skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropping LSD is something that, unless you know for a straight up fact is pure, is rather sketchy. Most LSD these days is some other chemical. Try to stay pure. Go with the ayahuasca or other plant based methods like shrooms. You will get all the benefits of a total mental reset, lasting invigoration for life and your fellow man, clean thoughts about where you stand, and love. The love part and the peace that comes with it is hard to put into words. If I tried, it would be like knowing what I know now, but back when I was a child. Too powerful for normal comprehension.
Right but I'm curious if, as the GP claimed, there were any population centers in the US not well connected via rail. It's possible that when the interstates were built, that they created new population centers not connected by rail but I'm unaware of any. Do you know of any?
What do you think best predict what kind of neighborhood someone grows up in, what kind of kindergarten that can be afforded, peers someone has a chance get to know and what schools they will attend?

The chain of causality from parent's success (or lack thereof) to children's success doesn't only go via the parents direct influence on the children, but probably more through the environment they have the means and foresight to provide.
Is there a description available of the parts that the quote refers to?
Most likely the professor is pulling together whatever information she can with the resources she has. Can you imagine how big of a ground effort it would take to collect the information you described?
Absolutely nobody forces you to have a TV, a facebook account and a smartphone.

In the most literal sense you're absolutely right of course. You can live without them. However, the real world isn't doesn't work on such absolutes.

Social isolation and loneliness are dibilitating conditions that can lead to serious mental illness (depression, anxiety, etc), so if you're not in a position to socialise without at least Facebook or a smartphone you should think twice before cancelling them. Many, many people would find themselves left out of group events if they cancelled their social media accounts. It's the de facto way of organising things these days. That is something that's well worth thinking about before making the leap.

I've spent long periods of my life working from remote locations, and without an internet connection to talk to my friends it would have (figuratively) killed me.
Feminism meaning a belief that women should be treated equally to men?

Hopefully all of them, and the other 53% too.
This piece reminded me a lot of the John Cleese speech on creativity, which I encountered here last year.

TL;DR You need an hour or two of interrupted time every so often to daydream.
mitmproxy, it's fantastic.
I love the Peachy Printer guys...I really do. They're taking a unique and interesting approach towards 3d printing. The only problem is they are about a year behind schedule in shipping. Furthermore, without advanced and expensive optics (like an F-Theta Lens, at >$300), they never will be able to print much larger than 2"x2" footprint objects. It's a problem inherent to galvanometers. Furthermore, they've only shipped a handhold of units--most of their kickstarter supporters (myself included) have not yet received their units.

Honestly, after backing Peachy and researching SLA printers considerably, I'm more intrigued by SeeMeCNC's DropLit when looking at the future of 3D consumer printers.
This is kind of false. Thunderbolt is not properly supported in the kernel. The keyboard is funky etc. You can run Linux on an MBA, but you're honestly better off going with a hardware that isn't actively hostile to open standards.

Re trackpads: The trackpad on the thinkpad X1 series is great
I've read a lot of articles about the previous rifles in question and I think the "Linux" part may as well be a stand in for "Computer Assisted/Augmented". I've never gotten the impression that the part about Linux really matters outside of that. There doesn't appear to be any kind of openness as far as the ecosystem or the software goes. I think the gun is interesting outside of that, but definitely a misleading title for people that have certain expectations as far as the ethos of linux/open source goes.

Re: the ammunition, I think this approach would be interesting combined with some form of learning algorithm that could adapt to different ammunition (assuming it was different but reasonably consistent ammunition), but, if I recall correctly, this all seemed to be very much "hard coded" into the rifles software, based on the proprietary ammunition. Given the $20k price tag and the possibility of expecting 1000 yard shots, the $5 - $7 a shot seems what I'd expect (match grade .308 ammo can go for $1 - $3 anyway).

Still reading through this article; interested to see if the reliance on proprietary ammunition holds on something that's not meant to give 1000 yard shots to relative novices
All the things you describe are symptoms of the fact that their is a wage-differential caused by trade/immigration barriers. That's why I said it has to get worse before it'll get better. Even if the current barriers create problems... More barriers will just make the subsequent correction more catastrophic for the individuals involved.
> The author is full of it. Whichever system you grew up with will seem natural to you.

This seems to be a reinforcement of the point you quoted, and not a refutation of it.
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak was a 2-yr-old boy in Guinea
Honda’s global strategy: Go local
Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old
"...truckers have to choose between keeping their jobs or obeying safety regulations..."

One of the most important tips I found in an older driver training manual I saw once was to buy a device that plugs into your radio and to record every conversation with dispatchers. When the company gives the driver grief about not breaking the rules, playing those recordings for the company driver safety officer was an important tactic.
These are all good points, but it's also important to realize that American and European populations are very different in regards to constituency (you touched on this a bit with your point about the rich-poor gap). So a simple drop-in-place European substitute isn't likely to be as effective as it might seem.

That's not to say that things don't need to change or that they have to be this way, but I think it will require more than simply copying Europe.
Try a tiling window manager and you won't go back to that fluffy Mac drop shadow frivolity ever again. It looks very pretty, but for getting work done, managing windows is a needless chore, and animations on everything just slows you down.
Very interesting comparison, thanks for pointing out the advantages / disadvantages of the different implementations.

I can see why the corner cases of CanBuildFrom are perceived as very troublesome, but I have to say that after working with Scala for many years now, this has never been an issue in practice.
Why are some stocks so undervalued?
1. I remember that research, but it deals only with "programmed self-destruction". To completely fix the mortality problem we'd need to redesign the human organism from the ground up, which might not be feasible. Kind of "second system syndrome".

2. Right, having attained technological immortality, rich people could completely isolate themselves from the poor, getting richer and richer (in the broad sense of the word - more experienced, more advanced in studies, etc) and poor would lose even the theoretical path into this "rich bubble". You can't "rather avoid the drawbacks" by stopping progress, you'll have to use the progress to avoid drawbacks, but I do not see how.

Cryonics is not a backup. Backup implies working restore procedure. Cryonics is like removing platters from the hard drive with a screwdriver and putting them into file cabinet somewhere in someone's basement, hoping that they would be just okay. Yeah, possible.
How very condescending of you. Feel free to stop talking if you want, but that doesn't mean you have "won".

In any case, your response is completely wrong. I thought we'd discussed this already. Accepting a bitcoin transaction with 0 confirmations is more risky than a credit card, because you have no recourse if you get scammed. With a credit card, the credit card company accepts the fraud risk, not the individual retailers.

Also, credit score? It sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about. You can't check credit score for individual retailer purchases. That's done when applying for a credit card, not using one. Retailers also don't typically maintain databases of high-risk customers, or really do anything at all on the subject of fraud beyond possibly check ID against credit card (which is actually very rarely done unless the retailer has a reason to be suspicious of the card). The only retailers that would ever need to do anything like that are low-volume high-price retailers that can afford the extra effort spend on every customer.

In the end, when you pay with a credit card, the retailer gets confirmation from the CC company effectively instantly that the payment has gone through. It takes just a couple seconds, and at that point the retailer's job is done, they don't carry any fraud risk. If the guy turns out to have been using a stolen card, it's the CC company that pays. But if you pay with bitcoin, and you don't wait for a confirmation, then by definition you have no confirmation that payment has gone through. If you let the customer walk away, and the payment doesn't end up going through, then the retailer is out 100% of the cost, with no recourse.

So yes, retailers that are willing to accept the entirety of the risk may choose to accept bitcoin with 0 confirmations. But not all retailers will do that, and I warrant a majority of retailers won't want to do that. The two classes of retailers that might are 1) the retailers that don't understand the risk they're accepting by doing this, and 2) the retailers that are in a market where their target customers are more likely than most to care about bitcoin and therefore accepting bitcoin will work as a marketing strategy.
Harassment includes verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and >expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

And who gets to determine if I'm doing any of these things?
The conference organizers? If I attend this conference, how
can they assure me that I won't be at the mercy of conference
attendees that suddenly decide I'm harassing them simply because
I say something within their vicinity they disagree with a la
Adria Richards?

Although I guess Richards would have been taken to task for
"harassing photography". Although by that point it would have been
too late anyway.

The problem with these speech codes is that they're just as easily
used as a way to silence and shame people who's views differ
from those of organizations like geekfeminism (i.e. not radfem).

You don't have to be a feminist to treat women respectfully.
That's why the router my ISP gave me is treated as hostile and placed outside my home network.
Firefox requires disabling of master password to sync passwords
With the release of Firefox 29 you must disable your master password if you wish to continue to sync your website passwords (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-cant-i-sync-my-passwords) via Firefox sync. Mozilla's take on this here https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-new-security-model/ as well as a bug report and heated discussion over it being pushed out like this here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995268
No delete key either, only backspace.

None of these thing is a show stopper, but they kind of add up to a sub par experience.
Ain't nobody got time for that.

Forget about all of this and write software. Put a moratorium on learning new languages and totally strike from your brain any code style concerns. When there's a time to worry about languages, formatting, and style, worry at that time, not now as it's a subconscious way to procrastinate or avoid thinking about actual programming issues.
"...simply refused to drive in snow and hated driving in big cities. So he didn't."

Any chance you could hook me up with your uncle? I'm interested in changing careers and am moderately financially secure. :-)
The Logic Of Crazy Valuations
> I'm going to post a recent Onion article. It shares some of my thoughts on the subject matter far more eloquently than my own words ever could.

Eloquent or not, I thought that the supplied article was irresponsible and lacked substance.

I sincerely hope that the given name "Travis Benton", is a pseudonym (and that photograph is not of him). If a potential employer has perused this article, it could effect his chances of gaining more suitable or substantial employment.

The article has possibly put "Mr. Benton" at a serious disadvantage in life. If a similar article was published about me I would call up the editor and shoot hell-fire down the phone.
thanks, I've heard/read about that before and I'll give it a shot!
It seems to me that the most common general use of these units is to describe ambient outdoor temperatures, and while I admit that I haven't traveled widely, I'd be astonished to discover that most countries outside the US have physical environments more reminiscent of, say, Mercury or Venus, than what we in the US parochially consider to be Earth's standard range of atmospheric temperatures.

I suppose that's why I consider Fahrenheit to be a very appropriate scale - since it centers nicely on the range of temperatures one might actually experience on Earth, naively assuming that America is representative of the rest of the planet - and isn't quite so arbitrary as one indexed to the temperature of boiling water, a phenomenon which a person in America - and, presumptuously, the rest of the Earth - isn't likely to encounter without having intentionally induced it.

But perhaps -15 and 40 really are more sensible positions for roughly opposite extremes, and we really are the odd ones for using 0 and 100.
He's into everything that has an endorsement deal attached, to the point that he's become a bit of a punchline in electronic music circles.
Poll: What do you think of Halt and Catch Fire?
What do you think of the new show Halt and Catch Fire? It seems it would be popular among developers.

http://www.amctv.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire
But at what point do we draw the line of responsibility? There are many examples of poor/struggling people that made the best of what they had and made sure that their children had a good start in life.

Yes, my parents were poor and struggling. But they pushed through, made sacrifices and made sure that me and my sister had a good start in life. Free from the burdens that they bore.

To me, the line of responsibility does not cross over a generational boundary. All these individuals that have rough and tough childhoods, are responsible for their own actions. And they're also responsible for not ruining an innocent's or unborn's future by bringing them into this world, and then abandoning them by not doing their best to break the cycle of violence, poverty and lack of education.
Makerbot is owned by Stratasys for over a year now. They don't have 5 years experience, they have 25 years available experience to tap into.
4 Simple CSS Transitions to Enhance Your Buttons
If you guys find this stuff interesting, when you're in NYC be sure to pop into The Evolution Store in SOHO, and the Hunterian Museum if you're in London.
To the larger issue of "my shell is slow", it's very helpful to profile it. I keep some standard startup profiling code[1] in my .zshrc that I enable when I need to profile things. In my experience, this virtually always identifies a very specific culprit for performance problems.

[1] https://github.com/jwhitley/zshrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L18

and https://github.com/jwhitley/zshrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L151
No. It's a standard bond but the bond paper is held by the court.

When the court case comes to a conclusion, then you get your bond paper and you keep any interest earned.
Not at all. I know what you mean, however a tooltip is easy to add to the labels - issue is this won't solve the issue for mobile devices.

As for sub-menus, I never needed it for my project so never added it... and honestly didn't expect anyone else to see this. Will have a tinker with it though, see if I can make it look decent.
Yeah whatever you have to do to trick investors, right?

"We got 5000 new users in the first hour!"
Sure thing, I can free up some time at some point this week. Interested to hear what you have in mind.
I don't think the corporate structure matters at this point. If you get investors they'll want a C-corp anyhow and you can hire a lawyer to create it once you have investor interest.

If you want to limit liability, an LLC won't matter until you have enough money to separate your personal finances from the company.

Rely on a copyright notice and a disclaimer of liability (like the ones found in any software license in all caps).

Basically until you have income or investors, registering a business is just a waste of your money.

IANAL - not legal advice
This comment has practically nothing to do with the article. As usual, any submission concerning improving the ratio of women to men in our industry immediately becomes a coatrack for digs about "radfem".

For those of you who read the comments before clicking through to the article: this one is a list of things an event organizer did to try to boost attendance among women. None of them appear at all controversial. The "code of conduct" section this commenter takes issue with is table stakes at most major conferences. But that doesn't mean rude commenters will miss an opportunity to beat a dead horse.
Oh, I read the article. I object specifically to the idea of my parent, that -being a charity- implies they should be giving their employees more. As if charities were in the business of being generous.
No idea :p
I only read the abstract, but saw it mentioned program obfuscation, which is something I'm passingly familiar with but don't know much about.

Does anyone know the current state of this? From what I've heard from reverse engineers most software seems fairly easy to reverse. And even something like Stuxnet was capable of being reversed by a relatively small consulting firm if I recall correctly.
Did you try adding your CA to /system/etc/security/ ?
The Onion is a satire site...
The assumption underlying these criteria is that you have a B2B, enterprise, and/or SaaS company.
Can you cite any examples of people who have been silenced or shamed by a conference harrassment code?

At a professional conference, it should not be that hard to control your behavior. Just pretend your grandparents are with you. Adults routinely modulate their behavior based on the setting and it really is not a burden.

You can come up with all kinds of theoretical scenarios where you're a conference martyr. But I would really like to hear some specific, shocking examples of this happening to anyone. Because I've heard a lot of specific, shocking examples of women being verbally and physically harrassed.
I don't actually mean particular jobs, bur rather that 20% of any job that everyone hates. Almost no job on earth is fun 100% of the time.

But if I were to bail on the part of my job that I don't like, my end users will be pissed off. So I do all of it because I get paid okay.
Their version of feminism isn't all that clear at all from the description. Essentially all forms of feminism that revolve around women's "feelings and lived experiences" use them to prop up their underlying ideological beliefs - the only feelings and lived experiences that are accepted are the ones that confirm their ideology.

You can see this in the list of out-of-scope items. For example, no "apologia for misogynist, anti-feminist, oppressive, or other harmful actions or ideas" is allowed - in practice this tends to include stuff like having an unfeminine attitude to sex and sexuality, doing sex work, being friends with anyone who does, opposing bans on it, being kinky, or complaining about any bad experiences you've had with other mainstream feminist women including systematic online and offline harassment (which is a serious problem for some groups of women).

If you think about the guidelines it's easy to tell they exclude some women's feelings and lived experiences, but there's no way to tell which. The linked page makes it sound like the policy affects oppressors when it's mostly those who are worst off that get screwed.
Yes, but they still don't have the capacity commensurate with the number of boats offloading at the ports.
Photosynth 3D
Bail isn't a fee, but a security that you will return to court for trial: you put up $n bail, which is forfeited only if you flee, and returned if you show up for your court dates as promised. It's intended to make it more likely that when you're let out of jail pending trial, you won't become a fugitive, because you don't want to forfeit the bail.

But for that to be effective, the bail amount has to be a substantial portion of your net worth, so that it would actually be painful to lose it. If someone is worth billions and the bail is only $1m or something, they can just shrug it off, so it would be ineffective at compelling appearance.
Publicity is a multiplier for product quality. Until your product quality is really high - as in, people are seeking out your product because their friends recommend it - the marginal benefit of publicity will be less than the marginal benefit of improving product quality. If you are at that point, you won't need publicity, though it can help accelerate your growth.

You are almost always better off talking to your existing users and getting their honest feedback about the product than trying to get a celebrity endorsement.
With tuples in C++11 you can have multiple return values and ignore ones you don't want: http://ideone.com/3eHOld
Microsoft was showing the new version at Web3D 2014 a couple of hours ago:

https://twitter.com/mattatheque/status/498537142386049025
2004 Tsunami mum and daughter reunited a decade later
No, Richards would have been fine, because these things are only prohibited when they reinforce "social structures of domination."

This is in line with the standard "reverse *ism categorically can't exist" claim. Discrimination is only bad when it favors the more powerful group, or so the claim goes. So a person might be rejected by a conference solely beause he is a white male, but because the system of power is (on balance) in favor of white males, that is not racism or sexism and not prohibited.
An argument for speedy decision making when investing or raising venture capital
"Many successful people will resent contributing to the welfare of the not-so-successful regardless of who is to blame for the misfortune of the latter. It's yet another instance of the tribal mentality dividing people into "us" and "them"."

Yes, but you should take care to not attribute their definitions of "us" and "them", with the ones you imagine they do. It's all too-popular to assume that they mean "us, wealthy" and "them, lazy entitled leeches".

It could just as well mean something a little more genuine such as "us, hardworking" and "them, mooching off the state/our hardwork".

I'm not saying it's either. But I find that people regularly attribute very mean, hateful and prejudiced motivations to the rich, privileged or those they don't like. Most of the time, it's simply implied in the comments.