skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a issue of freedom on the web.

That's an overly broad characterization. It has no impact on the vast majority of web users.
As an example, I lived in a neighborhood where there were a lot of people living and our only way to get out was to get on a highway where people routinely drove at 75 mph or higher. There was a wide corner on one end which hid oncoming traffic (but not enough of a corner to slow people down) and a hill on the other end which also hid traffic. At these speeds you typically have freeways with on/off ramps, we had to pull out directly into it. The city ended up putting in a light farther down the road to protect a bigger neighborhood but that didn't help our own. This road wasn't obviously dangerous because of the road itself, the danger was from people getting on the road at low speeds.

Montana has lots of these types of spots because of a state of drivers used to driving at high speeds on roads which service a lot of very spread out communities.
You would have loved it?

If you read the piece more carefully you might have understood that the main problems people see with it are

1. the lack of page numbers, which makes it very difficult to go to particular passages when instructed to do so

2. the way it allows annotation is poorly implemented

I think the consensus was that people would have liked it a lot better if it wasn't for these 2 faults.
Watch it, buddy. Your mistress is your wife (in VR gear), and she's out to nail your two-timing butt.

(Short-story plot by Jeffrey Archer, in an old paperback I absentmindedly read a while ago.)
More to the point, you have to go somewhere 30 miles away all the damn time. If you live in a big city, you don't have to go to another city to see a medical specialist or to go shopping.
The original article is down for me but:

map/reduce is a functional concept. Google use map/reduce. Google is one of the most used, if not biggest applications, on the planet.
Nice work. I showed this to a coworker, who was looking for a way to clean out a bunch of people one of our accounts follows. Unfortunately, he got an error during that initialization phase it seems to go through after login.
What are you trying to accomplish with this? :)
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One obvious issue with the Laffer curve: Nobody actually knows where the peak is.
Collective punishment went out of fashion a long time ago, and besides, that's exactly what would play in to the hands of Berlusconi et al.

Google simply will appeal this and hopefully the appeal judge will be more sensible, if they're not the time for drastic measures may come but the fall out from that will be wildly unpredictable and it will hurt a lot of people that have nothing to do with this.
As one of the lead researchers at the Web Ecology Project- I can confirm that this was also true in 2009 (our finding of a small sample of 1M tweets found it was ~61% at the time). It doesn't shock me at all that it could be down to as low as 50% at this point.

Jon Beilin of our group wrote and open sourced (MIT/X11-license) a Python language detection module that we used on our Twitter database.
http://www.webecologyproject.org/2009/09/code-release-google...

We did not find Japanese to be as high up there as this group did. I can't remember, but I think when we ran ours the Twitter.jp was still running as a separate domain perhaps?
It's the same problem that haunts the software industry. It's hard for people outside the industry to judge the quality of people in the industry and as a result, they choose their partners based on everything but the thing that matters: the quality of their work. As a result, they pay $200 an hour for 'software consultants' that wouldn't recognize a memory leak if their life dependended on it. As a further result, the industry doesn't even try to compete based on quality.
It doesn't ask for your password--Twitter does. It's using OAuth, not the password anti-pattern.
This article is great, I've always felt the same way but this essay framed it and worded it perfectly. Having my thoughts more organized on the subject will come in handy while discussing politics with certain friends.

"You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view"

I love it!
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The idea is that you CAN do what you would do if you ran the world, if you had enough man hours to get you there. A little help here & there, and you can achieve it. All this is possible because you're likely not the only one who wants to do what you want to.

The workflow as we have envisioned it is that you answer the question, and we show you similar action platforms and microactions, so that you can get involved right now with the platform you care about. Or, if nothing matches what you have in mind, you can start your own.
I've been running a Twitter feed for http://Newsley.com for about a month or two. I've been stunned at how much spam is already on twitter.
With OAuth it can still access my account.
15 more suspects named today brings the total to 26!
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Well, we found the issue!

I started to look at the WMT crawl info and there were a bunch of network unreachable errors.

Here is what happened: our site being PR6/7, we started getting a lot of scans for exploits. Some of them over and over. A few months ago I wrote a rule-based procedure to automatically block these IPs at the firewall level.

Well, someone had tricked Googlebot into searching our site by using a "break in" URL, so Googlebot fell trap to that and got blocked.

Interestingly, most of the access to our site from Google were from one IP and it was blocked for a little while.

In the end, since the "admin" site was a copy of the main site, it effectively acted as the backup!

We've taken steps in the rules to not block Googlebot :)
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I don't understand this line of reasoning. How would these convictions stop the web? How will the reversal of these convictions keep the web from being stopped? If it doesn't get reversed at the EU level does this mean that they managed to stop the web? What if a similar conviction happened in Uzbekistan?
This reminds me when there was a site in Greece which was some sort of blog aggregator for many other blogs. This site got in trouble (and closed, its owner prosecuted, etc) when some other blog posted negative stuff about a public person and that person decided to sue the aggregator.
Because once a technique becomes widely used, we stop calling it "functional."

(Loosely borrowed from the same explanation for the lack of success in AI)

Map/reduce comes from functional languages, but now we're used to it. Write-once variables is an idea from functional languages, now used in most optimizing compilers, so now we're used to it. Transforming input to output according to a backtracking state machine is a functional idea, but now we're used to it as various kinds of parsing.

Ten years from now, we'll all be writing web applications with monads, but "functional" programming will have moved farther into the future, an people will ask: "Why are there no big applications written using functional languages?"
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I hate how they equate progressive taxation with justice. It only works if you think justice is when people get equal outcomes regardless of if they deserve it or not. It would be unjust to penalize Warren Buffet and the other titans that drive our economy with 91% marginal tax rates. They don't deserve that kind of treatment, and frankly, I trust them to do much better good with their excess cash than the government ever would.
Yes Yes and Yes I agree with you on all those n_n

A&B - we have a redesigned home page to get rid of the wall of text and the confusing overlay coming very soon.

C- This is one of my least favorite things about the site. I'll +1 to this issue.

Thanks!!
The site seems to be down, so here's the entire post pulled from Google Reader. Note that the author is a Haskell and Scala programmer, and his point is very different than you might think from just the headline out of context:

----

Because there is no such thing as a big application. There is only bigger or smaller. This is a central tenet of functional programming. “Big application” is a euphemism for “My idea of programming does not scale beyond this point.” You don’t realise how much information you give away when you ask this question.

So can we can stop with the piffle and get one with the interesting and important stuff? Ta.

----
Actually, collective punishment is anything but out of fashion. Trade embargoes, for example, punish the whole population of countries instead of just the responsible people in the government.
I don't understand why Google was not able to remove the video - which was one of the most seen on the site - in time (means within few days instead of 2 months).
The simple answer I would give is that functional programmers are harder to find, so fewer big companies want to take on the risk of FP on a large project.

The technical answer I would give is that you wouldn't want to write _all_ of an application using just FP. The higher-level code will usually always be in a traditional imperative style, since it's counterproductive to avoid statefulness at the highest levels. Almost all large projects will use FP techniques in a lot of lower-level areas (except areas with performance sensitivity.) So now the question becomes whether code that is 90% FP but is "poisoned" by imperative code at the highest levels is still FP.
I'm not the most plugged in person to the Japanese Internet, but over the last 6 months or so I've started to see Twitter rise pretty fast here. First it was on the sidebars of the portals, then the Japanese word for "tweet" started to show up in the headlines for the scandal rags that I scan on the train ride to the office, then folks at my office started asking me whether I had a Twitter account yet. So you might be seeing some growth in addition to possible sampling issues.
Google has virtually no human support. Who do you call to have it removed? Instead of hi-tech hi-touch, google is hi-tech no-touch.

Not that I agree with the verdict, but yeah, two months is excessive.
personally, I find that google translate is mostly good enough to tell what people are saying about me (and sometimes for me to fix the problem.)

Still, many people say that Orkuit was killed (from the USian point of view) by the influx of Brazilians. It will be interesting if/how this plays out on twitter. Will you just have people engaging with other people in their own language? will you have positive for everyone mixing? (this has been my experience so far.) or will one language become dominant and will speakers of other languages largely abandon the site, as in the case of orkut (which I can't even remember how to spell at this point.)
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Here's the script I've been using to install the latest version. It was kind of quickly hacked together, and the symlink stuff near the end breaks occasionally, so if anyone's going to use this, you might want to read it over first.

http://gist.github.com/313430
Considering the pace of chance in the last forty years, comparing the 1960s and 1970s to today doesn't seem like sound methodology. I suspect, for example, that it's now considerably easier to vote with your feet.
I wished you were wrong about that :(

But in the case of a company duking it out with a government over the heads of the users 'out of fashion' was meant to be read as counter productive.

Trade embargoes are only a step removed from a blockage, which is considered an act of war.
I agree. The web could maybe be more usable with a standard interface... but it would be awfully boring.
Emacs is not written in a particular 'functional' style. Not a good example for Functional Programming.
Well, I don't know about the US. But I went from xDSL to FTTB (& FTTH) in Sweden and it's cheaper, more reliable and have less latency. I can choose between speeds ranging from 1 to 100Mbit, from eight diffrent ISPs [1]. If you want good performance you need to install new cables and, if done right, FTTP is just the best way to do it.

[1] http://www.stockholm.opennet.se/serviceguide/consumers/inter...
Yes, it can, but it's not the same as giving your password away.

1. you can revoke access throught the Twitter settings.

2. if you use the same password for, say, you're Google account, using OAuth stops this password being revealed to the developer, so they can't access, say, your Google Payments account

There's a big difference between giving the site unrestricted access to your Twitter account and giving it unrestricted access to all your accounts (if they use the same password). Let's not pretend there isn't a difference here.

Anyway, the site is reasonably descriptive about the functions it offers before sending you through the OAuth process.
GDP growth in the US in particular can be misleading, owing to population growth. Growth in GDP per capita may be better.
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Shouldn't he at least pay as much as average joe? He himself conceded that his secretary pays a higher percentage of her income in taxes than he does.
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It's interesting that you started this with "given unlimited money."

Something I've fully accepted lately is that the way we spend our money affects more change than who we vote for (in the USA anyway). So given a huge amount of money, I would start a campaign to educate people about that.
This is just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak sugar. I guess I'll stick with Scratch and Logo for my kid.
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Turning on the blender is obviously insignificant, but we did this as a proof of concept. Right now I'm getting it to work to unlock my door (I just have to machine the clamp). I've cut it down so it's one line of code started with an incron script. I can share it if there's any interest.
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on the maintenance side - I find NGINX conf files to be substantially easier to work with than Apache's - check out the demo conf at the end of this article for example: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10108 .

And setup was pretty easy, as most components are available from the package manner of your choice - http://www.newmediaist.com/n/installing-nginx-mysql-php-fpm-...
earlier thread on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147620
* A stunning variety of nature, from the snowy Dolomites to the north, to the sandy shores of Sicily, with a bit of everything in between... foggy plains, rolling hills, lakes, rivers forests, beaches, etc...

* Nearly as much cultural variety. I spent last weekend in Meran, which 100 years ago was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and is still mostly German speaking, with traditional Tirolean architecture. It's pretty much night-and-day with, say, Sicily, or the almost Greek looking bits of Puglia.

* A truly staggering amount of art and architecture that goes back 3000+ years, from Greek ruins in Sicily to, of course, the Romans, through the middle ages, and so on and so forth. This is really "fractal": you can see Rome and Venice and whatnot, but also see pretty interesting things in the smallest of regional towns.

* A generally pleasant climate.

* Good food. Really good.

* Beautiful girls:-)

Just off the top of my head.
I think the larger implication is not that you can't understand tweets, but that monetization may be pretty hard if majority of tweets aren't in English.
> Having a conviction like this as a lawyer surely must hurt your standing with the bar association in CA.

I highly doubt the bar association in CA would not be able to make up their mind for themselves and see a politically motivated judgement when they see one.
why is that? are there not good non-english ad networks? or is it just that most of the rich consumers speak English?
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I thought Orbitz uses Lisp:

http://www.lemonodor.com/archives/000003.html
That looks very complicated compared to what it needed to be. Can't find the link now, but there was a guy on hackaday or somesuch who connected the vibration alert to his car to start/unlock (don't remember which) it. So, get an old, cheap phone, take out vibration motor, connect to blender on/off toggle, then simply ring the phone and the blender starts. Its free too, because the call never has to go through.

Of course, doing it by sms the way this guy did means you can send it more complex commands.
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147670
Sorry for the stupid question, but could anybody tell me how to actually read a book on Google books? I never seem to find a link to the actual text of the book. (For example I just tried Catch-22 from the list of banned books).
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There are a few composers that truly sing to me. J.S.Bach (with a few exceptions) is one, some of Beethoven's work, especially his later string quartets, and sometimes Mozart, because even though he sometimes seems a bit fluffy, sometimes that's what I want.

But I can get lost in Chopin, again and again.

There are others that occasionally hit the mark. Some Janacek, some Bartok, and a surprising amount of Joplin (which is surprisingly sophisticated).

But I always return to Bach and Chopin.
Thanks for your feedback! We have new homepage in the works which should hopefully clear up some of the confusion.

IE7/8 support is almost done. Almost! :/
I ask for nothing and I get experiences. She loves to plan, book, etc., while I usually find those events worthwhile only after the fact. Win-win, in the end.
And why does this answer blow it open? It seems like a slightly reactionary response to a pretty reasonable question to me.

I don't think anyone's in any doubt that purely functional programs simply aren't used in large systems, for most definitions of "large". There are counter examples (Erlang, EMACS, Jane's Capital) but they're currently the exception. I think it's totally reasonable to ask why this is, and how we might change it - either by making functional languages more accessible, or by promoting functional programming concepts in mainstream languages. It's totally possible to write largely referentially transparent programs in Java, for example, but most people don't do it - partly because the language and its idioms don't promote it, but also because the average Java programmer hasn't been exposed to the concepts. Maybe the "average" Java programmer would struggle to understand them, but a lot of them wouldn't. This second group could go on to promote functional programming, either in a more functional language or in Java - either way this is good, I think. Dismissing this sort of question out of hand doesn't help this process.

See also: http://prog21.dadgum.com/41.html - this blog has a lot of interesting material on this theme.
oh also, thanks for starting that other thread. the more people think about what our world _could_ be and the complexity of change, the better equipped we are to do something given the opportunity. plus, maybe someone will be inspired to start something on IWRTW ;)
More detail on why and where classic novels were banned here:

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychall...

Hailing from the Emerald Isle, I find it embarrassing how many of these books were banned in Ireland.
Hmm:

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We need this for android.
It took me a minute to figure it out, but the title is not saying that YC is rejecting entrepreneurship blogs, but that a person rejected from YC is blogging about entrepreneurship.
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The Google blog says: The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police.

What more can you reasonably expect them to do?
Does this publish anything to my Twitter feed? I've had services unexpectedly do this in the past, to the point where I think new Twitter-related services need a disclaimer that says "we won't publish anything to your feed without your explicit approval - we hate that stuff too."
Having no controller means there’s nothing to learn.

I'm continually amazed at the no-nonsense business, engineering and gaming sense and deep insights that Nintendo brought to the Wii. Reading the Iwata Asks articles provides great nuts'n'bolts info from their design process.

http://wiiportal.nintendo-europe.com/455.html

Microsoft seems to be in the razzle-dazzle, bullshit phase at the moment. That quote at the top is so wrong I wouldn't know where to start with someone who believed it. I sincerely hope the actual engineers building this aren't listening to their own hype.
I've been using lighttpd for static files for a few years and never had any problems. It's faster and less resource intensive than Apache, and it's literally never crashed.
"Read what I wrote again...Hence, for that set of users, the App Store just got better."

Which is different from what you were saying. I said they didn't solve the problem. You said they did. Now you are saying that you really said the App Store just got better, which is completely different.

Yes, the App Store got better for you. However, the problem (as the person you responded to made reference to) still exists. The App Store is still crappy in displaying things you are interested in. They didn't change anything in that regard.

The problem still exists.
I don't actually see why Google even bothered opening office in Italy. Italy is part of the EU so they could easily use their Ireland office for invoicing and everything else inside the EU.

Just as I don't think they have official offices in each US state they don't need to have offices in each EU state.

They are just looking for trouble given the peculiarities of each state which includes law and tax system but also gray stuff like corruption, political pressure, etc.
Perhaps, but I thought relevant based on the recent lively discussion of their mac mini colocation service.
No, it does not publish anything unless you explicitly say so (double confirm).
Interesting. I had one other report of this so added some better error handling. Will have to log this stuff a bit more.
Yes: publish software that does not include a trojan horse.
Chopin is the best French composer.
Yes, but which great medium sized function app could we point people to ?

So, on one side of the spectrum you have functional factorial and then towards the middle you have Emacs, and on the other side you have (arguably) Google with map-reduce.
No, the problem had a consequence. They merely removed the consequence of the problem. The problem still exists.

I understand what you are saying. I just think the 'solution' was lazy, shortsighted, and doesn't help Apple consumers in the long run, and doesn't solve the problem.
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Interesting strategy. I wonder if eBay could be used to generate leads of other sorts... perhaps customers for your startup as well?
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I strongly suspect Warren Buffet pays orders of magnitude more tax than his secretary.

If you're arguing that he should pay the same percentage of his overall income in tax as his secretary, fine, but that's a different argument.