skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That strikes me as being less about controlling the message and more about making sure that the people entering the library know how to handle manuscripts that old (especially the part about not allowing undergraduates...). Digitizing the works opens them up to everyone anyway so it's not as though they're withholding anything for reasons other than lack of the resources to digitize the entire collection (hey, contribute!).

If they wanted to hide something it wouldn't be in a library anyway, it would have been burned or stashed in a private vault somewhere.

That quote seems more like standard preservation concerns, and exactly what I would say if I had a museum of 400+ year old paper documents that I didn't want destroyed by people without adequate respect for their history.
Because AOL or Yahoo will be dumb enough to acquire them obviously :P
I think most people would have no problem saying something like "eBay sells iphone screen protectors", even though that is not (techncally) correct.
FWIW, this is one of those cases where two services might appear competitive unless you're in one of them. There exist other US-focused companies which do "booking." This is a customer-facing function, and they have to compete on ease-of-use, conversion rates, embeddable widgets, and the like. AR does not do booking and will never do booking.

Why not? Well, you have to have very standardized services which the customer understands to adopt a booking solution. For example, if you're a customer and can say "I want a 45 minute shoulder massage from Cindy", then Cindy's shop can use a booking platform. Most AR customers can't, because the client can't predict how long a dental appointment last, doesn't know that Joe can't come out to his house unless Frank gets the van back in time, etc etc. This is disproportionately the case for upmarket services businesses, which is where AR is moving. (e.g. We want customers with a $100+ value per appointment -- more "professional services" like accountants/medical/HVAC than "personal services" like hair care/massage therapy/etc.)

(I should mention that, even in the hypothetical case that a HNer were in direct competition with AR, I'd be more than happy to see other options available.)
Pink Floyd, M83, Porcupine Tree, Dead Skeletons Dead Mantra, Arcade Fire, Naked and Famous. Some of it is very spacey, some of it I have listened to so many times I don't pay attention to it any more. If you still like the above bands but are tired of the albums, move on to bootleg concerts.
If you just file a bug on Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) in the Core: Graphics component with a reproducible testcase that will probably get people looking at it pretty quickly. For more one-on-one contact I'd suggest the #gfx channel on the Mozilla IRC, although that tends to work best if you know who to reach out to specifically. The gfx newsgroup (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.dev.tech.gfx) might also work to call attention to a particular issue. You can probably setup an e-mail contact through one of those channels if that's what you prefer.
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Re: the illustration on your home page:

The last thing I want is to get a series of mobile notifications saying that my app isn't converting well. It just becomes another thing to dismiss over and over again. This illustration/animation scares me away from trying your product.
It all sounds nice, but we all know there's always two end senarios if their service takes off... They grow a user base, get shot a NSL: 1) Keep the success rolling and continue on business as usual while their naive users are data farmed. 2) Pull a lavabit.

Think we all know senario two is unlikely. I'll stay away from social media for the time being, perhaps until some decentralized mesh net encrypted p2p service becomes a reality. 2020?
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In my mind, I wonder if you could draw mental comparisons between the Catholic church and universities. Both use an endowment to further their goals, expansion, charity, but there is a implicit desire to keep growing the endowment to further those goals. Ponder for a minute -- Harvard was chartered in 1636 and has an endowment of $36.4 billion. If the church spends most of the money it receives/earns every year, why not just come out and state it?
Indeed, and I recall there being only rudimentary profiles and I'm not even sure there was messaging functionality. You had to actively visit people's profiles to see what they were up to and had to follow conversations from wall to wall. We all signed up but we jokingly referred to it as Stalkerbook.

In other words, it was nothing like it is today, where it has become a replacement for a bunch of existing things (e.g maintaing address books) and allowed a slew of new things (light touch contact, wider networks and news feeds).
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And in the case of heroin, yesterday's medicines are today's drugs.
Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death is a great continuation of this topic. I only wish they were still around to see how right they were.
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This was a great story to read, and the ending hit me like a surprise twist, so much the better for being a real event. Thanks for sharing it.
Right now it rather seems Orwell had it closer to right on the predictions in the letter: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/US_incarc...

Some of this stuff is expanded on in Huxley's forword to BNW[1], btw, written in 1947. I have always been fascinated by this assertion in it:

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.

He doesn't support this axiom in the forword (or this letter), and I've always wondered if anyone has ever written a compelling, historically-based, argument for this idea.

[1] http://www.wealthandwant.com/auth/Huxley.html
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."
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That is what "comprehensible" means. That the intent of the communication can be understood.
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How is it different from http://www.fig.sh ?
I don't think that creating systems != capitalism. Indeed companies that helped grow ecosystems (like Netscape) have been hugely successful.

I'm guessing this comes down to deciding to create money today to create a legacy later or to creating projects today that go onto become your legacy later. We each strive for what resonates with us and (hopefully) accept others that make different choices in life.
My Pandora channels on shuffle - largely: drum-n-bass, ska, and punk. For me, Pandora requires the least cognitive load. If I start finding it distracting - rather than beneficial - I hit pause.
Appeal to authority plus ad hominem against said authority leaves us back where we started, which was lack of verifiable evidence to support the assertion.

In lieu of accounting statements from the worldwide Catholic Church and its executive offices in the Vatican, we must necessarily make reasonable implications from the information that is available.

The Catholic Church has hundreds of billions of dollars in expenditures. The Vatican has control over some portion of church revenues. It also has a publicly verifiable collection of religion-inspired artwork on display. It owns territory near a major European capital as independently sovereign territory, which is also a major tourist destination. Its subordinate entities in foreign jurisdictions have been the beneficiaries of legacies, escheat, and estate bequests for literally centuries, while largely benefiting from favorable treatment from the secular authority in majority Christian territory.

While the Vatican itself may not have direct and absolute ownership over the assets of the Church, it does have significant control over them. You don't have to be a cardinal to know that the Vatican archivists probably don't absolutely need to solicit direct donations for historical preservation.

But the Church is also a massive worldwide bureaucracy. The archivists may, in fact, find it far easier to fund their work via direct donations than by competing with all the other things the Church tries to do. Having theoretical access to a budget does not always mean you can actually spend the cash in a timely or expedient fashion.

Ethically speaking, I'm confident the archivists mean well, but they will essentially be proving that the Vatican can get additional revenue by holding the deteriorating old documents in its collection for ransom. We have as much reason to donate to them for this as we do to donate money to ExxonMobil to check that their pipelines running through wilderness areas are not leaking oil into them. If they can't maintain their own property, maybe they should be selling it to someone who can. There are plenty of museums and universities that would love to help in that way.
"Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client."

That's exciting to hear, since I've recently started turning Mailbox into a combination email client/to-do list/evernote replacement. I've found that having all those concerns in different apps meant that I never wound up using any of them often enough.

The shared concern seems to be the triaging of things that hit an "inbox" of sorts. Email hits the literal inbox, to do's hit my "stuff I need to do" buffer, and notes hit my "categorize these notes later" buffer (I compulsively note things down for later). Ultimately triaging things as their hit the Mailbox inbox is most effective for me, so I've turned it into my single source of triaging.

I'll definitely give this a shot if/when I ever get an invite ...
I think this is a different situation because presumably, they are traveling on business, so all their expenses are paid, just like any other business trip. They would (hopefully) expense everything, so it wouldn't matter what their wage was.
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Yes to both. IRC is the common method of setting up a command and control system for a network of hijacked systems.
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Isn't that what App.net is? A protocol?
So far as liking one versus the other; they are the same. Nobody is going to say "I like MySQL over MariaDB because I have to change MarioDB options to make it work the same as MySQL".
I do not agree completely with "anyone with minimal knowledge and little effort". That is the true with some obfuscators, basically because they suck.
However, I dont think that we should put them all in the same bag. Consider this example for instance:
http://jsfiddle.net/JScrambler/5ujp3/
It has anti-tampering and other stuff in it.
I REALLY don't think it requires minimal knowledge and little effort to hack it.
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Wow, that's really interesting. Did not expect it to be something so new. I'm going to have to read more about this ...
Plenty of people do this. It's called blogging. WordPress, Ghost, and so on run on many providers. But social networks are winning the popularity contest.

Perhaps something running on Sandstorm will make it easy enough for people to run their own nodes.
China is the largest most repressive regime the world has ever seen.
The Chinese internet Firewall makes the NSA look like child's play.

I have been to Tibet. I have seen it with my own eyes.
I have heard about the concentration camps, the deaths from forced-sterilization operations, the disappearances.

I am outspoken about civil rights in America too. In China, not only would I not be a web developer, I would be dead.
Ulbricht publicly used an email address containing his first and last name when he first talked about Silk Road around its start, and before its start, he talked about wanting to make some type of Bitcoin marketplace.

The idea that he's not the first DPR is a joke about the name or obfuscation tactic he used in an interview.
I think both Orwell and Huxley had some extremely prescient insight on the future, and I personally felt that we have come to somewhat of an Orwellian time period, although a lot of Huxley's predictions will be seen in the long term future as well.
They had to pay the owed pay of $40K, plus a $3500 fine. That spells out why these unethical creeps did this. The upside for them is pretty big. $40k savings at the low risk of paying a $3500 fine is huge upside. Wonder how much money they have "made" by doing this in the past when they didn't get caught?

In order to stop companies from doing things like this the penalties need to be great enough that it outweighs the benefits.

"Oh; you didn't pay those workers the $40k you owed them? Here's a $400k fine on top of it for the ten times prior where you probably got away with. Have a nice day."
I don't see ditching all your Apple devices as a requirement, my buddy is a huge Google head but uses all Apple products.

I'm deep in the Apple eco-sytem, iPhone, MacBook Pro (work), Mac Pro (Home), iPod, and a mostly unused iPad. My relationship would be listed as complicated though. I'm not a huge fan of Google but I can't give up on Gmail, GChat, Google search and maps.

On my iPhone I use the Gmail app which is fantastic and I'd argue as good as mail. MacBook/Mac Pro Gmail + a notifier, Adium (IM client).

If you have a real beef with the OS, you can always install Ubuntu on a partition and give it whirl. There's no need jump ship in one swoop. Figure out what works best and run with it.
I can only paraphrase PG because I don't want to spend any time digging for the actual comment, but he's basically said:

People can use downvotes however they want.

There is no guideline to communicate.

I can personally see the pros and cons of this stance. The cons are pretty obvious, but the big pro is that there shouldn't be discussions like you and I are having now.
white/brown noise- ocean waves, rainfall, etc.

A couple links that have crossed the HN Radar before:

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/waterfallNoiseGenerator.php

http://asoftmurmur.com/

http://musicforprogramming.net/
I remember reading that book on my crossings over the tagus river in Lisbon, after we got introduced to Caml Light.

Time flies!
Have there been any reports of this actually happening in the past year?
Illustrates it well:
http://postimg.org/image/ue0pdq56r/
If you have some of your workers from a much poorer country brought over on business, then you should definitely give them higher pay for the trip even if the law says you do not have to, otherwise the business trip is effectively a punishment that leaves them out of pocket should they wish to do something normal like go out to a restaurant.
I agree, that serves no purpose. It's just distracting. The "introductory joke" in a talk is sufficient to relax the audience.
I'd appreciate an invite as well. gary.x.lu@gmail.com
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Ambient seems to work best for me. More generally speaking, calm, instrumental music (i.e. no vocals), which includes some jazz-y music as well (In A Silent Way by Miles Davis, or Sunset Mission by Bohren & Der Club of Gore, to name two).

If that is up your alley, I can recommend the following artists:

Boards of Canada come to mind. Carbon Based Lifeforms (especially their album "Twenty Three"). Marconi Union. Steve Roach made some pretty awesome stuff (Structures From Silence especially).

Every now and then - rarely, actually, but that is not a statement - I will get out the Cocteau Twins. There are lots of vocals, of course, but rarely anything resembling lyrics, so that works for me.

Also, some of the stuff Dead Can Dance made before they split up was pretty great. Towards the Within and Spiritchaser were quite great.
If I could turn back time I'd
A livable 2bhk will cost you around $280 dollars. However if you want to buy it will cost you north $100,000.
http://www.getcampusmaps.com started as a collegiate startup

Several YC startups qualify as well - Watchsend & Zinc from memory
It depends on the learning path of each one.

In the Pascal family of languages, ';' is a separator as well.
Since you talk about deflecting asteroids, you may find this perspective interesting. http://qntm.org/asteroids
if any invites are going out I'd be happy to take one juice.is.good@gmail.com
Everything about this article is well-intentioned — and wrong.

"much as a your email address or username identifies you, perhaps from a list."

Your email address or username may identify you, but it also may not. Your fingerprint absolutely identifies you and only you.

"For authentication, you need a password or passphrase. Something that can be independently chosen"

A password is a secret phrase. We're used to thinking about passwords in terms of strings, but anything secret that I know about would serve the definition. In fact, like a character-based string password, I can even make a copy of my fingerprint password and store it somewhere if I wanted a backup.

A fingerprint is both a username and a password. Trying to hold some analogy between Touch ID and traditional username/password combinations doesn't hold and it completely misses the point of the innovation.

That's why it's convenient, and skepticism of civil liberties aside, convenience means better security because people will use it.
At the time of this letter, Aldous Huxley was very into 'Animal Magnetism' and Hypnotism (read his novel 'Island' to see his utopian vision for such things). He seems to somewhat overrate their potence. 65 years later Animal Magnetism is long forgotten and hypnotism is slightly helpful for giving up smoking or being a bit less angry.

I feel sorry for past thinkers who could only stumble upon ideas from books and digest them one at a time, rather than instantly find the history and connections and evidence and counter-arguments for an idea as we can now.
This is a good idea, life sentences for smoking pot in California have drastically reduced the incidence of pot smoking.
My intent was for all three to be considered separately. I didn't specify whether it was immoral/moral, ethical/unethical, or legal/illegal.

However my real point is that the Silk Road creator and maintainer is responsible and accountable along all three axes. If it is moral, ethical, and legal then that's great! If it's moral, ethical, but illegal then that kinda sucks but that's the risk you take. Morals and ethics are an endless debate which is beside the point here. My opinion is that the initial comparison vs eBay is unreasonble and that the creator is responsible in all three ways.
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The ads...
First page just gives me a black background and a feedback tab.
I'd say capitalism is partly responsible, but not completely - IT is not that competitive yet.

I agree with your conclusion; I think it's about deciding not capturing all the value you create, i.e. not being too greedy. Some companies do make this choice, and whole world benefits.
That is exactly the problem. We have so many H4 holders (spouses of H1 holders) in the bay area. These H4 spouses are desperate for something to do (literally every other H1 household) and there are MANY companies that promise the H4 holder to get a H1 the next year and make them work for free even .
The right mindset to understand the requirements of Bitcoin client design is, I think, that of someone trying to clone an online game client (e.g. Starcraft) in a way that doesn't experience network state desynchronization. You can do whatever you like in your client UI-wise, but the "rules engine" of your implementation absolutely must reduce an incoming event stream into the same world state as the reference implementation.

For this kind of problem, the easiest solution (when possible) is to extract the "rules engine" component of the reference implementation into a library, and then have every other client just use it (and maybe contribute to its development) instead of trying to write something bug-for-bug compatible with it.

When you think about it, web browser rendering has much the same implementation-consensus problems as Bitcoin. And what do we see there? Everyone sort of converging toward just using the "rules engine" known as WebKit.
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I think the problem with Huxleys predictions come from his not realizing how blunt an instrument narcotics are... Fine work and subtle tweaks are beyond our power (just look at the side effects)... Using drugs to adjust personality is like using a sledgehammer to rearrange porcelain figurines. Not that we might not get there of course.... but we'll have many years of boots stomping on faces in the interim.
I'm quite surprised that Percona Server didn't make an appearance in the list.
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I know you're joking, but there is a kernel of truth; crowds do like it. It's sad that people choosing to attend a talk about Angular.js don't find Angular.js interesting enough on it's own. They must have a rattle to amuse them.
The Oxford CS department has being expanding like crazy for the last five years or more on the research side.
I'm not sure I'd agree that CS has a low profile within the UK, I think it's had a strong history over the past 70 years or so. And now there seems to be a buzz regarding bringing coding into classrooms at a lower age that will hopefully will boost numbers in the future.

I guess the low number may be as it is taught in a traditional manner with a focus on the theoretical fundamentals rather than on software engineering (although the dept does offer a post-grad part-time Software Engineering course I TA'd for that seemed pretty cool.)

Anyway, this is certainly good news for the department (and congrats to Max too!).
Actually when F# was introduced, you could switch between both modes.

After voting the #light "on" became the default behaviour.

You can get the more compatible OCaml one with #light "off".
Founder here - would love HN's feedback on the curriculum. Happy to also answer any questions about pedagogy or design.
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I know the prefix comes from the authors name, but the NSSomething naming scheme was very unlucky already, KZSomething is even worse.
Given the goal of implementing proof systems, whose semantics you obviously need to be really clear, I don't think that specification was premature. But you're right that it has inhibited the use of the language in a more general setting.
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It won't. It's not a shared task system (Trello/GQueues/etc).
In many cases it was overblown. We were forced to upgrade to Y2K compatible versions of pretty much every OS and 3rd party software we used. We also had to show that we were taking it seriously which, effectively, meant showing we were spending a lot of money on it.
We spent about a week proving we weren't affected then spent about a year testing and shipping all the random upgrades. Ironically, the effect of all the change was much more risky than the original issue would have been even if we had been susceptible.
On the plus side, we ended up with the latest versions of tooling etc which we didn't usually get budget for but it had nothing directly to do with Y2K.
My initial thought was it was a link to some sort of sting operation also, as I did not know what Kippo was. I could definitely see sting operations as being interesting to the segment of this crowd with more anti-government leanings.