skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was the comment edited? I can't find your quote.
I use `==` when I know that I'm comparing numbers.
Why would he need anyone's cooperation since he's so fucking awesome? I don't know.

I prefer to have other people's cooperation.
Iphone 4 that says that it's on the verizon network even though it's not
My friend bought an iphone4 from the AT&T store last night and for some reason on the top left it says Verizon even though he's on the AT&T network. Weird stuff.

http://www.twitpic.com/34kk0s
Android is the largest open source release by any company ever.
Your response was really idiotic.

How do you feel about this statement?

Of course, I didn't mean it - your statement is very well reasoned, but when Zed turned his interests towards the Python language and the largely civilized community around it, I worried that his behaviour could become, if not the norm, a trend. I have strong ties to this community and my work largely depends on its health.

Zed's divisive. No community needs divisive people. Code is less important than being able to play with others.
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If you do enough research on drug trafficking, you'll find that the ruling elite pretty much have that market locked up. It can be shown without a doubt that the CIA, the Mossad and British intelligence run about 70% of the world's drug supply.

It's a 500 billion dollar a year business. More than oil. Think about it.
Did Mr. Bunny ever appear in anything but his guide to ActiveX? I can understand why someone might not have heard of ActiveX.

Anyone old enough to grow up in the era of early PCs remembers quirky programming books. I learned Pascal from the Sherlock Holmes-themed Pascal book back in the day. Though, admittedly, Mr. Bunny and the cartoon foxes are an order of magnitude quirkier.
Looks like it's available here:

http://www.evolutivconsultants.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/03...
Compounding a Conflict of Interest - NYTimes & HP
It's been fixed. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1877829
Hey whatever happened to Parrot? You know the common VM for Perl and Python that was supposed to be the basis for Perl6?

Here's an old HN story about it. In fact, in the comments someone proposes porting Clojure to Parrot:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552850
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Without meaning a personal dig it's clear that you're quite ignorant about drugs. Anyone who's ever done any knows they're the original augmented reality. There are few drugs that one would take to escape reality entirely; the vast majority of drug use is social in nature and rooted in reality by definition.
It can be shown without a doubt that the CIA, the Mossad and British intelligence run about 70% of the world's drug supply.

Then show it.
yes, this is true. after all, we use books.

that said, there is much value in having a structured set of challenging assignments with strict deadlines (presumably with some end goal) created by an engaging and knowledgable professor serving as one's guide.

finding the books is relatively easy: dig through the course materials of a respected school. i used to have quite a few of them on my bookshelf.

getting the most out of them, on the other hand, meaning both plumbing the depths of their granularity as well as casting that knowledge back into the framework of a coherent discipline, is something i'd argue is better done in school.
Updating the carrier name or logo is easy to do on any Jailbreaked phone.

Occams Razor: I think your friend is messing with you.
No, liberty per se, is not immoral. You or any human being on this planet is free to consume, enjoy or even abuse any substance you like. However, when the cost of your consumption or addiction becomes a burden on almost every other fellow human, then you have started "abusing" that liberty.

Do you really feel that "legalising" addictive and physical-dependence-causing "cocaine" will lead to a lesser burden on the collective society than the situation now? if so, then perhaps you need to go visit a rehab centre and see the devastating effect that any "abused" substance can cause -- irrespective of whether it is legal or not.

More importantly, there are enough humans suffering from natural diseases and disasters that could use help, than the few humans who are deliberately indulging in dangerous behaviour and be better dead than sucking precious resources away from those who are trying to merely survive, leave alone "lawyering" and "regulating" cocaine in their lives.

"Liberty" without "responsibility" is the definition "entitlement".
Typically seen in individuals and societies too affluent for their own good.
According to the WHO, cocaine use, when done safely and responsibly, is non-addictive causes essentially zero problems in the vast majority of users:

"Occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems ... a minority of people start using cocaine or related products, use casually for a short or long period, and suffer little or no negative consequences, even after years of use. ... Use of coca leaves appears to have no negative health effects and has positive, therapeutic, sacred and social functions for indigenous Andean populations."[1]

Also, there is a wealth of research indicating that cocaine is vastly safer than caffeine, especially when it comes to the health and safety of unborn babies.

[1] http://www.tni.org/archives/drugscoca-docs_sixhorsemen
For my thesis, the easiest thing was to do a find/replace on ". " with ". " when I was done.
I was a bit surprised by the demographics. I knew Fiorina was unpopular locally over the way she ran HP, but thought she ran a much better campaign than Boxer and that she would do rather better outside the Bay Area than she did - but I wouldn't be surprised if she ran again.

Conversely, I thought Valley folk might overlook Whitman's (reputedly) abrasive personality in favor of a fairly successful tenure at eBay, although her campaign was a disaster on wheels from the start. Spending $140 million of your own cash only to be decisively rejected...ouch. For that much she could have just bought Somalia or something, their entire budget last year was about $11m.
While Collection<Firetruck> has an indeterminate relationship with Collection<IVehicle>, this is good! If Collection<String> was a subclass of Collection<Object>, you could fill the collection with Strings and then pass it off to someone who is using it for Objects and adds in his own Integer. Now your collection is borked. :(

If you find yourself wanting to pass in Collection<Firetruck> to a method that only accepts Collection<IVehicle>, this usually means that the method isn't correctly typed. The rule of thumb for using 'super' and 'extends' is "Producer extends, Consumer super" or PECS. By applying this, the typing problem should go away, as your method is now accepting Collection<T extends IVehicle> and possibly returning Collection<? super T>, so you can both pass in your Collection<Firetruck> and reassign to a different variable of type Collection<Firetruck>. :)

(I think Josh Bloch wrote up a decent blog post about the PECS principle a couple of years ago. It might be worth reading for more information.)
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The biggest problem with these candidacies is that they did not follow the valley way. Ebay and HP didn't spring up overnight driven by a huge ad budget. They solved problems real people had starting small and growing as they delivered. Neither of them had the experience of winning a spot on the city council. The tech industry unlike Hollywood doesn't lend themselves to being a household name. It's easy for an actor to launch a political career because they are already well known to the public.

Those candidacies are the quintessential VC fueled hype company. Whitman probably wouldn't give a fresh startup $140 million in the seed round and expect them to use it wisely, so why would anyone expect a different outcome?

It has nothing to do with the Valley and everything to do with how the campaign was grown.
What does feminism and being part of apache.women have to do with this? True there are a couple of men-hating feminists, but read that geek feminism page, or the apace.women page. Don't those sound completely reasonable and women and men friendly? In her apache.women message she is arguing to use neutral wording ("women" -> "people")! I don't see how you could interpret that as hostile to men.
Heavily considering the name change: Learn You The Ruby For Awesome Power.

EDIT: Ok, slowly moving over. Time to rewrite history! Future GooglAzon.com users will be like "What Ye Mystery Doth This?! YouErEls point to Learn You An Ruby, but Thine Project Was Called-eth Learn You The Ruby!" And no one will ever understand why, because Hacker News will be like Slashdot and no one will visit it except to make ironic references to "hacker newsing a site", because MyFacespora Newsddit will be where all the cool startup guys hang out.
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I work at home with my wife and six-month old daughter, and that list describes our Amazon buying habits very accurately.
Agreed. And the "acceptability" of such substances varies from society to society (case-in-point: khat). But that still does not take away the societal distress and human cost their abuse causes.
It's better to ask for forgiveness, but asking permission, when feasible and practical (Zed ignored the guy, after all) is nice.
Yes, you are right, after a closer look at the image: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/eORRRALtniStOpl3.huge

I think that it confused me because the camera we use in lab have IR projector embedded in the camera already.
I believe the main reason why MSFT is stagnant is that the biggest shareholder (Bill) is selling this stuff constantly. His must have sold tens of billions of MSFT is the last few years. It is just the inverse of a company like IBM that is actively buying shares.
So you yield that it is the addiction and physical dependence that drives cocaine use, not thanatos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos_(psychoanalysis) )

If addiction is a disease, then addicts need doctors, not executioners. Even if addiction is a moral weakness, I think you'd have a hard time suggesting that the weak-willed all deserve poison in their vice (lest ye cast the first stone.)
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I ran a VMWare image of OS X a few years ago. I don't know what it's like now, but back then the lack of an OpenGL driver was the deal breaker. OS X's graphic shell uses Quartz Extreme on top of OpenGL, without GPU acceleration it was virtually unusable.
So now its - "its okay to be evil to fight evil" ? I thought googles stance on data portability was that its a good thing and that the users data basically belongs to them. I would guess most users setting up an account at service bar would be interested in importing their existing contacts / settings from service foo that they already use.
Perhaps your references need updating.

The current WHO statement is here: http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/facts/cocaine/en/index.ht...

Furthermore, the reference you cite is :
"WHO/UNICRI Cocaine Project, 5 March 1995 (unpublished Briefing Kit)."

An "unpublished Briefing Kit", oh come on !!! ??? !!!
I think it's more about sending a message here.
I guess I'm one of that four than. I had one briefly, but I never grew sympathetic of them. I deleted it a few weeks later, Facebook is just too creepy in their way of data handling.
Let me introduce you to google.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Thats still stands, you can export your data as you see fit, and other services that provide data portability can use the API, those who don't (Facebook) can't.
They got a lot of press (at least in the US) for their innovative procurement robots... that's how a lot of kidless American geeks found out about their success.

http://singularityhub.com/2010/06/10/whats-the-secret-behind...
Don't fear the Monad(video)
Has anyone played around with LLVM's JVM Implementation? It supposedly runs Tomcat and Eclipse...

http://vmkit.llvm.org/
I like it, a well needed refresh. Wonder when its going to make its way to amazon.co.uk
Oh and if you want to go with a slightly more tame fact...the estimated value of illegal drugs, go with that.

http://www.google.com/search?q=illegal+drug+trade+estimate

Once you're convinced of the estimated value...start using your own logic. The value of the market is absolutely tremendous. If you don't think that the ruling powers that run the governments around the world don't want a piece of that action, you'd better think again.
Gaius at least is going all rdbms all the time all over the thread. I'm not dreaming that up am I? (I didn't realize it was one guy at first).
It's nothing to do with having the 30k, it's about having the engineering chops to design this, the cold stones to put it on, and the lifetime of experience needed to know how to handle the dynamics of a dangerous vehicle that's never existed before.

Hell, if I had those 3 qualities (I don't even have one), I would drop the 30k without a question.

Jetman also helps rationalize government funding for things like space, Moon, and Mars exploration. I know that I will never have the constitution to strap on a jetpack like Jetman. But I'm able to vicariously experience a (vanishingly) small fraction of the thrill just by watching him do so, just like I'm able to experience a small fraction of the joy of walking on the Moon by watching the Apollo astronauts.
Oddly, maybe Whitman would have done better if she had started later. She was running commercials every single break for months before Brown even started advertising- I think people literally got tired of her being on TV all the time.

Repeating the text of her then-current advert verbatim during the debate didn't help either; she came across as very scripted. I wonder if it was her campaign or her own preference to keep the media at arm's length? I've heard her speak before and she struck me as pretty personable, and I didn't expect her to be so stiff and formal during the election campaign. Her last ad had the line 'I'll treat you [the voters] like grown-ups,' which is how you speak to a ten year old.

I'd rather like if Brown would hire her as his business adviser or something, because she had a few good economic ideas, like reducing the cost of business registration and suchlike. But that's probably not happening, they don't seem to like each other much.
I find all of this a little hokey. Death usually cannot be linked to a single cause. I mean, if you fall off a cliff, obviously it was the fall. But if someone dies of cancer, then you can't say that second hand smoke killed them. It could be a combination of their eating unhealthily, not exercising, breathing in second hand smoke, and being really old.
I would say this is more of a Facebook limitation.

You can still export your Gmail contacts... just not to automatically to Facebook (unless Facebook starts allowing easy export of its own data... which is the bigger problem right now, IMO).
tl;dr: most accurate system is last because it looks silly. least accurate system is the best because it uses the "most advanced technology".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory
Absolutely apples to oranges.

Google crawls Facebook's data, by request (robots.txt.) You, me, Facebook, and the world do have access to Google's complete data set... its called the world wide web.

Facebook, on the other hand, does anything it can to get a hold of private data owned by individuals, and then hoard and monetize it.

Gmail Contacts is an example of private data, as is the Facebook social graph. These are directly comparable, unlike Facebook's social graph and the greater WWW that google uses for building search indexes.
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Just wanted to pipe in and say that as Martin's former boss (before he went to Engine Yard) I think this whole Internet firestorm is hilarious. I always knew he'd make me proud :)
You're missing the point that the vast majority of drug users are neither addicts or irresponsible. Even tobacco, the most addictive drug there is, is essentially non-addictive for roughly 70% of the people who use it. Of those that do abuse drugs, a large percentage are severely mentally ill and using drugs to self-medicate. For example, 44% of all the cigarrettes in the U.S. are consumed by the 2% of the population with severe mental illness. It's not the fault of these people that they're in pain all the time, and even if they weren't abusing drugs they'd still be non-functional anyway. In fact, many of them are probably a lot more functional on drugs than off them.

Don't forget the word pharmacist means someone who poisons people. It also means someone who cures people. Because the poison is always in the dose.
That's about 3 billion diapers.
On a quick scan of the start of this article, the one thing that jumped out was that the pictures were randomized using the programming language's native random number generator.

I didn't see what language was used here, but it could be they just found a flaw in that code?
I think people often forget that Oracle also owns Peoplsoft, another big enterprise play.
Take it from someone who lives in CiteSeer: don't hoard papers. Skim them and if they look good, try to get the gist of what it's attempting to explain, read deeper, summarize in your head, note authorship and date, read further, and once you feel like you're able to mentally classify it in your head, open a text editor and summarize it. Better yet, tweet it or shoot somebody an email; think of it as public note-taking. The act of writing nails the facts in your mind, sharing it allows others to engage in a discussion about it, immersing you further.

[ Since I read papers up and down up and down, and jump between sections, I wish there was a PDF reader that allowed me to split the screen like emacs, so i can scroll each independently.]

After that, save it as its full name, hopefully something grepable, but KEEP THE DOCUMENT OPEN. As you traverse the citation graphs, and slip your tentacles into the fatty folds of knowledge, try to mentally cross-reference the papers: see how they're related, the order of their publication, see if this is a lone paper or a family of texts emanating from a project. If it's a project or larger effort than a triplet of papers by 2-3 authors, then the project name will be your handle to this batch of texts.

Whatever your domain of specialization, you should have a mental model, however vague, of all the corner-stone papers, authors, era of publication, high-level summary of findings, etc.

You don't need to retain all the information in a paper. If you're a domain specialist, you're most likely interested in a finding or two in a few paragraphs. Feel free to pop texts off of your mental stack. You will always come back to them, most likely seeking a different piece of information (i.e. during the initial phases of your research you will be interested in the "what" and "how", but later your tastes will be refined and you will be seeking the "why")

Use a light-weight PDF reader, like SumatraPDF. You will have about 5 papers open any given day. The texts that interest you will most likely be "cohorts"; variations of a theme, perhaps some more introductory than others. etc.

This is how I read, and I don't recommend the 'wget -r' approach to researching.
Saying "something is so because I can make an argument for it" is not enough. Just because something is possible does not mean it is. And there's still an enormous difference between constructing an argument for something and demonstrating that it is, in fact, possible.

So. If you can show it, then show it. If you can't, then don't say you can. Instead say "I have no actual evidence to backup this claim, but my theory is..."
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Ask HN: best seats on a plane
I just booked a flight which had the following pattern of available seats: http://bit.ly/d1IXh4.

What are the factors people consider when choosing their seats?
Mr. Bunny also appeared in Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java, which featured a full-page image of a semicolon, one of the more important characters used in Java code.
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I think Whitman might've done better in the Bay Area if she hadn't tacked as much to the social-conservative right in the Republican primary (or had successfully backed away from that in the general election). Supporting Proposition 8 probably cost her a few points in the region just by itself. On the other hand, not supporting it probably would've sunk her in the primary.
Yes. I forgot to mention that it only works in Firefox for now. I think it's because of the way i'm using JQuery. I will be fixing that very soon.

For now, please test it in Firefox. If someone can comment on why it would work in Firefox and not Chrome, please let me know.
You conveniently left out the part about it being the largest survey of cocaine use ever conducted. But no matter, the Consumer Reports guide to drugs will tell you essentially the same thing:

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumen...
I will be fixing this very soon. Can you please test in Firefox and give me your feedback?

Please keep in mind that it's only Alpha release for Firefox.
I said "If you do enough research", which I have. You're asking me to sum up all of the reading that I've done, which I simply am not going to do in order to convince one person.

Do it yourself. I'm not here to hold your hand. I'm not making any arguments, I'm telling you what I know for a fact. I gave you some links, you can start there.
Here's the killer Kinect app:

A new Matrix game where you can enter slow mo to actually dodge bullets with your body.

How goddamn cool would that be?
Of course, statistical studies typically control for these things, so this is not a huge problem.
All good points, I find summarization especially useful.

In this case, since I've actually finished my degree, I just wanted to flick through a bunch of these on the train (without internet access) so it was useful to have an offline archive.
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This is a community where such claims hold no value.
I am in a similar situation.

I started working full time after completing undergrad a year ago, and am working on side projects more to learn than for entrepreneurship. They have been a great low cost way to continue my undergraduate math + cs education.

I certainly wouldn't mind if a project really took off and allowed me to work on it full time, but I understand that I would have to make a significant commitment (time + money) to really have any of them gain traction. Just look at http://signal.am . It is absolutely begging for someone with more UI/UX skill than I personally have -- but it has been priceless in advancing my personal skill set (outside UI/UX).
I don't think that would explain why the result varied depending on the type of images displayed.
Easily a Row 23 window seat. More leg room and don't have the person in front of your leaning their seat back into your personal space.
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That's right, the line of == is just in the engine stuff, wasn't it? The tools guys always do slashes for their Doxygen stuff. I remember seeing the == when I worked on Daikatana, but now that I think of it, it was in the Quake 2 source between sections. So actually I guess that does explain things...

I never saw it in console work but that was all pre-Xbox. The Xbox was much, much nicer to program on than the GameCube or PS2 because it was all integrated into Developer Studio and fast instead of in some crazy flaky debugger. So a lot of places went to Xbox as their primary development console. As a result, I presume many recent console programmers are much less divergent from the PC-centric world anyway.
I have, actually. Very impressive, very acrobatic.