skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only ran into one problem (and they quickly accepted my pull request to fix it) building and using RPMs from the spec files at https://github.com/dcarley/graphite-rpms
Indeed, it's an accurate summary.

There are things I'd like to change about sublime and can't do with plugins.

The future of editors are web-based IMO.
Can we stop being negative please? This guy is definitely NOT whiny (give or make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound) and the level of sensationalism he's transmitting goes with the subject matter - plus it's apropos for marketing.

I theorize nobody here, at least those doing a startup, really want to think about the possible failure of their company at some point. I appreciate him documenting his thoughts as he goes through this all-too-common process.

Humans learn through a variety of means, including other's failures. Your perception of 'ideals' here feels like you are trying to skew the topics away from this means of learning. And, it's contrary to what appear to be common hacker ideals, which include:

- Sharing

- Openness

- Decentralization

- Free access to computers

- World Improvement
NSA with classic computers - analyzing what has already happened.

NSA with quantum computers - pre-crime analysis

CIA is already working on this with Recorded Future, and NYPD created a system with the help of Microsoft to create statistics to see where most crime is "likely" to happen and when.

I think we'll see a lot of very powerful technologies (quantum computers, mosquito-drones that can poison you in your sleep, etc) that can be so easily abused by governments, because they won't resist using them to get rid of people they don't like, especially if these technologies step on legal gray areas, but even if they don't (not like "mass spying of citizens" is anywhere close to gray area), or if they think they can keep their usage secret.

This is why it's going to be extremely important that the people get very outraged at such abuses as soon as even small ones happen using these technologies in the next few decades, to find balance in the law and government, before it's too late (these things will be moving fast).
Same here. My experience was with Emacs though. I learnt some of the key binding, but installing plugins for almost every need I had (syntax highlighting, debugging, color scheme) just wasn't cutting it. Sublime has very intuitive key bindings, and its blazing fast. Definitely the best editor out there. I still use emacs to edit files through the console, but the majority of my daily editing happens through ST.
This seems pretty unreal. Is there a way to donate to this kid's defense fund?

You know, I'm really starting to hate prosecutors with a passion. I used to (a long time ago) buy into the TV crime show narrative of slimy defense lawyers and shining prosecutor-paladins, but the way the system promotes successful convictions over any semblance of actual justice makes these people look like sociopaths.
The point behind me going through five phones in three years is irrelevant except to point out my experience with it, I have always gone through phones quickly because I like having the latest and greatest, before I got my HTC Surround I had an Nokia N75, an iPhone 3GS and a Palm Pre Plus, I kept bouncing between platforms because none of them worked the way I would expect. With Windows Phone I finally found something that works the way I expected it to; hell, I originally got my HTC Surround solely to use as a developer device and get in on the marketplace early, it ended up being my everyday phone within a month.
NO. It doesn't.

The article mentions what his father has said. It says nothing about what Edward Snowden has offered.
You missed the context. The point is that people are still free to go to the Guardian on their home computers and exercise their own judgment in what they read. However, the Army is taking proactive steps to avoid a mess of work cleaning up their own systems.
Oversight of secret programs by elected officials flat doesn't work, in a system where money plays such a big role. The only ones who can speak on the issue (with dollars) are those who know about it, and the only ones who know about it are those asking for the power or the contract.
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A datapoint from a friend in the field: the stimulus bill, which mandated this change, includes the simple phrase "meaningful use" as I recall to define when a healthcare provider satisfies the requirement. That ballooned that into 6-700 pages of regulations and a very healthy, shall I say, consulting business to help providers demonstrate their "meaningful use".
Christ, Django is changing too fast. I recently upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 and it's still way obsolete.
How do you feel about your representatives in particular?
The Ever Diminishing Attention Span of Consumers
“These people are serious. They really want my son to go away to jail for a sarcastic comment that he made ,” said the elder Carter.

I wouldn't admit to making that comment. Make them prove that he was sitting in front of the computer when his account made that statement. Did anyone else know the password? Is his computer completely free of malware or unknown backdoors? Could anyone be eavesdropping on the connection to the game server? Is the game server completely secure?

For a crime that carries almost a decade in prison, confessing doesn't sound like the right legal strategy to me.
Fuel regulations were a big part; you could not buy ultra low sulfur diesel until 2005-2006 in the USA, so passenger cars had a very hard timing meeting emissions.

I don't think the price of diesel is coming down in the USA relative to gasoline. The USA already uses lots of diesel in its trucking networks; switch the entire public to diesel and it's only getting more expensive.
What? The use case for F# is simple: you have a body of existing .net (i.e. C#) code you want to interoperate with, but you want a modern functional language with all the benefits that brings (a real type system, a better steer towards immutability and purity, etc.). What's the use case for Go? It's certainly not that.
Understanding how custom code can help you build your Drupal site
I can't believe he was arrested and jailed for this. On one hand yes in context it is a ridiculous statement and no one should have spent more than a minute thinking about it. Yeah, the Newtown Massacre was heinous so I can understand that 'can't be too careful' mentality but c'mon, just get him mentally evaluated if you're spooked.

Terrorist charges? This gov't, our culture, is getting unbearable.
> Developers marry their editors. They spend years learning every aspect of them.

Except, don't look under the hood, that's not for you. Editors should not be closed source, and a plugin system is just a hack for appeasement.
As I understand it, the US allowance for this is capped at $90k (in income, not tax paid)
A poetic manifesto. Well done.
* Less energy by volume, I thought
I did this 10 day retreat and it turned my life around for the better. I wasn't having any life shattering problems, but was just uncomfortable with my life, e.g. confused about career and whether I should stay with my girlfriend.

I did not feel that it was cultish or strong-arm-y at all. Yes, they have rules, but most of them really do help with meditation or they are just cultural rules, which is fine. If I go to church, even though I don't believe it, I'm ok with dressing decently, sitting where I'm supposed to and not yelling in the middle of it. They even tell you that you don't have to chant if you don't want to (I never did.)

Keep in mind that this is all volunteer run, so your experience will vary based on who is managing the course as well as the location of the course. So your experience with a strict course manager/teacher will be different with someone more chill.

I pointed my feet at the TV all the time and no one ever gave me crap about it.

At the end of the day you get 10 days of meditation teaching, lodging and food for free. If you get nothing out of Vipassana, at least you got to learn how to be away from everything for 10 days.

I got that and much more from the experience.
Absolutely ridiculous ruining this poor kid's life over stupid comments!
Tripod let people write their own (limited) perl scripts for their site... when I found that out the first thing i did was try to get something from Matt's Script Archive to work, but it didn't. Then I wrote my own guestbook and what had to be the lamest forum ever.
Cats don't improve particulate. Urea capture systems are needed for that.
As you to fill out a form declaring how much you earned, determine that you are falsifying that form based on information provided by your transactions' counter-parties, then put you in prison. See Al Capone.

Is this a trick question?
Actually, quiet often I do need help sitting quietly - but that's a tangent I'd rather not get into right now.

While meditation is incredibly simple, it is far, far more difficult than just sitting quietly. Meditation is observing and (hopefully gently) directing your mental focus.

Try it sometime for 10-20 minutes. Sit down someplace quiet, close your eyes, and choose some very simple thought to focus on. Try to keep your mind from flailing about. It's incredibly difficult. There's absolutely no way I could make it through a 10 day exercise like this without guidance.

Some people do this for specific purposes such as working out a problem that they're having, or just promoting attentiveness, and sometimes it's just a matter of exercising general discipline so that other discipline will follow outside of meditation.

In support of my original comment, this is the easiest place I've found to apply the lens of metaphor. People will talk about meditation in terms of energy, vibrations, and flow. If you just think of these terms in the context of focus - the intensity, oscillation, and well, flow of focus, it gets a lot easier to accept.

Edit:

To answer your "what types of guidance" question directly, there are all kinds of non leading guidance to be given. Simple examples include "sit someplace comfortable," and "don't feel guilty should your mind start to wander."
He hasn't been convicted of anything yet. This is the media seeing that someone wants to charge him with making a terrorist threat, and that if he was convicted, there would be no way he could possibly spend more than 8 years in prison.
Take a look at http://sdf.org.
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Just to clarify: He made the comment on Facebook not within a League of Legends game.

This doesn't change the ridiculousness of the situation but it does explain things a bit more: Vastly wider audience, public profile, easy access to personal information, etc.
Evi Nemeth, retired Boulder computer professor, missing at sea near New Zealand
The parties have moved all over the map over the last 100 years.
while ill conceed these titles are avalible, years after the fact ports (largely with ill suited control schemes, virtual buttons suck badly) arnt much of a market driver on any platform.
Bitbucket can do this too. Name the repo: USERNAME.bitbucket.org
See, to me this is much more serious than the NSA collecting metadata. People are being jailed for speech.
I'm not sure how I feel about this case.

On one hand, Carter made a horrible threat about shooting up a school. Whether he followed his comments with 'lol' and 'jk' or not, he still made a really ugly, juvenile threat. Whether he follows the news or not, he still had to have some inkling that what he said was going to get him in a whole lot of trouble. I mean, he was 18 years old when he said that...

On the other hand, he celebrated his 19th birthday behind bars and it seems like such an unbelievable waste to lock up people that young. The penal system isn't exactly famous for rehabilitation, rather, many people come out of prison far worse (and more screwed up) than they were when they went inside.

All I can hope is that he is offered a plea bargain that calls for severe amounts of therapy, community service and probation.
Nice work!

If you don't mind, I'm curious about a statement at the bottom of the page:

"This article was motivated by many success and failures experienced with production systems at Heroku."

Heroku is, as far as I know, more expensive than EC2. Maybe even double? With this being the case, at what point does it make sense to just run your own EC2 and set things up how you like instead of fighting against the platform?

I've only used Heroku moderately, but I've read many instance of folks spending lots of time trying to get Heroku to work how they want. It seems to me, they could've possibly spun up an EC2 instance and gotten things configured more quickly and easily.

So, to pose my question in another way: if it's possibly faster, and more cost-effective to run an EC2 instance, why do people continue to appear to be fighting against Heroku?
The definition of "enemy" has moved beyond state affiliation. It's not "the Russians are coming". We're worried about extremists of various ilks these days. So a citizen can be an enemy in the current line of reasoning.

Let's be real here -- nobody who follows these issues was surprised by what Snowden said or found it implausible. Our potential nation-state enemies, who are not completely inept, or operate assuming that the NSA had the capabilities described by Snowden. It's publically known that the US compromised Soviet undersea cables almost 40 years ago -- I'm sure Chinese Intelligence didn't assume that that capability still existed today. Anyone who has any business or knows anything about doing business in China knows about the Great Firewall and knows that a State entity has the ability to broadly and deeply monitor network activity.
I think GitHub pages serves that niche well. NeoCities seems like it's more built for the beginner, which is something I can't say of git.
PasswordBox: unbreakable passwords that you don't have to remember
The Court, like many other parts of the government, has systematically increased its power and influence over the years.

No matter what your opinion is on the recent gay marriage rulings, you should read the dissenting opinions that warn of the new power the court has ruled for itself through the decisions.
Now that emissions have largely been overcome, through improvements in technology and available fuel, there are two main obstacles- complexity and public perception. Diesel is getting much more complicated as it tries to combat pollution, and it has a bad reputation in the USA.

The exciting thing is gasoline engines are starting to incorporate the best aspects of diesel engines. For example, direct injection and combustion shaping are allowing higher and higher compression ratios and leaner burns.
I'd support my local car dealer... Unless they were trying their best to put a green car company out of business over greed. Luckily my locals are not :)
"Why Wasn't I Consulted?" (2011)
Can Packer build Windows images?
Hum. Interesting point.
If you think an 18 year old needs therapy, community service, and probation for a poor-taste sarcastic comment (the kind of thing teenagers do all the time), you are actually a horrible person.

EDIT: Sorry for the personal insult. This really bothers me. I said a lot of stupid shit when I was young (still do, actually), and I couldn't imagine being prosecuted for it.
Why don't you put a rendered version on a GitHub page[1]?

[1] http://pages.github.com/
The Ouya has a touch pad, but not a touchscreen. The touch pad is intended as a fallback pointing device, not a primary input.

But yeah, Android is appearing on a myriad of devices, many being simple "mini-PC" screenless gizmos with the Play Store illegally hacked on. There's a huge market for low-cost hackable set-top devices and Android is the cheapest popular OS for this, so it only makes sense for Google to start supporting this market and get in on the action.

Actually, this is one space where Microsoft's Windows 8 RT has a tremendous advantage. WinRT's store requires that every application support keyboard/mouse controls. This means that a potential WinRT set-top box could include a presenter-style controller and access the official Win8RT thing without the kind of growing pains Google will see as they deal with expanding their OS into new form-factors.

Of course, MS won't bother with a Win8RT set-top box because they've already got the XBox1 coming, and they don't want to cannibalize their own market like that.
> I can't believe I am alone in this sensation.

You're not alone. I'm feeling the same. That's why I'm "exploring" TOR, I2P and the CJDNS mesh net nowadays. Because it feels like something new and unknown. And it certainly is more exciting than visiting Facebook & co.

Though it's nowhere the same like back then when I hooked up the modem in the night (when my parents were sleeping), put it under a pillow to muffle the dial up sounds (going online was so expensive that I wasn't allowed to do so without supervision) to explore the internet.
I know of at least one very smart/productive guy who uses it, but I couldn't say 'why' exactly. It might be because he works at an MS dominated company, that is nonetheless open to experimentation.
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Incorrect. Skype relays media via other users when two users cannot directly connect. So if you and I are behind proper NATs, and no negotiation works, then we agree on a nearby (super?)node that is accessible, and relay media through there.

Hole punching _can_ work, but again, it's exploiting implementation quirks in NAT devices and isn't a general solution (though it might do pretty well).

The only standard way (AFAIK) to open up NAT is via UPNP, which the client software (and NAT device) needs to support. The client then talks to the NAT device and tells it to port forward. It seems pretty common nowaday, and is more elegant and secure than the hacky "poke around and see what works" implementations.
For the gems, of course! :)
This is kind of ridiculous sorry. The Web is so interesting today because it moved forward from a read-only kind of system, which you seem to so happily advertise with this NeoCities website.

And I totally disagree about Facebook. It has given me the ability to communicate very creatively with my friends. Much more than any read-only HTML site will ever dream of. Who cares about its boring interface, the power lies in the content and ability it has given me to easily share this content with my friends.

How will NeoCities adress the challenges we already faced 10 years ago, that is that users will want to input data, and interact with these static sites, rather than just read them?

Sure it's fun and creative to share static content... it's also fun and creative to share static images (flickr). But the medium of the Web has much more potential than simply being a repository of static resources.
To me this seems like the root of the issue. Politicians give the voters what the want; If most are willing to trade civil liberties for security (or at least the illusion of security) than that's the way it will be :(
A tutorial showing every step from start to finish for creating something simple, such as a webserver running a database with some custom html pages would be really great.

The docs look good, but it's hard to see which steps to follow in what order for someone who hasn't tried to automate this kind of thing before.
Allow me to provide some context for the snippet at the bottom of the page. The snippet is more of a thanks to Heroku for my employment. I wouldn't have had any of my insights related to visibility if it weren't for the super interesting problems that we have to solve at Heroku.
I am Canadian and don't understand enough about the US criminal system to comment on this. However, your thoughts mirror some that I've had for a long time, and I'd like to ask some questions and hopefully learn more.

Do you think that having elected district attorneys who want to look tough on crime causes this? Or rather, is it a case of actual prosecuting attorneys being graded solely on conviction rate?

I've seen some highly dubious prosecutions emerge out of the US over the last few years and, from an outsider's point of view, this is rather terrifying!
There's no cap on the foreign tax credit; you can deduct millions.

What you're thinking of is the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, which allows you to exclude the first $95,100 of foreign earned income from your taxes, if you live outside the U.S. more than 330 days a year. In my case there's no real reason to do that, because the foreign tax credit I get for my Danish taxes zeroes out my US tax liability. The main people who benefit from the $95k exclusion are those working in low-tax jurisdictions, e.g. American expats in Saudi Arabia. In their case it allows them not to avoid double-taxation (which is what the tax credit prevents), but any taxation at all.
Kyle, I love neocities. Not trying to toot my own horn but instead share the similar feeling we have. It's great to read exactly what I've been feeling: http://www.johnrockefeller.net/you-know-what-i-miss-the-unli...

Thanks so much!
Google makes money off the Play Store, I imagine; a TV is a good Play Store client.
moreover, technically, it's not "on earth"
Definitive comments about Esperanto:

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

I see this was posted overnight in my time zone. Several of the earlier comments correctly point out that empirically, a language that has been acquired by many second-language speakers (for example, English) must not strike too many people as unlearnably "weird." Many widely spoken languages have undergone a process that linguists call "koineization" (after the spread of Koine Greek as a common language of the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near East)

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4167665?uid=3739736&ui...

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/linguistics/staff/kerswill/pkpubs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koin%C3%A9_language

in which the language simplifies some grammatical (and possibly phonological) features as it is spoken by more second-language speakers for trade or for use as a language of national administration in a multilingual region.

The United States is largely an English-speaking country, but only about one-fourth of Americans have ancestors who spoke English before arrival in North America. (Indeed, only one of my four grandparents, all of whom were born in the United States, grew up in an English-speaking household.) In other words, General American English is a koine language of second-language learners of English, so it is not surprising that it is spreading all over the world.

P.S. Feel free to visit my user profile here on HN to see more about my background in linguistics and language learning and teaching.

AFTER EDIT: Cantonese versus Mandarin as "dialects" or "languages" were mentioned in other comments. Cantonese is at least as different from Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) as German is from English. How you might write the conversation

"Does he know how to speak Mandarin?

"No, he doesn't."

他會說普通話嗎？

他不會。

in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write

"Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't."

佢識唔識講廣東話？

佢唔識。

in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese. As will readily appear even to readers who don't know Chinese characters, many more words than "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" differ between those sentences in Chinese characters.
Why are we all so afraid of change?
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