skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, why would having an XBox in your home be a problem? I was homeschooled (though only in high school) with several consoles in our house, and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I wasn't allowed to goof off school time on video games any more than I could have played my Game Boy in a public school classroom.

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I suppose a more clear question would be: What is it specific to homeschooling that you don't like about the XBox? Or am I reading too much into your comment?
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I hear your point against over-using the word "Misogynism". However, I just looked it up in the dictionary and it says "hatred, dislike, or mistrust" of women. So I would say that yes, by definition dislike of women is misogynistic.

What I don't get though, is why my "smacks of misogynism" makes me sound extremely pretentious, while your "characterization of the piece" or "ideological agendas" get a pass? Granted, English is a 2nd language for me but am I wrong that those are equally "big" words?
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Don't want to be the gitorious fanboy here. I'm using both and I'm not involved with either project (although I kind of run an internal gitorious instance here at work).

I have to agree with you: Both on one server is not possible. The only way to make this work would be cumbersome:

Install a public and a private instance of gitorious.
For private projects: Works just as before.
For public projects: Push to somewhere and make the post-receive hook propagate the change to public/private.

Ugly? Hell, yes. It's nothing but a workaround.

On the other hand: You can mix GitHub and Gitorious just fine. Your client (if you use one, or the git cli) doesn't care about the hosts, so having http://myPrivateGitorious repositories next to http://github.com repositories would work fine and you gain the best of both worlds. It's the same system. You can easily push/pull/merge from one to the other, it's not like the decision to use one or the other has to be an XOR.
I guess those problems could continue to be ignored for the sake of popularity

There is another option. The stuff the taxes were paying for could be stripped from the budget.

Rather than fix the core financial problems at the time, a tax cut was used to punt unpopular measures into the next administration.

Perhaps this time they should think about a more permanent fix. As unsustainable as the tax cuts may have been, monotonically increasing taxes are also unsustainable.

The purpose of taxes is not to tweak the economy. It's just that taxes, and government spending overall, is such an enormous proportion of the economy that it's possible for them to have such an effect. I submit that it would be better to eliminate the use of the economy as a partisan lever by allowing we the people to decide how our money should be used.

EDIT: put in the word "been" I'd missed in 3rd para.
I've seen this article before and it always makes me queasy. I always get to this line "I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two." and have to go throw up.
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Yeah, but that picture on the website doesn't really make me want to try it, benefits of the language nothwithstanding... :-(

(http://bracha.org/Site/Newspeak.html)
Some of us just don't want to see here ANY politics here.
I have little problem with them changing the rules on the second situation you listed but the first is the one that's problematic.
To answer both your questions, the API system I'm building will allow you to download all your wrttns.

Also, I'm building export features that will turn your wrttn into a pdf or a text file.
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I use Visor, which is a quake-style dropdown terminal plugin for Terminal. It takes up a Terminal window, but doesn't interfere with other such windows.

There's a plugin for Terminal that implements copy-on-select, which I like, but Visor has it bundled, so I'm not sure what it's called, offhand.
fish should come as the default shell in OS X:

http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html

It's more user friendly and interactive.
Preivous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138707

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143333
Agreed. Other responses here explain some of the original popularity of github. At this point though I also think github has a huge amount of momentum. I had not heard of gitorious until reading this post (granted I use mercurial, not git), but I see references to github everywhere.
It works in every browser. Even IE.
A related view is Aubrey de Grey's triangular logjam model of the state of aging research:

http://www.longevitymeme.org/articles/viewarticle.cfm?articl...
"If the VM handles thread safety for you, then what do you care that the variable is shared vs not shared or mutable vs not mutable (in the underlying vm)?"

Nobody should. Mutability or immutability is a property of programs, not languages. Some languages make it syntactically impossible to express mutation, but it's still all machine language in the end, which allows quite arbitrary mutation, so the only reason those languages can work is that they choose to refrain from mutation in their VM.
It's not hard. With a tool like UrlRewriter.Net or similar, custom URL schemes are quite easy. And I believe the MVC framework for .Net has custom routes built in.
I'm prepping a mobile version of the site.
The Internet is still a cacophony, albeit a more organized one.
I'd change the name rather than drive traffic to my competitor by accident.
you have to put the actual link. For example, either with a <a href=""></a> or, say "link"http://url.com in textile.
I much prefer direct linking. It allows me to click open the site/app in a new tab, and I can click in to allow me to view the comments. We are smart enough here to know how to do that.
Downvote me all you want, but if I go to a web page and the first thing I see is dead chicken plastered onto a wall, I close that page.
And of course it makes absolutely no difference whether you increase taxes when the economy is growing vs. when it's at best treading water.
Yes, although the point somewhat stands: my local cornershop does more business selling milk, cereal and cans than many internet startups.
Attempting to count every incidence of rubbish he poo-poos:

1. telecommuting workers

2. interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms

3. electronic town meetings (Actually, not sure about this!)

4. virtual communities

5. online database [to] replace your daily newspaper

6. no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher

7. no computer network will change the way government works

8. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers (that was already happening...)

9. reading a book on disc

10. buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet

11. "Too many connectios, try again later." (The predecessor to the fail whale? I kid.)

12. Internet addicts clamor for government reports

13. pushing computers into schools

14. instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals

15. order airline tickets

16. make restaurant reservations

17. negotiate sales contracts

18. trustworthy way to send money over the Internet

19. the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople

The only one he actually got right: "[the internet] lures us to surrender our time on earth".
is this just an article to hype about what could happen, and that nothing is concrete yet? Therefore the people can still pressure their Representatives of the government to help the people and stop taxing them so much? I thought we were supposed to lower taxes to businesses and banks so that consumers don't get punished in the end with new fees and higher costs.
Whats going on?
From IRS perspective, your filings are taken on faith, while during an audit, you are expected to have records to back up those filings.

Perhaps this article will explain my previous link more clearly:

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/04/02/afraid-of-an-audit-...
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> Call it what you will, it's very valuable.

I'll just call it what it is.

> That's not correct.

Of course it is.

> You have to lose your steam password and choose not to recover it, which is much easier then if you lose your CD Keys.

Or be unable to, which is pretty easy

> What was the point of your response?

That not only those are not rights, they're definitely not steam-exclusive either.
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By "not as much" do you mean way way less?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1268064...
There’s a long and successful tradition of self-taught learners (Ben Franklin, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, to name a few).

Great. Now name me some successful recent high-school dropouts.

School for me was a complete waste of time. There might have been some value to witnessing the barbarity and brokenness of it all but a dozen hours, not a dozen years, would have sufficed. It was a popularity contest that I failed every day and it got in the way of studying more interesting things.

If there was really nothing in the curriculum for you to learn (was mathematics really that easy for you?) maybe you should have focused on the popularity-contest side of things, since developing social skills is hugely useful for real life.

One of the girls is on the verge of being put on medication because she’s so unhappy. The drugs will make her ok with her malnourished, growth-stunting, environment. They’ll make her ok with jumping through inane hoop after hoop.

If you're being put on medication because you can't cope with high school, it's not a problem with high school. It's a problem with you, or maybe a problem with your doctor, but high school generally isn't that difficult an environment. You show up every day, you hang out with your friends, you go to classes, learn some stuff, you do some stupid crap that you're told to do, and you figure out a way to avoid doing some other stupid crap that you're told to do.
I don't have "weird" preferences - just ones that are different from yours. I don't play it "by ear" - I used to develop software myself and I built and sold two software companies. I accept other people's arguments and even change my opinion when they are compelling. You, sir, have made no arguments to the contrary other than name calling.
I also got neutral. But I am not a native speaker, so probably I didn't get some of the subtle differences. It was pretty neat.
You can put limits on the quantity of your groupon deal. And once the groupon is sent out, if the purchases get out of hand quickly, you can also put a limit on the deal at that point.
In the case of Verizon it is. Just because I'm singling out Apple doesn't mean it's a singular concern.

But my problem is that it seems pretty clear to me that of all the ways AT&T is shafting consumers, this is one way that Apple appreciates, because they can sell more devices than their customers would otherwise buy.

And coupled with Apple's obstinate rejection of the USB standard adopted by most other manufacturers, even more waste is generated by cables that cannot be repurposed - they want you to buy another cable, even though your current one could be repurposed with minimal engineering changes on their part. In fact, using standard USB drivers instead of a proprietary, in-house protocol, even for a company like Apple, should be cheaper.
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Yeah. It's worth browsing, and if you see something you would download, google for copyright info.

almost 38,000 books, it is incredible.
No, it was written by Ryan Ellis, charliepark's tax preparer (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490945). And it's not like these have been secrets, although it's taken a while to work through the implications of ObamaCare, excuse me, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObamaCare).
I'm not against you. I think some developers working remotely can be useful. I am also OK with any team member working a day or two from home. Finally, from an environmental point you're absolutely correct. My biggest argument is that management teams (CEO, VP Products, CTO) who work in remote geographies are often sub-optimized.
I can understand that, but that means you don't want any business either, because the two of them are strongly coupled...
I was mostly responding to the comment, which was about the income tax rates.

That said, while some of the HCR provisions resulted in new limits and exemptions on tax-free HSA/FSA accounts and the like, there really isn't a new "health care" tax.

Some of the other items on the list, like the AMT thing, has little to do with the current administration - it's a perennial issue that Congress "fixes" every year. (Which isn't to say that it's not a problem that they should just address one way or another, but it's silly to blame the AMT on anything new from Obama - it happens every single freaking year).

A few of the other items are downright laughable - they're expirations of temporary tax cuts or programs that were part of the stimulus (the stimulus that, FWIW, most conservatives opposed).
Someone I know was considering dropping out of university for the same reason. Instead of agreeing with them (the papers they were taking were pretty easy), I told them to seek interesting work within the department, and stop taking easy papers.

Within a few weeks, he had a ton of extra work with a top researcher, and ended up with coauthor status on a lot of papers. And this was an undergraduate. All it took was him showing interest and offering time. He even got paid.

As a lecturer, you are always looking out for students who show the slightest interest, and will open many doors if the student is capable. And if someone from highschool came and offered to help out, I'd certainly do my best to let them!
I didn't realize at first that this article was written by Clifford Stoll, who famously caught a spy/cracker working for the KGB, and wrote about it in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoos_Egg_(book)
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In that list, Clojure is the language that excites me the most. It's a modern, pragmatic Lisp ready for the multiprocessor world. You can do a lot worse than trying it out if you haven't already.
We're supposed to lower taxes to businesses, because at the end of the day business is the engine of the economy. Throttling business with taxes throttles the economy -- which is exactly what we don't need today.

so that consumers don't get punished in the end with new fees and higher costs

The degree to which this is true depends on the products involved. It all turns on the elasticity of demand for that product. Basically, if you're unlikely to significantly curtail your usage of -- e.g., oil or tobacco -- then the consumer will bear the brunt of any tax increase to the business. But if it's related to products that you're more inclined to put off a purchase due to price sensitivity, then the taxes will tend to come out of corporate profits.
Website/explanation please? I wasn't aware you could buy non-Arcade games digitally.
Don't downvote him. He is absolutely right. The picture on that page is a major WTF and it doesn't offer a great first impression to the visitor interested in the language.
I can't log in. Is there another way to get the books?
In case anyone doesn't know him, Clifford Stoll wrote "The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage", a book about his real experiences tracking down a group of computer hackers.

By the way, there's a bonus at the end of the book: he mentions Paul Graham (in the context of Robert Morris' worm). Was a pleasant surprise when I read the book.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionag...

Wiki about the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28book%29
Most of them seem to be. The previous administration didn't fund most (any?) of their tax cuts.
I'm sorry but I really dislike Erlangs syntax more than I like it's concurrency. I'm not saying Erlangs bad just that I hate how it looks.
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He alone could have created more than 19 successful companies...
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You've described the core of the problem: Everyone feels entitled to their entitlements, but nobody in the U.S. seems willing to pay for them. 'We the people' elected folks to 'decide how our money should be used'. That's the job of elected officials -- they're the hired help.

A 'permanent fix' would involve either eliminating programs or raising sufficient funds to actually pay for them. Which subsidies which you personally benefit from would you like to see stripped out? Deductible mortgage interest? Cheaper cars? Lower gasoline costs? Cheaper food? You're paying for all of those now.
Of course, in a sense they are subject to this scrutiny. Humanities programs are very often the first ones proposed for the chopping block whenever budget cuts come around. At which time, I assume, they are forced to make appeals as to why they are too important to be slashed. Obviously I don't think these appeals involve explaining the workings of deconstruction to administrators, but presumably they are able to say something convincing enough to stay afloat.

In the end, it probably amounts to most people (very arguably for the better) being unwilling to declare something as bunk just because they don't personally understand it or see the merit.

I think the real test should be outside application. If the supposed advances made in some particular arm of literature can only have meaning, effect and influence within that closed literary community, then what can it really be doing for society as a whole? Ultimately we want a discipline to offer something to the world at large, not just to itself. You don't have to be a scientist to see the merit in studying the human heart, you just have to know (or just be able to conceive) someone with heart disease. And it's not just sciences that could withstand this test. If studying music theory helps people to write more beautiful songs, that will be apparent to many people who have no music training whatsoever.

Point being, I think the real acid test is outside application. I won't leap to the conclusion that deconstructionism is garbage. I just ask to be shown that understanding it does indeed help someone to do something other than write deconstruction papers.
I hate to be critical, but I really wish programming languages would show code samples more prominently. I like how factor does it: http://factorcode.org/
You just made me look at that page. I was about to email it to a friend when I realized that newspeak's real home page doesn't have any dead chicken pictures:
http://newspeaklanguage.org/
I have a suspicion that "screen time" whether it be TV, videos or games, has a detrimental affect on: attention span, tranquility and susceptibility to advertisements and psychological mass-manipulation in general.
There are many borderline-political comments in this thread which are upvoted, yours just crosses the line a bit into overly-political flamewar provocation. So I downvoted you even though I totally agree with you.
Thank you so much for posting the video! (For those who might want to watch it also, the interesting stuff starts at the 5 and a half-minute mark). The re-framing of cancer as a desirable injury response is truly eye-opening.
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I'm waiting for a torrent to be made available.
Gabriel, I think this would be even more useful if you talked about how that graph happened. Why was there a dip? How did you overcome it? Where did you get your traction? Etc.
Well, in that sense nothing is "concrete" ... which itself is a big problem. Every few years there's a major change in taxes, which makes it impossible to plan for the long term, or at least make long term investments for smaller payoffs (yet people complain about companies being focused on the short term).

It's widely perceived that the massive and ongoing changes in the business environment have caused a lot of companies to effectively freeze or cut back until they see how it all plays out (note that one has also got to be concerned about second order and so on effects, that which trashes you may also be trashing your customers, your customers' customers, etc.).

Even the left is starting to acknowledge it; from the site run by the guy who helped to expose the polling firm that was scamming the Daily Kos, the last paragraph of an essay on "Why Aren't Businesses Hiring?":

"Uncertainty: there has been a tremendous amount of change over the last 12 months. Businesses are still trying to figure out what that means for their bottom line. Until there are firm answers, they will freeze hiring."

Fred Wilson recently discussed "Currency Risk In A Business" (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/07/currency-risk-in-a-business.... which was submitted to HN but seems to have disappeared). However, it looks like hedging that will get a lot more expensive: WSJ: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22facing+higher+retiree+heal...)

Which as the WSJ editorial notes "If hedging currency risk becomes too expensive, companies may shift more jobs to countries where the purchases occur, matching their revenues to expenses in the same currency.", in alignment with Fred's comments that "It is ideal to have your foreign currency denominated expenses and revenues be as close to each other as possible. Because if you can do that, they are a natural hedge."
And of course for standard moving around:

←/→	move left or right one character.

⌥ + ←/→	move left or right one word.

⌘ + ←/→	move to start or end of line
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Here's Clifford Stoll's TED talk, which is about as well organized and carefully thought out as this article:

http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/clifford_stoll.php
We shouldn't be too critical, the following quote was probably true back then.

I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, "Too many connectios, try again later."
the only problem with that is that there is no callback for when a animated gif ends. but other than that, good idea.
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I guess I'm alone in this, but I find page and window layouts built around a strict grid really strange looking. They look blocky and mechanical; full of rivers of space not unlike like poorly typeset text.

I find that space can help move the eye and accent parts of a layout. The grid and blocking are important, but at the same time they're also something to deviate from.
Surely you aren't claiming alcohol smugglers create a level of violence even close to the "drug trade"?

Additionally, if laws for illegal production and distribution were kept as serious as they are now, the risk/benefit ratio would be way off.
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