skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The culture of fear I'm talking about is a social fear, this idea that there are lots of evil people in the world, ready to do you harm. It divides society; makes people even more individualistic, suspicious of one another, and it has corrosive effects on public goods. Instead of helping out your neighbour (metaphorically, and perhaps even literally), you sneak past and think "there but for the grace of God go I". And the irony is that this attitude actually makes the world less safe. Situations can be taken advantage of in the knowledge that people won't interfere, precisely because they are too afraid.

It's a culture that leads to people driving around in SUVs, living in gated communities, to the point of carrying guns where legal, and voting for governments who promise safety and deliver it with mechanisms of control: filtered internet, surveillance society, TSA, etc. Its endpoint lies somewhere in a Ballardian dystopia, like High Rise or Super-Cannes.
I think it would be pretty silly to add a paid plan to a weekend project. ;)

I'll only do that, with the watermark, if it goes over what my bottom-rung Linode+CDN can deliver.
Do we know that it helps people do their jobs better? The article left me with this question: Is this different than other microscopes that you could use in the field, and if so, how? Does this make it easier/cheaper for the trained personnel to detect malaria? Maybe it does--I'm just not clear on that point after having read the article.
Great video, explains the concept clearly.

Best of luck
Well, not in a literal sense perhaps, but practically, if you are liable for a debt that was incurred before you were even born, let alone of voting age, how is that any different?
I've never read Battlefield Earth, but I found The Forever War to be a really interesting view on the effects that relativity would have on light-year-scale war (and the expansion of the human race).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
Perhaps it's a difference of experience, but I really haven't met a professional programmer who doesn't understand regexes but still insists on using them for non-trivial tasks. Thus my usage of "disingenuous", because I have trouble believing that such people exist, and I felt you were trying to make a point insincerely, perhaps out of confirmation bias. I apologize if it came across as an insult -- it wasn't intended as one.
Whoops, you're right, I'm talking utter crap!
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seems to require facebook sign up though?
I've encountered this first-hand a lot. Police are too busy with other larger crimes to work on stolen computer cases. Here's what to do to protect against this:

1. Buy or setup a good, reliable file backup service. (daily rsyncs)

2. Use full disk encryption on the laptop hard drive.

3. Buy an insurance policy.

This way, you keep your documents, your privacy and get a replacement laptop when it becomes lost, stolen or damaged.
you can try http://mongrel2.org/ with python, look for a simple template system like http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ and for sql I likes postgresql or can probe some graphdb

some years ago I do some webs with python but i think that nodejs or lisp is better for web develop
What would anyone who doesn't care enough do? If they don't vote, they increase the power of other voters. If they vote randomly, their votes would cancel each other out on average, making it as if they hadn't voted. If they vote based on what somebody or an organisation says, that person/group is empowered based on the number of followers.

This is the main issue with FPTP voting. If you wish to disempower fringes, require majority approval.
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Just in case you don't already have a friend on Google+ I'll be happy to extend you an invitation. Feel free to email or DM me on Twitter.
Tax breaks are just another form of entitlement. Tax breaks are almost worse than other government benefits. It's basically taking out interest only loans on the tax payer's behalf. Here's $500 ... Oh and by the way, that comes with $500 worth of debt with a 4% interest rate that you are going to pay forever.
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tl;dr: Github Pages, using Jekyll

Recently, I wanted to start writing occasional posts, and wanted to split my original content off of my Tumblr (which I'd use to post "things I've found online that I like"). I played around with Jekyll and Github's hosted space, where they run Github Pages, and have been really happy with it.
It's doing a URL decode to store them. I think that a % is not valid in a URL..

From http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html-

The percent sign ("%", ASCII 25 hex) is used as the escape character in the encoding scheme and is never allowed for anything else.

I'll try to see why it's not converting it after work.
Show HN: Code Pal - A fun way to learn programming on Facebook
OP here.

We're an education startup and we want to inspire students to learn programming by making the initial experience fun and engaging.

Two key problems that we're trying to solve are:

a) Make learning to code fun & interesting:

To write interesting code, you need technical skills & domain knowledge. While students are currently taught the basics of programming, the lowest common denominator when it comes to domain knowledge happens to be math and so you have tons of exercises on displaying integers (0 to 100), or printing out the fibonacci sequence etc. This can be boring (not to mention many students already find math to be hard / boring).

We're replacing math with social data that students are intimately aware of (ie. their own social data). So on Code Pal, students will learn a for loop by listing the names of their Facebook friends (as opposed to printing out integers from 0 to 100 or some other similar, potentially boring, exercise).

b) Enable students to work with real world data:

Data in introductory assignments are usually fake and artificially generated. This is a pain for educators (they need to create this data) and it is boring for students. We allow students to work with real data and learn programming in the process. One huge side benefit is that we don't need to tell a student when there is a logic error. For example, if you have 500 friends and your program outputs 499 as the total count, you know there is an error. Another example: we have a Coke versus Pepsi assignment where we teach students the IF statement by asking them to use the number of likes the two drinks have received on FB to determine which drink is more popular.

--------
Addressing privacy: We don't ask for any extra Facebook permissions (except e-mail) and we don't store any data (again except e-mail). We request data from FB every time you run your code (that's the reason we require Facebook login). Also, we don't ask for a stream publish permission and so we can't (and never will) spam your newsfeed.

Will appreciate any feedback & feel free to ask questions.
I'm generating the bots by reading the bits from a SHA1 hash, so they won't be very similar on an english-text level.
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> Of course, as Chris Soghoian points out, the bill exempts WiFi providers, so it's woefully ineffective at stopping child porn, since anyone who wanted to do that just needs to go to Starbucks.
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Does this service, or any of the competitors, actually scrape the video (like pinboard.in does with bookmarks) so you can watch it later, even if the site is taken down?

That's something I would pay money for.
,[.,] is /bin/cat in brainfuck. Though, brainfuck fails miserably at most golfing challenges.
If people would pay $650 for their consoles, they would have faster processors.

This is a place where the subsidized phone model really helps.
That's a very frequent combination. I wonder if there's a reason why?
I have that and about 12 sites on my Bluehost account.
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At least Soyuz is more reliable than the Space Shuttle.
Or, you can videotape yourself and then watch the past whenever you want.
Great! I was trying to figure out how to import twitter into eXist.
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you may want to change G to B. In the United States, where dollars are used, G is more likely to mean "Grand", or 1k. B would be billion. Or, when all else fails, just type it out.
> You can write a novel like tchrist did
> [...] – meder Nov 20 '10 at 19:36

> That was kinda my point, actually. I
> wanted to show how hard it is. – tchrist
> Nov 20 '10 at 19:38

Seems that you are correctly channeling the author.
Happy to help. There are a few more coming. Want to walk everyone through the whole process, especially what due diligence YOU have to do on your VCs. Enjoy.
http://www.jitlab.com/BISMUTH-TELLURIDE-99-999-10G-p/l-28271...

10 dollars for a gram it seems.

I guess for some kind of comparison:

Copper is $0.008 per gram.

Potassium (pure) is $1.50 per gram

Magnesium is a few cents per gram
That is senseless though. Is telecommunications service a basic need? Do they have a monopoly on it?
No clue. I know a lot of smart people who aren't crazy though.

I think with Courtney (who I have a mutual friend with), she's been isolated just enough to let the crazy foster and the smarts carry her through.

I admire her, not without caveats.
The answer seems to be mainly that this is a service aimed at pros.
...the engineering doesn't need public support in the US. It just needs some investors with vision and eventual profitability.

Where is that profit going to come from? Space tourism? I will be very surprised if there will be a big ongoing demand for spending a few days vomiting in an orbiting can.
It's a Boston-centric publication. Why wouldn't they anchor it to one of Boston's best known institutions?

If it said "Harvard grad student" there would be far less vitriol here. The fact that it is someone at HBS getting some startup press really pisses you off - doesn't it?
> "John was late for dinner. They were caught in traffic."

It sounds ungrammatical because the gender-neutral pronoun follows a gender specific name. The actual use is more like

"A friend of mine was late for dinner. They were caught in traffic."
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I don't know why Dropbox is catching so much flak for this when the TOS were standard stuff you see pretty much anywhere.

ex: http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

“You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.”
My friend Peter set up a remote login to his laptop from his phone. When he accidentally left his laptop in a cab in Manhattan, he was able to track it down and get it back from the cab driver after about three weeks. He also was able to monitor the cab driver's use of the laptop with his phone -- apparently the guy spent a lot of time on adultfriendfinder.
This is very nice. It's good to see examples weaved into the site on how to use it. If anything, main libapr site could use something a bit better than the Doxygen output manual as reading the unit tests from the actual source is more approachable to me than their documentation.
if you go to http://static1.robohash.com/ you get the same page as http://robohash.org/ but the IP used is not my IP.

nice project though. :)
> funding is seriously skewed toward athletics (though I think in most schools that's funded more by the parents' direct contributions).

(1) How are we measuring "seriously skewed"? Sure the football stadium may have just been remodelled, but how much did that cost relative to other things? (Note that a huge fraction of "school spending" doesn't make it to the school.)

(2) When someone pointed out that he (Babe Ruth) made more than the US president, Ruth replied "I know, but I had a better year than (President Herbert) Hoover."

My point is that the parents may be responding to better performance. I agree that education can be more valuable, but that doesn't imply that spending more is always a good idea. Good money after bad, ROI and all that.
I have to admit, that's kind of brilliant.
He probably meant "giga".

Things like kUSD or M$ appear to have come from science - it's putting an SI prefix to a unit. Personally, when I write M$, I mean one megadollar, not 1 milion dollars.
The article claims that 90% of 8+ million childhood deaths in sub-Saharan Africa are caused by malaria, but the World Health Organization says it's responsible for only 20% of child deaths. Moreover, the latest estimates for annual deaths from malaria (all ages) is 780,000. In any case, it's a lot, and I'm glad this team has delivered a useful tool!

http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/index.html

http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/26/malaria-deaths-are-dow...
I've often wondered if famous people tend to go off the deep end more than the rest of us because they're constantly surrounded by people who tell the what they want to hear.
I also am disturbed by the culture of fear you describe.
There is free (as in beer) software to change the pitch of voices:

http://www.screamingbee.com/product/MorphVOXJunior.aspx
Static1.robohash.com goes through the CDN.. If you load a PNG through there, it's cached. I wouldn't do the whole site through there, though, or you'll get the CDN's IP!
my god cnbc is obnoxious. 9 logos on the same screen. breaking headlines of the interview currently in progress. 5 different bars all blocking the view with equally unimportant text. and the swoush sound effects... seriously you guys. seriously.
I would say it's especially true if you go the startup route. Typically programmers are not astute business people and get taken advantage of just the same. The only real difference is that there's much higher demand for programmers than musicians so things like base salary and employment prospects are much more in your favor.
This is extremely well done.

But incidentally:

see if you're talking to the same man

comes across a bit odd, seeing as lately a few women and children have been reported using IP addresses.
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The article says they can also determine if the blood has malaria computationally.
The important takeaway I see is that regardless of wether advertising accurately taps some innate biologic differences between mean ad women in order to sell things effectively, it doesn't make it ok or right to do so. We should avoid it because it has fostered the negative elements of our society that the OP illustrated. We can shape the culture we live in for the better.
It's in the Klout score plot.
It can also computationallly determine if there is malaria in the blood, per the article.
That's fantastic; however, that's not how the general public writes it
ANYTIME a female quotes Neal Stephenson in passing, I'm surprised. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless.
Um, if you want to mail your telepresence robot to Hacker Dojo, I'll unpack it and let it wander around.
https://www.hostsharing.net/

That's a co-operative, non-profit hosting provider. It works kind of like car sharing: Everyone pays a monthly fee, based on the resources he/she uses, and that is used to fund hardware, colocation costs, domain registration etc. Administration is done by a team of volunteers, but totally transparent with discussions on mailing lists and phone conferences. A lot of the members are IT freelancers (mostly Java EE developers). Resellers are also welcome. Currently there are about 200 members.

Based in Germany, but open to anyone in Europe. The webpages are currently only available in German, but that doesn't mean that people who speak a different language aren't welcome. It's just that noone has found the time yet to translate everything.
But that's the 'free market' right? Things will work out perfect in the end because of people's self-interest. The free market tells us that it's impossible for bad things to happen.
Sorry, too late to edit the comment now, HN won't let me anymore.
I was using man generically, not specifically. Mankind, if you will.

s/man/person
Hating on Dropbox seems to be the flavour of the week on the intarwebs it seems. Fascinating to see how easily geeks fall prey to basic thought manipulation by the media. Aren't we supposed to be smarter than the average bear?
> Anybody who thinks that mobiles will replace consoles for gaming doesn't actually seriously game (or perhaps it's more accurate to say that they aren't interested in games more complicated than farmville or Angry Birds).

Most of the market doesn't "seriously game". Most of the market isn't interested in games more complicated than farmville or Angry Birds.

"Most of the market" is where the majority of the money is to be made is found.
You can still present the space race as a race. Landing on the Moon is the first lap. If a goal for the second lap existed - like a permanent moonbase or something like it, it could have continued.

As marvelous as the shuttles are, they are just an expensive way to go knee deep in space. LEO is boring because we already went much further. Let's set foot on the Moon once again, and launch from there (using local materials is a good excuse) to Mars and the outer planets.

Imagine how big a telescope could be with the lower gravity and how crisp its image with no atmosphere to disturb it or absorb parts of the spectrum. Or a radio telescope shielded (by the Moon) from Earth's radio emissions. And, if something broke, someone would dress up and drive there to take a look instead of taking a year of planning and a billion-dollar mission to, maybe, fix it.
Definitely. Just wanted to point it out.
At least in your example the real kidnapper was locked up.
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Does the median investment banker really make that much? I was under the impression that the mean investment banker income was high, but there was a large amount of skew due to high salaries of the folks at the top.

I was also under the impression that the job involved a soul-crushingly large workload...
"few days vomiting in an orbiting can."

You clearly underestimate the desire of the average American to make himself severely uncomfortable for the sake of a thrill. At the current level of expense, space tourism will never be more than a status symbol for the super rich, but get the cost bellow a few thousand dollars and add a few amenities to the experience and people will go hog wild for it.
Whether you're in Texas or Toronto, the situation described in the article is unlikely to result in death or injury. Even in a situation where the criminals have guns, they are extremely unlikely to shoot you in the middle of a Starbucks for no reason.

And yes, I do mean "no reason". There is literally nothing for the criminals to gain by shooting you. They would change from petty thieves who simply lose the laptop and may yet go unpunished to murderers with many witnesses to the crime. This is a major loss, with no upside. Being a petty criminal indicates that they aren't the smartest, but it doesn't indicate that they are completely insane.

I feel that you must be drastically overestimating the danger in this situation to justify simply surrendering the laptop. There's not even a threat of violence here. You're making a chain of assumptions that takes you from "petty thieves" to "willing murderers". That's a hell of a leap.
I'm testing out a Wordpress plugin that I'm writing for a client, and I figured I'd inflict it on my readers before I did it on their readers. (It will get OSSed, eventually, after I iron more kinks out. Someone reported it broke printing -- who knew?)

I hate TwitBook sharing buttons, for a bunch of reasons. Conversely, I love the delicious button -- I slap it on (typically) geek-friendly reference content and a) it gets a lot of instantaneous loving and b) it sends relevant traffic for a long, long time.

Not too much an issue for my blog but very relevant to clients: many people have Delicious -> blog setups. This means that a save on Delicious sometimes counts as a link, in a way that tweets and FB activity typically do not. You can imagine the SEO benefits of that one.
Hi all, author of the Lua/APR binding here. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them here. I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on the binding yet so would love to hear what people think about it!
Spending more than you earn? Idiots in charge. Cut back on essentials, keep the things that make you happy, still get re-elected. Hmm, anyone else see a minor flaw?
i figured it was something like that but i felt i should mention it just in case.

your concept did a good job in alerting me that the IP that was supposed to me mine was not :)
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I love some of the alt-text on the robots. Very polished.
Don't mean to hijack, but could I be referred to a good introduction to Lua? I keep hearing about it, but it's one of the few languages I know NOTHING about, and I have a free weekend!
Wealthy Africans get malaria too, and besides, even the poor will be getting smart phones soon.

It's going to be like cell phones which were pretty ubiquitous in the third world years ago when it wasn't even the case here. They bypassed landlines and went straight to cell, and the same will probably be true of computers and smart phones.
It's probably the latter haha.

It's quite interesting how if you looked at this bureaucratic system from the perspective of a program or a website, you can't help but think of ways to solve the problem in the way any new start-up would; the system is outdated for today's world--and despite that no one dares tackle any of these issues as to not rock the boat or create a system without ample time off for some sweet vacations.
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I wouldn't worry about it. You didn't come off as sexist or anything; it was clearly just informal colloquial speak.
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Looking forward to trying it out. Many, many thanks for providing such an excellent tool. I was writing automated tests before Selenium, and it has been a seismic change in browser automation. Between you guys, JMeter, and Robot there really is a credible open source automated testing stack now.