skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't miss Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind". He talks quite a bit about Göbeklitepe, and explains some fascinating hypotheses about it and about its possible role in sparking the agricultural revolution.

A spoiler in a nutshell: conventional wisdom has it that a time of plenty allowed us to settle down and figure out the technology for feeding lots of settlers, and that in turn created a surplus that made it possible to sustain non-productive groups like religious leaders.

It might, however, have been the other way around: it may be that a shared fiction ---possibly a set of beliefs, what today we'd call a religion--- forced people to stay in a place ---maybe Göbeklitepe--- for long enough that new techniques for ensuring sustenance had to be developed. Anyway, do read that book. It's the best on the subject since Guns, Germs and Steel.
Gouvernement/regering translate to administration or cabinet or whatever each country designates its executive branch.
That number probably isn't real: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/....

There are also a couple of key distinctions:

1) The Supreme Court decided in Fleming v. Nestor that people do not have a contractual right to their social security benefits. Therefore, the benefits can be changed at any time. In contrast, several states have a constitutional amendment protecting public pension benefits.

2) Most of the liabilities are Medicare, which doesn't have a defined benefit at all.

3) Unlike the states, the Federal government can print money to reduce the real value of benefits.

4) The tax base is far less mobile between countries than between cities and states.
> Unfortunately, 10 digits won't fit in 32 bits and 5 * 400 MB for storing number is not a very happy situation and it is NOT readily searchable.

Why is 7 bytes (2b prefs + 5b number) x 400M = ~2.4GB of RAM not good enough?
> One possible way to backdoor it might be mandate that companies keep copies of the encrypted messages, tagged with a device ID. Then to decrypt you need to get the person's phone, which is a clearer analogy to getting a warrant to search someone's house to look for things they have stashed.

That doesn't work if the message has been encrypted on transit with an one-time key, which is discarded after the message has been received. The Axolotl system (used by TextSecure/Signal and AFAIK the new encryption on WhatsApp) does that. Once the message has been received (and thus the corresponding key discarded), any copy of the encrypted message becomes useless.

The current tendency in protocol design is to use ephemeral keys (usually through some Diffie-Hellman variant) whenever possible, since it's more secure.

> With SSL they can just get a warrant (or you know, don't get a warrant) and look at the server, where everything is in plain text.

That doesn't work if the server is outside their jurisdiction.
Simon Pegg expressed a similar sentiment in May of this year
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-05-19/simon-pegg-critici...

"part of me looks at society as it is now and just thinks we’ve been infantilised by our own taste... Now we’re essentially all consuming very childish things – comic books, superheroes... Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously!”
Intelligence doesn't matter as much as you think:

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

Comparing yourself to others is always a losing game. Compare yourself to where you were when you started this journey, and you'll see that you've come pretty far.

Get ready for the rollercoaster (emotionally) ride, and good luck!
This would be as easy as a easy peaze of Cake. Even easier to bring it to the MUCH MORE SUPERIRIOR NW.JS. Then it would be to react what Intel XDK is to Cordova/Phonegap. And what that greek god guy is to EnyoJS and/or WebOS.
Similar story here. My dad responds well to his old jazz recordings.
Is the only innovation in how customizable the UI is? I guess it's way too hard to write a new rendering engine. With the existing ecosystem of chrome / Firefox / safari extensions it will be difficult to gain traction.
I have a more cynical view of the Heron announcement. But let's remember that Twitter ran Storm in production for over 4 years at massive scale, and whatever improvements Heron represents, they thought the abstraction was important enough to reimplement the entire Storm API in the new system.
yess...websites with that word in the domain name...like directory...so that i can search for the things as per my requirements
say i want some songs to listen or download...then the sites like, say, mp3songs.com, songsforu.com, allsongshere.net, are all listed down.
A counter-example to the following point is that the recent "Avengers: Age of Ultron" movie included debate on contemporary transhumanism, although that could be Joss Whedon's writing influence:

"..a significant section of the public, having given up on attempting to understand the reality they are actually living in, have instead reasoned that they might at least be able to comprehend the sprawling, meaningless, but at-least-still-finite 'universes' presented by DC or Marvel Comics.."

Another reason for shorter copyright terms:

"..it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times.."
> Most things based on TLS will continue to work, if every computer has to have a government CA certificate installed to allow MITMs. Hopefully HTTP Public Key Pinning will become more prevalent if this looks likely to happen.

HPKP is bypassed for locally-installed CA certificates (if you don't want that, set security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level to 2 on Firefox).
I've noticed a similar trend - I am now in my 40s, and we played games, read comic books, watched TV and movies growing up... but we never made them part of our self-identity. But recently, people's media consumption is part of their identity. From Whovians to Bronies, people are starting to treat their entertainment as core pieces of who they are.

I find it odd. But maybe that is just part of getting old... that you don't quite understand the youth of today.
Now that I think about it, I'm exposed to very little advertising these days. I stopped watching television years ago, and thanks to Ghostery I see few if any Internet ads.

I wonder if this has improved my mental health? Certainly, it wastes my time less.
Stickerless cubes were until very recently illegal in competitions. The new regulations (in effect from July 2015) allow these now, meaning a stickerless Zhanchi is a really good purchase.
Functional programming, APL and Unix pipes (2007)
Smaller creators who are worth paying.
That analysis is extremely flawed. We have no standardised start point for any of the grand cols and no accurate power data for most performances, meaning there is an enormous amount of guesswork.

Team Sky have invested heavily in technology, which includes many significant improvements to tyre rolling resistance and drivetrain losses - someone riding Froome's Pinarello would need about 30w less power to equal the performances of the 1990s.

Course profile is also highly significant. A rider who arrives at a major climb with low lactate levels can remain above threshold for longer and sustain far higher power outputs. Without taking into account the parcours and previous attacks on the day's stage, any comparison is meaningless. Again, technology plays a significant role - Sky have been criticized by many fans for riding by the numbers, precisely pacing an effort for maximum efficiency rather than attacking and counterattacking. This kind of data-driven pacing simply wasn't possible during the Festina era.
This is true to some extent! Speech is essentially mind control, albeit quite weak.
People I follow on Twitter into startups mentioned HN from time to time. Ever since then I mainly read this site, but don't post that often.
There's a gap in the market for a simple and fast browser that takes privacy seriously.
It is a fair criticism of the state of Storm documentation and examples. The book Storm Applied by Manning details tons of Storm usage examples, ranging from the technically advanced to the mundane. I recommend that book to learn more about real world usage (disclosure: I wrote the foreword).

Also, my team is working on an open source example project called birding that uses streamparse and pykafka together to build filtered firehose tweet streams from Twitter's public API. We think this will illustrate both Storm and Kafka really well, and be beyond the typical word count examples. See https://github.com/Parsely/birding to track that effort.
Fingers crossed for you man, have a fun learning this is nice motivation.
Before you do this, consider the following question: would you rather spend your time learning to build the Uber app, or learning the skills to build Uber (the company)? Those are two truly different skill sets, and the latter is far more rare and valuable. The ability to raise money, build teams for a variety of functions, budget, and execute on an audacious vision is far outside the realm of most software engineers.

Unless coding is truly your passion, hire someone or find a technical co-founder. Spend your time learning how to plan and build stable, scalable businesses and teams. Your goal should be to build an organization that can employ all of the software engineers necessary to carry out the vision for your business - not to be able to write all of the code yourself.
The motivation behind developers dissing each other for their chosen field of work and their tools is absolutely puzzling, and it does real harm. Nobody would assert that printf("hello world!"); epitomizes systems programming, yet print($foo); is apparently considered synonymous with web development and lowest of the unspeakable arts.

Inept programming can be found all over the place. A newbie program doesn't magically get better because it's a kernel module written in C, anymore than it gets magically worse because it's a guestbook script written in PHP. The astonishing thing is this goes arbitrarily deep in the tech taxonomy tree: Ruby on Rails is considered a pro-grade environment, even though it's partially focused on mitigating newbie mistakes. PHP is considered a beginner-grade toy, despite the comparatively vast expertise one needs to write correct code in it. The web is a stupendously complex thing to write software for, there is nothing low or trivial about it.

When I was relatively young in the late nineties, my contact to other programmers was extremely limited. I was working at an ad agency, where I developed and maintained an in-house DSL for web programming. When the second full-time developer was hired, their first move was to diss pretty much everything I had made. "How can you write a web framework without regex?" "A document-based database? Abomination!" "A stateless server? That's crazy, why didn't you write a persistent app server?" "A real programmer uses Emacs"

Over the years, this mode of interaction still exists. Most people avoid it by hanging out only with developers who use the exact same stack they do, and when the winds shift they all switch together and pretend the old tech never existed. We had the chance, as a programmer subculture, to leave this ridiculous and arbitrary in-group/out-group stuff behind, but instead we embraced it and turned it up to eleven.
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Doesn't this seem insane? You are advocating punishing some 64 million people because of one idiot.
Have tinnitus and used to listen to mynoise (now rain.today) every night to sleep properly. A big thanks to Stéphane.
Also, while I'm piling on Ousterhout, Tcl has got to be the most overrated winner of the ACM system software award.

Sprite OS and the log-structured file system were his more interesting achievements, anyway.
I actually think that marketers have simply gotten better.
> This why there are no billionaire philosophers.

Becoming a billionaire requires being unethical in this society. The mere existence of billionaires is a problem, anyway. So of course people who care about ethics do not become billionaires.

Is that the fault of the people with ethical concerns? No, it is a damning statement about our society.
Nah, Congress will never let that happen. They will tax us into oblivion to shore it up.
Dude has a large, popular and critically acclaimed body of work behind him. I'm interested to hear from him.
According to contemporary economic thought in the media : just exit the USD and start printing your own currency - it makes no sense to have entire US economy under one currency and not allowing separate regions to manage trade imbalances and remove their fiscal obligations trough monetary tools

:D
I'd love a web browser that uses an idea similar to vim's tabs and buffers.

Each tab would be a grouping of sites and you could use Ctrl+P to open a fuzzy search for sites in that tab.

Edit: And maybe there could be a mode where you fuzzy search the contents of the site too.
Your first point: Yep, totally right. I think there's two levels though, the first being that my messages are free from dragnet style surveillance, the second being that my messages are totally secure. Making them get a warrant and get my actual device to decrypt my messages is a damn sight better than having unfettered access to clear text.

Second point: Not sure about that, can't I just serve a warrant on Facebook UK to give me the data? If they say "Sorry, we can't get it because America", I imagine the police will say "What? Give it up or go to prison". Similarly, if Google/Apple allow banned apps in their app store, just bring a suit against their UK tentacles.
Note that this is a kde based browser. I got the impression the the author didn't even plan on porting it to non-linux OSs. Its not looking for mainstream adoption, it looks like its just trying to be the next kde web browser, one that integrates well with the kde desktop environment, like epiphany on gnome.
Btrfs Seems to Finally Have Failed Me on a Production System
I don't think they should be the same design either. In fact, I wish there was more experimentation.

http://www.alphagrips.com

http://octopup.org/computer/datahand

http://octodon.mobi/#/en/home
Same as it ever was. Trekkies. Yankees fans. Smiths fans. Goths. Deadheads. Beatlemania. Hippies. The Beats. Greasers. Flappers. Oscar Wilde fans. We didn't invent popular culture this generation.
This is terrible advice! Please learn JavaScript, HTML and CSS first! I know that in some places front end is considered not as important as backend - it can be simpler but learning the basics here will allow you to create prototypes for your ideas. Best of luck - let us know how you are doing in 6 months :-)
It's sad some people tend to think as being a programmer is all about programming. You have to focus on the goal: the product that you are creating. Then you decide what's the best tool to make this product, and it doesn't matter what field that belongs to. If it helps you make the product you want to make, then it's good.

Of course you might get bored creating a certain product at some point because it's become too easy for you. But as long as you don't reach that point, don't rush yourself. I would say.
Actually, Cortana will probably be the break-through that will bring mass adoption to everyone. It is integrated very well in win10, so probably everyone will use it.
https://www.mankier.com/?explain=%20sed%20-i#explain doesn't parse sed right.
http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=sed+-i works much better
> It even has exclusive locks which completely eliminate merge conflicts.

I assume those locks can be overwritten by an admin, right? I'm exactly the sort of forgetful jerk who'll lock an important config file before going on a two-week vacation.
How about working as an employed programmer first - learn from colleagues - and then after three years reconsider founding a company.

I mean sorry, but if you worked so far as a jail guard then you probably don't have enough experience for you ambitious dreams yet.

Honestly though ... this text seems so generical and naive that I have trouble believing its authenticity ...
Critique my startup, Spere – simplifying shopping for cellphones
My website www.spere.io is meant to simplify the decision making process through statistical analysis and real-time scoring.
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Would probably look more like auto deny with user override if they choose, with a setting to white list the domain. User should have to opt into their connection being MITMd.
Ahhhh you said probe.
It's not real because the government can just not pay it? Because, even though people are counting them, they're not "really" liabilities that the government really takes seriously?

I can't say that dissolves my worry about this...
In the blog post, I show how to easily code your own visual regression tester. If you want my version with some more bells and whistles, let me know and I will put it up on GitHub.
Keep in mind though that if everyone is working on something that takes multiple days to complete (and your definition of non-working is incomplete) then all the work is happening in feature branches and master is quiet. Those rebases are easy because no work is going on there.

Feature toggles remove this problem by keeping everyone in trunk/master. You can then have CI builds with whatever set of toggles you want.
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7% assumed return is the most ridiculous part of it all. I remember when NYC tried to reduce their assumed rate from 8.5 to 7.5 and people threw a fit (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-08-20/new-york-m...)

Everyone has their head in the sand
I pull 120Gb a month down. That's going to be a fucking big OTP and side channel.
Fair, in startups, we often embrace open source solutions. I myself, wouldn't want to bother with Microsoft, but many stake their careers on their technologies. It works.

There is a whole network of people who with jobs using Microsoft tools. It's perfectly justifiable.
Centralized place for community-driven collections of RegExp patterns
The difference is, we have the Internet to actually create large communities centered around these interests. This makes it look like more people are involved, when in fact all the separate islands of fans have simply been bridged together.
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Armstrong was one doper amongst many, but that's not the reason he is held in such low esteem by the cycling fraternity. Armstrong was the chief enforcer of the omerta, cycling's code of silence regarding doping.

Armstrong destroyed Filippo Simeoni's career in punishment for speaking out over doping. He sued at least a dozen people for defamation, in many cases successfully; he has so far escaped criminal prosecution for his rampant perjury.

Armstrong is resented not because he was a doper, but because he was an aggressive bully who fought tirelessly to protect the culture of doping. Armstrong had no respect for the sport, and we have no respect for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Simeoni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taWGQNKUgQQ
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/10/lance-armstrong-li...
I don't understand...how can there be a shortfall when annualized returns exceed the promised 7.x%? Take Ohio for example (https://www.strsoh.org/_pdfs/investments/investments.pdf). They seem to return an annualized 8% over the last 10 fiscal years (june-june). Why can't other state pension funds just ape this asset allocation?
The big tech companies already support legal intercept for content traversing their networks.
See the `/meta` repo and the issues. It isn't only JS oriented.
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I've been quite happy with my recent Toshiba purchase. The main thing for me was that I wanted one without the numpad so I could have a nice big keyboard, and a big trackpad. It's pretty similar to macbooks, which is what I was going for. However, there turned out to be one issue similar to the power button on the ASUS ultrabook in the link: there is an airplane mode key right next to the mute key. I actually liked the idea of being able to turn off the radios with a push of a button, but I didn't think about the problems I'd have activating it when I am trying to quickly mute.
You have to consider the cyclical nature of these types of political pathologies.

The unions get big benefit from the politicians they help to elect, the politicians looking to get elected make big promises to the unions... wash, rinse, repeat.

The people who "held up their end" were the same people who provided the political force that elected the leadership that THEY wanted. The political and union leadership the unions elected created the messes that everyone is now having to deal with.

I'm not a Christie fan, but blaming him for attempting to break the dysfunctional cycle seems misplaced.
A lot of SOPA stuff was going on which explains why I made the Stop SOPA awareness banner browser plugins!
Good old Mythic Beasts. Very happy customer here!
I'll be very surprised if Apple compromises on this issue. I'll be similarly surprised if Google accepts that kind of compromise. Few things would surprise me about what Facebook is willing to do, but I think this would shock me if fb was willing to go for what you are talking about.

The world is run by technology companies now. Not governments. Governments haven't caught on to this yet, at least officially.

But the bottom line about law is that the law is whatever Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon says it is.

That's not the most comforting thought in the world, but that's how it is. And it's sort of okay for now because all of those companies are currently run by idealists. God help us when they are not.

For right now though, there isn't a chance in hell that Cameron's ideas will have any traction. He's just saying things that will win him some support from a certain segment of the population.
Interesting. Either way that sounds like a glorious way of using your time.
I see lessons of history are lost to the HN geeks. Success of democratic structures is a fluke in historic terms.
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I don't really understand how a small drone can represent a problem for a helicopter, particularly if the helicopter comes from above. Really. Can someone explain?

Despite this, however, I of course agree on the fact that irresponsible behavior is to be condemned.
In my experience, if you have high bandwidth communication (e.g. a team room) then trunk based development scales to well beyond 2-3 people. I've seen it work on at least one large distributed teams (3 team rooms, 3 time zones, ~30 developers)..and it regularly works on teams of 6-10 developers.

Regarding VSS and exclusive locks. No. Trunk based development with no exclusive locks is fine. Pessimistic locking was unwarranted pessimism when applied to source control.

Also, note that Google is trunk based...with a single trunk across the whole company. I think Facebook is too?
Cool, top story for me was "Experiment: No Comment Scores"

https://web.archive.org/web/20090929084547/http://news.ycomb...
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One day its SQL, the other day its NoSQL. One day its Bootstrap, next day its material design.

I think you've been spending too much time in the SV echo chamber if you think those two examples are pertinent.
These throwbacks have a way of being very topical. 12th item on Hacker News that day for me is "The Next SourceForge": "SourceForge has been rethought, reimplemented, and rejuvenated."