skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm someone who has spent a lot of my life trying, often failing, to "be good". More and more, it seems like an impossible goal:

On the one side you can retreat to the woods and live off of roots and berries trying not to do any direct harm. But then, depending on your privilege, you leave on the table so many opportunities to steer the ship of society in a less harmful direction.

Or, at the other end of the spectrum you can yield all reaponsibility for your direct actions, instead throwing yourself into the wheeling and dealing of systems of harm, trying to invest what privilege you have to gain leverage so that you can make a bigger difference, focusing only on some theoretical calculus of your global influence, measuring yourself by your imagined net global effect.

Or, more likely, you pick something in between. In the end, we all make a personal decision about what we are willing to sacrifice.

I often use oil, even though I know it's harmful, because I think my boycott of it would cost the world more than it would gain. I could be wrong, but that's my best guess based on my (flawed) understanding of my self and my world.

And I may boycott Ender's Game and I do not think that's hypocritical. It's just an acknowledgement that there are limits to our power and we must choose our battles.
Is that the author posing for the picture?
I'm a recent Hetzner customer.

32Gb/i7.

I used them for 5 weeks, in that five week period I had 5 1-2 day blocks where the machine was unreachable.

>A incoming attack influence the network for few minutes. The network department
has solved the issue.

few minutes was 31 hours

our network-team told us, that there was again an attack which caused the issues
you mentioned.

27 hours

currently we can't see any issue, is this still given?

connection timed out (no idea how long as I'd not installed monitoring at that point).

etc etc.

I canceled shortly after.

I'm back on Linode for now (I actually changed the design of the product I'm developing so that I can store files onto S3 so I can stay with Linode and move easily in the future).

A fast server is a paperweight without reliable network access.
Stating that a product has a defect when it has not is pretty much libel.
> one of the greatest living science fiction authors

Oh please. Ender's Game is a classic. The rest of his work is worse, and the recent Shadow stuff is execrable.
The existance (or none existance) of god is unprovable. I prefer to ignore the possible threat of something that could exist (or not). Otherwise I would never get anything done.

p.s.: Not meant to fight, just an additional perspective.
Swedish police took down subtitles community.
Likewise. My company decided to lease a rack at a colo, unlimited bandwidth (practically speaking) and we can add capacity as necessary.

We're planning to (eventually) utilize Amazon to temporarily add capacity when necessary, but it will never be our primary hosting solution.
Nice people will know for next time not to work on projects that stand to enrich bigoted fuckheads.

Alternately, these nice people could have Googled him before agreeing to work with the guy.
I fully agree with the dog poop. I don't care what measures the authorities take to hunt down and hopefully exterminate owners that leave dog shit all over the place. Utterly abhorrent, selfish, irresponsible and dangerous. These owners are a menace.
Speaking of misrepresentation, 'Not to mention the upfront cost'? What are you talking about? All the pricing proposals by AWS include clear references to it, and amortise the cost over the life of the plan. It's not a hidden cost. It's not an 'extra' cost on top of 'the monthly payment you thought you were making'.
Yes, theorem-proving stuff sounds very clever, but no one said that it is at the cost of inability to make a heterogeneous list or even have tuples of different kind in it.

That's because that cost isn't actually necessary, it's just Haskell being Haskell. There are plenty of other languages with different type systems that allow for heterogeneous lists very easily (for example, Scala will let you write List[Any] and it will type-check). And some of us research guys are trying to make advances in this stuff (I actually have to email someone to talk about a paper somewhat related to this).
How to implement inheritance for a single table in hibernate
Generally not. You can salvage wrecks of ships to regain some cost (a very small fraction of the metals used to manufacture them). Oh and if the ship is carrying cargo then you can sometimes snatch up what's left, but there's about a 50% chance I think of each item that a ship is carrying being blow to bits.
Oh? He had almost no formal training, but that doesn't mean he didn't put a lot of work into it. How many hours do you think it took before he was a "recognized expert", or since this is Ramanujan, before he developed new theorems which would later be recognized as being that of an expert?

Quoting from the Wikipedia link: Ramanujan's introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney that he mastered by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler's identity independently. He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning accolades and awards. By 17, Ramanujan had conducted his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler–Mascheroni constant.

7 years at 4 hours per day = 10,000 hours.

Do you think he averaged less than two hours per day on math as a teenager? Based on what little I know about him, I don't think that's the case.

Also, your terminology is the core of the debate here. You say "the less gifted," but the debate is that there may be no "gift", but instead the dominate factor is the willingness of the person to go through a difficult learning method with delayed rewards, in order to become an expert.

I studied math, physics, and computer science as an undergraduate. I spent a lot of extra time learning and practicing software development, while I rarely did math and physics beyond what was needed for coursework. I believe most of my 'deliberate practice' went into CS. I'm now an expert in software development, especially as it relates to biomolecular structures. I firmly believe it is my interest in the topic and the lack of competition (meaning that it pays well) which led me here, and not some intrinsic gift.
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=htt...
The unofficial press release of undertexter.se
Latitude will be retired
Pirate it. Best of both worlds!
And when it's really rigid and doesn't seem to reflect the world that's happening, people will simply work around that structure. I remember working one time at a large R&D firm, with very clear and explicit requirements of position as a function of education + experience. e.g. If you didn't have both a PhD and at least 15 years of experience you couldn't be a level 5. People with 3 M.S. and 25 years were stuck forever at level 4.

It made career advancement a game of getting the organization to fund your educational "goals" so you could get a better position.

Turns out though that this left large gaps in the organizational structure where there simply wasn't anybody internal who was qualified to move into a position so they turned to outside hires. As it turns out, outside hires were simply exempt from many of these promotion requirements. So career advancement ended up with people quitting, going someplace else for a few months, then getting hired back into the position they wanted to be promoted to in the first place.

It was an absurd place to work.
I think its a politeness thing really - 9 times out of 10 the lecturer does not want to be there, rehashing the same boring old material again and again, and would much rather be working on their latest project. But they have to be there - you as the young student don't. If you are uninterested, leave. If you find the presentation boring, empathise.
The Adria Richards strategy.
There's a lot of discussion of this going on.

For instance, here's an ethical guide to consuming content created by awful people:
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/02/21/1619481/an-ethica...
An Ethical Guide To Consuming Content Created By Awful People
doesn't have the live editing link, which I found the most interesting
How will going to see the movie tell them that?
or find a moment to whisper poetry in a loved one's ear.

You mean people actually do that? I thought we all just whispered ridiculous jokes and stupid memes to our loved ones and then pretended to the outside world it was fine poetry.
While that quote has been attributed to rschmitty, I believe it is apocryphal.
Without weighting in on OSC's views (as those are well covered elsewhere), I thought I'd point out something regarding the salaries and pay of those who worked on the movie, the support of which keeps coming up.

For anyone working on the film, stagehand, technician, engineer, whathave you, those people are already paid. They collect a salary throughout the years they're working on the film. They don't go unpaid until the movie releases, and hope for the best.

So for all of those men and women "in the trenches", they're a sunk cost, and won't feel the financial effects of how well the movie does or not. This is why some production houses end up posting losses on films. Even in those industries, the effects on those people are negligible. Movies are a journeyman industry, and quality work on a film is independent of viewer's end perceptions of it. By the time the movie is ready for release, those professionals have already moved on to other projects.

In fact, those who will feel the effects most keenly are not those at the bottom, who are already paid, but those at the top who's income is coming from the sales now that the film is completed. For OSC, who is most assuredly receiving royalties, this could be in the form of a much reduced paycheck. For the backers of this project, it could be a much smaller profit margin than anticipated, or even a loss.
But then again, he also said he'd publish something about it within 4 weeks. Of July last year.
Sometimes I wish I could get over my inner 'realpolitik' and actually boycott some stuff that would deserve it, although that would spare few artists or even companies.

For artists, one could go with the 'Wagnerian razor', i.e. does the artist make money by your individual contribution? Which would be the case if Card gets a box office share.
Although even that is morally questionable, as you're part of the support and thus fund future projects, enriching the author that way.

I sadly file all that under "things that would make me a better human", like regular exercise or visiting the dentist twice a year. Although this one wouldn't be hard, as never was a big fan of Ender's Game, being a bit too old for the Mary Sue factor and not liking the morals of the book. I still play Monkey Island every few years, though...
One can argue that for a user it doesn't matter if it's ffmpeg, VLC or something else that's buggy. A user is installing VLC, has probably no knowledge of what ffmpeg is, and it's the use of VLC that exposes the user to the security bug.

As such, it's VLC responsibility to not ship a product that may harm a user's computer, even if the error is not in their code.
'If you build it, they will come' works for both baseball diamonds and surveillance systems, it seems.
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If you are confused like I was after reading all the comments. This clarifies what is currently known.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
That's way banning laptops per se is silly.
http://healthyfruitsworld.com/Healthy Fruits World Soursop Benefits
Soursop Benefits and Healthy Fruit's World
Recently there is a huge jump in sales online for soursop and graviola. It is noted that soursop benefits aremaking it so popular .
Related: http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/09/the-case-for-setimm...
> Tolerance doesn’t mean forking over 10 bucks to see his movie
Is it really his movie though? Arent authors always screwed by hollywood in such enterprises ?
Well the topic of this article is that it is not working out for many coffe shops...
Videolan should fix the bug. Secunia should report the bug to ffmpeg. If the bug's fixed by a later version of ffmpeg then great, use a later version. If it's not, fix the bug, wait for ffmpeg to have a fixed update and off you go.

To give you a similar example, have a look at this post about the impact of vulnerabilities in third party libraries on commercial forensic products[1].

I would suspect that expert witnesses relying on this could have a case argued against them in court regarding the integrity of the application data and their processes if they're not prepared.

[1] - https://www.cert.org/blogs/certcc/2013/07/forensics_software...
How much do (surface level) large-bore oil/gas pipelines cost? There's not necessarily a requirement to place it underground.

The biggest saving over rail is probably the much lighter weight of the capsules, which should require much less ground prep and foundations than laying rail that can support tens/hundreds of tons.
The Mathematics of the Manhattan Project
It sounds as if maybe your pythonpath isn't set up correctly. Try

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/treeio:/path/to/

(ie add the project path and its parent to PYTHONPATH), then try manage.py installdb again.

NB This is guesswork based on prior django experience, I haven't actually tried installing it.
Is there any reason for not using the existing terminal configuration of the user?

I love the idea but I have a lot of aliases I use for development and not having them is quite inconvenient.
True. Do not ban laptops. Kick idiots.
I suspect this might be down to the 'dynamically generated' maps feature in the current maps.google.com preview.

Either way, unless Google has somehow managed to bypass extortionate data roaming charges, spotty local coverage, and absurd latency It's pretty much made maps useless for me.

At least before, when my phone has decided to not connect to the network, or latency has spiked up to 30s I could still look at the map and get places.
Rare gene mutation ignites race for new cholesterol drug.
Cut through what noise? Moved from what list? If you're not a ranked app, you don't seem to be in a list at all, as far as users are concerned.

It seems if you're not at least in the top 100 in your narrowest category, you are equally (in)visible whether you're ranked 1000 or 100000, thus only get found by a direct link from outside the app store (zero noise) or a quite explicit search (specific intent). For these, the number of other invisible apps seems irrelevant.

Put another way, if you want to be on the top lists, you're going to need promotion. Get noticed to get noticed.
After reading the Nielsen' article [1] this page links to, I was wondering: this article keeps talking about "their user". Does that mean they tested this on one person, and then passed those findings as universal, or did they properly test this on dozens or hunderds of people?

I'm not contesting that carousels are bad (I'm not a web designer, but as a user I ignore most, except the one on the front page of Steam [2], but that may well be because I'm used to their biggest promotions and releases being there.) I'm just concerned about the quality of the test the Nielsen people did.

[1] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/auto-forwarding/

[2] http://steampowered.com
IIR, DOTA was a mod for Warcraft III, and Valve hired the mod team on to build the sequel based on Source.

from WP "According to Valve's founder and managing director, Gabe Newell, the company's investment in Dota was sparked from the collective interest of several veteran employees, including Team Fortress designer Robin Walker, programmer Adrian Finol and project manager Erik Johnson, all of whom had attempted to partake in team play at a competitive level."

So it might be a popular game, but it's not a major development for Valve in the sense that Team Fortress, Portal 2 or HF2 was...and also demonstrates some of the internal culture issues Valve has.
Is there a Hetzner equivalent in the US or Canada?
> So much of our open web today would be nowhere near what it is without them.

You mean like WebRTC, WebM, WebP, Web Components, SPDY, WebSockets, the Chrome UI and process system copied by all, a huge part of the HTML5 api (Ian Hickson), also who's been paying Mozilla bills for the last 10 years? Yeoman? Closure compiler? etc.

There're no other companies or non-profits who have spent as many human and financial resources as Google has on the web platform, we're talking billions of dollars here and thousands of people. I love Mozilla and I know bashing Google is a lot of fun, but you have to give Google credits here. Their dedication to the open web platform is simply unmatched.
Unknown-ish authors are -- like Winston Groom, when he agreed to have Forrest Gump made into a movie, and got screwed by "Hollywood accounting" because he'd accepted a percentage of the profits.

Well known ones have enough negotiating power to demand a cut of the gross receipts and merchandising.

--

Edit: A little more on the Winston Groom aside from Wikipedia:

Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing. That being so, he has refused to sell the screenplay rights to the novel's sequel, stating that he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure".
There is much discussion over this NOT being an evacuated tube. If there is air in a closed loop tube, why not accelerate it as well? Thus providing a "tail wind" giving even greater speed over a friction-less vacuum - which is presumably more difficult to create. Though, I can't even imagine the technical difficulties of creating and containing a 4,000 mph wind speed.
Just like Chik-fil-A boycott? Oh wait they've seen record profits lately. Perhaps it's because the silent majority of people are sick of gay culture? Fortunately I live in Russia where we've recently and unanimously passed several bills defending traditional marriage.[1] I would much rather my child read an anti-gay author than a gay one, and Ender's Game is a classic that I will surely pass on after I have a real marriage. A real marriage is consummated, which is defined by intercourse, which is defined by penis in vagina, which same-sex couples cannot do. The point of marriage is to have kids and build a strong family. But homosexuals would rather change the definition of a word to win the argument (moving the goal posts). In America, marriage will die off since it will become a meaningless government contract.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russias-duma-...
I liked Ender's Game when I first read it.

Then I thought about it.

Ignore anything else the author has done: in this particular story, he poses a conflict between survival and ethical behavior, and illustrates it repeatedly... by having characters choose survival over ethics. He makes them heroes for it.

Well. That's a brave stance. Except... that every time a character is given that decision, it is also clear, whether or not the author intended it, that there was a third path that could have solved the survival problem ethically. Maybe multiple paths.

It's not clear to me that Card actually thought about that, though, which reduces the story to what it actually is: a tale of organized child abuse, hero worship and genocide, with a "hero" who doesn't understand what he's doing but gets a magical redemption that he does nothing to deserve.

(Although the last clause is probably intentional.)
Verzion Changes Leave Many Montanians without service
In the presence of workable and decent free apps, I didn't feel the need to pay for marginally better paid apps, especially when I would probably never use the app again after the trip.
AMD has submitted dynamic power management for the 3.11 kernel, so hopefully this efficiency gap will start closing:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQwNTU
Darnit - I _did_ find this useful. On a walking holiday with my family recently, and we were able to meet up with each other very easily through Latitude, despite being in the middle of nowhere.
Why all servers will become the size of an Apple TV
I've been waiting and hoping for the anti-carousel movement to gain cultural traction among web developers for some time. The fact that this page has made it to the front page of HN gives me hope that momentum will begin to increase more rapidly now.

Some people seem to think carousels are some sort of design cheat code, making it possible to include five pieces of content in the space of one. It's almost the front-end equivalent of a TODO comment.

// TODO: decide which of these things actually matters.
// In the meantime, let's just show all five one-by-one

They don't even work for images. When a person wants to browse a collection of images, they'll want to choose when to skip to the next image themselves. That's why Facebook's image albums don't automatically move to the next image after five seconds.

And those fucking carousel pagination "dots"... just when designers had begun to catch on to the fact that numbered pagination links need to be big enough to click easily, along came carousels to preserve the tradition of impossibly small UI elements that are difficult to interact with.

Fuck carousels.
Can social brands provide meaning to your life?
How to create an alias for a bean and inner bean in Spring Framework
Right. What makes Haskell special is not that it has option types, it's the fact that most types in Haskell cannot be null. This allows us to write pure (and total) functions, knowing that the compiler will enforce it; giving us a high degree of assurance that our function will not fail.
> A user is installing VLC, has probably no knowledge of what ffmpeg is, and it's the use of VLC that exposes the user to the security bug.

A user that won't care about that will neither care about Secunia.
'Not seeing a movie' is a pretty small battle. Did you act politically in favor/against the issue? Write a letter to your congressperson? Speak publicly on the subject?

We must not imagine for a second that a personal boycott is a significant political/moral act to anyone but ourselves. I agree, you must do what you can, but the movie is a trivial point at best. Your posting on this forum is more significant than, probably, the entire boycott issue.
Mumble recording after the event: https://soundcloud.com/marxismftw/mumble-07-07-18-15-42-mumb...

That is some quality rage right there.
Maybe because the offline experience wasn't good? I have been using Nokia maps on my Symbian / Windows Phones and they have been invaluable to me, especially when traveling. I know many users of Nokias who swear by offline maps.