skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, not really as if I can respond to this without sounding like a jerk and being downvoted incessantly. Oh well, I'll take a shot anyway: my response choices included mentioning that it was a decade ago, pointing out that I laugh (albeit how terrible it may or may not be of me) at this image: http://i.min.us/ibOZze.jpg, and how I think a personal or national tragedy is slightly different than some animals in the water far enough away that I don't actually think about them regularly.

I'd actually be more upset if they ran an ad mocking peoples' opposition to the war... or you know something substantial. I find that the continued SHOCK over 9/11 is really just another symptom of our addiction to "disaster porn" [1]. We in the US love a good disaster, especially if it's a banner under which to assert staunch nationalism (and with it pass the largest violation of Constitutional rights in the history of this country and invade two others), and continue to drum up emotion, support and excuses for ourselves and our government.

Yes it was terrible, yes people died. More people died in automobile accidents. Ask yourself why you're so worked up over 9/11. Was it graphic? Maybe, but that probably has to do with our constant reiteration of what a "tragedy" it was along with footage of the towers falling.

[1]: less "shockingly" known as Compassion Fatigue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue) (hm, this article isn't a very good discussion. I'm more familiar with it in the policy debate world where it has a bit more relevant meaning)
Exactly. In large asian corporations which have their hands in a lot of different industries and spaces, different divisions often act and negotiate independently. This is so that no one division can bring the whole company down and other companies can maintain a level of trust with that division as a supplier, regardless of whether another division might be competing with those companies.

Failure to respect these divisions is one reason Sony failed in the consumer electronics space against the iPod. It allowed the entertainment and media side of the company to impose ATRAC copy protection and other kinds of DRM on the consumer electronics division of the company, which resulted in a much less compelling (compared to the iPod and other music players which used less draconian DRM measures) network walkman line of products.
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Chrome makes Google money in the same way that articles make the Huffington post money.

The Huffington Post makes money on ads. Every user who uses Google Chrome is a user that isn't using another browser. This means Google makes more money on search ads because they aren't giving a cut to Mozilla, Apple, etc.
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Would someone care to explain why these things still cost double what an equivalent netbook with additional parts does?
Funny metaphore with "antisocial" software ;-))

Shouldn't you switch the columns with museums list to see which one is least busy first? This will be more consistent with your supposed goal and will correspond with the fact that you say which museum is quieter first above (just below the bars).

Cool project!
Apart from the accuracy, build quality, etc. one of the reasons I bought my Fluke DMM is that I was working with some high power circuits (like 600VDC at 60+ amps) and I trust the Fluke more than a random cheap meter not to blow up. There's a reason the fuses for a good multimeter cost more than the average discount instrument.
And by the way, the U.S. complainers shouldn't look to China but to Germany for a model on how a modern rich manufacturing economy could work.
If you've been paying attention to Japan, that's allegedly one of their major problems right now. Young people cannot make decent wages or land job security, or anything else to encourage them to follow the traditional route, because compensation is being assigned largely based on seniority and the seniors are not relinquishing their positions.
No.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org
Since your comment boils down to "Android tablets are crap and should be priced accordingly" it's probably a good thing that they're setting expectations with a high price.

I don't see any part of your comment that doesn't apply to Android phones, and they clearly started at the high-end before they working their way down the value chain. This strategy worked well enough to save Motorola, I don't see why they should change now before your bold prediction of zero sales of their tablet offering is proved one way or the other.
Why not discard top level domains (TLD)?
Have we reached the end of the road for microfinance?
Perhaps millions of great ideas and billions of pieces of knowledge have been lost to the almost entirely ethereal IRC as well. The somewhat permanent nature of Usenet and, to a lesser degree, mailing lists, subliminally changes the nature of the conversation.

I feel like we lose some of the ultimate benefits of "real" protocols by using the web as a means for two-way communications, but we also gain a platform for experimentation and rapid prototyping that leads to things like Hacker News.
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Beside one JSON interpreter from 2011 all the stuff there is 4 years and older. Not the most actual source for Python on Mac...
Great find.
But, I have seen Google doing similar thing using HTML5 entirely. I wonder what would be the difference between this and HTML5.
> Basically, Rigol spec'd out a 100MHz scope and then crippled it in software to have a cheaper 50MHz model to sell without having two separate hardware lines.

Agilent is about to do the same thing. Based on some leaked sales collateral they are pitching software upgradeability of bandwidth as a selling point for their upcoming line of entry-level oscilloscopes.

(Hmm, Agilent is currently rebranding the Rigol scope in question as their entry level. I wonder if Rigol will be building the new line for them?)
Good point. The ID3 tag is probably only in the header anyway. They'll just do it at a block level.
I am using the artistic interpretive sense of the word 'analysis' here. The ideas presented in the commercial are a viewpoint.

It is an analysis that is a sales pitch because it says: we're so confident that we can tell you _exactly_ what the situation is, with an actually quite sad bitter self-awareness, and it won't make any difference.

"This is a stupid system [advertising and the crass mainstream] and I refuse to play. And I can tell you this to your face and you will still use me, because that's just how our world works."

>Besides the patronizing suggestion that people never actually put their money where their mouth is

That ain't a suggestion, that's the truth. And even if everyone were committing a significant proportion of their resources, it still wouldn't change the really bizarre affinity Americans have for taking causes and turning them into ways to make money. I believe I already mentioned the Rainforest Cafe.

I really don't think you're cynical enough, and just personally irritated because you actually donate.

Anyhow, Groupon doesn't care about customers like your wife/you. Groupon will continue to make money, for one thing; but not only that, Groupon doesn't need customers that are told what to do by advertisements. And if you're making a purchasing decision based on an advertisement, that's exactly what you are doing.

The goal of Groupon's advertisement was to not be an advertisement, but a stated fact. I hesitate to say it was an anti-commercial because it is still actually promoting its product, but it is definitely flipping off every other superbowl commercial for taking itself so damn seriously.

Finally, I'm assuming you know that Groupon is matching donations for the various causes. The way it's not making this clear actually makes me respect them more, because waving the size of your donation-dick (that's the second time I've used that phrase tonight, how old am I?) is just another form of crass advertisement.
Don't vote him down, that's a valid point. Much NASA data is made public, but it might not be linked from this particular site. I would recommend looking around and seeing if you can't find it.
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You're right that a message queue is shared state and has to be gotten right but that can be done (and ZeroMQ does it) without locks. It's thus invisible to application developers. You're wrong to say that multiple threads serialize on a queue no matter how it's implemented. ZeroMQ lets threads write full speed to a queue while another thread reads full speed from the queue, without wait states.
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> Great find. But, I have seen Google doing similar thing using HTML5 entirely.

"HTML5 entirely" doesn't really mean much, for example my website uses mostly HTML 4.01, but is HTML5 as well (since it's mostly backwards compatible).

eg. If you're using <div> tags then you're using HTML5.
Commented on the post as well.

EXIF isn't the only metadata in jpeg files. IPTC and other forms exist, so if you want to really make them clean make sure you get everything.

exiv2[0] can be used to do that. I have a script I use to remove all metadata from sensitive images I collect for research (UAV aerial photography) before posting).

[0]http://www.exiv2.org/
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When I was in school, I once needed to get a note from my parents to give to my gym teacher. My gym teacher asked if I had the note, and I said sure, and started to get it out. He told me not to bother, and trusted that it existed and was genuine.
A Fire Upon The Deep is one of my favourite sci-fi novels...I thought the idea of high technology (FTL, intelligences living in manufactured substrates, etc) only working in certain parts of the galaxy was pretty unique.

I read it before I knew what the Internet was, so when I first got access to Usenet after reading it, imagine my surprise.

FYI, Children of the Sky (sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep) is planned for October, but I'm sure you probably know :)
OK -- the example recreated in Logicomix :)

(Now that you mention it, I think Russell talked about index cards, which wouldn't really make sense to more modern readers)
Skills that have been scarce and always will be are good math skills. Coupled with decent programming skills and you can do magic. There are many coders/engineers that lack a decent background in math, so they are severely limited to what they can do. Besides the technologically cheap ideas are quickly being scooped up. I am not saying that there will be less space for such ideas in the future, it's really hard to say that. But nevertheless having larger scope can give you a competitive advantage.
The technologically intensive ideas right now and especially when you graduate in 5 years will be machine learning, AI, robotics, image processing, computer graphics computer vision and they all require decent math background and intuition.
Besides having good training in applied math can help you on both fronts, the business as well the engineering part.
my initial reaction was that this has to be an error, but now I think it may be referring to WiFi hotspot functionality.

Help me here, I'm trying hard to come up with a scenario which doesn't involve painting the people involved in well... a less than optimal light
I kind of get the feeling this proposal is as well thought out as when people wanted to get rid of hierarchical file systems in the early 00s.

The top level domains provide some organization behind domains. it also lends some authority to the system as a whole. would it even be posible to have dnssec without a tld to be signed? how would you know who to ask for information about the domain at all?

It'd be like telling all the national registrars they didn't matter anymore. especially if there's a new nation and they can't have a domain because squatters have taken over all two letter domains.

I'm sure there are a lot of other reasons why this is a bad idea, but i'm not versed enough in dns to come up with more specifics.

I feel like a jerk being this negative. but please don't start throwing out ideas for major changes in such vital infrastructure without a solid background working with it. you could get people started on some crusade that does more irreparable damage than good
Not bad, I like how the pages responded to two finger swipes on my Mac trackpad - I did it without thinking and it worked!
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Some 1970s-era medical treatments simply aren't purchasable, either, either due to practical/economies-of-scale reasons or due to changes in the world.

Anything that requires technology/manufacturing has a sort of cliff, where you can use the current technology (or perhaps one generation back), or you can use very primitive treatments, but not much in between. You could dig through the history of technological advances for some particular device, and make the rational decision that Generation 3 of the device is the optimal one for you on the price/benefit curve. But if we're on Generation 9 currently, you simply can't use Generation 3 machines, sorry, because nobody makes them and no hospital/doctor still uses them, and the FDA might not even allow their use anymore; you use a recent one, or none at all.

Some drugs have a not-really-available effect as well. I might actually be happy with penicillin as my antibiotic of choice... if it had 1970s levels of efficacy. Unfortunately, resistance to penicillin has greatly increased, so "1970s penicillin that works like it was the 1970s" just isn't a product you can buy anymore.

Somewhat of interest to me, because if it were possible to buy 1970s-era health insurance that worked like it was the 1970s, I might actually do it, with a few a-la-carte exceptions. I've read some of the literature that tries to quantify the effect of new medical technology on health outcomes, and the single biggest one for adults appears to be better vaccinations, so I'd definitely still get a modern vaccination schedule. A second worthwhile one is improved surgery techniques, especially arthroscopic surgeries that reduce the need for traditional open-wound surgeries, and thus also reduce many infection/etc. complications.

But a lot of the increase in expense is stuff I would be willing to opt out of if it were an option: 1) huge increase in heroic last-6-months care; and 2) chronic-condition drugs like Viagra, SSRIs, Ritalin, statins, beta blockers, etc. Not that those have no arguable benefits, but if I had the choice to purchase a health-insurance plan that excluded those categories, that would fit my cost/benefit analysis.
Significantly simpler, faster, and more general. MPI is like one of the patterns ZeroMQ provides (the pipeline pattern) with a lot on top. That makes it great for parallel programming, but not so great for (e.g.) data distribution (pubsub) and other forms of message queuing.
The same reasons medical equipment is expensive. More or less boils down to "because it can be".
This is more for doing layout techniques so it's more of a library where HTML5 is a markup language. You should think of this more like jQuery.
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exiftool can be used in any distro, not just Ubuntu. Specifying ubuntu is just stupid linkbait.
Definitely focus on the CS/hacking in college. Business skills are much easier to acquire from real-life work experience, reading business books, etc. The "business" education you get from majoring in business or getting an MBA is less applicable in an early stage startup than actually being able to build things.
Abstract TLDs? They're all country codes (e.g. .ly = Libya, .st = Sao Tome).
TLDs aren't just there to categorise US domain names - they're the namespaces of individual countries.
You may have read the article before it was updated, but there is a note and a couple of comments addressing this. Basically this is a somewhat simplified model, and the papers on which it is based view things more complex then impulsivness = hard-wired:

An important note is that the full version of TMT places a constant in the denominator to prevent the denominator from skyrocketing into infinity as delay approaches 0. Also, 'impulsiveness' here is a substitute for 'susceptibility to delay,' something which may vary by task, whereas 'impulsiveness' sounds like a stable character trait that might not help to explain having different motivations to perform different tasks.
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Or maybe he was just skewering Google's notorious interview process...
I think the theory is that high profile is an investment that makes it easier to find rent money down the road.
I graduated from a top 3 business program and feel that everything I learned can easily be picked up later in life. If you want to hack stuff and build things on your own, studying CS is the way to go.
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"I'd actually be more upset if they ran an ad mocking peoples' opposition to the war... or you know something substantial."

That's the problem. You think it was just about Whales and trees, but I guess you didn't realize how many more died in the Tibetan struggle for independence than 9/11? Then smash cut on Timothy Hutton getting a fish dinner?

I say, if they wanted shock, do the 9/11 thing. Or, even more topical, the egyptian revolution. Like Kenneth Cole did[1]. That worked out well for them!

[1] http://blog.seattlepi.com/zennieabraham/archives/238287.asp
Yes, thanks and sorry for the error. Unfortunately it is no longer possible to edit the comment (but I agree with the edit timeout FWIW).
Or you could do what I did and impulse-order the book from Amazon. Now I'll have to read it. (I've been working on my book impulse-buying for a while now. Damn useful.)
We are asked in the guidelines not to editorialize in our titles. I take it from your title that you disagree with the op-ed, and that you are calling the author an idiot? Would you care to expand on your reasoning?
The most honest robots.txt file
I couldn't find the QED that this article supposedly contained.

Also, don't you think it's hard to speculate on things like food? I mean, you can't store it as long as metals/oil, so the whole "speculators are to blame" story seems naive to me.
But since this system only incorporates data from the past few weeks the shift towards quite days will be detected pretty fast and thus these days will start to be visible as busy. It will balance itself out I think
Commodity items are not immune to mass production prices. Today Apple is the #1 flash memory user in the world thanks to the ipods,iphones and macbooks airs.

It is not only "negotiating power", it is as simple as making 10 million iPad processors make them more than 10 times less expensive than those that have not sold even a million. Having a semiconductors line(processor, LCDs...) are roughly the same fixed cost if you make 1 unit or a million.

Samsung is one of the few companies that could compete with Apple as the processor design is theirs, have great LCD and ram tech, but they have not a single product that compete with Apple in numbers.
I really don't think you're cynical enough, and just personally irritated because you actually donate.

Actually, we were irritated by the Tibet commercial because it came off as so racist. My in-laws are Asian so the whole family was hanging out together. It did not go down well at all - and my in-laws are neither hypersensitive nor lacking in humor.

The goal of Groupon's advertisement was to not be an advertisement, but a stated fact.

Sez you.

I hesitate to say it was an anti-commercial because it is still actually promoting its product, but it is definitely flipping off every other superbowl commercial for taking itself so damn seriously.

Riiiight. Because superbowl commercials are famous for being humorless public service announcements. As for Groupon matching donations (up to $100k each, I believe), big whoop. They spent $3m on their ad slots. This PR mess will cost them a lot more before it's done.
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You meant to comment on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2188242 ?
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Full justification doesn't work well on the web, especially for short lines, because the spacing between the words is not consistent and the gaps are too large. Flush left, ragged right looks better.
(Also, minus sign isn't a replacement for en dash).
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A quick question: What is "crawl-delay ftl". I googled but couldn't find much, besides that this particular robots.txt dates from April 2007 (~4 years ago) and the first mention of it was in 2008
My impression was that it had to do with the gamma correction of PNG images. The 4chan thumbnail generator seems to ignore the gamma correction while the browser does not.
True, but the guy in the suit is influenced by people other than salesmen as well, most of all by hype. I remember when Java came onto the scene. Within a few years everyone was busy porting everything to Java. If something like that happens again, Oracle (and others) will have to write down billions.

If I were Oracle, I would not want to provoke someone like Google to drop Java and really throw its weight behind a different mainstream applications platform. Oracle is playing a dangerous game right now. No army of salespeople will save them if and when the tide turns. These things are non linear.
Say you have a company FOO and you register foo.com. Nothing stops people in other people from registering foo.de, foo.fr, foo.tv, foo.biz, foo.info and so on, so you have to control all of these domains to protect you from domain squatters.

My proposal is to to get rid of every TLD except for .com (or something shorter) for all "normal" sites with little regulation and keep .mil, .gov, .edu and national TLDs under governmental authority.
You can definitely make a version of git that uses inotify (mercurial has been doing it since a couple of years).
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