skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be based on Law 10 of the 48 Laws of Power.

"You can die from someone else’s misery. Emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead."

– Robert Greene / 48 Laws of Power

http://cgt411.tech.purdue.edu/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm
A 39" 4K has a 113 ppi (http://pixensity.com/list/seiki-digital-se39uy04-430/)

A 13" Macbook retina has a 227 ppi.

So even a 4K 39" monitor still has a far lower ppi than a retina display. And I absolutely can tell a retina display from a normal display. That means there's a lot of room for resolution to go up to and beyond 4K before it becomes indistinguishable to human eyes.

And I stand right by the monitor when I use my computer. Right now my monitor is about 12" away from my face.
Well that's kind of the point. Much like KDE's developers have typically refused to become maintainers of Mir-specific code while Mir is still specific only to Canonical, Intel are now telling Canonical they can maintain their own damn patchset.
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1. I've sat in on multiple psych conferences. If you compare them with conferences in other specialties, you'll soon realize that there is a severe lack of scientific discourse happening. As I said, there is a belief that the field is an art and that the practitioners within are artists who rely heavily on their experience and preferences. Literature is hardly discussed. The DSM is the bible.

2. Yes, the best and most practical test we have is an EEG that, at best, tells you that something wonky is going on in this vague region of the brain. Good for seizure disorders, little else. The other tests we can run are to detect physiological causes of psychiatric symptoms external to the brain, like thyroid disorder, uremia, overdose, etc. Nobody sends a patient down for a routine fMRI. What tests are you referring to?

3. I'm not advocating to wait until we've achieved a complete understanding of the brain, but rather we explore more conservative managements while we get a better understanding of the mechanical workings on the brain. CBT, DBT, psychotherapy, etc, should be actively encouraged by psychiatrists as first-line options for many of these conditions. They simply aren't.
I really don't get the anti-religion sentiment here. If you find in religious teachings a way to live happily, productively, in a socially positive way, why is that a problem or anything to apologize for?
Before I saw "The Borowitz Report", I honestly thought this could have happened. Reality seems surreal enough these days.
This latest leak reduces the NSA's effectiveness at whatever they are doing. That is a good thing if, and only if, the NSA does more harm than good.

It tells us nothing about whether the NSA does more harm than good. That is the key point that distinguishes this leak from previous leaks. This leak does more to reduce the NSA's effectiveness than to improve the quality of public debate about NSA policy.

(Previous Snowden leaks make me suspect that the NSA does do more harm than good... but I can disagree with Kevin's conclusion and still respect his position.)
I too like living with relatively little stuff.

Alas, stuff accumulates, much of it because it's useful. It's nice to have a hammer, a drill, a tape measure...and several dozen other tools. I have my regular boots, but I've since added dress boots and running shoes. I have a Kindle, a Nexus 4, and a Raspberry Pi, so of course I need a dedicated micro-USB cable for each device. I have electrical tape, duct tape, masking tape, AND packing tape.

I've gotten better at not having useless cruft, but I still have thing-creep with useful things I only occasionally need, but want right away when I do need them.

I also have the fortune of living in a housing co-operative, so I can easily winnow down on many things that we have in the house, but that I don't personally own or keep in my personal space, but the problem repeats itself on a house-level scale as well.
Their initial comments for why Wayland didn't suit their purposes were misguided and incorrect, and Wayland supported all of the features they said it wouldn't.

Ignorance isn't really FUD, but both their incorrect comments and their want to do their own thing hurt Wayland a lot.
What I'm saying is that if Intel wanted to make an official statement, I'd imagine they'd do it on their website, not via a commit to an open source project attributed to an employee's personal address.

Since I'm not in the business of manufacturing controversy to gain upvotes or drive ad clicks, I see this as nothing more "Chris Wilson says he isn't going to contribute to XMir". If Intel wants to make an official statement, that will change my mind.
There is no mediocre people???? Unless you like to be a ranking jerk with no friends. Seriously some of the most amazing people I have meet were "mediocre"
It's an interesting phenomenon, but I'm not sure it has much to do with the internet or technology. People have gotten addicted to gambling on slot machines and poker tables, so the level of technological advancement needed to mimic chemical addiction doesn't even require entering the transistor age.
It looks interesting but for $30, there's just not enough meta-info for me as to what all it contains. I'm guessing it walks through the construction of the examples mentioned (landing page, blog). But is there an overview of the different classes, and when to use them? Customization ideas? Advice on migrating a site from version 2 to 3?

I believe a table of contents would be a huge help in knowing what it covers. I don't think I will purchase personally (especially at the $40 non-discounted price), but I've wanted a good Bootstrap-specific book for a while. If you had a mailing list for the book I would subscribe, especially to watch for further editions or promos.
It's the first exercise in datasci-001 on coursera... Not much of an invention. https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001
Because this is HN and we're all expected to apologize for being anything but categorically dismissive of religion.
The company said it had not programmed a "'back door' pipeline to our platform."

You know what? I believe them. In this case maybe this is the opportunity BlackBerry has been waiting for. Finally prove that they're the least likely to be compromised in a hack.

Granted there was that time when Indian officials demanded access to systems and they caved a bit; I hope we don't see any repeats of that.
The consensus from many high-profile non-Ubuntu developers was that their criticisms of Wayland reflected worse on Ubuntu than Wayland. They did say vaguely that Wayland didn't suit their purposes, but none of the specifics they provided turned out to be valid, and some of their criticism included alluding to potential security issues in Wayland that never existed.
"Further relaxation of encryption export controls took place in September 1999,
when the Clinton Administration announced that encryption items of any key length
may now be exported under a license exception, after a technical review, to
individuals, firms, and other non-government end-users in any country except for
seven state supporters of terrorism.25
After a technical review, retail encryption
commodities and software of any key length will also be exportable under a license
exception to any recipient in any country except for the same seven destinations."

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl30273.pdf

I think we're pretty much in agreement, considering that the time period between Sep. '99 and Jan '00 is about the length of time for new policy to fully propagate. Regardless, the latter portion of '99 and early '00 was when NSA and State/Export restrictions had been lifted.
I am thinking that we shouldn't take it personally(other than the fact that they made systems vulnerable to hackers, Chicom spies etc.)

If their job is to crack codes, our job should be to make unbreakable codes. Nothing personal, just bidness ;)
I never advocated discontinuing the use of medications. In fact, I acknowledged their efficacy. I'm all for treating the people that cannot function otherwise -- they may have no other choice. I think for millions of others, there are other choices that are not being adequately pursued or encouraged.
Nice chart but there are mistakes with the origin of Islam. There is influence from the pre-Islamic religions in Arabia which has not been displayed in the chart. For example, one of the gods housed in the Kaaba was the pre-Islamic god Hubal.
As a person who is still kind of atheistic, I can understand that sentiment.

Basically, scientific thinking forces constant verification of everything and encourages questioning, while religious thinking (even with buddhism) has far more dogmas and forces acceptance and, to a certain degree, discourages questioning.

What drove me to zen-buddhism is the fact that the religious part is kept rather small and it is far more focused on daily practice.
also higher margin at box office
The submitter only posts stories from this website: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=SPYBOT
Note that this seems like a purely political reason to not support xmir since the patch was initially signed off by the maintainer http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com...
http://bit.ly/1e416nT
I thought the same thing. Great read.
Then why let users choose a password at all? Why not just assign them one that they have to write down? And if they're going to write it down anyway, why make it words? Why not generate a 20 character random string?

I obviously don't have the whole picture of your effort, but from your description so far, I think you are over-emphasizing the importance of clever password schemes. As Colin points out in the top comment, hashing with scrypt will make even mediocre passwords uncrackable. So it would be a better use of your time to implement scrypt or bcrypt with just one password.

And high-speed cracking is only a problem if the bad guys get your password table. To do that they will have to get into your application...and if that happens there are all sorts of other problems. So I'd argue that spending more time testing and proving the overall security of your app is also a better use of your time.
Apple had one connector for a decade and people complained when they changed. I guess if you randomly pick a number less than 100 and say if we add 1 then we have a bigger problem, it sounds convincing. I'll take a much more improved technology any day.
I tried it with n=1000 and n=10000, and found that using xrange made it slightly faster, as did using itertools.imap, but the difference was pretty small.

(Here I'm using the stock Python 2.7.1 on a 2011 MacBook Pro.)
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> It also asserts that there is no expectation of privacy within US borders on the Internet - that is unacceptable and complete bull shit.

Have you solved the problem of bright-line jurisdictional boundaries on the Internet? That doesn't just interest the NSA, it would surely interest tax agencies around the world.
If I can't run it own my own servers, I don't give a crap.
The same is true of most parts of medicine. Evidence based practice is quite rare unfortunately.

At least the pills are -- at worst -- mostly harmless, the surgeons who cut at the drop of hat (viz. almost all of them) do far more damage.
It's shit like this why the open source world, Linux in particular, can't have nice things. Politics, FUD (both ways), egos and petty squabbles making every step painful and slow.

To everyone involved, fucking grow up.
Might be the tip of the iceberg. Without open source hardware and independent verification, the full supply chain of every shiny new widget is a question mark because of whichever governments/actors may happen to lean on suppliers. I think we need more decap teardowns and open source EDA functional disassembly tools. Otherwise, it's blind trust without enough tinfoil verification.
Something I didn't know; the original "RobotWar" was written by the same guy behind the original (pre-id software) Castle Wolfenstein: http://corewar.co.uk/robotwar/
IPSec is not fundamentally broken, it's just needlessly complex.
Nobody should post anything on Facebook.
I know there are some hoops you have to jump through if you're selling an iOS app that uses encryption, which arguably could include HTTPS. There is a registration/approval process, but an exemption for certain cases. More details here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9609901/when-to-check-the...
Those margins are reasonable, but they include advertising, and I don't think drug companies should advertise.

Remove advertising and reduce prices accordingly.
I have one place, just one, where being a nonbeliever doesn't make me feel like a deviant distrusted outsider.

I don't approve of disrespectful dismissals, but I understand why some people are seduced by it.
I believed it until

> Shortly after Mr. Obama’s volcanic performance, Mr. Putin released a terse official statement, reading, “I should be afraid of this skinny man? I wrestle bears.”

and then I also saw "The Borowitz Report".
I'm curious what this will mean for ROHS compliance. Gallium Arsenide isn't a terribly friendly substance and, depending on the concentrations, it could pose a safety issue during installation and/or recycling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
Not sure why this is implies a fit with hackers. I much prefer using vim then this UI.
As another free possibility, try http://octopress.org , though this solution has it's own merits.
I think it technically applies to any sale of programs that include encryption stronger than 64-bit.
> It's telling if their first instinct is to have a "createUser" endpoint versus a POST to /users/

It's telling of what exactly?

RESTful is just one style of creating application interfaces over HTTP. And as far as I know, web apps with true RESTful interfaces are somewhat rare. [1] If you don't ask the candidate to do it RESTfully, it seems like you're doing the common interview anti-pattern of asking a question that is open-ended but expecting a particular answer.

[1] http://www.intridea.com/blog/2010/4/29/rest-isnt-what-you-th...
Eh.

1) We're social creatures -- we will inherently derive feelings of success from certain comparisons with others. Why should I forcefully negate this natural channel for happiness?

2) Only surround yourself with brilliant people. Negative people can be great.

3) Don’t be afraid to fail. Failing is not the best thing that could happen to you.

4) Find your vocation and have pleasure doing it (if vocations are you thing).

5) +1

6) +1

7) +1

8) +1

9) +1

10) Eh.
>"We need better mechanical and abstract understanding of the mind before we douse it in chemicals"

That's what research is for and is doing, but in the meantime what you're suggesting is that we sit on the sidelines and watch those that need help suffer because what we know isn't up to your standard? So we're going to take your anecdotal experiences in the psychiatric community about how psychiatry is anecdotal and is thus largely discredited?

Would you really be willing to let millions of people suffer because of that hypocrisy? Very frightening.
Indeed, religion makes you happier[1], so its strange the author left it out of his ten points

""[9] and a review of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals concluded that a large majority of them showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being and self-esteem and lower levels of hypertension, depression, and clinical delinquency.[12] A meta-analysis of 34 recent studies published between 1990 and 2001 found that religiosity has a salutary relationship with psychological adjustment, being related to less psychological distress, more life satisfaction, and better self-actualization.[13] Finally, a recent systematic review of 850 research papers on the topic concluded that "the majority of well-conducted studies found that higher levels of religious involvement are positively associated with indicators of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, happiness, positive affect, and higher morale) and with less depression, suicidal thoughts and behavior, drug/alcohol use/abuse."[14]"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_happiness
Given that Amnesty International vs Clapper was a 5-4 decision and that the standing articulated there was met (the other 4 wanted more expansive standing), it is clear to me that the Snowden documents in fact provide an avenue for challenge.
No, psychiatry is not a very, very loose and abstract field as much as it's an attempt to wrangle and understand a very, very loose and abstract subject, which is the essential nature of our thoughts and how we actionize them into behavior.

Criticism of its lack of rigor may be fair in many cases, but for you to call it a "sham field" is reactionary and completely inflammatory. Don't backpedal with "I don't want to discredit the entire field" when you're going to lead your comment with, "Good riddance."
I've lost access to my account. Attempting to login to sillysaurus2 redirects me to https://news.ycombinator.com/null and doesn't actually process the login. I'm genuinely sorry, and I've sent an email to apologize.

Moral of the story: Don't do what I just did. It earned me 10 upvotes followed by an instaban.
yes, I think would be a better model to distribute as an opensource software with a hosted (paid) alternative, similar to WP.
That's a fair point. NSDateFormatter is fast enough and you should never replace it for anything else unless you know for sure that it's a problem. Well that goes for any optimization. In my particular case, it was really a bottleneck, and the time difference of 100 seconds vs 7 seconds meant a user will not have to wait for 93 seconds during the initial import step. I am not suggesting we start getting rid of NSDateFormatter as it is a very valuable tool which we use for any and all date formatting ourselves, just not during massive imports anymore.
> You realize these guys (in the NSA) have been using intelligence resources to spy on their girlfriends and neighbors? How much more human and fallible does it get than that?

And they get caught and fired for it. Such stories even made the WaPo pages pre-Snowden.

Are you saying that any government agency which ever has any civil servant misuse their position should be shutdown?
Martin Seligman is one of the father's of positive psychology (the study of happiness). He has several popular books.
I can't _prove_ that there were people who was purposely delaying consensus to give their product more time to make it to market. But there were those who had their suspicions...
I could not disagree more readily.

Note: I don't live in silicon valley.

We're talking about a nation of people who, by far, believe they are stuck with the life they were given, with no means of control. Sure, they hope that one day they'll be able to achieve their dreams and desires, but by far, the majority of the country(outside of Silicon Valley) has the opinion that the only way to live, is to slave it out for someone else doing something you don't like. Hell, you hear half as much in comedy routines, frequently(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph9I-qPQ6FU, and I've heard several others make the same comment, including Chris Rock, Louis CK, and Ricky Gervais).

But the attitude silicon valley seems to foster in people- that if you work hard at something you believe in, you have a chance at being successful in ways you never could have dreamed? That's the only way an economy is going to work in the future. That's the only way when the majority of manual labor jobs can be eliminated by automation. Being able to teach, develop, and put yourself to good use in something you're proud of is gonna be the only way we've got left.

Pessimism isn't worth shit, and we've got too much of it in the US. At least with optimism, people try things. Sure, their dreams of success might be delusional- but they still have value, in that they'll try, and in trying, better themselves. The other option is that they just keep living a life of misery or mediocrity, and that way leads only madness.
I definitely concur.

Here's another life story that has resonated with me - http://www.alvinlaw.com/

I always think being grateful for what you have is a major ingredient for happiness. Alvin's story really made me reflect on all the good things in my life.
> It wasn't extremely efficient to begin with

Actually, it was quite ridiculous. Printing text to the screen on a 4.77 IBM PC felt like using a serial terminal at about 19200 bps. My 1 MHz Apple II would appear much faster just because it could output text to the screen more efficiently (to be fair, putting a symbol on a CGA screen is a two-byte affair - one for the symbol, one for attributes, but, still, for a supposedly much more advanced machine, it was horrible).
Because those same set of teachings often differ very slightly from someone else's and usually ends in a war, or at the very least, a great deal of wasted bloodshed. See history for examples.

Why you're supposed to apologize is because your religion - no matter which particular mythology you subscribe to, has likely caused an immeasurable amount of sorrow for many others.
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Is it now "everyone" though? That's getting back to the old question about technical capability vs. actual use.
UPDATE: I've lost access to my account. Attempting to login to sillysaurus2 redirects me to https://news.ycombinator.com/null and doesn't actually process the login. The only reason I'm able to write this comment is because I was still logged in on my phone. I'm genuinely sorry, and I've sent an email to info@ycombinator.com to apologize.

I beg mercy. I was only trying to help. I messed up. I promise I won't do it again.

Moral of the story: Don't do what I just did. It earned me 10 upvotes followed by an instaban.
I heartily agree -- I went through a really bad depression and found that regular meditation and exercise made a tremendous difference, far more than medication.

Just a few quick notes: Aerobic exercise helped me more than strength training, so, if you're depressed, I'd recommend running, swimming, and/or bicycling.

Diet has been very important, too. Everyone is different, but I find a mostly vegetarian diet, low on processed foods, to be the best for me overall.

I think meditation helped the most. It's been a tremendously useful skill that has helped me in many areas of my life. I found Vipassana and Zen-style meditation, as

Check out Mindfulness in Plain English (http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html) (the author has a series of books, all are really good), and Mastering the Core Teaching of the Buddah (http://integrateddaniel.info/book/).
Most people do not stand so close to their tv.
Didn't this hit the frontpage recently?
Fair comment. My initial comment was too reactionary.
I agree. Of course, open source would be ideal, but if the creator wanted a straight paid model, I'd pay to for something like this where I could easily install to AWS/Linode/DO VPS/whatever..
Good catch. Its a shame, still great news overall tho. Looks like they are being more lenient with non profits, maybe?
We killed their server. Again... :-(
That's mighty fancy. But this isn't really a "missing blogging platform".

If you're a hacker, there are also a fair number of blogs written in Bash :

https://github.com/search?q=bash+blog&ref=cmdform

My favorite is bashblog https://github.com/carlesfe/bashblog

If you're not going to allow comments on your blog, it makes sense to have something simple that you can hack. Best of all it's something you can run locally.