skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the save file indicates, you can indeed go on a 'date' with him in the Golden Saucer but it's fairly involved: http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff7/dating.php
> Nope, 100 soldiers entering a town can be decimated by 10-15 people using guerrilla

But they wouldn't march into town, they would just shut off the water and power, and then use drones or tanks to pick off the perceived leaders.

> Look what happened in Iraq and not that many Iraqis took arms against US /Iraqi government.

So amend the amendment then to allow shaped charge IED materials to be legal?
all the other intelligent people, all around the world who have never had the benefit of a high quality education

But the article's whole point is that all those people will not be getting an education at all; what they'll be getting is something else that shouldn't even be called by that name.

Your analogy with smartphones just reinforces that impression: most of the people who use smartphones or tablets aren't using them to do "computing", they're using them to do the same mindless things they did before smartphones and tablets came along, just more "efficiently".
> We overwhelmingly choose to work the greatest number of hours we can sustainably tolerate (somewhere between 40 and 60 hours for most people), in order to maximise our spending power.

Not so: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=AVE_HRS

(the statistic above excludes vacatyion and national holidays, sick leave, paid maternity/paternity leave etc, which are also much more generous these days)

Note how the well off countries tend to have shorter
working hours.

Anecdotally, I only know maybe 2 people who I'd say
work more than 40 hours and they're small business owners
who really like what they do.
most people on twitter were commenting how this is going to trigger a hundred op-eds on crumbling infrastructure.
Nah, my bad, I forgot what I had written.
Resist quoting from HN Guidelines. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
This specific submission dovetails nicely with a recent submission about visualizations, summaries, and comparisons of HN user karma (aka cumulative instantaneous reactions); Netflix is rejecting TV karma in favour of sustained quality load.
> It's not bad. Having Kevin Spacey as the lead is good.

I like the show, but Kevin Spacey's southern accent is so terrible it is distracting. I normally wouldn't care, but my I grew up in the Carolinas and he sounds nothing like any person or politician from the area. He needs to drop the accent as it takes away from the rest of his performance.

If they wanted a correct southern accent they should have hired Kyle Chandler.
My favorite news program! Wish it were on netflix so I could watch it on my TV.
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Making money writing software? Absurd! Next you'll be telling me rich guys are finding young startup talent and convincing them to partner up so they can introduce them to even richer guys. You smart people would never fall for such nonsense.
He wasn't suggesting that you do it; he was suggesting that it is possible.
Wikipedia has a pretty extensive article on this famous letter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
> Do you really think refusing to leave is going to change their mind?

I think you missed my point: The fact they accused you of refusing to leave does not mean you did, in fact, refuse to leave.
If anyone else wants to find out more about Edward Bernays, and how he created the field of public relations, I highly recommend the bbc documentary The Century of the Self. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

It is very much in line with the quote that pteredactyl posted. He also did a lot of early work in consumerism and marketing.
There are quite a few ways to answer your question, so I'll do my best to address all of them that come to mind.

First, why does anyone need to know anything? There's a favorite passage of mine in Walden about news being gossip, and those that read it being women over their tea, which cuts to the trivial nature of most news, but Thoreau failed to recognize some things because his focus was on living his own life and not worrying about the lives of others. He had no use for the type of information he derides, but never acknowledged that others may have use for such information.

So, with that in mind, let's think about this from a few perspectives beyond our own myopia.

The audience. Audience can be broken down into various sub-groups, but I will focus on the likeliest readers of Vulture.

Media professionals may need to know this information because this information gives them greater insight into their own work. If Netflix produced and distributed a popular show in a novel way, I would very much like to know details like exactly how popular this show has been.

Media consumers may like to know this information as well. If a new show (let's call it Jumping Off A Bridge) airs and it is reported that 5 million people watched, perhaps the show is good. If 5 million people are watching Jumping Off A Bridge, perhaps I would enjoy Jumping Off A Bridge, too. Such is the world of entertainment news, which is most definitely not hard news, but clearly has an audience.

(Let's also not forget that audience is what advertisers want.)

Which gets me to why journalists would need this information. There is a particular news value called magnitude. If something affects a large portion of their audience, then the news should be reported. As Vulture is a media blog, of course their audience is likely the one or both of the subgroups I mentioned above. However, this information has little value on, say, the front page of The Minneapolis Star Tribune or even most pages of The New York Times, as the number of viewers could not possibly affect a sizable number of their readers in general. Cultural proximity matters.

Do journalists have a right to know this information? Sometimes, sometimes not. That's really irrelevant to journalists. The purpose of their work is to provide relevant information to their target audience, whether that is tech start ups or the 112 people of Podunk, Kansas or the citizens of the United States who expect and need a fourth estate as watchdog over its governing bodies.
http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools
This was a great read. It gave me a lot of insight on how the big decisions were made and some of the motivations of the key players in Bush's second term. I very much liked how Bush let this play out. He basically allowed Israel to take care of its own business while letting Rice develop a plausible UN solution that he knew would be unacceptable to Israel in case it became public and blew up in our faces.

For the US it was a total win. The reactor is gone without direct US military action, Israel was appeased and we got plausible deniability and the ability to look like the good guys if it all went sour.
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Investors would very much like to know how their $4 million dollar per episode investment is panning out.
"Am I missing something, or is this the most irrelevant sentence ever written in journalistic context? Genuine question."

Really? I cannot believe that is a genuine question. You actually think that there is more than a 1 in 1,000 (or 1 in 10, you pick the odds) chance of that being the most irrelevant sentence ever written?
My understanding is that PNGs are in general smaller than gifs for equivalent quality, so wouldn't the animated version be similarly smaller?
[He said something similar about China:](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461490/piracy)

> ...in 1998 during a candid moment in front of an audience at the University of Washington acknowledged the problem with enforcing software copyrights in the developing world:

> Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though, and as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
I'm curious how much their search and search interface are costing them. The App Store iOS application is atrocious; users are more likely to get frustrated and give up than find the application they were searching for.
Can I ask how you approached this issue with your employer(s)? I am willing to entertain that trade, but it doesn't appear many employers are willing to even think about it. They might fear it hurts employee relations or is simply too radical to comprehend.
The New Economics Foundation (nef) proposes 21 hours:

http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours

A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life.
Some of their best stuff is in their features section: http://www.theverge.com/features/

Each one is built like its own long-form magazine article. Most other sites just lay this stuff into their standard template, but many of The Verge's long-forms have been custom designed for each article.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3904298/bikini-kill-is-maki...
Cool, thanks. I'll keep posted to twitter.
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Ask HN: Where do I learn about the working of Web applications on the cloud?
When I starting using Heroku, I was desperately trying to understand what the dyno(s) are and how the processes work. While I can write web applications in python .etc., I only understand the obvious from the functioning of these "cloud application platforms" and I feel it is not enough at all. Similarly for Node.js.

Could you direct me towards some good books and/or resources which talks about these things?
> Saying that poverty is significantly and astoundingly reduced

... is still going to get a lot of people angry, even if you explicitly limit your scope to the First World. It's a combination of lack of historical perspective coupled with a perception that admitting anything has improved is tantamount to agreeing with the people who think social welfare programs need to be eliminated.
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Microsoft moved to a business model where they received royalties paid directly from the OEMs. And I suppose, BASIC was a teaser for MS's more advanced developer tools.
Just started getting it from news.ycombinator.com myself. I have tried searching Google with not much help. The only thing I found was a topic on Yahoo Answers with multiple people reporting the same issue tonight.
Chill out dude.

If you want to live in the bay area, you have to work for it. If you want to live on $10 a day, the point is you dont want to work for it. You can't have both.

Living on $10 a day can be done. Go build an earthship in Taos.
Mass distribution of learning material has been around for a few centuries and has yet to replace the process of guided learning. The problem is simple: while it's possible to amass facts and skills from reading and listening, it's much more difficult to produce complex works of value without feedback on the process.

Doing mathematics isn't just applying rules and techniques. It's about knowing how to reason, and writing a proof in a way which communicates your reasoning clearly to others. You can get started by following along with proofs from a lecture, but in order to really ingrain the techniques in your brain, you have to write proofs of things you've never encountered before. Someone has to read those proofs, and give feedback on where your reasoning was unclear, incomplete, or flawed. They can suggest a different notation, or a shorter path to the same solution. Good teachers will leave notes: "this is a cool idea you've developed here, and it points towards this area of complex analysis we haven't talked about yet."

In psychology it's not enough to memorize a summary text and a smattering of papers. You need to be asked questions. "There's a critical flaw in this paper's sampling methodology. Can you find it? How would you improve it?" "What kind of systematic bias can we expect in these results?" If nobody asks those questions, and helps you hone in on the answers, you'll miss out on half the text. You'll be unprepared to evaluate the quality of others research--or to design experiments of your own.

This process can't be automated yet. Human beings have to read and respond to your work, preferably at interactive latencies.
"If Netflix produced and distributed a popular show in a novel way, I would very much like to know details like exactly how popular this show has been."

You know who else wants to know? Netflix's competitors. If their show was wildly popular, that's something you don't want to reveal lest others try to replicate.

"Media consumers may like to know this information as well."

I'm not convinced that media consumers change their habits based on the number of viewers in america. Number of viewers in social circle, sure, but in all of america?

To put that in perspective, Fox News is watched more than MSNBC but the MSNBC viewers won't jump to Fox based on that fact.

Ultimately, the reason why numbers were released historically was for advertising purposes. Shows and networks could demand more money for advertisements if they had more views, and companies like nielsen emerged to give a third-party view (akin to credit ratings agencies). That's not relevant in the internet age, where you can precisely count how many ads are shown and where they are shown (and possibly a bit more about the people watching).
I think it became a problem because only Mormons paid tithe, and it became a charged comment.
On the other hand, there have been at least three posts relating to Stoicism on the front page today. Fortunately, both topics are interesting.
An interesting line from that article, which I hadn't previously seen:

> In early 1976 ads for its Apple I computer, Apple Inc made the claims that "our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or at minimal cost"[23] and "yes folks, Apple BASIC is Free"[24]
It might come down to whether you're using the oscillating motion directly or trying to turn it back into rotation. There's no way that you'd get rotation more efficiently than a motor, but elements like the tripod pendulums seem like they'd have comparably small losses to the generator/motor. Then again, I've never seen any measurements of energy losses on pushing a pendulum back and forth, so as you say, I could be overestimating the efficiency of those too.
> No, the best that the government can do for startups and the economy is just get out of the way.

We've tried that and it failed. Does the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ring any bells?
Go to any Barnes & Noble store and find the section on small business / entrepreneurship. You'll find shelves of books with titles like

"How to Organize an LLC in North Carolina" or "How to Incorporate In South Dakota", and "How to Start Your First Business" etc, etc. There are plenty of books that deal with the nitty gritty, nuts and bolts stuff, taxes, naming, etc. Just to spend an hour or so at a bookstore and poke around.

As for specific recommendations... I'd have to get out of bed and go dig through my stacks of books to pick some out, but one that comes to mind is The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. Not quite down at the level of "how to deal with taxes" etc., but some good low-level stuff about launching a startup.

Also, if/when you go to B&N (or Books-a-Million, whatever), somewhere near the "small business" section you'll usually find a section with the accounting/finance/taxes books. You'll probably see a few titles like "Tax Handbook for your Maine LLC" etc.

There are also books full of "stock" forms and contracts and what-not.

Also, if you have a community college nearby, you might call them and see if they have a "small business center" of some sort. That's pretty common here in NC... they offer seminars and sessions periodically, on topics like you are asking about.

You might also see if your state (assuming you're in the US) has something analogous to CED (the Council for Entrepreneurial Development) that we have here in NC. http://www.cednc.org I'm guessing most states have something similar, but it might be called something different.

Finally, look into SCORE - the Service Corps of Retired Executives. You can hook up with a retired exec who can provide some mentoring and assistance to you.
http://www.score.org/

HTH.
And, yet, file decompression utilities continue to exist and are maintained.
I was clearly being somewhat hyperbolic, my "genuine question" was assigned to "Am I missing something", as in that wasn't rhetorical, I really want to know if that sentence is as stupid as I think it is. (And even within my hyperbole, you missed my "in journalistic context"!)
It's not even about being "lower quality". It's about building another medium for learning outside of highly expensive brick and mortar institutions.

I'm a huge fan of MOOCs. It makes no sense that everyone in America should aspire to getting a 120K bachelor's degree - a university education isn't meant for every career or person or life stage. I think we have this false belief that every American should aspire to getting a university education when in reality, the ROI of a university education is not always net positive. I've seen so many colleagues struggle with huge debt from graduate programs that did did nothing for their career prospects.

And it's not even that - learning shouldn't start or stop at a certain age. For example, I'm in my late 20s and wanted to learn how to build web apps. I like learning in structured environment, so Udacity worked perfectly for me. In 3 months I took an intro Python course and then a web app course led by a Reddit co-founder.

Would I have learned better through an undergrad university course? Maybe. Could I? It'd be pretty much unfeasible, given I was working 50+ hours for a tech firm and commuting between SF and South Bay at the time.

Anything that helps people learn is a good thing.
tbh the exploits themselves are relatively simple when you read them. its like when I say speaking 7 languages is incredible. When it's what you do all day, it's also straightforward.

what's generally impressive, is finding them (and thus writing the proper tools to find them) and having enough dedication to keep at it.

the other impressive thing is the lack of generic fixes even thus we know how to make them happen (which involve using pretty much using a "written-from-the-ground-up" OS), apparently, security is fairly low on the "it makes us lose money, let's fix it all properly" scale ;-)
That sucks. This slow motion perception is a typical fight or flight response. If you are interested in gaining more control over these sorts of situations (and I hope you won't need to) I would recommend taking up a martial art. You can do that with your dad!
"they could actually report news instead of providing entertainment."

For one hour a day, the major broadcast networks are required to report news.
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What a bummer, this site has always been a great source for inspiration. I love browsing their awards pages. At least pouet.net looks like its still going strong. :)
>Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC.

I guess old habits die hard.
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I could be wrong, but I've always assumed they print 50 versions of those books, one per state, and mostly retail them in the corresponding states.

Just out of curiosity, did you mention NC because you are a North Carolinian, or was that just a random example? Just wondering, as I'm from Chapel Hill, NC.
+1 to this.

Ruby itself is a great language, and that's what it is at the end of the day - it's just a language. What matters more is the community gather under it. As with any community, there are members that tend to be immature and arrogant which may reflect to anyone as a representation of the entire Ruby community as whole. Worse comes to worst, these "few members" can affect the culture of the community especially for new users of the language, turning the community and the language somewhat "cultish".
That's exactly why I posted this comment. I'm fully aware of the state of the things :)

I'm hoping this starts to raise enough attention for people to actually fix these things up. The patches for supports are around, and btw, pip now also supports HTTPS properly. (yeah, the experimental branch this is actually merged in)

But, people in general have to understand the benefit AND figure out it actually serves a purpose (because as always with security, nobody gives a crap 'til someone gets compromised in a terrible way).
That's also because all the library makers (which is virtually everyone and their dog nowadays) have to actually get a proper gpg key, understand how it works, and actually sign their stuff. That's a major effort.
I like RIM tbh... would like them to survive along with the blackberry...
The author is missing some other things that alexandar's men would not have seen on their journey from greece to india.

[1] crocodiles
[2] tigers
[3] monkeys
[4] venomous snakes
( this is a major problem for moving at night)
[5] mosquitoes
[6] diseases ( with so much life, comes diseases )

He says alexandar would have won the war easily if he had attacked two months earlier. He had no idea about the heat in april and march. His horses don't stand a chance in the punjab heat. They would have lost more easily if they went two months earlier.

Alexander was accustomed to fight in temperate regions and deserts, where horses are very effective. Where as india is either tropical or sub-tropical, where horses don't do very well. What was once his weapon, has become his weakness.
The building I'm working in (there are multiple companies and the building is managed) has showers, so it is quite convenient. The only annoying bit is that there are no lockers, so I pre-dry my sports gear with a heardryer (this is actually quite quick, takes two minutes to nearly completely dry three layers), and then keep it under my desk. Might look bit "unprofessional", but once everyone accepts the slightly "eccentric" behaviour ("did you really cycle in today? In the snow?! crazy.."), it's not that bad.
1. That was about 40 years ago when the waterfall process was state of the art. Modern, iterative processes are much more flexible.
2. The loss of productivity levels off as the team size increases. Going from 50 to 100 developers is not the same as 1 to 2.

All said, I expect some loss of productivity is inevitable due to context switching and communication overhead but it isn't necessarily a major loss.
Ok, correction: I think ethics is akin to medicine or nutrition. It really helps if you consistently apply it everywhere in order to prevent extreme scenarios. And when they occur, and ethics do not help, it's not a failure of ethics, but your failure to use ethics to avoid situation when someone actually threatens you with a nuke.

To say that general rule "do not use violence" does not work in extreme cases, is like saying that medicine is useless because it cannot make you perfectly healthy when you have a heart attack. But it is useful because it helps you to prevent heart attack in the first place. And if you ignored the knowledge and now having a heart attack, then how can you say that it is useless?
If you were right, then I would.
When I saw the domain name, I was kinda hoping for it to be a social condom sharing application.
The problem with your proposal is that most people think they're objective most of the time. The less/more like this distinction relies on people knowing and admitting that sometimes the stuff they like is not better than the stuff they don't like.