skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just commented on one IT segment not learning from the past. NixOS deserves praise for doing the opposite: seeing various problem involved, identifying proven ways for solving them, and implementing them into a usable solution. Combining declarative and transactional properties into the package system as effectively as they do is very smart. I hope to see more distro's follow suit.
Like all things its nature vs nurture. There are plenty of historical accounts of people being anti-social agoraphobes or autistic in the past. They were either labeled 'eccentric' if they were rich or crazy if they weren't. "Demon possession" during bible days was likely a form of mental illness, and those who genuinely heard "God" might have either been on psychedelics or had genuine conditions (schizophrenia comes to mind).
I'm surprised that there seems to be a consensus here that using the GPG command line tool is complicated when the HN community regularly discusses, for example, time complexity of algorithms.
Yep. It's the exact same in Australian mining towns. High school graduates can reliably get a job in the mines that pays north of $150k. The downside obviously is that it's dangerous, not to mention bad for health. But some people jump at the opportunity still.
Buddhism is as close to a science as anything that could be described by anyone as a religion can get. It's really an experiment that you choose to perform on yourself, and your objective reality. What you find is precisely the point of it.
Given the NSA's reputation for doing things on the sly, isn't this a little clumsy to attribute to them? As one of the commentators says, it was more likely to be a border agent on the lookout for new music.

At one place I worked, we had USB security dongles for license management. We started sending them out in envelopes, and found that few reached their destination intact - the envelope would arrive, with a hole in the corner. Someone was raiding the envelopes for USB sticks, for whatever reason.
I suggested something similar to this a while back:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Tech_20Spec_20Plugins
Pretty cool, but I got lost in the credits.

"Inspired by and based on Jonas Wagner's work which is based on this paper."

http://29a.ch/2010/2/10/hand-drawn-lines-algorithm-javascrip...

https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2743863/2008ProcCAG...

From the abstract:

"We found that an observational analysis of human lines made a bigger impact on the algorithm than a statistical analysis. "

Can someone explain what that means?

Also, the University of Groningen is located in the Netherlands. Cool. Thanks Dutch computer scientists!
To reply to your edit:

Have you looked around to see what professional water management people have been saying about that very thing? I bet you a dollar that they've talked about that very thing several times. If you read that Slate Star Codex post (if you haven't, you should), you'll see that already we capture and use most of the water that we receive.

But, for the heck of it, what water sources do you want to see captured, why, how much water do you expect to get out of that source, and what will be its impact on the rest of the ecosystem?
Yes, I believe I do. It is no ones business but mine and the site's what I am reading or contributing.
Yes, awesome, thanks! It doesn't get the translations perfect AFAICT, but I think it's good enough to keep activated!
That would cause usernames with spaces to overwrite passwords ;-)
has someone patched it for Yosemite yet?

https://github.com/dtinth/YosemiteSystemFontPatcher
> Has anyone stopped to consider that he may have been talking about trouble he has actually experienced?

If one assumes (and I don't think that his subsequent clarifications are consistent with this interpretation) that his intent was to merely relate personal experience without generalizing further from it, then the whole affair provides a valuable lesson about why one should be precise in one's use of language and avoid using the second person ("you"), especially in a context where it might be readily be viewed as intended in its generic sense (in which it is equivalent in definition, though less formal in tone, to "one"), when one intends the first person ("I").

OTOH, I don't think it works.

> Later, he went on to clarify that he has fallen in love with someone and someone has fallen in love with him.

"People" (plural) in both cases, but what he did not say when he did so as part of his mixed apology/defense of the statement was that anything indicating that he did not intend to generalize beyond his personal experience.

> He didn't comment any more on the crying part

He did, in fact, in the same apology/defense. [0]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33077107
The process this 3d printing technique is using is welding on top of itself, so the whole thing is filler material. Definitely not up to code.
They will be "too big to fail" just as the banks were right about the time the government can print water to give to them. Until then, nature decides. Ask a dinosaur how that might work out.
> I also worry that they don't quite get some concepts like: most programmers can learn any new language/framework if they have motivation behind it.

Then why are they actually handling this at all? It sounds like they should have zero contact with the applicants, not first contact! You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Here is an article about bullshit jobs: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

One of the examples is telemarketers.
The almond speculators will lose their shirts, but those are the risks of growing water-intensive crops in the desert. Many other crops, though, are planted annually, and skipping a field-year, or switching to a less water-intensive plant, is absolutely an option. Google "crop rotation".
> prove the mistruths in those the declarations of intent, be it from outright liars who are participating to the useful idiots who cover the brigading scum.

You've just stated exactly my point!!! Not everybody that identifies with GG has malicious motivations, they're just "useful idiots" who need to think more critically about the statements they ingest. Hence my complaint about over-generalization: if you outright vilify people and call them names, they'll only get defensive and be less likely to consider critiques.

> Yeah, Nathan Grayson totes had to flee from his home and completely uproot his life.

I never meant to imply that the distribution was equal, and I acknowledged previously that there were lots of goons acting completely reprehensibly ("Now, there probably are sexist feelings at the root of many of their members' concerns").
Some folks are pretty grumpy. Don't worry, it'll likely be fixed in a little while.
Well, imagine that Utah wanted to secede and form an independent Mormon theocracy in the middle of the USA. How do you think the US would respond if the Mormon government ignored any law or court ruling against them, and went ahead with establishing their state?

The condition of the Dalai Lama and Buddhist Tibet is analogous to this hypothetical situation in many ways, yet I find it hard to imagine that the world would rally around the exiled Mormon leaders and hail them as heroes. The biggest difference here is that the government of China is an authoritarian regime, but that fact notwithstanding, it still has autonomy within its own borders.
Just more context: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/04/seattle-does...
I have the misfortune of having encrypted some files in the past with PGP. At the time, the default algorithm appeared to be IDEA which was removed since for patent reasons. Find the old sources and getting it to built is not trivial.

These days I'm leaning towards bundling encrypted files along with the C code that encrypted it and that works better if the latter is small and self-contained.
The End of Hardware 1.0: Part 2 – The present
"There is currently a water shortfall of about 6 million acre-feet per year, which is being sustained by exploiting non-renewable groundwater and other sources."

Via: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-do... (If you haven't read this, you really, really, really should. It's an accessible, level-headed analysis of California's water situation.)
I agree the next gen needs Math. Not for the reasons in this article, though.

John Carmack's 2012 QuakeCon speech is almost a direct rebuke:
https://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-...

In real­ity in com­puter sci­ence, just about the only thing that’s really sci­ence is when you’re talk­ing about algo­rithms. And opti­miza­tion is an engi­neer­ing. But those don’t actu­ally occupy that much of the total time spent pro­gram­ming. You know, we have a few pro­gram­mers that spend a lot of time on opti­miz­ing and some of the select­ing of algo­rithms on there, but 90% of the pro­gram­mers are doing pro­gram­ming work to make things hap­pen. And when I start to look at what’s really hap­pen­ing in all of these, there really is no sci­ence and engi­neer­ing and objec­tiv­ity to most of these tasks. You know, one of the pro­gram­mers actu­ally says that he does a lot of mon­key programming—you know beat­ing on things and mak­ing stuff hap­pen. And I, you know we like to think that we can be smart engi­neers about this, that there are objec­tive ways to make good soft­ware, but as I’ve been look­ing at this more and more, it’s been strik­ing to me how much that really isn’t the case.

Aside from these that we can mea­sure, that we can mea­sure and repro­duce, which is the essence of sci­ence to be able to mea­sure some­thing, repro­duce it, make an esti­ma­tion and test that, and we get that on opti­miza­tion and algo­rithms there, but every­thing else that we do, really has noth­ing to do with that. It’s about social inter­ac­tions between the pro­gram­mers or even between your­self spread over time.
Sorry for the terrible spelling, I was in a rush.
I tried German, where the first text is the German version of Let It Go, and there are quite some mistakes in the text (wrong capitalization, wrong spaces). Even more evident when the YouTube video itself actually contains the text.

Is the text user-generated?
when I think of hip hop as poetry, I think of Saul Williams. I'm on mobile and traveling at the moment so I can't provide a link, but one of the suns of his that comes to mind is Scared Money
This is awesome, but you should link to your quick start guide in your documentation. I almost missed it as the tiny link at the bottom of the homepage.

https://github.com/Imaginea/uvCharts/wiki/guide

Can't wait for you to add more screenshots and examples as you work on this. I love d3.js, but what you're doing could be the way it gets a lot more popular since it more directly connects to solving an immediate problem.

Thanks for sharing!
The Weird World of Frozen Pregnancy Games
This. @brianacton's response was super classy.
California, Water You Doing? (A sober analysis of CA's water usage)
I actually wanted to see his daily routine. But the narrative ended at 9:00 AM. He gets up early and meditates for hours. (impressive). And he listens to the news at some unspecified time (so what?). Where's the rest of the routine?
If you're interested, this post by Scott Alexander does a fairly thorough analysis of where the water is going:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-do...

TL;DR: No, more water does not go for environmental purposes than agriculture. California uses about as much water for growing just Alfala (used as food for cows, among other things) as it does for the whole Delta.
I'm even more skeptical of the fork's intentions given that the fork-er has never even contributed code to gogs [1].

[1] https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors
Can you give an example of what you mean by 'validate'? The word is highly overloaded and has different meaning depending on where the data is being used.
There is a difference, and it's that losing a limb can mean an end to one's ability to support themselves. Especially with cases like this one.
At LumiGuide we use NixOS on our development machines as well as on all our production servers. I used ansible before but NixOS is on a whole different level.

See the following for a story about a system we just deployed which uses NixOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690683
There's another way besides inlining and requirejs. In cases where you're doing server-side programming anyway, you can just have the server inject view-specific <link> elements pointing to individual CSS files as needed - augmenting the site's core CSS file. The downside is more requests to fetch those files, but after the first time you can take advantage of the browser's cache. As long as you keep the number of extra CSS files reasonable, this method costs almost nothing.

A variant of this is where you compile one CSS file from many view-specific ones beforehand. The advantage is it'll speed up things on the client side and the programming overhead is relatively small if you're using something to generate CSS anyway.
There's a kind of similar trend in Russia.
When all my friends got into MtG back in high school I said, "I'll play but I'm going to make my own cards. I don't want to buy them from the store." But no one would go for it. I never understood. I used to say, "But there are no actual wizards at Wizards of the Coast."
This doesn't feel like Show HN material. The biggest problem is that there's nothing for people to "play" with. Please read the rules for Show HN here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Probably better to be just a regular submission to HN.
This is a pretty good idea. I'd like browsers to do this for history, bookmarks and open tabs. They already do to an extent but I want them to really be indexing the content of the page not just the title or URL.
from what I remember reading is that when they first started with HTTPS, they weren't able to easily deal with the added overhead. They switched to cloudflare and are working on rolling out HTTPS across the site. One of the changes involves removing the reddit bar.
New OS X malware exploits MacKeeper
No. Markets are not the be-all, end-all of allocation. Especially for scarce resources that are vital for living. The market would simply have the rich get all the water, rather than letting everyone have some.
Would this work with https://github.com/jaysonsantos/jinja-assets-compressor?
It is arguably the readers driving it into the toilet. They only make those posts because they drive clicks.
Github is not blocked.
Other big difference:

* The Dalai Lama doesn't want to form a theocracy.

* The popularly endorsed government of Utah was not violently overthrown by the US.

* The Dalai Lama doesn't want Tibet to secede from China, he just wants it to have more regional autonomy.
Introducing Disruption Dylan
Tibet's relation to China is nothing like Utah and the US. Why would you get that idea? Utah was a US territory after the Guadalupe treaty with Mexico in 1848. After it became a US territory, mormons were encouraged to settle into Utah with the full backing of the US government. Tibet has existed as an independent kingdom for various times in the history of China/Tibet. Very recently, tibet had defacto independence before it was annexed by the communist party in 1951.

Edit: To give you some perspective, here is a gif showing all the Chinese empires since the Warring states (350 BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China#/media/File:T...

The only two periods (from 350 BC to current) under which Tibet came under the Chinese empires was

Yuan Empire (1294 - 1368)

Qing Empire (1644 - 1912)

Finally annexation by the communist party in 1951.

It must be noted that both the Yuan and Qing empires were non-Han (Mongol, Manchu respectively).
Oh look, incredible automation technology dominated by people who are terrified of world economic collapse due to people not getting payed to drive a vehicle.
Congress will always have a significant amount of time to see the deal.

Look at how hard it is to get a budget deal done in just our country, because everyone plays to the media and their most extreme constituents. Multiply that by every country looking at the deal. Too many parties second guessing the process kills any chance of a trade agreement good or bad.
Unfortunately tiered rates in California have been ruled illegal. A bunch of anti-government people got a ballot measure passed which mandates that government services must be priced in line with their costs. Not a terrible idea in thought, but doesn't really help with situations like this.
I had a landlord that required the rent in cash. Would be very surprised if it wasn't so they could under-report on their taxes or something.
thanks for posting this; I've been doing 1099 off and on since 1990.

It's important to understand that the legal distinction between a contractor and an employee does not depend on one's job title nor contractual relationship. Both federally as well as in at least some states such as california, what counts is the nature of the relationship and not what is written down.

What determines this federally is known as "the twenty factors" and is also commonly called "the twenty questions". There is no specific score one must obtain to determine whether one is a contractor, rather it is a purely subjective decision that is quite commonly made by labor judges as well as the tax authorities.

Among the factors are whether one faces financial risk in the event the project fails. When I am an employee I get paid even if my code doesn't work; I might get fired but even so I get paid for the hours I've worked.

Other factors include whether one provides one's own equipment - including software in our case - whether one can determine one's own working hours, as well as how the work is performed.

If I am a contractor then you pay me for a deliverable which may have a fixed deadline; at that point I am free to determine how the deliverable is prepared. There is no particular requirement that I show up to your office.
Not unless the cost of water is super, super expensive. Which it won't be.
One more thing - while there are some laws having to do with gender and racial discrimination in contracting to the extent any exist they are far weaker.
Oh wow, this is great. Thanks for sharing!
There are lots of other ways to clean off a sidewalk.
One of Iverson's changes when he created J as a successor to APL is that all the operators are ASCII characters.

http://jsoftware.com/

Open source and even available on Android so it can be run on a phone.
Except those regulations are in place in a lot of places. It just happens to be incredibly hard to enforce.
So when in the past weren't the median of people working what you'd call bullshit jobs, and in which countries? What jobs were they doing?

The median economic facts indicate greater income, wealth, life expectancy, standard of living, disposable income. Not to mention vastly superior / improved healthcare for the majority of countries versus 100 or 50 years ago.
OBITUARe
OBITUARe.com is an online obituary website that allows its users to memorialize a loved one in a more honorable, efficient and economical way. Inspired by our personal experience with the newspaper, which is extremely inefficient and comes at a big expense, we founded OBITUARe.com. We are breaking new ground by allowing those in grief to save on their overall funeral expenses and time. This is a huge benefit to anyone who has dealt or will deal with the loss of a loved one.
See? I guess I wasn't clear enough. I meant to say: He didn't clarify if making a woman cry was a generalization or something that had actually happened to him (like the falling in love part). But yes, he did speak to it further in the context of "you need to be able to criticize people without them crying."

An equally valuable lesson is if something can be taken different ways, make sure you are taking it the same way the other person meant it. He didn't say it was or was not a generalization. He didn't say it was or was not only personal experience. Everyone just made their own assumptions.
No, just DDOSed -

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...
HTTP Safety Doesn't Happen by Accident
Explaining Holacracy
Communicate with anyone based on personality
Cool! Can you share your NixOS configuration file?
Come on. GFW does not make an actual difference for a decent programmer...
Unicomp sells USA layout APL keycaps.

http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/Buttons/USAPLSET
There is a difference. The new cameras are based on more advanced tech. The new storage machines are not necessarily based on new ideas in algorithmic execution.

I'm not sure I agree, but the assertion of the article is that much of today's pain is a refusal to acknowledge the progress of the past.

For myself, there is a lot to this. Many of my peers and the younger crowd are convinced that the problems they are solving have never been considered in the past. To the point that some of my coworkers are proud that they are "weak" in algorithms.
I find this font weirdly difficult to read. I'm on a rMBP.
Yeah, a resource of canonical answers to questions. Often arguments are repeated again and again in discussions, often poorly. If you could just point people at this, and pros and cons would become better over time, I think that would be a real win.
And there are lots of other places to raise cattle or grow almonds than in a desert.
> An equally valuable lesson is if something can be taken different ways, make sure you are taking it the same way the other person meant it.

In English, you can be specific or generic, but it can't mean "I and only I".

Your suggested "interpretation" is a radical rewriting that even Hunt's own apology/defense doesn't offer, it just offers experience as the basis for the generalizations.
Offense is rarely given - only taken. It doesn't matter how you meant to say something or what context you said it in. If someone wants to be offended by it, they will. [0]

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/30/...
I wonder what unintended consequences this could have, like attractive people showing up in more people's news feeds more often.
and here i am on debian stable. always complaining i can't update often enough. But thanks to comments like this i'm happy again :)

good news is that it will be some 4 years until i have DRM on firefox... i mean iceweasel.
ObOffTopic:

> children [...] properly wearing helmets while riding their bicycles [given a] thank you for doing the right thing

So, children who are not wearing helmets then? I don't really get the strange idea that wearing helmets makes children safer on bikes. I grew up riding bicycles without a helmet, much as everyone else did, and has done since bicycles were invented. There were no cases (nor reports or warnings) of traumatic head injury due to lack of protection reported, to a good first order approximation. And even the statistically minor numebr of head injuries sustained by children on bikes has remained exactly that after the increase in helmet wearing. Research indicates there is no benefit provided by helmet wearing, and suggests it may even increase risky behaviour. [citation needed]

It's quite hard to find data on children only, as it happens, but the following quote gives the picture overall: "However, the Statistics Bulletin shows the UK cyclist casualty figure was 16,196 in 2006 compared to 16,297 in 2008 - an increase of about half a percent. For all road users, casualties fell from 258,404 in 2006 to 230,905 in 2008 - a reduction of 11.9%. During this period, helmet wearing increased by 3.6%." So no change in casualties with an increase in helmet wearing. This is borne out by other reports, and in general mandatory helmet wearing is discouraged as a net public health loss due to dimished cycling, causing less exercise and therefore a less healthy population.

Parents today, eh? Get those helmet wearing kids off my lawn! Thanks for listening ;)
Can I use this to improve my english vocabulary? Sometimes I read articles but I don't know what the words mean. It would be nice if you could implement this, if not already.