skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice article. I would encourage the author to use the term "goroutine" instead of "thread" when referring to Go's goroutines, because they aren't threads. The pros and cons of threads do not apply to goroutines. What's cool (for me) about this article is that the author knows this fact (and states so at the outset), but he re-discovers it and internalizes it over the course of his implementation.
"The firm's stock price has risen nearly 16-fold during this long tenure..."

I think that sums it up pretty nicely.
NO. There are plenty of places that only allow you to build a home on 25 acres. You can't build a home in these places if you're poor.
This cuts against the nature of real life.

I regularly speak with groups of high school pupils about privacy and one of my main points to them is that once they commit their latest brain-fart to the internet, there is a very real chance that it becomes immutable - should it go viral, for instance. If it were absolutely guaranteed that it would become immutable though, that would be a game changer.

Can you imagine if everything that you had ever said at any point in your life was permanently journaled and indexed and searchable? I personally find that to be a horrific concept from a privacy point of view.

From a purely technical point of view I can see the benefit of this idea - I hate it when an old article that I've bookmarked doesn't exist anymore (even when by article I mean, a gif that made me chuckle) but seriously, there's a very different world to a newspaper article being permanently available and a myspace profile, Facebook post or tweet being there forever.
Executive compensation seems so out of whack because it has kept up with inflation, while real wages haven't even come close. Why? Allow me to explain.

The S&P 500 now gets half of its profits and sales from the rest of the world. The boom in countries like Brazil, China, India etc has vastly expanded the rest of the world's share of the global economy relative to the US. CEO's are compensated for this performance, but labor is paid based on local / domestic factors, not the profit generated in foreign markets.

The CEO wage numbers in the US demonstrate how horribly the US economy has fallen behind when it comes to labor keeping up with global growth. You can easily test this by scaling the corporate sales backwards, eg to the 1960s, and adjusting CEO compensation for inflation.

Everybody likes to talk about worker to CEO pay ratios, but what they never want to talk about is the destruction at the root of the problem: the Fed destroying the US Dollar. CEO pay has kept up, worker pay has not, and the why is easy to understand: the US economy is being flushed down the toilet.

By tapping into global growth, multi-nationals have been able to keep up with the horrific dollar devaluation that has occurred since the 1960s. CEOs are compensated on that basis. Meanwhile labor directly suffers the full intensity of the dollar's destruction. It is thus that the American standard of living has plunged over 50 years. Minimum wage has fallen from $45k to $50k per year ($1.25/hour in 1964, inflation adjusted), down to $14k or so today.

Americans used to be able to more than get by on one income, while a spouse stayed home to raise a family of four. The savings rate was radically higher also.

Fundamentally it's the same reason why wealth can survive inflation, but wages cannot. One can easily be shifted to defensive assets, the other drowns.

Even running just 3% real inflation per year is massively destructive to the standard of living over the course of a single decade. You have to generate 34% wage increases just to tread water.
My natural inclination is to say "there's nothing wrong with this; if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

But I'm genuinely curious... why are you shocked by this? What is it about FTP that you consider inferior to other file distribution mechanisms?
I am from an immigrant family (I am in fact first generation, having moved here from Bangladesh at age 5 with my parents), which shapes my perceptions and makes policy proposals like Caplan's seem naive to me. They seem to me the kinds of ideas that seem attractive to those blessed by good government and a viable culture for so long that you think that human society is naturally that way. My family left Bangladesh to get away from Bengalis and Bengali culture. It seems ridiculous to me that someone born here would want to import that toxic culture into the U.S. wholesale by allowing free immigration.

I don't think a point by point rebuttal of Caplan would be fruitful. I disagree with him fundamentally, about everything from the relevance of macro-economics to political debates, to the notion that "world GDP" matters as opposed to "American GDP per capita." A people, acting through a sovereign government, have no obligation to care about the well being of anyone but their own. I think there is a fundamental equivalence between the set of people who would fight in a war to preserve a nation and the set of people that nation's government should care about.
Introduction to iOS Binary Patching
I've no idea if it's more like 10% of 90%, but I'm sure a lot lower than 99.99%.

People who used both Skype and MSN (Live Messenger) were shifted from MSN to Skype and now use their Microsoft account to connect to both lists of contacts in Skype. So it's not just for the geeky few who have set this up.

Second thought: last I checked, I could log-in to Skype with both my old username and my Microsoft account, but my Skype username didn't allow me to view MSN contacts. So if that's still the case, then I guess this would affect 100% of people, even those who have made the switch.
Ugh, I just finished writing the XMPP frontend for an XMPP/IRC bot I'm working on (http://www.getinstabot.com). The frontends are in Go for concurrency, and ferry messages back and forth from the channels to the backend.

Let me tell you, that problem is hard. Go coped pretty well, but the final thing is a mess of global states, and it's pretty elegant for what the problem is. I was hoping to avoid having many moving parts, but it ended up needing a lot of shared state between all processes.

Some problems are just hard, and, no matter how well-designed the language is, they'll still be hard. Something I miss from the language after implementing that is the ability to, say, monitor one goroutine from another to see if it returns (so the former can return as well). I know it's possible with channels, but when one goroutine is blocked on network Recv(), there's not much of a chance to listen to channels.

Anyway, yes, parallelism in Go is great, but not everything is magically all rainbows and unicorns (that's Django). Some problems will be messy and dirty, and even more so when you use channels.
Open Source NES Emulator for iPhone
As long as you use the term "The Cloud" to describe whatever it is, you're cool
I think immigration has had a huge influence on those countries. It comes down to trust. The liberal policies of the Scandinavian countries work to the extent that people trust each other. And people don't and can't trust unassimilated immigrants in the same way they can trust people who are similar to themselves.
One of my mom's hippie friends brought up the idea of a single world government to me when I was young enough to think it was a beautiful idea. Every time I've thought about the idea of open borders since, the analogy of driving in traffic comes to mind. To wit, the idea of open borders seems as orthogonal to basic human nature as allowing someone to change lanes into the space in front of you. Even when it is possible that the other driver has to exit the expressway for some very real reason (mechanical troubles, physical illness), it seems difficult to overcome the reflex of NOPE. Of course the scale is different. Letting someone into traffic doesn't cost you very much, in the grand scheme of things. Outside of that one movie plot where you are one minute late and miss some opportunity that changes your life.

The US has been headed very much in the opposite direction for the last decade. These decisions seem very counter-intuitive and I've read and heard a number of stories where people have tried to get into the states to contribute (teach, give talks, consult) and have been sent home. Likely these stories make the romance of freedom seem all the more compelling. But I see the reality of a rate of change that has historically created a bad environment. Think New York City circa 1880.
This has finally let me figure out what annoys me about Go, its a cargo-cult language. People saw that Erlang's Actors/processes were really popular and made it easy to write good, concurrent software.

They then went away and implemented their own language with lightweight processes and message passing, but missed the fact that actors are the price you have to pay for the benefits of not sharing mutable data.

And Go completely skipped that part (the most important part).
Actually, the article mentions that that scooter company got busted for fraud.
Well, it's a sort of mix and match thing if you get into it. You stick the batteries and tanks (or there are are little things that you just stick a drop at a time into) together to get what you want. There are pre-made ones that they sell in petrol stations and the like which look kinda like cigs, but that can be a really expensive way to smoke.

I've got a eGo twist as a battery (you can alter how much power it gives you depending on how you like the vapour and you can screw a wide variety of attachments on) and a ViVi Nova for the tank part.

If you're looking to get into it I'd recommend ordering something like that online, with a couple of juices, buying a pack of cigs that you really hate and smoking them until it turns up. :)
Now I'm getting:

The specified key does not exist

Really, really fed up with this crap. Wishing I'd never started with Posterous, and taking lessons for how I treat my users in the future.
I think that in the long run, true open borders would be a death-knell for the nation-state. The two central purposes for nations, as opposed to local and regional governments, are regulating immigration and responding to (or mounting) military threats. After societies have intermixed to a certain point, you'll see the death of nationalism and sufficient cultural and religious diversity in the electorates of wealthy countries that declaring war on any other country will become very difficult as you'll always have 20% of your populace sharing a religion or cultural kinship or some other line of sympathy.

Add to this the strain of large demographic shifts on representative democracies and you have the recipe for a break up into a decentralized network of regional and local governments that run things according to their particular demographic make-ups. The correlation we have come to expect between geographical proximity and consistent culture and politics would begin to disappear.
Augustine (not random):

answered me (as he could) "that the force of chance, diffused
throughout the whole order of things, brought this about. For if
when a man by haphazard opens the pages of some poet, who sang and
thought of something wholly different, a verse oftentimes fell out,
wondrously agreeable to the present business: it were not to be
wondered at, if out of the soul of man, unconscious what takes place
in it, by some higher instinct an answer should be given, by hap,
not by art, corresponding to the business and actions of the
demander."

-----

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Apps/HolySpirit/HSNotes.html

----

God says...

be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after
that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land,
ruler against ruler.

51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon
the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north,
saith the LORD.

51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

----

God says...
turn distribute Sudden embarrassments hers if_and_only_if
dissolution aghast minutest confiding joking story unbelieving
sighing willest gliding hurting diddest ordinarily correspondence
flashedst nature shepherd's material locking true Could
showed rejection replacing minds deceivingness Enlightener
scourges Too all-sufficient Especially brethren Shine
mislike energy high greedily judgeth betters refresh affirm
never audaciously containeth mounting hunger loathed unchain
aghast fraud esteeming unpunished thanks chastity carnal
unwilling additional refute benediction Humans righteousness
curiously overthrow nation I_donno Etexts Other prey containest
3296 dwelling-place unsearchable don't_mention_it Ignorant
glowing severer continued obeys king fanned forging speedily
beholding year's furnish urgently abideth contented reverse_engineer
forefathers this assail Wales named whereby journeyed
idols prevails follow accusing pale foretelling feareth
naked privately troublesome Pontitianus shall pervious
medicines etext02 where Narrow Sovereign exacted same
conversations passible owes PURPOSE you_don't_say might
plenteousness stooping retard -nor pervious Togo agents
sides Passing trifles don't_push_it ornamenting servant's
position daemon-worshippers conveyedst natures absurd
teachings Descend aloft listing harlotries racked becoming
Entrust guarded definitely Moon neglecteth
80 coloumns avoid that (and other) problems.

mixing tabs and spaces is strange and IMO should be avoided, but it sometimes happen :( all-spaces FTW
Here's a real-world example of a mass migration occurring: German reunification. 20 years on, a disparity remains but both economies have grown substantially and towards parity, and the population figures have only shifted somewhat.[1] To some extent this is a best-case since there are other similarities among Germans, but it's an example of how it can go well.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/09/west-east-german...
I did not know how to ... work hard on something I did not like

I guess I'm the only one here who considers this the worst habit of all. How do I know when to stop working on stuff I don't like?
When did Monaco fall out of favor? What don't people like about it? I kind of like it's angularity.
Does anyone recommend a good GUI for viewing Linux log files on Windows or Mac? I'd pay for an OSX-Console-like app that'll connect to a remote Linux distro and allow easy browsing/searching of /var/log/, or any paths you add to it.
There is no manual approval. All links on the frontpage are there based on the amount of votes and time. http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
http://giphy.com/gifs/njPdRtrrdyoVO
Why I Quit Facebook
Mindfulness goes corporate
It is changing due to the wider dissemination of information, but it is a slow process uprooting entrenched organizations that serve as jobs programs more than accomplishing their stated goals.
Wow, purty screenshot. What's the emacs theme you're using?
Haha! Good point. This would explain why they're trying to limit it to "elsewhere", presumably off their forums altogether.

Speaking of alternatives, I found Jitsi to be pretty good ( https://jitsi.org/ ) and best of all, it's Open Source. A friend of mine uses Viber although its has had security hiccups lately.
Bombings Trip Up Reddit in Its Turn in Spotlight
How much more money is saved if they stop?

Look I don't care if they do drugs, but I will argue against wasting more money on them, unless that money is spent on the real problem: getting them out of their drug addiction.
everybody needs.
Am I reading this wrong, or does this guy run a DDoS service?

"Security Researcher, Hacker, Software Developer, http://www.hfempire.net - Cheap DDoS Tool, up to 35+ GBPS Attacks, Bypass DDoS Protection!"

https://twitter.com/TibitXimer
My presence on LinkedIn got me my last two jobs, and LinkedIn wasn't a thing when I started my first. This last job was through one of these cold-emails through a recruiter. As it has been said by other commenters, it's really what you make of it. I treat LinkedIn as a professional version of Facebook that I actually take care to prune, which really just makes it a glorified Rolodex.

It's also worth noting that you don't even have to be notified of all these bothersome emails, let alone reply to them, and can clearly indicate whether or not you wish to be contacted about work (granted, that can be ignored, but the good ones won't).
Mailbox’s Gentry Underwood: What Hackers Should Know About Design Thinking
I have one big etckeeper repo for all of my personal machines with each machine being a separate branch. It comes in handy when you cant remember how you have something set up on another machine and or for when i get a new machine.
FTP is broken.

Practically speaking, its use of two ports often causes problems with residential ADSL that are often doubled-NATed (1st NAT at home router, 2nd NAT at the local gateway).

FTP is not secure. FTPS is but I haven't seen it used in ages.

FTP server programs are hard to write properly and properly secure. See the huge number of vulnerabilities in FTP programs.

The GNU project is already running an HTTP server. What does running an additional program with identical functionalities to a static HTTP server bring them? I see it as a not-so-useful expansion of the attack surface.

I am quite against blindingly following fashions in computing, but I fail to see what is the rationale for maintaining an FTP infrastructure for publishing files over simply serving them using plain HTTP.
I wouldn't want to exclude them, I just don't want to spend (even more) money supporting their bad habits. It is a two-way street: they want more money? They have to take that in the form of drug treatment.

The libertarian in me don't want to waste money on them at all but I am not blind to the fact that their life wouldn't have been as miserable as it is if we didn't have a stupid war on drugs.
Really this site should have randomised the order in which the font samples appear.

Right now, votes are directly influenced by page order, which I suppose is indicative that people don't feel strongly about their fonts.
That seems pretty equivalent to the "compelling government interest" which can supersede the rights of US citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny
Is infiltrated really the appropriate word to describe these police activities? I think not.
This is a good classic example of the left's defense of thought crime legislation. First start off with the requisite statement that conservatives are racist. Then roll out some convoluted logic that nobody buys on why thought crime legislation is needed.

Leftists (not liberals) just don't have the courage to come out and say that generally leftist ideology doesn't value freedom of speech as much as say libertarians.
> 50 or more people

And the way this provision is abused "when needed" is by injecting imposter demonstrators into an assembly until it gets over the 50 limit and then having a legal reason to shut the whole thing down. This made news several times in a context of protests in Moscow, so I'm guessing the technique is just seeing a wider adoption now.
Tomorrow Night (https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow/)
+1 for proportional fonts. I'm a long time user of Times New Roman in Xcode. I keep TextMate and my terminal monospaced, but for Objective C proportional fonts work perfectly once you adjust.

I kindof makes sense because ObjC methods are so wordy, that you would want a font aimed at readability rather than symbols.

My Xcode theme is here gor anyone who wanta to try http://objectivesea.tumblr.com/post/3109860705/newromantimes...
Unfortunately, it is pretty hard to double-blind whether you get a Big Mac or a cup of gray stuff.

Are you suggesting that your metabolic response changes if you know what you're eating, or don't know? Otherwise, why does this matter in this context?
The problem with modeling it is likely to be defining all aspects of the problem. The most immediate result of "I can just move" is likely to be some environmental problems. And its not like you'll be able to enforce environmental laws if you can, as you say, just move.

"Is there even such a thing as a generally "desirable" citizen" I've done some minimal research and worldwide immigration policies have more or less congealed on certain desirable characteristics, which boil down to money, job, credentialed education, family connections, and fame. Age and health and clean record vary somewhat from country to country. There are variations in the level of the category, like some 3rd world countries sell citizenship for only $50K or so, but the 1st world wants $500K or more. But the organization is remarkable. It would be like if a space alien civilization coincidentally organized their books with the same Dewey Decimal system numbers we use.
You're missing the point. By implication, you paint some people as pro-freedom because they may have a certain stance on gay rights. Jamaica doesn't deserve its Press Freedom Index ranking to be better than Canada's because of gay rights. This is wrong. First of all, Canada is hardly a truly free country. I read that 40% of the cost of living is taken up in taxes. What strange definition of freedom is that? Canada also has hate speech laws which will no doubt be used in time to silence serious political dissent. I would predict the first test to be serious anti-feminist messages.

In the US, libertarians are branded as conservatives. I like how you paired conservatism with repression. Note that the most severe government actions in modern times have been done by socialist governments, not conservative.

Anyway, politically, libertarians believe in gay rights as well as the rights to self defense.

Progressives typically believe in one and not the other.

So yes, liberal is not the word you wanted to use to describe those who would restrict a person's right to self defense if you were interested in clarity.

Classical liberalism is what is colloquially known as libertarianism in today's politics so I would suggest that if you don't want to be confused next time, use a more appropriate term.

Nothing to do with guns, really. That was just the example I came up with off the top of my head.
Similar story: Last summer I realized that one guy from India was using my Skype account with me at the same time. He was making a lot of phone calls to his girlfriend, and Skype was charging my bank account all the time. I noticed once he forgot removing the history before he logs out.
From the article one of the guys spend months in ICU -- that shit costs a fortune daily.

So it seems reasonable to simply tell him that the next time he comes in he has to be active in a program to improve his general health otherwise he gets booted once he has been positively identified unless he can pay himself.

Anyway it seems that one of the consequences of what the doctor did was that he lost weight and improved his diet -- I would want to see much more focus on that and none at all on the touchy-feeley stuff.
Neurocriminology: Inside the Criminal Mind
Yes you're right! Thanks for pointing this out, we'll address this issue somehow.

Any suggestions for working around this? How should we highlight the paid benefit and show that creating your list is basically free at the same time?