skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a depressing situation that we find ourselves in when people hold so much hatred against a religion/community, that they scope out an internet campaign to spur their hatred out. How much do people actually know about this man that they're so openly insulting? Look at what some prominent non-Muslims have said about the Prophet Muhammad, to get some perceptive to who he was and what he brought:

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the secular and religious level. ...It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. ...It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history. - Michael Hart in 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,' New York, 1978.

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretentions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the divine right, it was Mohammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports - Lamartine, "Historia de la turquie", Paris 1854. Vol. II. pp.276-7

I wanted to know the best of one who holds today's undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind....I became more than convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity,the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of the great life. - Mahatma Gandhi, "Young India", 1924.

I Have Studied Him the Wonderful Man, & In My Opinion Far From Being An Anti-Christ, He Must Be Called the Saviour of Humanity. I Believe That If a Man Like Him Were to Assume the Dictatorship of the Modern World, He Would Succeed in Solving the Problems in a Way That Would Bring It the Much Needed Peace & Happiness. Europe is Beginning to Be Enamoured of the Creed of Muhammad. In the Next Century It May Go Still Further In Recognizing the Utility of That Creed in Solving Its Problems & It is in This Sense that You Must Understand My Prediction. - George Bernard Shaw
Like if I was arrested or something?

If the cops/DA have any cause to arrest you, talking to them won't do anything to save you from it. They'll just use everything you say against you in addition to whatever they had on you to begin with. You can't dig yourself out of a hole with the police when your freedom is on the line. (Talking might help a little bit in traffic stops.) And if they might gain anything on you later on, you can't talk them out of it.

The purpose of not talking to the police is to avoid giving them cause to arrest you when they don't already have it. If they already have cause to arrest you, you aren't talking your way out of it.

It was plainly obvious in my situation that they weren't questioning me as a witness so much as they were playing word games, trying to trick me into incriminating myself. You can't actually get ahead with that. At best, you'll maintain your innocence and they'll get tired of playing games with you (which is what I did). You get the same outcome with less stress by shutting up. If you stand there talking, you might make a very costly mistake.

Finally, public defenders are free. They're overworked and they suck in a lot of places, but where I lived at the time (and still live now) it's pretty rural so that's less of a problem. In small towns, in fact, a public defender is often just as good as the best lawyer money can buy locally. (If you're in serious trouble you hire a lawyer from the nearest big city, of course.)
I'd dare say you have a civic duty to answer questions that aren't about you if a Cop asks them.

I think this is the key difference of perspective between you and the people you're debating. But what's interesting is that you're arguing the tactical disadvantages of something you believe people have a civic duty not to do. Are you sure one opinion isn't influencing the other?
Oh, I agree that the argument applies more broadly than "just math". I'm also not sure what the ideal patent protects. It seems to lie somewhere on the discovery-invention axis, but I don't know where.
I had Amazon Prime for two years and I ended up buying so much stuff due to the convenience and lack of "delivery cost shock" that I didn't renew it last year! No, I don't teach Self Discipline 101 ;-)
US military appoints first 'cyber warfare general'
Thanks Rama, I've read all of Jason's books and thoroughly enjoy them. My day job is in a 'rapid deployment' environment where we push out projects pretty regularly. We're also doing this on my startup but it is less 'rapid' because of the limited amount of time we all have.
Perfect for programmers? I was skeptical. Then I searched for A* (which doesn't work on Google). Perfect indeed!
"I'd rather see 10 more articles about DDG than one more about the ipad or fakestevejobs."

...because clearly, those are the only choices.

As long as we're throwing around false dichotomies, I'd rather see 10 more articles about the internals of a search engine than one more rah-rah post about DDG.
The more we know the better. Research should not be banned.

That said, caution should be present with the application of radical new technologies. The nuclear test ban treaty seems like a net-win, for example.
Have you ever been tested for ADHD? Hyper-focusing on one project to the detriment of other important commitments and being quickly discouraged after hitting the initial roadblocks are two of the signs. Do you consider yourself a daydreamer? Impulsive? Disorganized?
I would like to know what was the motivation for starting the project. I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea for David to tackle Goliath but there has to be a unique value proposition.

Based on the information I have found about the project the only area I can see this competing is in the user experience (scrolling results, encrypted search etc). Maybe someone who knows more about the project can enlighten us.
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Van, nothing personal (because you are an awesome nice guy), but it was your statements at the last PyCon that you believe the GPL doesn't apply to Python because of the concept of "linking". Several times you said this, and it's been repeated and now becoming a standard belief. It was reinforced in your lightning talk:

http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1374/pycon-2010-plenar...

At 8:08 where you plainly get how include files work wrong, and then attempt to equate that to how Python works, but you ran out of time. That combined with your previous statements regarding linking seems to have people thinking Python is not "linking" and therefore doesn't follow the GPL.

This belief is now permeating the Python community and I think it shouldn't. The last thing I want is Python being known as the GPL violation language, which would set a very dangerous trend among dynamic languages potentially giving companies another reason not to use them for fear of being "delinked" by them.

I'm not saying it's your fault, but it's a general belief that's now supported by your statements which I feel are actually entirely wrong.

Now, if you are saying here you didn't say that, then please, write a blog post that I can "link" to clarifying things so that I can get people to stop thinking that using Python you somehow magically get around the GPL.

Of course, your statements didn't make me change the license, that was more I'm bored with Lamson and just want people to use it now and quit bugging me about it.
Perhaps you should also post some link to an article where you explain this some more. It's the first time I hear Python is somehow special in regard to GPL.
TMRC - Hackers
In principle, yes.

Once you show that the church has in the past allowed their dogmatic stance overcome reason which led to hardship for the parties involved I think it is fair to show that the same thing is still happening today, and that even if the church has come around on some of their mistakes in the past they have a long way to go with respect to the present.

I also note that it is the second word that makes the argument, you could have simply let it go, instead you decided to answer in a flippant manner.

Don't blame me for your choices, half this conversation is kept up by you (even now) ;)
From the perspective of someone releasing software, the BSD license is almost always more desirable. It's basically the MIT license with the added restriction that someone can't use your name without your permission.

Believe me, it can and does happen. Especially when you consult, people may try to use your hard-earned prestige to puff up their product's perceived value.
Top Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors
once again, filed in the Eastern District of Texas
Live link to instructions: http://phandroid.com/2010/05/22/manually-update-your-nexus-o...

The shortened url http://bit.ly/aCDBwh translates to http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-pa...
That's really good, when will you post one?

Gabriel could do one too if he feels like it.

Of course those are not the only two choices (there were three of them, buy hey, who is counting), but since they seem to be the most prevalent posts that irritate me I figured I'd put my personal preference out there. If you want a longer list I can provide one but I don't think it will make the point much clearer.
The world would be a much better place if China just moved on to Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) which most people know pretty well from elementary school. It captures Mandarin morphology pretty well (better than Latin captures English for sure) and is relatively easier to learn.
In my experience on HN, up- and down-voting has little to do with right and wrong. It has to do with (a) whether or not you've contributed valuable food for thought and (b) whether or not the masses agree with your opinion.

And keeping (b) in mind, realize that it is often those opinions of an individual that conflict with the masses that contribute largely to the individual's greater-than-average success.
Looks great, thanks for the screenshots.

Unfortunately my phone company locked my G1 down with android 1.5. So I'm waiting (impatiently) for the iPhone 4g.
This is the only article about the guy I've read. It does seem he enjoys the Spy vs. Spy thing. And he seems to be good at it.
Yeah. They've been mentioned even less in all of this. Certainly the HP takeover and the quiet surrounding it hasn't helped their PR.
I can vouch for Heisig as an effective way to learn Kanji. It requires a lot of patience because it takes months (some people have done it in one month, but they must be totally obsessed) and at the end of it you still can't read a thing, and, let's face it, learning 2000+ kanji is a beast of a job regardless of what technique you use. But if you can handle delayed gratification, it'll do the job. I can't say how it compares to brute force, but I don't think I would have finished 2000 kanji the brute force way. I don't think kanji are really a big problem after Heisig book 1, especially if you're reading online with Rikaichan or something like that, but you'll still see quite a few unfamiliar ones.

If you do it, check out http://kanji.koohii.com/ and read the stories that other people have posted, if you haven't already. Heisig leaves it up to you to write the last 1500 or so stories, which can be difficult. Even for the first 500 kanji, some of the stories at that website fix mistakes in Heisig or point out primitives that aren't introduced till later (there are quite a few primitives introduced in book 3 that are used without noting that they are primitives in book 1). And definitely use an SRS like Anki.
Everybody Loves Mohammed Day - May 28th
It's a depressing situation that we find ourselves in when people hold so much hatred against a religion/community, that they scope out an internet campaign to spur their hatred out. How much do people actually know about this man that they're so openly insulting? Look at what some prominent non-Muslims have said about the Prophet Muhammad to get some perceptive to who he was and what he brought:

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the secular and religious level. ...It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. ...It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history. - Michael Hart in 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,' New York, 1978.

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretentions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the divine right, it was Mohammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports - Lamartine, "Historia de la turquie", Paris 1854. Vol. II. pp.276-7

I wanted to know the best of one who holds today's undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind....I became more than convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity,the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of the great life. - Mahatma Gandhi, "Young India", 1924.

I Have Studied Him the Wonderful Man, & In My Opinion Far From Being An Anti-Christ, He Must Be Called the Saviour of Humanity. I Believe That If a Man Like Him Were to Assume the Dictatorship of the Modern World, He Would Succeed in Solving the Problems in a Way That Would Bring It the Much Needed Peace & Happiness. Europe is Beginning to Be Enamoured of the Creed of Muhammad. In the Next Century It May Go Still Further In Recognizing the Utility of That Creed in Solving Its Problems & It is in This Sense that You Must Understand My Prediction. - George Bernard Shaw
The winner of the previous type of computing doesn't seem to transition to the next one very well (ex. Mini Computer -> PC).
I don't know Canadian law, but declining a search is your constitutional right in America, even if you're cited for a moving violation. No matter what a cop says otherwise. American cops are allowed to lie, imply, threaten, and be presumptuous assholes but if you assert your civil rights you still have them. (If they ask you to step out of the car and just casually slide right into the driver's seat, and you say nothing, you just consented to a search. So lock your door when you get out and don't consent.)

This is a very important point: they _can't_ force the issue if they want to. That's why they're asking (or just being an asshole about it) instead of presenting you with a warrant and instructing you to step aside.

I've never been asked to consent to a search of my home or vehicle, but there are tons of legitimate reasons to say no:

1. Privacy. You know how some people really don't want search engines and random hoodlums reading their facebook profile and status updates? Well, maybe I really don't want random cops poking around my car or apartment. Maybe my girlfriend and I have a whole box of sex toys and bondage gear.

2. There are so many damned laws you might be breaking one and you'd never know. It's probably a really stupid law, too.

3. Maybe you just don't want to unpack every damn thing in your car and pack it away again. I've got like two sealed emergency survival kits in my car and I'd be pretty pissed off if some cop opened them looking for drugs that weren't there. And have you ever seen a home that was searched by cops? You have to spend the whole rest of the weekend cleaning up and putting everything away afterwards, man.

BTW, the same reasoning applies if they knock on your door and ask to search your residence. If they have to ask, the answer is no.

Finally, if they present a warrant or go ahead and search it anyway even if you explicitly decline consent, then stay out of their way and get a lawyer.
Yep, unrolled liked lists often work great for sparse 2D data structures especially when you get a lot of clustering around small areas. (think spreadsheets)
It is in Facebook's best interest to keep privacy controls as complex as possible, and defaulted to openness.
If there weren't fatwas issued against cartoonists perhaps the infidels wouldn't have to go into hater mode. Just sayin'...
Wwe over the limit
Good point. I also noticed they're running snap with 4 threads. Since rails is multi-process rather than multi-thread they would actually need to set up something like passenger as acangiano suggested.

Better would be to just limit the test to single-process/single-thread. The idea should be to compare web frameworks not web servers.
Actually, Van, I was being a dick. I went back and read it and I am very sorry for saying that. I've since rewritten it to not be so critical and harsh toward you.

My apologies:

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1274557940.html
I was raised in vim and used to do the same when hacking Lisp but it got tedious after a while. Have you considered using viper mode in emacs (which makes emacs behave like vi)? I've found that having an inferior Lisp to which you can easily send your code without pasting is a big time-saver.
Link to the actual project web site (nowhere to be found): http://lamsonproject.org/
I made a simple Chrome App for HN, check it out
Notice how your comment missed the mark emotionally. Someone took time out of their day to give you good advice and you implied that they don't care. You took an innocuous statement and painted it black. I know it was an honest mistake--I'm not judging you for it--I just want you to notice that.

Also reread your post. Notice how you are describing depressive symptoms (fatigue and you even mentioned depression). Only you know if you are depressed. But if you are, then be careful about making a big decision. Depressive thinking skews your judgment. Problems seem more permanent and intractable. Your intuition for evaluating costs, benefits, and risks gets distorted.
"That's really good, when will you post one?"

Now you're just being petty. There are plenty of technical articles that languish in "new" every day -- I've submitted more than than a few, and I vote for many others.

An argument against other types of fanboy spam is not an argument for DDG fanboy spam.
If he really doesn't care and has now some more interesting C++ project why not leave the license to GPL and be done with it ?

Be reasonable. Who would read a blog post about that?
I played chess a lot when I was younger and enjoyed it a lot. Then I joined a chess club. Biggest mistake I ever made. Everybody was cramming openings instead of playing the game themselves.

It really was terribly boring. My strategy for dealing with this was to open with a really bad but non-standard move.

This led to an immediate abandoning of all studied openings by the opponent and usually that led to a relatively quick win because they spent so much time on openings that they forgot how to play. Funny that.

Of course, against a really good player that will just get you slaughtered but the people that rely on knowing tons of openings to gain a favourable position in the mid game will fail miserably.

I quit because of that, the fact that in order to be competitive I'd have to cram openings too instead of being able to simply play and hone your skill against the wits of the opponent in front of you, instead of the dead corpses of all the GMs before whose games they studied.

I really don't want to play Caro-Kann all over again, I'd like to play my own games.
I don't get it. GMBH News? McSquare? What is it called? There's no "About" link to tell me what it is either. Feed reader for mobile is in the "title" attribute. But don't iPhones and Android phones have feed-reader apps? Is it just targeted at other mobile devices?
Star Wars needs to be saved from its creator. It was great, now all the prequels and the extra-super-bonus editions of the originals have tarnished a once nigh perfect franchise.
if i were you, i'd be grateful that people chime in with any thoughts at all

The only bit you missed was "and if you don't like the answer you have all the words so you can fork it and improve it yourself".

Insert rolleyes emoticon here.
And he would have just told those potential buyers that he is tired of running his company and desperately wants to get rid of it, thus giving them lots of leverage in negotiations.
True, and Facebook can't truly leverage any of its "friend-based" data without ugly privacy skirmishes. Because Amazon didn't start out claiming that your opinions (eg. reviews) were private, they have no trust issue to overcome. Trust is the elephant in the room for Facebook.
The advice about googling your phone number is interesting. Apparently this guy is using my GV phone number: http://tr.dexigner.com/turk_tasarimcilar/m_yasin_sivis.html

("OMG, now I know jrockway's phone number!!11!". Yeah, well, don't worry, I never answer the phone and the "block" button in GV is quite effective.)
It is not (directly) dependent on the manufacturer. It's dependent on how many barriers your manufacturer and/or carrier put between the original Android source, and your phone.

In the case of HTC phones with Sense, they have to add a lot of engineering work between "Android version is available" and "that version has Sense added". They need to make sure all the hardware drivers still work, update them for updated kernels, etc.

If the phone is a "Google Experience Device" then it's very close to the original source, and should get updates sooner than the rest.
Yes, that's correct, his initial wording should have been a bit more diplomatic then.

Even so, if there are multiple potential buyers you will likely fetch market value, if you are actively selling the reason why you sell is not so important as finding a good market to sell it to.

If there is only one buyer then it changes matters considerably.
An abundance of fussy arbitrary distinctions do not constitute grammar by my definition.

I'll have to think for awhile if I want to come up with a formal definition for formal grammar. If you still care, email me in a couple of days.