skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've certainly noticed a devolution into overly-simplified caricatures of common arguments in modern discourse. However, some blame for this rests on those who use simplified arguments, not just the respondent. But also much of this simplification happens when debates, blog wars, or just general cultural divisions are summarized.

When people communicate with others who hold very similar worldviews, there's a lot of mutual tacit knowledge that needn't be explicitly referenced because it can be easily and reliably inferred. But so often when we discuss or debate something with someone or an audience which we know holds views radically opposing our own, we don't realize that it's the tacit knowledge or perspective which is likely more important than the summarization of the common or official arguments & tenets.

I like to think of this tacit or 'unseen' rationalization structure as the matrix of graphite that supports the fine point at the end of a pencil.
For US citizens (the kind you describe, that will never go out) the world contains also lot of "evil countries", China, Mexico, ... Those countries are constantly on TV, so even if he cannot point at them on a map, they exist as part of "the world"

Making it a world issue may dilute the problem in their eyes and make it look like a world affair instead of a purely local policy.

The US is at war against drug, terror, ... The US is under the threats of the axis of evil. The US citizen live in a world (not-US) where he is denied flying, where his mails are spied, ... That's the common TV language. Seeing how little it takes to influence people thinking (eg: global warming is mocked because its name suggest temperature will be rising globally), this constant bashing must have an effect in the apathy of the US citizen against the slow erosion of their rights.
They had it on a subdomain for ages. Glad it's finally the main site. It's actually beautiful. Now if only they'd redesign the Oyster bit too.
Yes, alcohol is not a problem per se, it's how you use it. So? That's no reason not to stop drinking if that helps.
I am very happy that Ubuntu GNOME is present. This means no unity for the next 3 years ;-)
77-Year-Old Bodybuilder, Says 'Age Is Nothing But A Number'
Sometimes, I wonder if the average dude, or Karen the cool Koder even notices. I have read the TLDR too many times.
"I want my golden egg now daddy!"
Man, first thing: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

You are not the first human to become addicted, nor will be the only one. There are people out there that have been in a worse situation than you and that have gone out of addictions.

You should find those people, meet them and get out of drinking. Over years you made a path that you have to undo. This will take years, like it took you to create it.

Your wife and kids did the right thing: to stop supporting your addiction. It is time for you to take steps.

I have studied a lot of psychology but I can't help you because it would be like trying to explain quantum physics before learning basic math. But there is people out there that really know what steps you could take for getting out and doing great things with your life.
Wow, one of the best responsive designs I've seen.
How to find a good business idea
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-14-04-beta-release...
Looks good, website is more responsive than the existing one. Quick wins I've noticed on my 2min browsing:
1 Auto fill on the "to" and "from" boxes.
2 website looks clean and responsive
3 The future feature "avoid zone 1". Plenty of people are limited with the travel card deals and will enjoy this feature
4 "View on map", thank God I really didn't like having to download a pdf every time I wanted to check a trip
Why is that a reason to remain single-threaded? Especially when most new hardware is multi-core.
So what Curtis says is false? Then did he get this from?

"After an investigation into the problem by Facebook’s data team, they discovered that the new News Feed was performing too well. It was performing so well from a design standpoint that users no longer felt the need to browse areas outside of the News Feed as often, so they were spending less time on the site."
Sure, you can spend as much as you can possibly imagine on some equipment. Linhof, Cambo, Leaf. Those are more business investments for the majority of people who buy them, in a sense.
How to overcome the emotional rollercoaster of being an entrepreneur
Is it to me or this release hasn't switched to systemd from upstart?
good to see Ubuntu GNOME has been kept
because you know, women exist to give you a rush and re-center you.
nothing's better than ton of pussy when it comes to treating your various addictions and sleeping/personality disorders.
Another classy affair from Square
Unless you're going to be wildly successful the moment you launch, you're better off picking one stack that you understand, creating a working version, then iterating to improve on it. If you try to do it perfectly or make it as fast as possible from the start you may never finish - and you'll never be able to test your idea.
At the risk of starting a flamewar, is Gnome 3/Shell really any better? I've never felt quite so unproductive as when I use Gnome nowadays.
No, it isn't. It would make the likes of Xamarin and RubyMotion impossible. You're confused with the fact that App Store policies do not allow downloading and running new executable code.
Agreed. The internet burst the bubble that news agencies possessed editorial integrity, and that has cost them business. This just helps online media transition faster in the direction of link bait bullshit. The only people who benefit from bot composition are the wealthy and powerful. I am glad the LA Times has disclosed their use of bots, and I hope others will do the same, so I can stop reading their 'work'.
Keep calm & write awesome code
So relational databases are old school, and column stores are all the hip trendy thing, despite throwing away a ton of features?
"You are wrong because academic science is indeed a profoundly and increasingly competitive business"

How is a government funded a non-profit anything like "business"? Its a political process, fundamentally. Politics is also competitive. I think the economics analogy is quite flawed (in th GP's comment).
This is really good.

To give an international perspective, this is what I was used to as a Dutch person:

http://9292.nl/

I didn't realise how great that website was until I moved to Sweden to study. This is what is available here:

http://www.reseplaneraren.skanetrafiken.se/querypage_adv.asp...

I've noticed that I used public transport on long distances a lot more when the website was a lot easier to use.
Something the Dali Lama talks about in the book "The Art of Happiness".

Or has science come up with a way to observe that now?
Popp's fiddles don't use shouldComponentUpdate, as far as I can tell. They replace using props (application state) by components-local state and an animation prop. I'm not entirely certain that his semantics map to the original ones (in terms of expectations).
Also see http://churnalism.com/

More news is really just crudely rehashed or verbatim press releases by particular companies than you might think.
Using the sequestered co2 to "frack" more oil out of the ground doesn't exactly sound like way to save us from out of control greenhouse effect.
Merge 2048: the classic, with many extensions and stunning graphics
Merge 2048 is an extension to the original 2048 and Threes, with many unique game modes and stunning graphics! Alongside the classic 2048, Merge offers different levels, such as:

- Small and big boards (3x3, 4x4 and 5x5)
- Alphabetic levels
- Levels with 8 directions
- Unlimited score levels
Where everyone in the world is migrating
Interesting. Never heard of this. Does this print on thermal or normal paper? The website states that "Piper doesn't need ink refills". Thermal paper would be problematic.
The way I see it with Unreal is that the 5% of your gross revenue is the real price and in the article it is put in parentheses as if it doesn't matter! If you are successful it could be a lot more than buying a license the old fashioned way would have been! I don't know if that classifies as "cheap".

Edit: added a missing word.
CCI imposes fine of Rs. 1 crore on Google for non-cooperation
American freedoms only apply to rich people.

Seriously if you are expected to have millions of dollars every time you have dispute with the government your freedoms are already gone.

Just the fact that patent trolls can easily kill business is proof enough that the entire legal system is completely broken extremely expensive to fix.

Why do Americans seem to think it's ok to pay ridiculous prices for medicine and law or that it's ok for a court case to take over 5 years to settle.
This is a really easy thing to say, but it's hard to snap your fingers and be instantly surrounded by willing sexual partners if you're stuck in a rut.
When the friend is not also a business partner, this practice seems bad for the company - the CEO is hobbling the company's ability to hire to preserve a personal friendship. The CEO is not the only stakeholder - at the very least he/she should carefully weigh the effect on the friendship against the cost to the company of not making the hire.

On the other hand, Ben does point out that in practice you really shouldn't do this with very many companies, if any. And I'm not sure you could say that it's CEOs' (or any employees') duty to prevent personal considerations from affecting their work.
Presumably at a large expense.
I couldn't agree more. There's nothing more painful than watching Dawkins vs <some random theologian> and thinking the whole time that they are both talking completely past each other. I don't remember which debate it was, but Dawkins at some point went(and this is from memory but I think accurate) "I could believe in God if you'd told me he was evolved from something else, I just can't believe in complexity that arises without evolution". I stopped watching at that point because it was clear that they weren't even talking about the same thing when they said "God" and neither of them seemed to notice that!

At least on matters of (a)theism, by far the only (famous) atheist I've seen who actually knows how debate without using tacit knowledge and can actually understand the opponents views and debate them on that level was Christopher Hitchens.
Bizarre how?

Work is work, regardless of whom the work is done for or their income (taxes vs. sales). A worker can be as easily exploited by a state entity as by a corporate one, which is why teachers, firefighters, and police tend to have unions.

Can you elaborate on the 'bizarreness' of my previous comment?
I dunno, but as someone on a laptop with an intel HD 4000... who can I thank for this ridiculous increase in performance? Default Ubuntu has gone from laggy to rivalling Lubuntu in responsiveness.
There's a good Chrome extension called churnalism that alerts you when stories on news sites you read appear to be copy pasted from other news sources or wikipedia
And the bot doesn't get the details wrong!

I mistakenly wrote "Bill Hammond" instead of "Kristian Hammond" in my TL;DR. (Sorry Kristian.)
right now i'm happily coding in Python 3.4 on Windows 8. it can be done now and it's mostly painless.
Mapschool – a free introduction to geo.
If you take the travelling salesman problem, you can dramatically simplify the problem by constraining the salesman to visit all of the cities within the same state sequentially.

Similarly, you can reduce the complexity of routing calculations by applying some constraints. You will potentially lose the possibility of an optimal solution, but you will gain a far faster compilation time. As always with engineering, it's a trade-off.
Facebook and virtual reality: A game of goggles
But apparently this is all "for the people". :-)
I have to agree on that, however I moved in the opposite way.

Back in Sweden I just found it easier to download the route maps of the cities and just manually follow the routes to determine the best place to get on/off or switch.

Also these travel planners that are available for Sweden (or at least 2000's) didn't really work well when you want to travel between cities.

9292ov.nl helped me out tons when I moved here, it still do, but mainly for trains these days. In the cities I just use the bicycle, as is customary around here :)
2048 has always credited 1024, and 1024 has always credited Threes.
I thought Xamarin and RM compiled to objc.
The lack of bargaining power in academia exists in part because of the protracted period required to demonstrate productivity. A grad student or postdoc might have invested 3 years in getting a project working only to find that the PI has changed their minds about authorship (for example), or maybe the original idea was simply wrong. This person will now find it difficult to get a different position, and so stays on for a few more years in the hopes of demonstrating productivity, still at the whim of the PI. A Y-combinator funded startup might have gained it's first millionth customer in a third the time and be getting ready to cash-out with an IPO.

In the vein of your comment about Marxism, maybe PIs should be asked these famous questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
Often I've been about to reply to something, then notice someone else has already said substantially the same thing, and as a result don't.

Hm. Interesting...

I guess unique insights aren't, generally.
So sorry to hear that. I hope you can still overcome it.

My theory is that addiction is best "cured" by replacing it with something better. That could be doing more satisfying things in your life, but perhaps also simply a less destructive addiction, like playing video games.

I think if you make it into a willpower challenge you are probably doomed to fail, in fact it might make it worse because you'll feel like a bad person for presumably being "weak" (having no willpower). I think modern understanding is that for willpower challenges it is better to arrange things in such a way that the challenge becomes easy (like having no alcohol at home), rather than making it a contest of iron will.

I really enjoyed the books on Willpower by Kelly McGonigal and and by Roy F Baumeister. I suppose just reading such books won't cure an addiction, but perhaps they could be of interest to you.

I'm sorry, it's easy to talk since I never had a severe issue like that. But I had a lot of therapy - what always stuck most were the points when I learned to accept myself.
That was quite unhelpful. And it should have been a comment.
[video] You're the expert, can you or can you not do this?
If your other customers are also companies then the YC brand may have an effect (e.g. Stripe). If it's for consumers, maybe not (e.g. Airbnb).
>couldn't find a flaw in either of them.

I have. It's just a viewer for office formats.

If that subscription model takes be ready for Windows 9 to come as an Ad Supported Free Version and a paid version that costs 100 bucks a year cause you were so onboard with continuously paying for office for years on end.
Nice! I had this problem when I was using Python to control some lab hardware over telnet. I tried using Python 3 at first, but it was just so much easier in Python 2 with string formatting.
She’s not much of a CEO if loyalty to her friend trumps the best interests of the company in (what should be) a purely professional decision.

Her friend isn’t much of a friend if he lets a purely professional decision interfere with their non-professional relationship.
Thanks! This is our number one priority at the moment. We'll have a new small-task focused design up in a few weeks and are working with project owners to break things down.
You should read the FAQ, http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/faq.html, the design is deliberate.
If you find it hard to buy the software upfront, it does take away some of the initial risks, at a cost later. Some people may go for it - good for them I say.
The problem with Tinder
You can simulate that effect by moving to Vegas and spending a lot of time in brothels. Sounds pretty miserable to me.
Not in 14.04 LTS: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
The "no fly" list does not mean you can't fly, it just means they're going to make your life difficult in the process.

My wife made the no fly list back when she was consulting with IBM a number of years ago. She was no longer allowed seat assignments, had to check in in person, and was always subjected to full swab testing and a pat down. She eventually made it off the list, but there was no telling what got her on it. When her tickets were printed, they would have no seat assignment and be covered with a number of large X's which was an indicator she was going to be subjected to search. We made a few assumptions as to her travel behavior that likely attributed.

She had purchased too many one way tickets and wouldn't cancel them if she had to re-schedule (as is the ways of consulting). There were also a few incidents of getting a cheaper ticket and skipping later segments.

Either way, it really puts a damper on travel when all you want to do is get in and sit down.
>It's just the anti-corporate parade of users on HN who aren't used to paying for software.

Close. We aren't used to keep paying for software with no end in sight. Don't know about you but I subscribe to things I know I will be using regularly. Like daily. Guess were office software falls? Not under the daily usage at home.

Am I supposed to start writing word docs each week and mail them to my family just so I don't feel ripped of cause I am continuously paying for office?

Just wait until the next Windows costs 100 bucks a year. Cause that is where this is headed and apparently people don't seem to have any problem overpaying Microsoft for software.
Depends what kind of work, I had a gap in my IT career but I worked all this time, some physical labor and helping and caring for my old-aged grandparents.

Exactly this is my speculation: spending time in front of a computer coding has some adverse repercussions on your mental health.

If social media does it, why not coding?

I don't think is a willpower issue, I think it is more of a surrounding environment issue. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
For me Unity stopped working somewhere between 13.04 and 13.10... (Asus UX32VD).

I am going to upgrade to 14.04 in a couple of months and see what happens.
AFAIK, the systemd decision was finalized too late to make it into 14.04. Last-minute changes are not a good idea for an LTS release that emphasizes stability.

This also means that Canonical gets to keep supporting their darling (Upstart) for another five years ;)
Linux Commands Examples, a great place to find back a command + examples
Agreed. For an example, Mass Effect 3 is a relatively recent game on the Unreal engine that sold over 1.5 million copies + DLC, probably for revenue of something like $100mil. 5% of that $100mil per successful game should be enough to keep Epic in business.
People are used to different experiences on different devices. You can argue that they expect mobile and desktop versions to differ, but I can also argue that a 10-inch netbook is a very different device from a Retina MacBook.
In agree, the idea that science is a meritocracy is flawed. Working in a bioinformatics lab, I saw two PHD students, one motivated, smart and very hard working. The other, well I guess he was reasonably smart.

The second one chose a relatively easy subject, and got his PHD after 7 years, without really trying. The first one was in the lab late most nights for 6 years, but kept on being beaten to publish his results by other groups.

So after 5 years, one would have a few papers to his name, while the other wouldn't have. Which one would have made the better researcher, the one willing to put in the extra hours and dedication or the one who wasn't? Based on papers published (which is largely what science does), then the less dedicated one would have been chosen.
I heard it through the grapevine Skanetraffiken is looking for an interaction designer so... fingers crossed!
I have never quite understood all these desktop emotions. I run Kubuntu, but almost never interact with any desktop features. What is it in your workflow that requires you to interact with Gnome/Unity? (just curious)
The original suggestion was not 100% serious but that could be an entertaining side effect.
Well, I would suggest as well starting with reality: give yourself time, do not rush your recovery.

One needs, I guess, professional help, and the understanding that, probably, you will need a lot of time to overcome the addiction. Willpower (what Aristotle calls 'virtue') in a specific aspect in which one lacks is difficult and hard to acquire. I guess it can be done but it is just a guess. Something very important is, to me, to give real value to your little successes every day and never to despair (when one is an addict, there is little 'will' in his addictive behaviour, this is exactly the problem, to develop a 'will', and this is very much like getting physically stronger: you will not make it in a day, but any step helps).

I really hope the OP makes it and ends up having a happy life, which is a free one. He has my prayers.
Runs pretty well on DOSBox - found Big Blue Disk 93 on cd.textfiles.com.
Show HN: A reloadable debit card that you fund with Bitcoin
I have the exact same issue. No matter how much I want to achieve or how motivated I get myself it fades over night and I go back to watching TV and making enough to get by. I second the other commenters recommendation of exercise. The days when I force myself to do even a quick 15-30 minute workout as soon as I wake up, I find are significantly more productive.
Ask HN: What is growth hacking like as a career?
I find this very interesting.

How steep is the learning curve for this particular profession? How hard is it to break into the industry? Anything else I should know?

I was thinking my path could be:
1) take General Assembly's digital marketing class to learn the basics and get some credentials:

https://generalassemb.ly/education/digital-marketing

2) Work on my own projects and get them to grow so they can serve as portfolio pieces. Also to build skills.

3) Maybe work for just shares at a small 1-2 person startup on the side.

4) go FT when I feel confident in my abilities
"You can hire people away from your friends’ companies without damaging your relationship with that friend. You can fight to retain people while they’re being aggressively approached by other companies. Sometimes you will win, and sometimes you will lose. But through it all, you should keep a very important lesson in mind: You must refuse to engage in any agreements with other companies that insist you not hire from each other. Because that’s bad business. Plain and simple."

http://www.eliastorres.com/blog/how-to-fight-illegal-recruit...
Yep. Good book about this: [The Death and Life of Great American Cities](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Ame...) by Jane Jacobs
Sounds like a fork of MySQL, which makes it similar to MariaDB (Note that Google's performance patches for MySQL are similar already).
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A Day Off The Grid
Not to me. I don't understand why Facebook takes so much to bring changes to European users. I use the English language, there's really no reason to delay the rollout. I don't care much because I rarely use Facebook anymore, but it still sucks.