skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing.

What is wrong is nitpicking apart the nuanced difference when it was just a casual intelligent comment made in a social setting, where reasonable expectation is to get the point rather than belabor its numerous subtle variants pursuant to wanton misinterpretation.
I lol'd so hard.
If I could vote this up a thousand times, I would. Very nice metaphor.
> We tend to think of ourselves in terms of whatever our current lead technology is. It has been like that before [1].

This is what we call progress. Technology doesn't grow on its own, it embodies the deep insights into workings of reality humans gain throughout the century. Therefore it is to be expected that we will draw parallels and that they will improve as we improve our tech.
Yes, most. It follows from the same employee-manager philosophy. I don't have empirical data to prove it though. Feel free to disagree.
Most of the plot in Excession is however done in space-IRC logs and space-emails between Minds, so I'm not sure it would lend itself well to movie form. Player of Games is similar example, lot of what's happening is metaphored using games and would be hard to transfer to screen without breaking the show-don't-tell rule of good movies.

Consider Phlebas would work, I think even Banks himself said that from the Culture series, it's the most Movie-like book. And I think we have some directors crazy enough to do Use of Weapons right, though it would require John Murphy for music ;)
The prison industrial complex is the formulation of dozens of compounding effects.

* The civil rights movement.

* Concentrated federal power since the first signing of the constutition to protect rich property interests (as the selfish goal, the other one was to be strong enough to resist European insurrection).

* Culture of fear, and a distrust of the "different".

* A corrections system that isn't correctional, but retributional.

So here are some reasons imprisonment rates are lower in other western nations:

* Monocultures and single race societies (for the most part) mean more cultural congruency and less conflict. Hemp was outlawed because of Mexicians, and Crack was outlawed because of Blacks, and it let them throw vast swathes of them in jail.

* The Finnish / Sweedish / etc corrections systems are correctional and rehabilitate inmates. US inmates get raped and get more access to drugs behind bars than outside them. They get into the prison culture and cycle.

* More foreign corrections systems do not engage with for profit private prisons that make money by having higher incarceration rates.

* Most foreign nations don't have a war on drugs (which is caused by the cultural animosity towards the "different").

* Other nations don't have as much blind nationalistic pride as many Americans do. I'm American - I constantly question and doubt my government. But many people in this country don't, especially those who were around to "win" the cold war.
How about January 2nd? It's the day on which the GCU Arbitrary left Earth orbit in The State of the Art.
There were also the camps for Japanese people during WWII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
Doesn't make it any less worse does it.
that's really sad :(
In the middle of the night, Iain turned over and whispered to the transceiver hidden in his wedding ring. "It's over, people. I just can't take any more of this terrible planet." After a brief argument, there was a soft pop as the Steaming Piles Of Freshly-Laid Gravitas Displaced the Culture agent, leaving a cooling meat puppet in his place.
I have never heard of Vagrant. The home page is, as usual, devoid of information. This is what Wikipedia says:

> Vagrant (software)

> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

> Vagrant is open-source software for creating and configuring virtual development environments. It can be considered a wrapper around VirtualBox and configuration management software such as Chef, Salt and Puppet. Although written in Ruby, it is usable in other programming projects such as PHP, Python, Java, and C#.
Now this is really an interesting news. First facebook was trying hard to acquire it (http://mashable.com/2013/05/09/facebook-waze-1-billion/) and now google is all set to acquire it.
Hope whosoever acquires it makes better use of it.
How well do you know HTML?
No, that's not what he is saying at all. With the maddening amount of resources ($80 billion for fuck's sake) spent on surveillance of both foreign and domestic communications, incidents where the agencies have the resources and intelligence to stop attacks but don't/can't shows that no amount of money spent or rights lost will give us absolute safety.
Had the same issue. Puppet is a little better suited, but also a pain.
While still alive, Dick Cheney has to be sort of living in his own little personalized hell - imagine everywhere you go 99% of the people in the room think you are an evil piece of shit.
Most of the videos are available on youtube. I would say polish. The early presentations have worse graphics (really weird fonts after you look at the modern version), timing is off, and less mistakes. The difference between the iMac / iPod and iPhone is pretty incredible.
That's got its own set of meanings in America too
Many of the commenters here have missed an essential line of ffind's description from the article, emphasis mine:

> find in this directory and all the subdirectories a file that contains some_text in its filename

This is NOT a find+grep/ack/ag -alike. It's used for rapid search on filenames, not file contents. Think of it as TextMate's Cmd-T for the command-line.
Not every critique of Israel is antisemitism, the same way that critique of Mugabe doesn't make you racist.

Pretending that it is so is one of the traditional "arguments" of US far right, and I don't think it has place any in reasonable discussion.

EDIT: just in case you're wondering why the downvote.
You should talk with my pet Parrot. If we give him non-organic food, he doesn't much like it. My wife and I agree: organic tastes better. I can not scientifically vouch for it being better for you, but I am very certain that it tastes better.

My Dad is a member of the National Academy of Science and he used to roll out the "no proof" argument. My argument, which he eventually accepted and he now eats organic:

1. it really does taste better

2. what can it hurt to eat locally grown organic food? Is it worth a small amount of extra money, just in case it is better to eat food not grown with petroleum fertilizer?

Anyway, make up your own mind.
Glad somebody picked up on it :)
That is, debunked last night.
I'm not an expert on Node.js but my understanding is that Ryan Dahl wasn't happy with the performance that PHP and Apache provide. PHP is very feature complete but the way Apache handles web requests means that a web server has a relatively low max capacity. Apache handles requests by forking the process which is both slow and resource intensive.

The way Ryan explained it is that moving past that performance barrier is a solved by a single threaded application that can respond to event based input output. He liked Javascript because it is such a minimal language which already supports that paradigm and has advanced tools and community.

That's the main point that I recall from one of the talks of his that I watched. There are some tertiary reasons as well which make Javascript a good choice.
Since hearing he was ill on Hacker News, back in April, I decided I should finally get back to reading. I followed the recommendations here and read The Player of Games, then moved on to Consider Phlebas which I finished this morning. Afterwards, I went over to his website to see how he was doing.

The two books I read were fantastic and it is bittersweet to have discovered them in such a way. However, I'm thankful to him for getting me back to reading. My thoughts are with his family and friends.
The government was also keeping the existence of PRISM confidential....
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The article says 'Gnu Debian Linux 6 (Stable)'. However Debian 6 is "oldstable" since May 6th (the article was written after the release).

The new stable release is Debian 7 or 'Wheezy'.

I wonder why NASA didn't pick Wheezy though. Then again, at the time of the decision the prospect of wheezy being released as stable was probably still a wet dream.
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
> This also implies you have a culture that is actively hostile and promotes criminality, be it fiscally or socially.

Have you been to the hood lately? This is exactly what urban culture is like. Now, there is still a disproportional focus, motivated in no small part by racism, on cracking down on urban crime in particular by American law enforcement.
I like to be able to script my environment and put it in a git repo for others who may join the team, or myself (when I repave my machine, for example). Also I've found the upfront effort to write the recipe (I tend to write lean recipes, rather than use community ones, as I see a lot of bloat and unneeded dependencies) helps me identify dependencies early on. (For example, say I need Selenium or Jenkins - my local machine's Java has been long working, so the cleanroom environment helps me identify gotchas I wouldn't otherwise see until deployment)
Funny! Under no circumstances, avoid doing a PhD at all costs
Personally, I've given up on misinterpretation and just assume bad faith when it comes to comments shaped like the thread parent's. I dismiss and, by virtue of scrolling down, take a look at the respondents to see if anyone has anything useful to sub in.
Try lsof for files accessed by process.
> They are calling for the delegitimization of Israel as a country.

They are? They don't exactly advertise that on their website. Even if they were, it's like saying "Belgium is not a real country". It's orthogonal to one's feelings wrt Belgian nationals. Unless you think Stephen Hawking, another BDS supporter, dons a balaclava at night to beat up his kippa-bearing neighbours.

I have read Dead Air. And it's pretty easy to understand why he would be pissed off at Blair. If your country was headed by a compulsive liar, whose lies had brought your country in a protracted, costly, pointless war, you'd be pissed too.
This is correct. According to this article it's 1,100 full-time employees and 6,000 contractors.

http://goo.gl/Xcyu2
Ugh, I did not enjoy seeing Sam Harris on there.
"In Europe, nationalism is a real problem. Within the european union, every state fight to bring more benefit to its own nation rather than looking for the whole union to get better."

This is pretty much the case in the United States too, except we call this phenomena "pork barrel legislation" where Congressmen allocate parts of the federal budget for funding infrastructure or other projects in their district at the expense of everyone else.

For example, California residents pay way more in Federal income and corporate taxes than they receive in federal funding for schools, infrastructure, etc. Alaska, for example, is quite the opposite and receives a lot more federal money than it pays in federal taxes. This is all due to political dealing in Congress.
I'm curious, why the focus on development environments? How does it tie into production and staging environments?
Whoops! Serves me right for commenting at three in the morning after having legitimate conversations about PRISM all day :)
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Berlin is Germany's startup hub. I'm guessing Munich is where most of the developers are.
Except there is no canonical proof of the devil, and there are people who detonate explosives at the Boston Marathon.

I'm not saying what happened in the article is okay, nor am I saying things like PRISM and the PATRIOT Act are necessary sacrifices for the war on terror, but there are people in the world who do very very bad things to innocent people.
>Nationalism is one of these archaic concepts that should have no place in modern society.

The problem is that it's usually those living in large imperialistic countries that say so (how we should all be "above and beyond countries"), while their countries royally fuck smaller countries.

As long as there are people willing to live in their land, with their own way of life, and no submit to some large foreign power, nationalism is good (and I mean a feel of belonging and love for your country, not offensive/militaristic nationalism and bigotry).

If you feel like just "passing by" from your country -- ie. if you feel it more like a hotel than a home--, then you're doing it a disservice. That might work if your country is a military and economic behemoth with nothing to fear (e.g the US), but not for a poor country were people strive to make it better. Of course some people only think about what's best for themselves. I wouldn't like to live in a society filled with with those kind of people.

>Interestingly, I found the USA to be the most nationalist 1st-world country there is. By far.

It is. But it's not just nationalism that causes these things (like industrial espionage). Simple, the US government is also a power elite, as is the leaders of big US industries. And those tend to favor their own kind (for profit, of course).

So, the top dogs in Washington can give top information to say GE, but it's not like they're doing out of "love for the country". They could probably not care less about the US citizens...
In the current police state, if you do anything to infrastructure you are going to be charged with terrorism.
The test might be perfectly adequate to decide whether you should do a PhD.

However, I can't stop thinking that tests where the outcome is based on Mostly A's (or B's or C's or ...) are designed for pre-teen pupils deciding whether they should break up with their this-week boyfriend or have a chocolate or vanilla ice cream.
Okay, most important question time: Do you get to pick the animal? If so, why that particular pigeon?
How open is it to non-European immigrants?
I propose that if Scotland does get independence that we adopt Culture ship names for our future (tiny) navy.

I rather like the idea of a fishery protection vessel called the "Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall".
Inspired by the James Altucher AMA, here is The Weekly Ad Challenge
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I was in LA last week (vacation + rental car) and Google Maps definitely sent me to the express lanes on the I95 every time. They had the exact knowledge of the entrances and merges back.

As an aside, yesterday I was traveling upstate NY and to get off from I87 to some local road, Google Maps navigated me to a "Tandem Area", which was also marked that way by a sign and was indeed the right choice. Of course, I'd never turn myself from a highway to a Tandem Area ;)

So it seems like they have a lot of small detail knowledge.
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Well, maybe. Research into obesity has been going on for decades in many countries without clear cut conclusions. On the other hand, tackling obesity alone is a different matter from finding food that makes us healthy. There might be some hope, yet. While we don't know that food can make us healthy, it's quite probable that it makes us fat or thin, or, at the very least, has a significant effect on weight.
Many economists agree with you and believe Japan has mismanaged its monetary policy for a long time. In fact, the West's aggressive reaction to the Great Recession of 2008 was largely a lesson learned from what Japan didn't do.

From an essay by Paul Krugman (I think from the late 90s):

>So why doesn't the Bank of Japan just go out and print lots of money? The best theory I have heard is that the bureaucrats at the Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance are still mesmerized by the memory of the "bubble economy" - the wild speculation of the late 1980s, which pushed the prices of stocks and real estate to crazy levels (remember when the grounds of the Imperial Palace were supposedly worth more than the whole State of California?). They believe that loose monetary policy created that bubble - which may be true - and that the bursting of the bubble caused the slump of the 1990s - which may also be true. And so they are afraid to increase the money supply now for fear of repeating the experience.

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/nikkei.html

Japan did some quantitative easing in the 2000s, but as I understand it it was too little too late.
For someone like me, someone who has explored this area philosophically (and if you think that sounded pompous, just wait), I find arguments like, "YES YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE" to be a) presumptive and b) not compelling. It just smacks of a lack of understanding about personal responsibility and honesty.

What I'd want, if I didn't yet think privacy was necessary, would be an argument not that privacy is itself an inherent right, but that privacy is a reaction to the flawed nature of humanity. I'd look for why privacy is necessary and not innate, because that makes more sense to me than this abstract idea of a "right to privacy".

Even your argument takes about a dozen leaps to arrive at the conclusion that without privacy, governments can be more private. What you should be talking about is not the government's ability to hide things, but the idea that any government is a flawed entity which are governed by an imperfect set of laws built to represent a cultural morality. Without privacy, you should be saying, the inherent greed and cruelty that exists within every collection of people would run rampant over minorities.

If man were capable of not harassing minorities, then privacy wouldn't be such a big deal. So no, I don't think someone like me would want to hear that privacy is a human right. Someone like me would want to hear that privacy is absolutely necessary to combat the inherent evil that comes with collecting groups of people together. It's not about hiding what you have, it's about protecting minorities from the majority. That's all.
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I wrote a similar tool to this in C, ff (https://github.com/silentbicycle/ff).

The main difference is that, where `ffind foo` appears to be comparable to

find . -name "*foo*"

, ff is closer to

find . -name ".*f.*o.*o.*"

In other words, you don't need an exact match, just the characters given in order. (This is inspired by Lisp-y toolchains where e.g. c-w-c-c would search and expand to call-with-current-continuation.)

There are some other features (e.g. '=' toggles literal match, it has smart handling for '/' and directory name grouping), but it's pretty straightforward to use. It also doesn't depend on python.
Thanks for the comments so far.

I just want to clarify that I'm non-European. I'm Indian, but have lived outside the country for most of my life. How open are EU states to non-Europeans?

I also hold a degree in CS from a fairly highly-ranked American university, if that makes any difference.
It means he wants to be on TV/in the newspaper/etc.
My best anecdote of thinking about going to PhD, was when I went to a prof I knew( not my adviser, somebody who I took class from), and asked if I should go for a PhD. The conversation went

-Hey Dr.X, I wanted to ask your honest opinion if I should go for a phd?
-No.
-Why?
-If you were going to go for a PhD, you'd not be asking me. In fact, you wont be asking anyone.

After that conversation I went for my summer internship at Microsoft Research, where the creme de creme of computer science congregates, and yes, he was right - the best scientists cannot even imagine having a job and not doing research.
Yeah, I probably was unwise to state that so conclusively. How about this?

"I try to have well-formed opinions and to be conscious and alert to what's going on around me."
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I know, just imagine the capabilities NOW!

(disclaimer : I know that isn't what you meant.)
So your argument is what, exactly? That the Jews, Asians, etc. shouldn't have been allowed to come because they wound up spending some time in the "underclass"? That's the original poster's argument, as near as I can tell. Is it also yours?

Personally, I'm very happy that all those groups came.
I stand corrected and I've learnt something :)
> I think [there] does need to be a fairly harsh punishment

Okay, I can see the argument that the government shouldn't have just left it at misdemeanor trespassing. Felony damage to federal property, 0 to 6 years -- I can see that. Damage in excess of $1000, up to 10 years -- this is already starting to seem like a stretch to me. If it costs more than $1000 to fix the fences and paint over their peace slogans, it won't be much over $1000; and when was that statue enacted and how much inflation has there been since then? So I'm not even sure it's within the spirit of that law to charge them with that; but I'll accept it for the sake of discussion.

This brings us to the sabotage charge, and this is where it starts getting clearly absurd. The ordinary meaning of the word "sabotage" requires that one do damage that interferes with the functioning of a system. The protestors made no attempt to do anything whatsoever to interfere with the operation of the facility.

And then the terrorism charge is beyond absurd. Oh yes, I am just quaking in my boots at these three unarmed pacifists spray-painting peace slogans! I am so terrorized! Seriously -- the successful leveling of terrorism charges at these people frightens me far more than what they did. I am very afraid of what is happening to my country.

Because the "crime" these people are actually being prosecuted for, it's quite obvious, is that of embarrassing the government. And if that is worth 16 years in federal prison, we are all in big trouble.
Full article and details about the sources: http://thedailyviz.com/2012/05/12/how-common-is-your-birthda...
> It sounds like you're suggesting that people eat as much salt as they like. Where's the harm in cutting back on the salt?

Cutting too much on salt is indeed harmful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia - up until 30 years ago or so, hyponatremia because of too little salt intake was virtually unheard of in the west, and now it is rare but not unheard of, because some people take the "cut back on salt" recommendations seriously.

What's the harm in eating only bland food? No harm. Also no harm in cutting back on listening to your favorite music. But why on earth would you do that? It's no different than avoiding alcohol or pork for religious reasons, or not driving on a saturday for the same religious reasons. If you like it, no one is stopping you. But it is based on blind faith, rather than science.

> But what dietary guidelines would you recommend to someone?

I was going to quote Pollen, but you beat me to it :) I think another recommendation from Pollen is helpful: "Do not eat anything that your grand-grandmother wouldn't have recognized as food".

Personally, given that I've found so much evidence that the "common knowledge" is wrong, I look at the fringes hoping to find something more useful. To that end, I recommend following the blogs (and mostly, but not exactly, the advice) of Dave Asprey (Bulletproof Executive) Tim Ferris (4 Hour Body) Paul Jaminet, Gary Taubes, Stephan Guyonet, Mark Sisson ... start browsing any of them and you'll find the others.
you have absolutely no idea what data they have or don't have

Well, that's not really true:

The FBI has confirmed that Russia alerted the agency in 2011 that Tsarnaev had ties to 'radical Islam' groups in his homeland. Homeland Security sources have also revealed the agency received tips in 2012 about his ties to extremists connected to a Boston mosque. (...) Tamerlan was said to have been named as one of the radicals that came to attention of an informant working with an agency attached to the Boston-area Joint Terrorism Task Force
How can we know they weren't real spies?

Apart from what others have said, two are retired armymen and, more importantly, one has been a catholic nun for the last 60 years.