skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of targets of blame these days... politicians, bankers, parents, teachers, you name it.

At the core, I believe it's my fellow Americans that have become frightening. They represent the rotting culture that accommodates our increasingly violent, extralegal form of government, the one now almost entirely unchained from the Constitution.

The sheer apathy; the willingness to hand over fundamental liberties with little to no fight; the willingness to defend perpetual war; the willingness to suffer any indignity (eg molestation at the airport) just so long as one can go home at night to the couch and watch Leno; and so on.

People joke endlessly about America's expanding waistline, mismanagement of personal and national finances, abuse of prescription drugs, and terrible education scores. It's all part of the same sickness, that goes hand in hand with the governmental abuses: it's a populace that has willingly become numb, and is ready for an iron boot to its neck, and no coincidence that's exactly what it's getting.

Show me a people unwilling to be vigilant about their liberty 24/7, and I'll show you a government happy to lord over them with absolute power.
Which is still a theoretical concern until it's actually used against you.
Amazon's sales are just 29% of the book selling market (2012 share, even after Borders was out of the picture for over a year). B&N's are 20%. If their discount pricing hasn't even gotten them 1/3rd of the market after all these years, it'd be hard to prove that they're soon going to monopolize it.
The person metaphor works if you consider the purpose instead of the individual.

There has been a mayor of New York since the mid 1600s, though the individual fulfilling that role has changed regularly.

Similarly, there has been a bridge on this stretch of gorge for some time, though the expanse must be replaced regularly.
There is no direct evidence to support Amazon did so because it always made "pocket change" as the article pointed out. So as long as Amazon broke even/made a slight profit it would be hard to push an anti-trust case.
I've been using OCC to avoid this problem with my apps, and I couldn't be more happy. It mostly voids issues with priority inversion. (Not exactly, if using pre-emtive scheduling and long running high priority tasks.) It doesn't matter if something is stuck, looping, crashes or so, it still won't bring down the whole system. + Offers great parallel performance as long as resources aren't too widely shared. I got sick'n'tired administering (and creating) systems as DevOp, when I were using traditional locks and all the problems which those caused, even on top of poor performance.
I will see if there is any good podiatrist where I live (I highly doubt), but thanks for your suggestion, I appreciate it.
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It's not meant to sell you a product, it's an attempt to position and differentiate the Apple brand (the fact that they feel this is necessary is pretty interesting).

Think of it this way. How is Apple different from IBM PCs | generic MP3 players | Android phones | Samsung? Well, Apple only releases a few versions of a given product at a time, they obsess over details, leave out any non-essential features in favor of simplicity/elegance, etc. etc. Compared to the confusion in more generic markets, you always know what you get when you buy an Apple product. Also, California, USA, innovation, rah rah rah.

Disclaimer: my "background in marketing" is one marketing course I'm taking right now, so I'm clearly extremely qualified to comment on the topic.
Looking over your list of things in your "ideal system", I know that we are attempting to build something like that at Airdispatch (http://airdispat.ch) - feel free to give it a look, and let me know what you think (my email is in my profile).
Half of the hobbyists and makers who made personal computers and the internet sounded just like Ev at one time.

You muggles should lay off the magicians. They could have saved you from the Panoptican if you'd been less dismissive.
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Thanks for also coming down by the river. I heard people talking about it over an hour after.
It's not a bunch of jagged rock. The Altiplano, where this bridge is built, is a plateau between two parts of the Andes infilled with sediment over the past 30m years. Wheels would be quite useful there.
BTW where is a good place to buy books online that isn't Amazon?
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I was going to open a thread this evening to ask HN who went to the Restore the Fourth protests today, but instead I will ask for your observations of the protests here. I'd love to hear from anyone who attended a protest.

Between 6:00pm and 7:00pm, my family was in Minneapolis for the Minneapolis Restore the Fourth protest. The total attendance during that hour was greater than 100, but definitely less than 200. I was expecting many more people, and was surprised at how unoccupied the Government Center plaza was when I arrived. One TV news crew was there, from the local ABC affiliate station, and the reporter interviewed several different protest participants, and the camera operator filmed a lot of the scene. Our hand-printed "We support the Bill of Rights" poster was surely picked up by the TV camera, but may not have been on air. It was a long time before I noticed any police presence at all. The plaza is overlooked by an upper balcony, reachable from outside open-air stairways, and I noticed (eventually) two police officers there. Everyone seemed very calm, and my ten-year-old daughter, who had done the most work in making the sign, was rather bored by the whole thing.

The weather was gorgeous all over Minnesota today. Outdoor activities were very popular, and later in the evening my daughter and I saw celebratory fireworks for Independence Day in one town, while my sixteen-year-old son saw them in another. Where I saw the fireworks, there was a jazz band playing in an outdoor bandshell as the sun went down, and then just before the fireworks, the lead singer of the band sang the national anthem, and just about all of the thousands of people there stood, cheering at the end of the anthem, "the land of the free, and the home of the brave." Americans here are still in a very celebratory mood about freedom, and happy to enjoy public celebrations with thousands of their fellow Americans in public places.
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The publishers/authors who think Amazon are making too much profit can open their own stores/sites and sell that way. It is a free transparent market.

They can also go to competitors like Walmart and give them whatever deal works for the goals. Or they can use rebates which keep the profit the same for the store (Amazon) but lowers the price the consumer pays.

I don't see any reason why they are making demands on Amazon's pricing and profits, but don't see fit to adjust their own.
Unless, perhaps, both particular species of ape and pig routinely had sex for pleasure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour suggests it's possible), and just happened to cross paths. In this case, they're not really wasting resources as they would have been having non-reproductive sex anyway.
Then they will fall. The protests were an abysmal failure. I've seen plenty of "I don't care" opinions regarding it, and that's not even factoring the 50+% of people who don't even follow such things.

People get what they deserve, and the world apparently deserves the US monitoring all of its communications. My only hope is a complete collapse of their government.
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anyone know what this is?
This sad story demonstrates the importance of owning your
ideas and directly benefiting from them (financially, public
recognition, etc.), instead of giving them away to people
who will like you one minute and forget you the next.
But how did they string the bridge across the first time?
I have been reading about this story of late, and the my impressions are that Brown was in the progress of doing some real investigative work on the these security/intelligence companies and their links with the US gov.

And based on the severity of the charges against him, it seems that this is yet another case of DoJ going after people for political reason.

The small amount of detail that was uncovered seems to be the tip of the iceberg. Are any other journalists looking into?
I'm not sure I understand who this is for. The copy reads "Acorn allows you to piggy back off the market leader and give you much higher visibility. With Acorn, the results of a query are shortened to just those apps that do what yours does."

So I can use it find competing apps. That's fine, cut why would a consumer do that? They don't want apps, they want to do something. Seeing a map of a bunch of other apps that are similar to something they already use I think is somewhat useless.

Do people want new apps to do the same thing their existing apps do? Or do they want new apps that change their lives and do something new??
I suspect the later.
Start by pulling across a string (with an arrow, or by climbing over to the other side with it). Use that string to pull over a cord, use that cord to pull over a rope, use that rope to pull over a bridge.
> After reading the actual transcript (http://pastebin.com/Ldtj6mhx), many Redditor's sided with the police.

Well, my conclusion then is that many redditors are absolute mouth-breathing fucking retards. This transcript is dripping with obvious sarcasm and hyperbole. Anyone who can't see it should kill themselves.
I don't think making dev tools tailored for a specific form factor or even platform is a good idea. You can use something like Ms Surface Pro to do dev work right now with the tools already available even if they're far from perfect - this is why I like Ms's "vision" on the whole tablet saga better.

What I'd really love to have (and even I'd even pay good bucks for it!) would be a browser-based-polyglot-IDE, maybe an IDE implemented as a browser extension, that would simplify the fucked up workflow of web frontend dev (none of the existing editors, IDEs or anything else properly handles the ungodly tangle of HTML/CSS/SASS/LESS/Javascript/Typescript/Dart/CoffeeScript...) and be totally platform independent so I can use it on any device and just tweak some configs to adapt it for a particular small screen size.

I think "RFS 5: Development on Handhelds " has a wrong perspective, you don't want to think about development on handhelds, you need to have dev tools that are so platform independent and form factor independent that they work on anything (code-mirror seemed a nice base last time I checked, but compared to what's needed is like comparing the linux kernel with full fledged desktop linux distro...). And if you think about tools for developing native apps, I think this is "sailink a sinking ship" anyway and on top of that you could always be put out of business by Apple or Ms making an Xcode or VS version optimized for handhelds and giving away for free and "express" version that will be good enough for most.

Anyway, this has veered seriously off topic, but dev tools are something I care about and I couldn't refrain from commenting on that :)
Your whole brain is not involved in thinking process, it is possible to cut off parts of your brain and it will not effect your thinking ability.
Ask HN: Package management system for dotfile components
If you look at the world of dotfiles, you see lots and lots and lots of people maintaining many configurations in their dot files. In some cases, a developer who has done a lot with dotfiles has dozens upon dozens of modifications and they have their own approach to modularizing their dotfiles. Many of those modifications may have come from other developers in the form of cut and paste snippets.

This all seems quite primitive relative to the best ways to share code and modules. With that in mind, is there anything like NPM/Bundler/CPAN/etc?
The depth of investigation should be proportional to the probability of correctness, weighted by the cost of being wrong. Crackpots are called such because the probability of correctness is very low.

Given all the evidence, I consider the MFAP origin hypothesis to be significantly less likely than the primate evolution theory. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> Of course I'm not in a position to diagnose anyone with anything specifically
> my assessment of his mental health is irrelevant to my argument

Then don't include it. You're not a health specialist and it only weakens your argument.
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As a hiring manager for a large firm; yes it would. Would make it easier for you.
The 4th protects against search of those effects by the govt. without a warrant. What do you think the computers that store and index those things are doing, without a warrant?

There is no functioning missile defense shield, that program was a huge costly boondoggle.

There is next to no chance that terrorists would be able to take over an aircraft carrier or any other significant military target for any significant length of time. They're full of armed soldiers. Can you imagine what would happen if real, actually well funded militaries and spy agencies could do that? You should try not to live in fear of extremely unlikely dangers.
NSA Independence Day
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Those don't have arrow keys, they're pretty fascist keyboards. Part of the motivation is to discourage programmers from writing text based interfaces for the Mac.
Interesting read.

Though correct me if I'm wrong, but I find the article rather biased against iterative/agile way of writing software. Don't get me wrong, I believe there's a time and place for over-2500-pages-of-specs-for-6000-LoC kinda process, but the article seems to be saying that quick iterations are of the stone age/how little children do it and that the way the on-board shuttle group software team wrote their software is the "perfect" way.
I am guessing that as a consumer you may want to find a better option to what you are already using or thinking about using.
bookdepository.com is the one I often hear about. Particularly because Amazon isn't available in all countries, and The Book Depository's prices are sometimes pretty comparable. Shipping is still 1-2 weeks though.
Running Karma and Chrome under tmux on OSX.
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You laud and describe the exact mindset that caused this.
The nature of war for our country has changed completely, and quite a few people on the other side do die in our wars. It's not related to our espionage efforts.
Thank you sir! I figured it was as well!
One man's verbosity is another man's clear and maintainable code.
By "as competition wanes," the headline means "Amazon has a 29% market share."

By "cuts back discounts", the headline means "Amazon is selling books for slightly more, which is still less than brick and mortar stores."
Gah. Another crap submission from PhysOrg. This has been going on so long that many HN participants have called that out as a bad source before. PhysOrg appears to have been banned as a site to submit from by Reddit (according to what I've read here on HN). I learned from other participants here on HN that there are better sites to submit from.

Comments about PhysOrg:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077869

"Yes Physorg definitely has some of the worst articles on the internet."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198249

"Straight from the European Space Agency, cutting out the physorg blogspam:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1116/ (press release),

http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1116a/ (video),

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/scien... (paper).

"PhysOrg: just say no."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3611888

"The physorg article summary is wrong, I think."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108857

"Phys.org is vacuous and often flat wrong."
Note that it's possible to convert your keys to use PBKDF2: http://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of...
Sounds to me like your opportunity for comment on the bill was simply a ceremonial formality, and those assembled already had their minds made up (or their votes bought and paid for) ... and your insightful, useful, and knowledgeable comments were a mere obstacle to their already-decided vote.

It's hilarious that, at the 11th hour, one politician gets scared that this thing might effect lawyers. Oh, the humanity! Only to be reassured, no, lawyers won't be affected, because, and I quote "um ... common sense ... um ... don't worry, no".

Of course lawyers wouldn't be affected by politicians' screwups. Professional courtesy and all.
What keeps publishers and authors from starting a non-profit that sells books at exactly the price they determine?

I realise that selling books from their own websites is difficult, especially for individual authors, and it gives them less visibility than Amazon provides. Banding together would solve that problem.
or Amazon just keeps it at the same price, making more money.
>but the clojure code looks just as good and readable.

But don't mistake this for having the same runtime characteristics- For what its worth the Computer Language Benchmarks Game shows Go as generally being faster, using much less memory and less code.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
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There's more data here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography Though their New Zealand data is outdated.
And, in this context, he was replying to his friend with whom he played video games with on a facebook page, and adding "lol" and "jk" to the joke. Do you consider that equivalent of an adult yelling "I'm going to rape you" to a 12 yo in a public arcade?

To me, it looks like the inability to discern the differences is not with Justin.
A great article from a couple of days ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/01/cyber-in...
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This is the fundamental difference between common law and civil law and is how most legal systems outside of former British colonies work.

Common law is a more conservative approach in many ways, because laws are seen not as coming from some abstract, idealized system designed years and years ago, but strongly informed by the history of the law as lived through the people subject to it.

For example, take the 4th amendment. We're protected from "unreasonable searches and seizures." If you're pulled over for an arrest, does a police officer have the right to search your car? Your glovebox? Your trunk? How about your cellphone? Is the answer, "No, unless Congress passess a law?" Is it, "No, even if Congress passes a law?" If the latter, how do we know and when? What if judges disagree?

That's not even to point out that "unreasonable" not only varies between individuals but across time. John Adams didn't think the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional, for example, though Thomas Jefferson surely did. And what would be considered "unreasonable" to them might be wholly reasonable to us, or vice versa.

Congress or other legislative bodies are free to pass laws that specify intent, BTW. They're just awful at it. Really awful. So awful that the same Congress might pass two laws with obviously contradictory intent. Or pass laws which are deliberately open to multiple interpretations for the sake of getting a bill passed more quickly.
Well that's an interesting point. There is survivorship bias. If the key event for life to thrive never happened, then we wouldn't be here to talk about it, but maybe some other world would have evolved intelligent life instead and they would be.

If you assume that a hybrid is necessary for intelligent life (which is a crazy, unlikely, implausible assumption, I know) then it doesn't matter if it only happens in one out of a billion worlds, on the one world it does happen in, there will be intelligent people around to talk about how unlikely it is.

Now maybe it's not so implausible. Pigs are some of the smartest animals, and something weird happened a few million years ago to jump start human evolution such a crazy amount. Still seems pretty unlikely IMO though, but I'll raise my probability estimate of it slightly.
That does not follow. The more verbose code is, the more prone to error and less maintainable it is. Verbosity is never valued in prose; it's superfluous, pedantic and boring. Why should code be any different?
Yay, another hater troll with -2 karma.
Oh right, because everything not relevant to the context of the situation must be dragged in to the discussion, right? Big data is the umbrella term and just throwing the term around signifies an understanding of analytics; the main reason for collecting all kinds of random data.

It can't be judged equally but then who is responsible for judging it?
Keep in mind that Amazon is not the seller of most of these books, it's 3rd parties using Amazon as a platform. There are a host of SaaS products for these people to help optimize prices.
You shouldn't downvote a post because you don't agree with it anyway. You should downvote it because it doesn't add anything to the discussion or is otherwise vapid. It follows that there should never be a reason to downvote and reply to a comment.
"It is difficult to comprehensively track the movement of prices on Amazon, so the evidence is anecdotal and fragmentary."

[data upon which entire thesis of article rests] -> stopped reading
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I dont understand why they are complaining to amazon. The publishers are the ones negotiating the deals with amazon so they should complain to their publisher to renegotiate the deal. Or else they could just open their own amazon seller account and price the books how ever they wanted
Barnes and Nobles isn't bad. Their editorial selection particularly great.
Amazon purchased The Book Depository in 2011.
I feel like you're much to attached to a rather outdated tradition. Given the divorce rate in the country, I don't see how having the legal document makes you more or less likely to be able to successfully raise a child together.
Advisors should provide connections to get your business to the next stage. Whether that means helping you land a Series A or getting you intros to business partners, it's typically worth a lot more than dev skills - which is why they can justify taking equity.
With out getting to specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must of prepared for Google Reader deadline
LXDE previews Qt port of its desktop
yet another example of Apple abusing short "sentences" and an overuse of arbitrary periods?
Idea: Luminosity but for real tasks and to-dos
I like Go and all but it seems like it is a poor choice for this project. Is there a good rationale for why you would use go to build this?
A few pictures from today's NYC event (with a particular focus on the creative signs / props...also no faces, just in case):

https://www.adoberevel.com/shares/d8403bbd4b374bd18fdb475aa6...
I guess everything I've read about it was inaccurate then. I had read that it was just a facebook post, like a post to his own wall. To me, it's still a fucking retarded thing to say in a public forum. Free speech is great, but your words still have consequences. Again, I don't think he should have been essentially abducted with no trial or bail.

However, I do believe that if you say "I'm going to murder children" in a public forum in a country where that exact thing happened on a disgusting level recently... you should get some counseling.