skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well it's not surprising it seems like a truism to you, since a big part of conservatism is maintaining the status quo.

Even conservatives have to give convincing arguments as to why the status qou is good.

> I know some people will think that I am blaming the victim with (1), but I'm not. I was bullied in school, and I was physically weak and tended not to stand up for myself.

Having been a former victim does not preclude one from blaming current victims. In fact, it can be a badge of honour; that the fact that they are not a victim any more is because of their own volition.

> (1) because society needs people (at least) men to be strong and vigorous in order to prosper and fight external enemies

That's what conscription is for. Or, if society can't be sold on slavery, encouraging activities that foster strength.

The concept of bullying is the direct opposite of something like a military organization. Bullying is, at least in the school yard, more like a disorganized and "wild habitat"; people who are "strong", either by social status or physical strength, pray on the weaker. A military organization is highly hierarchical and rank is based (ideally) on merit within the organization. It is also based on submission to your superiors orders, not seizing every opportunity you can to take them down a peg by putting them in a headlock and assuming their former status (rank).

What kind of person is more likely to be sent to a disciplinary institution; a bullying rebel, or a meek and weak individual? Probably the former.

(And I could tell you some things about bullying in the military. But let's just say that it isn't terribly good for morale, nor for anyone's safety when there is a lot of ill emotions and everyone has weapons at their disposal.)

> , and (2) because if there is no pressure to conform, people might do anything they liked and completely ignore societal norms.

When people that violate social norms in a way that upsets others are taught a lesson or shamed into correcting their behaviour, that is called reprimanding, not bullying. It is, if successful, a one time affair. Bullying is more of a regular thing, sustained over a time period, in the same general location.

If people get reprimanded for silly things that does not hurt anyone, but is just part of who they are... then yes, that's bullying. But then we're back in the silly domain of conformity-for-conformities sake. An argument that you have presented, but supposedly does not agree with, because you're doing that whole devil's advocates thing I guess. Nonetheless, I don't agree with it, nor do I find anything much to be agreeable with it, even if I were to be a so-called conservative.
> If people don't want to upgrade, that's their problem.

But running a company is not about doing the right thing, and Microsoft is not in a good diplomatic position to force an update on people after Vista and Windows 8 have been publicity disasters. I won't blame MS whatever they do, but if I were them, I would try to fix the Windows 8 mess first before risking negative headlines.
California produces some but it's probably way too low of a volume to allow for the cheap prices wine countries are used to. In Portugal and I assume in France as well wine is made in pretty much all of the country. In the US there's a bit of California and not a lot more. Demand and supply does the rest.
Clozure Common Lisp started 1987 as Coral Common Lisp on a MAc with 5 MB memory on a 68000 CPU with 8 Mhz. I use it on ARM boards. For example I have a quad core ARM board which is computationally equivalent of some of the newer Samsung phones - Clozure CL runs perfectly fine on those. 100+ times faster than Coral Common Lisp on the early Macs.
> "It is impossible to even to begin to justify making $75k in St. Louis if you can make $150k in San Francisco"

The data suggests the divide is not nearly that large for the majority of software engineers. More like $80-90k in flyover country vs $100k in Seattle or $110k in SF -- and a lot of those gains are wiped out by higher taxes. Having $20k less net income and $20k less net housing expenses each year works out about even, and you can still buy the same number of Mercedes or international trips.

Sure, if you're one of those rare few at the top of the food chain who could be making $200k in St Louis or $500k in the bay area, it's hard to justify living in St Louis. But there are plenty of people in software who justify living in the middle of the country because the "lower" salary is quite competitive for them (as always, do the math for yourself) and they like the lifestyle/weather/whatever.

For reference, I lived in Seattle for 10 years and Denver for 20, and I've always been around software engineers (including my wife and my father.) I know the standard of living the majority of software engineers have in both places. I also keep up with software engineers (family, former coworkers, and school friends) in other areas like NY, Chicago, Baltimore, and the bay area. My software engineer friends in "rich" cities didn't do or buy anything particularly different or more exotic than my software engineer friends in Denver.
> you could never do that for a "smart" device.

That sounds overly pessimistic. Computing power per watt has improved by several orders of magnitude over the last couple of decades already. Combined with more energy-efficient displays (anyone wants to improve on e-ink?), who knows what we could pull off 5-10 years from now, even without a significant change in battery capacities?
What about e^(i*pi) = -1?
Probably worth adding openbittorrent as a tracker as well:

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
Long and complex look at how Steven Elop single handendly brought down the Nokia empire: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/09/the-ful...

And to think that people were cheering for his "burning-the-ships" memo and his jump to MS.
Cheap Lights with Spherical Harmonics
I think you're missing point. For a system to be allowed on a passenger plane, it must be certified.

That means that it has to go through actual real QA (something foreign to modern Software science.)

You want to put in a glonass receiver? sure, but it has to operate independently of the GPS system, and it cannot replace any other navigation system unless the FAA allow it.

the point is each system must be robust (i mean really robust) and able to work past the extremes independently.
> it looks like I'll be able to make it my sole income source next season

Chill, man.
A nice list, although I'd quibble a bit about dS >= 0 being on there. That entropy increases is important, but the equation itself doesn't really have a mathematical relation like the others.
Karpeles posting about himself "That fat fuck has been lying!!" is an amusing thought :)
I run http://flevy.com. It's a marketplace for premium business documents (e.g. business frameworks/methodologies, financial models, presentation templates, etc.). I do contract work out via odesk/elance from time to time.
This article was self-published to the author's own blog[1]. So I guess he's not a "Real Author" then.

Also, his HN account apparently only exists for the purpose of self-publishing his own content to HN.[2]

Oh, the irony!

[1] "Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief for the Good e-Reader News Source." (http://goodereader.com/blog/staff)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=michaelkoz

Edit: Regarding footnote [1] above: I guess he can't call himself an "editor" either, if he's only the editor of his own, self-published blog. A Real Editor edits the work of Real Authors, after all.
This is a great idea! I traveled on Amtrak a few years ago from NYC to New Orleans (30 hours) with my wife and young daughter and had a great time - it just a pleasant way spend some time, talking, reading, thinking. During the day we set up a little play area for my daughter in our sleeper car and she loved watching everything go by. We were by far the youngest in that section and we often sat with retired folks at meal times (and had some great conversations).
Thanks for the info. Inspiring. So you have other traffic sources apart from SEO?
It's like any job. The theoretical way to most securely cross a valley is to fill it with earth. The typical real world way is to make a bridge.
Their onboard WiFi is horrible. Tried to stream PornHub on a train ride but lagged constantly, instead had to settle for a erotic story podcast. Very unsatisfying.
I had to smile at old timer = > 4 years - the best one I heard was from one of our DBA's at BT oh my first boss was "dijkstra"
TCP/IP State Transition Diagram [pdf]
And for Boston to New York, I really find it a lot more pleasant and almost as fast as flying--especially if you're going into Manhattan anyway. The only reason I'd fly to New York would be if I had a morning meeting and couldn't go down the night before for some reason.

That said, you go much further than New York and the train makes less sense either in terms of time or money.
...and someone's own biases are showing. You're obviously right-leaning (nothing wrong with that) in your "non-politicized" opinion.

Unclench and just be happy that scientific wonder is getting some time in the media spotlight for once. It would even be okay if George Bush had an opportunity to do this during his presidency. Unfortunately, the show wasn't airing at the time.
While this relationship is profound, i'm not sure it has led to any industry or academic shifts in understanding. Every equation on this list has single handedly expanded a respective field of study by its discovery.
Target was hacked because they were flagrantly ignoring basic security procedures, like "making your POS systems available on the same network you use for everything else." [1]

Blaming the Target break-in on the OS security is like having unprotected sex in the back of a Buick, and blaming GM for the STD you contracted because it would've happened if the car hadn't had such a roomy backseat.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246074/Target_breach...
I wonder how much Apple's decision to make OS X upgrades free will put additional pressure on Microsoft. I consider OS X less enterprise ready, but Apple has made huge strides there. Apple clearly has less interest in keeping OSes updated long term (10.6 is being EOL soon), but the free upgrades solve part of that issue.

So, will companies be willing to trade Apple's lack of commitment to maintaining a version of the OS long term like MS for free upgrades? Keep in mind that OS X upgrades tend to work fairly smoothly, and some of the OS upgrade issues that Windows faces have not impacted OS X.

Add in the increasing pressure from Linux distros that work well for specific uses, and MS is in a bind with trying to sell expensive OS upgrades. I wonder if this will cause MS to move more into the hardware business, where you can make money off of the whole package.

Of course, if you really like Windows, maybe you'll need to pay for the OS more than once a decade.
It is a freaky situation to experience. It was straight freakout at first, which will now be replaced by lifelong paranoia of stolen identity.

Thank you. I did not know that the license could be replaced. If that can be done, that would be somewhat good.

Here are the steps found on the mounties site [1]:-

A- File a police report.

B- Contact your financial institutions.

C- Report to Equifax and TransUnion Canada

D- Report to info@antifraudcentre.ca

He is more freaked out due to the recent news reports of stolen passports used on the MAH 370.

[1] http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/id-theft-vol-eng.htm
Covered by Fourier Transforms.

The equations for Nash Equilibrium and Fermat's Little Theorem are two I would have liked to see.
And pilot aids that appear to provide more information than they actually do can do more harm than good. If pilots take suicidal risks based on dubious information from "real-time" weather updates specifically designed for pilots[1], just imagine what would happen if consumer-grade iPad "real-time" weather apps found their way into the commercial cockpit.

[1]http://www.maxtrescott.com/max_trescott_on_general_a/2012/06...
Can't wait for the talk to be made available. I missed out on Erlang Factory this year, but this is one talk I am definitely looking forward to seeing uploaded.
A process to find good B2B ideas
> 56. Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
I found it funny that their current ad, "Don't Back Down",

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXBcbYvKU8

uses an animation at 0:08 clearly from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/star.asp which is run by Department of Energy (federal) funding and has nothing at all to do with startup technology, or New York taxes for that matter. The facility does happen to be located on Long Island.

A high-energy nuclear physics experiment focused around a mile-wide particle accelerator is so opposite to what startups aim to accomplish (minimum viable products, small teams, bootstrapping, becoming profitable fast) that the reference is nothing but humorous to me.

Perhaps the implication is that there are very smart scientists in the NY area that one can poach off to work at startups as federal funding for high energy physics research declines. :-(
My point is that US stats mean nothing (compared to world stats) and that linked report/article is skewing perspective on who the real players are in mobile world.
the american phone number is the only thing that stands out for me
Although it was impossible to get important work done over a VPN over Amtrak's Wi-Fi (I really need VPN access for my job), it was still a fun journey from Charlotte to Philadelphia on my way home from a new years party. I worked from home that day, and while I was mostly incommunicado I could still get a lot of code work done on my own machine that I'd been putting off.

I would definitely do this.
> I just fail to see the point of this post.

Haven't you read about the missing aircraft?

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is a missing international passenger flight operated by a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

At least two of the passengers were travelling using false identities (stolen passports, tickets bought at the same time).

Edit: last known position: http://www.flightradar24.com/2014-03-07/16:46/12x/MAS370/2d8...
Do you review your work on a weekly basis? It can improve your work and well being
Wolfram Programming Cloud
Please let me know if you find a good one, that bug is affecting me as well.
Yeah, it did actually. The whole thing was written fairly tongue in cheek.
Some more context here would be useful. It's easy to assume the request is 100% ridiculous from the PM's side, but maybe the project has seen a significant decrease in quality recently. Has the bug rate skyrocketed? Have outages been on the rise? I'd expect a senior level person to be able to identify the warts and put a plan together on how to raise quality as a whole on the project. Educate them on what the right question to ask is, How can we improve quality, and have a well thought answer to follow it up with.
Train is smoother and more spacious, and almost certainly faster even without HSR. Self driving cars won't change the physics of road/tire friction, nor the fact that the interstate system was not designed for cars traveling 100+ mph. In cities like NYC, self driving technology won't change the fact that rail tunnels have far higher passenger capacity than roadway tunnels.

Indeed, I think self driving cars will lead to a resurgence in rail travel. The biggest problem with rail is the last mile. Cheap self driving taxis will go a long way to addressing that issue.
There's very little culture of having table wine here in the US, and that allows pricing in the market to come a bit unhinged. And wine's heavy, and for most Americans it needs to be shipped in from far away. Even when it's domestic - I imagine the shipping cost to get a bottle of French wine to me is actually lower than the cost for a bottle of Californian.

Also, Carlo Rossi. I think a lot of us still haven't quite managed to banish the memory of that wine.
That's an interesting question. Mini "cell tower" on the ship with satellite link?
Yes, I think Nash equilibrium will be way more influential in the long-term than Black-Scholes.
Why is someone reading productivity posts all the time? Or any other self improvement material all the time?

Obviously there is some intent to change. When this intention manifest's itself into real action is the real question.

It's common with people that are depressed to have them read and be exposed to as much uplifting and self improvement materials as much as possible. How much it helps may not be easily quantifiable but it is known to make a difference.

I do agree that suddenly is a big step and its most likely that its baby steps.
The Invasive Valley of Personalization
My impression is that EU passenger railways are less likely to have at-grade crossings, which also would contribute (in terms of safety at a given speed).
Is a Boeing 777-200ER (introduced 1997) a modern aircraft in your opinion?

It seems that Flight 370 had GPS tracking (flightradar24.com screenshot): http://www.voanews.com/content/vietnam-navy-official-missing...

Direct link: http://www.flightradar24.com/2014-03-07/16:46/12x/MAS370/2d8...
I found the Acela north of New York (NY-Boston) to be great, but south of New York (NY-DC) my experience was a bone-rattling ride from hell. It was shaking so bad it threw my laptop off the table not once, but twice.
> right! maybe they should "fight" it by serving people around the absurd rules during a popular tech-related event (a space in which Austin claims to compete) and forcing the local authority figures to put their corruption on full display...

I doubt that most of the attendees at SXSW (at least the interactive portion) are even locals. In fact, out of my group of friends (I live in Austin), none of them are actually attending the conference. Only two of them are participating at all, and they're just going to a few of the meetups.

Point being, I don't see this as an attempt to change anything in Austin. It's just promoting the service to tech people who live in areas that Uber actually serves.

I don't know how big the "taxi lobby" is in Austin, but I suspect that Uber could get the laws changed if they were so inclined considering that Austin doesn't appear to have that many taxis, at least compared to SF (which, from my experience living in both places, is far too few, but still considerably more than Austin). I just don't see this as being that attempt.
I think you're focusing on a different point then the argument. Javascript is often compared to the assembly language of the web because its a) low level web programming and b) its universal; both much like assembly in their own way.

How low level do you need in web programming? Probably not that low, why? Because with web programming it has the potential of being much easier to do something malicious if you have access to the raw hardware like you do in assembly. The whole point of Javascript was to make more interactive sites, and when it comes down to it, Javascript does an awfully good job at being that low level language to do so; It has come to represent the raw fundamentals of web programming as we have envisioned them. So just because its a fully formed language that is much higher level than anything assembly comes close to, doesn't mean that it still isn't 'low level' with in its use case.

Javascript also has the advantage of being universal, much like assembly. Assembly is universal in the sense that different flavors of instruction sets come on different microcontrollers but no matter what, nearly all uc's come with a reference guide which lists out the hex values for each instruction the CPU supports which can be used to build an assembler. These instruction sets all contain a core set of fundamentals such as basic math through the ALU, and storing/reading values and moving the PC and SC around. Which at the end of the day means that all uc's have support for an assembly language in some fashion that shares a common base. The same can be said with Javascript. Every browser comes with its own flavor of the language which supports the common base and then adds some fluff on top, but no matter what, nearly every browser comes with it.

At the end of the day though, trying to compare these is nearly a null-point to me, because they were designed in completely different ages of computing, and are designed for different tasks and are not (not easily at least, although a uc with support for a Javascript vm is possible, and replacing Javascript with assembly is fully possibly, both are rather difficult tasks and as such this argument is, for practical reasons, null also) interchangeable.
I have honest to god links, which actually still send traffic (amazing, right?). I also get some from social sources. I apparently get a bunch of direct traffic too... no idea where/why they are coming, but some days it's pretty good. Today's direct traffic is probably all HN.
Chinese here. Off top of my head, with about the same area of land, divided by about 5x more population, let's say about 5x time denser? Personally, I grew up in a "small town" with about 100,000 people, we call it a small town because relatively, it IS a small town. I do not have any statistics to back it up, but the density level of that third-level township feels to me to be higher than Brooklyn NYC.
That seems like pretty standard language for a this kind of thing. Not a lawyer, but I've read very similar things in many other contracts covering submissions for contests, etc.
Google to launch Android developer SDK for wearable tech in 2 weeks
I'm the cofounder of Spokefly[1]. We have plenty of bicycles available for SXSW attendees. However it has been rainy and cold so there are good reasons to want to use a cab.

1: https://www.spokefly.com
I think it would put an employer in a stronger position in court to say "employee refused to use arbitration service as described in contract", IANAL etc.
For one thing, their first product is sold for $2 more than it costs from other resellers.
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGpb3_XkEvg

Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7291571 - although no discussion.
Depends on where in Europe... the long-distance trains from Copenhagen (mainly CityNightLine) are closer to Amtrak speeds. For example Copenhagen to Basel is ~700 miles, 16 1/2 hours; Copenhagen to Amsterdam is ~500 miles, 15 hours.
No it isn't. SF is incredibly hilly. Austin has a few hills and not many downtown.
Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg
But, if that hacker can get in, more nefarious ones can as well. You should assume that any information stored with Gox is now no longer private.
They never mentioned losing a private key, did they?
It's called the "assembly language of the web" because it's the web's lowest common denominator that languages compile to, just like assembly language is the LCD of native platforms. More accurately, you'd say it's the "machine code of the web".
Brussels Sprouts (video)
Oh wow. If it's straight-up missing they could be anywhere in Asia right now... nuts.
to HN readers: I can make LiteScript compile to PHP or C.

To PHP: If you have only PHP in your hosting, you can have LiteScript source and compile for node.js or PHP.

To C: (node native module/nginx module), when you need a ultra-fast service, and js/V8 is not fast enough.

Any of this two compiler targets make sense for you?
Yes, there's no official upgrade path.

That's where the niche is. The xray machine (I assume) still works well. "All" they need is Win 7 software to run it, and to display the xrays, and to display the existing xrays.

For xray machines the niche is too risky and expensive to exploit but there's a bunch of similar industrial equipment that could have simpler software re-writes.