skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As wonderful as the language might be, the site is nearly unreadable; the black background makes the dark red links almost invisible, and it "swallows up" the thin, small white text.
I'll bite. I'd start with Ways of Seeing by John Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-John-Berger/dp/014103579X
*there is no minimum salary*

Yes. This is I dislike very much too, it's hard to see
people working hard, only earning a few Euros per hour
in an extremely rich society.

This is changing January 1st, 2015, at least for some.

Luckily, Germany may finally see a minimum wage now that
the SPD is part of the government again.

Let's not forget who brought the Agenda 2010 on its way, including the Hartz reformations.
It can also be the kiss of death. Look what's happened to Scotland's "Silicon" Glen [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Glen
It was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7815993

but half year ago and no community reaction.
That will just never happen on new cast iron. Old stuff was machined smooth from the factory, new stuff has a texture on par with sandpaper. Unless you intend to take a dremel tool or whatever to your new cast iron before you begin using it, you're just not going to get a surface comparable to a Teflon pan without years of use to build up a layer of seasoning that smooths out the castings peaks and valleys.

I've got a newish, rough Lodge and a vintage smooth Wagner that I both stripped and reseasoned (with just Canola oil. This flaxseed method is overkill IMO). The Wagner can cook eggs like teflon; the Lodge, even after two years of heavy use is still pretty rough for eggs, its nonstick enough for most other foods.

Cast iron is nice and I prefer it for its properties besides the nonstick abiluty, but for the casual home cook making eggs, Teflon is pretty foolproof.
Academia is Detroit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456
This article has a completely backwards approach. People prefer new art. This is a clearly observable fact. The article's approach to this fact seems to be to declare everybody as making the wrong choice, essentially by fiat. It would be much more interesting to examine why people prefer new art and ask the question of whether the classics are underappreciated and if there would be a net benefit to encouraging them, rather than basically assuming the author's tastes are some sort of objective fact and deriving a bunch of nonsense from it.

Personally, I think there's a ton to be said for context. People want characters and situations they can relate to. At the end of the day, I'd generally prefer to read something where the protagonist uses an iPhone and cooks with a microwave than one where the protagonist writes letters and has his food cooked by slaves.

And of course it doesn't have to be as dramatic as smartphones and slavery. Even a book from just a couple of decades ago is going to feel remarkably different due to changing attitudes towards everything from homosexuality to nuclear war.

But he completely refuses to consider such contextual advantages. He states flat out, "People are better off reading the best books, and the best ones are predominately the ones that already exist, there is more than can be read, and new books have no compelling advantage over the classics." (Emphasis from the author.)

The concluding sentence is an excellent summary of the article, although not the way it's meant to be: "I have started with common-sense grounds and wound up somewhere strange." In my experience, when people justify things with "common sense" they often mean unsubstantiated claims that they don't want to have to justify explicitly. If you start with "common-sense grounds" and end up somewhere strange, consider that maybe your starting assumptions are faulty!
There is art that seeks to please or entertain, and there is art that seeks to say something. For example, even if movies like "Baraka" and "Samsara" already have been made, they still need to be made again, every few decades. And even in cases where the audience doesn't need some things said many times in different ways; each artist still needs that act of actively saying it. I'm not an artist, but what creativity I do have in my life, it is for me. For example, I sometimes write lyrics and I rap them shittily, and I am pretty much not concerned what anyone but me thinks of them. They're my little bubble in which I can clean my own soul, and who sees it or cares is not my concern. And while I don't consider that "making art", I know much worse things, that have nothing to say at all, are called art with a straight face. So technically, it's art. And I don't do it to get laid, I did it, as I said, to relieve pressure and come to terms with the world around me. I am not saying this is the sole motivation for art, but at least I don't have to second guess artists with a message on their motivation, because I know it's at least possible to not give a fuck, because I am doing it right now.. if society was so great I could seek its approval with a straight face, I would have no reason to write songs. So I'm not asking when I make "art", I'm telling, and I don't worry wether what I do is good enough for people, if anything I'd worry wether people are good enough for it. And I'm not making great things, you know, and still I take them seriously enough to feel that way. How much more so for "real" artists. It is said Bach wrote for God first and last; or was that just PR? Yeah he did it for a living, but his motivation was not to impress people. Are such people the exception of the rule, or is the rule just nonsense?

Though I agree, don't encourage art, make it illegal. It will not stop people from being artists, but it would curb a lot of mediocrity :P
What Is Daly City, and Why Didn't Reddit Want to Move There?
Who, do you think, copied who?

http://www.houseofpaine.org/CastIron/

Scroll down to "The Recipe for Perfect Cast Iron Seasoning" and compare with her "The Recipe for Perfect Cast Iron Seasoning"

I remember reading that other webpage some years ago, while her post is brand new. This kind of un-credited copying might well be called "plagarism"
Fair point. I wasn't meaning to be hostile but I can see how it came across that way.

My point was just that you acted awfully sure of something that you seemed to have no factual information on. Statements beginning "I guarantee" and "I'm sure" that aren't backed up with details are not helpful. Your argument that it's possible to do new things on the coasts is strong enough by itself, no need to throw in suppositions based on apples to oranges comparisons.
Hey folks, jemalloc author here, willing to answer any questions you have about it. I'll be AFK for much of today but will be around all day tomorrow.
Yeah, sounds like a pain. But I don't do anything like that and my pan is perfectly functional (and great at browning).

The only thing I really do is to: use it, immediately clean it, put it on the stove to heat and dry, then wipe on a layer of whatever fat I have at hand. Really, the last step is the only difference from how I treat most pans (yes, I dry them with the heat from the stove). I have done the real seasoning thing, but found it both a pain and not noticeably more effective...
Example:
"Some areas of artistic endeavour seem to try to prove that art is worthless and a joke; it’s a little hard to explain some areas of modern or post-modern art"

This has the sniffing of someone that isn't willing to follow the tendrils of a work, and certainly doesn't show a willingness to invest effort to understanding. How silly would it look to say "Some areas of software development seem to [xxx]" and conclude that, because something is hard to explain (subjective / contextual) that it therefore (implied) lacks value?

Much like the rest of language, pieces exist in an ecosystem, and the meaning that emerges tends to be occluded until one invests in comprehending the contexts. Postmodernism, for example, is a clear move away from Modernism. I cannot count the number of times that I have seen genuine conflation of "Modernism" with "modern", for example. To understand Postmodernism requires an understanding of what came before and what it may be taking issue with.

Of course, to wrap all of this up and encapsulate it as mere aesthetics or art is to ignore the very thing that gives art and other variants of language life; that it exists as a holistic thing in relation to philosophy, contemporary culture, historical culture, science, music, literature, and the rest of that complex ball.

"Deep down, I don't think our foundations are all that different."

Which is exactly why I am responding and attempting (probably failing) to communicate. It's not an easy task, especially when we consider the general culture around Hacker News, but one that I believe is extremely valuable.
jemalloc works much like what you're describing. The one missing piece in terms of userland/kernel cooperation is that jemalloc aggressively discards dirty unused pages because it doesn't know whether other processes need those pages. If the kernel were to communicate the severity of memory pressure to userland, it would be possible to more intelligently rate-limit the purging.
I have no idea, I just repeat what scientists from the Rosetta mission said.
GitHub, the hot bed for spreading Trojans?
For mobile app developers using Adobe AIR, please DON'T use the ANEs (AIR Native Extension) under than two GitHub accounts.

https://github.com/Code-Alchemy and https://github.com/lilili87222

Their ANEs are Trojan by embedding their own AdMob ID in your app, steal part of your AdMob revenue: http://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/codealchemys-admob-ane/page/2?replies=42#post-71928
will it get more energy once it gets closer towards the sun?
will it still be operational once it gets there?
Hmm. You can split atoms in 5 reasonably-simple steps but I haven't seen anyone describe how to do it recently. See C. L. Stong's Amateur Scientist column where a Van de Graaff generator is used to fire beta particles at a target. The only complicated part was the vacuum pump, which involved extensive hacking on a refrigerator compressor. Nowadays good-quality pumps are almost free for the shipping on eBay. Hmm...
You're still assuming that "smarter" means "better" and that "better" means "separate".

What if we held the attitude that "smarter" was just another aspect of the genetic lottery, like your height or the color of your skin? What if we taught our children that it doesn't matter what you are, it matters what you do?

Why should telling a child that they're "smart" be any worse than telling them that they're "tall"?

The problem isn't labeling them as smart, the problem is the pervasive attitude that smart can be a substitute for other things like hard work or kindness, and the attitude that a child who's too smart is somehow no longer compatible with his peers.

Why shouldn't a child genius both pursue extreme mental enrichment and participate in life as a peer with other children of his own age? There's nothing that inherently separates prodigies from their peers. We make it happen.
What Programming Brings to Art
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the quality of the public schools. If you're thinking of starting a family that could be a compelling point. Iowa is widely considered to have some of the best public schools in the country.
Wikipedia looks like it makes sense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_bluefin_tuna#Life_histo...

They are reproductive for more than 2 years and lay millions of eggs in each breeding season.
I always liked the speculation that the original Apple logo (the rainbow one) was a reference to Turing. He (allegedly) killed himself by taking a single bite out of a cyanide-laced apple, and the rainbow stripes are a reference to his homosexuality.

As far as I can tell, the idea is almost entirely without merit - but it's a nice idea.
Great progress on fish farming. Catching wild fish doesn't scale; it leads to overfishing and population collapse. This scales. Many fish have been farmed for decades, but they're usually the ones at the bottom of the food chain. Tuna are further up. I wonder if this reduces the mercury content in tuna. Predator fish concentrate mercury, enough so that pregnant women shouldn't eat them.

Giant step backwards on web page display. You will watch all the embedded graphics, or else.
Every site is going to have a different sort of userbase, so it's tough to make sweeping proclamations about support. I don't think we'll have trouble using SHA-2 in our deployments.
I have this to use the arrow keys without any modifier:

# Use up/down arrows to search on partially typed command
bind '"\e[A"':history-search-backward
bind '"\e[B"':history-search-forward

Just type the first letter(s) and use the up/down arrows to scroll through the filtered command history. Incredibly convenient.
Not to be confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War#Redcode
> It's a web site directed to the uninformed public.

The `uninformed public` deserves to be better considered, thank you.

It's not about the quality of explanation or the depth of the technical details in the FAQ but about the way it gives the feeling facts are being rewritten to fit reality (if there are no mention on the page it is being edited to accommodate for mission updates then it's completely understandable people would frown over number shuffling).

Did you count the words on that FAQ ? Any `uninformed` person who would read that FAQ would have questions about why the wording change over time.

Because it's a FAQ, not a live update.

> Honestly, who do you expect to use the FAQ page for anything serious?

Really ?
Some of it is here: http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/intro1.html

Edit: Sorry, I thought for some reason that you were looking for an English version. It hasn't been published, that I know of.
Replying to oneself using a bunch of different accounts is an abuse of this site.
While we're on the topic of non-bash shells, I recommend taking a look at Fish: http://fishshell.com/

I wrote a tutorial on how to install it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu: http://hackercodex.com/guide/install-fish-shell-mac-ubuntu/ For me, the chief advantage to Fish is that you get more functionality out-of-the-box than with most other shells, including zsh.

I also published two related projects for easily sharing Fish shell enhancements — Tacklebox https://github.com/justinmayer/tacklebox and Tackle https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle) — because I wanted a way for folks to be able to have access to multiple plugin repositories and easily share their favorite shell snippets.
> Exactly what the American people have come to expect from the government. Unless its been gift wrapped by a contractor they lack any ability to do anything technical.

Exactly the expectations that 18F would like to change.
There's also GreenArrays GA144, which has 144 forth machines on a single microprocessor.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/
And insofar as human intelligence evolved for the sake of being able to use "hypocritical" strategies in iterated tribe-sized prisoners' dilemmas (a constant refrain of economists like Robin Hanson), art (in its propagandist status-enhancing role) is the fulcrum by which sentience was plucked out of the evolutionary soup. We do not produce art such that there will be better art to consume; we consume art as an alliance maneuver such that when we have something important (and self-serving) to say, others will listen.

And, of course, we make this game-theoretic compromise completely unconsciously; it is an adaptation we are merely executing.
I put L in 'single quotes' or I \escape it

touch 'L'
ls 'L'
ls \L
The only part of this comment which I understood was "Wrong on dozens of levels". The rest of it, is just, not using concepts I have a concrete understanding of. But I suspect most of it to be bullshit.

I agreed with the original essay to a large extent. I'll have to admit that I don't know what the title had to do with it. Basically, should we subsidize or protect the economic interests of creators of fiction and entertainment? No, we shouldn't, we really have no need to sustain the volume of what they produce.

I think they should be free to create such things if they want, the suggestion of banning new books is pretty silly. But if unchecked piracy "squashes" commercially motivated books, movies, and music, that would be fine. We would all be quite fine. People can still create media in their free time, if they want, and they might have more free time, if society as a whole spent less money on it.
But does that _require_ big computation, or aren't we smart enough to do this the easy way?

I know simple induction will not work for this problem, but to me, this feels like the kind of problem that might be simple enough that some mathematical breakthrough could make it a lot simpler.
Yeah, they've definitely started out closer to smooth than ours. As you say, I don't know if mirror smoothness is terribly important, but it might let you get away with a bit less oil.
The quality of life in Boulder is amazing but I don't think it is sustainable unless you are wealthy. I have lived here off and on since the 90s. In the past couple of years it has changed dramatically. The rent is expensive, the picturesque views from within the city will be changing due to new construction (I have lost 25% of the views on my deck to construction in one year) and city council's current goal is revenue, not quality of life. BBC did a segment on Boulder's affordable housing market. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29240704 I'd recommend Denver before Boulder.
The author makes the best point. That from his work environment and its union he was supported. Depression may be a fairly normal thing, which some people go through from time to time. It becomes a whole different problem when the individual is not supported and starts a spiral out of available support. Because of his degree, even though he didn't apply it directly, he gained access to a job he wasn't motivated by and substantial benefits. Some may say the answer is to get that degree, regardless of its applicability, to gain access to the club, but others will see the real problem this indirect solution creates for the vast majority of people.
Is anybody using this in large production systems?
Study Finds Pesticides Linked to Depression in Farmers
They are rather different cases.

Casement was tried and convicted of treason for trying, during World War I, to get Germany to support an uprising in Ireland against Great Britain. It's true that his alleged homosexuality didn't help his case.
Where does Detroit factor into your list? I hear such mixed things?
It's nice in that it might let you get away with less oil day-to-day. My best answer is that you can get away with skipping oven-seasoning if you follow the daily practice, but not vice-versa.
Well, it looks like they're only months apart from each other. The House of Paine one refers to 1999 in the html file, and this post was published February 2000. Is it possible they're the same person?

Either way, it's kind of interesting. Nice find.

EDIT: ignore what I said about 1999. Clearly wrong now that I looked more at that page. They even reference 2000 in the House of Paine page.
Here's a nice animation showing the mechanics of (one of) the linkages
http://tube.geogebra.org/student/m35150?at=c
> for very high traffic websites HTTPS costs a lot of money. .gov sites are not very high traffic.

.gov sites can be very high traffic. Think weather, social security, health care, immigration, visas...

> - When you have such high traffic you also have a bunch of old winxp and similar clients. These dont work fast on HTTPS and dont work without sslv3 and what not.

SSLv3 only kills IE6, which is doable. And it's okay if very old clients work slowly with HTTPS -- those clients have far more problems than just slow HTTPS.
Before ‘Agrihoods': America’s Odd History of Planned Communities
Casement's so-called 'Black diaries' were used during his prosecution for treason in an attempt to discredit him as much as possible.

These were condemned at the time by irish nationalists as forgeries.

I believe that they are now generally regarded as genuine.

They included references to homosexual acts which was sufficient to incur public condemnation back then.

Consequently the fact that many of Casement's and also Wilde's sexual acts involved juveniles has never been given much consideration.
A little side question - I love Serious Eats but after their last redesign there is no paging. So you just cannot browse to a certain point in time and then continue from there.

Am I missing something obvious?
I knew virtually nothing about Turing until reading Neal Stephenson's 'Cryptonomicon' around 15 years ago. I wonder how many people actually learned about him (and some aspects of his life, despite the novel being alternate/historical fiction) for the first time in this way.
In some air.mozilla.org talk the author said that this research was very unconventional and if successfull could bring generic yet not marginal perf improvements in a lot of languages.
The Imitation Game: great film, but loose with facts
If you aren't getting paid up front, there's always this
A) Hashicorp, you are awesome.

B) This works really well in conjunction with registrator https://github.com/progrium/registrator which listens to Docker events and will automatically register your services with Consul.

I occasionally run into an issue where a node will be briefly marked as failing. This seems to clear up pretty quickly but I can't really figure out what is happening when this occurs. The nodes are all in the same DC and on their own private network. I also occasionally lose all running Docker containers on a particular node. I don't think that is related to Consul, just throwing that out there :)
I saw discussion about this on reddit. The top comment noted that kids sit on the couch (and do not need move) while playing this video game - so it's not clear how this video game helps.

I guess it's a very bad idea that also was poorly planned and managed.
Actually OS/400 isn't quite what I'm talking about (despite being really cool!). {AS|OS}/400 is more like a cross between a minicomputer and all of those promises of a Java OS we were given in the 90's.

I'm talking more about the mainframe level stuff, like z/TPF on the software side and adding address space tags to the channels on the hardware side. Basically that last one is a better implementation of an IO/MMU where a device knows that it's probably running under a hypervisor, can get requests directly from multiple VMs without the hypervisor's intervention, and the VMs requests are implicitly tagged with the address space of the VM so it's still memory safe. ie. a VM can't request DMA from a device that would be outside of it's allocated space, but it can still directly ask the device for DMA without involving the hypervisor directly, and the device can service multiple VMs (that last bit is what isn't really present with current IO/MMUs).
For people interested in Distributed Systems the architecture[0] page is a treasure trove. The explanation of the gossip(SWIM) and consensus protocol(Raft) used is easy to understand and quite lucid.

It would be wonderful if all (most?) open-source projects have a such beautiful documentation explaining their architecture. Thank you Armon and team for sharing this with us!

[0] - https://consul.io/docs/internals/architecture.html