skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the kinds of attacks that people who stand for traditional marriage have to face. A bigoted army of people who can't muster a better argument than vulgar name calling. The irony is that they claim to stand against intolerance...
This sort of spin is marvelously effective because, even though it leaves a bad taste in the mouth of anyone who recognizes it for what it is, it allows people in Karp's position to dig rhetorical trenches out in front of the substance of their actions and redirect any discussion into one about defining terms. It doesn't matter one whit that making it prohibitively hard for anyone to access content is just as much censorship of that content as disallowing it entirely is; nothing sucks the air out of a discussion faster than an extended yes-it-is/no-it-isn't headbutting contest over the meaning of a word.
Nicely put. I personally find this frustrating to deal with. I've also learned that the most open of individuals are usually in the least amount of need for a good thought-provoking debate.
I would leave it on. Keep it professional and leave it in good terms with the current company.

You can easily explain that job did not fit you and you are always looking for the best in your career.
The population of New York vs. Philadelphia
It stops being eerie after a while. Several months ago, my brother was putting together a computer and wanted to test it (ie. the motherboard) before attaching any peripherals (other than the monitor). Obviously, installing the OS on the HD to do this was out of the question, so I just copied my computer onto a thumb-drive and used that. I didn't dd it, but just copied my filesystem over and did a grub-install.
Nobody is asking for permission. We are asking for equal protection under the law.

There are dozens of boring issues that are bundled with this issue. For me, repeal of DOMA means that if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, my husband would be able to continue to live in our home and not have to sell it to pay taxes on his "windfall".
Majority of people - so the world population.
If Hacker News has taught me anything, it's that people try to masquerade a lot of conclusions behind a wall of "Science" when in fact the process is neither scientific nor conclusive.
In some jurisdictions there is a discount if you pay before a certain date - but if you wish to contest then the time it takes to do that will expire the discount period.

It's cleverly and obviously intentional practice that plays on people's time to defend themselves being worth more than the discounted price.
exactly. The DNA database definitely suffers from the streetlight effect.
I use clonezilla to image the whole hard drive including OS once I have a 'clean' setup with an empty home and all my software installed.

Then I use rsync to copy all my 'stuff' back off a large external hard drive to the 'clean' installation. I try not to change OS to often :-)

Subsequently I use rsync with --delete set to sync the home drive only to an external drive of similar capacity to the computer drive for daily changes. This drive is ex4 and preserves ownership and permissions, and includes dotfiles.

Once a week there is rsync without --delete to a large external hard drive as 2nd backup. This drive is NTFS and does not preserve permissions and excludes dotfiles.

I have a free dropbox account for really crucial 'working' files. That gets rsync'd to a FAT32 stick each day using the 'time window' command so it does not write everything each time.

Basically the clonzilla whole drive backup is just to save time/bandwidth with re-installing and setting up. The rsync backup to the large drive is file readable on work PCs that use Windows should disaster strike. The 'sync' to the small hard drive is readable at file level on anything I can boot from a live CD.

Now, a bootable whole disc image would be of interest now and again.
Twitter DM Problems - Spam Invading Our Twitter Inbox
meh.

i prefer using old school moleskin and pencil to journal with. why does everything have to be about content aggregation? seems silly to duplicate the data in yet another application. nothing like making time to sit down and write ones thoughts down and exercise the brain in remembering the sequences of the past.
I have two machines; my normal workstation which I use for day-to-day tasks (running Arch Linux) and a Windows box that does nothing but run Adobe Lightroom. My Arch box has a RAID5 array which I use for all backups and runs a SAMBA server which the Windows box can connect to. Photos that I'm currently working with / editing are on a small 10,000 RPM drive on my Windows box and when I'm done I move the folder over the network to the RAID array (and keep backups there even before I'm done). Photos are sorted into folders on the RAID array by date in the format `19 07 July 2013' this way they are sorted correctly alphanumerically and my eye can easily jump to the name of the month.
I've considered moving the photo editing box into a VM but haven't gotten around to trying it.

I use Flickr to publish photos online.
I seriously wish this happened more often. I don't care how fast you're going, if there's no one to the right of you and you're not exiting to the left within the next mile or two, you need to get over. Not only is it disruptive for faster drivers to be dodging slower traffic left and right, but passing on the right is much more dangerous than passing on the left (since the blind spot is so much bigger).

Too often I see cops pass on the right when what they really should be doing is ticketing the driver in the left lane.
One one hand:

Most of the Australian aborigine people had walked out of the desert by the 1960's, but in 1984 a family of 9 that had lived in the desert, finally also walked out to reunite with their relatives [1]. The relatives had already lived ca. 20 years in an Australian village nearby.

When they finally saw the comfortable lifestyle their relatives had enjoyed already for 20 years, they were quite angry [2] that they had been left living in the desert, and not contacted earlier:

"They told us there was plenty of food and water came out of pipes," Yardi said.

"The older ones were angry that their long-lost relatives – who they had not seen for nearly 20 years – had left them out in the desert eating lizards while they lived in what they saw as the lap of luxury,"

"I like this life," Yardi said. "I much prefer it to the old ways."

Warlinipirri said: "I wouldn't go back."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintupi_Nine

[2] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/archive/news/lost-tribe-happy-in...
This is an excellent and thorough article about making a computer-driven light grid. I'm impressed by the quality of the documentation, and the linkage to the tools and services that the author used. Very cool!
is there an official API?

you could easily use - http://api.ihackernews.com/

-or-

https://www.hnsearch.com/api
I disagree that it is simply an appeal to authority. I think this is more accurate: "X is likely true not just because the current scientific consensus says it is, but because we as humanity literally can not know better".
Google testing an NSA proof encryption for Google Drive
It was two years ago so it may be better now. I had a number of mailboxes to migrate (~200). Their mass input tool didn't work. No timely response to a ticket opened on it.

Additionally it seemed like they were chasing the smaller accounts. Whenever I consulted the help/documentation it focused on the converting the 1-5 user shops into paid accounts. There wasn't many resources for someone who walked in expecting to pay $2k/month. I had to dig for details. Eventually I created a paid account just to test all the details.

Contrast that with rackspace where everything worked smoothly out of the box. Any limitations were spelled out clearly. In general it felt like all my needs were anticipated. In two years with them I've opened maybe three tickets all solved exceedingly fast.
> Google has the best maps/navigation thus far, so it seems the GlassUp would be at a disadvantage (then again for the price who knows, it might be worth it)

I got the impression that an Android app could use the API to use Google Maps with this device. I could be mistaken though.
Keeping an extra room costs way more than that. It doesn't make any sense for most companies to have a dedicated lab, you're not going to run usability tests all day, every day.

Plenty of market research companies offer rooms like this for rent.
I'm a bigot? Please, look up the definition of bigot and then look in the mirror. I even explicitly said I was tolerant of gays. You are the one intolerant of others' opinions.
That study has been very influential to my own thinking about how things get popular. Another thing I found fascinating about the study was that 'quality' of the content did matter, but that it accounted for roughly half the correlation with success, the other half being random-chance snowball effects.

You could probably extend this theory of what makes things successful to a lot of other domains (music, books, fashion, ideas, memes, startups, people...)

However, it's possible the ratio of intrinsic qualities vs extrinsic luck varies or is not 50/50 in all domains.

With music (or books) you have to invest a few minutes or a few hours to really evaluate if you like something, so those factors may affect how much extrinsic "cumulative advatage" snowball effects count vs intrinsic quality.

I'd really like to see more empirical research of how success by "luck vs skill" actually plays out in other categories. Any one know of follow up work to that 2007 study?
Except for the AWS EBS outage a couple of years ago which had nothing to do with a security breach.

http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

Cascading catastrophic failures do happen that don't involve security.
Additional actions I've done:
- Copied all my backup files to the thumbdrive first, so my main machine wouldn't need to transfer them all by network to the other computer. In my case it was a 13GB volume.
- Configured a no-ip account to have a fixed URL address for my backup machine. This is not necessary, but I think it has improved the performance a little bit.
- Configured the backup machine in my router to have a dedicated IP address.
- Forwarded bitsync TCP port in the router to the backup machine.
- Configured bitsync on my main machine to sync folders in that specific no-ip URL.
My impression is that files now sync, or at least start syncing a bit faster now.
mattmight is a University professor, and presumably advises graduate students in his department. So he's in a slightly different role than your average joe programmer or even rock star computer scientist at the latest startup of Y-combinator fame.

In my masters program, there were about 16 books that I saw in every single one of our professors' offices. Over my coursework there, I had to buy about a dozen of them for specific courses. Before graduation I bought the others. While I haven't read every single one of them from cover to cover, I have extensively referenced every one of them. His list should serve the same purpose for the audiences he's identified.
> Doesn't everything on the internet start with porn?

It's hard to say, without a clear definition available or even, arguably, possible... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

Which strikes me as extremely weird.
This feels similar to 2010's Momento: http://www.momentoapp.com

"Connect Momento with popular web services to fill your diary with your online activity. In minutes Momento can build a record of each day, using the information and media you have shared online. A fast, effective and effortless way to record your life."

M.G. Siegler called it the perfect diary app: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/28/momento-app/

Also discussed on HN, Remembary, described by its author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069209
If you like this, there's Spacelog, which is a neat way to view transcripts for a number of missions:

http://apollo11.spacelog.org/

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/

Browsing through the Apollo 13 "spacelog", it's interesting how a lot of the lines in the Apollo 13 movie are very similar to the ones in real life.
Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data from Facebook
Bitcoin payments, not so much. :)
I heard it being described like "Buying Playboy for the articles"
well this is certainly a new one.

complete and utter denial of government's existence and influence. not sure where this one falls on the left/right spectrum.
yeah, I hear you. it's just, I don't know that they turn the plane around just because the 'check engine' light came on... and whether it's an abundance of caution or not, for myself, sounds like a situation I'd rather avoid as a passenger.
It's great to read about stuff like this - which I would argue is what most of software business around the world is - not a hyper-growth venture funded social consumer startup not making money, but a "small" "life style" non scalable but steadily growing business and pertinent advice.
I didn't use my appeal to the majority as a support to my argument. My argument was simply not to conflate the issues. If I would have said "The majority of people are opposed to gay marriage, therefore it should be banned", then that would have been a fallacy.
This is just speculation...

With Japan, they had seriously begun the process of industrialization in the 1800's with the Meiji Period [1]. So even though their economy and infrastructure was gravely damaged during WW2, they could rebuild quickly.

With South Korea, I don't know. It was a much smaller country. Being a close ally of the USA may have helped with foreign investment which allowed them to climb up the value curve very quickly. I found this on post-WW2 South Korean economic development [2], but haven't gone through the whole thing yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period

[2] http://www.nber.org/chapters/c4063.pdf
It doesn't cost that much, really. The salary of the guy running the lab is the largest expense by far. At a startup I worked at a few years ago, they had a lab running 40 hours a week. It would have cost about 10 times as much to have a market research company do this for us if it was even possible.
French drivers used to be insane. As little as five or six years ago, you'd regularly see people pulling moves that would make a rally car driver blush. Then, they installed speed cameras EVERYWHERE, and sent out mass amounts of tickets, even for going a couple kilometers/hour over the limit. Since that time, people actually stay under the speed limit. Amazing, the difference an oppressive regime of automated enforcement can make on people's behavior.
America grew very well economically while - and partly due to - using African slaves. The European empires dominated the planet economically while believing they had a divine mandate to exploit the savages. Wealth generation has nothing to do with the goodness of a behaviour or attitude.
That's because in this case and many other cases, "efficient" is another way to say "completely bypass the legal system." People want the government to make itself more efficient, not completely bypass the civil protections we have in place.
Like probably most HN readers I think of myself as reasonably well educated in science and engineering. However, when it comes to interpreting the vast majority of scientific discoveries I have to rely on my sense of scientific authority, not on firsthand knowledge.

Now put yourself in the average person's shoes: how can you trust anyone when there's so much contradictory information and, frankly, so much bad science around us?

Also, people love to argue so they will often take extreme positions just for the heck of it.
No this is totally true and I agree. But if you can mold someone into performing at acceptable standards than you have more talent which produces better products faster. That's basically my reasoning for my approach.

If you do not know why the code is wrong, then tell them what it is doing wrong in a similar fashion. "Hey John, I see you updated this patch. Thanks but it seems to be hogging memory. What can you do about that?"

Perhaps you point them to people who have worked in that area before. "Well you working on I/O, you know Tim over here has worked in that area before, he might be busy but if you can't figure it out on your own maybe you can shoot him a question and see if replies."

I guess a kernel maintainer may never make a mistake since you assume it is a tautology that all kernel maintainers by definition know when and where and why their code is wrong or they could not be kernel maintainers. Or you're implying that any kernel retainer will, upon being notified, no matter the language of the rebuke, immediately know how to fix it and will also be willing to do so.

There are also different levels of experience for different people. It doesn't mean you should throw them off the ship or so harshly rebuke them that they never return to the project.

And if there are different standards than you probably don't need to give everyone the harshest standard.

Alright but I've posted enough in this thread.
"The burden of proof is always on the accuser."

Can you please give me an official reference for that? I know it is kind of off-topic and it should be obvious as a common sense, but I am not joking here. When I asked a USA touristic visa I was told we are all considered by default guilty of illegal immigration until proven otherwise.
Btw, I've now dropped over $1,700+tax on Logic. From my original purchase of 4.0 from EMagic that I ran on Windows, Logic 6 post Apple acquisition, Logic Studio 9, and now Logic Pro X.

I am totally fine with the $200 pricing which is less than the cost of the previous upgrades. Everyone seems to be forgetting that there was a point when Logic cost $999.
>Financial wealth and intelligence are also uncorrelated,

I wouldn't be surprised, because nobody gives you money because you are smart. You have to make a sustained, focused effort to create things of value in order to obtain wealth.

Intelligence without drive is like a car with a powerful engine but no wheels. One of the smartest guys I've known worked as a janitor and never had any money - while being smart, he just never stuck with something long enough to make it pay off.
Care to share the list? I think that I can guess what might be on it, but I'm still curious.
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.P. Box
This is why we gain a consensus based on repeatability of results, peer-review and the ability for a model to make a prediction.
Can you quantify "relatively new"? It was clear to me 10 years ago, and I thought it was common knowledge, but then everyone I talked to (especially people from medicine and biology) called it "an novel, interesting theory" when I talked about it (and had to explain why that would make sense).

If there's a name or reference for this theory, I would appreciate a link.

[ My argument that gets the "novel and interesting" theory remark is that in many cases cancer becomes "chemo resistant" after much shorter than any multicellular organism would -- thus, it can't just be a random mutagenic defect, and must involve non trivial developmental/evolutionary machinery. I don't remember where I picked it up, and it might have had a different form, but it was over 10 years ago ]
> Why do you even want a desktop "computer" any more, don't you want your computer to be able to talk to all of your peripherals, keyboard, mouse, display, phone, and television ? That puts your computer in a box and attached to a fast network that your peripherals are attached to. All you need where you sit is enough juice to light up the peripherals. And we've pretty solidly reached that point.

YES! You have hit a nerve. I very much want my singular computer to be a box--somewhere, anywhere--permanently attached to a high-speed network, and to connect to views of applications running on that computer from every single device I own [1].

However, for the time being, my desktop computer is the closest thing I have to a central/master/singular computer. It is the workhorse in my device arsenal. The fact that I want every device I own to be a terminal to view applications running on my singular compute device is a source of continuous frustration. But it is what it is. In today's world, each device wants to be its own entity, much to my distaste.

But yes, if I had my way, even my desktop work environment would simply be a very large, high-definition display with some input devices--a terminal viewing applications running on my compute device. Of course I don't actually need the compute device to be above, below, or beside my desk. It could be in my garage or at a data center.

All of this is tangential to the fact that I want my workspace, my desk, to feature a very large, very clear, immersive display. In the short-term, if manufacturers are feeling the pinch of dipping sales, they must make desktops a focal point. I'd argue that the model I describe in [1] would also work to their advantage; I feel the first vendor to pull off that model--to unify the compute experience for consumers across all of their devices, yielding singular applications with multiple views, continuous/seamless state, no synchronization, self-control, federated backup--will enjoy quite the windfall.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
FOAAS API now with test console and multiple SDKs
Every time any sort of "controversial" content gets hassled by mainstream payment services, a Bitcoin gets its wings.
My guess is that this will go nowhere. How on earth would google monetize a product it couldn't use to specifically target ads? However, I could see this as a paid tier.
The courts would be clogged with people challenging the tickets.
As an earlier step, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods have demonstrated utility. It's a shame their use is mostly limited to Montessori schools in the US.
The issue is, speeding fines are in place so that cops can stop you and make the motorway safer. A drone or a camera has no way to stop you and thus does not fulfill the duty of making the motorway safer. In any case, I don't think there would be a way to monitor your speed to any kind of accuracy from a moving object. Not to mention, it would be much cheaper and easier to just setup a camera on a pole somewhere.
http://cloudmanic.com/photomanic

I like to leverage Evernote for the storage engine. Unlike other cloud-based photo storage solutions if you stop paying for the storage you lose it. You "pay" once for lifetime storage. If you are a paid Evernote user you get 1 Gig of storage per month. Use it or lose it.

http://cloudmanic.com/blog/57/the-digital-photo-conundrum-a-...

http://cloudmanic.com/blog/58/photomanic-a-photo-gallery-for...

Yes, My company is the marker of Photomanic.