skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the following guideline:

> Assign struct subclasses so that they can be re-opened.

Right = Struct.new(:value) do
def squared; value * value end
end

class Wrong < Struct.new(:value)
def squared; value * value end
end
I think what makes hikikomori unusual (and the pattern is certainly spreading beyond Japan, into Europe post-2008 as well) is that it doesn't fit the traditional shut-in pattern.

Being a shut-in is nothing new, but most of those are either very old people (who are shut in for partially physical reasons) or people with severe agoraphobia (who can't leave their houses without having panic attacks) or biologically-rooted mental illnesses.

What's happening now in many countries is that people without anything physically wrong with them are becoming shut-ins at very early ages-- 20s instead of 80s.

I feel like corporatism is cultural alcohol (alcohol was more devastating to Native Americans than Europeans, who built up a tolerance over millennia) whose psychological effects are probably somewhat worse in East Asia. Corporatism is everywhere, but when it fails us in the U.S., we don't internalize it. Compared to people in Japan or Korea, we laugh it off, work odd jobs, take a couple night courses, and maybe move to another part of the country. We're used to the industrial-corporate economy melting down every couple of generations (1929, 1973, 2008) and we know that it can be awful, but we don't take it personally. We'd rather pull up stakes and move across the country. In East Asia, there seems to be much more shame to not finding a place in the salaryman system.

Hikikomori is the response, on a large scale, to the decline of a system (world corporatism, which reached peak employment in 2008) in a world where the resulting negative impacts are internalized and personalized to a much larger degree than here.
Mobile Learning 101
It actually looks extremely easy.. view source of the page (such as http://www.qwiki.com/v/FPw12zjm) and look for the <meta> tag for "og:video".

Screenshot at https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/162062d2-8b46-4065-9e44...
GitHub announces Releases, a workflow for shipping software to end users
How to Have a Year that Matters (HBS)
But the FBI busts people for (Islamic, left-wing, etc.) terrorism when the plans aren't serious, or the FBI themselves will help the would-be terrorists come up with plans, money, supplies, etc..
because they are afraid of z-day :)
It's a bit more complicated. The US presence has many reasons, not least of which is non-proliferation, with the deal being protection under the US nuclear umbrella in exchange for not going nuclear, which pretty much all of the european countries that haven't done so easily could.

The presence of US troops is partly to give credibility to the assurances of US retaliation if a country is attacked: if you get nuked, our troops get nuked, and yes, we will respond to that. Without the credibility, countries would probably see themselves forced to go nuclear (South Korea has recently made noises in this direction.)

Another reason is, as the first NATO secretary general put it: "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." (purpose of NATO). Germany nowadays is quite a pacifist country, and that's probably an achievement worth keeping. Having lived and worked in a couple of different countries, I am not sure I would want the ruthless German efficiency applied to matters military...again.
I guess its your personal opinion to not use GPL for libraries. It's clearly not something everyone would agree with, especially not FSF with their article https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html explaining why.

As for your whole reasoning around LGPL for interpreted languages, I must say its mostly false. If there were a court case that said that LGPL is ambiguous, then you would have some facts behind the statement, but as it stands, it just you who think that LGPL is ambiguous as an legal document. Are you a lawyer? Do you work in any legal capacity somewhere? Do you have any actually credentials for backup the statement that LGPL would be ambiguous to use?

Last, as a side note, I would like to add that Blizzard used LGPL when they made Starcraft 2. Blizzard, a very much proprietary company which has a rather large legal department felt apparently perfectly fine in using LGPL in their flagship product.
because they are preparing for the z-day :)
It does provide that yes but I think it could be easy to skew that when a handful of questions get a huge number of views due to being linked somewhere like the stack exchange newsletters, or other places.
Extremely unlikely given the vast distance.

Swinburne Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Matthew Bailes thinks the most likely source of the bursts are cataclysmic explosions in the Universe's most magnetic neutron stars, otherwise known as magnetars.

"Magnetars can give off more energy in a millisecond than our Sun does in 300,000 years and are a leading candidate for the bursts," he said.
You’ve heard of “clickjacking,” now meet “keyjacking"
We have more freedom and more ways to talk than ever before.

Yesterday, an acquaintance had her home invaded by police, and all her lawfully owned & registered firearms were confiscated, without a warrant.

Why?

She posted a joke on the Internet.

We may have more ways to talk, but also more reason not to.

Bonus irony (for our international readers): this occurred on the USA's Independence Day, when we declared a national devotion to freedom, an event sparked by gun confiscation (see "Lexington & Concord").

Search "TJIC" to see this incident unfold.
The Pi with OpenElec (XBMC) automounts USB drives.
The onboard audio is supposed to not be great (crackles when there is USB load? Not sure if this is fixed). But if you're using the audio over HDMI to play through your TV, it should be fine.

OpenELEC also supports CEC so you can use your TV remote to directly control XBMC.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of Duck Duck Go, at Gel 2013
Battery technology: A pile of wood
Very nice guys! I believe you are aware of Peer5 and http://www.sharefest.me. Would love to discuss mutual opportunities.
80 is still above life expectancy by Western industrialized countries standard.
It's also an age where if for some reason you are hospitalized (whether it's because of "natural" diseases for old age or because you broke a limb), chances are you will need heavy care for the rest of your life.
Ask HN: Isn't planning exit b4 starting, ~ framing prenuptial divorce agreement?
I have a minimal upstart. I have approached to couple of angels, few have been kind. No matter whom I talk to, the question is inevitable - "What is your exit strategy?"

Isn't this akin to framing a prenuptial divorce agreement, before getting married??
Basic Neural Network on Python
Agreed that would be better, thanks. I'll try that next time.
New Zealand doesn't have an anti-US sentiment. And seriously people need to stop with this "historically X" nonsense. Diplomatic relations between countries can and do change on a dime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand–United_States_relat...
Surprised to see Objective C dropping; I wonder why that is? It sure doesn't feel like iOS is getting more web view apps, and with the increased frequency and quality of apps on the App Store in lieu of iOS porting, you'd think it would go up.
So, are we seeing a fall of microsoft from the developers' point of view? Are windows phone and asp.net mvc not enough to try to get back the hackers in the platform?
Misleading title. This is about the program of the CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel. The CDU is not 'Germany'.

Data retention law is currently ruled unconstitutional and it's not in place.
Russia is not doing anything different: they are not going to grant Snowden asylum or citizenship. So they're well and truly in that 99.99% at this point, together with China and Venezuela.
One can say the same thing about the likelihood of terrorism impacting any given person, yet that has captured the imagination of the public.
Btw it doesn't work (for me) currently. Didn't see anything in the chrome://webrtc-internals.
Does it use both http and webrtc?
Systemd & the "core linux" band vs a world of many inits
This is pretty cool, the last frame is telling.

It would be interesting to see the tags compared to each other by their relative bucket. As in IOS/iPhone/Android or web frameworks Django/RoR/Play/etc compared.

Also I'd be interested in knowing how the java popularity is without android (postings without the android tag).
Same data as area chart, attempted to sort categories by age while keeping related technologies grouped:

http://cl.ly/image/1U400y1l2t3r
> The FSF is not a court of law. As such, their opinion on the interpretation of the license has no particular standing. It's helpful that they're the author of the license, and if it came down to it in court, it may be persuasive. But another lawyer might have a different opinion...

A key word there: "another lawyer".

So sure, if there was another lawyer here who in their professional opinion will state a contradiction, then that is indeed something worth to consider. An non-lawyer however, has about the same qualification in defining ambiguousness in legal documents as a non-engineer has in defining faults in a nuclear reactor.
Top Science Publications by h5-index
Then I guess it's up to the publisher to do the math and see what works out to more profit in the end: keeping prices the same w/ less volume, or dropping the price and (hopefully) increasing the volumn.
There's no such setting as "Enable SCTP Data Channels" on Chrome 27 on Mac.
This is a danger in privatized money, which credit cards are essentially becoming.
I dont think the congress is n who understands the life of people
The concern isn't that the government is going to change the record.

The concern is there are so many laws, so vaguely worded, that if they want to imprison you they just have to sift thru your data until they find a match on something. Equifax may have that data, but they can't imprison me with it; read my prior post re the gov't terrorizing (and perhaps imprisoning, the incident isn't over yet) someone just for a dark-humor post on a chat board.

There is no justifiable reason for the gov't to engage on such a constant, pervasive, national "fishing expedition". The consequences are too severe.
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They're using a library (M2Crypto) to generate the an RSA key at least, so ams6110's point stands.
I must disagree - the death penalty for civilians is not acceptable.

The important thing for Brazil (this is my personal opinion as someone from a developed nation, so by all means ignore me!) is to build the economy so that crime doesn't pay anymore. The new economies (BRIC) are doing a great job of this, and you need to stick at it!

You should also know that here in the UK "most of the population" want the death penalty back (I don't know if this is true anymore, but it certainly was until relatively recently) - but the political establishment understand that this is not a vote winner. Much like EU membership, most people who want hanging, or to leave the EU, won't vote against you if you disagree with them on that - they will choose who to vote for on something else. Woe betide any pro-death penalty politician though - as many people would vote against them for this reason (maybe not so much with the EU,) thus, politicians in the 80s and 90s were by and large anti-death-penalty, even though a referendum on it would have brought it back.

This, by the way, is not "undemocratic" or anything - it's about what issues are important to people, as well as their direct opinion (this is why many polls about the EU in the UK are misleading - people don't like it, but it's not very important to them.) I suspect that even in Brazil people would (or will eventually) place economic policy ahead of death penalty stance when choosing who to vote for - and so it won't change.
All your friends are either having a fantastic time, or their life is ruined. Both can be a bit depressing to watch.

If you find it depressing that they're having a "fantastic time", then they aren't your friends in any meaningful sense.

This isn't directed at you. Envy is a stigmatized but natural human emotion. (I rarely feel direct envy, but who doesn't second-guess the path they've taken? It's very easy to look for greener grass and say, "Man, I could be a Director now instead of a 3-failed-startup wash-out", never mind that the other person is Director of a failing, bland company.) Everyone gets down when they see other people having easy, seemingly unearned success-- and oversharers tend to be the hypersocial people who make their successes look even more unearned (it being better, in their view, to be well-liked and socially successful than talented or hard-working).

My point, rather, is that if these people's successes get you down, they aren't friends in any meaningful sense. And social network "friendship" is anything but in many cases, since many people are trying to incite envy to validate their own choices and results.

Most of my real friends I never check on Facebook.
'Love, sex, action, jail:' John McAfee is trying to sell his life story
Interesting data. The founders (Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood) are strong proponents of Windows programming, and the initial popularity of .net and c# make a lot of sense in that context. As the site has become more and more popular, the audience now consists of many people who aren't even aware of who those founders are, let alone follow their work. As such, the language spread is much more representative.

As someone who never goes anywhere near Windows programming, I'm quite pleased about the direction this trend has taken.
I've never seen an ad on YouTube since 2 years of using AdBlock. Maybe you should reconsider.
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A couple of wealthy people will find it very hard to tamper with thousands of paper ballots supervised by multiple volunteers of various political leanings, each.

Tampering with some computer systems? Not so hard.
This was my interpretation, the largest downward movers across the board were the Microsoft stack technologies.

Perhaps, given this data is from a Q and A site, these languages have just gotten so amazing in the last three years that developers are collectively asking fewer questions because they're running into fewer critical / main sequence blocking issues. Maybe these languages have moved to only being deployed by established and professional shops, leading to less of the entry level developer "noise" questions on SO

[e]: sibling comment explains these trends, quite convincingly, as site demographics.

I'd love to see this data compared to a similar set from github. Although public repo stats would suffer the same selection bias as SO posts.
I would so try these guys, but they only take money by bank transfer from what I can see which means, from the UK, it becomes very annoying.
>This seems like the sort of thing that doesn't just have
>the potential to greatly stifle innovation

Could you be more specific? I'm not sure how we'd be able to do our business (years of work to develop an engineered microbe) if someone could just take it when we're done. Maybe we could keep it as trade secret and let no one else see it, but that's probably even worse long term for innovation.

I'm for a balanced approach to IP, but total removal of IP would basically prevent any real innovation in biotech with the tech of today. No one would do the original development, it's just way too expensive.
> The protests were an abysmal failure.

They were scheduled to take place on the fourth of July. I understand and appreciate the symbolism, but the date makes a large turnout unlikely.
Its not really dropping in terms of total questions asked, (obj-C has been sort of constant for about 12 months) but the other tags are increasing. The chart shows a proportion of the top 25 tags.
The Southern US States tried that. Didn't go very well. (Bloodiest war the USA was involved in.)
> economical with the truth

That could be said about pretty much any article about patents that gets posted to HN. Or heck, most of tech media. It's unfortunate that so-called geeks and hackers swallow it without the least bit of critical thought. Your post is a refreshing change.

Not saying the patent system is perfect, just that it's broken in completely different ways than what the tech media (cough submarine cough) likes to portray.
This comment is great. Was the first thing I read today. I believe I am going to go write some haskell to start my day haha
Yup, that's why he said Canary... (I actually think it should work on dev channel as well (M29+)
No. SO was founded by two windows developers, and build on a windows stack. They had a podcast detailing the process of development prior to public release of the site, followed primarily by windows developers.

The initial audience of the site was, ergo, primarily windows developers. As popularity grew, more developers from the broader community showed up, driving the proportion of windows questions down.
Show HN: ZeroTier One creates flat virtual Ethernet networks of unlimited size
Possible, but terribly expensive. There's been much discussion (see "Oceania" and other projects) but little progress.
It's not automatic. A user has to click a button on his bookmark bar for it to happen.

CL seems to have a stone age version of automatic. A cave man would think a cigarette lighter automatically creates fire, but it just technology that's improved.

Instead of rubbing sticks together for a half hour we can make fire with flick of our thumb. We still had to do something.

Higher productivity != automation and shouldn't be used as an arbitrary measure of legality.
Try to get some "fresh blood" instead of a super-extra experienced entrepreneur. You'll find out it's easier to work with and will probably be extra motivated to learn and get things done. And no, I am not talking about myself. Happy recruiting though.
DropBox Vulnerability allows hacker to bypass Two-Factor Authentication
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Hi, I'm glad to hear that, I'll be happy to help if you plan to build one!

As for the idealized conditions, if I gently pass my finger on my laptop's aluminum case I can feel the 50hz hum, so that is why I have to unplug it to get that signal, it may be a laptop's issue. I will check with a desktop and post my results.
I, also, would pay to avoid ads.

I use a mobile broadband dongle, and ads eat the monthly bandwidth I have available.

Some ads are remarkably bad. I have no interest in watching a 4 minute ad before a 30 minute video. I run the ads to support the platform and the content creator, but I'm usually on a different tab.
ELB already does weighting, directing requests depending instance type and instance load. Can't find where in the docs this is clarified unfortunately. Have witnessed this with my own eyes though!

Draining is a huge issue for us. Investigating ways to add a secondary layer of balancing behind ELB to help mitigate it, which is completely silly. We shouldn't need to do this. ELB should have supported gracefully terminating connections from Day 1, IMO. Last I heard it was being 'considered'.
The one problem people always forget about remote work
Do You Feel Guilty Like This?
I don't think you necessarily need special training. A value of 1 should immediately make you wonder why you are providing it as in input at all. Interestingly, even a small prime, like 3, has no known vulnerability (but it allows other vulnerabilities to be attacked faster)
Sounds like a Brit talking to colonists in the New England Colonies: You don't like it here? Go away!
Whats the betrayal in it, they were any way not going approve it, they know they themselves are the most corrupted persons and any body who goes out first after its approval are the ministers itself
Agreed with buckets. The iPhone tag drops to next to nothing, but iOS rises. I suspect this is due to people programming more for the iPhone/iPad family rather than just the phone. I wish that they were all grouped.
Protests against the NSA spring up across U.S.
Nice idea, please update us with the results.

I am a little sceptical, I don't see enough traction to attract the type of person you are asking for. 1000+ users is not enough to get an entrepreneur with real experience. I would focus more on the skills your team has.........oh, just checked that, you mean to say you have a team of 10 geeks with no business guy, this is ridiculous.

At the end of the day you are not putting your team into the deal, you are just putting an idea that didn't take off and if the new guys can't make it work then the new company dies and the team goes onto the next project.

Invite a business guy into your team, a good business guy is good at business and will see through this type of offer in a flash.
Thank you Zach, those were the conclusions that I jumped into only to make myself feel less bad about not making the cut. It is clear by the comments here that your process gives an equal opportunity to each one of the candidates and referrals are not a decision factor.

I'll reach out to you by e-mail. With so many applicants, I thought you couldn't afford to explain the reasoning behind rejections on a case by case basis. That's why my reply to the rejection e-mail was the standard 'thank you for letting my try' note.
"More" transparent? Seriously? Maybe the writer should have gone for "even less untruthful."
Seeing the numbers of yesterday's "Restore the Fourth" protesters, I guess I'm gonna need some "Restore the Faith" now...
Thanks, that's awesome. I will put a link on the post if that's ok.
Flash Often With Flashify (for root users)
Oh man, Error Theory comes to legal systems. HLA Hart is spinning in his grave.

I am absolutely not surprised. I've been whistling the Cowboy Bebop Intro since before I could spell "legal nihilism."

This planet is a joke. And it's because probably .3% of You (here in this "hacker community") will know half of what I'm talking about. Snowden playing hop-scotch around Europe is "hacker news."

lulz argue over the flippantness or "integrity" of headlines until you realize you've described your own simulation.
I sometimes use this http://www.cameramouse.org/ when both my hands are too cramped to hold the mouse any more. I also find it fun to play with.
I wore the racing flats for all road runs, including marathons, for years. Now I wear NB Minimus for both roads and trails. But the principle is the same. It's flat, flexible, light shoe.

The racing flats I mentioned are designed for racing, definitely. But the idea is that you wear them for all road runs, fast or slow, as a means to changing your running form.

You can probably get Wave Universe on Amazon.
Warm fuzzies can be dangerously misguided leading to tragic consequences. The post sounds good on the surface, but such sentiment leads to ends far from what is intended. It may be honest, but not particularly insightful.

A quiet life free of safety concerns is NOT a right, and attempting implementation thereof via government necessitates serious violation of other fundamental rights. A "proper" totalitarian police state is the only means to that end - and not something many of us are going to put up with.

(No, I didn't downvote it, but understand why one would.)
Looks cool! I once tried something similar and released it as a reveal.js plugin:

https://github.com/functino/reveal.js-wave-plugin

But I just used the WebcamSwiper-Lib.

Maybe you could try to package it as a Plugin too - so there would be no need for a fork.
The challenge seems to be in finding or creating friendship circles with similar or compatible values/outlook. In a busy fragmented society, you have to work in a deliberate and persistent way at that. I've concluded that a key thing to do is to pursue my passions and find IRL communities that share them.
Lean UX for Non-Designers
1) Just because something is down percent-wise, doesn't mean it's actually in a decline. It's possible the overall numbers grew a lot.

2) This visualization is bad.