skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keynes and other economists had similar thoughts, they thought we'd be working fewer hours in the future, as the benefits of automation would be distributed amongst all the workers.
> So specifically that it's already clear the answer is "yes".

would you like to put a wager on "yes" being the response he receives?
I never said professional sports are STEM careers. And young people do look up to celebrity hackers, what exactly is your point?
I love to see figures on the size of the "being seen to be doing something" market. Im willing to be my entire fortune of 50 great british pence that its bigger than the video games market.
>Should the British government forcibly prevent you from drinking Coca-Cola because it's bad for you?

Your example is bad. These two things are clearly not the same. Porn (even in a small dose) for young children is almost universally accepted to cause long term psychological damage. Cola in a small dose is universally accepted to cause zero long tern harm. I think that if you gave your kid enough Cola to where it was universally accepted to cause major long term harm to them - CPS would come take that kid from you and you would likely be arrested for child endangerment (thus it is against the law).

Secondly the govt is not forcibly preventing you from uncensored internet. It is the ISPs, and not forcibly, all you have to do is acknowledge that you want it (this could hardly be considered forcible)

If a 4 year old kid drinks a bottle of soda, how will that affect them for the rest of their life? If a 4 year old kid watches a (simulated) hardcore porn rape scene, is that more likely to affect them negatively for the rest of his or her life?

How does that kid get at the soda? usually their parents or caretaker gives it to them right? Is that how they usually run across porn randomly on the web too? Maybe parents should watch kids every second they are online, but that is hardly possible with the ubiquity of internet devices today. At least if a kid sneaks a Cola at 2am whilst his parents are asleep - it is clearly missing the next day. Not so obvious if they were sneaking out and surfing the web incognito.
Well which part about the note made it a "known fake" to the locals?
If you bought it from Amazon, and the warranty states that the manufacturer is Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. which is based in Irvine, CA, then this is an US company accountable to US law.
Basically, it appears that Toshiba is in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which is enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, as well as the Attorney General. It seems they are trying to disclaim an express limited warranty.
So, if you don't want to get an attorney, you can follow up with the FTC at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
Nginx is on fire
You can do both ;-)
What a nasty piece of trash. It doesn't do young techies any favors.
22nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winners
Sounds like they had shitty friends.
I would go on a limb and argue that a16z stands to gain if people start behaving like there is a bubble. Much less competition from angels and other VCs. Much better valuations for them.
It seems like the price of the various measures that avoid invoking eminent domain ends up being so extraordinarily high (hundred-million-dollar bridge trusses and the like), I do not quite understand why offering market plus 100% or something isn't a solution. Not an extortionate rate, but one sufficient to make it a financially favored course of action for all involved landowners. Eminent domain is for the irrational holdouts, not for "offering pennies on the dollar" as opponents say, or for getting just-slightly-submarket-prices.
Ansible author here (http://github.com/ansible/ansible).

My view on this, basically, is that the role of automation tools in the Docker realm is going to be exactly like it is with most of the people who like to 'treat cloud like cloud' -- i.e. immutable services.

The config management tools -- whether Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, whatever -- are a great way to define the nature of your container and have a more efficient description of it.

You'll also continue to use management software to set up the underlying environment.

And you might use some to orchestrate controls on top, but the set of management services to manage docker at a wider scale are still growing in nature and very new.

I'm keeping an eye on things like shipyard but expecting we'll see some more companies emerge in this space that provide management software on top.

Is Docker right for everyone? Probably not. However I like how it is sort of (in a way) taking the lightweight vagrant style model and showing an avenue to which software developed in that way can be brought into production, and the filesystem stuff is pretty clever.
I was 15 at the time. I was on the internet 24/7 frequenting various communities, back when any "scene" had its own "official" forum.

I was primarily interested in gamehacking and web exploitation. I made a few friends from these communities and we often shared stupid exploits with eachother such as uploading some html file deep in a large corporations file structure and linking it between us for laughs.

My friend messages me one day that he managed to upload a c99 shell on a large website. He linked me to it, but deep within the structure to a plain text database of millions of credit cards.

Fast forward two months later: I'm ratting out every connection I know along with emails/names/info to the police, after they kicked my door down and seized literally every computing device in my house.

Phones, computers, tablets, desktop computers, and my NAS'. It's been 8 years and I have yet to hear from the police and they have dodged my emails, in person visits, and calls every time.

I lost over $10,000 worth of computer equipment. This was my hacker moment.
I don't think 40-50% qualifies as a "small fraction."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Suicidecases.png
Get a GymBoss interval timer. Great for exercise, and can accomplish this perception thing. (it has a vibrate-only mode).

http://www.amazon.com/Gymboss-Interval-Timer-Stopwatch-METAL...
So his predictions were not really that different to a 'cold reading' that a psychic comes up with - remember the hits and forget the misses.
I know James, he's a good guy. I'll ping him.
It's my impression that kids don't really start to pay off until you're in your fifties and sixties.
Raphoo - better Rapgenius search
Do side projects. A small web game, iPhone app, terminal utility... it doesn't matter what it is, what matters is getting back to that state where you're proud of "your garbage " :)

Spending a few hours over the evenings and weekends is totally doable, and within a few weeks you'll have gotten further than you may think!
Big government does not need to be reinvented, but eliminated
I'm learning to code and building stuff at http://www.insidefpl.com, a site dedicated to Fantasy Premier League Football.
Rate limiting is a terrible solution to this sort of problem IMO. It just forces the attacker to be patient, but they will eventually get what they want, which is name/phone number pairs of the entire numeric space of phone numbers. His solution is problematic because it distributes the burdain to the user, and anyone who's gotten massive numbers of friend requests on a chat service can attest to how unfriendly that is, but it's on the right track. It should not be possible for an attacker to get contact information for arbitrary phone numbers through an api. Something should gate that, probably through the mutuality of having each other on each other's contact list.
So I'm watching this new show "Almost Human." its about a future where technology destroys the traditional CSI techniques (e.g. DNA bombs to wipe out DNA evidence), and police are "forced to respond" with synthetic human police. So you have a cop that can go into a business and just download all the documents on their network without touching anything. At one point the synthetic cop asks his human partner "we don't need a warrant for this?" And the partner is like "I didn't think so either." The point of the joke is that the robot wants to follow the warrant requirement, because its a rule, but the human cop knows that its okay to break the rules when the bad guy could get away.

So no, not everyone opposes mass surveillance. Just watch some movies. Since the time of westerns there's been this deep seated idea that procedural protections are optional when a bad guy could get away. This is not a failure of democracy. This is a non-democratically designed procedure being eroded by democracy.
It might only be temporary at Yahoo. If they have a lot of C players, they might be calculating that there won't be a lot of false positives in the early purges.
You've definitely addressed the first question I had. I'm sorry but I still can't find in your original post where you addressed the "If enough people were to work together to make that change a reality, is there anything that could realistically stop that change from happening?" question.
Which is probably my fault for not explaining what I meant correctly. Maybe a better way to put it would have been, "how specifically would an ideal government work in your mind... and why is that impossible?"

From what you've written I believe (and please correct me if I'm wrong) you're saying that your ideal form of government is one run by individuals without corruption who can remain entirely impartial. But those people don't exist, therefore it's just not possible.

I would probably be inclined to agree that nobody is above all corruption etc. (especially not the tens of thousands it would take to fill every public position in the country) so in that regard I would probably agree with you.

My point, and I hope you can agree is that, sure we aren't going to find perfect people to run the country, because more likely than not, nobody including ourselves is completely perfect. But we can look at the types of corruption and other problems in government like campaign finance laws and find solutions. And here's the most important part, because we live in a democracy, nothing can stop us. For example we as a country might say, "okay, so all of this corruption you politicians are so fond of but isn't technically illegal, it's all illegal now. And if you participate in it you'll lose your seat and go to prison." Which for some types of corruption and campaign finance laws that already exist happens pretty frequently [1] [2]

Then we might say, "campaigns are all publicly funded from now on."

But no matter what we say or do, or how many tries it takes, because all of our votes count, and we can all go vote, we can keep on trying to make our Union a better one.

[1] - Daily show clip about former Illinois governor Rob Blagojevich being convicted of corruption charges. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-28-2011/conhair--...

[2] Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife were convicted of crimes related to their campaign fund misuse. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/14/jesse...
> My last three laptops, going back to 2004 or so, have all been Toshiba.

My current laptop is a 2007 MacBook. Not the solid-looking Pro aluminum kind. The cheap-looking plastic kind. It still runs everyday, all day long, and gets roughly 7h of battery life (with a spare battery) when I run XCode 4 (with real-time compilation going on) all day.

I can't seem to recollect PCs coming even close to that. Do they nowadays, or is the fact that you bought three devices as if this was normal clouding your judgement?
This was the normal situation for most of the women I graduated with, huge pressure from their female social groups to not do programming. On the flip side, they had lots of friends in the course because it was a massive sausage party. The point is the hardest thing they had to do was overcome all the vitriol being slung at them from their own gender.
> I think if you're planning on running a business... upgrading the OS... is pretty painful.

This is by no means specific to OSX.
It's not just python content, they have been doing this with various content that has small audiences ("underperforming content").
Better: Install "Multilingual Speaking Clock" instead (windows only I think) and set it up so it announces the time every 5 minutes through your computer speakers.

It. Is. A. Mind. Game.

When your brain "idles" you lose track of time. Time in the mind only exists as a comparison of one moment in the past and another moment in the present. So when you're daydreaming (mostly brain idling) time appears to fly by because there's less datapoints for your mind to use to compare. But when you're checking the time constantly time appears to go by very very slowly.

It can become mentally exhausting when you do it too much though because it speeds up the mind. You become aware of every little moment. It can make you extremely productive but you really do have to take "brain idling" breaks every now and then. Also when you first start off, time will appear to fly by, it'll feel like "5 min" are flying by every 30 seconds. But after about 30 minutes your brain will stop idling so much, you'll become aware of more time points, and it'll feel like time is slowing down and you're thinking "faster".

Give it a try. It's really fascinating.
I haven't done any load testing on this app in particular since it's pretty low volume. However on another high-traffic Rails app I did some benchmarking and found Unicorn to have a 10% faster response time and much less variance at the high end. Obviously YMMV.
ASK : What are the most promising Silicon Valley startups to watch for in 2014?
Here are my favourites.
1. Square

2. AirBnb

3. Uber

4. Pinterest

5. DropBox

6. Box

7. Next Labs

8. Jawbone

9. Arista
Hey man. I can't figure out how to direct message you. I contacted Toshiba via twitter and asked for a comment. They said they would investigate. You may want to contact them directly.

Support says they've passed the matter to "customer service mgmt. Expecting a response on Monday."

These dudes: @ToshibaUSAhelp
When it comes to econ-related issues, he's worth reading--at least it's interesting.

For non-econ-related issues, not so much. This quote from 1985:

"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." [0]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-inte...
> No one knows what would happen in an economy based increasingly around a deflationary currency,

It's fun to speculate though! My guess: Debt is extremely expensive and investments are more scarce (You have to at least beat the "returns" from deflation). Doesn't sound like a very business-friendly climate but it does reward those who hold on to their bitcoins.
IOS Pull-to-Refresh Control that Plays Pong
To be fair, nothing but JVM and JavaScript are more than just prototypes.
First Docker build for OS X now available for testing [.tgz file]
>Not being able to see the host filesystem is not a huge security benefit, again your pid should not have any significant access anyway, so this should not be a security enhancement.

Nope, it very much is. The fact that "your pid should not have any significant access anyway" doesn't mean that having that made certain and very easy by namespacing is not a security enhancement.

Perhaps you mean something else by "security enhancement" compared to what others here mean. You seem to mean: "extra security that couldn't be achieved by totally finely tuned apps running on the host with all the proper pids and permissions".

Whereas by "security enhancement" people mean: "achieving the same level of security of finely tuned apps running on the host with all the proper pids and permissions with much better EASE, and without having to repeat the whole fine tuning for each new app I add".
That's fine with me. They sound like the type of people I'd rather not spend much time talking to anyway.
Just fyi, this is exactly the type of situation they hope to induce and, to be quite honest, I would happily do the same, even if only to avoid the hassle.
Well it's actually a more important distinction than one between climate and weather. It's a distinction between "warming" and polarizing. Global warming models usually predict hotter summers AND colder winters. So it's not a matter of weather vs climate but of bad naming.
>A desktop system with a novel thermal design is being packed in tightly in a way that the manufacturer probably hasn't tested, and in a way that's going to be hard to diagnose or fix?

I don't see anything that's "going to be hard to diagnose or fix".
The benefit of private offices is that people can choose to be in them with the door closed. I've been in both environments, and there's certain work that I do better in each environment, so getting to choose what you want when you want it is the best solution.
Not trying to spam, but OP please check my direct reply to your original post. I think Toshiba Twitter support wants to help.
I don't fit the stereotype and am okay with that: I wear dresses and heels instead of hoodies and sneakers, I keep a regular sleep schedule

I dont remember that being the stereotype for hackers. I would be interested to hear from other people about what they think? But to me it has been someone who is intensely interested in computers and is very good at it. What they wear (wow really shallow much) hasnt really ever factored into it.
Microsoft has, in typical fashion, gotten very confused about this. Some teams are still one person per office (some more junior (measured by tenure, not level) team members probably share, all interns typically share), other teams are using open work environments... sometimes pushing the limits of what the fire code permits for number of people in a building.

The trend when I left (4/13) was towards open offices

Internally, for teams that use offices, there is something known as the "pain index" which is the person/office ratio. As a rule of thumb, you might be expected to share an office upto about two years, and by about 5 years might expect to have a window office - but it was very dependent on team

[Edit - added pain index]
Ask HN: what are some essential theoretical computer science books?
I think the fact that the graph glosses over the 3% growth of 'Microsoft' and the general uptake is pretty interesting.
You say "socialism" like it's a bad thing. I don't feel "alienated" from hacker culture, everyone I've met seems quite nice and receptive to me (although perhaps I'm in the wrong room).

But perhaps what I see is that this is really nice, and why can't we share it with more people? Hacking isn't a zero-sum game. If we double the number of people trying to write open source, isn't that a win for everybody?

It's not like encouraging somebody else to write code takes my job away, or dilutes the amount of genius to go around.

Think positively, my friend. "Socialism" may or may not work when we're building massive factories built out of atoms, but perhaps the economy of bits works differently than the economy of atoms.

Disclosure: http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2014/01/03/hello-my-name-is-...
Does it seem like cultural commentary has also improved in the last 50 years? I am young enough to not remember what it may have been like when Asimov wrote originally, but it strikes me that Vice is a relatively contemporary sort of a thing.

I would be interested in similar pieces from 50 years ago, looking back on 1914's view of 1964. So much has changed since then, though, and it seems like more has changed since 1964 than changed from 1914 to 1964. In particular, the 60s happened, but even after that, the Internet seems to have effected a fairly massive and seemingly permanent cultural shift. It might be too early to tell, but even the fact that someone posted this commentary, we all read it instantly, and then now we're discussing it here only hours later seems worlds away from the climate of 1964.
I second Flask.
Live free or die.
Interesting.

Yeah, some good books, but pity about the person.
Punditry != journalism, you're right. But I think what I said applies to most in both categories.
Verifying a phone number should be pretty easy - auto-call, force them to enter a code. Apart from calling cell phones and some countries, it shouldn't cost more than a few pennies.

Verifying addresses sounds like a real pain though. I imagine they'd want a scan of some ID or something else just as silly. Hopefully ICANN can push back on LE.
Krugman said that in 1998 [1].

If he'd said that in 1985, we might have forgiven slash continued to listen to the man.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com...
Hmm, I can't find it now. Maybe I imagined it :\. Or maybe it was part of the Mailinator Pro thing.
If you have the criminal connections you can buy forged currency in a similar way to how you can buy drugs, the idea being that you can make a return on your investment if you put the work in to shift 'the product'.

Quality is a factor in the price so (for example) a bag of 100 £1 coins might cost £60 but you might not be able to use them in vending machines due to the weight being wrong. Notes again have their price depending on quality and cut.
I'm not really aware of any "hacker" stereotype?

I think the issue is that the word hacker has too many meanings, and some of them contradictory. A hacker can be a prankster, a skilled programmer, a creative programmer, a skilled/creative programmer with some vague ideology that supports freedom of information, a computer security breacher, a person who tinkers with electronics, a person who subverts any type of system or authority (reality hacker/culture jammer), any sort of whimsical and creative fellow who applies unorthodox solutions to his everyday life, etc.

In addition, a hack can mean: an unskilled or untalented person, a charlatan, an inelegant but efficient solution to a problem (a kludge), an inelegant and inefficient solution to a problem (cruft), an elegant but unconventional solution to a problem, a skilled application of marketing (growth hack), a culture jam (reality hack), hacking off a limb, a prank, a computer security exploit or breach, a program to cheat at video games and so forth.

As far as I know, the "hacker" stereotype is that of the skilled but evil and socially isolated computer criminal.
Pretty much. Buddy of mine runs one of the most popular wallpaper sites and the ads make pennies on the dollar. You can't really monetize a wallpaper site at all (especially if you aren't the one making the wallpapers).
To be honest there's a lot more that factors in when you're buying a computer for business. It's not just the CPU and GPU that come with it, there's a plethora of other factors that may be important to the buyer, such as:

* Maximum ram upgrade amount (most consumer laptops max out at 8 GB or 16 GB)

* Screen quality (IPS vs TN, glare vs anti-glare, etc)

* Keyboard layout and quality (yes, this matter A LOT if you type all day on the computer)

* Driver compatibility (since Linux is mentioned)

* Weight, roughness (or beat-up factor), portability factors, battery life, modularity, expansion ports... the list goes on.

It's not just "this machine which has a top end Intel i7 CPU and an SSD" for everyone.
That's really well put. I hadn't thought of it in that way. It seems pretty funny someone would say "What's that? We can't just redraw the districts to get what we want? Fine, let's redraw entire states."
That sounds super dangerous. I would not put a lipoly battery on my arm. No thank you, I'll take my chances with another battery type.
Definitely putting this in my control arsenal!

Will let you know if I manage to use it in any projects.
No they won't. They'll just exempt themselves from it. Congress exempts itself from tonnes of laws.