skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Dark Souls is one of those few games that does a perfect job of projecting the emotions of the hero and the atmosphere of the world onto the player's own emotion and perception. It could have used more guidance at the onset, and it doesn't clearly convey the type of game you're about to play (I was expecting something like God of War meets Skyrim), but once I pushed past the first region or two, it became one of my favorite games. Learning more about the lore took it up a few notches.
My university blocks access to sci-hub on the claim that it has previously hosted malware. Apparently it attempted to infiltrate the visiting computer and act as a proxy server and/or grab the user's institutional login credentials, in order to access otherwise pay walled literature. At least, that's what I was told when I complained it was blocked.

Fortunately, they left libgen (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/) unblocked - as they weren't concerned about copyright issues, only malware threats - which has an entire searchable mirror of all papers and books downloaded via sci-hub. It's a fantastic, incredibly useful resource and I hope it continues to operate unscathed.
Even if you weren't worried about the environmental (or other) impact of throwing out food, there is clearly a non-zero cost associated with acquiring a second gallon which you will not drink. You have to carry more stuff home, keep more stuff in your refrigerator, worry about and monitor the state of the milk in the refrigerator, and throw away the milk once it's bad. It is very clearly a worse deal in every way.
Legalities aside - that'd work fine, until you needed some assurance of long term ownership of a domain.

It wouldn't be prudent to build a business/brand/reputation on a domain name where you've intentionally registered it to a false identity.

To me, the penalties are only one of the concerns - how you'd deal with someone attempting to hijack your domain when you've faked the ownership records is a problem too.
Utterly insane IMHO. If there's a single error in any temporal data, what happens?

Even relatively reliable frequency/time standards (HP/Agilent come to mind) aren't 100% available.
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I'm honestly so tired of crap like this. My hopes of living in a reasonable society are being crushed every single day. Things should be improving as time goes on, not going downhill. Ugh.
Excluding online dating, maybe 20.
This is false. The introduction to the section on climate change in The Skeptical Environmentalist (published in 2001) states "This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming" (p259).
> Currently, for each cloned project, we mirror its CVS repository and its website.

Please add "SVN" (Subversion)
So bureaucracy, cost cutting, management being dicks, no appreciation for family, inefficiency, boredom and detachment from the rest of the industry.

Sounds exactly like the last 4 non-Google jobs I've had, including the current one.

I suspect that any sufficiently large group of humans self-organises into this state of affairs.
Hmm. Can you share what these failure patterns are ?
I would assume that most people making a decision between these options don't treat any of them as a net negative (Which is why they're paying for them...)
My first thought after reading the tl;dr was, "what do I do about it"? The answer is at the end of the article: the working group is accepting comments on the matter at a certain email address.

Our privacy online and off is already being deeply threatened on many other fronts. If you think this proposal is bad for our privacy and bad for our internet, please take a moment and email your thoughts to the working group.

I wonder if a decentralized type of DNS, like blockchain-based DNS, will ever take off. If we even have an acceptable alternative right now, I suppose the first meaningful step towards adoption would be baking support in to a major browser.
Not just that, but NTP has no TAI support. So even if you'd like your own systems to run without leap seconds, and don't mind the offset with UTC, you're basically on your own-- there is no nice setting you can flip.
BuzzFeed did a short video on this and the US and Australian McDonalds large are very similar.

http://i.imgur.com/UJMBMEA.png

It is BuzzFeed though -- so who knows.
I found the article pretty poor in general. It equates use of lower isolation levels with use of NoSQL, despite the fact that RC still provides dramatically higher guarantees than a typical NoSQL DB - particularly when you add in the ability to use foreign keys.

Further, it counts 'well understood and quantifiable' consistency flaws as a negative, where in fact the whole point is that you can trade off isolation for performance in ways that are easy to mitigate for certain applications. By contrast, the consistency tradeoffs you make when using a NoSQL DBs are clearly rather poorly understood by the community at large.
May I ask which Google location you were/are located at?
envato.com is so different service. quite confusing

with skrill I have to provede fees for secure certificate site,domain name and web hosting
>Isn't that the default?

I don't know about the US, but in Europe it was always marked as expenses refunded to me on the payslip, which is tax free.
Doesn't work in the UK. We have to provide Nominet with documents for some domains. We can opt out of publishing them on the whois but the killer is that someone can contact Nominet and just pretty much ask for the data instead.

Incidentally this is why I use .eu
this would be so much fun when used with fakenamegenerator.com
yes i don't deny that they probably spent a lot of time and money on this, as you said

what i'm saying is, they probably still ended up using A/B testing to experiment and verify the truth, and used that to make the decision

sure, they could have had analysts that wrote reports on every "could be" scenario (of which 10-is-same-price-as-20 is one). But i'd say those analysis or theories had very little or even nothing to do with why ncnuggets are priced this way.
Sourceforge doesn't host the binaries themselves. Universities and others offer mirrors (like HEANET) for free!

So the mirrors should just cut the upload write permission for Sourceforge and transfer it over to archive.org or ArchiveTeam.
A great demonstration of how graphics does very little for the fun factor of a game.
An interesting proposition, but since so much of the online (even offline) world is ad driven these days (or rushing to be), there would be too many businesses wanting a piece of that action which might contribute to an shortage of ink :) (figuratively speaking).
InboxZero app available in Belgium/Lux, this summer worldwide
i support the view that publishers are getting outright evil just because they can and no one knows how to get rid of them.

in the old time the information exchange was too expensive for individuals living in different mountains. but now we have the internet.

many authors upload their paper on the internet or give out if you request, they are also happy to discuss about it.
Yes, point noted. Still they would never want euro to devalue against their currencies, it will result in huge inflation.
All I know is I don't know how to learn front end anymore. I started delving into react and flux, but when trying to do personal "real world" projects it seems like there is no end of unsupported opinion on every aspect -- disregarding the confusing levels of ES6 adoption across examples (ranging from no ES6 features used to "this isn't even ES7 yet"), It seems like everyone has a different answer for where to throw in a new abstraction. I still don't know what dispatcher to use, if I should even use a package. And the frameworks, they're all advertised "lightweight" swiss army knives of code, but I can't really figure out objectively why one should even be used in the first place.

It seems that there are a dozen implementations of every idea with a slight change here or there. I used to find github activity as a good way to judge whether a framework was well-supported and popular enough to be relatively future proof, but even that's not a good way to go as few packages make it to 300 commits in the JS ecosystem.

All this just to display a webpage.
Just FYI: The owner of this blog is Michał Zalewski, author of afl-fuzz[1]. Lately, his posts have alternated between addressing technical topics and social topics.

I'm very happy to hear he has accomplished his goal of becoming an American.

1. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
I was wrong about Vipassana
I was probably bitter because I failed at it and I left a comment calling it a cult that I really regret, it actually gave me most of my points.

It is cult-like and I didn't like aspects of it and felt slightly misled, but I don't believe it is destructive, and a lot of that was my own fault for not reading the website carefully. I am still interested in it and I want to go back and succeed.

Just leaving this here for posterity.
It explains it in the man pages.
You can't make job posts as regular HN submissions. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Note:

1) Make sure to click on a link in the follow-up email they send you in order for your comment to go through.

2) The contents of your email (though it seems not the email address itself) will be made public, so if you don't want your real name in the open, don't sign with it.
Yeah, I think all the drink prices are the same, too, but... I just don't want a large drink. And that's assuming I buy one to begin with.
Nice.

Though Nintendo won't be happy and will shut down your video as you use their IP as happened many times before. Some months ago, someone did the exact same thing with Unity engine, and his Youtube video and website vanished within two days. [1]

Nintendo's upcoming NX console (successor of Wii U) will hopefully be more powerful than PS4/X1 at the end of 2016. And hopefully we get nice reboots of Super Mario 64, Mario Galaxy, Maria Kart and Zelda.

[1] Edit: I found the HN news from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9276605 -> https://roystanross.wordpress.com/super-mario-64-hd/

-- the website now reads as follows: "The project is no longer playable, or downloadable in any form. I received a copyright infringement notice on both the webplayer as well as the standalone builds. Which is fair enough, really. In light of Nintendo recently making a deal to release some of their IPs on mobile platforms, it’s probably not in their best interests to have a mobile-portable version of Mario 64 sitting around. In any case, I didn’t really expect for this project to get so popular, and was hoping it would function primarily as a educational tool and a novelty. (...)"
OH: "Remember that time someone at HQ dragged a cell in Excel and the internet went crazy over nugget prices in NH?"
Research papers funded by US Government agencies that spend more than $100M on R&D requires that the papers be made publicly available within 1 year after publication. Unfortunately, this does not apply to works published before 2013. NIH has had this policy in place for longer, but it still doesn't go back far enough.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announce...
Take this as your reminder to participate in lobbying against leap seconds. They serve no useful purpose: The drift between civil noon and solar time they prevent would take thousands of years to reach even 1 hour. The thing leap seconds are tracking "mean solar time" is not something that exists, it's a mathematical abstraction; actual solar time differs substantially from mean solar time depending on your location and the time of year. Applications that care about solar time are usually frustrated by leapseconds in any case; since they result in unpredictable discontinuities in the difference between solar time and civil time; and most systems provide no way to report the history of leap seconds to applications.

If people still care about solar noon matching civil noon 4000 years from now they simply need shift the timezones by an hour. This is a much safer and more reasonable change which could be planned a hundred years in advance and wouldnt require a constant feed of unpredictable "trusted" leap seconds. Systems already handle mixed timezones well and will continue to do so since computers exist worldwide.

As more distributed systems become sensitive to second-scale timing and the cost of reliable oscillators that can keep time autonomously continues to decline the cost of leap-seconds will continue to increase; but the value they provide (primarily political bragging rights about Greenwich being part of the definition of civil time) will remain at practically zero for almost everyone.

Workarounds like leap-smear are just that-- workarounds, and add more possible failure modes to leap-second handling and will cause different failure modes for applications that care about time in different ways, e.g. caring about frequency vs time; or just from having even more ways to handle the leap second.

Moreover, the discontinuation of leapseconds is simple and nearly costless. Announce that no more will be issued; then don't issue anymore of them.
Under the same circumstances there is no way I could ever be as civil as that dude, so major props to him. The most alarming part of the whole thing:

>This is the third time discharge from your firearms has hit our house and property. The first incident left a bullet hole in the door by our garage.

I don't even know what to say, this guy obviously is reckless and irresponsible about how he uses his guns.
Some PhD programs (at least in Psychology) require a certain number of peer-reviewed journal articles. In some cases, the dissertation is just 3 or 4 journal articles linked together. It's completely up to the graduate program to decide what the requirements are for completing the PhD.
What a bullshit power grab.
When reading about accessibility of research papers, I am always reminded of the Die Gedanken Sind Frei talk by Eben Moglen, and later how black slaves were forbidden by law to learn reading and writing.

We have associated the struggle for human equality with the struggle for freedom of knowledge and we have associated them rightly: they belong together. Because the recognition of individual possibility, to allow each to be what she and he can be, rests inherently upon the availability of knowledge; the perpetuation of ignorance is the beginning of slavery.
As a college student I had much better things to do with my time than try to sell 10 McNuggets for $1. I'd much rather eat the 10 and get on with my life than carry around an extra 10 nuggets to try and make a single buck.
Man with shotgun drop neighboor drone, no battling drones involved

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> No. They will require PO box providers to be accredited with ICANN and subject to all these crazy rules, giving you no privacy.

Well, I'd be very interested to see how ICANN could get post offices, like the United States Postal Service or Royal Mail, to go along with submitting to ICANN accreditation. That aside, data on people who own USPS-provided post office boxes and boxes held at commercial mail receiving agencies (CMRAs, like the UPS Store, and so on) can be obtained from the USPS, per 39 CFR 265.6(d)(5)(i) through (iii):

(i) To a federal, state or local government agency upon prior written certification that the information is required for the performance of its duties.

(ii) To a person empowered by law to serve legal process, or the attorney for a party in whose behalf service will be made, or a party who is acting pro se, upon receipt of written information that specifically includes all of the following: (a bunch of things)

(iii) In compliance with a subpoena or court order, except that change of address or boxholder information which is not otherwise subject to disclosure under these regulations may be disclosed only pursuant to a court order.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/39/265.6
That does not surprise me even slightly.
a PO Box address

Last time I checked, which was probably a couple years ago, you couldn't use a PO Box address.

In the U.S., some/all post offices have added the option of real "street addressing." Before, you'd have to use PO Box 123, City, State. But with street addressing, now you can use - say - 45 Main St #123, City, State.

Non-USPS places have had this sort of thing for a while. Some will even "let" you call it "Suite 123" - despite it being a small metal box with not much room for furniture. (I think the "letting" part is more them just not caring, and only looking at the numbers. It's not impossible but I'd be surprised if there were actual laws covering that. Though it could be a factor if something like fraud were being committed. IANAL.)
The article is completely missing an important factor: franchise vs. corporate pricing.

McDonalds has been running national promotions for $5 20-piece McNuggets. While franchise stores aren't always bound to follow national promotions (don't know about the McDonald's franchise agreement), consumer pressure is usually enough to get most franchises to do so.

The phenomenon where the 20-piece costs the same as the 10-piece occurs when the 10-piece was already at or above the price point of the 20-piece promotional price. If it was above, you'll usually see the price adjusted to match the larger quantity promo's price, but rarely see it lowered below.

The franchise will get a rebate against their royalty fees to corporate for the 20-piece, in order to maintain a specific profit level above base food cost. They don't get a rebate against the sale of the 10-piece, so they have no incentive to make it a more attractive offer, as doing so eats into their own margin. National promotions usually have brutally aggressive pricing, particularly if your store is located in a high cost of living area[1].

You'll see slightly different pricing behavior at a corporate store, but only about 18% of McDonald's are corporate ran[2][3].

Now, why McDonald's is choosing to aggressively market 20-piece chicken nuggets is something only they know, but may have something to do with the 40% increase in beef prices recently[4].

[1]: Personal experience managing several different Domino's Pizzas. Many promotions would be ran at break even or below, if it weren't for corporate taking a haircut on their ~10-15% royalty fees. Meaning the margins aren't sustainable for non-promo items.
[2]: http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/investors/company_profile....
[3]: http://www.pricingforprofit.com/pricing-strategy-blog/strate...
[4]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-15/burger-war...
Different ways to handle leap seconds with NTP
As someone who works on a daily basis (www.secfirst.org) with human rights defenders, this policy is ridiculous and potentially life threatening to many people. Privacy around Whois etc should not be compromised for courageous people who are running things like democracy activist websites in China etc.
> This is the third time discharge from your firearms has hit our house and property. The first incident left a bullet hole in the door by our garage. The second incident occurred last Thanksgiving when birdshot from your skeet shooting activities rained into our backyard. The third, of course, being what we're currently discussing.

I'm fascinated that this isn't grounds for immediate arrest and, after your stint of several months or years in prison, permanent loss of your right to own firearms. What a country we live in.
"I thought it was a CIA surveillance device."

What sort of reasoning is that to fire a shotgun at a drone? If it was a CIA device he'd be up for a whole lot more than $850. I don't think the CIA take you to Small Claims.
Frozen milk becomes milk fat and off white water. No thanks
Well USPS being unaccredited will obviously be the domain "owner"s' problem, not ICANN's.
Something it took me a week or so to realise in the US is that at restaurants, no one really expects you to eat the entire meal - portions are such that you couldn't possibly go home hungry, which seems to lead to a lot of wastage.

Restaurant portions are much smaller in Australia (as you'd know), but generally people will eat the entire plate, and maybe an entrée (starter) too.

This doesn't really apply to fast food, though - since if you want less food you can just order a small. My girlfriend and I would order two burgers and share a small chips & drink in the US because the portions were so large.
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Yeh I know a few people who went into the Legion and I think it's whole methodology messes you up way more than a conventional military and/or commando unit in a place like the UK or US. A lot of guys I now
regret going to the Legion for this, instead of Royal Marines or SEALs etc.
Ask HN: If you can port libc, you can pretty much run on anything right?
I've been having a look around the world of bizarre operating systems over the last day or so - particularly L4 and it's variants. It strikes me that if you can port libc to one's environment of choice then you've pretty much got it nailed in terms of running ... well ... anything.

Is this really the case or is there rather more to it than that?
Rap Genius Founder: ‘The Most Powerful Tech Reporter Uses Her Clout to Get Ass’
I have an MS in CS and am now working in a science lab. Most scientists (much less grad students!) are not professional programmers. As such I'm working on moving my GUI code from PyQT to html5 based UI's because it simplifies what non-professionals need to learn. By capitalizing on advances in html they can learn some html/js and use it in reports, for UI's, and sharing data, instead of learning Python and QT, while trying to figure out formatting documents in latex or word, and creating their code Matlab or C or Python and then outpatient plots.

Electron and html5 have a ways to go, but the synergy that can be gained will be well worth the effort, IMHO. Using a browser for quickly sharing research and making basic UI's to interact with computations actually fits rather nicely into the vision Tim Berners-Lee had when created html for browsing information at CERN.

As far as statefullness, GUIs really would be better off moving away from implicit state to ReactJS functional style approaches.
I've seen two options: relocation bonus (pre-tax) or relocation reimbursement (post-tax, usually up to a certain amount).

A hiring bonus would presumably always be pre-tax, since there's no expenses to reimburse.
That's a terrible example and it doesn't address my point at all.
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That being said, drones are a pretty nice toy for stalkers. Not sure this particular story qualifies but it will lead to some grudge between neighbours.
Hmm, that's odd. When I was in the US, fast food restaurants tended to have much larger cup sizes - with hard plastic rather than a paper cup in the large size, presumably for stability (like [1]). In that comparison image, the small would be an Australian medium, the medium a Large and a US large size only available at cinemas who have enormous cups.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/g8qLjAQ.jpg