skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Look at the way that children are protected from the consequences of their own actions, discouraged from being on their own, discouraged from physical activities, discouraged from working with their hands. Think about how much less common it is for middle class kids to have the idea that working in a "trade" is worthwhile compared to earning a 4-year college degree and becoming a "professional".

The very fact that you expect scorn for these memes to be common shows that, "We need to get back to manual-labor values" has itself become a meme.

>Fortunately some of those trends are turning around, but it wouldn't be so unusual to imagine a world were technology developed differently and people ended up as sort of the worst caricature of the "facebook generation". Concerned more with trivialities than anything of importance, spending their lives worrying about relationships and sex rather than politics and technology.

The actual problem with politics and technology is that only tiny minorities of the population can feasibly participate in them, under our current systems.

I mean, hell, I'm in academia, and half the time other academics don't know what academics are publishing. You think of an idea that might be useful and eventually find it was published a decade ago under a name you hadn't thought of.
My 7 year old nephew can't tell the difference yet between the carefully scripted dialogues we hear on TV and the impromptu ones we hear face to face.

Social media has enriched our online-interactions at the expensive of face-to-face.

We can find exactly the person we want to talk to - virtually, and maybe in person - why deal with anyone else?
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When I was growing up, I thought crocodiles were the closest thing to dinosaurs. I’m fairly sure that’s what I was taught in school. Then came all the drawings of dinosaurs with feathers and my mind was blown when I read that birds are actually more closely related to dinosaurs than crocodiles are.
About everything we use consume far more lines of source code it could (at least if we rewrite it with current knowledge). See the VPRI and their almost full featured OS (with compilers and applications) in less than 20.000 lines.

(Manifesto) http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm

(Latest progress report) http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
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The chart would be more helpful if it compared lines of assembly and not lines of original code (which is what I suspect it's comparing).
Any country that claims to operate based on the rule of law would recognise that a site like the one you describe would be seeking to deny natural justice to those depicted.
Isn't opening an email attachment a standard, right thing to do? Aren't email attachments supposed to be the main ways to send someone a non-text file, by design? If so, blaming people for doing it is wrong. It is Windows that is wrong. It is the way that Windows lets these executables run and do these things that is wrong.
This article is really short sighted, wrong and biased.

Some users might just use your app from the browser, in that case URLs do make sense.

You don't need to have a URL for everything, you should just have URLs for things you would want your user to bookmark(which can be nothing, depending on the project). For example I really like the fact that every GMail message I have has a unique link, which I can refer to from documents and other places.

But let's say your app will only be accessible from a webview for some reason, you still get benefits of having URLs: you can record them and have a rough overview of what a user did in your app and you can safely issue a refresh command in your webview.
An iPad is not a phone.
I do this too, though often with bookmarklets or with a plugin that runs JS on certain URLs.

One annoyance though is when the website changes their code. E.g. often CSS class names are shortened/compiled and will change with every update of the website.

Does anyone have tips how to handle that, that is, ways to get the right element without depending on the exact classname?
Not to be an asshole about it, but if you really have a law degree, then perhaps that explains your inability to see the moral dimension of what is going on here. Time to take off your lawyer hat and read again what I wrote.

I have not written whether I believe the publication of those standards is legal under current (copyright) law or not. The point is that it ought to be legal because it is moral. It is moral because (at least for some of the standards, according to everything I have read about the topic) the de facto way of following a certain law is to follow the standard that was published. Whether there are other ways of following that law is made irrelevant by common practice (again, from a moral point of view, thought perhaps not according to current copyright law).

If necessary, the (copyright) law should be changed so that the law follows morality.
% changes between related items (later versions of the same OS or software package etc)
I like reading these off stack-exchange since I am often to lazy to read the textbook.

My other problem with algorithms textbooks is that I get into arguments with other developers about how much we need them. At least here, I can say "Look bucko, the Linux kernel itself uses them."

I decided we can do programming at the API level and never have to think to how that API gives us the right answer. Lower-level programming is responsible for optimization when our number of data points gets larger.

And we could go even lower level and ask why the algorithms work in the first place - which is the computer science aspect. I routinely deal with developers who feel they do not have time for this.

Also, if the data is small enough scale, we can brute-force it and nobody will notice.
I once asked a very experienced colleague in a Linux team to fix the modes on a file, and he wasn't sure what I meant.

Explaining the acronyms helps. It gives a feeling that things were actually designed, and allowed you to see the consistencies since those acronyms keep appearing in multiple places.
Ask HN: Why there are so many programming languages?
Change from one version to the next.
It would be easy to set him up by letting him offend the wrong people, eg. organized crime bosses.
No, you shouldn't be impressed. It only shows that some cacheing scheme can deliver data this quickly. One byte reads possibly, perhaps the same byte read one million times. Almost nothing to do with MySQL performance in fact.
Ah, lines of code... the most useless metric in software development known to man.
Not being an expert on servers, I can see a possible use-case for low-power servers like this: strongly disk-bound tasks (e.g. infrequently accessible storage area).

Although, a cost analysis might be required- I suspect that a more powerful CPU with a lot more disks may end up costing less (per unit of disk space vs total power consumption).
If you're buying a computer with Windows installed, then it ought to come with a product key. Just download the appropriate ISO from Microsoft directly, burn it to disc or extract to a flash drive. For the drivers, just go to the manufacturer's website and download the appropriate drivers and burn that to another disc or copy to another flash drive.

Cost $1 for two discs, or $10 for two flash drives < Cost of a new computer

Even better, since you seem to be reformatting quite often, once you have the computer configured how you want, create a clone of the hard drive. That way you don't have to manually do everything over again.
Does anyone not think that Gary Jones is just a Hunter Moore alias?
The figure originates from this Wired article, where it is uncited: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/12/automotive-os-war/

I think we can take it with a large helping of skepticism.
It's important to see the long-term strategy behind software-patents.

Currently we are in phase 1, the "Wild West". Anyone is free to grab some land and claim ownership. Gradually more civilized procedures will be developed to acquire (intellectual) property. But make no mistake. Software patents are in the interest of the dominating classes in the US and will be established. Two convincing arguments: Software patents

1. create revenue for the patent holders.

2. can be used to deter foreign competitors or at least to 'tax' them with patent fees.

tl;dr: unfortunately poor prospects for the anti-patent league.
Ok figured it out. Wow that is unclear, its totally illogical too, the size of the circle seems proportional to the increase in LOC in the next random iteration he has chosen, but the diameter is also the distance between them vertically which is based on the order they are in. I reckon there was a lot of hacking and including / not including stuff in order to get those circles to match up and also present stuff in ever increasing order.
Also size of circles is arbitrary 100% size cirle is just whatever
+organism?? really? That is not helpful
So what can we do to fix this?

I mean, we're hackers, right? We build things that solve problems.

What can we build to solve this problem?

Some initial thoughts:

1) Personally, I've observed that video chat comes a lot closer to genuine human contact than anything else digital. Better video chat technology would be useful. Also, ChatRoulette but not terrible?

2) Infoproducts - perhaps it's time for an update of "How To Win Friends And Influence People" with more emphasis on the "Win Friends" part? There's a surprising lack of solid information on how to actually make contact with human beings.

3) There are loads of dating sites out there, but no friend-making sites. It's gotta be a solvable problem at least to the (terrible but usable) extent that dating sites have solved the finding-a-partner problem.

4) Nootropics? Cranial stimulation? Brain-training for chronically lonely people? Something even crazier?
I've never really grasped the concept of "hanging out". I feel a get-together has to have a tangible purpose, be it solving a problem, playing a game, cooking or whatnot. Hanging out without a specific "agenda" has always felt forced, awkward and in the long term boring, resulting in me gradually withdrawing from most social circles I've found myself in. I guess I don't get the point of abstract friendship for its own sake.
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In other words, you can't name them either.
I don't know about servers (only use/used Xeon x86) and i'm not sure it's different software or if it's Win vs Lin, but I have never touched anything saying Atom on the package being remotely useful for anything while I have a lot of very useful ARM devices. When people coming up to me saying 'I have a new laptop' and then it has an Atom sticker on the front, I know what's going to happen; they'll bring it back after a few days. So Atom in my servers make me cringe. Probably that's not justified?

I do know that in the datacenter we are colo'd, the vast majority of stuff hosted on the dedicated servers there could just as well be hosted on a $5 ARM board. A lot of companies hire complete servers for hosting a website which gets 2 visitors/month. This is also my experience as a long term devop (used to be fulltime, now parttime); servers I maintain, even clusters I maintain, can be hosted on a few $ ARM boards. They want dedicated because it gives them a sense of security and not being 'disturbed' by other sites so an ARM 'server' would suit well in that case. With the power consumption difference and bare metal costs, it's many $100s vs a few $10 per month for the client.

Edit: somewhere in my brain i thought I saw very cheap Atom servers and I did; http://www.ovh.nl/dedicated_servers/isgenoeg_2g.xml . Currently in the OVH sold out mode, but when they are back i'll try one to see how it holds up with one of those minimal sites.
I've found it to be a useful way to get some cardio whilst in the office. The Kinect Adventures game and the UFC Trainer were both pretty good.

Exercise is in general a pretty terrible way to lose weight (diet's the thing) but I'm pretty sure I noticed some fitness gains.
The financial regulations are pretty complicated and can be interpreted or retroactively changed as guys in your government want. Especially in US. There are already "anti-hidden compartment laws": http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/11/america-heres-your-war-on-d...

So if you want to hide your bitcoin traces, it's better to make them completely diffused in the rest of the blockchain history to avoid attracting any extra eyes.
Really? 80 million people were killed in ethnic cleansing by the US in Latin America in the 80s? Link to that?
So, a random assortment of commands, most of which have nothing to do with Linux.

I'm sure somebody will find something useful here though.
You misread the license: http://ikons.piotrkwiatkowski.co.uk/license.html

> Making modifications or alterations to any of the icons does not free you to then sell, license or distribute them to anyone else.

If you’re looking for something really permissive: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/
I am sure you have a long pending To-Do list which makes you feel guilty for not focusing enough on it. I long for travel, playing guitar, or reading books but I am much more comfortable surfing Hacker News or Redditing in my spare time.
it was considered hugely out of step with people's attitudes

.. as expressed via the newspapers and (some) television. It's certainly true that for a politician to do the right thing, it's necessary for them to go against "public opinion", but I'm not sure that "public opinion" and the actual opinions of members of the public are the same thing. In fact, the ban was introduced in 2007, by which point only 25% of people smoked, down from over 40% of men and 35% of women in 1980 and over 60% of men and 40% of women in 1960. It's just as easy to argue that the ban was only introduced once smokers were in a clear and shrinking minority, hardly an example of great political bravery. EDIT: a poll from 2005 shows 73% of people in support of a ban when given a yes/no choice, although this declines if compromise options such as legally enforced no-smoking areas are offered: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/43

If you believed the newspapers, you'd think that most British people want to withdraw from the EU (despite voting in favour of the common market in the only referendum we ever had on it), bring back capital punishment (despite it being long gone and there having been no popular campaign for its return) and deport a couple of million people for being insufficiently British (despite the fact that nobody has ever voted for this in large enough numbers to even start thinking about it; the Tories are only against increases in immigration and even this moderation of their past stance was only enough to get them into government via a coalition).

Without wishing to romanticise the good sense of the electorate, generally most people are more reasonable than the media makes them look. I think that's compatible with the notion that politicians follow the prevailing culture (possibly because, via doorstep campaigning and MP's surgeries they actually speak to real people every now and then) and it's the media that makes things look otherwise. It's true that going against the media does require some bravery on the part of our politicians, but I think past experience shows that when the politicians are in touch with what people actually want, it's the media that has to change course and adapt its view of "public opinion" to reality.
Something that might have been interesting (information content of life forms vs. programs) has been wasted by equating base pairs with lines of code. This is totally arbitrary.

Unfortunately I don't know of a specific better measure, but it might consider the used and potential information content in the structures encoded. Anybody know of such a metric for source code complexity?
Sure. Note the down mod for something that doesn't adhere to the received wisdom (but happens to be true nonetheless).
I don't quite get the connection. It seems like you're trying to point out some hypocrisy, but search spamming is bad and identifying your crawler is good.
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The children played in the road (hardly any cars) and in a park

Now I see children in nurseries behind substantial railings

The family may or may not know the neighbours at all

There's a separate issue which reveals itself in what you say but which wasn't specifically addressed.

A big reason for less community cohesion nowadays is that no longer are large numbers of parents staying at home and interacting in the community while looking after their kids. Instead, the majority are going to work and putting their kids in nurseries instead.

I live in Lincolnshire where many of the villages used to have thriving communities and shops, yet are now commuter villages and everyone has to drive to town to buy things instead.

The reason? There aren't hundreds of (mostly) mothers milling around acting as the glue for the village communities. Instead, they're all out at work and the kids are in the nurseries in town.

This isn't a particularly politically correct point to make, however, since obviously mothers should be free to work if they wish, but the movement of millions of mothers from daily community life into the workforce has had a serious impact on modern British society.
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Exactly the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox. Chrome just does not allow extensions do certain things (like running in browser's special pages).
I read it twice and I don't see any such suggestion in the article. Rather it cites a study that actually suggests the opposite:

> Forty per cent of high-rise dwellers felt lonely, almost twice the number (22 per cent) living in detached homes.
He didn't say Moore was less villain. He's saying Moore is not the only one to blame, and that can be understood: would you accept being fired because your boss saw a picture of you having a tennis game ? would you accept if it was a photo of a lunch with your friends ?

There is no reason a boss can fire you because of your private life.
I think the only thing he wants to say is that this page is older than Google.
> Courts don't exist to solve all disputes, surely.

Courts exist, among other things, to solve such relatively petty disputes as whether you were ripped off over a £50 TV, or whether people moved a fence an inch. The magnitude of harm here is clearly greater; I've yet to hear of someone otherwise stable being driven to suicide over a TV.

It's not sufficient support for the idea that the courts shouldn't address something to say that someone had to do some legal manoeuvring because it's not specifically covered yet.

> However, they lost their job due to the prudish culture that I originally referred to, not directly by the actions of the villain.

Why should that make a difference? He clearly was aware of the harm he was contributing to, in a fairly major way, and continued with it anyway. There was a clear line of cause and effect from his actions to the harm, that he was aware of. That this line was social rather than physical in nature strike me as an arbitrary distinction. If I put a bounty out on you, the line of effect is social rather than physical in nature as well; I didn't pull the trigger, it's just that I was talking to a greedy person who valued money more than your life.
> In the West, we live faster, higher in the air, farther from our workplaces, and more singly than at any time in the past.

Nothing in life is free. 'We' have to pay for our new lifestyle.
I knew I recognised your user name (maybe the fact you mentioned NZ first triggered something in my mind). Quite off topic, but you may be able to answer this: do you have any idea whether shutting down Tiwai Point would indeed affect NZ electricity prices significantly? It's kind of moot now (ugh), but I'm curious.
This is a big reason why we created http://happen.io. Facebook mimics real-world connections and puts them in cyberspace, but studies show it makes people feel more isolated. We wanted to create something for people to improve their real-world connections, not just their digital connections.

Happen.io makes it so that individuals can add their own events (like parties, celebrations, nights-out, family get togethers, club meetings, block parties, etc) and post them for others to find and save in their own list. Events can be public or private, for a group or not. It's mobile optimized so that people can use it on the go, not cooped up in their apartment.

It doesn't take much to feel a sense of connection. I think it really just takes a few good friends and a few groups to feel a part of. But a lot of people are missing that, and sites like Facebook and others sometimes turn into a place to show off how great their life is, not a way to meet new people or find real activities to do with others.

Why can't there be a place that just shows you things going on near you that others are invited to? With all this tech to connect people, how come people 100 yards away from each other never meet or get to know each other? How come it's so hard to find something to do or people to be with outside a list of your facebook friends? Why isn't there a place for an regular person to post their activities and events so that other regular people can find them and make new friends?

That's what we are trying to make happen at happen.io. It's sort of a long-tail event platform. There's already eventbrite for ticketed events, but this is for any event, including small get-togethers. And there's facebook and other event sites that use facebook's social graph, but that makes it so you only see events of your friends, not just whatever may interest you regardless of who set up the event.

It really is a disappointment in this digital world we become more connected to devices but less connected to each other. We need to turn that around.
If you look carefully, he also appears to literally have a "forked tongue"
TL;DR: you where hired as part of a team, acted individualistically, and got fired for it.

Two possible ways to fix that:

* stop selling yourself as a team member when applying to salaried jobs, become your own boss;

* do the job you applied to: be a team player, give your advice, then accept when it's not followed.
wow look at the symbian its double the android
Absolutely not unless you want to trash your server on install.
Can be useful, but I found this more interesting on same website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6789252
We have no idea what we are doing.

More seriously, Languages are linked to cognition and thought processes. I wouldn't go so far as to say they're a serialisation or marshalling of thought but you could see language as the rules that dictate the semantics of communication.

Like human languages, they simultaneously evolve and cross pollenate as we improve our 'vocabulary of semantics'.
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