skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a discussion similar in some ways to Richard P. Gabriel's "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big". It's similar to Eric Ries's ideas about a minimally viable product.

Lisp Machines running Lisp programs edited in Emacs might be the theoretically superior way to do things. Microkernels which don't crash when some device code fails might be a superior way to do things. In a competitive market with things moving forward, people don't always have the time to fiddle with something until it's perfect. By the time the Lisp people get together and hash out Common Lisp (which Gabriel says was in many ways a poor compromise), or simplify everything with Scheme - the Unix/C people have already won. By the time things like Hurd finally become viable, OS's like Linux are already everywhere. People will take the poor substitute now and make it the default worldwide, and live with the backwards compatibility problems rather than wait years for people to come down from ivory towers with the perfect solution. You can go on and on with the examples - which chip had a better instruction set, MIPS or the Intel chip with all its legacy stuff? It doesn't matter, Intel already had a toehold and people would rather stick with it than switch.
It's true that a whole lot of important filtering goes on.

Otherwise we'd have to put up with Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey, when we could be reading polished high-quality titles that twinkle with the elusive literary aura that only publishers can add.

[snerk]

Here is The Thing: publishing used to be an educated middle class business catering to educated middle class readers.

Self-publishing opened the market to less-educated writers producing work for less-educated readers. Amazon basically reinvented the old Victorian penny dreadful market in digital form.

Does this matter? Not really. The penny dreadfuls didn't kill literature. In fact, in a round-about way, they eventually launched science fiction and fantasy as genres.

Publishers gave up on real literature back in the 80s, when all the old small semi-amateur publishing houses were swallowed by corporate sharks. So don't look for not-crappy there.

There is some basic filtering to eliminate people who can't write at all. But Amazon reviewers are getting pickier, so it's not obvious the can't write at all crowd will survive for much longer.

Meanwhile, many not-quite-mainstream writers have pulled themselves out of publisher-enforced poverty by selling direct.

Is this a bad thing? No, it really isn't.
I'm very fond of his sequel gem. The source is really great just to browse through and learn from.
I can't help but make the assumption that the protagonists are machines and then wonder that they weren't 'invented' by a meat species at some stage in their history.

The arrogance of the meat-species, eh! They could be cells of phosphorescent algae, communicating by radioactive emission, or collections of electrical charge in balls of substrate. Who the Hell knows.

Great story!
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Hi HN/Paul,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I do have ADHD. I got the diagnosis and I have medication prescribed. But, I have strong internal resistance towards taking medication. I realize I have no choice and took some today. I keep thinking if Teddy Roosevelt had ADHD he would spend all his time on working out, eating perfectly nutritious food and use whatever natural means there is to beat it.

I took around 2 to 3 vipassana meditation courses. It was brutal but it helped me focus for a few months (4 to 5 months) but afterwards I slowly reverted back.

I have strong entrepreneurial inclinations. I simply see too many possibilities. I am not very detail oriented. Should I play to my strengths or simply suck it up and rewire my brain through hard work. What if I don't have ADHD but I am simply a very creative individual? I know I am very creative. All my thoughts are out of the box. My problem solving approach is pretty wild and not straight and linear like everybody else.

I am afraid that the medication will dissolve some brain tissue and I will end up being dependent on it eventually. I don't think logically that clearly but I am very intuitive. Do you think if I get my attention under control I can think more logically? Sorry for too many questions. I am in a desperate place right now.
What about this?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife....

AFAIK Android did ship with something like that recently but they killed it, not that I saw it personally. I reckon they killed it due to people shooting permissions randomly.

What I want to see is a trust rating for an app when I install it which analyses the required permissions, the company's reputation and the privacy implications.
Even if gambling is completely legal in Michigan, most casinos still seem to be Native American owned/run. Actually, it might even be every casino except the three in downtown Detroit.
I just like to think of it at the universe's loading screen.
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This is how things were in the bad old days. But there is a lot of "impedance" mismatch between editors like Blender/3DS Max and game engines that this really isn't done much any more. The only exception is for modeling/animating characters and objects -- the levels themselves are almost always assembled and configured in tool (game engine) now.
There's nothing wrong with optimising for Grandma. The key is to make the most useful features easy to get at, and the more powerful ones discoverable.

The bookmark/history manager could be better. It has no autocomplete/awesomeness in the search. It's actually quite an awkward UI.

It's not keyboard friendly. And their are odd inconsistancies. Should the default behaviour of clicking on a link open it in new tab?

Recent bookmarks and most visited are nice smart bookmark folder, these are useful but hard to reach in that tool. Some bookmark management feels a little like a black box.

At least you can tag bookmarks. Scrolling through a massive list of tags isn't much fun.
Any regular magnet stuck to a fridge is doing this too. Which is very much where a lot of the misunderstandings of people with free energy seem to stem from: they fail to recognize magnetism as no different to the force which is stopping the fridge, the floor and everything else from simply plummeting through the Earth.
True, and there are benefits you get for that 3% (rental car insurance, reduced cost of a mugging, etc. etc.) but I still wonder if cash (not necessarily bitcoin) would be better for the system as a whole for everyday purchases.
> Google doesn't care who is it rewarding, google cares about the users that search, they've said that multiple times.

Hum, well I've grown wary of what Google say. Like puting comercial mail in a separated inbox is to help the user.
It also happens to indirectly help Adsense.

> And yes, people with better resources build on average better things than people without them.

Does that mean content created by association without a dime for instance is on average inferior ?

I happen to like cooking. I often find websites with great content by word of mouth. They are generally badly ranked because they look like they were done on Frontpage and from Geocities ages. Yet the content is very good and even sometime quite unique. They rank badly because they are not speedy and in beautiful html5. That's elitism. Maybe they should by Adwords.

> Even then, still 10 times better than plain text HTTP so my whole office can see what I'm browsing with a simple console command.

That is one of the few good arguments for HTTPS everywhere : privacy.

> And while you don't control the origin (nobody can without breaking compatibility)

You can encrypt or even just sign emails without breaking compatibility. Put commercial email in a separated inbox is OK but put unencrypted and/or unsigned email in a separated inbox is not ?

> While getting that password over HTTP is almost trivial for anyone sitting around me.
> I really can not get which scenario you are picturing here. Setting it up is not rocket science.

Is it better to have open WiFi or WiFi with WEP ? It's the same because WEP is nowadays easily broken by script kiddies with simple tools.

That the scenario I'm picturing here. A web full of weak/broken certs to comply for ranking, people feeling safe (it's encrypted right ?) and script kiddies with trival tools to break the WEP equivalent of weak/broken HTTPS certs.

Granted, maybe I'm over-pessimistic here but the trend annoy me. i don't take Google at face value anymore. You know they excel at long play.

On the bright side, maybe people will use their certs for more than HTTPS ... say mail server for instance :)
LOL. I remember when this was a "thing".
I've read many compliments about LINQ and how it was something fundamentally more powerfull than just a sql wrapper ( i think i remembered the dreaded word "monad", but i'm not suree), but i haven't found any detailled analysis of the theory behind that technology.

Anyone got a link to something like that ?
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Might I say though, the project has improved greatly since I last came across it.
Jack Bauer will take good care of this issue
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I knew this! I am pretty strong and quick at math/calculus etc. The reason being that I over practiced while learning it.

Looks like I have to do the same now. Simply spend lots of hours after work and focus on being mechanical. It is pretty depressing right, why should I struggle so much when everybody else is having it easy?

But at-least I am passionate about technology/business and hopefully massive repeated practice will pay off. I was reading wikipedia article after your comment and it turns out people with Alzheimer's can remember after a lot of repetition. At-least, I am grateful that I don't have Schizophrenia or something like that.
Not exactly. Brain chemistry is complicated.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/03/dopamine-the-...
I'm assumed that it's called C space because the speed of light is normally termed c - so the space was described in terms of the limiting speed.
proc is basically the Greek proktos as in proctology as in anus. Now we have just made an association to anuses and proctology procedures and I'll let you take from here.
Hey, here is wishing you all the very best in your treatment. I really hope you will come out stronger!
A techies epiphany on why English is more important for life than STEM
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I came across his videos before. I don't like that much personally because he is so negative, judgmental, cynical and cocky. But I watched this and it confirms all the issues that I deal with on a day to day basis.

I should probably go into consulting where there are more immediate consequences or go into business myself working on my own startup where I am in control.

My colleagues already comment on how I am hardly at my desk. Thanks for the link, I will make it a point to watch all his videos and try to address them.
There is an opera of this poem by Fredosphere. I think it comes out really well, but I always get strange looks when it comes out of iTunes.

http://fredosphere.uni-nets.com/
Wanna know the real reason? C is just the maximum floating point value of the computer that our universe's simulation is running on. Similarly, the Planck length is the value closest to zero.
> It's mind boggling to me that this wasn't done a year or two ago.

Two years ago, obtaining the same amount of bitcoins as this attack did would net you 1/100th the profit in dollars (bitcoins were around $6 a piece two years ago).

I think it's likely that attackers started considering this scheme around a year ago, when the bitcoin price shot up to $100, and the potential rewards became sizable.
Soundcloud comments seem more like Twitter-style one-liners than an actual discussion with replies etc. I actually find some of the youtube comments amusing; for example, the comments following the Russian dash cam videos and other such weird-but-true slices of life.

Internet communities are a work in progress. Reader comment/talkback/forum plugins are considered a necessity, and yet much of their content is pointless and trivial.

Hacker News does a pretty good job, for some reason, maybe mostly because of the ferocious moderation of anyone who strays from factual and reasonable sorts of statements into ad hominem or pointless sorts of space wasting.

But most sites are terrible. I guess the only solution is heavy moderation and a core of reasonable folks.
I think you're targeting the wrong use case. Sure, some people will want to monitor their own sites for breaking changes. But I assume far more people want to monitor multiple (as in dozens, hundreds) of other websites looking for changes. Think price changes, etc.

In fact I had to implement a similar system before any of these nice technologies existed. I was working at a small company in Texas that managed your electricity bill for you in the complicated and deregulated Texas utility market. When I got there, they were manually checking ~100 different utility websites for price changes once a week. When I left, thanks to a system like this, they spent 20 minutes a day manually inputting the price change only on the plans that the system alerted them had changed.
In a foreign country, half of 5 = 3. Based on that same proportion, what's one-third of 10? Also, what's your favourite Justin Beiber "song"?
These aliens obviously haven't visited the Meat Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA
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"The film begins with two bedraggled peasants, Tahei and Matashichi (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara). Through conversation, they reveal that they had intended to fight alongside the Yamana clan, but turned up too late, were taken for soldiers of the defeated Akizuki clan, and forced to bury the dead. After quarreling and splitting up, the two are both captured again and forced to dig for gold in the Akizuki castle with other prisoners.

After an uprising, Tahei and Matashichi escape. Near a river they find gold marked with the crescent of the Akizuki clan. They thereafter travel with the General of the defeated Akizuki clan, Makabe Rokurōta (Toshiro Mifune), while escorting Princess Yuki Akizuki (Misa Uehara) and what remains of her family's gold to a secret territory. In order to keep her identity secret, Yuki poses as a mute.

During the mission, the peasants impede it and sometimes try to seize the gold. They are later joined by a farmer’s daughter (Toshiko Higuchi), whom they acquire from a slave-trader. Eventually, they are captured and held by Rokurōta's rival, who later unexpectedly sides with the Princess and Rokurōta.

The peasants stumble upon the gold, but are later captured, whereupon Rokurōta explains Yuki's true identity, and states that all of the gold has been used to restore her family's domain. The peasants are then dispatched, taking a single ryō. In the final scene, Tahei gives this to Matashichi to protect; but Matashichi allows Tahei to keep it."

Ok. Inspired, sure, you can see some parallels. Based off, no :) (at least not as The Magnificent Seven and For a Fistful of Dollars are based off Seven Samurais and Yojimbo).
Considering most Android development is done in Java, I don't see the language going anywhere anytime soon. Plus, it's not a bad language. It may not be the most convenient language to use to solve a specific problem (it's not for my usual problems) but there are many situations where it makes a lot of sense.
Dear HN,

Apart from the above question. I have one last question that weighs on my mind a lot all the time. I would appreciate any input from HN.

I am a male and around 28. Is it worth for people like me to get into a relationship of any kind? I know it for a fact that I will make the life of people around me very miserable. Is it morally right to pass on my genes and make the life of the next generation miserable too?

I do have some good qualities though. The only positive out of ADHD for me is the insane creativity, the ability to inspire people a lot, empathy etc.. perpetual idea generation etc.
Nice project. A couple things I noticed: You're leaking emails and IP addresses of commenters in your source code. There are plenty of dead pages[1] in the index which you could redirect to the home page or just disallow Google to index either via robots.txt or Google Webmaster Tools.

Edit: Skimming through the site I couldn't actually find a single affiliate link from the image labels.

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Avanillaextract.me+inurl%3At...
I think that always happens - it seems impossible to write down the things you actually value as a company without getting "buzzwordy" as you say. I would note that once you see past the buzzwords there's quite a bit of uniqueness there.
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Linus Torvalds is pissed at Change.org, starts a petition
There are two things at play here: attacker has to have access to one ISP to inject the route (eg. rogue employee) and there has to be another ISP that accepts such route from BGP (I would say that filtering weirdly specific routes is good and common practice). When you have access to ISP network you don't have to inject things into BGP to attack your own customers.
I suppose the adult way of arguing is to call other arguments childish?

I'm sorry that I can't recognize your authority (built on reading a few articles) at face value. At least have the decency to link to some of those articles.

How can an article determine the fair value of anything anyway?
I agree. Everything Jeremy makes is absolutely brilliant.
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That is why I put "free" in quotations. Furthermore, many devices sold do allow you to at least put open source equivalents on them on these devices; many flagship phones allow this with some know-how. On the scale of freedom from 0 to 10 (0 being a Lumia, 10 being the computer that RMS uses), I'd say most Android devices are a 3, with many devices being able to go up to a 6 and some devices going up to an 8 with Replicant.

Nonetheless, people fail to recognize the freedoms that Android does give you, and only criticize the freedoms that it doesn't give - the reasons why it's not a 10. If not for Android, I'd wager we would not be able to go beyond 2 (≈ iOS) on the freedom scale when buying mobile phones. That would be bad, and it seems zealots fail to recognize this (that's probably why they are zealots in the first place).
"When robot cars must kill, there are good reasons why designers should not be the ones picking victims."

There are also good reasons for them to be picking victims, in the case presented, switching control to the driver may increase the chance of both the child and the driver dying. The designers of roads made the decision anyway, roads for motor vehicles could all have big sidewalls and be up on stilts and never be a threat to pedestrians or wildlife, if we wanted them to. It would be very expensive to do this, so we accept the deaths.
This is a come-on for joining their 1st-month-free, $9.95/month-thereafter club.
You're doing something that you believe is unfair and unjust, but you're not ashamed of it?

Something doesn't quite add up here.
Yes, thanks for the input. I will be putting 12 - 14 hour work days from now. Life is hard but I will have to suck it up. I already have 3 yrs of experience. My managers are extremely puzzled with me. I am getting passed from one team to another like a hot potato. Pretty demoralizing. But, I will do whatever it takes and try to stay on top at work.
> (the pragmatic side of me also selected it as it’s )

I think you accidentally a word.

I'm also very interested in Rust. Still has a lot of rough edges, but it's the first new language I've seen in a long term that really feels ambitious. Ambitious as in raising the state of the art (memory-safety without GC is a big deal); ambitious as in aiming at big scary problems. The fact that your language can express quicksort or Fibonacci nicely isn't that interesting. The fact that you're planning to build a portable, performant, secure web browser in it tells me you're serious.
There is a Xen version with a hypercall interface already https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun-xen

There are microkernels using the rump kernel code, eg Genode.
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Versus what - molecules of minerals that randomly fuse together in a way that just happens to form an integrated circuit, memory and OS ?

The thing about organic life is that it goes though millions of trials and errors before something survives long enough to have memory and inheritance.
Brainfuck was a thing too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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Simply input your CSS and shorthand syntax will be used wherever possible.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, comment and feedback. We're also aware of some bugs. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

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I first heard this performed on a podcast called, "The Truth: Movies for Your Ears." Very good podcast for dramatic stories, sometimes artsy like this one.
>Android is the most transparent and detailed about what applications can actually do on your phone from any such system I've ever seen.

Not anymore they're not [1][2], permissions now fall into large buckets.

iOS is probably the best as far as privacy sensitive permissions go. You're prompted at request time instead of at install, so you know the context of why it needs a permission (like GPS or contacts). You can also revoke a permission after granting it. You can't do that in Android.

[1] http://www.xda-developers.com/android/play-store-permissions...

[2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6014972?p=app_p...
It's actually kind of cool. Seems to be very reliability-focused. Does anyone have any experience running production software on it?
At least the linux turnips are swinging.
Welcome Roda and congrats for this new innovative routing idea. As much as I see some value in a tree-like routing definition in this nice comparison with Sinatra, http://roda.jeremyevans.net/why.html, Sinatra's routing approach still appears to be more readable and manageable. Maybe Sinatra could optimize the storage of the routing entries internally in a tree to make it as fast as Roda (if it doesn't already do).
They mention they know some other lifeforms "made of meat" where the brain is made of something different, so, they may be familiar with the concept of meat while considering intelligent meat an extremely odd idea.
To add on to point 4, learning craps gives you both the best odds and the best social interaction.

Once you're comfortable with the game, find a table that has a low minimum bet and a high max odds multiplier.

http://wizardofodds.com/games/craps/
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