skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the RfC from the other day. They have already pledged to do whatever the community decides as a result of that RfC:

The Wikimedia Foundation is going to support whatever action the community decides to take. The community has asked the Wikimedia Foundation to keep it informed as events unfold: to that end, the Wikimedia Foundation will use this page as a central place to post information.
FWIW, using CLISP 2.49 REPL

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Should I spray tan before my VC meeting?
Don't boycott it---just do a half-ass job. Take the government's money and make it super-easy to get around.
Comeback? As an honest question, maybe it deserves an answer. I mean, sure tongue in cheek, but any cookie-cutter idea of heaven is bound to leave some cold. So if you dislike your family, then Mormonism isn't for you?
A Physics Puzzle to Stretch Your Mind&mdash;and Your Patience
If you want to play with the current version, try: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/downloads/index I am fascinated with languages old and new and might well give this one a shot just to see what is going on. Note that the above is current, not 1996...
What's really frustrating is that a clear open source strategy would just plain fix this with no cost to Google or the carriers at all. The Nexus phones (and a handful of others) get Cyanogenmod updates with new features all the time.

But almost no one wants to ship a phone that the community can modify. And even Google treats CM like crap: they get no visibility into the process, so have to scramble to synchronize with each major release needlessly.
Are you meeting with Snooki?
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; [Shakespeare]

The name is a far less important asset than whatever it is your startup will do.
They come with a convenient "minimize" button that the user can click to reveal the IE icon on their desktop.
TweetDeck for Web (Chrome and Safari only, however)
Yeah, it normally bring in enough for a coffee or lunch every day. Nothing to brag about, but the key is getting that passive income mentality.
* I'm using his personal email. That what he told me to use. Im probably going to set up a new main gmail and setup pop3 email accounts inside for his employees to send using professional email accounts

* Thanks for remimding me about automatic renewal. I asked him if he want to purchase 2 or more years in advance, but he said no. This way it will be renewed when the time comes unless the cc# changes.

* When you say 'your own Wordpress installation' you mean installing it fresh from my hosting using wordpress.org? That's what I plan to do.

* I looked at ThemeForest, they have really nice themes for cheap. He just needs a simple basic business theme, so thank you again for the suggestion!

I told him if I can't complete the project or he's not happy with it, he owns the domain/hosting and can take it anywhere he wishes. Question was whether to save money and share accounts at first, but I agree I'm going to keep everything separate since its the safest for everybody!

Thanks.
#1 is partially fulfilled. There can be 'investigations', such as the one done on Newt Gingrich in 1997. They levy a fine of $300K (slap on the wrist for someone with a net worth in the millions), and then he's able to go and run for president 13 years later.

The problem that is inherent to #1 however is that, at least initially, they are investigated by people closest to them. Few people in Congress was to open up any Congressperson for deep investigation. Everyone has skeletons so investigations seem to generally be done in a way to kick up the least amount of dust, yet appear to be in motion.

And you're absolutely right for #2. Rarely are the rich or corporations punished in a serious way. Deceptive business practice that makes you billions? Fine given for millions. Unless you get caught in such a bad and terribly obvious way that they simply must go after you with jailtime, they won't.

There is no way to punish a politician or a group of politician for non-performance, corruption, failure to uphold the US Constitution, etc. You've basically gotta kill someone. And even if you do that, you're likely going to face less time than the average person on the street who does the same. Afterall, all your best friends are lawyers and lawmakers.
I wonder why youtube would sign an agreement like that at all..

I'm guessing penalties for hosting copyrighted content are so severe they're trying to establish a legal trail to show they made every effort to comply with the law.
I'm sure we could come up with some sort of host file synchronization application to circumvent the DNS changes. It would be awful compared to DNS, but at least it would be more workable than remembering and saving IP addresses.
The real issue here is corruption. That's why you keep get these ridiculous bills. Lessig explained the issue in a recent post:

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/13119510676/me-mia-on-the-sopa...
Thanks!

For reference:
http://www.amazon.com/reader/0486670856?_encoding=UTF8&q...

Search for "Consider the cubic"
Reports with undefined intervals and the only "requirement" is the title?

That's easy, shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. Empty reports with just a title are really friendly for the author and reader both.
I agree with you completely, but that seems to be another issue overall.
wonder if it's time to code an FF extension that aggregates and stores IP addresses of sites i visit and bypasses the resolver/DNS from this DB.
The Homeland Security Snow-Cone Machine
Local government isn't usually a huge issue (there are some problems, see the shitshow over the sewers in Birmingham). It's federal government, which functions at a high level of abstraction by definition, that has the biggest issues and the worst interface for solving them.

I vote in local elections and cheerfully pay taxes--but look only towards the treatment of the online petitions hosted by our current administration to see how much attention is paid.

The difficulty of participating in government isn't something to be cherished--it's something to be fixed.
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It's been a while, but here are the issues I remember:

* GPS was completely broken (a known and admitted issue with the T-Mobile variant of the Galaxy). If you disabled it, you could use tower triangulation to get a rough position, but that made it unusable for things like driving directions.

* Battery life was terrible (probably not specific to that model, but it didn't get through a day the whole time I had it).

* The camera was awful (not unusual for smartphones at the time, but my old crappy N73 had a camera that was easily 10x better).

* If you unplugged the headset, the phone would automatically launch the music player and start playing music through the speaker, even if the music player wasn't running.

* USB mass storage mode didn't work, so you couldn't move files to it. The only workaround was to turn on debugging on the phone, which would then let it show up in as a USB device, but you'd have to enable/disable debug every time you plugged it in, as leaving it in debug made the screen not turn off.

* Lots of crap applications that you couldn't remove.

* Most of the menus had misspellings or bizarre word choices, like it had been passed through Google Translate (a nitpick concern, I realize, but it didn't give me a lot of faith in the quality control of Samsung).

Then there were all the issues with Android itself, which aren't specific to the phone, and I really don't want to hash out here, as some of them have been fixed by now, and I really have no desire to get into a debate about the merits of the platform.

I spent the next six months or so after returning the phone to see if the issues ever got addressed, just to see what would have happened if I kept it, and it seemed like most of them were still known issues. That made me feel better about my decision to return the phone.
Is anyone else seeing an image of fractal on that page? I don't see one.
We differ in interpretations. For me, even if student correctly guessed, that the test will be on Monday, if he couldn't deduce this from the assumptions, he will be surprised. Like when you roll the dice - you can guess that the dice will roll 6, sometimes you'll be right, but you'll still be surprised if it rolls 6.

If someone told you before the roll, that this dice always rolls 6 - you'll know that, and then you won't be surprised.

The dice is the same, your guess is the same, what changed is your knowledge.

In our example teacher provided us with knowledge that is contradictory. You can deduce anything you want from 0=1, so the whole exercise is futile.
Direct Instruction is fundamentally opposed to differentiated instruction because it only allows for one way of learning. With differentiated instruction, the teacher recognizes that each student learns differently and that there are many avenues to learning.

Direct Instruction insures mediocre performance by forcing the class to move at the same pace. Students who could do much more are prevented because the structure does not allow it.

Finally, Direct Instruction cannot even come close to touching active instruction. I know Salman Kahn is held up as some great person around here, but Kahn academy isn't all that great for most people, and it definitely cannot come close to the effectiveness of learning by doing.

I'm a person who learns very easily from books, but in my time as a teacher, I've found that I'm an edge case. Most people need specific, hands-on time, in order to really learn the material. Otherwise, what you tend to get is a lot of short-term, cram for the test results that don't really matter because they don't represent real learning.

There is not enough space here, nor do I have enough time to do a thorough critique of Project Follow Through, but they're easy enough to find.
Isn't there a problem with the first student's assertion that by Friday the exam would not longer be a surprise? The definition of a surprise in the context of the question is in relation to the state of the students' brains at the time the professor made the announcement.
Mozilla is not against a bytecode VM. Mozilla (and the WebKit team minus Google) is against arbitrarily adding new language VMs because they create a major compatibility burden. Remember this:

1) JavaScript is locked in. It's too entrenched, it's never going away. Let's just accept that.

2) That means that adding additional languages creates a burden. You're now supporting, at minimum 2 VMs. If you're going to support a second VM you better get it positively right. That doesn't proclude doing it, it just means it's not coming tomorrow.
I think this is actually a pretty reasonable statement, as long as it includes the caveat "on average" or "most of the time". Just as Down's syndrome isn't a huge problem for a population -- as long as it stays relatively uncommon.

Certainly. In the field of evolution, "on average", "statistically", or "most of the time" should be assumed to attach itself to almost every sentence (including this one).

All of this can be made much more precise, by the way, I just didn't mention it above because I already put up a huge wall of text. When it comes to deleterious mutations, there's a rule of thumb in evolution, which is to some extent mathematically provable: one mutation, one death. Statistically, what that means is that a single bad mutation will kill (where by "kill" I really mean "cause to not pass on one's genes to the next generation"), on average, one creature, no matter how bad the mutation is. If it's critical, then it will kill the first carrier before it's born; if it's not so critical, something like poor eyesight, then it will spread much further throughout the population before it kills (on average) one being.

This applies even in the face of mitigating factors. Taking the eyesight example, the fact that we have eyeglasses, and can correct poor vision, means that because poor eyesight kills less often than it did before eyeglasses the genes that cause it will spread much further throughout the population. The presence of the mitigating factor (eyeglasses) allows a potentially deadly gene to spread much further, so that on average it still kills one person per mutation.

So the fact that homosexuality has spread relatively far throughout the population either indicates that a) it is not a deleterious mutation overall (there's some significant benefit to the gene(s) that outweighs the lack of reproductive drive), b) that the mutation happens fairly often, so there are a lot of deaths due to it (this is the case with Down's syndrome), or c) that some damage-control mechanism exists so that the "death" rate is fairly low compared to the incidence of the gene.

In reality, it's probably some combination of all three possibilities; like I mentioned above, everything in evolution is statistical, so it never helps to look for single right answers.
Former Creative Commons CEO on the battles faced by CC licensing
Pagoda Box Announces Memcached Support
i'm as big a hater of SOPA as the next guy, but this fearmongering is getting a bit silly. as if SOPA is going to pass and overnight all of those popular commercially-run websites are going to vanish with no notice or court hearings.

and from a technical standpoint, most of those websites listed use CDNs for static assets, so unless you list the constantly-changing IPs of akamai and other servers for all of the weird random-looking hostnames used by those CDNs, many of those sites will not even load to a usable state. (and porn sites? really?)

also, from the reddit thread:

As some posters suggested, you can use another DNS server. The two server I'm reasonably certain about are OpenDNS and Google DNS. Both of them are US based but I think Google will move it's server to Europe if SOPA passes.

using a resolver in the EU from the US would be frustratingly slow due to the latency. you're better off showing users how to setup their own caching servers to bypass their ISP (i've always run my own caching server just for technical reasons).

and do you really think google cares about SOPA? they have done practically nothing to stop it; no notice on their homepage, no public awareness, only one legal representative sent to the preliminary hearing, etc. this is the same company that partnered with china and supported their censorship just to make some additional ad revenue.
If you're right, then most OEMs are really missing the boat by not engaging with the Android ROM development community more seriously. Cyanogenmod (and other community projects) have already done (for Gingerbread) and are already doing (for ICS) most of the non-customization work (including many of the tedious parts) required to produce OS updates for almost all devices with an unlockable or hackable bootloader, including many of the phones that currently fall through the cracks.

If OEMs focused on resolving key roadblocks (like binary graphics drivers and the 911 issue that made Cyanogenmod drop a few phones) and getting updated phones through carrier certifications, they'd spend less money and get more phones upgraded and would have a more customer-friendly, transparent process to boot.
If the browsers were to implement a general purpose VM, the choice of actual high-level languages would be distinct from the browser maker, and open to experimentation and competition.
We don't all hate JavaScript.
The BoingBoing link is a worthless waste of time.

Use this one to go there directly:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nf5p1/sopa_emergency_l...
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My read on what stopped business wasn't specifically her objection to King's tweet, but the counter-objection to her objection to King's tweet, where the presiding officer claimed that her use of the word "offensive" was uncivil, demanded its retraction, and then everything stalled while points of parliamentary procedure were debated.
Am I the only one that thinks someone bored by debate and process behind the passage of a bill (and childishly bragging about it) should be allowed (nay, encouraged) to spend their time elsewhere. Preferrably as far from Congress as possible?
Yes, what if we had locked mobile to a single language... like Android (Java), iOS (ObjC), WP7 (C#/Silverlight), webOS (JavaScript), Symbian (Symbian/C++). Oh, well... at least we have the glaring success of MeeGo which didn't embrace single language completely.
maybe google in their fight against SOPA can come to the rescue and release a database publicly of all its crawled websites, which can be syndicated somehow via p2p. i mean they gotta have this info.
We need to build a lobbyist presence for liberty. A large enough number of people have their livelihood depend on it. We ought to be able to build it.

Google - put your best brains on hacking the lobbying system. The world needs you.
> JavaScript is locked in. It's too entrenched, it's never going away. Let's just accept that.

JavaScript doesn't have to go anywhere, it can run on a shared VM like any other language.

> That means that adding additional languages creates a burden. You're now supporting, at minimum 2 VMs. If you're going to support a second VM you better get it positively right. That doesn't proclude doing it, it just means it's not coming tomorrow.

There is literally zero investment in moving such an idea forward on the part of Mozilla and WebKit (sans Google). In fact, there's active resistance, while at the same time strongly favoring JavaScript as the one option.

The position more seems to be "we might chip in if someone else comes up with the perfect answer" rather than "yes, this is a problem that needs to be solved to improve developer productivity, application quality, and help the web compete with other platforms".
Well at the start of the argument they're not trying to determine the day it is on, but rather trying to find one day that it is not on.
Why 2 VMs? Can't you compile JavaScript to the imaginary bytecode and have a single unified VM to run them all?
Very true. I worked for a startup before and although I did get some experience out of it, I was there to do my one job, which was development. I didn't really learn much about the business because I wasn't given the opportunity.

I learned more in 4 months running my own startup and it feels more rewarding to me..even if I fail.
Mono (actually a fork of it) can already compile C# to run on Chrome NativeClient. So, you're very close, there.

Also, this:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-June/090038...
Ask HN: How do you find new projects?
I'm sure that I'm not the only programmer who has ever felt the need to build something new. I can't be the only one who wants to build something quick for the instant gratification of completing and showing off a new tool/toy/project.

So how do you find a new project to work on in those times when you feel the need to build, but don't have anything to work on? Is there a secret "here's some ideas" list, or do you keep a list of every thought you have for when these moods happen?
How Amazon has proven that iTunes is totally obsolete
Clickable: http://www.scribd.com/doc/75834784/CMS-Vault
Looks like they went down. Cached in Google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
The other way to put this question is - Is there sufficient reason/motivation to try to replace Javascript with something else? What does JS lack or what are its limitations?
> If Javascript was bad for innovation, I sure don't see it.

This is a fallacy: in absence of a peek at some alternative world where something else was available, you can't tell that javascript improved or worsened the innovation rate.
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I have been using Uber a LOT - several times a week, for work.

I live in an area of SF where it is difficult to get a cab - and was previously banned from a couple cab companies because they would never show up and I would call 3 different companies to get them to pick me up.

FUCK THAT.

I never use any other cab service if I can help it.

I fly in and out of SFO several times a month - a metered cab to/from SFO and my house is $55 not including tip. Uber is flat of $65 - its more professional, includes the tip - already has my CC details and no money exchanges hands. ITS AWESOME.

Plus the drivers are typically really cool, have candies and water bottles in the cars for you.

The only complaint I have about Uber is the receipts.

I want to be able to TAG my ride with information about what project it should be billed to.

I want the little map details that you can see on the uber.com site included in the receipt.

This is the best cab services there is. I have been probably spending ~$400 a month on it - and its totally worth it.
> JavaScript doesn't have to go anywhere, it can run on a shared VM like any other language.

JS running on a general VM would be slower. That's against the interests of the user.

People should stop caring what language it is. If you really don't have the skill required to use Javascript, use something easier for you and get it to compile to JS.

I've really never understood developers that bitch and whine about programming languages all day.

Adding alternate languages to the browser does absolutely nothing for the user. It would only be there to appease the "I shall only develop in lisp" extremist developers.
Good luck with that one.

While the world does depend on software, it does not depend on the code you are writing today. If programmers went on strike the world would continue to turn with very, very few problems. In time, of course, things would unravel, but you'd have to be willing to sit through an incredibly long strike.

Also your job would probably be outsourced within a week.
Sure, but the same as your thoughts on expensive movies can be said for many a great album. I know some of my favorites would not be what they are if they had to be self-financed.
Same goes for lambdas, clang++ has no support for lambdas.
Pick up that can, citizen
Congratulations. You will enjoy what you do at Google, and if a short/easy commute is what you're after, you'll like New York.
I used pagodabox for the last 6 months for my now defunct venture. They have a great team and product. I think they are still bootstrapping.

Think heroku for php that has much better online UI; so good in fact, you to hire a 6 year old to scale your resources as needed.

Good luck guys.
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Those organizations are lobbying groups representing a clientele. They were never intended to be useful to anyone else. That being said, fair enough on your comments. Let's all hope that financing is still available for bands who want it, and it comes in a form that allows them more control and profit.
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Android OS upgrades almost always come with fixes for security flaws. You wouldn't be OK running your desktop with software that hadn't gotten updates for a year, right?
The real fun doesn't start until you tell those people they're posting in the wrong place and get a lecture about how they're reporting you to the FBI for hacking into their private business.
(late reply to late reply, but I couldn't let this one go)

'I think it's fair game to complain about indirect, passive-aggressive communication techniques and the people who use them"

Good grief. No. Just no. Not when the "people who use them" are generalized (maeon3 didn't even hedge with "tend to" like you did) to half the species.

Sorry, that's not objective argumentation, it's plain bigotry.

Would you have stepped up in the same way if he had jumped into to say the darkies are lazy and dumb? That the muslim faith is evil?

I'll just repeat my original "yikes" and leave it at that. People like you make me sad for humanity.
I interpreted the title as "'famous last words'-material that my bosses tend to say."