skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~/.profile is executed only at login on Ubuntu so changing your PATH there will be applied the next time you login. You can source the ~/.profile in your current non-login shell if you need the PATH change right now. I've tried to tweak the second paragraph in the "When not to modify .bashrc?" section to make this more clear.

Thanks for bringing this up.
I'm so happy to see that I'm not alone. I've fought off depression through sheer willpower, but I frequently get anxiety attacks thinking about "Cosmic Sadness (I like your term for it)." I wrote about this a little while ago (don't mind the ramblings in the beginning) [1]. I think I could use some advice.

[1] http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2013/04/29/the-persist...
We do not need a company that makes it easier for landlords to wield power over their tenants, or to harass or expel tenants with a checkered past. This idea is a great example of the kind of "efficiency" that the internet produces that gives more power to the powerful.
An interactive command line application that I can just run on my box might be more useful than an API.
This is a good idea of service, but it is not the goal of HNWatcher.

The idea begin HNWatcher is to track keywords and users in order to:
- never miss an important news about your topic/startup/product/friend/blog/...
- upvote while the submission is not too old
- etc...

We also store the stories, so that you can find them whenever you need (hnsearch, running the search on hn, will give you only the last 1000 items). And we also track karmas of users.

About pricing: unfortunatly, hosting + emails ( via mailgun ) are not free, so at one point we will probably have to charge for the service if we have lots of users.
Mostly things that smelled like memory leaks (pull a matte, leave it for a while, come back and tweak it => long coffee break). Also, restoring from idle seemed to be the hardest on Snow Leopard.
It's sort of a cool technology, but if it's intended to be a business, I don't think enough people want this for it to be a successful business. http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Your comments don't make any sense if you weren't talking about the USA.
Dealing with Noisy Neighbors in the Cloud (via Coasean bargaining)
Fair. After doing a little more research I now believe the 10,000 claim is not as outlandish as I once had thought, so your request for validation is justified.
The purpose of middle management is to organize and communicate information. With that said, insulating upper management from the rank-and-file can be dangerous. Not wanting to hear what the engineers think is one thing. Not wanting to know is quite another.
I've actually switched from a ~200Mbps effective 450N link to 200Mbps powerline adapters which provide ~90Mbps effective.

I've been pleased with the results. It is slower for single, large data streams. However, I primarily use my home network to access a NAS, and it seems to be smoother and faster over powerline- perhaps because there are far fewer lost packets, and it is supposed to be full duplex (?) so it behaves better in a random-access situation. In theory there is also more headroom for other devices, while WiFi generally sucks up all the available spectrum for just one device.
Developers get 70%, and Apple gets 30%, not the other way around. The sum paid to developers is substantially larger than the sum paid to Apple.
Hauling New Treasure Along the Silk Road
To go further, a lot of the worlds good ideas (and their inventors/discoverers) have been thought of as lunatic at some point in their existence. It's almost a prerequisite! ;)
The idea is to connect someone who has created something technical and useful in concept with someone who can create a wonderful user experience out of it. These are not always the same people.
The lede is buried a bit:

"Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine," Hurt said at her May lecture.
They'll have to come clean on this. People pay for this service AND many businesses rely on it. If I'm correct enterprise businesses won't be able to add new devices to the system for example. Apple will need a good explanation for this and if it is a security problem they'll probably be issuing password reset requests and maybe invalidating certificates - you can't just do those things without an explanation.
I lived there for 23 years. I am back for a week at least once a year.

If you're tired of people slagging on your town, maybe your town should be one that doesn't suck?
Blind faith (computer programming)
It's disingenuous to pretend that you weren't talking about journalists when your comment roots a thread on a story about journalists. What else would you have been talking about? I think, rather, that you see 'coldtea as supporting you, and are now in turn sticking up for him; you see yourselves now as a faction, which is unfortunate.
In Europe (Portugal at least) three-phase is the norm in residential installs. I assume it's because that way the power company gets to gouge you on the power fee. You need to sign up for more total power as your consumption is never perfectly balanced between the three phases.
> Further, I think you still are confused about the importance of zone files here:

You are right. To be honest I don't know off the top of my head how many protocols/encodings are currently used to make DNS work.

I know I have an /etc/hosts file on my machine. I know there are zone files on DNS servers. In the past I've downloaded those massive files from places like Verisign et cetera that contain all the records. I know dig does some stuff.

My point is all that is unnecessary.

The whole thing could be made much simpler, if done in an object oriented way using Space as the encoding.

Say I wanted to go to google.com.

My browser could check the local domains.space file to see if there's a google.com match. If not, it could then send a space message to my ISP's (or other) DNS server:

question google.com

And get a response:

question google.com
answer 123.123.123.123

My point is you could apply this clean, simple, object oriented, punctuationless system across the entire DNS stack.
Just like Facebook "stole" the idea of a social network?
Last summer he had The Art of Being Unreasonable by Eli Broad.

What a horrible read. He talks about hiring MBAs. Thanks dude but I don't have an MBA.
Which keyer? Primatte's had a few issues in 6.3 and previous.

on 10.6 (and 10.7), memory allocation/paging is pretty atrocious if you haven't got much free mem left.

Basically, OS X prioritises paging to disk over freeing up Inactive memory (which isn't actually being used for anything at present), which is pretty crap. So it's very easy to make it page when it shouldn't when you allocate loads of memory, and the system will generally just grind to a halt.

Apple fixed this in 10.8, so now it will free up Inactive memory first, before it starts paging.

But neither of these explain any crashes within Nuke.
You misunderstand.

Every vaccine contains several grams of fluid.

10,000 injected into your body all at once would kill you.
Black Hat Vs. White Hat: The Other Side Of The Snowden/Hastings/Brown Cases
Phrase to google for is residential split phase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_phase

you're talking about classic high leg delta aka "why is one of my wires orange?" which is psuedo-obsolete nowadays.

Its the same fundamental problem, anyway, in that signals have to go back to the nearest power pole transformer which doesn't pass the signals very well.
Having worked with a slew of severely developmentally delayed crack babies and alcohol syndrome kids, I am going to have to go with my own eyes.

This study did not include pre-term crack babies. That is a selection method that is going to skew heavily towards 'light' crack users.

Crack or cocaine is very, very bad for development. It can create a child that literally cannot do anything for themselves and some that live in excruciating pain every single day of their lives (that is the very dark side of having such advanced neo-natal care).

Fetal alcohol syndrome is just as bad if not worse.

It is irresponsible to suggest otherwise. The fact that astute HN readers are looking at this and saying "See, it is overblown!" is very scary. That means the broader population reading this article is likely to do the same thing.

The writer of this article owes it to society to be very clear about the limitations and biases of this study.
Walmart Workers Can't Be Paid Much More
Yeah I wasn't excluding that, I meant configuring the documentation servers, etc.
Well it's obvious that they are better trained, because there are less crashes. The question is, what factors lead to them having better training? More money? Japan's relationship with America?

As for "perfectionism" being an unnecessary stereotype, if you're looking for a cultural explanation you're necessarily dealing with stereotypes. It's just as stereotypical to argue that all of East Asia shares the same culture of deference, just this time it works to your advantage because it means it isn't a factor. It's even relying on stereotypes to talk about the training across an industry. Who's to say that the lives of the individuals in charge aren't fully responsible?

Stereotypes can be okay, as long as they are accurate and not applied indiscriminately. I know that Japan has a culture of perfectionism (Google "Japan perfectionism" to start), I just don't know about Korea and what the differences might be.
Using some vitamin D calculators, I've found that the limiting factor is generally not amount of sunlight, but clothing. During summerish months, If you wear a tank top and shorts, a fair-skinned person can produce all the vitamin D you need in any of the lower forty-eight within thirty minutes.
Panasonic fined $56 million With Execs Serving Jail Time Over Price Fixing
You have to be careful with powerline, because plugging a new device into your power system may completely kill your network. When engineers design home appliances they do not assume that your power wires are used to transmit data, so their appliances can add all kinds of noise over the power wires.

For example, the inverters of solar panels are known to kill powerline networking.
In California it can take up to 6 months to evict a problematic (and frequently non-paying) tenant, so any kind of efficiency would boost the availability of properties to tenants who have no such problems.
"accreditation" is pretty easy, and grants some rights and responsibilities for journalists in other countries. For example, journalist photographers in England get protections for their images that other photographers don't get.

The US already categorises people as "journalists" or not with the Visa program. (http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1276.html)
Can you have a look at the mail headers and check if it was just a standard phishing mail?
> Remind me where in the Constitution it says that "Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of journalists to keep their sources secret?"

Amendment 9: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
It's a "known plaintext" attack on DES. Via google translate, here is an article from Heise with more details:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Journalists have a responsibility to the public that goes beyond page views. That is what makes them journalists.
I'm sorry, but you need to do the basic research yourself. It has been consistently shown in the science.

Here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14599

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_poverty#Developed_countri...

Here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/13/poverty-impact...

I could go on for some time...
Google for "spiral cable wrap"
Its a spiral cut "sleeve" that can be wrapped around multiple cables. Available in a couple colors, hopefully one matching your decor.

I have one along the wall in my living room, multiple surround sound speaker wires, cabled ethernet to the TV area switch, couple other wires. Back when composite video wasn't too out of date, I used to feed signals all over my house...
Prices in the US are creeping up to that level too. A full meal of Big Mac, fries, and drink is over $7 at all but the most rural McDonald's locations now.
Just signed up, sounds like a great idea. However, it would be nice to know what your planning on charging for it.

Good sales page too, way to address problems that relate to the business rather than focusing on technology.

Looking forward to reading it!
Last year I was the maintainer for jQuery-Mockjax (https://github.com/appendto/jquery-mockjax) which essentially mocks jQuery's ajax calls. Makes it really easy to test these kinds of conditions on the client without needing to set up a server.

IIRC it also supports simulated response delays. You'll never know the difference!
this looks like a useful service... with one caveat in the form of a rant:

I wish people would stop trying to make response codes into more than they are. Rest does not entail webdav, and without webdav there are not enough semantics to try to do the kinds of things people typically try to make response codes do.

If you are implementing webdav, call it that and stick to the spec, don't just hack a middle ground and pretend you are designing the API properly.
Seriously, the snark isn't required. My comment said nothing about a constitutional protection for journalists not being compelled to divulge sources by the courts. My comment said nothing about specifics of constitutionality in the particulars of this case. I see issues, but I did not suggest what you've interpreted.

Since the NSA issues broke, you've recently popped on my comments in much this same way—read more into a statement I've made than is there, and just run with giving legal commentary only tangentially related because you've zeroed in on the way you've interpreted the words, instead of clarifying if your interpretation matches my intention. Maybe that's just what lawyers do. I really appreciate your commentary and expertise. But would you mind maybe exercising a bit more restraint? Is it going to kill you to pose a non-snarky question asking if the way you've interpreted my statement is correct?

I've established elsewhere that I am not a lawyer, but trained in philosophy, and particularly political theory, instead. When I comment on things, it is from that perspective, not from a juridical precedence perspective, like you. If you want to engage the philosophical issues, cool. If you want to engage practical issues with the philosophical ones, cool. If you want to challenge points with problems posed by legal precedence and practice, that's awesome, cos I love that stuff (I appreciate the mention of Floyd, as it reminds me to pick up his work). But we've interacted enough in the last few weeks that I'd enjoy it far more if you made sure I was making a statement about legal precedents before attributing them to me with snarky callouts.
Just to note, the OP linked at

Computer Science: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636275

Is dead and robots.txt kept it out of archive.org .

Of course, the HN discussion is still, if not primarily, worth the reference.
Why pick on IT managers? When I read that sentence I immediately thought "that describes almost every American "office" employee I've ever seen or worked with." By and large most people see work as a means to enable a lifestyle, not something they do for its own sake. Therefore they do the minimum that they can get away with.
Keep in mind, this is the company which takes their whole store down when they need to add new products to it.
"[...] it is just one of the many provocative ideas that he develops and then drops in the course of the book, which reads less like a structured argument than a long prose poem. Sloterdijk’s strength and appeal come from the intuitive and metaphorical quality of his thought, his unconventional approaches to familiar problems, his willingness to scandalize."

This sums up Sloterdijk pretty well. I highly recommend reading him.
Riding the New Silk Road
Yeah, as usual HN is taking itself a touch too seriously. This is the design equivalent of re-creating $nineties-video-game or whatever else in $modern-language. It's an exercise used to stretch a designer creative and technical legs.
Indeed Primatte. This explains a lot. Thanks!
He's just trolling ...
Wouldn't the same analysis apply to Twitter? Why don't they have a premium service.
Well, the way I look at it, I don't see a problem with building on other people's attempts. I'm dying to know how anyone's managed to implement (e.g.) 11-byte email validation, and if I can find an even shorter solution, so much the better to help everyone else learn some regex tricks too!

On the other hand, if you're planning on adding something like a public leaderboard of names, then I guess that would change the nature of the game. Glory, instead of learning or personal challenge. And cheating becomes a problem.
Crowdsourcing My Vacation - Entrepreneur/maker, 40 days, destination: US
Dear HN friends,

Please help me with ideas/activities to do in the Silicon Valley and Boston area. It has been two years since I've had a proper vacation, and I'd like to invest my time wisely. I created an editable document listing the objectives below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qhDkdt6AP4f9M58DSQ3ZHYeKlxArsGGn7kCIWMJlbCs/edit

I'm an aspiring entrepreneur/maker from Saudi Arabia, 28 years old, unmarried. I'm a pretty good software developer (on the side) but I work in business development (running the coolest business incubator in the country!). I'm looking for things to do within the realm of entrepreneurship, product development, design, art, and software development.

I don't mind working for ultra-cool studios/shops/places/individuals for a week or so. I can offer fast-paced software development skills and mediocre business development insight. I am well-rounded and very curious. I would consider this journey a success if I 1) learn new things and 2) network with the right people.

I am also considering the idea of building a product in 30 days in SV and then go to China for the last 10 days to mass produce - got nothing to loose, why not try? I will evaluate this based on my options.

Thanks,
A. Naimi
http://anaimi.com (blog)
http://burkanlabs.com (part-time startup)
http://twitter/anaimi
I'm not surprised by this result, though mine was the exact opposite: I migrated from powerline to an 802.11ac bridge.

I'd turned to powerline a few years ago, once it became clear that, between the walls and my neighbors, I couldn't reasonably cover my apartment with only one access point. It more-or-less worked, but was pretty flaky (fluctuating speed, lots of trouble streaming video, resetting the powerline adapters and/or other devices several times a week, etc.). Eventually I started to notice patterns, like speed always dropping when we ran the washer or dryer. I ended up deciding that our apartment wiring just wasn't good enough to do powerline networking reliably (not shocking, we've had issues on other fronts).

Since I wasn't in a position to get the landlord to upgrade our wiring, I went looking for a powerline alternative. Fortunately for me, by then 802.11ac was just ready enough for me to jump onto the bleeding edge. 802.11ac has had its own issues, but I can reliably watch Netflix, Amazon and YouTube in my bedroom and that's what counts.
Why? I wrote them, they make sense to me, I've never been near USA.
I'm sorry. I should have linked to an English translation of the study: http://www.remedyspot.com/showthread.php/155664-Dietary-Supp...

"Nearly nine in ten multi-supplement users consumed 20 or more different kinds of supplements throughout the year... The results of the study are startling. Instead of anticipated side effects and overdosage, researchers found the following:"

* Vitamin E levels among multi-supplement users were more than double that of non-users and multivitamin users.

* Risk for diabetes was 73% less,
coronary heart disease 52% less..

* Blood serum levels of carotenoids (beta carotene, lycopene, lutein) were three higher among multi-supplement users than non-users, and double that of multivitamin users.

Except for the blood serum levels, I concede most of this does not counter your argument of correlation vs. causation.
That's a pretty intriguing idea, as is a sibling's thoughts on accreditation.

Are you aware of any sources that deal with this particular idea, or is it a pet theory? I'd be pretty interested in reading on any legal scholars discussing the idea.
VirtualBox, IDA Pro, Google Earth (in fact, everything from Google that uses Qt), EAGLE (PCB software), OpenSCAD, QGIS ...

I've literally never been fooled by a Qt app -- a Mac user can spot that hot mess from a mile away. It's not just a matter of visual layout and UX, although that matters and always falls somewhere between subtly or completely wrong.

The controls also tend to lag at weird times, behave slightly strangely, demonstrate unusual font metrics, etc. The apps tend to exhibit bugs related to menu bar event handling, window management, on and on, and crash more than any other apps I use daily.

This isn't a huge surprise given that Cocoa is designed to be the first and only gatekeeper between events, the OS, UI controls, and Cocoa's main event loop, and most of what makes Mac apps a Mac app has to do with the APIs and integration that you lose first-class access to once you deploy Qt -- that includes 'simple' things like UI layout metrics, which Qt has to re-implement.

I abandoned almost all those Qt apps on my list above. I even dropped EAGLE, despite being "native", in favor of Altera on Windows, which I paid a hefty premium for in no small part because it wasn't a pile of broken UX, Windows or not.

I still use IDA Pro, but the minute http://www.hopperapp.com/ can replace my IDA Pro usage, I'll switch in a heartbeat.
Pressure-Sensing, Light-Emitting Electronic “Skin”
What are you even talking about right now?

The facts are: poverty makes it difficult for children to get access to stimulating environments, diversity of experience, non-stressful living conditions, and good academics. All these factors combined result in lower intelligence as a whole. That is very well cited in the papers, of which plenty have been linked and I suggest you look at them.

So it follows that programs that attempt to provide and foster conditions that allow for an intelligent child to grow are beneficial. This can take many forms, educating poor mothers, better funding for schools, education about nutrition and stimulation, money for basic living necessities, etc.

I just find it strange that for all your posts you haven't cited a single article that supports your claims. It seems to be your own logical surmising.