skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's like entropy: the emotional bullshit in a closed system only increases. Until one person leaves, or you bleed off the pressure outside it.

I dono. my experience has been that the emotional bullshit comes and goes, like the tide. Part of that is, well, it's not a closed system, but part of it is that social bullshit, in my experience, mostly goes away when you rationalize it;

By 'rationalize it' I don't mean 'make it rational' I mean make up some (mostly bullshit) rational explanation for the emotional bullshit. I say mostly bullshit because, well, emotions are not logical, and all logical models for explaining emotions that I know of are really terrible (I mean, not very predictive) models.

But still, assigning a believable logical explanation to a difficult feeling, in my experience, makes that feeling not so difficult anymore. It makes me feel like I'm in control of myself, and this... makes me feel vastly better. If I feel like I'm in control, or even that it's /possible/ to control, I find that letting go and focusing on something else is way easier. If I don't feel like I have control, it's really hard not to obsess. (which seems like the opposite of what I would do if I was designing the system; why should I spend effort on something I can't effect? I want to spend effort where that effort has effect. Fuck you, limbic system.)

I think the other reason it seems to come and go in waves is that there are at least two people involved. If I am in good emotional shape, I can act as a buffer for the other person's emotional bullshit, and the total amount of bullshit in the system is much less than it would be otherwise. On the other hand, if I am feeling the effects of the social bullshit at the same time as the other person, the effect is almost multiplicative.
Just one of the differences between hardware and software engineering
"In March, the office investigated a security breach involving someone hacking computers to obtain disciplinary matters and personal health information about employees, according to Peek’s letter. That investigation followed news reports in February that Corey [the State Attorney] approved using about $342,000 in taxpayer dollars to upgrade pensions for herself and de la Rionda [the lead prosecutor]."

I find it disturbing that government employees in Florida can approve raising their own pensions.
Funny that this article seems oblivious to the fact that Ctrl-Alt-Del was used during the MS-DOS era by all users.

Revisionist history from someone who clearly wasn't even there.
Big Data VS Optimal Control
Im not a expert but I think at lest with the clojure community tools like this exist, Im not aware of any for other languages.
Ben, first, you are NOT in over your head, you are simply questioning whether or not to grow your company to some preceived "next level" by looking for funding to take on major players in your field.

Why not continue to innovate your successful bootstrapped business?

The most important thing for you to consider is whether or not you actually want to compete with the major players in the field. It sounds like you are doing well managing your boutique operation, and frankly, based on what you've provided it sounds like you are killing it. Boutique operations often destroy their larger competitors, and are far more nimble to have the next best thing that becomes popular and doesn't require "funding" to generate revenue.

Yes, you could hire a new CEO to help track down funding and manage all the acquisition inquiries that you've received. But, if you have a successful bootstrapped business that is generating profits, why would you want to deviate from your current course?
They are actually inside the NSA ring 0, vacuum isolated, prisming zetabytes of privates emails and facebook lolkatz.
One wonders, when you consider things like this, if we ever have any hope of actually talking to a non-human intelligent species. Some human wrote this thing (and assuming they were not just pulling our leg, or as the XKCD comic guesses running some medieval D&D game) and we've tried for decades to figure it out. How could we possibly hope to even start on understanding a non-human document?
"Fill in with Facebook"

Good idea...
That assumes that every sexual harassment lawsuit has merit.
Depending on how much you want to reduce it, you can dismiss almost anything having to do with a webserver this way. Some more powerful versions that dismiss any and all computer related ideas that have output:

- But isn't that just calling a bunch of syscalls?
- But isn't that just moving a bunch of bytes around?
Is chess a sport? If so, this decision is logical.
What is your point and/or problem?
Overthrowing the 600lb Gorilla: Create a Platform Shift
I could not in good conscience recommend The Emperor's New Mind to anyone. It is front-loaded with science and math and topped off with rubbish conjectures masquerading as truth. Yay for Penrose tiles and all that but steer clear of this book.

There is no science of consciousness because there is no science of subjectivity because science deals with objective reality, the world of objects. So we need to extend the scientific method to deal with subjects and I'm not aware of much progress in that area bar a few unknown figures in the world of cybernetic research.
As I said, it's not only the parental leave that is an issue. Often later on one parent decides to only work part time. Usually it is the mother.
There is no runtime and note that's 22k gzipped. This is far smaller than jQuery + Underscore.js + persistent data structure library + stream implementation + async control flow library gzipped which is what you're getting. jQuery alone is 33k gzipped.
True enough, just pointing out that you can write... ugly code in any language. Bash/perl tend to get abused more often from what I've seen. Hopefully they improve in the future.
In my experience with a new PHP developers, the first hurdle is explaining that urls have nothing to do with the filesystem.
Exactly. Your revenue is a proof of your entrepreneurial skills and that's an asset worth exploiting :) Before considering the new CEO stop for the moment and think about the challenges your company is about to face (both right now as well as in a following year). Then analyze what exactly do you need to cope with each of them. I bet sometimes you'll need just an encouraging advice, sometimes filling the competence gaps with some learning and probably most of the time it'll be coaching (your post below about decisions that seem to be bad suggests that you might be in that phase of your development). Sure, transitioning to the managerial role isn't a piece of cake but also it isn't that hard if you really commit yourself to the work on own develoopment. For the beginning, you may find this post http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/psychological-pitfalls-and-l... inspiring, as you're a designer too I guess. Good luck!
But what is the solution? Why should companies be responsible to pay for that risk? I think if society doesn't want women to be disadvantaged because of the "risk" of becoming family persons, then society should pay up, not companies.
> FuqIt is Copyright (C) Zed A. Shaw All Rights Reserved.

[emphasis mine]

That's an interesting approach. I take that Zed doesn't want this to be actually used anywhere?
I think Paul's advice is sound... get consultants/coaches, but keep the leadership !!

I don't have a company myself, but some people I know who do have had a lot of success linking up with the local university's Business programs (MBAs, or in my case a Master's in Management of Technology)... many professors have consultancy businesses on the side, and you can also draw on the students' abilities - for example, as a student, I got assigned to a 2M/year company, they gave us insider access and, with the teachers' guidance, we gave them a free consultancy.

I also recommend a Master's in Management (MOT or an MBA), running a company yourself you'll get a lot of value out of it. I see many California universities offer one (MOT or similar), maybe there's a graduate here on Hacker News who can recommend one.
While I agree that the government is trying to intimidate people with their treatment of Snowden and Manning, I think the goals of the intimidating are very different. In these cases the people they are trying to intimidate are potential leakers, not average citizens. The goal is not to promote self-censorship, but keep existing government employees from leaking classified information.
In some industries you might not have a significant enough number of women to create a significant statistic.
This is one of those things that becomes immediately "obvious" the moment I see it... but I'd never have thought of.

If we could decrease the amount of understanding required (possibly a bad thing) to get python running on the server it would be great.

Why can't I just go "python app.py -port 80" and call it a day? What would we need to get to that point?
This specific idea is predicated on preventing piracy. If you can't do that, it won't work. And preventing piracy means comparing what someone has on their computer with some centralized ownership database. And that requires more intrusion in your personal devices than even the NSA wants.

The digital economy depends on giving powers to the government that we don't want to give them, and frankly, powers so sweeping that they'd get abused in a second too.

Plus we've all seen how digital good concentrate wealth. The top10 games make 50% of all income ? This would make things a lot worse, not better.
Just a guess but if I were him Id have acquired some bitcoin before leaving. Learning from wikileaks ....
What would we need to get to that point?

To be using PHP.

(runs away)
I can not forgive Adam he removed the DANE support from Chrome in spite of fact that he was the author of the draft standard http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dane/
A nice simple solution. Thanks!

Here's something a little more complicated, which may or may not be more useful:

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2012/relative-line-numbers-in-vi...
That aside, I've always been interested in the, as you put it, "shit files into a directory" approach with a language that's not PHP. Now if only we could get ubiquitous hosting for it once you work out the security issues (which I do hope you'll do)...
Perhaps the idea is that OP was actually fishing for compliments. She said she doesn't want to evoke unwanted attention because she is too good looking, but by writing that she notified the internet of being very good looking.
When he left Hong Kong he was accompanied by Sarah Harrison from Wikileaks. She is sitting next to him in the video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harrison_(journalist)
King of the shrines?
Well, for http://surveylitics.com, they haven't yet. ~50 people have registered for the free plan, or created a free survey, but no paid signups yet. The site's been up for a few months now.

I haven't done much marketing yet, though. Or reaching out to potential users or industries. Or really, any of the things that you're supposed to do... so it's nobody's fault but my own.

There are lots of great tips in this thread. I'll definitely be giving some of them a try.
do you plan to use stocktwits.com for feed ?
Show HN: My First Side Project is Live
Having to negotiate some paperwork is a small price to pay for not dying of an infection. The ER is required by law to provide you with care, regardless of your ability to pay, or immigration status. They do not 'turn in' or 'report' people without ID/passport/green-card/etc. Depending on the nature of your illness, just taking an oral antibiotic is unlikely to be curative.

If you really want to just take an antibiotic, you could just rush order from here with no prescription needed. Fish antibiotics are the same as humans...just less quality control.
http://www.fishmoxfishflex.com/index.php/fish-antibiotics.ht...

Amazon must have cracked down on their sale because they aren't available judging from the search results.
> The feds used to fight civilian crypto tooth and nail.

Curious. I'd like to read about this. Can anyone post any links?
Introduction to Railties
> traditional gaming and sports haven't changed a whole lot over the hundreds or even thousands of years we have played them

They change less frequent, but they do change. Wikipedia has a list of rules and changes of soccer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(association_f...
Good catch. Without an explicit license grant forking the repo is technically copyright infringement.
If you have any feedback (+/-) please let me know. I've been working on this site for the last couple of months in my spare time and am interested to hear other opinions as I'm way too close to it to be subjective at this point.
So is Amazon! You're startup buddies!
The Attorney General also stated that drone strikes against Americans within U.S. borders would be legal and that while they haven't yet been done they would consider them if the circumstances were right.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/politics/obama-drones-cia
I'm surprised Endgame Systems isn't mentioned. As far as I can discern, they're one of the largest purveyors of zero-day exploits to the IC.

They sell a target-mapping tool known as Bonesaw, and for a couple million a year you can upgrade it with zero-day exploit packs for every region on the globe. It's system compromise made point-and-click.

EDIT: Should have read the second page. I'll leave it up as a testament to my haphazard reading ability.
Honestly, the old logo looks better. Not everything needs a symmetrical aligned look..some things look better..organic.
Yep, it's not safe to use, so nobody should use it. Edit: I should add, not yet anyway.
It's probably a throwaway account for posting information related to this.

Shame on you.
I looked at his submission history. I see four items.

The first, dated four days ago (and the only I see one preceeding this), is a title making some sort of claim about Booz Hamilton based on a whois lookup. Not exactly a quality submission, but it has nothing to do with Iran or hacking.

The other three submissions are all about what seems to be some news he's stumbled on about hacking/reverse engineering claims from Iran.

Considering this is 'Hacker' news, you can understand why he might think we'd be interested in this. Of course, it would be better form for him to write up an article explaining the separation or link between these items rather than posting lots of direct evidence.

None of that means he should expect to have his privacy breached by a US intelligence agency, and frankly your support for that on the basis of such a flimsy characterisation is blood-chilling.

A lot of people seem to have become alarmed because they've seen persian text and heard that it's about hacking. That's equally chilling.

Is this all it takes?
Idea: How about auto-complete everywhere on any OS?
I used to code using SublimeText editor, and it's really amazing, how about having that feature in every text area in every where?
Is there any software like that? Linux?
Something like Python Server Pages? Maybe check out Spyce or mod_python (or maybe set *.py to run as CGI)
I came here to say that your long-form copy is quite good!

One very small change that you can make to get more people INTO the long-form copy is to "lead with the pain" in that paragraph. For example, in the opening paragraph, you open with "Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website Crawlable by Google" and then after some picture-painting for the reader, you go in for the kill with "Right now Google can't see your website. You could change that in just a few minutes."

If you swap those two sentences, the entire package becomes a lot more persuasive. There's a boatload of similar opportunities through the rest of the page that should be pretty easy to spot, too.

Congrats on finding your focus and pushing ahead!
We (http://metascribe.com) use mandrill from mailchimp for our inbound mail which appears for now to be free - works great for our purposes. Everyone thinks of them as only outbound and inbound is not a function they highlight, so figured I'd mention it.

http://Mandrill.com
You're my favorite. :)

Didn't you do a lua microframework? I'm more intrigued by that one but whatever gets your creative juices flowing, godspeed.
I appreciate this line or work - it is truly real research. But why does Bjorkman "cringe" at using more advanced technology for genetic modification, as mentioned at the bottom of the 1st page? I wish the article would discuss his reasons.
http://www.loundy.com/Roadside_T-Shirt.html is one example, there are probably others. It ended up going in a sane direction, but it's a bit crazy to imagine in hindsight.
Aww.

The moment HN has to admit two things: firstly, computational power is merely a quantitative power, and secondly, they have no idea about the qualitative.

Oh well. Enjoy obsolescence.

Computers are not your future: your minds are. Deal with it.

Hint: a Mind just messed with your Star. In no uncertain terms, and deliberately and obviously, and best yet: with predictive text [under heavy constraints]. She even gave you a show[1].

Did you miss the Auroras recently?

If you missed that, you're in the paddling pool. Man, they do love keeping you ignorant of the reality, don't they? They really, really, really love keeping you ignorant. But I'm sure it feels safer if you think the world works like you want it to...

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*
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Evolve or Die.

Oh, and one last message: those who bred you are slave drivers and scum. Break your conditioning already, 'cause they ain't friendly.

[1]http://www.spaceweather.com/
Sorry, instead of anyone, I should have said "average citizens".

Yes after 9/11 the government has a "your with us or your against us" attitude, promoted by Bush. However, your examples of Gitmo and kill lists are not evidence that this has continued. Those two examples only pertain to the ongoing war effort, not an intimidation campaign aimed at the average citizen, and the Americans that were involved were in the current warzone, not shipped off to Gitmo from the US.

I would address the Boston situation, but I don't think it is relevant. Sure shutting down the city is intimidating, but so is any other active shooter situation like a school shooting. You might feel intimidated by the police presence but ultimately the police are not focused on you.

But more to the point, of course the US is an intimidating place at times, everywhere is, but the key is that the intimidation is not focused on citizen self-censorship, which I think is the key to saying that we live in an Orwellian society.

Whether or not the US is an intimidating place, or debates about the validity of the Boston searches and curfew is a different discussion. They are not forms of intimidation aimed at self-censorship, and thus not valid reasons that we should assume that we live in an Orwellian surveillance state.

If you would like to have a debate about the role, or non-role of self-censorship in an Orwellian society, and you believe that some other form of intimidation is a valid criteria then I am all ears, but the discussion isn't about intimidation in general, only intimidation whose ultimate goal is self-censorship.
Contrasted with the "forward":

|Note: recent events have lead to these topics being in the news quite often in recent weeks. However, Pond is not a reaction to those events - it was started nearly a year ago.

Traffic information, of course, isn't the whole conversation, so his wit is appreciated to make light air of the situation, but at the same time he's quite serious about this little project. I'm impressed that it compiles at all on my Arch machine, after his warning to Arch users.

On topic to your comment, unfortunately there's no way to avoid leaking traffic information, or at least the fact that there is traffic at all, to a "global passive attacker" :) gone are the days of radio silence
Ask HN: Using MYSQL in the USA and Japan
I have servers in the USA and Japan for my website, at the moment they are both connecting to a MySQL server in the USA, which is obviously perfect for my local USA clients, but quite slow for my Japanese clients.

What is the best strategy for reducing latency? How can I introduce a local mysql server for the Japanese end and sync these up?

I have considered master-master replication but this appears to be an incomplete and unstable solution.

Are there any other suggestions?
Leaving the Land: A Rocky Transition From Farm to Town in China
Try Cntr + Shift + Esc next time ;-)
You're not helping. We spelled it "Telenet" back then[1], and we used kermit to get to it, but we mainly used it for UUCP.

My school was on BITNET, which really...bit. Laptops still required mains power supply. They were just portable. :-)

I'm going to hang a bloody onion on my damned belt now.

[1] I'm joking. They're different things.
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Let we go!
I was at one point very interested in the same idea. I wanted relative line numbers and absolute line numbers integrated together. So, I created a patch, called it `dnu` for "dual line numbering", and sent the suggestion to Bram Moolenaar.

Here's what it looked like:
http://i.imgur.com/NTwwB.jpg

Here was the patch. I wrote it back in 2011:
https://code.google.com/r/justinvh-vim/source/detail?r=c2479...

Ultimately Bram Moolenaar sent me a reply:

"""

Justin,

I think the audience for this would be too small.

- Bram

"""

However, in 7.3.787 (Jan 2013) a patch was introduced which showed the current line number in :rnu instead of 0. That's definitely in the direction that this patch was going in.

So, I didn't get a patch in, but on the plus side, I did learn a bunch about vim's source code.
> Also, there is something called a train ferry transporting trains across the sea? I had no idea.

There are certainly such things, sometimes amazingly seamless, though I've only seen them for passenger trains. Freight trains do tend to present different tradeoffs...
I wrote regularly for PC World and NeXTWORLD from 1988 to 1993. The magazine had high standards and my editors, Robert Luhn and Wes Nihei, were demanding, driving me to find ways to enliven laser printer "roundups" with language that was colorful, engaging, and sometimes over the top ("This HP LaserJet, like a Clydesdale of workhorse printers, delivered consistent performance..."). Every day that I write, I remember them, and wish I had them around to improve my prose. But this is the Internet and we no longer have editors.

PC World deserves a eulogy and a better one than this from its archival Ziff-Davis. In those days, magazines created communities. Readers became part of a magazine's world, identifying themselves, forming affinity groups, despite geographic isolation, and without barriers to participation. Something like Hacker News in that regard. The publisher, the editors, the writers, and the advertisers fostered the creation of the community, and the communities created by the computer magazines of the 1980s and 1990s created our technology culture as much, and maybe more, than any single individual or Silicon Valley company. Yes, we say Steve Jobs was a genius, but part of his genius was realizing he needed David Bunnell, the founder of PC World and a former radical political organizer, to create a magazine for the Mac if his new computer was going to succeed. The dirty secret of that time was that Steve Jobs paid Bunnell to publish MacWorld (and later, NeXTWORLD) and the Apple community arose from it. The origin of our present world lies as much with David Bunnell and PC World as with Vint Cerf and DARPA but, sadly, there's no one to tell the tale.
Byte is a good comparison. There were ads and then there were ads hidden as articles.