skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like the 60 train restrictions/governmental restrictions on closing branch lines/rate restrictions in Atlas Shrugged (Not looking for Ayn Rand discussion). So if you happen to have a system with high inertia (stacks of paper weighting it down), any change will break it, whether it's more demand (brown/blackout) or less demand (financing model collapses).
I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)
> it would not matter how rich you were.

Which USA do you live in?
To me the name is so bad that even after the name changes I might prefer to use something else, all other things being close to equal.
you're free to do that now: outbid them, with your money, for all of the advertising spots.

then you can promote whatever you want - until someone else comes along and decides to obstruct you, of course.
Facebook IS the ad.
Yes. Also adding mercurial as a vcs option would be great.
"The Calm Technique" which is the best no fluff guide to meditation. Note the author's other works are distinctly more woo.

"Structure of Scientific Revolutions" which is critical for understanding how long change really takes, and spotting areas where revolutionary change is overdue.

"Pritikin's Testament" (also published as "Jesus was an Ad Man") which is The Bible on human communication from one of the original Mad Men. The original name was just to attract controversy, it's not a Parable of Jesus the Advertiser or anything dumb like that. The author worships the three martini lunch.

"Angel Tech" by Antero Alli for it's devastating analysis of what makes people tick, and how to rework your own clockwork. Owes more to improv theatre than shamanism, regardless of its name.

"The Outsider" by Colin Wilson. This book has aged strangely, and it's up to you if he's describing adolescence or asberger's syndrome, but you can't get your head around social difference through the ages in an easier way.

$0.02 etc.
This looks fun: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35941

Baseball: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35918

Some sort of dog kennel: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541

Kid and dad playing video games: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35548

Cockroach cam: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24313
Hello from the wasteland Germany. Everything is in ruins.
All this criticism of Facebook home is kind of ridiculous. It's basically preaching to the choir. What I hear when I've read almost all of the recent criticisms is "Don't use Facebook Home if you don't like the whole point of Facebook Home". Well, duh!

Facebook Home is for people who live on Facebook. It doesn't pretend to be anything different. If you're a Facebook fiend you'll love this. If you read HN you'll love to hate it. This software is not bad. It just doesn't suit the purposes of people who, well, have a different use-case in mind for their phone than the people who would like Home do.

I'd like to see more reviews that are aimed at those who would actually want to use this software. At this point all we get is "hey, people who would never like this thing, you shouldn't use it and hey let's have fun hating on it". I wouldn't use it. I agree with the article completely but my problem is that the point of the article is irrelevant. Instead there should be balanced reviews that weigh the pros and cons of this software for the audience it's aimed at.

This is like going to GNU conference and reviewing Windows as an OS you wouldn't like and shouldn't use.
It's not the first time I hear about this — i.e. the book "Centuries of Childhood" by Philippe Ariès writes a bit about mentions of this habit in literature. If I remember correctly (which I may not), it mentions it was common for some period, but neither before or after.

In general I'd wish if people were more careful with general pronouncements like this — just because some people somewhere did something (say, hunt by running, eat only meat, eat only berries, sleep in two parts, sleep with the head hanging down, bake crackers, not cook anything, whatever) doesn't mean all humans did that until 5 years ago, nor does it mean it's a somehow best course for every single human dead or alive. Now, that it may be a good idea to try out (depending on specific idea, with specialist supervision maybe), but it might turn out horrible.

And I doubt anything like "optimal" sleep even exists, unless you start including additional conditions. You need work, you have to balance the need to sleep with the requirements of it (and some enjoyable jobs do start early), you might even a tendency to sleep too long for own comfort unless kept in check, and if you have apnea sleeping longer will only make things worse.

So, my annoyance here is mostly with the generalization made by the statement — not "we". Some other people, at some point in history, did, and wrote down all the awesome experiences they had while doing it.
And how can anyone reach you?
So in order to exploit something, the target must feel exploited? That's news to me.
I'm interested in working with you. I'm a developer, mainly good on backend, and database related stuff, but I've done a lot of CoffeeScript, and and am fluent in js, LESS, bootstrap, and jquery. Learning knockout right now. I have no design skills but I can do pretty nice renditions of mockups.

Where are you located?
Questioner: What do you think of Indians?

Krishnamurti: That is really an innocent question, is it not? To see facts without opinion is one thing, but to have opinions about facts is totally another. It is one thing just to see the fact that a whole people are caught in superstition, but quite another to see that fact and condemn it. Opinions are not important, because I will have one opinion, you will have another, and a third person will have still another. To be concerned with opinions is a stupid form of thinking. What is important is to see facts as they are without opinion, without judging, without comparing.

To feel beauty without opinion is the only real perception of beauty. Similarly, if you can see the people of India just as they are, see them very clearly without fixed opinions, without judging, then what you see will be real.

The Indians have certain manners, certain customs of their own, but fundamentally they are like any other people. They get bored, they are cruel, they are afraid, they revolt within the prison of society, just as people do everywhere else. Like the Americans, they also want comfort, only at present they do not have it to the same extent. They have a heavy tradition about renouncing the world and trying to be saintly; but they also have deep-rooted ambitions, hypocrisy, greed, envy, and they are broken up by castes, as human beings are everywhere else, only here it is much more brutal. Here in India you can see more closely the whole phenomenon of what is happening in the world. We want to be loved, but we don't know what love is; we are unhappy, thirsting for something real, and we turn to books, to the Upanishads, the Gita, or the Bible, so we get lost in words, in speculations. Whether it is here, or in Russia, or in America, the human mind is similar, only it expresses itself in different ways under different skies and different governments.

— From Think on These Things (also published as This Matter of Culture) by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Chapter 11 - Conformity and Revolt. - http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/think-on-these-things/1...
Not necessarily. I did that for a while at a job I hated. It was the only thing that kept me sane. Lots of hackers (like me) hate confrontation. Even small amounts of interpersonal conflict cause intense discomfort. So, when under a toxic boss, I think adopting a clockwatcher attitude is an entirely valid strategy.

I analogize it to the strict shift rotations employed by nuclear reactor workers, chemical plant workers, and others who have to deal with dangerous and toxic materials in their day-to-day jobs. You set hard limits on exposure and stick to them. The act of setting and sticking to those boundaries can give you a modicum of control over a situation where you feel like you have no control at all. It can make a huge difference.

And, of course, as a side benefit, setting hard limits on the hours you work also allows you to have time to conduct a search for a less terrible job. :)
I'm not much for philosophy, so something simple along the lines of believing that I should leave the world a better place than I found it, and there's no reason that should be limited by borders, ethnicity or much else. Also, the idea that I have no obligations to people who are just like me but don't have the same passport is chilling and disturbing in its implications.

Borders are pretty arbitrary things in a lot of cases. There are probably still a few very elderly people alive in the Sud Tirol region of Italy who, as infants, found themselves to be Italian citizens despite not having moved a mile, because Italy managed to beat Austria in WWI. Linguistically, and culturally, they are Austrians in that region (or, in some of the high valleys, Ladin speakers, if we want to start getting into details), and many of them don't really identify with Italy to this day.
A lot of people on HN don't like this ad because they are not the target audience. This ad is not made to hire new employees.

Most effective advertisements are not logical and don't have good argument, because they are aimed the lowest common denominator.

The target audience for this ad is probably the kind of people who have shitty jobs which they hate, and they are not enthusiastic Hackers who love their jobs.
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> Baby formula has more sugar than Coke.

Of course it does--milk has a lot of sugar in it. Breastmilk is about 7.1 g/100ml (all lactose), and good infant formula is about the same. Coke is 10.2 g/100 ml (fructose and sucrose). Some infant formulas do have added sucrose.
A valid question. I don't think someone would be able to get away with that in my USA (SF bay area) irrespective of wealth. But perhaps in a more provincial part, like, say Alabama...
I agree: upper class isn't about wealth. So much of it is about culture (in the sense that culture breeds character traits). And the ambition to obtain wealth in the middle class breeds character traits that impose a barrier for entering the upper class.
Which explains the perceived insanity of tumblr posts.
A great password won't protect you or your clients from keyloggers, writing the password on a post-it to stick to a monitor, shouting it across an office, emailing it to a friend's 'web genius' kid so he can fix that thing that's broken, and a dozen other password misadventures.

Two-factor auth is not just about rendering dictionary attacks ineffective.
"This snippet of a high level function is self describing. 1) Check to see if movement keyboard entry is pressed and move the player"

I disagree. I do not see anything there that can even remotely be explained to imply the 'check to see if movement keyboard entry is pressed' part. Something like 'handle-player-movement' would be better.

Similarly, 'fire' could fire a gun, simulate fire in the way 'waves' (apparently) simulates waves, etc.
How can we get in touch with you? I am mainly a backend developer / server guy, and I am interested in this.
Actually, the caste system isn't that much of a problem anymore. Because of various affirmative action programs, many former Dalits have risen to high governmental posts and industry titans.
Damn character limit... email me at kilroy123@gmail.com
It could be Forth, then :)
I'm not saying immigration can't be the right policy if it benefits Americans. I'm saying the extent to which it benefits non-Americans isn't part of the calculus.
Companies respond to anti-Golden Dawn ad campaign
Xbox Live is down
That's facetious and doesn't address OP's point, which is that certain industries are banned from advertising their products in certain ways when said products could harm their users.

I don't agree that Facebook is necessarily at the point where we can call it harmful, but your "all you need to do is outbid Facebook" spiel is some smarmy nonsense – not least of which because Facebook itself owns some premier adspace outright, which it's more than willing to use to spam whatever new product of theirs that they'd like.
The only paid email service that I have ever used, and would recommend, is fastmail:
https://www.fastmail.fm/

It's run by the fine folks at Opera Software (the Browser).
People should assume that if there is no affirmative declaration of "This is production ready" then the code is not production ready.

If there is no affirmative declaration of "I will be actively supporting this beyond my own personal needs" then assume that the code will not be supported beyond the personal needs of the project owner.

Or people can just ask, instead complaining (however well-intended) that their assumptions have turned out false.

This is like people who build a business on some aspect of Twitter or Facebook then complain that Twitter or Facebook is shutting them out. If you are using someone else's code or API make sure you get some positive, unambiguous statement from the owner about what to expect.

Things can still go south, but then you at least have a legitimate gripe.
It's tremendously useful as a global addressbook / Rolodex for someone who's lived in various parts of the world.

The problem of course is that this address book has evil tentacles coming out of it, grabbing at my wallet and other items as I walk down the street.
> pretty much every Indian I know had maids/gardeners/cooks at home.

In poorer countries - especially those with fairly unequal societies, hiring help is cheaper - not just absolutely, but proportionally, as well, so it's much more common. I read some economics discussions of this years ago, but don't really recall the details.

In other words, an Indian is a lot more likely to have hired help than a Norwegian, even if the Norwegian is better off.
You're right. However, the difference in India lies in the fact that the lower-income people are .. middle class. Poor people in India are without any real income. Most of them struggle to get two meals a day. A lot of them live on under $2/day without access to food, shelter, sanitation or any type of medical facility.

The stark contrast between such a person and another that drives around in an air conditioned SUV is what often shocks people. By comparison, a western middle class person in India would be considered pretty well off! Unfortunately, the Indian upper middle class/upper class do not apply those standards to themselves.

There are some people commenting on this topic saying that SV millionaires are not upper class. That sounds ridiculous in India :)
I didn't see any mention of gmail coming out of beta. I wonder if gmail has been in beta for most of the life of this addy.

Also would have been smart in retrospect to invest a few hundred in Apple stock back then, instead of futzing around with email addresses. :-)
Not sure if you read the article, but it did spend a good while focusing on why people who like Facebook may not like it: in particular it is missing a good number of features we're used to in Facebook. For example, I can watch videos in the Facebook app, but not Facebook home (a little strange). Similarly, you can't share webpages, etc. His whole thesis was that it took over too much of the phone while simultaneously not providing enough Facebook features. Seems like a fair criticism to me.
The Supreme Court meets the fallacy of the one-sided bet
>I think the target audience is very young. Facebook strategy is probably very long term, playing on the fact that young people grew up with Facebook.

Teenagers were actually shown to be fairly uninterested in Facebook, and are engaging much more with services like Tumblr and Instagram (well, which is now part of FB).

Source: http://business.time.com/2013/03/08/is-facebook-losing-its-c...
It's creepier than you think, currently the first feed you gave they are in bed and the guy is playing on what look like a Nintendo 3DS and he is naked...
I don't understand your reply. Two sources show that the US is 51st[1] and 40th[2] in the country rankings for life expectancy? I'm not sure what Japan and Korea have to do with it. Definitely not leading the field

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

[2] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Every part of America I have ever been in would not tolerate that. It's illegal.
I have always been a strong believer in the saying "Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them". Studying this area would be difficult though as you either need to know ahead of time who would be successful, or study such a large cross-section that you are statistically likely to snare future successful people in your population.
One that employers (at least those which are obsessed with keeping their employees off of services like FB) aren't going to have any control over either, since everyone now carries around alternate computing devices that are outside of the company's IT jurisdiction.
look for the smallest possible successes
But how many root canals do you have per year on average? Surely something like .25 at worst? And I suspect most patients paying for regular cleanings already have fewer of them.
Or it could look like one platinum coin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_Dollar_Coin
It's a very interesting article. I wonder if you've heard of Push (a stack language) and PushGP (an evolutionary automatic programming system for which Push is designed)?

http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html
Why should programming languages be written in 1.1Mb?
I think that part of their success is because China a non-religious tyranny.

Muslim countries can't do it because of their hypocritical nature they try to ban and regulate everything, including things not related to regime's survival. They set absolutely unrealistic bar and never hit it.

On the other hand, Chinese regime is very pragmatic. They offer their internet where they only change a little. This they can do without making the whole thing unusable.
Your views are rooted in one of the more common misconceptions about so-called software patents: None of them are algorithm patents, because you cannot patent algorithms. What is patented is the application of certain algorithms to solve a practical, real world problem. The algorithms involved are not covered, and can freely be used for other purposes.

In this case, that happens to be preventing poor passwords. That is a concrete, real-world problem, requiring practical solutions, which these patents purport to provide (probably) novel, non-obvious variations of. For example, one of the less "decent" patents uses (what seem to be) bloom filters to track and test for poor passwords. This does not mean all uses of bloom filters are covered by it. The claims specifically cover the method of using bloom filters to test for bad passwords.

Really, it becomes clear what is covered when you simply read the claims.
Have there been any viable alternatives to GR? 
Have there been any viable alternatives to GR?
This sort of maltreatment of those less materially well-off predates any modern concept of political frameworks by centuries if not millenia.
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Devil's advocate: by allowing software patents, that might tend to force technological change. You need to invent a new landscape if the current landscape is illegal or onerous to operate in.

For the record, software patents annoy me and I don't think they should be allowed.
Can you give us some info first? For example: how do you plan to select who is in, and who is not? Will there be any contract or something? Is it a problem if I'm not fluent english speaker?
It's kind of funny that there is the whole formula-vs-breast-milk debate. Especially since there are so many people that have this odd notion that formula is safer than breast milk (some even thinking that breast milk is detrimental to a child's health -- e.g. "Your child will die or have defects if you feed it breast milk").

The truth is that formula is useful as a substitute for breast milk, but it's not a complete substitute. We should probably be leaning towards breast milk unless there is a reason not to.

We should probably rid ourselves of notions like:

* Formula is obviously better than breast milk because... science!

* Feeding your baby formula is a sign of wealth (much like wet-nurses in the past) because only poor people that can't afford formula breast-feed (i.e. breast milk is 'free' therefore obviously isn't as good).

* Breast-feeding is harmful to children because seeing a breast will scar them for life.
8 hours of 24 is 33%
10 hours of 24 is 41%
12 hours of 24 is 50%
5 days out of 7 is 71% ergo [8]=21% [10]=29% [12]=35%
so that's the percentages of a week you spend at work
50 weeks out of 52 is 96%
which, calculated onto the previous values should be a reduction of a bit more than a rounding error.
So with 8 to 12 hour workdays, you'll spend around 30% of your time at work.
Out of curiosity, have there been any students comparing caste of origin with corruption?
Did anyone else notice that this depiction of Facebook's office where their programmers work looks kind of like a sweatshop?
Assuming this guy wasn't naked when you posted this ... but he is now.

This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog detailing the approach for generating the set of camera feeds:
http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-we...
You're 100% correct. However, the poor in India are truly trapped, almost like slaves to their own poverty (http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/08/generat...). By comparison those who have acquired sufficient wealth are free to do whatever they please!

With that freedom comes a responsibility to acknowledge it and to not act like complete idiots. Unfortunately, even the rich to a large extent aren't aware of how rich they truly are.
Isn't the whole reason behind the 'points' part of the HN comments to hide inane comments? If a comment is inane, it will be down-voted and grayed out. I think relying on humans is a far better filter for inane comments than number of syllables in a sentence.

That said, the code looks good and the idea is fun - might be nice to try and implement a javascript NLP library to make it more intelligent? [1]

[1] http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/node_js_natural_language_n...
Gosh I remember walking around my college campus one day and coming across some random computer cluster in the CS building, hopped onto one of the machines (that said "Sun Microsystems" embossed somewhere one it), proceeding to be utterly confused by the KDE applications and interface. (I was purely a Win user back then)

I'm now typing this post from an Ubuntu box that I built last week. I guess I've progressed a little bit ;)
This isn't really about control or enforcement, it has to be about fundamental ideas in how society deals with this kind of technology.
Hmm my best guess is that it's Chinese.
Maybe they patented this only because no other potentially evil could patent?
Any solutions? I have mostly given up being beaten down by the scale and inherited mentality of 100s or years.
It's certainly possible. As with anything, it's a trade-off, and making the most of what resources you have and being willing to do the hard work and make the sacrifices necessary seems to be key.

Some notable examples made under $10,000 USD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Following_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mariachi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apu_Trilogy
Darn, now I wish I had visited this place (or just ride by it) when I was a student there :(