skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christians are not under the law but they're not stupid.

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Now there is no mediator when only one party is involved, and God is one.
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Is the law then opposed to the promises (of God)? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could bring life, then righteousness would in reality come from the law.
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But scripture confined all things under the power of sin, that through faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
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15 Before faith came, we were held in custody under law, confined for the faith that was to be revealed.
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Consequently, the law was our disciplinarian 16 for Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a disciplinarian.
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For through faith you are all children of God 17 in Christ Jesus.
That's not what I call "quietly", fwiw.
10 years is also about how long ago I abandoned Perl
That's true: if you don't have to use the interface that often, a good product design can make up for it. But if you were turning the fan on & off several times a day, it'd probably get annoying!
One can make this "off the backs" argument about any tax. Why is the tax you describe worse than other taxes, or isn't it?
There is nothing wrong with extending the prototypes of objects, as long as they are objects you own. Don't modify what you don't own is sound advice that applies to many things. I wish they went into detail on what the problem is with multi-level prototype hierarchies.
What do you expect midwestern retirees to do ? They're not earning coastal wages all their lives.
I'm not sure how much Perl 6 chromatic writes on a daily basis (I'm mostly only familiar with his work on his book and the Perl 6 book and his magical ability to constantly find another 2-6% performance improvement for Parrot), but there are quite a few people writing Perl 6 already.

Obviously there are people working on Rakudo and other Perl 6 implementations that spend their time writing Perl 6. But there's also people writing wikis, NES emulators, testing tools, build systems, and many other things in Perl 6. When people like chromatic say that you can write Perl 6 now, they aren't speaking based on hypotheticals or beliefs; they're speaking from experience. And, in my personal opinion, despite the NYI status of some things, bugs in the implementations of other things, and slow performance, writing code for Perl 6 is an amazing and wonderful experience. No, I wouldn't rewrite mission-critical systems on which people's lives depend in Perl 6 yet. Yes, I might write systems on which my life and future depend in Perl 6 right now. I definitely would and do write my side projects and one-off scripts in Perl 6 right now.
Is it moral to make money from other people's work against both their wishes and the terms of their license?
I don't know of any .NET implementation of ZPT.

What makes you find Spark's syntax to be dirtier than ZPT? Is it the fact that the Spark example I gave isn't valid XHTML like ZPT is? If so, that is simply out of convenience - Spark also offers a way to use proper XML namespacing to achieve complete XHTML compliance:

http://www.sparkviewengine.com/documentation/syntax
(scroll all the way down)
Sounds really interesting. Do you have a link to a repo by chance?
Completely agree - the irony is almost absurd.
Index funds that charge 2%? There are insane ones out there, but that seems way high based on a bit of time with Google, which included one page that claimed the average management fee for actively traded funds was somewhat less.
I couldn't help imagine the screams from mowing the lawn yesterday.
iPhone vs. Droid GPS signal quality
Wow, that truly is awesome. I just applied.
Reference or judge?  The impact of Google Maps on geopolitical disputes
To be equally pedantic but in a more geographically limited fashion: in the US, there are criminal copyright statutes. =)
The current zeitgeist loves tactics like Design Thinking, Agile Programming, and even Cellular/Flexible Manufacturing. I would say for good reason.

All of these stress the importance of getting to a product that can be tested ASAP, being flexible and iterating like crazy.

Reminds me of relativism around the turn of the century with Einstein's Physics, Marx's Philosophy, and Keynes' Economics
summary:

buildings where a lot of bad-behaving people lived were closed and/or residents were forced/incented to move out. After they moved to new buildings, sometimes in more suburban areas, many of those same people continued behaving badly, and thus the crime rate rose there. The overall net impact on behavior/crime was often neglible or actualy worsened. A large percentage of the people engaging in the bad behaviors were, for whatever reasons, black.

I just saved you about 4 pages of reading.
Virus phone scam being run from call centres in India
-http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668138

+http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668087
STILL SPOILERS

Except they don't, you never see them kill themselves (to exit the dream) or pass through the other levels of dreams, it just cuts straight to the plane. Then at the end he sees his kids, but they're exactly as they appear in his dreams. The top continuing to spin just makes it more explicit.

So he never made it out of limbo, when you see him awaking in the plane that's just him creating his own reality inside limbo, one where he gets to go back to his kids.
There's nothing wrong with taking 10 years to create something new. Since they began, I've taken serious ganders into java and ruby. Now that I'm back in the perl camp I find that I know a lot more about programming in other cultures. And now that the community is just about done, I can apply what I've learned using a "language" unprecedented in flexibility and capability.
It is a crime under US federal law, as well the laws of most industrialised countries. However, you are right in a way in that not all copyright infringement is a crime under US law.
Too bad, it got much better in the meanwhile (particularly in the last few years).
Gawd, what a horrible analogy...
I think the horse is out of the barn on this one - HTTP auth isn't going to come back. Even if all the browser vendors went and fixed the issues listed in this article tomorrow, HTTP auth still wouldn't support federated identity scenarios which is being used more and more every day.
I also think it should discourage modifying built-in objects. Unlike their for loop, the following line comes with no warning or disclaimer: "Interestingly, you can also add things to the prototype of built-in JavaScript objects."
How Software is Built
Ask HN: Compete with Facebook?
I ultimately would like to create a facebook alternative. I understand that a lot of people also share my desire. My question is, should I go for it, or look for a MUCH smaller niche?
> Therefore, you have three choices:

You missed the one that was used for all of human history:

4. Family ties, raise your kids well and establish that they should support you in old age. Bonus: Also gives an incentive to keep strong, healthy families together.
the OA title sucks because it's not about a murder mystery. I only clicked through because I'm doing research on actual murder mysteries for a side project of mine. So I was a bit disappointed to discover it was just about crime trends and social factors, not a specific murder case.
Ah, my mistake. I thought it was a different person.
Maybe Murdoch will give away access as an extra included service for subscribers of his other media services?

For example - Sky TV subscribers could be given 'free' access, as could Sky broadband customers. By increasing the customer base in this way, he'd gain a larger base of initial users.

He's trying to change the habits and behaviours of a large volume of people. It's probably far easier to do this if the initial wave of people don't have to think about purchasing it in the first place, and in the case of current customers - the costs could be recouped via their standard service's subscription.
One post like yours, sir, makes it worth trawling through a hundred posts by churlish detractors. Thank you.
They didn't talk about it explicitly, but in my mind it was connected to how the guy who got injured felt progressively better each time he went down a dream level. Dreams are affected by what happens above them, but it's sort of passed through a filter.
The answer is within you.

But without a great idea, excellent execution, a lot of technical talent and a pile of money, I'd choose the much smaller niche.
Thanks, I'd somehow missed "is" and "isnt" in the docs!
One promising thing about Perl 6 was the way it tried to bring parsers to everyday programming the way Perl popularized regular expressions. I'm sad the language seems to have stalled for that reason.
When I see these things from our reach into space I get goose bumps. This stuff is just so cool and I find it amazing that we did this with the technology available in the 60's.
If you were Mark Zuckerberg asking HN "Compete with MySpace?" a few years ago, you'd likely get the same advice you'll get now: they're way out in front of you and you'll have a much better shot at success if you pick a different niche.

The Bad News: You'll almost certainly fail if you try to take on Facebook.

The Good News: If you succeed, you'll almost certainly be a billionaire.

If you wanted to do this, I'd recommend reading up on what the Diaspora guys are doing and beat them at their game rather than attacking Facebook head-on.
I felt exactly them same way when I left the theater, but then I thought "isn't that the way dreams are?"

In dreams (at least mine anyways) there are solutions/objects/processess that suddenly, without explanation, just materialize out of thin air (but makes perfect sense while in the dream) to problems/events that occur in the dream and only realize how absurd the whole thing was when you wake up.
Another cs-related theme was the massively parallel capabilities demonstrated by the unconscious. It's also interesting that it's decentralized and actor-based. No two projections were aware of each others' knowledge or events unless they directly communicated.
It simply isn't a win.

* Application designers want to control the login/logout experience for users; HTTP auth delegates it to the browser's UI. Here's a telling example: where do you put the "Forgot password?" option on a site that uses HTTP auth?

* There's no logout and no inherent state tracking and to add either of these in-app you have to use the same hacky-seeming techniques you need for form-based auth.

* The "advanced" stuff you can do with HTTP auth (digest auth, for instance) isn't a real security win, especially vs. form-auth and TLS.

* The advanced stuff that is a win, like multi-factor, requires you to keep step-by-step control over the login experience and so isn't amenable to being delegated to the browser.

* It's just not better than web forms as a user experience. Popups are intrusive and ugly.

At the end of the day, there are a couple minor changes all browsers could make in concert merely to make HTTP Auth experience as good as the form auth experience; this would cost many tens of millions of dollars to deploy and would result in an Internet unlikely to be one iota better than what we have now.
Makani Power, a Google funded wind energy startup, comes out of stealth
THE UPCOMING STAR OF 2010 - the bust boobs controversy..
If you violate a license as the foundation of that work? Not a crime, but certainly a civil violation of said license. Thesis' author has ignored the terms of the license of the software that he used in the construction of his own software, but ignorance does not merit pardon. Thesis, by inclusion of GPL code, is required to be licensed under the GPL. Failure to do so is unlicensed usage of the code; ie, copyright infringement. Either he is in violation of copyright by using code outside of the license, or he is in violation of the license by not GPLing Thesis itself. Either way, the author is in breach of someone's rights, and Thesis, as a work, may only be legally distributed under a GPL license.

I can't say I blame him for putting up a fight, since it's his bread-and-butter and GPLing it would cut his financial knees out from under him, but it's not even a debate at this point whether or not GPL code is included in Thesis. This is a fight that he can't win.
The History of the Weblog
Strange. I don't get anything out of memorizing data and just find it to be an extremely difficult chore. I prefer to understand things on a conceptual level. I don't see how it's valid as a "mental exercise"; we could have you memorize some arbitrary sequence of digits. We could also have you spend the rest of eternity rolling a rock up a hill a la Sisyphus.

I think the conclusion is just that you and I have learning styles that work very differently.
Exactly, the dreamers in the van are feeling 0g, so they're dreaming in 0g as well. However, it's still a dream so when you reach the dream-within-a-dream level, the brain probably defaults to what it's more used to.
I think the sad thing about this story, is the likely deal that Rupert Murdoch will have made with the current UK conservative-led government.

The UK Tories don't like big-government, and they believe that free-enterprise should be encouraged at the expense of public services.

The BBC is, quite rightly, a public service - and is unique in its ability to remain relatively impartial and free from commercial pressures. It's successful and provides news coverage that rivals much of the other paid-for news available in the UK.

Last year, Mr Murdoch was making large noises about how the BBC's success makes it more difficult for him to profit from his UK news and media wings. In the run up to the election, his suite of media publications supported the Conservative campaign strongly. Now we have a conservative win - we have an announcement that the BBC is going to be cut back severely, possibly with a reduction to it's main source of income (the license fee).

Maybe I'm being a bit cynical - but I'm pretty certain this isn't a coincidence. While the BBC is providing a good source of news, and programming - paywall experiments like this are far more likely to fail.

However, if the BBC is crippled (as it potentially will be), I think the option of paying for news will seem more and more attractive.
After reading that, it seems like Perl has rather nice community. If Python has engineers and Ruby rockstars, then I'd say that Perl has hackers.
Exactly; to quote blogress Ann Althouse about the proposed NYT paywall (http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/were-going-to-have-to-p...):

"For me, reading on line is tied to blogging. I'm not going to spend my time reading sites that I can't blog, and I'm not going to blog and link to sites that you can't read without paying...."
I hope this is a fair paraphrase of the deleted comments: Dating this gene is only possible with the assumptions of evolution, if they are not true the date put on the gene is meaningless. Since both belief in evolution and creation are based on faith (and, I guess that was implied, thus equally likely) ascribing a date to the gene is not a good idea.

Nobody disagrees with the first sentence. The second sentence is bogus.
I'm wondering where you're getting the 2% figure from, since I didn't mention it and the parent post didn't mention it. Maybe the grandparent-post?

The lowest of my actively-managed funds has an expense ratio of about 0.5%; the highest is around 1.5% (it's an international fund for some diversification). My index funds are typically around 0.05%, which is a factor of 40 less than 2%.
Downside: using children as your old age insurance policy gives an incentive to have as many children as possible within your means on an already overpopulated planet.
Sadly I did, but it did not contain much that was interesting. ActiveDesktop is going to be huge, Netscape will survive, don't need to worry about antitrust issues, and half of it was about how they failed to predict the rise of the internet and had instead backed 'interactive tv' (which I guess is finally here, but was hardly a revolution it was trumpted as). The only thing actually relevant today was his talk about philanthropy along with Buffet.
As opposed to "proper quoting?" I doubt most people understand the reference anymore.
wow, just started watching mad men...spoiler alert would've been nice
Also, for what it's worth: it's disingenuous to suggest that the DNSSEC working group "didn't make DNS zones walkable" --- NSEC3 is as hacky as it sounds because that's exactly what it is, a hack (and if you think that's a hack, read the whitelies proposals). Until the late appearance of NSEC3, not only were DNSSEC zones completely walkable, but many people on the working group argued vigorously that all zone contents on the Internet are effectively public information and that there was no valid reason that people on the Internet shouldn't be able to dump the contents of any secure zone.

This is roughly what you'd expect from a workgroup led in part by people who's zones consist of machines like "old-1994-dec-alpha.state.school.edu" and "ultra-5-with-sentimental-value.math.state.edu". The impedance mismatch between this kind of person and the people who maintain "backend1.staging4.apac.bank.com" appears to be part of the reason that DNSSEC is such a debacle.
One of my friends from high school is a freelance dancer in SF. I'm amazing by what those girls are capable of. It takes so much determination to keep going.

Most girls can't make a living on dancing itself, so they have to have to find side jobs. Since there's almost no monetary incentive, they do it mainly for the love of the craft.

It's physically demanding because they're often in the studio for the entire day, and they have to be careful to avoid injury. It's emotionally demanding because they have to put themselves in the abstract mindset of choreographers and directors, who they may not agree with.

These girls are fearless. I'd compare it with being a software consultant, but without the pay and flexibility.
You've set up a straw man argument. Where are these JavaScript fans who are pointing to several well-known problems with the language (e.g. semicolon autoinsertion, the for-in loop, the poorly-thought-out type system) and saying they're JavaScript's strengths? No-one is saying the language doesn't have flaws.

JavaScript's strengths are that it's small and surprisingly powerful and flexible, in spite of its design mistakes.

(N.B. The bug with closures is associated with a problem in a single use case with IE6's garbage collector, and Microsoft patched it two-and-a-half years ago.)
This looks pretty interesting. They have some nice explanations of their concept- particularly the fundamentals link: http://www.makanipower.com/concept/fundamentals/

It looks pretty complex, but if the numbers work out right, this is probably the cheapest way to tap into the great winds available high in the sky.
"HTTP Authentication may be RESTful, but it's not very USEful." http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155252
> That's a very uncharitable comment.

Jokes rarely are. It's a joke and as such it shouldn't be taken seriously.

> Millions of Nigerians work honest jobs to feed and educate their children.

Nobody is implying otherwise.
Can you list some of the incoherencies? I found that things that seemed odd at first can actually be reasoned out pretty easily.

Spoilers!

For example, a friend was confused how Fischer could be revived. They explained that death with the heavy sedation would lead to limbo, so it could be concluded that dying was actually just a shortcut to go into a deeper dream state, he wasn't actually "dead". When they woke him up from that dream, he came back.

Another oddity I found was that they needed to synchronize all the kicks, wouldn't one kick in the deepest dream suffice? Well, in one level of dreaming if you think you're falling, you can actually feel it (whether the falling feeling happens in the sleeping environment (dude sleeping in a chair and being tipped) or in the dream (dude being thrown out of a building)), but at 2 levels of dreaming, the falling would be too abstract to cascade all the way up.

You probably found different glitches in the movie, but the above shows the process I used to answer some questions.
Checkout the gigs section in craiglist. There are lots of short term projects there. You never know what will happen...
I was about to argue this, but the more I thought about it, I agree with it.

To put it as I understand it, using GPL code doesn't automatically make your code GPL; it places a legal requirement on you to either license your code as GPL, or to not distribute the source or product. If the author doesn't license his software, then nobody else can take and use it, but the author is in violation of copyright due to the unlicensed use of GPL code.

The virality of the GPL is a requirement of the license, not an automatic effect upon using GPL code.
Recently I found apple's facetime ads to be super effective. I'm never buying the iPhone 4 (or perhaps any successor) but man I want that app.
People are taking issue with the specific legal test you're proposing, but the fact that you are proposing a legal test as a way of resolving the issue is very sensible. This is a legal issue, and it should be tested using the law.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, this doesn't seem to be the way suspected GPL violations are resolved. More frequently there is a community consensus and a public shaming of the responsible company (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=790316). The issue then becomes one of how much negative publicity the company is willing to take.

IOW although "GPL violations" are described in legal terms, could be legally tested, and refer to legal documents, the issue of illegality takes second place to a fuzzier issue of "fairness", which changes from community to community and project to project.
The Problem with Big Companies
Apple and Amazon have gotten closer than anybody else in the mass online market though. Tons of people routinely buy 99 cent items through them. Yes it needs to go farther to say 1 cent transactions or less for it to be true micropayments. I think these 2 players plus Google and PayPal are probably best positioned to eventually deliver a true general-purpose micropayments service.
Strange. I don't get anything out of memorizing data and just find it to be an extremely difficult chore.

It's not "data", it's Shakespeare. Memorizing and reciting Shakespeare is quite a bit different than doing the same with an arbitrary sequence of digits.

We could also have you spend the rest of eternity rolling a rock up a hill a la Sisyphus.

We could, and while it the first few weeks might teach me some lessons in Zen, it's still not the same thing as Shakespeare.

I think the conclusion is just that you and I have learning styles that work very differently.

I don't think that's really the conclusion.
Sites dead... Google's got it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I find that collaboration sometimes detracts from flow. I'm the type of programmer who will put headphones on without even listening to music if I need to get something done.
I think he left it very ambiguous on purpose. The kids looking exactly like in the dream might just be an artistic thing to connect everything together. Also, the top was starting to jerk around a little bit at the end, so we can't be sure if it was about to fall.
It's actually a pretty popular mix, I've gathered. They are very similar styles of music in many ways.
Opera beta: With Javascript off I can toggle the music. With Javascript on it says "OK" and I can choose a visualisation but the audio controls are gone and there is no sound.
Cerebral Imperialism