skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm wrong about the oil-wealth thesis.

Re healthcare: I was talking about Scandinavian and Canadian systems. Government pays the cost but private companies provide the service. Contrasted to the UK where government provides the service.
Could you link the article?

I spent most of my youth "ruled" under extremely restrictive parents in a suburb that offered nowhere to go without a car, that my parents would never let me use. I was very lonely as a kid and even after I got to college, it took me a while to develop the social skills I needed to make myself happy. I ended up developing a strong hatred for the suburbs in my youth and have embraced the urban city. Wherever I end up living when I have kids, I'll never subject them to the loneliness that I grew up with. I want my kids to be able to have peers as a refuge away from me as a parent.

(Using a throwaway for anonymity.)
Yeah, upon reviewing the data (as opposed to my own mental impression of these countries' wealth sources) it doesn't hold up very well.
> "Capitalism" is not a system. Capitalism is life itself.

Of course it is a system. Just as feudalism is a system. It's a way in which to organize distribution of abstracted wealth. You might claim that it's a consequence of industrialization (and still be wrong, but at least make sense).

Would you characterize the organization of the native North Americans as a capitalist society, before the arrival of Europeans?
You can try ad-blocking font urls. (I've done this in the past to get rid of a hideous heading font on some apache site.)
Sure it could. They would just have to categorize the major varieties etc. if you mean it wouldnt be 100% accurate well of course not as it is rough aggregate data. But it is very useful aggregate data.
The seriousness of this attack is that several major bitcoin services lost a lot of money because of it. It's an attack.
If you create usernames or passwords ending in a backslash, like "foo\", you'd be surprised how many web sites break.
I agree that it should be easier for Google to get users than almost anyone else, but that doesn't mean that having X users is any less impressive because of how they were referred.
Having an account doesn't protect you from someone setting up another account with the same name. There are legitimately people with identical names, especially at facebook scale.

And the case you're linking to does not involve impersonation. Finally, you can set up an account and never use it so they have nothing to snoop on or use.
If I mistype something, it takes ages for command-not-found to search the entire Internet for “emacss” or whatever, during which I am slowly driven mad by the system punishing me and forcing me to wait.
Canada's tunnel saga offers lessons on Seattle TBM fix
(Disclaimer: IANAL).

This is incredibly disturbing news (though alas, not surprising).

Attorney-client privilege exists for a reason. Part of that is to protect the client from lawyers acting in bad faith. But part of that is because the entire justice process breaks down if defendants can no longer communicate openly with their lawyers without fear that prosecutors may be able to get their hands on that same information.

Of course, there are other means of communication besides email (and email was never the most secure communication medium to begin with), but this still is a very dangerous step.
Screenshots? That's the only thing holding me back from signing up.
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Regarding icon fonts:

I override all web fonts, I just want to use a readable one. There's a noticable trend with embedding icons in fonts. Yahoo mail uses them. This doesn't feel quite right, even if it is a neat hack, and it can be annoying.

How I view Yahoo mail: http://postimg.org/image/unnwg0d9p/
Thanks, I tend to mistake them!
More seriously, if the software was set up to retransmit bitcoin after a "failed" transfer, then that service could be exploited automatically. Mostly, this wasn't a social attack. The seriousness was that many services were set up to retransmit automatically, and did lose a lot of money automatically.
From some of your comments, it seems like you are heavily involved with similar situation as former CloudFlare customer?

put it this way: if I am a security researcher and I want to publish a paper on DoDs, I can make use of CloudFlare to accomplish my objective. How do you distinguish good from the bad?

What do you propose they should do?
>stop using it

You are ignoring the reality of network effects. My friends will post photos that include me on Facebook whether I have an account with them or not. My friends will coordinate activities with one another via the group chat and event invitation facilities, including location metadata and description context whether I participate in the discussion or not.

Whether you have the choice to give Facebook data about you is increasingly out of your hands.
TL;DR Title is misleading, possibly false. The Aussies spied on a trade negotiation and offered to share the intel with America. It is not known whether or not the Americans accepted any information which was the result of spying on Americans, or passed it on to negotiators. We only know they provided "clear guidance" about what information they would accept.

EDIT: Title fixed.
Thanks. Congrats on getting to the end.
> Right, I agree, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we cannot prove any true claims.

That's certainly true, but the fact that we can't locate a demarcation between provable and unprovable makes all analysis inside system X problematical as to the true nature of X, with an obvious connection to the present topic.

> Unless I misunderstand, it just means that true claims whose proof we do not know cannot be distinguished from true claims whose proof does not exist.

Not exactly. The demarcation is between theorems whose truth we can prove (and can prove that we can prove), and theorems we're not sure about but that may fall on the far side of the demarcation line. The second category is a problem that undermines any global analysis of logical systems.

Remember that Russell and Whitehead's famous tome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica) wasn't edited after Gödel's work, to simply remove those parts that were unsupportable, it was instead abandoned in its entirety. Gödel's work demonstrated that any such deterministic analysis of logical systems wasn't possible, in whole or in part.

But again, this doesn't argue that a given logical system can't be used to prove theorems. It only argues against the claim that such a system can be proven to be both complete and internally consistent.
Are we born with a moral core? The Baby Lab says 'yes'
The thing that makes me happy is sitting in a room with a few people I really like and building something I'm interested in. We already all live in nice houses and have the computers we want. We can eat wherever we'd like. If I want to take a vacation I can afford it.

How will having more money make it so I can better sit in a room with a few people I like and build stuff?

I mean it's not like being wealthier will make my Netflix have cooler stuff in it.
Ugh. Commit message jokes. At least mark it as such so people have a clue WTF was changed a year down the line (even if doing so violates some fundamental law of humor). Maybe I'm just being cautious in this context... the BBC really helped warp my sense of humor growing up.

I just wish it warped others a bit more as well.
https://vimeo.com/80973511

Wow. Just wow. I'm actually unreasonably sad right now.
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That's incorrect. Google fonts subsets the font (default is latin). You can also limit the font to just the characters you want by appending &text=ABCDEF... to the URL. [1] They use other tricks to shrink the size of the font: WOFF2 is served to compatible browsers for further compression, and they remove unused hinting when they serve fonts to an OS X client. [2] Their caching and CDN are good too.

There are reasons not to use Google Fonts, but download size is not on that list.

[1] https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Opt...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqesm0euf9M
Management consultants have a culture of overtime that probably beats that of programmers. Investment bankers are on an even higher level. In their culture, overwork is also much more explicitly a badge of honor.
Yes, this is exactly what every country which ever had sweatshops looks like. It's not like England, or the United States, or South Korea ever developed a middle class capable of buying the kinds of products being manufactured in their sweatshops. Capitalism only reinforced existing class divides, which is why the preindustrial nobility are still the only rich people in the world.
This Microphone Transfers Sound Through Touch
Space and time are things themselves and do exist independent of our perception. As evidence: all the solutions to general relativity that have no matter content but nonetheless are not flat, because the curvature of spacetime itself has energy that gravitates (the Schwarzschild solution comes to mind). Spacetime has its own real, physical, dynamics.
Thank you so much for this. I've been kicking myself for working more hours than I've been told are good for me, even though working as few as 40 on what I care about makes me unhappy.
Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format
It appears that our ancestors have been cooking food for 1.9 million years (i.e. the entire time that Homo Sapiens have been around).
This strikes me as by far the best answer. If OP doesn't know what s/he wants to do, a good place to start is to fix something that already exists but is broken.
Most likely at the Glendale Creative Campus.
Watch A Crow Solve A Complex Puzzle
Crows are smarter than great apes and about on par with a 5-year-old child. We know they (and similar birds) can already complete complicated tasks, like putting a stick through a tube to finagle out food. But in this BBC video, the crow, after thinking it over briefly, easily completes a multi-step puzzle.
>The Tax Policy Center estimates that in 2013, the top one-tenth of 1 percent of the income distribution, those earning more than $2.7 million, paid 33.8 percent of their income in federal taxes. By contrast, the middle class, defined as the middle fifth of the income distribution, paid just 12.4 percent.

Boom goes the dynamite.

(edit: For the comment below me, YES, payroll taxes are included.)
Ask HN: Opposite of Conversion?
I'm trying to name some terms to track our customer analytics and was wondering if anybody knows "official" or recognized terms for the any of these...?

1. A demo who you fail to convert to paying customer
2. A paying customer who cancels
3. A customer who was cancelled and re-starts their subscription

Thanks for any advice.
> But that's not the kind of world we find ourselves in. Our minds appear to be constructed of the same stuff as the rest of the world. If we're to accept the simulation argument, then our definition of "simulated reality" must imply a physics implementation that is high enough fidelity to support minds as high level structures - you have to actually be able to build compact working brains in the simulation.

Devils advocate, but there could simply be level-of-detail heuristics, where the mind is explainable in terms of physics, but not implemented that way (unless you look). Similarly, for people who take damage to their brains, the model for that person's new brain could simply be derived during that simulation step and substituted.

That's just a high level view of how a lazy simulation could still produce minds that appear to by implemented using physics.
Tragic and inspiring at the same time.

One wonders what could have been.
Speaking as someone whose pictures ended up on Facebook (without me even having a Facebook account), I can't even begin to describe how frustrated I feel about this. I basically have no option of recourse, because there's a revised culture thanks to Facebook which tells me it's outside of my hands now. I can't request my peers to take down group photos that include me (or even photos with only me) because I'd sound like a dick if I did. For this reason I really hope that some black hats, upon finding some 0days or something, just do something to bring this behemoth down. So please, when you find something, don't disclose vulnerabilities to FB, disclose them to dark corners of the blackhats' residences.
Its even easier to fool yourself into thinking you can't handle things that actually can handle.

At least when you take on something that's too much, there are signs of failing or your wellbeing declining.
None of these things are Facebooks fault.
What % of the Bitcoin transaction volume occurs through exchanges vs OTC? Anyone know?
Because obviously Zuckerberg is personally choosing which profile picture to use in advertisements.
While you should do what you think is best for you, but since you mentioned training, remember, top athletes don't train 80h a week. They need rest, and your body and mind need rest too.

And this is coming from someone that used to work as much as you when younger.
IMO, you should look at overall tax burden, not federal.
Don't think so. I'm not talking about grannies spending a day socializing in the waiting room, but rather about people waiting for months or years for treatment, surgeries or transplants. Currently public healthcare logically assumes that many procedures will become unnecessary if you wait long enough.
Y'know what's universally unattractive to both investors and women? Fatalism.

People want to see how well you play the cards that you're dealt. If you can make something happen starting from nothing, then they figure that once they give you some cards to play with, you'll do even better from that. If you can't make something happen with limited resources, what makes you think that more resources will magically fix things?

This applies to a lot of other things as well - most of the time, when you start at a new job you have to start small, because people who control the resources want to see that you can work effectively on a small project before they give you a big mission-critical project. I've seen people get hired into Google at T4 (nowadays, virtually everybody is hired into T4 or below) and then work their way up to T9 because every time they're given a more ambitious challenge they master it in short order.
> because the mentorship

Who are the mentors?
Sigh, why do these articles always conveniently ignore payroll taxes?
* However, most people would skip them and complain about how "unusable" Windows 8 *

Most people complain anyway about how unusable Windows 8 is and rightly so.

Your argument here does seem to reflect Microsoft's attitude - that Windows 8 is the ambassador of the latest crap and its job to train you on this crap whether you like it or not. Never mind that you own this hardware and you should be able to do as you will with it. I suppose MS imagines that shifting to a subscription model for everything would solve that problem of theirs - then the custom would own nothing and have recourse at having junk foisted on them.
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> the manual stadiometers were always giving inaccurate readings

An amazing feat, considering that the mechanical ones I've seen consist of a horizontal bracket that slides on the vertical scale attached to a wall (or a stand), and one just needs to read the number shown when the bracket touches the top of the head.

And it's not like that data needs micrometer precision ...
How Gawker buys traffic (rarely, for advertisers)
See prices of most marketed smartphones' variations that differ only in memory size.
>The demarcation is between theorems whose truth we can prove (and can prove that we can prove), and theorems we're not sure about but that may fall on the far side of the demarcation line.

Can you clarify that a little bit? It seems like you define the demarcation in terms of itself.
From looking at the Gnome Developer page "Desktop files: putting your application in the desktop menus" [1], it seems that it wasn't designed to work correctly with more than one desktop installed. This isn't surprising as it's an uncommon use case. [Edit: This is incorrect, see below]

For example, on a system running 13.04 with MATE installed, the Graphics menu has entries for Image Viewer (Eye of Gnome, the default) and Eye of MATE Image Viewer (MATE's port of eog).

Looking in /usr/share/applications there are the two corresponding .desktop files:

/usr/share/applications/eog.desktop
/usr/share/applications/eom.desktop

[Edit]: Neither file uses the OnlyShowIn field which is an extension to the desktop entry format designed specifically to handle this case. [2]

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop...

[2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s03.ht...
Goodbye Advair
Post-brainwashing, posts like these will look astute. I'm not saying individuals don't need to co-operate in countless ways, but collective thinking is misguided, because we actually are just individuals.

We're all programmed to think in collective terms, because that helps governments maintain their power.
This could be more accurately titled, "why entrepreneurs thought they failed." Personally, I'm not sure failed entrepreneurs are qualified to make that diagnosis.
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend good html ide (Widnows) for a beginner?
I'm just starting with html. I'd appreciate if you share yuor experience.
So true and also not a refutation of the parent. In the spirit of an eye for an eye one might observe that an entitlement for an entitlement leaves us all poor. Somehow the means is easier to learn than the consequence.
What so many people fail to realize is that the NSA will try and likely succeed at penetrating these networks as well. The real difference is that they don't need FISA courts to authorize foreign intelligence operations, only domestic ones.
> falsifiable evidence ("testable against the empirical world")

That's not what falsifiable means.

> I'm a doctor and I've created a revolutionary cure for the common cold. My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until he gets better. The cure might take a week, but it always works.

Because the common cold has a non-zero mortality rate, you can't say that your cure always works. That statement, taken literally, is provably false, as sooner or later somebody will die even if you're shaking a dried gourd over his body. But lets say that you meant the cure improves the condition of those that suffer from common cold, or that simply we want to find out before anybody dies.

Well, we can do doubly-blind A/B testing and measure several things, like the presence of the associated symptoms, its progression, the average duration and so on. And nowadays, any treatment must beat the placebo effect in order for it to be considered valid.

But lets say that we couldn't determine if this particular cure is valid or not. It would still be falsifiable, because it's related to things that we'll be able to measure in the future, if we can't already - like the autoimmune system's response to this treatment.
I don't check in to WebKit as much as I used to but I probably would not choose to make my own commit messages quite so inside jokey. That being said, we try to have fun on this project.
While I welcome the initative, I think this a case of sky hooks and tartan paint.

I also find it highly amusing that based on her comments she suggests that the UK is considered to be outside Europe.
Employers building housing for their employees isn't really a new idea: at some point in history, 3% of the U.S. population lived in "company towns".[1]

But would you really want to live in a place where the only people you could socialize with are your co-workers, and where you'd be exiled from your entire community if you changed jobs or were fired?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
What screenshots would you like to see? There's just a simple table for managing feeds and a link to bookmark (it's... minimalistic :) )
Correct. It's not an option.
Survival rate for pancreatic cancer, especially stage IV, is very low regardless of being in the US or elsewhere: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/pancreaticcancer/overviewguide/...
http://disneyaccelerator.com/mentors/
Please don't talk this the wrong way but your use of the phrase "full stack" makes it unlikely you are working on hard problems with creative techniques. You're building websites. And you are deluding yourself if you think it is sustainable or meaningful or worth it.

Later "frameworks" and "ninja". Oh dear.
http://www.editplus.com/

but if you're as sloppy with your html as your post, you may run into trouble.
While you are an exceptionally skilled software developer and investor, you probably need to work on communicating in a more amiable fashion. You don't come across very well here and nknighthb's point is both argued better and more logically backed. It seems very clear that those names would not be published in a high visibility public relations press release like this one without contractual agreement.
If you are just learning HTML then you do not need an IDE. Notepad on Windows is enough as you can double click any saved file with your code and run it straight away in the browser. Press <F12> on any modern browser to open up the developer tools to see just what is going on if things do not work out as you expect.

If you want something just a little bit more powerful than Notepad then do a Google search and download Notepad++
LOL, very funny.
Yeah. I see this will go on until 9.7, 9.8 before we can call things "really nice and stable" for JSON and HSTORE.
Ouch - maybe the question came from someone who does not speak English as their first language. Be gentle my friend.
I'm quite astonished that they have managed to make it past three gyms already. I suspect that the game will eventually be beaten, but only after a while and after going through several ' cycles', so to speak.

I imagine that each cycle will consist of a mass of people becoming bored with the lack of progress and leave. As more people leave, it becomes easier to control the character, leading to progress being made. Howevere, once progress is made and certain milestones are reached, the interest will again grow and the players will increase again. Eventually, it will become too dfficult to play and interest will wane again; allowing the cycle to repeat.

Thus, I think it will eventually be completed, but not for a while. I'll be following it with interest however!
Important Kickstarter Security Notice
Don't give your data to US.
Give it to Germany!!
The substance is more interesting than the headline:
"Above all, we'll talk about European providers that offer security for our citizens, so that one shouldn't have to send emails and other information across the Atlantic"

i.e. government support of alternatives to the US owned networked services that enable the data leakages, not low level infrastructure improvements. Whether or not such a thing is likely to work, I'd be dubious, but if they show even the slightest hint of going through with it the US will go crazy. Likely to be a lot of happy devs in Berlin.
If I'm the sentient result of an elaborate computer simulation, then you are very obviously an apparatus of those who control the simulation.

If that's true, then please cut the shit, and knock on my front door right now, and just come right out and tell me:

5362677_0010? You're a computer simulation.
Brackets is really good: http://brackets.io/
Why did you leave out the quote immediately after that? It's relevant.

> the Australian agency "has been able to continue to cover the talks, providing highly useful intelligence for interested US customers"

Whey would they say that the (continued!) intelligence provided by the Australian agency was "highly useful" if their counsel ruled they couldn't use it?
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