skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also possible that indulging your instincts by seeking more partners could have a detrimental on the psychological/emotional well being of yourself or your partner.

The number of arguments for 'sexual liberation' in western society has increased over the years, but my limited life experience has shown me that this only encourages a mindset that leads to behaviors that lead to emotional anguish because people begin chasing their next sexual dopamine rush instead of spending time establishing means to care for their longer term needs.

A monogamous long term partner offers benefits that cannot be achieved any other way, and a lot of it revolves around the physiological validation of value that comes with intercourse. Sex, in a manner of speaking, is the acceptance of a person by another that they are viewed as successful enough to contribute in passing on DNA. You could say it is the pinnacle of biological success. This is where most arguments stop with the conclusion that: Sex = Good so More Sex = Better. By doing so they are failing to see the whole picture.

The above conclusion works for many animals; humans are psychologically far more complex than animals.
Humanity has to balance many other concerns including:
- The well being of other people (primarily their mate)
- their desires to progress a career
- social standing among peers
- emotional distress caused by 'loneliness'
- the rearing of children and fulfillment of personal instinct to see them succeed
- etc

All of these are areas that benefit from a monogamous relationship because the physiological and psychological needs for co-validation can be met which then frees up mental energy to focus on other things that bring more lasting value to life than the intense yet fleeting moments of an orgasm.
Keeping a Journal
>Because we need to decide which policy to enact (or not) today and not in 20 years.

It doesn't take 20 years to evaluate an argument. If, on a case by case basis, there's an argument to be made that any of the proposed answers would be better than delaying a decision, then that's an argument too, with premises and reasoning that need to be evaluated.

>Right. You have an a priori opinion that you don't need a juicer (or whatever), and you stick with that instead of wasting time considering the commercial's many valid arguments about how buying a juicer will totally enhance your life.

Maybe I've phrased it wrongly, then. If I'm watching an infomercial, I'm evaluating its arguments. I don't seek out infomercials, because I'm not interested in a juicer. It usually doesn't take very long for infomercials about juicers to make a dubious health claim when I do catch them, though, so in the past I've rejected purchasing one on the merits.

edit: added "usually", in that I've watched infomercials that never made a dubious claim, and I've used products that have been featured in infomercials and been entirely satisfied.
Isn't it true that the AGC was initially designed to be the sole navigation computer, but when the implementation did not meet the requirements for accuracy (due to accelerometer and gyroscope drift), they switched to a ground-based radar system? This meant the AGC became the back-up in case the communications system failed. Does anyone know if the AGC was ever used to make a mission-critical decision in the absence of the ground-based radar system?

Edit: I think it was actually the PGNCS that was made back-up [1]. Sorry the comment about Kalman filter had me confused. Apparently PGNCS was still used for maintaining orientation, controlling rockets, and navigation during planned outages.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PGNCS
Raise prices until the tradeoff is worth it or the demand reaches a tolerable level.
I know the signal-to-noise ratio is REALLY high, but I have some great, repeat freelance clients I found through Craigslist. Some are local and some are remote and they pay market rates.

I'd suggest (especially if you're just starting building a freelance portfolio), create some IFTTT alerts for the type of gigs your looking for in the dozen or so CL cities near you. Obviously, avoid the equity/profit trades and min. wage gigs.
What are you using Mori for that react.addons.update doesn't do?
Particle physics for kids
jahewson, I can carry 50 swivelCard with me to a networking event. I'd need a bag to do the same with a USB. Even if I had the plastic credit card versions of the same.

Beyond carrying them around, my swivelCard has access to every discount offered by the USPS for bulkrate and EDDM campaigns.
House Republicans Are Killing the Dream of Local High-Speed Fiber Internet
I think the difference might be that the guy on the submarine cares whether or not its cooked properly, because he's going to be eating it too. The Army uses contractors for the most part these days.
MH-17 Dead Body Train
1. We buffer calls to setState() and apply them all at once (they don't trigger re-renders) and mark those components as dirty. Then we sort by the depth in the hierarchy and reconcile them. Reconciling removes the dirty bit, so if we come across a node not marked as dirty we don't reconcile (since it was reconciled by one of its parents).

2. I don't think we spend a lot of time trying to make this super optimal, but git grep ReactMultiChild to see what we do.
I think it's just a consequence of Metcalfe's law; the first implementation of a good idea will never be perfect, but has the greatest chance of succeeding. Sure IPv4, JavaScript, Bitcoin, and countless others have defects, but the world is still better with than without them.
Just watch all of them. Yes, the first two seasons are weak... not as much as the first two of TNG or Voyager though...
Links:

- http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/article/rail-worker...
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/ukraine-agrees-dutch/127...
- http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/bodies-from-malaysian-airl... (coaches)
https://twitter.com/roelvanhees/status/491149222847463424/ph...
- http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2014/07/sterkte_mensen....

I'm not commenting on what happend there. It is more than horrible. However, there is a train involved, with High res pictures. macabre train porn, lets say.
Show HN: Zoi, our first HTML5 game. Running a contest to find the best player
The problem with that approach is that the MotW episodes include some of the X-Files' very best, and the Mythology became very weak and incoherent in the later seasons. I think you'd at least want to mix in some of the best MotW eps, and probably all the Lone Gunman ones as well.
Joel worked at MS on office, Excel if I recall correctly. Jeff's blog is named for a feature from a book published by MS. I would be more surprised if it was MS free.
That's true.

You have to stay on top of the length with a reel mower which means regularity. You can't plow through really long grass like you would with a gas rotary mower.

Fortunately I really enjoy it and look forward to mowing. It's a break from sitting in front of a screen and is kind of like a long walk with a little arm activity too.
Hi Remo, I'm not (yet?) into meditation hence I've have not tested your app and therefore cannot give you any feedback on it.
Nevertheless, I really like the way how you openly communicate your findings throughout your startup process. I see that you interact heavily with your customer base. That's great and interesting to follow. Your post here is underlining your open mindset.
Keep up the good and well thought out work.
felix
Interesting name, there is already a game with the exact same one released in 1997 from Maxis [now EA]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Drop . Good luck.
Stop Using One Language
If you're into shiny new things, I'd recommend Keystone:

http://keystonejs.com/

"Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB."

It's a pain to get going on a Windows machine, but I got it working on my Linux box inside of 10 minutes. If you're on a Mac, its probably about the same time to get up and running.

It also uses Jade for templates along with Markdown.
This Company Made Millions Because There Was Nothing Going On
Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead
Fortunately, I like languages and Duolingo enough to use it regardless of the streak. I've experienced a lot of weirdness with it that ultimately caused me to lose it despite daily practice.
It even says it depends on moment even in the readme. False advertising!
There is the abandoned Flare language project from long ago: http://flarelang.sourceforge.net/
I think you are underestimating how competitive the ridesharing market is.
I guess I have mixed feelings about her. She was definitely a character, and I give her credit for that. She was not out to win a popularity contest, or to be Miss Congeniality. She was gruff, old fashioned, and smart. Sort of like McCoy, but without the charm. But I just didn't buy her Luddite tendencies. Her treatment of Data bordered on cruel, even if I understand that sometimes she was doing it to make a point, or to test him in certain ways. But I just didn't get where it came from. It felt odd. And I know this isn't necessarily fair to Pulaski, but seeing as how Data is so gosh-darned lovable, her antagonism towards him makes her unlovable by association. It's like having a character whose defining traits include being mean to puppies. It's just...hard to win people over if you're going to be that person.
> propels the shell out of a gun barrel

What?

> his own weapon: a fully automatic shotgun called the AA-12.

"Auto Assault-12 (AA-12), originally designed and known as the Atchisson Assault Shotgun, is a shotgun developed in 1972 by Maxwell Atchisson." [0]

What?

Can someone please explain to me what's going on here? Is this just my own ignorance or are these factual errors?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchisson_Assault_Shotgun
My experience with building products with Drupal 6/7 is that it's great if your use case involves staying within the very rigid boundaries of what Drupal canonically does. If you need something custom or if you need highly-performant code, you're better off writing it from the ground up, because otherwise Drupal fights you the whole way.
We’re heading into a jobless future, no matter what the government does
Why not? Eventually stuff like this is possible: http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html

;-)
To be clear, most servers are moving to 2012 R2 (most already have) but the machines our SQL clusters run on, specifically, will not.

This is because you have to effectively (or literally) rebuild the Windows cluster from scratch and we just don't get that level of benefit from the 2012 to 2012 R2 upgrade. There are quite a few improvements we care about: native NVMe, better dynamic quorum, better DSC support, better SMB, and such...but not enough to make the upgrade worth it.

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Note the sender: David L. Johnston

He was the president of the University of Waterloo at the time but today he's the Governor General of Canada, that is, the Queen's representative in Canada. In principle, he has the power to veto any bill from becoming law (analogous to the US President's veto power), but in practice that's never happened, and probably won't.
Are you really trying to assert that MIRI is addressing systems on the level of Google cars, in any serious technical manner? If so, can you point to examples?
Can't say I agree with the guy but it seems an interesting question as to whether some government functions could be better served by 'algorithmic regulation.' I think if the algorithms were open source and well tested it could work better for some stuff.
Probably because the engineers are a lot worse.
They discussed it quite a bit on the podcasts. I found those a really great resource since Jeff and Joel were discussing the website as they were building it and "aired" the reasons for doing specific things.
Great list! If you're interested in rapid-prototyping a platform game, check out a game that I'm working on called Beta.

There's a free trial download at www.betathegame.com
Agreed. The more I think about BTC, the more I understand that the exchange protocol is the most useful part of it. Storing value in an encrypted wallet on your computer is inconvenient to say the least. Not that I want local storage of value to go away, but as a consumer I want a very different payment experience than "here, have my CC number" or "let me pay with PayPal".
Sure. But he's talking about "the history of humanity", and I'm certain you can show that women, even Caucasian ones, are hardly the most mollycoddled.

The hyperbole undercuts his argument. And he wonders why people get riled up and offended. :/
Bitcoin is to payment system as git is to source control system.

It's an interesting toolbox that can be used on its own, but gains a ton of power once tools are built on top of it.
tldr; season 1 and 2 are weak, and then they find their pace and things are amazing.

More seriously, though, I'm so glad In The Pale Moonlight is ranked as one the top episodes (three episodes are ranked 9.5). I think it's one of the best episodes of television and Star Trek in general, and it's certainly one of my favorite episodes of DS9.

(in case anyone doesn't remember, it's the episode where Sisko gets the Romulans into the war with Garak's help, and has a final monologue in lines with "I can live with it" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YyL7X4CWw)
This is encouraging news. A huge blow to fair use and access to media is being struck as we move to electronic formats for music, movies, and books. Libraries, rental services, used bookstores, and more depend on this concept to allow greater and fairer access to media. How we transition this concept into the world of digital media will greatly effect the extent to which we can fulfill the promise of computers and the Internet to make life better.

The First Sale Doctrine may be difficult to apply in a world of digital media, but it is not more difficult to apply than Copyright itself. Establishing a legal right to resell digital goods is a necessary counterbalance to the evergrowing power of Copyright owners over how we use our computers.
Definitely. Some of the most efficient C code I have seen is incomprehensible to anyone but a C expert and even then it takes several minutes to understand all of the nuances of what might only be a 4-line function.
This is completely ad hominem.

Since I have seen much of the advice in this article help me live a happier life the conclusion I draw is that the author, and likely many of the CEOs running these companies are likely unhappy and un-fullfilled and that they are missing any wisdom in this piece as much as their employees may be.
Luke didn't walk by Scientology, he walked in:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/58m/build_small_skills_in_the_right_...

You'll see me in the comments going "WHAT THE HELL, HERO."
I was sort of attempting to string together related milestones (transportation). It would be better to compare card catalogs to wikipedia (and the printing press before).

Or video communications (FaceTime/Skype) with the telegraph and telephone. The development of telephone goes back as far as the bike/car so I'd posit that communications technology grew at about the same pace.
The Mormon Alphabet Experiment
The article covers that. The original design was done by Atchisson, then sold to Baber, who improved on it.
If an area actually provides a better environment for business, there would be no need to throw taxpayer money at businesses to attract them.
Humans Aren’t the Pinnacle of Evolution – We’re Only a Rung on the Ladder
I went to an art show of ACiD/iCE members in SF 6 or so years ago. Had boards hooked up to screens to show the ANSI, do autoscrolls, etc. Was pretty awesome.
What editor are you using in that gif? Or is that just 10.10 that makes it look "cleaner"?
Chromebook gains, Microsoft worries
Can you explain this? Why would you be okay with the delivery guy underpaid, but not the engineers? Doesn't make sense, unless I am missing something.
Seems to be the relevant bit: https://spideroak.com/zero-knowledge/
Underscore was chosen in JS presumably because it is a valid variable name that isn't used for anything. Underscore in Go actually means something, which is why this is actually double-underscore, which makes it even visually more confusing.

The approach is interesting, but I'd really rather see a better name.
TLC Wrongly Accused Hundreds of Being Illegal Cabbies in Past Year
I'm appalled that you do so little to help starving children in Africa. Instead you've put your efforts into helping the inhabitants of the richest country in the world.

</sarcasm>
users=db.get("SELECT name FROM users WHERE group='admin'")

is more efficient and understandable then:

users=[];
tmp=db.get("SELECT name,group FROM users")
for (i=0;i<tmp.count();i++)
{
if (tmp[i]['group']=='admin') users[]=tmp[i][name];
}
Every real-world chemist who looks into the idea.
1. The boundaries are currently at event loop. Whenever an event comes in, we dispatch it to React and every time the user calls setState on the component, we mark it as dirty. At the end of that dispatch, we go from top to bottom and re-render elements.

It's possible to change the batching boundaries via "Batching Strategies" but we haven't exposed/documented it properly yet. If you are interested, you can look at requestAnimationFrame batching strategy. https://github.com/petehunt/react-raf-batching

2. We cannot really use normal diff algorithms for list because elements are stateful and there is no good way for React to properly guess identity between old and new. We're pushing this to the developer via the `key` attribute.

See this article I wrote for a high level overview of how the diff algorithm is working: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/diff/
One way to address the private utility companies' argument -- that a publicly owned utility has a natural advantage over for-profit companies -- is to change the corporate structure of the utility so that it's no longer publicly owned.

For instance, it might be converted into a for-profit company, with the city retaining a portion of the shares, or into a cooperative (as many utilities, particularly those in rural communities, are incorporated). In fact, it could even sell off its shares in times of need to finance other municipal needs.

If it's converted into a cooperative, it would become 100% member-owned, and any profits would not go to outside shareholders, as with a publicly traded company, but would instead go back to its member-owners in the form of lower costs.

The more I think about it, the more I think this is the way to go for other cities of a similar size. Clearly, Comcast/Verizon weren't very interested in laying down their own fiber there if the city beat them to it. And once a utility company (in this case, publicly owned) has an effective monopoly in a certain area, it's going to be hard for others to introduce competing infrastructure. BUT, I would think that the ability to then sell the publicly owned utility would have significant value to the municipalities.
How to strengthen your startup idea with design thinking
Read further in the Wikipedia article, the first sentence in the 'History' section is

> In 1987, Max Atchisson sold the rights of the AA-12 to Jerry Baber of Military Police Systems, Inc., Piney Flats, Tennessee

Quoting the New Yorker in full

>[...]he started producing, from start to finish, his own weapon: a fully automatic shotgun called the AA-12.

it is obvious that he was the first to produce a mass market ready model. The article doesn't claim that he invented it.
Just to confirm, the article doesn't really make it clear (or I'm just dense), but are they carrying broadband through power lines?
Oh man, I am so laughing and hating myself right now. Brilliant definition!
Science Exchange (YC S11) is hiring another UI Engineer
Session managers like tmuxinator and tmuxp are unnecessarily complex and counter-intuitive. Some people may enjoy configuring tmux sessions with a verbose and structured JSON or YAML files, but I want the session configured as quickly and easily as possible so I can get back to work.

Also, tmuxomatic offers a great deal of flexibility for pane layouts that is unmatched by any other session manager.
Even before OS'es supported that much people were sticking that much RAM on expansion bus cards and plugging them in and treating them like fast disks. So it is going to happen either way. The performance boost for the DB is just too much compared to it thrashing disks constantly and there are quite a few benefits to having fewer machines compared to many DB servers as well.
Announcing MemSQL Start[c]UP 2.0
Typical response from entrenched American monopolies: Use the courts to prop up your outdated business model so that you aren't required to innovate.
apendleton, interesting thought. I'm on the marketing and sales team for swivelCard. I wanted to share with you my experience in the field of technology. I previously worked for a technology solution company. Their solution is a 100% greenification to very LARGE events & trade shows. The platform offered every exhibitor to trade & distribute information digitally. My last event with them was 14 months ago. My number one take-away was, even with the most advanced technology available people still use business cards.

Beyond that, I attend an average of three networking meeting a month that typically have 100+ professionals in attendance all of which use business cards.

I'll agree with you partially, standard physical cards might be on the way out. However, I personally believe they will be replaced with a technology that carry a little more value.
I don't think it was a case of "let's make the next greatest CMS... what language should we choose..?" I suspect it was more like "what can we build to showcase Symfony." So, using PHP is somewhat the point of the project.

But, considering your question more generically as far as if you wanted to write a Wordpress killer must it be written in PHP? I would say that currently the answer is yes. PHP hosting is ubiquitous and you would face an uphill battle if you also had to wait for shared host providers to provide another environment.

It's kinda chicken/egg thing. If customers start requesting Erlang being installed on shared hosting then providers will start offering it. The thing is, most Wordpress customers don't give two shits about what language their CMS is written in. I'd argue that many of them don't even know what language it is written in.
Which section should I look into?
The invtro to the NVScene party this year was very stylish and featured music from Dune/Orange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYOBq4NLjtY
I assume that's why he said "Also" rather than "Instead".
Undeserved Tickets Issued for Red Lights in Chicago
"Google suggests using microdata"
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en&ref...

I have no horse in this race, but isn't Google the search engine kinda the deciding factor here?
This is great news. Typescript compiler's slowness negatively affected my work flow. Hopefully 5x is fast enough.
Though Luke's involvement does not, not that that really means much.
I would think that EA would probably exercise their copyright and any trademarks they have on the Marble Drop name. Anyone have possible insight to this?
See, this is the sort of thing that I hate reading about.

Like, yes, we have drones, and yes, we have firearms, and yes, we can add one to the other--but is it really a good idea?

The potential for abuse of such systems is absurd; I cannot believe that any engineer with a shred of morality would voluntarily work on such things without at least a solid explanation of why doing so is permissible.

Mark my words: these things will mostly be used against civilians and dissidents--not standing armies.