skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe now someone will actually die in a blogging accident (http://xkcd.com/369/).
What utter drivel. I made no comment on the rights or wrongs of the situation: I simply pointed out that your logic was horribly flawed. Which it remains, and no attempts to compare me to a nazi are going to change that.
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Pirate Coelho
I was fascinated to discover that one of the most popular authors with over a 100 million sales is promoting 'piracy' on his blog!

(See also what he had to say at http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-466.html)
I hope you mean UI instead of mg. According to wikipedia even 2000 micrograms a day would be too high.
In the UK house prices have risen well. And personally I like staying the same place for at least 5 years.
Since we all have hundred core CPUs now.
you know you are trolling/ karma whoring.

Is this in reply to my comment or the parent?
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together
>> "Think of ANI as a way to write fast, statically-guaranteed safe, well-structured, and highly parallelized software without ever encountering memory management, threads, locks, semaphores, critical sections, race conditions, or deadlock."

You can do that in pretty much any language if you decide to. I'm not seeing the point here, and the syntax is just horrible.
Here is why we should hope they find no life on mars. http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf (PDF) This is also an interesting discussion by Nick Bostrom on the Fermi paradox and why we may be alone in the galaxy.
I don't consider my iPhone as a cellphone, and don't use it as such. It's my pocket macbook. Which didn't really exist properly before.
OK, intellectual weight is basically a meaningless word. One thing I was trying to indicate was page length. Hacker News could use more really long articles, generally they are higher quality.

I think the New Yorker is a well-written, basically authoritative source with regards to journalism. See their excellent article that makes a complete case that Cameron Todd Willingham was an innocent man executed by the USA. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_...

Are there any New Yorker journalism articles that lack sufficient weight to be considered correct? I'm not talking about their movie reviews. What makes this article Hacker News material is that while discussing a mainstream, inflammatory, emotional topic, it is much closer to the truth than anything you are likely to hear on the TV news.

Finally, if people have strong opinions, they should be allowed to express them. Maybe we'll all learn something. The downmodding and moderation system mostly works here.
As a first implementation of the tagging/flagging system, can you turn on the meta tag?
The New York times did an outstanding job with the 67patent pics of 2009.I think the best of the patent is patent#7,591.811 Diaper With Legs.I looked this one up by Google type in diaperwithlegs .and what a breakthough in diapers this won't leak just see what this looks like seeing is believing babys and adults with needs can really use this.Where can I buy some for babys and toddlers I have 3 that needs this now please !!!!!!!!! I'm begging I love this idea for my little ones!!!!!
Can you show me when the New Yorker has published a recent journalistic article that has been wrong?

Karma whoring? Trolling? It's been a while since anyone actually accused me of trolling, but this is a meta-discussion worth having.
This is like if intel released their own CPU benchmarking software.
I think he meant to reply to me since he quotes my post.
Please grind that axe elsewhere
Qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript (part 1)
Are you a lawyer?

Did you read the article? It discusses two different legal challenges and discusses in-depth why they may or may not actually work. You didn't explain why your suggestion is better than what the teams of professional lawyers are doing.
Can you clarify what you mean by that; does it mean advertisers will be able to see how big the network is and view some demographics? Or are you saying it allows advertisers to push the ethical boundaries and try to link impressions to real people via the searchable data? (or something else?)

As far as I read their terms they cant just give advertisers any details about you; even if that info is public.
Is anyone here actually against gay marriage?

The libertarian argument saying the state shouldn't sanction any marriages, only civil unions is a good idea but impractical in US politics.

This issue makes people very angry sometimes but we should be able to keep personal attacks out of it.
Probably not but you can only judge a language when you've written lot of code in it. If you write large non-trivial programs in ― for example ― bash, you'll only have to look up bash.1 so many times after which you just absorb it. Then you'll see how things click together and you don't need the manual much after that.

I like bash. Especially bash v4 brought some niceties, making it even more suitable for various non-trivial tasks.

I generally don't "upgrade" to Python or some "real" scripting language unless I really have to: bash is surprisingly concise and expressive. I've written programs and subroutines in bash that were much smaller than their idiomatic Python counterparts and I was surprised to discover that.

Bash is conceptually pretty safe and suits the functional mindset because in a large program you find you want to isolate each function the Unix way: byte streams. You pass in a stream (and args) and you get a stream out (and exit status). Thus, you end up making the functions quite pure and well off if you come from a functional background. Pure functions/shell scripts are rather safe and also parallelize pretty well.

If part of your program does something critical it's best to move it from a set of functions into a separate shell script. This gives you the same Unix stream API but also the benefit of process-level separation of data and environment. It simply enforces the Unix byte streams as the only way to talk between the caller and the callee.

And usually you can do this with only a few lines of code. Shell scripting can be ― and is ― intuitive. This is because processing files and streams, I/O, and parsing and mangling command lines and strings of words is pretty implicit in bash, which usually is very close to what you want to achieve in the end so you get down to the actual work pretty quick.
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Looks like Germans are sensitive to privacy (for historical reasons perhaps). USA culturally less sensitive, so I think we may expect more Konzerns about privacy and aggregation of data about German citizens in American online companies.
Why are we not making more use of the Internet to cope with Snow disruptions?
is user experience not as nebulous (if not more) as well? to each his own, I say. I can't speak for you and vice versa on which trades are worth making. some people will pick A, and some will pick B. the winner is the guy who serves both A^B not AxorB.
How The EU Lets Startups Slip Through Its Fingers
...and bacterias contribute up to 60% of drivet weight of human poop.
dry weight
Outsourced Thinking Is Today’s Biggest Problem
Light Touch interactive projector turns any flat surface into a touchscreen #CES
A 2010 CES Innovations Honoree in both the Media Player and Personal Electronics categories, the Light Touch from the house of Light Blue Optics is an amazing interactive projector featuring multi-touch technology that turns any flat surface into a touchscreen (keyboard,
Light Blue Optics is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with a Development Facility in Colorado Springs,
From another perspective, I left my last company because I felt the tension to become the hero.

What's interesting is that there was another person who was also kind of playing the hero role - but didn't quite have the development talent to make the big contributions. Man, it destroyed the team culture between the boss and the devs. It wasn't just that he "enabled mediocrity". He was seen as "being mature" and "really cared". And the other devs saw his flaws rather than his benefits. The devs began to roll their eyes when the boss talked about "caring". Once this happens, it's an awfully hard ship to turn around.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports"

This is clearly a non-exhaustive list.

"unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"

This phenomenon, as pointed out by the article itself, is not new.

Moreover, it is not interesting to hackers for any reason other than being generally interesting.

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"

This is exactly the sort of thing TV news would cover.

Yes, I was wrong to submit that comment according to the rules. I flagged the article, but when it has already reached #2 you know it's not coming down.

Hacker News died a little bit more yesterday in accepting that _Off-Topic_ article.
I think it's worth noting that this title is a fabrication, not an actual quote.

What he actually said is interesting, but wouldn't get as much traffic or angry comments:

"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was 'why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?'

"And then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information. People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

"We view it as our role in the system to constantly be innovating and be updating what our system is to reflect what the current social norms are.

"A lot of companies would be trapped by the conventions and their legacies of what they've built, doing a privacy change - doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of thing that a lot of companies would do. But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner's mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it."

(transcript copied from rww, but it looks accurate to me)
I still like the orloj more :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orloj
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Yes. That is why Pacific Northwest and Canada (less religious places) are lagging behind Bible Belt.
Lagging behind in corruption, teenage pregnancy,
crime and many other developmental indicators.
I'm not really interested in the .DS_store hack, only in the dual panel. I would happily donate 20EUR if you release the source. Coming from Linux, I really cannot stand Mac shareware that gets abandoned and cannot be fixed to work on updated systems. And also, since it goes deep in the Finder, I would only trust it if I could check the code.
City of Detroit promotes Iranian flag
Facebook has never emphasized privacy - they've done some very lightweight things to address widespread concerns, but that's about it. In fact, the most recent privacy update contained sneaky tricks that made un-savvy users open more stuff to public view.

IMHO Facebook is well aware that their social network is consisted in large part of stalking, and that the relevance and value proposition to its users relies upon the ability to view as much of other users' data as possible. A lot of people, if they were given the easy option, would choose to lock their Facebook accounts down like Fort Knox - which would severely impact the usefulness of Facebook for others. It's in Facebook's best interest to have you share as much of your stuff with as many people as possible.
Good point. Also how can you measure this speed when talking about C? First of all there's not only one single implementation of the compiler, and second thing for available architecture you may have different performances basing on the quality of the backend...

I find that kind of claim pretty annoying.
> I don't know of anyone who can figure out their logic for how they determine why and what sites get blocked and when.

It's totally blackboxed, pretty typical like the rest of China's fuzzy politics.

Most of the ban were from random Internet user's anonymous report to net.china.cn, or from Party leader's direct orders.

IMDb was blocked because a banned movie's poster, rumor says.

PS to all YC: If you have a website accidentally blocked by the GFW, call 12300 in Beijing. This phone number is kinda official but unofficial GFW customer service.
You are your own(ly) limit.
This is just downright cool. I look back at my childhood and one thing stands out to me, with respect to programming: I was able to sit down at the Apple ][E in my kindergarten class and start writing games with no knowledge of programming. All I had was a ridiculously bad book on BASIC from the school library and an immediate feedback loop. Kids these days don't seem to have that. Programming languages have gotten considerably easier to use, but the environment and the libraries just aren't there.

Now, I'm not proposing that kids should be learning QBASIC, but with all of the technology we have these days, why can't a kid browse to a website and get an environment in which they can experiment and create something, with the instantaneous feedback that I appreciated when I was getting started? I know there's been some talk of things like this in the past, but has anything come of it? If not, what were the problems that were faced?

I'd love for my (not yet existent) kids to be able to open up a browser and be able to start writing code. I'd love for them to have fun doing it, the way I did when I was young.
high status behavior involves feeling good without concern for the other

low status behavior involves feeling bad in order to make another feel good

raising another's status involves making another feel good without concern for yourself

lowering another's status involves making another feel bad in order to feel good

--
keep away from bosses that expect status raising behaviors from their employees to themselves, especially when the reverse is warranted.
I find ridiculous doctors don't suggesting a bit more sun exposure instead to give pills: I bet there is business in action here.

I live in Sicily, here to take a lot of sun means to sit in the worst hours for a lot of time, the whole summertime, and here the sun is strong. 30 minutes of sun in the right hours should kill you? I really don't think so.

Possibly all this warnings about the sun and skin cancer had the result of killing a lot more people for lack of D vitamin.
Wait, if we're going to play the blame game with your rules - don't we also have to blame every single company that sells or manufactures consumer goods or services?
Good managers spend a lot of time raising the status of their wards.
Scrum project management, bug tracking
Scrum project management software helps you to organize and collect your information. Agile project management software will refine that organized data and turn it into something that is more adaptable and workable.
How so? Microsoft Research is pretty independent of the product divisions, so much so that I think it should be looked at as a separate company.
Completely agree that practise is key. Three tips for getting practise:

1. Give lightning talks. These are sessions at conferences where people are encouraged to give 5 minute talks. The audience love them because it forces speakers to get straight to the point, and if a talk sucks you only have to wait a few minutes before the next one. They are a fantastic way for new speakers to get some experience in front of a crowd.

2. Go to BarCamps. London has an excellent BarCamp scene (events have been hosted at Yahoo!, BT, Google, GCap, EBay, the Guardian and IBM) Nd events generally pull 150 people, each of whom is encouraged to speak. This guarantees a friendly, supportive audience since everyone else is presenting as well. You can also talk about any topic you like. I've presented at all 7 London BarCamps and it's definitely helped me with my public speaking skills.

3. Any talk you give, make sure you have practises it out loud at least once with enough time to fix the bits that don't work. Under your breath doesn't cut it in my experience. My rule of thumb these days is a minimum of 10 hours preparation for every 1 hour on stage, and the run throughs are a big part of that.
"I want to be clear here that the blame, to the degree that there was, is largely in the United States, not in Europe, not in Britain," Schmidt said.

... Right. I would be more concerned if this remark wasn't coming from a man who is little more than the world's best-paid babysitter. I am sure he would be delivering a different line if he were talking to the New York Times.
http://www.oled-info.com/oleds-direct-sunlight

Sure.
A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness
It looks like hackers simply replaced one of the images on web site:
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/Portals/0/images/frontpage/Welco...
Why does it take so long to fix (or simply delete) the image?

Ivan Ghandhi wrote that he notified IT department's director:
http://ivan-ghandhi.livejournal.com/1202000.html

It was few hours ago, but the flag is still sitting there.
How much to charge for your Web App?
Is the human body conditioned to
A: stay in an office all day
B: stay outside in the sun all day

If we look at the last 50 years, it seems the answer is A. However, looking at the last X thousands of years, it is not surprisingly B.

I'm from Norway, and at the moment we only enjoy a few hours of sun (unless you live in the northern parts of Norway, in which case you get NO sun at all now).

Norwegians spend most of the year inside an office, and then go to Spain (or similar) for a two weeks vacation during summer where we stay 10 hours in the sun to get tanned. Even people from Spain stay inside in the middle of the day when the sun is the strongest.

And we wonder why we get skin cancer....

My simple rule: a little bit of sunshine every day is very important and very healthy - too much is not
Reading your comment, I thought it has something to do with cigarettes.
>> "Now, I'm not proposing that kids should be learning QBASIC"

Why not? I think BASIC is a fairly good first language. I'd bet quite a few of our generation started out using basica,gwbasic, or one of the home computer basics.
The transition from a BASIC derivative to a "real" programming language can be quite jarring. That's not to say that a BASIC is a bad thing for a kid to learn, but if you can give them an easy to use language that gives them more power and in terms that can be applied outside of this environment, you ought to. What language would be best? Who knows, but I think we can do better than a BASIC.

This is something I'm going to have to think more about; if nothing else, this interests me from a programming language design angle. If I can create a language that's easy for kids to pick up while being useful outside of education, that'd be pretty damn neat.
It's an interesting way to look at the world, and workplaces function a lot like the animal kingdom, but as humans we should be able to see through status with our spirituality.
As someone who actually uses Quickbasic I strongly disagree. (We use quickbasic to deal with custom counters and data manipulation by project. Data processing for political surveys.)

Quickbasic made sense back in the day where you had limited graphical and sound power. When you booted a computer and you got a basic command prompt. When you learned the basics of computers and programming by typing in programs from magazines.

Basic does not make sense in today's world. It is complicated unnecessarily and it doesn't have some of the advantages that more modern languages like Ruby and Python have. It doesn't have the library support that these languages have that allow you to easily do things like build web pages, simple media players, and other such things with ease.
4 is not too far from 100 in tech time.
I sort of disagree. I think BASIC is a good first language precisely because of its flaws.

Those flaws give you something to strive to improve, and gives you reason to seek out other tools. The flaws only start getting obvious when you start doing more advanced stuff, which is exactly how you want a beginners language to be.

For example I started with basic, and found it ridiculously slow for graphics, so learnt assembly and how to make qb libraries with tasm. Then I just started writing programs in asm without the need for basic. I also noted than in QB programs you could make the code run slower by adding empty lines to the source code, thought 'woah thats lame' and decided I'd probably not use basic much more.

There's always jarrings when you start to learn other languages - "wtf are all those semicolons at the end of every line? etc", but that's also a good skill to learn - being able to cope with new things that look odd at first sight.

The other point is that there are massive amounts of existing basic code around, and resources. That counts for a lot.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't use basic for anything now, but for teaching kids I think it's more than good enough.
Forced to Innovate
I've written large scripts in bash (using range ellipses, arrays, /dev/tcp, arithmetic shells, nested subshells, IFS changing & $@ to handle filenames with spaces, etc) as part of writing kickstart scripts, RPM install / update scripts, and initscripts.

I'm also familiar with object pipelining shells from using powershell.

ANI looks like an unreadable mess to me.
Title is troll, and not even original.

A more interesting discussion would be how more advanced, especially functional, patterns can be used in php. Right now I'm returning in php after many years of java and some time with lisp and clojure, and I'd be very curious to know if any of you managed to apply a more lispish mindset to it.