skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool:

* systemctl gained a new "edit" command. When used on a unit
file this allows extending unit files with .d/ drop-in
configuration snippets or editing the full file (after
copying it from /usr/lib to /etc). This will invoke the
user's editor (as configured with $EDITOR), and reload the
modified configuration after editing.
>"Seat allocation" doesn't favor rural districts,

Yes it does, at least in the sense that "rural" means "low population density" or "low ratio of population to Congressional seats".

>[T]he Senate may be the least democratic legislative chamber in any developed nation.

>In the last few years, 41 senators representing as little as a third of the nation’s population have frequently blocked legislation, as the filibuster (or the threat of it) has become a routine part of Senate business.

>In this country, the ratio between Wyoming’s representation and California’s is 66 to 1.

This means that if you are a software or computer engineer living in California, as is the norm here on Hacker News, you have 1/66 the Senatorial voting power as anyone at all who happens to live in Wyoming.

>This pattern has policy consequences, notably ones concerning the environment. “Nations with malapportioned political systems have lower gasoline taxes (and lower pump prices) than nations with more equitable representation of urban constituencies,” two political scientists, J. Lawrence Broz and Daniel Maliniak, wrote in a recent study. Such countries also took longer to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, if they ratified it at all. These differences were, they wrote, a consequence of the fact that “rural voters in industrialized countries rely more heavily on fossil fuels than urban voters.”

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/11/us/politics/de...

Emphases mine. But please, explain to me why the voting majority should be consistently denied implementation of their ideas just to cater to people who happen to live where there aren't many other people? That's before we consider the influence of money on elections.
VFX here.

For programmers its quite sweet, unless you insist on working long hours.

unless there is a real crisis (as in data missing, lack of power or stuff on fire) I'm out the door at clocking off time. We are not curing cancer, no one will die if I leave at the contracted time. But then perhaps being, Helpful, talkative, friendly and having no qualms about telling people that seeing my family is infinity more important than dealing with their lack of planning may be why.

I really do feel pity for the people (normally artists) that feel like they have to stay late. for example, people at the Moving Picture company were having dailies at 10PM (a review of the work with crit and dishing out new shots) They start at 9/10AM.

There are laws against this sort of thing, unions and other mechanisms to stop employers taking the piss. However people just leave (the industry) without actually doing anything (Apparently here in the UK middle class people don't do unions.)

Seriously, everyone grumbles (http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/) but little to nobody actually does anything. All it takes is 20-30% of the work force saying "actually no, we're not going to work more than 40 hours, deal with it or fire us"

No employer can replace 20-30% of a workforce and keep a project schedule.
Butterlfy Labs too!
I've no doubt that people ask for citation in the manner suggested, but the gp had a resonable point. In the absense of evidence, it's better to assume what's going on is organic to online discussions.

If you've been on the internet for the last 10 years, this is easy to believe. If not, just visit the phoronix fourms. You'll be astounded by the batshit insane folks.
We cannot say that AI's will not be dangerous just because they will not have human-like behaviour. We shouldn't let inaccurate sci-fi movies cloud our judgement like that. Just because the future will most certainly not look like Terminator does not mean AI's are not a danger. The Elon Musk comment about the demon was not anthropomorphizing AI's; he was saying the invention of superintelligent general AI's could be like summoning the demon and trying to contain it in the sense that it could be a point of no return. We may find out after the fact that we made a huge mistake and cannot control it. I think the remarks of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawkings sound very alarmist, but they want to make sure that we will think about the implications of superintelligent AIs now, and not after we invent them. I am sure we can think of proper ways to 'contain the demon', but we need to think about that now and not when they are already 'set free'.
Demand and supply dictates that if a product is expensive that's equivalent to there bring a shortage of it.
Now that I'm 35 I realize I didn't know squat

Just wanted to quote this for truth. Every couple of years upon evaluating myself I recognize I know more, but likely still squat about certain subjects, and laugh at my past self because it would think it knew a lot. Figuring out you don't know as much as you thought seems the key to really learning more. And that idea in turn has led me to be really wary of people claiming (as in, yelling out loud sometimes) to be wise. If you claim that there's a good chance you aren't. I'm definitely not. But at least I know it..
Old hardware can be surprisingly robust; after many moves essentially all my 20-40yr old hardware is still running. Everything was discrete and some boards look like they were soldered by dropping a pail of molten lead on them.
Whoever wrote this doesn't have the slightest clue about security... and indoor GPS precision.

Also, something as simple as pairing two local devices should not depend on an internet connection.
I'm currently building (1), but just as a pre-alpha for something more elaborate :) though it will probably stay a testing platform. Your pruposal also is very close to 4chan/imageboards.

If anyone wants to discuss possible mechanisms for news aggregation, please chat me up!
> 4-level grayscale sprite editor (which worked by flickering the pixels of the 1-bit display which had a slow enough response time to create a static gray color if alternated quickly enough)

I have heard of games (like Doom) on the TI calculators, that also had sound effects. The program was sending pulses to the linkport, and the user needed a 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm adapter to connect a headphone plug into it, but then you got sound.
Then I don't understand why you want to migrate away from Debian, since there is a resolution from the Debian technical committee that multiple init systems shall be supported.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00...
I referred specifically to Hayek's work in the 30s and the 40s for which he won the Nobel prize in 1974 ... About the time the Rational Expectations Revolution was beginning to gain momentum.

Now, while I actually lived under dictatorship, and did not enjoy it one bit, I must say, if I am forced to make a choice between Allende and Pinochet, I'll go for Pinochet every time. Just look at where Chile was before Bachelet was elected, and where, say, Argentina, and Venezuela, and Brazil are ...
https://metager.de/en/ is a German metasearch engine that includes Yacy P2P results.
I would not have written this if this lack of fact-checking was not indicative of poor journalistic practice, which was my real point. If they’re this fast and loose with the facts on this detail which I know about, how accurate is the rest of the article, or anything else they have written? Getting the details right is important.

(The “try to look intelligent” bit was not meant as a snark, it seemed like a reasonable assumption on my part. I’d remove it if I could, since it does not change any point I was trying to make.)
> Why would it say something that absurd, and why do you think I believed it did? I said nothing even remotely like that, and that doesn't even make sense.

You referred to insulin as a "weird fixation" as if it were meaningless in a weight management context. And your response above is just obnoxious, if you have a point make it, stop referring to it. Obvious troll is obvious.

> Except that the evidence suggests otherwise, that's the point.

No, it doesn't. Evidence suggests they both have huge implications. You remove leptins you get a high correlation with obesity (as mentioned in your own article). You remove insulin you get "difficulty storing fat", you pump insulin high, and you get high storage of fat. Try out a google scholar search on "insulin resistance", "diabetes and weight management", "insulin fat". Again make your point rather than referring to it, as it looks to me you are just running out of actual knowledge and resorting to rhetoric.

> You just did. There is no "fat burning mode" and "carb burning mode". Again, the link I already gave you very nicely and clearly discusses this.

You chose not to include my expanded description of what happens. Now I know you are trolling...
I wanted to use a library to do simple linear algebra, quick and dirty regular expression.

With linear algebra the library HMatrix is broken in more than one place, it also requires me to learn a lot of new types just to do simple matrix decomposition.

Regular expression in haskell requires me to learn a completely new way to do them, I am not under the impression that regular expression is broken in any way in python or javascript that it requires new syntax.

Haskell also does not have access to the browser runtime which is key if you are want maximum exposure for your work - ( no one is interested in binaries anymore ).

There is purescript but its a large layer over javascript and even a simple hello world results in a 2000 LOC compilation of javascript.

I am not a computer programmer, I am an applied Mathematician and haskell requires a lot of work before it can be used for serious work the type of work I do.

Haskell doesnt have the use of use that is offered by things like npm, browserify which are the most awesome tools I have used.
You can find a live demo here (https://github.com/zzarcon/focusable/tree/master/sample-app).

About adding a border-radius, I'll love that feature, in fact I was thinking about implement it, but isn't as easy as it seems.

TLDR: Right now they are 4 divs for making the focus enable:

1- Fills the left part of the page.
2- Fills the top part of the page to the top part of the element.
3- Fills the bottom part of the element to the bottom part of the page.
4- Fills the right part of the page.

These divs are absolute positioned inside a wrapper that have disabled the pointer events to enable the interaction with the focused element.

So for that reason I can't simply add a border-radius for the active element.

This images can help me to explain you how it works http://cl.ly/image/3g2K2N1j1S3S http://cl.ly/image/031j3p283235
I agree with (1), but it's much beyond just low-level staff; even senior people have considerable turnover. Since I'm an academic AI researcher, I've tried to cultivate contacts with AI leads at AAA companies, because they often have interesting problems and perspectives, especially on how AI and design interact. A problem with this is that they keep leaving! For various reasons, of the senior AI people I know pretty well (AI leads on games like Sims 3, Black & White, Halo, F.E.A.R., etc.), all but one no longer work at "AAA" game companies.

Some stayed in the industry but moved into a consulting role where they could control their own hours and assignments better; some branched off and started small indie-game studios; some moved to a non-game tech job; and some went to grad school. People have different motivations, but there seems to be a feeling that the job of AAA AI lead is getting more and more boring and management-constrained, while the working conditions are getting worse. And on the other hand, that the alternatives are better than they used to be (much bigger indie-game scene, more relevant academic programs, etc.), so maybe it's time to get out and do something else.
You have to be careful what you measure. Imagine you have a 6th grader who is reading at a 2nd grade level. At the end of 6th grade you test her and find out now she's reading at a 5th grade level. Wow! A big improvement! Her teacher must be great.

Unfortunately the test shows she's reading below grade level and the teacher is put on an improvement plan.
I'm NOT SURE that all the ALLCAPS help support YOUR ARGUMENT.
>If I were essentially locked up in that scenario, I would at least be confident of the names of the 3 games which were installed, since they'd inevitably be played to death, regardless of how good they were. Also there's this

You'd be surprised what happens after 10 years or so. There are games I played as a kid countless times, in arcardes and on my PC, and yet I coulnd't remember their titles at all when I was at university age and such.

I only rediscovered some of their titles with luck and queries on Google later (in my 30's).

E.g.:

"game where a frog tries to cross the road" was apparently Frogger.

"game where you have a crosshair and hit people" is Prohibition.

"pc game where a cat jumps in an neighborhood" is Alley Cat, etc.
I can only speak for myself but my reasons are:

1. I love making games more than making big money.

2. I get to work with smart people who care about their work.

3. I feel like I'm solving interesting technical challenges.

4. Most studios I have worked at are managed reasonably well. Your "common knowledge" is a broad generalization based on the most horrific examples around.
There was a help link in the top right corner that was a pdf showing all the verbs.
Why don't we have CLI programs with complex parseable options, something that could only be parsed by a parser generator, but would seem more natural to write, instead of lots of --flags --and --options.

Just thinking about it.
This also creates a bias against older engineers. People assume that since they meet a lot of "dinosaurs" (in terms of technology) out there, 40+ engineers will probably be dinosaurs as well.

Also, there's some unspoken assumption, that if you're 40 or even 50 and "still" an engineer, something is wrong with you - you should have been a CTO or something years ago, so you either have bad personal skills or are untalented, kept for some Job-Security-Tech you know.

The sad thing BTW is that this attitude is a self fulfilling prophecy, causing talented engineers to push up the ladder and become bad managers, or go into marketing/sales/etc. Even if they're not bad at it, we are losing great engineers due to that, who were just scared to remain engineers.

BTW to me personally tech is a second career, although I've been programming since I was a child, my first career was in journalism, and later web content and product management. I've only started working professionally as an engineer at 29.
All depend on which hardware it runned.
This story reminds me of my current company. A large fortune 500 company that has recently had most leadership moved to Silicon Valley, in which there were major layoffs to most of the older engineers, based on a consultants suggestion. Most of these engineers maintained and supported older legacy and mainframe systems. Now everyone is scrambling to fill the gaps and it puts a toll on everyone. Not to mention the fear of current talent fleeing as the word is out that you don't spend more than 5 years here or you will be forced out.
Lennart, I'm still waiting for you to embed WebKit and an email client on systemd.
Show HN: Plaxien – Let Your App Explain Itself
OK let's hear the security analysis.
Basically: work harder/longer to prove you're younger because youth is the illusion we're all trying to maintain?
Why should an init.d replacement have something even remotely to do with PPPoE? What ever happened to orthogonal design?
Cloud services will destroy Indian IT services viz TCS/Infosys/Wipro/TCS/HCL
Obviously didn't (and doesn't) knew the name of the product? That makes it even more believable, not less.
When It Pays to Have an Ugly Website
QBasic... those were the days.

I actually started programming around 2002/2003. At that time QBasic was of course already horribly outdated. But that was what my school teacher was using. We used it to have direct PEAK/POKE access to the LPT-Port (the big, bulky printer port!). So we connected LEDs and other Stuff to the LPT Pins and made them blink with QBasic (and Windows 2000).

I still sticked to QBasic a while because i refused to learn anything else and C-Style languages just looked scary to me. By the way, if you are looking for a cool, modern, cross-platform BASIC Compiler take a look at FreeBasic. It started out as a QBasic-kompatible Interpreter but now is a Project on it's own.
> Read the link.

Were you the author of that link? Because if not, then that is someone else's understanding, what is yours? You've yet to describe it.

> Please don't actually answer with the keto nonsense?

Are you actually denying ketosis[0] exists? Or are you claiming it isn't reached through carb-restriction[1]?

I haven't quite understood you point (mostly because you haven't really made one), but it seems science disagrees with you :\

[0] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=ketosis <-- I'd say the academic community disagrees with you.

[1] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=ketogenic <-- Again, the academic community disagrees with you.
wtf is this on HN?

This is clearly spam, yet I'm the one getting downvoted.
Uber failed to bribe appropriate Indian politicians through relevant channels.
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/24/indians-among-...
Ask HN: How to get recruited at a US based startup?
I am a python developer from India and have applied to many startups in Silicon valley and California and get rejected every time even though they like my profile due to their inability to sponsor my work visa. Where can I find the startups who offer work visa sponsorship?
A good diet is highly subjective and individual. You should know this. My parents are strictly vegan and although they are in their mid 60s, they're physically more fit and active than most people 30 years younger.
>but playback through the site suffers if you upload Ogg/Vorbis for example

Who would use Ogg/Vorbis and not expect compatibility issues with third party services and products?

It's not like Ogg/Vorbis was ever anything more than a solution in search of a problem that only few idealists adopted.
Unless there's a graph of his P&L, I call bullshit
Meet the People (and Robots) Who Pack Your Online Orders
The truth. Take web development. If you're willing to look objectively at the state of HTML5 and the lack of feature support for browsers (that stick around), then yes we've established many good specs and communities, however for the enduser comparing it to Flash back in the days, nothing different. At least Flash development was easy.

goes back to building JS and CSS files with his frontend build system, and testing in IE8
Could be, my bet was based on the fact that corporations tend to be more employee friendly than game studios, in terms of private life.
I only imagine what would've happened if OP was stuck with a UNIX or even better Linux with source code files included.

It would be a really different story I guess...
On the technical rather than practicality side, how does prevent garbage data/advertising being added to the collective crawl?

How about using this type of technology for something Google can't (for legal reasons)? Say for example full text search of the library genesis archive? Over Tor or somesuch?
> Few people willingly pay car insurance

By that rationale, no-one would by the more expensive fully-comprehensive insurance (where your own car is insured, not just third parties) but they do.
Aw, when I was an exchange student in Japan, all I had was my Casio graphing calculator (ironically bought in Norway, as it was one of a few required/approved for use on exams). The limited programming language was rather awful, but I still managed to implement plotting a zirpensky gasket, and a mandelbrot set (in black and white. The mandelbrot took roughly three hours to render, as I recall. I'd just start it, and leave it in my bag, and check it after a few periods... it was a little bit like self-mutilation -- but also a great feeling when you manage to make something like you intended, despite the limitations of the system... I had bought a copy of "The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics" by Peterson. A great and fun update on math, with pretty pictures. And enough detail that I could implement eg. the mandelbrot generator :-)

I'm not too sad to see old calculators go -- I'm just hoping we'll get something like python notebooks on smart phones used in the classroom. Might have some problems with the networking... maybe there's a marked for an android pad that doesn't have any wireless hw?

In Norway those Casio calculators were also approved for use at the college level -- but they were stupidly banned, because you could flash the rom, and store all sorts of useful things on them. Really stupid IMNHO, because if you can solve the (college level/sen. high school level) exam with the help of some utility or other -- or just a large book -- the exam is probably structured very poorly.

There was an initiative to move to "open book exams" -- where you were allowed to basically bring any books/notes you wanted. I think it was great -- the questions were a little harder -- and you still had to know the subject matter or you'd run out of time before completing -- but I think it encouraged better tests than when you could essentially administer a glorified spelling test for any subject.
Students Mix Oculus Rift, Leap Motion and Twitter at Mozilla Virtual Reality Even
The Moon of Your Heart: Jaquet Droz Perpetual Calendar Éclipse
When will this madness stop? Will systemd not be satisfied til it has subsumed the universe into one great pid 1 singularity?
Unfortunately I think this one will be lost to the HN archives because of when it was submitted, but:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746758
Don't underestimate the power of fiction. Heroes are not necessarily "good." Read some Dashiell Hammett for example.
I am sure they did the math but at first I thought that landing legs would be unnecessary if you have a system that 'catches' the rocket on the ground. Since the rocket can hover, it would be possible to grab the rocket with a structure/claw.

The weight of the legs is probably quite low so this might have been the easiest solution.
Yes, talking about Montesquieu and all that division of powers... What a joke.
systemd - the emacs of init systems.
Ha, no IIRC he began in college in the 90's, developing for the Windows platform, and finished it many years later, and his post documented its evolution and had the same sort of feel of working with outdated technologies, but seeing it through to the end.
Many people only buy the comprehensive insurance because their loan contract and/or lease terms require it.
"I was just following orders" has already been established as an insufficient defense in the 1946 Nuremberg trials and essentially all later trials against WW 2 war criminals. It is by now pretty well established that crimes against humanity in general and torture in particular are not justifiable.
The A-Z of Programming Languages (2008)
I'm afraid not. I've been searching as well and couldn't find it. I recall his process to be

1. secure the rights to the book (he knew the author personally/through family)

2. cut the book open and run it through a high resolution scanner

3. use imagemagick to preprocess images

4. run OCR on the pages and convert them to markdown

5. have a compiler convert his markdown and images to HTML

EDIT: FOUND THE LINK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974055
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t - you can get it from this link. You'll need a z-machine interpreter to run the game, there are ones written in JavaScript if you are interested in that.
This article only confirms Elon Musk's fears. "Decades away" and "only need to worry about the people behind it".

Well, yeah.