skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I age, I've found that I have to expend constant effort to repel the "wisdom" of my cohort as they become cynical, loveless, self-limiting, and as they give up on their dreams. I do think it's a mindset -- a mindset called "aging" which gives us a sense that it is somehow an inevitable byproduct of the biological process that goes by the same name.

Barring something amazing out of SENS research, I can't do anything about the biological process. But I can do something about that.

I've found little things that help. I occasionally do an experiment where I restrict my music collection to nothing more than five years old. I'll sometimes admit older things only if I was not listening to them when I was a teenager or early-20-something... if they are new to me. It's curiously effective, since central to the ideology of aging is that everything is getting worse than it was "back in my day." If you try this and find your collection sparse, go and find more. Music is a very condensed form of human expression. It carries a lot with it.

Other things that work include avoiding excessive and routine alcohol consumption, changing your setting, getting rid of old things, and learning pretty much anything new.
I've never really gotten this - it's like smoking crack as an alternative to cigarettes. Tea and coffee actually have other things in them that are good for you, and you don't have to add sugar or cream to them, so there is no reason to drink soda for the caffeine.
I am at once both amazed and saddened. Mastering fraction reduction and later simple algebra when I was a kid was one of the most empowering experiences of my life. This is like having an app run a marathon for me - it's easier, but I'm not changed through the work.
Yes, employees at Microsoft have access to unlimited soda, milk, juice, etc.

Source: I work there.
Creating programs to do the same steps over and over once I understood it was the biggest benefit I got out of my graphing calculator. However, having a larger screen with a scroll history was a close second, so even just using it as a standard scientific calculator with a large screen made it very useful to me.

My high school didn't require a graphing calculator though, and most of the class didn't have one as I recall.
Awesome! Congrats on getting it out there. I just started getting into mobile development as a hobby this year (after 6+ years of mostly systems programming/scientific computing). I'm hoping to have something released within the next few weeks as well.
You know, that's actually a really creepy mental image: the entire globe painted in lurid colors of latex paint. All food sources are coated and inedible. Every plant is coated and photosynthesis fails. Amphibians can't breath through their skin and die. People can't sweat and die of heat exhaustion. The entire biosphere is cut off from the sun and dies and rots under a millimeter-thick coating of bright paint. Anerobic bacteria gorge themselves, releasing gases that bubble the paint. Earth is left looking like a psychedelic beach ball with blisters. Somewhere in the deep sea, only the tube worms that live off deep ocean volcanic vents are left to carry life forward.
Excel runs on Mac OS, that's not a problem.
Probably a better disambiguation would be "services" that are free. Open-source projects can always be validated to make sure that they are not monetizing their user-base.

Tor is a service but by reading the source code, you can see (if you understand the code) that nothing monetizable leaves your computer.

I don't have as much confidence in Tox just because it hasn't been around as long (and I haven't read the source).
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Case in point, being locked out of Java, Microsoft

Was this really the case? As I understood it, Microsoft created C# because Java was too open and wouldn't keep people locked in to Windows. Especially since even GNU got Java, I don't see how Microsoft was "locked out" of it.
Suggest a quick demo/prom video. Problems solved, how it works, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFb0NaeRmdg
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Thanks for your comments - we've got a pretty good foundation when it comes to "social" functionality, but we have more work to do there. Specifically, it needs to be easier to find people you know on the site, and our commenting system needs to be enhanced. On top of that, we're working to improve ways to discover good ideas on the site. For example, one highly requested feature is to be able to rank ideas by the number of MeToo's (as opposed to creation date). Last but not least, we're actively working on features to allow people to connect their UpSwells to the organizations/people who will be able to implement them. This is perhaps one of the more exciting features of UpSwell: to provide a platform to discover the best ideas, and then connect those with people who could bring them to life.
Good idea. Lets also DDoS all new startup websites. The smart ones will learn how to mitigate the attack, and we can weed out the rest!

If you don't want to get retargeted just use ghostery.

Also just install adblock and whitelist youtube/whatever few sites you want to show ads
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I burned a couple of weeks trying to setup a replicated freeipa environment. I was amazed that I could start with a brand new instance, run the same script and end up with different problems every time.
Quite well-put, actually. I agree that it's a mistake to think of the brain as a "neural network in your head". Biological systems are extremely complicated, and the brain is heavily influenced by the soup it swims in. Having said that, I think we might as well discuss it even if we don't understand it fully. If we're rejecting theories of cognition because they're probably not always right, then we're going to have to throw out the entire field of cognitive science.

I do believe that a reductionist approach is critical for understanding cognition -- you could call that a religious belief if you want; I would prefer to call it an expectation based on the unprecedented progress that reductionistic approaches have made in understanding all kinds of things.

We certainly have disciplines that examine emergent behavior of cognition -- psychology, I guess, is the prime example. But I think it's also important to try to understand the brain as a computational system, not just as a black box that produces behavior.

I think an emergent, behavioral, holistic approach may be effective for characterizing cognition until we understand it better, but that a reductionist, symbolic approach is a superior method for knowing, manipulating or replicating cognition in all kinds of environments, not just a bunch of fatty cells inside a chemical soup.

Also, after reading your response, I think that I misunderstood your original comment, which to me seemed vaguely derogatory. So, sorry for that.
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I love the idea of analyzing your own gmail - will take a look into parsing MBOX data!
A colleague at my office gave it a test drive.

* http://youtu.be/jDbTKgWoufw

Results: As of now, it can only solve some linear equations. It did successfully solve one quadratic but it couldn't decide if the variable was r or e (the variable was x). It was largely unable to solve handwritten problems, even simple arithmetic.

note: This is a copy/paste of a comment I left on reddit /r/math and /r/windowsphone.
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That's the main exception, yes, and that one has much better operation compared to the rest of the lines.
The implied "it is used by a lot of people so it must be good" is a non sequitur.

Also, all these "real websites" also have very real problems that come from using PHP.
Like flickr?
People who feel that way in their day job should really try participating in the demoscene.
Great! Is there already a demo implementation in Python?
To chime in with contrasting experiences at other companies:

Where I used to work RHEL was used on all of the servers. I was part of a team developing some new software using Mongrel2, MongoDB, ZeroMQ, Perl, and Imagemagick ( among a whole collection of other esoteric small pieces ).

The plan for the project was approved and development underway. We encountered problems getting everything to work properly with modern versions of the various parts in the distribution of RHEL provided.

The company was mirroring RHEL, but only the core. They were not mirroring the updates, nor were they mirroring the latest released version of RHEL. Outside access was forbidden on the servers, so we could not fix the problem ourselves without going around network policy.

We requested virtual machines; specifically to use Virtualbox on our desktops to do development until the policy people could figure out how to give us a server with the software needed. We were denied and told we had to requisition a server to run VMs, that VMs on desktop were forbidden.

A $13k server was purchased for this purpose, and root access was denied to it. We couldn't configure it as needed, and IT refused to help. It was basically useless. The main department head approved going ahead with VMs regardless of the network admin and head of software development saying we couldn't.

In the end the project flopped; ultimately due to inability for any of IT to get along or provide what was needed.
> You can't, however, predict how will my day change if a beautiful stranger smiles at me during my morning commute (even if these reactions and changes are produced by "very simple parts"). There's no mystical shroud here; just acknowledging that emergent behavior is complex.

Just like you can't predict the change in pixels on a screen when some bit is flipped on the network wire.

> We may come to understand "the brains" as a system of simple parts. However, we're not sure of that; acting as if it was a sure-thing is faith, not so much different from religious faith.

The scientific method has reduced a huge majority of the world (and virtually everything that was once a matter of faith) to a system of ever simpler parts. The meta-theory that everything can be reduced to simpler parts is probably one of the most solid theories in all of science.

Furthermore, if you agree that evolution is a thing, then the argument that organic systems are built out of simpler parts is almost a foregone conclusion.
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I can't tell you how happy I am to see this as the top comment.

Free is a con.

If you want a cheap VPN that you control (and that's faster than Tor), set up an endpoint on something that takes Bitcoin payment and pay with Bitcoins obtained via an anonymous route. This list might be helpful.

https://www.exoticvps.com
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There's an XKCD for that: http://xkcd.com/768/
> feelings of isolation and frustration

I am a female born in 1987 and have similarily been interested in programming for a long time.

After reading several comments, I'm getting some sense of resentment that you were driven away from your passion while others were able to stay on course despite
similar obsticles. I in no way wish to diminish their accomplishments or claim any secret insight into any hardships they had to overcome or did not have to overcome;
however I feel there are some aspects that are unique to the female experience of 'isolation and frustration' in learning how to program that I wanted to clarify:

Starting off, it is not at all unusual to be the only female in the class/room. The reason this is horrible is not because there's no one
to talk to or connect with, but because it's completely impossible to shake off the feeling that everyone is watching you, very closely, all the time.
Having this constantly on your mind hurts your concentration, your productivity, and your ability to freely explore ideas without judgement - a very important part of learning. This is something that the female needs to come to terms with and learn to be comfortable in her own space regardless.

Second - and this one hurts to type because I can feel the coming backlash - you programming gentlemen can be a bit too... helpful.
When a female does need extra help in understanding something, help is appreciated and needed!
However, when several people, usually male, come at you at once wanting to help it can be a negative experience. As good intentioned as this is, it is incredibly frustrating for me for three reasons: 1) the more people that want to help only fortifies the pervasive paranoia discussed earlier, 2) the more people that want to help me highlights my knowledge gap and is incredibly discouraging,
and 3) gentlemen, when helping a lady in need of something, you tend to get a sense of bravado and in an effort to show us something, you end up just doing it for us.
When this happened to me, I not only missed out on an opportunity to do a task myself and learn, it also served to fortify the sense of "move aside, young lady, and let
the men take care of this." Furthermore, once a female smarts up to this enough to be brave enough to refute said help, she will often do so in an unappealing way until she learns what gets the best response. I want to point out that I don't blame yall males at all, and this is something a female will need to learn to deal with.

For the record, I stuck with it and got my CS degree. I think this has more to do with stubbornness than fortitude.

All this said, however, I've come to be pretty blind to the gender gap in my day to day and try to shy away from these types of conversations because there is no winner.
Starting any field of study will have its own set of unique challenges that every student needs to overcome. Right now, for females as well as males in software, one of those
challenges is how to treat the gender gap. I'm pretty much over it.
> It is unfair to those people that it affects negatively

Evolution is unfair to the unfit. What should we do about it?
That isn't the point, if they can send it in plaintext then they have it in a recoverable form. They shouldn't be storing your password at all. They should be storing a hash of your password.

And on top of all that, sending it plaintext via email, itself a largely open format, means they've broadcast it to all kinds of other potentially bad actors.

Plus it indicates (to me) a questionable grasp of security, not a great sign for a VPN provider.

Its just wrong.
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I should have prefaced with smaller log files for Atom. What size files are you typically looking at in Vim?
I've taught a course like that. I think your topic ideas sound good.

For the programming component, maybe look at Scratch, or perhaps do some scripting with Microsoft Office. Mobile (iOS, Android) development might be even more interesting to the students, though covering enough material in such a course to really have them do that on their own is likely implausible. You could perhaps have a mobile project already made, and, during class, show them roughly how it works, and solicit ideas on things to change -- then rebuild and run it again.

I'd almost certainly cover privacy-related topics, both technological and philosophical. You may not convince anyone to care about privacy, but at least help inform them.

It could be interesting to bring in some old computer systems, either for real or emulated, and demonstrate how things in decades gone by worked.
With docker specifically, I've had frustrations with the user permissions on the volume between {pg container, data container, host OS}, with extra trouble when osx/boot2docker is added to the stack.

Also, docker doesn't add as much value for something like postgres that likely lives on it's own machine.
"Hide your identity online and surf anonymous. When using our service you will be protected behind a encrypted tunnel and no traces can lead back too you"

Shouldn't that be "back to you"? Not back too you.
That sounds like an interesting stack, I use python quite a bit and have been dabbling with elasticsearch, glad to see the options for combining the two!
I like your thoughts, but I wouldn't call the mindset "aging." But what to call it? Maybe "being an asshole."
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The performance data looks interesting, but this is work based on a pretty old kernel (originally released in 2010 or so). There have been many changes and improvements added to the 3.x kernel that may overlap with this work. Publishing the code and details on github is great, but working with the kernel community and merging into the mainstream kernel is the only way for work like this to have a long-term meaningful existence - Google in particular have been doing a great job getting networking improvements in.

That said, it's interesting to have this kind of thing come out of large-scale production web environments in China.
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Very nice. Sound effects are great, progressive heli damaged is a great idea and well executed, specially the smoking effect.

May I ask which platform (GameMaker and the like) or framework, if any, did you use ?
I think you can also dump it in json, which would be ideal for this.
Kibana 4 should have some of that:

http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/kibana-4-beta-1-released/

It exposes quite a bit of the new aggregation functionality added to ES 1.x.
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> because of how Word works, you can't just work in the old mode and leave the styling for the end. It has to be created inline or you're going to have a really bad time trying to fix it later.

Why not? I don't doubt you, but I've never understood why it happens.
It could very well just mean that the email is sent before any hashing occurs (as part of the registration controller, in other words) - but yeah, you're right, considering that email's physical equivalent is a postcard, it shows a tremendous lack of respect for the user. Kiss of death for a supposedly privacy focused operation like a VPN provider.
I work at a tech company, and we get absolutely nothing but hand-me-down desktops, EOL operating system, encrypted & MAC blocked network so nothing else can connect, and filtered Internet. If you really need something for your work to be done, better buy it yourself from your own pocket. And it's the usual thing around here in other companies too.
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It might be better to submit this as a standalone "Ask HN", with more specific information about your app.
I have interviewed enough times to know that you can't please everybody. And some interviewers like to assert their dominance during the interview. If they see you as a potential competitor rather than an underling, they won't endorse you.

I once aced an interview brainteaser, and the interviewer actually tried to derail my solution by interrupting and making misleading suggestions. When I finished, he told me that I was the only candidate so far to give the "correct" answer. He was clearly unhappy about it, which confused the heck out of me at the time.

I wasn't supposed to do that. I was supposed to give a half-assed, partially correct answer and let the other guy show off how smart and superior he was, by giving me the "real" answer.

So yes, beating the brainteaser might backfire. If it could, would you still want to work there?
The tech behind it is backdoors. This seems to be developed in China afterall. You thought the OpenSSL and Bash bugs were bad... wait till we have one at the socket level.
Well, I did write my app when I was waiting for the food to cool down after I put it out of the microwave.
"90 seconds" may be the best sounding alternative.
Which one of these can you dump into JSON? Do you have references? Could be nice.
Never heard of a bad actor. I think you just choose a law firm, insurance company, big 4 accounting firm. That sort of company.

They just need to safeguard the code drops and execute the transfer at the proper time. Like reading a will.
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Why would the evaluation charts look the way they do?

https://github.com/fastos/fastsocket#online-evaluation

The "before and after" CPU series have nearly the same exact fit. If the data was from separate 24 hour periods, wouldn't you expect the graphs to look different? I recognize that with a large service, you'd get repetitive load patterns, but the similarity here look a little extreme.
I'm scared. Does this mean there's some value to parsing this kind of gibberish? If so, does the fact that I consider it gibberish mean I'm going to miss the bus on future developments because I've decided I'm too old to take people who write like this seriously?
I built a game with a few other people that took... 30 weeks! We built an infographic to show progress that I'm quite proud of. (This is ~2 years old now)

https://outland-live.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/downlo...
My brain is shutting down and I can't parse this phrase.

[1] "If you lack an antigen that 99 per cent of people in the world are positive for, then your blood is considered rare."

[2] "If you lack one that 99.99 per cent of people are positive for, then you have very rare blood."

Surely the author is saying the same thing here?
Rational people do things all the time that are counter to biological evolution. We wear glasses, leg braces, even get heart transplants.
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Oh, it sounds much more realistic when you put it that way. I actually wasn't sure what a real-life application of "short selling" would look like.
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Old kernel perhaps, but that's still what's being shipped with the latest CentOS6 (and by extension, RHEL 6 as well). Old as it might be, it's in very wide use.

This would be a tremendous boon for those environments!
They are just quantifying the terms rare and very rare.

Rare is 1 in 100, very rare is 1 in 10000.
Ok, if you are going to do it, here is the bunch of links that got there part of the way and need someone to take further:

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/11/parsing-expo...

https://docs.python.org/3/library/mailbox.html?highlight=mai...

https://gist.github.com/ptwobrussell/8791064

http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2013/12/19/searching-my-email/

http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ (if going from mbox to mailbox is easier)
Have you identified a vulnerability, or is that pure conjecture?
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Depending on your needs, you can just roll your own with Amazon EC2. I use it for an SSH tunnel, mostly to use while at work. Not that I'm doing any weird browsing, I just don't like the thought of my employer keeping a log of what I am doing on my free time (https://xkcd.com/303/).

I wrote a script to spin up a new instance when I need it, and to terminate it when I don't. It should cost less than $10/mo, and I only pay for what I use.
Defining different degrees:

[1] 1 in 100 --> rare

[2] 1 in 10,000 --> very rare
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These agreements should come with really great compensation so that the employee opportunity costs are funded as a matter of compliance with the contracts.
number 2 has an extra .99 percent, so I guess in point 2, only 0.01 percent of people will have it (whatever IT is), vs 1 percent of people having the thing in point 1.
Really interesting situation, and very frustrating that none of the rare blood donors costs can be paid for by hospitals. Seems like there should be some loop hole to get them compensated.