipulate the hardware immediately. Porting a game like Quake to Linux is obviously a lot of work, and the reward seems low compared to the investment.

However, I doubt most game programmers need the same level of optimization. Is it that difficult for them to write their code once and compile it separately for each platform?
Whether or not the term "meritocracy" is thrown around as propaganda is a separate issue from whether or not we should want to live in a meritocracy, which is what the article was about. In fact, most people don't want to live a pure meritocracy, as that would for example preclude the freedom to give gifts to others (as gifts are by definition unearned).

I think one property that our economy ought have as we head into a future of machines increasingly displacing human workers is this: If all human work in the economy stopped, wealth should converge to an approximately fair distribution, preferably within a small number of lifetimes.
Hah, yes, though having something interesting to say does not correlate with the ability to host a blog (assuming it's his).

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-b...
"watchdog" is slangy terminology for a consumer rights organization or an industry regulator. It's, like, a metaphor, man.

I don't know about the US but the term is commonly used in the UK.

(I suppose "watch dog" would be a dog that watches, or something that watches dogs, or, as you suggest, a dog that's somehow got something to do with wrist-mounted timepieces.)
Fair enough. How do we deal with any variety of intellectual property rights then? Do you recommend changing patent laws as well?
If this is the future, the folks who made the MTR in hong Kong must have access to a time machine ;)
It's interesting that some results return noise, but others don't.

[-3 "3 4"] returns porn links.

[-3 "2 3 4"] returns nothing.

[-fish "fish and chips"] returns nothing.

Curiosity, especially about the small things that break, is a strong feature of hacker mentality.
In your scenario there will be so many other major problems that slower healthcare diagnoses will not be much of a factor. Most medical equipment would also be unusable so even if you know what is wrong you would be unable to do anything about it.

You could make the same case against Google and yet it has proven to be a huge boon.
Yes, but this (nor anything else) would not do it. Note: religion != belief. Religion is a societal construct used to control, limit, and oppress people.
Is Concept Envy A Good Thing?
United States High Speed Rail System Map
Getting the theoretical peak performance requires either extensive manual tuning on each architecture or exhaustive search. To read on the former see http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/technology/28super.html?pa..., and the latter is done for example in the ATLAS BLAS.

It is important to note that the SO discussion is focused on achieving peak flops when the data is already in the XMM registers. The real bottleneck is pushing the data quickly through the levels of the memory hierarchy.
My first thought on the subject, as someone writing a history book on part of China's borderlands was the (still-current) ancient Confucian government-meritocracy's simple anti-entrenchment practice of forcibly posting leaders to areas in which they were neither native nor had family, and shifting them periodically. To this day, it's how China continues to operate. Totally effective? No. But pretty good.
Michael is saying people within the US middle class can do better or worse than their parents, but children are unlikely to rise or fall to a completely different class. This is orthogonal to any comparison with Sweden.
This product is essentially a search engine. Doctors refer to medical texts all of time, this IBM tool is simply making it easier (and faster) to access the right information using plain English queries. It's not like we're going to replace doctors with computer kiosks...well, at least not until they work out some of the bugs.
To merge them all into one:

pdftk *.pdf cat output security-book.pdf

Install pdftk with apt-get on Linux or via http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/#download
I understand the classical definition of property as a scarve and valuable resource.

However, unlike most people, I think we need to change the definition of property. The internet no longer has scarcity. But I don't believe that eliminates value.

The model we have now for earning revenue in many businesses, especially media, is on royalties. Royalties for copyrighted materials don't fit under the old model of property, but I believe we have to change that model.

This doesn't mean I believe copyright laws are not flawed right now. I believe they are, heavily so. But I still believe in intellectual property because I don't see another system where earning revenue on copyright would be fair to the producer.
Stuck between the Dropbox that was and the iCloud that isn't yet
You cannot do both 12 months of pre-completion and 12 months of post-completion OPT, you only get 12 months of OPT per degree level
There is an offical, native Linux client that no one knows about. It was released in 2009. And because no one actually bothered with it, he concluded that the WHOLE platform is disinterested. http://youtu.be/wt-iVFxgFWk?t=45m26s
If working at a big company gives a low level employee an upper middle class lifestyle, who needs advancement? That is extremely advanced (95%) compared to the developed world as a whole.
There was a post about how clever their marketing strategy is - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185004

I just received my 5% email too by the way.
Dronabinol and 'plant derivatives' aren't plant medicine. One of the core tenets of naturopathy is that it's often (but not always) better to have the full plant rather than just a single molecule.
And in a world without work, what is "fair"? It will almost certainly go to those who own the machines.
Okay. Thanks for clarifying!
The repo is a compilation of weekly workshops and collaborative discussions we held at our company.

We're looking to make screencasts of the upcoming public facing workshop (www.theymc.com), and open them up to everybody.
Perhaps the bug isn't specifically selecting "adult" material, but that such material comprises such a large proportion of all (indexable) material, that it's what an effective random sampling returns.
Parent didn't say different.
He doesn't argue that porting the game is too difficult - in fact he implies that porting games to linux is pretty straightforward. He's really arguing that supporting the game after release is too expensive.

You have patches, and compatibility issues, and a thousand video cards with potential incompatibilities; customer service questions, system updates, and that one dude in Kansas running a custom version of linux that cant quite get your game to work, so he keeps calling and bugging you and taking up support time.

Edit: Found a relevant quote:

This may sound ridiculous – “Who would turn away $20,000?”
but the reality is that many of the same legal, financial,
executive, and support resources need to be brought to
bear on every single deal, regardless of size, and taking
time away from something that is in the tens of millions of
dollars range is often not justifiable.
Oh, I've seen it, but it didn't cross my mind.

However, I knew before that Array + <something> will give you a String (with the members of that array delimited by a comma) followed by <something> cast into a String. I don't find that wat.

Also, the reason why String+Number works is because + is overridden on strings to concatenate, while - isn't. That's why you get a NaN, but you probably know that. How would you expect it to work anyway? I don't think it's that watty.

The only thing that I find wat-worthy is Object + <something>, because that truly makes little sense. There might be some ambiguous logic behind it, though.
What definition of progressive are you using? They aren't super linear relative to income.
That 100 mile range is from any boarder and coastline and covers most of the US population.

http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-con...
http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map
Whichever rule set you choose, you're always going to disenfranchise someone. What about people with a rich parent who doesn't invest in their education? Under your system, education would be unavailable to them because they would be a poor person being charged as a rich one.
Was HW notably smarter? W wasn't an academic, but that is diffferent from dumb.
A have a colleague who has worked a few times selling games ported to Linux, and it leads to all sorts of hate mail when things don't exactly right. And people who use Linux tend to think you never have to pay money for software so your market is that much smaller.
If you have control over a block of IPs, you can set the PTR records to whatever you feel like. Having invalid PTR records will cause headaches for you in a limited set of cases (e.g. sane mail servers won't accept mail from a host which has a PTR record that doesn't have A and PTR records which refer to each other) but outside of that, the owner of the IP block can do essentially whatever they want with the records.

Someone clever decided to have a very long route to a box, and very clever PTR records.
Looks like the "one OS fits all" concept has proved to be flawed.

Windows is great for corporate end-user workstation s (desktop, tablet...) but not for servers. Linux is great for servers, and highly skilled computer users (aka hackers/programmers) but not for corporate users. Mac OS is great for hipsters.

Games are somewhere in the middle of all this, including the consoles. Looks like there is no perfect solution and for sure, a good strategy could be to replicate what's have been working until now.
If this distribution were considered problematic, controlling for family immigration history could correct it -- a sort of perfect anti-aristocracy.
Chaotic storage - helping Amazon cope with 35 orders per second
Quakelive worked under both Windows and Linux last time I checked.
His solution at the end for Microsoft Windows is interesting.

Are all UEFI PC-compatible systems required by some specification to support BIOS/legacy booting?
just wait 20 or 30 years when we found an island floating in the middle of the ocean, made of derbis from this product.
This is truly impressive. The only part that I'm unsure about it is when they say they "WellPoint will be using the system [to help] health insurers determine which treatments are fair, appropriate and efficient and, in turn, what it will cover", the possibility for abuse their is significant.

Anyway, congrats to anyone at IBM who worked on this, when you make the future so great it feels natural, you're doing it right.
Just trying to say that some watchdogs do seem to behave more like a lap dog, including this one.

Making up "watch dog" as opposed to "watchdog" is only funny to me I guess, you have to conjure mental images of little people in suits being worn and flaunted like watches by slightly bigger people in suits for this to work :P If you squint just right it's hilarious, because it's accurate.