skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a giant labyrinthine maze of data that only they have the time and processing power to sort through

Not even they have the time and processing power to sort through it.
Every request from a different place ultimately is fulfilled by the original host barring some extreme caching (which you can also use http headers to instruct against). This is completely different than the case of it being taken from the original host and put up on scribd, which could easily be a copyright violation. An HTTP 200 response is implied consent for an end-user (or even a robot) to view it, not to redistribute it. AFAIK scribd does not crawl for content (with them then hosting that would be blatantly illegal in the US) so robots.txt is not really applicable.
Whats so wrong with saying n-word when referring to it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N6Phmale_Q#t=1m58s (nsfw)
retard, v. To slow the progress of; impede or delay

retarded, adj. Slow or backward in mental or emotional development

Those sound innocuous enough to me, but "challenged" is the vogue and should be safe for 20 years or so.
> I would argue that technological advances are a large part of what makes the west's standard of living greater.

While that's true, it doesn't contradict my assertion.

> As an example, inventing a cheaper, scalable, and distributed (unhindered by corrupt central governments)

The parenthetical comment concedes my point.

The West has provided enough resources to solve those problems a couple of times, yet they're not solved. Why would solving them more efficiently make any difference next time?

Yes, I realize that you're putting a lot of weight on distributed, but the relevant people mastered retail theft and corruption - that's how they got into a position to do wholesale.

And yes, it's a fantastic technological challenge. My point is that solving it won't solve the problems.
Taming financial risk: the gods strike back
Must be run by an MBA
"everyone is way too sensitive about language and being a victim any time someone else says something careless."

I'm still thinking in my own mind about the other points you raised, but +1 for exactly this.

Kids (and sometimes adults) should be taught or reminded that it's careless and insulting to use words like "retarded" and "gay" and "fag" in a careless or insulting way. It's a matter of good manners, not a March on Washington.
I think that the point is that she wasn't even blaming the guy. She was blaming the porn which is stupid. "He wouldn't have been such an asshole if porn wasn't around," is a naive statement to make.
I think a lot of us just fail to see how much value actually gets created by "MBA types". When you're used to seeing really small companies make really big exits, the corporate world can start to seem like so much paper shuffling.

If you're a smart, ambitious twentysomething, there are two obvious routes. You can get an MBA, work your way up the ladder via a series of safe but stressful jobs and maybe become a VP by the time you're forty. Or you can study engineering, found a startup with a friend, have a whale of a time and have a decent shot at becoming financially independent within a couple of years. If you're young and have nothing much to lose, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
> What you say is an indictment of the inhumanity of the prison system, not an argument in favor of the death penalty.

I'm not arguing in favor of the death penalty. I'm pointing out that one of the most popular anti-death penalty arguments is crap.

If you like, it's an indictment of the folks who argue against the death penalty because it kills innocents. If they cared about killing innocents, the death chamber is the last place to look.

However, if you're looking to feel good about yourself, have at it.
Education in Europe is only cheap if you're a European Union citizen. As an overseas citizen, you won't be eligible to any government subsidy. In the UK, that would mean about $20K per year for an undergraduate course, which is still not very expensive compared to some US universities, but not as cheap as the Home/EU fee (which is around $4800 a year).

Education for Home/EU students from disadvantaged backgrounds is free, of course.
youd be broke rather fast (if it took off)
People are offended by a ton of ridiculous stuff.

It's actually quite hard to work out what words you're talking about :/ Why not just write them.

>> "The real question is why are you fighting to be able to say it?"

Because I don't think it's healthy to attach such horror and outrage at simple words. It's like in Harry Potter where they dare not mention the V word, they just refer to him as 'he who should not be named'.
Currently, I'm replying to a comment about a blog post, so I can avoid writing Matlab code. I must be the ultimate procrastinator.
barredo, I'm very surprised you say this. I don't use to watch TV, but every time I do, I find the politicians are noticeably more politically correct in their language than the previous time: "subsaharianos", "ciudadanos y ciudadanas" (even if Spanish, unlike English, doesn't ask for this kind of distinction), "discapacidad", "etnia"... IOW se la cogen con papel de fumar :-)
Buzz may or may not be dead, but I prefer it to twitter for every reason you listed.

I don't want to bother logging into another account to check something, but since buzz is right there, I'll check it.

The fact that anyone can inline images or video, and in the future other forms of multimedia content is great.
Nah he wasn't being funny. He was just trying to shock people and being offensive.

Funny would be Ali G talking about his homies niggaz pimpin' gangsta stuff.
Oh, from the original post I took it that it replaced your link with a scribd link (rather than adding a second link). I still think it is a questionable practice, but find it much less objectionable than I did at first.
twilio is pay-as-you-go, so this probably doesn't cost him more than 10 bucks a month.
What is it that you don't agree with? Are you saying that everyone that watches porn immediately likes everything they see and adopts it as a defacto standard in the bedroom? If so, why are there not more people complaining about their lover/sex-buddy wanting 2girl1cup-style sex?

Is it not more reasonable that people watch porn and then adopt the things that they see which appeal to them? If so, then this whole argument is about whether or not people should be allowed exposure to new ideas which they might agree with and adopt into their view of the world (and/or expectations of it).
Links to this article, which says that VBA (Visual Basic for Applications -- the scripting language used within Office) support is returning.

I was just commenting on its absence the other day, in helping a friend with their transition to Mac.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/189123/microso...
I agree to being minimalist, with the notable exception of kitchen supplies. It's near impossible to cook interesting food without cabinets full of spices, various sized pots and pans, utensils of all shapes, and in some cases, specialty items like blenders, strainers, etc. Add to that a pantry full of food staples, and a full refrigerator, and suddenly moving anywhere is a painful process.

Life is too short to live on ramen.
IMO, Silverman had less of a chance of getting away with this at a TED talk because she's really not that clever. Her schtick is: cute innocent jewish girl + naughty words = hilarity.

I cringed when the article compared her use of the word 'retard' to Colbert's routine where he calls Palin a 'fucking retard'. Here's the difference: Colbert spent about 10 minutes building up to the slur. The political allusions, the searing sarcasm, and the final shockingly unsubtle slur was brilliant. And made me cry from laughing.

Silverman, OTOH, has reached the level of humor that I got bored with in 7th grade. If her routine actually had some intelligence to it, she probably could have gotten away with much worse.
Visualizing the Cosmic All
It's an incredible tool for screencasters (I used that for a "Introduction to jQuery"). Invaluable, really.
That is such a useful phrase. I'd hate to forget it. Here, could you write it down for me on the back of this postage stamp using this banana to write with? Thanks.
Nice work. The smaller font on your site made me realize how much empty space there is on the right side of HN; never noticed that before.
Charlie Stross, Vernor Vinge and others discuss The Singularity
Very cool, worked as advertised. Two things:

1) It sent me a text letting me know the message had been received, and another with the result. The confirmation was nice, but since the messages came 2 seconds apart you could skip the first one and save 3 cents.

2) Would be nice if it followed 301 redirects.
The idea that porn is to blame is wrong though. There is plenty of porn where the sex is not 'just happening' to the woman.

The fact that people seek out porn where sex 'happens' to women and/or adopt it as their point of view says more about society than about porn. Porn is just a scapegoat.
Also Alastair Reynolds and Karl Schroeder - but I ran out of space in the title.
I wouldn't go that far. It's the mindset of most people, almost everyone who hasn't specifically trained themselves to be minimalist. People with enough income can afford to hoard as long as you don't give them too much easy credit, though, so it doesn't hurt them in the same way it hurts people with less income.
> I completely disagree with the premises behind your statement that "people who don't kill their own children merely because they have some issues are relatively virtuous."

Fair enough. So, let's find out what issues qualify and how this all works.

Let's start with the obvious - are fetus' special and when? For example, if a pregnant woman doesn't find out about the issues until a week before birth, do you think that it's wrong for her to not abort? How about if she finds out a week after birth? Should the kid be killed?

Now let's talk about issues. How retarded is too retarded to live? Is retarded the only issue? How about blind, deaf, missing a limb or two? What about the mother's circumstances? Suppose she's a crack addict. Or, just incredibly poor. Or retarded? (There's progressive supreme court decision arguing that "three generations of imbiciles is enough" - the case involved forcible sterilization.)

Me - I'm pro-abortion. (Yes, I know that pro-choice folks say that folks like me don't exist. Unlike some of them, I'm just honest.) However, I'd never tell someone that they're obligated to have an abortion.
No, they didn't. People think that the "want to find out more?" screen was the opt-in point, but it wasn't. The opt-in point was when you made your first Buzz post, when you were told this meant creating a public Google profile.

There are millions of gmail users who haven't done this, and consequently have no public profile, and no information exposed. Users were not forced into anything. Buzz is there and inviting, sure, but I read the screen and was well aware of what would happen.

(Compare Facebook, which did recently force its users into publicising their names, small profile image and contacts list, with nary a whimper. It was a much more complicated opt-out box, too)
I voted you up, but you made one mistake; it should have "MBAs in the last couple of decades that made clueless business decisions". I have been reading almost identical complaints about the lack of real value in the MBA since the early 1990s.
Chromosome caps presage the brain's decline
She's a doctor. Sure, it's a lot of money, but it sounds manageable on a typical doctor's salary.
Lean Usability Presentation
Orkut is hardly dead, just because a product isn't popular in your market doesn't mean it's dead.
Nice. I didn't realize today's HTML implementations were handling soft hyphens. When I last tried that it didn't work, but that was a long time ago.
I didn't say he was being funny. I said he was trying to be funny. The crucial point is that white people very rarely succeed in being funny when they say "nigger".
Can you tell us a little more about this? How easy it's to set up?
> This is not an error that affects climate research.

If they're wrong about the things that I can check, why should I assume that they're correct about the things that I can't check?
Absolutely! There are lots of one-person projects on Github; I have a few of my own. They already do what I want, but could be expanded to be useful to more people. Anyone who wants to dive in could make a big difference.

The tricky bit is that I'm not really looking for one-person open source projects to contribute to, so how would I ever notice them? It seems like there's an opportunity here.
> The wealth of a society can only exist with the aid of rule of law and relatively social stability.

Do you really think that rich people benefit more than the poor from rule of law and social stability? If so, you're wrong.
Thanks, but I haven't lived long enough to see MBAs in the 90's. I've only started working in the 2000's.

I've heard that was the case, but I never looked into what happened in the 90's. Thanks for the heads up.
I agree about not needing the confirmation. I actually got the confirmation 5 seconds after the result.
Everyone I know prefers amateur porn. I probably wouldn't be interested in a woman who was uncomfortable with what goes in in most amateur porn.

Of course, everyone I know is reasonably intelligent. In my humble opinion, you'd have to be an incredibly silly person to think commercial porn represents a model to aspire to. Frankly, if she's sleeping with guys in their 20s who act like commercial porn actors, I bet she has pretty poor taste in men.
I'm not at all convinced he was trying to be funny, which is the crucial difference for me. If he had been really trying to amuse his audience, no matter how cringe-worthy, I think they would have (and should have) let him off the hook. But he was really angry at the hecklers and it definitely didn't seem to me like he was using the word to make them or anyone else laugh.
Sending Mails with own Exim: Google account example.
Oh I see. I always assumed when I saw that, that somebody had uploaded a scribd link and an admin had modified it to go to the straight pdf. Thanks for the correction.
Part of the problems is that people who take out these loans are the least educated in personal finance and how to manage money. Unless you have a good parent or counselor guidance behind you, it is very easy to make mistakes that can cost you alot down the road. Maybe it should be a requirement as part of high school curriculum to teach students about personal finance.
It takes time, effort, practice, and purpose. Figure out what you really want to do. That's your first challenge.
He might have some valid points but too bad he can't get into them too deeply in any article since he's trying to sell this new book of his. Oh well, I'll wait for it to hit the public library.
>In fact, it's a sign of a very poor or inexperienced programmer if their first thought on encountering a bug is to blame someone else.

Very true.
The observation that the current set of networks / communication platforms "chop[s] up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush" is interesting.

I do see something of a progressive decrease in community in my cyberspace dealings, as everything gets more connected and networky: the BBSs I was on had typically very strong community that persisted over time, early web stuff was not quite the same but still reasonably strong (mailing lists, the heydey of kuro5hin.org), and that's increasingly gotten sort of diluted.
even though I don't understand buzz very well yet, it seems to be nicely integrated into Android. Showing buzz on google maps is just a button away.

I wouldn't call it dead yet...
Oddly enough I cited that exact quote a few weeks ago on the arc forum: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=11185
I made one like this a while ago, it is nowhere near as powerful as fiddle, but it helps me from time to time

http://pastebin.me/eab163a47b5838173c7d76f5f29cd6b1
cool! will you release the theme?
I have lots and lots of stuff. Some I use regularly or at least often enough. Some I used to use and keep just in case, its not like its costing me. And some I got just in case, mostly science, math, and engineering books I found cheap and think I might get to some day (they are also a useful investment, I've been mostly living off of reselling some of them the last year that I've been out of work).

But I am not ruled by my stuff, I have in the past, and could again, just abandon most of it when I move again. What I know and can do is what is most important to me; and that is mostly what my belongings are actually about - books, tools, supplies for learning and doing.

"The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever."

-- Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
No Flash for Windows Mobile 7 (at launch)
Cool project. Not your fault, but all these soft hyphens really destroy source readability. I also wonder if this could cause keyword/seo problems.
Thank you for a hint to the author.
If it's close to the horizon then there's a definite "up" - towards the zenith. Many telescopes invert the incoming image, hence why the kids would've thought it was upside-down.

(I am assuming the object in question was visible with the naked eye, probably the moon, although it's also possible that the children noticed that when the telescope moved, the image appeared to move in the "wrong" direction relative to their expectations.)
If a couple isn't in the same ballpark on sex, they should probably not be a couple.

If a woman really wants rose petals/sonnets, she shouldn't have to wait for her birthday to get it. It's hardly an unreasonable request every 1-2 weeks. And if her partner can't give it to her, she should move on.
Couldn't have said it better - there's a huge variety of porn out there - and I personally dislike anything overtly "porn-star" like. There's truly something for all tastes when it comes to pornography on the internet - the fact that your significant other is seeking one type of porn above others probably signals his preferences moreso than his porn is dictating things to him.

It's the age-old causality question: do men choose porn based on existing sexual preferences, or does porn dictate people's sexual preferences? I'm more inclined to think that it's mostly the former and a bit of the latter.
Angry shouting, and saying things to shock people, are both well-known comedic techniques though. So it's just as possible he's just a lousy comedian.

But this is a tangent. We should really be discussing the lousy comedian this thread is supposed to be about.
Weird - it should only happen if page is reloaded and no POST request is send.

What browser/OS etc.?

BTW thanks for info
It is loading the example by submitting a form.
The submit goes to an iframe which is by definition a sandboxed environment
Lesbian porn. Female Dom. female targetted porn. And all sorts of other genres. :-)

There is also a small genre of pornography which shows realistic sex.
I am from Honduras one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and if you go to poor neighborhoods you will see very cheap and small houses, but in their garage you will see very good cars, they rather have a nice car than live in a nice house or decent neighborhood. It's strange.
And so any labeling system needs to emphasize that it is incomplete, and that vitamins/minerals that we've located might simply be the markers of good food: not the sole constituents. It's like correlations versus causality.
You've got the page only after adding "show/" after the link with the demo - http://jsfiddle.net/wr8qE/show/ - just look at the source.

The goal is to actually see the code working and remove the repetitive hassle
It'd be good if after you entered some text, the sample at the bottom showed the text you entered un-hyphenated and hyphenated for easy comparison, rather than keeping the Article 7 sample.
I think it's about how telescopes show images upside down, except for those that flip them back with mirrors.
Depends what you mean by "something," I suppose. Pedigree and pathway, sure. Knowledge and real training? That's the issue being discussed here.
> …melodramatic pronunciations of Buzz's death

By "already dead," what I really meant was "Buzz is doomed from a user experience point of view," not "Buzz is already a ghost town." (And as cabalamat guesses, there is probably some wishful thinking involved.)
It doesn't need to be such a point of contention and resentment, though -- the author of the article writes as if sex is a begrudging gift, and that the way she happens to view sex is the way we men need to learn to see it. In short: emotionally she's about 11 years old.
Retirement is about Money, not Age
Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin [INTERVIEW]
I did that: http://www.happyfunline.com/

Didn't know there was a contest though!
Everyone needs to lighten up. I like Sarah, I think part of her standup is funny. The joke isn't that she's using the word retarded, the joke is the utter ridiculousness of her approaching an adoption agency and saying, "please give me your most retarded baby, but I also want them to be terminally ill."

Maybe I'm insensitive or too immature, but that makes me laugh like crazy. Just imaging the look on the adoption agency person's face is hilarious.

Here's a similar clip of Evil Dave Letterman from the Howard Stern show calling an adoption agency asking for a black kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXrhI2q-EeI
I dont know about you all, but Buzz makes a lot more sense to me than Facebook+Twitter combined. My real social network is in my inbox and my Buzz is exploding with great live discussions I'm having with friends and all sorts of interesting folks in their addressbooks.

Being gmail-based also provides a natural content filter: somehow gmail accounts are relatively free of morons who tend to inhabit hotmail/AOL, hence the advantage of higher quality discussions on Buzz as opposed to Facebook.

That, plus the absense of a silly message length limit make buzz the only social network I'm using.
... or are you just happy to see me?

It's an interesting write-up in support of compiler-related bugs, with a couple examples (something sorely missed in many others).
I couldn't live without tree style tabs!
Earlier post on the "Big Bang Theory" show that is the topic of this blog. The blog was linked in the posted Wired article.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124202
Whats so wrong with saying n-word when referring to it?

Because to matter how much lipstick you slap on a pig, it's still a pig.

(Apologies to my sus brethren.)((Oh, and just be clear, we're talking about the word and the word only.))
could you provide a link please?
IIRC, when I joined (circa mid 08) it did replace your link with one to Scribd. There was some questioning about whether this was right, people don't like the Scribd layout, blah blah, and I believe the decision was made to add a Scribd link but keep the original.
I can't even imagine paying that kind of money for an education. To make that up would take most of your career for most people when one of the points of an education is to increase your average salary over not having bothered. If the delta between those two doesn't work out for most of your career, you may as well not bother.

The interesting bit is that, at least in the U.S., one can go to decent schools relatively cheaply. In-state tuition at state schools is anywhere from 1:4 to 1:12 ratios with private and out-of-state schools (that is to say, a person could get an entire B.x. and M.x. at a public school for about the same cost as a semester or year at a private institute).
You are right with your correction. I just read again what I wrote - it's quite harsh I see. Should have been in bed long time ago :D

My intention was: The mindset of poor and average people is commonly very affected by this, with least barriers, falling into a rat race, as a cause and a consequence.