skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine your surprise when it turns out not to be up to you!

That sounds flippant, perhaps, but behold: I knew lots of kids growing up whose (usually extreme Southern Baptist) parents tried to prevent them getting hold of porn, but I didn't know even a single one whose parents succeeded at so doing; those who couldn't get it themselves, and who didn't have friends willing to share, at the very least had acquaintances willing to be paid or otherwise persuaded to serve as brokers.

This held true even during the year I spent in a Mississippi reform school which operated as an arm of a Roman Catholic monastery, and where getting caught with such outrageous contraband bought you a half-dozen wallops on the bare ass with a razor strap from a monk who was serious about it, the sort of thing that'd leave you sitting lightly for the better part of a week.

I'm not sure whether anyone actually believed this had any dissuasive effect on the older students' desire to possess pornography, but anyone who did so believe was destined to be disappointed; indeed, the only effect such punishments had was as a strong incentive to develop the skills of misdirection, concealment, and lying with a straight face. (Me, I'm a cynic, and I half suspect that that was the whole point. If so, whoever designed the curriculum deserves some sort of award for unparalleled effectiveness in pedagogy.)

The point is, even in an environment which was by design totally inimical to it, everyone who wanted it had as much porn as he could keep hidden. (Which, in a couple of memorable cases, was a three-ring binder full.) In a more permissive environment, where hiding one's stash was a simple matter of keeping it out of sight -- rather than, say, getting hold of a contraband razor blade and waiting until after lights-out to carefully slit a mattress seam where it didn't show -- the question didn't even arise, even for those of us not so fortunate as to have what was then the rare prize of unmonitored access to the Internet. Now? You'd have to not only homeschool your kids, but keep them locked up in the basement all the rest of the time, and even then I wouldn't lay odds against their finding some way to get hold of porn -- after all, in extremis, all it really takes is a hormonally overheated imagination and a pencil, and the pencil is optional.
I would caution against bonds, especially US Mutual bonds, right now. It's a common belief (which of course, could be wrong), that interest rates have to rise in the next few years, which would greatly decrease the price of these bonds, resulting in losses. Also, many munis (and therefore their bonds) have outstanding debts through pensions or overspending that makes repayment dicey at best. Even the AA+ rated ones - don't forget, S&P rated all the mortgage bonds at AA+ as well, and look how those turned out.
Why designing in the browser is the way forward
In Sweden these kinds of schemes just pushes up the tax to the future once you take the money out.

And in Sweden pensioners are the hardest tax - making this a horrible deal.
Do some reading: Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein[1]

The book is actually a quick read even if you're not a math whiz (which I'll assume you are). It goes through a review of how to allocate your money across a number of investments and explain why it makes sense not only from a theoretical perspective but also based on historical returns in the stock market.

You can also pick up other books by William Bernstein that cover the same thing in different degrees of detail.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Intelligent-Asset-Allocator-Portfo...
Do you do anything to check against corruption (e.g. bit flipping)? I've been experimenting with md5deep recently to accomplish this, but it's a little time-consuming. I'd be very interested in hearing about more efficient ways of dealing with this problem.
He asked for (relatively) low risk alternatives though.
I tried Prosper a few years ago, put in a few thousand dollars, spread it over 50 loans, and saw about a 4.5% return when factoring in IRR. I think I've read the returns from others are about the same.
Agreed, you can put up to $17,500 in your 401(k) for 2014. This is a great way to meet your retirement goal.
According to the documentation, no:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

"Btrfs is under heavy development, and is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review. The Btrfs disk format is not yet finalized."

That said, I know lots of people use it day-to-day just fine. I think some distros even default to it these days.
If they don't use 3.14 they won't have complete Intel broadwell support. Since those chips will come out and be the primary source of new 14.04 installs, they either need to release a point release with a new kernel around the product launch or get 3.14 in now.

Of course they could backport those patches to their kernel.
Yes kill your coworker's productivity by making her or him even more miserable when dealing with a bug. If you did this and I was your manager, at worst you'd end up on a PIP. If you want conduct a prank do something that doesn't frustrate the work they're paid to do.
Put a portion in cash. At some point the market will have another downturn. The 1987 stock market crash occurred 7 years after the 1980's recession. The mini-bear market in 1994 happened 7 years after the 1987 stock market crash. The dotcom bust occurred 7 years after the 1994 mini-bear market. The GFC occurred 7 years after the dotcom bust and it is currently the 6th year since the GFC.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

Does it look like a good time to put all your money into a S&P500 index fund?
Funny, only seconds after clicking on the OP page, I started getting the targeted Ads for MongoDB & Rackspace when visiting YouTube videos.
archive.is snapshot in case the server goes down (again)

http://archive.is/7C5B4
The list of mailing lists very well curated and useful, few of them I did not knew about.
In my digests subscription I also have:

> Web Development Reading List (WDRL) http://tinyletter.com/wdrl

> Sidebar

and FountForge
Look into selling covered calls or vertical spreads for part of your portfolio as recurring monthly revenue.
Interesting. Most companies nowadays offer a "Roth" option for 401(k) which takes contributions with after tax dollars so when you are ready to get your money back out at 59.5, all of the growth is tax free. You only have to pay taxes on what your employer matches.
Facebook blocks the console as it is supposedly used for " exploitation by people to post spam and even used to "hack" accounts"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692646/how-does-faceboo...
Just use ZFS. It works.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/

See, the word "property" is full of connotations. Ownership has deep roots in our culture. Heck, even babies rapidly develop a sense of property (just try and take something from their hands).

On the other hand, few babies would complain if someone were to imitate them. On the contrary, that's a fundamental developmental need: the baby makes a sound, then her Mom barges in, imitates her, and we have the beginning of a communication.

Even on a purely technical basis, the world of ideas is nothing like the physical world: if I eat your banana, you can't eat it any more. If you eat it, I can't steal it from you any more. But if you have an idea, and you tell me about it, well I can't steal it from you. I can use the idea, I can claim it was my idea to begin with, but I can't erase the idea from your mind —which is a required component of stealing. The only actual "idea thief" I know of is Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry potter.

The word "property", as most people understand it, doesn't apply to ideas. "Intellectual property" is a type error. But since we're incredibly lenient compilers, we make sense of whatever doesn't. So we can accept the term "intellectual property" somehow. But in doing so, we develop an intuitive understanding of the world that just isn't accurate.

I'd rather believe true things.
These are becoming less true. For #1, you might also choose CoffeeScript, ClojureScript or Dart. For #2, you've always needed more than just HTML: CSS at least. Now there's Canvas and WebGL, and some frameworks like React are starting to abstract the DOM away somewhat. Programming in ClojureScript with Om/React does not feel much like programming with HTML/JavaScript at all.

Beyond that, there's an explosion of tooling. Build tools, minifiers, preprocessors and compilers; systems for managing dependencies and run-time library loading; shims and polyfills to emulate new functionality on out-dated platforms; and, of course, frameworks which seek to abstract all of this stuff away behind a neat facade, providing a stable platform that you can build on without needing to worry about the details. Nobody has figured out how to do this properly yet, and I'm not hugely optimistic about the future of such projects.

I'm not quite old enough to remember the history of GUI programming from the mid-80s to mid-90s, but I wouldn't be surprised if the proliferation of tools and libraries was similar then. Even starting out doing Windows development in the mid-90s, there were multiple options - at least Visual Basic, Delphi or C++, and there were multiple C++ frameworks (MFC, ATL, varieties of COM-based stuff, and those were just Microsoft's official options, and this completely ignores non-Windows platforms).

It would be interesting to do a retrospective on such technologies, to work out why some survived and others didn't. It would not have been at all obvious in 1995 that Objective-C would be a mainstream language for user interfaces nearly 20 years later, and C++ would have fallen away, and that people would still be using NextStep in the form of Cocoa but nobody would be using MFC. My feeling is that there are some properties of good design which have enabled ObjC/Cocoa to survive for the long-term, and it would be interesting to figure out if any of the current crop of web front-end tools exhibit these properties (fwiw I get a good feeling about a lot of the ClojureScript stuff, especially Om).
>Leaving aside the question of what a small cohort of randomly selected 16-to-18-year-olds

This stood out for me as a very weak part of the article.

Cite studies and meta-studies that substantiate some relatively minor impact of porn on personal development and then turn around, toss the scientific way of thinking and take some random sample of teenagers in a non-controlled environment as the ultimate measurement.
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In the US I wouldn't call a home a terrible investment. It's not a great one either. The pluses are - tax privileges and the old mantra "you have to live somewhere", but the minuses are property taxes, lack of liquidity, and transaction costs. The problem when evaluating a house as an investment is that there are hundreds of markets, so no rule is good. Washington DC or San Francisco is a far different market than Austin or Dayton, OH.
Vanguard fees are about as low as they get in the business. They are not one of those companies that sell an easy, computer managed fund, and then charge you 4 times the market rate in fees for it.

The sleaziest I have seen was 401k providers that actually offer funds that have very low fees, and then it's the provider itself that tacks on their own management fees that are many times the size of those of the index fund. Yikes.
WHAT is WITH THE CAPS LOCK in the TITLE?
Coverity regularly scan open-source C/C++ projects and email contributors reports.

I've received a few such emails. Its a good way to market developer tools.
Satya Nadella's press conference: The return of the techie MS CEO
You are correct that bond values will fall if interest rates rise, but bond prices are inversely correlated with stock prices, so they are a great way to diversify risk and maximize return.
Everything you said makes me think you are heading in the right direction except for the 60k car :-) Spend 30k on a lightly used car if you want "nice".

It sounds like you have three different goals, and they break down neatly into:
1) short term: car
2) medium term: house
3) long term: retirement

First: If you can afford to (and it sounds like you can), max your 401k. Your 401k is a vehicle that allows you to "borrow" money from the government and earn interest on it (by being able to postpone taxes). Personally, I invest 100% of my 401k in an S&P 500 index. I have Fidelity, so my fund is Spartan 500 Investor Class (FUSVX). Use whatever S&P 500 index is available to you, though. If you still have money left, put it into a Roth IRA. Same deal: index fund. That covers your long term goal.

Now, for the house. I'm not sure what to say here. Most of my personal savings is also in the Spartan 500. If you've got a sliding window of 5 years to buy a house, I'd recommend the same. Convert to something more stable (bonds?) when you've made some money... then hold on to it while you're waiting to buy a house. However, consider buying one right now with little money down. Prices are stabilizing and interest rates are still historically low.

Finally, short term. You're young, so you probably won't listen (and honestly, that's okay -- I'm not picking on you): don't buy a 60k car. Spend 30k on a used Audi or BMW if that's your thing. Personally, I would recommend spending 23k on a used Honda. You will be amazed (maybe) at what 23k gets you for a used Honda. Same deal as the house, though. Buy it now, with little money down. Interest rates are really low.

Good luck. Mid 20's and already talking about saving half of your pay check. You'll be fine. Just max that 401k. And please don't get a 60k car :-)
Intel / AMD should be the template - actually hiring FOSS hackers to make you a proper driver for whole-stack support.

It is nice that they released an older chips driver code, it is better than nothing (and better than just programming manuals) but we have companies like Qualcomm with the Atheros driver, Intel with their wifi, gpu, and ethernet drivers, and AMD with their chipsets, gpus, etc all contributing engineers in the kernel to make foss drivers, and we shouldn't give any company too much credit for doing any less than the same.
Oh, I don't know; looking back on my time in the scene, I don't think it unreasonable to say that most of the people I knew who practiced BDSM -- myself included -- were in some way "damaged", if that's the word you want to use. Of course such is not by any means required, but in at least some cohorts there's a strong correlation.
I did it for brevity. You will notice that the variable names also don't make sense.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of those.
Disagree. They are simply stating a consequence of the design of Turtl: it's not possible (or not knowingly possible today) to understand if the end user is sharing copyrighted material. I don't feel that this is a point "feature" - it applies to any and all content by design and the intent is not therefore to provide a safe harbor of illegal material.

Some people are looking for data protection in the cloud (trading the risk for the convenience). If companies like Turtl or SpiderOak didn't exist myself, and many others, would be forced to rely on similar solutions that are self-hosted. Is that intent? I don't think so. That would imply me locking my vehicle or house at night is some sort of indicator of nefarious activity.

What really annoys me is that people go off the handle about intent and fall back to "the law" being the overriding position in these sort of arguments. Bull shit. I have content I've created that I don't want to share with the world. I shouldn't have any shame or feeling of guilt associated with protecting my assets (digital or physical).

"Read between the lines" - give me a break. I hope that's not everyone's first perspective when they read positions as such. It's that line of thinking that's shifting us to a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality of usage of the Internet.
One of my favourite ways to punish JavaScript developers who don't use `var` is to randomly hide a

if (false) {
var GLOBALVAR;
}

somewhere in the code.

It's fun (in a harmless fun kinda way, but you can also use some really dirty tricks to really hamper someone's work) to fuck up people's code - that's why I wrote Underhanded JavaScript. :P

EDIT:

Another fun one is to add `return`s to constructor functions.
I thought the pacing of the start of the video with the super slow titling and effects was enough to keep me from wanting to watch the rest of the video. Internet ADD, gotta get to the point quicker.

Having edited some documentary films, though, I could see this as a useful tool for a preliminary cut facilitator of some types of montage scenes...
I remember playing Quake III on a 450Mhz with 60FPS. So yes, it might well be possible.
http://wallstreetplayboys.com/sp-500-surpasses-1700-the-worl...

TL;DR: invest in a low-fee, broad stock-market index (e.g. S&P) every month; over a long time horizon, it should perform well, even if the market doesn't go up (example in article: June 2007 until March 2013 - 5% annualized return).
I don't use git-annex because it doesn't work on homefolders under OSX, making it sort of useless
That's the problem, you can never tell when it's a good time to invest or a bad time. You think people thought it was a good time to invest in March 2009, when the Dow was at 6500? Many people pulled all their money out, thinking the drop would continue. Those who bought were happy. There's an equally likely chance the market will go up 10% in the next year as down 10%. And, there's definitely no pattern to the market.
While I will not be able to advice you about the choice of investment owing to my nationality, I highly recommend reading following books. Cover-to-cover if you can.

1. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.
2. Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller.
3. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

OK, here's advice anyway :). Please, please do diversify your investments across different classes of products ; Equity, Debt, assets such as Gold or land and so on.

The proportion may vary according to your risk appetite, but do diversify.
If you're only getting 70-90 FPS there must be something badly broken with your iMac. The thing should be able to run at 125 FPS (capped) on high res without breaking a sweat.
Tax relief – Free money for UK investors
> * But would you say just stay with those, and don't worry about SASS/LESS, Angular/JQuery/etc..?*

What you use should ultimately be up to you, but I would approach it in the following way :

1. start with what you need to complete the project

2. add new components / frameworks / libraries on a must-have basis

I'd be tempted to recommend ditching jQuery while learning JavaScript, but don't feel that strongly about it. A lot of Stack Overflow answers will be provided with jQuery syntax - so that's something to keep in mind.

Don't worry about SASS/LESS and client side "MVC" frameworks. Until you need them, those are just new fiddly things to learn that distract from the actual point of the exercise.
You probably already know this, but setting up a cross-compiler toolchain is a super annoying task, and is very dependent on the distro you're using. I'm sure the author knows about cross-compiling, but he probably preferred clear instructions that work for any RPi user.

There might be even stronger reasons to not use cross-compilers such as weird bugs or compiler version compatibility issues.
"WHY CAN'T WE GIVE THAT SAME FEELING OF POWER AND EXTRAORDINARY FUN TO THE PLAYERS THEMSELVES..."

This is something that I don't think will EVER beat Ultima Online - it truly holds one of the most sentimental gaming experiences for me.
When you're children move from hypothetical realm to actual, let me know your opinion.
The 1994 mini-bear market? You're shoehorning the data a little to match your theory, don't you think?
Is this just to troll? Even if someone looking for 4chan.org enteres 4chan.com first, isn't close to 100% of the target audience able to figure out what went wrong and fix it within seconds? (either by trying .org and co, or by dropping the tld altogether to trigger a web search).
The EU is fragmented right now. We still don't have a unified European government (state are still somewhat sovereign). We still don't have a unified international representation. And we still don't have a unified army.
I have a terrible backup policy, where everybody's computer is backed up every monday morning on a local server using rsnapshot. I'm thinking regularly of find some decent online backup service which is amenable to receiving VM snapshots regularly before getting distracted and forgetting about it.
Hadoop, Impala and Neo4J
> If your argument against it's that it can help form unnecessary habits, we may as well ban free speech so that we can block all forms of entertainment that offend you.

Such a knee-jerk reaction, you are seeing an argument where none was being made.

There's a quite active community in Reddit(r/nofap, 100k subscribers) who try to abstain from porn and masturbating altogether, reading their stories is very much alike to the stories one would read from for example ex-alcoholics. It's very fascinating stuff, I think. From what I can tell based on personal experiences and reading the said subreddit, porn for many is a form of escapism and a tool to relieve anxiety. The true causes are elsewhere, but excessive porn consumption causes further problems, especially in how many excessive consumers view and perceive women(including possible significant other) and their own sexuality. Some argue for higher productivity, better mood and self-confidence for breaking the habit. YMMV, I don't think there have been large-scale scientific studies on this subject, so it's all anecdotes. Don't believe me but check for yourself. I still argue there could be something to this in some scale.

I definitely am against blocking porn or controlling it's usage, but I'd prefer people to be more mindful about their habits surrounding the use. Same goes for video games, gambling, television and whatnot.
Ask HN: Best Home Surveillance Cam?
What's the best Home Surveillance Cam available? It has to work outdoors, stream to FTP or whatever, have IR night mode, have decent quality, not call home to China or wherever.

Any recommendations?
Read Graham's Intelligent Investor, there are also books which provide examples or slight alternatives to Graham's approach. Also sites similar to Mr. Money Mustache may provide guidance that is helpful to you (or not).

Regarding the home purchase, consider loaning yourself the money from the 401k rather than paying someone else interest.
Healthcare.gov sees outage on final signup day
Take this question to the bogleheads forum.
I'm not familiar with the fine print, but given the nature of the challenge it certainly seems a lot cooler to me that it can be done fully by the Raspberry Pi.