skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I totally agree with most points in the movie, my experience has always been mixed. I have had teachers who prefer an answer which speaks for my understanding of the concept rather than rewriting (or what they called vomitting) of what is in the text book. They were my real inspiration. I have had teachers in the other side too.

I had made up my mind to become a software engineer in 1996 after seeing a paint program made completely in BASIC by our physics teacher. When the day came to choose my career, there was opposition. It was 2002; things weren't looking good for a software engineer then. Inspite of the stiff opposition of the so called "people around me" my parents fully supported in choosing CS. It was definitely not because I would make a lot of money.

I bump into people with similar experience almost everyday in my life. People who chose CS over doctor; people who are singers and not engineers; people who run their own factory instead of working in an MNC; people who work in "techy" jobs when MBA/Management is the order of the day and people who just do what they want to do. It all boils down to the guts you have and to some extent the ability to earn the trust of people who matter to you.

Simply blaming on the system is not acceptable to me. If you feel you are right, stand up to it. Convince people who think you are wrong. If you feel it's not your job, don't expect to be spoon fed. End of the day we are to be blamed if we feel we have a miserable life.
Been there, done that, run experiments, and no, it's not a cacheing issue. This has been raised before, and it's not a bug. PG has explicitly said he experiments with not counting some votes. It appears he's decided (perhaps temporarily) not to count mine. Hence the question.
Title fixed now. Thanks!
Now, that's creative destruction
> there were products that could do everything an iPhone does (Windows Mobile Phones)

Windows Mobile was never designed to be friendly for the average consumer.

Did it ever occur to the WM designers that wiping the entire handset for a OS upgrade isn't the best experience. iTunes isn't the best program but it's day when compared to the night of a WM upgrade.

"Installing the new software will erase all data on the device."

"All third-party applications and data that remain on the device prior to downloading will be deleted and unretrievable"

http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23435.xml
> I understand that you need to stay on top of the problem of people gaming the system, and that being too open just makes it easier for people to screw around and make the voting system less valuable.

Is security through obscurity really a good idea in this day and age?
Note that Chris Mason used to work on reiserfs, which means he has real-world experience working on actual filesystems. That he is involved in ext4 bodes well (note the CC'ed list on the link that micktwomey posted).
The same here. I had started a topic on this before and some people assured me that it will probably get back working, as they had this issue before as well.

Personally, I don't care much about this. Though when I start a topic here asking for help, I feel that I should thank those who helped me by upvoting their comments.
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Works for Google and their pagerank. And I would argue that in that case it IS a good idea. :)
I think the root here was complaining about the "First Past the Post System". In that case he has a point, especially when our politicians enjoy engaging in "jerrymandering".
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And even if they didn't have the cash on hand, they could probably get a bridge loan against the expected donations provided they can provide proof that the "the money is on the way".
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Tablet input is a gnarly design problem - even for Apple
I've got a better one for you: I submitted an article yesterday. Quickly 3 or 4 people upvoted it -- it was basically an "Ask HN" piece. Nothing special.

But the odd thing was that even though the score increased dramatically from 1 to 5 in just 10-15 minutes, the ranking didn't change that much. Used to be that an increase of that much would get you near the top of the front page, if even for a little bit.

I'm not complaining, just figured somebody somewhere was tinkering or it was some kind of effect of karma inflation. However it does bring up an interesting point about UI design and large groups of users -- any non-obvious new system behavior can easily be interpreted in lots of ways, some of which aren't so flattering to the board owners.

FWIW, I've always thought this behavior was a bug. If I thought my vote was being taken and then returned to me at random times depending on the "smarts" of the system without notifying me why, I'd be pretty mad. I understand that it's already happening with deep threads and the first time I stumbled across it I was so mad I was ready to just throw in the towel on HN.

Not exactly a happy user experience, but yes, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. Just a better job of communicating would salve a lot of these hurt feelings, in my opinion.
That was a joke, really. The scene here is limited. There are a few of us working on interesting things. The problem is when they take off the founders tend to move, like the guys behind Ping and Noah.

Anyway, when you do move look me up.
Aligning the stack at runtime is one instruction in the preamble so it's not a big deal, especially if the function is big enough to have non-register SSE locals. Also, when using VLAs, it's not optional. I use SSE all the time and have no problems with the alignment requirements, but it's not really a performance issue and I'm doubtful that it was worth the time for people to learn and deal with this idiosyncrasy.
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I am just pointing that giving a tool to someone you KNOW oppresses others is very different from selling to a neutral buyer.

If you want to make it about politics, then so be it. How about we discuss the practices of the U.S. government? Need I point out that we originally brought the Taliban to power? Need I point out that we originally brought Saddam Hussein to power? Need I point out that millions of Cubans suffer everyday because we have decided to punish an entire country because we are upset with a couple hundred members of their government? If you want to talk about oppression, look at the huge amount of oppression created by the United States government.

To get back to my point though, what Microsoft is doing is business. The Chinese market is huge. They would be foolish not to do business in China. Furthermore, the very fact that you feel Microsoft should withhold things from the Chinese people is hypocritical to begin with. Think about the improvements the technology brings to the people. In the case of Internet Explorer, I can't think of anything more oppressive than denying a people the right to technology, with the ability to open doors to the world, that is being given away freely in other parts of the world.
"Charley, Ivan, Jeanne, Katrina, Dean, and Ike were not names associated with weather."

With the exception of Katrina this is still true.
Apparently submissions with text as opposed to URLs don't get ranked as highly. Two items submitted at the same time and with the same votes, one with URL, the other as text, the text one will rank significantly lower.

That might explain your observation.
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[W]hy have Universal decided to apply pressure at this point? Are they thinking like Grooveshark suspect, that they can bully their way into a deal with the streaming service without having to give away a rock bottom streaming royalty rate?

Unfounded speculation: maybe they've somehow found out that Grooveshark is finally making some decent money?
If you're considering adding similar functionality to your Django site, check out Tweepy. It's absolutely wonderful.

http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy

Python-twitter will work too, but it covers significantly fewer API calls than Tweepy and doesn't have native oauth support (though oauth-python-twitter solves the latter nicely enough).
Also in reply to sid0 below - ok, so it seems I've maybe picked the wrong term saying it's "realistic". Obviously, the book is a novel, and on top of that partly a comedy. Hopefully no one believes that crashing into a professor's home and wearing his shirts is everyday life at IIT.

However, would you not agree that the general atmosphere, such as the hostel life, the exam pressure, going out for ice cream to check out the girls, their conversations about the future, and all this is pretty much the real thing? It's how it felt to me, but then I'm a foreigner.
Often yes, but in this case probably not. PG has stated publically that he tinkers with whether or not to count votes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871458

It appears that in this case, as in others before mine, he's decided that he's not going to count my votes. I have no idea why. As I say, it makes me inclined not to bother giving much back to the site, even though it's a great resource.
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If that page is correct, typefaces are, in fact, not subject to copyright.

Font software can be copyrighted, which includes some formats of fonts that can contain bytecode. But if the end product does not contain this code -- for example, hard copy or text reduced to curves -- it is not covered by the font file's copyright.

The page also states that decorative typefaces can be registered in the U.S. for a design patent, and typefaces in general can be a "Registered Graphic Design" in the E.U. Presumably this is what the Hadopi guys have fallen afoul of.
How many deaths have you heard about in the Dominican Republic?

Its not exactly Luxembourg over there but they survived.
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This is a good example of the power of a karma or rating system on your website. Personally, I don't give a shit if I'm being rewarded (or penalized) on websites, and seeing a little number next to my screen name doesn't give me any sense of pride or validation.

With this little rant about feeling like they're 'wasting time' because a counter isn't being incremented with an arbitrary points system, it's obvious there's at least some people out there that absolutely need this add-on to contribute positively.
Thanks!

But that's my point -- there's all kinds of little nuances and "if X, then Y" in the system and hell if I have time to keep on top of all of it. To my mind, it seems a reasonable assumption that there is a mad sysadmin somewhere just screwing around with me. After all, in the past for most boards limiting voting or tweaking ranking or turning on or off features was traditionally handled by a person, not an algorithm. Maybe it's some super-duper cool collaborative voting checker that's working wrong or maybe somebody just had a bad day. As a user, beats me -- and once I have to start second-guessing who is doing what to me and why the site is totally screwed. In my opinion.

You shouldn't have to be on HN everyday and read all the pages to understand how the site works. That's an idiotic expectation.

By the way, I'm commenting on all user sites with non-intuitive behavior, not just the peculiarities of HN.
I can't believe you made a new submission about this. Seriously. Why can't you email him?

I can't believe you assume there is some kind of conspiracy to render your votes irrelevant. Seriously. It's just the internet.
If you haven't done so already, why don't you email Paul Graham privately and ask him what you have done to cause your comments to be discounted. If it is for a reason that he wants to keep private then it might be more constructive than raising the issue in public.
As usual, there is a very file line in regulating any social activity, and in this case i think Twitter is very close to crossing it but still not done so.

I think for these who are interested in building true relationships on Twitter current bad practices harm a lot more than removing autounfollow, coz in true relations you don't have that many people to unfollow and can handle it manually easily.
Ask HN: Porn Company wants me to sign a release form for Pic.
I work in the administration department for a pornography department, and they had a recent break in. They are asking us to take a picture of us, and want us to sign a form (the one below). As a porn company, should I be worried about what they are asking me to sign below? The picture will only likely be a head shot. A normal person would go to a lawyer, however, I have kids, and don't have the money for one. Anyhow, here is the form.

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PHOTO CONSENT FORM AND RELEASE

I, __________________________ hereby give [COMPANY NAME] and all applicable affiliated entities, legal representatives, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors, the EXCLUSIVE, irrevocable right to collect and use a picture, portrait, digital image or photograph of me (collectively the "photograph(s)") for [COMPANY NAME] internal use and for security and management purposes only. I waive any right to inspect or approve the photograph(s) and I agree that [COMPANY NAME] owns the Copyright in these photographs. I expressly release [COMPANY NAME], together with all respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated or associated corporations, directors, officers, employees, and agents together with all representatives, successors and assigns, jointly and severally, from any and all actions, causes of action, complaints, claims, demands, torts, contracts and covenants, whether express or implied, to any entitlements under any statute, costs, interest loss of injury of every nature or kind whatsoever, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in any way arising from the collection, use, and disclosure of the photograph(s). I am of full legal age and competent to sign this release and agree that it shall be binding on me. I have fully read this release and understand its contents.

SIGN...
Why are academics applying text algorithms to episodes of CSI?
I've had my voting stopped on a couple of occasions. The last one was because I downvoted someone 3-4 times in a row in the same thread (all their comments needed a downvote :) it wasn't anything nasty) and my voting stopped working for a week or so.

I also think in the past I have had it removed for:

- upvoting different stories in quick succession (came back to the page to vote stories I liked....)

- downvoting the same person 2-3 times in the space of about 20 minutes in different threads (without realising I must stress!) with no other votes in between

It comes back after X amount of time.

> but I'm pretty disincentivized about bothering to spend time trying to add value.

Yeh I feel that; I read now but dont bother to contribute many votes.
Steve Jobs will never be destitute and alone in a hotel. At worst, he’ll be broke and alone in a hotel for about five minutes, and then he’ll write an incredibly brilliant business plan on the back of a napkin and get the night watchman to invest his life savings in it.
My guess is you got flagged by possible-sockpuppet. See news.arc in arc3.tar for why some stuff gets ignored.

(def possible-sockpuppet (user)
(or (ignored user)
(< (uvar user weight) .5)
(and (< (user-age user) new-age-threshold*)
(< (karma user) new-karma-threshold*))))

Since your age and karma don't seem to be a problem, I'd guess an admin or editor marked you as ignored, or an admin reduced your weight.
Actually, come to think of it, when the function doesn't call anything else, locals will be indexed off the base pointer and the stack pointer will not be explicitly moved. So it costs two extra instructions to get aligned locals in a function that needs non-register locals but doesn't call any other functions. Of course these are 1/.33 (latency/inverse throughput) instructions.
Its another brick in the wall. As long as you're not fooling yourself into thinking it's all you need, it aids in not making things easier for people to figure out and slightly raises the bar against intrusion. "Defense in Depth" is the only situation where I could consider obscurity a security layer.

Just because I keep my ssh servers up to date (disable passwords, root login, etc), doesn't mean I don't gain anything by having them listen a high port. The moment a 0-Day exploit is found (or maybe another Debian key generation bug) the security of not showing up on every script kiddies initial scans looking for unpatched ssh servers is worth something.
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First of all, yes, I am fully aware that this is just a news forum, and that there's this thing called "real life."

Secondly, this is a great resource of both contacts and information. It's made great because of the quality of people here, and the time they take to submit, comment, and vote. Without that time from people with busy lives, HN will become rather non-special.

I'm pointing out that at least one person here now feels, because of a stated policy, that their time is undervalued, so I'm thinking of taking it elsewhere. I do have an outside life, I was investing time here because I thought it might be valued. I'm re-evaluating that decision

I'm not going to walk away without explanation. When people stop being my customers I'd like to know why. I'm giving PG the courtesy to let him know my reactions to his policies. It's his site and he can and will do as he chooses. So far he's done an extraordinary job.

Think of this as customer feedback.
> Why can't you email him?

That would probably be impolite :)

> I can't believe you assume there is some kind of conspiracy to render your votes irrelevant

Please read Riders explanation. There are automatic triggers which stop your votes counting for an unknown period of time if you trigger them. Not a conspiracy; requests for information on this have been posted a couple of times before.
I think what it boils down to is that the devoting logic is easy to trigger and permanent. I haven't had the ability to up or downvote in about six months.
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I've not heard of the automatic bans lasting that long???

The longest I ever had was about 2 months (give or take - I was away for part of it). The longest ever someone has mentioned to me has been about 3 1/2 months
So, is jQuery 1.4 really 30'000 times faster than 1.3.2? :)
I had a similar train of thought, but in a slightly causality ordering:

Places like google have a high potential for a high payout, and they know it. Therefore the cybersecurity is higher, requiring a better caliber of criminal.
Reading slashdot?
The 'skeptic' branding was a great move on their part, but it's simply not true. It's akin to calling young earth creationists 'evolutionary skeptics'.
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It's the same for me and has been like that for weeks, months(?). Having your votes on hacker news isn't exactly important to life as others have pointed out but it's slightly demoralizing whenever I forget myself and vote on something only to realize the system just ignores me. I'm useless and valued less than even a new user. :(

I'm considering creating a new user because of that as I've tried to just wait for it to work again hoping it's temporary. I have no idea what caused me to loose my voting rights in the first place and there's no way for me to change my behavior if it's undesirable. I've for the record never voted maliciously and this is my username because I've lost my password twice before not because I have several users to vote with.
I'm well aware of Russia's ability to defend itself. I'm also well aware of Europes sentiment of starting wars. The last two world wars have originated there.

A possible outcome of climate change is severe winters across all of Nothern Europe (severe as in Russian style -20). Without Russian supplies Europe's reserves and import terminals (Wales and Italy) would not be able to supply enough liquified natural gas to keep Europeans warm all winter.

Anyway, the point is that climate change can cause international tension and that was the reasoning for it being part of the death clock.
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What does dl;dr: mean? I couldn't find it in the urban dictionary.
It's Not News, it's fark: http://www.fark.com/2007/book/

Not like the book said anything original, but it has some truly hilarious examples taken from years for following silly stories.
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Neither did I defend anybody (not any company, not any government) nor did I attack any company in particular.

Your responses remind me of Sarah Palin. When posed with a statement or question, dodging it an go off on a tangent.

I'm merely saying that it is (universally) wrong to supply someone who you know oppresses others, with the tools to do so.
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Not sure if you are sarcastic, but I'm pretty sure he meant tl; dr

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl;dr
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Fwiw I think people who downvote you are reacting to the tone of your writing

Sentences like "I'm not going to walk away without explanation." sound (mildly) pompous and priggish.

You could cut all the dramatics and posturing from your post, state the facts (as you see them) plainly, provide any supporting data and ask a polite question about the effect you want and what you can do to help.

Sentences like "When people stop being my customers I'd like to know why." and "Think of this as customer feedback." have an assumption built in which may not hold.

"user" != "customer".
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This was ultra sophisticated, they used several layers of multi-encrypted malware to tunnel out and create reverse control channels. Not to mention used a 0day IE bug to install the malware in various targeted companies. This was gov sponsered...
Interesting, but we still can hear Voyagers and Voyager 1 is much farther away than Pioneer 10:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#Powering_down
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I responded to your statement with a very valid argument.

(1) It's business in a huge market that American companies are not forbidden to do business with.

(2) You are implying that Microsoft should not do business with China, and I believe that would be more detrimental than doing business with the country.

I believe you are falling into the fallacy of punishing an entire nation for the actions of its government somehow makes that country better off. Turning it back to Google, I have friends from China who are pissed that Google is threatening to leave. You're not seeing the bigger picture. Google's threat to leave doesn't help China. It hurts the country, all 1.2 billion people. You decided to bring politics into this, so now politics have been brought into this.
What is the weakest articulation that you think is clearly false?
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Well, Chris Mason is focused on btrfs, not so much ext4. See, e.g., http://www.insight24.com/webcasts/content-100695_1