skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"1. In point of fact, much scientific evidence shows that depression is a physical illness, not a mental illness."

A false dichotomy there.

"Psychiatrists and psychologists, of course, insist that depression is a mental illness and is treatable with therapy and drugs. But there is no reliable scientific evidence for this view."

Stated without actual evidence, naturally. On a scale of One to Clear, how much do you love L Ron Hubbard?
I did! For a while at least... ;)
Actually, I still like it - it just has a somewhat area of usefullnes, which is why C or C++ will always be my favorite above all other lanhuages :)
> It's rather the opposite, Hobbes's treatise explains why you didn't witness it throughout recorded history. Once a population group got large enough to have to worry about silly things like common property it ended up having leaders/warlords (either homegrown or due to conquest from abroad).

Is there any evidence that humans ever weren't large enough to worry about common property? I mean populations evolve, not individuals, right? And even families have common property within the household, right? If humans are social creatures, then it seems to me that this view of history can't be right because humans have always formed governments as required by our social nature.

> But even so, you certainly saw it in recorded history when government was weaker. "Highwayman" used to connote a very scary idea, something that is most relevant in modern history to those driving in convoys in Afghanistan or Iraq.

But bandits have almost always been a reaction to the formation (often by distinct government policies) of a destitute class. You see a major increase in banditry following the confiscation of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, for example, because this was instrumental in creating the destitute masses that would power the English Industrial Revolution.

The FLN is a good example of the use of a war of all against all as a tactic to weaken governments. I don't think it is a good example of what happens without strong government though. A much better example would be blood feuds in medieval Iceland, or in weak government areas today.

Blood feuds though are complex institutions. They don't really form a war of all against all. Rather they form a way for bad behavior to be punished. If a man in Papua feels that his wife has dishonored him and kills her, her brothers will likely do the same to him. This will spin around until everyone gets tired of it and decides to reconcile with some sort of settlement.

As Jesse Byock has pointed out, one can see significant evidence that in medieval Iceland, the blood feud was an institution which provided a similar form of social control and stabilization to what we might think of as law and order. In short, blood feuds are law and order by a different means.
Reading your law enforcement stories, combined with mostly broken checks and balances due to an arcane election system, judging it from the outside and comparing it with what we have in my home country, I'd say you're not close but you're about half way there.

If there was a more sane way to introduce new law into your system, I'd suggest something like 'make it illegal to make their performance reviews depend on the number of arrests'. But how would you even start a movement like this? It is still possible to shoot down laws pending in congress (as demonstrated with SOPA), but actively steering into a new direction? I guess if you have a few hundred millions to get get yourself elected it would be possible - the problem is, having this sort of money is not a good filter criteria to get a balanced congress. So how to even start?
That is horrible! It sounds like story from Kazachstan or Africa. I hope your friend is better now.
Because that would hurt the interests of powerful lobbyists, and therefore congressmen and senators.

The government of the US does not even remotely work for her people. They serve themselves.
Valentines Date between Nitrous and Git this Pristine Morning
One sentence and six charts to explain why Comcast is buying Time Warner
> "Monozukuri", regardless of its recent coinage, is an apt descriptor of the mindset of Japanese businesses.

Precisely. And this is why so many regular businesses like Panasonic, Hitachi, are utterly failing overseas. They are focusing too much on the engineering bit, on which they are very good at (and where they made their bread and butter in the 80s and 90s), but fail to understand the concept of "product experience" that goes beyond Engineering. Japanese pre-smartphones phones could all do amazing stuff at the time, but the user experience was extremely poor and they never tried to push it forward. The same can be said for Sony and other major maker's appliances. Once China or Korea is good enough to copy their products, they lose their marketability because they lack any edge that would bring more value to their product. Sony in its whole was a huge FAIL: they had so many different divisions focusing on hifi, electronics and computing and they never could make any sense on how to make all this products branded as Sony work better together. It's like they were all made by different companies without any common goal or logic.

And unfortunately, this "engineering comes first" mindset has not changed at the head of most of these consumer-products companies, and it will be the Death of them.
I fully agree, but I felt that could potentially be perceived as a limitation to someone unfamiliar. I was attempting to put emphasis that it wasn't.
This seems very much like the military situation in Iain Banks' The Algebraist.
Netflix: Availability Tools; Cloud Management Tools; Big Data Tools
But to the degree it's tolerated, it's arguable that it's due to a want of class consciousness, at least in the U.S.

Ironic that I got to use Marxism to attack communism.
> And you rarely see libertarians here in Canada.

I think that is because your provinces have actual positive jurisdictions of sovereignty, as opposed to the very weak protections our states have.

> For all its warts, our government mostly works: healthcare is pretty good, education is pretty good, regulations are generally not onerous, taxes are pretty low, crime is pretty low, etc.

For example, there is no "Canadian Health Care System." Rather there is some federal money that goes to provinces as long as they don't do anything horribly out of line, and the provinces get to set up their own systems.
Your premise is incorrect. People choose to live in SF because they prefer city life. Building more boxes around the bay will not get these people to move. The buses ARE a temporary solution, but the real solution is to move the work closer to the workers.

I also think that it is an entirely over-optimistic point of view that these few tech companies are going to shake a few hands and rents will decrease even when talking about a multi-year time scale.
It's fixed! The itch.io team has be great on this issue
Show HN: store your game play achievements in a toy
I'd still like to know what the proper procedure is after a police officer declares their intention to handcuff you, and you end up handcuffing them instead. I mean, is he under arrest then? Should I take him home and keep him in the spare bedroom for a couple of days?

Serious question, I have seen it happen. Personally as far as hostile encounters with polices go I'm batting 2/1/1 which is not really anything to brag about, and none are fun stories.

Anyway, if you end up in an emergency situation, and the cops do show up, offer help in a clear slow voice and then follow instructions. The worst that ever happened was being asked to give a hand with moving some heavy branches, which is what I was doing when they showed up anyway.
> This is getting old, and is just plain untrue. Reads are more expensive than the extremely cheap writes, but they really aren't expensive.

It has improved a lot over time but it isn't a myth due to the fact that it's not good out of the box. You have to spend some time with configuration and mulling over the schema to mitigate it. It's something you don't have to really think about as much on other data stores.
Weird points to make.

Subtyping isn't a good organizing principle for code reuse from a type-safety or human-sanity perspective. Typeclasses and composition are better.

You should give Haskell a whirl.
I wish there's more development in Internet speeds in developing countries, this would certainly boost up the pace for service sector across the globe.
Once you have implemented this design pervasively, you can forget about reusing your code in another context. Because it is impossible to tell which part of the god object is needed in a given part of the code, you have to initialize everything in the god object. With a bit of luck, you're working in Java and mixing this anti-pattern with some Spring dependency injection, in order to make this mess really impossible to untangle.

And obviously it encourages mixing up layers. Why have modularity when you can access your data access components from anywhere?

And in general, circular dependencies are a code smell. Whenever I thought I needed to use them, I came to realize it was the wrong decision.
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The problem with hot code reloading in cloud haskell (part 2)
Fuck the police? Wrong, wrong wrong.

Exactly the opposite. Do not fuck the police.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata
The police overreacted. And it sounds like one cop in particular overreacted and then triggered a cascade of nonsense.

This kind of thing is not rare, but it's not common, either. It happens nightly, but it's unlikely to happen to you.

A good rule of thumb is to not be anywhere near a scene that has an inbound emergency response. There will be police, and if they have nothing else to do, they might harass you for fake reasons.

But it all depends on where you are going. In most places, this is not a common problem. In certain areas of larger cities, the police can be a bit over zealous.
I got one from SCALE x10. Southern California Linux Expo
> many of the existing scripts make use of C bindings or rely on odd behaviors that aren't replicated by alternate VMs

HHVM is compatible with PHP 5.3, LuaJIT with Lua 5.1 and PyPy with Python 2.7.3. All benchmark code is written the languages code and sometimes relies on an language extension library (which is written in C or C++). But three above JIT VMs come with their own compatible language extension libraries or support the extension API.

Look at the code, it should be easy: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t... and https://github.com/kragen/shootout/tree/master/bench
Very interesting and starts to make the posibilities of more open baseband software much more viable. Also Software defined radio projects become cheaper.

Had look and does have prices on website: http://www.limemicro.com/buy_now.php

$110 per chip for one at joe blogs consumer price, so good indication upon bulk price, let alone trade.

I do somehow wonder how long it will be to reuire some sort of radio license just to purchase such items. I recall how in the UK you needed to know and pass a test in morse code to legaly use a HAM radio, not the case now.
How to Tell if Someone Is Lying
Rakuten, Japanese Internet Giant, To Buy Cyprus-based Viber for $900 million
Yes optimized ASM would be a great baseline. Fortran is already faster in several benchmarks than C.
He wasn't told bluntly. They said they no longer needed him. He said he would like to stay, and then he was tackled, cuffed, and sent off for a bit of solitary.
You know how high school football players think football is Really Important? Of course it is. Great sack, your team just won the championship, and the girls went wild about your heroic accomplishments. It was a terrible tragedy earlier in the year when that one kid died of a concussion, but that only underscores how Really Important football is.

In-universe evidence: despite being in a reality with infinite numbers of capricious demigods, Earth isn't dead yet. This is because Earthlings are essentially capricious demigods by the standards of more primitive cultures, but we really enjoy slumming it.
That could be, Moodys recently downgraded Qantas stock to Junk status, and Qantas have been seeking a government bailout:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/moodys-cuts-qantas-credit-rat...

And Qantas was losing $262 Million per year on international, which they've apparently narrowed to a $91 Million annual loss by dropping half of their international routes. For Qantas it was the domestic routes that were subsidizing international:

http://skift.com/2013/02/22/qantas-profits-double-after-auss...
Rakuten used to have a very strong feud running with Softbank in the early part of the last decade, especially when it came to early eComm growth in Japan.
While Masayoshi and his merry band at SoftBank have grown leaps and bounds with multiple diversifications, Rakuten has never been able to keep pace.
Kakao Talk is quite popular in the region and has a partnership with Yahoo Japan(SoftBank)...Rakuten can position Viber to take this on.
still getting that error
"having to kill people is a deal breaker for a lot of people..."

And having people trying to kill you is probably a deal breaker for even more people.
Reminded me of Krugman's Theory of Interstellar Trade (http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf)
> record companies ... only ... to publishers

Aren't those two the same thing?
As a person who has sat on a grand jury, I can speak from personal experience, and let me tell you:

Listening to pud-pulling detectives stumble through the technical details of correlating an IP address to a service provider, at the rehearsed prompts provided by power-tripping district attourneys, and then glancing across the 22 other grand jurors, some withed glazed eyes, and others desperately nodding in agreement, as if they had something to prove to the phantom presence of their usually condescending 13-year-old children about their technical savvy, and the relationship that holds with being able to read a cable bill, I was deeply disturbed by the very low bar that was set, in order to prove to the lowest common denomenator that someone committed a computer crime, when I was out-voted on a whether to bring a flimsy case to trial.

Afterward, I casually chatted up each of the people that voted to bring a guy before the judge for allegedly creating fake credit cards and charging thousands of dollars under someone else's name, to gauge whether they understood what they had just voted on.

Most of them had a hard time using their smart phones for anything besides phone calls, couldn't tell me what an IP address actually was, couldn't readily distinguish AOL dial up service and AOL keyword searches from "Googling the internet" or typing in a URL in their browsers address bar, and were mystified by the difference between typing up a Word document and attaching it to an e-mail, versus just typing and sending the e-mail itself.

The difference between how quickly things went to trial, or how long we deliberated on a particular case often hinged on how close to 5PM it was. The DA's seemed to be aware of this, and the complexity and "appeal" of cases and the order of their presentation seemed to be planned accordingly.
I was for awhile after he said it was fixed but it works for me. Try opening it in an incognito tab in case of a caching issue. Otherwise, just use the mirror.
More protein identification rather than breakdown
Google's SECRET contracts: Android lock-in REVEALED
> [Anonymity i]s also required for opinions that are not aligned with the mainstream.

As someone whose political beliefs align less than one hundred percent with the "standard SF liberal" position on HN, I feel this pain.

For example, I'm rather skeptical that gay rights are a Good Thing -- yet I'm also very afraid that I'll be permanently tarred and feathered as a bigot, and permanently lose opportunities, if I post that sentiment under an account that can be connected to my real identity.

Whenever I bring it up, one side of the debate starts quoting Scripture and the other side says that anyone who questions their views, or has the least bit of skepticism, is worse than Hitler. I honestly don't know how to initiate a rational discussion of the issue. And I especially suspect that the side that immediately dismisses any other line of thinking by calling names as loudly as possible does so to cover weaknesses in their argument.

It's not that I have it in for gays; rather, it's that no one's ever explained to me the argument for why the gay rights movement is a Good Thing, in a way that I find convincing. Based on my own analysis, it seems to be a weak position [1] -- perhaps not one which should be adopted, and certainly not an axiom which is beyond reproach or questioning of assumptions. And I'm a stubborn, independent thinker -- as a matter of principle, I refuse to believe something simply because it's popular among the crowd I hang out with -- or because one side has declared the opposition to be heretics. (Fun thought experiment: s/bigot/heretic/)

[1] Basically, I think our society should treat homosexuality / bisexuality as it treats adultery -- nobody goes to jail or gets their life destroyed as long as any sexual activity involves only consenting adults. But it's a lifestyle choice that people should disapprove of, not least because it's disruptive to the family structure consisting of children raised by two parents of opposite sex in a committed relationship, which -- all else being equal -- is the best environment for a child to grow up in. Also, I'm skeptical of the claim that homosexuality is not a choice -- if a person doesn't choose who they have sex with, why is rape a crime?

I'm certain many readers will object to the above, but I haven't been able to get someone to make a cogent argument that actually addresses my points; everyone just screams "DIE IN A FIRE" at the top of their lungs at me when I bring this up in a liberal place like HN.
Nymi Wristband Offers the Potential of Unlocking a Smart Environment
It was a shocking setback for those who thought that their intelligently complicated world of passwords could never fall into the hands of hackers when Deloitte released their TMT Productions report last year.
وظائف الاهرام الجمعة 14/2/2014.
Fair point. I'll try to think of a more applicable example next time
Can an officer simply drive by and make up a story like you were running a red light, and give you a ticket?

Or maybe just make up a story that you swung at them and then kick the crap out of you?

This would solve a lot of problems for both police and civilians: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/wearable-video-ca...
He is, this occurred over 10 years ago.
I applaud your view. Here in the PHP universe we're only starting to exit the "Everything must be unit tested" phase of programmer evolution, and integration/functional testing is still a novelty.

I've not come across Splinter before, that looks interesting. I've been using PhantomJS via CasperJS but my tests so far have been brittle...
World ancestry: a genetic atlas of human admixture history
The Volokh Conspiracy post, How Federal is Star Trek's Federation?, was probably the best thing I've read on Trek's political economy.

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1190182117.shtml
Twibfy – A Huge Source of Inspiration
There is a new kid in town called Twibfy, a tool for inspiration through visual content. You might ask yourself “do we need another visual platform?”. After experiencing Twibfy you are definitely going to answer this question with a “yes”. First of all, the platform’s design itself: flat and minimalistic to have a full focus on the content and no distraction by text or other irrelevant stuff.
Try https://encrypt.to/ to send encrypted messages by one click :)
I'm not sure that democratic consensus is the same as democratic government. If the Silk Road 2 community grows and its new users have different ideals than the old ones -- maybe they don't support this kind of retribution against thieves, or they're against selling certain goods on Silk Road -- then a government would require new users to abide by the old rules, whereas a consensual arrangement would acknowledge that the consensus has changed.

If you do think that Silk Road 2 has some form of government, what kind is it? That is, how do they define and maintain their code of behavior? An oligarchy of old and influential users might claim to have authority; DPR 2 might act as a monarch; a majority of users might claim that everyone accepted a "social contract" just by joining Silk Road. But a de facto agreement among members on how to behave isn't enforced: it's de facto, so it happens to be the case, but it could change as easily as it formed.
There was a case in Boston a year or two ago, someone openly video-taped a police action. BPD arrested him, it was later thrown out in court.
Which is paid by everyone, even people that settle their transaction in case. I use a cash-back credit-card and effectively my fellow shoppers are subsidising my purchases, because we're all collectively paying the card fees which I'm getting a rev-share on. CCs are a deeply weird model.
Ultracoin Charts
5.

Really cool though.
One, two, three, effort follows passion
It may be easier on a mobile device to try:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYHiOc3TXNU

(This is the video embedded in the CNN article.)
Post-scarcity economics sounds to me like post-human anthropology or post-matter physics, i.e. economics is by definition science on "managing" scarcity. No scarcity, no trade, no economics.

Honestly, capitalism would be a good system if we had just one example. Closest example is maybe Hongkong or Singapure, see http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
The object-cache (with APC or MEM) seems to take a decent load off of my droplet. One of the sites doesn't seem to work with the OC, and it is notably slower than the others.
This version should work on mobile: http://corpsmoderne.net/fsp/
What Startup Echochamber Loves [Happy Valentine's Day]
I set up some really crazy orbits :-D

http://imgur.com/3HA4ubl

One of those birds is in a circular orbit one bird-height above the ground!

Another is in a very eccentric orbit that skims the ground when it comes to the bottom-right of the screen, then almost grazes the asteroids in the top-left.
I just visited link you have shared,

It will take some time but i am sure it is going to big business in the future.
Haskell doesn't use Hindley-Milner.

Edit:
Also, sub-typing tends to make a lot more sense in a language with value semantics, such as C++, than it does in a language like Haskell and isn't necessarily about organizing code.
Moon's score written by Clint Mansell is perfect.

Here's a link to a section often used in documentaries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lUgqeO1ZxM&feature=player_de...
> shell history
cat /dev/text

if you want to keep it run

tail -f /dev/text >> /home/shell_history

in your login

The shell doesn't have fancy nonsense because fancy nonsense doesn't belong in the shell it belongs in your user environment.

Personally in 15 years of using plan9 I have never ever once wished for shell history.
Oh I am not an android developer. But hypothetically speaking, I'd make sure the buyer knows that I still own the code and he is just paying me for a packaged app.
Why Satya Nadella Has a Fighting Chance of Saving Microsoft From Itself
I'm their roommate/ employee. I get paid an extremely generous hourly wage. I don't yootle with them too often, but when I do it's usually a chance to make extra money for a particularly unfun task (like waking up early to drive them to the airport). I usually appreciate the opportunity.

It also helps me figure out how much I value things, because my default is to be pretty noncommittal with my preferences, and this forces me to recognize them and make them explicit.