skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Porn sites are janky, unpolished, often half-broken, and prone to suddenly disappearing as quickly as they appeared.

This is what innovation looks like.

I think they are the definition of innovation in online content delivery of any kind. Live video streams, monetizing content, creating minor internet celebrities who can live off of their online work, confronting head-on issues of privacy and censorship. All of these things and more came far earlier in internet porn than anywhere else, and theres a good chance that whatever edge they're struggling with will be where the rest of tech finds itself shortly thereafter.

It's like graffiti in the subway as a precursor to ads for HSBC. It may be grimy, but they have nothing to lose so there's a good chance what they're doing is a brilliant move.
That's a good thing, because if you find a bug, it will be fixed for everybody, not just for your one-off init script.

Generally I agree with this at a broad level. But, there is still the problem of: I need this running now. To do that, I need to compile and run a custom systemd, and hope that my patch gets accepted upstream, and that in a few months my distro finally adopts it and puts it in the standard package.

Generally speaking I really like systemd and am excited to get some time to update my installed stuff to use it, but the above is a real concern.
Do you think that the 2015 Ferrari 458 is the best ever?If not which one do you think is?
So that was you... greeting from the guy drawing hearts and "spreading the love"
You have a point.

But the other side of the coin is that if you document what you do and make a point of helping others that are stuck, you'll have an easier time getting the next good job. (As long as your co workers and your bosses are aware of this.)

Also, you will not feel so dirty.

(I am from Sweden originally, we're a bit extreme in group orientation, so you might want to apply NaCl.)
Fine. There speaks nothing against Debian Desktop for servers by admins who prefer systemd. I am current happy Debian user myself, and I would use such a system for my desktop.

However regarding servers I agree with the Unix veterans that Unix(-like) systems should be faithful to the KISS philosophy which made Unix so great. The IT world has become very complex, and we should not make it more complex than necessary. Debian and its derived distris took over the server world, and (AFAIK) it accomplished that with SystemV not with systemd. So SystemV is not that bad.
There's an ongoing effort by someone to recreate it: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.0
Show HN: Chromebook Comparison Chart with +1's and highlighting
Some updates to the Chromebook Chart:

1. Link icons down the left of the table. Clicking these will add that Chromebook to the url, so if you copy/paste the link, it will highlight that Chromebook and scroll down to it on load. This makes it easier to sent a filtered list with a specific recommendation to people! (This link I'm sharing is good CPU models with 4GB RAM, and the Dell 11 I have highlighted!)

2. +1 buttons are now shown next to each Chromebook. Although we still want to focus on facts over subjectiveness; we thought there was room for at least some sort of ratings to be shown. +1s felt a little simpler than a rating system.

As always, do send feedback! :-)﻿
Seriously what? Is it politically incorrect to mention racial differences at all now?
I've seen AWS credit charges that people intended to make but didn't want. We have some public AMIs that include charges for our product. Twice AWS support contact us to ask if we would credit someone back on the order of $500 out of our pocket because their customer didn't realize running an AMI would incur charges. Yeah, I was pretty surprised by this, too. It seems AWS gives people one freebie, though.
As a longtime iOS developer, I find the android layout system far superior for a lot of things. Before AutoLayout, things like containers that adjusted their size to fit text required reams of custom code—AutoLayout is still less intuitive and harder to reason about (though theoretically much more powerful) than Android's linear layouts, grids, etc.
I read a really enlightening article on the challenges that "adult" startups face when they try to do things the legitimate way[0] (as opposed to using underhanded, duplicitous, and/or legally questionable tactics).

It's rather sad that these startups are essentially punished for not wanting to deceive their business partners about what they do. It sheds a lot of light on why the adult industry ends up with a rather sleazy reputation - it's not because everyone who wants to go into the sex industry wants to be sleazy. If anything, it's that the ones who want to conduct business honestly are discouraged or driven out.

[0] http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/sextech-startups-in-a-hos...
Trying to get it on reddit too: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2jowld/cursors/
How White People Got Made
Burning leaves a pile of salt. I, too, am curious where they expect the salt to disappear to.
great idea, best of luck!
And I thought it was some social experiment where I'm going to see how egoistic I am.
> don't make people compete by limiting the prize pool

That is an interesting idea and it probably works in some rare situations. But unfortunately, most of the time, we only have limited resources and so a limited prize pool. The question, for managers/politicians/capitalists, usually is how do we get maximum motivation out of a limited rewards budget.
Can you list some of the others?
Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf]
Threshold of achieving minimum customer satisfaction is also very very low - for the most part you just need to show nakedness and the problem is solved :)

Tough industry. Hard to break out of a niche.
This is a very one sided article from the perspective of the higher management.

The real contradistinction is that organisations try to reduce costs of the "workforce". The employees try to maximize their income and value. It is true that the maximalization can also occure on group level and that this is not contractually or formally supported in our current economic model. But treating employees as costs individually or as a group will shift the problem.

It can be questioned that it is not such a radical zero sum game but at the other hand it feels like this is the most effective and simple behavior.

The inverted question is, what do organisations do to maximize the income of their employees?
Did you grant the credit? Why or why not?
Here's a chance to relive it!

https://code.google.com/p/micropolis/

EA open-sourced the SimCity code (under the original name Micropolis), it's since been ported to Java and some other environments.
EEG is a mess of noise - it's easy to determine things like 'up', 'down', 'left', and 'right'. If you're really precise (user isn't moving very much and has one of those caps that uses electro-gel) you can infer activations of certain parts of the brain, however i don't know how correlated they'd be to non-strong emotions like boredom.
That sounds like some increbily cool work. I'd imagine you can/already use some backend algorithms used by these people. http://emotiv.com/. If you would be willing to mail me the company you work for.
How long does the background player last?
Rob Pike Responds (2004)
Do you know how you got hacked?
Seems to be going slowly. This would be a great Kickstarter project. I'd buy one. Wonder how to gauge the actual Kickstarter interest before putting in the effort?
I know they didnt care (there wasnt any significant OS community at the time) and even if they did its not reason to remove a core feature of like fork, because someone might abuse the idea.

It was a kind of pun to state my disaproval to level of fragmentation the linux community has gotten into.

Okay this SystemD saga might or might be AS important as some people tend to think. But fragmenting the community so much and having people working to 10 different, unstable solutions instead of 3 stable ones, its a waste of resources IMHO.
I don't a reason why it should work only in rare situations. This seems perfectly suited for companies - after all, you make money directly off increased productivity of each of your workers. Just keep the reward smaller than what you'd expect to gain from increased productivity, and it should be possible to sustain this system.
The first cg company to use 10GbE? I find that hard to believe. I develop storage boxes for video production, and 10GbE is pretty much standard these days, you only go with gigabit if you're being really cheap. We are now starting to sell 40GbE systems on the high end, as well as bonded 10GbE for those that need a bit better than 10 but don't want to shell out for all of the really expensive 40G gear.
Can I stream from my Mac?
Ask HN: How do you gather email list signups in your web apps?
I want to send interested users email updates about my progress with the app they're signing up to use. I see three choices (fill me in if I'm missing any):

1. Simply add users to the list when they sign up with their email address. Easiest and most effective, but assumes that a signup = permission to send email. Not totally comfortable with this; should I be?

2. Add a checkbox to the signup process that users can check if they want email updates. Nice middle ground, requiring some back-end integration but ensuring I have permission to email. But it won't catch anyone who's already signed up.

3. Add a blog-style pop-up, smartbar, or otherwise prodding UI element to gather signups. Easy for me, but annoying for users who just want to use the app and may already be signed up. But it does catch people who are already signed up for the app and aren't on the list.

All thoughts welcome.
You know, provided Apple continue to agree with you...it seems more like you're just zenning over the fact that even if you did disagree, you couldn't change anything.

Choice is widely regarded as actually making people more unhappy.

EDIT: It's also an ironic comment, since a frequent criticism of systemd is that it's trying to be too much like Apple's launchd.
What the Real Estate Pundit is doing next
I've been looking into ocaml, and was wondering what to do once my programs grow beyond a single file. Unfortunately it doesn't have the equivalent of 'lein new' (Clojure tool for creating a new, empty project skeleton), so I'd welcome a repository of best practice examples like skeleton.io.
Arrgh, how do you guys write these awesome, complex projects (with networking! and built-in tools!) in just a few days? If I tried my hand at making this, it would take me, like, a month. What is the trick that lets you leap across this order-of-magnitude-sized time gap?

Great work!
Since when have init.d scripts been anything but brittle?
About an Open Source Job Search Engine
Some friends and I have the idea to create an Open Source Job Search Engine that will be free for everybody and to verify the claims that the employers make.

The idea can be seen clearly in this web page:
http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/job2.html
If you pass the mouse over the blue text you can see how that was verified.

And also to present statistics with recommendations like this web page:
http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/statistics.html

These web pages were created (now they show only test data):

http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/index.html

http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/search1.html

http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/list.html

http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/job2.html

http://opensourcejobsearch.github.io/statistics.html

Would you like to help with the development ? "Help" doesn't need to mean spending too much time, it could be just some quick advice.
It's open source, created with the open source methodology.
To prevent such incidents Linode have alerts of traffic/cpu/disk thresholds. For example you can configure notification if your bandwidth utilization more than N Mbit/s in duration more than N minutes. Very useful for DDoS prevention.
I had something similar happen with AWS but the bill wasn't as high since they ended up flagging my box as spam-producing and shut off all outbound traffic. I'd just ask them and see if they can remove the charges, it worked in my case.
Try this:
https://github.com/Masonry/Masonry
In seti@home, they are all being controlled from a single location to work on a single task, while the entire internet consists of independent machines operated independently. That's what allows you to talk about seti@home as a single supercomputer, even though it's somewhat tenuous as the problem is so embarrassingly parallel, it would never compete on any actual supercomputer benchmarks which require low-latency communication between nodes.
Re 2. Takes extra effort. People are lazy.
How do you even begin producing a new theoretical model on a computer?
This is very cool, man. Thanks for the link. It is so much fun when on HN and someone brings up a topic and someone throws out established research for said topic without much delay, no matter how big or small.

Like Apple fanbois have "there's an app for that", I love HN moments "Oh I got a citation for that" and for topics I would find very difficult to research at a cursory glance!
There's also a couple of studies, books etc. that have looked into the earning potential of gang members (it is extremely low).

"Gang Leader for a Day" is a nice read in that regard.
This is not even a racial difference, it's a cultural one.

But yes, it seems that people want the reality to conforms to political correctness by pretending that biological and cultural differences between sexes, races, countries, age, etc. don't exist and shunning everyone who doesn't agree.
Haha, quite self-sentric, aren't we.

I've been reading sci fi books since the 1980s. I guess, by your logic, any title I haven't heard about is just bad ...

I've been using AdMuncher since 2002 or so and IMHO it's absolutely great. It's the number 1 reason I didn't switch my desktop to Linux. It's also the reason I'm using a Windows tablet (Dell Venue 11 Pro).

This is the statistics, since last I installed Windows:

Statistics for Ad Muncher v4.93.33707/5539
Adverts removed: 181,604
Bandwidth saved: 5,346 MB
Counter started: June 7, 2014

I've tried AdBlockPlus and uBlock many times, but they leave way more ads than AdMuncher. One of the reasons may be that they are more popular, so advertisers put more effort in defeating them.
> Also, if you live in the EU, leaded solder will be extremely difficult to come by.

Source.

I live in the EU and 60/40 is still the most common solder for hobbyists, and is sold everywhere.
Why Regret Is Essential to the Good Life (2013)
In my opinion, it is negligence to an extent that OP should not have to pay for this, and he should find a new VPS provider.
I recently watched an interesting video of an austrian economy professor, who came to the conclusion that our current competition based society is in effect because in the past competition was crucial to survive, and thus people competed. Our current generation competes because we grew up in a competitive society and in order to be truly cooperative, cooperation needs to become a part of our "memes". Here's the video, unfortunately in German and no subtitles are available yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oouoee9UvEc.

I think the main problem with group bonuses is that those who know/think they worked harder will feel treated unfairly. I have no information on how group bonuses are perceived or what their effects are. However, I personally think that the main problems come from teams who don't share the same spirit/culture and thus, those problems also exist in individually rewarded teams.
Probably one of the first projects I'll make once I get my electronics workspace set up is a small keyboard based on TL1240 switches.

Like OP, I have found the state of free CAD software bit disappointing, moreso for libre ones. So far my favorite has been the free 2D version of SolidEdge, but it has its quirks and like the name implies it doesn't do 3D at all.
Engineering is the art of technical and economic tradeoffs. Engineers use their judgement, experienced engineers simply have a larger pool of good and bad judgements to draw on. They still get things wrong for the same reasons Uncle Bob has to debug the code he writes, they're human and make mistakes.

The domain of automobile use encompasses more variables than a website - there's no sleet over TCP/IP and broken internationalization doesn't result in crushed vertebrae. The vast majority of software engineers and programmers live in a world where the calculus for balancing technical/economic tradeoffs don't involve life safety and billions of dollars of capital investment in the pans.
Would love any thoughts or comments on the notion of ranking real estate agents. Or what other data would be cool to include.
Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a VPN Gateway to Unblock YouTube or Netflix Content
CBuzzing – Follow Interesting Stories, Not Boring People
strace -p1 should do the trick, you can attach after start, but you will have to get it started early, probably as a systemd service. Or if its in a container, strace form outside the container.
As someone who is trying to a create a new, unique, non-janky, adult website I have learned a lot in the last 10 months. And I have never worked in this industry so it has been a serious learning experience.

The biggest issue for me has been the banks. My assumption is that Stripe and other players would be "ok" accepting payments from "High Risk" merchants. But they cannot, their partner bank will not allow it.

I later found an article by Cindy Gallop raging against this.

http://www.inc.com/welcome.html?destination=http://www.inc.c...

"A whole range of banks turned us down, including the startup banks, Silicon Valley Bank, Square 1 Bank. We finally got a banking account at CHASE, and we were extremely relieved, thrilled to get a check book that said Make Love Not Porn on it. And so, when... I began encountering enormous problems putting a payments infrastructure into place, because we are what the world deems adult content, we couldn't work with PayPal, couldn't work with Amazon, couldn't work with Google Checkout, couldn't work with any of the main merchant partner gateways. So, we thought, let's go back to CHASE, we have a business banking account there, let's apply for a commercial account. Unfortunately, that application surfaced the nature of our business within higher levels at CHASE. And it resulted in a meeting with a more senior guy, who essentially said to us, not only can we not give you a commercial account, but you now need to close your business bank account and take your business away, because we can't handle it."

I had a conversation about this over on Reddit that was fairly interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2co0r6/anyone...
I'm extremely anticompetetive and if I know something that could help someone, I share without thinking (and often help if I have time to spare). Fortunately I haven't experienced any negative consequences of this yet - quite the opposite, I tend to end up in friendly groups in which everyone helps others.

I think such pay-it-forward behaviour is contagious, so it is a small way to make the world a better place.
According to the wikipedia article you linked to, the original meaning of sexism is "judging people by their sex when sex doesn’t matter." See also the description "coming to conclusions about someone’s value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant".

Based on the wikipedia article you linked to, my use of the term appears closer to the original than yours.

None of these descriptions seem to encompass the phenomena of women making choices with different probabilities than men. So I'm pretty sure my definition is closer to the original than yours.

Not that it matters, of course - the underlying concepts are the important point. The words used to describe them are simply conveniences to avoid verbose descriptions of the concepts each time.
We have SysV shim layers for that though. We had them in Upstart, and we have them for SystemD. Boiled down, it can still run shell scripts that look like SysV scripts, and will be able to do so indefinitely because that's basic functionality.

At the worst case though, this reduces systemd to a shim-launcher for SysV init, which is the situation you find yourself in now or when using Upstart, which tons of Ubuntu users already have been.
For sake of comparison and voice of experience, I actually do use fifty-six bit secrets for my various needs, as follows. The following secrets are at least fifty-six bits in size:

* Nine "C isgraph" characters chosen uniformly at random. Those are lowercase, uppercase, digits, and 32 more typewriter symbols. This is the kind of password that I actually use for most systems where I frequently need to type the password myself. I am not making any claims about which kind of password everyone should use.

* Ten alphanumeric characters chosen uniformly at random. Those are lowercase, uppercase, and digits. This is the kind of password that I use for systems where I may need to read someone the password over wired telephone service. That service has the advantage, as I understand, that eavesdropping on it is a Federal crime in the USA.

* Five words chosen uniformly at random from the Diceware list of 7,776 words. This is the kind of password I use to lock each of my AES-encrypted master password files.

In practice I have presumably degraded the security of my passwords despite my efforts. Here are two obvious ways to degrade the bit size of these secrets:

* Failing to choose the elements in entirely unpredictable way. Rolling fair dice is OK. Using something built in a standard way for the purpose of generating passwords, such as KeePass, is OK. Mentally choosing combinations of characters is not OK, no matter how quirky you think your mind is.

* Failing to keep every part of the secret completely concealed from everyone who does not own it. Letting people know that a password is a particular one of the above types is OK. Letting people see over your shoulder is not OK.
Just in addition to some other helpful comments: based on posting I assume that your are Dutch or Belgian, located in Europe and are buying this VPS as a private consumer, not a company.

Which means your case is probably covered by consumer protection rules when it comes to informing you about data usage, and I seriously doubt a VPS provider has covered their ass as well as mobile providers tend to do.
If you burn it, and have a pile of salt, it might be possible to remove the ash and keep the salt.
You are the one interested in 'arguing for a particular definition'. You started this branch with: "Sexism" is an odd word to use. Normally the term implies some sort of (non-productivity based) distaste for women or bias against believing they will be productive.

Hence you need to answer the question for yourself. What are you spending so much time arguing for a particular definition?

My point, which you have not observed, is that sexism is independent of productivity, and independent of specifically a 'distaste for women'. Indeed, using 'productivity' as part of your explanation makes it wrong.

It is sexist to hire only women as nurses, elementary school teachers, and secretaries. The sexism does not arise from any particular "distaste for women." To the contrary, some people believe that women are innately better for, say, caregiver positions than men. This is a sexist viewpoint with no factual underpinnings.

Your definition does not encompass that meaning, so must be incorrect.
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