skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather, I think the article is showing us how not being informed hurts. It took them 10 years to understand what was happening with their money? Unacceptable.

Learning how investing works, breaking out of the pie-chart bs sent to you in your nice quarterly statements and really understanding how your money is invested.... Like i said, I don't have an opinion on where you put your money but I think the idea that you can hand it over and never think twice because you're in a low-cost fund is misguided.
The Abolition of Man is a great essay. It's short and still relevant. Consideration of the "men without chests" is particularly interesting.
Exactly. Never talked fast either.
"You can pretty much find a computational model..."

I humbly request some illustrative examples. Note I agree with you. Examples can be powerful (and, unfortunately, polarizing). Whatever you can share would be appreciated.
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This is fantastic. Thank you!!
His blog is built on Meteor, so he probably knows that and doesn't think the five...okay six of you who disable javascript matter that much.
Here is a good reddit thread that addresses your question:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1js239/why_do...
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Sure, but how do you enforce the latter?
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World.

Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained.

T.H. White, The Once and Future King.

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.
Yes, but that security update doesn't include this patch. Apple confusingly lists the security updates in 10.10.3 and Security Update 2015-004 together, but not all items apply to 10.9. The very first item listed on the page is this Admin Framework bug, and it's only available for v10.10 to v10.10.2.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204659
FBI attacks botnet infecting 12,000 computers
Show HN: Ask HN: Where is “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” hiring?
I'm agnostic and I agree with you. I'm not a big fan of anything outside of the Gospel, but Jesus Christ's teachings are truly timeless and revolutionary, even today. Real of fake, his philosophy is the backbone of a modern, empathetic society.
Showstopper!

I'm really enjoying it. It is filled with history about creating NT that I've never found online. Also a large amount of information about Cutler, which is interesting.
I agree about the open-source contributions, but using Stack Overflow as a metric is kinda meh...a lot of good questions are better researched (by crawling mailing lists or reading articles or even by gasp experimentation) than by going to SO. Answering questions on SO is kind of a wash, especially if you are helping your own developers and people in your community.

I also like the calling out of "I don't have time" w.r.t. contributing back. However, author is putting forth rates that are, frankly, insulting.

I like the idea of "Hey, let's reward developers that give back to their community by letting them charge more"...I dislike the metrics this author has chosen for getting there.

EDIT:

Rearranged a couple of paragraphs.
"But there’s a glaring hole in this plot: ribosomes themselves are made up of proteins"

Ribosomes are made up of proteins and rRNA! And the Peptidyl transferase catalytic reaction which forms peptide bonds is entirely conducted by the rRNA[1]. Proto/paleo ribosomes were probably entirely RNA in the RNA world, long ago. Dawkins alludes to this (though I cannot remember the precise language since I don't have the book in front of me now).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidyl_transferase
I recently read 'The Lean Startup' and 'The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy'. I would recommend both books.

I think 'The Lean Startup' is not just a good read for startups in the usual sense; it's also a great advise on how to handle personal projects.

With regards to 'The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy' I think the stoic view of life is great and fits well into our western mindset while still being somewhat 'zen' like. I plan to read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations at some point since it's a bit like a diary of a stoic.

I will soon start with 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage'[0] which was recommended in a previous HN thread.

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[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_Tsukuru_Tazaki_and_Hi...
Those are the two that tend to get the airliners too honest. Either the machine fails or the person flying it does.

If you want to get technical about it nearly all plane fatalities are caused by a lack of altitude, but that's a different story.
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
I think it's clear that price isn't mean reverting. Vol, on the other hand, I think is.
There's an underground tunnel between the original mansion and the nearest atrium, if I'm not mistaken, so the walk isn't too bad. But the isolation is still fairly obvious.
Looks like ad-free subscription-view, mostly - I guess - for video "shows", taking a cut and distributing some percentage to creators.

The blog page doesn't make this obvious. Clicking around helps, but maybe not quite enough.

Not sure where the digital art element comes in. To most people that means still image fine art or maybe animation. (Or possibly all those brightly coloured half-naked pixie and fantasy character artworks that are all over Deviant Art, depending.)

The model might work, but taking on YouTube and Vimeo is brave and ambitious, especially considering they're moving to a subscription model themselves. (Never mind Netflix...)
I have a similar answer but wasn't sure how well it would be received on HN.

I come from a diverse background and generally found myself between extreme ideologies all around. From the hardline Islamic beliefs I encountered in the Middle East, Christian Evangelicals in America and the New Atheist movement in Europe and America.

I found solace in the Jap Ji Sahib [1], viewing it from a deist perspective. It helped me develop a regular meditation practice.

[1] Jap Ji Sahib is the first 40 verses of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy text. Here is a version: https://granth.co/
Standardizing a package manager across platforms is nice and making homebrew for linux does this without just creating another package manager to support packages.
> What popular is changes rapidly, sometimes overnight.

That's correct. CAs also check for TLDs in unusual places (and unicode hacks, etc) in the requested SANs (Subject Alt Names, practically server names) during verification.
installing the latest versions from source
Reactive Postgres with Play Framework and ScalikeJDBC
I'm a private pilot and I've always wondered if planes flying could be the first instance of a computer taking direct action to end someones life. What I mean by that, if a plane encounters a bird strike like in 1549 (sullenberger) and the computer evaluates the options of where to ditch if it can not return or find an alternate area. I assume it will try to minimize the total loss of life, both ground and passengers. Would the computer choose a less populated place that had a lower probability of success than one with a higher chance of success but potential larger loss of life if something went wrong? Self preservation is a powerful instinct for humans, and I don't know how I feel about this problem.
Smells like an oversight to me. Some new developer got assigned to implement or tweak the SSH enabling switch (or whatever), and this was their solution, which never got reviewed.
Worth noting April Houston listings have a false positive because an investor was named Drew Houston.
One of the problems with popularity is you will get a lot of mediocre developers who don't know what they are doing. You know, the people who pick up tools only because they think it will land them a job more easily. The same people who picked up VB.

I understand that you're saying it's a bad practice to adopt a tool for reasons other than its utility in addressing a specific problem.

But is it really so terrible for a developer to want to learn a new tool so he can broaden his skillset and make himself a more attractive candidate to potential employers (so long as the tool is the right one for the task at hand)?
The two are not really related.

With regards package updates, when Arch started publishing security update announcements Manjaro could start pushing those out faster. Delayed updates of other upstream packages is not really an issue (e.g. Ubuntu and CentOS have many packages that are not in sync with upstream).
Most of us doesn't have any disposable income to directly invest. Instead we have indirectly become investors thanks to the part of the salary set aside for us in the form of taxes and payments to pension plans. I don't have the numbers, and it differs from country to country, but it's a huge chunk of your salary. Like ~20% of your gross income is used to finance your retirement because you might live several decades after you retire.

The Swedish system (totally simplifying here) works so that once a year you get to allocate about half your tax collected savings to a list of funds selected by some government officials. Another part of your pension if paid by your employer through a pension broker and again you can select among a list of approved funds. All of the funds you can choose from charges a hefty fee to manage your capital.

Had I had the choice I would have withdrawn all my money and paid of my home loans which would have given me a completely risk free return of 3%/year. Instead I can only choose among these funds whose fund managers managed to grease some government official enough to put them on their approved list.
From the WP article, they mention fights end with submission or when the judge stopped it. You seem to be implying that the competition is a fight to the death ("breaking someone's neck"), but that's not what the article says. It doesn't mean that death could or did not occur either, but just that it's not the main goal.
Lessons from 147 SaaS Board Rooms
Xcode 6.3 is out now and requires 10.10. I also waited as long as I could, so now I have a machine that's been installing Yosemite for the last 18 hours...
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983) by Lewis Hyde.

It is not only a powerful deconstruction of the creative process, but it details the history of relationships between gift/craft and acquisition/capital. A valuable read for anyone who has ever wanted to put more into their projects than what is asked or required.
It also demonstrates a nice parallel, in which deer/humans population thrives, despite the loss of biodiversity, until they inevitably hit a brick wall and suddenly die off.
The publisher made a few small edits too. The last scene of the book was completely cut out ('are you out of your fucking mind?').

Treasure your original edition.
Thanks asmicom; I don't think I should be downvoted for expressing myself. That was my opinion. And I was also seeking comments from readers.
@erikb: There is a school of thought those apps - FB, wordpress,etc - don't contain lines of code with best practices. I am however glad they are released on non-restrictive licenses and the general public are contributing to the various projects.

All I can say is that PHP is here to stay. I have not written a whole app/project in PHP5 before but with PHP4. I however think kits/tools like Haxe AND apps like FB & WP will keep PHP in the market for a very long time.
Finally! It looks like a lot of commenters here are confused, but there are a lot of situations where the default package Linux package managers don't cut it.

After getting used to the (update) speed, flexibility, and reliability of Homebrew, it's shocking and frustrating to go back to Linux, where package managers were born, and have to settle for a less robust ecosystem.
And what do many gangs use to fund their activities?

The sale of drugs, perhaps?
Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Quine - Two Dogmas of Empiricism

Stirner - The Ego and its Own

Nietzche - All of them, really

Metzinger - The Ego Tunnel
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell helped me understand why some people are successful and while others are not (despite superior intelligence).
I guess it's forgivable that there's no entry for Visual FoxPro...At least I get to do a lot of Python, too.
Classic statistical correlations sold as newsworthy by bundling the Netflix name in it, even though it really has nothing to do with the company at all (beyond that Netflix does statistical correlations, and some guy who worked there decided to leverage their name to get press).
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand a revelation, much like encountering Tolstoy for the first time via Anna Karenina.

A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin, is the Tolkien of our times, but with a dark and raunchy twist ;-) Almost finished; book 6 is a year or more away if previous publishing trend continues -- we needs it ;-(
Your profile says you have 26 years of experience, I would certainly expect someone with half that much time in the profession to hit most grounds running.
I think the article makes a good point.

Counter-point: at least in the open source world, popularity can translate into lots of eyeballs on the code, lots of bug fixes, better ability to hunt down solutions on Google, hire people, etc.

Counter-counter-point: lots of people depending on a project may slow its progress and prevent its maintainers from correcting fundamental design mistakes, all for fear of breaking existing installs.
a comment by way of someone (me) who is getting a bit on in age... nice idea, but what about medical care? being in a large north american city, access to high quality and high-end medical care is something that I've taken advantage of several times and it sure makes me sleep better at night
I can think of several possibilities (not exclusive):

- Mac users switching to or using linux, so no familiarity with other package managers to lead them elsewhere.

- Packages are easy to create with their ruby DSL; it might appear gimmicky but it's very easy to pick up despite possibly being less robust? The command `brew create <tar file url>` even creates a template for you.

- CLI is super easy to use; `brew info <package>` tells you everything you need to know; not a significant advantage for anyone willing to read a man page.

- Existing packages as you said, plus it's still a hip package manager so... following contributions is easy? (Again, not a significant advantage except maybe for beginners.)

Most likely: the people who are already familiar with it want to use it elsewhere (their VMs, dual-boot setup, servers, ...).

Edit: Plus whatever is "unique" to brew / what totalrobe listed.
I like these posts as much as everyone else, but this is literally at least the third one this week. Maybe it could become a recurring monthly thing like the hiring posts.

Walden: "Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications."

Part of the reason I'm off fb.
Louis C.K.'s Crabby, Epic Love Letter to NYC
CopWatch, Mobile Justice, and other apps for citizens filming police encounters
Well, your perspective isn't necessarily wrong. There are people who will try to mess with your mind, manipulate you, even gaslight you. Some paranoia is warranted.

With that said, though, still don't lose your ability to trust...
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ISIL-linked hackers seize control of French television network
and how is this different than dev in general?
Tere Shehar Mein 9th April 2015 Drama Online
Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
Good luck with your venture.

One thing that I really hope is more refined than the rough description on the site is the "revenue per minute watched" model for paying creators. YouTube has switched to this model at some point (previously it counted views) and this hurts harder-to-produce content tremendously (like film or animation) while encouraging cheap-to-produce content (like slow-paced tutorials or video blogs.)

Obviously just counting views has its issues (encourages click baiting), but this can be countered by looking at bounce-backs or what-not, and mainly YouTube did what it did because its ad business requires viewers to spend time on the site. With paying customers, hopefully it's possible to do better.

(The drive for "minutes of content" reminds of the switch from cinema to TV - quality certainly took a hit because of the new demand for endless quantities...)
He talks about the virtue of using new and untested languages and frameworks. The example he uses is Twitter's use of the relatively new Ruby on Rails framework.

Unfortunately for him, this is a bad example. Twitter was notorious in its early days for being down all the time. So Twitter decided to migrate to Java - a dull, over-verbose, yet reliable language.
> 3) Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.

Hmm... let me see. What related thing started in the early 70s? Yep, the "War on Drugs", started by Nixon.
Homebrew generally installs to /usr/local or some other directory rather than to the main system so conflicts probably wont be that big of an issue.
Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman

A stunningly good book about cognitive biases, with fairly understated claims and backed up with studies. Excellent advice for life and it's changed how I view decisions and interactions. [edit - if you want it and can't afford it, get in touch and I might be able to buy you a copy]

The Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod

Rather hammers the prisoners dilemma a lot, but it does feel justified. It's been maybe 9 years since I read this and it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this question. How does co-operation work? What properties are required for co-operation? If I recall correctly it examines these questions from the scale of bacteria to nation states.
Wow, thanks for taking the time to put into words one of the main aspects that make these books so powerful. At first, there is a strange anguish in being immersed in a world where human minds are just programs, and consciousness seems to be a feature emerging from their structure. Especially when they must consider the possibility of modifying and forking themselves or transferring themselves from one medium to another, one can't help but think, "No, my consciousness couldn't possibly work like that, it's too special".

But as the book progresses, you get more and more comfortable with this universe, and with the fact the your consciousness could work like that. You learn to be at peace with this conception of the mind, and this feeling of peace is the main element that stuck with me after Diaspora. I suppose this may also pervade other works that belong to the vague cyberpunk genre.
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This attitude is mistaken. Sullenberger had no good choices and was going to crash, his scenario was far more dire.

The Taipei flight had a perfectly fine engine and there is no reason for any of this to happen. The plane could fly just fine with one engine out.
Machine Learning Algorithm Mines 16B E-mails
I'd be happy to have some feedback on what to do next.

eXaQuark the networking powering DiveReal allows crowds. So thousands of people can gather for event like a concert.
What's the best path to reach that point.
Yes, what they did violates immigration law in Thailand. And the comments of a senior immigration official don't change the law; they just indicate that at least in that region the enforcement is likely to be rather lax.

But there's really nothing to get bent about. No locals were out of a job. They lived there as tourists so paid a lot more into the local economy than locals, including a lot more taxes in the form of VAT on all their purchases.

The only real issue is that they were at risk even if they didn't sense it, because what happens now and then is someone gets pissed off (usually another foreigner) and rats someone out. Then the police see an opportunity to collect an extortionate "fine" before they get deported.
EasyCheck's Launch and Journey to $1M in Annual Run Rate
I used to belong to a local Fish and Game club that had skeet shooting fields. (Skeet are fun to shoot but the meat is very tough.) The club was forced to close the shooting ranges due to neighbors that moved into the area around the club because they didn't like the noise. The club had been shooting there for 80 years before that...
6% is nothing compared to the raises or stocks or other random bonuses that come with working for a big tech company for a while and doing well. It seems really short-sighted to compare details about initial offers at such a minute level. Plus, Google offers other nice ways of evading taxes, like a good 401k plan.
There are much better package managers for that. Try Nix or GNU Guix.
Try Romans 12: 9-21
>where an experienced crew that were new to the 737-400 misread the vibration instruments,

That's not quite what happened. The vibration instruments on earlier models were known to be unreliable, so the pilot tried to figure out which engine had failed using other indications (I forget which).
Ruh roh, that sounds bad. What should we do?
Naked Lunch -- William S. Borroughs
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Ouch, biting...
One of my favorite articles on this topic is http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-youre-sabotaging-your-own...

The money quote to me is near the end of page 2:

'And I'm starting to think that the world really is divided between those who have a clear idea of what it means to want something -- including the total cost and sacrifices it will take to get it -- and those who are just content to leave it as an airy "wouldn't it be nice" fantasy. The former group hones in on what they want and goes zooming after it like a shark. The latter looks at them, shakes their head and says, "How do they do it?" As if they have a cheat code, or a secret technique.'
This translates to net annual return of 0.0025% :)
Not to be confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirtle
I second "The Abolition of Man". Also "The God Who Is There" or "Escape From Reason" by Francis Schaeffer.
I literally jumped in my chair and facepalmed myself when I saw you'd included Meditations and I'd left it out. Damn. Thank you for reminding me how great that was. Putting it in now :)
Software companies have it easy compared to artists - their products often have teeth (being hosted at a server is an obvious example, as are many more or less effective anti-piracy measures and ability to relatively easily go after infringing businesses if not individuals.)

Artists who ship "nothing but data" to be consumed by individuals have very few effective means to battle piracy.
I'm not merely talking about junk redundant code but entire classes of problems such as memory errors (null pointers etc.) and race conditions (in many, though not all, cases).

If you compare software engineering to another field like aerospace or structural engineering it's laughable how little rigour and formality takes place in most software. It's shocking how much disdain programmers show for mathematics which gives us the tools to prove that our applications are correct.
I think the RAT deploys automatically. The flight computers most likely run on a backup battery for a good while, but without the RAT there'd be no way to even move the control surfaces.
By whom?

Google gives me numerous books with that title.
Only because the standard "bot" slept in last time.