skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drowning by Numbers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092929/

- It's gorgeous. Not like a movie, but like a collection of hundreds of beautiful pictures.
- It's geeky. I had to watch the movie dozens of times and read the script to understand all the allusions and references.
I was thinking if the trend is toward automation and away from physical labor some unique features could be selected for in 200,000 years or so.
Why More Features Doesn’t Mean More Success
An interesting pattern I've come across lately is a project where contributions are almost universally either rejected or rewritten (largely superficially) by the original author of the project. I think I dislike this far more than a lack of response, though I've experienced that as well.
Running ActiveCollab 3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 12.10
No, but your parent did. My point is that merely knowing that you can work to improve your position, build on it, is novel information in and of itself for a great many people, not to mention how to do that.

My position is less about handouts, and more about the assumption that poor people know how to get out of poverty and all that's missing is the elbow grease. Yes, relying on the government for handouts isn't going to work, and you also want to be careful of welfare dependence. But education is a significant wealth-enabler, and merely knowing how to deal with various things can give people a leg up. Kamaal's point is about giving a giant shrug and saying "eh, what can you do?". It reflects the current realities of the situation, but the lazy part is not bothering to think of better ways forward.
Beyond the bitcoin bubble
And that didn't change when I opened Claws today
We created the Internet?
It definitely isn't a zero-sum game - more basic medical skills in a demographic will improve quality of life, for example, and that's just (almost) free knowledge - but it still doesn't mean there's enough wealth to give everyone a comfortable life.
So does ruby Hash in 2.0 if I recall correctly.
I really liked evolution, but after using it for a while I noticed how hard it is to keep things organized with it. So I went back to Thunderbird.
Interestingly, xxxxx.xxx hasn't just been squatted by some porn provider. It appears to be owned and run by ICM Registry LLC, the registry for .xxx and the company which convinced ICANN to allow them to run the TLD.

So basically, the company that lobbied for and created .xxx didn't just know that people were going to squat xxxxx.xxx domain names used as placeholders, they actually got in on the act themselves before anyone else could.
Fool.js — I pity the user
Nothing you can do? You could always write a letter.
Kaspersky's apparent political effectiveness, using his wide global influence and expertise to further reduce internet privacy is troubling. His alignment with Putin puts his motives into question.. or well.. perhaps makes them clearer.
I once submitted a pull request to add a feature to a popular OSS library. It got several "thumbs up", was actually useful, didn't change the API and had test coverage. I put a lot of time into making it nice and clean, in my opinion a perfect pull request. Two years later they closed it with a comment saying one of the more senior contributors added code that did what my code did (except 2 years later) so mine wasn't necessary anymore. They never merged my changes.

Objectively I can say what they did was cold but logical in the end, since it incorporated the change better into how they saw the next version of the library and they can trust the more senior contributor more. Subjectively it really hurt. It was one of my first contributions to open source and it definitely unmotivated me to do any others. It was in limbo for 2 years until they finally implemented it in another way, instead of just accepting the pull request for now until they could change it.

I don't hold a grudge against the people involved since I've used their code a lot and am thankful for their indirect help using their libraries. It just felt shitty.
>And anyway, from my experience, Python has never been the cause of the slowness.. It's more about tweaking that DB query, smartly packaging the assets or using a better algorithm.

That's because you constrain your use of Python in I/O bound problems, like webpages and such. If you had any CPU bound problems, then you would have found Python is quite slow -- and you can get 2-20-100 times the performance in another language.

Python is very slow (compared to what it can be), which is what necessitates tons of workarounds like: C extensions, SWIG, NumPy and SciPy (C, Fortran, etc), Cython, PyPy, etc. A whole cottage industry around Python's slowness. Which is nice to exist, but not an ideal solution: suddenly you have 2 codebases to manage in 2 different languages, makefiles, portability issues, etc etc. All of those are barriers to entry.
Made me reread this article - http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader...
Always worth a reread for the combination of gripping content with good writing. Just to pick another one in this series: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa... (about stuff that will burn sand (not: burn _in_ sand)
They misspelled "Wall Street".
5 Things I Learnt While Working For A Startup
Do you really think they should be able to get access to your account on 000webhost without you giving them the details? That would be scary...
No. But it DOES matter to me than Python restricts you to using it for those cases, whereas I would want (and could technically be able to) use it for far more stuff.
I've done this. Had a pull request from a contributor that added a feature, but in return changed the API of my library almost completely, didn't account for many, many edge cases and had a couple of bugs. When I was done I had rewritten it completely, but I still attributed the change to the original contributor. In the end, I'm pretty sure I invested more time in it than he did, but fair is fair imo.
Dear Mozilla: Please save people from Gmail instead of building this kind of apps.
Round Table #1: Should Exceptions Ever be Used for Flow Control?
Thanks. This is surprising indeed. Will it stick ? I doubt it was bootstrapping.
>I think that's kinda the point; rewriting critical sections in C is pretty much Working As Intended. That's why it's a scripting language.

No, it's pretty much not "Working As Intended".

It's just "Working as we have been used to, because, well, what can you do?".

As V8, IonMonkey, Dart, Smalltalk VMs, LuaJIT, even PyPy etc have showed, nothing prevents Python from being an order of magnitude faster (and sometimes up to two), while remaining just as dynamic.

Rewriting parts of a Python program in C is not a technical necessity due to some (unsurmountable) theoretical limit. It's a technical necessity because of a non optimal interpreter implementation.
My favourite:

Let the right one in (the original version), beautiful atmospheric movie:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1139797

Other recommendations:

City of God, harsh but realistic:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0317248

Barefoot Gen, shock and awe, made me cry, IMHO better than Grave of the Fireflies:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0085218/

The Chaser, breathtaking thriller:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/

The Andromeda Strain, now this is real SF:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0066769

The Man from Earth, good low budget SF:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0756683

Castaway on the Moon: funny movie about a man that 'bootstraps' his life on a 'stranded island' after a failed suicide attempt:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1499666/

I saw the devil, violent but very good thriller:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1588170/?ref_=sr_1
On slide 15, he says of Stacks : "I spent 3+ months designing this in C in the 90s".

Anyone know what that means? Is he talking about segmented stacks?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
They could be playing the long game.

There are only 21M bitcoins possible. 1M is about 5%. The goal of many bitcoin-folk is for bitcoin to be in the top 3 currencies. Imagine only 5% of all the Euro in circulation... or 5% of the USD... $250M is nothing in comparison to that prize.

(BTW this is one problem I have with bitcoin)
>Yeah: your real bottlenecks are going to be 1) getting data out of your database and 2) sending packets across the internet. These are 100 times and 1000 times slower than your program, the 10x penalty to use ruby/python instead of C/C++/go/rust isn't going to matter.

Only if you're talking about the typical CRUD, website, etc program.

Why should we? People use Python for numerical analysis, scientific computing, etc. Why not let them be able to do that, while still writing in Python (instead of using libraries that delegate to C/Fortran/etc)?

And even a website can do intensive computation work. Why HAVE to write it in 2 languages?
http://www.zdnet.com/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley-poverty... recent article on poverty in Silicon Valley
Selection bias. You only know of one popular revolutionary cypto-currency. There are loads of companies worth $0 (or much less than $100M)
Really like the mention of audio/video integration coming soon.

Likely not the market they really had in mind, but this could be an awesome extension to forums. Definitely an upgrade on the standard chatbox so many are still stuck with, and it's great that you don't need to give out personal details to start a call or private IM.
The earlier you get in, the more you get.
“I wonder if someone can come up with a proper paid competitor to gmail, it would be something I would be interested in.”

If you use OS X or iOS, you may want to look into Apple’s free email service. The native apps are great and the web interface, while not as full featured as GMail, is responsive and well designed. (There’s also Windows integration, but you’ll need Outlook for that.)

I've had a mac.com email address since January of 2000. Never lost an email, I have about 60,000 emails in there now. Compared to POP/IMAP, I especially like that it’s push email and it lets me search my archive from my mobile device, without having to download my entire archive. I think that, once you use GMail or iCloud, it’s hard to go back to POP/IMAP.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/calendar-contacts-mail....
>The original, with Harrison Ford's voice-overs, was perfect.

Sometimes I wish HN would allows downvotes...
Al Gore is American :)
I see your point about C++, but I don't think anything in Ruby or Python could be described as "terrifyingly complex". They give you plenty of rope to hang yourself in various ways, but that's a different issue than language complexity.
Metropolis is a fantastic film!

I've never been into silent films, but last year my brother conducted a performance of Metropolis (live orchestra of the film score) and I was blown away by how good it was!
Disassembling an eReader
Love it, reminds me of "If PHP Were British" ( http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ )

Wouldn't mind a few more substitutions in the language, but it seems like most of the work went into making a really nice landing page. Great job there! (Autoplay music forgivable on a joke at least)
I would just get Netflix if I went back to the states. I'm happy to be a lawful consumer of media; I just find things on Youku or Tudou because I have no other options otherwise.
Puisi
Mark,
nice project,but don't be scared that the product is not completely finished ... it will never be ...

your most important next steps are now
get customers , get customers and get customers ....

so

- remove the "closed beta" tag

- have a graphic designer give it a 2013 layout

- put up an price page

- buy some adwords to start doing live user testing

- start optimizing the sales funnel
Two questions:

* How many readers on Hackernews use a Model M keyboard?

* Who uses a keyboard that is better than a Model M (if such a thing exists)?
"As for CRUD type apps, you are probably right but its the bits that aren't CRUD which add the most value to your product."

I'm sympathetic to your point, but I don't think this is necessarily true. What adds the most value to a product is determined by economics. It has nothing to do with whether an app is doing basic crud or nlp wizardry underneath, just whether it does something people find useful. There are tons of basic crud apps out there making people millionaires.
Looks great, I was actually about to start working on an identical project today!
hos·pice

/ˈhäspis/

Noun

A home providing care for the sick, esp. the terminally ill.

A lodging for travelers, esp. one run by a religious order.
Vitus - A perfect combination of all story elements, simply genius.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478829/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
For everyone here writing that they don't see a need for this because vim has macros/regexp's:

Please, please, try it out. I'm telling you, this is leaps and bounds above macros/regexp's for most use cases. It's the difference between a visual way to make changes, and a "disconnected" way in which you write commands and hope they work.

Seriously, I consider Multiple Cursors one of the greatest advances in text editing, and everyone who doesn't even bother to try it is just being silly.
Same here. Not my favourite but I was totally blown away by it. It looks almost like an art movie for its photography is extraordinary.

EDIT: The trailer didn't make it justice.
actually, you'd be surprised - i think those people who don't consider themselves upper-class are probably right in their judgement. the wealth distribution in america is very skewed : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ehzfQ4hAQ

unless you are with in the top 1%, i wouldn't say you are upper class.
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And To No One’s Surprise, Constant Texters Have Self-Esteem Issues
"...every-man-for-himself exotherm..."

Excellent, absolute hoot. I've only had to use hydroflouric acid once (leather apron, double gloves, goggles, fan on) and that was enough...
On the negative side, food in Bangkok is much better. And you guys have real shopping malls! We always go down to decompress there on holidays.
I think my favourite is Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. A beautiful love story talking about how hard it is to forget your true love, how regrets can consume you and that everyone deserves a second chance.
> Everything uses American English...

Isn't that kind of disingenuous? Everything may use the American English character set and dialect, but they're called programming languages for a reason. I don't consider my work to be in English, I consider it Objective-C or Java. In this way, they have their own subdialects anyway.
I totally agree. The keyboard space hasn't seen any innovation in the past 30 years or more. While most of us spend hours using this old device wasting unnecessary energy, it is time for a new cost effective technology to change this.
Now the important part is not the change the existing experience we have today.
Clifford Unchained - “Deal With It”
people don't donate (at least, not those huge donors who throw lavish dinner parties) out of the kindness of their own hearts. They do so to appear charitable, and to show off their status. THis is why you don't often see private, undisclosed and anonymous donations in large amounts.

When a rich elite donates money, they are doing it to sing praises for themselves - whether they admit it consciously or not.

The end result is still good - i don't care whether their charitible activities are self-serving, provided that it achieves the results of helping those who needed the charity.
hollywood dramas...
Actually I worked as a synthetic organic chemist in a previous life and I was always much more afraid of the chronic systemic poisons than the things that blew up. It's one thing to have something go boom in your fume hood and quite another to get a drop of something on your glove that you don't even notice and then later that week all your hair starts falling out and everything tastes like metal. Organo-selenium, tin and tellurium compounds are particularly nasty.

I'm much happier now with nothing more serious than RSI to worry about.
So much time wasted in schools teaching children secretarial skills on proprietary software packages that will have been replaced by the time they finish school anyway.

We could do a lot worse than giving to every such child, instead of practice in Microsoft Word, a decent (possibly primarily one-handed) chord keyboard on which they learn to touchtype.
In Canada, there is certainly a point where intoxication makes people unable to legally consent. Presumably the police and/or prosecutors felt there was not sufficient evidence of that level of intoxication.
Also of note - http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/
i don't believe the assertion that the "system" can be fixed - in a very complex system, there necessarity exists optimal strategies for "advancing" (in this context, it means getting more money faster). I compare it to making sure a complex computer system is secure from attack - the surface area is just so large, that you can't plug every single possible hole, you can't plan for every single eventuality.

To fix socioeconomic problems means to redivide the pie more evenly, and there are just way too many vested interests in keeping things the way it is.
Reserved.
As the Firebase engineer posted you can use Node.js, OR ANYTHING YOU WANT, remember you are not forced to use JavaScript for everything, that's the beauty of *nix, if CRON worked for ages, why not just use cron and a perl script or simila?.
Answer 1: If they are sufficiently intoxicated as to be unable to consent, then yes, it is rape. In such a case all the individuals involved could theoretically be charged and convicted -- it is possible to have "mutual rape".

Answer 2: In decreasing order of probability: Fake ID, older friends/relatives, theft.
She was vomiting in the photo, that's pretty good evidence of that level of intoxication. The accused was also clearly recognisable[1] in the photo so it beggars belief that they could think there wasn't sufficient evidence.

[1] “because he is easily recognizable in a photograph showing him raping the victim while she is visibly ill… why the RCMP decided these photographs aren’t evidence of rape is beyond us.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/anonymous_on_rehtaeh_parsons...
Committed into master / dev branches, was what I meant to type. And yes, essentially pull requests, but in person rather than over the internet :)
Sorry I'm a complete Bitcoin noob, but is there some way for you to recover them via their transaction ID, or get the seller to re-issue them to you?
TL;DR:

* Simple Substitution < Add a whole word

* First Letters from a Phrase < Take the 3-4 words from a common phrase, add some punctuation

* Random Password Generators < longer password

* Personal Algorithms < longer passwords
I was thinking the same thing; my initial thoughts were Jeff Minter or James Hague, but Google is not showing anything relevant.

It might simply be that a common first-time benchmark exercise for programmers moving from BASIC to assembler is to fill the screen with characters or pixels. I have a sneaking suspicion I did the same too.
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I think we should just go ahead and rename Hacker News as Bitcoin News.
> ...lacks even the value system which would encourage the privileged to feel guilt and regret over their treatment of those beneath them.

i'd like to talk a bit about this "value system". While i'd like to believe that in a western society that the value system for me to not steal and murder is built in, i really doubt that's the case.

The value system is one which is enforced by laws - and actual enforcement, instead of lip service. I assault a person, i get to go to jail. Imagine if the enforcement isn't there - i'd steal my way thru life! Forget about the morals, when you can have the latest shit for free! This is the exact psyche of a software pirate - because it is unenforceable.

I would say that the value system is so poor or non-existent in india could be because they are unable to enforce their laws, or that those with money can get away from the punishment etc. Hence, the poor sees that and assumes that the laws are selectively applied, and that its OK if you get away with it.

I m sure things will improve (as things have improved in western society over the past several hundred years - you'd see similar behaviour in the middle/dark ages in europe). It just takes time, and takes wealth build up in such a way that those who are most desperate aren't anymore.
There's a comment by Hal Finney on another bitcointalk thread on this

Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at the time, I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs.[1]

Remember too that at the time noone could have foreseen the popularity and success of Bitcoin.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#ms...
While this list is not unhelpful, the most likely risk is that your password will be captured when a single site that you've signed up to is compromised.

This means that the most important password choice you can make is to have a completely different password on every site.
Bitcoin is decentralized, no one can reissue bit coins because no one runs bitcoin. If he lost his private keys (his "wallet") than he looses all of the coins associated with it.
Experiences of organizing FOSS conferences in an Indian college environment
Readerpocalypse - The Players
Your upstream thread reminded me of an essay I read a few months back. It concerned Downton Abbey, which is a show I've not seen so anything I say here is second- or third-hand.

In the British style of the 1800s, the system was set up so the lord of the manor (or whatever the title might have been) was the caretaker of the wealth and the people. For example, he would build housing for the people of the manor, provide money to the church, support the sick and elderly, and so on. In return, the people would work for him.

This makes the system dependent on one person. If that person should invest heavily in a sugar cane plantation in the Caribbean, which goes south, then that may mean economic hardship for the entire area.

It's hard for me to say that this model is either philanthropy or taxation. It's remnants of feudalism. That makes me think that the issue actually one of centralized vs. decentralized power, or of resilience vs. fragility. (After all, towns and cities also go bankrupt.)

Wealth is a force multiplier, which can be used for good and for bad. There are ways to attenuate its use for bad: equalize wealth (eg, through progressive taxes or increased philanthropy), strengthen laws (so those with less wealth seek remedy in case of bad treatment), inculcate (eg, through the Carnegie Formula) an ethos towards "good" philanthropy, and so on.

Progressive taxation to me is the easiest to accomplish. It does require a transparent, responsive government, but then again, so do the others.
NodeBox: clever tools for curious creatives.
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Did anyone else find this article to be meandering waffle that has no bearing to anything else on HN? I fear the airplane toilet incident has inspired a host of chemists to start posting on hacker news, creating a subculture.

And yes, I'm totally expecting someone to point to the HN posting guidelines that state that anything that may be of interest to geeks is appropriate...
So it's a no on preparing some in your pressure cooker?

http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
To quote Scarface: I like you, Mozilla. There's no lying in you.

I'd be far more willing to trust Mozilla than Google or Apple. As Firefox OS has shown, they're committed to the web.
This link might be a good read related to income per day context and an attempt to manage in that much amount: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Harsh_Mander/barefoo...
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