skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's perhaps true but the broader point still stands. Legalised drugs companies don't tend to have the same violent tendencies. Glaxo-Smithkline don't tend to have violent gun battles with Bayer over who gets to supply prescription meds to a 'hood.

Also, although that may be the violence most prominent in the US, there's plenty of police/army vs. drug cartel violent crime in other countries.

edit: typo.
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Then, don't look at it.
I felt emotional for a quick minute.
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I don't disagree that the entrepreneurship has taken a backseat. It just never bothered me, because I'm not an entrepreneur.

HN has changed, absolutely, but that doesn't make it any worse than it was.
Not really related to the article, but do you have any data on forced prostitution?

It is a common argument, and I don't deny the existence of it, but I never saw any real research on the fact, besides watching this documentary[1], which did not presented much research on the subject in a global basis.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/
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mogrify is the right tool for batch image processing, not a kludgy convert loop.
Something for sure is that criminalization does never work.
You can handle your particular case with Clojure's fn argument destructuring. No need for pattern matching.
More info here: http://spider.science.strath.ac.uk/sipbs/staff/Christine_Duf...

Paper itself here (the Journal is paywalled, boo): http://www.scribd.com/doc/30300545/sdarticle

It has only been shown for skin cancer so far, but a) that's still a big deal as skin cancer is very common and b) indications are that this vector should probably work with other types.

Somewhat related: http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/news/212802-new-use-of-proteins-...
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Right, but by definition a "stranded passenger" is someone just waiting to get on a flight back to their home. If people make other plans, change their minds, move, book a Disney cruise back to the states, etc. they are no longer the "stranded passengers" airline companies are concerned with.

At the very least, there are more people wanting to fly now than historical levels due to the volcano. That there are empty seats is very interesting (to me at least). ;)
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Like I said, the changes were already in effect when you first joined so I'm not surprised that you feel that way.

I think this discussion is more relevant for users that have been here for at least 3 years.
Agreed, Photoshop is the right tool for the job here, not a command-line tool. Some images will need more colors than others, some will need more dithering than others; and the tool used here doesn't look like it picks palettes very well.
Thank for the link. That was an excellent debate and good articulation of view points.
The law I was questioning assumes every single prostitute is a victim, including the ones who are not enslaved. It also assumes every single drug seller is not a victim, even the ones who are enslaved.

If the real issue is enslavement, why not just carve out a general exception in criminal law to acts which you are performing against your will? I.e., if you rob a bank because your wife/children are being held hostage, the person holding your wife hostage is criminally liable for that act.

(I'd actually be very surprised if this exception doesn't already exist.)
I don't disagree that legalization would reduce violence. Part of it probably comes from the fact that since what they're doing (on a large scale) is massively illegal, so using violence to compete isn't much of a leap.
Depends on your definition of "forced", it could run from literal sex slave through "hooked on drugs and unable to fend for self so stuck with pimp" to just plain "has to feed self and has no other options".

I'd say all of those are forced to some degree.
You can't compare Xeons to Phenoms, you need to be looking at Opterons for that. AMD recently released their 12-core Opterons (4 different models) and they have 3 8-core and 5 6-core Opterons as well (9 if you distinguish between 2-socket and 8-Socket versions).
Providers with regional monopolies are always the worst companies. They have something you want and you can't get it from anywhere else, so they behave as you'd expect them to behave.

To maybe over generalize a bit...
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You're right, these guys just don't know how to create indexed PNGs properly. I ran their originals through Photoshop, with 100% dither at 96 colors, then used pngout (the best* png compressor), and came out with better looking, smaller files.

* http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm
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Is the common perception of "nerds" (as in socially awkward/inept unpopular people) is that they are universally smart?

Cause that's not been my experience at all. Some nerdly hobbies require (at least some) intelligence, programming, building robots, etc. Other nerdly activities that I'm part of don't require nearly as much, RPGs(pen and paper), and fandom as in trekkies, browncoats etc. And boy am I here to tell you there are some dumb "nerds".

In my experience "nerds" have the same ranges of intelligence as non-nerds and intelligent people range from popular jocks to social handicapped nerds.

In other words, over my 35 years I've not seen a significant correlation between "intelligence" and popularity, or "intelligence" and social grace/ineptitude.
Actually, he admits that he got Gray's full name and facebook account before the phone was bricked. It sounds like he called the Apple places least likely to believe him just so he would have some plausible sob story to tell.

He had the owner's full name for God's sake. This isn't that hard.
Showing respect is "cowering"? That is really insecure.

Even on the terms of the editorial itself I find it hard to be upset. On one hand we have the the general acceptance of defamation and borderline pedophilia, on the other uncouth and outmoded honour and unreproachable symbols. Obviously it is our holy mission to desensitize the other side.
Reading TFA might be useful.
I don't think that's good advice. Posterize just throws away data and causes banding; and if your image contains mostly one hue, or a limited number of hues, then you're removing more colors than you need to.

Use a tool that will create a perceptual or selective palette like Photoshop's "save for web" tool. You can choose png-8 with 64 colors, but it will pick the right 64 colors for the job.
What? I mean, of course, if you define "nerds" to be "people without social intelligence" you're gonna see that nerds are unpopular. The premise beneath PG's essay (and this one, I think) is that if you instead define "nerds" to be "people with a lot of interest in some academic subject, and/or people who are quantifiably 'smart'" you still (seem to) find that nerds are unpopular.

So are you saying that that's not actually the case, that smart people aren't disproportionately unpopular? Interesting if true. Definitely needs some kind of justification, since it flies in the face of most people's intuition.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm leaning more towards the position that intelligence is negatively correlated with popularity. Smart people aren't necessarily outcasts, but IMX you'll tend to see fewer of them at the top of the popularity curve and more at the bottom than you'd expect from a random distribution. And I imagine that there are a lot of reasons for why this is.

PG's argument in particular is closer to the truth than it seems at face value, I think. He says that smart people's problem is that they don't spend enough time on socializing; I'm not sure if this is really the prime cause of smart people's ostensible unpopularity, but it applies to my experience in middle and high school. My parents were rich enough to send me to good private schools that valued intellectualism (which probably more closely parallel schools outside the US) so I was never really unpopular, but I was definitely less popular than I wanted to be. In retrospect it's pretty clear that I could've been way more popular if I'd doubled or tripled the amount of time I spent on it; instead, I spent my free time programming and doing math.

The only place that I disagree is with PG's rationalization of why nerds don't socialize more. In my case, it wasn't that I wanted to build great things (although to some extent I did). I'm pretty sure it was just that solving math problems was a much more reliable and straightforward endorphin trigger than socializing.

Anyway, all this is to say that a) I disagree with you and b) you should be less pithy and more explanatory.
Can you provide an example of a nonlinear unit?
If I find something at a bar I give it to the bartender. I mean, come one, the guy either has no common sense or didn't intend on returning it to anyone. My guess is the only reason he called Apple once he figured out it was a prototype was to extort some kind of finders fee.
Just because it was relevant and interesting a year ago - or ten years ago -
doesn't mean you should be posting and reposting and reposting it on a "news" site. Maybe there should be a golden oldies site where people can post all the "but gee it's new to me" stuff.
I think the Internet is making a great deal of progress with regard to decentralization.

On the subordination of culture to commerce, it hasn't always been this way. In dynastic China, the social pecking order was this: scholars, farmers, artisans, then merchants. Although the merchant class had the most money, they were lowest on the totem pole. I'm not arguing that we should move to a caste system based on occupation, but I think it's important to note that societies haven't always allowed the rich to buy their way into elite spots.

What fails about American elitism is that it's post hoc elitism. Those who have wealth and power are presumed superior and allowed to get away with almost anything (white collar criminals get busted sometimes, but usually those turn out to have humble beginnings, and they're getting nailed in part because of all the rich people they caused to lose money).

For example, in our society, we take it on assumption that the nicest apartments will go to those with the most money, rather than the most cultured. Education is heading that way, as well-- sold to the highest bidder. This isn't right. Trashy celebrities and powermongers shouldn't be able to displace the natural leaders-- the ones chosen by God, genetics, and culture to make the major decisions-- or affect the lives of such people at all.

I agree that a large, powerful government can be as bad as rule by large corporations, but I think that, in general, corporate rule is worse. Corporations have a unique ability to give us the worst of both worlds between socialism and capitalism, and their ad hoc "because I say so" elitism (as opposed to elitism based on talent and culture) leads to mediocrity and worse-than-useless leadership.

I do think that government needs to take a stand on the issue of re-elevating the cultured and talented, but I don't think that a government needs to necessarily be massive or overbearing in order to do so.
If the customers are helping the prostitute feed herself, how is she a victim and how are they harming her? She would be worse off if not for the voluntary transaction.

In fact, the government is actually harming the hungry prostitute by reducing demand for her services by criminalizing the customers.
A lot of things people ingest are toxic, the trick I feel is making that well known and public knowledge, not necessarily illegal. For example, the surgeon generals warning on the pack of a cigarette, or the chemical warnings on a bottle of bleach, I feel are a better way to approach the problem.

Part of my attitude comes from growing up in New Hampshire. For example, if you are a consenting adult, and you are only harming yourself, then that is your prerogative. Why you don't need to wear a seatbelt if you are over 18, or a motorcycle helmet. The risk you are taking on is not against other people, like drunk driving, but mostly only to your own health.

Now an effective part of that comes down to knowledge, but certain ideas can be ingrained in a society over time. Like put on a seatbelt or be thrown through the windshield like a crash test dummy.
And a well-stated counterpoint
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/26...
Do we know "the guy" is not the bartender?
Ask HN: Where did your most passionate users come from?
So my project is coming along nicely, I'm burning through the big ol' to do list of things I feel really need to be in a first release, accepting some beta users (not many are inquiring). So I'm wondering how did you find your most passionate users, or how did they find you? I've heard that they'll often be some of your first (early adapters and all)?
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I seriously doubt it would have been "just as censored". That wasn't their message, but Trey and Matt have had no trouble parodying the US military in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America:_World_Police.
"So it really seems like the guy's options were to sell it to Gizmodo, or let it sit in a drawer forever."

Or give it to the establishment where it was found, or give it to the police. You know, the obvious things that everybody else in the entire world has always done with lost and found items instead of taking them home.
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The models are optimized for the 99% of the cases without any special circumstance. Airlines overbook by x% because they know that a lot of people won't show up, they increase the price over time etc.

I can see that an event like this can throw the whole system out of whack. It's not obvious how the parameters should be altered. Without any data about how many people will buy more than one ticket in a situation like this, predictions are impossible.
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This is more a commentary on the inefficiency of his distributor than it is a commentary on newspapers themselves. It's not like it takes a month to get other things into a newspaper (since by definition 99% of stuff in the newspaper was written in the previous 24 hours).
Is anyone else perplexed that the success metric for decriminalization is reduced drug use?

I'd think reduced crime (esp organized), reduced prison populations, savings in prosecuting housing drug non-criminals, job increases from local production/distribution, and/or tax revenue increases would all be more interesting / relevant metrics.

It sounds like Portugal took the path of "it's still illegal and bad, we're just not gonna punish you for it". Which isn't really decriminalization in my book.
Somewhat reminds me of the small house movement in the states:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
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The change in content is by design:
http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78166

PG: "As of today we've expanded the focus of news.ycombinator.com from news about startups to news interesting to hackers generally. To reflect that we've changed the name to Hacker News."

"The goal is not to have just articles about hacking, but articles of interest to hackers. We're not trying to make something like programming.reddit.com, but something like www.reddit.com was in 2006."
http://grokware.com/Flowfazer.html
Really? I must have missed my automatic promotion to middle classhood upon graduating high school because I was pretty broke when I went to University.
Puerile. Flashback to Latin class :)
I think a good way to look at it is that it's not so much about right and wrong or about who's a victim but about average outcomes.

The average outcome of prosecuting a drug user or prostitute is you spent a bunch of government resources processing, trying and incarcerating the person in order to take someone off the streets who's not actually particularly dangerous.

So, why do it?

Drug dealers on the other hand frequently beef over territory, sell bad product that kills people, get into interesting sideline work, etc. And they're very few in number compared to the users. So as far as bang for the buck, it makes sense to prosecute them. Yes, there are exceptions, but you make policy for the average case and hope that your cops and DAs are smart enough to exercise some judgment when warranted.
I don't think the counterpoint is as valid as you say it is. Receiving some hate mail and phone calls about a "gay Jesus" character is a lot different than killing someone.

There are some small similarities between extremist Christians and extremist Muslims. Bombing of abortion clinics comes to mind, however, let's not pretend that a strongly worded email or phone call is anything like killing a cartoonist because he drew the wrong picture.
its easy to say something like that, but if you have seen enough south park you would know that they dont really draw any lines.

in the south park film they take black soldiers and strap them to tanks as "protection" to the tanks. they show spielberg and lucas literally raping indiana jones. they have entire episodes dedicated to bashing scientology, mormonism, judaism, and catholicism. an insecure, weak-willed jesus is a reoccurring character. a singing piece of shit is the christmas mascot.

there have been enough reasons for people to protest against south park, and they have, but never do they go as far as censoring characters except when muhammad is concerned. (to be fair, they do censor words that they consider extreme profanity [on occasion])
They won't search you out. You need to go out and grab their attention. What is your project?
I believe "Team America: World Police" covered that ground.

"Cowardly", "stupid", "inept bumbling fools", even "homosexual" -- it accused the entire military apparatus of being everything they insist they aren't.

I don't recall it being censored. Or protested.
That said, it didn't air on TV either.
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> Got 50% off each one.

Great:) That seems to back up my thinking.
I never considered that, but if I recall correctly the engineer that lost the phone claims to have called the bar repeatedly looking for the phone. Of course, that doesn't rule out the bartender. Since the phone looked like a regular iPhone in a case I suspect no one would have paid any attention to it unless they planned on flipping it.

Also, why didn't Apple use the "Find My iPhone" feature of MobileMe to track it down? Lots of things don't add up in this whole ordeal...
More like Quartz Composer for music.
ha! you are joking. his options
1. mail it to apple
2. facebook gray
3. take it to the apple store and talk to a manager
4. take it back to the bar where he "found" it and gray called a million times to see if it was returned.
5. sell it to gizmodo for $5000.

ah! i see why he chose option 5.
IANAD but I always thought that cancer cells were relatively weak and therefore actually killing them was not a big deal - all kinds of things can kill cancer - the problem is effectively delivering the killing mechanism to the site of the cancer without harming surrounding tissue.
Are people this short memoried / one sided / blind?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

Others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_controversies#Visual_...

And go ask the grieving families of abortion doctors if they think only Islamic fundies murder for their religion?
A huge part of it is by sheer nature of the black market, traditional dispute resolution is out of the question.

You can't go to a lawyer and say, "This dude backed out on his deal, cheating me out of $10,000 of grass."

So the only method left for many grey/black market areas is physical retaliation.

Outlaw a market, and only outlaws (and their own twisted senses of justice and retribution) will thrive in the market.
I'm only comparing them as a business decision WRT allocating fab lines. I'm assuming the profit margins are higher on server chips and the high end enthusiast desktop ones and proposing this as an explanation for Intel's product mix. There's got to be some reasons Intel is only selling one model of the latter while selling a couple dozen of the former with this microarchitecture and on this process node.
mos def
Longform: Good, long journalism, 4000 words and up
Man I would love a real Super Best Friends t-shirt (and not the cheap rip-offs on cafepress right now or the the one with the black censor box).

Funny, I was just watching an illegal stream of SouthPark over the weekend and they showed the original superbest friends ep and there was no censorship at all on Muhammed. In fact, they treated him kind of cool, if anything.
But this is not a "well-stated counterpoint". The article from your link justified the action with listing all successful censoring actions in the past. It like pointing out how many nations in the world has the Internet censorship and conclude that it is correct thing to do. A list of all actions in the past cannot prove the correctness of the action at all.

Besides, I don't like the pop-out in the link.
"to be creative requires that you fight against the larger society"

This is almost tautological.
And then there's the emotionally abusive / controlling / cult of personality situations where, while the workers are not sex slaves as depicted in cinema (locked up in small dank rooms), they are just as enslaved via cult-like techniques of brainwashing.

Usually that arises after the "has to feed self" situation.

At least, that's what Law & Order SVU has taught me.
Piss Christ as a counterexample? So what exactly have the fundies achieved in this case, compared to blacking-out of Mohammad by CN?
I would take the article a lot more seriously if it wasn't based entirely on a study by the Cato Institute.
The issue with Piss Christ was government funding. I doubt anyone is in danger for their lives for Piss Christ.
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The problem is that "bounce" is a broken metric. It implies that people "bounced away" from your site very quickly because they didn't find it engaging. But the standard definition of a bounce is simply a single pageview visit. It needs redefining, because there are plenty of single pageview visits that do actually engage the reader. e.g. reading this article - I bet a lot of you read it but didn't read any other articles on the site. GA would probably report 90% bounce rate for these visits, but Clicky would be more like 20-30%, which is much more accurate measurement of how many people are actually engaging with the site.
The best part of South Park exemplifying the double standard is at the end of the Cartoon Wars episodes where they show Jesus and the American flag in a pretty vulgar scene.

I'm sure Comedy Central received plenty of complaints from offended Christians, yet there was no censorship.
They lack social skills because they lack emotional intelligence.

To take it further: nerds lack emotional intelligence because they have learnt to ignore the relevant emotions. That is why bullies are able to bait nerds; they both feel that the nerds' denial of group emotions makes them culpable.