skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my 20's, most of my friends and I were in one touring rock and roll band or another. A bunch of societal malcontents, dropping out of college and trying to do something else. Maybe that's not terribly common, but I really didn't know many people who pined for the family life... but biological urges are hard to fight... Not just the urge to procreate, but the urge to raise and nurture kids. The urge to nest and create stability. It's not for everyone, but it IS for most people. Not because of some societal constraint, but because of biological ones. Societal constructs just helps us to fulfill those desires more easily.
Making a sample larger cannot correct for nonrandom biases in who you sampled.
For those wondering about this, this comment from another thread might help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931899
Another for the chart: http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/transactional-emailin...
Scroogled (The Day Google Became Evil), a short story by Cory Doctorow (2007)
I wonder how big the crossover is between companies who really absolutely _have_ to have 24/7/365 email uptime at better tha 3 nines, but who haven't already got something more robust in place than a handful of personal gmail accounts?

The problem here appears to be that Google's pathway to get to such functionality -- assuming a service branded "Google Apps for Business" does in fact offer a higher standard of service than three 9s and isn't pure marketing spin -- is broken in a way that could undermine an organisation that wanted to make that change.

Obviously that won't affect all businesses, but if you're in that boat then it seems Google can't even help you get to their better services without risking exactly the kind of interruption that a more serious/professional service is supposed to avoid. That seems bizarre to me, and doesn't speak well of how they run their business-level services. Combined with their recent trend of killing off even moderately popular services altogether, it doesn't exactly fill you with confidence about trusting Google with anything your business really depends on.
Thanks, that's good to know. I have been using XVim for a while now. It can be quirky, but it's amazing what JugglerShu has been able to pull off.

Have you used both Xvim and ViEmu? How does ViEmu compare?
>I can assure you they are not meaningless buzzwords. I'd recommend reading the book before commenting since your reply adds nothing to the discussion.

Perhaps naively, I assume you hadn't realised you were talking in what sounded like meaningless buzzwords.

> Any source to back up the claim that the Netscape team maliciously destroyed the company?

I never claimed malice. I'm sure the decision to rewrite the code was made with the best of intentions. It still destroyed the company.
1. brew install vim cmake

2. git clone https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe.git ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe

3. cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe

4. ./install.sh --clang-completer
History of Humanity
They may just add the disclaimer because they find it makes customers behave better. I suspect that knowing you're being recorded may reduce the chance of you screaming abuse etc.
Which JS Torrent library did you have used to download torrent?
> So, please, cut that 8-week-course crap out. What they "measured" is elevated self-esteem, or better self-confidence, or just felling special or even enlightened - any kind of these naive pre-mature "experiences" each and any novice had had.

If a novice can improve themselves in only 8 weeks, that doesn't seem to imply that only practicing for 8 weeks is "crap". Rather, it seems to imply that an 8 week course may be truly valuable.

It takes a great deal of daily practice to master chess, but even a few hours of instruction and the occasional game provides many people with pleasure, a chance for social interaction, and practice in careful thought. You don't need to truly master something for its practice to have value.

> any more or less authoritative teacher will tell you that it requires years of deliberate practice to attain very basic level of being continuously aware and in control of ones inner states

Perhaps that is true, but the article says that there are other benefits. On the other hand, it's important to beware of any teacher that tells you that you need years of (paid) instruction to get any benefit from something.
How then should it not happen? How ZeroTier One scales multicast.
I could not install it in my work machine as the OS is windows. As a replacement I use neocomplete.vim[1]. It is very fast, responsive, has fuzzy auto-complete. But it requires vim version greater than 7.3.885 and vim compiled with lua bindings. Still it is small annoyance compared to YCM installation procedure.

[1]https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim
Powershell (and cygwin as well IIRC) still have lousy terminal emulators. The issue isn't the lack of good programs nor the shell, it's the Windows GUI "wrapper" around the CLI shell. In Windows neither cmd.exe nor Powershell allow you to alter the width of the terminal in real time. Nor have sane copy/paste options, region highlighting and so on. There's no tabbed grouping, clickable URLs, etc. Sure, some of the aforementioned can be tweaking in the preferences. But on the whole, the Windows terminal emulators are pretty poor when compared to (for example) Konsole.

Cygwin is pretty awful as well. I hear a lot of people suggest it but I really couldn't get on with Cygwin. I found MinGW to be a much better solution (which also ships some pretty cool terminal emulators as well)
> Did they perform this study on sociopaths? I find it incredible that any able-bodied person would not give up a chair to a person on crutches.

How will you correct your expectations given the results of the study? It is possible they hired a bad actor for the person with the crutches and therefore did not trigger the same response as if the person was actually in pain.
Businesses don't use free services with no SLA for business-critical things.

As far as I can see it's precisely the upgrade path to get them off that free service and onto a higher level that is broken here.
Dispatches from the A/B testing trenches
100% Kudos. Refusing to take on an adverse relationship is a sign of maturity in business. If you manage your own finances well - saving, and not taking on unnecessarily large recurring expenses - your life will be happier one overall because you'll be able to say "no" when you should.
My point is that Warren does not address that situation, you'd need other case law to discuss it.
I suspect there is a point or ideological agenda to the lie "People earlier in more 'primitive' cultures were lucky to live to see their 30th birthday", its the old "life was brutal without civilization and a state to keep you safe and well" which then suggests we should also be lucky today to have all this modernism and be thankful to have "progressed" so far as to live to 31.
A Trilogy of (Acupuncture) Terror
I don't necessarily disagree with the argument being made here, but I unconsciously wanted the title sentence to end with "desktop." Response design's greatest weakness, from my perspective, is how it poisons the desktop experience with mobile taint.

I have ranted about "Bootstrappy" responsive designs and the now excessive margins, padding, over-sized fonts, chunky blocks of color, and the associated plummeting of information density. I don't want to pick on Braintree, but this was the page that got my recent rant kicked off:

https://www.braintreepayments.com/developers

This responsive layout conveys very little information. It simply wants me to choose my target and platform. And yet, it doesn't fit at default zoom in a fully-maximized browser window on my 30" desktop LCD. The page looks a little more like a conventional desktop site at about 65-75% zoom.

To me, the upside of responsive design is in decreasing overall work by allowing a design to be shared across multiple contexts. However, the downside risk is a consolidation of those contexts. You point out that you lose the incentive to leverage the mobile context (e.g., location awareness). I am arguing that you also lose the incentive to do proper UX in the desktop context, all too easily treating my mouse-enabled desktop as if it were a massive mobile phone, resulting in a design that looks vacant.
There may be some parallels between this and the crash which happened over London in 1999, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Cargo_Flight_8509
A particularly colorful example of multiple constructions in a blend of "shock" and "awesome" reactions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRItYDKSqpQ

(Language emphatically not work safe.)
Yes, I am rather familiar with Siemens as a company.

What I meant was, how diverse are the control systems for national grids. If they are highly diverse then they are going to be more difficult to target, if they are all the same generation kit from the same vendor then the threat will be higher.

Which one is it?
"You need" -> "UK needs" would work I think
Up until December 2009, my main computer was a desktop we'd bought in 2000. At some point, we had upgraded it from 128MB of RAM to 384MB.

That last year or so, things got rough. I was really pushing the limit of what it could run without feeling unreasonably sluggish (with pretty normal workloads of browsing, IM, and either word processing or Ruby coding). First, I switched from Firefox to Opera. Then, I switched from Gnome to Xfce to IceWM. This made a world of difference, and I really didn't miss Gnome. It got me another 6 months+ out of that computer without being terribly frustrated all the time.

In most cases, on a modern computer where you have multiple gigabytes of RAM, I agree with you. But it's still nice to have those tiny window managers around.
> So they had 39 people total. 20 meditators and 19 non-meditators. Of that, 3 non-meditators of 19 gave up their seat and 10 meditators of 20 gave up their seat.

Small numbers, but the effect size seems big enough that this would pass the (admittedly low) bar for p=0.05.

Incidentally, does anyone have a quick method for estimating the statistical significance of numbers like these?
"We then randomly assigned 20 of them to take part in weekly meditation classes"

It makes sense to be critical of bad experiment design, and skeptical about extraordinary results. On the other hand, claiming bad experiment design based on the amount of data presented in the article seems premature. Maybe wait for the full paper and criticize the methodology if it appears flawed.
That's fallacious reasoning. Just because they were treated wrongly in one way does not mean it becomes correct to mischaracterize "anything regarding their detention."

And Guantanamo prisoners are getting habeas petitions heard: http://ccrjustice.org/GTMOscorecard. It's not happening fast enough, and partly for logistical reasons (no U.S. state wants to host trials for them and foreign countries don't want them back), but it is happening.
So its like health insurance if you don't make it mandatory. Only the people who are going to maximize their utilization of it are going to opt-in.

Hence why it has to be a blanket tax. How many people would opt-in to social security if it wasn't mandatory?
If there is a list of cases of police shootings, add it to that!
I don't know if he had written anything up, but PlexConnect (https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect) uses a similar process to serve Plex up to the AppleTV via the Trailers app.
Simulate users visiting your website for the first time, with nothing cached
Yeah, they caught something statistically, and then interpret that something according to their grossly oversimplified assumptions, while there are lots of overlooked or plainly ignored factors.

It is a big question whether or not a primitive statistical methods are applicable to such vastly complex system as brain, given that no one could trace the causes of this or that manifested behavior, any other way but popular Freudian memes.
Daniel Ellsberg: NSA leaker Snowden made the right call
Why long lines are worth the wait
The tone of this comment is not one I associate with self-awareness.
You need successful exits for a startup culture, you don't necessarily need acquisitions and therefore tax breaks for acquisitions would be a mistake

What about the other path - why don't successful UK startups go public on the AIM? In the UK, companies can go public for much smaller market caps than they ever would in the US.

The UK is not burdened with the bureaucracy of Sarbanes–Oxley, so the UK doesn't necessarily need to adopt the US' cultural shift to stay private as long as possible.
Engelbart was sidelined
WTF Growth Hacking? Lean Marketing =? Growth Hacking
Growth Hacking is become more popular day by day. But in reality what is growth hacker? Is it new "social media expert"?

Great article about growth hacking: growhack.com/2012/09/05/is-growth-hacking-lean-marketing
Ask HN: Review my app – Sbscribe, a social RSS feed reader (Google Reader alt)
Hi everyone,

The people who use RSS today are power users. By the general user, Twitter is used as a replacement service for RSS by allowing people to follow websites. Twitter was not designed for this.

Briefly: Sbscribe is as easy to use as Twitter, but powered by RSS and tailored for discovering and sharing content in one interface.

https://vimeo.com/69376016

For all the content you currently discover and monitor using bookmarks, RSS feed readers like Google Reader, and social networks such as Twitter — Sbscribe offers the same experience, in one place.

This is an idea I had three years ago when I realised the value of socially curated news through platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. At the same time, I noticed my non-technical friends were 'following' websites on Twitter. Sbscribe really aims to separate these two concerns — you follow people, and subscribe to websites. It has been in development since January.

I'm planning on launching a private alpha of Sbscribe in August some time (shortly followed by a public beta in October), and I've got a slew of ideas for how I can improve the "subscription graph", as well as plans for a mobile web app. I've gotten to a point where I would really appreciate some feedback on improving the concept and UI. It's also a good time to spread the message with the recent shutdown of Google Reader.

FYI: The service is backed by Node.js, MongoDB, and Redis, and on the front-end I am using Backbone.js and Marionette.js. It would also be great to talk with other developers familiar with this stack.

Oliver
I'm paying for Fastmail anyway, so I don't think it's that unreasonable for a paid service.
Your comment has a couple of good points, but you put so much ire into it that it's definitely a net negative to the conversation (hence the downvotes). Consider re-writing it to take out the attitude and condense your claims. I'll upvote it.
Wow... Let's take something simple and make it a pain in the ass.

No explaination of why one would use warden over a user_id in the session. I get devise, I use it myself. I don't understand using warden by itself. It looks like one of those tools best suited as an internal framework library.

You don't need warden's abstraction and obfuscation if you aren't building code that's shared with other applications.
Somebody once told me something along the lines that using mean means that if you integrate it over time, you'll get actual population numbers. It might be a useful measure in that case, but it's definitely misleading in discussions like these. I do strongly believe we should stop using it.
I disagree.

I think you are assuming Warren has a broader impact than it does. The state does have an obligation to protect the public at large, and to do so uniformly (unless a special relationship is created). The state has not ruled it has no constitutional duty to protect you, it has ruled it has no constitutional duty to prevent every crime that occurs. Again, if the opposite were held true the state could be sued out of existence in its own court. There was no other way for this case to be decided.

Essentially the state has ruled it cannot be perfect in terms of crime prevention, and considering the backlash against the NSA wiretapping that much of HN has been extremely concerned about, it seems that the state is not frequently rewarded for attempts to get closer to proactively preventing crime. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

I don't disagree with you about police corruption, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Warren.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

Do you realize that almost everything widely used today is implemented in C, C++ or ObjectiveC?

All the operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android), most of the desktop apps (Office, Photoshop), programming languages (PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, both Sun and IBM JVMs), browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox), web servers (Apache, nginx), database (Oracle, MS SQL, mySQL, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB), Google's search engine, eBay, Bing, Facebook, most of the games, embedded medical devices etc.

http://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html
Aren't we entitled for a bit of humor ?
I had a nightmarish scenario a few months back where I was just trying to wipe an old hard disk on an old laptop that still barely worked, so that I could ship it off to an electronics recycling place. It was I think 512MB of RAM but might have been less; but a few popular Linux LiveCDs wouldn't boot without running out of RAM, and my `prng` script uses Python3 among other things. After trying desperately to set up swap on a thumbdrive before the computer ran out of memory, I eventually just caved in and went to a comp shop to find an external hard drive case for old laptop drives. I was lucky, found one for relatively cheap, and wiped it from my own computer. And doing that sort of command from your own computer is quite terrifying even if you think you've taken the proper precautions, you're still double-checking everything to make sure that /dev/sdb is really where the random bits and then zeroes should go.

So these articles are appearing a little after I'd have liked to see them but they're a welcome overview in any case. :D
[Citation needed]

I was under the impression the drop off for men both progressed slower and was less severe than it was for women.

e.g. a 40 something woman has the same chance of having offspring with Downs Syndrome or other congenital defects as two cousins in their twenties inbreeding, while a 80 year old man with a 20 something woman is still less at risk than both of the aforementioned pairs.
because it _is_ better, without all unneeded bells and whistles.
besides, a browser is not the only app you run, right? If not go and buy yourself a tablet, and don't use PC, as you don't need them.
That's not what seren was suggesting:

> it could have been random luck that people with more empathy were selected to follow the meditation training.
If everyone said no, we're not going to do that no matter how much you pay us, governments would not have these tools.

And you wouldn't be reading this, because by an obvious extension of your logic, numerous modern technologies including the Internet wouldn't exist.

The flaw in your fundamental argument is that the technologies and access that can be abused for mass surveillance are exactly the same technologies and access that can be used for legitimate surveillance of actually bad people. The people plugging in the cables and writing the data mining code have no way to know how those systems will be used later.
Torture is despicable, but there is an ongoing debate about whether anything going on at Guantanamo (as opposed to Abu Ghraib) is actually torture under the international definitions. It's not a settled issue like you're making it out to be.
Lex Snowden initiative in Finland
Oh, men only. :(
Absolutely! I've had a small client (2 business co-owners actually) become clients from hell only because I was a good guy and didn't charge for a few small changes. They felt that was a green light for free work and we even got to the point where one of the guys would tell me to make a change, I would do it, then a few hours later the other guy calls and tells me - "I don't like this, why did you change it, roll back!".

Be sure to set boundaries early on in your freelancer-customer relationship. Otherwise you are going to regret taking the client.
Feh. If they think HD is hard, just wait until everybody switches to 4K in a couple of years. (The true videophiles will have 8K or 16K.)
What Gmail knows about you...
I don't know if that is the case in the UK, but it is the case in US vs. Chinese manufacturing. The US output never went down and more things are produced in the US than ever - it just takes fewer people to do it, and it isn't the kinds of things that are currently visible to most consumers.
A lot of call centers will hang up if you tell them that the call is being recorded on your side.
You can't know that. You can even worry about the fact that James Bamford wrote in Wired in 2012 [1]:

"According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US."

What do many average computer users use? TLS is my guess. So, perhaps they've found a way to get into RC4, or made an advance in factoring. And the history of cryptanalysis says that they are likely years and years ahead of what's known outside. So, what can you do?

Well, you can read the ECRYPT II report [2] and see for yourself what Europe's cryptographers think about the security of various algorithms and what key lengths they recommend.

For example, the report recommends that an asymmetric key of 3,248 bits should be secure to 2040 (they recommend a symmetric key of 128 bits for the same period). So, the subtext is that an 2,048 bit RSA key is going to be breakable soon by a powerful adversary.

The report says, for example of RSA OAEP: "If used, we recommend at least |N|>1024 for legacy systems and |N|>2432 for new systems."

My brief summary is that I'm happiest with RSA keys of 4,096 bits or above and with symmetric keys of 256 bits.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

[2] http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/

PS I'd be curious to know what key length Snowden used for the GPG key he apparently used when communicating with Greenwald.
Oh please.

1) Many (most) weren't "caught" doing anything, other than going about their business. The majority were kidnapped from airports.

2) "Allied forces"? We white. Them black. Therefore them bad. Try to see the world from a perspective other than your own.

3) "War zone" - no it wasn't. It became a warzone after most of those in Gitmo were disappeared. That's like saying that what happened to jewish people before WWII was fine because it became a war zone.

4) It's not a characterisation, it's exactly what it is, if you interpret the situation through the Geneva convention, which the US is inexplicably a party to.
Exactly this is the problem! Similar to our little hn echo chamber these people are living in an echo chamber where they believe that what they are doing is the right thing to do.

Very, very difficult to disrupt that kind of thinking, especially when they have been subscribing to the "big government knows what is right for its little children" idea for too long.
> Maybe wait for the full paper and criticize the methodology if it appears flawed.

Eh, if the authors and their university are going to promote this in the media--and, make no mistake, this has been promoted heavily in order for it to reach the NYTimes--then I think it's fair game. You don't get to publicize your claims on the national stage and then avoid criticism until after your paper is published and the reader has forgotten everything (except the vague impression that meditation is backed by science).