skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, both camps agree that the State as we know it today is mostly a Bad Thing, so there is some common ground. That said, you're right to suggest that it's hard for anarcho-socialist types and an-cap types to cooperate. Strangely enough, however, I find that it's usually the anarcho-socialist types who want nothing to do with an-caps, even when our goals do overlap. I guess they don't care much for the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking, even in a limited scenario.

Personally, I think if we could accomplish a RADICAL reduction in the size, scope and power of the State, that that would be a great first step, and we could then start figuring out what to do about economic systems and the property debate. But that's just me...
here http://i.imgur.com/wyXapT3.png
I guess I should have explained myself better in the introduction.

The reason I am now using Warden over devise is that there's not a lot of code overhead to get to the functionality I needed.

The post is long, I agree, but the bottom line is what? 50 lines of codes more than you would need when you use devise?

Because frankly, I almost always use custom controller for sessions and registration, and if you style your forms, then you probably don't use the default forms provided with devise.

As for warden over user_id, well. I just showed a email/password strategy, but you can add strategy on top of each other, so if you use 1 strategy for your API another for the web interface and so on, warden can be useful.

I'm not preaching for 1 solution fit-all and I don't dislike devise, I just showed an alternative :)
I just had to rename vim in /usr/bin so it'd pick up the /usr/local/bin homebrewed version instead, but yeah, this.
Read up on the bystander effect: people really will ignore others in need if they see others around them capable of helping (and not doing so).
The history of bitcoin, in API form.
> My favored explanation, though, derives from a different aspect of meditation: its ability to foster a view that all beings are interconnected.

What a load of crap. There is no way you'd experience that after meditating once a week for eight weeks.
Sigh, there is a classic (and popular) text called "Cutting through spiritual materialism" which explains what "improvements" they think they have attained.

Even without any books, just look around, any dude who spent vacation in India or Tibet is cocksure that he is already enlightened, transformed, special - all those bearded, barefooted hipsters wandering in a popular tourist destinations, or some yogi-dressed Slavic youths, spending parent's money on weed and booze.

It looks like a person who picked up few phrases from "learn Hindi in 21 days" and now claims that he know the language, while just ability to watch TV or read a newspaper understanding everything requires years and years of practice.
The Ofcom advice linked to above[1] mentions business use specifically.
In short, businesses can only record for some specific purposes (e.g. for regulatory compliance) and they have to adhere to the principles of the data protection act. It particularly mentions some privacy issues with regard to your employees.

I think that the disclosure to other employees would be covered by the DPA guidelines - if it's required for business purposes then it's fine.

[1] http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/oftel/consumer/advice...
In Europe, direct deposits are the norm (they're how you get money into people's accounts), and they have deposit-only rights.
Shish2k is talking about the giant cow (after you use the nuclear gasoline on her)
Of the big three i easily have the most faith in Nintendo. Why? Because they know how to make games i enjoy, and have been doing so for well over 2 decades.

Nintendo put themselves in a tough spot, with dwindling Wii sales they were left with the choice of having no Console choice or having one with no games(very few). It can be argued which is the better option, obviously both suck.

I do not consider Nintendo in trouble, there base(as has been proven time and time again) will always be there(mainly because they stick to there guns, for better or worse). Point & case of this is the 3DS, when this was release for a good 7-8 months it was considered a horrible console, with its best game being a remake of "The Legend of Zelda OOT"(arguably). Look at it now it is considered to be the best running console available. Granted it some good games in this 7-8 month period, but not much.

My point is, when it comes down to it, games sell consoles, and the WiiU has no games, at all really. Once they come, and they will, the console will be in at least fine shape. I personally have not bought one, but it is on my list above both the xbox1 and the ps4.

My 2 cents...
> 5. The web app's client sided code, JavaScript, sends the message to Alice's pygpghttpd listening on localhost

So either you're trusting the web app's js, or there's some other unspecified mechanism for ensuring that it's behaving in a trustworthy way.
Didn't you have to constantly harass others with "PUT IT ON THE WIKI! PUT IN ON THE WIKI! "?

I did, now I just send the info via Gmail, and find it there later...
Canaries and coal mines
Ah, great explanation. Thanks!
I like to think of him as the Richard Stallman of comic books.
Great post Nixey!
Hydrogen offers low drag and good thermal conductivity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-cooled_turbo_generator
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The short answer: CSRSS isn't very good. Compare and contrast with the *nix model of how the terminal works and you'll have a pretty good idea of why Windows terminal programs are as limited as they are.
Well, in this case, the collapse started mostly with the USSR as far as I know.

So, what "we" may mean in this context I do not know.
It may be $20k for one project in a year, or two $10k projects, or one $15k project and $5k in residuals (e.g. support). It really doesn't matter. Either way, they're a customer that you estimate will bring in about $20k of revenue to you over the course of the year.

In a consultancy, your costs are pretty well fixed, modulo hiring/firing staff, and mostly consists of payroll. There are relatively few marginal expenses (some travel expenses, perhaps?), which means that adding new work increases your revenue but only marginally affects your costs.

So a customer's value to the business is how much that customer adds to your revenue, because that's easy to measure individually and is almost the same thing as how much they add to your profit.
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Yes, and especially that the US toppled its democracy to install a brutal dictator. The Iran hostage crisis was largely in response to that.
I suspect that the NSA engineers have their own ecosystem where they are made to feel how important preventing terrorism is.

I also suspect that most of the people in the HN crowd feel that working for such govt organizations is not exciting. These guys are not working with the latest and greatest that we see every day on HN.

Hearing how they work at GCHQ, they can't have a cell phone or just google for a quick fix on Stackoverflow, having to rely on language manuals instead.

So we each go our different ways and wonder about the other.
Why, there is no anger of hatred involved, just few under-controlled emotions.))
A higher rate is commensurate with a higher end product.

This is definitely not axiomatic. I've encountered plenty of high-rate consultants and consultancies that consistently deliver sub-par work; for various reasons (often favoritism and excellent marketing), this ends up working well despite low-quality deliverables.
I've used Cygwin (with mintty and bash), and it's not terrible. Not as nice as on other platforms, but definitely better than the other things I've seen on Windows.

Before mintty, I used Putty and connected to a local SSH server. Putty is pretty nice too.
Use http://bitsquest.bitbucket.org/ as posted by another commenter. That one works.
Vintage Apple I now costs $400k
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Is there a way to download a torrent and stream it a video instantanely in Javascript?
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We can port Silex to Slim very easily.
Also an outer suburb of Houston, TX:

http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Alief-Houston-TX.html
I think you should use warden if your rack application is composed of many applications. Never had to do this, so if someone wants to jump in, please do.

You can load different application within rack, for exemple, an api next to a web application. They can share the same user logins but they do not share any code. So you push the user login to the rack stack and let warden handle it.
Try mintty[1], comes default with Cygwin these days. Not perfect, but a lot better than the alternatives I've tried. It supports select-to-copy and middle-mouse-to-paste, which is something that's very deeply embedded in my muscle memory.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/mintty/
That likely means your PATH is out of order, if ordered correctly /usr/local/bin should override /usr/bin. Can save you needing to do that in the future.
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Have we, as a society, looked into possibly supplying people with short-term loans...

"The reason poor people remain poor is because they don't have access to capital."

Sorry, I couldn't quickly rediscover the author / researcher who made this statement.

Everything costs more when you're poor and it's harder to get ahead when you're underwater. Having been "poor" (medical debt), I heartedly concur.

I learn all sorts of new things listening to Mind Over Matters on keep.org every weekend.

http://kexp.org/programs/MindOverMatters
You can do a student T test in Excel with TTEST(), I assume you have similar functions in OpenCalc.
Why not set up your own SMTP server that only accepts connections from rackspace. Then forward to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:55525.
Epic-Client from hell moments
Iran is such a good example, it's not even funny. I crushes my heart every time i see or hear something about the living conditions and images of a possible future in Iran during the Mosaddegh government and compare it to the current situation.
I'm assuming by terminal you don't just mean CLI, which I think PowerShell has been a great step forward (but I wish I didn't have to keep dropping back to the default command prompt to get certain commands working.)

If my assumption holds, I did find this article recommending Console2.
http://lifehacker.com/5857540/the-best-terminal-emulator-for...
Bystander effect. Somebody should give up their seat! I'll wait for one of them to do it.
Ask HN: How do you back up your data, or other assets? 
Backup software seems universally terrible - I've used both commercial packages and rolled my own, and the whole experience seems pretty awful.

I'm curious - what is everyone using to back up their databases, code, content, etc.?
I always have Cygwin around on my Windows installs. I highly recommend changing the terminal for it to RXVT, though, which works a lot better than the various things they've had by default the past few years. It's just takes a minute or two of tweaking things to setup - usually I don't even edit the main start script anymore since I always launch from the folder context menu setup by the chere program in Cygwin.
>> You're still in the denial stage. I've been there. You've got a long ways to go. Keep reading about recent history. Next you'll get depressed...

I'm sorry to hear you are dealing with depression.

>> I'm actually quite happy nowadays. Every day is a day full of purpose. I'm not reactive, I'm proactive.

Oh, well that's good.
The Edward Snowden of Golden Corral.  All you can eat ribs...
So there's more room for Firefox or Chrome.
This has been one of the most helpful PC troubleshooting tool purchases I've ever made:

2.5"/3.5"/5.25" SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter ($17.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232...

Also, I usually pull out the hard drive I'm worried about accidentally wiping and boot from a live CD.
The are not all guilty:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/former-s...

You, on the other hand, are guilty of providing moral support for this travesty.
You know, when you spam HN with an endless stream of advertisements for something and get downvoted, there are simpler explanations available than that HN is under the thumb of government goons who are out to get you.
I wish Wii U was as open as the Ouya. It's cool, though, that they put that JS library up for getting button-mapping in-browser from the control pad.

I don't own a Wii U, either. It's way too expensive and I don't find any of the titles compelling. That, and when I played with one at Toys R Us I found the controller cheap to hold.
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Fuck it. Pull the wire to mexico or canada and leave the US without Access. Sooner or later, the big services will be moved away, and there is enough users in the rest of the world to not have to worry. Make Mexico the connection hub between North / south america as well as east <> west. Also make a huge deal that this traffic will be protected 100% without any interuptions from the US. If the US wants to connect to the rest of the world, you can do it at our terms, not the terms that they thing everyone should follow. Especially since they still seam to believe that they can presure people.

I dont know what the US said to the other countries but all of a sudden a bunch of countries, including Russia seams to be scared shitless. I dont know, its just a feeling. Time to ripoff all american buisiness ideas and put them up on servers in better parts of the world (island? no other places left, correct?). Then lets see what the fuck they will do!
>In fact, here vote is mandatory, because when it wasn't, less than 5% voted at all

But voting being mandatory, is a very alarming thing. Does not sound like democracy at all. What happens, when one does not vote?
Well, I remember boss yelling a lot the first fridays when the last week meeting were going. He cared a lot this stuff, "search on the wiki", "update the damn wiki", "you're making the rest go slow because you don't update the wiki", and etc. Most of the people started to reserve time to update stuff at the end of the week.

I remember even when he fired ppl from the meeting because the tickets someone was suppose to close and document weren't done. "I will do it right after the meeeting", "that's unacceptable, please leave the meeting now." Worst moments ever. I had 2 like this but were not on my fault, internet issues and so on.
Wages have stagnated for 40 years and everything else is getting more expensive, what are people supposed to do? If wages had have continued growing with productivity as they should have, would we have had the middle class looking for fast cash in the stock market in the 90s? Or in the housing market of the 2000s?
There tends to be quite a bit of lag between available video technologies and what people actually have at home, there's still plenty of Xbox 360s out there hooked up to SDTVs for example.
Disappointment. I get that.

The greatest good for the greatest number. Focus on the successes.

Not everyone can be helped. But withholding help because of some free loaders isn't moral.
At least right now, the problem is that the payments themselves might undermine what the system is set up to do, because the payments might be traceable.

There are proposals for truly anonymous and decentralized digital currencies (ZeroCoin comes to mind). However, they are not exactly practical because their overhead is quite high.
There is at least one more aspect to this , other than lack of empathy, I can think of.

Some people (ahem) are pathologically shy. Getting up in front of all those people and offering the seat to the injured person can be a physically painful act since it draws so much attention.
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> It remains to be seen if Nintendo?s laundry list of beloved exclusives can carry them for another console generation. I recently asked Xbox loyalists if Microsoft?s continued employment of Master Chief and Halo was enough to keep them excited about the console. Most said no, and I wonder if the numbers will finally start to turn for Nintendo as well.

I think that this part misses the point about the differences between Halo and Mario. Halo is and always has been aimed towards the types that have been long term gamers and has only been recently usurped by the likes of Call of Duty et al.

Mario and its entire universe has brand value with parents and is geared towards practically anyone who can figure out a d-pad.

While I think that most of the Mario franchise is just a rehash of a rehash (Mario Bros. Wii being the last rehash I liked), for as long as parents see the games that way, Nintendo can keep pumping them out.
Nintendo's been mainly working off their portables for years, really. The N64 didn't sell that great either, and the Gamecube did pretty awfully, ending up selling what few units it did almost entirely on the merit of its first-party games and a couple rare gems, like Tales of Symphonia. The Wii was unusual -- the Wii U is more "normal", by Nintendo sales standards!

Fortunately for them the 3DS is doing great, gathering dozens and dozens of great games, and probably makes a tidy profit margin too. They did a wonderful job pivoting the console; people pretty quickly lost interest in the 3D aspect, but there was no reason they had to market the console on those merits to begin with, so as far as I can tell they've mostly de-emphasized that aspect of the device (and nobody I know even uses it!)

It's also cheap enough that even as the Vita does finally pick up sales and actual games (and it's happening, finally), it probably won't hurt the 3DS' sales -- their game lists seem more mutually exclusive than not and if someone can afford a Vita, they probably already have a 3DS if they ever wanted one.

The Vita is really its own interesting story of a console with (initially) almost no games -- a lot of more minor and independent developers have found that they can get great sales on the Vita since the market is much less saturated. Amazingly, a few months ago, the top selling Vita game was actually a rather niche title that was released with no prior announcement on the e-shop and no marketing whatsoever. I kind of wonder if the Wii U will have a year or two (or ten??) of the same kind of thing -- it definitely could be an interesting platform for indie devs.
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Bet you bootstraped all the design. Looks fantastic. Is it 2.3.2?
I found this video on meditation to be direct, unapologetic, enlightening, and inspiring (12:16)

"When you make use of the Dharma, this is not Dharma anymore"

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

I hope you enjoy :)
I remember reading another story where, they observed people being immersed in compassion or at least, being considerate. The experimenters then told the experimental subjects they needed to hurry to another building. Along the way, they passed someone who needed help in some way. Generally, even though the people were pumped, the ones who were told to hurry were more likely to ignore the person who needed help.

I don't think it is fruitful to try to scientifically evaluate morality. Morality from my own practice, naturally arises from awareness of [i]self[/i] as well as environment. What the professor said about meditation fostering perception of interconnectedness syncs up with my own experiences of this practice.
Agreed, anyone with ethics has long since boycotted every Google service and won't be taken in by Doodles.
Would Netscape have survived if they hadn't rewritten the browser engine? I'd've thought they were fucked either way.
And furthermore, since numbers can be ported around to different providers, how would you continue to know?

I have a Google Voice number that used to belong to a real actual cell phone.
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And you can't see a difference between genocide and sharing some user data? Everyday I read something along the lines of "Google has an ethical responsibility to do X" and it's getting tiresome. It's absurd to demand a company to jeopardize its entire business because you don't agree with the morality of the law in question.
The key difference between working for an annoying employee of a company and working for an annoying person is that the annoying employee isn't spending their own money. Both the spend and the return on spending are (usually) abstractions to employees. They're all too vivid to sole proprietors.
So instead of PGP - which is already quite daunting, mind - the user now get to assess the security of 200+ CAs, most of which they've never heard of?
Incorrect. The evidence shows Google provided NSA with a permanent back door into their services without the required legal authority.

Might I ask if you work for Google?
I use this with Eclim to enhance java writing. The Vrapper plugin for Eclipse is getting very good, but sometimes it's nice to work directly in vim.
Maybe a solution is to find some unpaid interns or volunteers, NDA them, and unleash them on the technical challenges (and scrubbing the obscenities from the comments). That leaves only the legal question for the company.

It could be a huge PR boost. EA games got some good mileage out of releasing their older titles like Tiberian Sun as freeware. Imagine if they unleashed them as open source, and thus made them into a learning tool (like a textbook) for future generations.
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My feelings exactly: C-r n gets me straight to taking a note in Emacs (via org-mode), complete with link to what I was in when I took the note, timestamp, time tracking and all the other org-mode/Emacs goodness (tags, tables, links, etc). Maybe if you live in your browser the OP makes sense, but for those of us who live in Emacs (mainly for code), it makes more sense to use a real editor.
I don't see why me recording calls for use in a criminal trial would be illegal, when the NSA or GCHQ doing it against me is perfectly fine.
I think you're overthinking.

To us, a 20k/yr client is someone we can forecast 20k worth of work with. You can forecast work from any client that does multiple projects with you.

But it's also worrisome that you see a formalized 20k/yr client as an oddity, because that arrangement is basically a retainer, and consultants should know how to structure retainers.
Untrusted data in a terminal emulator??? I don't believe that I've ever used a terminal to connect to an untrusted system. Ie. local login, or ssh to a system that I trust enough to compile my programs or run my servers.

If the terminal receives untrusted data back then I've got bigger problems than a security hole in my terminal emulator.
Nobody said anything about delivery constraints. 20k/yr is a sales figure.
I found this to be a great example of the flaws with "evidence based" reporting rather than "science based"

Science would suggest that this result is preliminary, and results should be studied with Bayesian statistics. This article makes headlines, sure, but shouldn't on its own dictate any behavior.

PS. I found the false dichotomy between things like "moving for a person with crutches" and "being good at your job" annoying. This was likely more a product of reporting than the study though.
I didn't use Bootstrap, but I quite clearly took a lot of inspiration from Twitter.
It runs on a raspberry pi and just hooks up to a TV through HDMI I think. So it doesn't matter what TV.
Because it was so obvious I missed it. I'll add it now.