skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main point of equality it to allow a brilliant child of a not so brilliant parents to bring as much value to society as he can. If a very bright kid is born in a farmer's family, we want he/she to become a top member of the society and work on the hard to solve problems, and not become a KFC store manager.

As pointed out elsewhere, the problem with that is education. The school system provides a very poor excuse for "education", and if the parents don't supplement that (as well-educated parents likely will), that naturally hampers the bright-child-in-a-poor-family example.

There are exceptions of course, there will always be - but to solve the problem at a larger scale, what must be solved is the education problem. At the moment, 90+% of "education" must still be provided by the parents. Educated people understand that the school system is a parody of education, and so tend to compensate for that. But how can uneducated people understand that and compensate for it?
Yes; why not learn from sites / apps here; you get ads/data sales, it shows that you do after installation. For $10/year you don't get either. Most people don't care about $10/year. Look at mobile; people install for $100s/year of apps/games they use/play once. Who cares about $10/year for a good looking, well supported desktop? Otherwise, us another distro. I just like Ubuntu on the client and Debian on the server.
Hey, I uploaded the preliminary version of valgrind-freebsd to https://bitbucket.org/stass/valgrind-freebsd/downloads. It seems that there are no regression compared to 3.8.1, but please test, if you can, with your applications and report any errors :)
That's a good point.

I'm not sure how stack ranking can be good for any company:

1) It seems likely to deter prospective employees.

2) There's the incentive for the hiring teams to hire weak employees to use as "scapegoats"

Seems like a death spiral.
I agree with your response on the whole, but one point is worth quibbling with:

> I got the news. They approach Google AND they plug into private lines. The latter case is what I referred to when I mentioned "backbone" providers.

As far as I understand, these were not lines provided by "backbone providers". These were private lines laid and paid for and owned by Google. There was no third party who bent - Google got pwned directly, in secret, with impunity.
Please use 2 or 4 spaces while writing python code. It becomes impossible to read.
(defun f (x) (x))
the article didn't point to any evidence that some human genetic lines stay at the top for generations due to social context vs. say inherent qualities. The article pointed only to correlation. Such correlation doesn't means causation, especially considering that the social context may be a direct result of inherent qualities (while inherent qualities may be only very indirect result of social context). This is why comparison with baseline where we _think_ inherent qualities play significant role is important.

If, for example, aristocracy like English lords started (or was significantly affected through such a process) as most successful fighters, and didn't have significant gene mix with "lower" classes, when it would be very reasonably to suppose that their inherent qualities is somewhat different.
How do I know that the company spews bullshit? Because it mentions Alzheimer. This is the modern trigger word for asking for funding without stating a concrete goal.
Yes, I wasn't expecting this wrong syntax to work, just pointing out that the stack trace looks messy (e.g., leaks the absolute path to the involved Python file).
(defun f [x] (x))
They replace the cockroach's antennae with the electronics, which are used to send fake information to the cockroach's brain.

This was actually featured on HN back when this project was on kickstarter.
Gold is inflationary. There's infinite amount of that on asteroids and other planets. Bitcoin is totally an asset. It will probably have far wider usage than currency.
But to create a google voice number, you provide your phone number...
Yes. There's lots of examples of this... Just none doing all the parts I'm thinking of
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We don't need Daylight Saving Time
Hey Pallandt,

Apologies for the delayed reply. Our Kickstarter launch has been nuts. The FreedMan Chair is a paradigm shift in sitting theory. Osteopathy in the Uk is a real medical science with a four-year full-time course and in the US the study results in Osteopaths being Doctors. I myself have been an osteopath for 26 years and have dedicated 18 years to the study of sitting ergonomics and chairs. My Phd thesis at is "We are not meant to sit" and my PhD supervisor, an international authority on ergonomics and spinal research considers me one of the most knowledgable people in the world when it comes to sitting ergonomics.
I disagree about your idea that the best way to prevent back pain is to exercise. Sure exercise is great but there's actually very little robust evidence to show the best way to do it to prevent low back pain. This is a good paper to start with http://www.backpaineurope.org/web/files/WG2_Guidelines.pdf

To be honest I think The FreedMan Chair may well help you with your back problems. Someone could buy both a cheaper chair and an exercise bike too, but this seems a bit excessive.
I am working on a quadruple blinded randomised controlled trial of the chair, but this is a long and expensive process-we'll get there. And, yes I'd agree that most of the claims other chairs make are nonsense.
Your bed and the chair you spend many hours sitting on should be the most expensive pieces of furniture you own. You really do get what you pay for and this is the most sophisticated chair in the world...and considering that it's reall not expensive. I'll get to cheaper versions but this is as cheap as we can get he first one.

This is a true, real-life disruptive technology.

I've dedicated 26 years of my life to looking after people and improving their lives. Sometimes people do things because they truly desire and believe they can make the world a better place.

Best wishes,

Simon
Hmm, I seem to have found a limitation/bug in go blocks. I didn't know about the nifty "." syntax for calling methods on js objects, eg: (. js/console (log "hi")).

Anyway, I thought this was great, so I tried doing it inside of a go block, like so:
(go (while true)
(. js/console (log (<! clicks))))

And this yielded a compiler warning:
WARNING: Use of undeclared Var async-tut1.core/log at line 50 src/async_tut1/core.cljs

So there seems to be a problem with namespace resolution and the go macro? Or maybe a bug with "." in particular? Works fine when I do (.log js/console (<! clicks))

Either way, I would try to be consistent about your notation throughout the article. Either use (.log js/console ...) or use (. js/console (log ...)).

Core.async in the browser is a ton of fun otherwise! Kudos.
Recently upgraded from MySQL 5.1 -> MariaDB 5.5 with no issues what so ever. We have ~90 tables where the largest table has 40,000,000 entries.

I configured the new database servers as slaves of the old ones. This enabled me to verify things in production and do a safe upgrade. Promoting the MariaDB slaves to master was the only required action in terms of switching over. No code changes were required in our application code.
The feature length in integrated circuits.
Sorry if I hurt you.
I deeply regret that the government made such an announcement with "nothing" to show.

Just imagine a startup making such an announcement on HN, to show only XLS documents, and calling it OpenData...
Well, that's just what it looked like when that post made it to the front page of HN.

Recently, the government proudly announced an "OpenData" website about drugs... but it proved to be a website where documentation about drugs could be read online. It existed YEARS before, and it doesn't become OpenData just because it's hosted by the gov!
No raw data, no API: there will be no app which allows you to scan barcodes and tell you about conflicts between drugs, no app to prevent adverse effects depending on you health condition. No app I can imagine, no app you can imagine.
They just wasted our money for no added benefit.

I think they (France) do not understand what OpenData is.

Data does not become OpenData just because it's accessible on the net. It's OpenData if you can build something with it.

Think "source code in PDF format on GitHub" and you should agree that OpenSource and OpenData must be more than simply available online.
Ask HN: Le Web 2013. Who is going there?
I was thinking to buy a ticket for LeWeb 2013.
Who is going there?
I would like to know what you think about this conference. Is it worth going there?

Cheers, Domenico :)
Look at the Indian subcontinent for an extreme version of this phenomenon.
Does this defeat SSL or SSH?
I should also add that our kickstarter campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/929020713/the-freedman-c... has raised over $390k and you just 7 days to save $800 on the future retail price.
I hope you get one.
Cheers,
Simon
I feel I have to promote the Times Literary Supplement. I personally have always gotten somewhat more out of it. The NYRB feels a tad parochial (inward-looking) at times, its subject matter a tad more restricted than the TLS. But it's great they got Zadie Smith to write a piece for the anniversary issue, I love her voice. Actually a bit ashamed to say I haven't been keeping tabs on the both the TLS and the NYRB - I used to spend hours with stacks of them to pass the time and discover new pastures in uni - in a while.
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Serf - a service discovery and orchestration tool written in Go
I would have thought zero fees would be reason enough, 2-3% extra on every transaction from a merchant point of view is very appealing
Same feel: Copyright (C) 2013 London Trust Media, Inc.

Immediately lost my "Trust".

Added to that, knowing how persuasive and creepily mad London politics is about evading privacy is (even more than the US), this being a blatant double agent maneuver, wouldn't even surprise me. Maybe some now suspect journalist, who thinks, he needs to hide traces would jump into the trap. So this would reduce the IP's to those people, who feel like they need to hide something. Everybody else already knows that this info can be easily found out by sending an email to yourself. It's obvious that gmail doesn't need your IP, they have your social profile and all you web-habits recorded actively (services) and passively (adsense)

In the other case that this is legitimate company not serving as a shell company, not trying to collect IP's or E-Mail addresses. I'm sorry for spreading paranoia, to those who are sensible about it.
"This is perhaps more easily understood when you know that the Jewish culture places enormous focus on educating the next generation and on critical thinking"

Or maybe it is even better understood in terms of genetic differences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence.
The Unity Dash search box is placed where every user would normally expect a local-only search to happen. There is no reason whatsoever for me to expect the Unity Dash search to return results from the Internet, just like I wouldn't expect the search box in Windows 7 Start Menu to do so.
This kind of behavior that plays with users' expectations is common in UI dark patterns.

I think you are wrong about this.

The distinction between local & remote search isn't something that is apparent to many users. Additionally, it isn't at all clear that there should be a distinction.

Your example with Firefox is misleading, because Firefox is a browser, which automatically creates different expectation of privacy: it is quite normal for a search box in a Web browser to search the Web.

Many users don't understand the distinction between "applications" and "data" at all, let alone the difference between applications. They just want to find something!
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(Even if this is a known limitation and not a bug, I would love to understand why one form works and the other does not.)
FWIW, so did I in 2010. But what benefit - strategic or tactical - does that hold for Google today? Ask most people today if Google "does no evil", and you'll get a sense of what happened to that moral halo.

In the same vein, can the moral gains for Bloomberg from running these two stories outweigh the monetary/reporting freedom losses that will come too?
The magic of Fibonacci numbers [TED Talk]
"Self-employed" is the traditional term in the UK.
Yes, quite possibly the truth. I'd have said so myself, except I've been moderating my Google conspiracy theories to some extent in HN comments.
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In this post, I write about improving my workflow by using hotkeys on all levels of control. In other words, by throwing my mouse out of the window. Just joking, I’m still using it for web browsing.
I know, it's taken me an age to reply, but our launch has been nuts http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/929020713/the-freedman-c...

Yes, most of us really spent very little time sitting up to 150 years ago. Around the world approx. 10k years ago societies turned agricultural. Having a 'farmers' physique meant, better farmer, more food, more surviving kids, passing on of useful characteristics. So I think we have farming phsiques, and you're definately too young to remember, but I for one didn't have email til 2000!
Convinced?
Yep, this: https://medium.com/editors-picks/221d449929ef

Better than the pencil thing, imho, since it actually focuses on the can of coke itself, rather than the coffee cup the bauxite miners might be drinking.
Never send DB output directly to frontend, send object, filled by only necessary values from DB output. Otherwise you'll meet security issues and these "_" prefixes will be smalles part of your problems.
Ellen Page is naked in the uncanny valley
Need money for plastic surgery  
Good people could you help me to share my page? i really need help and for 20 biggest promoters i promise to pay $50 each. Please help me.
I do that. It's not about sending them directly. It's the underlying field name. I just keep _id fields as _id fields when I prepare data for output.
They're behind a VPN service: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

They may know a couple of things about privacy, reputation and trust. I believe they need all three to operate their business, so I would be surprised if they were doing anything fishy when they're disclosing their name.
Firefox 25 and its probably due to a lack of javascript (sorry if this wastes your time) because what I see is this in Firebug:

<p>This setup should take less than 400 mb RAM on startup.</p>
<script>
...
</script>
<div style="margin-bottom:1em;padding:0;">
<noscript>
<code>
<pre style="overflow:auto;margin:0;padding:0;border:1px solid #DDD;"><!DOCTYPE html>...
That makes no sense. How could one group possibly slowly evolve over a great period of time to be any different than anyone else?
please help. if you cant donate, at least share it.
Right, because rather than copping the automatic forex charge that most cards do for you, it is easier to open an account on coinbase, make a bank transfer that converts your USD into bitcoin (at a frozen rate mind you, that could either double or halve in value in a matter of weeks), and then transact in bitcoin?

Not sure I'm following.

All of the rampant downvoting on this thread and blinkered discussion regarding Bitcoin really bothers me.. it sounds like /r/bitcoin has taken over HN.

Don't get me wrong, I believe bitcoin is the future of payments. I have absolutely no doubt that in the coming years it will become a global payments infrastructure that will destroy the idea of an international money transfer and change global e-commerce and payments forever. But the idea that it is already there is totally misguided. OP is right. There is no sense at all to use BTC to purchase legal items in the vast majority of countries.
I really think designating torrenting as the primary method of downloading big binaries or really anything big is the way to go for OSS projects. I guarantee you more than a handful of people will offer seeding without asking anything in return. I certainly would be happy to seed any OSS project for a long time, I often have VPSs that are not being used (and in a way that really bugs me -- I'm paying money for things I'm not using fully. So I'm actually often on the lookout to see what OSS stuff I can seed).

Have a host as a secondary backup, for people who won't want to torrent.
I remember having been similarly surprised by the TOS.

However, the only annoyance and consequence of it, to me, is that I cannot share the link anymore than I used to. So I switched, and I'll switch back if they ask me to pay.

I am much more worried about them discontinuing Gmail. Since Reader, I have no idea what they are ready to kill.
Aesthetics of the rest of the image / object it is on. Inverting allows you to have a black 'quiet area' rather than a lighter one.

That being said, if you are putting QR codes on anything aesthetics are probably not something that even registers with you.
Bitcoins can't be used to extinguish the tax obligations that arise from legal sales.
I don't like Canonical's privacy trips, but I do prefer Unity because of it's most refined interface and modern look in comparison to others. Looks clean and consistent on any display. I have dual 1920x1200s.
and starting with insects makes it easier for transition to torturing of sentient beings. It isn't about what a cockroach feels (lets hope not much), it is about what doing it to cockroach does to the mentality of the one who does it.

What happens in the labs must stop. And one of the sure way to do it is to not let children to grow into torturers.
Can you recheck your maths? It is $0.08/GB (to Internet in the US 10-50TB volume price) not $0.0008/GB

1000 GB == 1TB

$0.08 * 50 * 1000 = $4,000

Or have I missed something?
> Edit: Morals and halos don't pay journalist salaries

'I needed money' is a poor excuse for unethical behavior.
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The Michigan-based company has even received emails saying the the backpack - known as Roboroach - "teaches kids to be psychopaths".

Have to say, I think I agree.
And how are you supposed to do that using Mongolab, MongoHQ or Firebase?
Definitely not against the etiquette. When you post the kickstarter link, it would also be nice if you included a link to the comments here in a comment in the new post
Yea my dad a carpenter, mom cleaning lady, grandparents farmers without iron tools until their middle ages, myself saw a computer first time at age 14. Yet Im software engineer and siblings too have master degrees in medicine and philosophy.

Heh. just another small anecdote.
You know what's worse than having paper sizes with differing aspect ratios? Having different paper sizes by region. The simple fact that if someone in the US sends me their CV and I print it in London, it comes out looking bad (sometimes even sideways, by some bizarre quirk of some rather expensive printers).

I mean, sure, the paper sizes used in engineering in the US have the property that two smaller ones side by side match the next larger size (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/drafting-paper-sizes-d_214...) but it's still a pain because it's all denominated in inches. There's no reason for that at all--it's not like there is value in having engineering drawings printed on physical paper with round-inch dimensions--even if the drawings are in inch scale.

So, US people: step up and abandon your paper sizes, because no one else is going to do it.
It was a temporary bug, your github is back online.

Building on the OpenSource CKAN project is a good thing.
Similarly, you should thrive to help people build on OpenData.

What really concerns me is the actual data that's made available, more than the technology used to serve it.

For the time being, it looks more like electronic document management than OpenData to me. The philosophy behind OpenData is not just "let's put office documents online", it should be more "let's see what they'll do with our data". Otherwise, where's the innovation? (except for the ideology)
Yes. We know. Some people are morons. Not sure why this is on Hackers News.
unless this is the github account of the NSA, i would sure as hell hope not
Zadie Smith is a frequent contributor to the NY Review: http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/zadie-smith-2/
I was a researcher on an analogous research project involving dragonflies [1]. Let me explain the difference: all of our research had strict ethical guidelines backed by IRB approvals, the procedures were performed by trained biologists, and the outcome is fundamental neurology research that will be published in Science or Nature. Meanwhile, these cockroach experiments are being performed w/o oversight, by "citizen scientists", with no apparent outcome other than novelty and staving off boredom. BIG difference. I do not approve.

* Thankfully, my work on the dragonfly project was the biotelemetry radio link rather than working with live animals.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/dragonfly-backpack... => No control of the dragonflies; only neural telemetry.
Future? This is the way it has always been, and we have just been fools to believe otherwise. It was only after Saddam Hussein had fallen that we learned that for years CNN had moderated it's news about his regime in order to maintain a presence in the country. Today "access" is still such a big deal in network news, it's extremely likely that many more similar stories of news organizations keeping themselves in check in order to maintain that access could be told today. About regimes, about our own government, about corporations, about powerful individuals.

It's ironic that the news media has advanced so far in attempting to mold themselves as some sort of aloof and apart institution, some form of abstract art with no holds to the mundane world of everyday lives and things. And yet at the same time they have become such big business that they are plugged into, and often complicit with, so many of the power structures of the world.
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according to this[1] it is not included in the beta version.
Having said that, Percona is not only XtraDB

[1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-xtradb/
My problem with user experience
The first comment on the actual article (Econmist) page is thus:

"I suspect that looking at incomes (or genes) rather misses the root of social mobility or lack of it. I think the more major difference is simply cultural."

Maybe you should give credit where credit is due? Perhaps you are being sarcastic but it seems like everyone in your family has noble professions, at least by my standards...
I'm experimenting with DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and NineFold (it's more about spreading out jurisdictions than absolutely minimising costs).
I've encountered hurdles like that, but most of the time, they aren't strictly due to billing issues, and more likely due to intentional restrictions coming from the seller. As soon as you have a credit card, pretty much all payment processors will happily accept to process your payment, wherever you are in the world.

I've had quite a few bad experiences trying to purchase internationally (if your billing address and your shipping address are in different countries, you're in for trouble), but I don't think BTC solves any of those. BTC doesn't solve the shipping part, and BTC doesn't solve the fact that some stuff isn't internationally available (for example, music/movies/TV shows).
First Bitcoin ATM gets 348 transactions in first 8 days. Now comes the hard part
What exactly do you think "makes no sense"? That two groups could evolve different traits over time? If so, how would you explain differences in skin color between West Africans and Northern Europeans? Or differences in lactose tolerance between different ethnic groups [1]?

[1] http://www.foodreactions.org/intolerance/lactose/prevalence....