skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> feedback on the offering.

The only way to get more info is a 15 minute demo? Smacks of an old school smarmy sales gimmick. Gee, no thanks!
Haha, loving the description :)
This isn't a backport of the Xcode 6 Playground feature to Objective-C. It's an iPad view controller and glue code intended for the simulator; you add your own code and the view controller provides controls that correspond to Playground features.
A comic that juxtaposes then nicely:

http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/huxley-vs-orwell-in-graphic-...

I strongly feel that BNW is more realistic. Neither will play out in entirety, but we are certainly addicts of our opioid receptors.
"Island" is completely pro-sex, anti-monogamy.
I feel like 1984 and "A Brave New World" are occurring simultaneously to varying degrees in society, but I expect in the long run, massive unexpected events (world war, sun goes nova, whatever...) that eventually we will settle into something more akin to "A Brave New World". It is simply less effort for those in power to manage a society by drugs and indirect manipulation than by brute force.

Think of all the distractions that already occur today with smart phones, facebook, twitter, continuous streaming TV, constant video games that are always with you and continuing to grow more immersive. Here we have our growing distractions.

Now start giving these things to younger and younger children; how many toddlers do you see tapping on a smart phone or a tablet?

Add to the mix a good healthy dose of drug induced behavioral control via Ritalin or Adderall, prescriptions written for these are at an all time high http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/radical-increase-in-kids-prescrib....

Fast forward to that child as an adult; they have spent their whole life on behavioral modifying drugs and start to feel uncomfortable or dissatisfied with their lot in life. What are these "strange feelings", so off to the doctor they go where they can be diagnosed with depression and get put on some Paxil/Prozac/Zoloft so they can be content going back to that same hum drum existence they were starting to question. Since they were trained as children to take behavior modifying drugs, as an adult they are predisposed to accept this as the correct course of action.

Seems to me, at least in the USA, we are already coming pretty close to Huxley's vision today.
>Why is the catholic church panhandling in this way? Surely they can afford to do it themselves.

For the same reason funded startup's use crowd funding. It demonstrates that this is something a lot of people care about and builds community buy-in around a cause. The people that run this digitization program at the vatican have bosses too and they need to justify that their project matters and deserves more time and attention.
Myron Scholes on the Black–Scholes Option Pricing Model
No one forced me to do a startup. No one forced me to have a kid. Those were my choices. And as a result, I'm in a situation that requires a lot of compromise.

I think there are many others in this situation, but it doesn't get talked about all that often.

My intent with the post was to share the things I've learned that have helped in the hope that they'll help others.

I'm not complaining about my life. In fact, I'm quite happy. Very happy. But that doesn't mean I can't or shouldn't share my decision making process for others to potentially benefit.
I feel like they should rename the Millennials the "Give Up Generation". You guys just take defeatism to 11 every time any tries to say something hopeful for people to start doing what's better for the world. Good grief. Let the poor guy dream for a minute.
Sounds like a great way to invite a higher crime rate.
The overall sentiment of your post is correct...you can run a social network cheaper than FB if you're not concerned about profit(note that PBC is still "for profit").

> How much, per user, does it really cost to run a social network now? Not much.

That's a broad brush.

> Hosting is so cheap that Atlantic will rent you a full-time virtual machine for $0.99/month.

If you're serious about uptime/failover/any sort of SLA this figure is totally meaningless.

> A majority of Google's headcount is ad sales reps.

Because they produce the revenue :)

> The main search engine, a few years ago, was developed and run by about 90 people

Their salaries are minuscule compared to the millions/billions it takes to keep the datacenters that serve search running. Not to mention that the 90 people figure doesn't(can't) include things like network engineers, hardware engineers, capacity, provisioning, monitoring, cloud infra, etc. There are LOTS of supporting actors that aren't directly on the "search" team.

This is the beauty of technology. The size of the engineering team does not scale linearly with the size of the userbase. e.g. you can have a relatively small team of engineers write code that is used by billions of people. In contrast, a sales team will scale linearly with revenue. More sales people = more revenue, all other things being equal. Thus you see large sales headcounts at these companies pushing ads to people.
I would probably be more interested in recovering Delicious if I hadn't migrated to Pinboard.
great feedback! we are working on cleaning some edges in the product and soon make them available for self -serve. Currently it needs some hand holding.
Really interesting finds you got, thanks so much for sharing. I currently run 6 Kippo honeypots scattered across the USA (one at home on a Pi and the rest on cheap VPS).

I see a lot of driving drunk at the shell as well. I can't count how many times that I've seen uname misspelled... I haven't seen bitcoin just yet, but I expect that'll show up eventually.

Shameless plug (sorry), I just did a talk on some of my Kippo honeypot findings. Some here may find it interesting: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/grrcon2014/s06-bri...
I am no expert in forex platforms, but this statement seems a bit off:

"individual investors only have a few simple tools at their disposal, e.g., Meta Trader or Ninja Trader"

Both meta trader and Ninja trader have powerful event-based scripting languages (MQL5 [1] and NinjaScript [2]) with a solid library of charts, strategies, indicators and order execution. More than that, they have a huge community providing all kinds of services around those platforms[3][4]

Other than that, Wolf seems like a nice piece of software.

[1] http://www.mql5.com/en/docs

[2] http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/

[3] http://www.mql5.com/en/signals/mt5

[4] http://www.metatrader5.com/en/automated-trading/mql5market
At one point in time before we had universities, science and math research was done in monasteries. The Vatican paid for a lot of that research and education. So I assume they got a lot of books they collects or had written that they want to made free access to the public by digitizing them.

A lot of people have left the Catholic Church to go to Non-Denominational Churches, or else just became Atheists. So passing the hat around doesn't work as well as it used to.

Priests and Nuns take a vow of poverty, they are not spending the money on themselves. They use it for food panties, for homeless shelters, for healthcare, for education, and to pay their employees. A lot of times churches are in debt even if the people pledge to donate over a million dollars to the church, people don't always donate what they pledge or promise and many families even with good paying jobs just don't donate at all. There is nothing that forces people to donate 10% of their salary to a church, in fact most donate less than that. Some don't donate anything at all.

The documents won't rot away they are being taken care of and preserved. If there is not enough donations to digitize them, the world will have to go without them.

Just think this is a large collection of books from around the world that hasn't been seen since the Library of Alexandria. Books that were protected from the Nazis who wanted to burn them. Books that governments had wanted banned or censored. Books that brought about human advancement and civilization throughout history.
> It's simply a numbers game and I rate Football rather highly as it's actively enjoyed by a large number of people.

The question wasn't whether it was actively enjoyed by a large number of people, but whether it was "an academic activity".

The idea that was is an "academic activity" is defined by how widely enjoyed the activity is probably only defensible with a very unusual definition of "academic".
Drugs aren't addictive. People are either more or less prone to forming habits around activities depending on their own brain structure and chemistry.

No drug is addictive. Addiction is a weasel word to try and shift the blame of habit forming away from the person and onto the activity.

Is the beach fun? Some people find it fun, they go as much as possible. I don't find it fun. Can we then say "well, fun is not that simple. would you argue hiking is not fun? I've tried hiking and I don't hike all the time but that does not prove hiking does not have fun properties. I go to the beach and when it's not available I don't miss it. Is the beach more or less fun than hiking?"?

No drug is addictive just as no activity is fun. A person will feel fun or will form a habit around an activity depending on their predisposition to do so, based on brain chemistry.

Cocaine only manages to convert 4% of the people that try it. That means only 4% of people are prone to forming habits around Cocaine. What percentage of people are prone to forming habits around watching sports? Should watching sports be considered addictive and become illegal, if more than 4% of people form habits around it?
I really don't mean anything personal here, but this kind of comment illustrates exactly what I'm talking about. I highly recommend volunteering for a couple weekends with a local homeless initiative (not trying to get on my holier-than-thou horse here, I'm as big of a selfish jerk as the rest of us). And not to sound like a student who just came back from a 3rd world missions trip, but it will completely change your perspective on life. Believe me, I'm the last to give up my precious free time but it's almost fun, and incredibly educational.

In practice it's extraordinarily hard to centralize the homeless. Like, proving P=NP hard. Consider the nature of the homeless, how they've been treated their whole lives, the way society talks and acts around them, etc. etc. They are not very willing to just hang around. To "ghetto-ize" the homeless would require mass sweeps by police to essentially arrest and forcibly move the homeless population. Yes, we always are in danger of marginalizing the people we're trying to help but that's going to be an easier job for a militarized government force, not a woefully underfunded and understaffed soup kitchen.
I am still unhappy with wifi detection/configuration and problems with Compiz. But overall, I agree, Ubuntu is getting better.
(SpiderMonkey engineer here)

What VerGreeneyes says is true for our JS engine, too: you can always file bugs in our bugzilla (in the "Core/ JavaScript Engine" component). We react to such bugs very promptly (as you can see in bug 1087963[0] which was fixed six hours after being filed) and, in many cases, can uplift patches from Nightly to Aurora and maybe Beta, so they'll reach release builds more quickly.

If for some reason you're not comfortable with filing a publicly visible bug, you can also abuse the flag for filing security-sensitive bugs. That way, we may be better able to help with issues affecting unannounced products.

For asking questions or getting our attention even more quickly, you can either join us in the #jsapi channel on irc.mozilla.org, send mail to dev.tech.js-engine[1], or send mail to one of the SpiderMonkey engineers directly. A list of these engineers is available at [2], or you can just email me at [my nick]@mozilla.com.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963
[1] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Modules/Core#JavaSc...
I have no experience running or installing OSX and am utterly unequipped to answer that question. I also have no idea what "certified by the manufacturer or distribution to run Linux" means. As I explained elsewhere, there is such a staggering amount of proprietary hardware in use in laptops, none of the Linux Laptop authorities can keep up.

I can, however, answer your unspoken question: Will Windows run on it? Well... Yeah. Windows runs on everything powered by an x86 processor. Windows 8.1 came installed on the machine.

The average computer user can't understand the concept that a certain operating system will not work on their computer. You pick a machine out from an array of nearly-identical machines, then start using Windows 8 or OSX 10.x as soon as you open up the cardboard box and plug in the computer.
I've seen women who go to do hard labor in rice fields the following day of giving birth, its business as usual.

And heroic. We have a baby, but I can't imagine the pain my wife had to go through. Even if it happens to a substantial part of the population, it's still heroic.
The 80/20 rule explained by an experiment on 100 paper clips
A lot of time when you need to check out some detail about the syntax or standard functions of some popular programming language, you won't start going through the TOC of the manual, you just google it. And usually the first hit is a SO answer. And quite often the answer is good. So why not click an upvote, even if the answer already had some hundreds of upvotes.

So the answers that keep turning up as first hits in google searches, keep gathering upvotes.
For any that were not aware, this is the same Zalewski that did a lot of great work around the Shellshock bug. He found 2 additional issues with the parsing function after the initially reported bug. CVE-2014-6277 and CVE-2014-6278

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/bash-bug-how-we-finally-...

I don't know where he finds time to sleep.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." -Orwell
>"When the public is made aware of the mass surveillance programs, they do say "No thank you""
Actually they say "I've got nothing to hide" or "there is nothing you can do anyway"
Do you have more blog posts about Tiempo on the site? The site doesn't offer a link to a blog. I'd love to read how you guys are doing business-wise as we are doing something related but tangential.
Sure. You first need to figure out how to represent your game data in terms of object/collection resources. Then LiveResource makes it easy for clients to receive updates to those resources in realtime.
> Society has to answer these questions by weighing the rights being curtailed for one party vs. the rights being protected for the other party

I encourage you to read my post about externalities. I believe you would find the arguments from the economics perspective interesting.

> I've always thought that outright indoor smoking bans are a gross in-balance of non-smoker's rights vs. smokers and property owner's rights.

Is smoking really an autonomous behavior? It is a common behavioral symptoms associated with a nicotine addiction.

Should people with uncontrollable addictions have rights outside of the right to treatment? I'm not so sure...

Tobacco smoking might be the only drug that causes unavoidable physical harm to non users.

> I think imposing mandatory licensing (with fees) of indoor smoking establishments that ensure proper ventilation for the protection of employees and other tenants is the reasonable solution.

The WHO has suggested that solutions through engineering, such as improved ventilation, are ineffective at reducing the unsolicited harm (or social costs) that non smokers have to incur.

http://www.who.int/fctc/cop/art%208%20guidelines_english.pdf
not only preservation either: a ton of scholars were catholic priests[0], the "obscurantist church" is a rather recent meme.

[0] i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_scientists
It's hard for me to believe that 'standardized initiatives' are taking care of the problem. If they are being adequately cared for by standardized initiatives they would not want to wander into unsafe areas or beg for food. They need to. Or they are mentally unstable.
node is tied to v8 correct? if so, why? are there technical reasons that node cannot be made to work on spidermonkey or rhino, or is it that v8 has supplied underlying tech that node depends on and the same would have to be done in the other engines? It seems like a full blown node/npm running on the jvm would be useful...
Kippo by default sets the username as root and the password as 123456. You can add additional username/password combinations, but having multiple passwords to access the same account is a key red flag that the system is in fact a honeypot. You can also simply change the root password to something extremely complicated, especially good if you want a sensor that simply gathers password data (since they'll be unlikely to guess a 65 character password).
Don't really fault them here. Every startup's app is full of hilarious bugs and hacks.
The testability of Lita plugins via RSpec is super helpful, and it's great to see things like route matching get addressed & improved with this release.
So if I meet someone on the street who has a home, I can hand them my fries?
Under 2/3rds I wonder what would be best long term? A founder owning at least a third could be a problem if when they died, those shares went to someone who was more interested in profit than stated goals. Maybe to get access to the social network you have to buy a share? Spread out the shares to enough individuals and put in language to prevent proxy voting and require a minimum percentage of share holders to vote to change those stated goals?
They're also specially controlled stickers, some with holograms, meant to suggest that the hardware inside is legit. Kind of like new NBA hats. You can remove those too.
I've been under the impression that Apple asks third parties to use three-letter prefixes (that's the default in Xcode when you start a new project).

Apple would like to keep two-letter prefixes for their own frameworks: CA for Core Animation, SK for SceneKit, etc.
Not really sure what the point of this is. How do Google Now and GMail Offline == 'The Web'? They are specific Apps designed to work in a specific manner, they are not 'the web'. GMail does work with any browser when accessed via 'the web'.

100% agree with the Apple example though. Why didn't they stream in a more accessible format?! It just served to annoy people and exclude even more people from the Apple elite.

a few years ago banks and financial institutions seemed to be especially bad at restricting access to just IE. Thankfully they seem to have got better, but maybe that's because I don't use Opera anymore!

Originally I thought this was going to be an attack on Hungary's Internet Tax or some freedom of speech protest, alas.
You're right. Those were my choices. Fortunately, over the past few months, the servers have stayed up and my daughter hasn't had a need to go to the hospital. Those are holy shit moments.

But most of life is lived in a more mundane day-to-day way. Those days are filled with your choices about where and how you spend your time.

I wrote this post to detail how I go about making these decisions because I know there are others out there in a similar position. Just hearing another perspective is helpful.

Someone just pointed me to this post from Change.org's COO and I greatly appreciated her take: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141022041002-407452...

On the scalable startup or not...we wouldn't have gotten into YC if we didn't have a plan.
"I'm not going to call you an idiot because it would be wrong to say what an idiot you are."
My meaning was not, "how can we persuade people to my way of thinking", rather it was how do we identify who has made an honest mistake and who was acting in a deliberate manner so as to punish the two differing groups accordingly.
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> Why is the catholic church panhandling in this way? Surely they can afford to do it themselves.

Pretty much all of the Catholic Church's money comes from passing the hat in one form of another, and its absolutely normal for a new initiative by a Catholic institution to be accompanied by an effort to seek direct donations to support that particular initiative.
Not so strange because these books are not being sold, and there is no commercial aspect to it.

Just the pursuit of knowledge and even books that have beliefs that are contrary to theirs but they are making them public and free to access. Even books written about Jesus that didn't make it into the Bible and were considered heresy. All of the books are being digitized for educational purposes and free to access to the public.

Will Merke give out free drugs, will the banker forgive loans and give out interest free loans, will the laundromat give out free soap? Nope, because they are commercial and in it for the profits and money.

This move by the Vatican is not about profits, but more about freeing the information in these books for the public to benefit from for free.
Neither was Megaupload.
Hiring a sales guy is also a hard choice. One that involves giving part ownership to the sales guy in very early stages. Which not everyone wants to do.
If you're keeping information on your phone that may tempt adversaries to cut your fingers off, you may want to rethink some things.
Works for me. Searched for Facebook, clicked Related, scrolled to the right to find it, and now it's installing.
I meant going to Accounts and choosing the "Reply from... radio". That way it will always choose the "destination email" as reply.
Battery life is why I don't use Linux more. Even with monkeying around in the system, those Linux drivers suck up a lot of juice.
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This analogy to OS X is completely unreasonable. OS X software and hardware is co-designed to work together, by a single manufacturer/developer. In fact, you could even say that OS X is specifically designed not to work on any hardware not made by Apple. Creating a "hackintosh" desktop is seriously difficult business.

Linux and Windows are nothing like that. With both, the ecosystem of hardware is quite large, and there is an implicit expectation that any OS should work on any machine (ignoring edge cases like embedded hardware). With Windows, this assumption works well because all hardware manufacturers test their machines with Windows. This is almost never the case with Linux, where even if you are lucky to find that a manufacturer has tested with one Linux distro, they might not have tested with your preferred distro. What are you going to do if your distro "isn't certified"? Just walk away? That's not a reasonable choice for many people.
There are others that I've written up that I'm transferring over. Some were on Medium. Experimenting with different publishing platforms to figure out how best to engage our audience.

I'll wire up connections to other articles. In the meantime:

http://www.tiempoapp.com/how-minimum-is-viable
http://www.tiempoapp.com/tiempo-blog-how-we-got-this-freelan...
http://www.tiempoapp.com/tiempo-blog-the-surprising-power-of...