skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lutherans, much like modern Catholics (the two seem to differ mainly in organizational layout these days, most of Martin Luther's grievances have been since corrected by the RCC..) and like most other protestants (I dare not say "all", but it probably is not far off) consult with their god. They ask their god for advice and guidance, and claim to receive responses in various forms.

You can clasp your hands and ask your god to tell you how to confront your son about that magazine you found in his backpack, or you can brew some tea and look into the tea leaves for a message from the gods. These are fundamentally the same concept, except the tea leaves method is not blessed by Christians, and presumably the clasp hands method is not blessed by whoever reads tea leaves...

Prayer is functionally indistinguishable from divination.

Divination that is whitelisted by your flavor of Christianity is called "prayer". The sorts that are not whitelisted are called "divination" or "witchcraft." This can be seen clearly within Christianity when you consider the schism between some of the more extreme flavors of Protestantism and Catholicism. I have, on more than one occasion heard protestants describe various aspects of Catholicism as witchcraft and idolatry. Most of the accusations center around the issue of saints and the Virgin Mary, and whether it is acceptable to ask them to pray on your behalf. Many[all?] protestants do not consider this to be a blessed form of divination, thus the less mellow among them consider it to be witchcraft or whatever.
No problem, the NSA and whatever administration happens to occupy the Whitehouse at the moment will just re-interpret the ruling as if it ruled that the program is constitutional.

We used to say that whoever wins the war writes the history. But the war on terror will never be won, by definition and design. The NSA probably cares fuckall who writes the history books anymore. They want the dictionary.
Requiring (at least) the zip code of your billing address is a pretty standard (anti-fraud) practice.
Ultimately one of the big problems we face today is that the various central banks print money and in doing so keep the interest rate artificially low.

That artificially low interest rate makes it possible for this mechanization/automation battle to play out in many sectors of industry that it normally wouldn't.

$1mm for 10 years at 2% interest is $9200 a month, give or take.

$1mm for 10 years and 10% interest is $13200 a month, roughly.

$13200 a month is enough to provide a job, fully loaded including salary, benefits, space, etc for at least a $60k/year job, maybe $80k per year or more depending on fixed vs variable overhead, etc.

$9200 per month would, given the same assumptions, perhaps pay only $30k-$50k again depending on the mix of variable and fixed costs.

So what we've seen is that the automation "horizon" has been pushed lower by the low interest rates. And it's displaced jobs that normally would have been done by low skilled labor that while not fun were at least employment. As the pool of jobs available to low skilled folks shrinks competition gets more fierce and wages drop.

The central banks are massively more damaging than they are generally understood to be.
The quality of a social interaction is almost entirely due to the people involved, not the medium that it happens over. If you want to provide a Quality Social experience, you do that by finding an original user group that knows how to socialize. Facebook did exactly that - they started with the most popular social club, in the most elite university, in the age group that does the most socializing. It worked out pretty well for them.
I stopped using antibacterial soap when I read stories about how triclosan was being found in children's urine, etc, and that there are no regulations regarding how much should be put into soap, etc. I was fine with soap and water so I don't see how this could make things any better. Finally, my paranoia is vindicated!
Inspirational - Never give up (Unbelievable Story)
Video created to inspire women to choose to be happy and never give up
When you're irrational and superstitious, it's easy to believe you're down on your luck, when actually it's not luck. You're down on the consequences of your own actions. Luck has nothing to do with it.
I had a really cool "Firefox 1.0" poster I purchased years ago (IIRC, my name was included on it because of my donation/purchase) but, sadly, I've moved since then and I've no idea what happened to it. I had completely forgotten about it until I saw it in an old picture a few days ago.

edit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggplant/40525989/
Show HN: Soundcloud for content
I'm talking S4 / HTC One sized screens.

http://internetzona.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/spfsg.jpg

The S4 still fits in your pocket. It's 2.75 inches wide. iPhone 5 is 2.31 inches wide.

Anyways, I realize some ppl like the current form factor, I just wish Apple would give people the choice. I know in my circle of friends they're losing a lot of business to Android just because of the screen size.
Thanks this makes total sense.

I've been grappling with this question because I, myself, have been paid to contribute to OSS for the last few years. I think my experience is much more blurry than yours is, at least with work/life separation.
another distributed open source ml library: http://0xdata.com

ask if you have any questions
Not gonna happen with Sococo Teamspace. It uses unique encryption keys for every conversation, every pair of participants.
>>What is the threat posed by, say, Germany?

You picked the worst example.

Five years before Germany invaded Polland, Allied leaders held Hitler and Mussolini in very high regard and publicly praised their gentlemanly natures and leadership abilities.
Federal Judge Declares NSA Mass Phone Surveillance is Likely Unconstitutional
Your market-based challenge "share your plan with the world to do better and take them out of business", which seems to be a fairly common retort to anyone who takes issue with the way any particular company is run, is not a valid argument, because it is predicated on the market operating correctly.

If the market does operate correctly, as you suggest, then someone could, indeed, start a company, and "take them (Google) out of business", unless of course their hypothesis about overpaying top earners was faulty, in which case they would be outcompeted. If, instead, the market does not operate correctly, then such an attempt might fail because of other unspecified market failures. There is no way of determining whether a challenger's failure to displace the market leader is caused by (in this case) their false belief that companies are overpaying their top earners, or whether the failure is caused by the market not operating correctly. Unless you can devise a way of distinguishing the two, then this type of argument is inherently uninformative.

On a slightly different note, I agree narrowly with your point that companies need talented leaders, though I am not as convinced that the leaders of the companies you list determined their fate as much as you appear (to me) to suggest. For example, Blackberry couldn't simply "switch" to producing iPhones, for a whole variety of reasons.
Given how I see taxi drivers drive, I presume the per-minute rate doesn't make up for the lost fares.

I can't say I know anything about taxi insurance, but surely an accident would be a huge hassle and make the driver look bad to his company or increase his premiums?

During the taxi shortage caused by Hurricane Sandy, Uber (admittedly not the most unbiased party) claimed that doubling fares tripled the number of their drivers on the road. I don't find this implausible.
i shouldn't be comenting just to say so little, but this was brilliant:

"> Every indication is that teens get onto Facebook once they stop being teens, correct me if I'm wrong.

You're just making up a random fact to support your case, and leaving the burden on the reader to substantiate your claims, correct me if I'm wrong."
Just curious, what does a world class crypto make?
We've been married for almost 9 years.
Walking away is the greatest form of rejection. Kudos Bruce.
Could you shoot me a mail at michel@rethinkdb.com with what you found confusing? We are working on making the docs better, and your feedback would really help a lot!

Also nice tutorial! I
Yes, the importance of more (and to some extent larger) registers can't be understated. If you're not paying close attention, register spills (i.e. when the compiler doesn't have enough registers so decides to stick stuff on the stack) can easily turn decently performing code into poorly performing code if the register spill happens in a tight loop.

14 registers is pretty tight. 31 registers are better, and doubling the width helps for structure locals and parameters (which Clang/LLVM fortunately does a good job of keeping in registers). (I do a lot of work on a processor 60-odd 64-bit registers, and even then GCC decides to spill registers now and then.)
My own understanding was that it was just that particular configuration of the EGA hardware that hadn't been tried before Carmack's implementation.

This is someone who found out from Romero exactly what the Keen games did:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?30619...
Is it a joke, art, or a rather shallow and cheesy meme?

In any case, the only thing having one of these on my desk would remind me of is how I mis-allocated $50 that could have bought my kids some schoolbooks, fed an African for a month, etc, etc.
It's being down on his luck that did it. I read something a while ago that the reason why many poor people do stupid things (like spend large amounts on the lottery) is that they tend to have poor judgement in general. However, the poor judgement arises from the poverty. When you are highly stressed about money, you find it hard to think rationally, apparently.
PagerDuty (YC S10) - Engineering for Engineers - Senior Platform Engineer
I still think it's weird.

0 - they claim this can be done around a fulltime job, but some people in the thread disagree from experience. Plus, I have a very fulltime job, and particularly come winter, I am busy every single weekend. Your job < snowboarding. In fact, your job <<< snowboarding.

1 - $25/hour is almost worse than $0; it's a fraction of my consulting rate.

2 - I, like many engineers, am not hurting for job opportunities at the moment.
It feels like it's a passive aggressive way of giving us the finger (ugly syntax) while giving in to the obvious need for CSS variables we've been asking for since time eternal.
http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/CSS-variables
Sourcegraph Open Source Fellowship: $1k stipend for Bay Area college students
Disclaimer: I am not a cryptographer, and have only gotten to #40 in Matasano's challenges.

They appear to be trying to use encrypt and mac, and not as far as I can tell relying on IGE mode to provide authentication. See the "Message Key" and "Important Tests" sections here: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/description

There is also not, as far as I can tell from reading the protocol description above and the source code here: https://github.com/ex3ndr/telegram-mt/blob/master/src/main/j... (in particular the EncryptedMessage method, lines 447 to 460) any sort of key in the MAC, it's just SHA-1 of the plaintext. It's also not encrypted as far as I can tell, it's listed in the unencrypted "external header" in the protocol description.

I can't think of an attack from this, but the fact that an adversary can generate a valid MAC for _any message_ by simply SHA-1'ing it seems really scary.
Someone probably updated the constant and forgot to / was to lazy to update the comment
Offering people jobs that wouldn't otherwise take seems to me like a very bad business strategy in the long run.
Khosla Ventures Joins YC VC Program As Investor And Advisor
The interrupt routine would only be writing the next byte of audio to the DAC which would be at a fixed address, whats causing the corruption is that the CPU stores the state of the CPU when the interrupt occurs onto the stack; this isn't where the audio is being played from

void execute_interrupt(void * isr) {
// push the registers of the program running when
// the interrupt happens onto the stack that's currently
// in use. this is something the CPU looks after usually
// (I think).
// This meant in the article that the contents of the
// registers were being pushed to the buffer holding
// the current image, overwriting whatever data was
// above the stack pointer. The fix was to swap which
// register was the source and which the dest, so that
// the ISR would be pushing to the buffer that was about
// to be written to.
pushRegs();

// do whatever's needed to get the CPU into a consistant
// state for the ISR
zeroRegs();

// call the interrupt service routine for whatever interrupt
// has occured
isr();

// just decrements the system stack pointer, leaving
// whatever was above the point corrupted in the
// original version using the two stack regs
popRegs();
}
That was my interpretation of what anoncowherd meant. To me, anarcho-capitalists are necessary for reformist action that can expand rights and fight coercion. Any arguments for the abolishment of wage slavery can and should be had, but lets not forget that we're able to discuss that issue, which seems to be the biggest sticking point between anarcho-capitalists and other anarchists.

That said, I'd love your opinion on taxes, volunteerism, and force. I think many anarchists are utopian statists who don't realise how important it is for an anarchist society to oppose the creation of central authorities and the formation of "too big to fail institutions". Love your thoughts on that.
Apparently I need to give you €29 for a block of wood.

The rounded edges are really nice though.

Wait I thought of something I need. I need not to have this.
Someone that was trying to do money laundering (knowing in advance that it was illegal) got taken advantage of by bigger conman.

Don't see why anyone would feel sorry for this guy. Would you feel bad for a robber that got caught?
Thanks. I do agree better infrastructure will make bike riding safer. In my opinion helmet is to bike what seat belt is to car.
In general, I'd agree that people should make their own decisions and government do not need to make laws. But I have met couple of families who do not care about seat belt, even for their kids! How do you make such people understand the value of seat belt? Helmet is perhaps in similar situation. Not everyone is able to understand the value of safety devices and as a society we don't want them or their kids to get injured. Making something a law allows other to help such families - we can simply call out "it's a law"
>>It's not necessarily any more meaningful than "people ages 65-70 don't use Facebook". It's a small percentage of the population.

Except for the fact that teens are expected to live (and spend money) for many decades, whereas 65-70 year olds are nearing the ends of their lives. So yes, a 16% decline in teen users is of huge importance.
You may need a DOCSIS 3 cable modem. I had this same situation, and had to get a newer modem. Now get 55/10 solidly.
adds more to the hollywood story
The worst post ever on Hacker News? I think so!
A redesign for my University
North Dakota has less than a quarter the population of Nevada. The real numbers of jobs available there aren't going to employ a significant percentage of Nevadans.
I am not convinced that adequately explains the correlation. The poor may gamble away an irrational amount of their money because they are too stressed to think rationally, but it may also be the case that the endorphin hit that gambling gives them offers them a sort of temporary escape. Gambling addiction looks, at least on the surface, to have a lot in common with addiction to substances.

I agree with your general premise, hardship probably does drive people to attempt the irrational, but I think gambling isn't necessarily a great example of this since there is likely more going on there.
Cool arbitrary line in the sand you're drawing there.
boot2docker[1] should be updated tomorrow. I'm taking the opportunity to rebuild the kernel to account for that [2].

[1] https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker

[2] https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker/pull/4
"spacecraft will probably have to steer clear of them unless the craft are carefully sterilized"

Question: How could they still be carrying live earth bacteria after the trip? What kind of sterilization is going to be more effective than interplanetary travel?
Gibber: creative coding environment for audiovisual performance and composition
Edward Snowden: Told Ya
Leviticus prohibits all sorts of crazy things that devout people ignore.
> Slow despite being so light in features. This one suprised me; the page is so miniscule in feature that I wonder why it's taking so long to render blog pages.

I agree, your blog is indeed slow to load. I'd guess putting varnish (or any caching proxy) in front of node would fix that, though -- have you tried?

Looks too me like the really slow part is loading assets -- are css files generated on each request? Or is there some simple tuning that can/should be done on the node server?

I'm assuming you've deployed as "production" (as per the ghost docs)? The other "obvious" thing to do is throw nginx in front, and run static assets via that (or any normal web server, really) -- but even node shouldn't be that slow assuming you have pretty low traffic?

Note, no affiliation with ghost or node -- but also a little surprised that such a simple site is as slow as it is. It's like the old wordpress (that seemingly was designed to benchmark how quickly mysql was able to do as many sequential, separate selects for a single page view as possible. AFAIK wp still does a bit of this, but the problem has been fixed by some semi-sane caching).
I like the idea, but it was the Dashboard (and stats) on their landing page that sold me, and sadly that feature is not even in the build yet.
Couldn't agree more. My mom almost got taken in by a classic Craigslist scam, which did a lot to make me appreciate how easy it can be for even smart people to fall prey (she's an IT professional, has an advanced degree, and is quite smart in general).

Basically, she'd listed some furniture for sale. A guy contacted her with praise for the item and said he was a purchaser for a regional furniture reseller -- he finds nice used furniture for them and gets a cut of what they pay to the original owner (e.g. my mom). The two of them agreed on a price (including his commission), then he mailed her a check from "his company" and asked her to wire him his cut. At the point I found out about this (it came up in passing completely by accident), she'd deposited the check and was planning to wire the money the next day.

I told her it was a classic scam and to please not wire the money. She didn't believe me; she'd successfully sold furniture on craigslist before, the guy's e-mails sounded legit, and the bank seemed to have accepted the check just fine. I told her it takes a few days for the check to fail. She still thought it was fine, but for my sake, agreed to at least wait a few days.

Sure enough, the check bounced. My mom described how masterfully the scammer worked upon her feelings in the meantime, asking where the money was, sounding hurt and angry that she was withholding his "cut" on purpose and trying to cheat him, saying he'd trusted her with the check because she seemed nice. Even with my dire warnings, she felt bad about waiting for the check to clear, but luckily she did.
It’s certainly going to be an interesting development how internet education will effect the socioeconomic backgrounds of intellectually successful people. This blog post [1] considers some possible outcomes.

[1] http://www.gwern.net/Conscientiousness%20and%20online%20educ...
It's pretty clear in the article that he was trying to convince himself despite his doubts. If he didn't get the low score in his game, he would have found something else to convince him it was right.
Clinton Foundation partners with climate change & global poverty startup
Whether one supports the NSA program or not, it's fairly clear that it's not compatible with the 4th Amendment as understood today. The Constitution has been amended before, if this is important it needs to be taken under the umbrella of a Constitutional amendment.
I bet they invented polymath.
The Warmest Socks -- Quiviut
We’re Fighting About the Wrong Things
Airbnb offices designed to replicate rental listings
This is a wonderful article, and details quite nicely why you can't simply throw managerial theory out the window and pretend everything will be okay. It goes into depth about the problems one encounters if an organization attempts to eschew all management, and then goes into depth about how to fix these issues while maintaining a flat organization (in short, just because you acknowledge that a managerial position exists does not mean that that position needs to hold asymmetric power over the people who are managed, as occurs in the traditional hierarchical model).
Please explain why it is logically wrong, and also explain why an economic analysis of a situation has anything to do with being a judge. Judges don't use pure logic, they apply logic, and a whole bunch of other tools, to the law. My comments had nothing, repeat NOTHING, to do with the law. I was merely commenting on the reasonableness of assuming that certain things are happening behind (intentionally) closed doors within the military community.
It's 50GB over 300GB - it's a VERY rare customer that uses 300GB in one month. And even then this is only in a few cities, most places have no cap.
I remember PJ mentioned it, very dismissively, in a Groklaw post[1] and its comments in 2008. I made the same suggestion[2] you did about 203(b)(1), but another anonymous commenter pointed out that further works based on the source might be problematic.

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20060622045521...

[2] http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20060622...