skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/d...

Introversion and extroversion have nothing to do with shyness or how outgoing you are. It has to do with where you derive energy and I disagree with the author of the linked article that introverts just need to practice social interaction. As the book points out, introversion and extroversion can be determined very early in life, she mentions a study where infants who were more reactive to stimulus turned out to be introverts and infants who were chill turned out to be extroverts:

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“The four-month-olds who thrashed their arms like punk rockers did so not because they were extroverts in the making, but because their little bodies reacted strongly—they were “high-reactive”—to new sights, sounds, and smells,” Cain writes. “The quiet infants were silent not because they were future introverts—just the opposite—but because they had nervous systems that were unmoved by novelty.” These “high-reactive” babies grow up to be children who need a lot of time to decompress after school, need time alone to be creative and explore. They are introverts, not anti-social, Cain explains. There is a big difference.

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Thanks. The syntax was challenging, especially all the template syntax ("{{my_template|{{{argument1|defaultvalue|{{nested_template}}}}}}}"). Fortunately, the new lua module should eventually replace the template syntax, which should make it easier for future parsers.
Isn't $2.3m negligible for the size of companies involved and even compared to the legal expenses for this case?
It's cases like this that make me really miss Groklaw.
Lonnie Johnson http://www.ajc.com/news/business/super-soaker-creator-awarde...
Fluxmob Bolt Portable Charger With Battery
So they have six more years to sue. Can they renew and is there any plan they will renew this? Even though RC4 is no longer recommended I don't see us moving away from it for another 5-6 years given many servers probably can't upgrade to newer ciphers (I am thinking about those old RedHat servers). Correct me if I am wrong though.
Won't be for pediatric cancer till after this has gone through what 5-10 years of a trial stages and then used on adults for several years.

Serious hope this project works BUT very sceptically it can make it to market. Seriously be a game changer if something goes directly to generic.
Shyness is an effect, not a cause.) And it is an effect of many different causes. It could be inability to cope with other people due to some deficits, as in a mild form of autism know as Asperger syndrome, or it could be a result of a childhood traumas, or, which is usually the case, some genetic predisposition and environmental causes and social deficits and some kind of feedback loops leading to a repetitive behavior.

Asperger's is a learned behavior, which could be unlearned and retrained by a set of CBTs, while severe forms of autism, which are caused by some neurological deficits in much greater extent that just environmental feedback, cannot be altered by mere CBT.
Ah, in China you watch CCTV; in United Kindom, CCTVs watch you.
True, and moving to a new platform would probably take a VERY long time and be a huge undertaking - Visma is well known for their lock-ins of customers data.

I'd believe Microsoft Dynamics is their new platform, as it would scale properly and support global distribution and stock systems management.
I've had that discussion with myself many times.

But should you, or anyone else for that matter, wish to gain that financial insight, I found the book 'All You Need To Know About The City' by Christopher Stokes to be very useful.
the real economics of buying Bitcoin mining rigs should be as follows:

If the cost of the mining unit will buy more BTC than it will generate, just buy the bitcoin. So a 2.2ghash miner (e.g. Blue/Red Fury from BPM) will generate 0.1BTC over 6 months. That miner would cost you approx $280. That would buy you 0.35BTC at a price of $800 per BTC.

There is obviously a point at which these would be economical to buy but that price point is less than $80, which is just over a quarter of their current price and that is probably close to what the manufacturer is paying for the production of them (including chip costs etc).

Source - I resell a lot of mining equipment on ebay, I charge approx 2 - 3 times what I pay for the units in bitcoin and i sell out of stock usually within 48-96 hours.

Now it may be that obtaining bitcoins is more difficult that obtaining mining equipment, or the fact that you can buy them on ebay (a site people are familiar with) as opposed to a site like localbitcoins (where people are not familiar with it and it requries sending money direct from your bank account) means people prefer to buy miners instead of BTC. The argument that coins will be worth more does not factor in as you can buy more coins now whoch will also be worth more.

Final point I would make on this is that mining has not been a profitable endeavour for most of bitcoins history. Anyone who mined from 2009 to late 2010/early 2011 will probably have done so at a loss, based ont he understanding that coins would be worth more later on down the road. The big difference however is that obtaining coins now is much easier than it was in 2009/10 if you are looking to obtain them without mining.
> Yes! Let them eat beans!

Preferably in their apartments.

No, seriously now. I've got a friend who 5 years ago decided that he needs "to straighten his life out", and now he has a huge house in SV and is lead engineer at Apple. That's really fine, and obviously not everyone can have such a life. And people will really have to look inside themselves, and ask themselves what it REALLY is they want. If they want status and big houses, then they better be extraordinary smart & disciplined and/or rich. Me, I just want an office where I can do my thing, not being responsible to anyone else but myself.

A solution to this dystopian future would be the basic income as proposed in Switzerland. This is the only way in my opinion to make sure that a master/slave relationship will not exist, and people are really paid what the job is worth, unpressured by the need to survive.
Their numbers, converted in to yearly salary, GBP, and with tax taken in to account:

Senior: $5,500 - £58,000
Mid: $4,300 - £43,000
Junior: $3,300 - £32,000

These don't sound unreasonable to me. Did you convert wrong, did I convert wrong, or do you think those numbers are too high, even when converted?
If you think wells in Australia or North Dakota still have water, just wait until they start foraging shale gas by hydraulic fracturing.
> That con men don't disappear with regulations. They simply become regulators and monopolists.

I'm not sure that's the best way to get your agument taken seriously. The FDA are conmen now?
Elon Musk, by far.
Yup. It also has its own DOM, rather than continuously adding to one string and repeatedly running regex's on it (which is what MediaWiki does today).

I was already pretty far along with my own parser before Parsoid was usable though. (and my parser has its own DOM / hooks)
The bet is that advantages of Bitcoin over risks of gold outweight risks of Bitcoin and advantages of gold.

Today 90% of the economy needs connection and international trade. We rely on networks, computers and cryptography to support our lifestyle, remote labor, airplane travels and so on. Gold is almost useless for that. It's not programmable, it's not transferrable easily, there's a lot of risk and we all tried it already and we ended up with central banks having all the gold, promising none of the gold and printing tons of paper money which is backed by a promise to pay interest by issuing more of these promises. Small guys can't earn a lot of gold. It's way too easy to confiscate or control for someone who is bigger than you.

It's time to try something different, more suitable for modern era.
Internet filters are extremism.
Because they're making their case to the American people directly, having failed to persuade their colleagues.

And now it's up to us, having failed to elect enough people who support the Constitution. Elections next year, and in 2016. Just sayin'.
It is, the more important point is that going forward this judgement has set a precedent that can be used to win or leverage in future situations.
Do the Painful Things First
I believe the main purpose of the state is oppression, and that the state should be gradually and totally dismantled. You'll find no rationalisation for a surveillance state from me.

But I don't believe opposition to Cameron is at all served by blatantly making shit up, and that is what this title does.
I agree that the class division is fairly standard (though the middle class also includes the lawyers, doctors, and other professionals that earn as much or more than engineers), but I guess I don't understand the connection to real estate prices. Who owns all these homes, and buys all these homes? It seems as though it's a bubble that's almost ready to burst, the way that it's been laid out in the article. Or that the wealthy have been buying up huge proportions of properties to turn them into rentals. But there should be numbers that would back up that latter case.
About 10% of the Welsh population would vote for a split: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25035427#story_continues_...
The popup says "Please log in to ensure your vote is counted."

The Twitter auth also includes the ability to post tweets for you, although the popup says "We won’t post anything without your permission." Didn't I just give them permission if I authorize them to use my account? No thanks.
SQL Server: ntext, text, and image are deprecated
"I feel fortunate to live in a country with a judicial system like this where a jury can decide these things"

I still feel fortunate to live in this country but the dysfunctional patent system has nothing to do with it.

The status quo is this: When you receive a letter from a patent troll, you're already out at least $50k or so, possibly several $100k or even more if you decide to fight on longer. You can receive such a letter simply for scanning and printing a pdf file, or operating a shopping cart on your site.

This situation must be fixed.
> Consuming all your resources without planning, survival of the fittest, don't care and see what happens is what animals do.

Animals don't consume more than they need. We as humans, no matter how much we have, always crave for more, a hunger that will never be satisfied. No, we are not animals. We are worse.
"We've heard a good bit in this courtroom about public
key encryption," said Albright. "Are you familiar with
that?"

"Yes, I am," said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the
biggest understatement of the trial.

"And how is it that you're familiar with public key
encryption?"

"I invented it."

I think I see the trailer for the TV Mini series right there :-)
Bitcoin. easy.
I did not convert, sorry. Those actually sound about right.
Or don't vote. I don't give random apps total access to my Twitter account, even for a short time.
The Smashing Book #4 is out: New Perspectives on Web Design
"Authorize Poptip to use your account?

"This application will be able to:
* Read Tweets from your timeline.
* See who you follow, and follow new people.
* Update your profile.
* Post Tweets for you."

The hell.
Surveillance.

It always starts with a desire to be safe. And that comes from fear. It seems Americans today are afraid of more things than ever: pedophiles, guns, terrorists, lawsuits. Some news reports are ridiculous by foreign standards: teachers not being allowed to shake hands with students out of fear of sexual harassment allegations, boys suspended from school for drawing guns, bystanders not administering first-aid to accident victims out of fear of lawsuits, and of course the terrorism hysteria for which I have no words. I'm fortunate enough to have visited the US and have met mostly great people, but going by news reports the entire society seems paralyzed by fear.

I always thought of freedom as inversely proportional to safety. If you want to be perfectly safe, you'll never leave your house in case you catch a germ, get in a car accident or even slip on a banana peel. You'll never eat store bought food without first running it through a spectrometer. You'll want everything controlled, predictable, seen ahead of time so that nothing unexpected gets thrown your way.

I guess this is what surveillance is trying to do. Rather than accepting a level of risk as the price for being free and handling disasters when they do occur, we seem to be increasingly trying to avoid danger at all costs. And the cost seems to be freedom.

It's almost as if the author of the US national anthem knew this when he ended it with "land of the free and the home of the brave" (correct me if I got that wrong). Maybe he knew you couldn't have one without the other. I guess the brave isn't home anymore...

/disjointed philosophical rant
Not probably. The economy does run on the lawsuits.

I remember reading a while back that the hotel closest to the courthouse was owned by the son of one of the judges. Can't find the source right now, though.
Except it hasn't. The title is making stuff up based on bluster during prime ministers questions that have as much to do with actual, real policy as claims made on the campaign trail.
How can you say Snowden is not "in tech"? He revealed the entire global internet to be something different than we thought it was. It is political but that doesn't mean it's not technology.
If she runs again in 2018, the best plan might be convince enough Democrats and Republicans to vote for an alternative Democrat in the primaries to make the general election Dem v. Dem. Then you'd get people actually considering the individuals... Of course, she's 80, so she might well not be running again anyway.
"When the NYT does it, that means that it isn't illegal."

(In this case I agree that it isn't illegal, I just think that this kind of reasoning from consequences is a funny way to run a country.)
> Hitler was TIME's "Man of the Year" in 1938.

- after the Munich Agreement wherein Hitler agreed peace with Chamberlain. Ok he reneged, but that's not the point.
An Android game called Foobit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6800828
Or open up the system more and allow people to add their own algorithms to weight how they want not how pg wants.
Ah I didn't notice the disclosure so much as I skimmed the start looking for the technical details. Still strikes me as somewhat cynical though.
That's the first I've heard of Aspergers being a learned behaviour. Can you link somewhere that I can read more about that.
Agreed, the title should read:

UK Prime Minister: We have "to expand our" Internet filters to block extremism.

Which is more accurate, but arguably worse, considering it implies the internet filters already exist and the prime minister already intends to expand it's use before it's completely implemented.
The future PM CANDIDATE OF INDIA SHREE NARENDRA MODI JI!deserved to the time person of the year! Cos he thoroughly deserves it!
Someone who's born small and skinny can still become strong later on. I was "the quiet kid" until I consciously worked to improve my social skills. Now when I tell people I was "the quiet kid" they laugh until they realize I'm serious.
Thanks for giving it a try. Kiwix is definitely more polished in UI, especially as it has been around for 5+ years. I'd like to think that though XOWA isn't as friendly UI wise, it offers a lot more power / options.

Regarding images. There is some assembly acquired, but I tried to make the instructions as simple as possible. If you look at http://xowa.sourceforge.net/setup_simplewiki.html, then there should be two steps:

* Download the .7z file from from archive.org: http://archive.org/details/Xowa_simplewiki_2013-10-30_images...
* Unzip the .7z file to your XOWA directory. If you're on Windows and have C:\xowa as your folder, you should get a file called C:\xowa\file\simple.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.abc.sqlite3 as well as many others

enwiki is a little more difficult, but only in that it requires downloading more files.

Let me know if you run into other issues. I'm going off to work now, but I'll check again later.

EDIT: I forgot to add that if you set up ImageMagick and Inkscape (installation instructions are on XOWA's Main_Page), you can download images dynamically for each article (i.e.: you don't need to download the entire image dump first)
Why Intel wants to be everyone’s chip maker
Narendra Modi.
I have nothing to link, but myself fighting with it my whole life.)
gold also has an offline mode, worldwide adoption and a commercial use.
plus whats exactely the difference between bitcoin and all other altcoins other than technicalities. sooner or later there will be lots of competition
That was sarcasm dude, put some batteries in your detector :-)

The "corroding childhood" expression was used recently by Mr. Cameron to justify the nation wide ban on porn and I found his speech to be at the same time hilarious and deeply disturbing. Personally I don't understand how the UK electorate can be so stupid, but whatever, here it is:

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-internet-and-porn...
Narendra Modi
1+ for Ireland. Combines best from US and Europe.
tl;dr: Author loves Bitcoin
Gold requires social network to work. Can be stolen via internet if you don't hold it youself and the company that holds if for you has web interface.
P.S. We have PVS-Studio rule for this issue: http://www.viva64.com/en/d/0309/
When there is no qualitative requirement to make effective medicines, you'll find (literally) the industry degenerate into snake oil and the types of patent cures that ultimately led to the creation of the FDA.

Public health isn't nanny statism.
I don't know about easy, it was pretty windy where I grew up! ;) Ahh sorry I see what you mean...
Reminds me of the dtrace guys screaming at their storage array while observing some disk metrics live, and seeing a clear spike..
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2008/12/31/unusual-disk-late...
Looks smart! Curiously, any reason you chose not to use Revel?
> how to avoid what PHP has been infamous for : spaghetti code

Spaghetti code is not what PHP is infamous for. Spaghetti code can be written in any language. PHP is infamous for all library functions being in the global scope, lack of sane naming conventions for those things, terrible type conversions, unsafe libraries, starting php with every request, being able to drop raw php right into html templates - what it was initially designed for, and being just a general web programming language not much useful in any other context. It's also got a bad wrap for being the language of choice for people who do not wish to learn any other language or anything about computer science or computers.

PHP is what happened when people learned HTML and saw that once they got to forms they needed something else.
Well, US$ 4000 is 2950€. 2950€ net equals about 5100€/monthly before taxes, social security and health insurance. 61.2k€ per year does not sound totally unreasonable.

Edit: this is more or less worst case, i.e. highest tax class and public health insurance.
But "suspicious" deaths occur within any grouping of people. And this is just a conspiracy theory in search of some facts.

sorry, in a world of 7 billion people I cannot buy into a conspiracy based on anecdote.
> China shows that you can have a capitalst economy in a (not a real one, but wanting to be) communist country.

Wanting to be? I'm afraid that China would never want trying again in the current reign. China just has not yet figured out which model of heaven could be used to replace the communist one. It is really a tough job to propose for a egalitarian heaven in an age of quickly increasing rich-poor gap.
There are at least some in London. An old housemate of mine once got yelled at by one for relieving himself in an alleyway on the way home from a night out. Nothing more came of it then that, but it is still quite creepy.
Gold has kept it's value for thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands. It's a bit silly to compare the two.
Yes, that's what I said. It's a factor of two slower than nginx
Like there's huge competition to ebay.
it's trivial to call c from julia. the first project i used it on, the julia wrapper around cairo (the svg library) didn't support something i wanted. just reading the library code i figured out how to extend the wrapper in about half an hour. it was three lines of julia code. i was very surprised / impressed.
It's possible that bitcoins have value because they're more useful as a form of money than precious metals like gold or fiat currencies like dollars.

They're durable, portable, perfectly fungible and divisible, scarce and limited, easily recognizable, trivial to verify, impossible to counterfeit, and cheaper to store, protect, and transfer.
Barring a jarring alteration of the existing trajectory, the US will soon have just as watered down free speech rights.
Wow, well said. And extra points for quoting our national anthem at us!
Breaking the encryption on bitcoin is like the hunt for the philosopher's stone. We know it's possible to transmute elements into gold, but doing it on a scale capable of disrupting the market is beyond our reach currently.
HAppS is dead, long live Happstack!

What you're talking about was the HAppS-State component of the HAppS application server, a project which is in deed not active anymore. Happstack is the active fork of HAppS and had a "happstack-state" component for a while, but this was eventually rewritten from scratch and made independent of Happstack and is now known as acid-state [1]. It's even used for the new Hackage server that powers the Haskell package ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/acid-state/acid-state
It's a toss up between Snowden and Elon Musk. While I do believe Elon Musk will change the world we live in tomorrow, Snowden has dramatically changed our perception of the world we live in today.
I wouldn't call Snowden a traitor, but I think the term is perfectly apt for Benedict Arnold. He was a general in one army who defected to the opposing army. That's pretty much the definition of traitor. That doesn't deny your point that all the rebelling colonials were traitors to the British.
Author makes a case for unique feature of Bitcoin: asymmetry in security which may prevent what happened with gold-based economy - accumulation of physically-representable wealth in hands of the very few using force. This unique feature has never been tested before in the economy in the entire history of mankind.
That didn't stop TIME magazine in 2011 ("The Protestor"), or 2006 ("You").
This is an interesting idea. When Wikimedia finalizes an incremental backup solution, it may be possible. They'll release a dump with incremental additions / updates / deletions. You would then have XOWA accept the additions / updates, but ignore all the deletions.

It would place more responsibility on the user to maintain their copy of the dump though.
So, no dragnet, but our first priority is terrorists.
It's better to compare gold with horses an bitcoin with railroads.
There's no question that the information he leaked concerns technology, but at the same time it's clear this is a throughly political problem. So that's how I can say that Snowden is not in tech, because he's not and the whole NSA storyline is only incidentally about tech. Believe me, I'm as pissed off about the whole affair as anyone, but this is a world stage event and I was thinking a HN POY could be, at least in principle, "one of our own", as poorly defined as that concept might be.