skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reality is that the best way to control population expansion is by bringing good healthcare to a region.

That's a very good idea, and consistent with civilized standards and compassion, but it will not "control population". Population is a different issue with its own rules and constraints.

> but there are humane, concrete solutions ...

There are no "humane, concrete solutions". There are no solutions at all, not for a civilized people who honor individual rights. We can force people to reduce their numbers and abandon any right to call ourselves a civilized people, or we can honor individual rights and watch the unfolding of a catastrophe.

This is not a movie where all the problems get resolved in the third act. This is reality, and nature is in charge.

People who (like the author of the linked article) wave their hands in the air and say it will all work out, just don't understand biology and natural selection.
I'm even more strict than you: Even their uncles and up to their third cousins. And death penalties for them. Because everyone controls their teenage kids with a remote control, and if all fails they get beat some sense into them without repercussions.

Frankly even CTOs of social companies, app makers or search engines should be at least held civilly responsible. Without them it wouldn't have happened.
Spotify is not a fantastic alternative. They keep on losing money in spite of growing revenues: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4575506/spotify-doubled-re...

The only reason Spotify doesn't have too much competition is because few are those willing to waste so much money on such a low margin business, not because they have a ground breaking technology or business model. The fact that they now have to compete with rdio, pandora, apple and google streaming will probably deepen their losses.

A fantastic company in this field will be one that will print money like it streams music.
> You’ve reached the limit of 10 free articles a month.

So a link on a Hackers' site suggests me to buy subscription in order to obtain information about (possibly important) social topic. Is it acceptable for hackers' culture these days?
> Consumers have no acess to bid on the incremental value of features.

They could have kept buying Nokia 3310s instead of iPhones if they thought that a replaceable battery was more important than everything else they got with the Apple product. People made the same argument about physical keyboards, and look at what happened to RIM.
Multiple times she said Github raised money from Kleiner Perkins, right? They raised the money from Andreesen Horowitz. I'm not crazy, right? Right?
I don't see how you could come to the conclusion that I'm jealous because he worked hard. I have been praising the kid in every post I make. Also, I think calling him a genius is doing an injustice to the work that he put in to get the attention of MIT and the author of this article. It's as if calling him a genius explains everything and suggests that he has some sort of natural ability that other kids can't touch.

"Sorry, son, your friend is a genius and you aren't, there's nothing you can do about it, now go back to plowing the field."

Screw that, I think lots of kids have this potential, they just haven't been helped to find the beginning of the path.

As for me being lazy, maybe when I was in the K12 system. Today I'm self taught, work from home freelance programmer. Aside from shipping code all day, I have had to keep my skills relevant for the years I have been doing this. I'm able to make my way doing this without living in my parent's basement. I would say that makes me an expert at laziness and procrastination. Everyone has these problems at times, but I have dealing with them down to a science, or I would literally starve. Nobody will wait for me to get around to getting my work done, if I'm not making reasonable progress, then I get replaced. There is zero job security for a freelancer.

I suppose in some ways that makes me a bit like this kid. So, I'm rooting for him. I hope he gets into MIT. I also hope that other kids don't take that genius thing seriously and realize that they could do the same thing if they put in the effort.

Also, while I hated the K12 system, I loved my teachers. I can credit many of them for the successes I have had in life. The overall system still sucks though.
Running at RunLevel 1 : How to function on little sleep for an extended period
Depends on your goal. NYTM is the biggest monthly event but is hard to physically attend due to space limitations (there's a simulcast at NWC with a more manageable crowd).

Queens Tech Meetup has taken off as well as the Enterprise Tech Meetup.

There's a lot of smaller (<100-150 people) meetups organized on specific topics (cloud, languages, industries).

This week is @shakeshack 5 (recap of year 3: http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/10/4/shakeshack-... ). Unsure how to get into it.

The guys from Harvest have organized a startup walkabout, usually in the Spring.

Many startups host office hours as well (with varying degrees of openness to the public).

The other thing to do is: if there's something you're interested in and don't see an existing (or upcoming) related event, post to NYTM or NextNY that you want to organize it but could use some help (space is always a pain).
Well in general there are three things that go along with this;

1) Creating the legislation/framework which is to say put into place the structure about how people can be found complicit and sanctions based on various schemes.

2) Outreach and awareness to the at risk population that help is out there and that the behavior is unacceptable and that something other than a scolding is at risk here.

3) Civil actions in high profile cases which reinforce the message and provide case law to guide other actions.

An analog might be civil actions against bars for serving alcohol to clearly inebriated patrons. We did a booth where we sold beer at an Art & Wine festival and had to get mandatory training on the signs so that we wouldn't do something that made us liable under California's laws if we served drunk people and they later did something bad.

But before we got to the 'how' we should probably make sure that we agree that this a parenting problem. In my day reporting bullying to parents was often met with a shrug rather than action, and school expulsion a temporary set back for bullies.
Cool - next they should try "How to Solve it by computer" (http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Prentice-Hall-International-S...)
IIRC, isn't Lyx what you are looking for ?

I never used it so I might be wrong.

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Edit: http://www.lyx.org/
No, it's not silly. It's an attempt to really think through the threat tree that the NSA represents, which a good exercise.

If your system is already compromised, then backdoored hardware RNGs are the least of your worries, and "just generate the gpg key" might not be good enough. Consider the case where an attacker replaces your gpg binaries with ones that cc private keys to an external location.

In all honesty, I'd really love to see a formal threat tree with the NSA as the adversary and "an individual's private keys" as the target from someone as well-versed in security as you.
Very true as this research suggests. "The Next Silicon Valley is Probably Silicon Valley"

http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/silicon-valley-financi...

Interestingly, NY is the one market taking some share from SV but the gap remains massive.
"I was really a failure... really, really, really, really a failure"
> My point is still valid.

WHAT point? Dude, you need to spend some time with gapminders.org . Follow the links below and press the "play" button beneath the charts.

India and Bangladesh have in the last few decades had a rapidly falling birthrate (down to around replacement level) along with rapidly improving child mortality rates. Watch this in the form of blue dots marching down and to the left.

http://www.bit.ly/1azLeVo

Meanwhile, per-capita income and life expectancy are improving - watch the blue dots march up and to the right:

http://www.bit.ly/16sSKR8

So where's the impending disaster? I don't see it in any of the relevant metrics.
Use of sarcasm like this doesn't really add to the conversation and has no place on HN.
Par the course for the UK then.
The article actually says we produce enough to feed the whole world.

Massive death tolls from famines always come down to political stupidity. (Refusing food aid for example)
Due to the increasing popularity of casual dining and the decreasing accessibility of Danish nobility, I've rewritten Hamlet to be an Appleby's assistant manager.

The fifth act of SICP is meta-linguistic abstraction, and among Javascript's merits it is not. SICP is no more a book about Scheme than Moby Dick is a whale tale.

I admire the effort, and understand the sentiment behind the project. I just think the authors are missing the big picture of SICP. In fairness, few of us are Ablesons or Sussmans.
> what we kept seeing is the chasm keeps building between how students communicate and the ability to tell adults about what's going on in their lives

The problem is communication and understanding, it has nothing to do with social media. If the kids can't relate to the adults in their lives, of course they're not going to share what's troubling them. This has been an issue with inadequate institutions and inept parenting since forever.
>>why, God, why?

I really loved that response :)
The rules say not to say anything you wouldn't say in person. And if you'd say something like that in person, you might want to think about what kind of person that makes you.

All he said was "I hate double spacing."
Parents and teachers are responsible for their kids' behavior. If they raise bullies, they should be held responsible. Yes it means spending time with your kids and paying attention to them, if someone is too busy to be responsible parent, then they should pay for their negligence.
Show HN: Simple visual JSON editor as an AngularJS directive
Why should a party with just one subject for its platform have any chance at all?
Scala for the win. Most of the ruby goodness with non of the performance problems (at high scale (ie Twitter ...), because ruby is fine for most use cases ).
Go is fine, but i dont like the syntax and some of the language design choices
There's a theory circulating that some victims of online bullying might be engaging in a form of self harm, by deliberately exposing themselves to situations in which they know they will be victimised.

http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/08/reality-askfm-self-harm
The CEO of Spotify has stated that they are choosing to forego profits at present so that they can invest in the long term success of the service, however they could be profitable if they needed to be. The comments on that article you linked to provide a valuable example of the value of what Spotify are doing: Amazon.

http://allthingsd.com/20121206/spotifys-daniel-ek-on-profits...
An em space is the width of the letter m. IIRC, a normal space in most proportional fonts is closer to the letter n.

It has always been my understanding that historically, typographers tended to prefer em spaces between sentences (vs. after intra-sentence punctuation like 'Mr.' or a comma). And so, once typewriters with their fixed-width fonts came out¹, people used a double-space at the end of a sentence to approximate an em space.

The frustrating thing, typographically-speaking, is that the HTML approach doesn't map to the manually-typeset process, either, since it doesn't have any semantic knowledge about "end of sentence" vs. "random intra-sentence punctuation" and thus treats them all the same.

(Note that this is also where we get em dashes and en dashes from. And just like em spaces and en spaces, an em dash is transliterated to '--' in fixed-width fonts.)

¹ For all I know, the double-space trick was used with fixed-width letterpress before the advent of typewriters. The problem seems to have more to do with fixed-width than with typewriters.
They wouldn't have to "make a living", they could just live.
You have to realize that for teenagers all their lives are on the Interwebs. So it’s not just about closing your account on some service and move on. You have an account on Facebook with your real name and all your friends are there. Shutting down the account is like been grounded at home with no access to Internet. For youngsters, Facebook is the Internet.

Besides closing down the account doesn’t mean that there won’t be shit said about you, it just means that you won’t know it directly. But one way or the other it will reach you.

Furthermore, you have to understand that bullying is aimed towards the weak ones. If you have a strong character sure you can ignore it. But for a young girl with low self esteem this could ruin their lives.

Bullying was always around but in an interconnected world it becomes a menace for those afflicted. I for one would like some stronger legislation on this.
> The only humane way to control population is extensive education of the masses ...

Absolutely true, but for one thing. If we educate the masses, we will reduce the average fertility along with doing a lot of general good. Who could argue against that?

But natural selection does perverse things with our best-laid plans. If we educate the masses, natural selection will efficiently select those who weren't educated, or who weren't educated very well, and within 100 years, those people will represent the entire human population.

Those who doubt this scenario need only study the spread of MRSA, in spite of many well-educated people fighting the good fight:

http://mrsa-research-center.bsd.uchicago.edu/timeline.html

Quote 1: "1960-1967: nfrequent hospital outbreaks of MRSA in Western Europe and Australia - See more at: http://mrsa-research-center.bsd.uchicago.edu/timeline.html#s...

Quote 2: "2012: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology-published study showed MRSA infections doubled at academic medical centers in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008. Hospitalizations increased from about 21 out of every 1,000 patients hospitalized in 2003 to about 42 out of every 1,000 in 2008, or almost 1 in 20 patients."

We fought and lost that battle, in the midst of the most advanced society that has ever existed, with a full armament of scientific methods and knowledge. And we didn't have to honor the tastes and individual rights of the organisms we were fighting -- we could be ruthless and warlike. We lost anyway.

Now, because of MRSA, to visit a doctor exposes you to a greater risk than ... well, than most reasons to visit a doctor.
[Edit: Sorry, I replied to the wrong post. It was btilly who wrote the following quote, in another reply to the parent post.]

I prefer the way it looks.

And in the end, this is why so many petty typographic debates are futile.

Some aspects of typography are about practical matters. The choices here tend to be quite objective, and almost everyone will agree about which choices are better, at least once they appreciate the significance of the difference. Using a programming font where some characters look too similar leads to bugs. Setting a magazine article with a huge line length and tiny font size will likely reduce reading speed and retention.

Other aspects of typography are about subjective taste, a matter of art and personal design choices. This is almost always the case with trivial whitespace and punctuation issues. Does anyone really fail to understand the meaning of a post here on HN because the poster used a double-hyphen (--) as informal punctuation instead of looking up the code for a typographer’s em-dash (—)? Will anyone die if I personally set my em-dashes with a space either side in HTML because I think the “standard” tight setting looks awkward? Of course not.

Sometimes a change falls between these two clear categories, and this is the case with doubling spaces after punctuation. To some extent, the basic appearance is subjective, but if the design choices result in rivers appearing in the text, this will almost certainly impair readability, an objectively worse situation. However, in these cases there is rarely a better answer than having someone who knows what they’re doing examine the specific piece of typesetting and make manual adjustments to fix the problems. It’s an exercise that I think anyone seriously interested in typography should try at least once, both to understand how easily any automated system can get things wrong in specific cases and to understand how impractically time-consuming and expensive it would be to have human operators review everything and fix all such minor details manually.
I don't think it's that far fetched to think of. Robotics have already replaced a lot of jobs. Faster stronger and more accurate machines doing a far better job than humans. Add the ever increasing cheap processor power to them and you get better decision making.

The question is a just theoretical anyways. How would our economy withstand not needing human labor/services?
`sententious' is a great word. I need to start using it.

Other than that it sounds like a tale from Jonathan Swift. Big or little endian anyone?
Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap
Blowfish is very old. Try Twofish or Camellia.
Karl is the best part!

I agree with most of your other pro-NYC points though (and I live in SF).
port knocking to open ssh can come in handy in certain setups as well...
sure it is. It's another way to highlight how [] his position is. Slippery slope and all.
> "this is the time to get into finance mabe use all the data science tools and start a Hedge Fund"

It might be a BIT easier without all the noise, but starting a successful hedge fund at a young age is no walk in the park either. Think about how many John Arnolds, Chase Goldmans, Ken Griffins etc. are there comparing to all the traders out on the street try to make it big. The markets are equally as out of your control as the market where your product wants to serve.
I was a victim of cyber bullying myself: 12 years ago. At that time a class mate simply registered a domain and put a guest book up there. Many of my other class mates used the guest book to backbite me. The hottest topics were my sexual orientation (I was 14 years old back then, so no fun), my stupidness, and so on. It was very bad. The guest book can still be seen in the web archive(.org) and every time I do so I start crying. It was a horrible time.

Granted: Cyber bullying was only one part of the bullying against me. I saw those haters every day in school. In school I was physically beaten. At home I was beaten psychological by this guest book. Even people I did not know or interacted with back then suddenly began writing bad things about me in this guest book.

When I got better in programming I wrote a small script that checks the availability of that said domain. A few months ago that script told me that the domain is now available. I immediately registered the domain. It is now in my possession.
I bought my house 10 years ago, and moved out of my house 4 years ago and kept it as a rental. One day 2 years ago, I received a notice that a homestead lien was placed on the house.

Apparently the city had decided that I had never lived in the house at all. They placed a lien, with no explanation, no warning, and no avenue for appeal or even discussion. The lien, with interest and penalties, was about $10,000.

The first thing I did was to contact an attorney. Of the 6 attorneys I found in the area who dealt with such matters, 4 of them agreed to speak to me but all 4 had represented the county in the past, and therefore could not represent me. The other two simply refused to make an appointment with me. Presumably they have bigger fish to fry and are not interested in my case.

The lien still sits on the house, accumulating interest daily. I'm just thankful that they have not foreclosed yet and that it's a rental and not my main house. It's an impossible situation even for people with reasonable means but the poor and elderly are completely at their mercy.
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Well...sure it is. Obviously you can't add up the numbers (like your parent may or may not be implying you can), but if you really want to, you can look at all the dollars you have coming in, and all the dollars you pay to taxes of any kind, and determine a percentage. I have no idea if it would be anywhere near 50%, but I suspect it would be more than 35%.

(Which seems fine to me...)
FreeBSD has a very stable core distribution with an up-tp-date rolling release "ports" system for additional software. It's great for these purposes. It also has excellent documentation, stable native ZFS, and compatibility with Linux binaries.
By your logic it would be wrong to prevent your kid from taking drugs (or partaking in any other personally destructive vice) because all of their friends take drugs and would bully her if she doesnt.

Dont you see how taking the route of least resistance (negotiating with terrorists) can not work in the long term? The list of things she shouldnt be allowed to do but you have to allow to prevent bullying would grow day by day and make her life more and more miserable because she would be bullied into doing countless things she doesnt really even want to and instead of helping by preventing it, her parent indirectly helps the bullies by inaction.

The bullies have to be attacked directly, not indirectly. Appeasement never works and has never worked.
Brand associations, like Pavlovian associations, are very primitive, subconscious and emotional. The most important thing advertising needs to do (besides simply identify the brand) is to link the brand with positive, uplifting feelings. Coke and McDonalds are probably the best at doing this.

Even if you are the most fervent death penalty supporter, this branded hood will not make you crave more Westinghouse products.
> That is just so unbelievably wrong.

This is easy to prove. Show me which philosopher tackled mass public surveillance.

And it is exactly what you and everyone else in this thread has said. A surveillance program designed to collect information on you that's already public is not legally or morally wrong. Besides, you already agreed to it! When you GET a license plate, you're EXPLICITLY agreeing that you can be tracked. That's the whole damned point of the license plate.

You don't have a right to privacy while in public, and that extends to recording your movements in public. Get over it, because that's how it will be forever.
Genius, loved it.
I see no discussion of package management in here, which is kind of a bummer. My experience with yum has been pretty crummy and I don't think it's improved over the last several years. That alone should drive someone developing software away from working on that platform.

Centos & Red Hat are great if you have a single package you need to deploy to a machine and all the dependencies are already there or easy to pull down from yum. You get the advantage of not having a capricious OOMKiller process that can randomly take down your system. But if you're actually in the process of building something, working on Centos is just a pain in the ass.