skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Arch at the moment and intend to go back to NetBSD when the Intel video support stabilizes. I've used Ubuntu also and find Arch mostly an improvent. One thing I miss from Ubuntu is the installation of (most) games under /usr/games, so when I want to play a game I can just ls /usr/games to see what is available, although I prefer that games go in a games directory in my home directory (I should just symlink stuff there, which is what I do for anything installed under wine). I've also just kept a text file of applications that I've installed and am likely to forget about since I tend to install stuff that sounds cool to try it out from some casual mention on the web somewhere. I prefer that my OS be as simple and understandable as possible and Arch makes that much easier (other than systemd, which is the source of most of the problems I've had with Arch).

More important to me than the OS is the details of my desktop setup, which is the same under any of the above: I run GNU screen in urxvt and ratpoison from screen. That way, any output from applications launched from ratpoison goes to screen 0. I make various aliases for things I use regularly, so e.g. e starts an editor in a new screen window. I can use screen or ratpoison window splitting if I need to see multiple windows at once. This is by far the least annoyance setup I have found on any OS. There are menu apps that work with ratpoison, but I find the text file + command line + aliases method to be much less annoying than any app launcher I've used on any OS.
I am not sure why this creeped me out as much as it did.

Maybe the visualisation rate makes it seem like your communication is not as 'private' as you think. Or the fact that it highlights all the data that is being collected for something that I consider private and intimate.
> Your privilege is showing.

Well, perhaps if the sort of folks who yap about privilege hadn't spent the last four decades doing their damnedest to destroy the system in which, yes, the vast majority of households had at least one member (but probably several) who had the appropriate skills, then we wouldn't have this kind of mess.

I would dearly love to be able to get the sort of job where I create problems, then make money by talking about them.
I have the famous song from the Beastie boys : 'Sabotage' playing in a loop in my mind as I watch this on my Desktop ...
Yup. This was missing.
Starting An Airline
I loaded the site on the iPhone 5S which is arguably one of the best performing smartphones on the market. Simply scrolling down the page is horribly jagged and jumpy.

It sounds like you've convinced yourselves of lots of things that just aren't true.
Well, I have expensive hobbies. However, I only work enough to be able to afford them. 40 hours a week is plenty... but I do have to work those 40 hours.
Google Doodle Today Honors Rubik's Cube 40th Aniversary
Doing 'whatever the fuck you want' costs money too, and its something you'll have avoided due to the frugal life style. So, at the point you retire early, either your frugal habits have become ingrained, or you quickly learn that 'fun' comes at a price. Its an interesting conundrum to say the least.
Instantly thought of that final scene in WarGames. Launch Detection...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY
Angry girlfriend who realized to the implications of the innocent photo shoot at the deserted beach?
> Because the US is a sovereign state, which means they have jurisdiction over whatever they choose to have jurisdiction over, subject to constraints forcibly imposed by outside parties.

I am afraid this is not correct. A sovereign state has jurisdiction over physically defined borders ( boundaries) of the state. Thus, US can not claim its jurisdiction over India because US is sovereign state. In case o Credit Suisse , since they are doing business in US , US does have jurisdiction on CS US entity. I believe though, US has no jurisdiction of other parts of CS that don't exist in US.
That's very interesting. Thanks for explaining it.
New sous vide solution from Anova
The greatest part of GoPro's marketing is their youtube page. They just post videos shot with GoPros and like amateur versions of the same. I go there when I'm feeling like I need a taste of the outdoors and I've also got a GoPro on order, coincidence? Maybe but probably not.
Thanks, I respect your work. Like I said, a lot of it is very smooth. I think a lot of the hate comes from the secret beta aspect of it. I thought it was pretty ridiculous, but I got a friend to send me the source when it came out so I could see.

I think people are going to naturally be dismissive when there's such hype and buildup and then the results are in any way disappointing. It also didn't help that you had "Open Source JS Framework" on your AngelList profile and then everything was closed source. A lot of people felt that you guys just didn't understand what open source is. If you had released it early, like Meteor, I think the launch would have been a lot smoother.
>I surely agree with most of what's posted there - a majority of it is straightforward common sense that's barely even specific to management.

I agree, and would add that they're not even answering the specific question being asked (which happens a lot on Quora). The question they're all answering is:

"What is good general management advice?"

But the question that was asked is:

"What are mistakes specific to new, inexperienced managers, that are common for that particular class of managers?"

A responsive answer to that question will generally be expressible as,

"The manager will make it a policy/habit that <blank>, thinking that <poor recognition of group dynamics>. In reality, <mechanism happens> and so they encounter <failure mode>."

For example,

"The manager will start a policy of not tracking employee time, on the grounds that the group is responsible and trustworthy, not realizing that this will make it harder to demonstrate progress and efficiency to higher-ups, and result in less leeway being given to the group on important decisions."

[Please don't refute the logic there, I'm not offering it as valid, just showing the form that a responsive answer would have.]
Works fine for me right now. When someone creates a competitor to BCI that provides SPV proofs in an API, I'll be the first to include fully validating support into pybitcointools. Until then, sorry, convenience and zero loading time (yes, even SPV clients are not instant) win out.
I bet Spitfire era fighter pilots thought the same thing, before the advent to inherently unstable computer controlled fighters. And I suspect a bunch of modern fighter pilots think the same about removing the plot altogether. There's a similar significant benefit there too, remove the meat sack from a fighter jet, and all of a sudden 25g turns become acceptable - there's a lot of limitations on a fighter jet based on the requirement to keep a human being alive while "getting the job done".
"Doing stuff" for developers often includes installing and running packages such as databases, programming languages, editors, etc. On OS X, there is only an App Store built-in. You have to choose one of many package managers[1]. Each package may get installed in its own non-standard way. Linux distributions like Debian or Arch have standardized package managers which handle dependencies and updates much more smoothly than any OS X implementation I've come across.

1. http://www.onthelambda.com/2013/10/14/the-state-of-package-m...
How did we get we busy? (or did we?)

Average American watches 5 hours of TV per day:
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch...

Perhaps people spend more time at work then they used to, but while not at work they spend way less time working on things like mowing the lawn, cooking, washing clothes, ETC.

Women blaming men for them being too busy need to weight their options IMO. If you are too busy, quit your job and stay home. To maintain the quality of life that existed while Keynes wrote this book, a single income is often adequate. It's not worth killing yourself over.

I think what much of what explains the wealth gap is free trade and illegal immigration. We import everything from China today. We would not allow these sweat-shops in our country with children working in dangerous conditions for pennies an hour. We wouldn't allow it here, but we do support it by buying these products. This breaks the whole premise that Keynes was basing his predictions on (Illegal immigrant employment as well). People can get rich paying illegal workers almost nothing, or importing a product from China and marking up it's price by 8-10x.

This throws things out of the balance that he envisioned.
I'm running Jelly Bean on my Note 3. I tried Chrome, Firefox, and the stock Android browser. Scrolling is weird and choppy in each of them, and then it takes a very long time to slow down and stop.

Ordinary websites that don't do anything fancy but just let the browser handle the scrolling work beautifully in all three browsers, with smooth, natural feeling scrolling and easing.

Hmm... Just tried it in Chrome in Windows. I can't scroll at all! Tried a bunch of things but nothing would scroll. Dragging the scroll bar just turns text blue. Cursor keys and PgUp/PgDn don't do anything.

I even tried the middle TrackPoint button figuring that would fool it, but no, they disabled that too.
The Game That Sold More than Flappy Bird this Month
Most of the comments here presume that it's unacceptable for a drone ship to break down in the middle of the ocean and be without crew to repair it. What if these ships were designed so that nothing too awful would happen if they floated around in the middle of the ocean for awhile awaiting another ship with a human crew to perform repairs. Or, maybe another drone ship or two to tow a broken one back to land?

My understanding of container shipping is that customers make SLA choices much akin to us Americans choosing between UPS Ground/2nd Day Air/Next Day, etc. UPS uses these varied SLAs to smooth out its use of fleet capacity and for price discrimination. Shippers operate transshipment ports as part of distribution networks much like the hub & spoke designs of the major airlines. These ports have a bunch of shipping containers sitting around awaiting capacity.

Consider the needs of companies that must transport low-value, high weight/bulk cargo. These companies likely already choose the "UPS Ground" equivalent for container shipping. Due to low product value, inventory costs are low (in transit goods are inventory), so it's probably less expensive to have buffers of goods in the supply chain than it is to pay for tight shipping SLAs. Why should these companies care if the variance they experience in shipping duration is due to capacity constraints of manned-ships or that it took an extra two weeks to fix the ship upon which their cargo was in transit?
I'm a firm believer in the diminishing marginal returns of happiness that levels of consumption provide. I have no delusions that I wouldn't be happier if I were a billionaire than a 1-2 millionaire early retiree. But how much happier?

I don't believe in any type of extreme frugality, though I do plan on increasing my spending to the 100k/year range by retirement at 35. I'm saving more now because each additional dollar saved now means a lot more than money saved later, plus since I work, I honestly just don't have time to enjoy large expenditures right now, but I will in retirement.
Generate Series in Redshift and MySQL
I'm quite convinced that pretty much everywhere else in the world, people would disagree with you. As a New Zealander, I can tell you that we think the US attitude towards guns is bordering on bat-shit insane.
My guess is that we as humans tend to look at what we've missed out on rather than what we've gained. During Keynes's time there wasn't quite as much competition for one's time and attention, and whatever they had probably wasn't as cheap. Now we just have so much entertainment at our disposal that we can't feel satisfied with what we have.

I'll call it the Deal or No Deal irrationality. Essentially, if you go on that show hoping to win $1,000,000 but end up with just $100, you probably feel pretty disappointed. The $999,900 you didn't win ends up eclipsing the fact that you won $100. $100! A free night out with your friends! A nice fancy dinner! Who doesn't want that sort of bonus?!

[I might have accidentally stolen the above example from a Dan Ariely book. If I did then I do apologize]

Now in our society we have competing forces of remaining sociable, watching TV, browsing the Internet, maintaining hobbies, going on vacations, and (as the article notes) trying to work and more more in the process. I mean, I've had to sacrifice watching TV and playing video games just because I need to to have 'more productive leisure.' Board games, lifting weights, going out with friends, and programming are things that I like to do, sure, but that doesn't quite fill in the gap a video game may do in the same way. At the same time I'd like to do more biking and get into other more artistic hobbies, but the time cost to learning is so great and the ROI relative to what I already have on my plate.
It just sounds like you got fucked by upper management. It happens a lot. Sorry to hear it; don't take it too personally.
Arguably so, but freight trains (outside of large countries like the US) have taken a total battering from the truck market.

In the UK for example it's just not worth putting stuff from port -> train -> truck -> store. Much easier to do port -> truck.

Combine that with the EU's very strict laws on driving time and this is a giant market.

When people complain about how insanely sci-fi it feels. I often get the DLR (docklands light railway) in London. It's totally automated - you can sit in the drivers seat if you want. I have no idea how crazy people would of thought of this idea in the 1960s.

PS: I am a huge fan of getting rid of trucks on the road, but in the UK it doesn't make any sense.
SA is a place with a lot of interesting contradictions; it's been around since the early days of the Web ('99) and somehow survived through several waves of dot com implosions (eFront, etc) to the present day. It is highly moderated and hosts some of the best topic-specific communities this side of Reddit, but also spawns edgy and dark humor and internet memes. The $10 fee was started in 2001 before such things like that done on the Web and that allowed the site to finally be self-sustaining and free from having to join ad-sharing groups or another content network.

I've been reading since 2000 and while I don't participate as much as I used to, I still enjoy keeping up with some of the communities there.
Climate Change Will Force Us to Abandon Coastal Cities
All your type is hideous on a retina screen.
Just want to chime in and recommend two great documentaries I recently saw regarding inner-city housing in the seventies. It's not hard to imagine the war on drugs stemming from the same racism which caused white flight.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Let the Fire Burn
Why do you need central planning? All you need is insurance and crop futures, traded on a free market, to even out the price spikes and troughs.
I've seen turnover that bad at past employers. In some cases it continued for years after I left. I think it depends on the company, not necessarily averages.
Too bad advertising is so important. I thought go-pro was
a narcissistic waste of time, but once I saw the how useful
they were on the production end of the Gold mining show on the Discovery channel; I realized their value. I hope they
continue to improve quality, and lower price points. And
not spend more money on advertising.
Design, 3D Print, and Build Your Own Action Figure
Easy animated graphics
Early-Stage Startups And Suites Of Mobile Apps
Ask HN: Anyone know which technology was used in the Michael Jackson Hologram?
Didn't see the live show but the videos look interesting. I'm wondering what technology was used to produce it and is it considered a major innovation?
Collected...?

I don't follow. You're using a service that stores (read: collects) your data for you.
Well done for successfully confirming the article.
I liked the GoPro Android software better, and the Sony remote, which has a viewfinder built in, wasn't attractive for our use cases. I'd rather have a better app.

Also, the wider field of view on the GoPro without built-in stabilization works better for skiing than built-in stabilization that can sometimes fail to keep up. Aesthetically, I just prefer the wider field of view. A better camera operator might be able to do more with a narrower FoV or even a zoom, but the GoPro is almost always better in practice.
Why the World's Most Talked-About New Art Dealer Is Instagram
The downside addressed by the parent is that an article dated "2012" will be discounted by many potential readers, even if all of the information is still current.

For something where specific versions or dates matter, nothing about the article suggests that you not address it in the "post." If a configuration file changed in April, 2013 then you should write about how it changed and how to deal with the different versions. And if you're writing about something specific to Python 3, you should be specific about that restriction. But I don't see how dating the article as "August 17th, 2013" is going to effectively communicate either of those nuances.

The article date is at best an imperfect proxy for whether the information is current. And the OP and parent are claiming that prominently displaying the date (and other "blogging artifacts") cause potential readers to discount the information more than they should. I don't know whether the argument is universally true, but it's plausible.
Famo.us is another over-hyped framework that would have been cool five years ago. I've met Steve several times at their absurdly pompous meetups in SF where he claims to be changing the world. Each time, I couldn't shake his dirty used-car salesman vibe. If you want to make a great product, try focusing on the problem you want to solve. You guys are honestly embarrassing yourselves - and your leadership isn't helping.
I'm always told that the Sony Action Cam is better quality.

It's not.

The image quality is comparable to the Hero 3+, with no clear consensus as to which is better (eg [1],[2]). Sony uses the Zeiss lens as a selling point, but still can't do the 4K resolution of the GoPro.

GoPro's image quality is good enough for it not to be something that counts against it in almost any case. A quick look at some of the clips produced by GoPros will give enough evidence to convince most doubters.

GoPro usually wins because of a combination of things.

Firstly there is the form factor. Usually it is seen as a downside, but then you discover that the "wide & short" GoPro factor is the only one you can chest mount safely, and the only one you can helmet mount in the middle of a helmet. That's usually enough to counter any "form factor" arguments (although I'd like to see a "long narrow" GoPro - there are some cases where it is better too).

Then there is the ecosystem. You can get GoPro mounts for anything. Most competing cameras sell adaptors, but then you often run into the form factor problem - the more common "long narrow" form factor doesn't fit into the same space as "wide short".

Then there's the software. GoPro's software isn't fantastic, but it's mostly ok. Most of the competitors have pretty bad software.

[1] http://www.digitalrev.com/article/gopro-hero-3-vs-sony/Njk3M...

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/08/31/perso...
Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty in Tax Evasion Scheme
The things you listed account for about 10% of the US federal budget [1]. For the other things we pay waaaay more per capita than almost all other OECD nations.

[1] http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
I am kinda newbie in search technology field. Can someone please explain what is difference between haystack, elastic search to me ?
How does this compare to search engines like google , yahoo and others from application prospective ?
Where to use haystack, elastic search and where not ?
Amid a struggling Kickstarter, Harmonix reflects on Amplitude
> I do miss leading a team though; not managing but really leading.

Your title doesn't impact your role on the team. You can easily make a big impact as a leader, without the people management aspect.
U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage
Maxmind offers free databases to do IP localization :
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/downloadable/

It's not extremely precise, but is enough for applications like this.
Notice for instance the point up north in Canada, a lot of IPs will be placed there. It's in the middle of Manitoba, and there's pretty much nothing there. I believe it's the geographical center of Canada, and the default value when no other coordinates are known.
I think the write is making an assumption (warranted, in my opinion) about her reader's knowledge level. She does not defend vaccines for the same reason she does not defend the spherical earth theory.
The Troublesome Misconception of Parallax in Webdesign
When I wrote the answer (that is currently top answer) I was thinking about a longer time window for the "new manager" period, perhaps a year instead of a few weeks. You're right that someone new to the team and new to management won't be able to accurately assess who the top and bottom performers are in their first few weeks. Same for how to allocate resources.

If the "new manager" period is the first year of management then I stick by my answer on those points.
PostOrder Traversal (Not Using Recersive)
reminds me of a previous front page submission: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1lb/are_wireheads_happy/
Wow, there really is a relevant xkcd for everything.
Interpreting when Compiling, or an Alternative Understanding of Lambdas in C++11
It could be misleading. During the outage, I saw traceroutes like:

1 someserver.in.europe 10ms 15ms 20ms
2 someother.in.europe 50ms 60ms 50ms
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 someserver.in.us * 500ms *
10 * * *
11 otherserver.in.us 900ms * *

So, it looks like for 10 and 11 hops we are losing a lot of traffic in the US, but that might as well be traffic that's lost in hop #3. The traceroute only tells you at some point between the start and hop #11 we lost 66% of the packets. It doesn't tell you where.
You probably don't know what GNU means. Have a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
Nobody is getting excited. You are reading way too much into our comments.
This.

Some of my favourites.

Lions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCzSfv4hX8

Base jumping - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVcV9ItdZ8w

Skydiving (from the stratosphere) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYw4meRWGd4
I think I had already read most of this article before this version was composed, because a highly similar hit piece was published at:

http://www.vocativ.com/culture/uncategorized/dark-enlightenm...

Both the vocativ article and the baffler article are extremely superficial. Neither highlights the importance of much more serious writers than Moldbug, e.g. Steve Sailer.
Do you filter out data points within a given city? It seems like most couples would live in the same city...
GoPro's most effective marketing isn't traditional paid advertising, it's the cool video your friend shot & put on YouTube.

Or if you don't have any cool friends, it's Jeb Corliss' "Grinding the Crack"[1]. Given that many credit the massive success[2] of AWOLNATION's "Sail" (the soundtrack to that clip) to the 26M views that clip has had, I wonder how many GoPro's it sold, too?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail_(song) (Note that it entered the Billboad 100 a month after "Grinding the Crack" went viral)