skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is bad. Great political commentary, but god-awful HN fodder.

We pay people to have babies, so people have babies. We create a financial reward for people not to marry, so they don't marry. Film at 11. This entire discussion is just regurgitated political arguments from the 60s, and not much has changed, frankly, except the destruction of the family unit and social fabric in poor families.

This author wants to make the case that society is to blame (Gee, never saw that one coming) and that we should all strive to be more compassionate and understanding. He does so by some weird idea that marriage is a contract and that by looking at statistics the other side is confusing correlation with causality. Then he rambles into the idea that promoting marriage for stability is getting things ass-backwards. You can draw your own conclusions here looking at 2 thousand years of history.

So there's not much here except for a long apologia for programs that never worked, but it's definitely damned long-winded.

All part of a larger narrative in the states regarding income inequality and the poor, which is how the left plans to split the country, continue the divisiveness, and get their guys elected for the next few years or so.

So really just more of the same stuff you can find on any politics site. I have no idea why it's reached such prominence on HN.
Magical, in the sense of an Oracle casting a prediction. Which makes it pretty much the same as a D&D dungeon master rolling to determine the outcome of an event, except the players (and maybe the DM) believed it was real.
My biggest fear is other networks going online and removing their content from Netflix. If it comes to that there's no way IN HELL I'm paying for 5+ online services. Fuck that.

I absolutely love Netflix, let's hope they manage to keep ahold of their catalog.
And: Keep Telling Yourself, ‘This Workout Feels Good’

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/keep-repeating-this...
Road companies seem like a great example of a problematic scenario for anarcho-capitalism:

A hypothetical company called Roads LLC owns a 20km strip of road that goes through a tunnel in a mountain. Due to the geography, all alternative routes require an extra 200km detour. Let's also say, for the sake of argument, that you can't just build another tunnel either, because the mountain would collapse.

Since there are no direct competitors, the company is well-aware of the leverage it has, so it constantly keeps the toll price well above what the maintenance costs are, making huge margins.

So, I assume that your position is that this situation (quite inefficient from the customer's perspective) is better overall than having a government that manages that road, due to all of the other evils you perceive it brings. Even if there was a legitimate mechanism (the democratic process) for changing a particular inefficient government.

I guess my response is that governments seem like they could be efficient in theory, although most are grossly inefficient in practice. In contrast, anarcho-capitalism seems inefficient even in theory.
Functional Programming 101 - With Clojure
The comparison to Kristallnacht, while inflammatory, isn't that absurd. Tactically their conduct is very similar to the early SA.

The Nazis began as a street gang. They saw themselves as socially and economically marginalized by the "other". Jewish business owners were cast as foreign outsiders responsible for German economic suffering. They smashed store windows and sought to intimidate Jews.

"Die techie scum"
"Get the fuck out of Oakland"
"Kauf nicht bei Juden!"

Once you identify your opponent as less deserving of rights, to be attacked with impunity, the barriers to violence slip away.
(Yes, of course, I'm not claiming that this is a flaw of IRC, or anybody's fault but mine.)
Even the ones who aren't necessarily against industrial espionage would probably agree the government has no business getting involved in it.
Not surprised that they were loaded that way; the 6 side has the most material removed, so it's the lightest. A fair die needs to be counter-balanced.
Thinking about leaving your job? Read this.
It is, sort of. On War by Carl Von Clausewitz which he took from the Art Of War.
There's no doubt that many of these books are standins for personal influence. It's sort of a convention for lists like that.
The need to wash may be purely psychological.

some people who want the fabric of their jeans to age and wear in a specific way, don't wash them, but instead manage odour causing bacteria by periodically freezing their jeans.
check the article on art of manliness -How to stop wasting time on internet or smth..
there are cool extensions
See literally the 2nd sentence of the article.
Richard Posner's view:

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2014/01/secular-stagnation...
One advantage of bus mastering, at least in theory, is that you can do peer-to-peer transfers without going through main system memory.

In practice, I don't think this works out too well for really heavy workloads... both NVIDIA SLI and AMD Crossfire require their own interconnects, presumably because of limited bus bandwidth.

Remember the days when you had a separate MPEG-2 decoder card that externally proxied VGA from your graphics card?
So why does Pyongyang have huge highways and few drivers?
No, but I'm happy to share a name with a pretty nifty language!
Designed by Tesla in California. Manufactured in China :)
Take this with a grain of salt from someone whose handle is "Fasebook."
I can relate to that. I code for fun and relaxation, although weirdness in the ARM architecture is getting under my skin lately. There was a time when I could do that 100% offline although these days it seems everyone just assumes you can go to their site to get a manual or whatever, so while I used to be able to go somewhere quiet and write code, these days it seems like I keep needing to be online.

Edit: it used to be at my house I was the only one who cared if the "Internet" was there or not, now its like oxygen :-)
This poll is so social local saas web.

I'm building a wafer stepper. That's a machine that's used to make chips and LEDs. We're building the very first one of its kind now. I'm not sure what it'll sell for, but it's not something you typically get together on Kickstarter. I guess I'd be using it if I owned a semicon foundry or something.
It's a twenty-sided die; a wet dream of any d&d player.

Hidden bonus: +1 on any roll
I was writing an IDE that I planned to use every day, and it got to a usable point, but the perfectionist in me wasn't happy with some of the implementation details so I don't use it yet. Whenever Julia's C API matures enough that I can actually get it working, I think I'll pick my project back up and use Julia for most of it instead of C. But no luck so far on that route.
As a side project, I built www.99juices.com to crowd-source e-juice recipes (the liquid for e-cigs). If I did a better job at building the community, I'd be on it every day. But it's a side project, so I haven't done enough outreach. Still use it at least once a week to glance at my saved recipes anyways.
They simply found an alternative richer class to steal from, so found it convenient to become national socialists instead of communists. It's Willie Sutton's (apocryphal?) logic that he robbed banks because that's were the money is. Though the Jews didn't have all the money, they were the ones most politically convenient to take it from. A bank with fewer guards, so to speak. The rhetoric is far more fluid than the motivation.
I'm building my product for the explicit reason that I want to use it. Its value to other people is just a (very) nice bonus.
Reverse engineering Lenkeng HDMI over IP extender
I have updated all of my hakintoshes via software update with no issues. Just keep a recovery USB stick handy if one of the updates goes bad.
> Can you elaborate on this more? Does a tenant have the right to force an owner to extend a lease, perhaps?

What is a lease? In The Netherlands a tenant has a rent contract with the owner, which by law may not be restricted in term, and which the owner can not break the contract. (the tenant can break it unwillingly by failing to pay rent of course). There's a small exception for when there is a bigger interest, for example, if you rent a flat, and the entire building is scheduled to be demolished. But still the owner is then obligated to either compensate you or find you a new comparable home.

It is also not allowed to increase the rent more than some number having to do with the inflation rate (I believe it's 2-5% per year).

I know a person who lives in the 'Oud-West' district of Amsterdam for 500 euro per month, just because he started renting over 30 years ago. The owner has offered him thousands just to move out so he can rent the place out for the ~2000/m that location usually fetches.
> The usage of it in that context for X years has superseded the default association with gender.

Well, no. ^^

I just looked up `man` in the book I learned basic Linux usage from and the section is labeled "Manpages" and before the first "man" occurs the abbreviation is explained: "You can look up these manual pages with the program `man`." (Translated from German). Not being a native speaker I didn't even associate it with men before.

> Either way, newcomers do not have the luxury of this association so will have to deal with the gender reminder from man and bro pages.

They can if they are introduced it correctly: "Hey how does Y work? - Take a look at the manpage - The what? - The manual page. Let me show you…". And this abbreviation can totally be justified in a context where even "move" and "list" are shortened.

> Eventually the same will happen for bropages.

Possibly, but the bad joke will always stick. Heck, you can't even explain where the name comes from without explicitly invoking this association.

Maybe the divide in our community also partially originates from different associations with `man`. Even if bropages didn't have any gender issues I would still think its not a good name, because (as said before and before) for me man pages have nothing to do with men. Possibly if I would "get" the joke I would be more reluctant to give the name up.
Yes, because Apple lost their trade secrets by having their factories in China, right?
Why can't non-married couples give each other power-of-attorney for those things? I ask this not rhetorically.
tl;dr: Comparing conversion rates (a metric which is usually in range of 1-3%) using a sample size of n = 60 clicks, by just looking at the total number of registered users.

Even if you had amazingly high conversion rates, with sample of that size, the total number of conversions could be just about anything. Simple variance.

Well done on releasing the game with good reviews though. That's a great achievement. Just spend a bit of time just thinking about advertising :)
Reminds me of the movie "Pi."

"Max... You will find that thing everywhere... As soon as you discard scientific rigor, you're no longer a mathematician, you're a numerologist."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1IzNKIHhp0
Yes it will have to be a joint venture.
I disagree. I think most Americans see stealing from companies IP as a mostly victimless crime... I doubt they are concerned about stealing from a foreign company which they see if interact with little or never; see piracy for a small scale example of this. Not to mention American companies benefit from it and it can have a positive effect on the economy if revolutionary tech is discovered this way.
It depends on your insurance, and probably what region of the country you're in too. Personally i've been in three places that were better, one that was worse: sexual abuse, orderlies stealing meds meant for patients, completely ignoring people except to punish them, foul-tasting food, etc.
Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.
Many of your comments on this thread state that writing webapps in Go (SQL, etc) is not so difficult "once you know what you're doing." Could you elaborate on this? What should one know before attempting to use Go for such things?
Dogecoin market manipulation?
Not seeing a prompt. It might be because of the internal "POST http://forio.com/julia/repl/sessions 503 (Service Unavailable)" error?
IIRC, he deliberately wrote it to make it hard to read. Out of curiosity, why did you try to read it?
35% Of All Pirate Bay Uploads Are Porn
I'm a bit of a bookworm, so there's my bias. But... reading a book is almost certainly a better use of time than, say, farting around on Imgur, or looking at celebrity gossip web sites, or playing Minecraft.

Is it better than, say, learning differential equations on a MOOC web site? Probably not. I expect the number of people "wasting time" on the Internet far exceeds the number learning DiffEq, though.
"Begins"? A writer who knows little of history. The piece even mentions CAVE2, without mentioning the original CAVE work from the 1990s. News articles about the CAVE in our building, back in the mid-1990s, used similar holodeck references.

(The enthusiasm has been here for decades. See for example Howard Rheingold's 1992 "Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society".)
Archived 4chan thread where the leak happened: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S39865892.

-- Edit --

More logs got leaked at http://pastebin.com/7itGzitH. I have not read them yet, so cannot tell you if there is anything of value in there.
Rationally, the people should be against a security agency conducting industrial espionage against friendly nations' industries because we have more to lose from loss of credibility - from our tech companies being suspected collaborators - than we have to gain from, say, submitting a lower bid for Brazilian oil.

Instead of subverting security, we ought to be securing both personal and commercial communications against all spying.
If one of those companies is a multi-national or has a headquarters in say Japan or Germany are the agents who sold the information to them then 'traitors'?
Simplest From of Decrypting Text - Frequency Analysis
Old news:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...

Americans were not outraged back then; is there some reason to think they will be outraged today?
Mess around with open-source applications (such as Rodinia benchmark suite and NAS parallel benchmarks) after going through the basic tutorials on AMD, Intel and Nvidia webpages.
This feels like pure numerology to me, with the entire argument being based on some vague numeric coincidence. I have no experience in food manufacturing, but I'm willing to bet there are much easier ways to mix dough at any desired proportion than the one described here.

Here's another, potentially simpler explanation: I am no pastry chef, but it seems these recipes often use a 2:1 mix of different types of chocolate (e.g. dark and milk) [1]. Now if the recipe contains 1/4 of one type and half of this of another type, that's 25% + 12.5% = 37.5%, which is about as close to 37% than 1/e. Ta-da!

And this is just one explanation I just made up on the spot; I'm sure one can find many others by playing around with the numbers. I don't know for sure what the real answer is or if there even is one (it could just be that marketing thought 37% sounded more elaborate than a round number like 40% while also costing less to produce and tasting the same), but one shouldn't forget to apply Occam's razor here.

[1] a quick Google search gives me this: http://www.talkfood.com/forum/showthread.php/3230-37-Chocola...
Probably got "slashdotted".
Ask China the same question, they believe it's one and the same.
Go I/O is Fun* (* For certain definitions of fun)
I don't see how learning programming is beyond the ability of a younger child, provided the syllabus and the style of teaching is developmentally appropriate.

I've seen elementary school kids mess around in Scratch and (without necessarily knowing this is what professionals call these concepts) they are learning about basic program flow, iterators, conditionals, event handlers, Cartesian coordinate systems, etc. Not to mention basic literacy, such as how to type, use the mouse, drawing sprites, recording audio, what it means to "save" versus "save as..." etc.

At the end of the day this is literacy, and just like music class doesn't make everybody Mozart, programming class won't make everybody Knuth or Stroustrup. But it's still worth doing because everybody deserves to understand how to think about and interact with the world around them.
It depends. I go through phases. Some weeks, I want nothing to do with a computer when I'm not at work - I read, I work in the yard, I mess around in the shop with whatever idea has popped into my head. Other weeks, you can't pry me away from it - RPGs (of the non-mmo variety) are a big reason, but it can also be something as simple as learning about [insert subject here].

What I won't do, is work. Bringing work home is something I avoid whenever I can. I learned that lesson a while ago - burnout is a bitch. Let your brain do other things. Write code if you want, but don't code on anything work related.
You guys never stay after hours and print crazy LEDs just for personal projects? C'mon now.
Are you saying that the political left wing are planning to raise issues of income equality and the poor and claim that there is an unfair division in society? Well, this is incredible news, and I must say, highly unexpected.
I'm working on a visual web testing automation tool Usetrace (http://usetrace.com).

Our QA process is relying on it.

We're:

- automatically checking our most critical features every time our code changes in our QA environment

- monitoring the end user experience on production environment using the same automated tests every minute

- creating and maintaining the tests with our tool

- getting live feedback to our development team's flowdock chat through our own APIs
Did you watch the first video until the end? They forcefully take the police shields, then, when the police are left standing defenseless, and actually surrender, they tell them to go through, and let them walk out of the building. There's no beating taking place, besides that required to break the police's stand. Even the guy with the fire hose is clearly going for the shield, not actively trying to injure the officer.
I use our prototyping web app to create prototypes of our web app! http://www.marvelapp.com
A good open-source OpenCL application might be cgminer or bfgminer, might have to get an older version though, it looks like the latest ones have abandoned OpenCL/GPU support.
When did global warming begin?
I'm usually pretty anti-ORM and actually like low-level SQL interfaces (I guess because I did a short stint as an Oracle developer once, once you see what can be done with some custom SQL...). But for a recent sideproject of mine, I really didn't want to create a laborious interface to the database. I wanted something quick and dirty. I got something quick, and it doesn't feel dirty at all. It's called gorp: http://github.com/coopernurse/gorp.

By the way, my sideproject is about getting financial data from sources like Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, et cetera. You can find it here: https://github.com/aktau/gofinance
Grammy Whammy Cartoon
Since we offer free VOIP phone calls to US, Canadian an UK land-lines, of course I use it every day! But by using Upptalk almost constantly I've come across hundreds of small bugs and fixes that otherwise I might not have found.

But to be honest, the reason we built Upptalk was not because we needed VOIP telephony, but that we were incensed with habitual overcharging and roaming charges.
Because... The Internet.

A lot easier to create a buzz currently. Was pretty easy to sweep all of those examples under the rug from a media publicity perspective.

Also there is already a great deal more consternation with the parties involved.
Eh, I was hoping to do it without running x on the remote server.
First of all, Google's been around for slightly more than a decade. I can totally see it losing its monopoly over time (same for Amazon). Also, are Google and Amazon doing a bad job? Are customers (e.g. those who place ads or buy books) unhappy? If a monopoly delivers I have no problem with it. Furthermore, Google doesn't prevent other players from entering the market, it doesn't lobby the government to regulate search and require all companies to acquire a search licence if they wish to get into this business. This is why you see businesses like DuckDuckGo taking their chance.

What I really insist on is that if a monopoly is doing a bad job and if there is no government to protect it, it will inevitably be challenged. How long did it take for Google to challenge Apple's iPhone? Not long. And they really had a huge advantage and were actually doing a pretty good job.

The only true monopoly is a government because even if you wanted to ever challenge it, you'd lose your money, freedom and possibly life. Governments have no respect for people at all because people are not their customers. They know that people have no choice but to pay.
$100k lands on my bed. Poof go my student loans and credit card debt. With enough left over that I could take a nice vacation and take a 6 month break from work if I live very frugally. Sounds like a worthy goal.

Edit: this is why claims of finishing returns with the ratio of earnings/happiness are unconvincing to me, or at least setting them as low as $70-80k (which some people do) seems wrong. Additional capital produces happiness because it provides security -- I can afford not just to service debt, but to eliminate it, making me free to take a lower paying job in the future. I can afford to buy a house outright instead of just a down payment. I can fund my own business ventures. I can provide for the people I love. I can bend the law and government to my personal interests. I don't see a real cap where more money stops providing more happiness and peace of mind, at least not before reaching sums that make you truly wealthy. Any middle class person in America is still incredibly subject to the vagaries of fortune, and the more money you have the more you alleviate your risk.

N.B., I personally can't afford any of these things.
Can anyone give a summary of what Picnik did? I assume their web site is long gone. I'd like to know what features were the basis of such a fast growing business.
Yeah, and the US government is highly critical of China's industrial espionage campaign.
From 2003.

Allow me to summarize the internet commentary since then:

Hur hur, D&D.

Repost.
Ask HN: What's your definition of growth hacking?
What's your definition of growth hacking and when does it stop being a way to gain traction/conversions and becomes spammy/un-ethical.
Snowden: NSA engages in industrial espionage
I agree with the templating problem. Additionally, it is difficult to find proper documentation on how to do templating and not just basic examples.
why would anyone want to job in the first place...? If you're in a place where you need to mindlessly execute duties, it's not a good place.
I didn't know that there was a credo like that. :)

Though it seems obvious that most people are religious as a matter of upbringing rather than as a cause of something like a personal, spiritual insight or feeling, someone might argue that people are predisposed to religious institutions from nature's side, because it helps them make sense of the world, it makes creating social contracts easier, or something to that effect.
Yes: https://www.zerotier.com/

As I've been developing it I started using it to sync stuff, access machines remotely, etc.
I lost so much money from this stupid startup decision
I used to repair KLA wafer steppers and loaders back in the day as ppart of my job. Not something you would find outside a fab, lab or test facility.
With that die I'd crit on every toss.