skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Being educated is the default state of being.

No, no it isn't. Look around the world. Ignorance is the default state of being and continues to be the state of being in a lot of places.

>> An education is literally available everywhere,

You and I have different definitions of education.

>> and kids especially seem to get excited about the process.

Some do, some do not.

>> arents would have to explicitly set up an environment to prevent their kids from receiving an education of some kind, which, I agree, would be troubling. How realistic is that kind of environment though?

Very. Watch your cartoons and shut up.

>> Aside from that, it really is just a question of how.

It's really not, it's a question of giving access to learning to kids whose parents can't afford to educate them or don't care. There are a lot of these folks. In the days before mandatory education kids were put to work to support the family, social mobility was close to zero and... well it was Victorian. Compulsory education has been a huge step forward.
Not all school environments are like this.

From the sounds of it you probably need some sort of therapy. Did you talk to your parents about it at the time? It's their choice how to educate you.
Hmm, looks like you are correct. Thanks, I never noticed that actually.

Going to fix the offending "encoder" scripts (or whatever you want to call them) and re-index everything over the weekend.
I mentioned he was campaigning against software patents in the past. But his pieces are not critical about patents but very critical about Google. Maybe it is more a bias against Google than towards patents.

However the case, he is not a reliable or independent source in the smartphone IP wars.
"I got a reply in writing that it was $20k"

That sounds unbelievable! how can it be? it has to be a marginal case. I know at least two people that had babies in the US and barely pay anything (neither for the delivery nor for other medical acts before and after). They were PhD students or postdocs.

What I am wondering is on average how much an american pays for having a baby?
From my limited knowledge of Japanese politics, Abe seems like a disaster (not that others have been much better).

However, I'd say VAT is a pretty good tax (not too distorting) and Japan in dire need of more government revenue (200% government debt / GDP). More so, the rate is only 10%, where as some north european countries have 20% or 25%.
Nobody in the United States gets access to cutting edge/experimental medicine either. Insurances just won't pay for it. They say "too experimental" and "not medically nessessary" is a reason not to pay. I am currently in a 3rd level of appeal to get my insurance company to pay for my medication they claim is "too experimental" (it isn't by the way!!!)
It's 1994 on HN: Exclude all Web articles. Can't here it anymore.
I rise late and I work late. If left to it my most productive time seems to be 6-11pm.

I've never really been that bothered by the 'distractions' of the 9-5 though. I've always worked in collaborative, open-plan spaces and I've never really seen the problem with them. If you need a bit of 'away time', put your headphones on for a while.
Alternatively, staying up insanely late gets you the same interruption-free time. The number interruptions you'd get between 4-8AM is probably similar between 9PM-1AM
That networking and building contacts is an important part.
Being smart and learning the material while skipping all the classes and social events won't give you all the benefits.
Not all of them are for-profit.

http://nashvillesoftwareschool.com/
alternatively, you can just put these plants around your existing, ugly desk=same fresh air.
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Abe wants an international incident so he can beat the drums of war and convince the people that Japan's self-defence force must be allowed to become a full military force again.
The only problem with the 9-to-5 schedule is its adherents' insistence that it is the only valid lifestyle.
...think that's what I said - the oppression is a response to perception of a greater evil of instability. Scratch any country's leadership and you'll get the same kind of result. The question is whether that is justified, and historically seems to be more usually a case of paranoia, micro-management, and control freakery.
I'm up since 5h00 and I produced nothing of value yet.
Killing cancer like the common cold
Also, OpenVZ has faulty POSIX support in some cases. I'm particularly aware of how the lack of xattr support has bitten many GlusterFS users, but the same lack could affect anyone who wants to use SELinux, ACLs, or just xattrs for their own sake.
I'm curious why "an object that calls itself a COW is not a cow" yet "a function that calls itself SEND-COWS-TO-MONTANA really does"? Both are merely abstractions over ideas, no? One over the idea of a thing, one over the idea of doing something.
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"Adult diaper sales surpass baby diapers in Japan"

http://news.msn.com/rumors/rumor-adult-diaper-sales-surpass-...
Definitely. It can go VERY overboard at times, and that's part of Haskell style, writing code that makes intelligible types appear. It means that both the compiler and your users will have an easy time with your code. Most of the best libraries are pretty good about that.

It's also a familiarity thing. The most complex signatures require some practice before they're easy to digest.
Calling it "self-documenting" might be a bit of a stretch, but I can assure you that having type information in the absence of comments helps a lot -- the base level of no documentation is much easier to work with.
New logo for US spy satellite from National Reconnaissance Office is weirdly similar to anti-communist propaganda:

https://twitter.com/tinyrevolution/status/409324433371705344...
Litecoin developer NodeJS tutorial
This is not silly in the way that you think it is silly.
Try this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
Obama express condolences to Mandela's widow
It would probably need to be at least a nickel before that was a serious consideration, but good point, because I honestly hadn't thought of that at all.
Even in cases where it is, it's still possible to circumvent. Turn on the webcam, take a photo, turn off the webcam. If it's done fast enough the person won't have time for their eyes to notice that the light was on.
Or better yet, a simple userscript. That way a single script could be run on all modern browsers with a couple of small tweaks required for the big 3, and easily installable out of the box on Opera and Safari.
there is also LIBRE = Libre Information Batch Restructuring Engine
https://github.com/commonwealth-of-puerto-rico/libre/
Can you extend this with filtering all AngularJS articles as well? :)
er... what? all of the most productive people I know are terrible at timekeeping and sleeping at a reasonable time. the 'good' ones at timekeeping amongst them are routinely 15 minutes late, and they won't go to bed in general until past 12.

there may be some kind of sampling bias... my experience of people who do get in early to work hard - rather than stay late, with few exceptions (two otoh), is that they are not especially productive people anyway...
FWIW: I am a programmer and (sometimes) an early riser
Service Discovery with Go and etcd
now that's interesting.

and didn't have to fly anywhere to scan a qr code.
Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013?
> Oh, you haven't seen what Abe is yet to disclose next. He seems to never run out of brilliant ideas. And he likes the nationalistic fiber, which I find despicable on top of everything else he does.

Let me introduce you to Xi Jinping.
Are there any reproducible studies proving highly productive people wake up early?

Or just anecdotes?
Google spreadsheets as REST API sources
PowerShell would have been awesome if it were a proper superset of bash and they released the code under a GPL, Apache or BSD kind of license.
$20K for a normal delivery? that sends shivers down my spine. I knew healthcare is expensive, but this is insane.
Personally I can't stand software.

I'd rather have real kit simply because there is a maintenance overhead for supporting software based solutions. Embedded systems i.e workstations are probably a good midpoint. You can just sit down and play shit then.

However, $1000 for 808 clones is batshit.

I paid less than half that for my Triton Studio which emulates an 808 pretty much spot on with about 20 mins work.
How do I filter all these posts complaining about bitcoin?
The site crashes my browser (rather, the tab it's running in, Chrome 32) I see a loading bar, then I see something resembling a Spelunky level for a few seconds and then it crashes.
With user-supplied words to filter too.

Or personal scoring and coloured thread titles to suit. This isn't about the HN ranking mechanism, it's about finding and highlights article titles that might be interesting to the user.
Yeah, anytime someone says "once in a million years" and isn't an astronomer I would doubt those numbers. My money would be on "the number we need so people don't freak out".

On the other hand, it's also easy to overstate the magnitude of a disaster. To the best of my knowledge, no one actually died of radiation exposure from the accident (and probably no one will at this point). There are expected to be a number of deaths (somewhere between 15 and 1100) from increased cancer rates in the larger population. I would hope these weren't included in the "one in a million" claim.
There was a saying, which goes something like "If you want something to be accomplished, give it to the busiest colleague."

Why is it so?
Nature vs nurture is a fun topic. The above topic reminded me how I learned to read. No where near as advanced as they, but nightly my dad would read to me and often the same book, the little prince. I was four or younger. I noticed that the words correlated with what is said, and I began seeking forward for shorter two and three letter words and was excited when I acurately picked out the right upcoming words. The words got bigger and I realized the link between letters and sounds. Exposure is important. Related somewhat to the article: my first memory is around 18 months old and involved knowing a good guy toy was to be punched and I found it odd that you would "hurt" the good guy.
Microsoft designs smart bra to combat emotional eating
But Docker is so hot right now. For a while it was Node, then it was Bitcoin, now it's Docker. Can somebody build a Zeitgeist for HN?
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Bash/sh/zsh family is brilliant at intense interaction with humans. Aliases, short built-in commands, oneliner-oriented nature, keyboard ergonomics, really concise file/process handling - all of this makes it _the shell_.

I think it's hard for a language to be both suited for interactive and scripting programming, Python/Ruby/Node explicitly are languages for "heavy" scripting, they're poor choices for spending all day long with in a shell. Conciseness and obscurity of bash makes it a poor choice for "heavy" scripting. Also I think that Perl would be a nice shell and maybe that's why it's so often blamed for write-only code.
> This is pure bubble. Was there a sudden increase of productivity ? No. Was there a sudden increase of market size for Japanese companies? No. Then, you can easily conclude that the stocks increase is just fluff based on pure air.

This doesn't make sense. Stock markets are just as much about confidence of the future as they are about the present (hence the term "investing"). You could also argue that previous stock prices were depressed vs. actual performance.
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I think that's the problem - there are differing opinions on what "cloud" actually means.
Same happened for me, works fine in Canary
In my case it really is about filtering, though, rather than discovery.

I like seeing things I wouldn't specifically choose to see, but I know if it has 'bitcoin', 'snowden' or 'CIA' in it, it's almost never going to appeal to me.

But yeah, if it was generic enough, such a thing could be used to highlight or hide, appealing to both approaches.
From your github stuff it seems you've been programming for much longer than a few months?...From novice to pro in 12 weeks...not likely.
Bash sucks at slicing arrays (always need a `[@]`):

${array[@]:$from:$to}

Zsh is a bit nicer:

${array:$from:$to}
I wish there was a linter to check shell scripts for non-POSIX syntax and command invocations.

I'm put off trying to really grok *sh scripting because the landscape seems a bit of a confusing mess.
It's either not case insensitive or matching parts of words, as it didn't filter this: Bitcoin?s roller-coaster ride gets wilder as Wall Street, China climb on (arstechnica.com)
There are two bitcoin articles on the front page at the moment.

One is an explanation of the protocol.

The other is this one.
It sounds like you do not dispute that the investigator is extralegal and inconsistent with the normal mechanisms of justice. You seem to be okay with this because the "grievous offence against free enterprise" justifies it even if the law does not.

which I think is very banana-republic of you
So the upvote system is broken then? The users on this site upvoting the articles to the frontpage are not upvoting articles they actually care to read about?
Environment, animals would be my first choice
Is using Hacker News free?
Still to this day my brother and I make do with step sequencers and VST's... I've always wanted a real drum machine or sampler but just have never been able to afford it.
Several problems here:

1. Unlike your dataset, the tpcc dataset for the benchmark was not memory resident. Total dataset size was 786G. Just shrinking the dataset to fit in memory would substantially change the numbers.

2. The tpcc workload is much more complex than your benchmark. It doesn't make sense to compare a tpcc transaction, of which there are multiple flavors, to your workload.

3. All Clustrix write transactions are multi-node transactions. There's a 2x data redundancy in the test. We do not have a master-slave model for data distribution. Docs on our data distribution model: http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Data+Distribution.

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Now we've also done tests where the workload is a simple point updates and select on memory resident datasets. For those kinds of workloads, a 20 node cluster can do over 1M TPS.
Same thing happened at the ITC last year (except I'm not sure if an ITC ruling can actually invalidate patents):

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/VFat-patent-could-be-...

However TFA is being silly in claiming it threatens any significnt portion of MSFT's licensing revenue. Companies that size don't typically license individual patents, they license portfolios of patents.

Now the following is all speculation, since these licensing deals are very closely guarded, but from the few I've heard of: I'm guessing Microsoft's "smartphone" (or maybe the "linux") portfolio has dozens of patents, each of varying value, of which this was just one. So the portfolio's value will decrease a bit, but I'm guessing not by much.
I should point out that I didn't develop it. It was created by the people at Symcat. They are certainly open to any feedback, here's the blog post: http://blog.symcat.com/post/67337436520/cv-risk-calculator-r...
Hi, author of the site here. Spelunky was made using GameMaker 8, and I ported it to GameMaker Studio and used its HTML5 exporter to get it working in Chrome, then I modded the core game from there for this tool.

So: the reason it's constantly redrawn is because GameMaker redraws the whole screen.

But also, it's important to note that GameMaker is meant to be general purpose game engine. Dirty rectangles work great if you're building very specific kinds of games where only small portions of the screen are updating at any time. For a game like Spelunky, which is a platformer where the whole screen moves (aka there's fast "camera" motion), it doesn't provide very large performance boosts at all. I don't work on GM so I can only guess but I'm pretty sure it's a combination of a super-legacy engine (GM is 15 years old and hasn't had a complete rewrite ever) as well as a need to be as flexible as possible.
Hacker Makes Drone to Hijack Other Drones
The decline in block reward is gradual and predictable enough that your scenario simply won't happen.
Show HN: Net::Ops - Automate network devices configuration with Ruby
Ask HN: Closed captioning API
Does anyone know of a service or API for delivering closed captioning of television, either after-the-fact or in real time?
Hello,

I wrote these Ruby library and scripts while doing my internship five months ago. Now I’m back to school for my third year of studies and I don’t have the hardware and the time to continue to work on.

My main motivation to write this was to help people saving time when doing repetitive tasks. I worked in the telco. department of a big company and I realized that although people were really good at designing and maintaining networks they were wasting time on some basics tasks. So I wrote this little “framework” to make mass configuration changes on Cisco devices.
For example, I used it to remove useless crypto PKI on hundreds of switches, and to rename thousands of devices to lowercase (and regenerating the SSH key).

I am not a good programmer but looking back at my code five month later I thought it was worth sharing it, if never some people are interested in it :)
A quick hack made in 10 minutes.

javascript: elements = document.getElementsByTagName("tr"); for( i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if( elements[i].innerHTML.match(/(bitcoin|angularJS)/i) !== null && elements[i].innerHTML.length < 5000) { elements[i].remove(); elements[i++].remove()}};

The "5000" length check is to avoid the upper nest of "tr".
if only there were a filter for all the articles glorifying Snowden.
Safari extension from almost 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271

Clearly we didn't know what we were going into.
Bitcoin'ers upvote everything mentioning bitcoin because they have a vested interest in people buying bitcoin.
Man, nostalgia. I got started with GameMaker back with version 4.0... I was 11, lol. GML, my first ever scripting language...
>But this requires them to actually be in a condition (mentally/physically/education-wise) to figure out how to sign up and be approved for it, since coverage isn't automatic.

This is a tough one. I have a disabled family member who would have never been able to do this themselves.
Yeah, that'd be a perfectly reasonable claim. Upvotes (/flags) are a community measure and it's possible for the dynamics of the community, as moderated by the software, to result in the presence a bunch of Bitcoin articles which are only of interest to a subset of the readers, and a recurring annoyance to others. So why not have filters?

Heck, if all were right in the world, we wouldn't have Hacker News as a website per se, you'd have a Hacker News as some sort of "news group" cough on a standardized protocol, and you'd have client software that could filter that sort of thing for you automagically. :P
"Technology displaces labor" has a strong intuitive appeal. But I don't think it is very predictive... it never quite fits the data.

I'd be on board if we had seen investment over the last five years flood away from labor towards equipment and technology. But we didn't, we saw 20-30% reductions in spending on nonresidential equipment and software.[1][2] Declines in purchases of non-labor productive capital were far steeper than reductions labor (they're just harder to see for the average person).

It wasn't labor vs. equipment this time, the decline in labor was mostly driven by the decline in consumption.

I'm not sure there's strong consensus to explain the decline in consumption. One theory is that the decline in consumption happened primarily because households woke up one morning and realized that they were broke from years of credit card debt and housing investment [3], but there are a million other theories.

On the whole though, I don't think you find better worker conditions in agricultural societies. Medieval Europe and North Korea come to mind. Backbreaking labor all day for the privilege of regular mass famines... I don't think it's for me.

[1] http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/events/2013/january/f...

[2] http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_displa...

[3] http://www.perpustakaan.depkeu.go.id/FOLDERJURNAL/w17830.pdf
Where have you been the last 2 weeks?
Give checkbashisms a look. You can install it on Debian and its derivatives with

sudo apt-get install devscripts

Edit: It's a bit hard to find a current checkbashisms version on the Web (the one on SourceForge is an abandoned fork of an older version), so I've uploaded a recent stable one to http://pastebin.com/Ncu6DRuM. If you're not on Debian and decide to keep it clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/devscripts.git.
Yes, the upvote system is broken.

1) Only about 10% of HN readers have an account, thus many people do not have any voting or flagging rights at all.

2) The difference between making the front page or not making the front page is a few votes in a short time frame. A tiny number of people interested in a topic can easily skew that.

3) Not enough people visit new to upvote great content, comment on good and great content, and flag things that don't belong here.

4) Not enough people down vote comments that don't belong here.

Allowing people to filter articles makes HN a nicer place for those people. It's concerning that they may stop flagging articles that really don't belong here. Some of the Snowden articles were just pure political nonsense, with heated pointless threads.
I don't think that will deal with the weekly "BTC - $x" stories, unfortunately
The motivation of Clojure, to me, is making concurrency safe and easy. So far, the best way to reduce "risk" in concurrent systems is to constrain side effects, and not share mutable state between units of concurrency.

If you're choosing to reduce the number of side effects, then a functional language is clearly the best suited for the job. The creators of Erlang knew this. The creators of Haskell discovered(?) this.

In my opinion, the fact that Clojure is a lisp is completely irrelevant, personally I prefer ML-family syntax, but the consistent standard library of Clojure makes it too powerful to ignore.

The focus on concurrent programming is also indicated by its relaxed stance of side effects. It is not a pure language, it only sets the constraint that you cant have side effects that leak state into other units of concurrency. If your mutations don't create a risk of data loss, then you are welcome to use them.
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That we really were just kids and we'd look back and laugh at how young and, frankly, stupid we were. That it was better to get through it and move on than to let it consume you and get stuck in it.

Also that in the programming field grades didn't matter, but having great taste and passion did.
See, not all Canadians are polite.