skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something about this stance has always bothered me. I don't know if it's just me, but I have always just seen this as condescending because 'having a choice' has always been blatantly obvious to me. I will immediately take that back and apologize if a majority of people really don't realize this, but so far it has always seemed like most people give rather 'meh' reactions to these sorts of responses because you're not providing them with any new information -- which is exactly my gripe. In my opinion, saying "Hey! it's all about making a choice, so just make it already!" is not a valid solution strategy imo; it is barely a rosy incomplete pseudocode algorithm -- not something actionable/reproducible. I really strongly feel that anything that is going to be conveyed with a tone of "Hey, I just gave you a solution!" should be backed up with an actionable mechanism/solution. But that's probably just me...
I suggest you see Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech (2005): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWUCX6osgM.

The part which conveys this idea beautifully is this:

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart"

Basically, If we deeply[1] accept/realise that we are transient beings (which requires significant reflection given that we all secretly act as though we are immortal, though we may intellectual comprehend that we are not), one may more clearly distinguish between what is important in life and what is superficial.

A definition of the Spiritual Path which appeals to me: "Nitya anitya viveka vichara" -- "the ability to discriminate between the eternal and the ephemeral" [2]

[1] As an inherent and basic measure from which all action emanates

[2] I would be willing to delve into that a bit deeper should anyone be interested.
Those comments are unfortunate. Downvote them. Upvote good comments.

> With all these extremely knowledgeable people from different fields, I wish I found more big picture insights in the comments here.

The signal to noise ratio is still pretty good, and sometimes there are great posts.

Better flagging (and less upvoting) of the stupid politics / news dross would help.
HN is the most ruthlessly prioritized software project I've seen. It wouldn't surprise me at all if pg thinks anti-flamewar Bayesian classification is more important than fixing the URL expirations.
Open source music identification system
A print to tinkercad button that would offer printing in-app.
I'm currently running Fedora, but I'm really tempted to switch over to Arch or maybe even NixOS.

The latest version of Fedora was a bit of a mess compared to previous versions, including things like bugs with waking up from sleep. Moreover, I'm finding the release schedule a bit slow. Also, I've heard good things about Arch and NixOS in terms of Haskell support.
Note that Chrome on iOS is basically unrelated to every other version of Chrome. Due to Apple's silly rules, it's essentially just a reskinned Safari.
Xubuntu on my netbook, Ubuntu on my desktop with Cinnamon
Salmon Confidential: Canada is covering up commercial fish farming gone wrong
You can tell that the quality of the comments (and hence of the community) is going down when you can just by looking at the title of a post, predict the type of negative comments that you will see inside.

However the question (which might not have a satisfactory answer) is whether you can keep the same quality standards while still growing. I think that forcibly keeping the community small can be worse than dilution itself.
> the impossible-to-hit-without-zooming-on-a-mobile-device up/down arrows,

One unfortunate effect of these is that I tend to ignore the single downvotes, and rationalise those away as accidental clicks.

Really, I need to train myself out of that. When I get a downvote I should re-read my post to see if I've been clear, and to see if I said what I meant, and if I still mean it.
Your question is formulated awkwardly, but I think I could extract the original question:

"What's the name of the Javascript library that adds introduction to a website?"

Answer: It's http://usablica.github.io/intro.js/
I haven't looked at his source yet, but my guess is that the power spectrum was inverted directly back to real space/"time" domain, without randomizing the phase.

Keep a grain of salt at the ready as you analyze the problem. It's a tricky thing to do "right", and even when you're done, it's not clear that "right" will be well-defined in this case.

Edit: Since the code is a *.nb form, I can't read it directly (insufficient space/desire to install the Mathematica Reader), but from what I can glean reading it as ASCII text, the sound is synthesized from in-phase cosines. Each signal at every frequency starts together, leading to a spike in amplitude. You can see each pop very clearly if you look at the wav file over a short duration in the time domain.

The relative phases of the spectra, following the analysis that Cramer's used (inverting the angular power spectrum into sound) actually are in the raw WMAP/Planck data, and may be in print. If you have the raw temperature map and are comfortable computing the angular power spectrum, you'll have access to the phase too.

I can't find a perfect reference at the moment, but to emphasize the importance of the phase in reconstructing real-space data, check out the pictures in [1].

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/OWEN...
Nice! Nitpick: converting entities (such as '&mdash;'es) to their actual representation ('—') in the titles would be nice, currently they show up as 'mdash'
Startup idea: make copyright suck less.

It seems that the options for getting artistic content for your products (websites/books/games/album covers) these days are limited. Either you go get something off istock photo, or your rip from google images hoping that the original owner doesn't notice.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a marketplace for art? Or some sort of protocol for tracking down who created what?

The business model for the company would be that of intermediary -- i find who the copyright belongs to and skim a keep a percentage of the royalty.

Better art and no fear of copyright infringement for clients + better paid artists = win win.
The drawer is only slightly better than the now-discredited "dashboard." Both are less than ideal for the same reason: You have to go somewhere in order to go somewhere.

It's ok for very complex apps with more than a handful of screens. But it is better to make navigation implicit w.r.t. actions.
Up until recently, I still thought that Nintendo might have had a very solid chance to recover from the tepid Wii U launch because it only takes one or two amazing, must-buy games to get a system flying off the shelves. Nintendo has had some great first party titles in the past and is certainly capable of creating some amazing experiences when they put their minds to it.

But I think its become very evident that the suits, not the real creative gamers, are now running things at Nintendo. The recent Let's Play debacle where Nintendo monetizes user created YouTube videos is a relatively small example, but its a symptom of a dumb, bureaucratically led company that just doesn't get it.

Most businesses DREAM of getting their customers to make free advertising for them, and Nintendo is going out of their way to stifle any incentive to create that free advertising for what amounts to pennies for a business of that size. That's something that really kills off any goodwill and support that a lot of people had for them. That's just one small example that really illustrates how far gone Nintendo is right now.

PS: While the Wii U has a number of pros and cons, the console's relative lack of power is almost completely irrelevant to how fun the actual games are. That's one criticism from the article that I still argue that most people don't care about. Maybe game developers care about it, but as long as the games are fun most average people don't notice or care.
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I don't think so.

The whole point of the various laws is to make sure the dealers have a presence and are not cut out by the manufacturers, which is exactly what Tesla is trying to do.

There's nothing different about that, except that Tesla is trying any way conceivable to get around those laws and nobody else is. It's not surprising that they're updating the laws to catch up with Tesla's hacks that clearly circumvent the intent of the laws.

Put another way, not only will the car dealers get pissed, but why would ford, toyota, honda, GM, etc allow Tesla to operate with an advantage? One way or another, Tesla will wind up playing by the same rules as everyone else. And given how local and how dug-in the dealerships' political power is, I'm guessing they will suck it up and sell though dealers.

I hope I'm wrong. I would love to see manufacturer-run car stores.
Ubuntu 12.04. Sticking with this LTS for as long as possible because it's the last one with Gnome 2.X built-in.
Thanks, yea we will have to do some work on cleaning up our title and description parser. Will add to the bug list.
Rather, as per the page: "Show your support by saying what you'd like to pay for it!"
Currently Ubuntu; likely switching to Debian in the near future.

I was a huge Gentoo fan early on, but switched to Fedora when I stopped enjoying the USE configuration (which I still believe is awesome, just way too time-consuming), then to Ubuntu when I stopped enjoying yum (well, I never enjoyed yum). I think aptitude is the most stable package manager I've ever used.

Likely going to Debian soon, though. Trying it out in a VM (love those buggers!) It doesn't matter a whole lot since I run openbox, but as a developer, I think knowing the package manager well makes a big difference in the quality of the experience.
Might still have problems with some accounts?

I'm a former paid user, cancelled when you announced and I started teaching myself competing software. I still get a "your account is suspended" instead of access under the free plan.
My main problem with HN recently is that we're getting way too much political crap on the front page. And, along with that, we seem to be getting more a skew to the "left" (in the modern, American sense of the term) which I'm not crazy about (being neither exactly "right" nor exactly "left" I don't want to see HN moving in either of those directions).

I also get the feeling that "groupthink" is a growing problem and that people are getting downvoted for simply having the audacity to go against the local "received wisdom", but that's pretty subjective and I may be wrong.
If you're trying to learn how to walk, what's more helpful: learning the mechanics of how you walk & why we're physically capable of doing it or telling you to just start putting one foot in front of the other.

If you want to do something (anything), you can break down actionable mechanisms all you want, but at some point it has to move from theoretical into action.

It's tougher with this stuff (lazyness) because it's all in your head - it's less physical - so it seems like you could hypothetically break something down into a million actionable steps - so people do and keep wondering why it never leads to action. That's the very trap you have to escape in order to DO something.

I can tell you all the mechanics in the world on how you're supposed to walk, but until you put one foot in front of the other, you'll never be able to learn. That's not condescending at all - it's just the process of learning. All the knowledge in the world won't help someone who's not willing to take that step.
What's happening to Airstone? Is the team now back working on Tinkercad instead?
I've tried jitsi for some time, but it crashes from time to time. It stores your passwords in cleartext just like pidgin does.
Honest question; how is it immoral if it is not illegal and the contracts were not misleading?

Also why did he wait 7 years if he was so moral? It would kill me by then.
Internationally, the laws need to be changed. All the major players are using Ireland, Bahamas, Cayman Islanda, et al, as avoidance schemes. The firms try to take advantage of every legal loophole, even if in morally grey areas, because their competitors are also all doing so.

Really, the major OECD players need to get together and figure out a way to stop the tax loophole arbitrage. Although the tax havens have no incentive to do so.
This is exactly why I use fedora too, however I'm increasingly pulled towards Ubuntu again....
Every time I've tried to use Elementary I find it really buggy and slow. I know that it's currently in beta, but every time I read about it people talk about how stable it is, which doesn't seem to be the case for me.

I've tried several times to use it as my main OS, but every time I keep coming back to Arch. The same is true with Ubuntu and other Ubuntu flavors, most recently Ubuntu Gnome, which is basically the same as what I run with Arch, but with an Ubuntu foundation and less time spent getting it working. Even that felt slow to me.
Fedora here, but I'm on something of an older release (F16), and I haven't heard good things about the latest release so I'm reluctant to upgrade. Not sure if I'll switch to something else or what, at this point.
>who didn't even know that they had a contactless terminal and were completely baffled with what I just did

exactly - the fact that the cashier doesn't know this payment type exists shows how often it's being used.
Cool. Also, props for the pun, that's a fine name you found here :)
That was the case when I ran Linux on my server. I used Debian and so my (non-Windows)desktop was also Debian. I followed the trend to Ubuntu, but now I'm on OpenBSD for the server and kept Ubuntu for the desktop.
While I agree that democracy passes "it's flawed but it's the best we've got," I don't think that's a good analogy for HN.

HN is good because of the quality of the submissions... which is still slightly questionable at times, and I've only been around here for a couple years, not long enough to assess whether it's dropped dramatically.

Average quality of comments drop with the quantity of users; that's something anyone who's run any number of web forums knows. Unfortunately, because the users also curate HN's content collectively, despite any weighting that might go on, a higher number of users leading to a lower quality of content will also lead to a lower quality of curation.

This is why Slashdot's article content varies with the quality of the editors, largely independent of the quality of comments. HN doesn't have that advantage, or any of the disadvantages that come with it. They're interesting foils in this case.
Thanks a lot for sharing!

I hope they do more marketing and seo. I didn't find Yate, even after extended web searches.

Congrats to the developers, I'll definitely try this one out!
I used to do the same kind of thing, but now I just run OSX full-time because I like the user experience, and Vagrant virtual dev environments let me run whatever distro I want.
Not everything that is legal and non-misleading is necessarily moral.
This is why I don't use iOS and never will. I won't have the maker of my computer telling me what I can and can't run on it.
Crunchbang ( #! ), because stock Debian is not compelling, and Ubuntu is unadulterated garbage as far as UX goes.
* Sabayon - It's a better experience than pure Gentoo
* SliTaz - You won't believe me how insanely fast it is!
* Peppermint OS - Perfect for mum and friends

Busybox Kernel, 35MB, but fully featured http://www.slitaz.org/en/

Ubuntu based, but much faster and less distracting http://peppermintos.com/

The perfect OS for a developer/sysadmin who is thrilled for more http://sabayon.org/
... I think this article has permanently scared me off of generic drugs.
> Damn, even when Atari was screwed up, it wasn't frowned upon to play games. That's /really/ bad.

I dunno. The issue here seems more one of culture-shock than right- or wrong-styles.

I think the problem is that people see "game company" and they think "wacky-and-crazy-everybody-chillin'-in-t-shirts-and-playing-foosball-while-shooting-nerf-guns-at-the-boss-woohoo-caffeine!" American-style game company.

Nintendo isn't like that, and never has been. They're a large Japanese company, and one which has always been sort of conservative and traditional (even by comparison with other Japanese companies).

If you want to work for a wacky-foosball company, then I suppose Nintendo probably isn't for you, but it's pretty clear that good games can be made under either model. Whatever the opinion of some EA dev on the wii-u, and regardless of how "good" the wii-u is, Nintendo has had more influence on the gaming world than EA ever will.

Even the accusation of "bureaucracy" in the original post, which while certainly true—Nintendo is a large company, and large companies tend towards the bureaucratic—seems a bit off the mark. I don't think it's an issue of bureaucracy, I think it's an issue of culture.

I also think first impressions can be somewhat deceiving. I work for a very large Japanese company, which is crazy bureaucratic, and while this can be very annoying, there's also a lot of loyalty and flexibility at the small team level. That sort of thing is hard to see from outside.
>Dilution necessarily reduces the per share value of the stock. Always.

No. This is wrong. Dilution is the reduction in percentage of ownership of the company, not a reduction in the stock price. It may reduce, increase, or leave the price of the stock unchanged depending on whether or not the market thinks the company will make good use of the incoming money.
No love for GNUstep?[1]

[1]: http://www.gnustep.org/
"starting to settle in...again."

I agree. This is nothing new. But I believe even people in the trades should have a college-level education. College education is not about learning facts that are directly relevant to whatever we end up choosing to do. It is about learning critical thinking, how to work with others at a high level, how to acquire new knowledge and talents efficiently. These are skills that are valuable everywhere, in every profession.

"Are we all, the entire population, headed toward a society where every job is performed by a machine [...]"]

In short, yes. This won't happen for a while but most of our manual professions will be automated in the not-so-distant future. That will leave us, collectively, with a lot of time on our hands to figure out what to do with ourselves. Knowing where the next horizon lies will require a ton of high-level, specialized scientific knowledge, and those of us who were not lucky enough to receive a college education will be worse off as a result.
Ah, same here. At the risk of sounding negative, the Gnome folks really jumped the shark on that one (though it's a bit better now). Things are just so much more complicated.

I understand that taste is a very subjective thing and most folks will stick to things they're used to, but this was one thing I really couldn't get un-used to.
I imagine there's some fairly serious miscommunication going on in quoting the fella in a context of general advice about laziness. A philosophy that tends to eschew materialism does not map well onto motivational speaking.

- I tried thinking about death, but it turned out nothing was really essential without desire and thus it didn't serve to get me desire.

- I tried thinking about the benefits of something I didn't believe I could do, but since I didn't believe I could do it I just felt depressed.

- Just drop everything and get down to what gives life meaning - meh, unless you're prepared to sacrifice an awful lot it can be difficult to just drop everything.

Buddhist philosophy is about... well, it's more about exploring consciousness and letting the experience of that change the way you relate to the world. If you're looking for something to change what sort of person you are, this may be an awfully long road for something that, at best, seems to touch on what you're interested in as a side effect. May perhaps be better off looking at research into akrasia/depression.
I'm on Ubuntu for no good reason really, I guess I just like feeling like there's a large community, it's well supported and that I have a complete OS which many distros (understandably) don't seem to provide. I don't like Unity though, so I use Cinnamon.
> If we can educate a few developers then we (this awesome community of hackers) are making the web faster.

You're not making the web faster, you're shilling for your employer by comparing their apples to a competitor's oranges and proclaiming "our competitor's oranges make bad apple sauce!"

Failure to mention CloudFront is disingenuous.
Does anyone have a good alternative for Ubuntu's Unity. I like Ubuntu because of the community, but I just can't get over Unity. My normal keyboard shortcuts are all jacked up and it's just... impossible to deal with for me.
"In the case of social sciences and humanities, college produces very little societal value."

Ridicoulous statements like this is why discussions outside a very few subjects never go anywhere on HN.
The moral argument is a weak one at best. Companies have a responsibility to their shareholders to maximise profit.

I there is a $500 deductions for drycleaning without receipts, people are going to claim all $500. It's the same concept at a large organisation.
Not paying your fair share isn't contrary to the spirit of tax law because there is no discernible spirit of the tax law. If the tax law says if you do Foo with shell company Bar through subsidiary Baz, then you get more money, legislators wrote that there for some reason because they wanted to encourage or discourage some behavior. I think it is neither reasonable nor moral to live in a society where corporations are "morally" required to second-guess the intentions of the writers of 10,000s of pages of tax law.

Judge Learned Hand was the most important judge never to sit on the Supreme Court. Here's what he has to say:

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes... Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."
It isn't. To say it is is just silly.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game."
It's weird; I was introduced to linux via CentOS (while working) and I immediately fell in love with it, but I can't pin down /why/ I genuinely like this particular distro. Anything I come up with seems pedantic at best.

Maybe I'm just in love with a particular part of linux. Maybe its how I'm able to look at the innards of an OS and see how components of a system interact. Or maybe I'm in love with the puzzle in an enigma that is dependency management. I just don't know.
Probably not the place to ask, but what do you need them for? I think there's still places that sell books by the yard. You can also try estate/yard sales, and just offer ten bucks to haul all of their books away.