skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering what the difference between this "chocolate croissant" and a pain au chocolat was. (I have seen pains au chocolat described as chocolate croissants in the northern CA area.)
They specifically do not stand up in court in Germany. I don't have information on other countries.
I can't believe that page doesn't feature my favourite bad film dialogue quote, from the volcano disaster movie Dante's Peak:

Harry Dalton: My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out, but put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death.

Nancy: Your recipe for frog soup?

Harry Dalton: No. It's my recipe for a disaster
I actually got the point, I was saying that it was still obvious which part was bigger, which is what a pie chart should be used for. Anything more complex than that, and it's being used incorrectly.
Honestly, I always find split bars easier to read in terms of proportions than a pie. The human mind is better at estimating linear distances than angles.

Not to mention with split bars you can more easily show the proportional change of things over another axis (usually time).
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OK. So people should suppress the warning in those cases, so as not to desensitize?
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I don't know about the owner of the site, but I would not have appreciated that screenshot. Then again, if you're letting your site spit out detailed errors, you're doing it wrong.
Though you are right that foldl and friends don't always help you. Especially in strict languages. But you can define your own combinators---to hide away the recursion in.
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Yes exactly, he will be drafted into the Russian army because he will still be a Russian citizen. (Not sure what you're WTFing. Did you think he meant drafted into the US army?)
A big drawback I find is that this sort of ease is only true if there is a LaTeX stylesheet already in exactly the format you want. Not all conferences provide LaTeX stylesheets, in which case you have a huge hassle, because the stylesheet language for making your own is terrible.
The underwear sizing chart link on this page:
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incorrectly pops up the shirt sizing chart
I think we're heading for a sea change in the way people interact with the internet. The signs of it are all steadily creeping into view, but we haven't quite gone over the edge yet. WCM vs CRM isn't really it though, that's just another sign.
Interesting definition of a fundamental right. All the usual suspects (speech, movement, association, due process, etc) don't depend on technology (and, incidentally infrastructure). I just can't come around to the idea that access to telecommunications is "fundamental".
So, for those that don't get it, this appears to be one of those self-referential charts.

The percentage of blue pixels in the chart is shown by the red section of the chart, and vice-versa (notice the labeling).

See also: http://xkcd.com/688/
Carrey's site broke my monitor (I was compelled to punch it.)
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Well, he could have explained it differently, no? I personally would prefer (and use myself) "I can if you like, but the problem will be..."
yes I got it, I could still see which part was bigger.
The only massively useful one is about remembering names. I've always been naturally good at this (and remembering birthdays, anniversaries and other random shit about people).

It opens lots of doors.
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I once debated with a science teacher (when I was 10 years old) that astronomy and astrology are not the same. She didn't believe me.
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Why is the Blue label pointing to the red region and the Red label pointing to the blue region? Or are their lines actually pointing to the back of the chart where you can't see the line ends?
It's hard to find a routine check-list that doesn't have this sort of problem. We've investigated the idea of inserting deliberate errors in the diagnostics systems used by our engineers for exactly this reason. Sometimes even though a reading is OK we could show red. The system logs would show that this has been done, and if the engineer report doesn't, we know the check-list hasn't been followed properly.

But it's hard. We have intelligent, clever people, and mundane checks don't come easy. In some cases the more clever and capable someone might be, the worse the problem becomes.
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Interesting. This reminds me of blacksocks.com, which have been doing nearly the same thing for over 10 years now.
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I agree that it's just a beginning. We will release soon our version of that concept.
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...which reads, with a couple of exceptions, like a list of countries where the BBC World Service has the bulk of its audience.
He can really bring something new and enter into the mainstream. They are not mutually exclusive.

Getting the "freaks and the fuckers" off the site doesn't prevent the service from doing something new.

I think the idea of being connected to people one-on-one is appealing and don't think the appeal will fade.

If only if there could be more serendipity with who you are connected with... I think that is an interesting opportunity right now.
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My bad. Title edited to add date.
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What you're talking about isn't a racial thing, it's an economic status thing and I've heard of it in many different countries throughout the world. People who can't afford both a nice house and a nice car, will often get as nice of a car as they can since this is a status symbol that more people will see.

Why Cadillac might be chosen in the US probably has to do with availability and reputation.
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What are you using the graph for? If you're trying to convey information, a 3d chart of any sort at all is less than effective. If nobody cares about the information and you're going through the motions of a "presentation" for merely corporate-cultural reasons, a 3d chart may add some useful bling.
Your brain doesn't see pixels. It sees volume. And it is really good at doing so. You can process 1000x the amount of information in 3D that you can in 2D. http://aqumin.blogspot.com/
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I see where you are going. Getting a large pool to pick from isn't going to be a problem.
You are being fooled, as pie charts often do.

There are more blue pixels in the image than red. This is because of the thickness of the disk. Therefore in representing the proportion of blue pixels it's more than half the area of the circle. Therefore he has one slice which is more than half the area of the circle, and that half represents the blue pixels. He colors that red.

And vice versa.

The diagram is completely accurate, and very misleading. Adn deliberately so. It can be difficult to get pie charts to represent data accurately, and in a way that doesn't mislead the viewer.

On the other hand, correct use of pie charts can be very effective. It's just that you don't often see it.
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That's what the military spending visualization czar should do, anyway.
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"Fail quickly" always annoyed me. The part that annoys me the most is that institutionalized tend to view "I failed to the tune of several million dollars" as validation of somebody's investment worthiness. Sure there are lessons to be learned in failure. More often than not, the lesson seems to be "I learned how to convince VCs to give me money for a bad idea and an incompetent team!"
There is a growing attitude in the Internet community that content is worth very little, static content is worth nothing, and old content is the abyss looking back at you. I see it reflected in the new obsession with fleeting bits of nothing.

Personally, I find myself coming back to websites that cultivate their own content, offering both insight and substance. Perhaps the ideas I find there are old by the standards of Twitter or Facebook, but I suspect they are the better for the chance to mature.
Maybe - hard to tell. What about thermological? Does it really mean what they think it means?
I find that quote really puzzling - what is the supposed advantage of taking the fun out of game development?
How so? It was published in peer-reviewed journals. The modern debunker was unaware of the previous experiments, and they messed up the protocol, so their debunkings are illegitimate. What's dubious about it?
It is all about cultural relativity. This blogger grows up in Western culture so it is so natural for him to perceive things or norms that are different from his norms/culture as being weird.

For example, he complained a lot about the Japanese greeting "You're tired". About how it doesn't make sense.

However, to many Japanese, it is just a way of saying "hi".

Dude, a Japanese coming to US will complain about the greeting "What's up" being so freaking weird and rude.

Yeah, the sky is up!
From Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys:

When is it okay to throw away a set of veteran underwear?

a. When it has turned the color of a dead whale and developed new holes so large that you're not sure which ones were originally intended for your legs.

b. When it is down to eight loosely connected underwear molecules and has to be handled with tweezers.

c. It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody -- and we are not naming names, but this would be his wife -- is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.
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It reads as bitterly sarcastic to me.
Nope. That's an arbitrary-thing-printing equation, controlled by a parameter that you have to set to a Very Large Number to make it display anything interesting. The Very Large Number is not part of what the formula displays. To get a genuinely self-displaying formula you'd need to throw in some Goedel/Quine tricksiness.
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I use Markdown → HTML → PDF (by princexml).
Pie charts, IMO, are almost never the correct choice. Even in cases where there's a logical summation to 100%, absolute values (the size of the pie altogether) is often also relevant; and pies with many slices are hard to compare, when the angles for different slice shadings are at different orientations.

Finally, too many charts rely on colour rather than patterns or markings to distinguish choices. That usually makes them hard to read for colour-blind people, as light shades of green and yellow, or dark blue and purple, etc. end up being used.
Thanks for this. It is actually in Canada where I live so this applies to me.
All I can think when reading this blog post is: Owned.
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Well, no, because now Branson is a grinning arse responsible for the worst train company in the UK despite getting billions of taxpayer subsidy every year.
great to see some real numbers behind a startup!
You could tell something was wrong with the MW2 game; it was still great but the OTT plot and "unfinished" feel was apparent.

I'm not surprised to read they a) didnt want to do it and b) Activision was interfering.

Shame.
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I think it is - it also depends on how the question is phrased.

I don't think anyone owes anyone free broadband internet access - we have the right to free speech, that doesn't mean you get to use the postal service for free. It does mean, however, that we recognize the overwhelming good for society that a system that carries free and open speech can provide, and make efforts to ensure it is accessible to all.

Similarly, for the internet I think our stance ought to be that it is something that provides an overwhelming good for not only this country, but for the globe in general. For this reason we should be ensuring that it is affordable and reliable to all.

Likewise, I think it is a right in the sense that no one should be denied access to it. Nowadays so many critical, vital functions to a normal life is online (searching/applying to jobs, basic information retrieval, etc) that short of some grave, enormous threat, no one should be barred from using the internet.
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Farewell Sun, nice month for Larry Ellison
Now let's see Google index THAT!

PS. Have to love all those <p>&nbsp;</p> lines..
A couple of points about this, it seems everywhere is jumping up and down pointing and laughing, but there's currently no crack for Assassins Creed 2 so pirates didn't profit and also, the problem is only local to the US. Internationally, the game works fine.

I also doubt it's a DDoS.
> I don't know if I'd say MLK, Gandhi, or Franklin really "sought the spotlight". Their fame was mostly incidental of their deeds and wasn't particularly sought after, as a movie starlet or other pop-culture would-be icon might seek after fame.

I picked those three examples carefully - they're all men that heavily, actively courted attention and exposure, sometimes in very radical ways. Now, they did it for good reasons and put their fame to good usage, but they all were incredibly self promoting. Franklin was prolific at writing, debating, negotiating, and promoting his works and opinions. He even wrote about himself humorously in the third person under pseudonyms, making ridiculous claims at times. Gandi wrote 60+ letters per day to the most famous people in the world, including almost all world leaders, and actively courted press, especially for his hunger strike when he was almost constantly surrounded by media. MLK of course staged many demonstrations and gave many prominent speeches, going out of his way to break laws and get arrested in the name of civil disobedience.

All three of those men actively courted attention and media coverage, and thus fame - now, if the argument was, "don't seek fame for fame's sake", or "only become famous if you have a good reason to aside from pride" - I could buy that. But it's not what the author said. He said only idiots want to be famous. I'm rather certain Franklin, Gandhi, and King all knew what they were getting into and wanted to be famous. I also think none of those guys were idiots.

> Full disclosure on this, I guess, is that I also can't see much appeal in fame.

I feel the same way personally, but I don't think intending to get famous is stupid. The more people who know who you are, the bigger potential impact you can have. Actually, that's a pretty hard consideration I've made - some of the things I want to do would make me rather famous if I succeeded. I mean, hell, I spoke at a small conference once in a big city, and I was greeted 5-6 times while going about my day for the next week. That's a little scary, y'know? So I see it as a hard tradeoff, but it probably makes sense for a lot of people.

Edit: Didn't expect to be downvoted on this one - did I make a factual error? I know fame is commonly associated with degeneracy, but I think that's mistaken - saying "Benjamin Franklin actively wanted to get famous, and did so, and used his fame for good" - is that incorrect? I think the same of MLK and Gandhi. Actively wanted to get famous, and did so, and used their fame for good. Agree? Disagree?
You've never worked for an American company that tried to tell you what you could/couldn't do outside of work? Either you've had good luck or I've had bad because every place I worked for tried to impose their rules beyond the office parking lot. Maybe it was due to working in a "right to work" state?
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Yeah, certainly. I'd just feel really nervous about taking something with that large of an exposed screen anywhere. I'm already nervous enough as is about my phone. Seems like a recipe for scratches/cracks/destroyed screens. You could get a padded case with hard backing on one side, I suppose (effectively duplicating the clamshell protections). Still, though, where are you going to take it? Haul one of those out to dinner with you and folks are gonna be staring at you awfully fully.
Yeah, Asia is different from the US. Different people, different cultural values.

I went to high school in Japan for a year, so I disagree with some of the author's points. Nobody tried to isolate me from the "real" students, for example. Nobody really cared that I was different from them; there was too much other stuff to worry about (exams, extracurricular activities, etc.) I think a lot of people think that they are going to get special treatment for being white, and then don't, and then call it racism. (And admittedly, there is a little of that from normal people, and it is usually cleared up when you are able to explain your situation in Japanese. Same as any culture -- until you speak their language, you are considered retarded. We do it in the US, too.)

Anyway, I know a lot of people in Japan that are software developers, and they opt out of the whole "salaryman" thing too. In the end, it's your choice how to spend your life. There is the easy path of least resistance, but if you don't like that, then you can do something else. Just like everywhere else in the world.

The only thing I don't like about Japan is the political and criminal justice system. This is beginning to annoy Japanese people, too, though, so the era of their third-world criminal justice system is probably coming to an end. Maybe they will get rid of the rich career politicians too, although even the US can't figure that one out :)

(Looks like they finally have the concept of a "trial by peers" now, although it's not quite like the common-law system. Better than "you're guilty because some judge thinks so", however.)
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Especially google's own SEO Starter's guide:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimiza...
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I think it's similar the right to food. _Human Rights, A Very Short Introduction_ mentions that the right to food is shorthand for a complex set of obligations concerning "food security":

* Obligation to respect: Immediate, basic obligations include that a government can't undermine food security (like unjustified crop destruction and land evictions), must plan for the population's needs, and can't allow discrimination regarding access to food.

* Obligation to protect: A further level of obligation is protecting people's food security from interference by others. (This may include regulating food safety, ensuring that indigenous people with a close cultural link to land have a title to it, etc.)

* Obligation to facilitate: A further one is to facilitate food security. Like stimulating employment so people can afford it, land reform, and developing distribution and storage facilities. Or providing food or social security to those who can't work, such as the infirm.

Almost all of this could be applied to internet access.
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I like the picture included with the article. You know a company's successful when they give everyone those incredibly expensive and ergonomically poor cubicles instead of a $60 IKEA table.
CoffeeScript is implemented in CoffeeScript itself, and this is the unabridged source code for it, in literate programming style.

Quick links to other interesting bits (also accessible from the "Jump to" link on that page):

The Lexer, which has some extra smarts to help keep the grammar cleaner than it otherwise would be:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...

The implementation of lexical scope:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...

The "coffee" command-line utility:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...

All of those pages are created by a little literate-programming-style documentation generator called "Docco". If you run it on itself, you get this:

http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/

Hopefully we'll get some good patches from having the source in the open like this.
Not when what you're presented with is a 3d pie chart, you can't.
Yes. What if the data plainly presented show that the stimulus plan was plainly a waste of money?

P.S. How many of you, when you hear announcements of how many jobs have been saved by the stimulus plan, immediately do the mental arithmetic to figure out how many dollars of taxpayer funds were spent to save each job? I think I could do better in my family in keeping us all actively employed in work helpful to society with the same number of dollars per employable person.
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Hearing that makes me more likely to buy some -- less chance of spectacular unpredicted failure modes if it's been in use for ages.
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i think allowing people to opt in or out of adult content chats and reporting abuse / banning ip's that violate would go along way to keeping the edgeyness of the internet while allowing the mainstream the ability to live in their shell.