skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm astounded (perhaps I should not be) that so many assume that the lives of the people in these cultures must be short brutish and unpleasant. For a culture, or set of cultures to survive and likely thrive for 1000s of years in the jungle it must be a rich life. Take a look at the decoration these people paint on their skin for instance. They have free time to decorate and adorn themselves. They have farms. They have technology and knowledge beyond what your small minds can imagine. Yes, technology, they can light fires, create traps for the food they need, farm and make tools from all manner of naturally occurring materials that surround them in abundance. I'd wager they live an abundant happy life. Sure, they have their difficulties. But I live in modern society and I have lots of difficulties too. These people live in a tightly knit family and society. I envy them in some ways. I certainly wouldn't be sitting here thinking how much better I have it from them. They have a different way of life. To assume their way or our way is better can only stem from ignorance, and oh of course, no shortage of arrogance.

If someone took you and immersed you in the jungle you'd be lucky to last a day or two.

Think of what would happen to one of these people if you put them in a city.
6k for the machine, 130k for the manufacturer's liability insurance.

If you really want to be depressed, look into what those $400 fiberglass ladders at Home Depot actually cost to produce.
Ignoring collectivist thinking is a fault when people do in fact act in groups. It is even more so a fault when referring to the violation of rights, when rights only exist as a collectivist decision.

If you were about to meet this tribe, there is nothing you can do about the fact that you are a member of a Western culture meeting a member of a tribal culture, and your different groups--national, cultural, philosophical (in the sense of your strict individualism)--are interacting in important ways. Denying the problem by pretending there are no groups does not make it go away.
"It's like trying to eat, but before you can bite, you have to pay for your share of the spoon."
It's a real-life version of FLUDD from Super Mario Sunshine!
This reminds me of some flaw with Skype's billing system which allowed me to download invoices for virtually every paying business customer just by replacing some chars in a URL. The invoices included a lot of personal details together with various bank account & phone numbers.

Took me 8 months to get someone at Skype to acknowledge the issue; to my knowledge it was never escalated. Wouldn't be surprised if it's still there...
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And if not, well, back in the Palm Pilot days (remember?) we'd just put scotch tape over the Graffiti box to give it just enough friction. I'm sure someone can come up with something similar now. ;)
This is an absolutely beautiful way to define it! Made me laugh. Thank, you.

Now, give her a toy she doesn't like and say this is what you just paid for.

But before you let her get too mad, tell her to go ride her bike and inform her that the toys she gave up helped pay for the streets/sidewalk on which she rides her bike.

Not perfect, but could be worse.
Lawrence of Arabia? Might as well cite Tarzan comics.
I think it's entirely possible for ideas to have / not have wings, or at least the idea / person / market combo, but wings are not something people can absolutely lack.
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It's not hard to stay out of debt

That may be true in your situation, but when you have long-term obligations like a mortgage and kids in school, you're a bit less agile in your ability to respond to changing economic situations. If what you're suggesting is simply to not take on any long-term obligations that you don't absolutely know you can afford, that's a bit naive I think. For most people, being unable to work for a year will mean you either liquidate your life or you go into debt. Most people may not end up there, but according to your statement, everyone should live like they would.
My parents call it the rainbow pizza. As in 'the damn rainbow pizza again!'.
I would recommend against committing to a certain amount of articles per day in you Expectations post. Run the site for a few weeks/months, see how much good content you come up with that you want to post, and how much work you can put into the site.

No point being this specific at such an early phase.
This issue is tricky and not for some of the reasons I've seen listed in this thread. My maternal grandparents were both the children of indigenious South Americans so this is somewhat personal for me. One the one hand if we contact them then we are dooming everyone in the tribe above the age of about ten to dependency for the rest of their lives. They will go from being autonomous, skilled members of a sovereign tribe to illiterate, unskilled Peruvian citizens in one fell swoop. In their world they own their land, have their own system of wealth and acheivement and customs that are tailored to their own strengths. In our world, they are penniless and barely subsist on land that is actually owned but the Peruvian government. Unless the proponents of contact are willing to provide the extensive resources they will need in order to assimilate to our way of life, I say we leave them alone. I saw alot of mention of technology and medicine and all the other comforts of modern life, but those things are not free for the taking. There are hundreds of thousands of
You're taking a calculated risk every time you get in your car, right? So, what's your backup plan in case someone T-bones you and you end up a paraplegic? You have one, I assume.
The Arabic text is badly translated and obscured by the social-media buttons.

"Egypt Remembers":

مصر تتذكر in standard-arabic
I remember I said to my philosophy teacher, 'nobody considers native tribes to be poor or miserable, even though they lack material comfort,' and she replied 'I think the comfort of these situations greatly depends on whether you're male or female.'
Send me an email (address in profile) and we can chat offline if you're interested in more details. But to be brief, some of the bigger pieces include Lucene, Tornado, Twisted, and Hadoop.
Ah. The engine is from a jet ski, you mean? You might not be able to buy one for cheap, but you will be able to rent one for $20, so it's still good.
color me skeptic. as soon as crayola comes out with that crayon.

I don't believe that color exists.
If you were completely unaware that this happened like I was, here's the story: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-in...

A javascript keylogger was inserted into pages served over plain HTTP. Here's the source: http://www.hackerzvoice.net/node/105

With a little more tact and obfuscation, I bet an attacker could get away would doing that on a large scale for quite some time.
The proposal is to dissolve the CS department. According to the Dean, his "judgement call" places CS as "not a priority" for the future of UC. Therefore specific CS classes will no longer be taught.

This effort is led by CS students. Clearly, the University of Cincinnati will not lose it's status. The accreditation, therefore, is related to the current College of Engineering, which was approved by the Ohio Board of Regents with the CS department.

We (the CS students) do believe that a good engineering school requires a strong CS department. I guess this is not so with either of you...
I applaud your choice of flight search, Staunch. Thanks!
We respectfully question some of the choices made by the current dean. WTF is a good start to express what we are thinking at this moment as well....
> And between you and your co-founders you would be ill-advised to begin building that astonishing core value and creating out-of-pocket expenses without some kind of legal agreement in place of ownership and ownership %ages.

If you have grown to the point where co-founders are bickering about cap-tables, then hopefully at that point you have Good People and solid Core Value -- time to incorporate.

The problem with most 'entrepreneurs' is that they only have an idea (not even direction!) and they are already working on how they should incorporate and setup shop.

Business and money for that matter is only the transient result of core value -- something that we should all be focusing on delivering.
We believe this is all political... as financially there is no proof shown.

When one of your organs is hurting and not performing well, you go and consult a physician. A GOOD physician after careful examination and taking the vital readings will suggest some treatment. Follow up appointments will be scheduled to track the treatment’s progress. The last thing that will be considered by our GOOD physician is a surgical RESECTION of the organ. Otherwise, most people will end up with amputations.

Even assuming that the College of Engineering is not performing well, a couple of actions that should be taken by our GOOD dean:

1. Careful unbiased evaluation of the performance of each school before blaming the CS & IT School only.

2. Meeting with faculty and department’s head on regular basis to discuss policies, expectations and how to improve the performance and production as a team. According to the Dean, he met with 60% of faculty before making his "judgement call".

Within UC we have many qualified smart researchers who can come with creative solutions to the budget problem i.e. UC has the potential for self-restoration. To be ranked as a prestigious College, CS is a must.
That's all true - but in production systems, the risk of someone getting ahold of a single password table in a database is differnet than, say, getting the source code to the production system. Just because they have one doesn't mean they have no other.

If someone can get all your production code, data, AND configuration settings, you are screwed no matter what you are doing.
It sucks that if these uncontacted tribes were to try to make contact, the only people that would be there to meet them would be loggers. I can't imagine loggers would treat them with the same dignity/respect that a trained professional might.
I guess it's geared towards some different use case, just compare the workflow with something like Dropbox:

- with Dropbox I've a public folder which is linked from my Finder sidebar so I can simply drop an existing file into it and copy the public URL by right-clicking on it

- with Crate I've to open a tab with the website, navigate to the file, drag back to browser (not Finder, where I am when navigating to the file), then copy the URL, then decide what to do with the original file on my harddisk

Maybe that's easier for some tasks or for some users, I don't know. Maybe the last bit is crucial: do I want to keep the file locally (Dropbox) or just put it out there?

For me, the initial download & setup of something like Dropbox is worth the benefits it provides.
He just caught the pregnant hacker fever.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175757)
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This is an amazing jump. Im not bragging about it, but Visual Studio is by far the best IDE out there and to actually have android linked into is is certainly big news on my front. Love it!
For more official policy you'd have to ask either Amit or Matt. I can't speak for the company here.

Speaking only for myself and only on the ethics, I generally feel that any site that allows itself to be indexed is pretty happy with Google (or bing) doing whatever they can to rank it better. Even with the link data that sites provide, you can add rel=nofollow to the links if you don't want search engines to use them but still want your pages indexed (yelp has done this for instance.)

For me that's the ethical boundary. Sites have various ways of indicating their wishes, and that ought to be respected in spirit beyond the technical details.

Legally, the technologies that make the internet work all rely on the idea of fair use, so it is very important whether something is "fair."
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Google has the spell correction. Microsoft could certainly be harvesting that data directly. (Which appears to be what they are doing on that query.)
I agree with this 100%.

I understand that people want something they can put together quickly, so they find a script that does it and they figure out how to integrate it... but I've learned that it actually takes more time to do all that than write my own little script that does exactly what I'm looking for with less code... and it's optimized for the particular code it works with (for which it works for you grammar-whores ;)).

Not to mention, I've learned way more by doing it myself and in the long run I progress faster... all while writing more efficient code.

And for this very same reason, I don't use jQuery or any other libraries... the majority of them are way too bloated for what I need (most of the time). Exceptions include server-side libraries for graphing, reading/writing from/to excel, etc.
I've had this problem as well while developing with Rails. I've been doing some lisp development using the teepeedee2 webserver and I've found a way to make a test server that will most of the time render test pages in less than a second, because asdf smartly only recompiles those pages that have been altered. The times it takes longer are when I modify the code for teepeedee2.

One problem I did have was that certain portions of my code would no longer work after reloading the system - for example I would store function references in variables and if those pages recompiled I would lose those variables that I set. A way I found around it was that each time a page was sent to the webserver and after it reloaded the system, I would have it reload those specific variables. Now if something like that could work in rails, where you always reload specific pieces of code that would no longer work if their underlying code was modified, then you might be able to make it work.
I read about the case study in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Prehistoric-Origins-Sexuality...

don't have a page number unfortunately
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What the fuck does all this marketing speak mean?

EDIT: And why would businesses want it?
The idea, and more importantly, the presentation thereof -sales pitch- usually answers by itself a whole range of questions, including: target market & opportunity, positioning, ballpark estimate of market size, competitive advantage; and also, more important co-founding qualities: sales, and marketing quality of the pitcher, and a ballpark estimation on the "level of entrepreneurship" he is.

This weeds out 99% of the idea-guys in 2 sentences. They get their obligatory nod, smile, ask a fun poke question, or two, pretend not to know anything about computer voodoo, then proceed striking up a conversation with a more interesting fellow.

IFF they pass this, then, and only then, we can proceed to poking more in-depth questions, and sizing up eachother. Otherwise, it's a waste of both of our time.
I'm at UC Merced. Doubt anyone else is but it would be awesome if someone was.
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Well here's one way I think would work, but it's not ideal and still not 100% foolproof:

A) Keep a running counter between the server and client.
B) If, at any point, there are two active sessions both associated with the same user login, delete both sessions (thus logging out both the legitimate user and the attacker).

Session hijacking is still possible with this method, but only for the duration of one request (as long as you, the legitimate user, remember to log out at the end).

The main disadvantage is that if the request or response gets messed up, the session will be lost. Even if someone does something as simple as click a link twice before the response comes back, the session will be lost. So, yea, kind of a major usability drag...

Although... you could probably eliminate most lost session situations by using the counter method and allowing some leeway in it (say 2 or 3 requests off) to take into account double link click scenarios. That might be a good compromise...
In principle we're ok having the presence of adsense hurt a site's ranking. We just aren't ok with it helping.
How do uncontacted people view us? They seem to be mesmerized by the plane, and even chase after it for a longer look. Can't we just ask them how they want to relate with us? I'm sure we can find some way to discuss the matter with them and still not be invasive.
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"Morals are all about right or wrong - you can't have it both ways."

Bullshit! While morals are about distinctions between right or wrong, the only moral debates worth having are ones that are about conflicting moral principles. In this case, between the moral principle that says we should allow people to determine and preserve their own culture and the principle that we want people to have the highest quality of life possible. It involves clashing interests and ill-defined concepts, so, yes, you can have it both ways. That's why it's a debate.
Okay, so perhaps this metaphor ruined my first post. Just trying to contribute. Perhaps I'll just post links from now on :/
I'm starting this fall at either CMU or Stanford; not sure yet.
Great to see, although it's really too bad that they didn't introduce this as part of the language when they developed it.
The article says the source code measures 1433 characters !
This is very similar to JML!

I co-wrote a paper on the subject a couple years ago during my undergraduate, which I humbly share with you :)

A Case Study in JML-Assisted Software Development
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1556581&preflayout...

Download:
http://cic.puj.edu.co/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=grupos:av...
This is a long shot, where long → ∞. But I am at Ganpat University, Mehesana, India. I am in the engineering college (formally UVPCE) anyone from there or any of the Ahmedabad college? Would love to meet.
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Tax is when those horrible democrats take all of daddy's money so he doesn't have any left to buy you toys.

You can substitute republicans in there too, as long as you are talking about the last two decades or so..
Why is that? I can get to the front page slashdot in 6 seconds, my favorite newspaper in 4, and HN in 3.

I can't see how a few jpegs and some markup takes 120 seconds to download.

Or perhaps they are putting everything in a much chunkier format?
I could post a heck of a lot more about my life, but I dont need the pity.

I was laid off, and am receiving unemployment. I hate that, cause I do like working. I do have funds guaranteed to go back to school in the fall due to my injury. I do some IT consulting on the side, but business has been slow recently. Also unemployment is 11% in my area, with a glut of HS and university students chewing up what little this area offers.

I put out about 10-20 resumes a day to a 50 mile radius, and have only had back 4 legit replies, with 30 spammy-fake offers of selling insurance and other affiliate scams.

I will have garnishment applied to me, due to flat out not being able to pay when I do get a job. Fortunately, garnishment does not apply to unemployment in IN, only passed last July.

I am now applying as a volunteer to the local United Way to get more experience and as valuable sources for my resume.

So, yes. I am making something of it. But the situation sucks.
Is there emulator/debugging support?
Without attempting to read the obscured code, the reason for the middling high Elo lies in the algorithms implemented. One of the AI discoveries is the sad fact that chess does not need intelligence, just horse power and a good per move check list. The algorithms listed provide both...assuming a decent implementation--- I can't tell because I'm not about to translate the code :)
I think that at the rates Twitter is writing counter data (Many TBs per day denormalized, ~0.5TB normalized), a RAM-based solution like VoltDB would be prohibitively expensive. Rainbird allows Twitter to use cheap disk-based storage but still get acceptable (sub-second) latency.
The article states the goal to be under 2000 characters, to state it in terms of lines of code (as the submitter has) is kinda misleading when the following is considered to be one line:

if(*c-10){K=c[0]-16*c[1]+C;L=c[2]-16*c[3]+C;}else /* parse entered move */

edit: can't see a way to escape asterisk characters, so this outputs slightly wrong (edit2: fixed)
Health insurance makes a sudden medical emergency not quite so scary.

Until the insurer refuses to pay, and the "insured" lacks the resources to pursue a lawsuit. Maybe I'm the only one who's ever had that happen, but I rather doubt it. Reading further down, looks like someone else here has been through it too.
Ask HN: Chicken and Egg issue, getting some feedback/traction?
How do you guys go about getting initial traction for your product? How many users do you usually get when doing so (if you post on Hn, for example). I'm finding this is the barrier to moving forward after building a good product.

I thought we could use this post to each discuss different methods for bringing in users initially without spending much if any money, and doing so in an ethical way.

Ideas such as contests, twitter, etc. What have you guys done? and What is a good # of users to start with to get over the "chicken or egg" hump?
very true. It would be way more impressive to be in 1000 expressions.
I know most of the people here did not take this seriously, but in an ideal world this is how taxes would work (I am no economist so take this with a grain of salt, this is what I think should happen).

"Government needs money to run. They have to develop infrastructures and pay salary of public servants. Also they have to provide welfare to under privileged and subsidies to student communities and such. They cannot just print infinite number of notes so they have to take money from the current cash flow. The cash flow here means things like purchases, salaries, revenue, real estate etc. Now, to do that they have to decide how much to take from whom. They cannot take a fix amount as not every mode of cashflow would be viable with that fix amount. So they decide how much to pull from where. Thus on income we have income tax. But that too is not fixed. You pay depending upon the size of your income and nothing else. Thus ideally, the rich pay more and poor pay less. On the other hand, you have things like sales tax, where the government takes a fixed percentage of all the sales made by a company.

In short the government takes some amount of your money each time you make a transaction... well most of the times. But rest assured, your money comes back to you. The government gives it back in terms of infrastructure or services or carnivals or social security or things like that."

I know this is not perfect, nor is it what happens in the real world. But this is what should happen I think.
1) He said he is testing a market.

2) I think you do not get the concept of Offer HN.
I am alum/tech support/TA at Univ. of Michigan which is one of the major contributors to Sakai so I have seen all sides of it. The actual services are pretty good, but the user interface is horrible. In defense of Sakai, the developers know the UI is horrible and are working on it. I have my doubts they will succeed since it's such a huge project.
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ESL Student: "The firefighter ran into a burning building and came out pregnant"

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