skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because english (and any new language) is hard as fu*k. I'm a also a brazilian, and I think you can agree with me that not eveyone (actualy only 3%) of the brazilians have the condition to learn english. For condition I mean education and financial resources. I know that many of us learned english as we played chrono trigger or Metal Gear Solid, but we had a condition that many of our fellow brazilians did not have.
Sorry yeah, your users hate you
Haha You nailed it!!
"I wish depression was the same as a physical illness, because then I could simply go to a doctor and be given a cure."

That makes no sense. There are plenty of physical diseases where that doesn't apply, and many where the only cure requires lots of work on your own part.
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And let me tell you, I've had acquaintances nearly die from overdoses because they've watched too much American TV; here in Aus, if you call the ambulance the police will not come unless you report violence.

But hey, Australia is surprisingly progressive in this way: I just got my prescription for Naloxone needles and did my training today. I'm an ex-addict, and don't hang with those people very often, but if I ever do I can save an overdose :) this is in QLD of all places, despite Newman trying to turn us into a police state.
Facebook beat Google for the first time this year
The decline of Windows has begun, and this time Windows is not coming back (in a strong way).
If they're the same that doesn't make one superior to the other. QED.
Thanks for explaining. I agree that there is a distinction between "cause" and "fault" as you describe.

Gorbzel's comment is pretty blunt: for sake of argument, it basically amounts to "[Victim] is an idiot and should have known better, for his own sake". But to me it is very clearly an assignment of "cause" not "fault" in your terminology.

I understand this from phrases such as "for […] his own well-being" and "to his own detriment", as well as the fact that it's phrased as "advice". These make clear that Gorbzel is saying that the victim erred from a self-interest point of view not a moral point of view.
First 15 months sales:

* Windows 8: 200 million

* Windows 7: 300 million

* Windows Vista: ~128 million

* Windows XP: ~120 million (based on an IDC estimate, as Microsoft released few early sales figures for XP).

It looks to me like Windows 7 was the anomaly: a stronger PC market at the time, and 8+ years worth of computers running XP looking for an upgrade. Vista was not a realistic option mainly due to a lack of drivers at release, much higher system requirements, and absurd pricing-- up to $359 for a boxed copy. By the time Windows 7 came out, manufacturers had gotten around to creating the Vista drivers that'd also work in 7, computers that would've been sluggish in Vista could easily run 7, and the price of the OS was slashed.

Getting people and businesses to upgrade again when they just did so in the past few years is a tougher sell. The hardware available at the release of Windows 8 was pretty un-exciting too, which probably contributed to 2013's record-breaking decline in PC sales overall. Only in the past 3-4 months have the updated models from most manufacturers made it into stores -- touchscreens, new form factors and doubled battery life -- reasons for people to actually want to buy a new PC.
Well there is also no need to upgrade for a lot of people. A dual core/quad core computer with windows 7 it can run office, media, and the internet perfectly fine and pretty fast. This is what most people use computer for. So Windows 8 need not be bad for it not to be purchased it is just that it is not needed.
On my site I made my own buttons. They're just a row of icon links that open in a new tab. No javascript, no loading from a 3rd party site, just a plain link.

Example: https://www.petekeen.net/life-of-a-stripe-charge
It's totally horrible for me to say this but a deadly flu pandemic is needed for the health of our economy.

If it comes to that, I prefer a French Revolution style class war. Fewer deaths, more gain for each death and in total, thus more efficient. Between 10 million deaths, no correlation between dying and deserving it, and chaos and no reason to believe in political progress, versus 200,000 deaths, a high correlation between dying and deserving it (i.e. higher death rates among the current elite) and the likely deposition of the corporate upper class, I know which one I'd pick.

I'm not sure I agree with your premise-- I don't think society ever needs traumatic death, and I wouldn't want the violent revolution or the flu pandemic-- but if it were true, there's a much better way of getting it, which is to rise up and depose the assholes running the world now.

I think the problem is related to what you are saying but much more prosaic. For the most part, humans are myopic and reactive, and the people who tend to rise in organizations (in peace time) are even more that way than the general population. They make shitty leaders, though, due to their lack of vision. The result is that, when there is progress, such people would rather cut costs (and involve fewer people) than do more. That, in a nutshell, is why Corporate America is so depressing: it's run by mindless cost-cutters, not leaders.

Couple this with the mean-spiritedness of the US society and you have long-term joblessness and, eventually, widespread, cancerous poverty of a kind not seen since the 1930s.
"But without the government, people would immediately start killing each other, and the last person remaining would commit suicide. Heck, I would gladly kill you right now if no one would be watching." - that is your argument, essentially. No, I don't think that would happen. Most people are not evil enough to willingly hurt other people, and most of the evil ones are not courageous enough to willingly hurt other people and risk being shot.
For more background on ideal lattice based encryption see https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/hits09/gentry-homomorphic-e... (pdf).
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Do us a favor, and stop telling us what to do and do it yourself.
You can add some bolt-on features to speed some things up, but it is much nicer when things are fast by default, by design. Instead you could have the opposite kind of annotations, e.g., decorators for classes @monkeypatchable or @attributes_can_be_added_outside_of_init; after all, those features are rarely needed, and it's good to optimize for the common case.
> This is a perfect example of the disconnect between "hackers" and the real world.

You're reading way too much into this. The OP's story is completely unrelated to "hacker" culture or the faux-libertarian belief system that is fashionable in SF/SV.

The OP's story is a perfect example of what happens when people who believe they're smarter than everyone else play games with people who don't play games. Nothing more. Nothing less.

The OP wrote that he was told by a police officer that his presence was no longer needed and he was explicitly asked to leave the scene. Instead he stayed and as the situation deteriorated just about every one of his actions had the effect of making his situation worse.

The common characteristic of each of the OP's actions? They were driven by the underlying belief that he was smarter than the people he was dealing with. With just a little effort he could convince the police officers to see things his way. And why not? Many "smart" people have never encountered a tricky situation they weren't able to wiggle out of using logic and reason.

The OP simply learned that you can be too smart for your own good. But let's be clear... as bad as the police state is don't pretend that there aren't other groups that would have responded even more harshly to the OP's attempts to prove his intellectual superiority.

Lesson? Please, understand that you're probably not that smart. Get yourself into avoidable situations that you have to try to talk your way out of at your own peril.
The idea here isn't that you use keybase to find out Maria's twitter, github or gmail identities - it's the opposite. The idea is that you already know who Maria is on one or more of those services, so the fact that the account you know is Maria's at github has posted a signed message from that public key is supposed to testify to you that that is really your Maria's public key.

You could of course manually review and verify Maria's github post that contains her public key - all that keybase is really doing here is providing an easy way of discovering that github post (or tweet, or whatever).
Apple equals Microsoft's (software installed) device sales
That's nonsense. Their are whole industries that could use better collaborative tools (such as the book publishing industry). Have you tried writing a book? The tools are so limited.

Google docs for example is not a great tool for writing books, in fact there are very few tools that are particularly nice to use that are web based and strong on the collaborative front.

I think the problem perhaps with Editorially is too much pressure to get things going early. If there's 10+ people with salaries, sales better be good. I think a bootstrapping approach or an open source approach a la WordPress would be much more viable. Editorially seems to have only failed because of their specific criteria, not because there's isn't a need for a better tool.
You missed out on a great naming opportunity:

pip install pipit
I think it's more 'money as a readily available proxy for fungible utility'. It's not so much a substitute as a handy scale to quantify things with.
I don't see why you don't just get the key once, allow you to verify it, and store it locally. It seems pointless to make all these extra requests to you.

There's a reason that gpg does this..... Maria's twitter being hacked, Maria's github being hacked, Maria's Keystore being hacked....a lot can go wrong.

There are still weaknesses like, you lie about a github and link to your own github, and lie about the public key. And...many others.
Do you have any evidence that anyone would be tracked or targeted for such a thing, or is this just wild speculation?
It's like saying: "You should not be afraid the enter this dark door to get a free candy. Typically ..."

Better not to say anything and just sell great stuff...
Every time I read an article about our supposedly improving unemployment picture, I try to figure out if the author is ignorant or malicious, because it's the same story with every article. As though the 6.6% number were even remotely real.

13.5% U6 unemployment [1]. Down 5.x million full-time jobs [2] since the recession began (which even ignores population expansion and the expectation that we should have more full-time jobs now). Records on poverty, food stamps and SS disability fraud. A continuing plunge in the labor force participation rate [3] that makes it look like we're knee deep in a depression. We routinely drop a city the size of Pittsburgh out of our labor force.

There has only been a recovery in asset prices, and that's strictly due to the Fed's QE programs [4] massively artificially suppressing the real cost of debt (which you can see in real-time effect when there's talk of, or an actual tapering to the QE program).

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/full-time-vs-total-employment...

[3] http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

[4] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-06/sp-and-without-qe
For good reason. IE7 was even worse than 6.
(I work for Tokutek)

Write concurrecy: yes, TokuMX does not have a database level reader/writer lock.

Index Building: yes, fractal trees can write data much more efficiently, so if index building is a problem, I bet TokuMX solves it.

Practically reducing file size: to be honest, I am not sure because due to our great compression, this has not been a general issue for our users. Our reindex command could reduce file size, but I cannot point to examples.

One of our big goals is to address storage issues MongoDB has.
Sorry this got longer than I thought.

Though I feel it isn't a main point (and giving this reasoning doesn't prove a monopoly will form) I will point out that on the ground sending a patrol to an area is inherently more efficient the more customers you have in that area and that this is a large part of police labour. I'll also point out that once a local monopoly/oligopoly forms if you wish to start a competing company you need to either accept the large capital investment of starting the company for 1/4~1/2 the area (say city) or alternatively you are surrounded by a larger force that has a reason to want you out.

As to whether or not monopolies will form (while in no way proof) I will offer as example that generally throughout history establishments of force (gangs, organised crime syndicates, city states, warlords, tribes, governments) seem to exert the majority of their force in areas of control and it is only at the edges between two of these powers that you have a choice between these powers (and often the area is more dangerous because of it).

As to why governments today aren't on a rampage. I will point out that these governments have effectively formed coalitions or come under the protection of larger allies to allow them to have sole or mostly sole control over their people (A situation that would not necesarily be as nice for a lot of the people if the governments were instead local monopolies on force with no obligations to the populous). Lastly I'd point out that many smaller countries complain about the US/China/Russia as bullies on the international stage and that they have bought force against "startup" force companies (tongue in cheek, obviously) such as say terrorists.

I realise you might be saying the cost of aggression is prohibitive, but I'd say it's the fact that the large players can't advance without being destroyed (MAD) that keeps the system somewhat stable. I'd also point out that the number of countries changes and that generally it seems like there is a trend to consolidation, even if it's playing out over decades/centuries.

>Of course, a more rhetorical approach to this criticism is that even if it happens, you're basically left with a government.

I don't disagree, but it would not be likely to be a government that the majority would want more than the current system (at least in first world countries, as I'm sure you'd agree). What it comes down to for me the fact that the market for force doesn't have as strong external/internal checks and balances. So it would (I believe) likely deteriorate to something worse than what we have now, before moving slowly back through the steps to something approaching our current systems.
Yeah seriously. It does just seem like another money grab.

The ole "create money from nothing" business model.
And in the world of real interactions (like the Uber and AirBnb domains), it quickly becomes obvious that they are sleazy unaccountable companies, and they die, faster than regulators could even send cease & desist faxes.

Where the stakes matter, community self-protection can now ramp up faster, make fairer distinctions, and preserve flexibility better than (often-incumbent-captured) regulatory agencies.
> Zed, I want to make myself clear, here: I have absolutely nothing to say whatsoever about whatever substantive claims you might be making. I'm just telling you to stop being a asshole about it.

For what it's worth, this is Responding to Tone, or DH2[#]

#: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Sounds the intended use case for ElasticSearch.

"Given some input piece of data {email, phone, Twitter, Facebook}, find other data related to that query and produce a merged document of that data"
Not only is it horrible, but it is also mean, wrong and stupid. Well done, you nearly have the full set.
There should be a big sign-up call-to-action button. You're missing out on tons of potential users.
I filed a report on IC3.gov website.
At Last Users Can Regain Control Of Their Big Data
Minecraft clone in Haskell
He didn't speculate on anything; he said he wouldn't be surprised if he was put on a list. And given all of the information that has come out over the past few years, would you be surprised that such a list were in place?
Yeah, I think you're right, we were talking past each other.
The original author has a right to decide what license to use, but not what other people feel is the right choice.

If linus decided tomorrow to make new software under a license that only allowed white people to use it, I would consider it wrong and a racist license. I reject your claim that the author has the right to establish such license as "right".
Where in Argentina is this so I never go there on vacation?
Anyone who doesn't believe this needs to watch Client 9 [1] about Eliot Spitzer.

It's very convincing that someone powerful targetted him for his anti-wallstreet policies and sought to catch him with a high paid prostitute. The weird part starts happening when they interview the madam and brothel hustlers who she hired, and find out tons of famous politicians and Wall st execs uses them... but noone else got brought down despite all the private investigations, wiretaps, and FBI investigations, except the one guy pissing off people in power.

Now in 2014 we're back down to nearly zero reputable prominent people in office calling out Wall st or political corruption. Except maybe the crazy fringe types like Rand Paul.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638362/
Maybe "more perfect"?
What it means to be a libertarian by Harvard Professor [VIDEO] (01:57)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxj00QD6fNY
Yes, Gas Pumps Really Do Need Your ZIP Code (Even If Stores Usually Do Not)
This blog post from Asana is proving inspirational for my team:

http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/

http://statamic.com/ is the CMS and it provides a nice interface for content owners - although Asana uses the online Github interface for editing content.
yes, it does do this; once you're satisfied with maria's identity, that she's the person you want, you sign a statement to that effect, which you can store just locally or post back to the server. (or of course you can just sign her key in GPG!) The latter - posting back to the server - is for portability reasons. A keybase user will likely use keybase on multiple machines.
Did you not comprehend the portion of the article which outlined a supply side problem? You don't see higher wages in that kind of scenario, you see a steady diminishing in the market.
So you're saying you don't have any numbers to back that up?
IE8 works on Windows XP too...
"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others, shall be the whole of the law."
The NY times article got a very basic point wrong.

Q: How do you judge the success of the campaign to raise awareness by calling congress people?

A: By the number of calls/contacts made.
Instead they compared it to the SOPA protest that "stopped" the bills and hence declared it a failure.

The goal of raising awareness was most certainly achieved (because the frikkin NYT wrote a whole article about it)
This is just the first salvo in a long war - no need to declare victors & losers already.
Yes to DNS, though we have to be careful here since DNS can be spoofed more easily than github or twitter proofs over https. I was thinking a slightly better way to prove ownership of foo.com would be to post a proof at https://foo.com/_keybase (or something similar). To spoof this, an attacker would have to spoof DNS and also the https certificate.

Authenticating a self-signed domain certificate via keybase is a neat idea, but would probably need some browser support, unless there's a clever hack that I'm not thinking of.
Not sure if serious... this reads like one of those over-the-top joke comments bragging tongue-in-cheek about how 10x the author is.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that:

1. Ditching TCP for a social network app is insane.

2. Bypassing standard POSIX sockets for a social network app is insane.

3. Writing a custom database server for a social network app is insane.

4. There's no way you did that in four months, especially if you were CTO for multiple startups.

Even if you're the greatest developer alive on Earth today and you really did all that, think of how many amazing features you could have developed in that time to differentiate your product, instead of obsessing over insignificant nanosecond latency gains.
Something I've noticed is that companies have a level of technical morale that is not quite the same thing as general morale. If general morale is how much people like the organization and trust its moral decency, technical morale is the sense that the people and products are of high quality. They're correlated but not the same thing. General morale is a group's self-esteem (although, when low, it becomes us-versus-them against the leadership) and technical morale is its self-efficacy.

Technical morale is also very slow to recover, and I think the U.S. has lost it over the past 30 years. People don't assume that others are capable. Rather, the prevailing assumption is that an as-yet-undetermined person is lazy, stupid, and incapable. People have this vague sense that things don't work as well as they used to; I don't know if that's actually true.

On the matter of how they view each others' competency, groups tend to be either in a state of trust-density and trust-sparsity (a "group Bozo Bit") with no middle ground, and we've flipped that switch a long time ago.
Also treat your computer like a credit card

That's the best comment in this thread.
I was expecting this would have more views by now.
It's shocking that nobody mentions minimum wage increases as at least part of the cause here. When in some places the starting wage can't be lower than $10/hr, of course it's going to be challenging for college or high school students to get an employer to take a risk on them.
This, exactly. All I see are two buttons, Join and Login. But no description, no clue, nothing on what I'm being offered to join our log into.
So is it actually your point that the floor is now littered with fee-fees over the difference between "ass" and "asshole?"
> I wish depression was the same as a physical illness, because then I could simply go to a doctor and be given a cure.

1. In point of fact, much scientific evidence shows that depression is a physical illness, not a mental illness.

2. The only reason treatments are not available for the physical illness of depression is because of the primitive state of neuroscience.

3. But neuroscience research is moving apace, and is very promising. Read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/magazine/02depression.html...

4. A quote from the above-linked article: '"So we turn it on," Mayberg told me later, "and all of a sudden she says to me, 'It's very strange,' she says, 'I know you've been with me in the operating room this whole time. I know you care about me. But it's not that. I don't know what you just did. But I'm looking at you, and it's like I just feel suddenly more connected to you.' '

"Mayberg, stunned, signaled with her hand to the others, out of Deanna's view, to turn the stimulator off."

'"And they turn it off," Mayberg said, "and she goes: 'God, it's just so odd. You just went away again. I guess it wasn't really anything.'"'

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

6. President Obama recently announced a major "brain initiative", meant to speed up the pace of neuroscience research. More here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/02/fact-s...

7. Notice that the initiative is not called the "mind initiative". The reason? Psychology had its chance and failed. It's time for a new approach.

> It's especially problematic because mental illness is a fault in your thoughts, and not in, say, your arms or legs.

That's what psychiatrists and psychologists would like you to think, but it's false. Some day this way of describing mental illness will be judged to have been criminally false.