skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*shrug.

Reading between the lines from the various writings he put out, I think the odds were good that he was an asshole to a lot of people.

He had a lot of privilege from being, on average, the smartest dick in a given room, and being the right age and in the right place to enjoy the Greatest Period of Prosperity We've Ever Known.

He was probably a blast at parties and exhilarating to work alongside and shoot the shit with, but also probably really flakey and insufferable if you needed something from him.

For me, the most telling moment in the Feynman comic (http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Jim-Ottaviani/dp/1596438274) was how little attention was paid to his kids.

You gotta take the good with the bad. Steve Jobs was a manipulative douchebag, but also conniving, ruthless and full of taste.
They already do.

Money determines who gets on the ballot. Money determines who wins. Then money determines what they do when they're in office.
@caolanmcmahon: consider using methods?

- We have object.defineProperty() in ES5 to avoid enumeration.

- You can use user-specified prefixing to avoid future conflicts.

Eg:

{foo: 1, bar: 2}.hlPairs();

rather than:

_.pairs({foo: 1, bar: 2});
You might want to try out Xubuntu. XFCE is even more lightweight that GNOME2 and I have really come to appreciate it.
Also, there are some white granules/powder that ants consider tasty and take to their nests. In a moist and warm nest the substance produces carbon dioxide which suffocates the colony. I think it's sugar mixed with baking soda. You can also use it to destroy nests around your house.
Well, the first UNR launcher commit is from 2008-04-16, the first gnome-shell commit is from 2008-10-31. It's pretty close.
Do I need more karma to down vote people? Because, I would totally down vote this guy if I could.
I'm not dogging it and think its great (my resume is in LaTeX) I don't know if its comparable of the other programs (Office and CS) that you mentioned that aim for a much broader appeal. It has a market but it is a small niche one.

That's true, and in a way it's part of my point. Trying to take on one-size-fits-all giants is probably not a good long-term strategy for FOSS, because the barrier to entry is prohibitively high and you drain a lot of resources (primarily enthusiastic volunteers) away from other projects they could potentially have supported instead. But pick a niche, or get a larger team together to build something more general but with a different perspective than the likes of Office and CS, and as the likes of TeX (or Sublime Text, as a more contemporary example) show, not many people can get remarkable things built.
I like the part where they say they reserve the right to edit and modify names, likenesses and photographs. Basically they could take your product and say that their internal team made it if they wanted to.
http://www.space.com/images/i/000/036/889/original/ganymede-...

Found it using google image search with the small image in the article.

I had to narrow the search to find the original source.

Original source: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/multimedia/ganymede-pia17901/

Article: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/news/ganymede20140212/index.html
I do hope things go this direction, but the trouble here is the lack of security updates when people keep running abandoned software for years. It's the same situation as desktop software, but now connected to the internet. With desktop software you can fix most of that by not opening documents from unknown emails and by blocking it with your firewall.

You can guard against some of this on a personal cloud by having VPNs as a standard part of the appliance, but I suspect there are other problems that aren't as easily predicted or fixed. For instance, if my personal copy of Google Docs is running on my specific unit, how does it handle a DDoS? That's one big advantage of having a third party hosting and managing the servers instead of say, my grandma.
If your goal is geo-redirection then a 3rd party service is usually a bad choice (speed + downtime). An memory geo-ip database is the best way to go - but this is usually also part of what you pay for when you buy the non-free version
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Just a couple of follow-ups. I see your points but history doesn't agree. People adapt or die, and sometimes adapt and die. Looking at it in the 'small' (which is on an individual anecdote level) vs looking at it in the 'large' which is on a population cohort level. When there are large industrial changes there are employment shifts. That displaces some workers, creates new opportunities which are filled by new workers. After one or two generations of stability the process flattens out.

> Look at all these students with $200k debt.

This gets thrown around a lot. But it is a red herring. You need to drill down to find students who paid $200K for a worthless education, yes there are some, are they a material subset of all students? No. Look at all the people who were put into mortgages they couldn't afford because the rules were changed to incentivize that. That about pulled down the global financial system (we're still not quite done with that mistake). There is certainly a social justice issue with student debt, providing loans to students to get degrees that are unmarketable. But the 'fix' is to get rid of the debt discharge protection that student loans currently have. Allow the students to declare bankruptcy and dump the obligation, and guess what nobody will loan students $200K to get a fine arts degree. Is that a problem ? I don't know. For schools? Yes, they are already figuring out that they can't sell a diploma for an arbitrary price any more.
So this is the ornithological version of Gravity
You can also use their free databases http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang

But with a 404.
Collecting IPs Made Easy
Not news. The companies that run analytics for the cable companies and movie studios know your age, race, gender, education and income level, just from the shows you watch. D vs. R is trivial to figure out.
You could also say that new commercial applications are cheap knockoffs of older versions. Win8 is joke compared to Win7, Office 2003 is better than 20something. New Photoshop brings zero improvement except some crazy DRM.

Open-source programs are at least stable. It is less likely some commercial company will flush my investment into toilet.

And Photoshop is probably better than Gimp, but in other areas the winner is not that clear. For example OpenOffice versus MS Office. Or my favorite example KWin versus.... nothing.
Bison at FermiLab
This is absolutely true, and undoubtedly a barrier to communication. It's also a complete non-starter as an argument in favor of a Portuguese SO site, so I really have no idea what it's doing in the article.
> It wasn't a threat. It was a series of tasteless jokes.

It's a joke that looks a lot like a threat. And threats aren't funny.

The arrest was not disproportional. The corruption that happened after the arrest was of course totally crazy and wrong, but the police investigating threats is not wrong. The problem here is that they didn't really investigate it; they just tried to get him convicted by any means possible. But when someone says he's going to shoot up a kindergarten, the police absolutely should investigate.
Whose historically low tax rates? As long as I've been working it has been well known that when you make more, you eventually jump up to the next tax bracket which has a higher tax rate. [1]

A single person making $10K (taxable income) in 2013 paid $1,058 in taxes... or ~10%.

A single person making $100K (taxable income) in 2013 paid $21,293 in taxes... or ~21%.

If 10 people each made $10K, they collectively made $100K and paid $10,580 in taxes... which is still less than half of what the one person who made $100K on their own paid.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf

Edit: I did just get my taxes done so I might be a little more bitter about the topic than I usually am. But the numbers suck.
I think the author is providing you some background information about why the files exist, and then saying that the story about the drums and calculus is probably true.

I don't see any claim in there that the wife was a lying tool of the FBI. These files would have been compiled after the divorce anyway.
Don't worry, I think you expressed yourself clearly. I was just responding to the other folks who seemed to be explicitly saying that you only needed one of [support network/psych professional] and that the other was useless.

As for the downvote, I'm pretty sure Xenophanes or one of his buddies is stalking me. After my first post disagreeing with him, everything I've posted in this thread has gotten a single downvote within five minutes, and then climbed back up later. No worries. :)
The move to Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell was not Canonical's idea, it was the Gnome Project who decided their roadmap. Canonical in fact developed Unity because of concerns over Gnome Shell. Personally, I rather like Gnome Shell, especially with a judicious choice of extensions, but I have to admit my Core Duo 2 laptops do not always like a fully composited desktop.

Gnome 2 is obsolete, but lives on in RHEL 6 releases, e.g. CentOS/Scientific Linux/Springdale Linux with support until 2017 (apps and hardware) and 2020 (security only). External repositories provide newer kernels[1].

The MATE desktop is a fork of Gnome 2 built on libraries that are being moved forward. External repos for Debian Wheezy and mainstream packages for Debian Jessie. Mint also provide a MATE desktop[2], with the familiar Ubuntu package base.

[1] http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/centos.html

[2] http://linuxmint.com/rel_petra_mate_whatsnew.php
And how much does an upgrade to VS2013 goes for these days?
Nice post. Reminds me of Zuck's startup school talk last year: https://glose.com/book/startup-school-2013/mark-zuckerberg/5...

"Often, I think people will ask what mistakes you should avoid making. My answer to that question is don’t even bother trying to avoid mistakes because you’re going to make tons of mistakes. The important thing is actually learning quickly from whatever mistakes you make and not giving up... So the biggest mistake is this sort of meta-mistake of letting a mistake demoralize you."
Agreed. They are geared towards roughly novice level, and they have a Javascript track that will cover much of what OP wants at an acceptable intro level.
"But I only watched Will & Grace one time, one day! Wish I hadn't. 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay."
This is a classic Internet daisy chain of the worst sort.

The article linked above (http://explore.noodle.org/post/73954140444/the-appointees-wi...) acquired its content from MetaFilter (http://www.metafilter.com/116688/The-FBI-has-a-Do-Not-Contac...), which in turn acquired its content from MuckRock (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2012/jun/06/feynman-f...), which acquired its content from an FOI request from the FBI (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi...) which produced an historical 361-page archive (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi...)

Surprising no one, the article linked above manages to locate the most tabloid-oriented part of the 361-page FBI archive, and omit the more interesting and politically educational parts.

Here's a link to a browsable version the source documents: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi...

Here's a direct link to the PDF archive: https://muckrock.s3.amazonaws.com/foia_documents/Feynman_Mas...
An Unexpected Botnet
Race to a million: real time revenues and profits
It's also more accurate, ipinfo.io thinks I'm in Enfield whereas freegeoip.net accurately identifies that I'm in London.
I thought it was fine-granule sugar mixed with boric acid.
I see what you are saying. Thanks for the feedback.
If this is your problem, you need to bite the bullet and learn to use preprocessing.

Furthermore, I strongly recommend you start taking steps towards becoming a web developer, rather than an html skinner. Otherwise, you'll risk being left behind.
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I don't know what kind of usability impediment you're talking about?

Not being able to use the programs installed on my computer?

That seems like a pretty big usability impediment to me. I have a Unity and non-Unity laptop. The problem that Unity allows less than ten apps on the side. It's true that I can search for the things - but that requires me to know the name of the many oddly named Linux apps out there. And yes, I've spent more than minutes, in fact I've spent days using and attempting to customize the thing.

The screen mechanics are ghastly also imho but I could learn them if, like, the GUI let me actually run my installed application.

Sure it works as a kiosk or those who just start a shell and leave. But if you're really using seriously, why pontificate about it.
Isn't it more accurately a byte stream (I don't know, which is why I'm asking)?
Spouses can be so sensitive.
If you are just reading Consider Phlebas then that means you still have the awesome Use of Weapons to go... I'm jealous!
The link tracks J Dilla's posthumous influence. J Dilla, a.k.a. "your favorite producer's favorite producer", the man behind De La Soul's Stakes Is High among others.
First, the parent suggested that they were put on a list not only for calling, but "after saying something along the lines of" something. That is, that either the content of the call was being recorded by the NSA, or whatever phone system Congress has set up is both recording and being used to compile a list of people. The leaks strongly suggest that there is no mass recording of the content of calls by the NSA; although it is possible that the phone number used to contact Congress is being tapped, this would be illegal (since the NSA is not supposed to target communication between US persons) and there isn't evidence that it is happening. As for Congress itself doing it, I guess it's possible, but I think lawmakers have better things to do than go after random constituents.

The leaks do state that metadata about the call, including that it was made between the parent and Twilio, would have been stored in a database, so theoretically the parent could be targeted for calling on that day "with a few clicks", as you say. News outlets have published theories based on the leaks under which this would happen:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/the-nsa-...

But they sound pretty hyperbolic to me. Note that according to the official procedures, the data is supposed to be destroyed immediately unless it "is reasonably believed to contain significant foreign intelligence information", etc.:

http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Minimization%20Procedures...

and the NSA was/is certainly not supposed to intentionally go after this type of information. But to be fair, I might not have been so skeptical if the parent had only mentioned metadata.

The parent responded and brought up COINTELPRO. Yes, if something like COINTELPRO were happening now, then such fears would be warranted. I cannot rule that scenario out, but it's worth noting that the leaks make it significantly less likely, since the NSA would probably be involved in such a program (as it was in COINTELPRO), yet nothing of the sort came up in the leaks. I guess the proven ability of the government to keep misconduct secret in general means that it is rational to suspect that some kind of misconduct is happening somewhere, but I wouldn't say there's enough evidence to rationally specifically fear being targeted for contacting Congress.

They and another person also reiterated that the wording was "wouldn't be surprised" that something is happening, which is a more general standard than thinking it is actually likely to be happening. And I admit that even a small chance of it happening can still make it "scary" to call, since the repercussions if it were true could potentially be much larger than the benefits of calling; moreover, some of the people who might call may not be rational or well-informed but still should be entitled to call and state their views on what ought to be happening. Still, I do not think it's unreasonable to ask for evidence either.
Promises, promises. In my experience, women produce very few actual two-second interruptions.

EDIT: Hey downvoters -- I did say "in my experience". I'm not making a statement about all women.
People interested in this kind of thing, but a bit more open, may appreciate this site: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

There are a number of us from HN there - the kind of people really interested in bootstrapped startups.
You should use more context than one previous word. You should use N previous words and you'll get more realistic results.

I wrote a word game using markov chains to generate fake (but real looking) words.

http://www.michaelfogleman.com/wug/

Read about the algorithm here:

http://www.michaelfogleman.com/wug/algorithm

Also, you can leave punctuation in - you'd just need a larger training set, probably.
Maybe this product makes sense if you know what trello is?
XFCE is great and all, but isn't MATE an actual fork of GNOME 2?
Neither of those activities are the exclusive domain of the "very intelligent".
Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software
In addition to the other ideas here, I'd also recommend feeding a completely fake site to the source IP of the thief. Possibly including some political ideas that could get him in trouble in his host country (up to you depending on how mean you wish to be).
But we can find plenty of videos of US police doing exactly that.

Here's a video of police killing a man. He starts off calmly answering their questions, obeying their stupid instructions. He gets frustrated ar their bullshit. They beat him to the ground and sit on him and yell at him to stop struggling. He can't breathe - of course he's going to struggle. More police turn up. They asume the original officers are in the right and this guy is viole t on drugs, so they sit on him too.

http://www.popehat.com/2014/01/20/kelly-thomas/

It is fucking barbaric.
> "he attacked her" - is this true?

We would first need to define "attacked". There are verbal attacks, chain-saw attacks, and much territory between them.

Also, during the divorce proceeding, his soon-to-be-ex-wife primarily complained about his tendency to be lost in thought, not his tendency to attack her if she interrupted him. My point is that if he actually physically attacked her, she would not have needed to mention his annoying preference for calculus.
What makes Last.FM so good is they recommend music based on similar users, not similar artists. An artist I frequently use to demonstrate this difference is Hank Williams III. People who are familiar with him knows he plays both neo-traditional country and "hellbilly," so it's difficult to find similar artists.

To generate a Hank III radio station, Pandora analyzes his music, and -- based on similarities in composition and genre ("major key tonality," "traditional country influes") -- creates a station of top 40 pop country songs, which is pretty much the antithesis of Hank III's music.

Last.FM, on the other hand, analyzes the listening habits of other Hank III fans, and correctly assumes someone listening to Hank III radio will not only be a fan of outlaw and traditional country music, but also of bands like the Misfits and Black Flag.
No, it wasn't a ponzi scheme.

FTP was a real, legitimately profitable business, and it could have run quite successfully without secretly borrowing from the customers.

But secretly borrowing from the customers allowed the directors of the business to give themselves $400mm with no waiting, whereas operating as they claimed they were (with segregated accounts for the customer money) would've required that they wait a few years to pull that much out.

The plan fell apart when some laws changed in the US, and the outflows started exceeding inflows, but the directors were unable and/or unwilling to put the money they'd taken out of the company back into the company. It's quite likely this was because several of them used the money to speculate in the real estate market.
This was published as late as 2004:

""Deep linking" is a special kind of hyperlink: it defeats the remote website's intended method of navigation, taking one to a page deeper than the home page [4] A deep link leads the user to an interior page of a website, rather than to the home page thereof. "

Wow. This sounds so anachronistic today it's hard to believe it was written only 10 years ago.
In context of the rest of the parent post, it is listed as a characteristic of capitalism but omitted from socialism and communism, which is a clear implication it is not a characteristic common to all three.
>In the United States, Oregon and New Jersey also require an attendant pump gas for you.

Thank you. That is certainly news to me.
Teachers are being replaced by software.

And the reason we need to fire the bad ones is that, unlike software, you can't just replicate their product wherever you need and let the bad ones wilt away through neglect.
Wouldn't it have been easier to disassemble the program that works with these files, and analyze the code?
A valentine's greeting from the pNaCl to the ASM.js team – this is awesome
> stored PDFs into folders (in my online backup provider's folder of choice) according to keywords or even performed some kind of machine learning classification (rent, medical, receipts, etc).

Sorry to piggyback: I have had a similar problem - hating paper, but drowning in it. I'm readying an OSX program to do this, if you are anyone else would be interested in trying it out/beta testing it (once it is ready! It isn't quite yet ready) in exchange for a free copy that would be awesome. So far designed to work for Scansnap or a workflow that OCR's the PDF's first.
I believe HN was created with arc[1] to put design pressure on it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
Imagine the hell they are going to go through if they ever try to visit the US.
Right, and when you make $10k per year a hamburger costs $1, and when you make $50k per year a hamburger costs $5, and when you make $100k per year a hamburger costs $10.

In the real world everyone pays the same $5 for a hamburger,

A single person making $10k has money left over to buy a little less than 5 hamburgers a day.
A single person making $100k has enough money left over to buy a little more than 43 hamburgers a day.
10 people who make $10k can still only afford 50 hamburgers a day between them after tax, only a little bit more than the guy making $100k.

That's why we have a progressive tax system. We think the guys making $10k should be able to eat and the guy making $100k probably shouldn't eat 8 times as many hamburgers as the guy who makes $10k.

C'mon. I know you're aware that the rates for the tax brackets have changed over time. Surely you know that the top tax bracket was well over 50% for most of the 20th century, and is now lower than that.
On the spot, like cash directly to the cop?

Are you describing a bribe?
Let's be fair about this. You have a right to mouth off to a police officer as much as the police officer (in this case) had a right to arrest the offender. Neither are necessarily constructive, but simply allow stubborn people to prove some point. Practically speaking, one has to ask if proving that point (whether it's a point about morality or about power) is worth the risk of negative consequences.
Servo isn't even a project to build a browser. It's just a project to build the rendering engine. I'd guess that none of the interesting work they're focusing on overlaps with any of the user-interface chrome where GTK would become relevant.