skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the street children in Bangalore would disagree.[1]

People set up computer centers to help the poorest of the poor. Its a place where they can learn and express themselves.

Try set up such place and then pay for the OS, the text editor, the programming language, the painting program, the video editing, and so on. Compare that to finding some old used hardware being unused, and simply start helping the community immediately.

[1] If you want to hear more, I suggest one of the many talks from Eben Moglen. For a transcript of one, see https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/09NTC_plenary:_Eben_Moglen but its a bit short on details.
> while a stone thrown up from below the event horizon would cross the event horizon just fine on the way up and on the way down and would return back down successfully in its proper time

This doesn't agree with my understanding of GR. A stone "thrown up" from within a black hole interior cannot cross the event horizon in any reference frame - it cannot even get closer to it.

Look at the future light cones within the black hole interior, e.g. in the illustration at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington–Finkelstein_coordinat.... The future light cone of every event within the EH is skewed so far that even light rays directed outwards are drawn closer to the singularity.
There is no shame in not having the time and mental energy for side projects. Working full-time is hard, and not everyone is born with the capacity to be an intellectual superhero.

It's good that some people are, but I think the relentless focus on people who achieve great, nearly superhuman things sets an unrealistic standard for the rest of us. If you can't find the time, energy, inspiration or focus to do other ambitious things on the side of your regular day job, there is no shame in that. You'll be a perfectly good person if you do your day job and fill the rest of your time with low-powered hobbies, or even mindless things like TV or reddit.

Even in Norway, with our 9-5 culture with 5 weeks of compulsory holidays and court-enforced overtime payment, it can be hard to get enough distance from things to do other stuff on the side. And it is always a question of priorities. If your time goes to your personal side projects, there will be less time and attention to maintain your health, your relationships and your family. This is simply not a question. I don't even want to think about doing this kind of thing if I was working the startup grind, or even the regular West Coast "60 hours a week".

Don't feel bad if you can't do this. Your mental health will thank you. Time and time again, I see intelligent people display a focus and ambition which almost merits an OCD diagnosis. Many of us should take a step back and investigate what we really want to do. If your side projects are important enough, take a part-time position instead of trying to fit it in alongside your full-time job.
Why Outdoor-Headlamp Claims are Deceptive
I interpret geocar's point as being that the (L)GPL is the reason that Apple had to contribute the improvements that they made to Konqueror/KHTML back to the community in the form of WebKit: sure, they chose KHTML because of its technical merits but, having done so, they were obliged to make their improvements to the LGPL code available under the same license, thus allowing Google to use it in Chrome.
> Home ownership is very widespread - something like 80m homes, with trillions of asset value.

Yes, and so are home mortgages, with trillions of dollars of mortgage liabilities...

You can't assess the distribution of wealth by looking at asseta without looking at liabilities. That's even more true of looking at one single class of asset, that commonly is tied to a liability of a significant share of its value, when not looking even at that tied liability.
I get anywhere from 5-20 sales calls a day (not to mention cold emails and the blind-rage-inducing cold meeting spam, which lands the salesperson on my auto-block list). I don't have the time during the day to answer these, so I don't pick up my phone unless I recognize the number. I have my email in my voice mail message - I'm happy to review any email that comes in from a cold call. I may not respond, but often I'll file away a service and if something's a good fit, I'll follow up a bit later.
Wow, not bad. I've got 2 small kids, but 4 kids sound like a different level, kids don't scale in my experience.

I'm approaching my side projects strikingly similar, got just one thing to add: Time not spent physically working on projects can still be spent working on projects. I routinely solve both technical and non-technical problems I'm facing in my projects after thinking them through during a walk with the boys, or chores. I enjoy and treasure the time with them, but spending time with toddlers doesn't seem to require my full mental capacity.

That said, I'm doing this not because I think I ought to have side projects just for the sake of it. I'm doing it because this is my best shot at building the future I want to have for me and my family.
I assume there's something in Gett's terms of service prohibiting what Uber was doing. If so, they're liable under the CFAA.
Define physical. (Hint: It is not as easy as you think.)

Is a mathematical object physical? Is the truth of your statement "If minds are physical." physical?
Repeating your accusations doesn't make them true.

Knock your vile rhetoric and bullying off for five seconds and quote, for all of us, the specific sentence or more from Merritt's comment where he shamed the author, implied or supported censoring her, or said that she should not be able to post about her experience.

It is a simple request. I'm not asking you to irrefutably prove your ability to bend spoons with your mind. Merritt's comment was quite short. Just copy and paste the precise part of his or her message where what you keep attacking them for is actually stated or even implied.

Don't worry, we'll all wait. Go ahead.
You're playing semantic games. There's a series of different filters at each UK ISP put in place by government request. Whether there's one brick wall around the entire country or a bunch of separate walls of different materials it's still a wall.
Open Salaries (Dec 2013)
My favourite part is from a related study where the youngsters "miraculously grew back missing limbs".

I think we are all getting better at noticing badly designed studies. A while back some study in the UK was publicised saying that nearly a 1/2 of 12 year olds had committed a crime, and 1/4 a violent crime. Yes. 12 year olds. The expected out cry was muted. I assume most people did what i did and imagined a study like this

* researcher walks into playground and asks group of kids if any have ever committed a crime.

- I might have taken a mars bar from the corner shop once.
- Well I take a mars bar every week
- That's nothing, I take the cash out the till while he is watching you take the mars bars.
- yeah well last week he saw me do that so i stabbed the cashier.
- Only stabbed him, I took a shotgun the last time and had to reload while the blood was pumping out of his twitching body and I slipped on his guts on the way out of the shop.
Yep, that's what I meant. And to be specific, I don't think if the article was "I asserted myself with the groper and he withdrew" would spread like wildfire. It wouldn't reach a particularly different audience to this one, methinks.
Currently using MongoDB on a project and boy do I just hate it. We have highly relational data that is a nightmare to reason with and query. Guess what? We also have migrations! It's hard to explain why, but I just get a bad feeling in my tummy every time I have to interact with the database. Just not enjoyable to work with at all. The only thing I've seen it do that actually impresses me is the aggregation framework/pipeline. That's actually pretty neat, and I feel like it's a good fit for the data we're querying with it (analytics data). Other than that, man, I wish I was using PostgreSQL...
Sorted list + binary search was 2000pts and ran much faster than the hashmap solution.
> Would it?

I think it would draw more attention and useful discussion from people interested in doing more than emoting sympathy, complaining about discussions of women's negative experiences, or discussing abstractly whether addressing the situation in the moment would be more productive.

Whether it would actually spread any more is another question, and one on which I don't have a strong feeling about.
Driving a bike in LA
There is a hackerspace (http://sublab.org/) and some related communities, even an somewhat? community organised ISP and some wireless communities (freifunk.net) - I'm sure they are also some web-related start-ups but I'm not living there anymore
ABC Interviews Tim Cook (January 24, 2014)
Exactly "Cheerio implements a subset of core jQuery" it does not depend directly on jQuery as a dependency but it does use it.
Unknown word translates to "Lorem Ipsum" in Google
Let's talk about logging, in Julia
Start off with polite inquiry. If it's a false positive, apologize truthfully!

If it's a true positive, you can still rebuke the aggressor politely. "Wow, that's really not cool, man. Don't you owe her an apology? What if somebody did that to your sister or mother?" You don't need to demolish the person because maybe they're not a lost cause and they can learn.
We will make changes in the next couple of days and we will ask feedback again.
We prefer to launch sooner with few features and get community feedback rather than developing tons of features that we are the only to use :)
Ask HN: Can the person who received thousands of emails from Google sue them?
I wonder if that person who received thousands of emails on his hotmail account can sue google for spamming him?
How easy is it to add some of the filters that were in the old version? Usually I care about titles but sometimes I want to lookup an old insightful comment (as some comments are as length and as thoughtful as the OPs). The search here seems to be a little more simplified than what many users here (well, i.e. "hacker" types who don't mind configuring their own searches) would need
Hackers can pwn your Android in 10 seconds, if you use Bing App in Starbucks
I found Sydney to be extremely friendly (and Australia in general). Midwest US is also quite friendly.
Why sugar helped remove Victoria Line concrete flood
This apparently happened in NYC.

I've lived on both coasts, and one thing that I have noticed is that people on the east coast refer to people on the west coast as being either not sufficiently progressive, or progressive in the wrong ways. People on the west coast refer to people on the east coast as being either sufficiently progressive, or progressive in the wrong ways.

Other than that, they both seem fairly identical to me...
What did people expect? For Bill Gates' bodyguards to break both of Magnus arms and Bill taunting him "whatsamatter bitch? are you gonna move? tick-tock".

Why is this on HN?
Secret Google lab 'rewards staff for failure'
I personally care deeply about strong static typing as well as the work that I'm doing.
> Is a mathematical object physical?

Are you saying that aspects of our minds may be abstract, and not concrete?

Obvious GP was referring to the existence or lackthereof of metaphysical 'souls' for example...

(I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or serious, and I apologize if I misunderstood either way.)
Something explode at Google
That version seems to be from 1991, when I first starting using Macs in school. Don't supposed you could put Think Pascal on it? :)
No one would've been talking about it if they said Mozart of Chess.
Illegal drug businesses already have access to Banks. Quoting from another NYTimes article (January 2, 2013): "LAST month, HSBC admitted in court pleadings that it had allowed big Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to launder at least $881 million." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/opinion/how-bankers-help-d...
But we're talking about future feasibility . . . I think it should be fairly obvious that Samantha is not yet creatable, since such a thing hasn't been created. Also I presume we are mostly fairly technical here and understand that such a creation is far beyond our current capabilities. If that was in dispute in this thread and I somehow missed it, you have my sincerest apologies.
Now if only their networking and security models didn't blow...
In other words: It is just speculation. You (apparently) do not have a real world example to cite.

I am female. I have blogged before about some of my struggles with the glass ceiling, etc. It got no attention. Perhaps I was doing something wrong. But, as someone who has firsthand experience which contradicts your suggestion, I would be genuinely interested in seeing actual evidence. If I can find an example that works, I would love to follow that. I can't find it.

Thanks.
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So What is King's Contribution to the Games Industry, Anyway?
Back in college there was a Gay, Bi and Lesbian group. My mate and I decided to gatecrash it (he even took his girlfriend). This was considered typical college behaviour, to explore the universe ...

... although I tended to prefer the local fetish club. One night I managed to survive until eight in the morning, and heard all this action coming from the third floor.

"What's going on?", I said...
"Some gay porn mate."
"Hardcore?"
"I presume so."
It has lost a lot of usability for searches I used to do. (And, alas, since many of my examples of searches were stored in Google Chrome as form entries for the previous interface, I'll have to think for a while about what my typical searches used to look like.) How does one do usability tests on changes like this?

AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the comment posted previously that points out that I can, for the moment, use HNSearch

https://www.hnsearch.com/

to find threads the way I'm used to finding them.
How to Build an Audi R8 V10 Plus (Inside the factory from start to finish)
The thing that turns me off to unions are the work rules. Could you imagine if you couldn't use git because that work was reserved for source-code engineers? Work rules are the reason that you've never heard of an intellectually stimulating union job.
I would only add that I can own my phone. I can not own my own skype client.

The complaint about using phone would be much better suited for 1950 where "the phone company" owned the phone. You called, was asked to choose between 3 different colors, and then a few days/weeks later they came and installed a phone with the clear label that said "property of the phone company".
Ask HN: Best city for a young new grad to start career? 
With SF, Seattle, NYC, Austin, and so many other compelling cities, what's the best option for an ambitious 20-something? Keeping in mind things like living costs, atmosphere (as far as people), etc

What are your experiences in the city you live in right now and would you reccomend your city to a new graduate?
That reminds me of my favorite challenge to Physicalism as an ontology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel's_dilemma
Well, after searching, it appears there is a book that does exactly this. I'm going to read it, and then maybe I will have a better idea of what the relative cost benefits are.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/thank-you?ie=UTF8&a=...
Philosophy is a practical major
Is this the sort of background you mean? I've never played the games in depth, so I had to resort to reading. :-)

(SPOILER warning of course)

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
I mean what I said. Is mind-ness completely encapsulated in physical properties like the locations of biological components and electrical states? Are all things we would recognize as minds composable from matter? My ability to formulate a definition has little to do with the answer to the question.
The comparisons are "young" and "good looking".
MS-DOS 13
Cool. It seems very responsive, which is great.
Thanks for the wealth of pointers! Really appreciate it, I'll dig in soon. Do you have a Twitter account or something?

Also just remembered another interesting docu I saw recently, Chris Marker's LE TOMBEAU D'ALEXANDRE, about Aleksandr Medvedkin.
I haven't read about this but is it really that big of a deal? Can't he just delete them?
Hey, I'm with you on the last part.

I'm addressing the fact that merrit's comment has no merit, and it's safe to pigeonhole it as worthless. The debate in this thread is whether or not it's helpful, and I weighed in, trying to talk about it at a somewhat higher level.

As far as "everyone else in the room" is concerned, that's absurd— it's a false dichotomy, excluded middle, etc. Rather than just write it off, think about it in good faith for like five minutes. How you would approach an ambiguous situation like this?

How about you ask? Apologize if you've intruded? You can all laugh it off — "ha, sorry, I thought you might be one of those guys" — and now you've broken the ice.

Nobody's asking you to be Superman zipping around the room, let alone the entire world. But there's a world of difference between that and just keeping an eye out once in a while.

Incidentally, in my mind, this counts as a productive conversation and not derailment— if more dudes showed less tolerance for this kind of bullshit, the world would be a better place.
Note: OpenXYZ, not OpenSomethingSomething. Anyway, OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenSSH, OpenIKED. OK, so it's more like OpenABCD and I should probably have written "many" instead of "most". :)
Real people don't fit neatly into one of the three 'gay', 'bi' or 'hetero' boxes. At certain times, ages, around certain people, in certain situations, anybody might feel more or less attracted to someone than they would in other situations for a whole range of reasons.

Trying to pigeonhole people as 'ex-gay' or 'gay by choice' doesn't seem like a useful exercise.
I mostly used the sort by date to find a recent (a few days, or last week) submission that I remember but it’s too deep to find in the normal page.
"There are no black holes" was shown 8 years ago, much more simply than Hawking has posited: http://finbot.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/no-black-holes/

Black holes are a mistake of general relativity (GR), specifically their absolute event horizon is incompatible with GR's equivalence principle postulate, as the blog (which is not mine) shows. In software terms, black holes are a bug in the theory.

Let's remember that Einstein disbelieved in black holes and for many years tried to prove they couldn't exist. Also there is no definitive evidence that they actually exist in nature. By their definition, such evidence can't be detected.
why does that make sense?

you aren't paid in proportion to your worth; you are only paid in proportion to your negotiating power. if 50 other people can produce the same worth for your employer, you're going to be paid a lot less than if you are the only one who can produce the same amount of worth.

don't take this as an argument that you are being paid "unfairly" - you're not. just see it this way - you are worth much more than that. set your career sights a lot higher because you deserve it.
Nice try. What type of OSFS license are you using?
This is what stands for news at Techcrunch?
Yeah, I do not feel comfortable doing anything even approaching policing other people's relationships. The most I would feel okay with doing is asking "Is everything okay here?", but even that is quite an ask and I would not consider it unless I noticed that one of the people was visibly upset.

Yeah, before you say it, "me feeling uncomfortable" is a pretty selfish excuse for not helping somebody that is feeling a hell of a lot more uncomfortable than I. I'm not going to make excuses for that. I'm just not going to start interrogating people in public about the nature of their relationships.
I would say this isn't quite right. It's true that time passes more slowly for your feet than your head, but this is due to tidal forces: your head and feet are different distances away from the black hole. For very large black holes, the tidal forces at the event horizon will be small, and the event horizon is the unexceptional, smooth spacetime that Steuard described.

So in your example, for a large black hole, you will experience no difference in the rate of tingling as you cross the event horizon. This is what the principle of relativity tells us: you are in free fall, so the laws of physics must appear the same to you.
Oh I enjoyed this game when it came out. It was what convinced me I had made the right choice to get an EE degree rather than "just" a CS degree. I really wanted to connect programs to thrusters, not just subroutines.
Google's power consumption and cooling issues
I agree about the community aspect. The lights go out and you step outside to see if it's the same for the neighbours and the rest of your street.
Fraud is only one type of harm. The bigger question is whether there is harm, regardless of type. In the restaurant case, there is harm even though it's not fraud. In Gett's case it's not really fraud either but one can argue there was harm done as well. Information can confer competitive advantage. The question that remains is who's fault it is. It's kind of dumb on Gett's part to leave themselves wide open. I'm not experienced enough in jurisprudence to really determine that.
I can tell you how I do it, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend my path to anyone else. I'm not even 100% sure I'd recommend it to a younger version of myself, although I'm also not sure I'd recommend against it either.

Basically, I'm single and childless, and darn close to my every free minute goes into the startup project. When I was working full-time, that meant "after work" M-F and the majority of my Sat and Sun. hours. I make an exception during football season to watch the Dolphins game on Sunday (yeah, yeah, go ahead, say it... I'm a glutton for punishment).

I force myself to take a break every once in a while and read a novel or watch a movie or something... but truth be told, lately, even when I watch movies or something, there's an angle related to the startup. For example, I've been reading and studying a lot about sales lately, and I've seen more than one sales book mention "be like Columbo".

I had kinda wanted to rewatch some old Columbo episodes anyway (yeah, I'm old, deal with it) so I've been watching Columbo and thinking about "how do you apply his attitude / approach to this 'diagnostic business development' thing"? And the movies I make time for tend to be ones that I find inspirational (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Rad, etc.) that help keep me motivated.

About 6 months ago, I dropped down from full-time status to part-time status at my regular job to free up more time for the startup. I had a little bit of money saved, but not enough to quit outright... luckily the owner of the company was willing to be flexible and let me do that. I've pretty much burned through my savings though, and we aren't profitable yet, so I'm going back to working full-time next month.

These days I forgo most social activities like dating, parties, and most non-technical social events. I rarely mountain bike anymore, and almost never set foot in the gym. I bailed on going home to see my parents for Christmas so I could use those few days of "down time" as recovery time. I stay amped up on more caffeine than could possibly be healthy, and do everything I can to the tune of heavy-metal[1] or hard-rock of some sort. My mantra right now is "Caffeine, heavy-metal and adrenaline". \m/

I know, I know... you're thinking "dude, you must be miserable". Nah... I enjoy this in a certain sense, and since I'm 40 now, and haven't achieved anything yet, my mindset now is to say "fuck it" and go for broke. It's now or never, ya know? My mindset is to achieve the biggest and most ambitious of my dreams, or - when life finally breaks me - pull a Leaving Las Vegas deal and go to Vegas and try to drink myself to death.

Do not try this at home...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQcOQsCFnw
I don't think 'dragonwriter is suggesting what you think he is suggesting.