skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even non-human social animals like chimpanzees use "meaningless communication" to reinforce social bonds.

Reinforce, not supplant. Note that the grandparent mentioned that his family never communicated. Now they are happy with their "improved" meaningless communication.

Generally speaking, what are we giving up and what are we gaining by redirecting more and more of our interactions and relationships through these new channels? Are we really supplementing meaningful interaction, or are we replacing it?

>What gives you the right to be so judgemental?

What gives me the right to an opinion? I suppose the same thing that gives you the right to a counter-opinion.

>Daring to impose your own views of how communication should be done is to attempt to impose your own view of society on others

Ditto. You think we're moving in the right direction. I do not. Why am I the one who is imposing views? Why isn't it you? Why isn't it the companies who seek to change the way we communicate for their own profit? In fact, you are the ones who are arguing for change. If anything, I am questioning the change that you are "imposing" on me. I would encourage you to be a little more thougthtful about your position.

And, surely, you can think of moments in history when whole societies were moving in the wrong direction until a few "judgemental" people recognized it and "imposed their views" for the ultimate betterment of society as a whole? Do you really want to argue that we should all just go along like unthinking lemmings without questioning our direction?

>HN. Internet Forum. Why exactly aren't we taking time to visit with people and talk[ing]?

That's pedantic and trite. Surely you don't really believe that I am arguing that we should all unplug our telephones and abolish the Internet. Surely you don't believe that is the only remedy to the problem I presented.
That is a reason for shared living spaces, not for marriage.
Enable sysstat and install one of the sysstat graphing tools (or roll your own with your preferred scripting tool).

Noting when things go titsup.com can be particularly useful.
Google is rumored to be looking for a campus in Mission Bay: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+mission+bay&oq=google...
I though it was (1) Don't have kids, (2) Don't have kids and (3) Don't have kids. No? :)
It's all related to placebo effect and positive attitude - perhaps throwing in the concept of hope. You could throw the idea of intent in there as well. Basically along the lines of once you initiate positives-feel-good thoughts then those will impact everything else you do - and things like exercise that increase good feelings physically, then those associated thoughts and memories will have more feel-good attached to them. Bit of a tangent I went on..
That did not move the goal posts. You're being intellectually dishonest and attacking a straw man.
I'll also support New Relic.

If you're just starting out, the free tier is pretty good.

What the monitoring tools lack on specificity (and depending on your stack, it may provide varying levels of awesome -- server monitoring is weak but improving), it has massive win on zero-configuration installation.

Just sign up, instrument, and start monitoring.

If you find bits lacking, there are almost always local tools you can use to supplement.
No I haven't. I meant more in that it seems very isolated, so it's made into a sort of self-sufficient bubble. Plus if you're going by bus you're pretty much stuck there. Having gone to a school in a similar situation ( way off city center, so in a bubble), I saw how the social environment ends up becoming very "lord of the flies"-y.

I like the illusion of an escape hatch.
"Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation," they wrote on flyers left near his house. "He is also your neighbour."

What were those people thinking? They're subtly but very clearly trying to intimidate that guy. This is like saying "We don't want the likes of you around here."

If those protesters really wanted to do something against surveillance and control they should hold those accountable who are responsible for the NSA disaster and things like Guantanamo. Instead, they chose to pick on an individual who isn't any more responsible for those issues than a factory worker producing weapons is for the war crimes committed with these weapons.

If they want to start a revolution they should be heading to Washington, D.C. instead of starting a petty revolt by bullying some guy who's neither responsible for the issues at hand nor for their own failures in life.

If gentrification helps driving people out of town who display such obnoxious behaviour then we can't have enough of it.
Unfortunately this is mostly a zero-sum game: there's a very limited supply of housing in San Francisco, and it's always going to go to the highest bidder, which is the eternal gentrification struggle. Rich people deciding they're willing to pay more taxes won't help here, because it won't create more housing supply.

Even a direct redistribution scheme wouldn't do much, because the rich will still be able to outbid the poor for the scarce apartments. Short of rich people deciding they don't want to take that job in the Bay Area or government straight up banning them from moving there, I don't think there's much anyone can do to help prevent the poor from being displaced.

Getting SF to allow new construction would help a lot (there are probably thousands of developers that would love to build 100+ unit luxury complexes in the Mission), but at this point it seems that's something of a losing battle. Weirdly, it's the very people that are protesting the current influx of tech workers and rising rents that most viciously oppose new high-occupancy construction in the "true" SF neighborhoods because it would destroy their character, so it's a tough nut to crack.
Javascript Classes, Inheritance and Mixins - Deep explanation
Zapping.io has great potential too
Productivity that will eventually result in the extinction of mankind? :)
Here's how she responded to that,

"I try giving him the benefit of the doubt and make some quip about his being a friendly sort"

To be fair, we don't know exactly what she said, but I can imagine a few ways that she could have said this that would have come across as playful, not corrective. I'm not accusing her of anything of course, but combined with the fact that you pointed out that this guy might not have the social intelligence to pick up on the hints, anything that could be construed as playful would have been.

It's still his fault for missing the hints, but it definitely turns him into socially inept, not sexually assaulting.
AT&T Has Cloud Services?
Hulu Seems to be a User of their services.
I didn't mean that the AGPL gives any specific person control of your server. What I meant is that you're forced (by the license) to configure your server in such a way that you "prominently" (exact word from the license) offer a way to download the source.

In essence, the way I understand it: Say you're running your homepage on "GNUpache", a hypothetical AGPL Apache clone. Then you must have a "download source" button somewhere on your homepage. (This button might point to the official distribution if the version you're running is entirely unpatched and only uses standard plugins. If you have any custom plugin, for example to integrate with your in-house authentication server, you must offer the code for that plugin as well.)

You might disagree on whether that violates your freedoms. But note that previously (with the standard GPL, and also standard copyright law), you were not even required to advertise what kind of webserver you're running.
I agree with Jeff Atwood's car analogy (everyone who drives shouldn't be a mechanic) but I think it's beneficial to learn to code even if you never have a practical need/use for it.

Much like we teach subjects such as history and biology without the expectation every student will become a historian or biologist (or have a practical use for what they learned in those classes), we should teach programming for the indirect (not sure that's the best word) benefits. It's a different way to think and to view things (abstraction), it teaches problem solving skills (debugging), good learning habits (what to commit to memory and what to know you can look up), and attention to detail (wow, missing a semicolon did that!).
Yeah, this is a silly idea.
Hell yes!
Folks from Saint Petersburg shop in Finland. They even order parcels to Finnish addresses next to the border because Russian mail sucks badly.
Once I was crossing from Finland to SPb and I was questioned by customs on whether I've bought my stuff in Finland. Apparently, everybody's doing that and they are trying to tax it.
Goods are unreasonably expensive in Russia. I was living in Netherlands which is not particularly cheap but Russian prices for the same stuff are 2x NL price normally. Incomes are lower and inequality is hellish.

TLDR: cleptocracy sucks.
Thus post seems to be arguing against programs that would push people into marriages they'd otherwise avoid via financial or other incentives.

I read the "marriage promotion" agenda more charitably: Marriage is hard. Financial pressures make it harder. Reduce those pressures and more marriages are likely to be successful. And while I can't cite research here, the author himself acknowledges that a successful marriage is a desirable state for many people. He emphasizes the additional risks involved — What if your inlaws get sick? — but the addition of an earner/caretaker/constant companion also provides a hedge against a variety of existing economic, health and social risks.
I agree. I use an artist sketch book with 9 x 12 sheet of paper in it. I found a notebook to small.
Impact Resistant Screen Protector
> You're a rich straight white guy

Could you be any more offensive and dismissive? What difference does his cultural background have when discussing the name of a piece of software?

Oh, wait, everything right? Cisgendered, rich white men are the enemy!

If you want, think of 'bro' as a shortened version of 'brochure'. Is it less offensive to you now?
Clearly: if the offices were in SF, Googlers would 1) overrun Muni, 2) Ride fixies to work, and/or 3) operate Google Shuttles within city limits only.

The lack of an attractive neighborhood and/or housing near Google HQ is another component of this issue.

I find the protests highly misguided, generally.
Placebo Sleep Affects Cognitive Functioning.

Paywalled article: http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0035546

Abstract:

The placebo effect is any outcome that is not attributed to a specific treatment but rather to an individual's mindset (Benson & Friedman, 1996). This phenomenon can extend beyond its typical use in pharmaceutical drugs to involve aspects of everyday life, such as the effect of sleep on cognitive functioning. In 2 studies examining whether perceived sleep quality affects cognitive functioning, 164 participants reported their previous night's sleep quality. They were then randomly assigned to 1 of 2 sleep quality conditions or 2 control conditions. Those in the "above average" sleep quality condition were informed that they had spent 28.7% of their total sleep time in REM, whereas those in the "below average" sleep quality condition were informed that they had only spent 16.2% of their time in REM sleep. Assigned sleep quality but not self-reported sleep quality significantly predicted participants' scores on the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test and Controlled Oral Word Association Task. Assigned sleep quality did not predict participants' scores on the Digit Span task, as expected, nor did it predict scores on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, which was unexpected. The control conditions showed that the findings were not due to demand characteristics from the experimental protocol. These findings supported the hypothesis that mindset can influence cognitive states in both positive and negative directions, suggesting a means of controlling one's health and cognition. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
Here's another one. A prison is a state of mind. I find the cute circus campuses offensive and distasteful. Stuck in one day in and day out, I would crave freedom.
It's really amazing, how does it work?
I thought the same. I recently saw a jeans couch and think that this fabric is much better for this purpose.
>leave the downtown-core decrepit and crime-ridden

The companies aren't in downtown, they're out 40 miles away instead, so not paying local taxes or helping the local economy. Instead you just have the workers who basically just sleep in SF, paying property taxes but not even opting to using the public transportation to make it better.

> San Fran is powered by a real 21st century economy, which many other cities and countries are trying to recreate, and you still find something to complain about?

Based off of complaints from the tech community, it also seems to be a city with a lot of homelessness, really shitty public transportation, and dysfunctional regulations that end up causing rent to be even higher.

If you told anybody of a city where most of the world's innovation happen, you'd at least imagine a city with a functional system of mass transportation, but we can't seem to even get that right. San Fran should be the best city in the world.

The problem isn't that workers are living in the city, it's that they're not working there. People spend a lot of money where they end up working.
I was basically done with this thread, but your comment is sufficiently interesting.

Compare two programmers. One believes that code must be perfect right out of the gate or else it is very embarrassing. The other believes continuous iteration is the normal state.

If presented with a major design challenge ("This UX doesn't work at all for people using screen readers"), I posit that the first developer is motivated to explain why the code as it stands is a good idea ("Those users aren't our market.") The first programmer views the idea of being wrong as deeply embarrassing, and wants to avoid feeling shame, or weakness, or whatever it is that involves saying "I was wrong."

The second programmer makes changes and carries on without worrying about it.

And so it is with a word. If you are deeply embarrassed at the notion of having to change, you make up all sorts of reasons why you are right and the people pointing out another way are wrong.

Whereas if you believe that development is all about iteration, you make the change and move along.

I am the second kind of writer. Many times I have blogged something, been called out about some technical or social point, and simply edited my posts. To me, iteration is a sign that things are working properly.

So... If HN allowed me to edit my comment to remove a word I now know is inappropriate, I would do so without worrying about it. I wish more people would take the same attitude: "Oh, this may make things inaccessible for someone? Let's change it and move on without drama just as we change our code and move on without drama."
I'm still sceptical. If it costs $100 million to produce a quality show season it doesn't seem like Netflix can produce more than a handful per year. Is that enough content to keep people subscribed if Hollywood keeps taking away more and more of their stuff?
Calling something naive doesn't make it so. Saying "Power vacuums will inevitably be filled" doesn't make it true because you say so. What if there is no power vacuums and people don't want to be ruled by anyone? Is there anything to be filled then? What I personally consider to be naive is the idea that governance is inevitable, but that's no logical argument against government, so I don't go around saying it.
Ask HN: How do I add $100k to my 2014 income?
I'm a serial wantrepreneur. I build things that no one wants. That's my problem and I know it. I respect the candid feedback HN'ers offer. So if I were your son, or best friend, where would you steer me?
This is just my gut feeling, things are probably more complex, but here's why I think sleep deprivation deeply impacts us:

I used to have a crazy schedule, commuting very early and coming back quite late at home, sleeping between 4 to 5 hours a day. I've noticed
I was often in a bad mood, dropping things, feeling anxious. gaining weight and so on... After a couple of years I was feeling depressed and getting sick all the time.

Then I had a new job and started to work remotely from home, and started to sleep 8 to 9 hours per night. Both works were interesting, and commuting to the first one was done by train, so I think the only noticeable difference was the amount of sleep I was getting.

With more sleep, after a month, I became more focused in everything, the depression feelings went away, and had so much more energy. Overall I was more successful in what I was doing - happier and healthier.

I guess all of this sounds obvious, but going through it, making sure I get my 8-9 hours of sleep most of the time is something I am now careful about.
Like, you know, actual scientists?
I thought the protest was about Google using the public bus lanes, etc for private use? This could eliminate that.
I'm glad you're able to make yourself feel better (and superior at the same time - 'most Engineers can't logically rationalize giving something away for free to someone who has done "nothing" for them' ) for $400 and let everyone know it. Money well-spent.
Sounds like Munin would suffice for you. Also, it's free.

munin-monitoring.org

> not really that good

New relic has such rich functionality that it is easy to overlook some of its utility. It took us a while to get it tuned to our needs, but now that we have it configured, I couldn't imagine running a high availabilty web service with anything else. Suppose I get a pagerduty for high memory usage on a server. I would then go look at that server in new relic, see what processes are using the memory, see what the memory usage for that process has been like for the last 6 months, perhaps notice a slow steady increase in memory consumption, realize there's a memory leak, etc.
Advances in Dataﬂow Programming Languages (2004) [pdf]
This has already been submitted in the past.
My local goodwill has received hundreds of swag shirts from me over the years. I like to think the local poor in Miami are benefiting from the dot com boom at least indirectly.
He is pretty obviously "unwilling to accept" those issues, but he's not acting as if software is in a vacuum. He's been working to change those issues. Most obviously, the concept of copyleft, which uses restrictive copyright laws to enforce openness, is very much an attempt to change society. And it's been very successful.
Keeping the analogy on track WRT the linked article, it would be more like claiming rich people take long holidays far away and tend to be more literate than poor people, therefore if poor people take short holidays closer to home, they will be more literate.
I'm very surprised by your comment. I'm using it on Ubuntu, my family is still on Macs but uses it too. Everybody without the slightest issue. Install was as easy as any other program (Ubuntu and Mac). True, the UI could be more polished, but it's the tech behind that's interesting when you're interested in privacy.
One of 7 Buzzfeed-headline-style pages for system administrators you won't believe!

Seriously, glances is nice, but I generally use tmux with a bunch of panels, showing stuff like `watch -c df -h +nr`
Security Bug in Thunderbird - Open Websites in Tabs
Contrasting your typical office-park space, in which if you plan on eating off-campus you'll almost certainly have to drive someplace (typically several miles, often in choking noontime traffic), a city office space often offers a highly diverse environment within easy walking distance -- a few blocks.

To say nothing of the vastly greater transit service (though this is often overwhelmed and/or unreliable), and option to commute by other means (often bicycles).
> Edit - more fascist imagery at the protests (...)

> http://gwplondon.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/kiev-maidan2.jp...

Not only fascist supporters! Polandball[1] supporters as well!

[1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/polandball
Well, that's quite a jump from "people ... don't need anyone to rule them" into anarchy. Why do you think both concepts are equivalent?
For the moment, yes, but it's a headline policy of the governing party to reintroduce it for all married couples.
Well that's me told. I thought the Tories had brought it back.
What automated testing tools do you use in your software development process?
What automated testing tools do you use in your software development process? Do you use or know similar automated testing solution like roboqa.com? Or do you write your own Selenium script for testing?
"If gentrification helps driving people out of town who display such obnoxious behaviour then we can't have enough of it."

Yes, let's remove every current resident of SF by charging outrageous rent rates and only have rich Google engineers there. Because, that's why. There's no other place they can live, of course, right?

But don't complain then when they don't have anywhere to go for laundry, or the only coffee place is an overpriced Starbucks, or groceries are double what you pay somewhere else.
Carried to its logical extreme you end up with some kind of polyamorous tribe. Not that I'm complaining.
The problem with living in an anarchist collective is that no one does the dishes.
That could be true for general consumers, who could be scared into disabling Java altogether in their browsers(so that some part of the population wouldn't be reached by the app). On the other hand, if you're making B2B/scientific app for a specific niche, your target audience should be interested enough in what you have to offer so that, even if they disabled Java, they'll turn it back to check out your app. In other words, people will gladly suffer minor inconvenience for an app that adds value, while would be probably put off if the app is another social network/messaging app/game etc., where the perceived value is vague at best.
Nice. But if you think it's so worthwhile to help homeless people, why don't you help them full-time, instead of just dabbling? And if you're going to help them, are goodie bags really the best way, or can you think of more powerful, uplifting ways to help them improve their station in life? That's the economically rational course of action, after all - devote the maximum amount of your time to the activity you consider most valuable (whether to yourself or others - wherever your priorities lie), and try and be as effective in that activity as possible - otherwise you're just splitting your time, jack of all trades, master of none.
The inspirational story of yet another young Indian Millionaire
If that's the rule of your firm then it is going to go out of business pretty fast. Why? Because if you insist that your clients are always right then you will inevitably get into violent conflicts with other firms. Violence is expensive and since you can't really print money and raise taxes like governments do, you only have this limited amount of money from your customers. As a businessmen, you want to make money, not lose it. Thus, you'd have to really calculate whether it is better to lose a couple of your customers and money by not insisting they are right when they obviously are not, or lose a lot more money by getting into violent conflicts. Conflicts which, by the way, you will inevitably lose, because other firms don't have the rule you have and decide to resolve conflicts among themselves peacefully, while you, on the other hand, are at war with all of them.

Apply logic to your hypothetical situation instead of FUD and you will see how things will work. Governments are simply monopolies on power and law and we know very well monopolies do not work out good for customers.