skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this will do much good. I was forced to take 5 years of Spanish through school. Hardly know how to speak it now. The people who excel are usually driven by their own interest. Nothing makes something miserable like a gov't/school mandate.
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The difference is that upstream for upstart is open to BSD/Hurd/etc. ports, whereas upstream for systemd is pretty strongly opposed to them and it does not seem they would assist in the effort.
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Plus, all ISPs are required to log HTTP access + IP + Date pairs and store them for two years...

So Turkey's finally getting serious about its EU candidacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
i disagree somewhat.

the article was a bit heavy on the narcissism, i wouldn't want to work with such a person. i'd rather work with the Brazil-esque Robert DeNiro type: "Listen, kid, we're all in it together."
If he's using CL and RoR, he's probably using a bunch of other stuff too. Anyway, writing markup has a similar write-test-debug cadence to writing code.
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Looking at to the Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lxc-systemd) it seems like LXC can be at least partially reconciled with systemd. Are there any features of LXC that absolutely can't be made to work with systemd?
Get a $1000 contract and farm the work out for $500
If the only thing you’re doing is coming up with a single number, then you’re doing arithmetic, not visualization.
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And I think that the goal of visualization is not finding elaborate ways to encode information. I try to encode as little as possible.
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But to me this feels like imposing a design on the data, and drawing attention to the design more than the data.

The whole thing is great, I'm glad I stuck with it past the first few images to see where he's going. These bits stuck out though and his work is so often things I wish I had thought of.
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Here's an idea to prove they're watching the videos...at intervals, you display a unique ID to each feed, that the monitor has to enter on a keyboard. The interval should vary, as should the position on the screen. But the UID should appear on everyones feed at the same time; this should prevent one person from monitoring more than one feed at a time. You could/should have every feed monitored by more than one person. The feds could be run slightly out of sync/delayed, but still with the ID displayed at the same actual time. Therefor is someone was distracted by having to enter the ID, and missed someone shoplifting, another person wouldn't be.
Couldn’t one somehow decentralize a ponzi scheme like that? Maybe with the scripting language included in Bitcoin?
Uh, you don't think it is relevant when you compare that Turkey is the world champion in imprisoning journalists? (Just to take one data point.)

There are no absolute black/white situations, but that doesn't mean there aren't lots of very different gray levels...
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This is cool, never saw this before. There're some titans betting against each other. I'm not a betting man, but I see your point.
>>"Damn it! I'm a human, not a boolean condition!" I'd declare, clearly emotionally compromised.

This will probably be an unpopular comment on HN, but I think there are a lot of vulcans[1] in the tech scene that would be more socially amiable & better understand others if they stopped trying to exclusively use cold-logic on people and understood that emotions are just as important as logic when dealing with humans.

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." - Tennessee Williams

"Honesty without Compassion is Cruelty"
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140121033617-3...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(Star_Trek)
Making it visible and accessible is important. Otherwise how would people find out that they really liked Spanish, US Civil War history, or programming?
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Hold onto your $500. Work and earn $500. Don't spend it.

It sounds trite but at the level of money you are talking about doing valuable things and having people throw money at you is screamingly obvious.

If you do not have the skills to generate $500 from your efforts, then you have identified an underlying condition that cannot be solved by, e.g., gambling.
Also, you get to keep a copy of your e-mails, so if Google removes your account...

Or, more likely, if you're offline for any reason at all. All web tools disappear in a puff of smoke if there's a problem between you and your ISP. Or, more rarely, between your ISP and their peers.
Ain't it program, not programme, always?
That's true; but that's what VCs do, right? Bet on the team.
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No, he's being ironic. He's famous for this brusque and dismissive style.
I'm noticing a trend recently of accounts created seemingly for the sole purpose of insulting a specific post / comment, and it's beginning to seriously irritate me. Does anyone know why this seems to be on the rise, and if there's anything that can be done to stop it?

(if you're not actually such an account, then sorry for falsely accusing you, but my irritation at the trend in general still stands).
Biggest problem is when you have like 10 email accounts to check. A desktop client having them all in one place makes it MUCH more convenient.
> I wrote a comment earlier where this attitude is commonplace. that seems to take an approach of "let them figure it out" - while abdicating any responsibility for helping them do so.

You're obviously a thoughtful person, but this business of "helping them do so" is in my view rather paternalistic. I think the right moment for a religious person to engage with science is when he feels he must, to make sense of his life, not when a scientifically literate acquaintance independently decides it's time. This serves to break the pattern of bogus authority and a lifelong dependence on others for intellectual guidance.

Just my two cents' worth.
1. find a reasonable part of California to find residence.
2. Get job for cheap residency.
3. get accepted to bay area college masters program.
4. move to bay area.
5. network shit out it while in masters program.
Don't just double it. Triple it.

Post a bid for a contract on Freelancer or oDesk and then turn around and outsource the job on an hourly basis.
Why nutrition is so confusing
EnterpriseDB offers training around their product (enterprise of PostgreSQL) but they might occasionally inject EnterpriseDB specific materials.

Other than that, the knowledge is rather sporadic (books, documentations, mailing-lists, the actual source code itself, join PostgreSQL community, etc).
I missed the part where she hacked her husband's addiction ... what I heard is that she went from being an enabler to a co-junkie.

On the other hand, my wife has said some of the same things about me. She doesn't complain when I bring home a paycheck though, and she really does help me stay "balanced enough".
I actually thought his energy vision was pretty off the mark. Oil won't peak when when we'll be able to extract less than before. It will peak when electric cars will start becoming mainstream, and I expect that to happen at least a decade earlier, with most cars "in production" being electric cars happening about 2 decades earlier (so about 10 years from now).

He completely dismisses solar power, even though it has seen accelerated decrease in price/Watt already, in some countries/regions even surpassing coal-based energy in price, and it's still very early days. I also have quite opposite views about fission. If we figure out fusion, we might use that quite a lot, but I really doubt everyone will use an order of magnitude more fission reactors than we do now to power the 3d-printing and space economy.
If you want free certs go to startssl.com.

I appreciate Cacert's initiative, but they've been at it for years now and there is still not proper support in the mainstream browsers/platforms.
Yes, I think so. It's under development.

Other than that, if we build each smart device like Nest's, the cost is not acceptable when we are going to have 100 at home, all of which cost > $100 and have so many different apps to control each of them.

The current trend in the public is: making each device HTTP-enabled so that they can talk directly to the web server in the cloud, which in turn to talk to the mobile devices or controller, and vise versa. I see a pretty good implementation here: http://ronguest.com/blog/2013/10/how-to-run-temboo-from-open...

This is a solution that minimize the cost for realizing the IoT available so far. But it still does not scale. The design requires to upload a Python SDK to the memory of the second chip and requires SSL for security. SSL is slow in terms of the performance of a device response. It's redundant. Wi-Fi itself is very secure if the message can be transported on a lower level.

Alternative solutions could be: unify all the smart devices at home using home computer as a central control which will send messages back and forth to the smart phone or remote control. Between the central controlling program and the devices, some type of communication either on the HTTP level or lower level will help. It's not necessary to bring everything onto the Internet, only the web server on the home computer is exposed, which is a lot more secure. This way, your smart phone only need to have one app to control all the smart devices at home.

More aggressive solution is to control the smart devices on a lower level than HTTP from the cloud, so that the cost of building the smart devices can be reduced significantly, keeping the device price minimum change from the traditional devices. That's in the future.
Jabber support, in the sense of any client being able to connect to google talk, is perfectly active, hell I've got it open on my desktop right now.

Federation, the ability for having your own jabber network contactable by google talk users and vice-versa, that was (partially) turned off, after a string of spam abuses.
> Computer engineering is an umbrella term, although it's usually implied that they have an above-average understanding of hardware. It's not a synonym for programmer.

I've given up on explaining that to most people. My degrees are CS and Math. I work in a software shop. There is hardware work being done, but mostly of the "did we hook up the right cables?" sort of work. However, whenever I start explaining that it's not engineering in the sense that they mean (which really is the computer/electrical engineer sense) they start thinking I'm in IT.
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I guess as a hacker and techie this typifies many things about my evening meal. It's nutrional (mostly), but it's ugly as fuck.
When they do, people deride them as patronizing.
$660,000 price tag for 'torture' – Skinny Puppy bills the US government
Open a stock trading account.

Sell a put option on CMCSA with a strike price at 55.00 expiring on Feb 14 for 0.78 per contract.

At the same time buy a put option on CMCSA with a strike price at 54.50 expiring on Feb 14 for 0.52 per contract.

Each contract will net you $26 and will open you up to $50 of risk ( meaning a net loss of $24 per contract if CMCSA ends on Feb 14th under $54.50 )

Sell and buy 20 contracts. This will instantly net you $520 which will immediately double your money waiting is for schmucks.

Then just hang onto those contract until they expire on Feb 14th If they expire with CMCSA over 55.00 congratulations you just doubled your money. If they end under 54.50 you lose all your money.

I am not saying its a good Idea. I am just saying it will double your money.
What are the odds of being found liable in that case?

Is it really worth the hassle + time of defending yourself though? That's the main issue I suspect most people worry about.
A lot of people have more than one email account (personal, work, school, etc.) and not all of them are Gmail accounts.

Currently, the easiest way to manage multiple email accounts at the same time is by using a standalone IMAP client. Five accounts in the sidebar that I can access with a single click, with Unified Inbox at the top!

Gmail's web interface only lets you access one email account at a time. You could have delegated accounts, but they open in a separate tab, and the whole concept of delegation only works for Gmail accounts anyway. Or you could forward everything to your Gmail account and call it a day, but some employers might have a problem with that, especially in light of Google's apparently comfy relationship with No Such Agency.

Personally, I use my Gmail address to subscribe to public newsgroups, but I wouldn't let anything private ever touch a Google server. With a standalone IMAP client, it's very easy to maintain this kind of separation without having to suffer any noticeable inconvenience.
No, they are interested, learning is fun for them too. But not everyone is interested in learning the same things you are. For me, for example, there is absolutely nothing more boring, than some new fancy framework, API or a language. I am, however, very excited to try things that might reduce amount of bugs and potential security issues in my code, make it cheaper to run, cheaper to support.
Thanks. You make a good point about the rewards. I thought 1% could be a decent estimate given that not everyone pays attention, some points are never redeemed and rewards over 1% are usually only for specific purchase types (e.g., gas). But I may very well have underestimated this. And if people do redeem at a 90%+ rate, then they will definitely notice if there are no rewards on the Bitcoin side.

Very interesting.
IMO, it makes sense when your strategic advantage is in your community and the service/convenience of hosting the app for people. If your advantage is in your algorithms, I don't think it makes sense, unless you plan to make your money from consulting/enterprise/hosting.
How confident are you that these will come to pass?

How confident are you that half of your predictions come true?
systemd is basically launchd for Linux (and only Linux). The systemd devs make no apology about the launchd inspiration.
I love to bitch about NSA as much as the next guy, but you have to admit, it's one thing to spy, and its a totally different when you start to block content.
This looks like spam for learning to code dressed up as some kind of supposedly true anecdote. One of these husbands is believable, but an entire cluster?
I've always held that it was deeply illogical of Spock not to factor his emotions and his brain's built-in reward mechanisms into the equation.
I just wonder how many #netsec guys are working in Sochi?
Generally - who is setting up network infrastructure at the Olympic Games?

How does it all works together?

Broadcasting TV / military / 100.000 police officers / WiFi / 3G / 4G... It must be crazy.

Plus: so many high profile targets (politicians, business people). I wonder how they secure for such a trip in a potentially hostile country.

Thanks for pointers and suggestions!
This is outrageous. How was she appointed to her position?
I feel the same way about Spanish, but I do think some of my current interest in computation is related to computers in the curriculum when I was younger (sometimes indirectly). Among other things I remember positively: playing with Logo when I was very young; playing some educational games like Oregon Trail; and doing a few assignments in Hypercard in a general computer-literacy course. That one was kind of interesting because it was not officially "programming": we mostly learned how to type, how to use basic office software, how a Mac desktop worked, etc. But somehow someone had thrown Hypercard into the "computer literacy" jumble, probably because it was part of the default Mac ecosystem at the time, and had some buzz. And that started letting us do programming of a sort, which quite a few kids picked up on as being something you could express yourself in, while not being particularly intimidating.

Towards the end of high school I did take AP Computer Science and that was indeed some mixture of stupid and boring. I don't know how much to blame C++ (student questions ended up devolving into being mostly about iostreams) and how much to blame the teacher or curriculum. But that would probably have killed my interest in CS, if Logo and Hypercard hadn't already kindled it (and on my own time, I stumbled across the ability to write mIRC scripts).
You said you had no idea what the logistic equation had to do with natural selection, but you believed that human populations didn't show a correlation with the function. I provided the links only so you would have a way to find out how wrong that was, nothing else. But you're one of those posters who can't seem to stick to a single topic.

As to that topic, I can't believe that you're still unable to see that a stable population supports classic natural selection. In such a population, who survives is determined by their fitness, just when the population's size is changing. The fact that a population's size is stable or changing is irrelevant to natural selection -- it is unaffected. On that basis, population rate of change, and natural selection, are orthogonal factors.

The only way a stable population would interfere with natural selection is if there was no reproduction taking place, no births or deaths, and that is certainly not what a stable population means.
CoffeeKup is somewhat similar, but for coffeescript.
That's a good point: peak when electric vehicles become mainstream. Is transportation the main driver for crude oil? How about plastic?

I'd love to see solar take a dominant role in energy—the question I have is will PV technology and geographic climate constraints push solar forward fast enough?

Writing a response to you also made me think about energy storage. I think that'll play a much larger role and I didn't think of it earlier.
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Ask HN: Disclosing your startup to current employer
A colleague and I want to do a startup on the side outside of work. However, our employer requires that we disclose outside business activities. Since our employment is "at will" it seems this disclosure would be more like getting approve rather than being a disclosure. Has anyone had this experience? How did you go about it and what was the outcome?
If he had 440k coins then, imagine how many he has now.

Those ~440,000 Bitcoin were property of the Mt. Gox traders, not Mt. Gox the company.

Mt. Gox was moving the money publicly in a show of good faith that they still controlled it.

They have yet to do that in this new case.

For all we know, Mt. Gox could have sent the ~40,000 missing Bitcoin to an unrecoverable/non-existant address by mistake.
Comments are frequently out of date with the code that they're describing. This tendency is somewhat linear with the length if a comment and therefore longer comments will be more incorrect, more quickly. I'm not being facetious, this is a readily observed phenomena.
I don't know what will happen to MtGox, but you sound just like the SheepMarketPlace defenders when they kept coming up with all kinds of ways to downplay all the events leading up to SMP's disappearing act. I don't know how you're so sure they won't fall into oblivion. They've been a big mess for months.

Anyone else reading this who's new to crypto-coins, at the _minimum_ I do not recommend you send any of your coins/fiat to MtGox at this time.
Unfortunately, it seems like this was written by someone without a science or engineering background.

Here are some errors in content or presentation:

1. "Concrete jungle"... assuming gravity is supplied through rotation, the structure would be under constant tension, which makes concrete a very bad choice of material.

2. "Synthesized photosynthesis"... "Photosynthesis" is a process, "synthesize" is what you do to a substance. "Artificial photosynthesis" is the correct term.

3. "Renewable energy, however, will never live up to its promises. Hydrogen will be abundant from synthesized photosynthesis"... Artificial photosynthesis is a renewable energy source, so it is contradictory to say that renewable energy will never live up to its promises.

Here are some criticisms:

1. "AI" is a dream of the 1960s, we now understand that the problem with AI is that we don't understand "intelligence" with sufficient depth to describe what makes an AI different from an ordinary computer problem. I would say "automated mission to Europa" instead of "AI mission to Europa".

2. I don't think wired infrastructure will go a way. We are addicted to bandwidth and fiber is the way to get it. We will only use wireless at the bottom two levels or so.

3. Protein will be significantly less difficult to supply than suggested.

When I read this, I feel like I'm reading predictions of a global network of flying zeppelins from the early 1900s. That's not to say it's avoidable. It's not avoidable. We can only really predict what will happen in the absence of technological revolutions.

What's really missing is a description of what humans will do for a living. White collar jobs are getting automated, and everyone graduating collage is competing with the people who used to do what the computers do, except for the percentage of graduates in the non-automated fields (like software development).
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I'd like to find a way to remind myself of this piece by 2040 and see how far/close I am. It's incredible how some technology titans from the past were spot on with their predictions (Asimov, Tesla), and some we yet to see (Burke).
The interview was fine. She described code as it is. Frankly, it isn't important whether she knows how to code. It isn't her job. She's an example to no one.

All that matters is that the program is properly marketed, and that the teachers are competent.
> It's just so human .

Now that you've described it like that I realize that evoking that feeling is the selling point of most literary fiction. I also feel a bit ashamed I didn't realize this earlier. It's more precise than just saying something has "realistic characters".
This makes me wonder if a bank could operate with Bitcoins. Not everyone would withdraw the money at once and there would be a way of publicly verifying the degree that they're leveraged. If the bank wanted to lend out part or all of a person's money, it could require their approval such that both them and the bank get a percentage of the interest rate the borrower pays. So many questions.
He probably wouldn't get paid for at least 2 weeks.
It is visible and accessible. Perhaps not if your only interaction is with the smartphone singularity, but I agree with the OP that programming is largely self-guided.

Making it a compulsory school subject isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is distressing as to how well it'll actually be taught, whether good impressions will be received from it and whether or not it will be deceiving. Schools aren't known for being apt at actually fostering education (but rather routine and rote), much less being engaging.

I have a feeling this will be simply an excuse for the education system to ostensibly appear progressive and forward-thinking, but without actually providing decent resources. An exercise in flaunting that will likely have no actual effect on student impressions, especially not if typical public school teaching methods are employed.

I think that it's better to have no real understanding of coding than no understanding whatsoever.

That and I honestly think system administration is more important for most people. Learning to code without learning sysadmin work and how your environment actually functions is an unfilled gap.
Yeah, it's super understandable for governments to block international non-profit organizations from getting donations because they don't comply with some random-ass heavy-handed domestic law.