skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of it is true.

I would want to add that our education system does not support/encourage a start-up/business/creative mindset.

Even today, most of the bachelors degree courses are oriented towards teaching for and endorsing high grades (just to qualify for jobs and PG entrance exams) rather than developing critical thinking.
You only have to USA any noun and it becomes (is USA'd) a verb.

Sorry, could not resist.
Here's Jerry Coyne and Stephen Pinker with some skepticism.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/does-read...
The entire concept of money cannot be separated from government. The reason why money has any value in the first place is because a government guarantees that value. Without that guarantee money is merely a piece of paper, or a few bytes on a hard drive...
Despite having a curious mind I still find things I didn't know about. Being 42 I experience this while feeling a combination of frustration and delight. I am working on the silly frustration bit :)
BTW I read the book last summer for the first time. Its brilliant and the underlying message even more.
"not put it there in the first place"

Unfortunately that's not always possible. For example you're in a pub with your friends, and someone takes a group picture and posts it online. Even if you don't have FB account, you're there, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Very annoying.
Marxists.org? Really?
With money that were pretty much gifted to them by other people - those people could cut the middle man and just spend it themselves...
Yeah. I boggled a bit at:

"Still when one took the MVC approach and is now lacking an API, the easiest thing to do is to add a few views that output JSON and call it a “restful API”. [...] it does not scale and is horribly slow"

Why would rendering a view be any slower than serialising some objects to JSON or whatever? The only reason i can think of is that you've incompetently chosen to use some very slow rendering framework. So don't do that.
Good question.
Parents tend to be paranoid, can't help it.

Last week a friend of mine asked me, what I think about piercings, because his daughter (15) wants one. He was all, she's going to destroy her body and life and all.
What would create more pollutant... a wood fire for a single person or a 45 minute, each way, driving commute? Do areas in which wood fires are the norm have blackened skies?
Oh it's a verbed noun phrase. I never would have figured that one out without help.
Buildings that breathe
Literary fiction develops empathy and sense of morality. It's sad to see so many people completely neglecting literary fiction as being not useful or less advantageous than technical or other non-fictional literature.

I always regarded technical literature as vitamins for the mind, while fiction (as well as other art) is vitamins for the soul.
>If your are all interested in Banksy I'd urge you to watch a film that he accidentally was forced to make about Street Art and himself...

Maybe. That's the beauty of the movie. While he and the filmmakers insist it's a "real" movie, it could easily have been a hoax. Which belies a deeper meaning.
This reminds me of someone who thought steam engines (basically water, right?) were more environmentally friendly - he was very surprised when I told him they burned massive amounts of wood and coal to power those engines :-)
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Isn't that sentiment come just from being used to our own limitations?

Making computer that forgets is like making more and more fantastic cars that run no faster than a horse because some people feel uncomfortable with them going faster.

I personally hate forgetting and I'd very much liked if I could call up, a computer system and recall every bit of my life. Everything I've seen, heard, and any data from any sensors that were in my vicinity.
Wasn't the superior adaptability of those cheap Chinese suppliers a big part of why Apple moved there?
I was outside the USA, and it was just a request with no legal weight. I stayed on a tiny island in the Caribbean for the duration of the trial. (It wasn't a big deal to FBI, either -- I answered their questions through counsel, and the whole thing was essentially a formality. Jim Bell was posting to a public list for which I maintained public archives, so I had no legal or moral duty to him or anyone else.

I was 18 or 19, and almost went because it would have been a free trip to DC and potentially interesting, but the correctly raised concern is that I could have been ordered to remain available if I had been there. Not worth the risk, especially since I wasn't particularly helpful to anyone (I would have been fine with helping IRS CID when a guy was posting personal threats on people publicly)

I actually tried to explain to both sides that my archiver wasn't assured to be canonical; it was just a regular list subscriber, with a simple to discover email address, and no inbound filtering (since cp list addresses were distributed and constantly changing), so anyone could post random messages to it. Even worse, sending a forged message id with new content would overwrite the original message.
I fail to see a problem with this at all.

1: The company goes out of business (due to inefficiency and an inability to compete) in which case it was a shitty business and shouldn't exist in the first place.

2: The company hires someone who can do the work for $5 per hour, in which case the worker who needs $10 to live is simply not living within their means.

I equate this to someone earning minimum wage complaining that they can't support their numerous kids. NO SHIT. you are not entitled to a wage capable of supporting other people.
The only benefit I see is it being easier to use with one hand (thumb will reach the top and bottom of the screen)...
I am embarrassed due to dumb shit I said when I was 5 due to cognitive bias. If you browse tumblr for a while this is a pretty common trope among humans.
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I wonder to which experiment in the Weimar Republic, Cathy Reisenwitz is referring to.

The reasons for the high inflation until 1923 are very well understood. And IIRC the German government knew that inflation would be caused by their policies, maybe they were surprised by the extent but certainly not by the inflation itself.

Much more interesting was the sudden end of the hyper inflation through the introduction of the Rentenmark. Which wasn't an official currency.
Seems like a false dichotomy to me. Instead of going back to Mesopotamia, we could telecommute.
Easily - imagine your parents posting your fully nude pictures on FB? Would you be 100% ok with that, even 20-or-so years later?
Wow.. downvotes?

I guess I need to add an explanation or something?

Docker allows very quick startup of containers (and for testing purposes the distinctions between containers and VM aren't important. Additionally, the easy command line and app ecosystem Docker gives you over just using Linux containers is a big advantage here.).

I prefer the Mock method for two reasons:

1) It's extremely fast - much faster than even docker would be.

2) The data you use for mocks can form part of your documentation (if done properly).
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Main ramification of oversharing is that their kid will be just like everybody else.

For example I have total privacy. I have no photos from my early childhood. None. How do you think I feel when I know that all other people have some or lots? I feel like I haven't existed back then at all. Like I popped into existence at age 6 or something. Or that I was too ugly, or too plain to photograph.

How will a kid feel that has no published photos of her/him online? He might think that he was ugly or unremarkable and parents were just ashamed of her/him or that parents hoped he'll die so why introduce kid to the public or that they just hated her/him?
PITA?
I don't think that's the problem. You know how cruel kids can be. Imagine your classmates in 4th grade would find pictures of you bathing naked.

There simply is no good reason to share such photos publicly/online. Show them to your friends on your phone if you really ahve to.

"Once uploaded, a picture stays forever". There are plenty of cases where embarrassing pictures went viral and destroyed whole lifes.
Why the hell should that be embarrassing? My body looks totally different now.
It's weird how different the are across the pond. Here in the UK the old TMobile (now EE) was absolutely terrible. I took out a new contract for the iPhone 5 on Preorder. They never delivered it and started harrasing me to pay my contract that was due to start when the phone arrived (which it didn't.)

It took me 25+ hours on hold and in the end I ended up tweeting them. Their twitter support team was a billion times better than anyone on the phone and the guy got it resolved for me.
> Was there an "Urban whore" train that wrecked the weekend?

Yes.
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I don't know German law, but I'd imagine it's similar to Portuguese law (which is itself French-inspired): a court case can be secret in the investigation phase, always under mandate by a judge, with explicitly limited secrecy duration. When the investigation phase ends, all those investigated must be notified, even when they are deemed not interesting in the case.

Some secrecy is needed to avoid evidence going down the toilet. This model strikes a decent balance, I think.
Help: I scroll down past the large image, get comfortable, and read the first paragraph or so... then the page fully loads, and suddenly resets to the top of page.

It's a minor irritation, but it happens very often, and seems so unnecessary and so wrong.

Anyone know how to stop this? (I'm using FF24 on linux, but I suspect it's some onLoad javascript.)
This has happened to me. It's definitely a risk, of course, and there's little you can do short of losing your friends and any semblance of a social life these days.

You could have a chat with them and see if they're willing to respect your privacy. Nothing much that can be done about strangers who do that though.

I've seen a few places that actively ban Google Glass (I think that was mentioned here as well), but there are no bans on camera phones in any place as far as I know. If a thing exists, it will be used after all. Original intent be damned.
Let me see:

there was the time I proclaimed to not like Scots because of their participation in the Atlantic slave trade. I was 7 or 8, started reading a book on the subject without understanding the context.

The time I declared all diamonds "pubic zirconiums".

50 years ago it was "cute" to take pictures of kids in their your little KKK outfits. Somehow posting that on the net, with a real name, for eternity, might not be wise.

The point is kids say and do the darndest things. They rely on adults to be their filter and quite a few are doing a really poor job of it.
"pain in the ass"
This is what seems logical, but most of the time the second thing will happen, because there are many people who think every job is better than no job.

There are lesser jobs than people, so the companies have the bigger lever.
I found It very useful. Thanks

but why don't you ask for the password on the main page.
because if new user enters a URL that already exists this can be quite annoying for him.
Also there must be some information that indicates the user that this URL already exist so go try another one.
Am I the only one that thinks "some content-farming dude on the internet being a mysoginist douche" isn't really big news? These people, and sorry if you're one of them, just aren't worth the time and effort to even reply to.
How about simply storing a logout timestamp in the database when a user logs out? Whenever a user logs in again the timestamp field is cleared and as long as that timestamp field is empty the session cookie is accepted, otherwise ignored and the user is forced to log in again.

Basically we still get benefits from storing the session data client side (much less db access) and only store minimal data on the server side.
The Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus are also curved sightly. It was by far the best design feature in the Nexus line and I like the attempt to increase the curve.

I guess if the back is perfectly round, it'll rock. But also note that the camera lens is almost always kept off surfaces and scuffing is minimised if you don't have a case.

Apple should definitely copy this in some manner.
Matt moved from London to Cambridge? Not that the prices here are so much better.
I disagree; I'm pretty sure most people would tolerate it just fine after a period of habituation.

You say that it's because we don't see it that we can tolerate what happens to animals; I say it's because we don't see it that we feel horrified whenever we happen to catch a glimpse of it. Light is only painful when you're used to living in the dark.
What's to stop the type of co-op based company you describe becoming popular in the current market system?
>Now, foreign companies produce many of their cars in the united states with union free labor and american companies have started producing cars in mexico so they can pay the pensions for all the retired union employees.

Toyota's plants are UAW who makes the same demands as they do to GM. It's management that failed the US car industry, not the unions.
Isn't that embarrassment something that should be addressed?

Child is born as a racist sadist and gradually becomes socialized as circuitry for empathy developes.

I have done some stuff as a kid I wish I haven't but I can't be embarrassed about it. I didn't have a properly developed brain back then. Being a kid is like having a condition. You can't hold yourself responsible for what your body did then.
The commisioners only lowered the charges for users in the EU roaming in other EU-countries.
For example, if you bought your contract in Germany, you'll have to pay only 0.10 € / minute while you're in Denmark.

(Which is quite funny, 'cause I have to pay 0.11€ / minute for calling to other german carriers.)
IMO, it's not an OS, but the living proof that OSes are the wrong approach to computing! :)
Coops, exactly. These days I'm reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (WARNING: minor spoilers), and he mentions a lot the system of coops in the new Martian economy. One of the examples mentioned is a real-life one: the Mondragón Corporation, the world's largest coop with 80,000 employees and more than 14 billion euros in revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Cor...

(For anyone interested in economics, politics, geology and many other topics, this Hugo-winning trilogy is a great read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy)
The author also posted the following follow up, also worth a read:

http://www.ewherry.com/2013/10/follow-up/
> If the workers decided these things they would never vote to outsource their own jobs

That would benefit said workers themselves, but the cost (because there is a cost) will be shouldered by some other people living in the same country. In other words this is protectionism pure and simple, in the long run is detrimental for everyone involved.
So I read this until I came to the first badly misleading reference:

"When it comes down to it, the leaders of the Weinmar Republic were just running an experiment."

This makes it sound like the hyperinflation was the consequence of some recklessness, or an experiment carried out in a vacuum. The reality was very different (via WP):

"The "London ultimatum" in May 1921 demanded reparations in gold or foreign currency to be paid in annual installments of 2,000,000,000 (2 billion) goldmarks plus 26 percent of the value of Germany's exports.[6]"

The Weimar government had no choice but to keep shovelling hard currency across the border to France while simultaneously being limited in its ability to earn more. This looks, economically, like a huge trade imbalance which drove down the value of the Mark, and the printing started as an attempt to keep up with the rapidly collapsing exchange rate.

It was not so much an experiment as an act of desparation by a government that was being looted at gunpoint.

Just as famine in the modern world is a political problem rather than primarily an agricultural one, hyperinflation is driven by political or economic collapse rather than some vaguely defined irresponsibility. Also, anyone in the US or UK who is scared of hyperinflation at the moment must not be aware of how close to zero and well-managed inflation actually is.
Part of a paren't role is to train their kids for the life ahead. Hand-wringing about "what my child wants" runs somewhat counter to setting expectations and desires. Plenty of kids only want to eat candy and ice-cream, but we don't frown at parents for saying 'no' to those desires.

Share things sensibly. Maybe don't share things like naked bath photos. But your kids are part of your life, and it's normal to share with others the things you have done with the people close to you.
If the employee possesses desirable skills that are in fact worth $10 they can seek that employment elsewhere. If they cannot offer anything over the $5 employee it's a waste to pay them more.
Do you say the same thing of people who post photos of social events that you attended; that they've grossly abused your privacy?
Unfortunately, shaming corporations into withdrawing their advertising budgets is the only form of social activism that works in the 21st century.
Yeah, but it generates pageviews for boingboing, so it's news to them.
A wise man once said, "Verbing weirds language."

I agree.
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Same way ActionDispatch::Session::CacheStore does.

All session stores use a cookie to store a unique ID for each session...For most stores, this ID is used to look up the session data on the server, e.g. in a database table.

(obviously you'd substitute Redis for the database table mentioned above)
I'm talking about empathy. You're talking about desensitization. Of course we disagree.
Ah, I think I now understand what it's supposed to mean. I think it would have been clearer with a dash: '"Urban whore" train-wrecks Scientific American's holiday weekend.'
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James Ward demonstrate 2 years ago the capability of jaxrs to build Restful web applications (https://github.com/jamesward/jaxrsbars), I rewritten it using go.
This is valid Smalltalk code, but not the way you'd program a door in Smalltalk.

You'd probably prototype this in a Workspace, then create the method suggested above, which would force you to specify keys for the arguments, thus forcing you to make your code cleaner and more readable.
Previous discussion --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536916
For me that only shows the top answer.
Very sloppy it wasn't encrypted from day 1 imo.
Apology from biology-online.org:

http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about34647.html

Apology to DNLee
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A buffer for Wordpress posts. Useful?
I need a buffer for #wordpress. #Bloggers would you use a buffer for wordpress posts? You set the schedule and publish just adds to queue?
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In practice, the trouble of resolving supply and demand problems politically have been far more disastrous than the problem of planning supply and demand.

I find the Austrian-influenced critique of communism unconvincing. Many Communist countries chugged right along, growing their economies at a pace that alarmed Western observers, before they sagged and broke down under their increasingly cruel, incompetent, kleptomaniacal, bureaucratic government systems. But before this happened people were afraid Communism could actually win. When Khrushchev said "we will bury you" people took him seriously. But if von Mises was right they should never have gotten anywhere in the first place. Also consider that the internal economy of any real-world corporation is 'centrally planned' in a limited sense. When you call up the HR department or tech support, you don't have to pay them for their labor.

Hayek was the Austrian that got it right--it's not that central planning is inefficient, it's that efficient central planning for a broad market economy can only be accomplished when you begin to devalue the actions of the humans of the world that aren't in line with what the planners want. Eventually, what is lost is all incentives for planners to plan for anyone but themselves. This goes all the way back to Marx, who would talk about things like how capitalists as a social class do not really provide 'labor value'; that the capitalist even makes money at all is an accident of human organization and that they are not really valuable or needed in the world. To the hardcore Marxist, capitalists are not merely overpaid, they are in fact worthless by definition.
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What your forgetting is the reason people use frameworks such as Rails - so they don't have to care about these types of details.

I agree that simply storing everything in the cookie is wrong, and Rails should never have been doing this - hell, even CodeIgniter (PHP) has DB based sessions.

But most Rails devs (myself included) are just about getting shit done, we don't know everything that's going on under the bonnet, and we don't want to.