skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price doesn't matter for me. I'm in jail. Warranties are scary. Linux is free. Big guys assaulted me on SimStructure. Turn other cheek and let them have hell. Fuck it.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\WEALTH.TXT

so great a proportion of the people who advance
money to government. The people concerned in the finances, the
farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the
court-bankers, etc. make the greater part of those who advance their
money in all public exigencies. Such people are commonly men of mean
birth, but of great wealth, and frequently of great pride. They are too
proud to marry their equals, and women of quality disdain to marry
them. They frequently resolve, therefore, to

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It's the fucken CIA. Every job I had was CIA. I finally learned I have no control over or access to reality--just sit still. Fuck them.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\2CITIES.TXT

be there--I could not now touch this honoured hand."

He laid his own upon it as he spoke.

"No, dear Doctor Manette. Like you, a voluntary exile from France;
like you, driven from it by its distractions, oppressions, and
miseries; like you, striving to live away from it by my own exertions,
and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes,
sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death.
Not to divide with Lucie her privilege as your child, companion, and

---------

Bush and Obama are strangly my creation. It's my world like mormon God-man, but surely it's a tiny CIA world.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\Brief\AUGUST.TXT

thout anything, unless it be absent.

What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?
What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more
than with praise? For were it proposed to me, whether I would, being
frenzied in error on all things, be praised by all men, or being
consistent and most settled in the truth be blamed by all, I see which
I should choose. Yet fain would I that the approbation of another
should not even increase my joy for any good in me.
Ask HN: What open-source project should I contribute to?
I'd like to give back to the open source community that produced the software that underpin my business (e.g. Linux, GCC, Python, Vim, and a ton of other projects of varying sizes).

I'm pretty strong in X86 assembly, C, Bash and Python (and am competent in a myriad of other languages, but I think I could best contribute in those languages).

I'd like to contribute to a project that sorely needs help, and it would be nice if it were something I don't necessarily use every day. Any recommendations? Alternatively, are there any tools or ideas that you would like me to implement?
A new face in politics, Louis CK
IANAL, but if you want a "standard" contract, then you just put the deal on paper. Common law and legislation automatically has a framework for "standard" contracts - that's the legal framework that governs your plumber when they fix your leaking tap.

If the negotiator doesn't know what terms can be changed (as they are just there to define the deal), and which can't (as they are there to limit legal risk, and can't be changed in any way without upsetting the lawyers), it's a bad sign.

Some terms will tend to describe the work (you do X, we pay you Y). The lawyers don't need to touch that, as long as everything is clearly defined (though they will want to check the definitions). It's up to non-lawyers to decide what the deal is.

Other terms are less flexible, and describe what the legal situation will be if the shit hits the fan. Stuff like jurisdiction, arbitration, liability, when the contract becomes void, and resolution process. You won't like it (as it's there to cover the other party's ass), but you probably won't get it changed - that's the way their lawyers like to play ball, and the agent you are dealing with won't be able to convince the legal team to change anything without a lot of work.
Make your business more valuable?
Your business is probably your biggest asset so it is important that you maximize its ultimate sale value.
Celebrities may temper Twitter comments after 2011 blunders
Perhaps you should read the whole article, then? As it happens, the article itself was exactly about how they actually made MongoDB work well even with the dreary global lock because global locking for in-memory data is nearly nothing. They had no reason to get rid of the global lock, it works well enough. The author said he suspects that obtaining the lock actually takes more time than generally doing the actual database update; I don't know but it sounds about right.
I'm not so sure. Bad reviews give credibility to these websites.
Imagine a rental website with only good reviews.
where are you going to be deployed ?
Smalltalk programs typically consist of many short methods woven together in a pure OO fashion. Thus the focus is more on program structure than actual editing.

This has follow-on effects: refactoring, TDD and patterns are so much easier when the code resides in tiny snippets.

It's a whole new world, where the code is 'live' rather than merely contained in static 'dead' text files...
Not owning an actual TV set doesn't exempt you from buying a TV license. If you own a computer or mobile phone you need to buy a license for £145 per year. It's basically a flat tax imposed on every household.
Working With Spring Data JPA
You are making the app just for yourself ? And how is Playbook? I hardly know anyone using it...
Working With Scala Test
Do any of those descriptions really do a good job at selling? If I heard any of those back in the day, I would have said "so what?" The answer to that so-what should be the pitch.
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The one nice thing about our copyright laws is that they auto,attic ally apply as soon as you've created something. That's a good thing I think people overlook. Even so, I think the author's lifetime plus 70 years is far far too long. I'm pro-copyright for sure but I also think 14 years is more than enough time.

If you can't accomplish what you wanted with your work within 14 years then it's time to let someone else build on it. Copyright is all bad. It's just how it's set up and enforced here in the US that sucks.
Sorry this is my first time posting here, and I was trying to follow a similar format as the articles on the front page.
Scratch an itch that you currently have with a program that you're currently using. Whether a new feature or a fix to a nagging bug it will be more enjoyable working on something that you already use and care about than a random project that you don't know very well. Hopefully once you start you'll contribute to a few different projects.
You can also do what I do: take the card to your local bank branch and have them widthdraw all the money off the card. ;-)
The card is a Chase Paymentcard (https://www.mychasepaymentcard.com/). None of us have authorization to mess with Chase's applications. ;-)
Don't worry -- the popular culture of today (and yesteryear) is being saved by pirates.
I'm right there with you in thinking copyright lasts far too long but for the sake of argument what if someone said "I don't pay taxes because (x) is wrong with our tax system" or "I'm alright with forcing myself on a woman because what qualifies as rape is far too broad a definition" or even "I drive as fast as I want in school zones because I can see when a damn kid is crossing the road"? Sure, the law doesn't make sense but how does breaking it help the situation? Can't we find better ways to get the attention of those in power to make a change? I feel like these kinds of protests don't help. They just call people like you "bad apples" and write you off. There has to be a better way. I'm not faulting you for your position, just wondering if maybe there's something else we can do.
Well, giving out product in exchange for microinvestments with no return sounds an awful lot like "selling" to me.
When I was in Vietnam last year I booked a few cheap hotels in the 10-20 U$ a night range (nice ones by the way!) on Agoda.com.
Often the reviews went like "best breakfast in Asia" or "I will come back to Vietnam just to stay in this Hotel" but when I went there, they where nice but not THAT nice.
Once I went here http://www.agoda.com/asia/vietnam/hoi_an/sunflower_hotel.htm... as the reviews where incredibly good: but as I found out the internet was very slow, breakfast was a deception, the reception a bit rude and they even gave me a smaller room.
So I wrote a review adding to be careful about fake reviews.
Sure enough Agoda did not publish it and they did not even respond to my email asking why.
I did not expect a Facebook debit card but at least a "thank you" :)
After all I helped them spotting cheaters!
I was completely ignored.

The result is a side flooded by fake reviews costing a couple of bucks each to the Hotel manager.
That's cheaper than Adwords :)
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this is completely broken dear
Indeed. It's a Chase Visa card :)
Welcome to the free market. It requires open information for everyone, which includes criticisms. As long as it's true or obviously a hilarious joke or parody, he's totally allowed to say it. And, doing that benefits everyone else because the market can adapt.

Then again you're trolling so this comment is more for everyone else than for dipshits like you.
I assume it's a card issued by Secunia's program:

http://secunia.com/community/research/svcrp
sage_joch mentioned pirating works that would otherwise be in the public domain (eg, The Great Gatsby), so I would say it's more equivalent to refusing to pay some particular tax that one disagrees with while still paying others.

> There has to be a better way.

Well, there doesn't have to be. The system might just be irretrievably broken.
What's ahead for 2012?
Happy New Year!

What's ahead for 2012? What will we see with the rise in software -- even your non-techy relatives are reliant on software. What does that mean for developers and startups?
Trevisor yes, because it runs below the OS and the recent MBAs provide AES-NI, if I remember correctly. Without the hypervisor you're out of luck, as it needs to to patch the kernel and Apple is extremely unlikely to do that.
What kind of meetups have you attended?
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Batman Arkham City
Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The game was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The game was officially announced during the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards and was released worldwide for consoles, beginning in North America on October 18, 2011, with the Microsoft Windows version following on November 22, 2011. A Wii U version is set to release in 2012. An iOS game, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, was developed by NetherRealm Studios and released on December 7, 2011.
Stratfor hackers publish email, password data
To the best of my knowledge both of these issues are much improved over a few years ago.

How long ago were you there, and working with what group?
why is that such a good thing? plenty of people don't give a crap whether something they just typed is copyrighted or not. They just don't bother going to find the right creative commons licence. I doubt you want all those rights over your comment, for example. Why should copyright automatically block me from using it? Why should your message, or this one, be the stuff of SOPA?
If someone is going to get such a strong and longlasting government-granted monopoly on what I can do with what I see and read online, to the detriment of myself and potential recipients of what I therefore won't effectively communicate to them/share with them, why is it such a bad idea, or unfair, to ask people to claim that protection with a simple (c) mark? the public domain would benefit tremendously, as would everyone who would gain certainty over what they can safely use and what they can't, without having to do rights clearances on something as insignificant as a forum post.
My Apress experience:
http://blog.merjis.com/2006/11/08/practical-ocaml/
Author of Practical Clojure here. Without getting into detail, the experiences outlined in the article are not unique to him. If you're really interested in the gory details feel free to email me at <my first name>@<my last name>.net
Tell hn:what did you overcome in 2011?
My small business failed, I broke my arm and sliced my finger open resulting in 6 stitche and a permanent loss of feeling in that finger. I was diagnosed with incurable acid reflux, and am in the process of being diagnosed.with glaucoma. Yet I relaunched localbeer.me, launched imgonly.info and launched onepix.me. plus my social life has been more active than in all.of my.previous 34 years combined. its been a year of ups and Downs with a few more ups than downs. So how about you? What was great about 2011, and what totally sucked? What are you looking forward to in 2012?
From the paper "RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors" I ended up reading about finger trees. This blog post is a very nice intro:

http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/monoid-fingertree.html
1) Break out of jail

2) profit

God says, "createth neatness emerging obeyed amend held catch applicable
armed seas "
Yelp? Yelp is the home of people who post stuff like "they didn't serve chicken fingers!" for Sushi restaurants.

A fundamental feature/flaw in the apartment/house rental place is inconsistency. You're dealing with one rental owner by proxy via some listing joint. If you want consistency and reliable reviews, go to the Hilton and check TripAdvisor.
When I heard about the white hat card I imagined it having a more facebooky look.

Like facebook blue and "white hat" in the facebook font.

The debit card is a really cool idea though.
I don't know about you but chatting through IRC and Skype is real human interaction to me. The experience is not certainly fake.

With regards to team cohesion, there is no guarantee that you can have achieve that with in-person teams. But the bottom-line here is that do you want to have the best talents working for you or not?
Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students
Big Time Magazine Error=Gone Too Soon For KimJongIl
http://www.life.com/gallery/54111/gone-too-soon-2011-passings?xid=editorspickrss#index/0

A big error Time Magazine didn't catch. "Gone Too Soon in 2011" referring to a crazy, criminal dictator.

Does anybody see any logic in this?
Thanks Guys!
It certainly looks like him.

The image was provided by facebook as well so I guess it would be pretty safe to assume it's MZ.
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If and when you write a blog post about this, I think it would me more interesting if you'd write about how you generate your vertex buffers and organize your draw calls, etc than describing the world generation algorithm.

Everyone, and their dog, have been writing Minecraft-style world rendering demos for a few years now and there are also quite a few blog posts that describe the world generation algorithm. They're always an interesting read, but I would be more interested in how you get that stuff to the GPU and how do you render it.

Also some insights about WebGL limitations would be welcome. Would your task have been easier if you could memory map your vertex buffers or use instanced draw calls? This is the kind of stuff I'd love to hear about as a graphics programmer.
Beware of "open data" cheerleaders. Several of these things are simply resume fodder -- the CIO announces this amazing API at a fancy conference, (living it up traveling on the taxpayer dime) and the open data people fawn all over them. Value/substance of the API? Zero.
Whatever project you choose, please fix bugs. :-)

Also, if I had a business that benefited from open-source software, I'd consider donating money to one of the foundations (GNU Project, Mozilla, etc, or even Wikimedia).
Try it. It's very slightly longer than CPython. It's nothing like, say, the JVM.
I'm in favour of using iteration over sprint
I, along with our remote workers, have built a company with a great culture. The first time we met in person was 5 years after we first started working together. We share a lot of non-work 'stuff' - most of us have had kids, so we share photos, send presents, chat about cultures (in the different countries) and when I first met the people who were working for me I knew them really really well. My perception of them in person was exactly as it had been through our remote conversations.

Our company is entirely remote - we got rid of our office in 2002 and we have designers who work locally (but from home) and we have other people in California, two places in Russia and Argentina. We're still a small team, as there's 17 of us, but we have a great culture. I'm just saying that it is possible to do it.
Yeah, because concluding that a specific someone that is a programmer speaks BS, totally means that you validate his argument that programmers hate and bash each other...

Ever heard of self-fulfilling prophecies?
You are correct in pointing out that a license is required no matter what device is used to watch or record broadcasts. However, just owning such a device does not mean that you have to automatically pay. If you use your TV only to watch DVDs, or your computers to only watch on-demand material, you don't have to have a license. The key word here is "broadcasts".
"""And I believe C isn't a very strong language."""

!!!!
VRBO sucks no matter who you are. We don't use that site. (We do use HomeAway, who bought them out, but they're being maintained separately.)

VRBO's sucktitude is summed up quite nicely by clicking on any state:

New Feature Alert!
You can now see the availability for each property in the search results. Simply enter a date range and hit the "Apply" button.

Yes, that's a new feature. They didn't have it before. But they'd like us to pay $600 to be listed for a year.
This is rather surprising, coming from you. In past years, you vehemently took the opposite side of that argument (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737504).

Could you explain what happened to change your perspective?
If you write books for the money, you're doing something wrong. Writing code for the same amount of time will make you much more money.

Writing tech books is for advancing your career, get consulting gigs, get invited to conferences etc.

That said, sending contracts with deadlines that are in the past or before work started looks not very professional.
Well, usually one starts from the other way around. At least we did so in college. We would first build simple adders out of 74xx, then port them to MC6803 and go on from there to some more complex examples. (e.g. "vending machine").

So yeah, just get yourself some parts, design the finite state machine and build it.

Links below are from book[6], which atleast from presentations seems to cover the whole low level stack. So it should be helpful to put your current knowledge into wider context.

I would suggest, that you start from [1], this is very simplified but contains all the steps necessary to get the job done. You will have to dig into each particular topic to get it done tho.

There are probably excellent tools out there for design of this kind of system, however someone else will have to chime in since I only know how to go about it with pen and paper.

The links below should get you started.

[1]: http://www.c-jump.com/CIS77/CPU/Sequential/lecture.html

[2]: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072467509/104...

[3]: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072467509/104...

[4]: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072467509/104...

[5]: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072467509/104...

[6]: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072467509/
In a perfect world every device would sort of be a general-purpose GPU/CPU hybrid that you can chain via an optical link like Intel's Thunderbolt.

In the real world, no two devices are going to be compatible because every manufacturer is shipping an embedded OS with a locked bootloader that doesn't run the program you need to read your data. So you have to plug your smartphone in because you have no idea what OS is running on the monitor.
Apropos:

A few days ago a discussion about just this topic was started at http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=...

A recent poll was started at: http://www.linkedin.com/osview/canvas?_ch_page_id=1&_ch_...

Where the vast majority of respondents said that they value work experience over location - but from my reading it just highlights how there seems to be a mindset that is blind to the value propositions presented by telecommuting.

Here is a short video on Distributed Agile: 5 DOs and 5 DON'Ts from assembla.com - having worked there, I find that it works amazingly well.
So, non-physicist here, but how does this fare energy, cost and environmentally-wise compared to our existing LED, plasma, CRT, .. TV's?
Heh, I started watching the video and after about a minute of so was thinking "this sounds like COH" (aka Ivan Pavlov).

More to the point, this environment looks fun (for those of us that class our fun as being of the TV noise variety :) ).

Thanks for posting this!
Sometimes Things Just Keep Getting Worse
Each app has 50 promotional codes but I don't think they're supposed to be used in that way. It's also possible to 'gift' an app to another user using iTunes so the author would be able to use that mechanism to buy copies for the contributors.
Bollywood Stars and their New Year celebrations | Koimoi
The year 2011 is fully for Kate Middeton.
It's worse in effectively every way, it's just an awesome hack.
Living in the Cloud, some useful tips
Except that I'm a better worker when I live where I want to live.

I can't agree with this enough.

The lack of structural violence is also a huge win, being able to hack at 24+ hour stretches without being told that they are locking up now, or obligations to go for a Wed, Thurs, Friday beer etc. can also be conducive to high levels of productivity.
"""My position on mongo is thus: Its goal is humongous data sets, hence the name. Until well proven, I'm not the type to use it for huge data, but will keep an eye out for case studies."""

Actually Mongo is bad for really humongous data sets.

It works well if the working data set (the data you commonly need) can fit in memory.

Of course this doesn't scale very well with say several terabytes of data, while there are Oracle databases that handle a lot more...

In the case you Mongo you go to sharding etc and things get complicated in your app handling.
And if they have considered it, what are they doing about it? I'll bet you a thousand dollars if the suggested scenario happens, there is no mechanism in place to alert anyone, stop it, or deal with it, no matter how big the tracks left. Do you know how many of the NYC listings are pure scam?

I'll grant their review system is set up from the get-go to be the best of anyone out there.
Does anyone know how k-means ranks as an image segmentation technique? How does it compare to say watershed, meanshift, globalPb, etc.?
ASK PG: Have you ever funded companies that compete with each other?
I'm curious if you have ever funded companies that knowingly competed with previous seeded companies.
I've read on G+ it's 500.
All i need is a piece of paper and a pen. No need for unnecessary complexity.
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