skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about western society is that its actually still mostly free. I dont care for most of those things either (exept the smartphone) but I can easly build my own bubble.

You are not forced to spend much time in mass culture, there is no great conspiricy, people are just diffrent then you but you have the freedom to find your own frinds and community that you can hang out with.

There are hunders and tousends of subcommunity outthere that most people have not even heard of. I am constantly suprised about all the hobbies that exist even in a short distance from my house. There is a huge groupe of people who are totally into doing competition "who has the best looking rabbit". This is from perspective totally alien but I happen to stumble on a tournament once where literally tousends of people and even more rabbits and I could just not belive how many people that were there.

So stop lamenting the fact that you live in a consumer society and start investing your money into the stuff you actually like, and invest your time into people and hobbies that you actually like instead of seeing conspirices behind everything.

Also it want kill you to know the 5 top pop songs and watch a football game with your familly once in a while.
Where do you cut the line? It's a plugin because it uses the plugin api? And were it integrated in the main binary, would you call it a "plugin-less proprietary HTML extension"? I think the main differentiation point is that it's made by the browser authors, shipped with the browser, updated with the browser. That, to me, means that it's not a "plugin", even though it uses the plugin interface; it's an implementation detail.
Is that the question to ask? Isn't the question to ask where is this headed, on a grander scale?
The 64-bit version update failed to update the libc6.so.6 link, so my system was still vulnerable after update.

Link fix here: http://killtube.org/showthread.php?2118-GHOST-gethostbyname%...
Ah yes, the ticking time bomb. In this one hyperspecific scenario (startups with a limited runway|ticking nuclear bomb), this policy of (giving parental leave|not having access to torture) could prove to be bad because (the startup could fail|a nuclear bomb could destroy us all). Therefore, we should abandon (paid parental leave|our policy against torture) in the general case.

If the cost of carrying an employee -- not a cofounder! -- for three months (how much is that? 50K? 60K?) is going to kill the startup, you a) probably shouldn't have hired the person to begin with and b) don't have much of an startup to begin with.

It's continually amazing to me how, in a capital environment awash with cheap funds and outrageous valuations, this kind of cheapness pervades everyone's thought processes. Stop thinking like broke college students, and start thinking like the people of substantial affairs you claim to be.
Up-front data minimization is also important, http://privacylawblog.fieldfisher.com/category/data-minimisa... & http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/pdf...
I also got in trouble for wardialing large lists on my parents secondary phone line. Sad to think a lot of that stuff could be prosecuted under very serious laws these days.
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>As they say about programming, the best way to complain about software is to write software. If you don't like what the media is reporting then start your own news organization of whatever kind, including satire. To complete the exercise, put years of your life into building circulation, attracting talented writers, dealing with technology costs and issues, creating and maintaining relationships and generally doing the things necessary to scale a business. Then after all of that investment, make the decision between "listening to your customers and giving them what they want" and "sticking it to the man".

This seems to me like a very American conception of the issue (culturally I mean).

The "continental" idea is that the Press (news) is not supposed to be a business first and foremost, but a kind of service to the republic first, and a business second.

The business aspect (ads, etc) is tolerated in the degree that the Press is independent, informative, helps decocracy and transparency, etc.

If a news outlet owner can't make money off of it, he can always not do it. Doing it badly, untruthfully, link-baity etc, is not something that's really OK (e.g. because "they have to make money" -- pimps have to make money too, that's no excuse), but something that is an example of a sick Press.

>The majority of media organizations don't select stories on the basis of what will be the most effective form of propaganda, but based on what they think people want to read about and discuss.

That's also not 100% accurate. Will a lot of stores are run like that, other aspects (like their stance in foreign politic issues, bills etc) are more often than not based on the interests of the owner or sponsors of the outlet, and in lots of cases downright propaganda (from the crude Operation Mockinbird ways onwards to today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird ).
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And note that student eyes are only weak references.
Something something see the guys that practically invented Call of Duty and other shooters. Easy sell.
>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-28/yahoo-would...

This article is helpful in understanding this spinoff. Namely it explains some pretty interesting requirements for this spin-off to happen. The company have to have a function (however lame like Halloween costume rental), and that there can't be any pre-arrangement for Alibaba to buy back the stock before the spin-off, etc.
Yes, it's true that the data I see is not an actual historical measurement of physical strength, and so quantification of strength is only inferred. Thanks for calling me out on that. But basically, it seems to me that society in general was more active back then, whether you were a hunter-gatherer or a farmer, and that this decreased as more and more modern amenities came about (and truly accelerated after the Industrial Revolution). Here's a great summary: http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/history.html

It is clear, however, that early childhood physical activity creates a foundation for adult physical fitness that is difficult to compete with. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874089/

When you have an entire society living that lifestyle due to circumstances, not by choice, you'll also have a much larger sample pool from which to draw exceptional warriors. That is my argument. And the farther you go back, the larger the source pool will be, simply due to the circumstances of how the world lived.

It is interesting that the History of Fitness article guys claim that a society becoming lazy in general contributed to a loss in their overall fighting power. Can we prove it? OK, maybe we can't. But I'd posit that we can't say there is NO data out there to create better theories, as long as we acknowledge the possibility that we could be wrong.
Ask HN: How did you build your first real side project?
I'm looking for success stories on how you went from 0 to implemented, maintainable project to serve as fodder for my own project building.

In the past, I've read books on development (in C++, PHP, etc), but it doesn't seem to help all that much. I've started this time by using a book as a guide but diverging quickly to implement my own features. I'm a bit upset with my pace of development, as it has taken me about a week (with school) to roll my own auth/login/registration system in rails.

I feel scared to dive in as if I'll be in over my head, end up in dependency hell, or not be able to solve my own problems.
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The main issue with JS and SEO is that most JS Frameworks we are talking about are used to create SPAs (Single Page Applications). Usability-wise, these are great; everybody hates page loads. SEO-wise, there is a problem because the search engines can’t see all the HTML because everything is being rendered client side.

Basically, with a traditional web page written in PHP, the HTML is constructed from a template. The template spits out HTML from the server to the client. Every time you click a new link to load a new page, it’s delivered to your client via a GET request (EDIT: Your client/browser "asks" for the file from the server, the server sends the requested document back to the client).

With a SPA, JS is doing some DOM manipulation, and you’re not making round-trips to the server to display new content. For example, if you were to look at the source of a SPA written in Angular, you might see some <div ng-view> </div> elements, but almost no actual html. The web crawlers would see something similar.

There are several tactics for circumventing this issue, and Im curious if the Pintrest team considered them during this experiment. Anybody on the team here?
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Pretty amazing video! It looks like the parachute caused something of a hazard once the craft was in the water. It seemed to drag it along and contribute to it rolling over when the pilot was sitting on the wing – that looked like it could have been very troublesome. Glad it all worked out!

Also, that survival raft looks pretty small! Does each passenger get one too?
The biggest difference is that Hound uses an inverted index to support regular expression searches. This is a technique borrowed from the original Google Code Search. The details are discussed on Russ Cox's site (http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html). With this technique, you can generally avoid even opening the vast majority of the files you are "grepping" (the number obviously depends on the pattern). To give you a sense, I just searched for a particular method name in several repositories totally several 100k of files and the search only had to open and search 9 files.
Strength matters. But not as much as other factors.

Size can actually be a disadvantage. If you're small, you can cover more of your body with a sword of the same size. If you're bigger, you open up more of your body when you attack.

You have to be strong enough to hold a sword and to move a sword. Despite the unintuitively low weight of a well-balanced sword, that's actually something that takes some training. Not just strength training -- you need to train the actual muscles involved. You're holding weights in unusual positions, not picking up and putting down (or pulling and pushing) heavy things.

But beyond a certain point, strength doesn't matter. Sword fighting is not about jedi-style sword clashes with sparks flying off to the side as you try to wrestle the opponent off balance. Sword fighting is more about evasion and putting your sword where it needs to be at the right moment to hit the other guy.

Actually, aside from the "binding" that is being discussed a lot in the other comments, one of the best techniques is not actually making contact with the other guy's sword at all. If you hit the other guy's sword, your sword is bound as well. If you instead avoid being hit by the other guy's sword as it comes in and sidestep into a counter at the same time, his momentum evaporates as you land your fully controlled hit.

If the other guy has a strength advantage and wants to use it to win by brute force -- just don't play his game. Side-step, evade, move your body out of the way and your sword into him as he attacks.

If it's good enough for Asian martial arts, it works in HEMA too.
I've got a 3, and want to upgrade, but... it's not super urgent. I use my iPad pretty often, but the iPad 3 has the feature I care about most (retina screen), and there haven't been many major changes since.
According to that, it seems that Vivaldi uses a lot of GPL'd and LGPL'd libraries, and it's not clear that Vivaldi is in compliance with the copyleft requirements of those licenses, nor is it apparent which license Vivaldi is released under as well (be it a FOSS license, some EULA, etc.).

There are also a lot of libraries listed that are licensed under the Mozilla Public License, which is incompatible with the GNU GPL. Distributing this therefore might not actually be legal, regardless of whether or not it's released under a FOSS license, since those two license families have conflicting requirements for derived works (including works which use those libraries).

YMMV, IANAL, etc., but this thing's running the risk of legal technicalities killing it in the crib.
It also wasn't made out of rubber.

If only I had a dollar for each movie that shows rubber maille in closeups.
Also LEO and MEO satellite internet, balloons, drones.
Huh, I keep forgetting how old WoW is... I just assumed they'd have the ability to block third-party servers.

I love the irony of Cubans asserting their software freedom against a US corporation.
> The reason there is such appetite for these products is because of the low interest rate environment. Investment managers are desperate to earn a slightly higher return that the risk free rate. This is driving demand which explains why you saw the issuance of subprime abs explode over the last year and spreads tighten (spreads have widened later in the year though). Credit standards have probably degraded to try and meet the demand of abs securities, but that's inevitable.

This part terrifies me. Not because of auto loans, but as returns remain low (and in my opinion, structural changes have occurred that will keep rates low in perpetuity), investment money will continue to look for higher returns with no moral qualms. Like farm land:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuarogers/2014/09/23/dirt-che...

Its easy to look past subprime auto lending and payday loan lenders, but what happens when natural resources necessary for survival (food and water in this case) are sold to the highest bidder?
Ask HN: I work for a profitable Ohio startup. What's its crazy SV valuation?
I've been working for a pretty cool startup in Ohio called CoverMyMeds for the past few months that actually makes money. We help people get their medications quickly and more effectively.

Anyhow, it's public knowledge that we made about $50 million last year. There were about 100 employees at the end of 2014.

I've heard the founders pretty much bootstrapped the company so I don't think we have any major debt. We took a private investment from Francisco Partners over the summer.

What would our crazy Silicon Valley valuation if we went public? Any ideas?

And um, we're hiring lawl :)
Too soon, mate. Too soon.

I mean, I still have the t-shirt.
>In that world, perhaps the laser still would not have been invented!

Actually, the maser/laser is one of those innovations that had multiple independent developers, at multiple points of it's development. Various components can be attributed to different people, but the true "Inventor of the Laser" is somewhat murky and disputed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser#History
The following information was sent to me unsolicited by a indecent recruiter whom took a bunch of resumes from attendees of niche a user-group and then blindly/unsolicited spammed to potential employers - names intact and uncensored - whilst promising the candidates that "jobs existed".

ie. faking supply/demand for selfish personal growth whilst jeopardising the employment of existing candidates.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17855015/Permanent%20Ter...

From page 8 w/figures in $AUD:

> Standard Fee Candidate's Salary
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Show HN: My first open source project (micro check library)
They almost never charge. But contrary to lutorm, they could. I recall at least one story of folks who were extraordinary negligent in getting stranded in national parks and were charged for a very large helicopter search and rescue operation. I can't find the correct article for victim rescue operations, but I assume the same reasoning applies as in the Law of Salvage where someone who rescues cargo is entitled to reward even if they don't sign a contract:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_salvage

However, this article uses the recent example of the Carnival cruise rescue to give some very good arguments why the Coast Guard is so reluctant to charge.

http://gcaptain.com/cost-rescue/

(Note that Carnival has not charged for using their cruise ships to pick people up in the past.)
FYI, if you want to identify which package shipped a particular file:

$ dpkg -S /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
libc6:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

Hence 'libc6' is the package as you figured out.

If you want to see the status of a particular vulnerability in Debian, you can use the Security Tracker: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0235 which links to the security advisory and tells you that the bug was fixed in version 2.13-38+deb7u7 of the package.

Note that any programs running before you upgraded the library will need to be restarted in order to use the fixed version. There's a program called checkrestart that will tell you which programs need to be restarted, or you can play it safe and reboot your system after applying library updates.
If you're experimenting, use `git config --global credential.helper 'store'` to set git to store your credentials in a plain-text file. Then (if you're on GitHub), generate a personal access token (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-fo...), and then use that as the password - once you've entered it once, it should be stored and not prompted for again.

Please remember how insecure this is.
Reading the title I assumed this was a rant about how proper ops processes replaced the need for LTS releases and the demonstrably bad practices they could be seen to encourage. IMHO, this would have been a more interesting and valid point.

The current post is a straw man argument for a few reasons.

First, because vulnerabilities will be exploited whether the window of availability is 1 day, 100 days, or 1000 days (like this one) and likewise, upgrades will be missed, for various reasons, whether or not they are encouraged.

Second, the author spuriously implies that a 6 month sliding upgrade window ("one size fits all") approach is superior, easier and more appropriate for everyone through a combination of broad assumption and vague hand-waving about developer time efficiency. Rubbish.

If you want newer code, then ASAP is the go and BSD-style monolithic releases are bad... something closer to the versionless OS ideal of constant, incremental, package-wise release processes such as Gentoo's portage (BSD-inspired!) where you can even install a -9999 (git HEAD) version of many packages would be ideal. Obviously, with such an approach, stability caveats must be considered (as they are). Thus, both FreeBSD and OpenBSD actually represent a 'middle-ground' between Gentoo and commercial Linux vendor LTS, with OS wide release processes incorporating some greater collective package and package interoperability testing, combined with the package-wise release of things through the ports trees.

What's the real ideal here? A general purpose means to build working, tested, maintainable, secure systems with minimal effort for a broad audience.

How to get there? Clearly, not by whinging about external release window frequencies of volunteer-based projects, as any frequency still creates bugs, and no process is perfect. The answer, I believe, is time-honored. Careful design for failure and minimalism, and good process. Test. Measure. Remove surplus features and components. Iterate.
The core issue for me is that of the dozen or so shows and movies I would be interested in watching, on average 0.5 are available via netflix. So I spend a lot of time searching in futility for that show or movie I half remember wanting to see. During that search netflix is trying to recommend a bunch of other things to me and I find it annoying and distracting.

Also, could somebody somehow post a schedule of show/movie availability? Shows get added or removed on a regular basis and I always find out by accident.

(e.g. "Oxryly1! We do NOT have 'Guardians of the Galaxy' at the moment. We expect to add it in 4 months time. Thank you.")

</rant> indeed.
Passion requires that you hate something
But why do that, when we can just write a really dramatic comment on HN to try and sound insightful?
Ask HN: How much do you spend per support ticket?
I was curious if HNers calculate their cost per ticket/email, or other comments on how you handle support.

* What is your industry (SaaS/consumer/developer-SaaS)?

* What is your cost per ticket?

* Have you or do you do anything to affect that cost?
It's a shame they only uploaded it at 720p :(
I don't think fresh pasta goes well with bolognese or ragu, for example. The composition of fresh pasta is much more delicate; it is softer, coarser and has less of a bite to it than dried pasta. Because it's so delicate and overcooks easily, it works best with minimal amounts of sauce that doesn't overwhelm or end up overcooking it.

My point is and was, it's simply a different product, much like egg noodles vs. rice noodles. One is not necessarily superior to the other.

A couple of relevant articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/17/dining/italy-truth-about-p...

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/11/dont-fuss-...
They can, yes. If you close all of them, the next files you open will get the 0, 1, and 2 file descriptors.

It's a fairly common idiom to close everything, open a handle to /dev/null, and duplicate it twice to get 0, 1, and 2 pointing at /dev/null.
It isn't all that crazy, it has already been done to printers:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/229647/counterfeit_money_on_c...

https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
But at least they are delivering excellent value to shareholders!
I thought you had posted broken links because it was just showing a little chart for RNWK. Then I noticed:

"For the ubercool interactive charts, you need to install the Adobe Flash Player"

Just seemed a bit ironic, given the topic.
One problem is is that #1=(a . #1#) would panic the kernel and require a full fsck.
If you're referring to Encrypted Media Extensions it's not a DRM mechanism that requires proprietary software. It's a specification for a communication channel between a browser and Digital Rights Management agent software on the local machine. While it's not ideal, it's just some javascript functions that interact with the DRM on the computer. The DRM software itself is completely optional.

It's much better than having plugins that do the same thing (if you use firefox you're used to Flash asking for trial Norton to be installed every time a security exploit is found in Flash). In the perfect world we wouldn't need it, but it leaves no excuse for media companies not to use HTML5.
It's funny, but for me languages have typographic affinities. Of the ones that I regularly use:, F# feels like it should be Garamond, C# and JavaScript feel fine in pretty much any monospace sans serif typeface, and VB is most congruent with "fun" typefaces like comic sans (I don't mean that as a dig).
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Yes. Chrome is not Chromium, nor it Opera.
It's because the shares are held in a structure called a VIE which is essentially an offshore holding company in the Cayman Islands. By keeping the shares offshore, the shareholders can determine when the shares are repatriated to the U.S. and delaying payment of taxes on the capital gain. For instance, shareholders could wait until they have large capital losses to offset the gains. It's all about giving the shareholders the power to choose when to pay the taxes.
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