skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to read obsessively as a kid. I also ate lots and lots of candy- I'd finish entire packets at one go. Went on to be an internet addict and cigarette smoker.

I think... I just never learned focus, discipline, self-control, portion-control, when to stop. I think it's a habit more than anything else. I think I've always had some "addictive" personality, but I think I could've kept it in better check if I developed habits of discipline and control- which I never really did.
I don't think you could get people to switch. But if you build a familiar UI, that publishes to github, I'd use it.
There are free unix shells out there, google will find them. Don't expect anything fancy, but you will be able to try all the commands talked about here.

To connect to the shell from Windows, you can use the Putty program (google for it), although the shell documentation will almost certainly tell you how to do it.
Akkie, and the 101 things you can do with a CD-ROM drive's eject function
The thing is that the period on a typewriter will usually be aligned towards the previous letter, so a "period space" sequence on a typewriter will have nearly the same amount of space as would be seen in a "period space space" sequence on a software word processor when not using a fixed-width font. In essence, this furthers the idea that the double space is an emulation of the output of a typewriter, rather than supporting the idea that it's influenced by typesetting (where in the past the space between words might have been 1/3 or 2/3 the width of the space after a period, if no other space was added throughout the sentence for alignment).

For the most part, the article justifies simply blaming publishers for becoming lazy, though it seems to me that they choice of spacing around sentences is largely determined by the market for which something is being published, and most publishers would have invested at some point in a decent lexer that can handle enough of the burden of finding the ends of sentences to allow the process to be largely hands-off (and allow the appearance of the output to change fairly easily if they want to print a special or mass-market edition later).
Google has more than one product, but one of their products is nevertheless called Google (the one that's at "google.com"; the referent of the verb "google"; etc.). Internally/formally it may be called "Search" but I dare say most of it's users call it "Google" (they might say "I did a Google search" but not "I used Google Search").
Russia landed on Venus in 1982 and took photos
Contrawise, isn't it kind of great that GitHub is doing such a good job AND Google teams are not forced to use tools just because they are from Google?
that may be true for nonprofits, but that is not correct for federal science grants. Overhead is calculated as what % of the nominal amount you ask for is added on top for facilities. So a 100,000 grant plus 20% overhead costs 120,000. A 1M grant plus 60% overhead costs 1.6M.

That's because an agency like the NIH, will have a program project and decide, "ok. We want project X to be done and we think it will take ~150,000 in JUST science costs" - in theory, that should be more or less invariant across the institutions that get funded. THEN an added cost is what it takes for it to get done in X institution. If overhead were calculated as % of the full grant, then the math gets trickier to isolate the "invariant science part".

The reason why separating the "invariant science part" is important, is because when the agencies send out an program call, they say, "you get $2M to do the science", and each institute that is bidding to get the grant is not supposed to know how much of that gets taken up by overhead by other institutes. The net result is each institute is competing for the same pool of "we can do science with this" money without the PIs having to worry about how much of the cookie gets eaten up by their own institute. In general, I don't really like much of anything to do with the federal government's involvement with science, but: The way this is structured is probably a good thing, since scientists are really bad at thinking about much besides their own science, and if you make them do this mental gymnastic, something's going to come short, and there will probably be more failure all around from lack of funds. The responsibility to figure out how to get that administrative cost then falls on the program manager - and the grant reviewers are instructed to take overhead into account.
Super TRIPPY Music Vid (w/ hidden ending)
I use the YubiKey NEO:

http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo/

It does a lot more than just a standard smart card though. Here's a good post on how it interacts with OpenPGP:

http://www.yubico.com/2012/12/yubikey-neo-openpgp/
It exists :-) Check out https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
As a historical point, Nietszche was considered "unemployable" by german Academia following Zara. and BGE printed on his own dime. He was widely (wrongly) viewed as tin foil hat (nihlist, etc) for 100 years. PG's great essay on the history of philosophy doesn't even mention him (http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html). Nevertheless, look where he ends up...

In the humanities you can either avoid drawing any definite conclusions (e.g. conclude that an issue is a complex one), or draw conclusions so narrow that no one cares enough to disagree with you. The kind of philosophy I'm advocating won't be able to take either of these routes. At best you'll be able to achieve the essayist's standard of proof..."

Sound familiar? Slightly Nietzshean?

Likewise, Rand's heterodox views have made her about as popular as Larry Summers at a "women in STEM" mixer, but then she pre-dated by 50 years the 3 [economics] nobels that took Nietszchen epistimology seriously (1991, 2002, 2009).

People still confuse here work with being expositions of free-market economics. This of course is non-sensical. What is relevant and unique is that she takes seriously the key omitted behavioural assumptions of neo-liberal Economics. Which is a contr-indication of blind support for neo-liberal economics.[1]

Her work is most intersting in its analysis of the internal workings of firms, a point directly off the map of neo-classical economics (Coase: the nature of the firm 1932, nobel 1991), in particular the non-market (hierarchy) driven decisioning mechanics.

The nature of these dynamics (ie, expositions of opportunism and bounded rationality), are precisely the types of discussions dismissed by post-frege philosophy as 'crackpot', in the sense of not being formalistically relevant to Academic philosophy (viz: At best you'll be able to achieve the essayist's standard of proof).

But these topics are slightly more interesting than that.

And not exactly the work of a "crackpot".

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[1] Ironically, "L"iberal interventionist economic types have a greater problem with her critique of "conservative" economics. Her critique of the neo-classical assumptions also applies to its derivatives, including the variant of neo-classical commonly known as 'welfare' economics. This is the modern "L"iberal branch of economics. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics
When do you have to check the provenance of 200 tarballs to install X? If you install from an ISO, you can install the ports from there too and you have checksums which are automatically checked, right? So if you do cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4; make install it will automatically check all of the checksums right?
The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week
> Just go ahead and post a passive-aggressive, oblique insult at my life experience and what I've learned from it.

This runs the risk of being pedantic, but that comment was neither oblique nor passive-aggressive. It was just plain aggressive.
Anyone else sick of these high-brow publications staffed with greying gen-xers trying to "understand the youth", "the shifting nature of our relationships", in this "crazy digital age". It seems every week there's a new Salon, NY-Times, Newyorker, etc half-baked stab at trying to catch the youth zeitgeist and define it. It was interesting a few years ago when social networks were new, but this is so well worn. Is culture plateauing or something? Stop being so heck-darn lazy.
What if you don't eat chicken either?
and that metacircular evaluator is probably my favorite part of the (original) book right now...

"It's as if -- as if the key to the treasure is the treasure!"

i think the (new) book is valuable in that it might reach some people who have some mental block about just wanting to know what they "need" to know and think that all they need to know is javascript, but for those who just like learning? start scheming. it's freakin' awesome.
Wait - I was disagreeing with the GP's assertion that SMS-only was a good idea, so I think we very much agree. Maybe you meant to respond to my parent post?

IMO a shared-secret OTP app is certainly not unbreakable but is more secure than SMS.

SMS is known to be easily subpoenaed and universally stored while believing in a widespread OTP app trojan-horse requires some form of tinfoil-hattery. Both are still orders of magnitude more secure than single-factor authentication anyway and hence I believe both should be included in a reasonable 2-factor authentication solution.

Personally I can't adopt an SMS-only 2-factor solution due to service issues anyway.
The video seems to be a completely different and much cooler thing that messages by poking.

It would be pretty cool if they'd license the tech to cellphone OEMs so touchscreens would be easier to use.
I have a Facebook (account).
Masscan: The entire internet in 3 minutes
Having 3 million threads doesn't change the usefulness of being able to call into native syscalls and native libraries that use TLS, locks, etc. It does change the usefulness of native debugger support, since existing debuggers would have a rough time with 3 million threads, but it's not like goroutines currently have any solution to that - Go just uses a GDB script to implement goroutine commands similar to the thread ones. So I think it should absolutely be possible to spin up 3 million OS threads. The kernel needs to change to trust memory mapped into userland to keep track of threads rather than tracking all the data structures itself, and the toolchain needs to support split stacks. This would require a lot of change, but the result would be a lot cleaner than having two strongly overlapping concepts of threads.
Sony reveals its own Chromecast-like
The author graduated from university 2 years ago. She's probably 24 years old.
Show HN: better iOS form validation
Need I mention "stratify the data"? If your technically unclear, I can be more specific. For example, student debt issuances (flows), not retained balances. edit: just for fun

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2011 Endowment vs 1994 corrected for inflation. These are dollar variances. 100-->156 with inflation. If a school goes from 100 to 200, this would measure 46. Below data is the EXCESS in BILLIONs vs 1994. This is incremenatl wealth accumulation, the gross changes (typically 5x) are the second figure. Endowments are approximately at 3x wealthier following this massive inflow of cash, corrected for inflation.

1) Harvard University (MA) $22.6 up 516% raw

2) Yale University (CT) $13.9 up 548% raw

3) Princeton University (NJ) $12 up 505% raw

4) Stanford University (CA) $12.4 up 611% raw

5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology $7.1 up 571% raw

6) Columbia University (NY) $4.9 up 410% raw

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list...

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=1994&...
3D Printing Delivers Functional Prosthetic Hands at a DIY Price
But if you can't flip a switch to deploy an identical server and/or restore from a backup image, aren't you in deep shit anyway? Your failure plan is to rebuild the box from scratch?
Wow, stay classy.
The original analysis [1] is that there's a disconnect between what people want (bite size) and what they have to pay for (big chunks, often recurring). Disconnect means opportunity if you can somehow bring the sides together.

One way he mentioned is In-App Purchasing -- obviously huge, even with the 30% cut, and probably increasingly so for non-trivial game items, too.

I don't really buy that Bitcoin as it is today is going to work, at least within the US, as a way to bridge the gap, but other cryptocurrencies might, and bitcoin DOES work well for p2p international.

The thing to look for is other ways to bridge the gap.

[1] Well, not totally original, but having the smartest partner at the top VC fund mention it implies it has become pretty widely accepted, and is safe to base your business on -- I mean, everyone in tech seems to agree immigrant entrepreneurs should be able to come here, but having people in positions of power say it does validate..
You put quotes around several phrases that are not used in the featured article. I suspect you do not understand this punctuation mark.
At least you learned about the treatment and now won't buy any more. Seems like better conditions than animals get in most US factory farms and there's plenty of awareness campaigns but they're still in business.
agreed with AWS and freebsd. although there is hardly the demand - each year I have a debate whether to forego BSD entirely (especially on the desktop) but its just that too good to lose.

it looks like I'm going to get saltstack working with VpS and keep with Rackspace :-)
Wherein Flickr's multi-year api JSON response has never been JSON
I applied for it and got one of those EBT card. There's a food stamps office right in the financial aid building on my uni campus. So I got it while applying for financial aid. Fooze money:)
A bit bigger: http://imgur.com/a/xS5AE/embed & http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
I can't tell if the thing point "things get weird" but at some point the DIY medicine which makes things can be really cheap will collide with the medical monopolies which everything must be really expensive. I assume you get either "sudden market sanity" or massive repression ("think of the children" who die using cheap medical devices rather being assured death through not being able afford any, etc ).
The Samsung Challenger.
It must be because of all of those carbon credits people purchase.
Really respect him for what he tried to do, but there may be a flaw in the logic behind competitions like this. He said with the 30 something dollars budget he was forced to drop items like milk and coffee, but for many items like that, they will last for more than a week (I certainly don't drink a gallon of milk a week). So their cost is distributed over more than just one week.

A more realistic challenge would be given a weekly budget but make the challenge to last say.. a month or so. But for obvious reasons it won't be as easy to pull off :)
> free markets are much more likely to be transparent than any other.

That's wishful thinking contradicted by oodles of historical experience. Random example: the unregulated market for medicine in the U.S. prior to the 20th century.

The problem is consumers are not organized by default. Markets typically reflect individual preferences just fine, but individuals don't have the resources to fact-check propaganda, research and verify conditions of production, etc. This aspect of "consumer demand" requires collective organization to express effectively.

A buying group is one example. But these things take investments of their own to start up, which is why you mostly find them among business customers. One of the reasons the corporate group health insurance market is so much better than the individual one.

For the everyman, the government is a mechanism by which they can express collective demand. And it's why food and medicine safety, to pick one fundamental, has never been effectively secured for the general public absent government regulation.
For a one-off budget server in 2002-2003? Yes, yes it is.

For a highly-available mission-critical infrastructure in 2013, the failure plan is also to rebuild from scratch, because "failure" means redundant and backup systems have exploded. This is most likely to occur when you automatically roll out untested changes to your infrastructure.

In either case, you won't be sleeping tonight. Or possibly tomorrow night.
I would have said being correct AND simple would be ideal. I think in the case of the bug mentioned above, we have a case of neither attribute.
Ayn Rand's Atlas and Fountainhead are literature in the same sense that Harriet Beacher Stowe's "uncle Tom's Cabin" is literature. These three pulp novels address important topics, but in shamefully oversimplified ways that almost defame the topics they present. Their authors both caught lightening in a bottle by accident.

West Point has no business assigning either book to any class presented to a future Army Officer. I mean it: None.

I would get rid of any instructor who required students to read either Atlas or Fountainhead. The heroes in both books behave immorally by any sane standard, in terms of what West Point Cadets are being taught in their other classes. Howard Roark commits a violent rape in Chapter Two -- later, he blows up a sky scraper. John Galt would simply be considered a terrorist today.
I don't really think the film showed that social networks are a brand new way of social interaction. Certainly, it can be used that way. But jealous lovers went through their significant others' letters just as well. People half-paid attention to telephone conversations. Social networks are just another arena for those kinds of human interaction to appear.

What the film did strike me is about how fundamentally society is getting tied to the internet. These kids have their entire social life connected to each other through technological proxies. People are on computers over ten hours of day, regardless if it's part of their occupation or not. This seems unhealthy.
Also, a must-watch video on C10M is linked in this article: 'Shmoocon 2013 - C10M Defending The Internet At Scale' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73XNtI0w7jA
Lego does that on the advice of their trademark lawyers, because nouns can't be trademarked.
>My position that the rich (and their corporations) have more influence on law-making than the poor, and that this can disadvantage the poor?

Is that a question? Of course wealthy people have more influence, and that's a good thing, too. If they didn't the poor people would vote themselves everyone else's money and complain when the economy crashed.

But I don't think the laws "screw" the poor. Whenever the government is taking money from one person and giving it to a different person you wouldn't call the second guy "screwed".

>I still don't think you understand what being trapped in poverty means. Even taking that entry-level job, assuming you can get it in the first place, often doesn't raise the person much higher. Been trapped in poverty often means you don't have the background, education, opportunity, or even awareness to go after that job in the first place.

And yet somehow millions have escaped from that trap. I don't know why you don't think I understand what you mean here. I'm just skeptical it's a real thing. Have you considered this may be a case of survivor bias, that people with the character and discipline to not be poor... are no longer poor?

>Tax lien thing: the article never mentioned what happened to the money from the sale of the house, other than that it was sold by the investor, so I hardly think it was a matter of political blindness on the part of the readers.

Well, that's my point. The article never mentions the homeowner gets the money from the sale of the house less the lien amount. The whole point of the article is to upset you - if they tell you everything you'll think "oh, that makes sense" and turn the page.

>Furthermore, the man was eveicted from his lifetime home over a $150 dollar bill, and forced to pay $5000 instead, no to mention either lose the house or lose out on selling the house under more favourable conditions to a buyer willing to pay more, depending on what is in fact true.

Bad things happen when you don't pay your taxes. Surely this isn't headline news? Of course if you have any equity at all you don't let someone foreclose on your house - you sell it first. But the "left with nothing" guy didn't have any equity, so the particulars of the sale don't matter that much to him. But we're supposed to emote here without wondering how much money he took out of the house during the real estate boom.

>Discussion on that article seems to indicate he did indeed lose the equity, and that this is a problem in Washington D.C. due to how the law is worded there. This example proves my point either way.

No. The fact that "discussion" has confused you doesn't prove anything. There's no legal trick wherein you can steal someone's house for $150. The reason the homeowner isn't getting anything is he doesn't have any equity.

The article was deliberately written to confuse you. The only thing that should cause you to raise an eyebrow is the amount the lien holders were charging for legal fees. But those are normal sorts of numbers (ridiculous, but still normal) when you get sued and have to pay legal costs.
Nokia had massive respect in Europe, both from consumers and operators side. If they actualy released Android phone in midrange, I'am pretty sure a lot of consumers would buy simply becouse is from Nokia. This acctualy happened with Lumia phones.
Day 2 is already up:

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130914223744-25...

I would have rather read this at the end of the challenge, so there would be some sort of perspective on things.
What's "f'c's'le"?
Well the article itself says this but it's still worth saying in reply to the headline - of course a lot of women in tech won't be reacting to bad behavior. First, they have real job to do. Second, the person who gets fazed by this kind of behavior is showing weakness, looks shrill and like an outsider and so-forth. Third, these are the women in the industry who are used this kind of bad behavior. If they were fazed, they would have left and indeed arguably many do.

Anyway, is it women's job to fight bad, sexist behavior or is it everyone's job? I vote everyone.