skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovecraft kind of covered this in his Randolph Carter stories. Check out "The Silver Key"[1] as a prequel and "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"[2] as the payoff. It's not the typical horror he's known for, but definitely incorporates his larger cosmic themes.

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Silver_Key

[2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Gates_of_the_Silve...
"...which are modern enough to still be under copyright and thus most profitable to Amazon"?
You can live middle-classly on 40-60k in most of America still.

Techies seem to be anxious to claim middle-class status, but if you're in a 6-figure household family, you're still pushing upper class compared to nearly anywhere.

And the statistical fact is that if you're $250 k in the US in household income, you are in fact the 1%.
Well nuclear missiles can be used on military targets, or targeted on infrastructure or to strategically poison areas with radiation. I think what you object to is MAD.

As terrible as it is, it does likely prevent wars from happening in the first place. Even if the world is stable now, it may not always be so and it wasn't in the past.
Disappointed to not see Siddhartha on the list http://www.amazon.com/Siddhartha-Hermann-Hesse/dp/0553208845
With a US slant and some juvenile fiction thrown into the mix.

Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, really?
It "bothers" you? How can it "bother" you? You arent an AOSP developer.

The license is not what the author is referring to, he's referring to the fact that YOU, or I or ANYONE cannot sign up to develop AOSP and contribute to the project because its just a code dump from google with a license.

Thats NOT open source and if you think the license makes it so then you need to go up and try to make a commit no matter how trivial to AOSP. Dont be a fool...fool.
Aren't in-your-face widgets the biggest thing in the Windows phone UI? Those big tiles in all the ads? I seem to be confused.
I wonder if news coverage of the restrictions is restricted in Turkey.

It'd be nice if SOME country started leading by example. 'Safegaurds' like these are gambling on the premise that they will -never- be abused, which is always a lofty bet if not flat out disingenuous.
S is for Storytelling
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Q is for Questions
This is a great presentation on how to effectively communicate data and it is not just putting raw data on a slide. it takes time and major creativity to communicate. Read the presentation for another reason, a good example of a catchy, relevant intro tied to a closing.... something that makes us all better communicators.
Like Great Expectations and Pride And Prejudice.

Great insight!
yeah, docket is an api around namespaces.. and thus lxc, right now.

thanks for nothing really.
About $400k, actually.
yeah, somewhat. that being said, AOSP does provide a little more than Darwin does, mainly, there is some UI provided. Otherwise, .. yeah. It's also getting closer and closer to that model.
FYI, you have exactly the same copyright issues on an intranet. You're just less likely to get caught, I guess.
Proposed Minecraft fan film canceled on Kickstarter by Notch
I believe that would be the point of <meta http-equiv="X-Frame-Options" content="deny">
Not even Richard Stallman defines open source (or rather free software) like you do. [1] AOSP meets all of the criteria, and it's a code dump with a permissive license that you are free to fork and redistribute as you wish.

There's no rule that free software requires accepting pull requests from the entire world.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Elected representatives are not legally bound to follow through with campaign promises or actually represent the desires of their constituents.
Okay now, please be nice, she is really trying :) Sounds like PhasmaFelis is the only one on this thread who got the point.

I think most of you here really enjoy what you do for a living. I can't be certain, but I'd venture to guess that the tech industry scores the highest when it comes to the happiness factor.

As for me personally -- having come from investment banking and consulting -- it was the best choice I made for my career and personal sanity. It was clear to my wife how much happier I had become -- not working for some faceless corporation and actually contributing tangible value to society.

Journalism is a noble, but unfortunately, a declining field. It is stagnant. There isn't much funding [1]. I have been urging her to get involved with the vibrant tech community, which she has been. When I told her that I was volunteering at the HTML 500, she jumped at the opportunity -- and blogged about it :) yes yes.. HTML is not real programming (even though it is probably the single technology that touches most people's lives) and yes, Lisp does not have semicolons, but Javascript does, so there.

By the sounds of it, she seems to have finally garnered the curiosity and drive to dive deeper in the rabbit hole. At least to give it a try, it might not be for her, but she will understand me better. This kind of behaviour should be condoned.

It is also her first time on Hacker News, so we should show her how great a community this is (and that we are not a bunch of pedants)!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5324429

Edit: Now why did this post get penalized and bumped all the way to the third page, where it was sitting in the Top 10 just 30 min ago?
Yeah, you're right. $250 k would only put you in the top 2.32% in 2011.

Let's be absolutely clear here. A six figure household income puts you in the top 20% of the US. You are not middle class. You are in fact upper class.
Minecraft Movie 'The Birth of Man' Nixed by Notch:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/07/minecraft-movie-the-b...
Most long-term predictions tend to be made by people living in pockets where the future has already arrived, but it seems appropriate to recall Gibson's prediction about uneven future distribution. Trying to extrapolate based on local maxima will always produce a trendline that outpaces reality. To his credit, I don't see any flying cars here; the author bases many of his predictions on innovations and trends that are already to some extent or other in progress. But in order to bring a change from possible to widespread, it has to be commercialized first, and I struggle to see a profit motive for some of these things, even in the next 30 years - i.e. energy consumption monitoring by Google when electricity is cheap thanks to nuclear fission, etc.
They did a bad job on sci-fi, I think -- while I liked Dune, it certainly isn't the one SF book I'd include.

The Handmaid's Tale is far better, but is listed as "Feminist Speculative Fiction"; if I'd read the category first, I would have skipped the book, but the book is great, along with her other writing.

In a list of 100, I'd probably include 3. The Handmaid's Tale is fine; Snow Crash or maybe a Heinlein or a "golden age of sci-fi" choice.

(Edited to fix incorrect title, thanks)
> In 1992 nobody had 386 machines.

By 1992, 386 machines were common, and new machines for serious work were generally 486s.
Ask HN: Why did this submission get penalized?
Moments ago, this post[1] was in the Top 10 (30 points in 5 hours). It is now bumped down to the third page. Is there something I need to understand?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203866
It's kind of nice to have a core set we can all discuss, though.

I know there are people who basically never read a book, but I have a feeling the kind of person who reaches 100 won't stop there.
Buddhism thinks general bad things as the person suffered do not understand the deterministic natural behind their suffering. So there is no good/bad, there is only knowning/unknowning
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It's probably deliberately opaque, but my interpretation of "a bucket list of books to create a well-read life" is that they are all a.) good books and b.) books which will help the reader relate to other readers.

It's probably a bit too pithy to say that reading them all will give you something to talk about at cocktail parties, but I think that's kinda where they're going with it. Any list that has both David Sedaris and Charles Dickens on it is not meant to be taken literally as THE LIST.

I've only read 33* of them, so I've still got a ways to go.

*humblebrag
>Hence, since Magical Tux (the owner) is motivated not to go to jail, he will not run off with people's BTC.

Except if, like every fraudster ever, he believes that he has a good plan to run off AND avoid going to jail. I mean, what kind of bizarro logic is this? Are we supposed to listen to further "rational" arguments now?

Also, seriously, people place their money (in whatever form) in someone who calls himself "Magical Tux"?

A guy whose profile in Twitter reads "PHP Developer working on some weird stuff, like a mail server (POP3/IMAP4/SMTP) written in PHP"? Sure, that inspires confidence in a money exchange. Might as well invest your money directly to that Nigerian prince too.
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This was my first thought as well, besides the fact that the NSA wants to appear that Snowden was a "hacker" or a "mastermind" of some kind.

Crawlers tend to die when challenged with authentication. Right... But then they go on to make it worse by saying if he hadn't used this supposed "crawler" that their ultra-fancy security would have detected the intrusion.

Really? Really.

I call bullshit. He had access to all these servers, all he had to do was netuse some windows shares and fill up his thumbdrive. Probably took a total of 45 minutes.

I feel bad for the. (wha?) No I dont!
>There's plenty to warrant suspicion, but it turns out there is a credible explanation for the seize-up in BTC payouts being a technical problem that will take some time to resolve

Would you be as OK with your bank holding money like that?
Typo: The book's name is "The Handmaid's Tale".

And you're right, it's a great book and does not deserve to be pigeonholed into some niche category.
When there's some "gold rush" mentality involved, logic goes out of the window.
Here’s how I bought Bitcoin off a guy on the street
> the notion that everyone should read the same set of books in a lifetime is a strange one

I think it's intended as a list of suggestions, and anyone else is free to create their own list of suggestions.

> Much better for people to read different books.

There's so many books out there that it's useful to have some guidance as to which are more likely to be worth your time.
The product for YouTube and Airbnb is the community, not the actual code. Although for YouTube they might want to keep some of the video processing stuff to themselves. As for Airbnb a clone wouldn't take it down because the community is the product. Same can be said of Craigslist.
One thing that surprised me was the statement about a sun that would soon engulf the nearby planet - and being so relatively large that the planet was 'more than half' in sunlight (~ the sun's disc shines 'around the corners').

But isn't that true on earth too (to a much smaller degree)? As long as the sun's radius is larger than the earth, then sunlight will fall simultaneously on more than a half of the earth's surface, no?
Eligius / p2pool payouts directly to Gox's wallet.
It was 350K in 2009, in the midst of a crisis (incomes of people like that have a lot to do with performance-based bonuses, stock appreciation and the like, so they dipped a lot in the crisis, much more than oridinary people's). In 2012 it was already $560K.

And the definition for upper class as being top 1% is arbitrary, it is in fact invented by Obama during his first presidential campaign, solely for finger-pointing (he could safely say 1% is not many people so they won't impact election results enough and safe to be finger-pointed).

Upper class are ought to be people who don't derive their income from work, but from their property - business profits, stock dividends, rent etc. - in all societies upper class are those who DON'T depend on salary, and many of them don't work at all. So it is natural to define upper class income threshold as a point above which less than 50% of income comes from employment. In the present United States, this is about 3-4 million bucks a year per household. This will be economically defined upper class, not just some 'people rich enough to hate them'. So McCain was closer to reality back in 2008 is his upper class definition.

I personally don't know anyone making that much, but i can safely say that all people i know making 150-1000k a year will be broke months or at most, a year or two if they stop working, with one exception (a guy living in East Asia with about 400k of annual income, who never married or had kids). So they are not upper class. And i am speaking of the places which are cheaper and have lower living standards than USA.
It's kind of old now, 5 hrs with 30 up votes is sort of stale and it has more comments than up votes so probably got dinged by flame war detector too.
I get why they did this, but it seems like such a waste considering everywhere I've seen this posted people just bitch about a book or a section of books they like not being on the list. But it seems to be working as intended, because I've seen this posted a lot.
Perfect. Explained everything!!
Considering this is a list of books written in English, the language descended from Anglo-Saxon, what did you expect them to do? Include foreign books that their English readers can't read?

(And no, just because a non-English book is great and worth reading does not automatically confer that same status onto an English translation based upon that book.)
1) Show teleology is more than a human construction to explain the purposes we ourselves invented

2) Emergent behavior in the brain

3) Big bang

Treating these questions as unanswerable assumes a very weak form of materialism.
Very insightful! Thanks for mentioning: Gibson and local maxima. I completely agree with your view on commercialization; in terms of monitoring consumption: I think there will be money in analytics/data that help us push forward ubiquitous computing (even if electricity is cheap)
"Upper class is people other than us."

Go ahead, enter your household income here, find out where you really fall.

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-yo...

Hint- if you're a techie in SF, you're reaaaaallll near the top.
SELinux, MAC, RBAC, SCIF, Trusted Solaris, Cisco AON, and... xcopy??
Their web UI isn't as nice,

I like their web UI better than GMail. It is cleaner than GMail and much faster most of the time. It's also worth noting that they now have a beta version of a calendar (with CalDAV) support:

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2014/01/23/calendar-now-available-on...

And they are apparently working on CardDAV.
As an SF resident, I'm pretty confident that my adopted city has the most dysfunctional municipal government in the country.
Unfortunately, the second part seems to get stuck in "cross examination" and it's impossible to continue.
There exists a lot of literature about class, which is a very fluid term. I think to the extent that people react really negatively when you suggest $100k is upper class, they're reacting to other associations they have with that term. For example, educational attainment or social advantage are also class markers, and many people at $100k won't particularly have them. For another, material advantages of being wealthy are, at many locales, absolutely unobtainable at only $100k a year. House ownership is a major one. International travel is another one that is high on the SWPL list, which many people who are doing well for themselves at $100k a year will not find themselves able to consume. (Chiefly, because in return for that $100k they've committed themselves to a career track which doesn't tolerate 2 week vacations very well.)

FWIW, there's a lot of talk in the United States since about 1970 or so of there being a "professional class", which has education and income markedly higher than the traditional middle class but which has lifestyles which resemble middle class more than the traditional upper classes. It was traditionally filled full of doctors, lawyers, and accountants. Engineers are entering the professional class, which discomfits a lot of people.
No, because of distance. I'm sure there is a simple equation that shows this but I don't know it. Presumably most stars we see are larger than earth, yet we can only just see them and they are basically point sources.
This is ridiculous. The US isn't going to respond to a nuclear detonation by a hostile power on its soil with a "measured" conventional response.

It will be overwhelming, it's just unlikely to be nuclear for various reasons.

But at the end of the day cities of the aggressor would be levelled, their military obliterated, their leaders be dead, and the country under martial rule by a coalition which would have extraordinary support to occupy and disarm.
Agreed--I think the living room 'hub' is DOA in a world of smartphones and tablets. Why would I want to mess around with some clunky 10 foot interface when I can just pull my phone out of my pocket or pick up the tablet on my coffee table?
Things created for one intent often have unintended side effects.

And you are right, I don't have any hard data or evidence off the top my head. I have read many accounts about gambling in general though. It can be quite insidious. Putting money into the scheme from the OP is virtually the same thing as gambling. If the site actually ran for any decent length of time, I think it is extremely likely that some people who are struggling financially would have made bets on this site that they would then later regret. I also doubt you have evidence that implies otherwise ;)

Personally, I think that facilitating such events is morally dubious. I understand that not everyone shares this view.
fucking bureaucrats
I had to migrate around 100 accounts out of Gmail (free) in 2009 and it was a pain because their IMAP implementation was sub-par and so all the IMAP migration tools (imapcopy etc..) failed/halted somewhere during the process on each mailbox.
At the end we had to configure accounts on various computers and manually download them (probably two bad IMAP implementation, Gmail and Outlook, worked better together than using other tools :))
Of course POP was not acceptable because of lack of labels/folders support.

If this existed at that time it would have saved us a lot of hassle...
TogetherJS bug about fixing IE
We should love each other like we love ourselves.
So, you have users who have years of e-mail in GMail, use GMail for free, use their @gmail.com everywhere, and probably don't know how to migrate their e-mail to another provider.

Give them a choice: (1) go through a messy migration or (2) install another app. Most will probably do (2) without even thinking about it.

And then you have to factor in that worldwide, over 80% of the smartphone users already have a platform where GMail is the default mail app:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24442013
I fully realize that objectively wealthy people want to perceive themselves as middle class.

But come on, the fact that your career path doesn't tolerate 2 week vacations doesn't move you down the percentile ladder.

As far as your last paragraph, that's my point. If you're making six figures, you're "rich" in America, still, whether you want to accept it or not.

To think you're not is to be very, very out of touch.
Yes, the Xbox 360 has been a success in the US (beating the PS3), but in every other market than the US, the PS3 has beaten the Xbox 360.[1] And the article in question is very US-centric on that regard. I am not saying the Xbox is necessarily bad, but is it better than the PlayStation? I think that's rather subjective.

Although I hear that neither Sony nor Microsoft has made a lot of money from their console adventures.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_...
Strong disagree. The article is about recommending and making ex post use of a policy for good commit messages. The point argued is in favor of a future rule for good commit messages. Therefore it is very reasonable to suggest a superior rule for the future.
Humans are not robots, we make mistakes and often do things that we later regret. I don't have the concept of morality worked out perfectly. However, it feels wrong to influence people in a way that increases the frequency of said regretful events, especially when potentially large sums of money are involved. It looks like over 200k went through the site before it shut down? Nothing to sneeze at.

You are right, there is a distinction to be made between those who created the site, and those throw money at it.

Some who throw money at the site are well off and are essentially using the scheme as entertainment. They likely would not be too upset if the money didn't come back. One could make the argument that these people are morally entangled to a degree, as they increase the volume of funds flowing through the site, which draws in additional people, and makes it more likely that someone who actually has financial or gambling problems is tempted to bet on the site. However, this is argument is somewhat weaker than the one against the actual creators of the scheme.
The energy storage issue for renewable energy can be solved with today's technology just by making the grid bigger. Think of distribution networks spanning multiple timezones and geographic region.

For plastic i believe the recycling rate is already very high.
NData – A flexible deep key-value store server and client pair
Hahaha it shows percentiles above 100% for income above 220k for women and 450k for men (both unmarried and living alone = all 3 figures equal) - that javascript is broken.
We try to keep things modular and so we open source components and various things in our software that might be of general use. Likewise we try to send pull requests back on components that we use. Several of us have our own open source projects as well so we're very much into open sourcing code.

But, I honestly don't see a ton of value in open-sourcing the entire codebase as-is for my company. Not that I would worry about people stealing our ideas, because like most businesses ours is about relationships, support and various other things rather than the "secret sauce" in our code. I just don't see anybody bothering to contribute since our customers are not programmers (not even very technical in many cases). I have no idea why any programmer in his/her right mind would want to go through our product to fix bugs or add features.

I can see it being a different thing if your product is aimed at other developers and/or it has a broad appeal. If there are developers who would be interested for some reason to participate, then I can see it being a great thing. I just don't think it's necessarily helpful for every company.
It is true for the Earth and Sun, yes, but the amount of overfill is small.

I don't know the apparent size of the star in question here -- ah, the paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.3943v1.pdf) gives it: 46.5%. Compare that with the apparent size, or angular diameter, of the Sun as viewed from Earth: 2 degrees. About the size of your thumb at arm's length.

Your mileage may vary, but if I extend both my hands out, touch the thumbs together, and spread my thumbs and pinkies as wide as I can, that's roughly 20x wider than my thumb. Imagine that as the Sun looming in your sky.
He's referring to Steve Langasek not min.