skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Simple-minded is an obnoxious word; brainwashed gets closer to it but implies too much a malevolent force at work.

Cold statistics are one thing, but everyone has trouble actually chewing them over when every part of your environment is telling you "all you need to do is go to college, and everything will work out fine." If you know the ins and outs of how post-college employment works, you're working from a position of stark informational privilege compared to someone who doesn't. The people who succeed as English majors are much louder than the large majority who don't, and the people selling the English majors certainly aren't telling them they have a decent chance of ending up immiserated.

If you genuinely enjoy English literature and writing, it's easy to fall into that trap. Many people here majored in CS, and that's awesome and has worked out well for them. But I would also take a gander that, going into college, those people weren't blank slates who had no love of CS and just did a mechanical calculation as to what would generate the most time-discounted income years. They had worked with computers in the past and loved it. It's very easy to overlook how much emotional or arational factors plays into your own choices while condemning those whose arational choices end up tossing them into another bin.

Obviously the choices people make aren't totally ignorant of economic factors, but they also aren't determined by them.
New York using anti-terrorism cameras to fight crime
You're both talking about two different topics...

The location of the "supernodes" (on client machines, or in a datacenter) is separate from whether encrypted traffic can be read by a third party. Using a totally decentralized system makes it a little harder to eavesdrop, but it's entirely possible to develop a completely secure system in the centralized model.

That said, I've never been terribly impressed with Skype's security model. Even before Microsoft bought them. It might have been decentralized, and the traffic might be encrypted, but the encryption lacks a strong trust model. There's never been any way to make sure that your connection hasn't been MITM'ed, since the system doesn't provide any way to verify the identity (key fingerprint) of the person you're talking to.

The current encryption is fine if you're worried about rogue network administrators, but has never been sufficient if you're worried about being targeted by state actors.
I can think of ways, but I don't know how Skype does it. The client could have a local blacklist, they could only send hashes of URLs to a server, etc.
That might be because, with distance (time), you can better separate your intentions from your actions, and see yourself from an external perspective.
And you don't get to close your eyes to the fact that things have changed. "Philistine" was synonymous with "ignorant of art and literature" only because every formal education was full or art and literature. Furthermore, much of what we today consider science was once a large part of the "art" of "philosophy".

As I've said in another comment, you've completely blinded yourself to the spirit of the term and taken the most literal definition. If Computer Scientists existed in Jonathan Swift's day, he most certainly would not have lumped them in with the Philistines.
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I seem to have acquired all three of these gifts, and I majored in computer science.

We all think that; it's a cognitive bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_wobegon_effect

One of the benefits of writing classes is the chance to improve in response to third-party feedback. Our arguments are rarely as tight nor our prose as clear as they seem to us.
A Private Search Engine?
Oh, and what was it that you consider a personal insult? I'm not seeing it.
Hope nobody was hurt, but that sounds seriously cool! It reminds me of the story of this kid building a nuclear reactor in his garage: http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear...
Why being an Entrepreneur is a lot like being an MMA Fighter
Ask HN: How to do freelance jobs and a full time at the same time
I'm trying to bootstrap a consultancy/freelancer business.

For now, I have a possible situation where I can work full time and then also work part-time probably on a contractor basis (not sure) for another company.

What do I need to know about this? What are the legal considerations? How do taxes work? Lifestyle stuff I should worry about?

Do you have any war stories about this kind of thing?
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She never makes a clear, logical case for writing.

But forget about writing in particular. She never makes a clear case for the humanities at all. She just says they're really really important.
Exactly How Much Cheaper Airbnb Is Than a Hotel in Every Major US City
A nitpick, but decentralized & distributed systems do not guarantee "no single point of failure". For example, Skype switched from pure p2p because of a software bug which affected the whole network (ie the client software was the single point of failure)...
"So my first reaction to undergrads with high energy accelerators is: what could possibly go wrong?"

I have some experience in that matter, so I can tell you what might go wrong. Back in the mid nineties, I was an undergrad and working on my first startup. Part of the project was building a 200 keV accelerator (much lower energy than than the ones in the article, but still high enough to get into trouble with).

The first big problem was the high voltage. Getting shocked by the 30,000 volt ion source supply was damn painful: it felt like hitting your finger with a sledgehammer. I only got a shock from the main supply once; for about 15 minutes I kept asking the other guys, "Am I dead? Are you sure I'm not dead?". It wasn't actually as painful as the 30kV supply. It was never hard to be safe with HV when everything was working properly - it was when things broke or two guys were trying to fix something at the same time that accidents happened.

As you might guess, we didn't have a lot of 'adult supervision'. We learned as we went along. Once we had a bit of a fright when we got the accelerator up and running. Spence, the part-timer old-timer engineer who would help us out on many things, showed up with a Geiger counter and showed us how much radiation was coming off the device. We learned a lot about radiation safety and shielding that week. I wonder how much exposure we would have received if Spence had not interceded.

And then you can get into free neutrons, and activation, and all sorts of other things. It's a real education. If you ever talk to one of those kids who make Farnsworth fusors, they end up going through the same learning curve. Luckily they have a bit of a community around that now, so they can share knowledge and not kill themselves too easily.
I think it should be obvious, but it is up to state prosecutors to decide who they want to prosecute, they're not legally required to do so.

But some people think that there's the same law for everyone.

The real state shareholders are multinationals and military-industrial complex.

The board's (government) responsibility is to the real shareholders and not to the product (people).

The state creates environment (just enough freedom, plenty of entertainment) for the product so it will not spoil (revolt).

Some people think that the there are democratically elected representatives and president. It is semantically valid, but does not serve the purpose implied by most people.

1. It is very easy to be white and fluffy before the elections, and turn around right after (and what are you going to do about it?)

2. There's no real choice anyway.
HTML5 gaming still has the potential to disrupt the industry
Neat! I haven't used Mathematica regularly since 2006-or-so, when I was studying mathematics at the University of Chicago.

If memory serves, 5.2 was the then-current version. It's an amazing piece of software.
everything still goes through your ISP when using peer to peer... but yes to encryption.
I have the utmost respect for literary traditions, education as a means of self-improvement, and the intangible values of persuing mastery over a broad field of human experience.

And if English degrees had anything to do with that, I'd probably like them, too. That ship has sailed and then was burnt on distant shores, long before I was born.

(I don't think there's a whole lot of daylight between the two of us, honestly.)
Sounds great, thank you. I'm off to build this thing.
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Ask HN: What are you willing to give up?
What things would you sacrifice for success? I recently read an old thread about people going to SF and living in their cars to pursue their dreams. So this is my question to you. What are you willing to sacrifice? Girlfriend, wife, your home, financial stability? It can be anything you name it.
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As my friend Bazza said when he read this, in the same sense that the number of sheep in a field is determined by the field doing addition and subtraction.
The difference is that this seems more predictive than merely descriptive. A more apt analogy might be a car that calculates the rate at which it must consume fuel in order to arrive at the next service station just as its tank empties.
Slight correction: the colour of rushing water's noise is not white. More like Brownian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise). White noise is rather jarring on the ear.
> Judicial review is not an enumerated power

Its not a separately enumerated power, but you can't resolve a legal case without first determining what the law is, including resolving conflicts between different laws that appear to be applicable, such as the Constitution and federal statutes.
Take heart: things aren't quite as bad as you suggest. While the modern art world is certainly full of horrific hacks (Damien Hirst), a good amount of modern art truly is interesting (I'm rather fond of Jackson Pollock, myself).

Perhaps more importantly, representational and realistic art has been making a significant comeback in the last decade or so. Schools still teach classical painting techniques. Many artists create fantastic new work. For example, Adrian Gottlieb is a star, with prominent commissions and tremendous respect among collectors. Here's a wonderful portrait — http://www.adriangottlieb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/4_J... — IMO, this level of work holds up well against the old masters, and it is less than ten years old.
I could never understand why my classmates had such trouble with getting good grades in English classes. Most of them attended similar if not superior high schools. The Catholic school students certainly should have had a better grasp of language and composition.

In the long run, my successes were a combination of reading experience and the ability to quickly create mental outlines. I was a voracious reader as a child because that was the only world that did not judge me. At a time when my father was going through his charismatic evangelical midlife crisis and my mother sat on the opposite side tossing me over as a peace offering to keep my sisters off limits, I insulated myself with the written word. I read roughly 800 books between 2nd and 3rd grade. While I could not diagram a sentence for you and could barely remember the difference between a pronoun and an gerund, if asked to put thought to paper then I had no problems.

In retrospect, I suppose it would be interesting to see how differently students would write if they weren't clobbered over the head for simple grammar errors. I used three of tricks to help me through college writing courses. The first was simply cutting out any superfluous language unless the paper required a ridiculously high word count. The second was to avoid, as much as possible, the use of any commas, colons, or semi-colons. The third was to always scan over my paper to make sure that my sentences weren't filled with sudden changes in tense. If you crush a student on small punctuation and grammar errors, don't be surprised when you end up with students who have never been able to fully express themselves, and therefore no longer know how to do so. Grammar is the stack of guidelines we use to help convey clear meaning, but grammar is not meaning itself. Language specifications don't write literature OR code.

What bothers me nowadays is that since I have immersed myself into the culture of the internet, my ability to sit and concentrate and compose thoughtful narrative has become stunted. My messages have become shorter and more direct, and my conversations change topic quickly. I wonder how it bodes for students who have never lived in an internet-free world.
No, the right analogy is to have someone write mission critical aircraft embedded code; don't have anyone review it; run no simulations; hell, don't even debug it; load it on a 787 and say "we have to fly it to see if it works". That's what our representatives did. Ready for takeoff?
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That went from "Oh, another article about the parts of a URI" to "wow..." very quickly. The path parameters were kind of neat, I was under the impression ; could be used instead of & and was only for query string parameters (Didn't even know path parameters were a thing).
Re-implementing 'filter' & 'orderBy' (especially when reversing) were great examples of extremely common functionality that I eventually abstracted out into React's "Mixins".

So, to rephrase, Angular (much like Dojo did over a half-decade ago) gets you 90% there while Backbone (and to a less degree React) puts some of the boilerplate burden back on you.

I'm still doing a re-factor trying to figure out the optimal way of using React (we're talking in IRC now!), so I'm not done with it yet! :)
I like this guy. Except for when he acted like cat owners couldn't make sacrifices too. I once had to cut a trip short because my cat missed me so much that he made himself sick.
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I wish I could down-vote...
Check out http://blog.grimwire.com/#2013-04-04-grimwire.md
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The great thing about me is that I have really nothing to begin with, over the years I have learned there isn't much to live for.
My view is this, you grow up told that your gonna go get an office job, be a doctor, be an engineer, then work get married if your lucky, have kids if your lucky, travel a bit then die.
This sounds great and all, but I want to make a difference you know? not be another grain of sand following the same pattern.
I am willing to sacrifice any chance of the above happening simply because I feel, I can already see the ending, this way the ending is more in my control.
Memory lane this weekend. First the Amiga Unix article, now this. For us lucky C=128 owners, we could run GEOS or GEOS 128 which could use the C-128's 80 column mode (640x200). That was aspect ratio hell, 640x200 on a 4x3 screen meant you had noticeably rectangular pixels.
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Don't be so sure. In the great game there must be gambits and feints, misdirections and intentional losses. Some things are better left unsaid in public places with many ears.

Certainly not speaking about myself, but that's the sense I get from talking to people whose interests overlap like you'd hope.
Reasonable doubt means there is reasonable doubt.

Wow. You've certainly persuaded me.
Your rhodopsin get replenished.
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And when you are hit with the inevitable software patent lawsuit your travel fees will be lower ;)

Is Texas as employee-friendly as California?
A lot of people get photo realistic art. Its obviously difficult to achieve the colors and simulacrums with the technology of the time.

On the other hand, understanding the entire sequence of western art - of Grecian art, its loss and the elevation of stark, religiously themed art during the dark ages, followed by the renaissance and onwards, makes western history and an important chunk of many modern unspoken assumptions make sense.

In other words, starting with Middle-ages art but moving onwards is an effective and memorably way to hack the meta discussion humanity has been having about itself through the ages.
Most artists are acute observers of the human condition.

Seriously? Most artists? Do you mean "most famous artists", or "the most accomplished artists", or "the best artists", or something like that? Or do you mean something like "artists tend to be more acute observers of the human condition than non-artists"?

I agree with the rest of your post, so if you meant the statement as it's written I'm going to assume that you either haven't met many artists or that you've just been lucky with the ones you've met.
That would be the normal world, not the bizarro one. Most people here don't even have CS degrees, but picked up the relevant material as a hobby or on the job. And furthermore, would recognize that such real-world experience is much more important for what they do than what you learn in an artificial academic environment.
Its funny, people got so caught up on the fact that Microsoft must have changed Skype's architecture to allow wiretapping. Via Snowden/PRISM we know wiretapping of Skype was possible well before the acquisition, let alone the redesign.
Snowden: Facebook, Google can resist NSA
There are more interesting algebraic operations you can do on the voting vector than just adding it up..
I think this country needs to really (re-)internalize the importance of popular support, and the difficulty of fooling enough of the people enough of the time.
You can pick up a much lower energy electron accelerator if you're willing to go dumpster diving for a CRT, right? Obviously there's a huge difference between what you can do with something like this vs. the energies in a CRT vs. CERN or a national lab, but it's interesting that the technology was so widespread.
Want cheap high-performance computing at scale like Google? Look to GPUs
Consider that maybe you missed pjbrunet's point.
Traditionally, this stuff was produced by the leisure classes

Spot-on, IMO.
Don't worry, I'll happily give you one for your pointless no-content snark.
lol. Sorry for ripping on cat people at the end. For the sake of my dog, I felt like I had to get at least one jab in there.
True enough. However, something like Obamacare has the potential to cause both massive economic destruction and massive violations of privacy. I mean, the government --the IRS!!!-- will have access to your health data. Sit down and think about what they could learn about anyone by connecting the dots between your Internet, phones and health databases as well as those of the people connected to you. I don't see much good coming from this. I hate to take a paranoid stance but I sure feel, rightly or not, we are living through a pole shift. Our country is being mutated into a beast few of us might recognize as the USA in the future. This really saddens me. I hope I am wrong.
Or is it systemic?

[1] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/21/how-tex...
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Ask HN: How much should we price our service/products?
As a new tech consulting company we feel we do a great job, much better then our competition. However, the question always linger in my head how much should we price our service and future products? How do you know what the best market entry price is?
Lets make this fun. First we need to do some housekeeping. Define what me winning will look like. AKA define what "more" means? Can we agree that hidden services like DDG's hidden service count? I have no problem setting the bar fairly high for what sites count. As far as I am concerned billybobsblog.com does not count.

Second, if I "win the bet" this equally poor person will donate an additional $20 to the eff.
I didn't either and I like the idea of that. I'll have to try that when writing up the paging for my next web app for something like search results.
Such a category does indeed exist. It happens to intersect with the category of people who purposefully use words they think no one else uses.
i only have one template at the moment. nothing release worthy, it uses svg for the template. i am building an internal system at the moment and wondered if it is worth trying to make one that is open to others to use
Well, I for one won't be speeding on that stretch of 80 any time soon...
You can't use parts with Apple's logo on them.
I seriously doubt the government is responsible for most of the reasons I enjoy living in California vs. other areas.
I'm sure many in the USG are shocked, and not because they are used to Canada and the UK playing along, but because they think every country would bend to our will because of the fear of any economic sanctions we would impose. The truth is that the more globalism marches on, the less of a consequence a given country would really feel from the US (or any other government for that matter) imposing economic sanctions. Many countries have increasingly diversified their portfolio of trading partners, making economic soft power increasingly irrelevant for smaller sovereign states.
If you are skilled in C++, then I will strongly recommend Opus, and Daala, the open source codecs backed up Mozilla. I have just started contributing and the engineers respond on irc channel rather very well.
I found it a happy little jab at the end of a serious, introspective article. Thank you for the neat read! I, personally am looking to get a dog and cat(s) soon, and I, too, realize the massive time commitment these animals require to make it worth it. I'm shooting for a stronger at-home presence before I make the leap.
Didn't see this one on the list - while Command+Tabbing, if you hold down Option while letting go of Command at the end, you'll open a new window in the specified application if it currently doesn't have any open.

It might sound confusing, but it's quite useful if you've closed all the windows of a given app but still have it running.
Its not a scam, Ember.js is the shizzle.
For fucks sake, USA. Do you even want to be free anymore?
The problems are threefold. First, civil forfeiture is not the end; destruction of wealth doesn't achieve anything in particular. Second, your scheme involves coopting others and putting them at risk of conviction for conspiracy, reducing liberty in the aggregate. Thirdly, it's unlikely that anyone has all their worldly assets in bitcoin, so this will simply result in attempts to seize other assets of similar value (if prosecutors reasonably suspect the money to have been hidden or transferred elsewhere) or indifference (if it has inarguably been destroyed). The purpose of civil forfeiture laws (notwithstanding their scope for abuse) is to prevent the criminal enjoyment of ill-gotten gains.

You're so obsessed with getting one over on the government that you've adopted the position of the dog in the manger; if you can't have it, nobody else will, ha-ha-ha!

They can be as angry as they want to be, but that will not un-transfer those bitcoins.

I feel like I'm talking to a 12 year old. Your entire position is predicated on the fallacious belief that government's primary goal is to get its hands on your property. You're in the grip of an ideological delusion. If anything, your scheme is going to widen the government's reach by exapnding the number of prosecutable individuals.
Perhaps so. If pjbrunet was making a clever joke, I suppose I owe them an apology.