skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For air and water at least it's not a 'provision of services' argument.

Those are shared resources and as such require a way to ensure that assholes don't ruin it for everyone. I mean, right? We can't even make safe concurrent algorithms for a single computer where we control all the code without using primitives like CAS, locks, etc. Whether it's the guy with the largest club or government as we know it, that control of shared resources is done by government by definition.

Without control of those shared resources it's uneconomical to re-clean the air or water sufficient to provide for it.

Additionally even if private companies can do it cheaper that may not be better overall. What would the poor do if there were no sources of clean water? Would they just sit there and die? Or would they gang up and take it by force from those who can afford it?

People pay these costs all the time, whether they realize it or not.

More importantly, people often require services in the future that they refuse to plan for ahead of time, which wouldn't be a big deal except for when their failure to plan starts to affect other people.

For example, you can let a house burn down out in the sticks if someone doesn't pay into a fire-fighting fund (whether public or private).

In a city it is simply unacceptable to let a building burn; it would catch the buildings around it on fire. Those residents have to contribute whether they think it's a good idea or not.

I mean shit, I wish it were as easy to have a functioning and vibrant society as simply blaming the government for everything but people always seem to miss that they'd simply end up subservient to whoever the next despot is who decided to wield force. As long as you live in a world with other people you are never completely free of politics or government; someone will always have a bigger club than the other and so you can either deal with the world as it is or fall prey to those with less idealistic principles.
> "beautiful"... "beautiful"... "beautiful".

Really?
Why don't you post a D4 video at ISO 204,800, so we can all laugh at it.
100% These guys has very professional designs, useful for non-design guys.
For less grody cruft, and as a challenge to up your game, try layering plan9port or the Inferno VM over your *nix.
You are right, and I have some blame here of not including positive criticism in my comments. I do not have a script to offer, but I can go through the process I work by.

#1: A good password is a must. During installation, have a second computer generate a good password and either memorize it, or GPG encrypt it somewhere on the second computer. pwgen is decent in generating passwords.

2#, I fully agree with the article on automatic updates if its a personal computer. For others, one can have root mails sent if you are a fast and and read mail daily. This is how many people read about vulnerabilities before they reach the news.

#3: When installing large package like web services, I keep in mind of the long term prospect of each project. I ask the questions: Is there a deb package? Is it being maintained by a large group of independent developers? Is it mentioned in discussion at Serverfault? Are there any recent updates? What does the Wikipedia page have to say?

#4: read the man page, and check any section labeled security. Some man pages will say things like "we have this port open. Its completely insecure, and we expect either the local network to be safe or that you use a firewall". Through this just happened once for me, its still a good practice to check the man page with new services.

#5, avoid php themes/mods that require you to manually patch things. They won't be updated by Ubuntu, so things will either end with you uninstalling it or forgetting that it exist and thus get hacked. Sometimes ubuntu will just install over the mod, dealing with the issue for you.

Other than that, harderning depend on use case. A wiki/forum will need some form of anti-spam protection. A media center need access control or firewall to only allow local network. Unsecured protocols like nfs and nis need something like ipsec. A mail server needs authenticated smtp.
I will say I very much like Redux and have used it for dumping AST nodes. I recently became interested in a project where I wanted to hack on and extend the grammar. I found this difficult in Redux, Coco (and friends), and couldn't use CoffeeScript because of lack of source map support previously.

I think a huge benefit for Redux will be making the grammar very clean and extensible. I know it's on your roadmap to CS-ify it.

Edit: Oh, and if you're curious, I wanted to play around w/ translating the CS AST to TypeScript AST, but I'd obviously need to add more typing/declaration syntax to the grammar.
I wouldn't say that nobody uses Websocket for their API.

http://blockchain.info/api/api_websocket
Try again... not sure what you saw, but yeah there's video as you scroll down... our old site was kind of a "need it up!" kind of thing... and most of our sales are direct sales, so we haven't yet optimized marketing funnels as well as we could.

Which is a way of saying if you want to help us fix our marketing woes, contact me. :)
Putting stuff like "frequent power outages make public transport unreliable" in the "pros" column is why I can't figure out whether or not this is satire.
Missing is -
1. Wall of death.
2. Collapse of the mosh when one person trips over.
3. Crowd surfers and the effects of a boot to the head.
Yeah, I rank governments that murder millions of their own people pretty low on the scale of "human rights". Sorry.

Edit:
Most of those people weren't "killed in World War II". They were murdered. By their own governments.
Thanks, that's the first use case that I could actually see using myself. Don't think it's quite enough to get me to go buy a cable, but I can see it being handy for that.
Don't fight the crime/drugs. Fight what turns people into criminals: poverty, social issues, low education standards.

Help those people who need help.
Why are you still on Chrome 21? The latest stable version is 25, and it's only been fully available with version 25.
Trolling firm digs deeper hole with defamation suit against critics
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/trolling-firm-digs-deeper-hole-with-defamation-suit-against-critics/
I like cinnamon, but you can run cinnamon on Ubuntu and don't need Mint.

What are the pros of sticking with Linux Mint? Are they performance based?
Subscribed and waiting for release. Perfect UI kit, detailed design.

Waiting for responsive pro version.
Did you mean "leak as little memory as possible"? Though, some days it seems like the opposite, I admit...
The point of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5320630 was to address the fact that you were putting words in my mouth.

You said "So what are you saying, it's ok as long as the US is not as bad a NK?"

That statement is completely orthogonal to what I was trying to say. Nowhere did I ever imply that something is okay just because it's not as bad as something else. That whole concept is completely nonsensical. If Australia became as bad as NK and then NK grew to be even worse than it was before, Australia wouldn't suddenly be doing something "okay" just because NK has set a new bar for despicable. Hopefully nobody in this thread is so stupid that they couldn't deduce that on their own.

What I was saying is that you're a complete asshole if you think the US is "like NK". That sort of comparison is completely inane and extremely insensitive to actual North Koreans actually being executed because their father was caught devising a plan to escape the country or whatever. None of them can leave. The US is NOTHING like North Korea and I wish ill will upon everyone who makes the comparison. I hope you all sit on a thumbtack or something.

The day no citizens can leave the US is the day I will acknowledge a similarity between the US and NK.
Responsive? sounds nice.
Founders Den: Office Manager (San Francisco)

We are looking for a well-rounded and high energy Office Manager to run the daily operations of Founders Den. This is a challenging but fun opportunity to manage a dynamic entrepreneurial environment and network with startups, executives and VIPs in the technology industry.

Founders Den is a shared startup office space and private club for experienced entrepreneurs, located in the heart of San Francisco’s SoMa district. Launched in January 2011, Founders Den is the only co-working space in San Francisco that operates on a referral-only model. Founders Den was co-founded by four experienced entrepreneurs, Jason Johnson, Jonathan Abrams, Michael Levit, and Zachary Bogue. Founders Den is sponsored by DLA Piper, Norwest Venture Partners, Bullpen Capital, Rackspace and Wells Fargo. In our two years of operation, Founders Den has been home to over 75 startups like Cake Health, DataSift, DotCloud, Kaggle, Socialcam, and Wanelo, as well as Lieutenant Governor (and former San Francisco mayor) Gavin Newsom.

For more information see:

http://www.foundersden.com/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/founders-den/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOopg8ltENQ

Responsibilities:

- Oversee the day-to-day operations of Founders Den, reporting to the Managing Partners.

- Represent the Founders Den community and Managing Partners as the ambassador of Founders Den to advisors, partners, vendors, property management, visitors, tenants, and alumni.

- Handle facilities management and logistics including supplies, deliveries, kitchen & beverages, and supervising repairs and cleaning.

- Manage shared resources such as conference rooms, and enforce house rules and policies with tenants and visitors.

- Coordinate tenant leasing, including tracking upcoming vacancies, conducting tours, interviewing prospective tenants, and coordinating the approval process with the Managing Partners.

- Manage internal and external events, such as talks, advisor dinners, demo nights, and sponsor events. - Event management includes coordination of invitations, guest lists, event budgets, event staff, food & beverages, furniture, and A/V. Some late nights for coordinating evening events will be involved.

Requirements:

- Ability to multi-task and balance multiple changing priorities.

- Passion for community building.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Familiarity with basic bookkeeping and expense tracking.

- Experience or familiarity with Internet startups is preferred.

Please email resumes to michael@foundersden.com
Are you sure? I am getting AT LEAST one email a day from them and never read them.
great idea! but, I think you could be well traveled and not know a single one.
That's an awesome idea and very nice execution.
Oh, the possible negatives I had in mind were brain-related: "diminishing returns" due to tolerance or other factors after long-term use, and adverse side-effects of the drug flooding your brain with seratonin and dopamine over long periods of time (obviously similar to that observed in long-term methamphetamine use).
It becomes a habit when you write according to standard rules.

"The small numbers, such as whole numbers smaller than ten, should be spelled out."

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-rules-for-writing-numbers...

Edit: Also, I prefer to use proper English (to the best of my abilities) even when addressing my computers.
Ask HN: Examples of some good presentation decks for investors
Anyone know of a few good examples of presentation decks done for investor presentations? To give you the context, this is for a start-up in education space looking for funding.
I've used AutoCAD quite a bit, and it's complexity goes to show that a product doesn't necessarily need to be overly shiny and simple to sell. It does follow a few of the principles it's talked about, such as the simplifying of the UI by moving to a "ribbon" UI not too unlike the move Office made recently, and splitting out features to different products. For example all AutoCAD releases can draw lines and circles, but AutoCAD Architecture has different advanced features that that of say, AutoCAD Electrical. Backwards compatibility is a huge issue in the CAD industry, not only with files, but also UI issues like keyboard shortcuts. AutoCAD does this pretty well. I doubt someone who used AutoCAD back in the 80s would have a hard time sitting down in front of the latest version and still getting the same work done without the extra features. The UI and even the toolset are all extremely customizable, but the defaults are very sane as well.
It's unfortunate the author was not able to manage the drug properly. Adderall is a potent substance that, when used in the correct fashion, can be an effective aid for those who need it.

Uh, I would claim that drug reactions vary considerably from person. To claim Adderall is always bad for someone seems to be untrue but to attack someone for not being able to control their reaction to it or any given drug seems really problematic. You can't tell what ability person X has to control their reaction to substance Y, I'm not arguing this just based on the tautology that you aren't them but on the fairly well demonstrated point that human psycho-physiological reactions have been shown to have considerable variation.

It is a question of who or what is in-control and pretending there's a pat answer to this is evil.
awesome game!

but is it just me, or is it impossible to defeat the murderer?
played it 3 times and i get killed everytime by the murderer.

what did i miss?
Winter is Coming: Solar Minimum ahead
I would bet that without all the energy that Adderall gave her, she no longer has the energy to go drinking with friends 7 nights a week.
Or a descendant of Japanese people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
Isolamento Térmico de Edifícios com Algas Marinhas
I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I took the author's original post and implemented it as an Ansible playbook in a little less than an hour.

http://practicalops.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server.html

Happy to answer questions about it. :)
They just spam the living shit out of your facebook page instead in my experience.
Very neat. Couple of nitpicks with the toggle controls though. The animation looks kind of weird here. Instead of sliding the visible "knob" from one end to the other, it animates the "knob" entirely away and brings in a second "knob" that represents the other state. This feels extremely bizarre to me. Also, double-clicking a toggle control selects part of the page.
Everyone keeps equating programming with literacy. Why. This makes no sense. We have a legion of IT professionals that have no idea about programming at all. Could it be the only analog to "literacy" is really, simply the ability to use computers? Literacy comparisons is just too far. Literacy, in terms of reading and writing are much more fundamental.

Anyway, the reality is sure, logic is not for everyone. It clearly is not. I'm not talking about graduate level logic is not for everyone; I mean plain old logic is just not for everyone.

We may want it to be. But that's not reality. I think the world would be better of if everyone was at the same intellectual level of Einstein, but that's not reality.
This is built on bootstrap, and includes the responsive css. Throw everything in a container-fluid.
ah, but this is not a law that needs changing, it's the Librarian's opinion that needs changing. It's a ruling, not a law. Basically, Obama just told everyone to shut up and suck a lemon. If he wanted to change it, he could call the Librarian and say "Hey, I need you to change something for me", or just publish an executive order - change it or get on my kill list.

He could change it, but he's not interested enough to change it.
How I spend my first 5 minutes on a Server -- with Ansible
Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and desktop versions of TweetDeck
Pick up the plate armor, he'll barely score any damage on you. It looks like `[` and is in the dungeon somewhere (in addition to chain mail, which looks like `[` as well).
Show HN: Lekh Diagram – sketch recognition app for iPhone
How TED makes you feel
Mostly because it's natural to type a word longhand in the form of a sentence. So it's not that you should be able to do one or the other, but that you should be able to do either. A user shouldn't be coerced into doing something unnatural for them if your premise is to make it conform to a user's natural language rather than forcing a query type language.
People get things done - Wayland. Comes along Canonical and creates their own stuff just because Wayland is not controlled by them. Must be so fun to fragment Linux even more.
Don't get me wrong, I partly agree with your stand. My problem is that is hard to dismiss something just on the basis of "it is not science since is not useful", because is almost impossible to draw a dividing line. Many useful discoveries were the product of people just "fooling" around and I believe that this attitude should be encouraged in science. Yeah, you will always have those guys who go and analyze how people slam into each other in rock concerts, but they are just outliers, most people out there are producing research that has some kind of usefulness.
"Bottom of the list for everything that matters."

Except for "first choice to which to immigrate", oddly.
It's interesting to see the parallels between Android and Windows in this regard.

Here's a story from my past, copied from a blog post I wrote last year:

My first job at Microsoft was providing developer support for the early Windows SDKs. To do my job well, I spent hours studying the Windows SDK documentation, the Windows source code, and writing sample applications. I then spent hours poring over customers’ (such as Lotus, WordPerfect, and Computer Associates) code helping them figure out what was not working.

This gave me a deep appreciation for API design early in my career. I saw clear examples of elegant APIs as well as horrific monstrosities. I once created a sample for selecting a font in GDI that I called “ReallyCreateFont” because both of the built-in Windows APIs (CreateFont() and CreateFontEx()) were basically broken.

The CreateFont case taught me first hand the pain resulting from exposing an API publicly, having customers use it in ways not expected, and then having to do unnatural acts to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.

I was supporting WordPerfect’s development of WordPerfect for Windows. This was sometime in early 1991 if I remember correctly. I had the WordPerfect engineer on the phone. He had given me access to the WordPerfect source code, but I couldn’t give him access to the Windows code. So we were each stepping through WordPerfect in the debugger, him in Utah and me in Bellevue. I could see what his code was doing and what Windows was doing, but he could only see disassembly for Windows.

The problem he was seeing had to do with font rendering. In the debugger we stepped into CreateFontEx(), which calls into CreateFont(), which calls into some internal GDI function, which calls into the device driver’s Escape() function (I can’t believe I actually remember all this crap like it was yesterday). Somewhere in this call stack I came across a block of code in Windows with comments that read something like

// This is a hack to deal with Adobe’s Type Manager.
// ATM *injects code* into GDI replacing our code with their own.
// In order to retain backwards compatability we detect
// ATM’s attempt to do this, let it do it, and then trick it
// into thinking it actually hacked us this way.

I am not making this up (although that comment is paraphrased from my memory).

It turns out that the way WordPerfect was using CreateFontEx() was reasonable, but pushing the envelope of what anyone had done before, effectively exposing a bug caused not by the original API design or implementation, but something the API provider had to do to ensure app compatibility because of something another 3rd party had done!

Holy-shit! Let me get this straight:

* A 3rd party app (Adobe Type Manager) used CreateFontEx() in a way the API designer failed to anticipate.

* The API designer needed to retain backwards compatibility so it had to resort to putting 3rd party app specific code in the API implementation.

* Another 3rd party comes along and the complexity of the ‘fix’ caused another bug to surface.

Welcome to the world of a true virtuous platform...
I can’t wait for this UI kit. I believe it is the only one already coded…
I love the idea of a BIG, because we are post-industrial and have a surplus of almost everything we need in the first world, but just don't distribute it due to the dramatic income divide.

It would also let me, say, try writing a new development IDE, or a new programming language, or a new OS kernel, or most other low-level software products you can't "sell" to people, full time. Right now you really just can't commit to those kinds of projects because they don't feed you.

The only problem is it can't happen in our current culture. At all. At least in the US, the entire political system, tax code, etc are all so horribly broken, abused, exploited, and convoluted no change can happen at such a fundamental level.

I just wish there was a new frontier to try these ideas out on. I wonder how badly humanity as a species suffer from the inability to pick up, go to unknown lands, and try something new. You just can't try new social or political philosophy anywhere anymore.
Well, I mean actually that it is not in the sense that it never will be. It may not sound nice but just basic logic is not for everyone. Now if you mean some future utopia or something ... that's not really interesting to me. In such a case then you could never fault someone for saying "everyone should be maximally good at everything" but it has no verisimilitude with reality.
White House calls for cell phone 'unlocking'
This is fantastic -- I love everything about the concept; hopefully the speed issue can be addressed. But overall, fantastically designed product; kind of reminds me of a Wolfram Alpha for travel with interpretive responses to search
Prescription "meth" is just that: meth. Methamphetamine is legal in the US and available under prescription (brand name: Desoxyn). It's scheduled just the same as Adderall -- not that scheduling means much; most of it's science-free political posturing.

Adderall/Vyvanse are amphetamines but not methamphetamine.
DRM Chair
The WSJ story just summarizes the outcome of the recent petition, but the comments thereon are hilarious/depressing.
You can't leapfrog the competition if rendering modern websites requires implementing the competition's feature set bug-for-bug at near 100% levels. Remember IE and Netscape?
I've never seen that image of our galaxy's central region, it's fascinating! Is "Sgr A" the black hole, Sagittarius A*? If yes, why would it be bright? I thought it's inactive.
This is particularly interesting in the context of the widespread accusation that flat UIs tend to have worse discoverability (example: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...). If you inspect the key navigational and menu elements, they did a pretty nice job making it visually obvious (with hover states, borders, shapes etc.) what kind of functionality those flat blobs of color offer. ;)
You are missing the forest for the trees. The entire technology stack behind you posting something here in HN started at some point as a government-sponsored project.