skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if that characterization is right? Sad but right?

Let's suppose that you feelings are summed up by a score, happiness is just score 0 and normality being between 0 and a very small negative interval; also suppose that you cannot go over zero and everything that can happen can either:

- decrease that score (you feel bad about something, and that feeling is related to a certain, possibly temporary, disorder);

- increase that score, but only up to them maximum value of zero (you feel bad, but that friend helped you and her jokes are actually funny).

It may be that positive traits and strengths do exists, but it is also possible that they are limited to being able to only putting you back on track once you have a problem, not making you more happy or "normal" that you can possibly be.
I am flabbergasted. Adolescents benefit from isolation? And you're citing a comedian? Care to cite some serious sources?
Startups are not defensible
Kind of related: How Today's Hottest Startups Got Their Names

http://mashable.com/2011/09/05/startup-names/#gallery/regall...
> Pen and paper is Turing Complete by the same reasoning (this is ridiculous).

You know, codifying pen-and-paper computations is how Alan Turing came up with his machine in the first place.
Magic is just as Turing complete as a Turing machine is. Magic is an abstract system, not pieces of cardboard. Just like a Turing machine is an abstract idea rather than a physical box. You can run the logic of a magic game using circuits, or gears, or humans, but it's fundamentally based on taking a set of rules and implementing them. The reason pen and paper is different is that a pen is not a rule-based system, it's merely an object. Same for an abacus.
Ship trackers 'vulnerable to hacking'
I wrote the original version of Test Pad for the Scala IDE; and no it doesn't.
What each country leads the world in
If the purpose were that the collection is minimal, which is not stated explicitly, it would be interesting to know which criteria to use when deciding which works to replace.

For example, how to decide when a modern unifying textbook makes older books obsolete? Reaching consensus in such topics must be very difficult.
Sydney-based career options I wish I knew about when I was younger
A bit blunt but, yeah. Facebook was arguably a lot more cool when you at least needed an .edu address to get on. (Or a bit before or after that point depending on your perspective.)
The ramdisk is for performance purposes. As for FSEvents/inotify, I just did not know it existed. I will compare both approaches performance-wise. Thanks.
Congrats. This is exactly how responsible disclosure is supposed to work. You spend valuable time looking for holes and when you find one they fix it quickly and compensate you for your trouble.
Are you sure you haven't visited webpages that tell your browser to send requests to your local router lately?
Well, looks like Pharo can do all of this for a while. http://pharo-project.org

Type inference is an object of interest: http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/type-inference-tools and here are some results : http://concretetypeinference.blogspot.be

The posts are pretty nice to read.
The rat park studies were made in the late 70s, not recently.
The problem with trying to write a manual of 'civilization' is that we don't know what it means to be civilized yet. The western world assumes it is civilized, but that's only because it has no idea what it's armies are really doing in other parts of the world (ie, mass murder), it's because people have no real understanding of how their tax money is stolen by the few, and because the media is dominated by those who are complicit in covering up those crimes.

A manual for civilization, if we're going to assume that our current state is civilization, can be nothing other than manuals on warfare, population control and taxation. The rest of the structure arises as a consequence of those.

If I were given the chance too bootstrap civilization, I'd definitely avoid being tainted by this trainwreck.
Interestingly several of my wife's hotmail using Facebook friends accounts appeared to have been owned last night. Has someone found a new similar exploit?
Twitter’s Lack of Patents Seen as a Risk to Investors
How can DDoS mitigation devices distinguish between legit and malicious traffic? I'm not a networking expert, but it seems to me that if you're a website hosting a big file like the latest Ubuntu release, a legitimate client will say:

GET /ubuntu-13.10-server-amd64.iso

and cost you 500 MB of traffic (or however big the ISO file is).

A DDoS is nothing more than thousands or millions of machines saying:

GET /ubuntu-13.10-server-amd64.iso

How do the solutions others are talking about in this thread (DDoS mitigation provider or specialized hardware) tell the difference between DDoS traffic and legitimate requests?
i'm sure we've reported nearly 100 times but facebook is not listening. I was wondering someone from facebook in HN will respond. But the post was taken from the front page in less than ten minutes of HN when the blog crashed due to high traffic
You say idiots, I say your cognitive bias is rearing its reality distortion field. Read up on fundamental attribution error and you'll see what's wrong with your comment.
I used to fly remote control planes. There ARE rules for where you can fly them, because many of them (the ones with turbine engines) are capable of 200+ mph (actually faster, but it's hard to keep track of them) and can weight 10-50 pounds (some of the bigger propeller-powered ones are 100-200+ pounds, though much slower). They are dangerous in the wrong hands, and require quite a bit of training to fly properly and safely.

This guy broke the law, did something dangerous, and deserves a fine. Period.
I was talking about revenue.

Yes, they are growing. They are expanding their revenue. They have to in order to justify their valuation. But they need to grow at unsustainable rates for a fairly long time for that valuation to make sense. Unless they completely pivot the company they would, as I mentioned, need to grab significant fraction of all of Earth's advertising revenue, in all media. It's unreasonable to assume that current share holders are investing in facebook out of some belief in an unannounced, unplanned, speculative pivot into a different industry, that's either clairvoyance or rank stupidity.
Giving error messages to people using IE on XP is probably a good thing. Web browsers need security updates, and they're about to be left out, in addition to facing rendering problems.

But even when you want to let people connect without SNI, there is no reason to skimp on security. How about sending people with bad browsers to a different port per site?
I knew of the ideas linked to live programming only thanks to Bret Victor's presentation. I guess I did not do my bibliographical homework.

Your spike about karma was unnecessary, the goal of this submission was to gain exposure to have feedback, which I got.

I will now act on this feedback. Your essay is very interesting in this regard to help me understand what features are necessary to implement, as well as for bibliographical references.
I used SIP on that for years, what's the big news?
>> Very simply, the odds of a drone falling out of nowhere and beaning me on the head are quite small, even if once they become popular.

Don't forget to consider the odds of it falling on someone else, especially in a populated area.

I'm not sure banning is the right solution as there are responsible hobbyists and enthusiasts who will be caught out.
I believe so. A friend with a hotmail account (although I don't know if he uses this hotmail account to login to FB) got his FB account hacked couple of days ago.
Here's a live code editor in Javascript. It's pretty cool...

http://www.mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/
> How about sending people with bad browsers to a different port per site?

You can't do that for the very reason SNI exists. All you've got is the beginning of an SSL handshake on your single IP; you don't know what host they want yet, so you neither know what port to redirect to nor what certificate to serve.
Nftables quick how to
Measuring and Controlling Product Quality
Sort of. But if my reading of the manual is correct, interlisp only allows for manual undo and replay; YinYang traces dependencies and repairs program executions automatically after every keystroke. Not sure what is limiting the interlisp environment from doing the same thing.
What? Research? Facts? References?

Are you sure you know how to blog properly? This is not generally how it's done.

Seriously though, good work.
I really identified with this article's message. It is nicely written. For my part: in an effort to cut through some of the noise of one of the most popular channels - Twitter - I recently created and launched this service:

http://qureet.com - Find Meaning on Twitter.

FYI, it is implemented 100% in golang, and runs on a Raspberry Pi.
Soon, anyone with $1,000 and a computer will be able to sequence DNA.
I feel pretty stupid for taking so long to realize that this is an actual review of the DSM-5. Up until halfway through, I thought this was indeed a review of brilliantly executed satire in the form of the DSM. Though that itself could actually be a pretty interesting literary form...
Benchmark Tests for Evolutionary Algorithms
You read my comment wrong. I am saying that Bing is useless. I did the same with my Lumia but still some actions default to Bing.
I agree, about the public not really paying attention to what we do militarily in other parts of the world. However, haven't all the big civilizations of the world done the same? Romans, Greeks, British, and the US.

Didn't ancient tribes in America and in Africa always war with other tribes?

Maybe there is no such thing as civil. Maybe the closet thing is a world where every country is a true competent democracy.
Normally you use this when there is a fact in dispute (on Reddit, not here). There are no facts in question in the comment you're responding to. There are arguments you may disagree with, but you don't need a citation to make an argument.
A radical dream for making techno utopias a reality
Show HN: Online Scheme interpreter that draws box-and-pointer diagrams
sigh

I was really hoping you wouldn't pull this into an argument about semantics. Since you did, I'm almost certain this will be my last post.

'smug' was a description of your mannerisms, not your motivation. And 'snapping' is only pointing out that you made your pronouncements based on three sentences. I am making no claim to psychological insight.

I just think you're acting like a petty jerk, and blaming everyone else.
I never said 'primarily' or any such thing. 'Most people' means that most people are interested in it, but it says nothing about the degree to which they are interested in it.
I think you are holding a very high bar for 'civilized'
The topic here is how the signup form is submitted. We're talking about starting with an http connection, so the server very much knows what port to redirect to.

And even if they bookmark the https, it keeps working.

And if they have something like 'https everywhere', then they're not using an obsolete version of IE.

The only failure point is if they click an https link by a third party.
Snark is merely a sign of one's inability to cope.
Karma as a Social Interaction Design Pattern in Websites (2011)
How to become awesome in two steps
Smalltalk only supports fix and continue (changing code while programming is running), but you still have to manually re-execute your changed code unless you are editing objects directly (in which case, those changes must be saved in an image). Did the Pharo folks add anything more responsive over this?

Comparisons to Smalltalk as well as REPLs are discussed in the essay.
It's definitely mentioned in the essay.
It would seem that there's an easy solution. Strava knows the grade of a climb. If the segment has a negative incline, don't have a leader board. Otherwise it looks to me like they're just encouraging dangerous racing on a non-closed course. Breaking speed limits, running stop signs and lights: imagine Strava for motorcyclists and ask yourself how long that would last.

I've hit more than 50mph on a bicycle plenty of times, but it sure as hell hasn't been in the Castro District of SF. The rider carries the responsibility of choosing an appropriate time and place for such antics, but let's not egg them on.
Where do you get that civilization has to be 'civil'? One alternative definition I'm fond of (yes, admittedly only fond of) for civilization requires no such thing: The use of agriculture to supply food rather than hunting & gathering. From there future humans may or may not benefit from understanding mathematics and the like, but that is not a part of them having a civilization.
US quietly releasing $1.6B in Pakistan assistance
The thing about the DSM-V is that it is simultaneously a bible, a dictionary, a sales catalog, and an industrial reference manual. As a work of literature, it is the pinnacle of mans' oppression of mankind, categorized, classified. Any single manner by which one might criticize ones fellows, put them in a box, and prepare for delivery: DSM-V has it.
this is too reductionist, imo.

I think it can be agreed that we[0] are slightly more civilized than we were some centuries ago? (e.g. no burning witches, no indentured servitude, no slavery, no segregation)

Then, is it crazy to think that we live in very corrupt democracies that yet _may_ possibly be better than absolute monarchy, feudalism, totalitarism and african kleptocracies ?

I'm not sure you want to throw out everything, the problem with saying "we are not civilized" is posing civilization as
binary value.

Anyway I think TFA is talking more about technology than social systems.

[0] rich west, OECD, G20, G7 or whatever
I predicted this not long after they purchased We Are Hunted. I quite personally thought the actual We Are Hunted music discovery platform was fantastic, it was a well-built application and I always found it strange Twitter bought WAH. I personally know the WAH team they purchased are an incredibly talented bunch of developers, whether it keeps that team during the next phase remains to be seen though. The whole concept was flawed from the beginning and it didn't actually appear as though Twitter integrated any of the main core of the WAH discovery platform which was a well-written and surprisingly accurate algorithm.

Had they thought about it some more, marketed themselves better and integrated more of the features from We Are Hunted's music discovery engine, maybe it might have faired better. It's obvious this was very much an acquihire type of situation.
Imagine how dangerous it is for everyone to drive two tons of steel at 40 mph through the city streets, too.

But somehow that's just fine, even though in NYC:

- 27% of fatal pedestrian crashes involved driver failure to yield

- 79% of crashes that kill or seriously injure pedestrians involve private vehicles

- Traffic crashes cost the City’s economy $4.29 billion annually ( 2009 data )

Sounds like driver regulation isn't working. Let's ban cars, except under permit in remote rural areas.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/pedsafetyreport...
I wonder what impact this will have on cloud service providers.. I guess an opportunity for cloud vendors to develop "national cloud" - a public cloud inaccessible outside a particular country/region/state etc.
HaLVM 2.0 Developer's Release
Except that as far as I know you can't share most of what you learned with anyone else.
http://colorbrewer2.org/js/

Check "diverging" and "colorblind safe"
Wow, this almost makes Chick-fil-A seem like a non-bigoted 21th century hospitality establishment. Only almost though.
The Path of the Command Line
A Guide to Facebook Pages, Groups, and Events (Ebook in the works)
The new habit you want to introduce should be a small thing (maybe a tiny component of a bigger change you want). And you always have to set a trigger for it and celebrate once you do it... Stupid example: I want to introduce flossing my teeth, so i start with a tiny habit - flossing just one tooth right before i start brushing my teeth. The trigger is something I already do every day and it already is my habit - brushing my teeh. So, everytime i go to the bathroom with the aim to brush my teeth, I imediately remember that I'll floss one tooth. And after I do it, I congratulate myslef for doing it (a celebration).

Important - you can't start with 25 habits you want to change. You will fail if you do. Start with 2 - 3 really tiny ones.

You might want to try tiny habit exercise:
http://tinyhabits.com/join/

And you alsow might find this book helpful understanding how habits work:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-What-Business/dp/14000...
dear Ahmed your definitely right...One cant protect his idea or start up business, one has to update and enhance his product-service constantly and add new features to extend it's life cycle....But I believe there is a way to preserve your ideas and products or services which is your target consumer/customer loyalty to your brand which will make it hard for them to switch from one product to another. Example Iphone users and Samsung users..similar products one may have more features but it's brand loyalty that makes an apple loyal consumer switch from Iphone 5 to 5's not to Samsung. the key is BRAND IDENTITY =D
so now you're picking on my mannerisms and telling me that I'm petty?

Look, It's simple:

Aut Tace Aut Loquere Meliora Silentio!
I'm not disagreeing - except that manager-as-facilitator is an appropriate role only for skilled and usually gelled teams. Manager-as-coach are also often needed, but weirdly most of it seems to be manager-as-supervisor-meddler - it's something to do with a short term view - put people together, do no training, hope they work together.
Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
This only incidentally involves Chick-fil-A, and is utterly orthogonal to the (IMO) reprehensible beliefs and behaviors of its executives.
There are really two hypotheses:

1) _Teenagers in general_ do not use Facebook (which does _not_ rule out that they will become avid Facebook users once they grow out of their teenage years)

2) _Today's teenagers_ disinterest in Facebook is fundamentally different than it was for teenagers' of several years ago (which would suggest they'll never get attached to Facebook the way previous teenagers once did, and therefore never become avid Facebook users).

The 10-K report suggests #2 ("younger users were less engaged with the social network than previously") but my hunch is that it's more like #1 (I argued this here: http://whoo.ps/2013/03/04/teens-go-where-identity-isnt).

Teenagers now have more social networking options (Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) to choose from than previous generations of teenagers - which explains why today's teenagers are less engaged with Facebook than previously - but that doesn't mean they won't want/need the kind of canonical identity that Facebook provides (once that awkward, impressionable teenager actually grows into an adult with a firmer identify).
Did you read the article at all? Switching power supplies were common and extremely well-known in industry at the time, and had been used for mini-computers for years. There was nothing truly "revolutionary" about the Apple II's power supply and it's design was not substantially copied by other micro-computer power supplies. None of Jobs' claims are backed by even the slightest shred of evidence.
not really, to be frank
I dunno about throwing away all existing civilizations as uncivilized, but you're certainly correct that we could use a lot of work.
And vice versa?
Perhaps, that was his point ?
Building Pluggable Components in AngularJS
Just give that presentation a second chance, it worth of your three minutes of concentration.
Google Youtube : Dark Pattern - Invisible Close Popup Button
God, that is so sad. The first thing we have to get rid of this is extremely superficial notion of usefulness. Art and culture is there to inspire, to learn new things, not to be merely useful in a world limited by thought. When calculating machine came along people thought they were "useful" for replacing human beings called computers.
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28974/

Here's one. A use-after-free triggered due to some faulty logic.

Mistake? Yes. Amateur mistake? No. Even very experienced C/C++ programmers, such as Microsoft's top devs, may accidentally double-free, or use already-free memory.
Chick-fil-A employees are the most polite out of all the fast-food establishments I've frequented. The tables are always spotless, and the food is (I'll concede, this is subjective) damn good.

I don't think it's particularly difficult to separate a few bigoted executives from the totality of the company.
Why all OVH dedicated servers are "sold out"
The fact that you have never experienced happiness doesn't mean everyone else's experiences of it are somehow illusory.
Ask HN: Is there a tool for getting notified about updates to HN threads?
Is Overeating Carbs Worse Than Overeating on an LCHF Diet?
Escalation of [not provided] data in your site analytics.
What is your take on the fact that Google's move to hide all keywords in traffic analysis reports? Post a comment of how you plan to develop your online search strategy here.
> MongoDB vs. Cassandra

None. We use OrientDB http://www.orientdb.org/ (it supports more than one "storage" mode: http://nosql-database.org/ )

On the plus side, it's Java based (without native stuff), so it can run existing production machines where mongo can't be compiled (Sparc, HP, etc).

Another nice advantage is the support for SQL syntax, so for existing teams, the DB people won't feel left out :).
Let what shit go? Factual inaccuracies? Fabrication of history?

No, we can't let that go. So long as these erroneous facts still get circulated then they deserve to be debunked, forcefully.

That doesn't mean there is any malice intended towards Jobs or his legacy, but facts are facts.

If you think that debunking Jobs' bullshit claims will inevitably have a deleterious effect on the historical perception of Jobs as a person, well that's on Jobs for being a bullshitter, not on anyone trying to ensure that people don't have a false view of history.
Why is a dealbreaker for a development machine to have a certain browser installed?
Not only is your comment a really ignorant and tedious shot at Chick-fil-a, but you clearly didn't even read the article.
Tab Atkins: Variables & Conditionals (CSS Day 2013)
The influence of peer pressure calculated by mathematician
Meta: Links in the article are broken (no url in the hrefs) and s/delligently/diligently/.
I respectfully disagree. I thought the questioner showed exceptional initiative in properly explaining their question.

When someone's asking for help, not enough information means gurus waste valuable time in the following ways:

(1) Explaining things the questioner already knows

(2) Answering the wrong question because it wasn't phrased clearly enough

(3) Jumping to the wrong conclusion because key details were omitted

(4) Being unable to reach a conclusion and having to ask for more information because key details were omitted

OTOH if you're too verbose, the worst that can happen is that the guru answering your question has to use his/her scroll wheel to skim to the most important parts.
Your post caught my eye. Since I mentioned earlier that learning perl was a good investment, thought i'd just show a quick equivalent to the awk script in your blog post.

This produces same output as your awk script (except it's sorted alphabetically):

#!/usr/bin/perl -F, -an "$@"
$wins{$F[0]} += $F[6];
$losses{$F[0]} += $F[7];
END {
print "manager,total_wins,total_losses\n"
for (sort keys %wins) {
print "$_,$wins{$_},$losses{$_}\n";
}
}

EDIT: should also mention that you can automatically convert awk scripts to perl with the a2p utility which should already be installed along with perl.