skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk about moving the measurement to create concession. Ads are a problem. Never have there been more advertisements. Not only do people have Billboards, TV ads, Radio Ads, and Newspaper ads like we've had in the 20th century (all of which are still pervasive and virtually unavoidable), But we're not talking about a problem in avoiding all of the new types of advertising only really initiated in this century.

Perhaps the problem isn't Ad Avoidance, but Ad Overload. People will either find a means to limit their exposure, or the Ad industry will see effectiveness drop to a level that isn't profitable to the cost.

I understand that jingles and subconscious inserting one liners are impossible to ignore and extremely valuable, but I think the question rests on how many of these virtually empty platitudes a human mind can carry.
People just expect 10 Heroku dynos to handle the load when that's not even close to necessary haha.
I've had a static site hosted on the cheapest shared hosting plan I could find take a stint on the HN frontpage without any problems.
> To be fair, the import-compiled-transitive-dependencies-as-binaries pattern that Maven likes to employ is probably less easily adapted to natively compiled languages like C/C++ than it is to managed runtime languages (Java/Erlang) or scripting languages (Ruby/Python).

The "scripting languages" don't even have this as easy as it might seem. Half the dependencies in my Python projects these days have important bits written in C (e.g. psycopg2, gevent).
Apparently this isn't a surprise to most within the intelligence community [1].

"France spies on the US just as the US spies on France, the former head of France’s counter-espionage and counter-terrorism agency said Friday, commenting on reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) recorded millions of French telephone calls.

Bernard Squarcini, head of the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI) intelligence service until last year, told French daily Le Figaro he was “astonished” when Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was "deeply shocked" by the claims.

“I am amazed by such disconcerting naiveté,” he said in the interview. “You’d almost think our politicians don’t bother to read the reports they get from the intelligence services.”"

[1] http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarc...
I'll add my 2c with an article that I wrote some years ago.
http://www.screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=35&Show=A...

It's a look at kind of a interpolation weighted by scale2x.
Absolutely. People can post news about what the Biebster had for lunch, and if stories of Lunchables pizza with a glass of chocolate milk resonated with the hackers here to the point where it ended up on the front page, I'd have no problem with it.

Loosen up. People here are human with shared interests that go beyond interpreters and cloud computing. To have one story about a celebrity death hit the front page every so often isn't a big deal. And saying that, the entire front page was covered in stories about Job's death for a couple of days, but we survived. We're here, stronger, more alive than ever.
I have to say the same :-(

Many of the large insurance companies still hit my corporate site with IE6.
I may have conflated malware/spyware/everything-that's-not-a-virusware and viruses.

You're correct either way.
Even if that doesn't happen straight-away, Snowden will likely find that fairly easy to achieve once this scandal dies down a bit.
... and this is a great time to become a programmer.
"Unless it is enjoyable or educational in and of itself, interaction is an essentially negative aspect of information software. There is a net positive benefit if it significantly expands the range of questions the user can ask, or improves the ease of locating answers, but there may be other roads to that benefit. As suggested by the above redesigns of the train timetable, bookstore, and movie listings, many questions can be answered simply through clever, information-rich graphic design. Interaction should be used judiciously and sparingly, only when the environment and history provide insufficient context to construct an acceptable graphic."

"Interaction considered harmful", by Bret Victor
http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
I have seen this happen in Shanghai. An elderly woman lying on a busy road. People took photos of me while i helped her up and took her to the side. When you experience this first hand, it is really hard not to feel enraged by the spineless gawkers. My natural instincts felt like doing some damage to these citizen paparazzi, but my head knew that this would be a foolish move that wouldn't solve a thing. You just have to chalk it up to a cultural difference snd not get emotional about it.
Just as in Casablanca - "I am shocked — shocked — to find that gambling is going on in here!"
What? It has to be brought up everywhere. That's the whole point behind trying to change usage: people are supposed to start doing it, and then it's likely to brought to your mind.

Unless your point is that you're tired of it coming out as an explicit point for discussion, as in this current thread of the conversation. That's optional to the core of the effort.
> we can be fairly certain that they are least somewhat harmful

Can we? How?

> Nicotine, on the other hand, is harmful in its own right.

Vaping doesn't necessarily involve nicotine.
My nginx with uncached wordpress on digital ocean held up as well.
Broadly speaking, the only critical element is as follows:

Investors are using a <directonally lower> discount rate.[1,2]

_________

[1] The purpose of fed policy is to effect such marginal change. The rest is simple, no need to overthink it.

[2] The term structure of interest rates discussion linked above will only reinforce this point.
So Obama is walking on the same path as India's PM Dr. Manmohan Singh who is not aware of anything worth knowing.

I was once caught in some ordinary crime. I plead not guilty saying I was not aware of the law. Judge told me that ignorance of law is not an argument court can accept. Well, it was about about justice, law and constitution. I guess all this surveillance business does not come under any of those.
What it boils down to for me is that the best contractor in the world can't make up for the worst government decision makers. After a project goes down in flames the contractor can point to specific failings at the government level, but at that point it's too late, you've already wasted a lot of money and you don't have a working system.

In my opinion, multiple facets of government IT have to be fixed:

A. Government leads need training on how to successfully manage IT projects.

In practice this is a huge undertaking because there are a lot of organizational challenges that have to be tackled before a lot of IT projects have a chance of success. Good managers in government will also have to tackle dysfunctional bureaucracy in order to be successful

B. Government employees need to be held accountable for their failures.

C. There needs to be more full time IT professionals in government in positions of leadership

D. Hard deadlines should not be determined politically before it has even been determined if that the deadlines is achievable

E. The contract award process needs to be reformed.
>Having used the build system inside of Google it was somewhat mesmerizing, you really could put together things pretty easily.

I found using Leiningen for the first time to be a similar experience. I like it so much that I use it on non-Clojure projects too.
Ad avoidance is as much of a problem as periodicals that won't rely on their readers to make money. How come magazines are ad-sponsored but books aren't? What's the difference?

(I was glad to hear the Times makes money off of subscribers. I never feel bad about blocking ads, but I felt it was my civic duty after I started paying $13 a month or whatever it is to read it.)
Given the spat of hard disk failures I've experienced in the last few months, I actually trust the paper copy to remain useable longer. Also, the lower data density of a paper note book helps mitigate the risk as well - damage to a notebook simply doesn't affect the quantity of data that the loss of a hard disk, tablet, or flash drive can affect.
Or you can understand that a community will vote as they see fit, and some news items that are not to your liking may make it to the front page. If you disagree with the community, then I am sure you can find a more appropriate one elsewhere that might be able to meet every need you have, as opposed to one that might occasionally have something that does not interest you. With your 48 days on the site, I am sure it won't be hard to make the decision on where you want to get your news from.
Especially in medical studies, where you've often got cases of n=40 or similar (even in later stages!), this is a huge issue.
In contrast, just think of the size of n you need in physics to be taken seriously!

The major reason for that is, however, that most people in the medical & biological area are rather lacking a profound mathematical education. There are cases where papers get rejected because they are too mathematical.
If you're looking for file snapshots and versioning, I've found Back In Time (http://backintime.le-web.org/) to be awesome.
Individual Android phones beat the iPhones, it's just that Samsung sells a lot of cheap phones too, so the JD Power methodology disadvantages them.

It's similar to the stats that looked at selling price that always favoured smartphone only corporations (Apple, HTC, RIM) and hid Samsung's progress.

"Samsung smartphones beat last three iPhones in user satisfaction"

http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9241257/Samsung_smartph...
When will this trend of "like time machine" backup software going to stop ?

Time Machine, as can be seen here http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/ time machine is tightly integrated in the os and provides a self-defining interface and user experience.

This github page is for a wrapper shell script around rsync, which is not like time machine.

This has been going on for a while now, see Timevault (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeVault ), back in time (http://backintime.le-web.org/ ) or flyback (http://www.flyback-project.org/ ).

Please telling us your backup solution is like time machine when it lacks the kind of UX time machine offers, thanks !
When you're battling with semantics to skirt by underlying truths and morals, you should notice there's a problem. Maybe I'm alone in this sentiment however.
Better yet, try zfs.
Facebook Doesn’t Want You To Know Who Unfriends You. Do You?
Legal automation faces one giant hurdle. As any first year law student knows most of the time there is no "correct" answer. This isn't Jeopardy where the correct answer is "who is Winston Churchill". Law is a negotiation about whether or not the wife gets to keep the dog, whether or not the seller takes the risk of the shipment being held up in customs, or whether or not the purchase of A tech company should be subject to an earn out. None of these questions can (as yet) be readily answered by a formula. I very seriously doubt Watson can answer any of these questions.

Don't get me wrong - legal automation is coming but it is only replacing the least skilled. Paralegals, procurement officers and law students have the most to fear.
Wow, who could have thought she was a terrorist. Good disguise.

You know what would be funny? Tapping the Nobel Peace prize committee.
You dismissed an entirely relevant link because you are allowing your biases to blind you, and are actively missing an opportunity to learn about someone who actually embodied the hacker mindset, because you do not have it.
One of the underlying assumption of trade is that you both (tend) to gain value in transactions. One party wants the money more than they want the item, and the other party wants the item more than they want the money. If the item was worth the same to both parties, then there'd be no reason to swap.
Although useful, this is nothing like Time Machine.
Avoiding talking about gender in tutorials is not a prescription for fixing the gender gap in tech, it's a way to not make it worse. The fix, IMO, has to happen on a personal level, encouraging individuals of all stripes to try programming or other tech fields, and calling out those who make it harder.
First, there isn't enough technical info about how the feature is implemented for me to not be worried about it affecting me in terms of security and bandwidth; and from my subjective experience so far, I don't trust Comcast enough to accept their claim of no / minimal impact.

Second, the way I see it, Comcast is asking us to donate our resources (bandwidth, etc.), as minimal as they may be. Now, I don't mind donating to a good cause. I do, on the other hand, mind being forced to do so, without my consent; and especially so when a company is profiting from it ($3 daily access pass for non-subscribers).

So, if (a) I could be sure that it will not affect me, and (b) this would be a free for anyone who is in the area to use, and (c) they'd ask me to opt-in, I'd enable it.
My take, timing is important. Play the ball where it is going to be.
> whatever they want in office

are you sure it's what they want?
If the interviewers are not competent enough to detect those who would fail FizzBuzz through other means (like a simple, respectful conversation about any technical topic) then I would not want to work with them.
Snowden, Assange, Manning, Vanunu - the true heroes of our time
God no. The only thing worse than a liar in power is a zealot.
I am a scientist. Bacteria won't become immune to heat.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/EmergencyResponseCard_297500...

At one time, nicotine was used in the United States as an insecticide ... Nicotine affects the nervous system and the heart. Exposure to relatively small amounts can rapidly be fatal.
Japan is nuanced with the whole uchi-soto thing. You see a lot of total indifference to people who don't count. For example, you have large numbers of homeless people struggling to eat helped only by Koreans and Western missionaries.
To be fair there hasn't been any issues with stock on the new Nexus 7. I think what happened with the Nexus 4 is they underestimated the demand the reduced price would cause. It was the first time they sold a Nexus at such a discount. I think they'll have things more in control this time.
Late November of this year and it's 40% done? How's this going to work out?
The endless bickering over whether or not it's HN material is a lot more annoying than a single entry on the front page. And much harder to scroll past. It took three whacks of Page Down to reach the bottom.
Why is this machine always asking for the users fingerprints? Doesn't that break the anonymity of bitcoin?
So I wonder what led the cable companies to try this.
I was in the Bay Area a few weeks ago and was able to try out the Xfinity WiFi. It was actually really convenient being able to work from the small coffee shops in Berkeley and in the city. The speeds were awesome too, around 27Mbps down and 10Mbps up. Most places require you to pay for WiFi or the speeds are just throttled way too much (1.5Mbps/0.5Mbps). As long as your own service isn't being hindered by the Xfinity hotspot and your own network isn't vulnerable due to the additional piggybacking, I don't see anything wrong with it.
"Compassion is the basis for all morality" -Schopenhauer
Check if your site uses a known weak key here:

https://factorable.net/keycheck.html

Enter a domain name or an IP address.
Agreed. If the interviewers are not competent enough to detect those who would fail FizzBuzz through other means (like a simple, respectful conversation about any technical topic) then I would not want to work with them either.
It is like a Ponzi scheme in that it requires continuous expansion to maintain. Switching metaphors, it's also like a Catch-22: Amazon is successful precisely because it makes no profit. How, then, do you value future cash flows? Any profit it does make will hamper future flows. Furthermore, Bezos is far too into empire building to stop and take profits. His ego and fame is bound up into the size of his company, not how profitable it is, so the expectation of profit should be near zero.
Missing some options for extended attributes (SELinux, ACLs) and (on OSX) resource forks.

Also, if you're doing multiple backups of the same data to a filesystem over time, it's worth doing 'cp -al' from the previous backup to the current backup destination, then rsync over the top of that - that way multiple copies of files which haven't changed don't take up any extra space.
I have written a similar script that I use for many years now. These sort of backups are very convenient.

I started too with hard links but nowadays I prefer to format my backup disk with BTRFS and use btrfs snapshots instead, though I still support hard links.

I prefer btrfs snapshots due to their support for COW, so if I decide to play with a backup I won't mess all the other versions of this backup. With hard links you should never write to your existing backups.

Lately I added a helper script to mount remote filesystems and lock mysql databases but it could be easier to use.

Most of my code is checks to make sure I won't write somewhere I shouldn't to.

https://github.com/andmarios/mrbStudio
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.T...

Not sure if that link will work, but they're going on eBay for about $250
Society has lost its way.
If I'm right that all stocks benefit equally

You are wrong on this. That's your problem. A dollar today does not equal a dollar tomorrow. Those promising more dollars the day after tomorrow, and those promising a dollar tomorrow will see differential pricing.
Sweet. Thank you!
"lost its way" suggests that science was once firmly on a sure path of rigorously verified studies, never a thrice-checked statement assumed. That was never the case.

Acknowledging, attempting to quantify, and then (some institutions) attempting to fix systemic issues in the peer review system is not an emerging crisis. We have to fix incentives, but we aren't about to see some fundamental tenets about to be overthrown here.

It isn't clear what the "big cost" is referring to. Certainly money has been spent on poorly-founded studies with fundamentally inconclusive results. If it instead refers to opportunity cost, fortunately we have the entire future of humankind to pick up what we might have figured out earlier.
It seems that qt-4 is not supported on Mavericks.
Sometimes I wonder how the web looks like without a ad-blocker, for example if there are ads on HN. But I never was brave enough to surf the web without one after I got my first one back then.
This can be detected fairly easily, and guarantees no appeal when you get caught
I don't really get the "I'm indifferent so I don't vote" argument. If you're really indifferent you might as well vote as the downside is minimal, while the downside if you're wrong is quite large e.g. someone is manipulating you into not voting. Sometimes the only way to be rational is to act irrationally.
> even seemingly "senior-level" people (people with years of programming "experience" on their resume) have shown an inability to do basic coding from scratch.

I wouldn't have believed you a few months ago (and your statement is still stronger than my experience), but I've finally seen people who are so maintenance-bound, that even though they're good at _that_, they've never managed to learn the language (the corners, idioms, and semantics) they've been maintaining. It's probably a sign of heroism that they picked up enough to do so on the fly, but, you wouldn't hire them to write new code.
Does Rhodia still stick their logo on every page?
What I'm reading in the article is claims that science funding has lost its way, and is rewarding exactly the wrong actions with money and prestige.
Some politicians probably are simply naive; those who aren't instead have to put up some theatre to pretend to the voters they didn't know what is going on.
Kinda cool and creepy at the same time. It sets of my creepy vibe a bit to have such an efficient machine for destroying living things. For a tree, it doesn't seem so bad, but what would you think if there was a slaughterhouse machine that processed cows or chickens like that? Hell, for all I know there already is one. I know my food has to come from somewhere, but I don't think I'd like to watch a machine like that at work.
While I'm happy to see the world's first anything happen in my hometown of Vancouver, I do question why Vancouver was chosen over San Fran, Portland or New York. Those cities seem more fit for World's First. Even if its a Canadian market they are targeting, Toronto is our financial centre and would make a better choice for this currency.
Do not go past go: New drivers must play a board game in order to get licence
I'll be brutally honest for you, since I would want the same: this is crap. You shouldn't have put this up yet. Here's a list of things wrong, I really hope you fix them because I like to see people make nice things :)

1. You're using minimalism as an excuse to not build a landing page. What is this!??!?!?! I sort of know what it is, but have no idea what the software looks like (is that a screenshot?)

2. I hate giving others design directives, but comic sans-ish fonts + spreadsheets makes very little sense. You can be "cute-sy" on other parts of the site, but when it comes to numbers you want things to be readable.

3. please preload any rollover images you have, seeing a button blink when i hover over it is so 90s.

4. The "Try now for free" should be right aligned, forreal.

otoh, the logo looks nice, except you should consider better aliasing on the font (or a css3 web font!) :)
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I meant "doom" in the sense of loss of personal information and/or spyware. Basically, the things you were outlining. I'm glad to know that you can control these things as of 4.3 though.
Past performance is not an indicator of future results. If you want to look at the future, you need to combine previous results with possible future scenarios. Is business to a particular restaurant different based on the season, are there cash flow problems to consider? Regression or historic modeling is not that great - this includes where it is frequently used such as network analysis, stocks, etc. However, some of the drill down type things might be useful to monitoring food cost or helping to do future modeling. It depends on what features you have when you are near an MVP.

I am also not sure what this dones that a spreadsheet template couldn't do at this point. For the rainy day scenario, are you asking them to put this in, or will you take their location with weather data to automate this analysis?
There's nothing wrong with criticizing science, but the reaction to The Economist article -- which itself was a bit too breathless for comfort -- is heading rapidly into tiny-green-football-linkbait territory.

The scientific funding and publication system has problems that deserve scrutiny, but science itself is far more rational than nearly any large, human-maintained system I can think of.

When we resort to hyperbole like "science has lost it's way", we give a group of vocal, clueless idiots more power to undermine the most consistently productive engine for progress that humanity has ever devised. So let's talk rationally about the problems, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Don't knock it. :)

I'm happy drawing my own stuff on plain paper and adhering it with clear packing tape. Helps protect the cover.

But that's me. Folks want to pay for this or that indulgence, I say have at it.
A clip of the scene in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gf8NK1WAOc