skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would probably really enjoy Delayed Gratification. It's a quarterly publication that wraps up global news day by day from 6 to 3 months prior (e.g. the March issue covers Oct/Nov/Dec). They have a great mix of short and long form articles and I think a reasonable balance for world news.

http://www.slow-journalism.com/
I said "seriously".
I haven't gotten past the point of where I just hit Ctrl-F5 and Visual Studio builds stuff for me with MSBuild, so I am certainly no expert on it. But I never had the impression that people liked CMake or Automake either. I ask this not as a rhetorical question but as an actual one: are there build systems that aren't hated, or does everyone just hate the one they have to use the most?
Ask HN: Could someone please invite me to lobste.rs?
I've been reading from lobste.rs for some time now, and have recently wanted to participate more with the community. I would very appreciate an invite.
My wife was offered it by insurance in the UK and she refused it. She hates being cold, so when she read that its not always effective she decided against it. Some hospitals also offer cold gloves, to save your nails.

Everyone is different and for some people the losing your hair is a huge loss on top of an already shitty situation, so anything that helps people through it is a good thing.

My wife ended up bald and for once in our marriage we shared the same hair cut! Gutsy lady, I remember the tears when the clumps started to fall out but she stoically put it behind her, whilst chemo wreaked its chaos. Time passed and now she has "chemo hair" and its still full of curls a year after the weekly chemo finished.
Wouldn't that use be both against Spotify's EULA [0] and be illegal without a PPL [1] (in the UK at least).

[0] https://www.spotify.com/uk/legal/end-user-agreement/#s4
[1] http://www.ppluk.com/
I like autotools more than MSBuild if that's any reference...
A rather standard CRUD app backed by PostgreSQL. If I were using Mnesia, I'd go the IaaS route and do sysadmin/ops work manually, most likely.

Thanks for the heads-up.
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abraininavat: Your account's been dead for 400 days – most people can't see your comments.
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal paper documents over the years?
I'm working on a new Open Source application to handle Document Management for personal use and I'd love to have some insights from the people here.

It's always been my dream to have my paper documents like electricity bills, mortgage papers, bank statements etcetera stored digitally but I've never been able to find something that satisfies my basic needs:

- Not cloud-based

- Encryption

- Should be able to run without knowing how to setup a linux server

- Files put into the system should be still useable without the program files if I ever lose (access to) the program i'm using.

- Fulltext search with OCR

How does HN handle this currently? Do you store it in the cloud? on a private server? on a usb stick? or just plain old boxes and filing cabinets?
I've posted about my personal experiences and how I've personally discouraged all sorts of contributors by ignorance in the past here on HN. For example, I re-submitted recently this blog post on a back and forth that I had with antirez: http://jculpon.github.io/fighting-sexism.html

We were able to resolve that via some twitter messages and some time to let both of us calm down, but at the time I was ready to stop using redis, much less helping folks via bug reports and patches.
I like the idea of giving macros type information so they can actually report usage errors in a decent way. The fact that it is is parsed top down means that all type information can be available.

I have reservations about the thing as a whole though.
Women and Video Games
Doubtful. Child support means that if wealth is used for procreation, it will diffuse.
Yes. It is definitely very far from the level of his work that fits his profession.

Still I fully understand that he got really worried, previously actively analyzing the effects of the nuclear tests on Earth and seeing the same stuff on Mars.

In fact, we all should be more worried than we are about the really not improbable destruction on Earth.
I don't think Shwartz was advocating a position of ignorance regarding geopolitical affairs. Just read a book or an essay on important geopolitical topics instead. If you want to know what important legislation is being advanced go to town halls, visit .gov sites, make an activist friend. All those are better ways to find out what's going on than the news.

I stopped following the news, other than this site, after years of dedicated reading/viewing. I'd become disgusted with the amount of time that's dedicated to manufactured scandal, fained outrage and disemination of non-facts. I'm happier now and actually feel better informed.

Sure, if I want to know about something I'll hit a major news site from time to time but honestly the longer I go without digging through the daily news pile for information gold, the more it just looks like a midden concealing a few soggy turds.
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence, etc. The prior probability of ancient nuclear weapons is so small that there would need to be extremely good evidence to begin to shift my appraisal of how likely it is. (am I Bayesianing right?)
This is just the build system that powers Visual Studio projects. Rosyln is a compiler as a service that lets you compile and inspect .NET code programmatically with an API.
I hope you're joking. I've unfucked so much MSBuild cack in my time that it's not even funny now.
No, I have no idea. My comment above was a tangent to the original article and only pertaining to paper towels. That's what I meant by starting my comment with "Unrelated, "
For Hacker News, you can do something similar by visiting

http://www.hckrnews.com

once a week and scan "Top 10" news for the last week and check out the articles that pique your interest.
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> (Caesar, Pharaoh and later Zeus)

wow - didn't even realize there was one after Pharaoh. Might check that out...
In telecom there is a lot of local-time based billing.
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>nut up

It would be nice if people on Hacker News would not use phrases like this.
Aliens would be the result of a naturally occurring process that has happened on our own planet too. But yeah.
The historic commits might contain things unsuitable for relicensing.

Also, never before have I heard such an absurd claim as to what the purpose of open source is.
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We do not charge for hosting any open source project, large or small.
Is this good visual evidence, though? I feel like if you want to get upset about this sort of thing you should find better examples. I appreciate your sentiment, but that image hardly seems like something about which to be excited.

That image looks like a rock and zooming in makes it look like a distorted rock. Coloring and manipulating the image is in my opinion getting farther from convincing there's something uncanny about that rock.
So how would your employer do without access to capital? many companies would go bust.
I see a war here: the endeavor to reprocess spent waste as fully as possible and the industries that would create expensive burial chambers for them instead.
I admit this is biased, heavily so in fact, but most of what I know about autotools comes from this:

http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autoto...

Which... the reason it sticks out with me is that really good rants are a lot more memorable to me than people talking about what software they like, which is probably not a fair way to evaluate software.
IIRC, in Snowball, he mentions that the competitive advantage of See's was that it was exceptionally good quality candy. I don't remember the details very well, but it's likely that he realized that with better management and marketing, they could produce far more value than the company cost at the time.
Rosyln's a compiler/framework for certain language tools or something like that. Msbuild is like a Make type tool that actually calls the compiler, passes in flags and input files, determines what else needs to get done, etc.
because three bad libraries means PHP has no excellent ones.... /s
We share a common ancestor with every single known living thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor
"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." [0]

There have been many variations on this quote; the one I like best is "Those who love sausage and democracy should not see either being made."

[0] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Godfrey_Saxe
For me the missing link in OSHW is proving the microscopic circuitry we depend on is the same as the design published by the chip designer. It's a form of hashing for circuitry.

Chinese intelligence agencies are convinced NSA pits back doors in their CPUs and HDD, the NSA are convinced the Chinese are doing it to them. And every other intelligence agency just throws it's hands up.

This situation could easily spiral downwards to a Halton of chip improvements, and yet an "institution" such as verifiable open hardware could let everyone trust again.

Bitcoin is not the only one needing global trust.
Conventional music albums were known for only giving a small percentage of its sale value (minus retail and such, of course) to the actual artists. There didn't seem to be much fuss around that. But now that artists are getting a raw deal when it comes to streaming their music, it's practically a crime against humanity.

I guess the "artists are being ripped off when it comes to record sales" blew over several decades ago.
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If you want to remain any kind of anonymous, it means logging into each facebook login-enabled site with a new, fresh fb account. Using one trash account might stop them from linking things to your 'real identity' (such as fb perceives it), but it still lets them link all of your activities together and build a profile. Persona linking from there isn't hard, based on usernames or email addresses used (see pipl and similar for examples of casual, publicly available version of these tools). But even if there's no persona/pseudonym linking algo going on, you're still being 'tracked'. It's not fully anonymous.
How close are you here to arguing that the probability of a great destroyer is somewhere between 0 and 1?
The original YikYak post seems to be swamped, but I think this is a copy: http://pastebin.com/HHCZwyEd The juicy bit is at the end, starting with "Wouldn't it be nice..."
Possibly harsh but I reflexively flag any title that's all-caps.
A supernova-created natural nuclear bomb in asteroid form. Acting just like a human or alien nuke, but completely arising from natural processes.

Or did I miss something? :)
"Read not the Times. Read the Eternities."

Thoreau agrees.
From another perspective, should artists all artists give up the same 30% to Spotify? Or should artists who benefit disproportionately from services like Discovery and Radio, presumably lesser-known artists, pay more?
From http://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly (with emphasis added):

"Furthermore, competition is said to cause consumer inconvenience because of the construction of duplicative facilities, e.g., digging up the streets to put in dual gas or water lines. Avoiding such inconveniences is another reason offered for government franchise monopolies for industries with declining long-run average total costs.

It is a myth that natural-monopoly theory was developed first by economists, and then used by legislators to "justify" franchise monopolies. The truth is that the monopolies were created decades before the theory was formalized by intervention-minded economists, who then used the theory as an ex post rationale for government intervention. At the time when the first government franchise monopolies were being granted, the large majority of economists understood that large-scale, capital-intensive production did not lead to monopoly, but was an absolutely desirable aspect of the competitive process."
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=672582
We're working on the LICENSE file for this repository. Push notifications will be sent to schools using email, and they can of course comment on the PRs (since the github page is linked from the bottom of our privacy policy).
"Don't be evil" - Google
There is a very wide range of choices if looking to buy an old bus.

If someone is planning a transport company, and they buy a coach with six steps and a sharp right, then belatedly realise 'oh-noes, I can't refit for wheelchairs', and cannot fix this by getting a different bus, despite having lots of investment and only one route, then I start to disbelieve the narrative if I also think that any of the executives can tie their own shoes.
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They're too busy trying to keep warm on Planet X, which has an extremely eccentric orbit that keeps them well out into the far reaches of the Solar System most of the time. They're kept warm by engineering a blanket of aeresolized gold particles in their atmosphere. They came to Earth the first time and enslaved us to mine for more gold. After the rebellion, they decided it was too hard to keep us under control and withdrew to their planet, which has since retreated into the cold depths. Soon, it will return and they will need more gold...

[This is all based off the nonsense Planet X theories that were going around. There was a good serialized YA novel that mined the ideas for plot, along with other Ancient Aliens nonsense, to quite good effect)
I'm only using Facebook. After creating an account, it seems kind of lackluster.
If "drug dealers" can find you, then so can LE. If LE can find you, you're cooked already and shouldn't be playing.
Actionable news: Ryot is doing this. I've never paid much attention to them but they've hired away people from other media companies I do follow.
Really great news! For those who didn't do Windows programming, the MSBuild is the "back-end" "make" engine behind the Visual Studio.
Ask HN: What's up with the limits on viewing profiles?
How come I can't view HN profiles of any members including myself, when I log out?

All I get is this: We've limited requests for this url.
Despite being a Windows developer for 90% of my career, I have no idea why anyone uses MSBuild. I've created several automated build and deployment systems, but I always used the command line Visual Studio interface.

Honestly, I don't know why anyone wants MSBuild. Poking around, people cite not needing to install the VS IDE on build servers, but I see zero drawback to doing that. Why would I want to maintain project dependencies, build orders, and whatnot in two places, when I could just build in exactly the same way, using the same solution/project files, on my dev box and my build server?

It seems to me that this is actually vastly more meaningful to traditionally open-source LAMP developers who are considering C# and ASP.Net on Linux in the future.
The less people have to work the better, especially when it comes to menial jobs. If political and social policy fails to reflect changes in the economy and the jobs market then that is a political failure and should be treated as such. If we go on the premise that fascism is good and socially minded governance is bad (as seems to be the trend in many places in the world today including in the States) then of course things will go pear shaped but to point the finger at technological innovators and blame them is ridiculous and if I dare say irresponsible.
"I am so tired of seeing visual evidence dismissed..."

We know that humans and many other animals recognize faces in a heavily biased way. It's the evolutionary reason why some butterflies and fish have eye markings. Their potential predators tend to see faces and may be intimidated by the implied size of the creature with those eyes or mistake the direction that the prey is headed.

Just from our own subjective experiences, we all see faces where we shouldn't: In clouds, in rock formations, in foliage, and even in burnt grilled cheese sandwiches:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6511148/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/vi...

As human beings who want to do Science, we have to recognize the limitations and biases of our own hardware or we're doomed to fail at evaluating reality.
We definitely don't want to lock you in, just to round off the rough edges of the "on your own" experience. You can create a project from GitHub and push/pull to GitHub from Sense, and our distributed computing setup was chosen to be low-level enough to support many of the existing distributed computing tools like doRedis, but still way easier than provisioning and plumbing servers.

We know that there's room for improvement on some workflows, in particular Git interop, but we have our sights on a platform that plays well with as many others as possible. Please ping us with any other thoughts you may have!
They could also just sell a new model every year with modest spec bumps, update the old ones over the air, and effectively brick them because they can't handle the new software.

Might get sued by a multi-billion-dollar tech company for stealing their idea, though.
Treating algorithms fairly
The article mentions that Evolution provides such a service, but it didn't get heavily used. Quoting from the article

>That system, would require at least two out of three parties in a transaction—the buyer, the seller, and Evolution’s administrators—to sign off on a deal. But due to its complexity, buyers rarely used the feature.

Edit: apparently this does not use bitcoins version of it, but their own that requires them to hold the funds in escrow. Which seems pretty stupid.
I'm curious to know more about why there would be greater difficulty using MapReduce jobs to be able to go through a K-Means clustering analysis. As for as the computational effort on the CPU what would be the cost to your RAM's mapper when you access this remote file with all the iterative data; I'm assuming I could make an implication that Apache spark could be better since it allows for actually in memory processing. Is there really a significant difference in computational usage in mbps?
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It kind of ironic, but dark markets are in a great position to offer a coin re-tainting service.

It isn't quite the same thing as a tumbler, but they have busy addresses and lots of volume to obscure things with.
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> How on earth is it a "zero sum game"

In the sense that it is a fixed income situation, where the question of how the income is divided does not make everyone richer as a group. If you change the rules for dividing the spoils, those who get more income do so because someone else is getting less. This is consistent with the definition of "zero-sum game".

> that they are paid their fair share of the cut?

There is no unique definition of "fair share" here. It is not inherently "fair" that if some subscriber paid $10 for a month, and forgot all about the service and ended up listening to only one song that month, that some artist should get $7 for that. It's not "unfair", either.

> You just pulled those numbers out of your ass.

That is true, and if you would prefer the numbers out of your ass, then you do the pulling; I'm not going there, sorry. Ass numbers for the sake of example is all we are going to get here, though.
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At first I thought, "oh, i'm sure there's a line you can attach to your harness to keep you from falling..." but then he gets outside the tower, free-climbs 140 feet, finally positioning himself on the very top of a 1,700 foot tower, with zero support and a tiny piece of foothold, all the while carrying 30lbs dead weight [to say nothing of wind], whereupon he finally clips in his harness.

Jesus fucking christ.
Agreed. And then deal with it the same way you do with tobacco and alcohol, with social campaigns to raise awareness of the issues of addiction. We have a working model here for legal drugs that are just as bad or worse.
Echoing a lot of thoughts here.

Would sign up in a second w/out fb login.
I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.
This is a separate question from how to organize our government; the notion of 'representative democracy' doesn't apply to news (at least in the proposed or present form).

The problem with news, as described in the essay, is that it's mostly not useful. The above solutions talk about ways of filtering it in order to make it more useful. Filtering, however, isn't the only way of solving this problem. For example, you could keep all the information available but categorize and label it, or impose some sort of hierarchy. Of course options for doing that are limited (though not exhausted) in traditional, non-interactive mediums—but that's probably a large part of why communicating it in an interactive medium instead is the current trend. Which obviously comes with benefits of de-centralization when done via the internet.

I think the solution is, as in the article, to stop consuming traditional news sources; there are intrinsic limitations to informational organization in a static medium. Instead, grab something interactive where you can select what's relevant to you.
Founder Institute has something like that model. I haven't heard of any breakout successes from them yet.

http://fi.co/
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To me, the idea of a low-level[1] language with S-expression syntax seems appealing because it is both pretty fundamental machine-wise, and syntax-wise. Why not have a Lispy language as an underlying fundament? The syntax is both about/almost as simple as it gets, and the performance of the code is also more transparent. Not to mention that metaprogramming either using itself or a higher-level language seems more promising than the conventional low-level languages.

[1] "systems language" has become too overloaded for my tastes.
The writing telling me "You are xyz.12345 years old" is kind of disturbing, always frantically counting up...
Dear @aprilzero, I'm loving the dashboard. Hope you can add in more integration with other services, like kanbanflow for productivity (it comes with a nifty pomodoro timer) and miband for fitness.
It gives me sweaty palms too. I wonder why that particular physical reaction happens, surely sweaty palms is the opposite of what you want?
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This exact example features in the blog post draft I copied most of my comment from :-).

Even more pernicious than that though - you say "the men think they are being fair and honest", but research repeatedly shows that women are also less fair to other women. This is important to keep in mind because it reinforces the fact that most of the biases that work against objectively determining merit are part of the fabric of our society. They are biases that you will tend to hold even if they hurt you personally.

Many men bristle when they are confronted with this sort of research and say "I'm not a sexist" or "I'm not a racist". That's the wrong way to think about it. We live in a deeply unfair society, and unless we constantly, mindfully, consciously work against that unfairness all the time, we will fall victim to it ourselves and perpetuate it.
Interestingly, Roslyn already includes its own parsing/handling of visual studio solution files: http://source.roslyn.codeplex.com/#Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Wo...
How is that an upside?