skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's about hackers and satisfies our intellectual curiosity. Oh wait....
My God. Is this a joke? What kind of idiot tells kids to drop out of high school? I have a hard enough time with people who recommend skipping or dropping out of college -- but high school?!?!?

They told me how boring high-school was, how narrow-minded their families were.

That sounds like what 2 out of 3 teens would say. How much more typical can you get? Maybe these two teens are brilliant, I don't know. If so, they should simply accelerate and go to college earlier. But, drop out? I'm simply stunned that someone could seriously tell teens this.
I could explain deconstruction to an interested party, and I imagine I could do so in slightly less time than it would take to explain Perelman's proof of the Poincare Conjecture to McCartney.

If the interested party is already well read in the philosophical works of Husserl, Heidegger, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud and Levinas, I could probably do it in a weekend.
Yes, I agree -- my point was merely that in any case, it wouldn't make sense to argue against a bill on the basis that it takes away freedoms, since that is necessarily what any bill (with a few trivial exceptions) must do. (Of course you can argue against a bill on the basis that it takes away some freedom in particular, given, for example, that such freedom has been enshrined in a founding document, &c., &c.)
I follow Python but I don't really program in it. I don't know how you could read everything that you guys have put out and not understand things are progressing according to plan.
Agreed. At first glance, that's what I thought. Trying to figure out why, I think for me it's the list on the left and its use of blue followed by grey. it looks like a google ad.

I'd also say it's due to the logo being the only color on the page (+1 for the monocolor comment), and the super huge font with no effects (add a shadow maybe?) and the word "best"
Why focus on only minority, women and veterans? Is that supposed to turn Sam's Club into some type of saint?
Developers care about perfomance and if Python 3 becomes faster than Python 2 then I think people will begin to port their stuff to Python 3.
Your argument really only makes sense if you start from the presumption that the only acceptable answer is to finish school. Otherwise it is little more than proof-by-assertion.

Start instead with an open slate, and for any given "advantage" schooling may have, there's a set of alternatives that can do it better. For any given whole package, there's a strung-together set of those alternatives that can do it better. The only way for school to win out here is if you define it as the only possible winner from the get-go, to insist that the only acceptable goal is one that can be met only by this particular combination of compulsion and resources.

If you have to defend schooling without this "home field advantage", you will at the very least have to work a lot harder at it than a few quick paragraphs fired away for the purpose of tickling the school memetic program in the minds of the readers. Why not at the very least switch to home schooling for the last couple of years and slam the pedal to the metal instead of being forced into idle? College is a fine place to learn even those precious-but-unquantifiable "social skills". I'd even argue a better place, learning your social skills in the grotesquely artificial environment of a high school is of dubious value anyhow. (College is artificial too, but less so.)

And honestly, falling back to the refuge of the "social skills" argument makes me very suspicious anyhow. I had the same basic experience in high school as the original poster, I even thought perhaps I was weak in the social skills, but guess what? Yes, indeed, the fault did lie with my environment and I was just fine on the social front. School just wasn't the right place to find that out.
Is becoming more like Europe supposed to be a bad thing? Most of Europe seems like a nice place to live and raise a family. Can you recommend a "role model" country from the opposite end of the taxes and services spectrum? IE, a "low taxes, low regulation" country that's an attractive place for a non-wealthy person to live and raise a family?

I'm not being snarky, I'm actually curious. I look at western Europe and by and large I see clean, pleasant cities with low crime, lots of parks, museums and other amenities. In short, nice places to live. I don't know that has anything to do with their "high" tax rates and "socialist" leanings, but I suspect it might.
Thoughts on classifieds, Craigslist, and local
I assume this was posted for folks to read and say "Look at the fool! Look how wrong he was!"

I find it much more interesting to find the parts in his essay that were true both then and now, for those are the parts where he stands the greatest chance of making a useful observation.

Reading it in this fashion, it looks as though we continue to confuse data for knowledge, images for experiences, and typing for human interaction. Not a lot of news there, but interesting nonetheless.
The right to sublease is guaranteed by New York's landlord-tenant law.

"A tenant renting a residence pursuant to an existing lease in a dwelling having four or more residential units shall have the right to sublease his premises subject to the written consent of the landlord in advance of the subletting. Such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld."

N.Y.S. Real Property Law, Section 226-b(2)(a).

So that Brooklyn waiter shouldn't be too hard to find.
Can China cope with its massive urban population growth?
I once talked to a Frenchman who learned English in Australia. I could clearly hear the two accents. It was fascinating.
StackOverflow: Faster ways to move cursor around in a command line.
I assure you, your existence depends on that grain of sand.

You're welcome to disagree, similarly as a child would insist on the existence of Santa Claus or a Christian on the existence of a paternal God-head.

Though that's not a perfect analogy, as proving either of those postulates wrong is impossible, and here we have a situation where there actually is strong evidence for the existence of sand granules (I hope you'll agree).

So in this case it actually is rather easy to see if you're correct. If you can "do just fine without it" then go and erase it out of existence. Come back when you are through and you'll have proven me wrong. :-)
What I'm wondering is...why backport even a single feature?
why the need for such a large picture to show such little info?
The question is, what's the point of the DRM once you have something like Steam? The DRM is not actually preventing people from pirating the games; you can still download them from Torrent sites. And you can prevent people from playing online if they haven't paid without any DRM; you just keep track of that on the server side.

So, by still including DRM, you are limiting users freedom, installing crap on their machines that they don't want, for no particularly good reason. The essential part to keep people buying your games instead of going to torrents is not the DRM; it's offering a good service that's competitive with the torrents. The convenience of fast downloads, of being able to reinstall the game on a new machine without keeping track of physical media and keys. And with a service like Steam, you can offer more than that, such as a nice option for online play, tournaments, leaderboards, and the like, updates that add value and keep your interest in older games.

While some people are just so cheap that they'll go with the torrent no matter what, I think there are a lot of people who would be willing to buy DRM free games if they offer a compelling enough experience. The reason that media loses sales to piracy is that they offer so much of a worse experience than just doing a search and a download. See iTunes, for example. The music isn't DRMed any more, and it's the largest music retailer in the world; it offers a wide selection and easy download and no crappy DRM hassles.

Steam is not successful because of the DRM. It's successful because of the service and convenience. They could drop the DRM, and be even better off than they are today, and not have to spend all the time and money writing the DRM that will just be cracked anyhow.
Indeed! It does read like a checklist of what was about to hit.
I think people saw this in 1995 and thought “what an idiot” and I think people are doing the same thing now. But in my opinion that’s a mistake.

What we should be seeing is that his points were valid in 1995 and are still valid today (except for the Cyber-business one which really was pretty dumb). The internet is still an unedited mess where answers are hard to find (if they aren’t on Wikipedia), people still don’t pay attention to government based internet initiatives (outside of SF) and classrooms have computers but generally don’t use them for anything but games.

That’s a sad commentary on our technological advancement.

If people had paid attention in 1995 we might have a Semantic Web by now, we might have forced porn sites and proxies into their own domain so kids could use the internet in the classrooms, we might have forced colleges to include “interactive digital design” into their curriculum for teachers and we might have an internet based government as opposed to a government that mindlessly throws datasets up that no one pays attention to.

So in my opinion the last thing we should be doing is writing this piece off as silly
edit: my mistake.
HN's de-duping will only reject articles that are still in memory, which is generally articles that have been viewed fairly recently.
Apple Working on New Language?
Freakonomics: Doping in the Tour de France
I just want to point out quick that what's so awesome about Steam is it's apparent longevity. They provide the convenience of the App Store: you see something, 2-or-3 clicks and it's yours, but the greatest value that Steam offers is the fact that THE GAMES YOU BUY ARE ALWAYS THERE. 5 years down the road, you will still be able to download and play the games you have bought, onto a different computer with possibly a completely different OS, all patched up. It's in Steam's best business interest to continue and grow and maintain a presence, possibly forever, so they will always be there, and the game you have bought and paid for the one time, you will always have, always. Try and say that about a physical copy or the stupid App store.
"I suffer no illusion that their sales numbers have any correlation to the popularity or efficacy of a technology."

I guess all that PR and advertising from dozens of publishing, training, analyst and consulting firms is a giant waste of money?
My favorite, from the replies:

"If you ran the command earlier, hit C-r for a reverse history search and type option25 (in this case). The line will be displayed. Hit TAB to start editing at this point."
To me at least, it sounds like perhaps what you are talking about is legitimate, sincere deconstruction, whereas the author is talking (correctly, in my opinion) about an "evil twin" so to speak (ie: conservatives --> neo-conservatives).

Perhaps I am; where does this evil twin reside?

I am speaking of the work of Derrida, and the work of his followers that is (for the sake of simplicity) published by university presses-- because that's what I read.

If the "evil twins" are undergrad posers, well, I don't really know or care what they're up to these days.

I think that statement illustrates the disconnect...."figuring out" is what should be done, but "deciding" is what is often actually done. To me it seems you are talking about the uncompromised (correctly implemented) theory, whereas he is talking about what the theory has typically become, in actual practice. If that makes any sense.

It makes sense, but it's not what I was getting at.

My point was a Nietzschean one (which Derrida concurs with).

We don't consciously choose how to interpret a text.

Here's a link to an old Usenet post I wrote, which collects a few Derrida quotations, one of which is precisely on this subject:

http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.classics/browse_th...

(Sorry about the crappy formating there...)
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-...

Nothing much to it. Microsoft has been selling catalog titles via Xbox Live for a while now.

edit: Here's a list of all the games available for full download. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/catalog.aspx?d=4&...
Gaming's future: PC or console?
Oops looks like the site's not yet updated.
Holy crap is that ever a slick technique.

And the ie6/7 stuff isn't much to worry about, either - you can just use conditional comments to include a traditional CSS Sprite-based file if ie6/7 is detected.

Yes, it means more overhead, maintaining two versions of your CSS file, but the improvements in speed might be worth it.
In praise of default
You notice how Half Life development slowed to a virtual crawl after the launch of Steam? I'm sure it was obvious to them that they had just invented the most awesome source of revenue since WoW, and everything else shrank in comparison. If not for Steam we would have seen HL3 w/ a much improved source engine by now for sure.
Business Buzzword Bingo
Worldwide

Bloomberg LP is hiring (and we have a big office in London) though I'm skeptical we might have anything specifically for Python. Not to worry though, we offer extensive training.

http://www.bloomberg.com/about/careers/

(However, if you feel like moving to the States in Princeton, NJ, then we have a Python position open on my team :) ).
Possibly but at the same time most people who will be using the terminal at all on Mac are the same people who have been using the terminal on linux. For people that have been using the terminal on linux Bash is more user friendly (it is what they already know).
Build a better brain
Fabricly (YC W10), Bolder, and disruptive innovation
I think the point is, who cares about a philosophical reading of Phaedrus? What does this do for society as a whole? Does this advance people towards a better understanding of life and nature? What does this do to raise living standards or promote equality for people who do not have it?

I think this is the main portion of the debate: all this talk is nonsense in any bigger picture.
The metaphor doesn't work because there are too many dissimilarities between meeting a human on an unknown island and meeting another species in space, under the conditions that life is forever planet-bound. You could slightly improve the metaphor if you meet the guy and he has a gun pointed at the head of everyone you ever knew or loved and behaved like an unpredictable raving lunatic (or at least someone that you fundamentally can not understand the motivations of). But you're still better off just dealing with the issue directly; metaphors will lead you very astray here, if only because metaphors are intrinsically populated with humans and human things in a problem domain that is most emphatically not human.
Alternative: highlight all posts by followed users, similar to how fark.com does it. I can quickly scan the page to see the people I'm interested in, and still easily see the context for their discussions.
How Priceline Stole My Money - A Timeline
So now iterators mean car/cdr is "classic" so it should be present in all Lisp dialects from here to eternity?
Doteasy is a domain registrar that is not worth your trust
mmh... there are two kinds of overhead associated with using data URLs.

One is that encoding arbitrary binary data using base64 will increase the size of the data by around one third, so you will transmit more data.

Of course, if you do the caching headers right, this applies only to the first connection.

The other overhead you have to pay for every time: The data has to be base64 decoded before it can be used. Depending on the amount and size of images and depending on the type of implementation in the browser, this can require a significant amount of resources.

edit: In addition I wonder whether browsers cache the base64 decoded output between page loads. If you are really unlucky, the decoding might be done on every page load. Also, I'm not sure how browsers would handle identical data-content in multiple CSS rules: Do they keep multiple copies of the same image in memory? Or do they detect identical data and keep only one image around?

I would do some tests before blindly applying this.
No, but it does show that Walmart is at least trying to not be an evil megacorporation.
Yeah, that's the way I feel too. Unicode safety is nice, but that's not enough for the pain right now. I imagine, 5 years down the track, a Python 3.5 or 4.0 including the same syntax and libraries but a way faster CPython.

Edit: sorry I wrote that when I was tired, forgot to add 'in 5 years time, that being the common version of Python'.
Landlords in NYC are legally entitled to credit-check subtenants, among many other details.
Reminds me of the people who still argue for the old fashioned "butts in seats" measures of productivity, rather than something more modern like a Results Oriented Work Environment.

When all is said and done, it shouldn't be about what makes the boss most comfortable or what "feels" right to management. It should be about getting things done.
still working fine for me
Facebook influences Nigeria football team ban U-turn
In the U.S. yes, but this is in Ecuador. Such a company would operate wholly outside the U.S., and only sell the submarines in kit form, ready for assembly.

Here's the full text of the law b.t.w.: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ407/html/PLAW-110pu...
Thanks! wasn't aware of that. I'll have to check it out at home as it's blocked here at work.
Using gzip you negate the increase in size (article (or a linked article) mentions that).
Interesting - I got western, which is reasonable since I was born in California. To me stock and stalk sound the same as well. It is eerie how accurate this quiz is.
But who defines "excessive"? If we can define it as "1 ticket", that simplifies the whole process, since we can issue SWAT gear instead of ticket-writing paraphernalia to meter enforcement workers.
False dichotomy. You are not limited to writing a blank technological check to a civilization or leaving them utterly alone. A false dichotomy that demonstrates your thought is still far too shaped by viewing Star Trek, IMHO. I grew up with that show but I've come to understand it is really an incredible memetic hazard when it comes to trying to understand the universe as it truly is. If your concept of the universe includes anything that looks like Star Trek still in it, examine it immediately and prepare to discard it.

Am I limited to either putting my child immediately in the driver's seat of my car or tossing him out into the wild and letting him fend for himself? My point not being that we are metaphorically children; I don't like metaphors like that, we are what we are and we have no idea whether we are or are not like children. My point is that we are not limited to such constrained choices.
not completely. size(gzip(base64(compressed_image))) is highly likely bigger than just size(compressed_image)
The Power of 406
Why do you guys help random people? Out of pure curiosity - is it for profit or just as a contribution back to society?
Assuming there is a point to this sort of recursive thought exercise, the largely impenetrable nature of the material by definition guarantees no benefit to society at large or other academic fields.

So other than providing a private game preserve for a peculiar flavor of intellectuals that aren't interested in a day job and can't be bothered to gravitate to fields with demonstrable intrinsic value what, exactly, is the point to all of this?
Market forces. This just proves people are more willing to pay of an iPhone for whatever reason, compared to a Droid phone. Arguing the reason is X (quality or it being the better phone) is pretty useless based on this data.
Thought I'd take the test for funsies (I am Scottish), but there's a couple of questions where there's no difference in the choices when I say them:

How do you say the first A in PASTA?
"Same A as in MAT or CAT"
"Same A as in FATHER"

How do you say the "oo" in ROOF?
"Like the "oo" in FOOT"
"Like the "oo" in FOOD"

I ended up with "Northeast New England" accent
UberCab Takes The Hassle Out Of Booking A Car Service
Favorite line from the article:

"What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data,"

Unedited data indeed. :-)
You don't necessarily need a mobile version, but having the "public URL" version of a page be chopped off could hurt adoption. The resulting HTML is pretty straightforward, so I guess there's some CSS problem blocking me from scrolling.
+1 on the Kilim comment, I hadn't seen this before either but it is well worth taking a look.
I would hire Clifford Stoll as a consultant - when he says "There is no future in this idea" I will put all my efforts behind it. He had 100% of his guesses wrong.
Are you imagining that — for those who still have early-generation iPhones and "are already making payments on their 4" — that Apple is getting a cut of those payments? I doubt that they are, and I don't see why Apple would appreciate that.

I've never heard anybody else talk about upgrading in terms of "force" like you have. It appears, from my perspective, that your mental calculus for making your purchase is the rare case, and that many people don't want to bite the additional up-front cost of a new phone and don't want to to extend the length of their contract.

I would wager that most people would roll their eyes at folks like me who would upgrade a perfectly good 3GS to a 4 just for the better display. Yeah, they're not doing the math, but not doing the math is the norm — not the exception.

So, again, I think your offense is misplaced.
http://emerginglangs.com/speakers/

Wish i could go.
I seriously doubt it. You only remove 1 extra request with this technique. The main advantage is that you don't have to maintain a sprite image (but using this without some tool would also be cumbersome).

IMHO one saved request isn't work doing the same thing twice. And MHTML (http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-a...) doesen't come as a saviour either, as you have to duplicate all images in the CSS, which increases the size of the CSS significantly (if it doesn't you are probably better off using "old fashioned" techniques.
Does the Chrome team think they need to reach version number parity with the other browsers? At least from a UI standpoint, the current version of Chrome that I'm using (5.0.375.99 Beta) is not enough different from the first Beta to warrant 4 full version numbers. About the only features that I can think of that are visibly new are the themes and the extension system. Did themes come with v4?

Also, if there are good reasons to warrant full version number change, then why are those versions installing automatically? A full version change is not an "update". It should be much more explicit to the user that a new full version is available.
Cans? Just empty cans?
> Great. Now name me some successful recent high-school dropouts.

I suppose I'll throw my hat into the ring. Dropped out during my sophomore year (with bad grades to boot). Now I'm going to a good college, I have a good job, and I have some hobbies I love that I'm pretty good at.

That said I wouldn't recommend dropping out to most people, it's way to easy to just drop out "because I want to play video games" or because "school is boring", you need to want to drop out because "school isn't intellectually challenging and I have things I want to push myself in".
Oh the wonderful 1990s jargon. I wonder how many 'Multimedia CDROMs' today's wikipedia would fit on.