skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad had a cerebral stroke a few years ago. As everyone else was trying to arrange an emergency ambulance, his doctor was on the phone with him asking him to stay awake. Apparently, he said "if you fall asleep, you'll die." Fighting to stay awake for those few hours was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do.
Hardly anyone pays the sticker price on college tuition. Net price, what people actually pay, has fallen.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/22/153316565/the-pric...
Amazon is a publisher, the invited are writers. There's no illegal collusion here, its just a marketing show from Bezos to woo customers.
I'm not sure what your point is. AltaVista probably had to put a lot of effort into tuning every part of their infrastructure to keep the site running on that hardware. Why would TPB do that when they can simply get another VM for a fraction of the cost?

Running a top 100 site[1] on 21 VMs in 2014 is quite impressive.

[1]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thepiratebay.se
Did you see some studies that say that there are less indie studios that publisher funded ones?
I summarized this paper in my blog if anyone wants a higher-level overview of what it means:

http://www.mikeperham.com/2013/12/31/rubys-gil-and-transacti...
Two possibilities:

encfs: http://www.arg0.net/encfs

LUKS: http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
Hey Chris, its Kris!
WOW, thank you so much. There are lot of underground DJs on YouTube who upload their remixes and you can't find them anywhere else on the internet. Downloading the YouTube video and extracting the sound is the only way to preserve their work and listen to it offline.

This makes things so much easier. Thank you.
Well, I just popped an Aspirin for no reason.
“Not with a bang but a whimper”
TTY: Ruby gem for building command line apps
As some people have mentioned here, there are other issues to think of besides the IT aspect. There is employee training, risk assessment, policy development, and the business account agreements. Accountable is a company that focuses on these type of issues to make them easier by providing things like employee training, ready to use policies and procedures, and business association agreements. I found them while learning about HIPPA compliance, and I have not actually tried the product but it looks like it could be useful for you, so I thought I would mention it here. http://accountablehq.com/index.html
I get that, but the article paints it as a private party, basically. Goes so far as to show that it was never a full secret. Just not a public event, either.
I learned it from The Illustrated Guide to Law, which is a webcomic about law written and illustrated by a criminal defense lawyer.

The page that states this is http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2600, though the next couple of pages are relevant as well.
"I'm just saying it's also a possibility that there's backroom dealings taking place designed to strengthen Amazon's position."

For example? What kind of "backroom dealings" would those be?
I have used itslearning and I wonder if your app is a frontend or a complete system including frontend and backends.

(The part about auth gives this impression while the part about replacing leaves a wholly different impression. )
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Because we associate BuzzFeed with bullshit clickbait spam. It makes it difficult for an article to reach the right audience when you have such a large amount of negative association with a particular brand. It'd be like if the supermarket tabloids starting include well-written and legitimate content. It's going to take a substantial amount of work to win over the millions of people who view them exclusively as a tabloid, which is exactly how we view BuzzFeed today.
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup and why the reasons
It does combine marvelously with RAII, you're absolutely right! For example, the Rust Mutex class contains the data it's protecting, and it returns a RAII object when you take the lock. This RAII object provides mutable access to the contained data, and it uses lifetimes to a) prevent you from keeping a reference to the data after unlocking, and b) prevent the RAII object itself from outliving the Mutex.

This would wonderfully, and it means it's impossible to bypass the lock. Which is something I really wish I had in other languages; just a few days ago I finally fixed a subtle intermittent crash in a C++ program that was caused by taking the wrong lock when touching shared state.
If you are trying to set up a service for processing or storing PHI, you may be interested in DNAnexus (https://dnanexus.com/), which focuses on compliant high throughput data analysis and storage for genome information, but can be used to store other types of PHI data. (Full disclosure, I work at DNAnexus). Email in profile if you want to go into specifics.
My most surprising experiences from the new Oculus prototype demos
Ah .. that's why I couldn't spot it at a glance. It works fine with mailchimp, if you just replace http with https. I just tried it.
BioSuit: The Future of Space Gear Is Being Built Out of MIT
Intellectually interesting stories on all topics have been welcome here ever since PG changed the site name from "Startup News" in 2007:

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

By the way, if anybody wants a hit of meta, it's astonishing how precisely the last five paragraphs there still apply.
I knew this will happen. About 400 notes over past 3 years. I used to write directly online by just typing "oh" in the firefox's addressbar, which was the keyboard shortcut for https://ohlife.com/past, hit write button and start writing. That simple! Now every thing's about to disappear. This little sancuary where I used to hang with my memory. Things don't last but they should. at least till we are here.
> It is herds and movements that are disempowering.

As an absolute statement - condemning all movements and all ideology without distinguishing between their intrinsic merits - this is extremely odd. Without "herds and movements" we'd still be clever mammals without the power of speech. Something below even tribal societies, without the ability to even teach one another how to use tools or to act ethically.

The recognition that some ideals are false does not preclude having them.

> People should organize on concrete issues and leave the ideology (levers for mass manipulation) at the door

What do you think motivates people to "organize on concrete issues" and pick a side on those issues? Ideology does, 100% of the time. How is this even controversial?

More concretely, the notion that we cannot engage in an ideological movement - a party voting bloc, for example - without being subsumed by that ideology or engaging in self-defeating behavior is demonstrably false. People form coalitions because coalitions work. It's a pretty basic thing in voting theory and political science that you win more for your side if you are willing to form coalitions with differing parties and compromise.
The “Kopi luwak” coffee
This Spacesuit for Exploring Mars Is a Form-Fitting Math Problem
The author points out that she didn't display any of those symptoms.
People are writing kernels in Rust. If that doesn't qualify as systems programming language, I don't know what does.
If you are seriously going to attempt to reject the parallel between assembly code and low-level platform-specific APIs, I'm utterly done with you.

(And there's x86 and x64 assembly in UE3. For PCs, right now. But don't let that stop you from telling people how to do their jobs. It's a shame @ShitHNSays got canned.)
Yttr – A file sharing service for temporary and non-important files
I'm not assuming that. Advertising is noise, and knowledge is signal. I can't cancel out the noise, I can only observe noise+signal. But I expect the noise to be uncorrelated with the signal, which means that wherever noise+signal is highest is my best bet for where noise is highest.

The more noise there is relative to signal, the less effective this method gets, but it's still better than any other strategy (in this toy model).
I have used many of the fancy staticly typed languages and still find dynamic languages more productive, and more accessible to a larger range of people.
I've used XEmacs all day every day ever since it was Lucid Emacs. I probably could switch to GNU Emacs if I really wanted, but I'm used to XEmacs, and I have a lot of personal customizations that would have to be changed. I don't really know how hard that would be, but I'm very glad that XEmacs continues to be maintained nonetheless.
It is significant if you did not previously understand how corporations and government influence the media, which is important if you want to understand how the media is distorted.
This advice to not fall asleep is pretty prevalent (at least on TV). Is there a basis for it?
Exactly.

I don't even know how you'd find this article on Buzzfeed - the homepage is so obnoxiously cluttered with vapidness ("21 Hashtags All Curvy Girls Really Need") I only lasted about five seconds. It's like a parody of everything that's awful, only it's real.
Unless my eyes are faulty, the statement I see up top is "I could not get what the difference are between GNU Emacs and XEmacs."
I personally believe that founders have a moral obligation to do right by their employees, but ultimately it's important for founders to recognize that employees are responsible for their own economic livelihoods. Startups, particularly early-stage startups, come with a unique set of risks and prospective employees must evaluate those risks in the context of their own situations.

Ironically, a lot of the stress that some founders experience comes from their own lack of transparency with employees. I don't doubt that many founders care deeply about their teams, but many are also so mortified at the thought of not being able to recruit and retain that they try to paint the most favorable picture of the startup's current state, conveniently ignoring facts that aren't so favorable.

Obviously, the information that founders can reasonably share with employees changes over time as a company grows, but at an early-stage startup, there's really no excuse for anything less than full disclosure. As the founder of such a startup, you must accept that you can't guarantee your employees continued employment, but you can promise them that you'll be honest about the company's state.
Just enjoy your life! As for me travelling is the best
If you use Metal or similar you'll have to either show users of other platforms to the door or to support N such APIs. Most would prefer to reduce that number not multiply it.

All that cheering for Metal is not sincere. Talk to actual developers who are forced to support many APIs because no one cared to make one cross platform work well. The bottom line, we need less of lock-in APIs promoted as the way to develop games.
I guess what I'm not convinced about is that the pledge really means much. A company says it has everything under control and will keep on for a few years, great. But what if it doesn't really? It'll presumably shut down at some point if it keeps doing badly, and then what? All it really says is they have these values and think they'll last, but there's nothing really truly backing that.

Making the pledges individually seems to make sense - I don't think long term support is something many startups can seriously offer and it feels like selling smoke to try to sell that in the typical case.

Making them retractable with user knowledge also seems fair - although retracting LTS just before shutting down isn't really meaningful.

I think really my concerns are probably just around LTS, which I think is really unrealistic for most startups to guarantee - and ultimately meaningless if they fail anyway. The other pledges just seem to make acquisitions/pivots less likely and thus shutting down more likely - screwing over the LTS pledge again.

I can see why it'd give some users confidence but ultimately at least with LTS it just seems to end up being a buzzword selling point with nothing really behind it.
Was glad to see this; thanks! Systemd has made my Arch system overall much easier to administer, but the monolithism makes me nervous. It'll be interesting to see how things look once they've been broken up a bit.

I'm curious: are you trying to rescue a kernel of value from the systemd project where it improves on existing systems, or is this mostly a proof that it didn't need to be built so monolithically in the first place?
Thanks for all the comments. An importer is in the works. An option to include past entries in daily reminders will follow.
Colleges are not a monopoly. All that is needed is for students to say "The marginal cost of switch from college A to college B is to expensive for what it gives me, so I am going to stick with college A". At this point, we have free market dynamics to offer the most attractive cost/benifit ratio. The problem that the article identifies is that college is simply expensive, and has been subsidized by the state. As the state reduces its subsidy, the portion of tuition that the students see nessasarily increases.

There is also a slight market distortion in that the state only subsidizes a portion of the market (public schools for in state students).
What sort of USB drive? Flash memory? Spinning rust?

What sort of encryption? Hardware? Software? If software, what platform?

If you use hardware encryption, it will work independent of OS platform.

You can buy removable flash drives and rotational media both with built-in encryption: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/reviews_secure_hard_drives/?vie... and http://www.pcworld.com/article/254816/the_best_encrypted_fla... for example.

You can also buy hardware encryption enclosures for rotational media (or I guess SSDs) of your own provision, as well as use hardware encryption pass-through adapters for USB flash drives (or any USB media, I suppose): http://www.zdnet.com/encrypt-all-your-usb-storage-media-with...
I can see how that is misleading - sorry! It's basically a client which connects to It'sLearning over https. What its replacing, to be clearer, is the webinterface.
One of the most amazing feats in chess history just happened, and no one noticed
> As other comments have mentioned, if you criticize an organization by choosing bad actors who are members of that organization to criticize the whole organization, few organizations come out looking good.

Yes, that's certainly true. But there's one important difference between the APA and scientific organizations -- scientific organizations can be shamed into following the evidence.

In psychology, if there's no theory to suit your fancy, you can invent one and gain a following, and your theory doesn't have to pass a reality test or forge a consensus -- indeed, psychology is overflowing with theories in open conflict. Here's an example: those who have very narrow personal focus and/or a lack of interest in relationships, might be described as having (a) Asperger Syndrome, or (b) Grit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

For those who claim the described symptoms prove Asperger's, there has been much recent controversial activity asserting that it's a condition on the Autism spectrum. For those who claim the symptoms prove a person possesses Grit, there are now movements to empower and offer therapy to intensify this trait. But there's no effort to compare these views either to each other or to reality.

The described symptoms might represent a treatable mental illness, as the Asperger's advocates assert -- no one knows. They might represent a natural gift, one possessed by many successful people, and might even represent a positive evolutionary adaptation to a changing environment. No one can persuasively argue that view either, for lack of solid evidence, for lack of anything resembling science.

Bill Gates probably possesses Grit, and certainly has an Asperger's diagnosis -- assigned by someone who never interviewed him. Albert Einstein, the same. Thomas Jefferson. Many others -- all members of both these opposing schools of thought.

In physics, Lee Smolin can criticize string theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Physics) for (in effect) not really being a theory on the ground that it's untestable, and his views are widely read by people who don't see this as a challenge to physics -- quite the opposite. In psychology, critics have a much more difficult time because nothing is either demonstrably true or false. This is why two sequential chairs of the NIMH (Steve Hyman and Thomas Insel) have criticized their own profession's disregard for science, only to be (so far) shouted down by vested interests within the field.

The defense offered by the field's defenders can be concisely summarized -- no one really knows how science is defined, therefore one cannot persuasively describe something as unscientific. Shockingly, this is a view widely held among mental health workers. But this isn't a tenable view among physicists and other workers in scientific fields, who find that science's definition is very clear.
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Thanks for all the comments. An importer is in the works. And an option to include past entries in daily reminders will follow.
If you want a parody of the parody then clickhole.com is awesome - it's the sibling site to The Onion.
To the author, or to Tumblr?
> I find projections of viable sustained fusion nonsense given 62 years of failure to achieve it. Every last single other energy source tapped by humans, sustained nuclear fission included, had previous exemplars occurring on Earth, and was adapted by humans either before history, or (in the case of fission) within a matter of single-digit years of initial attempts.

We have a precious example occurring not on Earth, and within a few decades had figured out how to make large pulses out of it.

Your summary also does a great disservice to the history of using assorted biochemicals as fuel, from various plant and animal oils through initial study in refinements and use of various technologies to aid in their burning.

You can hardly claim, as your statement implied, that we had full mastery of burning hydrocarbons the first time we tried - or that it was anything like when we tried to scale that technology up.

Given 62 years, we have systems with controlled fusion and systems without energy reclaim that are energy positive. A lot of the lack of progress is due to the relatively low level of funding. (The entire cost of fusion research so far is about the same as one stealth bomber.)

I find it unlikely that over doubling the time, with better technology, won't let us solve the capture problem, especially since the facilities of many studies are actually using old technology which we already know how to do better than. (Example: the ignition laser could be purchased in reduced size and with more efficiency for much less than it cost to initially build the laser.)

Your argument seems to largely be "It's complicated to me compared to what I know about these other methods, so can't happen!"

> Technology is a function of available energy (Tainter, White, Prigogine), not vice versa.

This is super unrelated to what we're talking about, because not even you are arguing that we're going to run out of the ability to produce electricity in <100 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8336578
Mostly what I got from these emails is that RMS is a real jackass.
I don't think it's right to doubt that these movements at least accelerated improvements.

I am sure the South would happily have held slaves for much longer than it did.
I remember when I was a kid car manufacturers claimed they would go bankrupt if they had to install catalytic filters. Only the pressure from the environmental movement build up the momentum for requiring those filters.
Without the labor movement we would probably still work 12 hours six days a week.
YouTube is a registered trademark of Google Inc.

I'm afraid, you could? run into legal issues by using the word "YouTube" in your domain name.

http://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/rules.html
Higher Leibniz
As I said before, the meeting is happening possibly to curry favor from people who matter: writers and artists. Right now, a lot of writers and artists are siding against Amazon and with publishers (Hachette in this case).

Since I've been working in the place I work at now, I've learned that these things... happen. They're not make-believe stories thought up by conspiratorial nuts, they actually happen. My boss got together with a higher-up from a different department... all to get her daughter a job (I found this out only accidentally). David Cameron used to have dinner outings with Coulson et al., Murdoch invites people like Brin, Page, Zuckerberg, etc. to play golf with him, now Bezos ostensibly spends millions on parties with people who make the products he sells. Are we really so naive to believe that the people hosting the parties have zero ulterior motive all the time? Murdoch just likes to play golf with Sergey Brin because he thinks Brin is a stand-up guy? Bezos has so much time on his hands that he loves nothing more than to spend it with writers whose books he sells? And give them gifts? And give them a ride on his private jet? He's got no family to tend to? No over-work? Come on. Join the real world. It's ugly a lot of times, unfortunately. Journal outlets keep it in check by publishing articles like this and asking questions.

I recommend doing a second-reading on lukifer's comment, I think it really gets it.
So many millions being thrown around. Parking Garages, Sports teams, Greek Life, Computers, Clubs, Architecture, Financial Aid, Housing, Food Plans, Homecoming, Police, Power Plants, Wifi, Apparel, Advertisements, Stadiums, Graphing Calculators, and Flora. Just to read books and socialize. It's insane. And the best solution we have: Rating which circus is the best one.

I'm constantly in awe how bloated the Education System is. And this is the machine that's designed to produce the minds that fuel innovation! I only wish I had a solution but at least I have a starting point: books and socialization. Both things can be done on the internet and instantly. All we need is the tools to augment the experience, the discipline to take advantage of it.

I've always preached the following: the first to take complete advantage of the internet will become a God amongst Men. What, then, are we waiting for?
"Example Statement: All Secret Service Special Agents are U.S. government employees.

Invalid conclusion: All government employees are Secret Service Special Agents.

Valid conclusion: Some U.S. government employees are Secret Service Special Agents."
It's a little bit of both, coupled with the fact that I simply wanted a challenge, being a bored sap and all. This is probably the first remotely noteworthy thing I've done.

The end goal is to drive systemd into a direction that focuses succinctly on process management, having a portable base that can be transposed to other operating systems. Still quite some way to go, but hopefully it'll be done some day. But yeah, supplying systemd's core features for people who would like to have a conservatively developed and focused service manager that won't suddenly swallow the windowing system one day, is a key goal. Captures the gist of it.

Eventually I might transfer control to someone else and focus on my own interests. The eudev project lead has expressed some interest in us.
Meta: The headline makes no sense to me at all. Perhaps "Shown HN: Replace youtube.com with soundyoutube.com for any video to get just the sound."
Isnt it against TOC of Google?
My current approach is to use Go and target WebGL as the lowest common denominator, but with OpenGL (and/or OpenGL ES) backends as well.

That way graphics code written once can run on OS X, Linux, Windows, browser (including iOS).