skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually he is right (at least about this publication). It's just "rumors", based on one "funny" post in social network from one of russian state organizations. There is no law under that post and this organization can't "make illegal" anything - they aren't allowed to write laws but only execute them. Look at the other posts and you will see (even without any translations) that it's the least adequate organization in Russia: https://vk.com/rkn?w=wall-76229642_36939 - it's one of their official posts. It's State Organization, allowed to ban sites in russian segment of internet. Make your conclusions.
This has been mentioned elsewhere, but I wonder if we could use the super large tankers that are currently being built for transporting oil and gas for transporting water instead? There is tons of fresh water in the great lakes and the polar ice caps.

These ships don't need all the advanced machinery that they currently have for making sure there is no leaks: if there are minor leaks, its water anyways. So its likely to be much cheaper.

I'm concerned about the amount of fossil fuels they would consume though.
In the big picture you're expendable. But in the lives of certain people, you are not. Things like being humble, being full of love, establishing and maintain relationships do help one feel fulfilled.

One thing that definitely does not help is casting these things as moments and not processes. We strive to be better at our jobs each day, why not at our character? A bucket list is probably not a good comparison. Being of character is a process, not a list of events.

Lastly, I think we should try to be people of character not only because it's fulfilling, but because it's good for society. (I'm not saying you're particularly against character, but this is still a good point to bring up.) A good example of this is avoiding gratuitous negativity on Hacker News. It encourages better conversations and can be grounded in humility.
This is the syllabus I wanted to give my students before I quit teaching
IMO .io is a little different, since it has quite a bit of momentum now and broadly speaking, stuff at .io domains is for the tech-savvy who are likely aware that there are things aside from .com out there.

If a layperson heard "visit us on the web at foo.io !" On the radio / TV, I think many would either search "foo.io" or "foo", or try foo.io.com , then get frustrated that it wasn't what they expected.
Pretty sure Steve Jobs was a dick and had a ton of people mourn him. Also see Lenin and every other famous powerful leader who went out on good terms.

Unless he means something else by "eulogy" virtues.
"There's a lot about language usage today that annoys me, like the new trend of being excited for something."

Dear Sir/Madam. Congratulations on being eligible for your senior citizen discounts. And why yes, I'm getting off your lawn immediately.

:-)

But yeah, I agree. I am too, how to put it, well past my college years. And yes, I too find more and more things annoying with passing years.
TL;DR it pays off to invalidate a range of pages per inter-processor interrupt, rather than one page per interrupt, and dtrace can get the numbers to prove it.
Do you know which version of Sophia it uses?
So does name.com, iwantmyname, namecheap, etc. Just visit your favorite registrar in most cases.
I don't know much about this either, but I think if cache line size is not a multiple of the RAM transfer size, bandwidth will be wasted.
Gnip was DataSift's biggest competitor, and Twitter acquired Gnip. So firehose access is still totally available, but only through Twitter itself (b/c of the Gnip acquisition).

When the big company you relies on buys your competitor, you should be very, very scared.
[Self Improvement iOS APP] SCARED: Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You
HillaryClinton.co is cybersquatted
Software Quality Survey Results (2013)
That appended, questioning "No?" at the end of a statement is prevalent all over India. And yes, it comes from a Hindi construct "Arre, Chal naa yaar" (literally, "Let's go, No? friend".)
Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf
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The point I was trying to make is very simple - the article presented a way to teach kids by getting them to a place using questions.

He/she left out the part where you have to go home and solidify what you learned in class. That's where kids will struggle.

That home part is not solved by socratic method or otherwise. Nothing solves it, except doing the work.

All the socratic way of teaching in a classroom does, is make it more fun and interactive than a traditional lecture. If it gets people excited about learning, they may feel more inclined to put in the work at home.

Hence what you were proposing - putting the socratic method in a book, doesn't make sense to me. In a book, you want concise explanations. In a lecture, you do want more interactivity to get people excited to go home and look up the concise information.

That's my take on it anyway. I don't know where you were going with defining 'knowledge' - I don't find defining words useful, as long as we both know what we're talking about, we should be fine :)
That's the Heaney translation. The original Old English starts this way:

> Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum

Hwæt has usually been translated as "listen", though it has since evolved into the modern word "what" and at least one researched thinks it is not an interjection but an intensifier [1]. In archaic English it might have been translated as "hark".

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/l...
Open Source Stands the Test of Time
Personally, I'd lock myself away and write a bunch of Apps.

If I was you, I'd do some cheap traveling in South America or Southeast Asia.
I wonder how overwhelming it might be to suddenly see vivid reds and greens for the first time, especially for an adult, and not be able to turn it off.
Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance
Is anyone else unable to highlight text on this page? Also, if I double-click on a word it zooms in?!
Is it enough? I'd imagine the amount of water used (industrial, residential, agricultural) is far greater than oil. For example -- ~3k gallons water / lb of beef. That means growing a cow uses A LOT more than the cost of transporting that beef once it's slaughtered.
Nautil.us fanfic. I like it.
Dallas Zoo's Katie the giraffe gives birth – with the world watching
I'm fond of the childhood "buttons on ice cream, see if they stick."
People generally dont become good from dramatic life events like those described in the article.

Being good is a habit. Constantly ask yourself what a good person would do and do it as much as possible until it becomes second nature.

At any moment in time you should be able to make a compelling argument for why you are a good person, eg: "Im a good person because I helped jump start that ladies car earlier today, and last friday I worked at a soup kitchen".

If you cant make an argument using specific examples then you arent a good person.
Have there been observations whether such augmentation could actually have detrimental effects?

The rest of my comment is just speculative inquiry.

I imagine that neuroplasticity could have individuals quickly adapting to new sensory information input. I wouldn't be completely surprised since new born humans need ~6-8 months to fully develop sight to a level that is considered 'normal'. But neuroplasticity is far more potent at that age than later [1].

Considering a decline in potency with age, what if neuroplasticity cannot account for the required adaptation in the adult brain's visual portion?

For one, the information could just get lost and be filtered out like you suggested. But couldn't it also be misinterpreted with the effect of visual disturbances etc.?

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21489387
Why can't we just eat the salt?
There is no expectation of privacy on voice communication.

Further, recording is fundamental to how digital devices work. It is unavoidable.

Your cell phone is not an analog device. The only question is: how long does your device keep a recording of the signal before deleting it?
Cool! I was looking for a simple key-value alternative for SQLite3 and was going to use redislite[1]. But this is perfect, I think it has the potential to replace SQLite3.

[1]https://github.com/seppo0010/redislite
Random Variable Name Generator
My thought exactly. The open source Blender Cycles had had this for years.
DataSift and Gnip had access to the Twitter firehose (every single tweet posted, live). Normal businesses / developers can't get access to that. Twitter's "streaming" API is a tiny fraction of the firehose.

So DataSift wasn't just reselling their data - they, along with Gnip, had a partnership that allowed them to get access to the firehose. For many social media companies, the firehose is a necessity, so they bought contracts with Gnip or DataSift.

Then Twitter bought Gnip, and is cutting off DataSift's access to the firehose.
Oh, derp, I completely misread the github repo. :/
Ack, I completely misunderstood what screenfetch does. Disregard above comment.
You might consider building Linaro instead, especially if you are going to use a RPI 2.
Fascinating account on the rise and subsequent collapse of Zynga. Given what was said, and as the author pointed out, why the hell is Pincus back and Don out? Some very strange goings on over there...

edit: it's nice to see them outputting something a little more interesting than Farmville :)
A longer delay would also be fine. Perhaps after a certain amount of time notifications could be turned on - say 5 days after a post + 1 hour delay? That seems to be in line with the OP, but I'm not sure.
> A small chance is never a good bet, especially when our whole race is at stake.

That only matters when you can affect the outcome which is not a foregone conclusion.
I sometimes trick myself into believing that a powerhouse like the NY Times would filter their content for quality, I am forever disillusioned :)

I should write for the NY Times perhaps...
I track the books I've read and want to read on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com). I currently have about 200 books on my "to read list". I find interesting books suggestions everywhere - on the HN (special topics for books but quite often in the random commments), articles, blogs etc. I don't blindly add new books, I first research it for a few minutes (table of content, reviews, similar books).

I also recommend Farnam Street Blog (http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/) for a lot of interesting suggestions.
Reading things like this make me reflect that more people should go into medicine. Medical advances are way more profound than new apps or web pages.

What are some good ways for a programmer to help the field? Maybe learning data science would allow me to help researchers while not knowing medicine myself.
foo.DoSomething()
... // remember not to return
// without foo.Done() called
// (EDITed for clarity:
// foo is the state, that changes,
// so you have to keep track of
// its changes)
foo.Done()

vs

DoSomething (func(){
... // don't have to remember
// a thing, no side-effects,
// equivalent of .Done() is
// called afterwards for you
})

EDIT2: exact behavior is not the point, keeping track of things is.
Ask HN: What percentage of your company are the engineers?
Hillary Clinton Rapidly Gaining Facebook Likes
Strange how the Guardian published this story about Everest on the annual anniversary of the event which made Everest obsolete as a destination for ultimate challenges: 8 years after the first ascent of Everest, the first manned spacecraft went into space. And because Gagarin "did it alone" (ignoring support work such as base camp and mission control) instead of with a partner, his achievement wasn't superceded in any way by the moon landing another 8 years later. His solitary orbit around the earth stands as the beckoning event right in the middle of the span of time from 1953 to 1969 when humankind went "higher and further" far faster than at any time before. Whereas ascending Everest is too easy and landing on the moon too difficult, to ride into space and return to Earth all alone will define the pinnacle of achievement for explorers well into the forseeable future, regardless of any effort by the Guardian or Western media to suggest otherwise.
It might be more general than that. People here (and most other forums) seem conditioned to treat politics like sports teams and they will ignore all the horrible ideas their "team" has just as long as they can beat the other team. It is pretty sad...
What physics has Elon Musk contributed?
Jobs was a massive dick by any objective measure, but the eulogizing of him does prove that the tech his company championed touched a lot of people in positive ways.

As an Apple fan and as a tech geek, I count myself among that number.

It's actually an interesting dichotomy. On the smaller scale, his effect on the world (employees, friends) was negative (screwing over Wozniak, his infamous behavior on campus), but on the larger one, positive (tight environmental standards on products, making computers easier to use, pushing the state of the art for design forward).

I doubt Apple as we know it would exist today had Jobs not been at the helm.
Or you can use polymorphic variants in OCaml:

type color = `Red | `Green | `Blue | `Black | `Brown
type hair_color = `Black | `Brown | `Blond
Cool analogy. Now I'm trying to think what HTTP header it could be (considered) the equivalent of, but not getting it ...
A liter of seawater has 35 grams of salts in it (I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater ). Compare that to the recommended daily intake of several grams of salt.

It's also the case that most of the desalination methods produce concentrated brine instead of dry, clean salt (so extracting the salt would require further energy), but not needing that much of it is the bigger reason.
First off, do not commit suicide. You say you've been entertaining the idea so these problems are too serious for you to not seek professional help. You're ill, there's no shame in this, but treat it as seriously as you would any other illness. Call the Samaritans and speak to your doctor. Do not do anything that will make your health worse.

As to the legal situation, hire a lawyer. Seriously. You've said your client has hired legal aid in your country, you should immediately stop talking to the client and speak only through a lawyer. You could inadvertently make the problem worse by saying the wrong thing. Things like "I agree I am responsible for his losses", for example, you lawyer would stop you from saying. You aren't acting in isolation here and you're not in the business of insuring your client. If your client is spending $6k over the course of a year on something that, if it fails, will lose him hundreds of thousands and he doesn't act to protect his own interests then he is partially at fault.

You've made some mistakes here but you're not the only one. It's not the end of the world, everything can be salvaged. I know people that have been in a similar position and less than a year later it was sorted, they had a better job and were happy. Do not give up, do not try and solve this alone, you need help from people who aren't so close to the project.

Good luck.
When I read that problem, I immediately discarded answers A and B because they are just wrong. Strength and such would have absolutely no affect on violating Newton's third law. It seems like you are waffling in your intuition of the problem which suggests that this problem has revealed an actual problem in your understanding of the fundamentals (which means it is a well designed problem).

There is no stretching of the model or anything happening. Even if you account for higher order effects, A and B would still not be true.
Your comment is wrong at so many level, I seriously don't know what to do with it.

That said, I wish you all the best in life. Stay strong.
So it looks like you took a job for a fixed price.
you could have opted for time and material but you did not.

When you work fixed price, you need to have a fixed scope.

It is completely normal to have discussions with the customer on the scope of the project. the key is to see this negotiation as a way to ask more money from your customer.

I have the impression from your description that at the start of the project you did not define the scope in detail and that now you battle with the interpretation your customer makes from your scope description and your interpretation of that same description. Every time you hear your customer saying something you did not expect, you need to formally put on paper that that was not your interpretation and that your customers interpretation will be seen as a (scope) change request and will result in a new offer (= added cash)

so you should stop coding and start better defining what the scope is of the work that needs to be done.

(and always make a contract with your customer that states he can not ask more damages than the contract value)
Or means of communication that are more energy efficient than radio, which dramatically limits the range from which something can be distinguished from background noise. No-one finds anyone because they all moved to Netflix.
What I suspect you can't see is an attempt to use TAB to autocomplete the execution of the local script; when it fails the script kiddie tries to +x the script again. I suspect you'll also find that the script doesn't execute because bash isn't installed; only dash and/or busybox.
Whats the point of taking a gap year? I wouldn't take this unless you are extremely dedicated to some task, like a budding business, a dream to do something, something you are entirely into, not just an vague idea about taking a year off, especially considering you already have a top school accepting you. Waiting longer will probably only hurt your chances to get into a better school, not improve them. Beyond that, many people have taken "breaks" from school and then life catches up, so they never return. I would seriously consider just sticking it out and attending college. You'll have a lot of free time in college, at least in the beginning, to explore your own interests.
Curses is cool - no bones. But javascript is becoming significant for roguelikes. There's a library called rot.js that is far easier to get started with than the other significant frameworks. They've recently made it work in node.js as well (for the console). Hence, you can easily get a single codebase presenting to both web and terminal.
I'm confused. Are you saying that recording a voice call without explicit consent in California is NOT illegal? Because I'm sure there are a lot of prosecutors and judges out there in CA who would disagree with you.
To be fair, the article doesn't talk about being merely "good", but the much harder-to-achieve and more subjectively understood virtues of character, generosity and empathy. From what I've seen, the people who emanate these qualities most abundantly have in-fact been dealt great blows in their past -- they've often overcome great trials and through their hardships have gained a sincere empathy and understanding of people.
It's proving a negative assertion, which is impossible. The burden of proof is on the person making positive claims.
Is it a relay, exit node, or both that will get one blacklisted?
That's why cypherpunks each bring their own coin and XOR the heads. Or flip a biased coin twice. If you get HH or TT, discard and start over. If you get HT or TH, take the first flip of the pair.

More to the paper, I liked the point about using unexpected results to drive student engagement. In one of the early episodes of Very Bad Wizards, they described some aspects of teaching as like a magic show. I think it's a good analogy.

http://verybadwizards.com/
Wouldn't be worth it.

The largest super tankers have a deadweight tonnage of approximately half a million tons, which is worth ~$500MM of crude oil.

But water is super cheap by comparison. Assuming $0.0015/L (which is what I pay for my tap water in California), half a million tons of water is worth only $750k.

Another way to see it: the transport cost per super tanker is about $0.02 per gallon [1] but tap water is ~$0.006 per gallon (again, my tap water cost). So you would be tripling its cost to transport it by sea...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tanker
> as the universe was forming, there were concentrations of dark matter. Standing sound waves of photons and baryons (ordinary matter) formed around these concentrations

You make it sound like "dark matter" is normal matter and the "ordinary matter" is the abnormal stuff, since ordinary matter formed afterwards and has more complex interactions in that it supplements gravitation with electromagnetism and what not. And of course there's far more dark matter than ordinary.
Ikea to mass produce flat pack  emergency  containers
Ahh, these responses... (This space reserved for further passive aggressive comments.)

You didn't say how you arrived at the conclusion that shells are "so successful". How are you measuring that?

> ...a command we wrote to group image sequences together. This makes finding missing images in a sequence, knowing the range, and dealing with 1000's of files in a folder trivial. These are technically possible with a gui...

Those things are eminently possible with a GUI without writing your own file browser since most major file browsers offer a range of extensibility options. Also, GUI automation is a thing and it works well. Just last month I wrote a simple script to automate image extraction from a program that didn't provide any API for it. As a matter of fact, I didn't even have to write most of the script because the computer aided me by recording my mouse clicks.

> Jumping to the mouse does slow things down.

Looking up commands and configuration protocols slows things down way more though.

> Someone who has never used a computer would be equally confused at how a mouse or scrolling worked.

Equally as confused as they'd be when presented with nothing more than a blinking cursor? I don't think so... Once you move the mouse and see the pointer move, it's pretty obvious how movement works. Sixty seconds is enough time to accurately convey complete operating instructions for a mouse. Teaching someone how to use a shell would take much more time I imagine.

Anyway, I use a shell when it suits me and a GUI when that suits me, but most importantly, I am not a bigot or an elitist about it. I don't think that there is one true way to do things.
First, you have to get the pressure from yourself.
You need an imaginary stop-button in your brain go get away from all BS going on outside. Otherwise you are not able to think clear about your options.

Second, talk to a lawyer. I don't know where you are coming from, what kind of legal entity you are in (with your company? personal?).
Worst case, you messed up and your company files bankruptcy. Depending on your country you are free of debts after few years, if you are even personal liable.

Third, start new company and make sure you learned from this.

Chin up!
Great article, very informative on what to expect if you're lucky enough to be accepted
Sometimes when debugging particularly stubborn issues I wish I could kick code with ^D in vi.

#untrap would be useful, too.
Right so if we say Gnip is Twitter, then anyone can go buy data from Twitter (even if it's a wholly owned subcompany).

DataSift didn't have much of a value add (OK, historical data, common filters for Twitter and Reddit and others, etc.) But nothing that Twitter can't just in-house now that the market got nice and established.