skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads like an Adam Curtis documentary (a good thing), and several of the episodes of more famous documentaries touch upon some of the themes here.

The episode of "Pandora's Box" called "The Engineer's Plot" describes the rise of cybernetic thinking in the Soviet Union--less so the early resistance to it. It describes some of the insane rituals that developed out of the entrenched management hierarchies that computing was grafted on to. It effectively shows the endgame of the Soviet cybernetic experiment.

More recently, the episode "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts" of the documentary series "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" describes the development of cybernetics in the US and the resistance to it from environmentalists (outside the scope of the article). It gives portraits of some of the main characters this article talks about, though.
Honest question, in what way is brew faster, more flexible, or more reliable than apt-get or yum? I've had far more problems with it than I have its Linux brethren.
The reading indicates a few times it was likely there for System Preferences, not for a government agency or anything like that.
Or LTS versions of Linux.
Ask HN: Any large companies/startups built by people met at meetups?
This thought just hit my head. I know a lot of people participate in meet-ups to share, teach, and learn from others, in addition to networking, of course, but I've questioned whether the effort to make it out there has ever been fruitful for a pair or team of founding members of a large company/startup?

There are a lot of tech meet-ups in the SF Bay Area, but are they really worthwhile endeavors? I also wonder how many of the founding members of coveted startups/companies have ever participated in them BEFORE they were successful.

I find myself struggling to balance the networking/learning and the time it takes to get out to these things as opposed to diving into the material I'm already entrenched in.
Not every dog can be rescued. There are some dogs that simply have a bad temperament and will never be completely safe.

Agreed. No-kill actually means "90+ percent live release" because some animals are so sick (physically or mentally) that euthanasia is the humane thing to do.

Temperament in dogs is a heritable trait, and selecting a dog from a conscientious breeder [...] than selecting a dog from a shelter at random.

Perhaps, if only because of the pernicious effect of the puppy mills. 99 percent of shelter cats are mutts and just fine. I'd guess that in terms of average health and temperament, the order is random/natural-bred mutts > well-bred pedigree > puppy/kitty mill animals.
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A great stress reliever for an Indian who was feeling guilty all the time waking or sleeping.

Many articles by rationalist and reformer Periyar E.V.Ramasamy http://Periyar.org
The two cannot be compared. Illegal porn (child porn, rape, etc.) is illegal because of a lack of consent and potential for assault, psychological scarring, etc. of the victim. Drugs are illegal in an attempt to "protect" consenting adults from themselves and have no victim aside from the users themselves.

Here's the same hypothetical that you're proposing from another angle: "If banning whistleblowing is doomed to failure irrelevant of one's stance on its morality, then should not the same be true of war crimes?"
This is really cool. Thanks for creating this. I'm not looking at the moment, but I'm always super interested by the Who's Hiring threads.
Not if you get one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Portable-250GB-External-MU-PS2...
"The quantum wave wants to collapse into one of two states. The spin will either be up or down." Quantum mechanics is unpredictable as it gets :)
... it seems to me like all that would be true for Apple and Facebook as well?
Smaller, lower power computers are great. But the problem is, and remains, the power consumption of the RF channel. It's all well and good that your processor consumes microamps, but one second of WiFi traffic at a reasonable transmit power takes hundreds of milliamps. Smart sensing system's power consumption is dominated by wireless communication energy costs.
Indeed, I'm running 10.10 on a 2006 Mac Pro, and it's running really really well (boot.efi replaced to get it working, not supported:).

I was surprised just how well it's working tbh.
Say what you want about ESR, but if I had never read "The Art of Unix Programming", my life would be unrecognisable and sad.
8,200 years before you were involved in a FATAL accident and you would have a 80+% chance of SURVIVING that (All caps emphasis mine)

Is this (fatal/survive) a typo, or does it mean you could survive where some passengers don't?
Facebook: Device year class
That's the way I read it, heaven forbid they provide the actual report.

Also, if we assume 80% of the $160 billion is in public investments that achieved their benchmarks net of fees over the past 10 years $2b in fees seems pretty reasonable at 0.16% ((2 billion /10 years)/(160*.8))
> "free"

I'd suggest an OpenWrt compatible router. It's actually free (open source) :)

Great support for dynamic DNS too (obviously, it's just Linux): http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/ddns.client

And it turned out the thing I was describing (easy port forwarding for home servers) exists and is also supported by OpenWrt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_Port_Mapping_Protocol
US Pens $200M Deal for Massive Nuclear Security Focused Supercomputer
Tiny beautiful things by Cheryl Strayed.
Out of the overcrowded self-help world this book will challenge you and get to your heart.
There's something to learn in every story.

Another one is "The power of vulnerability" by Brene Brown, actually it's an audiobook, I think the book has no equivalent written version but it might be something on the line of "Daring greatly" (same author).

These books will challenge you in many ways.
Linear and Geometric Algebra by Alan Macdonald. It's a nice book but a bit slow for my taste. I wonder if anyone has a recommendation for a fast paced route to geometric algebra for somebody who is already familiar with conventional math?
Here you go[0].

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Altruism - Mathieu Ricard

Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan

Bible - several authors

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Eléments de Philosophie Angélique - Denis Marquet (french)

Au coeur de l'instant - Jean Bouchart d'Orval (french)
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Good suggestions already ITT, so I'm not gonna repeat.

All of Enderverse by Orson Scot Card is simply excellent. Ender's game is a nice peak into what goes on in the whole series. A mash between true strategy, relationships, personal development, philosophy and is very engaging.

However the rest of the Ender series deal mainly with philosophy. Plenty of nuggets there. Additionally Shadow's saga is situated on Earth and is about strategy and competing. Highly recommended too.
This is really cool. I'd love to see this by technology composition too.
Perhaps it is not apparent from my original post - I am a developer... I'm trying to recruit someone for my team. Of course I've specified a salary range (which is slightly higher than the local average, based on payscale) and I've been as specific as possible on the technology and benefits...

Sadly all I got so far are applications coming from India and China from people who clearly didn't read the ad and will just apply to anything.
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I got your point. Manage windows boxes from non-windows stations.
From a business standpoint it makes total sense. Investors see Coursera and Lynda as being in the same or similar market so Lynda getting bought helps them clarify the valuation of Coursera if its for sale.

If Coursera has taken investment money then it is for sale.
Great work!

As a sugestion for next feature, I'd recommend a selection for visa sponsorship or not.
Six months for a fix? I would have given them 90 days and released it.
That would depend on which interface and drive technologies you use. A SSD connected via Thunderbolt would likely be faster than an internal hard drive.
...the least experienced people are the most valuable, and there is no training required nor even desired.

I think you're right about a certain segment of the market. After all, we know that pedophiles exist, so some "customers" would want the "services" of a child who lies there crying, which would require no "training". I think those would be few in number when compared to a legal market for adult prostitution, although they would necessarily be a larger portion of any illicit market.
People tend to have stronger bonds with dogs

I disagree. But I'm a cat person, so you're probably not surprised. The bond is different but neither is superior. That said, I'm strongly against novelty pets (birds, snakes, tigers). I think it's dangerous and stupid, and most of these animals either never bond, like snakes, or are poorly suited to typical pet conditions, like parrots (who get depressed in a cage) and wild/big cats. Cats and dogs make great pets and most animals don't.

I agree with the rest of what you're saying.
Typo: "[brose by country]"
Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy. Absolutely amazing, I highly recommend it.
Has this ever happened before? I'm genuinely curious, as I've heard this warning often but it seems more like FUD than anything else.
What music is locked away in iTunes, besides FairPlay tracks from like 2008 that you can pay to upgrade.
> Years later, still advocating theft from employees. Stay classy, David.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do that again.
Maybe most personal users but those of us in larger IT-managed organizations don't always have the luxury of updating on day one (point: I am on 10.9.5 right now).
Installing to a users home. I.e. no sudo needed for package management. For example I currently install all my python, R and Haskell stuff in my home using each languages' own package management rather than system wide and it would be nice to use the same package manager for all this.

Up to date versions of packages.

Some packages conflict in the repos e.g. ffmpeg and libav on Debian derivatives and keeping both is annoying.

I would rather something like Nix or Guix over this (and as you say standardisation between package managers would be massive).

In short linux package management is great but it could be so much better and this might be a kick in the right direction?
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I don't think we are using the same sense of the word "model". In this context we're talking about using a Gaussian vs some other statistical model.

What does it mean to say that Black Swans are unquantifiable? Take these questions:

1) What is the probability that the S&P will be below 1000 within a month (bigger than 50% drop)? Is it .1%, .01%, .001%, .0001% ? Nobody knows. It's a sufficiently rare event, with so few precedents, that you can't give a useful or reasonable answer, with say an order of magnitude.

2) What is the value of the next YC batch, in 2020? Well if it has a company like AirBnB or Dropbox, it could be $10 B. Or it could be $100M. Nobody knows. (See Paul Graham's Black Swan farming essay.) Although the entire point of the VC industry is to try to make this return more predictable than it inherently is.

3) On September 10, 2001, if I asked you what is the probability that airliners would crash in to the World Trade Center, what would your response be? There was perhaps a prior in the 1993 World Trade Center attack. Still, nobody (outside the State department) could have spoken meaningfully about the probability of this event.
Yep, plain Cambridge is "Cambridge, MA", the other one is listed as "Cambridge, UK". In the same fashion, "Venice" is actually "Venice, CA". It hurt a bit but it was the right thing to do ;)
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I experience HFS+ corruption frequently on my TimeMachine disk. There's nothing wrong with with the disk, it's the file system causing it. Disk Utiliy is usually able to repair it, but I did loose some backups once.

How are you verifying that you've never lost a byte of data? What makes you so sure?
10 Albert Einstein quotes for young entrepreneurs
A lot of good suggestions. To try to avoid repeating what others have said too much, here are some from a different perspective.

# "JPod" by Douglas Coupland helped me realize that it was corporatism, not me, that was broken.

# Benjamin Franklin's autobiography showed me a history that was made of people, a people no different than me and mine, and that success comes from standing up and going your own way.

# "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein taught me that, while culture is arbitrary and we should be free to try to make it what we wish, that doesn't make it fake or ignorable.

# "Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, re-read as an adult, taught me the importance of formula in consistency and how much a market of fans love predictability.

# "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin taught me that the movie can be a lot better than the book and that there is a problem with modern generations making an affectation out of book reading.
Many of our customers realize that fact, but are nonetheless extremely happy to use SSLMate. We're not a normal certificate vendor, and the ease and automation of SSLMate sets us far apart. If these features aren't important to you, Namecheap is a fine choice - I used them myself before creating SSLMate.
"Longitude" by Dava Sobel.

Sailors knew for a while how to get your latitude (by using the position of the north star) but didn't have a way of getting their longitude pre-18th century. This was a serious problem in navigation and this is the story of how a solution came about.
Most Android Wear watches also have an optical heart rate monitor, and they all do turn-by-turn.

Fair point on the payments, though. I think only the Sony watch has NFC, and I haven't heard when/if that will be actually supported by the OS for payments.
Can I get one of these to manage packages installed to /home in Ubuntu?
The story of Damoxenos of Syracuse on this Quora answer to the question "What is the most unsportsmanlike conduct you have seen in any sport?" is also pretty interesting: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-unsportsmanlike-conduc...
Bhagavad Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi once said that he reads Gita whenever he can't find the solution of any problem.
This is embarrassing. I grew up with sorta fundie parents (they got better) and dropped out of school early (religious schools...), so it might be different for HNers that had a solid mental upbringing.

A Brief History of Time because it pretty much slapped any thoughts I had of a supernatural universe/god right out of my mind. I know it's not highly regarded, but for a rather ignorant guy, it woke me up.

The Selfish Gene (inc The Extended Phenotype). This is one I think is the most powerful, even for people that had OK education. Showing how life could possibly evolve, just with random mutations and non-random survival made it real to me that we live in a natural world. And not just that, but that since it's so obviously a natural world, it's up to us to decide what is right, what our purpose is. The earth and nature aren't going to help us there - it's our call, full stop. That is huge, and many otherwise seemingly well educated people don't seem to get it.

Heuristics and Biases. (Though Thinking Fast and Slow might be more approachable.) This book opened me up to the fact that I'm running on busted hardware. That I've got serious, unfixable, biases built into my brain. That a lot of what I do is a fast but inaccurate parallel system at work. (Interestingly, this is the essence of Taoism, wu wei).

Lately, LessWrong. (Available as a book called Rationality: From AI to Zombies). These sequences have helped me, well, get less wrong, slowly, at making decisions and general thinking. I try to be aware of when I'm being biased and incorrect. I make better predictions and actively try to update my priors, instead of just confirming my previous beliefs. As I get older (34) I find I'm unwittingly acting close minded on occasion, and need to actively work against it.
I guess. It's a backdoor in the sense that you can intentionally bypass privilege checks by calling a certain API with a particular argument. But I don't think it's a backdoor in the sense that the developers wanted a secret way to gain root on an arbitrary machine.
Wool - Hugh Howey

Post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi at it's best.
OpIsrael: Pro-Palestine hackers stole Israeli credit cards to fund charities
They'll care when their mouse starts moving by itself.
The time to start working on your startup's landing page is Now (Why and How)
Worked wonders for getting to the top of HN though.
Cog is ugly as all hell and hasn't been updated seven years. It's nowhere near as capable as iTunes.
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Bugger. I was really excited for Let's Encrypt specifically for the possibility of a free wildcard cert.

I was thinking of building an app which would be under two domains like heroku.com/herokuapps.com and github.com/github.io and I rather not spend hundreds of dollars on two wildcard certs. Guess I'll just buy one and not use subdomains on the main site.
This is totally silly. Homebrew isn't a very good package manager. When I used it at a previous job (the only time I've used OS X), it was quite unreliable. It would try to build most things from source (which sometimes failed), but then download pre-built binaries for others. IIRC, installing the MySQL package just downloaded a binary from Oracle, it wasn't even a binary pre-built and verified with Homebrew! I have zero confidence in Homebrew to provide any security.

Now, I see that people are saying that it fills a niche of having the latest and greatest builds of things. Other GNU/Linux distros already have similar things. Arch Linux's core repo is quite fresh and there's also the AUR for bleeding edge stuff. Debian testing isn't as fresh, but it has most new software fairly quickly. I don't know much about Gentoo, but it's overlay system gives users easy access to custom repos with bleeding edge software. Hell, even Ubuntu seems to have PPA for everything if the software in the release isn't new enough. Then there's some less known options like Nix and GNU Guix that provide very up-to-date packages and have far more features than Homebrew.

In short, we need better system package managers for our distros, not additional package managers to slap on top of the distro we use.
I'd claim it is illegal, and fraud. If a seller buys positive reviews, then anyone buying the item has been led to believe that the reviews are independent and honest reviews. The seller didn't inform the buyer of information that the seller knew, and the seller materially benefited from not informing the seller, ergo fraud. It's a crime as old as the hills.
Actually, as of Windows 8.1 (64-bit only), ReFS is now supported which does have those features:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

So in the near future, Windows will have an answer for the general mainstream, while OS X will be left far behind.

Even ignoring the checksumming issue, HFS+ has known pathologies not only in reliability but in performance compared to NTFS or even ext4 on Linux.

HFS+ is long overdue for replacement.
What can be LinkedIn's take on this?
Thank you!

I get confused about what is or isn't "drug paraphernalia" and whether it's legal or not.
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Man. I was just looking at going into the Amazon store for some of the products a few friends of mine are thinking about selling online. This really opened my eyes.

After reading your post I decided to get some more insight into this and you're definitely not the only one. It is somewhat sad, especially the amount of people that rely on amazon for shipping and deal with shipping reviews.

As for myself, I often skip SF/F or Programming books that are less then 4. But as you said, there are plenty of people who give 1-stars for almost no reason. This puts a ton more time into my background research of a product.