skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please, I did not wrote that I never experienced happiness, neither that it is illusory. I am just playing devil's advocate here, the comment started with a "What if".

The reply from ordinary got my intent right: maybe it is right that happiness is limited but sadness is not.

I think we could strike a parallel with perfection. Let's think about bowling. From the DSM-5 point of view, happiness is scoring a "clean game" with all strikes, i.e. the lack of mistakes. Isn't this the same as "happiness is the absence of disorders"? You can win a bowling game even if you make few mistakes, just as you can live a successful life with some small minor disorders.

As you can see, perfection is very limited and corresponds to a single value: zero mistakes.
If anybody is interested in what this is all about, it's an OS project called Full-Screen Mario, a clone of the original SMB using HTML5. I had a little play, and so far it seems like a pretty good clone: http://www.fullscreenmario.com/

Might be worth contributing to if you are interested in HTML5 game dev or have some experience with the potential legal issues surrounding the project.
Announcing BioCoder
IDA 5.0 is available for free. Worth trying it out, for experimenting and for having fun :)

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...
OSM data isn't as detailed as Google Maps is when it comes to India.
Perhaps she was crying because she was about to have to eat a McDonald's?

Seriously, why the fuck would someone education enough to be on HN be eating that fast food crap? If you really want a burger in the UK, go to Byrons.
Fracking
Good luck getting on top of HN again :P
I don't have the numbers, but anecdotally from looking for an apartment with my SO, there doesn't seem to be a big housing availability problem in Japan. Available apartments are plentiful, and outside of central Tokyo, Osaka etc, are priced reasonably. It's a far cry from the situation where I'm from in Sweden, where you have to be on a waiting list for 3 years to get your turn at a rental contract since there are just no apartments to be had.

Young people in Japan live with their parents due to lack of jobs. The Japanese employment market has recently had a massive shift towards part time labour instead of full time labor, leaving young people with jobs that can't support them.

Also, Japan has had a solution for the "opportunities for sex" issue for decades - the massive amount of hourly Love Hotels that are scattered all around the country (and people aren't shy to use - I've had to queue for one).
Most people have some idea of how heavy piece of electronics of certain size should be, many fake chargers/supplies are surprisingly lighter than that (sadly, even some known original Nokia and Samsung chargers seem too light to me, so this is not valid test)

Good thing to look for is presence of some name of manufacturer. Absutely no name => unsafe, Obscure or semi obscure Chinese manufacturer => probably OK, Well known global brand => depends (and depends on what the charger is for, nobody is going to manufacture fake Delta-branded charger for iPhone, but fake Delta-branded power bricks for various networking equipment are fairly common).

Power quality on input is certainly an issue, but only for totally out of spec inputs. Small wide input SMPS (like these for laptops) just run hotter on lower voltages because of their internal construction (lower voltage => higher current => higher losses).
When Playing Video Games Means Sitting On Life's Sidelines
This article would be a lot more informative if it looked at some other countries for comparison and contrast. Other countries that have been in the news for a high age of first marriage and a very low birthrate are Italy and Taiwan. What is similar about those countries, and what is different about them, alongside Japan? I have read that Taiwan (where I have lived during two different three-year periods of foreign residence and work) has the highest age of first marriage, and one of the lowest birthrates, of any country in the world. But Taiwan's culture is distinct from that of Japan, and some of the relevant workplace conditions and government policies are a bit different too. So what is the causation here?
Not about the busted tor service like I thought it would be but interesting nonetheless.
Healthcare.gov: Code Developed by the People and for the People (June 2013)
The closest English translation for gehri is "joyride". I'd describe OP's site as Foursquare for joyride routes.
it's always interesting to see the down and dirty of pitching - but the most fascinating part is how he seemed to miss what he knows now - the sheer overwhelming power of the network.

Of course the pitch still has the rubbish of somehow monetizing jobs or ads (which they are still trying) and subscriptions to avoid those ads which gosh darn it they are not doing.

I just guess that this is a lesson Facebook and LinkedIn et al must learn - the network is a tiger, and on e you have hold of its tail it will take you places, but it will break free - it is the nature of the network, like information, to be free.
I have literally been propositioned on the street between Shibuya and Ikejiri. Places I would not have expected it.

I can't speak to signage, as I generally steer clear of areas that seem shady, and I wouldn't put a lot of trust into such things anyway.

Regarding the source of much of the information in this article, I have little to offer. If you were to weigh the hypothesis that the source was advertising services against the hypothesis that this came up in conversation with the article author and she found this worth noting, which do you think is more likely, given that this is interesting information that is unlikely to be left out of a sex-charged article?

In this case, being charitable about the parties involved in this article is probably correct.
I also thought the same, if your core-audiences visited your site and they could need it, they are probably gonna enter their mail.

But i don't think a lot of HN people have YouTube video's so important, they would pay for tracking it.

I could be wrong though :)
The author seems a bit dismissive of what I would call a healthy scepticism towards the current medical establishment. He refers to such sceptics as conspiracy theorists, which is a great way to ignore people without any thought.

Is it that odd to think that there are well funded big pharma interests in making sure that only that which is patented is approved?

Sadly, most of the proof that treatments work are provided by the drug company that has a profit motive to produce that proof. There is no interest in providing that research for something that isn't controlled for someone's profit.

To be clear, there's nothing wrong at all with profiting from research done. It's also very important to understand the risks taken when using something that isn't well studied. Natural doesn't mean safe, of course that's true.

But it also isn't a conspiracy theory to say that people who have billions of dollars in profit at stake may occasionally give money to the right Senator, or fund only that which is in their interest.
"While confusing in the context of paying for the car behind you in a drive-through, “pay it forward” means to repay a kindness by being kind to someone else rather than the person who was kind to you."

The article didn't claim it had anything to do with 3x. That was simply explaining the version in the movie, which did in fact popularize the term.
Sega v. Accolade
Can't you just use an older version of iTunes with it?
A burlesque startup roadmovie, shot in Central London
I would note that there is a particular fascination with Japan and sex, and that google is unlikely to give you an accurate depiction at the frequency of weird in Japan.

I suspect that weird exists in any population of sufficient size.
Yes. Japanese culture has an extreme level of politeness that you don't see in Italy or America (I don't know enough about Korea to comment). Even the British are more open.
I suspect a carefully coordinated PR campaign for Chick-fil-A, as I've noticed uncharacteristically, frequent positive references to them in unrelated news items lately. I consume a lot of news, and noticing "fake" planted positive references in tangentially related articles is par for the course for any company that stepped in deep shit like they did. I suspect at least one of these positive comments here to be a plant as well. If you think this is paranoid, you don't know how our world works.
Particle accelerators: Small really is beautiful
It makes Google Reader look like a vibrant growing community, in comparison, which makes me think its ripe for cancellation, which annoys me. I've been using it as a forwarding / voicemail service for years across three carriers. Its very convenient, it just works.
It's stupid because they have multiplied a couple anecdotes, conflated decreased reproductive output and formalized relationships with a decrease in actual sex, and gotten all breathless and hyperbolic about it.

There's no evidence of any trend that young people in Japan have stopped having sex. That is what I was trying to point out: not being in an old-fashioned relationship, and not actually bearing children, does not any longer have any kind of direct relationship to how much sex you are having.

There may well be ongoing generational changes to reproductive and marriage/relationship behavior in Japan, as there is elsewhere (c.f. everywhere on Earth), but this article doesn't go there.
Atoms for freedom – A letter to Thom Yorke
Hi! Google Maps will have the advantage in handling huge loads, but I find OSM data much fresher in terms of new developments ( roads, housing estates etc ) and it has much more useful data for pedestrians and cyclists.

I've yet to be impressed by Google Maps' directions for pedestrians, often it sends us along busy roads without sidewalks because there's no commercial incentive to research and include pedestrian-only shortcuts.

I suppose it depends on your userbase.
Is there a proper word to describe this? For example:

* "Jim is British" - "British" is the demonym

* "Jim is a Brit" - "Brit" is the ____

I'm not sure what the correct google search term would be to find out this.
This is a "toy" with a single reinforced carbon fiber main-rotor blade 5 feet in diameter, which is flown pretty much exclusively by people like this for the purpose of pulling very physics-defying stunts, flipping and turning and changing direction faster than a dragonfly could, two or three maneuvers a second in directions that are not aerodynamically favored. It is designed to accelerate very fast, and that means spinning its rotors many times faster than is necessary to hold it up in the air, so it can bleed off that velocity in a 100ms maneuver.

These are not a new innovation - they use dirty 'nitro' (liquid fuel) engines, and have been around for decades.

They are inherently dangerous, adult toys, and anyone flying them without binoculars on assumes a certain degree of risk. Even so: it requires a very unlucky shot to kill a person with a 700-class helicopter, and I find the concept that it 'sliced off the top of his head' sensationalist garbage. Tens or hundreds of people out of the tens of thousands operating these machines end up with deep scratches or partially amputated fingers (you can see them on Youtube), but the time since the last fatal accident is about a decade.

These are completely unlike the safety issues posed by various categories of planes and multirotors, or by remote camera-driven operation of those aircraft. There are very real advantages to a society in which these things are legal, and with a lot of the useful ones, I would be comfortable flying one into my face to demonstrate; The larger examples that can fly heavy DSLRs, perhaps aim for a limb.

It's more like someone demonstrating their finesse with a hobby of medieval flail weapons paid $1000 to buy an authentic one, put on shows entertaining people with it for a few years, and then in a slip-up gored themselves in the back of the neck. The risk and speed is literally the draw with these things.
Quite right. In fact the opposite works - and its known as the Ben Franklin Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect).

The idea is that if I ask a favor of you (to loan me a book, in Ben's case) - you are more likely to become friendly to me in the future.

Its a curious extension of what you mentioned above, by asking you for a favor - which you then grant - you gain a sort of psychological 'credit' over me (I owe you). In fact, because you implicitly recognize that I'm voluntarily offering to place myself in your debt, you are happy to oblige since you recognize the subtle power relationship at work.

I learned about this from a lawyer friend who claims he uses it all the time. If there is someone professionally he want to get to know, he will call them and ask them for a small favor (ie. I can't make the social gala party tonight, could you please take my check with you and drop it off to pay for my yearly dues...etc).
Ok then how about I give you $10.000 and you give it back to me. I'll feel good about it. Then you feel good about getting 10K. Then you feel good about helping me. Then I feel good about getting 10K. And now everyone's feeling good. Kumbaya!
Entertainment sometimes seems to present the blunt truth of our aspirations:

"There’s certainly something to be said about the assumptions, say, Civilization builds into its simulations. Look at its winstates and what they value — technological progress, military conquest, economic superiority, and cultural domination. You don’t win by eliminating hunger or poverty or by nuclear deproliferation or by having a particularly high standard of living. You get it for, for lack of a better way to phrase this, very American goals."

http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/?p=582
i also have a background in python - django and flask - as well as data analysis. i am currently learning node at the moment. powerful stuff. javascript front and back. i couple it with express.

i am getting ready to draft a blog post on working with node/express/ajax which you may be interested in.

a buddy of mine uses the same setup for all his phonegap apps. they not only look amazing, but they are fairly easy to put together.

best of luck.
The Utter Failure of my Windows 8.1 Upgrade
Irony in text is always risky... I thought it was obvious that my reference to "corporate media organizations" controlling everything was enough over the top to make the irony clear...
> too much of it is definetly not good for the mind

Citation needed. One could easily argue that the ready availability of "extreme" porn is what keeps the Japanese rape (and indeed general crime) rates so low.
Making Money from Movie Streaming Sites, an Insider’s Story
Not particularly unsafe, I live in PP. Lived in NYC previously and I liken it to that, just different things to watch out for. Mobile internet is good (Cellcard is the best), I think I've gotten up to 300KB/sec, though there is some lag connecting to, say, my Linode in NJ.. maybe a 1 second delay in the terminal. Anyway it's currently $1.50 for 7 days or 1 GB, whichever comes first, and I can reload if I finish early. I go to a coworking space (CoLab) for faster internet, all-day A/C, and a good quiet working atmosphere. I consider that membership part of my rent, though rent is cheap here anyway. Have a two bedroom, two bath, estimating 2,000 sq ft + a covered roof terrace, for $300 / month. And it doesn't get cold here =)
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ianal, but given that you can play almost every gamecube, n64, snes, gameboy, gameboy color, and gameboy advance game that has ever been made online for free via ROMs/ISOs, they should be fine
I would design a project with the following components.

1. A web crawler/spider that visits several sites every day. While there the crawler should captures data in a systematic way through parsing the DOM, using regular expressions and accessing APIs (not all on the same site).

2. Then create scripts that clean, organize and store the data in a database of your choosing.

3. Add value through algorithms and analysis. Apply some analytical processes to the data to create new insight. It might be statistical processing, it might be machine learning or even just a clever mash-up from the multiple sites.

4. Design for human consumption. Practice design principles and data visualization to create an interesting and insightful presentation layer for human readers.

5. Design for machine consumption. Now make your new value-added data available to others in an API that other systems can consume.

All of this can be accomplished on a VPS server costing you $12 a month. You can build it all out of open source software.

While what I described could be quite complex and the basis for a business, it could also be very limited in scope, such that the main complexity is learning the various technologies and showing that you have developed the skills to put together a full working system.
Of course, the only reason this works is that it is not socially acceptable to break the chain in this circumstance. For instance, if there was a tip/charity jar (and I'm guessing there isn't in the cases this works) I would simply put my surplus into the tip jar and break the chain, because I find this idea annoying. If there is no tip jar, I would have no choice but to continue the chain.
Google Checkout Closing Down on Nov. 20th
https://gondor.io/pricing/

could be cheaper depending on how many dynos you were using
30 Window Managers in 30 Days
The developer uses Nintendo's trademark "Mario" in the title of his video game project. (Edit: As pointed out in the comment below, the name "Mario" itself is not trademarked, so to be correct the previous sentence should instead read "The developer uses Nintendo's trademark Mario in his video game project.") I'm not a lawyer but as far as I understand (unlike with copyright) Nintendo is legally obliged to react and protect it, right?

Edit: Concern about trademark issues is also what apparently led to the Super Mario Clone FOSS project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smclone/, note the URL) being renamed Secret Maryo Chronicles. I'm not sure if Nintendo ever contacted them or if it was a precautionary change.

Edit 2: There's some interesting commentary from a professional lawyer on the issue of trademarking and copyrighting characters at http://www.ivanhoffman.com/characters.html, though it's from 2003.
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Plex is great. It runs on Samsung Smart TVs, which runs all our home media that allows kids to watch old home footage.
Indeed. A very(unintentionally) misleading title. Perhaps unfortunately, the policy here is to keep the original title of an article... That policy has many upsides, but one of its biggest downsides is that there is no discretion allowed in fixing possibly confusing titles like this one.
Probably true, except for the part about chicfila staff trolling HN.
Here's the official stance of Nintendo on ROMs, emulators and mods:

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#helping

But, it seems Nintendo is pretty lenient on fan-made content:

http://kotaku.com/5585802/nintendo-doesnt-want-to-criminaliz...
I was actually thinking about this comment, and I agree with you for all cases where we're not radically rethinking existing systems.

Note that I wasn't really arguing from authority except when giving him investment advice. Also note that I could tell his age from his arguments.
why the fuck would someone education enough to be on HN be eating that fast food crap

Have you ever seen the food at a startup/hack-athon/all-nighter-in-the office? There is a time and a place for junk-food ! And doing stressful things in a hurry whilst maintaining high-levels of concentration is one of the physiological test-pieces for high caloric density nutrtion consumption. Its a strategy rooted in science, not gluttony. Fat, salt, sugar will impact your bio-chemistry and manage stress hormones (thus increasing concentration and performance). The "stupid" use of fast food is merely to engage in chronic, long-term consumption outside of such windows of appropriate use.
As a native S. Floridian I just want to point out that most Floridians are from the NE. I'm an immigrant myself but in school half the population were Cuba and Haiti. Some were from Florida and the rest were from Brooklyn, Mass., upstate NY, and NJ. The kids from the NE, collectively, hated Florida, hated their parents, and wanted to move back.

Chances are you are meeting the adult version of the cynical kids I grew up with. Some of them tried to move back to NYC, Boston, NJ and found the neighbourhood had changed and no one remembered them or cared.
Is this really that surprising? Just look at the Hikikomori increasing.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
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I'm looking for a (free) book database with name, author, publication year and maybe a small description for every book contained. I need it for a school project. Can anyone help me find one?
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If they notice, they'll probably complain. Nintendo is fairly hardline on this kind of thing, afaict.

An academic conference in my area used to host an annual "Mario AI championship", where competitors submitted either Mario-playing AI controllers, or systems to procedurally generate Mario-like levels [1]. After a few years someone at Nintendo found out, and demanded that we: 1) stop using the name "Mario", and 2) stop using the Mario assets in the procedural level generation framework. Imo there was a decent fair-use claim in that case, but nobody wanted to pursue it, so now it's informally referred to as the "Non-Mario AI competition" [2]. (As a direct reimplementation of an actual Mario Bros game, the project here seems like it would not really have a good fair-use claim, anyway.)

That's in contrast to Blizzard's reaction to the annual Starcraft AI competition [3]: once they found out about it, they sent a representative and donated prizes.

[1] http://julian.togelius.com/Togelius2013The.pdf

[2] http://platformersai.com/

[3] http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/starcraftaicomp/
Nope, since the NSA stuff having everything be a grand conspiracy is a perfectly valid world view on HN
I have upvoted this not because I agree, but because you have provided a basis for your statement about why you don't buy this line of reasoning.

I look toward the prospects of women in Japan for an indication as to what's wrong. These are people who have grown up with dreams that society seems unwilling to support. For how many women in Japan is 'Maybe it's time to have a kid in the next few years' tantamount to "I must give up any dreams of having a career"?
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It's legal to download and use ROMs or console BIOS dumps if you own the original hardware/game [1] (although this is controversial and officially disputed by Nintendo). But that doesn't give you permission to modify and redistribute them - the games are still under copyright.

I think the reason Nintendo doesn't stop you from playing ROMs is similar to the reason HBO doesn't stop everyone from downloading Game of Thrones - it would be just about impossible. It doesn't mean they condone it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_emulator#Legal_issu...
I think a notice -- like "Silk Road (the real asian route) jewel reveals more of its treasures" -- would suffice here.

pg said recently that the reason they revert titles is to avoid false information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

A tiny change like this does not seem to include false information -- on the contrary, it unambiguously and imparcially clarifies it.
If only Facebook had a product like Instagram, perhaps they could use it as a gateway drug...