skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
(Aristotle)

"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
(From a sermon preached by Peter the Hermit in A.D. 1274)

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".
(Hesiod, 8th century BC)

"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid."
(G.K. Chesterton)

Socrates
'The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not servants of the households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their teachers.'
(Commonly attributed to SOCRATES by Plato)

http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-wrong-wi...
I believe it describes a great number of people.
EBITDA is already opportunistically adjusted, it's just that people more or less agree which "bad" numbers get excluded.

I understand the argument though. EBITDA is somewhat closer to $income - $cost. Whereas actual earnings involve tax, tax loopholes, exchange rates, and loads of other crap.
Funny how a decade ago everyone knew pornography and the Internet were synonymous...
Matthew Inman runs The Oatmeal (http://theoatmeal.com/) alone and he crossed $500,000 annual revenue in 2012.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oatmeal
"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening"

This is a phenomenon I constantly battle internally in my consciousness when assessing the various layers of musical composition.

So if we stop ourselves from thinking about music as we listen, the result would then consist of "experiencing/feeling" music?

The mechanics of it being a mindless, automatic response to the auditory stimulation. (neurotransmitter release/binding)

I don't know where I'm going with this, but how do you all listen to/analyze/experience particular music of your liking?
Do you mean "economists?" Because no economist worth his salt (regardless of affiliation) would describe what we have as a "free market" when it comes to patents.
It is the reinvention of hyperlinking 'deep' into alternate views rather than just the native app's main page. I use it but the reason why it hasn't taken hold is largely because it isn't standardized across platforms.

Here's a routable handler that tries to standardize it: https://github.com/usepropeller/routable-android and https://github.com/usepropeller/routable-ios
Great suggestion. Just searched for him on youtube and a couple of excellent looking talks popped up. Halfway through and this one seems great so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go

Really enjoy his style as well :)
Have you considered building a mac version? I love little utilities like this, especially at your price point. Nice product.
This rings very true of my life.

I had a horrible experience in school. I was bullied at every school I went to, I had to attend boarding school for 4 years because my life would have been a dead end otherwise. Boarding school was akin to hell but I endured the 24/7 bullying so that I could slug out an education for myself. I was eventually expelled from boarding school for hacking, which in retrospect was one of the best things that happened to me.

The emotional scars of that experience left me vulnerable, I barely made it to university - had to travel 1100km from my home to attend, tried to support myself while doing university full time. I lost my job because I was falling into depression because my girlfriend at the time was drifting away from me. She eventually left me and I was all alone. Broke, homeless and too proud to go home.

I managed to salvage some odd jobs on freelancer/elance started to climb out of the emotional rut. Doing freelance work using university wifi while homeless and using uni showers really is an experience. I got determined to not to live like that so I put aside my pride, moved in with family and got stuck into honing my skills as a programmer, doing freelance work and going back to university.

Programming brought back my pride, it re-established my self esteem, I ended up having the confidence to start my own company, which fast forward 3 years or so is still running and is a multi-million dollar company. I have since moved on, am now internationally traveled and I now make in excess of 150k/yr.

Looking back on my short life a few things ring very true. Often alot of the worst things to happen to me have also been the best things. If I wasn't so downtrodden I wouldn't be so strong now, if my girlfriend didn't leave me the way she did I never would have been so determined to prove her wrong.

So no matter how bad things seem, remember that there is always time to make things better.
This is pretty suspicious. First we find out that two passengers were using stolen passports and now we find out that 20 passengers belonged to the same company.

I'm not going to say it's terrorism just yet but it is pointing towards that or something like it.
There's a strong enough suspicion that many people believe he has controls a large amount of funds.
The dead of Autumn Radtke is not related to the Bitcoin
It's a theme from WooThemes, a company with 2 South African founders and one Norwegian one and, as far as I know, an international customer base.

Not sure what is so US American about this theme.
Hey Steve, I was referred to you by our mutual friend John. He mentioned that you were using X for booking off time. My startup has a similar, but better product that just went live. We spent four weeks in beta, and saw a 25-35% decrease in operating costs per month. We plan to launch this as a paid monthly service, but I'd like to offer it to you for free. It takes less than 10 minutes to migrate. Can you hop on a call this week and we'll get you started?

Thanks!

Me
The irony of a post lamenting the unproductivity of productivity posts is killing me.
> There is contextual help once you know those commands, but there is no help to find out which commands do what in the first place.

man command or command --help
are you saying an average person can _understand_
those setups well enough to _install_ them in an
_average_ web-page, with an investment of 3 minutes?

i mean... seriously. are you actually saying that?

-bowerbird
They hang out at the airport and you can order one for a morning pickup. Austin isn't that bad, its just not geared to locals or bar hoppers (but Austin is quite walkable).
I can't stress enough the main step to increase thinking skills and self is to introspect. Every challenge requires it to fully learn and grow from it. When solving problems for example, it is not only the solution that is important but also the very process to arrive to that solution. Aka: "Thinking" and "Meta-Thinking".
Now you want to get that list of files in a text file, so that you can email them to someone or put them in a document or etc.
I looked at your website and don't really understand how customers start using your site and how they pay you.

Do you sell them a GPS tracker and show them their GPS logs in an online map maybe?

If so, I'd make the selling of the GPS tracker more obvious. You can also do customer testimonials.
I keep track of the posts that work for me and refer back to them: http://x.are.na/uCUxINP
Isn't it pretty standard for groups to be traveling together? I'm fairly certain you'd find some kind of larger group on pretty much all flights. In this case it happened to be 20 passengers working for Freescale.
There is actually not much correlation between the race/age of the police officer and the amount of profiling they do. Your anecdotal experience doesn't do much to refute grandparent's accusation (admittedly a non-argument). That being said, I've never experienced racism in Austin, while the poverty (standard level for Texas) is quite distributed between all colors and ages.
Ask HN: What would you have done, in Satoshi's shoes?
Here's an article from the personal blog of a prominent Bitcoin journalist -- http://timothyblee.com/2014/03/06/why-satoshi-worked-so-hard-to-hide-his-identity/ -- rationalizing (and supporting) the creator's decision to remain pseudonymous.

What would you have done, had you been on the verge of publishing that paper in late '08?
For those who have successfully started a one-man online business/app, how did you get it known? Adwords? Advertising?
And while we're completely derailed, is getting down voted such a big deal?

Say what you want and how you think, but be prepared to support your position with something more then conjecture and posturing. If in spite of providing support for your well articulated and argued position, you receive down votes, hopefully someone has left a reply that will help you to understand why others disagree with you. Take it as a learning opportunity. You don't have to change your opinion, but use what you learn to help you write your next comment.

Dissenting opinions on their own won't usually give you down votes, but unsupported inflammatory remarks will.
To be fair, you can find the reverse as well : elders complaining their youth is too pious, too restrained, or won't touch alcohol (popular in the late Roman empire). Moreover you can also find large populations moving from atheism/disbelief to religion.
Brings to mind bad memories of hitting "shut down" accidentally instead of "restart" on a remote machine...
"Permitted transportation services" has kind of a Soviet ring to it.
It's not about safety. It's about money.
PlayFramework 2.2.2 released
I would hardly call Peter Bright ignorant. He is one of the most informed voices in tech journalism, and all of his articles are fairly detailed and useful.
Cunningham's law hard at work.
I run Tarsnap: http://www.tarsnap.com/

I got started because I wanted good backups and there were no solutions available which I was satisfied with.
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Did anyone take the driver's information and report him? (Or her?)

This is one of the supposed advantages of the regulated systems - people report dangerous drivers who then lose their ability to be drivers.
Don’t understand Big Data? Blame your genes
Excerpts from Wikipedia:

Like the 6800, it included an undocumented address bus test instruction with the nickname Halt and Catch Fire (HCF)[

Williams Electronics was an especially prolific user of the processor, which was deployed in arcade hits such as Defender, Joust, Sinistar, and Robotron: 2084. Williams also utilized the processor in many of its solid-state pinball machines; the 6809 CPU formed the core of the successful Williams Pinball Controller. The KONAMI-1 was a modified 6809 used by Konami in various arcade sets such as The Simpsons.

The very first Macintosh prototype, wire-wrapped by Burrell Smith, contained a 6809.
The difference between then (believe me I was there) and now is that the teachers get stick for allowing this to happen instantly. I've personally got into several shouting matches with teachers over how they treat my children and deal with these situations. I'm usually in a queue of other parents doing exactly the same.

People don't take any shit these days.
To do that, they've been removing features:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...
ISS was attacked by an "epidemic" of viruses and malware (theguardian.com)
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Haven't I read about this before?

Wednesday 13 November 2013 01.58 AEST

Yes.
Yes a lot of these posts end up being nothing more than dopamine hits. But on the other hand, it's probably better than watching TV or reading Newsweek. As long as we're clear it's entertainment then I think we're okay.
One word: therapy.

It's your baggage. Either you own up to it and continually work on it, or you let it fester and run your life. I meet so many people who are terrified of being the type of person that goes to therapy despite significant issues. And it's sad, that's pride and potentially narcissism running your life.
Stupid Smart Stuff
You are absolutely right about discoverability. This is the major difference compared to CLIs. But what happened is that on mobile you have very popular UIs that have no discoverability whatsoever.

You can't even hover a mouse cursor over something you suspect might be a control because there is no mouse cursor and what is and isn't a control isn't always clear either. Lots of secret gestures and lots of change in every version (at least on Android).

I'm a bit baffled as well as to why this can work. I suspect it might be because people don't use these devices for productivity and hence they only use a relatively small number of features. They don't need to discover new stuff all the time and when they do it's for entertainment more than anything.

Or maybe it's because there's a new generation of mainstream users that sees everything as a kind of adventure game where discovering hard to find treasures is the whole point.

Maybe Microsoft's problem is that their technology people ignore the very message their marketing people are trying to get across: PCs are for productivity, for creating things. If you're at work trying to get things done you're not in the mood for figuring out obscure features and the latest UX fashions.
> I've never been able to break a $2,000 month.

Try charging $9.95 instead of $8.00? :)
> Despite having no real UI it requires jQuery UI

Where?

$ git clone https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor.git
Cloning into 'EpicEditor'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 2951, done.
remote: Total 2951 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (2951/2951), 1.53 MiB | 192.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1392/1392), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
$ grep -ir jqueryui EpicEditor/|wc -l
0
$
Also, the two stolen passports were using tickets bought together (sequential ids). Not sure the Freescale group adds to the suspicion though...
It is still interesting.
This is a well written self-referential post: maybe the most futile of them all.
Years ago I was asked to help organise a reward/training day for our department at a large European corporate. I found a charter flight and arrangements for a hotel in France that knocked the spots off local options and came in 15%+ cheaper. It was a no go because of the risk of putting everyone on a single flight. Still - I'd agree this is likely to be a co-incidence and the result of these poor souls effectively commuting between fab and design facility.
Bullying is rife in the UK tech industry. If you put up a wall people will respect it and keep away but if you don't, it's open season. There's also a nasty class divide between permanent and contract staff. I'm the latter and much resentment is felt even though the former could be the latter with a little effort and reap the benefits.
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I run a product search engine called Dotmic http://www.dotmic.com/ .Recently we partnered with 60+ store and now we are profitable. :)
try putting it in a web-page in 3 minutes. or 30 minutes.
or 3 hours. or however long it takes. it's easy, right?

then post the u.r.l., so i can copy your web-page and
have the editor work in a web-page i make in 3 minutes.

then, if you want, we can start up a discussion about
why it doesn't have some of the handy features i have
come to expect from using _other_ flavors of markdown.

a client-side javascript solution is the correct one,
but showdown/pagedown/whatever is not the right choice;
instead use chjj's nice script, perhaps in strapdownjs.

but basically, you've missed the important issue here:
it's not how to convert text coming out of the textarea;
it's how to supercharge the textarea to make it more useful
and powerful during the process of composing text within it.

-bowerbird
Thank you for ignoring the conspiracy theories and focusing on the real issues. My thoughts and your prayers.
They were quite popular in Belgium as well. I got a Philips VG8020 in '87 at age 12, a bit after my uncle got one cheap as a Philips employee. I remember spending almost every evening at his place before my parents got me my own :)
Been there, had it nowhere near as bad as Dan did.

Institutions don't look out for you. They only look out for themselves. My future children will be taught to stand up for themselves, and enrolled in martial arts if necessary. Additionally, I have no qualms about creatively getting the attention of oblivious institutions that tacitly endorse this abuse.

On second thought, maybe I should just homeschool until high school.
Actually, this crops up as a legal/insurance concern for larger valuable companies every so often, where company policy must stipulate in writing that critical numbers and/or groups of employees should not fly on the same airplane at the same time, since airplanes, though statistically safer than cars, are still prone to catastrophic accidents and are opperated by pilots not under direct control of the company.

In order to fulfill certain contracts or receive insurance coverage, written language for company travel policies must ensure the continuity of proprietary trade secrets, and redundancy for mission-critical personnel, in case of disaster, or catastrophic accident.

There was a tech company (during the 80's or 90's?) that was completely destroyed by a single random plane crash that killed a handful of the key people in one fell swoop, but the name escapes me, and my google skills are failing. Maybe someone else will remember. I want to say it was a vintage video game company, but it might've just been some old (now defunct) electronics company...

For this same reason, the president and vice president of the united states don't fly together. I think military command adheres to similar rules.
Most of the time you shouldn't compare if two floats are equal anyway.
Can Thieves Rob People Using Hypnosis?
Is there any functional deeplinking comparable to:

twitter://post?message=hello%world

in the current Facebook app? Lots of older posts indicate fb://publish/?text=helloworld once worked, but it doesn't seem to any longer.
Why do you think home 3d printing is a fad? Just because it's more expensive than factory-produced?
"Man walked on moon in 1969" reports The Guardian.
No no, actually the first s is /s/ i.e. voiceless as in "sea" or "pass", so the complete transcription should be /kʀiːksʃpiːl/. The transition between the /s/ and /ʃ/ is then just making your lips round for the /ʃ/ after the wide and flat /s/. It is still not as easy as just leaving it out, but it is whole lot more doable.
Thanks! It's a Javascript app packaged with node-webkit. At first I packaged it as a Chrome App, but node-webkit was a lot more flexible and simple.

At the moment it uses Chromium to render HTML, but I'll add a custom renderer to support various templates.
Don't do that, you can't just assume your kids are going to be bullied. I wasn't bullied on primary school, and primary school was one of the safest and happiest periods of my life, I still have some friends from primary school even.

There's a good chance your kid is one of the 80% of children that isn't picked on. Even better: your kid might be one of the bullies, then you get the chance to really set things right.

Also, high school might be much worse, fragile children trying to become something resembling adulthood, preparing for life decisions. What's to prepare them for that when they're homeschooled?
Developer to Documentarian
Haunting. Probably why I'm terrified of weakness: the abuse of the 'lower' class is supported at a collective unconscious level. "At least it's not me..."
Knowledge of Java/JavaScript
The Firefox issue is a classic indicator that the site would work in Firefox with one additional step and the creators didn't bother checking.

In this case: Firefox expects CORS to load fonts from a different domain, e.g. CloudFront.

https://coderwall.com/p/ub8zug

The other classic is that Firefox expects fonts to be served with the correct mine-type.
Just what I needed! Thanks.
Elitist much?

So first you go on like:

I think a line needs to be drawn in the sand so that we know who is the real deal.
There is a stark contrast between being a writer and being a professional author.
Calling everyone authors who puts words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless.

And then you mention:

In order to join these organizations you have to earn ‘x’ amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a *multiple* of the requirement for traditionally-published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie

Facepalm. Let me translate that for you. You're proud of your "real authors" tax, basically. It works like this: If you run a marathon that takes say 4 hours usually, you're considered a "real runner" if you make the run with your legs shackled if you make it below 24 hours. But if you don't use shackles, you're only a real runner if you make the marathon below 4 hours. At the end of the marathon the fastest shackled runner gets a gold medal, and those who made it without shackles but slower than 4 hours get nothing.

Let me propose that this definition of a "real author" is the most arbitrary and meaningless award achievable. It conveys zero information about the quality of the author and is arbitrary biased to favor those who masochistically forgo better profits just so they can wear your meaningless "real author" badge of honor.

Not only is the criteria arbitrary and meaningless, you also reward "real authors" by exhibiting economic stupidity.

Are you really sure, that's what you wanted to write? Really?
Nonsense.

An author selected by a publishing house has passed through a set of gates before ink hits paper, this is true. But many many publishing house authors sell far far less, are read far far less than self published authors.

Let the market decide who is a "real" author by reading their works. it's not a perfect system, but it is the only real way.
"Oh no! Barriers to entry are lower than they used to be!"
Why keywords are no longer relevant to SEO
Two gripes: Task manager just sits there awkwardly before appearing. Event viewer takes like five seconds to even be usable.

They worked fine in Win2k; why are they so slow now?
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