skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Can you plese review my new site
Http://www.ratemyneighborhood.net

I put out a request to my friends on FaceBook, but i got a whole 5 people from that that. If you feel compelled to test my security, can you not completely kill my site. Please don't drop my database or anything, just leave comments :)

I am at a point where i can still take suggestions and get them in before i launch for real.
> In the Netherlands they have proper proportional voting which is considered a good thing.

We do but we only have 150 seats, not 510, so you need more votes to get a single seat (this acts as a barrier of 2/3%). However, it is true that you get many small parties in the parliament. Small extremist parties in the parliament is not a problem, as far as I know. Even if there were they can only talk, they can't do anything extremist. Some politicians are pushing to reduce the number of seats to 100.
Judaism (to take an example) was a contemporary of those religions too - it hasn't changed an awful lot over the intervening time span.

You seem to shrug off "what people believed 2,500 years ago" as, perhaps, silly or illogical and then chasten someone for doing the same to current religion :)
I know the difference, and I used them properly. It might have been a little confusing because I refer to both in the same post, but I meant them to be completely different examples. (In other words, astronomers are engaged in religious activity because they are trying to figure out the origins of the universe. Whereas Kary Mullis is an expert on the contemporary arguments in favor of astrology, if there are any.)
From what I've read, Zynga's ad spend represents a huge portion of Facebook's revenue. If that's true, this could pull them right back into the red.

However, it's unclear whether Zynga would continue to advertise on Facebook even if their games no longer run there. I'm pretty sure much of their growth is due to ads on Facebook. It really would be the dissolution of a symbiotic relationship, which I imagine will be tough on both companies. Seems like the perfect candidate for an acquisition, but who would acquire whom? Does Zynga bring in more revenue than Facebook?
We're Hiring - @Performable
FSF launches free software extension listing for OpenOffice.org
This is a very weak leak by Zynga, I don't see how they can do anything but complain about facebook's change in policies.
Facebook saw all those millions generated by Zynga and the logic step was to get Zynga to use their paying system and charge them a percentage...
Really, would the Zynga games have had any traction without Facebook?
Eg make an easy way to get a refund, like on the Android market.
Not that I'm a fan of Zynga, but does anyone else think Facebook is moving too fast, too soon? In the past two weeks they've alienated their developers, their users, and generally inspired a lot of just plain bad press.
I had the impression that decoding is the time critical operation. Encoding is done once and decoding many time.
Sure, it is better with fast encoding, but we won't get better compression for free.

The author didn't consider the use of GPU to perform the encoding. Kind of fishy. For my application (not video encoding) I managed to reduce the computation time from 5h to 15s (600x faster!) by using a GTX280 GPU card.
2,500 years ago, Jews were slaughtering goats and offering them as burnt offerings on altars in order to absolve themselves of sin.

Modern Judaism is distinctly different than what was practiced two millenia ago.
I've always found this an interesting topic, and once in a while it's interesting to discuss it with someone who believes in a god.

Sometimes I wonder how much we choose what we believe, especially when it gets down to this bottom-of-the-soul (or "soul"), meaning-of-life stuff. When someone is incredulous at the fact that I don't believe in any sort of god, I 've said: "Let's try this: for the next sixty seconds, I'll start believing in God, and for the same sixty seconds, you have to stop believing in God. Are you in?"

Naturally, it's not really possible for either person to do this, but sometimes it promotes interesting discussion about the nature of faith — why can't we do this, etc, etc?

Of course, a lot of times it just pisses people off too.
yes, but the problem is to decide what to learn
Hmm, I was making a point regarding your comment and a weird mix of the original "not hacker news" one and your own. Sorry :(

Formally:

1) I actually do think it is educational

2) Regardless, things posted to HN, surely, don't have to be educational all the time! :)

To discuss your post a bit more: I think you missed the point. The subject of Sivers anecdote was irrelevant; as I read it (and the following explanation) it is about learning things :)
Well, the problem is that Facebook hasn't found an as reliable revenue stream as Zynga.

As a platform owner, it must suck that people are making more money off your platform than you. So you are tempted to co-op other people's revenue stream as your own.
They are targeted towards hobbyists...
I did, too, and loved it as a kid. They'll never
officially" release Moroder's version on DVD, but there are other sources... http://www.morodermetropolisdvd.com/
All sony had/has to do was license out the cell processor and the OtherOS technology, or increase the price on the units and limit the sales channels. Sony could have figured out a way to make money on this.

Of course, I'm surprised somebody else hasn't done the same thing by now.
Hopefully whomever "found" it now will keep it safe somewhere so it doesn't need "finding" again.

Kidding aside, I have the "Moroder version" on DVD and very much look forward to the DVD release of the "really, truly full" one the article claims is coming.
Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 (trends)
Yes, but I do feel a little bad for the other 20,000 developers that don't have the resources to do anything about it.

It's now clear that "open platform" hype is pure marketing spin -- bullshit-speak to make you think they actually give a fuck.
Regular socializing is a first good step but it seems like the real filter, the way to get at the people you want, is to get people doing. When you're actually working on a project (even a small project) you learn pretty quickly who actually gets things done and who wants to be the "idea guy", occupy volume, and waste precious oxygen.

I think as technology / hacker types we tend to undervalue the business side of the equation though (I know I did). My experience with my first startup was made a lot more difficult by the fact that no one in the company was really business/marketing/sales focused. There are valuable business skills that can help an early stage company but the question is, how do we filter and find the real business "makers".

I think we can come up with ways to move people's various projects forward by small increments. I led a discussion at Boston BarCamp on this topic and someone brought up the "don't want people to steal my idea" thing. I made the person mad by saying that I wasn't interested in people like that. Ideas are ways to start the conversation/process, they're not an end in and of themselves. I find people like that are (usually) not really serious about building something.
Quick thoughts:
- Graceful degradation in HTML5 demos in general could definitely use some love - if you use a non-bleeding-edge Gecko-based browser (e.g. Flock), you get no functionality and no errors. Also, if your intended target audience is webdevs, why in the world would you require them to install chrome frame in IE? Just leave the first slide as is and we'll get it.

- Content nitpit: the slide about live() says "Efficient and concise way to provide client-side interaction". AFAIK, live events are slower than regular events, so calling them efficient seems wrong.
I think many people may be missing the point.

The point of the argument is to challenge people to question whether the existence of their god is any more plausible than any of the other thousands of deities whose existence has been postulated.

It works well against Christians or anyone else whose god has specific and well-defined properties. It doesn't work against deists since their "god" is sufficiently poorly-defined to be more plausible than Thor.
And, according to the following page, the planetary day names eventually made their way to Japan in the first millenium, by way of India and China:

http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowjpn.html

I was always curious about the Friday -> "gold" day -> payday link, but I guess this was a total coincidence. The actual derivation seems to be Friday <- Venus's day -> gold planet's day.

Other parts of the same site are devoted to the European, Chinese, and Vietnamese day name origins:

http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/index.html#TOP
gotta agree, that code does look very pythonish...
Interesting, I dont think Zynga brings in more revenue than facebook; however, facebook is trying to gradually acquire 30% of Zynga's revenue through facebook currency. Fb doesn't even need to acquire Zynga.

Zynga has a very weak hand, and facebook can always give priority placement to game companies that decide to play by the new fb rules.

Zynga's games are absolutely replaceable all the game companies have games that are almost perfectly identical.

This "leak" shows how weak Zynga's position actually is.
Does this really belong here?
It might have been me :), I've been going to OpenCoffee a lot talking about this idea. I think this fills a gap in the ecosystem between social events and seed accelerators (that are looking for more fully formed startup teams).
I have seen no evidence that recent problems are anything other than shared hosting sites getting cracked. Note to admins -- running your system with all the virtual host files owned by apache is asking for trouble. Use something like the itk patch for Apache (http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/) where each virtual owns its files and uses normal permission restrictions to control access to the rest of the system.

Although this won't help those of you who are bone-headed enough to chmod 0777 all of your files...
I think there are two points. The conventional use of this argument is the one you are talking about, and that is why I said at the end of my post that it IS useful for that.

However, the article specifically says “So, I guess we're not compatible, huh?”, meaning that we can't get along because we are different. And the response to that is “Of course we are! I like you a lot. And we do agree on 519 of the gods, so we'll just not mention that last one.” My response is that zero to one is a big jump. Darek seems to be a "lets all get along" kind of guy, and that is great, but this quote doesn't justify that.
It pains you? really? Not to be simplistic, but if you don't actually believe in god in the first place, than the decision to believe in god or not is just about as relevant as the decision to believe in santa claus...

re: pastors, barber called, time for a hair cut...
> That's like saying that because we've already debunked alchemy and astrology, being asked to debunk evolution as well is just nitpicking.

Well, yes. Scientists around the world agree that every scientific topic should be debunked. The ones that are left -- the ones that survive an attempt at debunking -- should be taken as fact, presumably until they are debunked and replaced with something more valid.

> If you asked someone at the Harvard divinity school what the most compelling arguments in favor of religion were today, they'd probably talk about Thor ... -- not at all

Sure, because choosing what to believe in, without a scientific basis, is essentially fashion. And believe me -- Thor is _way_ out of fashion.
More alternatives:

Bloxsom (perl): http://www.blosxom.com/

Jekyll (rb): http://jekyllrb.com/

Hyde (py): http://ringce.com/hyde

mattwdelong mentioned blogdor (django): http://github.com/sunlightlabs/django-blogdor

bravura suggested blogophile (py): http://www.blogofile.com/
Well... SETL influenced ABC, which influenced Python. [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_%28programming_language%29

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setl#History

[edit] There's list comprehension in Python... Are there set operations?

[edit2] [2]
> Huh? Zynga's apps only depend on Facebook for advertising in users' streams. This is no different than Google refusing to show a company's ads.

A more appropriate analogy would be if Google had paid inclusion of advertisement directly in search results, rather than on the side. In that case, it would be fair for Google to be extremely judicious about those ads.
So that means Digg employed over 100 people prior to this?
With Reddit doing a similar job and they employing 7?
Theories on what the extra 93 people are doing?
That made me think of Haskell, so to compare here is the equivalent(and of course totally inefficient) Haskell version:

[p| p <- [2..n], all (\i -> p `mod` i /= 0) [2..p-1]]

So, has this language more to offer than list comprehensions?
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Judiasm was originally multiple gods. They got the idea for monotheism from the Egyptians during the brief period where a pharaoh actually tried to have monotheism.

The Jews adopted that even tho the Egyptians reverted relatively quickly to multiple gods under King Tut. Mostly because the priests of all the various gods that had been shut down wanted power back.

From Judaism, monotheism spread to Christianity and Islam and some might say in some minor form to some variants of eastern religions/philosophies.
Reddit really knows how to run a company
That's a very problematic argument for a few reasons.

Firstly your now considering early Judaism unenlightened. However the core beliefs are still very much the same; and many customs from contemporary Norse times are still observed by some sects.

Secondly that's the practice of religion; which is very different from a belief itself. It is possible to believe in God or a set of gods without following the practices of the organisations themselves. The difference between then and now is that a) you were "sold" the practices as an inherent part of belief in XYZ God and b) to believe without practising them was dangerous. As a result the actual belief in the Abrahamic God is somewhat irrelevant to the practices.
I'm not sure why endeavors wholly separate from the practice of religion should be considered to reflect upon the state of religious practice.

Surely one can be religious and practice science. But in what denomination of which religion is it a requirement?

The non-religious have performed countless similar studies on religious experience, efficacy of prayer, etc. Are you suggesting their activities reflect on the state of religious practice in the modern world, simply because their subject matter is related to religious practice?
Nope. I just don't think the "walled garden" criticism really applies. Walled gardens usually don't allow you to put data in or take data out. Presumably Zynga will still be able to use the Facebook API on their site, so the data that is supposedly behind a wall will still be accessible.
I'm also definitely not the only person looking at this problem. I'm actually hoping we can bring together the various efforts trying to address this gap.
> "the same reasoning used to rule out all the gods you don't believe in can be used to rule out the god(s) you do."

Not if the reasoning you use to rule out the other 519 gods is "exclusivity of god #520". Or if the reasoning is "I haven't explicitly ruled them out, I just don't have any positive evidence for their existence, but I do for #520".

It's certainly worth thinking about whether your reasoning for whatever god(s) you believe in is consistent. The original argument sort of touches on that, but it does it quite poorly.
No, but the question is: do they still need it now?
Great insights! Thanks a lot!
http://www.royans.net/arch/pregel-googles-other-data-process...

http://blog.udanax.org/2009/08/inference-anatomy-of-google-p...

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1073981

also check out PIs publications and his thesis http://research.google.com/pubs/author145.html

The lead author will also be giving a presentation on Pregel at SIGMOD 2010: http://www.sigmod2010.org/research_list.shtml
To my knowledge, the religious decree about slaughtering goats is the same today in judaism as it was 2,500 years ago.

The reason it's not practiced today is 'just' because the decree also states that you have to perform the sacrifice at the great temple on temple mount. That poses a technical problem, since:
1. The temple was destroyed 2k years back, and there's a pretty famous mosque standing in its place.
2. Religious jews have to do a special kind of purification in order to even be on temple mount, and this purification is impossible at the moment, again for weird technical reasons (they need a red cow, don't ask).

BUT, if there was a temple, and there was a purification rite, religious jews would, in all likelihood, be happily burning offerings 3 times each year.

In short, not as different as you may think.
Indeed. E.g.:

Are you getting funded by Microsoft or another big company that's suing by proxy (SCO Group v. The World, 6 years and counting).

When does the company realize it's in big trouble and pull the lawsuit trigger? E.g. how much cash and continuing business does it have left?
Or maybe he did see that and avoided discussing it, instead deciding to keep a personal belief personal. Everyday doesn't have to be epiphany day after all.
Impressive, but I'll second the heating remark.

I just bought one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001E03444/ and swap out the drives as I need them. + two Fractal 120mm fans (incredibly quiet yet powerful, highly recommended) from the sides to keep the heat away. I chose that instead of building a similar frame, since a frame for 25 drives (that's what I have :-) ) would need some serious additional cooling and power, whereas the swapping solution doesn't.
Sanskrit (and hence Hindi and Tami;l) largely does. would clarify more but a bit too drunk now to tyep too ciherentyl. sorry. just thought you should know before i forgot in the morning..
Solitude and Leadership: Learn to be alone with your thoughts
That's a problem everyone should gladly accept.
Further support for my idea that Steven Hawking is now fully paralyzed and his speech computer is being remote-controlled by his nurses.
I believe, what Haskell is generating is list. What SETL is making, is set.

Could this syntax be used over any monad?

[edit] Of course, there are things like */[1..n] for finding factorial, but that is fold in Haskell. It's neat for scripting, and for me, for circuit complexity explorations.
The cumulative result is a version of “Metropolis” whose tone and focus have been changed. “It’s no longer a science-fiction film,” said Martin Koerber, a German film archivist and historian who supervised the latest restoration and the earlier one in 2001. “The balance of the story has been given back. It’s now a film that encompasses many genres, an epic about conflicts that are ages old. The science-fiction disguise is now very, very thin.”

So, it's been rescued from the ghetto? I respect your restoration work, Mr Koerber, but I'm not sure I appreciate the implication.
Really cute!

"After the therapy, he vacationed in Jamaica, began dating a local woman and bought a house on the island. "I'm happy and well adjusted now," he says. "It's a good fairy-tale ending. As soon as we get some little Bob Marley kids it'll be even better.""
If there was a decent competitor to Facebook who had a lot of uptake (or even a more "open" networking system), now would be a good time to take advantage of all of Facebook's negative publicity.

Right now I don't see anything good enough to start a transition away from Facebook, even if many people wanted to move elsewhere.
Ask HN: Why don't restaurants split the check by default?
1) This seems trivial.
2) It seems to be what most people want.
2a) I don't think any single one of my co-workers is dying to pay for the 10 other people who just happened to me-too their way into our lunch group.
2b) It's rare that everyone at the table is carrying cash; cards exacerbate the problem.

Why even force the customer to ask? And when they do ask, why in the world is the answer so often no? Is this just tradition/habit? A problem with point-of-sale machines? Lazy servers?
Indeed. I'm not sure why everyone is afraid of drugs that people enjoy taking.

(Is there a stigma to putting cancer patients on morphine? No. But yet there is a stigma when someone wants to give them THC, or when psychologists want to use MDMA or LSD. Considering I can buy highly psychoactive drugs at Starbucks, I don't really understand it...)
Microsoft had a way to solve this, they simply reimplemented and replaced the successful application (see office, IE ..) but that would be evil.
I don't think that's in very good taste.
Heh, my fault - I simplified it a little forgetting this is HN :D

To answer your point - the answer is yes, and no.

Ultimately it is next to impossible to be sure (assuming we can take the critical rather than the religious view of the history) when/where/how Judaism appeared.

At the time pretty much every country had their own God or gods and considered them superior to the others (though, ironically, appear to have been accepting of the other gods - just considered them inferior). General thinking simply says that at that time one particular country believed in one God - they were imprisoned for the Babylonians for a long while but the religion survived very devoutly.

I'm not sure what the common thinking is about why Judaism survived beyond that and grew to be so important.

Then, yes, Judaism influenced or started pretty much all of the modern religions.

EDIT: I find the birth of religions a fascinating subject, but I'm still churning through the birth/development of Christianity so not back to Judaism yet. All my knowledge above comes from a wonderful book called "A Little History of the World" which touches on the subject briefly.
You can run theorem provers on top of these languages, though.
Should Mahalo's investors be concerned that the Mahalo CEO, former Mahalo CTO, and now-former Mahalo Community Director are all working for ThisWeekIn? Wouldn't there be a contractual clause preventing Calacanis from hiring away Mahalo staff for his new business?
So are they actually considering leaving Facebook?

The headline implies yes, but from the content of the article it sounds much more like this is just gamesmanship as the negotiate a rev share and need to act as if they have other options.

On the surface, this looks as credible as when Time Warner Cable and Viacom were pretending they could part ways.
Scott Kim and the art of puzzles
I'm merely pointing to the fact that many extremely intelligent individuals have given atheism a lot of thought and come out on both sides of the fence. Of all major world issues, topics of study, etc., I cannot think of another with bigger potential implications.

Your statement that "religious belief should be an individual thing" is exactly the mindset that I am trying to address. The existence of a God is fact, or not fact. It's either true for everyone, or false for everyone. Saying something is "individual" is healthy only to the point that it does not stop you from actually researching it, and many times the best learning is done in collaboration and reviewing the work of others.
I think the 'tradition' bit nails it. Restaurants cater to lots of different groups of people and the social norm is that someone invites and others follow. By alternating who invites the balance is maintained. If you're cheap you could probably 'freeload' your way in to a number of invitations but at some point people would start to look at you.

It's not all that trivial by the way, since restaurants book all their orders to a table, not to a seat, it would create at a minimum a twofold, and probably much higher cost for them to maintain their books.
I forgot to say, the site only works for addresses in the US
Clickable: http://www.ratemyneighborhood.net