skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stick of non-inclusion did as much good as it could at the time. Already the politicians were at a point where any more pressure would have made them balk.

Last couple of years I haven't followed the political life, so I don't really know where they're headed. I don't think it's gotten any much better, or that it will soon. But things should be viewed in context. We're a functioning and fast developing economy. We _are_ a functioning democracy - we have little to choose from, but we do choose our politicians. A past of communism left us well educated and disciplined - you won't find terrorists of civil wars here any time soon. The only bit of public violence we had in the past 20 years (the mineriads) were actually very organized political movements, and their time has passed. Overall we're a good addition to EU. Not to mention that the only other choice we'd have had was Russia, which would have been worse for both of us.
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Yahoo has turned its home page into a minefield. You can hardly move the mouse without some huge ugly dialog popping up and interfering with your use of the site.

I avoid the home page as much as possible at Yahoo, its a complete disaster.
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"Discovered" or "finally made public" after 17 years.
Security holes are in a lot of things, but I can't believe that this wasn't found sooner by people who would use it for nefarious purposes and kept under wraps.
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I know I'd take it very personally if I had to watch my little girl get frisked every time we boarded a plane, and I think most parents would feel the same.

I agree with your point about filing the paperwork, but if the TSA maintains that no kids are on the watch list, why are agents subjecting kids to the process?
I wonder if this affects OS/2 as well.
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Yes; someone posted the relevant bit of news.arc a few days ago. There is also apparently an evil bit that also controls the heuristic, IIRC.

It is weird that the "new" social news sites mess up moderation so badly. Slashdot solved this years ago; I never see spam on Slashdot. Nor do I see people being auto-killed there.
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I've been thinking about this for a few years. Like the author said, once you start thinking about it, it's hard to think about anything else.

Not all poor countries are poor in the same way. Although there are clear correlations between crime and poverty -- and corruption -- there are also countries like Thailand, which are poor but with relatively little crime or corruption.

So, let's say culture is one factor. If you reduce the education of the people down to what can be passed by word of mouth from one generation to the next, then if that culture's "story" is largely one of war or self-interest, then it's more likely to be reinforced by the next generation. On the other hand, if a culture's history includes a somewhat recent spell of relative peace -- even under a dictatorship -- then it's more likely that the next generation will work towards establishing stability.

Resources is certainly another factor. It is simply impossible for a country to make roads, high technology, and infrastructure materialize from nothing. It must have natural resources available, either to directly build infrastructure or to trade with other countries for raw materials.

Education is another factor -- or, maybe more specifically, the value of education. This is one of the things that concerns me about anti-intellectualism in the U.S.; when education becomes devalued, citizens lose the perspective of history, the opportunity to learn from other countries' mistakes, and the notions of what might be possible in the future.

Poverty and corruption are self-reinforcing, too. You can see this even in the poorer communities in "wealthy" countries: homes that are in disrepair, common spaces that are mismanaged and poorly kept. I'm sometimes tempted to wonder why people in those communities don't spend a few dollars on paint, or a few hours here and there working on a few repairs, and bring their community out of poverty. Then, I remember how I felt when I was poor: exhausted. There is a tremendous spiritual toll taken by abject poverty; it defeats you the moment you wake up. Your day will likely be a struggle, and if it isn't, then it becomes a rare and valuable rest day. It's a difficult catch-22 to understand if you haven't been in such a situation, but if you're constantly struggling to survive, the last thing you want to do is spend effort to improve your situation.

Cameroon at this point isn't likely to change soon, because its poverty and corruption has become cultural. Changing its situation will probably require first a massive sea-change in the government; the death of the current ruler and replacement by someone less politically savvy, or less self-interested. Or, direct intervention by other governments.

Then, it will take time. Someone will have to find the energy to build infrastructure while the rest of the citizens learn what it can be like not to struggle every day.
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Wow, they are doing something right?
Not really all that weird: it's been a fairly small site for a while, and wasn't built to grow, so pg has most likely just done the minimum to make it work for him, rather than investing significant time in it.
you vote and got bush :)

now seriously, at least here in Brazil, the trick is that vote is mandatory. So everyone must vote. and everyone ends up voting uninformed. so, the most money you put on the campaign the most votes you get.

And everyone is too busy getting to theirs lives to note that it's already institutionalized. My wife just returned from her driving license exam. the only people approved was the ones that gave the country-standard US$150 bribe to the examiner. She failed the 1st attempt, obviously. When you don't pay you pass on the 2nd or 3rd. which ends up being a little more then the bribe wasted on gov fees and a lot more hassle.
Would you happen to have the URL for that?
This web presentiation solution is the best I've seen. Anyone know if a release exists?
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Slashdot has spam but only in the firehose.

View the firehose at 'black' level and you'll see more spam than on hn, just a random sample:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=8811130&a...

The firehose is equivalent to the HN 'new' page.

If you only look at the homepage on HN you will never see spam.
You're correct ... but only if it's absolutely fair ... to the point that if I were PG, I'd require a human being's double check before dropping the hammer (ADDED: at least, if the account has been open for very long).

To echo hank777, the very fact that HN has this well known silent technique of "hellbanning" (new term to me) is going to drastically change my posture towards contributing.

(Just how, I can't say yet (too early in the morning), but it will be significant. I know from my behavior in other forums after I learned that they do this (e.g. GrokLaw) that I won't be making many more contributions, for this drastically changes the risk/reward ratio.)
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No I am not using Filezilla and root cannot be logged into without sudo.
- Looking forward to using these new HTML-5ish features: storage, location, workers, accelerometer... It's going to be like web 2.0 all over again.

- The Mozilla Developer site has a lot of good documentation and examples: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.6_for_developers
I've got a similar problem. and none of the OTC stuff helps me sleep, I've tried.

If it's super important I wake up, drugs help with that. place a bowl of chocolate covered coffee beans between yourself and the alarm. Eat one or two before hitting snooze.

the problem with that approach is that I'm kinda wasted the next day. I'm less productive. But, if I need to be up at a certain time, it's the most sure way. And if I stick with it, it can be kindof okay (you can bet I get to sleep okay if I only had 2 hours of sleep the night before.)

It helps some to have a partner; my girlfriend is the only reason why my schedule is only way out of whack one week out of the month rather than 3 weeks out of the month.
It's also interesting that the exploit was found by a Google employee who was designated #1 in the top 15 Most Influential People in Security.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-15-Most-Influential-Pe...

With the resources both Google and Microsoft have at their disposal, I wonder if it's worth having a few employees discovering security flaws in your opponent's platform.
the little clone is part of the examples of the KPAX web application framework: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/reddit/

More little KPAX live examples: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/welcome
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra_%28web_browser%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaco_%28web_browser%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28web_browser%29
Agree, and it also requires jQuery and jQuery UI. That adds another ~150 KB, depending on the jqUI package you select.

Nice looking lightbox, but that's way too heavy for my tastes.
I'm content with Opera's features: You can enable or disable Javascript in main preferences (of course), but you can also momentarily toggle it for your current browsing session, and even store site-specific settings. So, I surf with JS on by default, but turn it off when I happen to run into a misbehaving site, which is pretty rare. That provides for a pleasant enough browsing life.
that's my point

two admittedly poor taste posts, one a response to the other being modded down and I'm out

and they didn't tell me for two weeks but they let me dead post so no mods and no responses.
You're correct, that was the gist of it.

The main reason for building that mini reddit clone was that the Reddit developers had just switched to Python and to use something different than a mini blog platform for a screencast.

And of course back then there was no Twitter to make 'exciting' little examples to show of frameworks or libraries ;-)
fyi, Many walmart stores will let you stay a single night in their parking lots. My parents have trailered all over the US and do that when they can't find a campground or if they just want to sleep for a few hours before moving on.
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It's really quite surprising that it's taken this long to reach the decision, and it will take another year before people start paying anything.

No mention of what will happen to the currently free (and super) iPhone/iTouch app.
It's cobbled together from numerous parts: JQuery, Showdown, pres.js, highlight.js (although this is not working properly at the moment). I will try to get all the license niceties in order and put it up on the Githubs ASAP.
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>>"There’s a lot of technical work that we need to do over the next year to get this right," said Martin A. Nisenholtz.

Well, duh. For one, is this cookie-based tracking? I already know how to fix that. Is it sign in tracking? I predict a surge in account sign-ups. Is it IP-based tracking? Say bye to all your AOL users and those behind proxies. Will they force users to install a browser plugin or and ActiveX control or use a FLASH plugin or Silverlight or whatnot? Yeah, that will work for sure.

So, which magical solution do they think they can come up with?

Anyone else thinking this is going to fail quietly in the next few months?
Great. Now I just have to find someone to pay me for reading internet, ranting and solving problems of my choosing.
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If you always blindly depend on third party libraries, you will remain ignorant and dumb.

Depends if your goal is to become an aeronautical engineer or an assembly language hacker, really. Neither one's "better" than the other, but the the former won't benefit much from understanding exactly how to optimize on SPARC vs x64... Nor will the latter need to worry about his compiler's stalling speed :-)
Don't think anyone has size/scale except big 3: google, yahoo, MS. Smaller alternatives are stuff like AdBrite.
"Starting in early 2011..." that's an age away in internet time. Things could have changed considerably by then.
So, if some alien race conquered our planet, destroyed nearly all of human culture -- and thus human history -- if not our species altogether, and then other members of that alien race said things like:

It's such a shame. Humans were so peaceful, so quaint. We could have learned so much from them, because all humans lived in great harmony with each-other and with their environment...

...Your reaction would be, "Well, that's about as much detail as is relevant, sure"?

Mine would be, "You're completely ignorant of human history, and that should change."

Scalping is a popular subject to bring up, because it's so simple, so easy to understand. It's not like all of the other varied forms of torture, which have to be described and require a certain amount of attention to discuss; instead, you just say, "...scalping...", and everybody goes, "Ohhhh yeah, that horrible thing that whites taught the innocent natives."

...but then, what were the French doing in South Dakota in 1350? [1]

Yes, I certainly do have an axe to grind, and it is this: history is rich, and amazing, and valuable, and I wish it to be taught and revered, and not swept under the Rug Of Oversimplification with statements like, "the Roman Empire was grand", and "native Americans were beautiful".

[1]: http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/paleopathology/crowcreek/vignet...
"Can you please revert that? And give me a reason why I am not considered worthy using HN anymore?"

You got the first part. Did you ever get an answer to the second part?
I don't know much about Thailand, but I think last year they had civil war, or were on the brink of it. I remember one Thai waitress telling me that she worries about her family back home. So not everything is peachy there, either.

As for public spaces, having lived in a student hall puts things into perspective. It is VERY demotivating to repeatedly clean up other people's dirt, if they don't care.

I once visited a home for asylum seekers and was a bit shocked about the dirt (for example in the kitchen). But there were lots of different nationalities there, who might not even understand each other. When I moved in the student hall and saw that even people with equal backgrounds have problems to cooperate, I understood why the conditions for asylum seekers were so poor...

Likewise for run down neighbourhoods: what is the point in replacing your windows, if other people will just smash them again within days? Besides I suspect the worse it gets the more people think about moving away rather than improving things. Once you have decided you want to move away eventually, you are even less likely to invest into improving things.
RV's usually have these things attached so that they don't move around while you drive.
Hear hear.

I'm not a yelp user, but the other problem that occurs to me is the anonymity.

Of course you have user profiles, but you can't (easily) track a review back to a human being, which is why this was such a shock to the reviewer in the magazine article when it actually happened.

The businesses stand there naked and the reviewers can take little potshots at them behind the screen of anonymity. No wonder some people go a little crazy.

If yelp made reviewers less anonymous, such as stating where you work, maybe this would be less of a problem.

At least bad reviews would probably be polite and dignified rather than outright nasty.
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100% agree. I use lightboxes on nearly every site we build. They are an elegant solution to a common problem.
I was thinking of doing that. But does it work in real life conditions?

One advantage would be that I won't be tempted to compulsively browse HN and other news web sites.
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Personally, I like more information better. If my app stops working and I get a relatively terse communication that explicitly tells me not to contact anybody about problems or error messages then I know for SURE I'm contacting someone.

I didn't find the first email hilarious, but this one for sure is less than or equal to that email in its hilarity.
She was an extreme case of a real problem.

Yelp may not be bad all the time, but it certainly hurts people in some cases, and appears to have extortionate sales practices.
It's not obvious to an outsider that "Hacker News" is Paul Graham's playground and that he is the one "you are having a problem with". As an outsider, I would have assumed as the poster did, that the community would be supportive in resolving what seems to be a reputation issue. But it's not plain that it's a reputation issue, as it seems (to me) that HN-based reputation doesn't map to relationships the same way it does in Real Life; the written rules are not all of the rules.

I do believe that you should be careful about asking stupid questions in public. But I don't think this was unexpected.
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It would be safer to be an Afghan woman under the communists than the Taliban or current US occupation.
When I moved out to the farmland with no cable or DSL service I tried satellite. I found it next to useless due to the latency, incredibly slow uplink and spotty connectivity (it may just be HughesNet, but that thing was down for something like two hours a day at random times).

I switched to a Sprint 3G card and have been comparatively happy for three years. The data cap is worrisome, the latency isn't great and neither is the throughput, but it's a vast improvement over satellite, especially in reliability.
It follows Perl's philosophy very closely.

As an example: in Javascript, the binary + operator means either addtion or concatenation, depending on the type of the left-hand side. In Perl there are different operators for that, + for addition and . for concatenation.

That means that you have more operators, but you need less type conversions, because they happen implicitly.

This now follows the same philosophy: different operations have different names. List reversal is not the same as string reversal. Neither is hash inversion.

Within this context it's the most logical thing you can do.
I also work 9-5 at a big corporation. I take time to learn and keep up with the latest developments in the programming world while I'm on the clock. This usually amounts to an hour or so every morning reading through my RSS reader. I've found that supervisors tend to appreciate that kind of motivation and self improvement. I'm sure there are places that would not appreciate this activity. You may be able to conduct this kind of self-education on the clock anyway with no noticeable decrease in productivity. Some people will see this as unethical, but it's likely that it will ultimately be a net win for your employer because of your increased output as a result of the knowledge. Otherwise, you may want to look for a different job that is more friendly to your proactive view of education.
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What else did they find? That DOS has problems with memory management?

Advances in technology are bound to expose flaws in older products, so what's the news here?
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Although you may be able to bypass their protection, even if it's a simple cookie authentication, the whole operation will probably not be a failure. Presumably most people they are targeting, who might be willing to pay for a subscription, aren't tech-savvy enough and lack the motivation to get around it.
So we should include aluminum foil in the shipment of humanitarian supplies?
In my experience Sprint is consistently 85-95ms, which is just fast enough for smooth SSH - except when some link starts adding a few more tens of ms somewhere, in which case it gets pretty frustrating.

I find that I can pretty happily SSH into my boxes on the east coast (where I am) but those in Texas tend to be more of a problem.
i also think this is quite annoying. at least pressing escape should work.
When traveling from Canada, you're required to give your name, gender and birthdate. You would think the birthdate would actually be significant, but apparently not.
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It'd take me some doing to dig out, but there was an article around on HN perhaps 2 years ago that demonstrated how people, on the whole, would rather listen to someone confident but typically more wrong, than someone less confident but who was typically more correct.
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In fact I found the chart really hard to understand. As Patrick pointed out, I think human brain is better at grasping linear outlines rather than graph based information.
I guess 140 characters ought to be enough for anybody.
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Or, it could just be an aftershock, several days to a week isn't that unusual a period for one - heck, years isn't unusual as for a length of time that aftershocks go on for.
Are you somehow implying that a pay-wall can't be built? Porn sites seem to have figured it out quite a while ago so I don't see how NYTimes would be any different.

Of course they aren't going to be able to stop people copy/pasting articles to a friend but that generally isn't a problem.

Even if their pay-wall is only 99% effective and a small amount of smart techies manage to get around it for free it really isn't that big of an issue since people that determined to get the content for free never would've paid for it anyway.
I have more than anecdotal evidence, but it isn't in an online form.

Detailed discussions with a good lawyer about NY state law is that there are three classes of employee. Those are contractors, hourly, and professional. If you are not working by the project and don't have to track your time on a clock, then you are a professional employee. By default any work done by a professional employee which relates to that employee's job function belongs to the employer. (If a programmer writes a novel, the novel is probably his. But a program written is probably not his.) It is standard and customary for employers to add clauses to contracts reiterating that principle. This makes their case even stronger.

And yes, I've been personally caught on the wrong side of this. And yes, I personally know other people in an unrelated incident whose startup folded in exactly this manner.

OTOH if your contract has clauses protecting you then you are likely protected from this. However the common default is otherwise.

By contrast in California state law work done on your own time with your own equipment which does not use your employer's intellectual property is never a work for hire. This right cannot be signed away. The result is that your startup on the side is always legally protected.

And yes. This is among the reasons that I now live in California, and not NY.