skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great as that is, it's not really a garden path sentence, as there's no element of being misled. It looks absurd from the outset.
Imagine you really, really cared about your FB account -- only real-life trusted friends wre linked, you kept your profile free of spammy apps and them some q&a site wanted those credentials.

It's not a million miles away from asking one of us for our private keys.
PIL is fucking amazing, I've never seen anything like it for any other language. Last year I used it to write a computer vision utility for doing black-box UI testing on embedded medical devices, and I can't imagine having used anything else. Right now I'm fighting RMagick on another project, I would have set the building on fire if I'd had to deal with it's bullshit on the CV project.

It links directly with libjpeg, libpng, etc. instead of via some imagemagick bullshit. Instead of being fucked if what you want to do doesn't line up with an existing magick command, it gives you the tools to do it yourself, and even pretty performantly since it can give you numpy arrays.
Are we burning out on Facebook?
The government have no money. If they want to provide services, they have to take it by force, rather than engage in voluntary exchange.

Everything they have comes from the people, ungratefully or not.
> Actually, no. The housing crisis was US govt created.

Noted conservative Krugman suggested creating a housing bubble after the dot-com bubble and applauded it during the early stages.
Python programs execute in sequence. No Fork/Join frameworks, no coroutines, no lightweight processes, nothing. Your Python code will execute in sequence if it lives in the same process space.

The answer from Brett and Guido to concurrency? Develop your code in C, or write your code to execute in multiple processes.

Could someone explain this to me? It says no fork/join to get concurrency, but then it says you can use multiple processes. Fork makes another process. I'm confused. What's a "process space"?
This has the same feeling as another Conde Nast owned site: ArsTechnica. They've had a subscription option for a while, and it seems to work well for them.
Reddit is the only online community I've ever been in where I've met and befriended fellow members in real life; I've been online for a fair while.

There's a connectedness there that simply does not exist for most online communities. Hell, I go to a weekly board games and hang-out night with fellow redditors in the area - no other internet community has ever compelled me to do that before.
Gift tax is similar (has been 45%, might go up), on amounts over $10,000.
The only thing I'm not fully on board with is staying in the house rent free for 12 months while waiting for the foreclosure process to complete. I can't quite explain why, but taking advantage of the slowness of the legal system seems different and less respectable than exercising the default option in the mortgage contract.

I sympathize with your concerns, but one justification for staying rent free in the house is that it is a hedge against malicious bank activity. For example, in some cities, banks have initiated foreclosure proceedings against people who then dutifully move out, but the bank never takes possession of the property and never notifies the previous owners. As a result, ownership rebounds back to them, and they end up on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars of back taxes and fines. Make no mistake, if you abandon your home for a few years, you will eventually have to pay a lot of money.

Now, if your bank was one of the banks that engaged in this behavior, you might be justified sitting in the home rent free: after all, you have no way of knowing if the bank is about to force you to incur costs that accrue by vacating the house. At least if you're sitting in the house, you can keep vagrants from moving in, perform basic maintenance like leak protection and do other things that will minimize the penalty you'll take if the bank ends up refusing to take ownership after initiating foreclosure.
It will usually end up getting delivered to the To: address with postage due.

This idea is about as old as the mail system itself (I first remember reading about it in the Anarchists Cookbook in the late 80's).
The social networking site only picked up 320,800 new users in the U.S. in June, according to Inside Facebook. That might sound like a lot -- until you compare it with the number of new U.S. users the site grabbed in May: 7.8 million.

Wow. What could have caused a decline like this? The end of the school year? The ongoing privacy brouhaha? Twitter?
I guess naming is part of selling it. If it was named as it actually is they would never pass.

Stuff as simple as the 'War on Terorism' when they are on our side in the 80's in Afghanistan for instance they were 'Freedom Fighters'

As far as bills:

- USA Patriot Act = Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001

- Operation Liberty Shield - http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0115.shtm

- Homeland Security Act - http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/laws/law_regulation_rule_0011.shtm

- S.A.F.E.T.Y Act - http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/laws/editorial_0878.shtm

- ...
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I did this at the end of 2008. Try adding the fact that the chat service was on a different domain and they wanted to use it like a web service doing cross domain requests WITHOUT Flash.
Bummer, http://twitter.com/null is suspended. I was hoping for more of the same.
Would be interesting, but "not available in [my] territory" (USA)
I've been considering doing this myself, not because of the virtues of either device platform per-say, but because of the exorbitant rates I pay for AT&T's spotty service.

Edit: in other words, if I switch to an Android phone it'll be because of a better carrier like Verizon.
Paul Krugman, the author of "The Conscience of a Liberal," is a noted conservative???
I'm more disappointed that they passed on the obvious pun.
The comments are a great read!
I cannot speak for anyone else but I do not understand what doing so gives the website or Facebook access to, nor would I trust either party to change without notice that even if I was aware.
Best think I have done in my entire internet life is using my real name on HN (a first for this anonymous privacy hawk!) and leaving my contacts.

You folks have been the best! Great face to face meetings too.
I love seeing facebook connect buttons because it means I will be logging into a site without touching my keyboard. This is a big win for when I am on the couch.
> Are we suspending Habeus Corpus for this?

Folks in Mexico are not entitled to US habeas corpus.

Border control is not like ordinary law enforcement.
Conde Nast wants a return on their investment (rumored at $65m). So tiny and flat profits are going to be unacceptable to them.

Probably the situation is this: Advertising isn't very lucrative on Reddit, so Nast has told Reddit management that they must come up with some plan to steepen the profit curve, or they're toast.

And this is what they've come up with.
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The USB interface still has issues. They've supposedly fixed them in rev. C4, but I have a C3. My main concern apart from the USB stuff is being able to buy enough units in quantity, with a reasonable turnaround time, if the BB (or any other hobby board) is used in a design.
Also note that there is a huge exemption (apparently $3.5m last year, and $1m next year if they don't change it). It's only 45% beyond that point, like tax brackets.
Can't find a link for this, but one of the employees mentioned that it was related to Conde Nast's arcane rules about buying and managing servers.
I think the rise of humanistic interest sub-reddits with a low knowledge entry barrier killed it.
Someone at work wrote something like "we have achieved parody with <competitor's product>."
I think he is now.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/shawn-fanning-finally-gets-...
I think you really need to understand that there are people who use Facebook in a very different way from how you use it. There are those who, like you, don't care about their account. They have no personal information on there. They made it just for the sake of having a Facebook account, so they could feel as though they were participating in social networking. These people are fine using Connect because they have no investment in Facebook. To them, it's really no different than a scarcely used email account.

For others, Facebook is a very strong online representation of their actual real-life identity. They joined when they entered college. It became THE platform for staying in touch with friends from home and new friends on campus. Photos on Facebook catalog their entire lives from that point onward. They have literally more on Facebook than they do off of it.

Asking these types users to Connect with Facebook is no different than asking them to login to sites with real information only. It's akin to requiring HN posters to use real names for usernames, real contact info, include real pictures in their accounts, etc. This is something the vast majority of HN would not accept.

Quora wants to be a QA service where every account is linked to something real. That's how they intend to deliver a quality product. That's what makes them different from other QA sites. This obviously slows their growth, but they need to do this to make their site worth anything. Eventually, they will try to convince more and more Facebook users that it's okay to reveal themselves on Quora. Until then, we will just make the Facebook-account-equivalent of spam-only e-mail accounts, and use those for sites like Quora.
Good, detailed post. I just did about 250K images using ImageMagick and a shell script. It was across 3 boxes and I noticed quite a performance difference between an older and newer version of IM. It could have been another factor, I suppose.

One thing I'm skeptical about:

"We found out, almost by accident, that using the previously down-sized “large” images resulted in better quality and faster processing than starting with the original full-size images."

Obviously, the processing speed will be faster with a down-sized image, but I can't see how starting with a smaller image will give you better quality. Unless the original image was so large that downsizing caused a lot of detail loss (in which case the image should have been sharpened).
In this and other contexts, I've wondered about the viability of stepped intervals. Accumulate responses, and later further responses and votes, behind the scenes, but only update the published thread every 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, or some to-be-determined optimal interval (that might change over time / post age, size, etc.).
In CA, only the purchase loan is non-recourse. Refinance loans are not non-recourse, that is, the lender can come after you if you bail on a refinance loan.

I'd guess that home equity loans (in CA) are also not non-recourse.

IANAL, YMMV.
How did your employer react to you wanting to move outside the firm and become a consultant?
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> I will never live anywhere with an HOA again.

Good advice. It's hard to follow in many places, but it's still a good idea.

Note that local govts are a "super HOA" in some sense.
It says "no Fork/Join frameworks", not "no Fork/Join". You can definitely fork processes in Python:
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.fork

Using different processes allows you to execute code in parallel, but different processes can't access each other's memory, while threads within a process share their memory space and can therefore operate on the same data.
What kind of components? Is the UI getting a new look?
Thank you for performing that public service (no really). I hate it when people (and I'm not saying the GP is guilty of this) parrot other people's content as though they came up with it.
If a soldier has one foot planted on US soil, then Habeus Corpus does in fact apply.

If a human being has both feet planted on US soil, the military have no right to detain them or do anything besides make polite suggestions, regardless of any suspicions about the person's nationality, probable cause or any of that.

This is one of the most fundamental constitutional issues in the US. I'd think about it a lot less lightly if you're going to claim to support things like "liberty" and "rights".
This sounds like a great way to make money, but a terrible way to prevent spam.
Facebook Connect is a good feature, but has one big disadvantage: does not describe the interaction in a comprehensive way. I often connect and come up with the screen 'let publish on your wall' and, well, what does it really mean? That you'll post my every single action on fb? Some specific actions? A summary once per day? Will my wall get spammed? Should I trust you?

I don't like when things get complicated too much and that simple approach seems ok, but on the other hand, it lacks detail that would make users feel safe about using fbc. If 'publish on your wall' had specified settings for the webservices, it'd be much more effective.
The people making serious real-world efforts at this kind of thing have problems bigger than one machine -- they need to be distributed anyway, so why not focus on multi-process solutions?
Raoul Moat is THE hacker at the moment - so I have to disagree with you on that one.
Don't worry, we can't even watch clips from our TV broadcasters on YouTube because they're not available in the UK.
Hey Yan, the ying to my yang! :-)

I am the opposite, I am starting my gig on Monday and getting ready for it. 2 laptops 1 guy, and an exercise ball. The label is "CTO" but the job description is "make someone's dream come true, on time and under budget". Back to the grind, Skype, GotoMeeting, blackberry, and a 45 minute commute to Reston, initially 6-days/wk.

On the plus side, I have 8-devs and 2 graphic designers. Fun times! :-D
People don't want to learn, work, strive, experiment, or otherwise do anything that doesn't involve having the world handed to them on a platter.

A lot of people use Python because it was batteries included, because everything you ever wanted was already done and made for you. I work in Python on a daily basis, but I cringe regularly at the #python channel on Freenode and the kinds of people the language attracts.

Python, quite simply, attracts people who don't want to code or learn anything.

Those aren't the kinds of people who are going to learn Clojure, sadly.

Rubyists, god bless them, are a little more adventurous, for better or worse.
...and the lamest thing is, it wasn't your last $5, right? So why aren't you sending money to Africa anyway?
While not exactly the same, malapropisms are interesting too :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
I'll second PuTTY & Filezilla. I have used WinSCP in the past but I remember being a little flaky.

As for IDE, Zend Studio looks pretty rad. I actually use an old copy of Dreamweaver 8 for the very sensible reason that I like the syntax highlighting colours (and I could never really quite bother to alter them in any other IDE). It just looks really nice and I feel happier coding in it! Before that I used Ediplus 2/3 which is nice lightweight editor, kinda similar to Notepad++.
That's a fair way to put it, I think. It's still rather immense to my mind how much trouble they went through for no apparent reason.
Most probably you're talking about the developer of thttpd:

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
I'm right in the middle of a project that needs something like this; I assumed I'd be rolling support for it myself. This should save me a quite bit of time, although it only implements half of what I need (the other half being merging local changes back to the remote resource when back online). Thanks for the pointer!
At a guess, you'd die from throwing your electrolyte balance off. Just like how drinking too much water can kill you. (Particularly if you drink while sweating - this routinely happens in marathons.)
To be fair to sdurkin, the comment was in quotes.
I think it would work - essentially, this is the entire premise of the simulation market; the only difference is a lesser emphasis placed on motor skills due to it being an RPG. Mastering Gran Turismo / Forza requires players to learn quite a bit about real-world vehicle dynamics, for example. The caveat is that, in your example, the cumulative knowledge required to develop the game would be equal to mastery of every in-game class. You would need several teams of expert consultants to create and model scenarios, much like TV shows that deal with medicine, military, forensics, etc. Realistically, it would make a lot more sense to narrow the focus to one or a few domains.
I don't remember particular sentences like that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were at least partially intentional. Ambiguity is one of the main components of hypnotic inductions, and van Vogt was a lay expert on hypnosis. (He co-authored "The Hypnotism Handbook" with Charles Cooke, for example.)

It's said that van Vogt would sometimes rely on unconscious processing and "dream logic" (for want of a better term) in his writing processes, so those sentences you noticed might well have been both "accidental" and unconsciously intentional.
love the speaker stand. but that's too much glare to stay sane.
And with this law passing, the death of the family farm is complete. Now instead of the midwest being full of family farms passed from father to son, we'll only have corporate farms, since the typical family can't come up with the cash to cover half the value of their land that now belongs to the government.

According to the article, the lowest exemption amount being discussed is $1 Million. According to wikipedia, the average value of a family farm is $250,000 in the US, so in other words this will not impact the average family farm at all. (As a side note, my mother's side of the family does maintain a family farm passed through generations and it is currently worth substantially less than that...)

When you are talking about the truly large family farm worth over $1 Million, remember, that first million is still exempt, only the value over a million is taxed. This means that only a farm worth substantially over a million is at risk of unmanageable tax bills. A farm that large will look a lot like a corporate farm even if sole ownership has been passed through generations, and a farm owner with that kind of resources likely has a large life insurance policy that will help defray those taxes somewhat.

[Edit: spelling and grammar]
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Family farms in Iowa have been dead for a generation. My brother is the youngest member of his "future farmers" group - he's 55. Corporations manage most of the land in my county, and its not very different elsewhere.
If anything, million dollars fund is one of the biggest challenge that any kid would have.

It is a challenge most people would gladly take.
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Apple's privacy-invading proclivities are getting it in trouble in Europe, too.
This seems a little inaccurate. Voice capabilities are available as an API usable in any app, and there is a Google app and a Bing app if you need voice searching. "Instant Web" didn't make much sense either. The iPhone has built in e-mail, calendar, contacts, etc. If you need it to sync over-the-air, Mobile Me and Microsoft Exchange are included as well, and Google's services work with Microsoft Exchange.
> the garden path effect is created by a (grammatically allowed) lack of punctuation

Take THAT, grammar nazis!
Ask HN: Light-Weight LMS On The Cheap
This question may have been asked in the past so forgive me if that's the case. For some time I have desired to create a LMS (learning management system).
Part of my desire to do so stems from the fact that I have a lot of friends and relatives who teach, not to mention, I think it would be rewarding to contribute to the education of others.
So the question for my fellow entrepreneurs is, do you think there's a market for a light-weight, low-cost LMS with a heavy emphasis on Facebook like social features? What kind of research could I do to find out if there is a market? Thanks .
Drugs are not good things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhT3nTWFdI
Chat is about the same class as Marijuana.
Today I'm taking a two hour trip with my grandad (born 1917) up to our log cabin at Vassfaret, Norway. Kinda looks like this: http://image54.webshots.com/154/2/36/38/451523638WCSqPv_fs.j...

I always wanted to do more things with him. He thought he'd never would see the cabin again, but this will be his final trip up there. I'm going to spend some days, breathing in mountain air and doing some thinking.
> You're mistaken if you believe that "discipline, enlightenment, and intellectual invigoration" are at odds with being an interesting and attractive person.

I know, but they're pretty much perfectly correlated with me getting what I want out of life (in all areas except with women), and being less interesting to them. Yes, failure begets failure and reinforcing negative mental patterns, which I am extremely familiar with having spent many years of my life alone and frustrated. And yes, I'm well aware that the average amputee male has much higher status with women than I ever will.

I'm not really as self-defeating as I'm venting out here though. I just know that online personals are a fantastically awful experience for me, having spent years on them, as well has having had the pleasure to meet much more suitable women in the more conventional way. Just read all the replies to me from any man who has succeeded there. It is _all_ about recognizing that geeky men are piece-of-shit commodities who nobody wants as is, and recognizing that it is a game where presenting a true personality free from guile is a hopeless proposition. You will call this disdain, but if so it is also cold truth, and these things are just simply different universes for men versus women online. I have never felt this way (like a worthless piece of too-short shit) in any other area of life, and the parent article resonated with me very much.

Anyway I really didn't mean to jack this topic into a personal self-help section. I'll be more careful in the future!
A business proposal, a report on fisheries in France, a marketing plan, part of a grant proposal, some reviews for Amazon, a few blogs - and I'm going crazy ready to shoot a partridge in a pear tree.
I think this is the "revenue later" part.
Hopefully I will be wrong about this, but I'm not expecting this to be very helpful. In dense areas of SF, where I live, open parking spaces last less than a minute - sometimes only a few seconds. If where you're parking isn't densely populated, then you don't need the app at all, because you can easily find a space.