skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quote: "According to research from the Brookings Institution, only 58 percent of Americans born into the bottom fifth of income earners move out of that category, and just 6 percent born into the bottom fifth move into the top."

That outcome statistic doesn't support your claim -- that there is inequality of opportunity. BTW I think it's true that opportunity equality doesn't exist or is seriously undermined, but the above isn't meaningful evidence for or against.

This is what's wrong with social science -- a single observation with no meaningful controls is put forth as evidence for or against a claim.

Those who deny that equality of opportunity exists will use the above result to support their view -- only 6% of the population moved from the bottom to the top. That's deplorable, yes?

Those who support the idea that equality of opportunity exists will use the same numbers in support of the opposite conclusion -- after all, a full 6% of those at the bottom made it to the top. Excuse me? It's only meaningful if 100% of those at the bottom arrive at the top? But that undermines the meaning of "bottom" and "top" and makes the entire exercise meaningless. Surely you don't think everyone at the bottom must end up at the top, do you? That confuses equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.

See the problem? The argument in the linked article is meaningless because it can be used to argue for either side of the issue with equal justice.
Fail2ban is massively heavyweight on a cheap virtual server however, easily consuming half your memory if you aren't careful, and still obscene amounts of RAM for the functionality, with tight ulimits.
Maybe I'm naive, but the idea of manipulating a partner into doing what one wants really rubs me the wrong way.

Wanting things is a legitimate choice, and it seems unfair to deprive someone of that choice through trickery.
| >>Ruby code to Haskell
|
| Uh... different paradigms. The scripting
| languages, which we are talking about here,
| are generally very similar.

Different languages are different, no matter how
many similarities that they have. You are going
to run into issues porting between languages.
Expecting anything else is setting yourself up for
disappointment.

C++ and ObjC are both 'C-based', so there should
be zero issues porting code between them, right?
French and Spanish are both Latin-based, so they
are practically the same language, right?

| >> I welcome examples of where anonymous
| >> functions are unable to be replaced by
| >> local functions passed by reference.
|
| Where did I write "unable" -- did I disprove
| some Turing machine theorem and forget about it?
| :-)

Poorly worded on my part.

| In this specific case it was a declarative
| data structure with some data next to code. It
| was well suited to have a dozen or two short
| functions next to the data structures.
|
| You could rethink the whole thing and do
| something different in Python to keep it
| readable. But among the normal languages (in
| the same paradigm), Python is the odd man out,
| just because of the lack of multi line lambdas.

1. The inclusion of multi-line lambdas in a
language is what makes it 'normal'? This just
seems more like a personal opinion than anything
objective. I could easily say that Ruby is the
odd-man out and Perl/Python are the 'normal'
languages, because of this:

a = 0
if a
puts "Evaluates to True"
end

Or Perl is the odd-man-out and Ruby/Python are the
'normal' languages because they have a GIL.

2. If keeping the data structure and functions
together was the best use-case, then maybe Python
wasn't the tool for the job. Just like I wouldn't
talk about how crappy Ruby is because it doesn't
have SciPy/NumPy.
It would actually be pretty easy to port the VM it runs in to JS/HTML5- Mako is only a couple hundred lines of Java, and features like sound and file I/O are optional: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/src/MakoVM.j...
Couldn't the same be said about any business? Getting your website covered by TechCrunch would also be easier with connections.
I think this will become a lot more prevalent after the Oculus Rift + whatever Oculus spawns gets some traction. With the Rift it feels like you're actually _there_ so just exploring becomes a lot more immersive and engaging.
Population growth is expected to level off by 2050 or thereabouts.
Apologies for linking outside this thread, but some of the audience asked me to write this. Hope it is helpful.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5236372
I'm intrigued by the concept, but... XBox 360 and PS3? For a game that is going to span years? I hope to see an announcement of PC support at least.
To Hunt Chinese Hackers, Exploit Their Human Flaws
Sounds like a great idea, especially now that the idea of doing this for real is becoming a reality :)
tutorials should teach to use ctrl+[ instead of ESC. it makes a big difference.
Agreed. I've said it before, somewhere else. I would love a persistent universe that takes place in the solar system. Navigating around Sol takes a real amount of time. To make it really interesting, the rest of the galaxy is explorable too. It would take a massive amount of effort, but eventually you can build ships that can travel to the stars. But instead of instant travel, it takes weeks or months of real time to get there. Basically this game would be very similar to Eve in many aspects. Probably one of the reasons I enjoyed playing Eve for so long.
So you're not going to blindly preorder the game?
I wanted to do that at one point, with both a huge fantasy world and my city modeled and constructed from satellite pictures.

Too bad I'm just a software engineer with no money.
"adequately saving for retirement has become increasingly difficult"

Is that true or is it just a shift in culture where people blow all their money on crap they don't need, disposable convenience, and live a more "up-scale" life style instead of saving for retirement?

I was reading a few blogs about early retirement the other day such as,

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/06/meet-mr-money-must...

The financial situations vary widely but the common theme is they save a lot more of their income % wise than a typical person. The guy that writes the above blog retired at 30. Those are extreme examples but surely if that is possible then retiring after working until 60+ isn't particularly out of reach.
Your argument seems to be that if someone is paying you for what you are doing then you are useful to that someone. Which is of course true. But then if you are really intent on figuring out what is going on, the next question is who is paying your employer and what is your employer actually doing to earn their money. Many people conveniently forget about this step.
That language is math. Which, due to historical accident, was inspired by Arabic writing, rather than the Latin variety.
I'm not sure about the current trends, but here is my list for 2012-2013

- Github (http://github.com) for Open Source and private source code control.

- Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org) mostly private source code management.

- Linode (http://linode.com) Where I run my virtual servers.

- Trello (http://trello.com) Manages all my projects

- Basecamp (http://basecamp.com) some clients still use it.

- Google Analytics (http://google.com/analytics) Sticking with Google.

- Freshbooks (http://freshbooks.com) For invoicing matters.

- ahref (http://ahrefs.com) Tracking my backlinks.

- Skype (http://skype.com) P2P calls and VoIP.

- Google App (http://google.com/a) Planning to move this year, still on the free plan.

- Gmail (http://gmail.com) still no plans to move yet!
This is very clever.

love watching people do the Harlem shake

I really really really want a snake

How does it work? I'm guessing it 1) scans tweets for pentameters using a large corpus annotated by syllables, then 2) looks up a rhyming dictionary to check the tweet is likely to be fruitful (i.e. doesn't end with the word orange or similar) and 3) waits...
I'd have no problem paying for it if it was a significant part of my life. I generally just skim the majority of the non-technical articles on HN, not paying attention to who the provider is. Apparently I've clicked and skimmed ten of these NYTimes articles in the last 17 days, which doesn't seem too unlikely given that they show up on HN fairly often.

If you're going to go all high-and-mighty about this, maybe we should be putting a [paywall] link on the HN frontpage so I can avoid clicking these articles altogether.
For the time being, here's a standalone Jar: http://www.mediafire.com/?qs64gczqkay3ma0
Magit is gem of all.. I think it comes on top a mile to any other gui for git I used so far.
Saw this yesterday, and it was wrong yesterday. Meteors don't travel in straight lines, they follow curved paths under the influence of gravity. And their velocity changes rather rapidly as they enter the atmosphere because much of their kinetic energy is converted to heat by friction. The second effect (heating and energy loss) causes the curvature of the first effect (gravitation) to change as well.
Oh, I am not taking a position either way on anyone's views. I think that most people would agree that something has gone wrong in this process. As a solo founder, I feel the weight of my own organizations load. I am from Montana where there is little support, from a distance something touches me personally about this situation. For each of us, I am sure the same can be said in our own ways.
He's mikemike on reddit as well.
that sounds interesting, but i'm having a hard time getting my head round it. can you give an example where math is right to left?

[edit oh, numbers! thanks! i was thinking about algebra.]
> But I live in the 2010s. I want a source control system that does its job and gets out of my way.

Darcs was fun, although the exponential conflict issue was a bitch (and still not resolved as far as I know)
Someone has to be that guy: LZ opened for Spirit, so JP heard this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sdbg2is2zQ
When Moore's law eventually runs out of steam it might be once again practical to have that sort of specialization.
Do yourself a favor and use public key authentication rather than passwords. It's both more secure and (together with ssh-agent) more convenient.

Unless you're logging in from other people's machines a lot that is (where you would need to access your private key from a USB stick) but that's obviously not a good idea anyway.
This has been rumored for years as Blizzard's (aka maker of World of Warcraft) next big MMO. It's cool to see all of those leaks and conspiracy theories add up, though they don't mention Blizzard in the article, just their parent (partner?) company Activision.

Here's my favorite one:

In February 2007, an episode of 30 Rock entitled Hardball aired and in the credits it said, “Promotional Consideration Furnished by Blizzard Entertainment.” What makes this interesting is that no Blizzard products were featured. No Warcraft. No Starcraft. No Diablo. No World of Warcraft. However, Halo was featured in the show! So Blizzard was advertising for Halo in 2007? This was right before word got out that Blizzard was working on a brand new MMO and they started hiring “Science-Fiction Texture Artists.” Coincidence? Maybe.

http://obsoletegamer.com/could-blizzards-next-mmo-titan-real...
Author here. I was informed some time ago that I was listed on a spam listing.

I informed this to the service provider, and got a fresh password. I'm using the service in a limited way (not access to virtual machine afaik); I don't even know how to detect if someone has setup'd a spam bot there.

If someone has information that there is still on-going spamming, I would be grateful if I would be informed of how I could get rid of it.

It disturbs me that someone had targeted my site for immoral activities.
No, you should read the link, and/or you should ask me what I'm basing my judgment on. [Edit: I see you did just that elsewhere in the thread, I'll respond there.]
So why don't EU countries have a very high suicide rate, since they have even more pervasive welfare states? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134928/pdf/jivr...
In the initial implementation package names were literally mapped to a path with the equivalent of subst(".", "/").

So in that sense the java package names are based on the hierarchy of a filesystem.
That's what I thought too. I guess it wont be hard though to just put asterisks there and store it in md5/sha1. On the other hand allowing the user to change password without knowing the old one it's another security risk, so this is not probably for every app or it needs some work to get done right.
Whilst there's a lot of Hollywood Accounting going on in the music business, I don't think this is the case here.

Firstly, publishing rights aren't always owned by the band themselves. The most famous example of this is probably The Beatles' publishing rights, which were bought by Michael Jackson, and then Sony. Every time Paul McCartney plays a Beatles' song live in his concerts he's going to have to pay some money to Sony, even though he co-wrote it!

Bands that do own publishing rights typically set up a limited company to administer them, and songs are frequently co-written. Bands are often obliged by these various agreements to effectively pay themselves (minus the administration cut, etc). The article linked to seems to suggest that Led Zeppelin either co-own the rights with Warner-Chappell, or have them administer them on their behalf. Either way, they'll want their appropriate cut!
>it's a market opportunity.

Yes, but not the one you describe, I think. The opportunity is for someone to present a coherent mental model for what's going on in tech that will fit so well that, even as it undresses VCs and startups in all their pointless glory, they will thank you for the insight. Someone who gets most of the large-scale points right is Carlota Perez. I think that her ideas can and should be applied to the "attention economy", ubiquitous computing, and human psychology, particularly with a certain moral bent that admits, for example, that moving someone's attention from what is more valuable to that person to what is less valuable for them (but more valuable to you), is wrong.

P.S. Homebrew is a package manager for osx, not a storage backend. </pedant>
Pretty sure that's unusual-most (but not all!) programs are explicitly uncensored.
Because journey needs painstaking design of every element, and a shooter lets communities generate random and unlimited content even on randomly created landscapes.
The only downside to this is that you send more data with spiped.

"""
Can significantly increase bandwidth usage for interactive
sessions: It sends data in packets of 1024 bytes, and pads
smaller messages up to this length, so a 1 byte write could
be expanded to 1024 bytes if it cannot be coalesced with
adjacent bytes.
"""
-- https://code.google.com/p/spiped/source/browse/trunk/README

More secure, but more overhead. That said, I love spiped. I use it to secure a few mysql replication streams and a couple other things. Works great.

I wonder if there is anything like spiped that provides something similar to openvpn's tls-auth (HMAC auth) functionality, for protocols that already provide encryption.
I wonder how something like underscore would port? There is a php underscore already, but I've found it lacking.
I just downvoted you. I assume you don't mind.
Would you be expecting that?
Seems like a french retailer [1] guesstimated the release date as being October 6th 2013. Note that I have no idea how reliable this information is, and I'm taking it with a wagon of salt myself..

[1] http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Bungie-Destiny-Release-Date...
The magnetic north pole isn't in the same spot as the geographic north pole -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_declination.
Vminpoly: A polyfill for CSS units vw, vh & vmin
It was fun to make, and I'm happy if anyone finds it useful.
I would like to help you with this, or at least talk it through with you, but the site in your profile is down and no other contact information is listed. (You need to put your email in the "about" section for it to show up--the email field is not public.) My email is in my profile :)
The Brainstorming Tweak: How to Boost Creativity in Groups
> All the resolutions on Android are pretty confusing, i.e. we have xhdpi (2x), hdpi (1.5x) and mdpi (1x). They sound extremely technical. When I first started almost a year ago, the engineers couldn’t even explain to me what the ratio were for each of those. I had to figure it out by asking a lot of questions. The resolutions you should design in are 720×1280, 540×960 and 360×640. Make sure to include hardware buttons and the status bar on your design for high-fidelity mockups.

Uh, no. There is no standard resolution on Android. You shouldn't make any assumptions about it. Build layouts that scale themselves and adapt based on the screen width & height in density-independent pixels.

> Fonts are unfortunately device-specific so better expect crappiness on some devices.

Fortunately, starting with 4.0 you can force the stock Holo theme in your app. Unfortunately, the manufacturer apps are stuck somewhere in the 2.x era and have completely alien user interfaces in comparison.

> In 2x, the minimum pixel dimension should be 28px for text, 96px for menus & header and 116px for the footer.

It's a bad idea to talk pixels in Android at all. Instead, use density-independent pixels (and the sp unit for font sizes which also scales with the global font size) which are calculated based on the screen resolution and size/density. As two examples, the minimum size for a touch button should be 48x48dp to ensure it's big enough to touch, and a 7 inch tablet is at least 600dp wide.
GiantBomb also put up a video about this, and I agree with Gerstmann, I think this is really for next gen console not PS3 and X360, since it isn't coming out until 2014.
As the organiser in question. I don't have any religious affiliation. I'm just aware of many wonderful buildings around my citys who's primary purpose is that of worship but design see's them very well suited to a conference.
My account is still 4 BTC short and nobody from Coinbase has responded to me via e-mail or twitter.
Chris Hughes’ The New Republic Isn’t Anything New
I can see your point, but at the same time, maintaining one UX Pattern for each platform becomes unrealistic.
I'm sorry if you don't like the story. I didn't decide for it to be at the top. I considered it relevant to what happened today. Immediately after I posted I shared my own experience living in a community that was unsafe for journalists and brought up the suggestion that perhaps there should be more organizations like wikileaks that are set up to allow for anonymous reporting, not only for government whistle blowers, but for reporters that live in fear of putting their name to their work.
Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts
Great article but I'm kinda sad that it missed drawing the bigger point: the dichotomy perceived value vs. actual value goes much beyond products and companies; it's something that permeates our entire lives as social animals.
This reminds me of the Reduceron[1], a processor designed for Haskell. You can do a lot of optimizations in hardware if you have certain guarantees about the software running on it.

[1]http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/
not news, and [...] not particularly related to hackers

True – neither of which is the mandate of the site. The mandate is to be intellectually interesting. I found it interesting to read such a lucid letter by a man who knew he would be murdered and didn't seek to avoid that fate. I also find a journalist whose primary commitment is to truth to be as interesting as the other rare species people sometimes post to HN.
I would down vote you if I could -- This article is the writing of a man who was murdered for his ideals. It makes us think about life and death. It makes us contemplate how committed we are to our everyday routines. It makes us wonder if we would have been strong enough to do the same. It is a wake up call, plain and simple, and Heroku faux pas and git branching suggestions can wait.
In the diagram of Frame X, which purports to be an inertial frame "centered" on the horizon, the horizon is shown as a vertical line. If this diagram is supposed to be a spacetime diagram, this is incorrect; the horizon is an outgoing lightlike surface, so it should appear in a spacetime diagram of Frame X as a 45-degree line going up and to the right, just like a light ray.

However, if the diagram is just supposed to be a diagram of "space" at the horizon (not spacetime), then it is not correct because the direction to the left of the diagram, towards the singularity, is not a spacelike direction; that direction is supposed to be the inward radial direction, but that direction is a timelike direction, not a spacelike direction.

In short, the diagram of Frame X can't be correct, so no valid logical argument can be based on it.

[Edit: The argument given in words has the same problems, but it's easier to illustrate them in the diagram.]
I'm in the UK actually, but I do believe recognised religions get some forms of tax breaks in the UK as well though I'm not complealty sure.
If you go on a journey and bring a gun is it a shooter?
Think of the standard addition and multiplication algorithms. You start with the rightmost place, right?
The UK "Grey Book" email system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_Book_protocols) used email addresses the other way around (in the same timeframe that the UK was using a stack over X.25 as their internetworking protocol).

For example, a user at Imperial College (IC) would have been: user@uk.ac.ic, rather than user@ic.ac.uk as they might today.

Email gateways existed to convert between the different systems, but when all country codes were added to the internet, some addresses were simply ambiguous. (An address ending in .cs might be either czechoslavakia or a computer science department.)

The main email software responsible for this slicing and dicing was known as PP, which helps explain the excellent quote on ASR (alt.sysadmin.recovery) a few years later:

http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html [search page for "mail transfer agents"]
I noticed that we were missing some b2b companies, Yammer being one. Not sure how many more there are.
Suicides generally don't get reported unless they are exceptional in some way (e.g. celebrities, murder-suicide combo)
Obviously, because it's fun to shoot stuff and watch it be blown to smithereens.
while part of me knows that a Pi will work, I feel like minimum for a home server really should be an intel NUC mini box.
Think about basic math aka addition, subtraction, and multiplication work.

1237 + 4567
7+7 = 14 = 4
3+6 + 1 = 10 = 0
2+5+1 = 7
1+4 = 5
5704

That's right to left. If we wrote numbers left to right we the 1's place would be on the left.
Yes. But the human numbers gives something like 8 million pounds of antibiotics over something like 300 million people, or something like 0.03 pounds per person per year. By weight, there are something around... 8-10 people in a cow.

Remember what the antibiotics are being used for here. It's not just 'oh, we're not sure if the animals are getting sick cause we have so many of them so we'll just give them antibiotics in case', it's 'oh hey, if we give them antibiotics, they gain weight faster'. The level of antibiotic use (along with nearly all business practices in large scale animal farming) is almost directly dictated by consumer demand for cheap meat. There's simply no way around that - and this comes from a lover of meat.

We really need to adjust our expectations of our food supply.
I don't get this. It is clearly a hip hop song (albeit with a bit of old school 808 influence rather than the current Hit Boy/40 production style and made by two white guys with a black singer on the hook), why was it not the Billboard hip hop charts all along?