skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people here agreeing, but when I visit http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23flotilla it appears fine?

Here's what I see: http://twitpic.com/1spne4
Sweden here, not working.
Nothing that moves. (Or talks. Or does anything but sit unobtrusively in a corner waiting to be glanced at.)

The only ads in which I've ever been sufficiently interested to click, even out of curiosity, have been Google text ads.
Most people? On Earth? Really?
I don't know - I don't think "Israil" was being blocked from being a TT, at least, it wasn't on trendistic while not being on twitter.

I think "inconsistency" and active censorship go hand-in-hand: you have to manually block certain topics, and so the ones you didn't catch slip through. And maybe you need to make it less than perfect to make sure you can always claim "technical difficulties."

I just find it hard to believe that twitter's staff was working around the clock during the Iranian elections to make sure that everything kept going smooth, but right now it's been 12 or so hours and their search is broken for a similarly-important news story.
1. When you have time to reach your destination, you decide to take detours so you can check-in at a favorite place of your choice.
Both. Some topics are clearly trending (see screenshots from trendistic in TFA) while not being listed on twitter, and searches for topics (listed as trending or otherwise) are giving technical errors for most people.
3) Some sort of technical issue or bug.
#lang scheme

(define my-interpreter eval)
If Warren Buffett hung out on HN, this is the kind of comment he would write.
I agree, I'd like to see a screenshot on how it is censored.
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UI Design has more to do with Industrial Design and less with Computer Science.

In other words: UI Design is to Computer Science what Industrial Design is to Physics. In that respect, they should bring more programming to the "art" programs (especially digital art), and less art to the computer science programs:

You don't really need to know the nitty gritty of hash tables, the difference between bubble sort and quicksort, how to implement Djikstra's Algorithm or how to build a blazing fast trie to build a beautiful+easy+informative interface to complicated software.

(You may, however, at some point, need to hand off your completed work to someone who does - depending on the platform)
Ahh - wait - I see if you search from the main site, it fails for me now too. http://search.twitter.com works though. Weird. I expect it's due to a some bug/performance failure rather than an intentional censorship. Otherwise search.twitter.com would be censored too.
http://neosmart.net/blog/2010/twitter-actively-censoring-flo...
I have to give Twitter more credit than that.

Politics of the issue aside, censoring anything could seriously hurt Twitter. Even if we're cynical and we don't give them the benefit of a doubt integrity-wise, it's still a stupid move for them from a PR standpoint.
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Is the DB engine really inherently faster than the scripting language?

As for anything, the answer is "it depends". It depends on what you want to do. In this case that is grab all rows in a specific dataset.

If you in any case want to grab the dataset X, consisting of a given set of rows, asking the database to figure how to fetch all rows in one operation as efficiently as possible will (or at least should on any respectable database engine) be more efficient than having the scripting language sending multiple requests which can only be optimized one by one.

For reference, I've only tried recursive queries in Microsoft SQL Server, but they are pretty fucking neat from a geeky perspective.
When I click that link I get "Something is technically wrong."
The posted link shows fresh results. Clicking on the hashtag works too. Where's the problem?

Edit: Safari on iPhone, located in Latvia.
Both work for me. I have to assume there was just some technical issue (due to unusual volume?) and they have it resolved now.
I think that's a problem for the cardholder, the card company, and most of all for the merchant who later takes a payment using the stolen card (and usually gets stuck with bill). Square doesn't bear the cost, and after all, what can any payment processor do to prevent scammers from mimicking their hardware and software?
Without going into the fuzzy enforcement details of the law, it is still refreshing to see some "blame" shifted specifically to a malevolent user of Google Street View/etc. In other words, instead of these legislators incessantly blaming Google / declaring Google Street View evil, they're focusing _only_ on people who use it to cause harm.
There WAS a problem. I think it`s purely technical.
"Man sues Church of Scientology shortly after death."
Headline draws controversial conclusion from incomplete data and should be changed.

For example, this could be the result of automated measures to prevent spamming the trending topics gone haywire. Or not. But accusing censorship without knowing the whole story is just hair-trigger indignation.
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While we're showing off pointless interpreters, here's a simple currying lazy lambda-calculus-like language with pattern-matching-based choice: http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=24800

It achieves recursive definitions using fix (teh Y combinator!! \f.(\x.f (x x)) (\x.f (x x))). Binding variables is done with lambda abstractions. Pattern matching is done with (foo).

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It works out the Ackermann of 3 and 2 (29) in about the same time normal Haskell does in GHCi. Isn't it just a joy to read?
His resume, from the article: http://fi.linkedin.com/in/raminedarabiha
Interesting. It's kinda true for Tokyo too, though probably due to historical reasons, not just polluted winds.
It's a holiday weekend in the USA. This could easily be something like an automated system designed to prevent spamming the trending topics that is broken or needing operator/editor attention that's in short supply. Casting the accusation of 'censorship' without evidence is hair-trigger indignation-as-sport.
I just flagged this story. Does that mean an op will review it?

I think it's wrong to state that Twitter is censoring, and is harmful. It should have been posted as a question instead.

[edit: The poster's reviewed it.]
Yup, I'm also in Los Angeles area and a search for #flotilla gets no results, not even a "No Results" message.
The “device” people saw in the video isn’t going to ship, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t learn a bunch and innovate a bunch in the process.

So if a Microsoft team innovates in the Redmond forest and no one ever sees a product...
I agree in general but, nobody's getting sued for burned tongues. The American woman who famously sued McDonald's suffered third-degree burns through her pants that required skin grafts.
Changed the headline to a question.
So, what's a good way to invest in Gallium and Indium? Unlike gold, there doesn't seem to be an ETF for this (but maybe one is coming? http://indiumsamplesblog.com/2010/02/09/rare-metal-etf-a-pla... )
ASk HN: A json - jsonp proxy service
Hi All,

I've run up against the cross-site ajax issue of not being able to request a json from another domain. Sadly this domain does not offer a jsonp alternative.

Of course I can write/host my own proxy, but 1) I was wondering whether there are any proxy services already available (Yahoo yql?) or 2) if not, whether it would be worth setting one up for public use?

Feedback/thoughts appreciated!
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Due to a bug in GHC 6.12.x, compilation will consume more than 2 GB of memory. Details here:

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GHC developers are on it. Please wait.
Maybe as a separate feed... In my opinion, having this as the only option defeats the purpose of RSS.
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When did you stop beating your wife?

I understand that you actually mean well, and mean the question seriously, but in "Internet discussion" the question mark only protects the reputation of the asker, but does nothing to protect the reputation of Twitter.
The Robin Li anecdote is pretty misguided. Letting your share price determine the level of your goals is not a good example of setting objectives correctly, Warren Buffett would be horrified.
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The search works for me, but only when I'm signed out. This leads me to believe that this is some sort of technical issue. Besides, I don't think they are stupid enough to do something like censoring this.
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People are now using #freedomflotilla instead of #flotilla, for those of you who wanted to participate.
And for that matter, #flotilla now works for me, when it wasn't working before. Anyone else?

EDIT: And now it's not. This is too weird.
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What other news sites would you recommend to a HN reader to help balance this out?
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Any insight would be helpful. Thanks
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I totally forgot about this website. I love HN.
Also, check out Blum's speedup theorem. Very odd.
An analogous question would be "Are you beating your wife?"

"Is Twitter censoring?" isn't assuming anything in the question.
Start with the story... that's great advice
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And 70% of users would reveal their password for a bar of chocolate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm

It doesn't make it ethical or right, or ultimately good for the industry.
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First of all, Germany is not banning all forms of shorting, just naked short selling. Even then, banning a type of investment unilaterally has only one effect: driving investors out of germany. In today's connected world, money will always flow to the least taxed location. Regulation is just another kind of tax. We have global markets, but no global government to enforce market regulation. So, in my opinion it doesn't matter whether you think Germany's policy is good or bad: when something is futile, good or bad doesn't matter.
Does the other domain have a CORS policy? If so:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/cor-blimey-cross-domain-ajax-is-...
The hashtags #flotilla and #israil still gives "Something is technically wrong." error in Turkey. I confirmed it with many people here.
You can of course buy one. Or even just use the emulator (if your writing fairly simple applications this may be enough).
I don't get the technical error message for #flotilla, but a search on the tag acts like it's being ignored. However, http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23freedomflotilla is a trending topic and yields results.
You're right, of course. But I still think that someone skimming the HN headlines thinks, "Oh, Twitter probably censoring something or it wouldn't be on HN" unless they read the comments.
After reading this, I'd recommend "Subtlety" by Sarah Palin and "How to Manage Your Debt" by Kostas Karamanlis.
Agree. While you cover yourself you still make a slur to which the is little comeback.
Brain games don't make you smarter
I think Yahoo pipes does what you need: http://pipes.yahoo.com
No idea. Thanks for the link, I'll investigate.
Ask HN: Why does Dropbox give 50 GB for $10/mo and Github only 1.2GB for $12/mo?
I'm trying to come up with how much I should charge for my freemium startup, and I'm looking at these two as examples. From what I've researched, it's really hard to get a web server with lots of hard drive space without shelling out way too much money. Why is there such a huge discrepancy in these two companies? Any tips on where to host my server if I need lots of cheap disk space for my users?
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ok, interesting. I know nothing about pipes, so will look it that. Thanks.
This is not in conflict with your point above that nutrients are removed along with the fat in processed milk, that are then readded (e.g. vitamins A and D), but it's important to realize that those single digit percentages refer to fat in terms of weight.

Ignoring the water content of milk, and looking solely at the caloric percentages, the fat ratio is:

Whole Milk: 48% fat

2% Milk: 33% fat

Skim milk: 5% fat

Referring to fat content of foods and beverages by percent of weight is generally not a useful measure for nutritional purposes. By that thinking, if one were to drink a few glasses of water and then eat 1/2 a pound of ice cream, they could claim they had a low fat meal, because the total grams of fat from the ice cream is small compared to the total water weight of the two items they consumed.
That's old news...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1280015
Ah, but it is a proverb in its less nuanced sense all the same.
Just wait until their deepwater Atlantis fails, it will make the Horizon failure look like a puddle.

http://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-sues-to-stop...

Half of it's critical systems that were installed were not reviewed or tested.
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They do, search for Opera on this page:

http://publicsuffix.org/learn/
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Well, dropbox is just a personal online storage. That means that for $10 you can store up to 50Gb and you will be able to access it from anywhere. Github, on the other hand, is a distributed version control system, which means that many people can access and modify your data collaboratively.
Isn't that more of a comment on the state of the readership than anything else?
This reminds me of the work the Open Source Ecology project is doing with a plasma torch table:
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1424
http://www.openfarmtech.org/index.php/Category:Torch_Table
Regardless of the root cause, I think twitter just took one to the face. This looks pretty bad, even if they come out and say "oh, our spamfilter system malfunctioned."

I sympathise, though. I've run email spamfilters before, and boy, people get /pissed/ when false positives happen.
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I posted this on the article's comments:

Well I can gather two things from this article. 1, the Washington Post is very definitely not involved in the digital advertising industry; 2, the Washington Post does not deal with a decent digital marketing agency.

"Lazy" is a remarkably strong term for many agencies whom, in my experience, often work around the clock to deliver on tight deadlines and low budgets, as clients still do not consider digital as important as above-the-line media. With extreme constraints, some of the most interesting conceptual work tends to come from digital agencies, who are forced to push limits in a constantly changing environment, with high demands from an intelligent user base who are not interested in simplistic and overdone banner advertising (which seems to be the focus of this article!).

Innovation is exactly the name of the game when it comes to digital marketing. Take Farfar's tremendously successful campaign for Diesel (http://www.farfar.se/awards/cannes2007/heidies/), or R/GA's Nike+ campaign, which received numerous awards and incredible ROI (Google it), or Crispin Porter and Refresh Partners' Whopper Sacrifice Facebook campaign for Burger King, that was so successful in its execution that Facebook had to kill the application, or even AKQA's campaign for VW, which relied on nothing but an iPhone app (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=324848336756&r...)

These are but a few of the very successful, innovative, forward-thinking digital marketing campaigns and strategies out there, that are so far beyond a simple banner ad and truly identify the kind of industry that digital is all about. The question "Why is digital advertising so lousy?" is a useless question, and is simply responded to by the fact that only lousy digital advertising is lousy, very similar to lousy advertising in other types of media. Just think of the pamphlets that are handed out on streets, or left under your car's windscreen wiper, or the terrible infomercials on TV or adverts with bad acting, or big billboards with no thought behind them.
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>But we are drifting into a world where the industry Powers That Be are going to hide everything behind rental models, and it will no longer be possible to buy an open-ended, use-it-as-you-like version of information products. When they switch the servers off, it's gone. If you move account, it's gone, and you have to pay again on your new service, just like when they went from LPs to tapes to CDs.

>I'm not sure that is a healthy direction to move in, but as long as significant numbers insist on breaking the law and ripping off others' hard work, that's the direction that market forces will push.

If it comes to that, I can safely predict one thing: piracy will increase enormously.

Just, as they said in the blogs comments, like Harry Potter books in electronic are among the most pirated because there are no official Harry Potter ebooks for sale.
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So your theory is not that they have a better deal in the backend, but that they are using less CPU cycles? Or perhaps that the development and maintenance costs are lower?
San Jose as well (Almaden).
My guess: in 5-10 years Microsoft will be a service company.

We've seen this movie before and it's not just Microsoft that's shape shifting. Google is becoming the new Microsoft, Microsoft is becoming the new IBM, Facebook is becoming the new Google. Twitter is becoming the new Facebook.

EDIT: why downvoted? Would it be so strange if Microsoft followed its former arch enemy IBMs footsteps?
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We used to have a 2600 meet, but that's been gone for years.
It's a bit barren here for things like hacker spaces and whatnot.
Ask HN: How do you configure your software?
I am looking for a software configuration solution (not version control). Based on a menu, I should be able to select configuration options, and each option could potentially make new options visible, or derive new values from the given values. Finally all options would create a list of symbols which can be used to generate a header file and for other purposes.

I am currently using this: http://catb.org/~esr/cml2/cml2-reference.html#AEN189

But something better and supported would be appreciated.
And FourSquare is becoming the new Twitter?
Can't wait for 2040, when the cycle is complete and Twitter is the new IBM. My bank statement will be much more convenient to read when it's limited to 140 characters.
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Well, if BP were exposed to the full liability here they would simply go out of business. I don't know about you, but personally I would rather people are prevented from killing me. Punishing them after the fact doesn't do me any good.

Your solution actually still seems to still call for regulation, just by a private company instead of the government. I would submit that there isn't a problem having government do the regulation, the problem would simply be having the US government doing them.
Are we talking about southern San Francisco (Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, etc.) or South San Francisco?

For the neighborhoods of southern San Francisco, you are looking at historically highly industrialized areas. White collar workers didn't want to be there and ended in San Mateo County.

For South San Francisco, I disagree on it being neglected. Sure it isn't as rich as Redwood City, but it is a far cry from say East Palo Alto or Richmond. (You can also note the many luxury apartments and high-end office buildings popping up). Like southern San Francisco, it historically was hurt by being, as the San Bruno Mountain sign reminds everyone, the industrial city.