skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious to hear what you specifically like about Stitcher. I have tried, and own, almost all of the major podcast apps and it was my least favorite experience so far. Their whole business model seems to be to scrape other people's content, download it, compress it, serve it up from their own servers and slap additional ads on it.

Some things that turned me off of Stitcher:

* Includes it's own advertisements on top of the ads already in the podcasts themselves.

* Increasingly difficult to skip past the Stitcher ads and if you want to remove ads you have to pay a monthly fee.

* Can't browse the episodes of a podcast without actively listening to a podcast?

The UI just wasn't that intuitive for me. Part of the problem might have been that I was looking for a "podcast app" and this was more a "radio app" built out of my podcasts. Using something like PocketCasts or OverCast has been a much better experience to me:

* No additional ads.

* No extra monthly fees.

* Easier browsing/control of your podcast episodes.

What am I missing about Stitcher? I could see it being useful for podcast discovery, or for when someone is new to podcasts. I just struggle to understand it's insane popularity over other podcast apps.
Just as I have no sympathy for programmers forgetting to always call mysql_real_escape_string and setting their encodings right in the old MySQL driver, it's not difficult to get right, but tons of people didn't and it made the web a worse place for everyone.

Plus, they might be able to figure out how to iterate and count an array but they might also figure out how to use implode instead which is less code and programmers tend to be lazy. And suddenly they've opened their app up to SQL injection because they forgot or are unaware they now need to do escaping despite using prepared statements.

And since their app might contain my data, I care about this and not just think "those idiots brought it upon themselves".
This is a difficult question because you're the only one who can answer it. Do you really work too much or is your girlfriend just needy and need to get a hobby? Maybe you're in your early 20's and working a lot right now is more critical to your future than a relationship with a girl who's not the love of your life. Maybe you're in your 30's, work 100hrs/wk, you've been dating this girl for 5 years, love her, and she's your last real chance at a relationship for you. How many more at bats do you have (some function of age and how easy it is for you to get women)?

Only you know the answer to this, so what do you think? Ask yourself, 1) if you worked less and made her happy or 2) your continued working at this pace and let her leave, what would you regret more in 5 years? Maybe you won't know how you really feel about her until you leave her. That's what happened with my wife and I.

I understand the draw of work. To this day I still work too much because I absolutely love what I do and the feeling it gives me. But I've been married 6 years and I love my wife more. If my work got in the way of our relationship, I would change things. But this is only because I know she's worth it.

So look over the advice here, but you're the only one that can really answer that question. The answer isn't at the end of some math equation, it's in your gut. Honestly, IMHO if you have to ask us just let her go and get back to work.
Scheduling time with spouse (and for kids) is the only honest and practical way of dealing with the question/challenge of "balancing" work life and family life. It's about setting boundaries. And respectful boundaries are always healthy for all in the relationship.

And by "balance" I don't mean equal - I mean having both.
Artificial Intelligence: Machine vs. Man
Right. So one has to install additional software to automate jumping through their hoops and download the MP4 file. In other words: no difference – I wish they would just give us the file in both cases.

I already have a video player that works the way I want it to work. Same thing with e-books and audio. (Having an app to manage the library of media is convenient once the collection gets larger, but I'll choose the app myself.)
Maybe the better solution would be to look for Bitcoin wallet addresses in commit messages. If maintainers don't like it they can scrub them on merge.
I have no love for Stitcher. Back when I did the iTunes / sync dance a few podcasts I listened to mentioned it, so I tried it out. It's what got me back into podcasts, by making the process so much more convenient, but I don't really like how it works.
Camlistore (http://camlistore.org/) is kind of an answer to that: just stuff all your data into it, and get back to it by searching. You shouldn't have to care about where to put what: what you have is Photos, Music, PDFs, and all are accessible through a search box. The content can also be synced between your computers, and there's some work started to sync with the phone (as far as I know, there's a photo uploader for Android at the moment).

The project is still in its infancy (as in "not widespread yet") but it's advancing at a good pace. For the moment the focus is put on how to run it in the cloud, so that people can install a simple instance somewhere for them, for their family or even for business (so you can run a public instance). But if you want to see it for yourself, you'll see that a good amount of work has been put on images (the golang's stdlib for image was improved from camlistore work) as you can see in the videos.
Hm, my only problem with my FreeBSD VPS is that ruby is terribly slow... I think it's the VM that slows down the ruby interpreter. Other than that, as you said BSD is way easier to maintain and configure because of it's clarity and documentation compared to Linux.

On the other hand you can find documentation for Fedora and Ubuntu server in terms of blog-posts for just about everything.
right. freedom to move is a basic human right, and should be recognized as such. My hope is that in a 100 years or so, we will view these times as barbaric, and be shocked at the fact that at some point in history people couldn't move freely, as we are shocked by slavery today.
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Lizzie the poker bot. Haven't added much AI to it. Written in ClojureScript.

-- omark
Channels management, ERP, CRM, and marketing base written in Python, PostgreSQL, and PL/pgSQL. Currently working on the eBay API, which uses JSON.

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What is the secure install process? Are there signatures for packages and for the iso file?

The system wants to be secure, but it's not teaching me how to install it securely.

Buying the CDs is risky. How can I know they're not backdoored?
Is the world starting to turn against Bill Cosby?
Completely agree with you.
I know this sounds strange, but I tend to develop a sort of personal connection with some of the hosts. As if I've known the my entire life. This doesn't seem to be imparted via other content delivery methods.
Because it makes an implicit assumption that drug use is a bad end unto itself. The problems with drugs(/alcohol) aren't that some people get high(/drunk), the problem are the people who operate heavy machinery while impaired, whose abusive tendencies exhibit themselves under reduced inhibition, who commit criminal acts in order to feed an addiction, or who are self-destructive and use drugs/alcohol/sex/video games/whatever to destroy themselves.

I would wholly expect drug use to go up under a repeal of drug prohibition. I would also expect a whole litany of dangerous behaviors and side-effects currently associated with drug use to be reduced.
> You can write a function for it using ?'s being generated inside your code only. Its perfectly safe to do it that want and allows you to bind parameters.

Of course you can. Everyone here is saying you shouldn't have to. This is the perfect type of thing to move into the db library. That makes it much safer because you don't have to hand-roll the same stupid code in 50,000 places (and possibly fat-finger it once).
No, we don't, but laws can be very effective at destroying such marketing efforts. When I was a kid I saw cigarette advertising on billboards and at cricket matches. Now you can't even see a cigarette brand logo on a cigarette packet.
Pocket Casts is what I use. I love it.
"Unlike most reactors that have been built since, CP-1 had no radiation shielding and no cooling system of any kind. Fermi had convinced Arthur Compton that his calculations were reliable enough to rule out a runaway chain reaction or an explosion."

So, yeah...you can approximate an old experimental physicist as a pair of large brass spheres.
Is every extra hour you're spending working really worth it? I'd figure out how to minimise the time required to accomplish tasks, defer them, delegate them and then also scrutinise the actual tasks themselves.

Once you're done with that do you still not have enough free time?
That is not what I think.

If there is enough public pressure and people start demanding that hemp production be legal, the laws will change.

As long as a large percentage of the population is fine with hemp being illegal it stands no chance. Most people really don't know what they are missing out on, its not just a drug, it is a very valuable plant that has documented use in human society for thousands of years.
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In other words, their subjective value? Gold has no value to me at all, as I don't have any use for it. If you tried to sell me gold, the only reason I'd buy it is if I could immediately resell it for a profit. My subjective value of gold is, therefore, $0.
doesn't work with number pad
If you're asking for relationship advice on HN, I strongly suspect your mind is already made up and you're just looking for useful rationalisations.
>some random site on the web making use of his project name in some questionable way that appears like it is encouraged by the project maintainer himself.

Everyone who used this tipping mechanism would have at least a cursory idea of how it works, and that's all it takes to understand that project maintainers have zero involvement with it.
Yeah, I examined the video, too, with the same conclusion. It's comical that no one thought to measure the current, too, before dropping $10M on them.
>a very naive view of some basic economic concepts.

Which concepts in particular are you referring to?
My guess is that people are going to be turned-off by json-ld.
Reading the heavens with your phone
PocketCasts is far and away my favorite podcast app. You should check it out. They have both an Android, iOS and web client.
"Everything Is Stories" is great as well. Beautiful content.
I still use windowmaker as my main work PC WM. It works beautifully.
No, 100 dB SPL is not a fundamental law of physics, but it's certainly a fundamental limit of human tolerance (it's about the same sound pressure as standing next to an operating jackhammer), and even if you can't hear it at ~20 kHz, any small animal in the vicinity will likely be tortured (seriously, PETA should take an interest in this technology). And since we're talking about investing in a consumer technology, any fundamental limit in human tolerance or even FDA guidance should be a deal breaker from a business perspective. My objection is that no one did such a sanity check before investing a large sum into this concept.
Then a nitpick to your nitpick: "schwarze" (no 't')
Listening to them deeply and finding out their core frustrations is key, just like how you would interact with a user to discover their pain points. In my experience, when my partner claims I work too much it isn't always because I literally work too much.

Of course, sometimes my work/life balance needs to be readjusted and brought back to an acceptable equilibrium. However, the frustration often comes from not conveying my love for her in a way she recognizes and receives it.

The book The Five Love Languages[1], by Gary Chapman, opened my eyes to this. I'd recommend it to everyone. The premise of the book is that we all have unique preferences for what we find satisfying when it comes to love. Your love language is the way that you feel most loved. People usually love their partner how they want to be loved, and that doesn't tend to align with how their partner wants to be loved. You need to convey your love in a way that matches your partner's love language [2].

In my situation, I've thought deeply and talked with my partner about this concept and determined our Love Languages. I now fill the time I spend with her to the brim with activities and behaviors that convey my love for her effectively. I've found that no matter how much time I end up spending with my her, the actual amount of time becomes a non-issue when she feels loved in a way that really resonates with her.

It might help to think about it in terms of the 80-20 rule[3], doing the 20% of effort necessary (conveying your love in a way that actually gets received) to get 80% of the return (a satisfied and loved partner). That may sound a bit cold when applied to relationships- to try to minimize the effort required to convey your love, but it's actually the nicest thing you can do for them.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Love-Languages-Secret-Lasts/dp/080...

[2] High level overview of the five love languages:

- Words of Affirmation
- If this is your love language, you feel most cared for when your partner is open and expressive in telling you how wonderful they think you are, how much they appreciate you, that their world is a better place because you are in it, etc.

- Acts of Service
- If your partner offering to watch the kids so you can go to the gym (or relieving you of some other task) gets your heart going, then this is your love language.

- Affection
- This love language is just as it sounds. A warm hug, a kiss, touch, and sexual intimacy make you feel most loved when this is your love language.

- Quality Time
- This love language is about being together, fully present and engaged in the activity at hand, no matter how trivial.

- Gifts
- Your partner taking the time to give you a gift can make you feel appreciated.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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“The Thinking Machine”
It's based on XL (http://xlr.sf.net).
I just can get what's the buzz about that. I must be missing something. Did I do Reactive Programming when I was doing signals/slots in QT/C++?
I spoke at LibrePlanet and you can too
Hm, crime and punishment. Understanding yourself, the deeper cause of every action or re-action IMHO helps you understand others and understanding others IMHO can improve our social and financial standing.

The depth which Dostoevsky reaches in his character analysis always scared me. I've read other books from renowned authors, but I've never seen such a deep character analysis. It's like making a psycho-graph of his characters and I'm not talking only about the most famous anti-hero Raskolnikov! I'm talking about nearly every character in the novel.

This book is master-piece on so many levels that I wouldn't know where to begin really. IMHO it's a worth a read, if you haven't done it already :-)
For me, it's because all of my vehicles now have either an aux port or Bluetooth audio support.
I do feel some sort of kinship here with the Bitcoin attitude, but it's worth remembering that readability pulled an (arguably worse) version of this stunt in the past few years, and were called out as scumbags for it. No Bitcoin in that story.
Your post made me angry. I just deleted the post I had written. Here's the replacement.

Not seeing your children unless you have scheduled time to do so is bizarre. Some people would suggest it's borderline mildly abusive.

Children must come before work. It's really fucking simple. This principle is enshrined in the internationally agreed (although I know the US never ratifies these things) human rights for the child. http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx

Not seeing your children without scheduling time for them has nothing to do with "healthy" (it soumds pathological) nor "respectful boundaries".

The default must be "all my time is spent with my family. Here's the time I set aside for work, but if anything happens to my children I can shift that work to a different time".
For anyone else that's confused:

What they're talking about: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/theory/why-riak/

Their github: https://github.com/basho/riak

CRDT = "Conflict-free Replicated Data Type" or "Convergent Replicated Data Type" or "Commutative Replicated Data Type"

This page explains what the heck CRDT is: http://basho.com/tag/crdt/
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Many web hosts do this. At <redacted UK-based LAMP host> we do both the WAF stuff (which Cloudflare don't actually do, unless you pay them), and your latter suggestion of read-only'ing accounts on discovery of vulnerabilities.

The unfortunate reality of the latter one is that it's going to break their site, probably, since we don't know what they run, and you can't just read only an entire account blindly without breaking something. We could do better there, but it will never be perfect in this environment.
> What is actually different in 2014 that makes podcasts successful?

Podcasting is no longer the domain of amateurs and the tech savvy. Talk radio is a professional business and the talent from that industry are beginning to start their own podcasts, and sometimes totally leaving FM/AM/satelitte radio behind.

In addition to pro radio hosts, nearly every comedian is also starting their own podcasts. Bill Burr runs one of the best. Hollywood is also adopting podcasts. Kevin Pollack runs a super popular show and is getting big interviews guests such as celebrities like Tom Hanks.

Podcasting is merging with the traditional entertainment industry and branching out from purely simple niche topics. Advertising is paying a lot of attention to podcasting. I heard one radio host gets paid $2 million/yr and he's not even the top podcast on iTunes.

So the difference is it's becoming a general, mainstream entertainment platform.
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We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but a robotics background is NOT required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)

iRobot is looking for software engineers and mechanical engineers.

Here are a few of our 20+ job openings:

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Fedora upgrade process broken by systemd timeout
I don't think this would work. The people getting caught by this would also miss the notice to take their sites down.
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns = 20 µs

Any reason why (arbitrarily?) take 2K here and not 1K?
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Simply put: it should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Exactly. They just raised $10 million. Why do they need any selling at all? Obviously they should be back at work building their product and figuring out the manufacturing logistics for when it's ready. Hyping a company right after raising a round and way before they have a product is strange.
I think tip4commit is a pretty hostile project itself. It deserves a hostile reprimand. And since the creator refuses to even opt-out (let alone opt-in) projects, I really can't feel sorry for them.