skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Yeah, this will probably be an accepted fallacy for day to day usage. You could quote leading geologists/physicists and the implication is that they have a vested interest in being correct. But the reasoning there isn't just "Because they're experts, so trust them!", it's "They purport to have measured it and I trust that they did so accurately because of their position as leaders of their field and their desire to remain as such.". Still technically might be a fallacy, but I would accept it in the case of a casual conversation about the Earth's circumference.

2. Agreed that it's contextual. I merely wanted to point out that not all discrediting is ad hominem as you seemed to imply.

3. Also agreed that it's highly dependent on context. Again, just pointing out that one can speak out about policy direction without committing a fallacy.

And yes, I dislike that as well! The fallacy fallacy: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
Norway is kind of a special case since they have oil. Denmark, Sweden... they have another decade or so before it hits there. Germany is such an industrial giant that again they are not your typical Eurozone country.
David Lee, for all intents, is Ronco on this, I'd wager.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/ron-conway-makes-it-clear-t...
Perhaps some people are creating abuse videos to fill the demand for animal abuse videos? Putting an end to that seems justifiable, and runs along the same logic lines that makes child porn illegal.

I won't say that there isn't a problem, but having been around many animal farms in my day, the videos that are out there do not seem very representative. It does make you wonder how much of it happens for the purpose of catching it on film.
What's the difference between Austin and San Francisco?
After living in both cities, I didn't feel like Austin had gotten a fair shake. Here's my take on the real differences: It comes down to levels of intensity.
Not anymore. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/reddit-thri...
1. Keep services running: Runit, even with daemontools differences, is hard to beat.

2. Hard(-ish) resource limits and accounting: LXC w/ cgroups. Almost as good as full paravirtualization (Xen). There are still some issues with limiting resource contention impact between cgroups.

3. Softer resource limits, rogue app restarter: We've heavily modified bluepill because it seemed to lack insight on the needs and challenges of large-scale production ops. Specifically, we've added optional total child process limits (a few issues reported, fixed and even submitted a pull request). It might be useful to add max # of processes, nic bandwidth, iops and couple other checks.

Also worth considering:

4. Status monitoring: Icinga

5. Performance: collectd

6. Entropy injection: Chaos Monkey
Interesting information, but look:

>Many of the top players get 5000 to 7000 viewers every time they stream their games

That is not very much... it would take about 400 years of to get the audience for a single Wimbledon tennis match.

>Top level earnings for a handful of sports are much higher

Well - just how large is that handful? Off the top of my head, basketball, baseball, soccer, NFL football, golf, motor racing, hockey, rugby, cricket, tennis all have top earnings an order of magnitude higher.

But how about something more obscure... lets see... Australian Rules Football: highest paid player Gary Ablett Junior, US$ 2.0 million per year, EXCLUDING endorsements. Eh, lets go full retard: darts... wow, US$ 900,000 per year, that's prize money alone.

So I think my point that peak earnings in professional sports are higher than in video games stands, at least for the time being.
Has to be the most elitist thing I've read in a while.
What a great response from Matasano founder! No wonder they have 2 Ex-es (daeken,nbpoole) in this thread.
While English is taught from elementary school, it becomes much more important in high schools in Vietnam. There is at least one English-only class at most schools. Some schools do Vietnamese in the mornings and English-only classes in the afternoon, while at other schools every class except Vietnamese Studies is taught in English.

I've been involved with many high school and college exchange students from Vietnam over the past few years and some students I've been working with recently speak English at the same level as native speakers with no discernible accent. One of my current students scored over a 2200 on her SAT. It's really amazing. From my experience, and from what I've been told, the emphasis on English language studies has increased within even the last 5 years in Vietnam. Each year, the students that I work with here in the US speak better English than the students from the year before.
vegetarianism is not the answer. Monsanto is one of the evilest companies on earth and they control most soy production (I say this because many vegetarians eat a lot of tofu).
It's about understanding the source and making good choices. Eat grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef (these two things virtually guarantee you're not supporting the concentrated feedlots) and free range chicken. Eat non-GMO vegetables that are locally grown and in season. It's about supporting the right suppliers, which thankfully exist for all parts of the omnivore spectrum.
This sounds an awful lot like things that have been going on with development/operations lately. Standardize configs, record best practices, etc.
I find myself in the surreal position of wanting to endorse the author's book while bound by the awareness that any such endorsement by definition ought to be viewed with extreme skepticism.
My Horrifying Experience with Google AdMob
You would still get people gaming the system, find a popular cat picture and repost, gain 2000 karma, profit. It really isn't hard to get easy karma with lowest-common-denominator content.
No, you bill at the level your contract states that you charge. Doesn't matter what you have anyone else pay you it's what you negotiated through the bidding/negotiation process.
> focus on young women

So you're co-launching a sect and become a sex-guru? ;)

No srsly, I've found that many people (not only young women) could need some help to get more self-esteem, curiosity (many are, but they think they're not allowed to be), orientation, focus, can-do mentality, so your business could be helpful.

Indirectly I do something similar. I give seminars (as a side business) on business apparel and experienced that the technical stuff (e.g., colour choice or sleeve length) is just a part, attitude is equally (or even more) important. And people (both men and women) often need someone (me in this case) who tells them that they're not that bad, that there are (mostly unwritten or not commonly known) rules out there that can be understood. That a lot of confusion can be reduced often with simple methods (i.e., complex things made simple and applicable).

My background in social simulation certainly helps to understand social dynamics and make those rules and how-to procedures minimal and explicit. E.g., parts of my approach are directly transfered from the theory of situated agents, where one is embedded within a (social) context, occupies a (social) position, has goals, which lead to the required actions. Shorter:

f(context, position, goals) -> actions.

In the case of my seminars, the actions are mostly clothing-related (e.g., dress like co-workers or dress like seniors?). But it's easily extendable.

Sorry, you didn't ask for this, I wrote it anyway. :)
I initially assumed "Ghetto Stock Market" meant "a stock market which allowed participation by or restricted participation to Jews", which really made no sense.
Aren't there better ways to generate ad dollars besides sending people on a suicide mission to Mars?
Another fun (for some value of fun) variant is Hell Tetris[0] based on xkcd[1].

0 - http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris

1 - http://xkcd.com/724/
Greekdex Is Primed to Become the Next Huge Social Network for Greek Life
I can't tell you how many times I've clicked the "more" button looking for scholar to no avail. Its the only extra service (non search) I use regulary and its the one not in the navbar.
The inside story of Lenovo's ThinkPad redesign
I do have to agree that the term walled garden is completely inaccurate to models companies like Apple are pushing towards. More accurate would be calling it a cell block; you gotta do what the warden wants, when the warden wants, regardless of how arbitrary it is. Apple's push towards centralization is why my mac mini is now sitting unplugged on a shelf -- it's becoming harder and harder to do neat things under the apple system because you have to ask for permission every five minutes.
Paying people to support a cause makes said cause appear weak and will often backfire on you.
Dropping the limit on income to become an early stage investor is bad because... accountants are expensive?! There are a lot of reasons not to crowdfund your startup, but this article misses all of the big ones.

I'd love to see a well written treatment of this topic once the new regulations go into effect. Hopefully Forbes can find a better perspective on the topic by then.
I'm sorry but I don't understand what this can be used for. How is this different than running `heroku create` in your folder and then git push heroku master?

Or is this just a troll repo, similar to the Enterprise PHP Addition Library?
Only someone with no idea of, or appreciation for the rapid rate of technological advancement would deem a 1GB connection unnecessary.

The sad thing is that this reflects the current thinking of politicians (Especially in Australia) I wouldn't actually be surprised if this was published in the SMH to help undermine public opinion of the national broadband network currently being rolled out here.
Ghetto means something different (but similar) now: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghetto
Thanks for sharing! Mine is below; not particularly elegant, but it adds stale link cleanup and a dry-run mode.

https://gist.github.com/sciurus/5184930
yeah PG and all HN admins need to fine a way of keeping media manipulation out of this website.
The Free Manifesto
Only in the stories. The majority of situations where PayPal calls probably end just like this. I've taken that call myself and didn't have a problem. The stories we read are almost all about people doing things they shouldn't with any payment processor; that's why it only gets worse when the processor learns the details.
This lets you clone another opensource project and get the dependancies and env vars, and the app setup / added in one command. Less docs to read, faster to get started.
Please don't presume to speak for me. I left Matasano because I was returning to school; I greatly enjoyed my time there and I keep in touch with everyone I worked with because they are a group of intelligent, kind, and all around awesome people.

Also, I wholeheartedly endorse Tom's responses to your insinuations.
Well, I suppose in some places animal cruelty is more universally rejected than anti-gay sentiments, but in my opinion, the Phelps family embodies the same principle. I don't know of anyone (aside from a few families that have moved to Topeka to join them) that would support the things the Phelp's family says. But their speech is protected (as it should be). And really, it forces even the most conservative, Confederate-flag-waving of my schoolmates to be vocal supporters of gay rights when I doubt they'd be otherwise.
I recommend to everyone the documentary Earthlings, you can see it for free at http://earthlings.com/?page_id=32
Can anyone weigh in some informed hearsay on the general 0day market for iOS vs Android, OSX vs. Windows? Is it possible that Mac products are causing state surveillance headaches?

Another, perhaps more realistic motivation is that it's simply in China's economic interest to support mainland Chinese device manufacturers ... who can only produce using Android.

... posted from a non mobile phone user, on OSX, in China.
Totally agreed on all counts.
As a citizen of a so called third-world country,

Which country are you a citizen of?

You will recall that I didn't use the term "third world" in the first part of my first comment in this thread, but categorized countries in two other categories, at least one of which could definitely include countries that aren't part of the Third World. My use of the term came after an edit to the comment, in which I wrote, "I've asked before here on Hacker News how many of the participants here have ever even lived in (not just visited, but lived in) a third-world country. Not many have."

your post is extremely condescending.

Could you please explain in detail what part of my post you were reading when you reached that conclusion? You see, I have done what I suggested in my post. I have lived in a country where I wasn't born, where it was nearly impossible for me to gain citizenship, where the language(s) spoken were not my native language, where the climate was different from the climate I knew in childhood, where the cuisine was very different, where the level of wealth (then) was low. In that country, when I lived there, secret police assassins killed not only dissidents in that country, but even dissidents from that country who had settled in the United States to live. The ruling political party owned all but one of the newspapers (in that newspaper, it had just a half share) and all of the television stations, and it tightly controlled radio broadcasting and book publishing and motion picture production.

There was a lot of censorship and internal spying there, but local people told me their stories of their aspirations for freedom. I learned which ideals of the ruling party could be turned to embarrass the ruling party as it spied on me and other foreigners while we discussed what we were learning about life there from our local friends. I spoke there in open public speeches (in the official language of that country, which I was there to learn) about how life in the country could be improved for the common people by actually allowing freedom and subjecting the rule of the ruling party to the discipline of a free press and free and fair elections. Those things happen there now. I still have many friends there. What is condescending about desiring that the common people of every country achieve their dreams?
This is something that is difficult to prove either way, especially with the amount of group think that gets posted to the top of popular subreddits.

Reddit is basically the perfect breeding ground for this sort of thing. In fact if I was an internet marketing type I can't think of why I wouldn't target reddit.

We have a lot of younger unemployed people out there today who are probably thinking "damn, if only somebody would pay me to browse reddit all day".

Facebook etc are doing similar things with "sponsored likes", the main difference being that this is at least less surreptitious but it certainly shows that astroturfing is very very big business.

Hell for all I know, I'm the only "real" person on HN and all of the rest of you are hired by various interest groups to try and persuade me of various things..
was just wanting something like this about a month ago. well done guys.
The best he can come up with is "the dividend paperwork will be a hassle"? Can't we at least get people up in arms about adverse selection and lack of information?
Reminds us that Flash isn't dead.
Why waste effort trying to improve the situation when we can just ignore it more strenuously?
awesome thanks :). I really want to apply one of these days, just need the money and time to get out to new york for three months hehe.
Sure. I'm well aware of the SV Angel/David Lee/Ron Conway dynamic. But I guess that also proves my point that the graph is misleading.
You mean we'd get /quality/ moderation, just like slashdot?
Can you specify what you are experienced in?
Agreed. Nobody expects startups to pay dividends, so that part of the article seems like a red herring. I would hope that the same level of due diligence that angels would perform today ends up getting done in the case of equity crowdfunding.

I have a suspicion that equity crowdfunding will be the "funding of last resort" (because it's "dumb money") and that's why it will be a ghetto.
I agree wholeheartedly with you.

I only noticed that I tend to take in less meat these days because of not trusting how it's treated. Videos like this don't inspire me to eat it...
http://kottke.org/13/03/how-our-food-gets-to-the-table

I live in Japan and generally avoid buying any food from the US. My beef comes from Australia and vegetables mostly from Western Japan (as far from Fukushima as possible).

It's not cheap but it's better than supporting Monsanto and factory farms in general.
Google DRM not supporting Linux
Why would the multiplication fall in the parenthesis section when it clearly isn't in a set of parenthesis? 6÷2(1+2) expands to 6÷2*(1+2). The items inside the parenthesis first and there should be no ambiguity about that.
I'm completely with you on your first sentence. I experience this first hand on a regular basis. Ironically, you point to Peter Singer after mentioning animal rights and you specifically point out his utilitarian stance. Singer (despite having brought many people into the Animal Rights world) is a utilitarian. He does no believe in rights. In fact, he has recently softened his stance even further - see the "Paris Exception".
Some people want to make small investments in new startups for the same reason people play the lottery: there's a very small but real chance of winning something.

It's not a margins game like buying stocks of big corporations in the stock market in which you buy and hope it appreciates 20%, then sell it. It's buying stocks with a 99,95% chance the business will tank in 2 years and you'll only recover 5% of what you invested, but with 0,05% chance you'll get a 2000% return on your investment.

Particularly, if I had money I wouldn't want to invest in a startup without actually meeting the founders and seeing the company for a while, but if people have the money and want to play with chances, more power to them.
I've watched the video, it intrigued me and left me with these questions: Can you put an item in multiple collections at once? Can a collection be inside another collection?
The first amendment exists precisely to protect our ability to publish and release such information.
Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks.

Second-person tetris then?

[on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -> front page. write a new game from scratch -> dustbin]
Lets be clear, if you don't like animal abuse don't eat animals.

Murder is worse than abuse.

These videos in essence are propaganda tools and I see little value in the so called animal rights movement that promotes clean killing as an ethical good.

But at the end of the day there should be free speech no matter whether it's right or wrong or for good or evil.
I'm curious where animals get rights from in the first place? Serious question.
Looks great! This is definitely useful. Only two things, when I go to add a service, dropbox is not appearing as an option for me. Also, it was not immediately clear to me how I would delete a collections folder. I kept trying to right click the icon in the left panel but I now see that if I click My Collections there is a minus botton at the bottom.
> Eat grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef

Or just eat pastas, lentil based dishes, vegetable curries, soups, or even supplement meat with texturized vegetable protein for faux meat pies, bolognese etc. I'm a meat eater and can't tell the difference.

The vegetarians I know don't eat tofu very often, and would rather eat tofu potentially produced by a notorious company than eat an animal.

Didn't down-vote you BTW, just thought I'd chime in because I know a few veggos, including my wife. It's not bad food I can assure you.
The fact that the orientation of the view changes based on the orientation of the block necessarily precludes this from truly being "first-person Tetris." (Unless the implied viewer can rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the screen, which seems absurd.) Anyway, I digress.

It's still a neat concept...
I didn't know you were allowed to use "bareback" in (supposedly) legit journalism
I would consider your argument if it wasn't for the fact that the farm lobby has been behind similar bills in several states in the past (most recent was Iowa, last summer IIRC). It isn't animal rights activists behind these bills, it is farmers who don't want their activities watched closely.
The lack of regulations makes crowdfunding simpler, riskier and generally more awesome.

The trashy opinion piece assumes that people are not educated or "qualified investors" enough to throw their dollars into something, like a European-paternalistic view... this is fundamentally anti-capitalistic.

Regulations, through the use of lobbyists, serve incumbents whom which to defend their business models with the durable advantage of higher fees, more rules and more paperwork. They may also naturally be against anything which would threaten their oligopolic hegemony.

Fodder for discussion: What are the risks of crowdfunding? Could the next pebble-like project/startup not deliver, or is there enough pressure to assure follow-through?
The sweet sound of success
Relevant:

Upon landing, Polyakov opted not to be carried the few feet between the Soyuz capsule and a nearby lawn chair, instead walking the short distance. In doing so, he wished to prove that humans could be physically capable of working on the surface of Mars after a long-duration transit phase.

That was 18 years ago ...
exactly...whoever heard of startups paying dividends?!
I think that I relate. I also think that no amount of thinking is going to change anything. Brainspace is devoid of solutions.

Possible solutions :

DRUGS. Speed gives you power and focus, the cornerstone of any successful endeavor. I'm talking cocaine, adderal, etc. Psychedelics can crack your head open and show you new stuff.

WORKING OUT. Raises your life energy level, upon which everything depends. Gets you high. Great antidepressant.

MEDITATION. Like working out except for a different part of you. You can really blow up your life in a good way. New powers and freedoms.
Flashy headline; but piece was just not substantively there....
Hah that's exactly what I was expecting too
If you did this in your spare time or even other wise. 5 weeks is amazingly short time for a project of this size.

Good work done!
Looks amazing, I need to upgrade from 10.6 as well :( I noticed on the site that the "Download for free" button at the bottom says "10.7 and above", which needs to be corrected?
It's Forbes, so it's essentially a blog.
There is a huge difference between clean kill slaughter and animal abuse then slaughter if we are going to agree that animals can feel (which they most certainly can).
From having feelings? WTF is wrong with you people.
Thank you! We disabled Dropbox and Gmail for now, we'll put them back when our integration is more reliable. You can delete collections with 'Delete' key or '-' button at the bottom of the screen. But agreed we should definitely make UI for this more obvious.
it would be better if Clay keeps it and doesn't sell it. read earlier comment regarding one employee and little overhead. kudos to open sourcing the project and being able to support it. i'm pitching in even if it doesn't become my new go-to rss reader.