skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I wasn't here to "win" any argument or debate. And the reason I didn't expound on my position at first was to avoid those who are.

And I know I'm right about the contraception thing. But exploring this open communication between people who disagree with me is much more important to me than having yet another going-nowhere debate about ethics and morals.
i highly recommend gandi to everyone. Very good service, probably the best Europe based registration companies around.
True, and by that same logic maybe anyone using ruby's TLS client shouldn't ship anything if they aren't prepared to take responsibility for how it's configured (since the default configuration can be overridden at any point from OpenSSL on up).
Yes, but my answer may also depend on how you define 'charity'. One might define as giving to those who ask of you , without any expectation of repayment (in other words, out of sheer good will).

If that is the definition, then yes, I do give to charity. I often give to my local education foundation (yearly, in fact). I have donated to the Red Cross, and I have also given spare change to bums on the streets of NY.

I have no idea what is done with this money, nor do I care. I give because they seem to need it more than I do, and I hope they do something constructive with it, and helps them in some way. Does this mean I am 'charitable'? Or just a poor investor? (I suspect the latter, and I suspect that you would probably agree if you looked at my stock portfolio)
the same model car across different dealerships is a commodity. that's why carwoo was great, it helps you run a commodity auction to get the best price.
That's the biggest thing in design.
For those not familiar with American football, an audible is when the team with the ball changes the play at the last second based on what they see the defenders doing.
This question, in fact seems, to have been flagged as getting posted on Reddit (or maybe getting significant traffic from them?). I'm seeing this above the answers:

"Welcome, Redditors! We're looking for answers that provide serious, practical solutions to the problem stated. If you'd prefer to post a joke or launch a tangential discussion, please do so on the corresponding Reddit thread."
People have a UPS tracking number?
FYI: Published in 2008. (Still true today, but I think we've learned these lessons now.)
Actually, depending on your respective tax authority's treatment of Bitcoin taxes, it's more like:

A pays B (A now owes taxes on realized gains)

B pays C (B now owes taxes on realized gains)

C pays D (C now owes taxes on realized gains)

However, as a commodity with limited supply, BTC may still be a good store of value.

Basically what you guys need to realize is Bitcoin only makes sense when you completely disregard "the system". If nobody pays any taxes, nobody does AML/KYC, and everybody uses BTC ubiquitously, then yes, it's a cheaper and more efficient system. What irks me to no end as a proponent of Bitcoin is how many people are into Bitcoin nowadays purely as a get-rich-quick scheme or because it's en vogue. There are real, significant societal conversations that need to be had on a massive scale before Bitcoin makes sense for the average person, and most people just aren't willing to bring that conversation to the forefront. Too busy raising VC.
From the linked article:

>One thing I’ll be doing more of is writing about my experience. Partially because it’s therapeutic, but also because if there’s a silver lining in all of this (and there is), it’s that I can help educate others about a path fraught with hardship, but rewarding nonetheless.

I look forward to read more from moot. I find his down to earth style really engaging and I have great respect for how he's carried himself managing the (in)famous 4chan sites.
As an administrator with an admittedly smaller sample size, this lines up with my experience with the Seagate 1TB Barracuda ES.2, 15K.6/15K.7-era Cheetahs and some normal consumer Barracudas as well. All of the nearline and enterprise stuff had 5 year warranties, and over the past 5 years we've replaced over 25%.

I've sworn off Seagate altogether, at least until they demonstrate a commitment to producing more reliable drives. I will not willingly buy them for the datacenter, and I won't buy them at any price for the home, RAID or no RAID.
I don't. My life is pretty great by probably all standards. You're right. But we're all entitled to form our own views of how the world works best, and to discuss it peaceably with others. I think that's kind of the spirit of HN (except usually it's applied towards more technological things).
That Hideous Strength is anything but "thinly-disguised Christian propaganda targeted towards children." First, as a novel, it's openly Christian (which, combined with the sci-fi dystopia, makes it a pretty unique entity - I find it fascinating, myself). It may also help you understand the sort of things the Christian right fears from the likes of people like yourself.

Secondly, it's not targeted towards children. Even assuming a child would be paying attention after the first ten minutes' read: there's a sadistic lesbian police chief (a character of the sort whom Lewis is theorized to personally fancy), several open (if brief) discussions about sexuality and eroticism... to say nothing of the violent murders, suicides and tiger maulings.

It's not exactly what you'd consider child-safe, let alone targeted.

But I guess if you already know all there is to know about Lewis from the five-minute treatment in your local left-leaning literature class, or if you gleaned most of it secondhand from reading Neil Gaiman's The Problem of Susan, then you have no need to see anything that might interfere with your expectations. Go ahead and congratulate yourself on truly understanding the man.

Also be sure to avoid: his WWI poetry. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2003/2003-h/2003-h.htm
Interestingly, although the event description clearly asks: "Are you a woman interested in starting a startup?", if you click through to the application, it actually asks you for your gender. Is that because YC would still like to know now many men want to be present at the event? Is it because men are allowed, but they're not advertising it? Or will they simply inform all men that applied that regretfully their applications have been denied?
Any information more recent than 2008?
Maybe if they get enough chargebacks at up to $100 a pop they'll stop trying these things.
Anyone know of a simple recipe to set up secure defaults?
Yeah, I walked right into that one. I was thinking of a few specific examples and made a generally false statement. Cross out "competition." The spirit of the complaint is still valid.

You were wise to qualify with "assuming no broken laws" because the schemes I was thinking of weren't legal, just almost impossible to prosecute ;)
Except Moot is the guy who made 4chan
I absolutely love PaperKarma. Keep up the good work!
Node is faster than python, ruby, and php frameworks. Source: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

It's also javascript, (which has some really nice properties, and a few bad ones) and ubiquitous in web development already.

The real reason for it's popularity is that a lot of the ruby guys seemed to have jumped to Node.js :)
At least none of the letters were upside down. You should see some the absolute travesties of Chinese character tattoos.
I've built quite a few apps that use queueing to do the heavy processing behind the scenes, and I've always used a polling system to check progress. But it always has felt like a half-baked solution.

Are there any patterns or documentation projects or books or tutorials or anything else out there that cover how to have users submit something into a queue system, provide immediate feedback, then provide accurate progress updating as the job is processed, then show the results, all without having the user refresh their process or navigate away and back again?

Let's say for instance, I built a service that lets a user upload 20 images at a time to be cropped and resized. Is there a commonly accepted pattern for alerting them of the resizing job progress as it is happening?
I think that paper doesn't capture the main reason economists shun simulation.

It is true that economists have an unjustified preference for analytic solutions over numeric solutions.

However, the main reason to avoid simulations, is that the assumption of rational agents is not very amenable to the typical approach of simulation. Any simulation that imposed the assumption of rationality would look very different to the simulations that are usually done.

For example, rational agents make decisions based on future prices. I might decide to build a factory, because I expect positive profits given the future prices of inputs and outputs. But I can only know this if I have myself modeled the entire economy. Economists do this using backward induction. They solve for equilibrium in the future, and work backwards.

Another more basic example is that rational agents naturally form markets. Buying/selling of goods is much more accurately described by a perfect market, than by some random matching with random prices.
The question doesn't appear to be closed, just protected.

Why is a Question asking about syntax of whitespace in bash not suitable for stack overflow?

There's a worse problem on English stack exchange where people will say that your question has been answered even though none of the words you used are in any of their suggestions. This not only hurts searchability of questions and answers, but fails to recognise that many people using the site have English as a second language.
Glad you linked that page, please scroll down a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Benefits_of_usi...
> Government is subject to a wild variety of inefficiencies.

Of course. I'm not proposing a command economy. In fact, I wouldn't even propose to legislate away the industry I just maligned.

I do believe (in agreement with Adam Smith) that the market is not a suitable model for all kinds of human activity. Science, for instance. You can't determine the value of an experimental result until long after you have given it away for free, making it nearly impossible for scientific organizations to capture any of the value they create.

Next time the doctor tells you (or a dying relative) that you don't have any good options, reflect on the market's wisdom in spending only 2% of health care revenue on research. Does this figure represent some hidden insight or does it represent a boring fact about the way markets work that has nothing to do with optimality?
2014 smiles at 3D arcades emulators
I started looking over it again literally just yesterday. I found Express exceptionally helpful for the project I am working on (a chat server, imagine that), and the first answer on this stack overflow thread helpful as well:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8144214/learning-express-...
No toes trodden on!

Advantages of node.js as I see them:

- Provides npm (a state-of-the-art package manager which introduced a number of innovations)

- Built on V8, which is possibly the best dynamic language compiler made to date, in terms of performance

- Provides a well-done streaming I/O and event model, which many languages fail at

- Provides an extremely powerful and high performance async/concurrency model, which is set to improve as promises and other concurrency patterns mature

- Has a well-tested, high-performance, properly layered standard library (most of the time)

- Has a nice C++ extension framework

- Has a very active (though sometimes rough around the edges) developer community

The downsides are:

- It's Javascript, which has some serious design issues as a language

- Currently still suffers from callback spaghetti, which is set to improve as per point 4 above

- Can be very hard to debug in the face of its async model because of insufficient built-in debug facilities
It thrills me that the Antiproton Decelerator is a legitimate thing that is at least as cool as it sounds. The need to slow particles down is obvious only in retrospect for me,which I'm a little ashamed to admit.

Add, too, that the acronyms are excellent.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton_Decelerator
Yeah, they noted Apple actually improved from last year but everyone else improved even more. Meanwhile we the consumers benefit.
It bricked my app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7098563
Which brings up an interesting question. Does Yale exist because it's an educational institution, or does it exist because it's a money-making enterprise?

Can it be both?

Coming from a country where higher-education is covered by the government, I think it's a conflict of interest for an educational institute to be in the money-making game
An interesting effect of this is that everyone using ssl provided by CloudFlare's Pro tier now gets dropped to an A- because they use RC4 with TLS 1.1.
I think, we will see what will come. But when you state the wrong things even today you can get into trouble. Of course it is still not so obvious as in 1984 or in the USSR system, but things change rapidly today and I see it in "free" Germany as thoughts are forbidden and when you say them openly, you will be banned from the public.

It is just a small step from there to be arrested, as we saw before.

Even today, if you have the wrong name you can be disallowed from flying in the "land of the free". Because the government put your name on the list.

Some woman fought against this list, but the government even played tricks, that the trial could not go on. Where is there democracy or freedom?
I think they can spend the following required time on better things:

- Deal with cross browser inconsistencies with html5 video.

- Create a poster image for the video

- Save the video format in mp4, ogg, webm

- Save out and build flash alternative for older browsers

...

...

- Realize that a gif probably would have been the best option for this post.
The person asking the question is asking why the whitespace is syntactically relevant in bash.

Why is that not a suitable question?
Sure, any consumer of this API really should fix it themselves to have a secure configuration. But I submit that basically none of them are. An API where almost everyone who uses it wrong is not a good API. When the consequence of using it wrong is poor security, that's a dangerous API.

Knowingly shipping dangerous APIs is irresponsible.

OpenSSL is a god damned shitshow, no questions from me, it's bad, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible.

But they shipped something based on OpenSSL, and now they're making a deliberate decision not to act to protect their users. That's not cool, and that's unacceptable to me. If I actually used Ruby, this would make me reconsider that.
"With a substantial customer list"

FTA: "we serviced a mere 2,000 customers in two relatively small markets"
I think some bleach would work miracles for adding white space.
A tattoo is an oxymoron: a permanent fashion item.

My kids can't believe what we used to wear when I was their age. (It makes me laugh, too.) I look around at every garage sale and see $5 items that used to be considered quite elegant. I think of the hairstyles, room styles, humor styles, political causes, hobbies, relationships, and so much more that have flowed past like a river and disappeared around the bend.

Thank goodness, I'm not stuck today having to continue making any fashion statements I might have chosen years ago.

I tell my kids that I don't care if they get tattoos as long as they are the temporary kind. Maybe adults should switch to temporary tattoos, too. Treat them like any other form of fashion statement: make the statement you want when and where you want, then change when you want something else (and later you probably will want something else.)
It's not that anyone believes "shelf space is running out." It's signal to noise -- or, to be less judgmental, "findability." Sure, SO or Wikipedia have the storage capacity for people to post anything they wanted anywhere on the site, but that would make much more work for users to find the content they need -- they'd have to trawl through a much bigger mass of semi-relevant or irrelevant stuff.

This is not to say SO or Wikipedia has the balance right; but it's a sensible reason to "limit their users' contributions."
Why, you use ATRAP, of course!

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton_Decelerator#ATRAP
I'm stuck at B because Fedora's Apache and OpenSSL packages have not yet been updated to fix the items necessary to go beyond that. It's not a high risk enough site to warrant compiling and maintaining the build myself.
Cash donations to causes I care about. I volunteer at an animal shelter and help staff fundraisers & outreach when needed. And, I maintain & host the web site for another animal shelter.
> Christian propaganda targeted towards children

I think this is a reference to The Chronicles of Narnia
If a currency is "backed" by something, it means the issuer is willing to exchange it for another resource, usually at a fixed ratio. For example, a gold-backed dollar (when they used to exist) could be exchanged for a certain weight of gold. There is no such thing for Bitcoin.
InstantCab (YC W12) unveils new FareBack program, save riders up to 30% on trips
I have no idea if this is a joke or not, but I'm a male. 6'5", 210, played college basketball, male who wants to or actually does cry reading HN comments about gender issues.

(I don't think my size or athletic ability has anything to do with my maleness, but given the quality of discussion going on here, I figure it may be relevant in some people's minds)
have you used them? looks suspect.
I had no idea about using a .. as a flip-flop, and I've been using perl for 15+ years.
I've used carbargains in the past and it worked very well. The service is almost identical to CarWoo's but they have been around longer.
http://www.checkbook.org/auto/carbarg.cfm
Well, the answers for this are easily google-able. At a certain point it just seems like laziness to ask in an HN thread.
While space is not running out and SO could keep everything this is SO's advantage. They don't. they reject the chaff because it is clutter. you go to SO links because you know your odds are good that if a question is answered there one scroll wheel away is the real answer. Not 10 pages of forum away. Letting everything stay is like adding pages to forum posts. all noise.
So why doesn't someone just programatically search for a bunch of garbage domains from them?
More like fraud.
Seconded. They are a bit more expensive, but to me it's worth it. On the negative side their control panel is subpar, but there are tutorials to side-step that.
In my oppinion, one of the coolest things about Node is the ability to share code between server and client. Especially for validation, this is awesome.
Interesting to see this come up. A couple years ago I started and then mothballed a system for generating realistic fake people (which I called golems) using deterministic and reversible algorithms instead of random numbers (it has a bunch of advantages). Got to love heroku's free tier, cause it's actually still on line:

http://golems.herokuapp.com/person/random.json

If anyone's interested in learning more let me know.
But that would benefit poor people of all colors! We can't help out white people--1 homeless straight white male already has more privilege than ALL black millionaires COMBINED!
His comment is a little more meaningful and less redundant than that. For instance, I was aware of the difficulties in storing anti-matter, but it hadn't occurred to me why it would be such an efficient energy storage mechanism. Sure we can't store it well yet, but obviously that's one of the things scientists are going to be thinking about the most as they look to do more experiments with.
Dang! I just bought WD Green 2TB WD20EZRX drives (x4) for my NAS.
It's interesting you would say that... one of the big arguments of the "complexity economics" folks, as I understand it, is that since economies are not actually equilibrium systems, all of the math imported into economics from physics (and elsewhere) that assumes equilibrium, fails to represent reality.

TBH, I'm not an economist (just a computer science guy who's really interested in economics) but from what I have read, Beinhocker makes a pretty strong case that mainstream economics started going off the rails way back when Walras "borrowed" equilibrium based math from physics and brought it into economics in an attempt to establish economics as a science with the same grounding as the natural sciences.
Sadly, the blog isn't available over https.
> The "allocation of resources" is largely determined by market forces

Yes, I understand that. Sometimes this leads to a healthy, competitive environment with some seriously awesome features (the ability to replace incumbents, supply/demand matching, abundant opportunity, etc). But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it does crazy, stupid, wasteful things. Sometimes market forces are smarter than political forces in that they force people to deal rationally with unpleasant truths. Sometimes markets are dumb as bricks and create unpleasant truths all on their own.

My post did not propose any form of socialism. In fact, it didn't propose any solution at all. My post merely asked you to not pretend that the market's shit doesn't stink.

> your statement that the market's allocation is a waste is shortsighted because an environment in which someone decided what people should or should not be working on is an environment I want no part in.

I don't see how your desires relate to the shortsightedness of the plan I never proposed.

> I do know it is working exceedingly well

Is that a base rate fallacy or a "screw you, I have mine"? I can't tell.
Carwoo doesn't mention anywhere on the site about the shut down but recode.net mentions it.

http://recode.net/2014/01/21/two-ways-to-fail-startups-drawq...
I don't have a link, but it's an obvious transformation - basically, using a ring buffer for allocations where I can guarantee that older things will be freed before newer stuff.
It's not risky in and of itself. It's risky because scammers are getting _really_ good at scamming people on localbitcoins. I've seen stories of criminals printing up fake receipts from Chase. I've also seen stories of con artists who will trick a completely unrelated third party into sending cash to your localbitcoin's bank account, then telling you "cash sent", meanwhile the rightful owner of the cash has no idea their money is being used for these purposes and will inevitably open up a fraud suit with their bank. And then there's people paying with counterfeit bills. Not exactly a walk in the park. Then again, I guess this is all to the buyer's advantage, but this higher risk is reflected in higher prices than what you'll find on vetted online exchanges.
You don't need CS degree to understand that charging somebody automatically $1850 for something they didn't even ask is not the best idea. I won't be surprised if eventually NetSol will find itself on a receiving end of a very expensive class action suit. OTOH, by that time those C-types would have probably moved on to the next opportunity.