skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, a major aspect of the community was dupe accounts, temporary accounts, and novelty accounts. The fee killed that.

That wasn't the entire community, dont get me wrong, but it was enough to slow activity to the point where it wasn't very interesting anymore.
"A white person with the same economic situation as a black person is screwed."

Can come off a bit wrong as well... I think you mean an extremely impoverished white person is worse off than an extremely impoverished black person. Because all blacks aren't poor..(I know you didnt mean this... but it can be read that way)

My stance is the opposite, as the white person in the extreme situation has more work opportunities, as well as the added benefit of not always being feared by society as the minority in the extreme situation can be.
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getScript/

That's pretty much all you need. About 15 chars + length of the script url.

So yeah, there's effectively no limit.
Thanks.

"ESX 3.5 was built on top of RHEL" again far from accurate. The COS has been based on RHEL since the genesis of ESX. Whereas VMkernel is VMware's own creation. At least thats what they claim.

Even if the COS in ESX 4.X is based on SLES instead of RHEL, your point does not still make sense because VMware's future roadmap is to phase out Classic ESX. Sometime in the future, there will be only ESXi.
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Yeah, I've since decided to just use a P.O. Box. I found one with 24/7 access for $22/6mo. Cheaper than domain proxying for everything I do.
Thank you all, for all your horribly misguided kind words and free internet traffic.
It's caused by Twitter's insufficient escaping of URLs, specifically a rogue quotation mark character can be injected after the @ symbol and thus you end up with something like <a href="URL@" onmouseover="insert XSS attack here">...</a>

So this attack won't work on other sites that escape URLs properly.
I just don't understand why education has to be so closely tied to vocation.

16 year olds are not completely unaware of what's being foisted upon them. My 16-year-old-self was at least some what aware. I had no idea then what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, but I did have a pretty good idea of what I didn't want to do. I just find it sometimes difficult getting by outside "the system" and I don't think I knew how challenging it would be when I was so young.

Tracks are so restricting. Why is it so hard to change careers?
That's exactly what I hate about both Emacs and Vim: yes, they are customizable, however many useful customization are scattered around user scripts.

EDIT: A flag here and there does not make a structured environment. That's why many people are running to other editors: they find that what they are more likely to need is already there in a designed way, not in a thrown-together one.
Work with Git from Emacs
I'm with you - and Bill Maher:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-dont-fire-...
> solipsistic, narcissistic - such as those quoted in the submission (the elimination pun; the parallel of temper and years.)

You omitted the beginning of that line, which was "A clever writer can easily get carried away with himself - " Is not clever wordplay disconnected from the external world? Is not indulging in one's cleverness narcissistic (BTW you misspelled it)?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solipsistic http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcissistic

The quote I followed it with (if you come across a passage you think particularly fine, strike it out.) is from Samuel Johnson; the same basic idea is often expressed more concisely with "kill your darlings." http://everything2.com/title/Kill+your+darlings

Just to be clear: I didn't illustrate straightforwardness with that entire passage, but with one specific part: including this image: "scattering the town's 4,000 inhabitants before its terrific blast." Which I still really like, because it draws a metaphor between how humans respond to a fire and the physics of how small particles are pushed by the heated air of a fire. Maybe you disagree, but to me, a clean metaphor is a very straightforward communication.

On HN, if you suspect someone has "in general no clue", it's informative to check their comment history, rather than act on an assumption. It could be that their comment is a one-off, or that you have misinterpreted it.

Normally, I don't bother responding to snark. It's irritating, but being drawn in is just a second injury. And it's rare on HN anyway. But I'm puzzled when people are snarky, as it seems unrelated to the topic. So it's helpful that you have explained your thinking, and so I've taken the trouble to explain my original comment.

If snark comes easily to you, you might be more comfortable on reddit (though snark there is usually purely in fun.)
I agree about the cargo cult part of it. Some of the speeches at the higher levels seem a bit theatrical and focus more on the presentation style than the content. Most beginners need a lot of work on their delivery, however, so it seems to work out great for the first few years at least.
My thoughts exactly. I guess that is the way it goes though...
The biggest difference between now and then…what makes this impossible today is not that our engineers are less capable, is not that we are more bureaucratic and is not that we’re less motivated.

The difference is that back then, we were indifferent to failure that cost lives.

And not just in development/testing. Once planes were deployed, if a plane didn’t come back from a mission it was “lost in action” independent if the wing just broke off in flight over some stretch of water. Read this excerpt from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star#Des...:

<blockquote>The P-80 testing program proved very dangerous. Burcham was killed on 20 October 1944 while flying the third YP-80A produced, 44-83025. The “Gray Ghost” was lost on a test flight on 20 March 1945, although pilot Tony LeVier escaped. Newly promoted to chief engineering test pilot to replace Burcham, LeVier bailed out when one of the engine’s turbine blades broke, causing structural failure in the airplane’s tail. LeVier landed hard and broke his back, but returned to the test program after six months of recovery. Noted ace Major Richard Bong was also killed on an acceptance flight of a production P-80 in the United States on 6 August 1945. Both Burcham and Bong crashed as a result of main fuel pump failure. Burcham’s death was the result of a failure to brief him on a newly installed emergency fuel pump backup system, but the investigation of Bong’s crash found he had apparently forgotten to switch on the emergency fuel pump that could have prevented the accident. He bailed out when the aircraft rolled inverted but was too close to the ground for his parachute to deploy.</blockquote>

So this “no bureaucracy” craze makes no sense for modern aviation design but makes a lot of sense where lives are not at risk (as is the case with a lot of software development, but not all).

That’s my $0.02.
I had written a detailed article about it before - http://blog.anomalyinnovations.com/2010/03/creating-a-realis...

It uses a gradient image but that could easily be replaced with the CSS3 gradient.
We can't drop Python 2.3 until 2012 (when RHEL4 reaches end-of-life).
I think that's more symptomatic of the open source culture around most Unix systems than Unix itself.

Being able to share and depend on other people's libraries is great for the developers as long as they're not tied to providing support for when users can't compile or run their software.
Thanks for clarifying. It might be of interest that The Australian Court just ruled against copyright claims in headlines.I don't know that copyright is out of control, but what is out of control is the way that companies use claims of copyright ownership to bully weaker entities and that carriers cooperate with this tactic and will take down content or block it based on a worthless claim. Further that when a false claim is lodged that there seems to be no recourse or penalty. I have never heard of one.
'Piracy' seem to have evolved from making digital copies to Stuff That Short-Sighted Commercial Dude Don't Want You To Do.

Maybe somebody should create a list of hacker friendly and property right respecting companies so people don't buy stuff from companies like what is mentioned in the manifesto.
This is a terrible article.

The bald assertion that Tumblr is more successful than Posterous because it is faster is repeated about a half dozen times during the piece but no evidence is ever advanced to prove this point.

Without further data, at best, we're talking a correlation. I could similarly argue that dropping the 'e' in Tumblr is a 'big reason' Tumblr is more successful than Posterous (which, please note, contains an 'e'!).
The Right Way to Lay People Off
I think he is talking from his user's point of view. Not all of them could be proficient in various distros of Linux and their Python versions. So if something doesn't work for them, it means its broken.
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-No imbred fear of inferiority.
-Acceptance all across the nation if not the globe.
-Inspirational historical role models that you can relate to taught by default(save for february...lol)
-Less chance of long-term jail sentencing for proportional crimes
-etc... the list can go on. This is not to say that you should feel bad for having a slight advantage, but not to recognize it can be confusing to those who have lived with the disadvantages.
I hadn't... but it still looks like it does far more than I want. But it does look like it might be one step up in functionality, for those who want just a little more control over the rendering process.
Given that you gave a photo of your "pot plant" to the police, I'm going to assume that it was not what I first thought it was....
Loyalty is when someone refuses a better option
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The US could certainly do more for the poor, but when you steal other people's things, you are not the victim any more.
If the question is "Do a significant number of users run into problems with a piece of software," then the consensus is absolutely relevant.
I don't think an 8% increase in education funding will increase teacher salaries to $120k. You do realize that we already spend 15% more on education than we do on the military, right?

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_education_spending_20...
What are you going to do? Kill them? Maim them? Bring it out in blood equity? Or some sort of "bringing them to justice?"

Its just stuff. You never know what the motivations they had for doing it. It could have done all sorts of good, at a cost of some personal sacrifice. Is it wrong? Society says so. But personal "justice" is just as extreme.

And yes, I have had things stolen from me.
True, but I have had no end of problems using Python apps on Fedora. I now pretty much kill the packages straight away and reinstall from source.
> The way I see it, Facebook started as a private communication channel ... [and] has evolved into a very public channel...

Sorry to snip up your comment like that, but I did it to make a point that agrees with you - I think you gotta assume everything on Facebook these days is potentially accessible to anyone looking closely into you, and treat it as such. The problem isn't so much that Facebook is now a public medium, it's that some people aren't treating it that way.
Exactly on the last point : since I'm looking to have a 'build script' working with just the sort of WP frontend / Pylons (or RoR) backend that you're doing, I created a Wordpress plugin WP-Templatize that will put tags around important WP elements.

Then, to rebuild the backend template, one can do a 'curl' and then post-process using a script. So when the BizPeople change the layout, one can regenerate the backend template immediately.

It's on GitHub : contributions (of code) welcome.
If anybody is curious, or just wanted to steal his .vimrc (like myself), here it is [I'm surprised he didn't provide it at the end of the article...]

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/265338/
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.

I still have this now!

Of course I was never poor for any real hardcore definition of the word, Third World-style, but I spent a good few years totally flat broke. Money coming in only occasionally covering the rent, utility payments never paid as I couldn't justify spending that much money when I couldn't afford to eat, living off dry bread and instant mash etc etc. It was an experience for sure, and one I never, ever want to repeat! It's only relatively recently that I've stopped dreading the arriving of mail or jumping when there's a knock at the door, or even keeping the curtains closed so no one can see I'm in.

But yeah, I still buy the cheap brands if they are there out of habit. I'll walk down the road to save 10p on a bottle of milk and so on.
I like Seth's phrase 'the forever recession' versus using the term 'secular' - much easier to explain to laypeople.
Tables a bit further down show 2.5% black.
The question isn't whether there is a problem but whether there is a solution. The virtualenv/pip people seem to think so.
How do you replace Navigate functionality of Resharper in native 2008?

(in IntelliJ IDEA keyboard layout)

Ctrl+N Go to Type

Ctrl+Shift+N Go to File

Ctrl+F12 Go to Member

These three bindings alone can make any developer 2-3x productive in daily coding activities.
Blacks are listed. They make up 2.5% of Canada. Asians (a high performing minority) make up about 10% of Canada, whereas they make up only 4.4% of the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#Visible_...
A follow-up article by Ezra Klein in the Washington Post:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/09/the_rich...
Twitter says exploit patched. They're still trickling through.
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My point was that it isn't the typing that makes it fast. Hotspot is based on the idea that the type is known at runtime.

The Shootout probably wont show good results for this because it takes a little bit for Hotspot to get the most out of it. If you look at the Mandelbrot demo in Strongtalk it takes about 3 full runs to get the best speed.
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The point being made is that the US averages are being dragged down by a couple of underperforming minority groups.

If other countries do not have those groups, they can outperform the US even if their education systems are equivalent.
give directly to local charities, like your food bank or library. you could ask around at your civic center or library for groups who don't have a lot of overhead - i personally try to only donate to groups who are very local and don't have high administration costs, e.g. run by volunteers. if you aren't bothered by church groups they also can do a lot of good. if you have children at school, as your local school if you can help out by donating books or music instruments for those who can't otherwise afford these things. you can make a difference in someone's life, believe me.
I'd like to preface this by saying that I don't believe Cody has done anything wrong, and I agree with him about his rights.

That said, I'm a bit disappointed that a self-described hacker is taking such a narrow view of the idea of property. He starts out saying "It all comes down to one simple question: once you've purchased something, do you own it?" And that is the question— but it's not a simple one, not anymore. Intellectual property has changed the game fundamentally, and accepted ideas now need to be challenged.

This "manifesto" assumes inviolable rights contingent to ownership without discussion. Where is the intellectual curiosity? Where do you believe the rights of ownership derive from? What makes them valuable? Why should the nature of ownership be the way you want it to, as more and more of what makes a physical thing valuable is not contained in the value of its materials and the labor to construct it?

Define and defend your philosophy— and then you'll be in a much better place to argue it as it applies to hacking.

And when you go to do that, don't stop after saying "I can and I want to." There are people who disagree with you— convince them. What will be the outcome? Why is hacking actually good for the world? What are the risks? Why are they worth it?

Otherwise it's just an angry rant with "manifesto" written on top.
you're funny :) really.
Mapping stereotypes: the geography of prejudice
a) The way I see it is akin to signup pages on websites where the 'option' to allow them to spam you with email is checked by default. Yes it's obvious what the checkmark does and reader beware, but that doesn't make it less underhanded.

b) Responsibility is a funny thing -- people seem to think it can only fall on one person. Either it's the girl's fault or it's facebook's fault. In reality the responsibility is on all of us.
My favorite line was "Or as Paul Bloom, a Yale psychologist, puts it, 'Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans--language, rationality, culture and so on. I’d stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.'"
No package management, some services simply breaking between upgrades, the lack of a package management can turn it to be horrible to deal with needed third party software when security flaws arise if you have more than one server running.
As linked to elsewhere, here's exactly how it looks: http://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-rb/commit/cffce8e60...
Jeannette Walls' "The Glass Castle" is a memoir of her poor, nomadic childhood that is at times shocking and heartbreaking.
Enforce minimum wages that people can actually live on. Most poor people work significantly harder than your typical white collar office worker. The only thing that separates most of the middle class from the poor is that the middle class had a solid foundation from their family on which to build their future.
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People wondering why you didn't leave

You can always leave. They're called feet: use them.

I have been very, very poor. And I've made a million bucks in a short amount of time. In fact, I've flopped back and forth about as many times as anybody I know, so I know both sides of this.

I would not idolize poverty as some kind of state of nobility, and I would't spend a lot of time agonizing over it either. It is a thing that happens to you, like cancer. You get to make choices in life, no matter where you are or what your situation. The last day of your life, if you were lying in a ditch somewhere, you can still choose how to confront the end of your existence. These choices are all we own. The only person that can stop you making choices is yourself. It is extremely possible to dwell on all the bad things in life and despair.

If you are poor and reading this, whatever you do, please don't despair. Make some different choices. The only way you're not making a difference in the world is if you've decided that you're not. Don't let others -- no matter how well meaning -- give that to you.
It depends on what you are using the server for and who is using the server.

Ubuntu and debian are used by plenty of people in production and are probably the better choice for learning how to set up a server if you already use ubuntu.

Apt is also a great package manager.
Overtime? The average teacher works less than 40 hours/week (unlike other professionals) for the 9-10 months/year they actually work at all.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
- Mother Teresa
Publishers Should Be Careful What They Wish For
>and you know this how?

And I know what how? That teachers are underpaid? Do you really think such an important job is only worth a paltry $30k year? The kind of people we actually want teaching can make 3 times that by either going into technology teaching or staying out of teaching all together. That classes are overcrowded? Because I see reports in the various papers every other week about how the classes are overcrowded?

The rest of your message seems to be against apologetics for the current system. I hate the current system, I think it's complete garbage. I was simply calling out the bizarre claim that making it better would make it cheaper.
"This article really is saying that kids don't need to learn math, because they can work in a factory instead. They don't need to learn English, because they can swing a hammer instead. They don't need to learn history, because they can wrench on a car."

The article says none of these things.

"However, I don't see the connection between the college track and the decline of these trades classes..."

Um, the connection is more kids following the college track, and fewer attending trade classes. Unless you expect kids to simultaneously pursue both, I don't see any excluded middle here.
Twitter knew about onmouseover flaw a month ago
Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
Note: I posted this to your posterous blog as well, but I want to hear what HN has to say about this.

When I first read about Emokit, I was really excited because the biggest barrier to entry in BCI research was being lifted. However, Emotiv is a startup, they're practically giving away the headsets for free because they expect to recover the expenses from the SDK licences they sell. Which is a good strategy since developers are the ones buying this thing right now. If Emokit becomes sufficiently mature and reliable, the number of licences that Emotiv sells will reduce, and I think we can count on the price of the headset going up.

What daeken is doing is great. As a relatively poor BCI nut, I am grateful for the work he has started. However, in this case, his work is breaking the business model of an innovative startup. Should emotiv just suck it up and adjust?

Edit: Of course, the piracy claims are just bullshit.
There's also a huge host of Webkit-based Mac Twitter apps that might be affected by this. Hibari is one.
> I have been very, very poor.

Me too, man. That's a very compassionate and honest comment you just wrote. I tend to be shorter and less patient with people who self-pity, and especially people who come from more who treat poor people like helpless children. But I should be friendlier, more compassionate, less short tempered, more steadfastly guiding. Very nice comment by you - you managed to be patient and kind while still being strong and emphasizing responsibility and choice. I should emulate this, this was a great comment.
I'm going to try this donating to the local school, thanks for the constructive ideas.
I know this, however, Zed was using this for a shell command, not as an embedded scripting language.
Don't forget the F-104 Starfighter, also designed by Johnson. Pilots nicknamed it "Lawn Dart" and "Widowmaker" for a reason.
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Well, the easiest way perhaps is blogging. Blog about the stuff you like, include some ads into your blog and start earning. Earning might not be a lot (depends) but should enough to buy you a pretty good meal.

I started blogging few years ago and since last year I've stop blogging (to focus on my startup) but I'm still earning around $200/month.
How have you made a million bucks in a short amount of time?

I agree there are always options, the problem is knowing them. For example, I suppose at any time there is a stock I could buy for little money that would make me a millionaire over night. The problem is I don't know which one.

Of course other options are maybe simpler to judge than stock prospects, but the general problem still holds. In fact, if markets are efficient, wouldn't it imply that choosing anything in life is as difficult as picking the right stocks? Because making a choice (on actions) is an economical decision, hence it is subject to the efficient markets theorem.