skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i pictured a kid having swallowed one, and being unusually attracted to the refrigerator…

i think parents will freak out as a general rule, but parents also have the responsibility not to give toys to their children that are not age appropriate, and/or with which, they cannot be sure their children will play responsibly. i'm sure there are a lot of kids for whom this won't be a problem, and they are seemingly punished for what has happened to others. I sort of resent the mindset that a federal commission should make sure that a commission becomes responsible for drawing parenting guidelines, and that rather than parents stepping up and taking responsibility for supervising and being involved with their children and playtime, the alternative is not to have toys on the market that are more mature in nature. Parents shouldn't have to waste their time teaching their kids to have a greater respect for natural things and toys; we should just simply ban them. You know, to avoid confusion.
After watching the video, I appreciate the potential of Kaya. I clearly see the benefits of the native many-to-many construct, and its unified data/instructions model.

I wonder if Kaya could store graphs efficiently, in addition to hierarchies. For example, can you have one table called Employees with a property Reports To, which references another Employee? In other words, can Kaya allow this: Employee.ReportsTo = @Employee?
also make, which is stuck at 3.81 (2006)

sort appears to be (2005), and doesn't have the -R flag for shuffling

also missing: head -n -NUM (all but last NUM lines) and tail -n +NUM (all but the first NUM lines)
Looks awesome! I'm actually working on a SaaS product along similar lines. Right now it can build RPM and Debian packages directly from GitHub sources:

https://www.packagelab.com/

Sort of like a cross between Launchpad and Travis CI. If anyone's interested in trying it out, I'd love feedback.
Actually I still argue that tabs are a Bad Thing. Developers have taken a thing that SHOULD be handled by the window manager, and written their own way of doing it -- every application slightly differently, naturally.

It's not as big a deal on Windows where the look+feel of various applications was always inconsistent as hell -- remember when Trillian was the most popular IM client, it seemed like in those days virtually every application handled windowing differently, it was terrible.

But it's a bigger issue on OS X and in Linux. Since both have functionality to cycle through windows of a given application, tabs become less important. Of course, we still end up with visual clutter, so even luddites like myself use tabs now and again. But this should really be implemented as an OS feature, not on a per-application basis.

Google, of course, vehemently disagrees, since they implement their own terrible look-and-feel everywhere. (see: crappy windowing inside of GMail, crappy windowing behavior of Hangouts, etc).
Russia is just oppressive in general, in all aspects. You might want to read "Letters from Russia" by Astolphe marquis de Custine for a historic perspective. That was Russia under tsars, it was much worse after revolution, until Stalin's death.

In the entire Russian history there never was a period when an average citizen could feel free. How could it feel 'happy' now?
Was going to ask "Which Mysterious Stranger?" but then I noticed you'd linked straight to text. :)

Ooo, checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger there was apparently one version I didn't know about. (I've read the one you posted ("1916 publication"), "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger", and "Schoolhouse Hill".)
And since the post now links to Vimeo, here is the LtU link: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5054
For the record, I did that. And from the inside it appeared to work. For years I thought I was happy and had a fantastic marriage. But it still didn't prevent us from ultimately coming to the conclusion that staying married was not the best thing for either of us. Now I'm agnostic and MUCH happier.
Anyone thinking about "staying together for their kids" should talk to people whose parents divorced and ask them, "Were you happier before or after your parents split?" Cases vary, but the people I've had that conversation with have all said their parent's divorce was a relief.

I know there are people who claim "divorce as such" is bad for kids but I'm very doubtful about that. Divorce can be good or bad depending on how it's done, and how interested both the parents are in their kid's well-being.
The sad thing is we could probably make a vary useful refrigerator that actively keeps track of it's contents and auto set's up a shopping list for you. Using the same basic approach as the self checkout lines (weight + bar-codes). Instead we end up creating 'fake' aka useless versions by sticking an iPad on a refrigerator and marking both up.

Or even the simpler version that just has some camera's and wifi so you can see what's in your fridge while shopping.
About a decade ago, the gossip on everyone’s lips was that “1/2 of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.” That factoid was later disproven[0]

Whoa, not so fast. If you follow the link, you'll see that it wasn't disproven at all. Rather, the linked article attempts to supplant this statistic with a different one: the fraction of people who get married who ever divorce.

The difference between the two statistics comes, of course, from the existence of serial divorcers. It's reasonable to offer a different statistic that filters those people out. But the original statistic is actually correct as stated: about half of all marriages end in divorce.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html
I think it's not about non-democracy, and more about setting precedents and reminders. Threats are only worth something if they are believed, and Cuba never did anything to warrant a lifting of the sanctions. The rationale is that lifting the sanctions would weaken the threat of sanctions against other countries.

While I would applaud a removal of the sanctions I can understand why it's such a hot potatoe. I think Cuba will have to wait until the next president, or make a relatively large gesture towards changing its ways.
>See this is where the NSA really shines. We (The US) delayed Iran's nuclear program by THREE YEARS with Stuxnet! Three! And after they finally figured out it was sabotage the US and Israel had the director assassinated for further delays.

I'm honestly okay with this (except for the assassination part, though it was speculated that was Mossad and not US).

The other things though are simply to gain an unfair advantage in political and economic situations, even against countries that are supposedly our allies. Realistically, these things happen all around the world and have been forever, but ethically I don't think it's a good thing for the NSA or CIA to be doing.
There is a tool we use at work (rpmbuild, I believe) that's not available via homebrew and only through macports. It's a nightmare, because if you install macports, it interferes with brew (or at least, brew will complain a lot). I've taken to running a VM in lieu of macports.
America Must End Its Paranoid War on Hackers
A container. Not "a Docker." Docker is a tool for using containers via the LXC project.
That is hard, but you can be more specific: "In my experience," "I'm confident that", "sometimes it seems", "it is an absolute law that", "there are some circumstances where", "it's hard to balance these considerations, but I...", "I will fight you and your entire family if you disagree".
Quite regularly when reading works by Aristotle and by philosophers aligned with his weltanschauung.
Agreed. It was nice to wrap up the series but the last two were nowhere near as good as the first 2.

I finally broke down after many years and am working through the Ilium series by Simmons. Its not what I was expecting, in a good way. I'm halfway through the 2nd book and it's safe to say in book 1 you aren't told much, but rather get to piece the world together as various characters experience it.

Not too bad so far.
Crap, I was talking about motorcyclists, but didn't specify it in my post. This is literally an argument I have heard from other riders.
I kind of want Apple to steal most of the userland tools from FreeBSD like they have done in the past...
Or China.
Yeah, that's definitely a common reason. But I actually feel that it's one of the worst ones, and that kids would be much better off if the parents calmly explaining their decision to the kids in a positive way, thereby sparing them the pain, conflict, and at the very least unhapiness that staying together would likely bring.
OS X wasn't vulnerable because it shipped an old version of bash. It was vulnerable because it relied on bash at all.
our intuitions about awareness come from information computed deep in the brain

What is the evidence for this?

And who says consciousness is entirely part of the brain?

And particularly what tjradcliffe said in thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tjradcliffe
This American Life Spin-off:  Serial
>I suspect that we'll see Esports taking over physical sports in terms of numbers in the next decade or so.

Absolutely not! Sports is heavily fragmented, for E-Sports only the world leagues and a few games in a few countries are that lucrative. In Sports you have much more competition also and tradition that isn't just going away and can keep people from pivoting to pc games, if it doesn't that's kinda sad. Gaming might not have reached it's full potential and it's very accessible in industrial nations, but based on more complex rules the learning curve is also higher, cutting off a lot of the lower base of unprofessional players, the foundation where to foster pro players.
This looks neat, just in time for the weekend :)

I've been using the free plan at https://packagecloud.io for my debs (handles my rpms and gems too), and it's been working well so far.
I've worked at Microsoft and can attest that while it's OK to use open source tools internally the IP lawyers don't want anyone touching GPL v3 tools to do anything. If you suspect a project might have been even the slightest contact with anything GPL 3 you must call for an immediate code scan and legal review. You cant even use GPL 3 inside of an internal web tool. I imagine Apple and other proprietary software publishers have the same mandate to their troops.

So yes, GPL 3 is hurting open source more than helping it.

Disclaimer: I don't speak for Microsoft. These are my personal observations. And I no longer work there.
Here's the article from Wired.com from which that excerpt was taken:

Glenn Greenwald on Why the Latest Snowden Leak Matters (July, 2014)

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/greenwald-q-a/
Lem: "Dialogs" - essays about consciousness uploading and its nature, construction of AI and self-replicating organisms.
The biggest shift I've noticed in Microsoft in recent years is its support and push for open source, cross platform components and projects. It seems that there may be a paradigm shift towards selling tools and an integrated platform while providing more choice and making inroads into the open source comminities.

This is exciting for me because I absolutely love .net and friends, but I'm also a Linux engineer and lean heavily toward open source and cross platform technologies. In recent years I have noted that with the existence of mono and mono develop(xamarin) C#/F# is right on the verge of being an excellent choice for open source tools and projects. I've been lamenting the fact that Microsoft's early platform lock in approach has prevented .net from being a serious java alternative(or the alternative it deserves to be). Its nature stiffling the open source ecosysytem .

The outlook has been getting rosier over the past 2 years though. Now we have OWIN, ASP.NET vNext, MVC6, entity framework 7, F#, and a strange officially unofficial interest in mono. Projects on github! These are welcome steps in an attempt to boost relevancy IMHO.
Hah, that sounds really, really painful. Wouldn't you take to finding a way to compiling it yourself or committing a Formula for it instead of installing MacPorts? But if a VM works, don't fix what isn't broken, I guess. (Biochemistry is my day job, so forgive me if I'm missing an obvious detail of full-time development).
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No. Here's the cached page: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gK9O2m...
Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn Greenwald
That doesn't make better cities, it just makes certain areas less safe. I see no reason for my taxes to be used to send bums and thugs around all over town. Does that make me a bad person?
Given the serious crises in the Mideast, Eastern Europe and West Africa, the notion that ending the embargo on Cuba would be seen as a "significant foreign policy success" is wishful, naive thinking on the part of the editorial board.
Marriage ensures that both parents have equal and well-defined legal status, particularly with respect to their children. It also serves as a formal, public declaration of intent to stay together for life, and possibly to have children together.

I am in favour of marriage for anyone who wants to have kids--which of course includes gay people and sterile people, thanks to technology and adoption--because it's a means of recruiting community support. Raising children well is hard, and the more people involved the better. Before the church got involved, this was essentially the purpose of marriage.
Yes, I agree that commitment has value. But the standard view promulgated my many religions (and expressed in some of the comments here) that marriage should be almost non-negotiably for life takes this WAY too far. I don't know where the balance is, but I am positive that it is nowhere near where tradition places it.
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Very cool. There's definitely demand for a unified cloud storage API. Kloudless (https://kloudless.com) provides one as well, with some open-source UI tools. Disclaimer: co-founder here.

I'd suggest making the docs more easily accessible for developers looking to get a better understanding of CloudRail. In addition, the link/magnify icons on the cloud storage logos on the product page seem unnecessary, since the logos could just link to their individual pages.
> I'm really starting to take an issue with declaring all this stuff as "cyber war" or "cyber warfare" (here and everywhere else in this thread). It's not a war if there is no intend of actually killing people.

Countries are owning each others' communications, power, transportation, energy, food production, etc infrastructure. Sabotaging these can cripple a nation, not to mention kill people (check out damage from the recent Great Northeast Blackout - note here that it is not known whether this was a cyber attack).

The military and defense contractors are targets of attacks as well as industry. Titan Rain, Moonlight Maze and Operation Aurora are some well know geopolitically motivated attacks that breached defense contractors (includingLockheed Martin, Sandia), US internet infrastructure (including Rackspace, Google), aerospace (including NASA) and military (including the DoD).

You may remember this year that Wall Street and JP Morgan was hacked, that the DoD was hacked, that several hundred defense contractors were hacked, and that the list of people with top secret clearance was hacked. You may remember this year that Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defense system schematics were hacked.

In the eyes of the military, these things constitute an attack. They give it the name warfare. It certainly isn't classical warfare. Maybe we need a new term. I do like the "cold" term.

No matter what we call it, it is serious.

As a country we are invested in it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-...
>Basically, the cause of the aging Unix tools in OS X is GPL v3.

That makes it sound like it's the GPL's fault that OS X users don't get up-to-date utilities. Blame Apple's bad policy, not the GPL.
Return of nuclear bases to Cuba can be tit for tat reaction to US arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons. there has been rumours going around about it. Insanity all around.
Check out "Riddley Walker." It takes place in a devolved post-apocalyptic England where the folk mythology is an echo of everything lost from the information and nuclear ages, and it's utterly haunting.

(I'd recommend it to anyone looking for fiction, and not just sci-fi.)
Hmm I entirely agree with your description of Doctorow, but disagree about Scalzi. I've been enjoying most of his books quite a lot. I wasn't a big fan of Old Man's War and won't read any more of that series, but I still quite like his other books.
I have an X on my little hand thing by my name, along with a red question mark. I'm unable to chat or interact with anything in the environment.
I have a similar experience; my wife and I spent about $4000 on our wedding,and had about 150 guests, and it was a perfectly lovely (if not particularly fancy) ceremony. We got sandwichs, cheese & crackers, and fruit trays (plus some baked goods my wife and some friends made) for the meal, it worked out to about $2 a person, and no one left hungry. The reception was in the church hall, my wife got her dress off Kijiji (think Canadian Craigslist), and I just wore the suit I already owned (why waste enough money to buy a new suit on renting a tux? I looked sharp, and no one cares how the groom's dressed anyway). We bought flowers for the bouquets, but none for decoration (again, why? where does it make the experience better?) Photography was probably our biggest single expense, and we got that cheaply because my wife knew a woman who was just getting her business started and wanted to build a portfolio (our wedding photos are great, and we have digital copies of all of them we can make as many prints of as we want).

The short version is we planned our wedding with a mindset of "we want as many of the people we care about to be able to share this day with us as possible, and since we have a limited budget we're only going to spend it on things that make a positive difference in the day".
Do you want to kill millions? Because this is how you kill millions
When i talk to people who want to start programming, especially young high school kids i often hear that they want to stay flexible. Flexible both in the platform/stack they are working with and flexible in what they can do with the language and toolset.

VB6 offered none of this.
2nd generation Cuban American here. My family has a massive anti-Cuban government sentiment and pretty much all the older Cuban people in Miami feel the same. I don't blame them considering most had their homes and belongings taken from them by the current Cuban government.

As someone who is a little more removed from the actual suffering Castro caused I believe that if the embargo ended and the US and Cuba began trading again that the regime would lose a lot of strength just from the exchange of culture. Especially since the US and Cuba are such close neighbors.

What could possibly happen though is that the regime clamps down completely on trade and all the money being made goes straight to the higher ups in the government. Which is why most Cubans that moved away don't want the embargo to end.
Anathem is one of my favorite books. I've lost count of how many times I listened to the audio book. Check out the subreddit /r/anathem too.
For years now, I purchase used paperback copies of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep. I give them out to whomever asks me what he or she should read in science fiction. I think it's a perfect blend of old and new tropes and a rousing tale of adventure. But my favorite SF author is Howard Waldrop, though Ted Chiang is climbing up my list.
The problem seems to be that the politicians are so used to lying themselves, they don't mind when they're lied to. In Washington, lies are currency.
theyre actually pretty late at this. google, microsoft and apple had fought for this a while ago. I'm actually disappointed in how long it took them
Looks neat! This sounds very similar to the concept of unhosted.org[1], where the user provides their own data storage location. Being based in Europe, have you had any interaction with the unhosted team or their remoteStorage.js[2] library? It seems like they are trying to integrate in Dropbox/GoogleDrive into that library, too.

Also, you mention encryption in the Example Applications section. I've been working on a similar concept of having a client-side javascript library that creates an encrypted filesystem on Dropbox/Google Drive, called Bring Your Own Filesystem[3]. The most interesting thing with the system is that these storage locations allow for public files, which means you can set up end-to-end encrypted communication between two Dropbox accounts[4]. I'd love to learn more about your implementation of the encryption layer and how you plan to develop that further. What plans do you have for privacy/encryption?

[1] - https://unhosted.org/

[2] - https://github.com/remotestorage/remotestorage.js

[3] - https://github.com/diafygi/byoFS

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTPimUSIWbI
yeah badwater gets a lot of mention in the classic "born to run" book as well. i f you can spare a day or three, highly recommended.
Why not just make your own formula?

The format is really simple and powerful.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

More complex example:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/6a72fa26aa49ee5c2b...

Edit:

If that's the only reason you can't use homebrew just, you can just tap another cask with it in there(or whatever they are calling that process).

https://github.com/avalanche123/homebrew-rpmbuild
That is really cool.

Any chemists care to comment on why the peroxide would explode in the microwave but not the oven?
It is the GPL's fault. There was enough change in the social implications of v3 that Apple, and a lot of other stakeholders, don't want to mess with it anymore. The FreeBSD team, for example, has very similar reasons for not including GPL3-infected software, and are actively replacing all GPL software with BSD-licensed software in the base install.
> The only thing I'm upset about is what I perceive to be a large case of groupthink. I have no other dog in this fight.

Suuuuuure. Please link to your many other posts (on a wide variety of topics) complaining about groupthink, especially ones where you don't open by complaining about how much you have to hear about these darned women and their abuse. And then follow up with a defense of how you totally deserve to be free to be an anonymous dick without consequences, no matter what cost there is to others.

> Weev posted a response that contained specific assertions. If he is lying then rebutting them should be quite easy, yet the only responses are ad hominem dismissals.

Weev is a famous troll, willing to say literally anything for entertainment and/or his own convenience. There is no point in refuting him. If you do, he will ignore you or come up with another set of lies. It's like trying to engage with a tobacco company PR rep. Reasoned dialog is a privilege earned through demonstration of responsible use of dialog.

> I could expound on the necessity of anonymity and lack of centralized control, but it would fall on deaf ears here. The same argument would be well-received in a Snowden thread.

Which is odd given that Snowden didn't actually make use of anonymity. He used the traditional method, which was journalist-mediated anonymity.

Look, your precious anonymity is safe. Nobody will end that. It's not even possible. For at least our lifetimes, literally anybody will be able to rent a server and open a website. What people want is to prevent anonymity from being used as a platform for abuse, harassment, and threats.

If you want to preserve the socially valuable sorts of anonymity, the best thing you can do is to condemn the abuse and work toward limiting it, while providing those who need anonymity with hard-to-abuse flavors of it. That will work a lot better than coming here and being anonymously shitty while demonstrating zero empathy for victims of abuse.