skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't beat yourself up too badly. How were you supposed to know? It's hard for an individual consumer to understand the full impact of his purchase decision in the aggregate and over long periods of time. As a rule, consume what you want more of in the world. (The exception are naturally rate-limited goods, like fish or wild animal droppings, or absolutely limited goods, like fossil fuels.)

Consider this: if civet coffee had not ever become popular, then your purchase would have been fine - if anything, you could feel good about yourself since you just injected a tiny bit of cash into a poor area of the world.
Tough. You will never ever ever convince the world to conform to a rigid standard of two spaces between sentences, so your program is going to have to handle that kind of input.
Ask HN: A List of the most compelling but wrong old submissions to HN?
I see links to bold, overconfident predictions on here often. I'm kind of curious to see which articles from years past were really popular, really confident, and turned out to be really wrong.
> Readers Digest from the 1950s ... conversational tone

Any examples available of this online? You've got me curious.
I'm definitely open to the possibility that the effect is purely psychological. Not unlike the wine experts that were fooled by white wine with red food coloring.
I didn't even know this was a thing, but caring passionately how many spaces people put after their sentences is borderline OCD. I'm going to start using double spaces so I know who the crazy people are.
One hypothesis: the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 [1], which allowed federal grantees to own the intellectual property developed with federal funds. Prior to this Act, all IP made with federal funds belonged to the government.

As R&D is extremely expensive, one theory is that colleges raised their tuition to help cover the venture capital requirements of research.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
I started Python when I was 13 years old, so that age recommendation is alright.
They can use an infrared lens to look at indentations created on your fingertips as you read the braille. ;)
How to get coffee without bitterness or acidity on the cheap!

"Drip" coffee:

Buy good coffee (stumptown, PT's, tonx, among others) whole bean. Try to finish the beans within ~3-4 weeks of the roast date.

Grind it with a cheap $12-$15 whirly grinder from target. Make sure to use the ground coffee within ~15 minutes.

Put it in an aeropress or a french press, follow brewing directions. Usually 2-4 minutes for a french press, less for an aeropress.

If using an aeropress, add hot water to your coffee.

Huzzah! You are on your way to delicious coffee.

Adjust amount of coffee, brew time, and water temperature until you get it just right. Each bean & roast is different, and they will often adjust slightly seasonally. If the coffee is sour or weak, grind finer, use more coffee, or a longer brew time. If it is bitter or acidic, grind courser, use less coffee, or a shorter brew time.

Espresso:

Same as above, but use an aeropress & don't add water. It can be a challenge to get an amazing shot out of an aeropress, I will admit.

When you are hooked:

Spend money on a good espresso machine & grinder, go nuts.

I have not prepared Civet coffee, it may very well be /easier/ to attain that slightly sweet brew with Civet coffee. But given the downsides it is certainly not worth doing so. Buy two bags of coffee, plan on practicing on the first bag, you'll have a system down pat in no time.
The best human rememberable password is 4-5 words from a dictionary + a special character. Assuming that most people have roughly 20k words vocabulary and that most keyboards can type easily say 60 characters, you get 20,000^460 or 9.610^18 passwords. This means that if you were to crack at a rate of one billion (with a b) passwords per second (unrealistic) you would still take on average of 9,000 years or 18,000 years maximum.
I don't know that the article will increase demand. I know my personal demand for this coffee has gone from middling (I hadn't heard about it before the article) to zero on hearing that it's made from the poop of an animal that can't digest coffee beans.

I don't know which I find more disgustingly appalling -- that people are choosing to, paying very much to drink "pooped-bean coffee" -- or that the animals which play a crucial part of this process are so cruelly treated. But at least the latter can be compartmentalized with the inhumane conditions of our other food animals.
"You yourself are gratified by some music, arrangements of noises, and again essentially nonsense. If I were to kick a bucket down the cellar stairs, and then say to you that the racket I had made was philosophically on a par with The Magic Flute, this would not be the beginning of a long and upsetting debate. An utterly satisfactory and complete response on your part would be,'I like what Mozart did, and I hate what the bucket did.'"

-Kurt Vonnegut to his brother Bernie, excerpted from Timequake

(Which is to say, I agree with your point, and just wanted an excuse to quote the most entertaining paraphrasing ever of 'to each his own')
For a second there I thought that you were gonna start another Wayland flamewar...
The area between Kendall and Davis Squares must be on some list of most bookstores, coffeeshops, etc. with so many amazing people to bump into.

I live in SF, but I have a special place in my heart for this area because the density and diversity of thought that you just don't get in SF/SV.
It sounds like the original format, where you let the wild critters themselves choose the coffee berries instead of feeding them in cages, is likely to have produced a superior product.
Here are a few that are either all out free, or free up to a certain usage.

1. Onetab (Quick save all tabs, nice chronological grouping)

2. Google Docs (Powerful enough for most businesses)

3. Freshbooks (Free up to 3 clients - worth the upgrade after)

4. Mailchimp (Free up to 12,000 emails and 2,000 subscribers, and worth paying for after also)

5. Insightly (CRM free up to 3 users, 2,500 contacts. Which is a great start)

6. Inspectlet (Like Crazyegg, except they have a free option)

7. Asana (Great PM/Task with a generous free product)

8. Evernote/Skitch (MUST HAVE!. Every entrepreneur needs a way to compile their thoughts and research. I find this so important to even finding more about myself as I look back at the things I saved)

9. Trello (PM for creatives.)

Then you have of course, Skype and Google Analytics which require no explanation.
> Obviously there is still the risk of a tampered compiler but I consider this risk as rather academic.

Some part of me wants news to come out that there has for years been an NSA code-injection backdoor in, say, Debian's binary "lineage" of GCC. Imagine the reaction.
> ... and turned out to be really wrong.

I can only say that, if the link is to a psychology article, the chances of it being either wrong or totally forgotten (or both) in a few years is much higher than for other fields.
What I think you're missing is people don't believe them not paying for music causes harm. Even if they did, I suspect a large number of them simply won't care enough to pay.
Honestly, it's probably not that bad. You could cast all the old electronics in solid, impermeable concrete blocks and only pay pennies per phone.
Venture Capital Sees Promise in Lab-Created Eco-Foods
You're kidding right? How are pictures of cocks more dangerous than insincerity, lies, trophy girlfriends, mistrust, and narcissism? There is a reason the movie contrasted these elements. Something about American morality.
A shame this sub died. Voted it up, 'cos I think it should be widely read by HN folks.
The chemical and mechanical processes of the luwak digestive system could be duplicated. I don't know (and don't want to know) the effect of gut flora on the beans.
Does Facebook really work so fast in the USA? :D
Previously submitted, but died: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6372933
They handle 3072-bit keys now. http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?cPath=1_26&pr...
What surprised me most is not the movie but the realization of how much communication overload has changed over time.

I am old enough to have lived the same situation depicted here on two different communication media: IRC chats and BBS + CB radio before that.

The difference is that i experienced communication overload in a time 1990->2000 when such experience marked you irrevocably as a geek.

Today this is open to the masses.
Is it a bad practice to modify code strictly for testing purposes?
Worst advice ever :-(.

Many ISPs (and hosters) do support IPv6, and it’s worthwhile to learn a bit about it. If you are running an internet-facing server, I’d say it’s part of being a good citizen to support the latest standards.

To address the parent question, the firewall rules actually need to be a bit different than for IPv4. As an example, IPv6 makes supporting ICMP (for ping and the like) mandatory.

I wrote a post with a simple ip6tables setup about 4 years ago (in German, though, and there might be better posts):
http://blogs.noname-ev.de/commandline-tools/archives/74-ip6t...
Amen! Kopi Luwak has the inherent marketing advantage of describing the production process in a one sentence, narrative hook that everyone understands. Even non coffee drinkers know about "that coffee where the weasel poops it out."

That aside, modern experimental coffee processing techniques, varietal classifications, and terroir's effect on taste and quality is far more interesting and productive with regards to pushing the envelope for specialty coffee.
Any kid who has anything to gain by watching this has almost certainly already seen more than a few erect penises.
Writing Anonymously
Turn Off Seen By Messages in Facebook Chat
My American Express personal savings does. HSBC does and even allows you to enter your 2FA on a JavaScript keyboard (clicky click) if you choose to mitigate the threat of a key logger.
Coffee fermentation is already a very well understood operation: this is partially why high quality beans are a commodity item (ie. selection of microbe strains). It is also a food safety issue, so you have lots of attention from authorities too (including the UN).

The rest is just a branding a pricing exercise (along with roasting, which is also a well understood process). The whole trading process is not unlike trading Brent barrels and selling them through different oil companies and stations. Ask Nestlé.
How hard would it be to print a smart card with currently-shipping consumer 3D printers? If not-that-hard, then would collaborating to create a verifiable Open Smartcard Board + Firmware be a useful idea? It'd neatly short-circuit having to trust the entire consumer hardware+software stack.
I have personally been enjoying articles laid out in this way. They are a unique format that could not have worked in a pre-internet era. For years it has felt like the magazines/old media/etc were just trying to bring an old format to a new medium. Now some are starting to actually leverage the medium to expand their old format.
It may not be wrong, but it still looks wrong, or antiquated at the very least. Reading a book that still uses extra space after a full stop feels like reading something from the time when it was fashionable to put a space before an exclamation mark or a question mark.

The period alone is enough to indicate a full stop; an extra space is redundant. Like needless words, one should seek to omit needless punctuation wherever possible.
He picked comparison that would make Python look good[-ish]. Or he is ignorant about modern C#/Scala capabilities.
To my considerable surprise, a convenient sample of older books on my bookshelf tend to confirm the author's contention (year of publication order, all London, see file names for specifics).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/typography-sampl...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/typography-sampl...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/typography-sampl...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/typography-sampl...

Oxford University Press was using single space like spacing around 1950, but I have a travel book about Greece published in 1947 (George Allen Unwin) that still uses a very large space after a full stop.
It's a sign. It means we're getting old.
Yeah I interned there a couple of years ago. Honestly very surprised they're not more well known in the tech community.
> even humanities faculty would go elsewhere if not compensated at the growing rate of their education bracket

But where would they go? Journalism??
It's hard to say without knowing what type of organization that you're joining. Either you're going to a well run IT shop (good, but boring), or entering a land of chaos and dysfunction (bad, but not boring).

If you're going to a place of chaos and dysfunction, your mindset should really be about triage. To get things under control you need to be able to quickly mitigate any kind of problem, which usually means trying to make everything as homogenous as possible. Try to limit the number of permutations of systems and the software which runs on them. Use imaging and devops tools to stamp this homogeneity out across the organization. When I was a sysadmin, I would generally have a centralized, backed up file server, and any desktop/laptop that someone used would be nuked (using Ghost) if someone went wrong with it. You don't really have time to do detailed analysis of failure causes, so just get everything back up and running as quickly as possible. This will probably annoy many people, but it lets you get a grip on things relatively quickly.

On the other hand, if you're going to a good, but boring shop, you should be doing more detailed fault analysis and theorizing how things could potentially break. You then spend most of your time trying to implement things to stop breakages from happening. This is where you probably want to be as an organization, however a lot of managers probably aren't going to want to pay for it. IT is a cost center, after all, so if you get it beyond the point where you're out of dysfunction mode, many managers are content to deal with the occasional catastrophic failure.
The IPython notebook almost does it, using LaTeX for math and markdown for text. There are still a few issues at the moment, particularly lack of references, that keep me from doing real technical articles entirely from within the notebook.
That's the idea behind Not Constructive, which was discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062876

I'm not sure what the status of the project is currently.
Indeed, regression tests are not a silver bullet. It's a patch for dynamic type system.
Hey, that's where you bumped into me.

Yeah, the Cambridge/Somerville nexus is pretty amazing.

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
Teaching Kids Electronics, Computers, and Programming with Snap Circuits
The card itself is just a piece of plastic, it is the microchip that is the important part and I am not aware of any 3D printing system that could print something that complex just yet.
I tried it directly from Edible[1] (which, I think, was the ThinkGeek supplier for Civet Coffee and Monkey-picked tea--though ThinkGeek seems to no longer carry either). I thought it tasted only slightly better than Folgers. Several of my coworkers also independently arrived at the Folgers conclusion. Except for the novelty, there doesn't seem to be any reason to buy this stuff. Even more so given the animal cruelty angle.

I suppose if you must try it, Animal Coffee[2] claims that they do not farm civets. They also offer a stick of the "raw" coffee encased in Lucite[3], which I find a better novelty than mediocre coffee.

[1] http://www.edible-shop.com
[2] http://animalcoffee.com
[3] http://animalcoffee.com/proddetail.php?prod=Souvpw
9:30 Julia Hu (Lark)

10:00 Helen Greiner (iRobot)

10:30 Dulcie Madden (Rest Devices)

11:00 break

11:30 Rebecca Hough (Plugless Power)

12:00 Michael Grinich (Startup Bootcamp)

12:30 lunch

2:00 Ryan Bubinski (Codecademy)

2:30 Iqram Magdon-Ismail (Venmo)

3:00 Grace Hsia (Warmilu)

3:30 break

4:00 Greg Grinberg (ActualFood)

4:30 Evan Spiegel (Snapchat)

URL: http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/
Duh! Their loyalties are (or were) to their shareholders, not to Microsoft.

But I wonder if the pulled a Motorola ("we'll sue other Android phone makers...oh, you want to buy us Google? Hmmm...let's see")
Brings this to mind:

The More You Multitask, the Worse You Get at It

http://priceonomics.com/the-more-you-multitask-the-worse-you...
The ideal: "if it compiles it is guaranteed to work as you intended when writing it".
The dialog is the same vapid conversation that all humans use from teenage to mid-adulthood.
>> You are the one that said things are worse compared to 1932.

> And they are -- much worse. More incidents in an absolute sense, and more incidents per capita

Except that there are almost certainly fewer incidents per capita compared to 1932. 1932 was near a local maximum in terms of violence rates in the US; currently we are near a local minimum. (The current homicide rate is less than half what it was in 1932.)
I'm sorry to be whining, but this stream is pretty terrible. It's not possible to see the slides, and not possible to se the speaker.

Audio is ok though.
An alien craft slips into orbit around the earth. They intend to invade earth, but they first want to know whether there's a point to conquering us.

One of the aliens picks up a Internet exchange on his superpowerful galactic cyber-terminal. He turns to his companion and says, "I don't know how to tell you this, but they're posting thousands of words discussing whether to use one or two spaces after a period."

The ammonia drains from the other alien's face and he says, "Let's get out of here!"

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/ammonia_cartoon.jpg
As much as I agree btilly might have crossed a line, “hating an idea” would be considered a fatal flaw by many, including myself, depending on the social context and idea itself. Maybe “disapproval” would be a better word in this situation; “hatred” has too much emotional and social baggage that its use even in hyperbole may have to go away if we can ever hope to regain any notion of sensible discussion.
It's also not uncommon to have images which were rotated by software which did not follow the EXIF orientation tag but did pass the EXIF data through unmodified, which means that the image looked correct when someone saved it, uploaded it and previewed the page and until, possibly years later, when Firefox “broke” it.
> what I don't understand myself is software devs that thinks it's ok to ...

Most people, including software developers, think of JPEG as just a bunch of pixels.

I think if you were to do a random survey of software developers, most wouldn't know that the rotation field exists, and an appalling percentage wouldn't even know that EXIF exists.

Now that I think about it, I wonder what percentage would know that JPEG is a compressed format, let alone the fact that it's lossy...
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...

(Note that the author intended this to be humourous/exaggerated - Some people took exception though.)
As a Debian user, I agree that you can't beat the ease of setting up a repo on RHEL/CentOS. On the other hand, I'm not fond of the .spec format and working with yum is not particularly pleasant. Not to mention that Debian ships with a lot more packages.
rooofl, you're hell-banned. Looking through your comment history, I don't see why.
CentOS users are primarily deadweight loss- they couldn't afford to pay RedHat if it didn't exist. On the other hand, its existence, popularity, and the fact that it's identical to RHEL except for the logos means that people make sure their programs work on RHEL.

I have never worked at RedHat, but it was founded by and is run by Linux and GPL enthusiasts. Unencumbered redistribution of the software is the goddamn point.
Is there a printable, text-only version? The animation is distracting and my CPU fan is spinning because of it.
If you value ambition more highly than contentment, at what point does your ambition stop? If you become a millionaire, won't this just lead to your looking to become a billionaire?
> Now, if we can just get LaTex with instant feedback, we can approach the best of both worlds.

Okay, try this: http://arachnoid.com/latex

It's not ideal, but it's a start on something that could be much more powerful.
Demographics.

When the Green Party emerged in the early 1980s, they made it into the Bundestag pretty quickly because they could draw votes from a large base of young voters (the babyboomers). Nowadays young voters are a tiny fringe group so their votes hardly make a dent. That makes it more difficult than it used to be for a party representing (more or a less) their generation to cross the 5% hurdle.

The U18 vote which was carried out yesterday resulted in 12% for the Pirate Party: http://www.u18.org/das-projekt-u18/

Cynically speaking, the situation may look brighter for the Pirate Party in 4 years when more pensioners are dead.
Thanks a lot !

I love those documentaries where they interview the people the documentary is about. It seems obvious, right ? Yet most documentaries only glamorize a story with no content.

There was a documentary on venture capital called "Something Ventured" which is great, as they interview many key people (founders, co-founders, VCs, etc).
I'll second that.

I keep my travel key in a pen drive, and in practice I change it shortly after every usage. But that's because I don't use it a lot, you'll probably want to change it every few weeks.

Also, if you don't trust the machines you are using to connect, no time frame is small enough. If you really need to connect from them, use a VM (best) or a guest account (not as good) with access to just the stuff you need.
So that's one vote for removing satire from internet discussions.
They're not broken; they're simply using cacert.org instead of a mainstream CA. From a business standpoint, that's a terrible idea for selling to the general public, but from a security perspective it's fine.

Incidentally, they sign their order confirmation emails with PGP. :-)
The modern web has been very churny, but I think we have been witnessing the equivalent of the Cambrian Explosion [1]. Eventually both tech and behavior will settle down. Some evidence for that was the rapid churn cycles in social tools from 2002-2008 or so. But Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn could well be where the musical-chairs game stops.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
>Do you realize that if music producers can't make a satisfactory profit, then music will just not be produced?

No, I don't realize that. The overwhelming majority of music never makes any money because making money isn't the point. Making money is the point for a small contingent of entrenched players who carved out a market for themselves decades ago and are now seeing it disrupted. Far more artists fear obscurity and irrelevance than could ever fear piracy. Any residual coin they make due to any eventual popularity is just icing on the cake.
Based on the initial arrests made by this unit, it would appear the target remains commercial IP infringement: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/sep/13/police-intellectu...
I really have no clue what your point is here...

The first link concerns a small group protesting against increased automation...this has happened in practically every place that has had manufacturing...

The second concerns road safety acts, although they sound ludicrous by todays standards, served as an important step in the transition from horses to automobiles - in a country which had been relying on horses for transport for atleast 1000 years prior.
I honestly don't know what I expected from programmers discussing typography... so much misinformation in this thread