skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short -- quit the fking job right away, Sir !

Why? You seem to like logic but continuing in this job is making you incoherent. Look at the following two statements:

1: "I find myself alone in a flat full of boxes no longer having a purpose"

2: "The loneliness of being unemployed worries me"

That doesn't sound very logical. Loneliness is always measured in absolute terms. You're either lonely or you're not. Since you are (having used the word 4 times in that post), why worry about an empty transition? Specially when it can change things for better.

Now let me give you a couple of reasons to live for, even if you think your life currently doesn't have any meaning.

1) Shit happens !
That's the most ugly and the most beautiful thing about human life. It doesn't let you be absolutely sure about anything. All you can do is just play your best game or sometimes even just watch yourself being thrown around. Now I agree that life can be a total bitch sometimes and not give us a break at all but that's what you signed up for. buddy! The choices you've made have gotten you at this point but you're still the one holding the reins. Just turn the damn horse around.

2: Death is boring
..while life is full of possibilities. Somebody here suggested trying the Milky Way at night in the middle of a desert. I'll bet that's something you don't wanna die without seeing it in real at least once. And there're a thousand other things you'll not be able to stop yourself from fantasizing about. Human connections do feel like everything but they just can't be everything there is. There's obviously so much more going on. Be patient, give it more time and it'll turn it's good side to you too.

3: Being --
Imagine the day your mother gave birth to you. Your parents must have been the proudest people in London that day. Imagine your parents holding you in their hands, a long montage of all the happy memories must have ran through their heads in a second--the things they're about to experience while raising you, watching you grow, succeed, fail and then learn stuff from it and much later become a man of the family some day. That's all still true, dude. Don't take this away from them and don't take this away from yourself when you still have a chance of making this a happy ending. May be even happier than a Bollywood movie ending. :)
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Deep & abiding happiness only comes from within.

I just deleted a lengthy bit of writing to condense my personal experience to:

It was a ~2 year period of intense, repeated betrayal.

I would just start crying intensely with no obvious trigger. It was like a panic attack, but with unhappiness.

I really wanted to die and make it be over. But I'm too much of a coward to commit suicide.

I had a really good friend who always answered my phone calls and for that I am immensely grateful.

It took another 2 years to learn to be okay with being alone. I got myself on a pretty intense personal project (raising & training a goshawk), stayed focused on that, and ended up with a huge success there. I put myself to lot of smaller projects (home improvement type stuff) and learned I could do these things alone and have fun. I actually started appreciating alone time because I had permission to do anything I wanted to do. When I started dating again sometimes it seemed more like an imposition on my time.

I'm in a happy relationship now and more importantly am enjoying life. The latter is enhanced by the former, but the relationship is not required.
> You have to be extremely rich to value your
> time in the thousands per hour.

You and I can simply add a monitor in a few minutes, but it's not five-minute job if it's not a process you're familiar with. There are a lot of questions.

- What monitor do I even buy?

- What's a good monitor brand?

- Do I have to buy an Apple-branded monitor? If not, do I have to look for "Mac compatible" or something on the box?

- I have to buy cables?

- What cables do I need? (The customer will probably need an adapter, at least, as most monitors do not include a Mini-DP connector/adapter)

- Can I just use my TV?

And so on and so forth. It's a lot more than just the physical act of plugging a monitor in.

Again, it's so easy for us, but you if you work in the tech industry you really need to think outside of your own head sometimes. Imagine if car manufacturers expected us to manually adjust the fuel/air mix in the engine because it's just a "five minute job."
What Amazon’s ‘Fire Phone’ means – and why it could be a real contender
AT&T claims ‘strong’ net neutrality would ruin AT&T profit margins.
Sure, I know all that. It's a ceremony, and there are shamans. And it's a hallucinogenic drug. There are people who claim it's helpful; there are people who say the same about meth.
Adobe announces Ink and Slide (Mighty and Napoleon)
In this video the author says it works in IE11 and will be working in IE10 "within a couple of weeks" http://vimeo.com/91393694 .. which would mean it's working in 10 now .. also, if they manage to make the preprocessor stuff, then it will work in "all" browsers (that understand the generated css of course..)
Does my call count if I'm not American but live in the US as a worker?
The NSA doesn’t obey laws. Or, more precisely, we don’t know if they obey laws.

Or, when we think a law limits their behavior, it will be challenged, where ‘challenged’ means ignored until it is discovered, then tried in secret.

Functionally, laws don’t matter here. Their existence, and their content, are not predictive of the NSA’s behavior.
Does not work in IE, but does in Firefox and Chrome. Is it just me or the application does not actually work in IE?
I don't trust the government, but you cannot trust corporations to police themselves. I just realized as I type this that I trust the U.S. government more than I trust corporations.

Which is sort of like saying I'd rather be eaten by wolf than a tiger, because a wolf is smaller.
> If you're SEOing in a small niche it's very easy to simply outrank the competition if you know what you're doing.

Is this really true? I struggle to imagine how generating legitimate and high-value backlinks is easy, even for a small niche.
The sad thing is right after I posted that I realized it could actually work...
Eh, I think this is something I've argued with you [or someone before on HN] about.

That isn't exactly what Goldman said.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Goldman-Sachs-Wants-Veriz...

1) That was when they were trying to get them to merge with Vodafone.

2) That was more about dumping the overhead that came with the union Verizon was dealing with, dumping pension liabilities, etc. and basically splitting the "high growth" business off from the slower growth business.

That isn't really the same thing. All utilities are going to be low growth businesses by their very nature.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1599192-slow-growth-but-a-hi...

Unless you are talking about a newer angle of attack from Goldman about it?

EDIT: I guess I'm trying to say it speaks more to Goldman's bias [splitting it up based on what looks to be growing faster so they can invest accordingly].
What does that even mean ..? Is that like every pixel width/height combination from 200 to <size of your desktop> ? .. If so, that's a lot of CSS. If not, you won't get the current responsiveness you see when you resize your browser on a responsive website.
This is Your Heart on Chips. Now, This is Your Heart On a Chip.
Title Scream – Graphic inspiration from 8/16 bit games
Ask HN: What's Your Blog? 
Please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1N0oz72dM706K9E8dta_eMkqgqIqoBy5Z4kCkAoMMcB4/viewform?usp=send_form

I'll publish the results accordingly.
But practically no one uses Chromium; they're using Chrome, which has significant proprietary components.
First Look at Amazon's Fire Phone
Regardless of what people think of facebook and their business, this is a pretty big deal. As a very large tech company, they have the time and talent to develop their own switches. If they are releasing the reference implementations, unlike google, this helps anyone else trying to build the next big web company. The more information the merrier.
Meet the Amazon smartphone: the Fire Phone
The 4096 game sure is swell
The Turbo Boost clock speed is only around 15% lower than the other iMacs, though (2.7 GHz vs 3.2 GHz). It looks like the same processor as the MacBook Air. The bigger problem is probably memory--only 8GB, soldered to the board, and no option for more, even at time of purchase. Could be worse, though. With Mavericks, 8GB is about the minimum configuration for "normal people" tasks.
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Who Says Your Blog Sucks? How to Avoid Fear Marketing
Blockchain voting system could be a great solution: http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/110/bitcongress-blockch...
I want to know an explanation of why credit card data was stored. Is this standard? Shouldn't they only need it long enough to process the transaction - there's no reason to store it, correct?

Was the data stolen in transit (should be entirely encrypted) or stolen while at rest?
Amazon Announces The Fire Phone
I wouldn't want to kick out for another 256Gb SSD when I already have one.

All current Macs[1] currently use PCIe SSD drives, which are not interchangeable with SATA SSD drives. They are, however, around 10x faster than SATA SSD drives, which is something people never seem to mention when comparing 'specs'.

[1] with the exception of the 13-inch non-Retina MBP, which is presumably being phased out.
Crossposting from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908081.

A small bash script to display the current match scores as part of the terminal prompt: https://gist.github.com/abiyani/34f25dc8ed2a862517e7

Sample output:

abiyani@vaio:~ [BEL-2-1-ALG, RUS-1-1-KOR, BRA-0-0-MEX]
Speaking of whack a mole, last month I built a docker image for the Trinity syscall fuzzer. It's a great way of finding those moles, for anyone interested in contributing to either Docker or the kernel:

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/ewindisch/trinity/
This is great and I hope that people do call their representatives, but I wonder if it would be more effective if the pro-privacy and civil rights demographic would organize on a more permanent basis to call representatives rather than on an issue-by-issue basis. To some extent, this describes the EFF and the ACLU, but I'm thinking more of ordinary people who understand that these kinds of reforms need to happen, but aren't interested in being a member of such an organization.

Each time a new bill starts making its way through Congressional committees someone spins up a new issue-specific website, which is good, but it seems like there must be a lot of overhead in organizing on an issue-specific basis and that a lot of work (collecting emails, convincing people that this issue is worth their time to call, etc) is duplicated. Maybe individual grassroots political advocacy could even be incentivized in a "gamification" kind of way if it had a more permanent organizational structure with account or email records that persisted across issues? I don't really have anything concrete though; mostly I'm just thinking out loud.
Naive Testing
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Solomon, as always, brilliant and to the point. Keep rocking!!
When using Trim Enabler, you basically have to re-check it after every system software update. (Not apps, but the OS.) I have the app set up start automatically, so I can take a look. I think there are paid options for more convenient facilities.
Cognitive disconnect: Understanding Facebook Connect login permissions
Hyperbole and incorrect facts ref. Cleveland.

Cleveland's name is based on reference to the nickname for Joe Louis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns and the original owner wanted to name it after the coach Paul Brown.
Indeed. That was intentional :)
So are people not allowed to prefer open office layouts? They're not allowed to discern what works for them, because there couldn't possibly be any variables that make the results of some study irrelevant to their unique situation?

Edit: It would appear the answer is "no", no one is to be allowed make that decision. HN hates open plans more than they hate sexism.
One of the things that bothers me most about all these breaches is that I can't think of a single reason for many of these companies to store the data, yet they do it, presumably to make some sort of additional profit. Then, when they lose/have that data stolen, its just an "oops! we're doing our best to fix it". Maybe some of these companies can just stop collecting/storing this data if they can't do it securely?
Cool, upload is so fast!
Why shouldn't something like this become the hiring platform of the future? Hire for missions, not for job positions. Get a presentation of what the person can do, not the job positions he has had. It's done.
RF body reflections ... so radar?

Ah yes:

"To address these challenges, WiZ
builds on Frequency Modulated Carrier Waves (FMCW), a
radar technique that provides TOF measurements. WiZ introduces
multi-shift FMCW, a multi-antenna extension to
FMCW where the signal transmitted by different antennas
is structured in a particular way to disentangle the TOFs corresponding
to different people and eliminate the impact of
fictitious TOFs that do not correspond to a physical target."

Looks very cool. Thanks for posting this.
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and the God Delusion are books about religion. I mentioned a few authors that I have read whose books cover either science, religion or a mixture of the two. I will grant you that I am not making a hard study into comparative religion and certainly did not mean to imply otherwise.
But who's to say those bittorrent packets contain pirated movies? What if they're a Linux distro, a video game update patch, or something else. You can't. That's the whole point of not prioritizing or de-prioritizing any particular type of traffic.

Even if the bittorrent packets do contain a pirated movie, sure you have the moral highground because you paid for your movie, but in the end they're both essentially the same thing.
You are ignoring a few decades of history in which successful court challenges have curtailed some NSA excesses. It's easy to forget that, while the capabilities of the NSA have increased in the past decade, intelligence agencies today have more attention directed at them than in the past, and thus are more sensitive to any public perception that they are acting in an illegal manner.
Well, the 386 had a pretty long tail. I'm pretty sure I remember 286 PCs still being sold in 1990 or so and 386 PCs being sold after win3.1 came out as well. And with how expensive desktop computers were in the late 80s, people kept them longer too I think.

But this is all anecdata, and I was pretty young. But the first machine I ran windows 3.1 on was definitely a 386 (and I ran 3.0 on a 286).
Data pipelines at Facebook (talk)
Ask HN: Help me make a new bittorent client.
I needed a foss torrent client which supports plugins like vuze (or to some extent, deluge, ktorrent and kget) and has official daemon, internal tracker, webui, cli and gui support like deluge and transmission and is featurful like vuze, tixati, qbittorent and ktorrent.
So i thought if it doesn't exist, why not make it. I've been thinking about it and I'm still not sure if I should fork an existing client or code a new one. In the latter case I'm stuck on the language and not sure wether it should be python or ruby or compliled ones like go and C++. I'd appreciate your help and advice.
The price of success isn't censorship, it's maturity.

If anything, being successful / famous means you have even more of a voice of influence, but you just have to be more careful of how you choose to impart that influence. You can't simply rant with offensive language and sarcasm, you now have to give (and defend) that opinion so that the audience you've tried so hard to grow is listening with as little judgment as possible.
I'm not saying it's unfair. I'm saying you can enter into a business where you have a competitive advantage based on location and run said business profitably, and that's not a mistake.

If it didn't work, we would have no gas stations. I don't know about you, but I'm not so loyal to a particular gas station that I would drive farther to reach it if there were others more convenient to me that offered the same service for the same price. That doesn't mean it's a bad business. It means there is competition with fairly exact substitutes, and location is a big part of success.
Cleveland has been de-emphasizing that logo recently. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10270450/mlb-cleveland-ind...

As an Indians fan, I won't mind seeing it disappear completely. It's embarrassing.
What does O(log n) mean exactly?
3 Must Listen to Podcasts for Developers Who Want to Become Product Founders
I don't know why you think this is ironic.

First of all, I don't know if FB is really the biggest data aggregator. Even if it was, what does data aggregation have to do with aggregation within the data center? Maybe you dislike Facebook the app or "the business model" or whatever, and that prevents you from thinking straight about the implications of this announcement.
Some early work at https://github.com/the-gss/gss2css
Concurrency Improvements in HyperLevelDB
They don't appear to have any registered trademarks.

There have been several attempts to register marks with "nigger", "nigga", "niggaz", and similar, but they all seem to have been abandoned [1]. Most of these were for things related to music (e.g., music production companies) or for clothing.

[1] One exception. There is an application for "Figgas over Niggas" that is still on track.
There are several different metrics we use as constraints.

1. Has to be a cost per click ad model. It can not be impression based.
2. Two goals: Cost per visit under $5. Cost per engagement $10.
3. We need the ability to add several layers of demographic targeting.
4. The idea behind exploring new channels is to engage users with great content. Google Search does a good job, but the content may be to to niche.
No. If you are not a US citizen, you don't have a vote, and therefore you do not have a representative in Congress.

That said… I doubt they have any capacity to actually check if callers are US citizens.
Wholeheartedly agree, and have noticed my self-perceived break even point on the trade off between time and money moves toward sacrificing money the older I get. My father in law has a memorable quote that sticks with me: "is your time not worth more than that?"

Unless it's something I enjoy doing or my ironic sense of thrift kicks into high gear, I'll sacrifice the money when reasonable.
That's a ridiculous position. Should we also deny people electricity because they live outside a metropolitan era?

Declaring entire swaths of the population of a country like the United States unworthy of access to things like telephones and access to the global network is ridiculous enough. But it's particularly offensive given that it's cheaper to run and operate these systems today than it ever has been before.

Universal service is about more than telephones in the wilderness. I live in a state capital, about 500 yards from a major fiber optic termination point. Pretty sure my employer has a 40GB line on the telephone pole that I can see from my front porch. I have access to 20/1 cable service or 30/5 cable service at a 70% cost premium. Because there are few poor people there, the surrounding suburbs have FIOS and Cable, and the cable service is significantly less expensive.
Did valarauca1 claim that anyone should defer to his crypto-expertise and detailed analysis? He basically said, "The behaviour of this developer makes me not want to trust his work." His assessment isn't definitive, but he seems to be aware of that; note the phrases "sounds like" and "makes me inclined to believe".

And I'd say he has a point. Laying aside your expertise for a moment, and without going all the way to declaring it fundamentally broken, don't you think there's something a little fishy in all this?
Except it has a slow JavaScript engine, crashes on certain pages, and just annoys me all around. I love open source, but I like things that work too.
You could start by estimating the time cost correctly. You're assuming that the time required to select the right monitor is zero, that the time required to understand the various connection standards is zero, etc., etc., etc. The only cost you're counting is the act of unboxing and plugging it in.

Maybe you and I keep track of this stuff professionally or as a hobby, but most "grandmothers" don't. Quick: What's the best lock-in amplifier for rejecting mains interference. What? You don't know what dynamic reserve means? Jeez, you're such a dummy.

Think about how you would go about buying a piece of technical equipment outside your domain of expertise. That's what a "grandmother" is doing when he/she is buying a monitor.
Amazon Fire Phone unveiled
So started using it for collaborative editing -- it's awesome overall, I think this has a lot of potential!

Two minor gripes:
1) No replies to comments ... comments with collaboration need to be conversational
2) No ctrl-z / ctrl-y (expected in any editor, and an annoying realization)

Thanks for building this!
Presumably, the people who will regularly call their representatives about privacy and civil rights issues are already members of the ACLU and/or EFF and can get updates through them. I'm not sure what group of people wouldn't want to be a part of either organization but would prefer to be a part of another organization that would send them updates on these sort of issues.

The point of websites like these is to draw in other people who either don't know about the issues or wouldn't normally put in the work to keep up with news and regularly call their representatives.
Doesn't seem to be up (anymore?).
redirects to amazon.com for me.

edit: back up. 649 seems really steep.. especially with the "32GB for the same price as other 16GB smartphones" line
Having been that "help" for many years for parents and grandparents, I can guarantee you that having a setup with as few components and cables as possible that break is more for my sanity than for their comfort. As folks get a little bit older and less nimble, random cables get pulled and drinks get spilled on keyboards.
Can't hurt to try.
Here is my recommendation; take a trip to some countries that you have never visited. Highly recommended. Istanbul, Cario, Tblisi, spend the money on pleasing yourself instead of family.
Homophironic. You can TM that.
> Geeks tend to forget that there is more to a
> computer than raw numbers.

It's especially funny on a forum like this, where most people are programmers or are otherwise involved with the software industry.

It's like... come on, people. You make software for a living. Way to devalue your own craft!
The grandparent said that they were both equally appropriate, presumably with the argument being that since there is no push to charge rural areas a "green access fee" to build parks in cities, the opposite shouldn't apply either.

One could argue that the very highway the grandparent lives by is a government-provided service to make it possible for him to go camping, but I don't know how the cost of building highways is shouldered by rural vs urban areas.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/amazon-fire-phone-news-f...

Seems to have some info on it though while we wait for the page to come back up.
We desperately need open and distributed database and search algorithms. As it stands now, we are at the mercy of a company's competence and benevolence.

Google is getting less usable by the day. Verbatim and code search don't work anymore and the relevance of results keep decreasing dispite the many revision animals they release.
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