skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I was the one calling for a concrete proposal. I freely concede this isn't anywhere near what I was expecting, far more on the DMCA side than the SOPA side.

I don't think as written it would work well, because of an incentive misalignment. Nobody wants to run this centralized website, not even the government. Nobody will want to staff it, or enforce it, or deal with the huge, huge, huge pile of false positives it's going to generate, both generated by technology and generated by hostile people gaming the system. (Yes, I know you address that topic and I acknowledge that, but somebody still has to do the things you mention.) Half the decisions this site would make would end up in court anyhow, and then we're right back where we are now, only with an extraneous step in the middle.

It's also now a centralized control point which will experience regulatory capture for any number of things you never intended but are far worse than mere infringement. Actually, as a CEO of a small company in the space, this system would sign your death warrant far more effectively than any amount of piracy... regulatory capture does not favor the small companies!

Also, nothing you've discussed covers torrent sites. They don't have the content to be fingerprinted in the first place.

I also find it unlikely that anything like this idea could possibly pass 1st Amendment muster. It's still a government web site which every expression of speech is being routed through and approved yea or nea. I'd rather see the entire industry go flat out of business than lose free speech. It isn't the choice we face, but if it were, the choice is clear.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/08/google-blogger-noir...

There was no handling of it. The typical rapist response was "she was drunk, she asked for it". Then it was swept under the rug.
That would be Noirin Plunkett. Her account [1] and the discussion that went about the same way all posts on HN that touch on sexual assault or misogyny do... [2].

[1] http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/418/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875718
In general I like the way Go interfaces work (we'd like to do something similar in Gosu as well); they let you decouple different parts of a system much better than you can if you have to explicitly declare interfaces.

When discussing putting something like this in Gosu, the main disadvantage we came up with was around tooling. Probably not a big issue for Go, given that I haven't really heard of too much focus on IDE/refactoring tooling there, but if one were to implement such tools, the implicit interfaces make things a bit harder. For example, if I have a Nameable interface with a getName() method, and 20 classes in my system have a getName() method but only 3 of them are actually used as Nameables, if I want to refactor the getName() method in a system like Java, I'll know which classes explicitly implement Nameable and thus which classes to refactor. In Go, it's a hard problem, because you have to know which classes are ever used as Nameables; that's no longer a property of the class itself, but rather something you have to derive from your code base. It similarly makes IDE functions like "find usages" or "find implementors" much harder to implement. (Technically they're not 100% intractable, but they're certainly much harder to do well.)

Those tooling issues are really the only drawbacks we could come up with, though. Otherwise I think the Go approach is much more flexible than the Java one.
What did you do in your cover letter to amuse the HR ladies? Please share.
Thank you (and noste) for providing links.

Shameful.
And here's your answer: top closed SO questions! http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/2305/top-close...
(link includes hyperlinks to all the questions)

score id post
1416 1711 What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
1409 9033 Hidden Features of C#?
1181 101268 Hidden features of Python
979 1995113 Strangest language feature
736 500607 What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
708 6163683 Cycles in family tree software
671 315911 Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide
653 662956 Most useful free .NET libraries?
597 891643 Twitter image encoding challenge
583 83073 Why not use tables for layout in HTML?
579 2349378 New programming jargon you coined?
549 621884 Database development mistakes made by application developers
537 1218390 What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?
532 309300 What makes PHP a good language?
505 1133581 Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance?
488 114342 What are Code Smells? What is the best way to correct them?
481 432922 Significant new inventions in computing since 1980
479 3550556 I've found my software as cracked download on Internet, what to do?
479 380819 Common programming mistakes for .NET developers to avoid?
473 182630 jQuery Tips and Tricks

The query (also at http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/2305/top-close...
) - have a play.

SELECT top 20
p.score, p.id, p.id as [Post Link]
FROM Posthistory h
INNER JOIN PosthistoryTypes t ON h.posthistorytypeid = t.id
INNER JOIN Posts p ON h.postid = p.id
WHERE
t.name = 'Post Closed'
GROUP BY p.score, p.id
ORDER BY p.score DESC
Ask HN: Should I pursue this startup that depends on decisions of "big players"
I have this project of mine (http://welshare.com) that aggregates major social networks and provides a unified interface to them, so that power users can manage their accounts easily.

However, I depend on decisions by facebook, twitter and Google, and that can break my idea completely. For example:

- twitter recently announced that they don't like other vendors writing clients for twitter (http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2011/03/twitter-tells-third-party-devs-to-stop-making-twitter-client-apps.ars).

- facebook had a bug (allegedly fixed now) that penalized stories posted via the API and they didn't appear on other people home streams.

- Google+ are reluctant to provide an API (only a tiny portion so far)

Twitter decides that I can't have anything, other than "retweet" for retweeting messages (screwing my unification), facebook may retain the penalty for 3rd parties, thus making mine disadvantaged, and Google may never release a complete G+ API.

So my questions is: is it worth it to pursue this project?
Affordable Jumping castle hire Brisbane
If you are looking to add, some fun and colour to your event then contact our website. We provide Kids party ideas Brisbane, Christmas Party Ideas Brisbane, Balloon Animals Brisbane and many more. Want to know more details please visit us theballoonguy.com.au
Well all you would really need are some easily detectable signals. So if move hand, move foot, move eyes, etc are all easily detectable then you have the basis for an interface. After that it's just a matter of building the interface around those limitations. It wouldn't be mind reading (not even close), but it seems like you should be able to get a reasonably good UI going.
Astrology horoscope: best way to know future
My usual question on the interview is to implement an atoi() function. All I care is that a person doesn't do stupid shit like switch case for characters or a strlen() for iterating through the input. It really is a 10 to 15 minutes task and boy it shows whether a person can write code. Usually then I continue with "how'd you test it?" question, then move on to multithreading and a quick design question. All in all I spend maybe 30 minutes to tell if I'd make a hire.
As a computer science student, I don't really have time to read as much material unrelated to Computer Science as I would like, so this was quite a treat. Thanks for bravely humanizing Kim Jung Il and North Korea, and reminding us why we need to change the world, Mr. Kim Hyun Sik (author).
>The investments that go into many breakthrough products (iphone, ipad) are made with the understanding that IP protections are in place to prevent copycats from waltzing in and taking all the benefits later on.

But what was the breakthrough? The iPhone and iPad are successful because of design, attention to detail, and Apple's marketing muscle. There isn't anything technically earth shattering about either product - they're just minor improvements on other companies' products brought to a high polish.
I'll have a look for the discussion. Any idea if the branches are more expensive than some multiplies?

step = (a<=b)?1:-1;
for (i = a; step*i < step*b; i += step) {
doSomething();
}

I guess if the branch predictor is any good it could be slower with multiplies, but I have no idea what to expect in a dynamic language.
Obat herbal jantung
Setelah minum obat herbal alami penyakit jantung yaitu jus manggis xamthone plus ...hasilnya mengejutkan ..Saya dinyatakan sembuh. Selamat tinggal jantung bermasalah, darah tinggi dan lever.......
So their 5 year prediction from 2006 fell completely on its face.
You might want to edit and remove your phone number.
Perhaps I am missing something obvious here (very possible as I do not work with audio decoding) but the demo at http://codecs.ofmlabs.org/ appears to playback the MP3 (not tested the ALAC file yet) too quickly. The site reports the MP3 as lasting 4:25 whereas manually downloading the track from the above website Winamp says the track is 5:14 long and playback is noticeably slower.

Is this by design or a bug in the code (or a bug in Chrome (16-stable) that I used to check out the demo site)?
[Android App]Feed a hungry child through the UN with just 1 tap
Having thought that way in the past I don't find spending an hour a day exercising (for the past month) to reduce my overall productivity -- in exchange for that hour (half of which I spend listening to audiobooks or reading kindle), I sleep less, have more energy, etc.
I really don't know what Twitter's next move is. They've done a great job of building a successful platform. But the product is very simple (by design), and it seems they've largely exhausted the obvious extensions to it. How are they going to stay relevant for the next 5-10 years?
Jack Dorsey whats wrong with you?
Serious question: why not Haskell instead of LISP?
according to the original paper, ~20% performance hit on a couple of different applications.
R4 uk
R4 uk is a handy key-chain holder of the Nintendo ds which offers many advantages to their users such as best quality, reasonable price, fast delivery and professional service in the UK market.
There is a world of difference

That doesn't matter. Even if abuse wasn't an assured inevitability, DNS bans would not stop piracy, so to what end do we confer such authority?

I suspect any real law would contain criminal penalties

How will they penalize those that exist outside the legal jurisdiction of the USA? Even then, will criminal penalties stop the crime of piracy? Suing college kids into crushing debt has yielded only hatred for four letter media interests as piracy continues to thrive. The co-founder of the pirate bay was brought to trial and even convicted, but his website still stands as a testament to the futility of trying to stop people from sending files over the internet.
It boggles my mind how little anyone, inside or outside, has done to change North Korea.

Maybe i am just ignorant of how difficult it is or the attempts done.
> MSBuild does suck in that there is little implicit parallelism

/m enables parallelism on the .NET side. Perhaps the same thing exists for the native compiler?
MIT launches online learning initiative
It's easily as useful a comparison between any smartphone and a mainframe.
Apture was interfering with people searching for the terms on Google.
Top closed Stack Overflow questions - the most interesting ones?
I use my iPad most days. This comparison doesn't make the Fire look less appealing to me. If it weren't Christmas...
Fun orthogonal fact. I only first heard about the ApacheCon incident this summer after a guy on that huffingtonpost thread started stalking a friend and co-worker of mine at a conference. It blew my mind to see him there so strongly defending the jerk at Twitter. I did some research (asking his co-workers) and discovered this was a known problem with him embarrassing them at several conferences, but his boss wouldn't fire him because he had a wife and a new baby. I bitched about the guy on facebook and found out two friends who had just quit Twitter said, "that guy was the final straw, we were just waiting for our vesting to finish".
Sadly, they put more priority on their greed than their own moral compass.

Moral of the story: Women at conferences are there to work, not to get hit on by some pimply-faced nerd with no game. Especially married ones with rings who say "NO".
Skin tightening
Skin tightening is a painless procedure for treating the wrinkles and loose skin which is applied on the face, near the eyes, neck, knees and arms of the patient and remains your look young and bright.
Kim Jong Un: Things You Might Not Know About North Korea’s New Leader
little hint:

javascript:$('body').css('margin', '0 200px');
Hmm. How long has Chrome removed the 'javascript:' when you paste into a URL bar? I assume it's to prevent users from blindly running JS, but is there a way to disable it?
And this gives you an example of what we can expect from the ITC, which the OPEN act (the proposed "compromise" in place of SOPA) claims we can trust to censor websites. Quality work here, really engendering trust.
How Data Found a Home in the Cloud (infographic)
Would someone who downvoted me (or who understands the downvotes even if they did not downvote) explain the downvote?

I give reference to a site that describes a class of problems that might include the one described by the op. And it is both scary, and inherent to the existing Ruby implementations. And I also mention that this description keeps me even farther away from Ruby than I was.

And I get 5 downvotes (and counting?), and no comment. I'm not new here, and I do find this puzzling.
You need to divide $91,250 by 8 (=$11,406.25), because the napkins are typically sold for $0.25 for 8 of them. Then, subtract out the costs of energy and raw materials and divide the result by 4 (the number of people it takes to work the machine), and each operator makes perhaps $2000. Based on some of the comments in this thread, that's still not bad for rural India, but it's not nearly the numbers you report.
On Firefox you can press: 'View' -> 'Page Style' -> 'No Style'.
Longevity of Film versus Digital Images - Apples & Oranges
Isn't this just that node is a newish framework? Discoverability and metrics of quality are issues but I think many devs are excited by node because it is green field. More libraries are good in the long term as the best ones will rise to the top. npm itself solves dependency management really well, but I agree currently a feature like npm star doesn't really work. I'm not sure npm should be solving this problem though. The most valuable data comes from GitHub on modules.
GMAIL: Send a personalized Phone Call from Santa
I think it's because traditional OO models are more intuitive: People seem to innately understand that, for instance, squares and circles are both shapes; we're really, really good (too good, actually) at putting things into categories(1).

To really understand duck typing, you need to understand classical inheritance and also understand why it often sucks. Duck typing is much more abstract and harder to explain to people who haven't been bitten by deep, convoluted, incestuous inheritance trees.

(1) I think it's interesting that in Obj-c, categories are a way of injecting methods into an existing class, but if you think of the problem as a larger part of an ethereal or duck-typed system, the term 'category' makes a lot of sense: it's not an 'is-a' relationship it's a 'does-a': putting objects into buckets according to what they do (categories) seems like a more intuitive way to describe duck typing. 'you are what you eat' seems like a good starting point.

EDIT: while I'm sure the above paragraph doesn't seem mind-blowing to anyone who understands duck typing or 'categories', what i'm referring to is the terminology and the approach, I think that Obj-c may have briefly touched on a useful terminology for duck typing in general: the term 'categories', as way of thinking about duck typing, but the more general term for what I'm thinking as a 'category' is actually what Obj-c would refer to as a 'protocol'. I think if you flipped those terms, it might make more sense to people.
Escaping The Digital Dark Age
Would you mind explaining what you're referring to? I've never encountered such a taboo, nor can I recall ads prominently featuring blue.
MIT OpenCourseware is already amazing, can't wait to see how MITx turns out.

One great teacher can dramatically change a students trajectory. Platforms like MITx can help those teachers reach huge numbers of students.

Also interested to see how interaction among the students in the course will work.
If you're coming from Java and using a Java IDE you'll probably feel most natural moving to Scala. I personally came to exploring Scala and Clojure with limited Java experience (and a preference for Vim and the command line) so getting started with Clojure via Leiningen was more natural for me. SBT never clicked for me.
Roof Repairs, Roof Restorations, Roof Replacement, Roofing Repairs
We will renew and repair all tiled roofs at any pitch using the very latest high quality materials designed to give you long term peace of mind Click View More to know more about Services
Another idea I haven't seen mentioned is having a project building properly via travis-ci.org or some other CI system shows that the project is actively maintained and passing an automated build. Perhaps other metrics like code coverage could be used as well.
The iTunes App Store doesn't work on anything else other than iOS. It's a complementary product that keeps people buying iDevices. It also keeps people buying from iTunes in general and Apple does make money from selling content.

Google gives away adware products to
earn more money (by tracking and spying on
Android users).

Oh please, like Apple isn't doing it. They've got the biggest, most important online content store. They've got customers by their balls in a way that Microsoft only dreams of.
You can use the console (CTR+ALT+I)
Light Purple Studio Beats by dre headphones From Monster for Sale
Isn't that just courtesy? I've found the topic tends to really gross guys out (much as uniquely . . . male things gross out girls), so it's best avoided in mixed company.
Get your ex back
vashikaran mantra and working mantras of love, contact aghori baba for consultation about magic spells, love spells and vashikaran.
> They're using the fruit as their logo. What part of New Zealander culture did they appropriate for this site?

People can hold in their heads that grapes and grapefruit are different things, so it always bemuses me when they can't do the same thing with kiwi and kiwifruit. Sure, if you don't know otherwise, "kiwi" may look like a useful contraction of kiwifruit. However, once informed that

The kiwi is a bird native to New Zealand; the word "kiwi" comes to English from the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand; the bird is a national symbol of the country; New Zealanders colloquially refer to themselves as Kiwis, after the bird, with a history going back a century or more; the term "kiwi-land" is occasionally used fondly as a name for the country; the term kiwifruit was coined only in the 1960s

then continuing to use the term "kiwi" for the fruit is factually wrong, and even disrespectful. Sure, you yourself might not care -- but you can see why New Zealanders might and do care.

This website uses a stylised kiwifruit as its logo, but let's also look at the terminology they're using:

"Latest kiwis", "Kiwi of the day", "Welcome to kiwi land"

Are the people behind the website New Zealanders, or associated with New Zealand in some way? Not as far as I can tell. Ergo, appropriation.

(Even if the website authors were New Zealanders themselves, the usage would still not be appropriate, of course. But New Zealanders would not have used such terminology on their dinky website because for them it already has established meaning and mana, rather than being just a random cool word to be stolen.)
My buddy Michael Schade put this tool together, if you're interested: https://github.com/michaelschade/hnpc
You have to wonder. Millions of people living under the dictatorship of one man ( with the help of a few dozens leaders). I feel terrible for the young women, and kids. However the rest of the population can get up and fight. Hundreds of thousands will die, but someone has to be willing to die for the sake of the liberty of others.
I actually rather like that 'remove on paste', default to educating/transparency instead of blindly running. Manually typing the prepended 'javascript:' works fine.

Don't see any settings to disable (even in chrome://flags).

Chrome's Javascript Console would also work.
It is easy to say that North Korea should change. What is difficult is articulating the type of change that one would like to see occur and how to implement it.

Should Kim Jong-Il have been ousted a la Saddam Hussein in Iraq? How dangerous would that have been, considering that North Korea has nuclear arms? What to do in case of a conflict that spills over into neighboring countries? What would China's take on all of it be? Would they stand idly by or back up their Communist cousin?

Once the dictator is gone, what do you do? Let the military take over and potentially let it establish a junta government, Myanmar-style? Or do you try to install democracy forcibly? Would the right thing to do be to hand North Korea over to South Korea, integrating the two countries by shotgun wedding?

The complexities quickly exponentiate. Consider the cultural shock of the North Koreans once they're introduced to modern South Korean culture alone. If German re-unification is any indicator, putting together two halves of a country that have been split into Communism and western capitalism is not a trivial task.

Also consider the cult of personality built up around Kim Jong-Il. The situation in N. Korea could quickly become explosive once people realize the deceit they've been living in.

So it's difficult thing to do, just by itself. All the econo-political ramifications just make it that much harder.
I'm guessing the link looks like spam (broken promises of Mr blah blah blah???)
Honestly, It seems to me like it's probably for bad mouthing Ruby without obviously have having used it yourself. Ruby's pretty popular here, I assume that your comment didn't sit well with the Ruby groups here. While my own feelings toward the language are ambiguous, if you flippantly insulted one of my babies (Haskell, Scheme) my knee-jerk reaction might be to downvote you. Hopefully I'd curb it. Despite the fact that you've given some concrete reasons for staying away from Ruby vis-a-vis a link, I think you might have run into a bit of a tl;dr there. You should enumerate your problems with the language in your comments, or risk being downvoted.
Flower Delivery
Flowers Delivery - Send flowers &amp;amp; gifts from the premier online flowers company. Simply Thank You specialise in beautiful flower delivery also with a range of gift hampers.
I love the idea, but I can't help but thinking this would work so much better if the UI was better designed and aimed more at children...
Ah, I was not saying TL;DR. I don't mind long. I don't even mind Steve Yegge long.

What bugged me about this article was the deliberate misdirection, which seemed to me not to have any function in the article. For me it felt like it was just to arrive at a simple point in a more complex way (and thus pad the length out).

But there's a huge scope for misunderstanding in these things, so I apologize for assuming too mcuh here. Maybe you thought it would be amusing to come at it from a different angle. Maybe I read it too quickly to appreciate that.
Would it (now, or in the reasonably realistic future) be able to detect me imagining my fingers typing "call mom" on a keyboard?
Online Doctor Consultation
It does not work without PIN number :(