skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...in Karp's newly renovated loft, in south Williamsburg, Brooklyn..."

Rich people are calm because they can afford space.

I'm all for Wabi Sabi, but the average tea ceremony hut is smaller than this man's staircase.

Seriously, I think that I'm beginning to agree with the small screen thing. Two large writing projects (words not code) have been completed on an 12" Thinkpad on the kitchen table... and my kitchen isn't the size of an aeroplane hangar.
Can business intelligence be proven to exist?
And I'd bet money that of the 400 richest Americans who did go to college, a very large percentage came from a fairly silver spoon kind of background.
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What about this?

<$file grep "patter"

It keeps the flow of information left-to-right, but also avoids UUOC.
Maybe if the super users didn't abuse their privileges they'd keep people around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
We really need our academics to focus on teaching people [before they get out of highschool] useful skills [critical thinking, for instance] instead of picking fights with people over a given ideology [e.g. Thiel who holds a belief/theory he is trying to prove which can only be proven once he has a preponderance of evidence/success on his side].

For instance, how to calculate the ROI of any purchase they make whether that is a college degree, a stock, or a house.

College makes sense for many people in many fields. A bunch of people get suckered into degrees from for-profit schools that aren't worth their price because they read articles like these and think 'college == superior' without thinking critically about the problem.
Inhale Tragedy, Breathe Out Beauty
Because otherwise you could co-ordinate which games to buy with your friends so you can all share a single game library for single player games.
"We're Fighting to Keep This Company Alive..."

That's not a quote I can find. When did they actually say this? The title should be changed to reflect this.
> the surest way for a Christian to lose their faith is to read the Bible, cover to cover.

I doubt that, based on my observation of a strong correlation between intense academic study of the Bible and fortitude of Christian faith.
You have to approach it as a roguelike, which does the same thing to you (way more deaths than successes).

But I loved it. Played it many many times, but only won it twice I believe.

For some of the unlockables I'd recommend looking at a walkthrough; for one of them at least I believe I decided to not pursue it since it would require too much random chance hitting all the right spots in the right order.
Fantastic selection! I love these bundles because the games are always great and the included soundtracks are a pleasure to listen to while coding.
Yes. Sorry for the confusion. I need more coffee.

Bill
Why is it that some people are flagging these stories? The NSA surveillance topic is highly relevant as it intersects with technology. What does plugging ones ears and looking the other way solve?

Maybe if these people are so 'sick' of hearing about it they should do something to stop it. Or is willful ignorance bliss?
"A CONS is an object that cares." -- Bernie Greenberg
Ok, this much closer to allowing me to have my desktop and my HTPC logged in to Steam at the same time...
You should give it a try. RethinkDB, imo, embraces a lot of good ideas from the SQL world. Given a few years, I feel they will have a great DB with good ideas from both the SQL and NoSQL worlds.
This is a great update, a few concerns I have:

1. The ever popular: logo link on your blog should go to www.lob.com

2. Is there are reason all of these values can't be loaded on the page? I don't know if this is load related, but when I change an input option, I sometimes wait for over a second for the new price to appear. There's no reason I can think of to justify this, the switch should be nearly instant.

3. For me, this is much much better than the earlier version. But for some users, a price comparison might be helpful. As a secondary click, it might be nice to offer something like the old look (or a similar price comparison page).

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I believe jlgreco was asking about Mac OS, not BSD.
Open source construction set — print your own house.
I'm hoping they will somehow figure out how to fix this soon, given this announcement. Obviously they can't let you have machines with your account all over the globe logged on at the same time, but if they let you have multiple machines logged on from the same IP address (thank you NAT) and still prevent you from playing a game on two machines at the same time, that should do it...

Personally, I have a desktop and an HTPC, which would seem like an obvious use-case they would want to target, given Big Picture mode! We're so close, what with remote libraries (on my NAS).
Mac OS is still shipping with Bash 3.
Robo-mate exoskeleton under development in Europe
>I don't know very many people that became good drivers by reading a car manual or a book at drivers ed.

That's because driving a car is an active endeavour that you learn by driving along your instructor.

The problem with your analogy is two-fold:

1) It's not like college is just about "reading books". You get to do a lot of hands-on stuff, participate in projects, do exersizes and labs etc. All those have a much wider scope and breadth that what you'd learn from a hands-on approach just on a specific problem on some startup.

2) It's also not true that all fields are about "trying it out". You won't learn calculus, linear algebra, OS internals or complexity just because you chanced upon a small real-life problem working as an intern and you googled your way out or came up with your own hacky solution. Some stuff you need to actually study, that is go through the bibliography, read past and present ideas and notions, etc. In college you get to do that without obstractions like "we need to ship next week", for numerous study subjects, and with guidance offered to boot.
It's a hobby to me. some people do role playing games. some do basketball. I do recreational programming. I also did this project to answer a number of questions about user engagement and interactivity.

The biggest is that I wanted a total anarchy - as per the technical definition. Anyone can add, delist, skip, enqueue a song - at any time. You can cut into someone's video without anyone's permission.

I didn't find answers exactly. But I know more now then I did.

Plus really, will I stop watching music videos on youtube? I don't think so. A platform that plays them more seamlessly than youtubes? I'll use that for sure.
Israel: Boot camp for start-up success
Nice summary, and I agree with the view but good to remember Intel has a two-pronged battle they're fighting now -- ARM's partners (QCOM, Samsung) and the Foundries (TSMC, Samsung, GF, IBM) -- much different than the discrete merchant competitors they faced in the past. Intel therefore has to get to deeper process nodes faster (14nm and below) while also trying to create an embedded x86 ecosystem. I've never seen them more motivated to compete on both fronts.

For what it's worth, here's what Intel's key execs presented to address those challenges at this year's IDF:
http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-confims-mobile-focus-shift...
So, just like physical titles.
On Bullying
Normally I can't stand Greenwald because even though he's usually right imho, he has to drama everything up so hard and force everything into a simplistic moral narrative that it's usually not even worth reading him.

But in this case, deciding when to strategically leak things, a little theatricality goes a long way, and a metric ton of theatricality goes even longer. And the machine for spinning and glossing over this stuff is so quick and vast that a handy cheap morality play might be all that stands between awareness and total effective oblivion.

So, thank FSM for Glenn Greenwald being insufferably obnoxious.
Interesting story. In these sorts of discussions, people always bring up, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg, etc. I don't know the details about most of them, but I do remember reading that Bill Gates' parents' money and position allowed him to spend a tremendous amount of time programming computers in an era when this was incredibly rare and expensive.

Perhaps college was pointless for him, but that's in large part because of his drive and access to resources that few people have. Is it pointless for you, or some other person? Well, have you spent most of high school aggressively pursuing every opportunity you could find to learn some sort of craft or business?
The headline is a fair summation of "We aren't trying to kill it, you are watching us fight for it."
At last - Trine 2 is DRM free.
When the incident occurred, the Chancellor promised to conduct an investigation that would conclude in 30 days to determine what happened.

30 days later I got an email from the Chancellor. There was no mention of the pepper spraying -- she was instead asking for money. Looking myself for the results of the investigation, it found her largely at fault for gross mismanagement of the situation. So she asked for money instead.

There are major major donors to the University, the kind of people who have buildings named after them. I had heard that these people demanded the resignation of the chancellor, along with the academic senate and most of the students. She's still there, asking for donations.
We're on IE7, and XP sp3 (though some have moved to win7). Large bank with 250,000+ employees.
Having just placed a startup in SoMa, I'll say that the inconvenient CalTrain <-> BART transition is an issue. If you are looking to draw employees, mentors or investors from the peninsula, that one BART station makes a big difference. I expect this will change significantly once the new SoMa transportation hub opens and you have CalTrain lines that dead-end at a BART station.
The FreeBSD kernel is cool, but what really sells me on it is the concept of a 'core system' as a design feature, and the nifty things like ZFS that you get.

There's a new things that aren't quite like Linux, for instance, the 'watch' command does something entirely different.
Emotional control can, most certainly, be taught. But it rarely is in our society.

When I was a kid, I learned from observing my father that being a "real man" means shaping the world according to your view of how it should be-- taking control, avenging wrongs, showing strength. In my 30's and 40's I've been totally reshaping my ideal of what a real man does, and it involves the opposite in many ways: making people feel safe, having excellent self control, and outstanding control of my emotions and attitude. The shocking thing to me is how often the behaviors I know as right according to my new ideals make me behave in ways that my father would see as pathetic and weak.

But it's completely possible to re-train one's own emotional composition and approach to life. That's what Stoicism is all about. I wish someone had taught me about this when I was young. A few things I wish I'd known about when I was a kid:

1. The No Complaining bracelet challenge[1]. This was life changing to me, because through this exercise I learned that "letting it all out" doesn't really help much, and what really helps is reshaping your own mind. I'm still doing this challenge today, as a life habit, even after several years.

2. Stop worrying and stop living[2]. You can boil this book down to a few pages, with a lot of stories that help you understand why and how. I did this book on audio during a long car trip. Also life changing for me.

3. Stoicism. Reading Letters from a Stoic[3] taught me that there was an entirely different way to look at friendship that I'd never considered. And it taught me that there are people who constantly practice controlling their emotions in a positive way, the way a martial artist constantly practices how to move his body.

[1] http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Penguin-Classics-Lucius-Annaeu...
I was afraid I'd be the only person who was annoyed by that, but the parent post tells me otherwise.

Might I suggest using local storage rather than gists/Github as data store?
+1 for snooze feature. Nice project, keep it up.
We've suspected that our problem is mainly of I/O, very close to what you've described above.

>I would just post the output from top and iostat during one of the spikes here and see what people say rather than hiring an expensive consultant.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will try and do just that soon.
If you are interested in chilled thoughtful gaming and have a faible for SciFi ala Star-Trek and Co. you MUST try FTL. It is one of the best games I have ever played and I do not know another game that is similar. It is easy to learn and hard to master and although it is Single-Player it has an immense replay potential.
I also come from the Bible Belt, and point 2 seems reasonable to me, at least if you only consider people of a reasonably modest devotion to their faith (let's say, people with a "home church" where they attend weekly services 30+ weeks a year). Granted, few would have literally read the Bible cover to cover, in order as if it were a large novel.
I was really excited about this, but then I read the limitations...in particular:

>No, due to technical limitations, some Steam games may be unavailable for sharing. For example, titles that require an additional third-party key, account, or subscription in order to play cannot be shared between accounts.

Damn. Probably should have expected this.

But, all in all, seems like a positive step forward!
Ah, but with the --color=auto option on ls (which I have set in my aliases) there's a difference between "ls -1" and "ls | cat"

Indeed there's even a difference between "ls -1" and "ls -1 | cat" if "--color=auto" is specified.
My last startup was founded by an out of work police officer. He had the drive to make it happen and in turn investors saw that in him and invested. Just to get the meeting with the first investor he actually remortgaged his house just so he could invest in something the guy he was targeting was trying to pitch. So he gets the meeting and it leads to a great relationship and the investor became an angel, pouring millions in. He then built pretty much every piece of the puzzle himself and in turn brought me on board to quite an adventure. It started at his beach house and it's now going strong at Penn Plaza, Manhattan with about ~40 people. The guy just had it in him, some people do. And the business is still going strong.

I know it's anecdotal, but I think there is something there.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

I have a GED and 1 year of college. I'm 30 and close to breaking $200K this year between my day gig and consulting.
Oh, I know FreeBSD defaults to tcsh. My concern is that OSX has chosen to ship ancient GPLv2 software instead of modern BSD software. I can't consider this a good thing for anyone but ideologs.
In Mac OS and iOS, 64 bit is a big gain because it more than doubles increases the space avaiable for data in tagged pointers (http://objectivistc.tumblr.com/post/7872364181/tagged-pointe..., http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-07-27-lets-buil...), making the approach usable in practice.

Given that Apple designs its own CPUs, I guess it would make sense to have a specific instruction for 'read 64 bits from this pointer, or, if it is a tagged pointer, extract the value from the tag'. Is that a good idea?
Same here on the poor Windows 8
I think one of the reasons is that some people have a vote down button and they're using it. I don't have one for stories but I bet you anything that some special breed of users on this site do. And their votes matter more than us.
Last I checked (less than a minute ago), new games can still come in boxes.
My startup is indirectly dealing with this - some schools are currently testing out app that helps children (and teachers for that matter) identify and manage emotions.

Early signs are that children can be 'prompted' to apply empathetic reasoning with the right interfaces, and this can be more effective than average teacher-guided instruction.

It's really tricky stuff to get right but there's definitely potential for improvement in this area. There has been (in Australia at least) a focus for the last few decades on teaching the definition of emotions - this is what sadness is, this is what anger is - and hoping that students get enough out of that to learn how to apply it in day to day like. Focusing on context and leaving it open enough for children to work it out for themselves seems to be more effective. Really tricky to actually pull that off in a classroom though.
JointJS+ JS diagramming plugins released
Agreed - it's really frustrating that iotop / vmstat are basically still the top tools for debugging. strace can help, but the impact on performance really hurts. We should be taking a lead from dtrace in this space
I wonder if you could just encode each frame as a gif and send it to the browser as part of an animated gif a la gifsockets (https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets)?
It seems to just be using YouTube, what would the legal issues be (besides perhaps using the MTV name)?
Great, thanks. New to all of this so need help along the way.
Nice way to get tons of traffic to look at the pricing for your product :)
I'm glad to see someone else feels the same way about logo links on blog.company.com pages. I have always been surprised they just redirect to "/" instead of the company homepage.

Does anyone know the reasoning for the trend? Is there some SEO benefit of this or is it really just oversight/becoming de facto standard?
Yeah, the W. Oakland to South Bay connection is hard, both via SF and 880.

However, it's about as hard as it is for the SF Downtown <-> South Bay connection, since to get to Downtown from CalTrain, you have to pass by a BART station :-)
Good luck finding a network infrastructure and PXE server able to boot a few hundred machines simultaneously during a power event. Yes in theory PXE boot sounds great. In reality it's a pointless SPOF.

Also most likely makes it harder to reuse most of the trusted boot infrastructure that already exists for Linux. So we can assume at least in the initial release Mallory can race with the real PXE server assuming a network that hasn't been partitioned with a crazy complex config (i.e. basically all of them).
Unboxing Firefox OS Developer Preview: Keon impressions
"Has anyone used all of the HTML5 tags in anger? I've tried a couple of times to build something fully "semantic". I struggle to create something that looks good semantically"

I recently ditched Wordpress and decided to learn HTML and CSS by hand-coding my blog. I used many (but not all) of the new HTML 5 tags including main, section, article, nav, footer. Admittedly a blog is quite a structured type of site that lends itself well to simple semantic markup. I am using html5shiv.js to support IE 6-9 and the site renders mostly fine in those browsers. There are some isues with spacing, but the site is perfectly readable which is the main thing.

Here's my site: http://www.designofhomes.co.uk (a blog about housing issues in the UK). Admittedly, it's not the most attractive design, but a reasonably clean and clear layout (I hope!) Any feedback on the appearance and structure is very welcome :-)

Here's what the site looks like in Internet Explorer and Lynx using browsershots.org for testing (this link expires in a day or two)

http://browsershots.org/http://www.designofhomes.co.uk/
I coded in VFP 8 for a year, and thankfully I remember none of it. Yay!
Did you even read the Wikipedia link you said:

"is a sociological term referring to the disregard of racial characteristics when selecting which individuals will participate in some activity or receive some service."

And from the first link you sent:
"Colorblindness is the racial ideology that posits the best way to end discrimination is by treating individuals as equally as possible, without regard to race, culture, or ethnicity."

I have not profoundly misunderstood colbert's parodies. Misunderstanding of concepts like equality under the law ARE conservative stereotypes (conservatives often think liberals think everyone should be perfectly equal). Color blindness by wikipedias definition and my definition ARE conservative stereotypes as well. They often misunderstand what "racial equality" means and turn it into "colorblindness" instead, thinking all we need to do is to see everyone as exactly the same. Colbert parodies this because in his monologues and interviews he specifically refers to the Wikipedia definition: he points out that he can't tell skin color, not social-economic status. The viewer quickly sees the absurdity of the false political correctness because it's obvious his subject has a different skin color.

So I think you need to re-evaluate Colbert's parodies because you grossly misunderstand them, and apparently what "colorblindness" means. A good start would be to read the links you posted for me.
"In the years since, a number of studies have supported this view. So-called noncognitive skills — attributes like self-restraint, persistence and self-awareness — might actually be better predictors of a person’s life trajectory than standard academic measures."

Only after practicing did I achieved some success in the above abilities, late in my 20s, and it has a huge impact on general well being, career trajectory etc.
1080p at laptop sizes just isn't something I can get excited about in a world where 1080p cellphones are seemingly becoming the new normal.
This is really a dishonest piece. If you didn't pick up on it they are interviewing a group of individuals who are architecting a competing broadband network in Kansas City.

You could not find a more biased group of commentators if you tried.
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I think you have that backwards ..
FYI, they are usually arranged fairly cleverly. The ones I remember seeing would run through weekly themes, like "scriptures about love" or "scriptures about finances." They would also often combine relevant Old and New Testament passages together for a day's reading. For example, one day's reading assignment would be one of Jesus' parables that references an Old Testament scripture plus the Old Testament scripture being references. Or, prophetic scriptures would be paired with scriptures detailing the fulfillment of those prophecies.
Project Echelon seems to fit the bill:

http://www.nsawatch.org/echelonfaq.html
If multiple users could be playing your game, you could also avoid all buying the same game for multiplayer. That seems reasonable for them to want to avoid.
On a mac, you can try: vm_stat (with an underscore)

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
I subvert video ads and I dunno ... it just feels very "illegallish"
Just because people don't want to hear about it on Hacker News doesn't mean they're trying to avoid the topic. I read about it everywhere else I go: it's a topic on google news for me along with drones and a couple other things, on reddit there are plenty of subreddits that discuss NSA stuff daily.

Not saying all NSA stuff is off-topic, just that it's irritating to open a thread about something interesting and wade through tangential political discussion. We used to punt that stuff elsewhere and for good reason.
>Give a summary of why you're linking to the article,

To me, one of the great things about HN is that someone can post a link without comment, and I can click that link without too much fear of being rickrolled, goatse'd, or some other mental equivalent. In this case, if I wasn't interested in looking at a cartoon, I could decide to close the tab in about the time it takes to read the poster's summary.