skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ensure that before they name their babies, those [names] are not on some list

You could go one step further: Give your child a name such that, if someone tries to put the name on a list in the future, they'll lose their entire database instead [1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/327/
From Tripoli to Gallipoli.
> Most if not all people, unless hobbled by various ailments, are not only content to perform almost daily light work, but basically require it for their own well-being. Think how gardening keeps you healthy well into old age. Think how the boredom of total inaction destroys people.

If I could devote my hours to manual gardening and the betterment of an area of land while still maintaining my standard of living I would be very content with my life.
And it's not like this person could have aliases or travel pretending to be someone else, etc.....
awesome service.
> True for men too.

Yes, absolutely, and notwithstanding the popular myth that men are more taciturn than women.
Yes there will be scarcity as long as there is demand for more. More of the basics like space and food/energy. If we stop reproducing and/or consuming to the point of scarcity by choice - then we will no longer have scarcity. It's not an impossible scenario. It has happened to some cultures.
Legal name and social media name don't necessarily have to match.
Why should I switch to this from 1Password?
A clarification: The classic look of Gnome 2 sort of lives in RHEL 7 since it will run Gnome 3 with Classic Mode[1] meaning that all that effort for a new UI/UX is wasted as the looks and the "user's workflows" will be the same as it was under RHEL 6 (IOW Gnome 2 like).

[1] http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Red-Hat-confirms-GNOM...
I name my child "" (the empty string).
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/327/
I thought the google+ question was rather unimportant so I used the opportunity to ask about free snacks?
I agree, not all Windows laptops are bad. My sister bought a cheap $700 Dell Inspiron and it's pretty nice. I actually like the Windows operating system, since I'm really productive on it. But I think the vendors need to get their shit together. There are a lot of glaring problems caused by OEM incompetence, like providing the wrong drivers and preinstalling bloatware.

For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to buy a $1300 laptop before starting college. I really regret making that decision. I probably should have spent a few hundred dollars more for a retina MBP instead.
Right, but the burden is on the programmer to ensure those types. If the stream composition is of simple things, like:

cat some.txt | sort | uniq > yay.txt

Then it isn't a problem - it's obvious and simple, but I think there will be difficulties as the programs get larger and type-level awareness occupies more space in the programmer's brain vs. it being handled by the compiler...
There are two incredibly strong forces that are running up against each other: the deflationary nature of science & technology (better, faster, cheaper) and the inflationary nature of the global banking system.

If we examine the things that have benefited from the deflationary nature of science & technology -- the internet, phones/tablets/PCs, everyone is incredibly wealthy today. The typical high school student now has access as much or more knowledge and computational power than the most powerful people 20 or 30 years ago. The power is so immense yet at the same time imperceptible to most. An iPhone? A place to play Candy Crush.

The few who figure it out immediately drop everything they are doing and start a technology company (I did.)

However, when we examine areas that are greatly influenced by inflationary pressures things look really bad. Healthcare basically means if you have a family you need to spend $1000 a month on something that you will only use in a dire emergency because you'll pay thousands of dollars out of your pocket before it kicks in. Education, I don't even have to mention.

Real estate is the other big area. Real estate is a finite resource. Even if there is unlimited resources and energy there is not unlimited land. The areas that are most influenced by the global banking system appear to have the most extreme divergence in real estate costs -- London, NYC, SF/Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, etc. The upper end of the prices in there areas are in complete fantasy land to everyone else.

Technology start ups sit right in the middle of all of this. Incredible deflationary gains thanks to science and technology, insane pricing thanks to a global banking system flush with cash -- for now at a rate that has been subsidizing borrowers at the cost of savers.

The good news is that if you run a start up, even if there is a global slowdown economically, science & technology deflation will carry you along. Just don't borrow a lot of money.
It's interesting, but the vim editor has the same problems that most near-vim tools have: my muscle memory (trained with my vimrc) is all wrong. Escape is an awkward key, so I exit inset mode with jk and kj. $ and ^ are weird, so I jump around the line with L and H. My leader key, my plugins, etc are all sorely missing, and trip me up here way more than a purely non-vim interface.

What I'd really love would be a web tool like this with a plugin for actual vim. I currently use a TODO.txt file (kept on dropbox) that I open with <leader>et for my personal task managment. If there were a plugin that would let me edit tasks like Phaser (indentation-based) in real vim, but then could be displayed and further managed by your web interface, I'd love it.
Tell that to Google and Facebook
Honestly, I think the opposite approach makes more sense.

Get to the level of names so common sanctions are impossible. If a name is now something many entity a long distance away can just sanction, best to be John Smith or David Jones since he would be at least protected by numbers

Famous last words, I know but it would be hard to sanction all the world's David Jones'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones
The full list is pretty incredible. http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/t11sdn.pdf
Senator Kennedy's woes have not resulted in the no-fly list being thrashed. Not sure we'd get a better outcome for financial transaction if something similar were to occur.
The links from their public bucket that you receieve once you get the mail. For those that don't want to sign up to the mailing list or wait:

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/3-Feet-High.zip

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/De-La-Soul-Is-D...

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Buhloone-Mindst...

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Stakes-Is-High....

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Art-Official-In...

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/AOI-Bionix.zip

http://de-la-soul.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Remixes-Raritie...
The workaround for shipping goods seems easy: put a different name on the shipment. As long as the address is correct, it should be fine. Will US customs check the names of everybody who is officially registered at that address in the UK? I suspect not.

And if it has to be a real name, just put the name of your spouse, friend or family member on it.

Of course all of that just illustrates how utterly ineffective such an OFAC blockade is.
I have worked solely in small development shops and startups in Sweden. I none of them was the usage of swedish in commits, documentation or code acceptable and in most it was outright forbidden. Very rarely have there been developers who did not speak swedish, still english was the de facto language for everything. Where I currently work the policy is that only fleeting conversations may be conducted in another language than english.

In my opinion this is they way it should work everywhere, code in any other language than english is not acceptable.
Build your Valentine a custom iPhone game
Honestly, the government doesn't care how common your name is. It will ban it, sanction it, etc. We can see this in the no-fly list. They really don't care if all Smith's are banned. Even better for them.
Red: help us build the first "full-stack" programming language
Unfortunately, even that is not sufficient to overcome institutional bureaucracy -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17073-2004Aug...
Under the Spell of Yoga
highly skilled worker problems
The highest paid leader of a non-profit made $44.2m in 2013
I have a friend with an extremely common Irish name. There's a suspected terrorist with the same name, and he's on the no-fly list. My friend has a redress number now, but at the time he had to check-in at the counter and show ID every time he flew. Fortunately, different birthday. Now imagine being the unlucky person with the same name and birthday as the suspected terrorist.

The financial list discussed in this posting sounds much, much more onerous.
It seems that the governments try to keep coming up with new ways to punish lawbreakers like drug traffickers without regard to the effect it has on the larger society and the economy.

If you're a criminal or marked as such, you couldn't 1) keep your ill gotten money, 2) make money from selling your stories about your criminal exploit, 3) can't make legit money once you get out of jail since nobody hire felons, 4) branded even more if you're a sex offender, 5) can't get on planes due to no-fly list, 6) can't get sent money if you're on the treasury list.

All of these are of course, "well intentioned", but it does collateral damages. If your name is even "Stephen Law", you can't get wired money. AML laws forced banks to spend a shitload of money spying on people's finance that would otherwise be spent on more productive activities. Oh, it disallow banks and other money related services from forming, creating olipologies and monopolies. People who aren't terrorists are now on the no-fly list for no reason or because of procedural mistakes. Now they drive and die in motor vechicle accidents. Felons cannot contribute to society or get because nobody wants to hire them, so they became the underclass in societies and some of them will turn back to criminal behaviors.

Obviously, there are measure worth implementing, but they must be judged not on just preventing crimes, but also the cost to societies. Heck, some of these measure aren't even effective, and wastes policing resource.
Except for the 6,000 units that are under construction.
I was surprised to see a review of a game. The review liked the game, but said it used a sleazy tactic. The game was available for free, but after a few levels there was a single IAP to unlock the whole game. No more IAPs and it wasn't a large price. So, that's the Doom model and it was called sleazy. (I don't know of it's okay if they call it $GAME_LITE).

I hate IAPs if they're tied to timing. It just seems a weird way of getting user engagement to slow down he amount that people play with your game.

I found one thing that makes me pay is some kind of timer telling me how many hourS I spent playing. If I spend three hours on a demo I can totally justify paying a few quid on a game.
Not today. Do you think that will hold true for the entirety of your child's 80+ years on this Earth?
And having an unusual name can also make you run afoul of Google+'s "no unusual name" policy, where accounts get blocked just because someone at Google thinks it can't be a real name (they're often wrong).
boric acid works like a charm (just draw the lines using the chalk if feeling like powder is too inconvenient). And it is non toxic. Why would people try anything else, usually some poison, and/or pay to exterminator, etc... ?
I previously tried to start a posterous-based med tech discussion group, right before posterous announced it was pulling the plug. I am still interested in talking with others about that type of thing. I am open to suggestions as to platform, etc.
Ancient Viking code deciphered for the first time
Tesla electric car catches fire in Toronto; company has not yet explained
This is very cool. I enjoy reading about work being done in interesting, yet unexpected verticals.
Right now they say replace all occurrences of "upstart" with "Mir" and all occurrences of "systemd" with "Wayland". I can't see how that would work.
Ask HN: Why do things crash when they need an update?
It seems that every time my computer is running slow or programs crash, it is usually when a new update is available. Whether it's a new update for Windows or even Firefox, this always happens.

Does this happened to anyone else on HN?
I'm not sure this is at all the same thing. "One-founder" and "bootstrapped" are orthogonal. You can be a multi-founder bootstrapped startup, or a one-founder VC-money startup.
I understand where you're coming from.

Keeping a text file synced with the web interface would be super cool. It would certainly be a fun engineering challenge. I'll keep that idea in mind.
Security by stupidity.
Yes. I'm aware they've come down over time. I would argue they've only been correcting a previous wrong. A 50% tax rate is just ridiculous. So, even if they are lower now than 30 years ago, in the past few years (the time frame I was referring to) tax increases for only higher earners have been put in place. The war has started.
Because that's not how they sell it. And once that $20 is gone you'll need to spend more. If they had a single IAP of $20 to remove all timers it'd still be stupid and hated, but at least justifiable as a demo / full product model.
Within the first two seconds of looking at the article, I thought "Yuck! My monitor has really gotten dirty. Strange that I didn't notice this amount of filth until now...". Then I scrolled a bit and discovered that the filthy look is actually part of the page's background.

Honestly, who would choose such a hideous design on purpose? Randomly generated CSS would have a good shot of making the page look better than this.

ETA: Scrolling down a bit more (so that the title is above the viewing window), it now looks fine. Still, though...
But his "doomsday scenario," where Debian has to drop support for all other inits or drop all support for GNOME, is a false dilemma. Debian can still support other init systems, for people who want them, while still letting GNOME depend on systemd if that's what's best for GNOME. Users who don't want systemd can run without a DE, or they can run a DE that doesn't require systemd. (GNOME isn't even the default DE for Jessie, that's Xfce.)

So yes, he wants to make it clear how bad it would be, but he's also the one who's pushing for making it bad. It's not like he's just warning us that someone else will make Debian choose between those two things, he's trying to make Debian choose between them.
The graphics are kind of blurry and fuzzed-out by scaling. It seems to be a by-product of re-rendering the the sprite images within a <canvas> object.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/itchio/html/4923/spr...

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/itchio/html/4923/bg....

This would be top notch if the images were resized to provide crisp, well-pixelated edges. The spritesheets look great, in and of themselves, but the browsers scale them poorly.
Your 6 month old kid is already a terrorist? Way to go, parent.
I take the point, and it is worth emphasising that the 'classic' mode is the default for RHEL7 installations when you choose Gnome as the desktop environment. However the 'mode' is skin deep - no customisation, can't remove panels, can't add panel apps &c.

I wonder how many EL 7 desktop users will opt for the KDE desktop now that both are presented as equal choices on installation?
[Disclaimer: I'm absolutely not your target audience, and am not familiar with US testing]

My immediate feedback would be that nothing on your website makes sense to me. I don't understand the concept of a cube. I don't understand why in your difficulty/concept/process diagram, Q2 of 6 appears to be the most difficult? I don't understand how your users are inventing knowledge. I also don't understand what I'd get if I signed up - you'd give me test questions that vary in difficulty, concept and process (whatever the latter 2 mean)? I don't know what cuves are, although I did find some cube shaped things on Google images.

Okay, I clicked try for free and was surprised I got a working demo. My feedback feels harsh now, and the product seems great, so I guess the most actionable feedback would be to make it clearer you're offering an instant demo. I suspect if I knew what CUVES is (your target audience do?) it'd make more sense, so take that all with a pinch of salt - but I hope there's something useful in there. :)

Also sorry I don't have the experience to answer your original question!
KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha Is Out
> and you should totally flaunt it.

Eh, not so much. Yes, you should be proud of what you're doing, but don't waste time "flaunting it." Spend that time getting the people and resources together you need to accomplish your mission. Passion about your mission isn't the same as flaunting what you're doing.

This also assumes that healthcare, clean energy, etc are "sexier" problems then connecting maids to people who want their house cleaned.
I knew I shouldn't have joined that Hezbollah playgroup!
Why doesn't he just get stuff sent to Steve Law.

Problem solved.
I use http://ip-api.com/ and I find it works great (docs: http://ip-api.com/docs/).

It provides response formats: xml, json, csv, newline separated, serialized php. And enforce a limit of 240 requests per minute (that's 14,400 per hour for the lazy).

Fun fact, if you're running tor (tor-0.2.4.17 as proxy not the browser) you'll see the tor exit node in "IP:" and your actual ip i "Real IP:", thanks to gdns' EDNS (https://gdns.re/edns-demo/)
It appears that any mouse or keyboard button works, additively. Tapping any two keys at once will put the bird just above the clouds in one hop. Three rockets it straight into oblivion. Holding down several keys produces impressive fireworks.
I have a friend named John Edward Smith III. There were 2 other people with the exact same name in the employee+student database of our university (50,000 names.)
Some quick code to send randomly generated love notes as texts via Google Voice
It would be better just to pay people for nothing rather than requiring them to do useless work.
Which cities would that be? Mountain View? Palo Alto? Menlo Park? Cupertino? South San Francisco? The 100+ other cities in the Bay Area?

If zoning were truly the major obstacle, we would see more building where there is the least amount of zoning.
Check out pages 304--308 in the list linked elsewhere. All devoted to one guy with about twelve romanizations.
Just with a brief scan it looks like over 90% of the names are arab, and it seems to cover all of the common names. Does this mean a large percentage of arab people cannot send money/packages involving the US?
Free and New Wonderlic Practice Test Sample Questions
Instapainting Turns Your Photos Into Hand-Painted Oil Paintings On The Cheap
It's not a strawman. Just look at the code for reverse-complement in Haskell. It is full of strictness annotations (unidiomatic) and uses inlinePerformIO (unsafe). It also uses a few inlining pragmas (unidiomatic).

The fact that this code is fast tells you nothing about whether idiomatic Haskell is fast. wrong evidence < no evidence.
Twitch Plays Pokemon (Enter button inputs via chat)
Support isn't just about SLA's, its about your vendor actually providing software/drivers/etc for your environment. I think you will find many commercial applications only support recent versions of RHEL, SLES or in some industries Oracle Linux.

These products don't ship with source code, and they tend to fail spectacularly when put on machines that don't happen to have the "right" kernel, library and system tools. Frankly, having shipped binary products on linux in the past, it can be a real PITA just maintaining an application over three or four versions of RHEL or SLES (which have a lot more in common with each other than they do with debian based distros).

Two random links to prove my point:

http://www.3ds.com/support/certified-hardware/simulia-system...

Random hardware link:

http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/D...
I know, right. Who names their kid Stephen?
To target a broader market, you might consider dropping the "Vim built in" and explain it as "Create stories efficiently in plain text with our editor that uses familiar key bindings from Vim. Alternatively, use your favorite editor and paste the text in. Phaser's story parser will slurp them up for you."
A sad story, but easily explained -- there are books meant to teach you how to read, and there are books meant to be read, for entertainment, education, or inspiration.

The author obviously didn't approach programming in the way people approach reading -- small steps first, letters, then words, then sentences, then ideas. And finally, after mastering reading, one can try writing one's own ideas.

It's not self-evident how to do this in the programming world, because unlike the world of books, programming is a relatively new discipline. But, just as with reading, there are small programming steps, and there's a distinction between reading and writing. One must be a skilled reader before presuming to write.

This will be easier in the future as programming matures, and when being able to program comes to be seen as print literacy is seen now -- a default ability in an educated person.
Yes. Even if he was, how is making bank payments less convenient helping? If he's the nefarious Stephen Law, discovered living in the UK, wouldn't it be better to go around to his address and arrest him?
Really appreciate your information. Looks like the rest of the web pages are not ready yet. It depends on how many people sign up. A list of signed up solos should be posted for people to choose from, I guess.
Seconded. Until recently I've kept a copy of oprn office/libre office around for longer documents. Until office 2010 I used to joke about word only being able to deal with up to 25 pages and less than two authors (i.e. one)

Of course seasoned professionals can use Word but for general office... no. Most people didn't understand styles in Word
Flaw in Bitcoin, exchange shutdowns, $2.7M theft: Is the end coming?
The point is to make them stop going to 4co.in at all. No credibility = no traffic = dead site. And hopefully the thief learns a lesson.
Ember.js – Ember 1.4.0 and 1.5 Beta Released
Hey guys, if you check it out, I would really love feedback. This was my YC W'11 company Like.fm, now pivoted into this.
Australia considers copyright law changes to target Internet piracy
> It would be better just to pay people for nothing rather than requiring them to do useless work.

You miss my point entirely. It is not useless work. Sure its not economically efficient, but on balance I'd rather have people streamline the refueling process than sit in front of a TV and collect a paycheque.
"Their market is more or less limited to software development companies willing to pay €500 for an office chair."

This is actually a huge market. Every company that I've ever worked for in the past were in the 10,000 plus developers and spending $500 for office chairs wasn't that big of a deal. Their target audience is certainly enterprise or startups with decent funding.
i still don't know of any compayn that gives unlimited international calls (let alone free...)

besides, they started to gain popularity before the widespread of unlimited plans, at least in my country