skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other people have already made better critiques of your post. I find it to be a hollow assertion based on multiple inaccurate assumptions, but I want to focus narrowly on one point that I don't think anyone else has addressed yet.

So what's the reason for attributing so much power to these external "forces", none of which have ANY intrinsic power beyond what you give them?

You seem to be playing fast and loose with the distinction between "you" meaning me as an individual and "you" meaning a society that includes myself.

I, personally, don't necessarily give the NSA any power. Unless you're saying that apathy in a democracy does give them power. But therein lies the switch from individual to collective "you".

If I alone dedicated my entire life to removing their intrinsic power, I still wouldn't be able to remove it's power. Snowden threw away his life to try and remove the power behind the NSA. He was uniquely positioned to challenge their power and only managed to get egg on their face and start public discourse.

Societal things like this necessitate discussion, because that's the only way the power drawn from a large number of people can work to counter that power acting towards it's natural incentives.

Or are you going to argue that because I am able to to completely withdraw from society and live in a cabin in the woods I'm opting into the power exerted by governments and corporations? By that logic my continued decisions not to commit suicide are approval of whatever government rule happens to be the status quo. Rhetorical power of death aside, I do find that to be both quite true and utterly irrelevant to a conversation on the type of world I'd like to live in beyond the barest of bare minimums.
> Nature is not morally right. In fact, nature is amoral. Pointing to nature and saying "nature does it so it's ok" is a bit like pointing at a landslide and saying "nature does it so it's ok to build my house like this". It's meaningless.

Completely agree here, luckily I never made that argument:) I basically made a tongue in check throw away remark

> Killing any kind of sentient creature whose death could have been avoided is immoral (whether legal or not)

Here we disagree if by sentient creature you included animals, which I'm assuming you do or you'd just say humans:)

Look I recognize your name on this site now and I respect a lot of what you say but you just can't make this statement and assume its a fact that isn't debatable. Because its very much debatable.

Look we just disagree on this point, which is fine as its all opinion based and no right or wrong here.
You know Ubuntu as an operating system. Mandela knew it as his life’s mission
I look around at the average morbidly obese guy

Morbid obesity is likely due to overeating plant-based carbohydrates. Hi Fructose corn syrup is basically vegetarian. As are Pringles and coke. Doritos and guacamole. Don't forget Beer and Margarits! Snickers really satisfies your vegetarian cravings too. Nuttella tastes great but is mostly hot choclate made with palm-oil rather than milk, which makes is closer to a vegan health-food, but there are traces of powdered milk in it. Pop-tarts are a great vegetarian breakfast, too at 400 calories per pack. Not to mention the greatest caloric density in snack foods, the humble almond at 180 cal/oz. You can find those in your grocer's health-food isle, tho. Not too far away from the 250 calorie cliff bars and the the sucrose loaded "vegetarian" gatorade. =D
To make things easy during the development of http://Clara.io we wrote our own creation scripts that do all the processing of dependencies automatically.

Basically track which files are dirty and what other files are dependent upon their results (like a MAKE file) and then execute the various rules you have setup. This can work both in the context of a database where the files are all provided by the user, or it can work like MAKE does on a local file system.

GruntJS does this as does Jake with local file systems.
I've had a shocking experience of this product (abysmal performance, memory leaks and poor support). It's basically a poorly wrapped version of pyxll[1] which I would recommend instead. It's not production software.

[1] http://www.pyxll.com/
Can You Teach Programming With Plywood?
Blame Google for that one - Chrome started the crazy-fast browser version numbering that's now in vogue. Chrome went from v24 to v31 this year.

I think it's partly security-through-psychology; if Joe User's installation quickly winds up three versions behind, he'll be more motivated to update or to allow an update.
Sorry, that's not how entropy works with XOR.

If you do not know one of the inputs to an XOR, you know nothing about the output.

XORing random sources is great because it acts as a minimum function for entropy of all of the sources. As long as you have just one good source, the output is good.
is it VanHeusden's audio_entropyd? [1]

They also provide a timer and video based entropy daemons too.

[1] http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/
It's like they want people to pirate Windows.
FuguIta - An OpenBSD 5.4 + Patches LiveCD/LiveUSB
I have to wonder if they photoshopped that not to make things look symmetrical but to hide some kind of trade secret.

If you look at the picture below, there are blue blankets covering some of the racks. Gotta wonder if under those blankets are something they don't want other companies to know about:
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/2
Yahoo acquires QuikIO, promptly shutting down app
Not the point. Your position is flawed.

It's like homosexual supporter saying that because penguins can be gay that homosexuality is natural. It being socially acceptable has no connection to naturallity, and attempting to pretend so is a disservice to your position.

I think women in a company do have a rather special quality, to smooth some of the misunderstandings and lessen certain conflicts. That plus a unique woman perspective is invaluable when it comes to generating ideas.
I'm glad to finally see someone who supports wealth redistribution clear that it requires force (as well as being in their own self-interest). While I can respect this widely held position I am personally uncomfortable with this aspect. I wish we could achieve the goals of redistribution (btw-these goals need to be clarified) without force (i.e. voluntary charity). This actually seems possible to me because of the strong interest in charity by so many especially the very wealthy and the incredible inefficiency in the delivery of aid to the poor.
Whose Point are you going to believe?
> Animals kill other animals, only when they are hungry.

False. I've seen cats killing birds and then not eating them many times.

> They also don't raise animals in a confined, cruel environment, pump them with drugs, don't beat them, treat them like crap etc.

Strawman. He didn't say that we should treat animals like crap. It is possible to treat animals well, except for the killing part, and that's what this discussion is about.

> Animals also don't waste - every inch of meat is eaten, while we liberally waste.

Also false. Lions kill animals and then only eat a small part of it. Sure, later other animals & bacteria eat the rest, but the same applies for humans.
Of course it's bullying.

The private companies have been violating traffic laws, repeatedly, for years.

They know what they are doing is against the law, but they keep on doing it.

Any impact on road traffic or Muni has got nothing do with the above violation of the law.
Heh, I am just picturing a fabulous army prancing around with the charter to "break taboos"
When I read something like this, I always think back to when I would see some tinfoil-hat type ranting on Usenet 20 years ago about the growing surveillance/police state in America. It was generally eye-rolling or unintentionally hilarious stuff.

What's depressing is that it's starting to look like they were right.
> No, what it implies is that those who intend to do evil against America cannot hide anywhere in the world.

Define "evil" and "America"? Seeing how war profiteers sending off your young into wars, and making everyone else pay for toys that are just as mind boggingly expensive as they are mind boggingly useless for anything but murder and control, doesn't seem to either count as "evil" or as perpetrating it against "America".

> we still have elections

Oh yeah. "Hope And Change! Now That I Got This Fuck You". Rinse, repeat.

> aren't sending political prisoners to siberia

No, you send them to Gitmo or black sites. Snowden is stuck in Russia. Manning got tortured right at home.

> we haven't killed tens of millions of our own people

Well, the private prison industry is more profitable, is it not? http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/blog/%E2%80%9Clockup-quot...

Indeed, why kill people when you can milk them? Murdering millions of people is very low tech, and unless, you use very expensive weaponry others pay for, just not profitable. From a capitalistic viewpoint it's plain dumb. I think that explains more than any "values" you might think are present at higher echolons of power.
The Android version has received a facelift as well, and it looks nice. However, I suppose there still isn't a way to manually pin sites to the about:home page if they do not show up there already?
The flight of chickens is much like that of wild turkeys, which they resemble somewhat. A turkey flies when it roosts at night and whenever it sees or hears a predator, which may not happen every day.

The point is, since these two similar species have similar flight habits, and one of them is not domesticated, it's misleading for the editors to say "domestic chickens are not capable..." as if there were some ancient ancestor chicken that soared with the eagles.
Show HN: AddonList - services for developers, my weekend project
With New Mobile Apps, the Doctor Is on Duty
>But then again, killing another person is just how nature works too, right? I eat meat and will eat meat forever, though I can't help but feel like such an hypocrite for doing so while condemning murdering people.

I fail to see the hypocrisy. You condemn murdering people because a) they are your OWN kind, and b) they have brains capable of writing HN posts.

How about just constraining our moral obligation to just: don't eat/murder your own kind?

Let's get to that first, abolishing capital penalty, war, murder and such, and then we can worry about eating steaks and/or prawns...
I work in the smart card payment industry for a large north american bank. I've been in conferences with actual merchants voicing their concerns. I didn't make my observations sitting at Starbucks.
I acquired my (very small) BTC stash via selling stuff on the eBay clone BitMit; it was starting to get traction before the site owners decided to shut down / sell (its fate is still uncertain).

There are two others, CryptoThrift and CoinGig, but their transaction volume is still relatively low. It's a gaping hole in the market right now (and that's considering that eBay itself has been begging for a disruption for years).
Care to elaborate on how it's faster and more convenient than swiping?
Has anyone compared the reliability of this to Bittorrent's solution? I tried Aero a while ago and found it to be very buggy then. Are there any major differences between the two?
http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
How To Backup FreeNAS to S3: http://www.inetpub.dk/index.php/widgetkit/just-going-through...
Your support doesn't matter in a transaction between two private entities.

Your comparison to the NSA is wrong because that is a government agency, and our government is supposedly of, by, and for the people, thus whatever they do is a matter for all of us.

A table at a coffee shop is not. If the coffee shop wants to let me stay, then I can stay. If they want me to leave, then I must go. And that is all that needs to be said, as far as I can tell.
Hour of Code with a Free Mentor Session
My doctors would disagree with that.

Like I said, it's depressing how much ignorance is thrown around here on this topic.
What it means to be a Junior Developer at netguru /a true story/
Quick! Somebody tell Shakespeare how english grammar works.

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act III, scene I

FLAMINIUS: ..."Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,
It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,"...
Steve Jobs had cancer for the most of those 10 years. It seems he tried a vegan diet to treat it among other things, that was silly. That does not make him a poster child for vegans, it seems like he wasn't even vegan before the cancer.
Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health
I could argue that being a benefit -- the overlays and other annoyances during the video playback go away, too. So do the YouTube comments.
And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.
Right, but it's harder to detect subtle manipulation. It only takes a one bit error to reduce the key space by half.
> It's like homosexual supporter saying that because penguins can be gay that homosexuality is natural. It being socially acceptable has no connection to naturallity, and attempting to pretend so is a disservice to your position.

That's a bad analogy for you to use, since people who defend that it should be socially unacceptable use the claim that it is "unnatural" to support their position. It therefore is quite appropriate for people who disagree with that position to (among other arguments) point out evidence that contradicts the "unnatural" claim.
If you're going to look at creating a large supercomputer cluster, sure, based on those numbers, GPU is the way to go.

However, it would be more challenging to put the GPU board on a quadcopter drone than it would be the Parallela.
Knightscope - Autonomous Robots that Predict and Prevent Crime
I'm new to AeroFS. How does it measure up against eg. Owncloud? Any important pro's and cons?
You are reading too much into the "just as"

The author is trying to communicate equivalency in the seemingly paradoxical categorization of being both "acceptable" and "wrong" through providing examples of things which also fit this hard-to-grasp classification.
Really what we should be doing is explaining to people that "foo@example.com" is a valid email address and that they should use it everywhere.

I am foo@bar.com. I don't know who owns that email, but I want to preemptively apologize to them about Disqus comment responses they've received.
... or use ASICs and skip the general-purpose supercomputer all together.
Not sure we should be taking any kind of security advice from a company which for years only allowed customers to use plain HTTP unless they subscribed.
Telling my father terrible news (prank)
My Dad reacts in a super strange way
Same here, had the same idea and started a small toy engine which I work on from time to time: https://github.com/warfare/prototype
Breckenridge lodging rentals: Making the most of your experience 
With more than a thousand Breckenridge lodging rentals to choose from, it's all about making the most of your experience. After all, how many times a year do you get to go on vacation? In order to have the best vacation possible, start with knowing what you want to do. From golfing and skiing to hiking and rafting, there's something for everyone, and the closer it is to where you're staying the better. Opt for Breckenridge vacation rentals that throw in passes if you want to save some cash, and make sure to stay in rentals where the owners have enough experience with the area that they can tell you the best little spots that only locals know about.
and the question I have is if there are any freelance and job site you want to be included?

Currently the service is fetching these sites:

Freelancer (International)
oDesk (International)
Elance (International)
Guru (International)
Stackoverflow Jobs (International)
Free-lance (Russia)
Freelancehunt.com (Russia)
Weblancer (Russia)
Dream-starts (India)
99designs (International)
Freelancer-uk (UK)
Freelance-switch (International)
Techno-jobs (UK)
Officially, no it wasn't built to detect life.

But there are cameras all over the thing.

So if something is scurrying around leaving tracks or skeletons, we should be able to see that just fine.

Or if it rolls up on a flower or a tree, that ought to be pretty obvious.
Do you commonly mix up swipe and chip cards too?

Plus NFC is only for small amounts (usually) so the snow-blower thing is pure nonsense.
Are the papers being DMCA'd under copyright by Elsevir?
this was great. thanks for posting, and good work
Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool
I'm in the same boat. I used to use PS but found it slowed me down after my CSS got good enough and I love having the mockup be functional from the start.

When a site already has core styles, CSS and HTML seems sooo much easier because you can leverage existing classes etc. I will only use PS as a starting point for a completely new design where I have no existing styles to speed up the process. I never use PS for a new page on an existing site.
And Lynx before that!
Do you think it is better anywhere?
Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
That's a Richard Gregory book allusion who is probably more famously known for being the grandpa (uh, sorta) of the Exploratorium in SFO because aside from writing books about perception (hits on two things, donno about the neighbors comment) he founded an ancestor of the Exploratorium in the UK. I believe he was first, the the SFO site is a very friendly derivative copy of his work, which is humorous in a discussion about piracy.
Programmers Suck at Empathy
Elastic Mesos on Amazon EC2
This makes me feel very old.
Fake Google SSL Certs used by French Gov to spy on French citizens
The French government created fake Google SSL certificates to do a man in the middle attack on its own citizens and spy on them while using Google
That was not GP's argument and it certainly wasn't a good reply. GP simply effectively said, "The circumstances are irrelevant to me, it makes me feel good so I'll do it." Your argument is you have an intimate understanding of where you food comes from and you're okay with that.
Sick? Try a video call with a licensed physician from your smartphone
Maybe we can just agree that it's cool when users get great features?
>Even long-term vegans have difficulty in getting complete nutrition on their diet which is offered almost by default in a basic omnivorous diet.

You over estimate the difficult, yes it's a little more work.

Heck you can say the same thing about the current US omnivorous diet. Most omnivores have problem getting sufficient nutrition (in the form of fruits, veg and Vit.D) in their diet. It's not that they can't get it, it's just that they are a little lazy.

Tip to Vegans: for B12 put nutritional yeast on your popcorn... kinda tastes like cheese and super nutritious and delicious!
Language evolves. You'll just have to learn to deal with it. Colloquialisms eventually become dictionary definitions in large part due to the influence and reach of the internet. This is the reality of things.
ahh - got it. My dept was very heavy on Scheme. Reasonable to have a LISP-variant for AI.
"If you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear (at least from the cops)" is looking stupider every day.
NSA is really keen on branding all their interfaces and hardware with their proprietary logos.
That phrase "in-memory computing" always gets under my skin. What other sorts of computing do you generally do?
I'm not soliciting an argument.

But... I would argue that this is consistent because 'two nights' isn't a countable quantity, it's an 'un-countable' period of time.

Although you could argue the opposite is true because 'two' does look very much like counting.
What does "conservative" have to do with your question?
iBeacon Pioneers Estimote (YC S13) Raise $3.1M Seed Round
I had the same experience. I've been using Bittorrent Sync for awhile now and absolutely love it. It's super fast and I've never had any inconsistencies in syncing. The closed-source nature of it is not ideal, but if that's a concern you're no better off with AeroFS or Dropbox.
This explanation was displayed fairly prominently when I received a machine with Ubuntu pre-installed for me. It always seemed very fitting.
Why would ebay switch away from Paypal? ebay own paypal!
Not sure about voice, but a decent alternative to Gmail is Zoho's email solution.
This hits incredibly close to home - I work in Brooklyn, very close to Dasani's school, and also teach computer science (through http://www.tealsk12.org/) at a school nearby. Many of the locations in the article are familiar to me - and it breaks my heart to see that kids who are basically in my neighborhood are living like this.

I would've loved for the article to have been followed up with a "here's how you can help" - it seems to me that the best thing I can probably do for kids like Dasani is donate money, but where and to who? A quick scan of Givewell didn't turn up any great leads for charities helping out with homelessness in the NYC area - does anybody know of any?
I wished they would improve the PDF viewer.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6863064
Why Ramen Chose Digital Ocean
> And if you want to claim that it's a memory hog, then you need to take a look at how it behaves on top of memory constrained systems.

I can confirm that Firefox regularly runs out of memory and dies on a system with a total of 1G of ram and 512M data segment limit.
I agree with your response, it's pretty much the one I wanted to write!

I would add that I work very often from coffee shops (and restaurants). In my mind being a good camper is:
- Get to know your server/waitron's name's and interests
- Become a good "regular". To me that includes not being rude or impatient. Let the non-regulars go first. If things are getting too busy I'll move to a smaller table or even leave. Yes you're a customer, but you're also supporting the staff.
- Buy a meal if you're there for long enough that you would need to eat. If I'm spending the day I'll get breakfast at home, coffees at the coffee shop, order lunch, more drinks and head home before the dinner rush.
- Tip well. This covers a multitude of sins.

Ultimately, let respect for others guide your choices.
Why not use 'litecoins' or create their own virtual cryptocurrency? That is the achilles heel to bitcoin - bitcoin 2.0 an infinitum.
Really? Any cite for that? Kipling doesn't count!

I've seen lots of horse fights, among individuals with and without wolf-teeth. In few of those were the bites even deep enough along the mandible to engage the canines, and in no case did the bite come from the side to emphasize the canine.
I was filling in a form yesterday and the client side validation blocked tab completion. Yay.
I agree. I devoured it in two afternoons and found it quite motivational in terms of a business book.

Here, there were a handful of programmers, experimenting with different pricing models (shareware vs. retail), dictating their terms to publishers, starting ethical and legal discussions (Columbine Highschool shooting related to violent computer games? Export laws of software, especially violent computer games to Germany), helping Microsoft to establish Windows as a gaming platform (by making Doom a Direct X game) and so on.

They not only made games, they established a genre and nobody had a clue what the future would look like.
I don't recall who did it, but someone once pointed a webcam at a row of several lava lamps as a source of entropy. As long as at least 75% of them were on at any given time, the image-hashing function produced unpredictably random numbers. The low quality of the camera produced some random noise all by itself.

I imagine you could do something similar with a feed of traffic on a nearby highway or blobs of cornstarch suspension on a subwoofer.
This is probably more of "If we scare people by throwing around the terrorist word then we get to spend money, have cool new toys, and look badass".

It's pathetic, but it seems to work.
This is possible in Nightly, so it's likely to be live in release in a couple months or so.