skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote time: I was not just homeschooled, but unschooled. Unschooling basically means that instead of my parents teaching me, I was expected to learn on my own. They provided some direction and assistance, but they weren't especially well-equipped to teach, and I was always free to choose not to learn something, which I absolutely did do out of laziness sometimes.

I got very into programming, and when I was 18, I launched a Web site which succeeded wildly, and has been paying my bills ever since. I did fine on the SAT, and I had a 4.0 GPA during the year I spent in college. (I left after that to run my company.)

My feelings on unschooling are complicated. Knowing how it turned out, there is no way I would go back in time and make my parents send me to school. But I can easily imagine alternative outcomes where I end up dying in a ditch instead of starting a company. I don't think I would ever unschool a child myself.

But since I'm happy with how unschooling turned out for me, how can I support a law denying those potential benefits to everyone else? That's essentially a law against what caused me to be who I am. I'm fairly certain that if I'd been sent to school, I wouldn't have started my company. It was the result of endless hours of tinkering -- time I wouldn't have had if I'd been busy with homework.

It's a bit like doing a startup versus working a normal job. If you do the startup, you might lose all your cash and fail; but you also have a small chance of winning big. High risk, high reward. The job will give you consistent pay, with no chance of losing your hat; but also with no chance of a big win. Low risk, low reward.

High risk certainly isn't for everyone, but imagine a world where no one ever took risks.
It could be worse: At least he is not talking about the setup of his newest drug lab.
Is 6100[1] good?

1.) http://i.imgur.com/c62H5We.png
I think there's a bit of that in Jetset, but the tone is lightened by quite a bit of mockery in humorous choices of items and silly rules. It still has some of the angle of trying to keep up with a pointless bureaucracy, but the whole operation takes on a farcical quality, so the critique of the TSA it implies ends up being more like "clown cops doing security theater", not TSA=1984.
True. It's probably easier, and equally effective, to arrange an interview.
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Riiiight. Because you can do the same in the European Union and get less paperwork, in one language? How do you comply with Spanish and Italian employment requirements, by registering and filing paperwork with Danish employment authorities, in Danish? That's hogwash.
And to be clear, I never gained any certainty whether this is a parody.
It's trying to be a "pointed threat," but it's really pompous, swaggering machismo, which we might as well call "bragging."

(Assuming it's real, of course. Poe's Law is in effect.)
If you are in Russia I would get the TOR browser fast, before the government blocks the main TOR download mirrors as well.
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::cries::
If only it were that simple. PageRank is no panacea and not all cross-citations are incestuous, as you seem to be implying.
This is what I do (I'm OP). Normally, I wouldn't say my comprehension is hurt. But if it is, I just reread. You get a deeper understanding the second time through, and rereading is far faster than reading.
I agree, which is why programs (now in effect) like this one are so threatening:

http://www.netfamilynews.org/online-id-verification-in-south...
The video is priceless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg The guy is completely insane.
No one cares about your startup and that's a good thing right now
"They allow me to solve 2nd order partial differential equations in my head and to spontaneously create 4 dimensional images of software structures that I can mentally manipulate."

Dude, teach me! But seriously, although the first boast is pretty much BS, I was surprised to learn that there is actually something called software visualization, albeit in 3D: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~bieman/Pubs/StaplesBieman99.pdf If only the authors knew about the "smart drugs"!

Anybody know more about this topic?
If you got some extra ducts to the surface you could probably use one of these http://www.solatube.com (removing some of the screening).
I've never timed it, but I enjoy reading fiction, and I consequently go slower. I go faster when I'm reading purely for information.
looks like someone had a little too much time on their hands...

great work though
This is the first that comes to mind:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/the-game-never-...

> But actually, the comments I made that seem to critique viewers who found The Wire late were not so intended. I thought, when I made that remark, that I was speaking to the reporter not about viewers in general, but specifically about folks pursuing the recent bracket-tourneys about best characters, shows, scenes, etc.

It was to that silliness -- and nothing more -- that I tried to say simply this: The folk sponsoring such belated silliness were not there when the show aired. Now, years removed, they parse it piecemeal and to meaningless effect. And rarely in the debate of Omar v. Stringer or Season Two vs. Four does anyone argue, say, the drug war, or the role of public education or the vagaries of market capitalism. That's the wearying part for me.

That people find the show when they do, or that people like or dislike what they will -- who can take offense at that? But is it okay to admit the Omar-is-so-cool bracket tourneys don't interest people who made the show? That debate about what we got right or wrong about urban America would be, to us, more purposeful and validating?

Apparently, no such context conveyed, either through my fault or in the edit of the Q&A, or both. Sorry if anyone thinks I was actually complaining about people liking The Wire, or when they got there. I wasn't. My critique went to how certain media folk assess the story, and how empty that stuff seems to our real purpose.

I agree with David Simon...because every real fan knows that Bunk is the real star ;)
Ask HN: What good e-commerce or cms to build a shopping site?
I want to create a site like this more or less http://bit.ly/1fTAred

Wondering what e-commerce or CMS tools are good to build it in. I remember long time ago when I did this I used osCommerce (not sure if still around) and Joomla.

Times must have changed since then (2005), what are some open source tools out there?
I think what you say about Rails is true. Rails isn't a framework, it's a lifestyle.

I also started to question whether Ruby's type system was just too loose for serious work and was yearning for something as pleasant as Ruby but with at least some type safety. Then yesterday I read this relatively old post https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/217617 about adding static typing to Ruby. There's a lot of recognisable names in the thread, but the posts from Eleanor McHugh nearer the bottom really helped me understand the power and utility behind the apparent simplicity.
This is a shitty version of "Breaking Bad"...
http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
They have (somewhere), but even more interesting is that they are kind of treating this in a sort of open source manner. They either plan to (or already have) publish the recipe. It's not going to be a trade secret, and they expect competition. The kickstarter they did basically gives them enough funds to establish supply lines and produce a viable product. Any real competition would have to jump through similar hoops, and that takes time. One of their goals is to make the product ubiquitous ('like coffee'), so as long as they're making money, they don't care if they're even the market leader. Of course, for the short term, they will be.

To that end, Soylent has a DIY section where people have contributed recipes so you can make soylent yourself, often with a button to add all the ingredients into your amazon cart.

http://diy.soylent.me/wiki/why-diy-soylent

And you can view the recipes by my favorite or most complete: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes?pctComplete=0.99&sort=favorite...

The thing to remember that when you DIY, you're buying the ingredients in bulk and it seems expensive. Take for example the [QuidNYC's Superfood for him](http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/quidnycs-superfood-for-him) which will cost you $437 up front, but gives you an ~80 day supply, so it really comes down to $5.50/day. Also, if you compare that to the Soylent campaign prices, it's $255 for a 1 month supply, or $130 for a 2 week supply. There's no real "trial size" at this point, so it's rather difficult to try a bunch of recipes and see what you like.

Also, not all recipes are created equal: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/hungry-hobo-i-cant-believe-its...
yes, I meant Life Insurance.
You can't really explain this (or many other recent indie successes) without including the relatively recent influence of Steam Greenlight.
Apple to name-and-shame suppliers of ‘conflict minerals’
This looks like a rewrite of the 9to5Mac article for page views.
And Edward Snowden thinks he is in utopia.
Why was there no discussion of the ethics of the Comcast deal?
Access to all Reddit accounts sounds like a huge bluff, they're selling the 0-day for 1BTC according to their Twitter..
Funny they put it in Accessibility - the category of options for "disadvantaged" users, as if "normal" users wouldn't need a more accessible UI?
EFF's title conjures up images of sites like CNN and Reuters being blocked. A better title might be "Russia Blocks Access to Major Opposition News Sites."
No need to play the martyr. It's a tangential issue. If you brought it up in conversation people would say something like "ha ha yeah, you know what I mean" and continue discussing the original topic.

There it quickly dissipates because voice is quickly damped but here it is just noise that takes time to be damped out.
When people decry using the prison system as a cure-all, it's usually for things like drugs or mental illness. In essence, why punish people for things that either don't harm others, or aren't their fault?

You're applying this to a serious crime, at least manslaughter if not murder. If prison isn't appropriate for that, what is prison appropriate for? I imagine an argument could be made that prison is never the right thing, but I don't think you're making that argument.

Harsher penalties don't always have the intended outcome, sure. But this isn't so much advocating a harsher penalty as advocating a penalty at all.

If I'm driving a car, what is my incentive to pay attention and try to avoid killing cyclists? Simple morals, obviously, but that doesn't work on everybody. If I'm a selfish asshole (lots of those out there) and I know I won't suffer legal penalties, why would I care about cyclists?

If you kill someone while driving a car and you are at fault, why should you not go to jail? That is the standard punishment in that scenario without the car, so why should adding a car make it go away?
Since you just linked an indie game on Steam, you probably have to acknowledge that Greenlight is a significant contribution to this renaissance.

Some people might not like to hear this, because Steam is a DRM platform. But if the Pirate Bay had a similar ability to promote the development and sale of indie games, it would have happened already.
Where in Australia is he? I'm an Aussie, and I've done a startup and a regular business, and my mother is a(n ex-)partner at KPMG, so I have a whole stack of resources and info I can give him if you guys decide to incorporate here. My email is in my profile :)
> zero-trust network architecture

This makes me think of http://meldium.com
Seriously, when was the last time you used google to find a game.

Seriously, Google's the first place I turn to to find anything but a game.

It is not like there were no methods to get games created and distributed pre google.

But it did and does seriously help people find almost everything. As far as discoverability of games, I'm not sure what the problem is. I think the sad truth is that most games that aren't the big hits and aren't beloved long tail cult classics just suck. That said, it's kind of hard to make sure your long tail cult classic gets traction in an app store, unless you have the help of an outside community, which is usually helped tremendously by the web and by search engines like Google. (Just as BBS helped back in those days.)
So, here's something that bugs me. I know I don't read very fast (I got 160 WPM on the Staples.com test), but I find that I read faster than some of my friends and classmates. My reading speed is supposedly slightly higher than that of a third grader, to which I call baloney. So, I HIGHLY doubt that the average college student naturally reads at 450 WPM as stated by the Staples test.

I just don't understand, but I would love some insight on this.
You are referring to my headline? Yeah I was especially patient :)
Wouldn't that assume the Linux userland was up and running when the bootloader wanted to update itself after rebooting? I don't believe that is the case.

In modern qualcomm devices the primary boot loader (PBL) can usually only boot from it's own area of the eMMC (embedded SD card essentially, but based on MMC 4.0 not SD 2.0), possibly from a connected microSD card, and from an authenticated (and probably signed) download over USB or serial. This is controlled by one time use fuses (called Qfuses or Efuses).

The PBL loads and authenticates the secondary bootloader, SBL/QCSBL which runs a more advanced version of the download protocol and normally will launch the userland bootloader. (I'm not sure where the modem software is started here. The SBL may very well support the same or similar RFS IPCs from filesystem access to the eMMC, though I don't know of any RE that indicates that.

Of course, a compromised firmware could also reprogram pins and bitbang the eMMC, or just use it's own MMC interface as the bootloader can, rendering much of this moot.

I'm sure saurik or comex could add a lot more to this discussion.
The 4th dimension is clearly time :)
Space: Durham University fly through of all the known galaxies
I've been registered for a bit, this is really going to help w/ my independent study on cyclic pattern discovery next quarter! :)
How do they explain why Google is getting special treatment? It's not like cities have a special, irrational hardon for Google. It's that Google is making a reasonable deal to them. If Time-Warner wants to do the same thing, they can make the same deal.

They don't want to make this kind of deal with cities. They want the government to prevent this kind of deal from being made.
I just imagined that there is some awesome surveillance on your little post, with nameless people watching over your shoulder.
I'd like to be able to write like this. It made me LOL.
Already on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7393416
It seems the Financial inCentives here are FuBARed. Seriously, this is making my head spin. Sure I get taxed out the wahzoo here in Australia, but at least is sort of simple
Didn't it just get merged with Wallet?

https://developers.google.com/wallet/
I'd love to see some numbers on how many deaths are due to bad pedestrian behavior like that.

Anecdotally, I've never encountered that sort of thing from a pedestrian while driving, but I've almost been run down several times by drivers not obeying the law while I was legally crossing the street with the right of way. All it would take is crossing the street at the wrong time with a walk signal without checking both ways and splat.

Certainly there are cases with fault on either side, but I'd love to know which one dominates (if either).
I would love a compiled, statically typed Ruby, but I don't think the Ruby world wants it. I think Ruby is a fine tool in its current state.

I think there is a need for a different language that makes clean architecture natural, well accepted, normal thing. Ruby is great, but trying to change the community and language doesn't seem to be the right approach.
Also see Dulles brothers story. Fascinating interview here: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/16/234752747/meet-the-brothers-wh...
Brian Swetland! Source of great wisdom in the early days of Android.
> We sent endless amounts of documents, translated documents, notarized documents and copies of this and that. ... a detailed list of all transactions from our Danish bank accounts for the past 3 years. ... our lease agreement for the office. ... pictures of the office from the outside. in Denmark and the USA. ... pictures of the inside – and we needed to make sure that the pictures had employees in them. We had to get the main lease agreement from our lessor to prove that they could actually sublease to us.

> ... We needed to explain, why we needed the space. We needed to explain, why we didn’t need more. Then why we didn’t need less. Then we had to send copies of all Nitai’s diplomas. Then we had to explain, why nobody else could run the operation in the USA for us.

I've read that we do this shit to make sure that people don't come here and take advantage of the business and benefit paradise that we've created.

I have this picture of the US as a 1970s asshole dressed in a leisure suit, wide collars and bell bottoms and a vest, who think's he's God's gift to women, where actually everyone is laughing at him for the clown that he his. And he rarely gets laid, despite bragging to the contrary.
Don't restrict yourself to MVC. It's a phenomenal start to any given project but ultimately your going to have to do what real engineers do. Example, lets say I'm building a game. The underlying framework is object
oriented and adheres to a type of MVC pattern to manage view states. We use a component entity system to manage game entities and logic. The same goes with Web stacks it's the framework, but not limited to the underlying pattern. Extend your domain logic out from the MVC. It's not rails job to do everything for you. I feel the developer is at fault more than rails. Buck up and break the pattern it's not beyond reason.
When I heard the premise, I was kind of disoriented, and the way you've described it maintains that feeling. If you're border control for a desperately impoverished former soviet state, who are all these people who want to immigrate?
Show HN: Binary to UTF-8 encoding.
Yeah, while our taxes here in Aus are high, so are our standards of living. Although our new government seems intent on ruining that, in a bid to out-do the US in terms of idiotic legislation and curbing freedoms...
You're right. Luckily it's being fixed.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics
I actually did the same %s/2048/4096/g in the code the other day after getting 2048. And I finally beat it! http://i.imgur.com/pC51sNT.png

I suppose the next step is to make it endless and see how high you can go.
Like how seat belts and air bags stopped improving when they were made mandatory?
its a good thing the Mongols didn't have modern _state delivered propaganda_. otherwise we wouldn't know about the atrocities that took place in the areas they conquered.
This is really easy to automate, even without an API. And by "easy" I mean it should take around 30 minutes -- although you could take arbitrarily longer by adding a pretty web UI or reporting or whatever.

The problem comes in when you try to do things like "solve this for the thousand most common banks, while not making users enter their credentials every time, with adequate coordination with each bank to avoid being blocked for logging into numerous accounts, with adequate security to avoid mass-leaking online banking credentials."
One reason I picked Crashplan (same price, $60 a year) over Backblaze (this might not apply to most people) is that Crashplan doesn't remove your deleted files if you use the option. That allowed me to backup several hundred DVDs of data to Crashplan simply by copying them to my hard drive, syncing them, then deleting them again.
>The selection process began to balloon. We evaluated based on every conceivable metric: features, fees, feasibility … a spreadsheet mapping around 30 criteria across six finalists became the focus of a week’s worth of work.

If a weeks worth of work is worth to save a few % per transaction, what kind of volume are you doing that pays off that?
The world is divided into sub-grids, which are all processed in parallel, minus movements that cross sub-grid boundaries. At the end of the parallel processing, all of the sub-grids are reassembled into a world-grid. (Which takes O(n*Log32(n))) The world-grid acts as a "global" processor and processes all remaining movements.

Basically, everything is parallel, except that which has to be processed globally, which is just a tiny minority of everything. Then there is a non-parallelized step that knits together and coordinates the global grid. If you plotted parallelism over time, it would probably look like a saw tooth or a square wave.

Right now, there are only two tiers, but this could be generalized into a structure like an R-tree, which would probably make the algorithm cache oblivious.

It's the "knitting" step that keeps it from utilizing 100% of the cores in parallel with just one instance. I still hope to be able to support 1000's of entities with just one instance, however.
hmmm seems kinda expensive, is there a more free alternative?
> Preferring SaaS at a company large enough to afford on-premise solutions is just nonsensical

Yes and no. First off, I don't think Netflix can afford to build the kind of infrastructure they're using -- certainly not without changing focus of their engineering resources. They famously do a lot of work to move data closer to the end users globally -- they're not "just" a US company. Essentially, they'd have to have an operation that would be "qualitatively" similar to AWS in order to be able to do what they do (and at a smaller scale overall, I think that would end up being quite expensive).

I'd argue Netflix is one of the few companies I can think of where this "all cloud all the time" idea for infrastructure might actually make sense. I agree it's a big risk though -- and probably not good advice for most companies.

It would also appear that Netflix is planning on actually selling a product (video rental) and make money off that, rather than have that merely as a vehicle to drive other, sometimes tangential, innovation. That remains to be seen, of course.
It's Textual, unless somebody is willing to testify otherwise. Textual is infinitely better than LimeChat, in particular. It's probably better than Colloquy, if only because I tried Colloquy but now I'm using Textual. XChat Aqua is buggy and broken.
Zebras and what they can teach us about Critical Thinking
Are you purposefully overlooking GOG? Yes, Steam is more widespread. Yes, that's related to DRM. No, tpb is not the only alternative.