skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 I agree, and not just concerning Google. That said, Google seems to be aiming at increasing revenue by concentrating on fewer things, but from what I read about Google Ventures, Google car, etc., they still are placing long bets.

I blogged a year ago about 4 or 5 Google canclled services that inconvenienced my customers and/or me.
Your two fictional quotes are vague enough for subtext to creep in, but the quotes in the article are quite plain and clear. Speaking to reporters (especially foreign ones) is one of the few cases where Japanese people feel free to speak frankly, because there is a significantly reduced feeling of social judgment. They generally won't talk within their social circle about causal sex because it will lead to talk (or more likely implication) of marriage, which is an uncomfortable subject nowadays, for reasons outlined in the article.
Conceptual Introduction to Web Development
"There are much more important things to worry about like Youtube's copyright policies."

Such statements are stupid because they apply to everything.

You have no idea what's important to me - I have no idea what's important to you. The only thing I can be sure of is that, as one who uses the internet, the only objectively important things (food, shelter, security) are already covered.
Okay, take a town 60 years ago. Lots of people,
say,

o driving cars with tires that last only 15,000
miles,

o driving cars with engines that last only 80,000
miles (due to poor lubrication due to water and
gasoline in the oil due to inaccurate fuel
mixture and ignition),

o typing on typewriters with carbon paper,

o doing business communications with printing
and/or typing on paper sent by USPS,

o an office telephone switchboard manned by
employees.

Now enter new technology, and each of these
activities uses some automation, is much cheaper,
and puts the old employees out of work.

So, have lots of unemployed people with little or
no money who want to make money and consume but
cannot get jobs.

Why not jobs? For one, the total number of jobs
shrank, and as in musical chairs some people don't
get one.

For another, to create more jobs need some ideas for
new products/services, some capital to get the
businesses going, and some qualified employees. The
unemployed people will need some new training, that
is, investments in 'human capital'.

As we know from depressions, can have a shortage of
capital, lots of people not consuming who want to
work but no jobs for them to do. Then if have a
war, suddenly can have three jobs for everyone who
can work at all.

There is also an effect of the ratios of people to
land and other natural resources. With high density
population, the prices of such resources increase.
Maybe when the population of Japan, Finland, France,
Germany, Russia, the US, etc. shrink, the new ratio
will make it easier for a couple to form a family.
E.g., if the population is low enough that a young
couple can easily buy 200 acres of good farm land,
then there will be some new alternatives for that
couple to form a family. Now at maybe $5000 an
acre, let's, see, 200 acres would be $1 million.
She's 18; he's 22; and where are they going to get
$1 million or even a down payment plus farm
equipment and materials for a house?

Presumably in time startups will find new products
and services that people want and that can make use
of the unemployed.

But, in that town when automation put the typists
out of work, the jobs of some people were not
affected and, first cut, by having the company spend
much less on typing, could pay their remaining
employees more. So, some people are doing well.

And in Japan, the article seems to suggest that real
estate prices are so high that no one can afford
them! No! Instead, real estate prices are so high
just because enough people actually can afford them.
So, some people are doing well, and maybe they, or
their lucky heirs, are forming traditional families.
Why you shouldn’t use NoSQL just for the sake of it
Can't i have more disk space there? I'd take a 1GB one for $70 plus some more for more disk, i need at least 80GB.
Jonathan's Card had one key characteristic that made it exploitable (even if Sam hadn't been able to transfer money off of it): there was a reliable way of knowing how much money was on the card, and therefore a reliable way of choosing when to spend (or siphon) money from the card to get high value. I'm not aware of a reliable way of knowing that the car in front of you is "paying it forward".

That makes me curious: is it possible to exploit by starting a pay-it-forward chain and then circling back around with a bigger order? Would there be a particular number of cars or time of day or order size that would maximize the likelihood of getting your final order paid for, and would it have a positive expectation when accounting for the initial outlay and the time commitment?

[Note that I am not advocating actually trying this; I'm satisfied with it as a thought experiment.]
I'd use Balanced Payments over the others. Great bunch of people, good customer support to the point of almost telling you how to write the code line by line, and well, dunno what else to say.
It has nothing to do with "artistic meaning". The ocean's are acidifying and being over fished at the same time. The entire ocean ecosystem is collapsing. Soon there will be no fish, the ocean will be fully of jelly fish. Ecosystem's dependant on the "old way" will be next up to start collapsing.

Oh right, and we need the ocean as a carbon sync and it generates most of the oxygen on the planet.

But yeah, it's all about the art. Nothing to do with the ocean being an incredibly complicated delicate life support system for the planet that we are breaking...
Are you a solipsist or just a virgin?
In general, I want a little more evidence than this before declaring global catastrophe.

For example, I'd like to get confirmation of the problem from NOAA[1], particularly the NMFS[2]. Alternatively, Green Peace[3] would no doubt be one of the first organizations to raise an alarm - they care about the ocean, and presumably gather signals from many sources. I want confirmation because the simple fact is that it's impossible to get a comprehensive picture of the Pacific's health from one voyage - there are too many variables at play.

The skeptic in me questions the tacit assumption (the one that makes the OP's observations so troubling) that the entire Pacific is normally teaming with fish. However, I assume that fish travel in schools, and that fish density is wildly variable. E.g. there are normally vast swaths of the Pacific that are "dead". Indeed, anyone going out to fish for sport knows that fish aren't uniformly distributed, and they don't stay in one place. In the open ocean, these schools are vast, but so are the dead zones when there are no schools.

That said, not being in the field, I'm not sure how we gauge the health of an entire ocean from a "supported biomass" perspective. Nor do I know anything about who would be responsible for officially raising an alarm about global catastrophe. Or if they did, what we could do about it. It seems like the only thing we really could do is reduce the rate at which we harm the ocean, rather than dumping into it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospher..., http://www.noaa.gov/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Serv..., http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

[3] http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/
I suspect I'm being trolled but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just skimmed the article: Here's the high points:

[On the same trip 10 years earlier] "There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled.

But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.

No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.

They observed a trawler going back and forth day and night across a reef and later the same trawler offered them buckets of fish...

"They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing."
Thanks for the feedback.

In defense of this implementation -

- The only external JS loaded on this site is google analytics. Feel free to block this using something like noscript :)

- WebRTC datachannel connections on this site don't use just (optionally) OTR. They have DTLS enabled within the browser. OTR just adds an authentication layer that DLTS currently lacks. So that even if the OTR implementation here was completely compromised, the only possible attack would still be a MiTM on the DTLS channel.

- It's open source (https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTCCopy), so it's available to be hosted elsewhere and all of the libraries used could be re-downloaded.

-Sam
Reminds me of a story from Japan about a fly-by-night café based on a similar idea: in addition to paying for the person after you, you would choose what food they would receive as well. http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/kashiwa-mystery-cafe.html
There are tons of scientific reports about Oceans' fish stocks falling dramatically. This article is a very strong way to reinforce the point, to make you see it. Because those scientific reports, as troubling as they are, hardly make news any more.
I think I used MusicBrainz before. It worked pretty well but I had a bunch of one off MP3's that were a single band/song that it just botched. So now when I go through I find artists that I have no clue who they are, and I listen to the song and realize it's wrong.
Yeah, i have no problem with python or any other language. Use what works for you. But perl does an acceptable job on every one of your examples..

perl -naE 'say $F[0], $F[1]'

perl -nae '$tot+=$F[1]; $c++;END{print $tot/$c}'

perl -ape 's/^.client="(.)",dev.*/\1/' foo.txt

And finally:

use JSON;
use IO::All;
use feature 'say';
$f = io('bus-stops.json')->all;
$j = decode_json($f);
$,=',';
for (@$j) {
say @$_{'no','lat','lng','name'};
}

I still think newbies would get much more value out of learning perl basics than spending any time on sed/awk intricacies. But to each his own.
JPMorgan agrees to tentative $13 billion settlement with U.S. over bad mortgages
I think you're right. The closest, I think, is the pseudo ternary operator:

print "hi" if True else "bye"
I find these articles very confusing. Sometimes there seems to be something substantial, sometimes not. As someone who has programmed large parallel machines, large distributed systems, and only dabbled in web programming, there seems to be a shed-load of stuff out there and no way to figure out what's real, what's fluff, what's substantial, what's new, and what's just stuff I already know, re-written and re-named by people who don't know what's gone before.

Now I know how my parents feel about technology, and I'm finding it hard to find a way to fight the tsunami of crap to find the nuggets of real information.
I wonder what the legal implications are, as the money isn't exactly being sent to the escrow agent, and the agent doesn't have the ability to steal the funds for himself.
pg wrote about the art of carefully disguised PR campaigns: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Calm down: Not having sex is for that
article mostly just an exaggeration
for a catchy headline. Of course they
are having sex but likely less sex
and less in love with commitment,
caring, affection, intimacy, passion,
joining of lives, vows, romance,
trust, respect, responsiveness,
supportive families (e.g., he gets
a job in her father's business),
collection of activities, memories,
and traditions like, don't want to lose,
can't get anywhere else, and that cause
'lock in',
homes ("where the heart is, where you are
loved even when you are wrong"), and children
("the most rewarding thing we did").

And why not just
more one night stands? Because they
are short on commitment (feel alone
and, thus, scared in the morning),
caring, ..., children.

And just for passion,
a good version requires the couple to
have had a lot of time together and to
care about each other -- e.g., for a man,
the best result of passion is that, net, she
smiles the rest of the evening, the next
morning, and well into the next day,
and that takes some mutual caring,
practice, and effort.

Why so value the smiles?
Because they promise 1000 more good
evenings of passion instead of maybe 0,
lots of good back rubs, a nice breakfast,
lots of 'contact comfort' for, say, another
24 hours, etc.
Show HN: Bug Hunter, our Ruby bug hunting game (RailsRumble 2013 submission).
Bug Hunter is a game where you have to go through snippets of code and try to identify the bugs as quickly as possible.

The idea is that you go learn with common categories of bugs through repetition.

It is still very much a work in progress, and we could use some of your feedback (and your own Ruby snippets too!)
this almost cancel's out the societal effects of the (still active) KKK.
I don't go on Reddit, so I enjoy those posts on HN. I never knew the USSR had a space shuttle, nor did I know it had its own "concorde". I want more !
I doubt the person you're replying to works at google. His profile says he is a ruby developer and as far as I know we don't use that. Also, his attitude is not particularly common within google.
Which part of society is obligating a person to continue paying it forward? Certainly not the previous customer, who has already driven off. And certainly not the following customer, who (if you don't pay it forward) has no way of knowing that you got your food for free.

In fact other than you, the only person who knows the situation is the cashier, and they certainly aren't expecting meals to continue to be paid forward - the articles on the topic always mention how surprised they are when it happens. And to be honest I don't understand your social compass if being judged by a random restaurant cashier is that big a burden on your conscience.
Toolset and category of thing you make. Of course an F1 and a 4x4 are more similar than an F1 and a jet.

Or, because they were cut of from the mainland long ago and didn't spread. No need to invoke evolution here.

Because the world wasn't created at once, but in 6 days. Again, this doesn't disprove anything.

Macro-evolution is nothing but a hypothesis, without any (decisive/exclusive) evidence.

I hope I don't sound sheepish, I'm just short on time... I hope you can address my answers again :)
Grunt: Compile LESS/SCSS and Minify CSS/JS |
I don't know, if you've been dealing with OVH for any length of time you should realize this is par for the course. OVH (in particular Oles) have always been brusque and unsympathetic to their customers whenever they've changed policies (usually with no consultation of their customers). OVH couldn't give two shits about your problems
I can assure you that I'm not trolling you.

I read the article and realized that it had a completely different meaning to me than the average HN reader. I felt it might be interesting to share. If nothing else, the responses should be instructive.

If your value for the ocean is "it must support the life of humanity" then that's fine. Just come out and say it. Of course the next step in the conversation is what, exactly, is required for the ocean to do to support life. That's where it starts getting more tricky.

I think the problem here is that writers such as this are asking folks to have a religious experience -- to feel a sort of transcendence or guilt that doesn't have to be explicitly defined or looked at too closely. Therefore anybody can read the article, feel guilt and anguish, and join in the emotional fun. Hey, who wants to nuke the ocean, kill the fish, and fill it full of garbage? Nobody, that's who. That's the troll, not my analysis of the piece.

It's like humor. Once you start to really look at it, it goes away. A good sign you're having your chain yanked.

I shared my opinion because articles like this only serve to gin up mobs. Take a look at some of the comments. You'll have free marketers talking about the people that were fed, green earth types venting over the damage to mother earth, and so on. Not much in the way of actual analysis aside from just reassuring each other of our mutual shared subjective values, no matter which ones they are. Just noise.

I would have flagged it, but, as I said, it has artistic value. I could really feel I was there on the guy's voyage. However your point is valid. My honest reaction seems to have generated plenty of disgust. So I invite fellow HNers to just take a look around. I've shared my reaction to the piece. It's emotionally manipulative, but that's okay -- as long as you understand what it's doing. But for you personally, is this a useful article for the site or not?
Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux?
I recently discovered this project called linuxbrew (https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew), and it is still under active development.

I do use Homebrew for Mac, but on Linux, I am comfortable with the manual installation process.

Is this really required for Linux, considering the current scenario? Is it worth the wait and excitement.
He didn't say anything about liberals, conservatives or Chick-fil-a's noxious gay marriage positions. Who's biased?

The article mentions chick-fil-a by name 3 times in the text and at the bottom, it's one of 3 terms that you can sign up for email alerts about. This is right after they had a run of bad publicity (yes, caused by politics, but that's irrelevant). Seems to fit in the PR-created article category to me.
Hr is like a backbone-on-steroids, it uses the same code structure: models/collections/views but also brings a base structure and a build system for the application using require.js, less, etc.

The build system brings more consistency to the application: dev or prod mode, code optimization, resources management, logging, caching, etc.

The concepts inherited from Backbone are also evolved:
- models are not just key->value (models in Hr could be really complex)
- joints between models
- views can used templates and sub-components
- better events management for classes
- and a lot more

(Sorry for my english, I'm french)
> Why can't traditional journalists not use the web the way it is meant to?

First, just because they are "traditional journalists".

Second, because they got lots of eyeballs with this article.
It doesn't seem to be sustainable with a one-time price.
You get what you pay for. Nothing wrong with a 5400 RPM drive with those specs for hosting a personal website, backup, VPN etc.

I've had 100% uptime over the last 3 months (externally monitored), used terabytes of bandwidth, and get 20ms ping over the Channel. You can't beat that on price.
Show HN: Encrypted Decentralized Distributed Data Storage
BorrowABook is a Command. What the article is, albeit unknowingly, discussing is roughly the CQRS pattern. CQRS can rarely ever be considered to be a bad practice. As good developers mature, they come to realise that generally all the good patterns in the world worth pursuing have traits of immutability, messaging and functional programming (FP), even in OOP-land. Most good OOP designs are merely trying to emulate what FP does.
Low in comparison to what? The country has female-only trains in rush hours to prevent 'Chikan', or sexual assault. And of course "too much of it is bad for you", it's ridiculous to argue otherwise. (Unless what you're saying is "there's no such thing as too much porn", which is another matter entirely.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XV4...
How about paying for food for the homeless instead?

Someone in a car at a fast food place is probably well off enough to afford the car, maintenance, gas, etc.
The problem is that these people don't know what they don't know. We have extremely powerful RC aircraft being sold without so much as a "so listen, you should really get properly trained on the operation of this potentially dangerous machine".

I'm all for lack of regulation. I'd love for people to be able to fly over the skies of NYC and create beautiful works, but not if the people doing it are completely ignorant like the guy in this case.

It's hard to expect people to seek out clubs and mentorship when they don't even know these organizations exist, or the importance of seeking out proper training. There is an attitude change required here I think.
Right, but those aren't the only two signs we're talking about. If people are having lots of sex but don't want kids, we might see that in booming contraceptive sales. If people are having lots of sex but not using contraception and not having kids, well that would show up in wider culture too (e.g. gay dating sites would proliferate). Sex on a personal level is a very private thing for many people in many cultures, but trends can always been seen because there is always a commercial side.
You can read about all kinds of bugs and "bugs" I found in bounty programs on my old blog, too
http://josipfranjkovic.blogspot.com/
physical != digital
This is similar to work going on in Scotland:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/laserfest/thealpha-xproject/
http://www.strath.ac.uk/impact/turningelectronsintoopportuni...
I agree with this...perhaps it is more akin to a factory method, where parameters are passed in and a book, with its borrow status affected, is returned?
On my first GNU/Linux distribution I could only choose between twm, fwvm and OpenLook, boy am I old!
Controller is an adapter or anti-corruption layer designed to couple together two separate bounded contexts. It's feasible and likely there would be two variants of BorrowABook, one in the UI model and one in the service/domain model. They may be subtly different in what fields they hold.
Look up 'Talkatone' in the App Store. It does let you place and receive Google Talk calls on your iOS device without having to use a PSTN phone of any sort.
Rethinking the iOS 7 icons: long shadows
I don't know about that, but I do know that the only time I have had a pay-forward experience was at Chick-fil-A. And it was fun!
Neither. I've tried casual sex when I was young, 5 or 7 times before realized it's totally overrated overhyped trash.
This site has a pretty cool intro page
Your sibling comment already pointed out my mistake with no unnecessary snark.
This is a quick hack done in less than 200 LOC to demo a cool new web framework I will be releasing. Got lots of tools I'm unveiling coming up. Would love to hear people's thoughts.
Very disappointed with the uplink speed. They claim to have 1 Gbps, but what I am getting to Europe is never more than 8mpbs which is awful (less than home DSL). Their ISP (Fibernetics) delivers much better uplink speed when tested, hence I guess speed is limited to their datacenter "Rack & Data" / on their VPS switches.

Support ignored investigating my request by simply closing the ticket..

Will be seeking refund.
Does Google now have a log that I visited:

https://rtccopy.com/#csFXmvXW

And if somebody else had visited that same room, would they have a log of that too?
This is extremely unsettling and sad. The question is, is there anything we can do both on micro and macro level?
I think it's safe to say that Google will not be getting out of payments any time soon. Wallet is already tied into the enormous Play Store, so they certainly have a healthy userbase, and seeing as Google primarily is a digital services company it makes more sense for them to not target physical goods.
While not as complete as a full CSV parsing lib, finding this made working with CSV in awk much easier: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Splitting-...

gawk -vFPAT='[^,]*|"[^"]*"'

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4205431/parse-a-csv-using...
Microsoft yanks Windows 8.1 after bricking issues