skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally find that one should avoid using exceptions for flow control. They have their usages, but they should in my opinion only be used when they really shine - when you have multiple levels of callers between the detection of the error and the handling. This was not the case in the simple example, and so I chose a return value instead of an exception.
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I hit retry a bunch and finally got in. Looks like the viewer count is sitting at 51 ;) Guess that is the limit ;(
Fox is the entertainment industry. He's just playing more games.
The rich and powerful have their own set of laws, whose leniency is proportional to your net worth.
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I guess the definition of "unschooling" can be a fuzzy one. Wikipedia gives the following definition:

"Unschooling is a range of educational philosophies and practices centered on allowing children to learn through their natural life experiences, including play, game play, household responsibilities, work experience, and social interaction, rather than through a more traditional school curriculum."

I consider our son to have been homeschooled for K-4th grade as we were using a private school's curriculum at home and he was having tests graded by a teacher hired by the private school and paid by us. He went on field trips and did a bunch of other things (played with Legos, studied electricity and geography, etc.) with other homeschoolers and played with both homeschooled and traditionally schooled children. One day when he was 6 and in 4th grade, he was reading a college engineering book (friends of the family had given him when he was five, why I am not sure) when I came to him and said it was "time for school" and to come to the kitchen (where we typically "did school"). He looked up at me and responded, "Why should I stop doing what I am doing here, which is actually helping me to learn something new, to go in the kitchen a fill out a bunch of worksheets on things I've long since known?" Foolishly, I answered, "Because we paid good money for this program. But if you want to go it on your own once you finish the fourth grade curriculum, we can give that a try." I should have just ended homeschooling with a private school curriculum right then and there, but I am not as quick a learner as our son.

Anyway, after 4th grade, he learned using all sorts of activities and books, and unschooling was the most delightful part of my career as a homeschool teacher/parent (as really my son was more the teacher than I; he had started correcting my spelling and offering me more precise words for my business letters when he was only two). He went to Shakespearean plays since he was three or four, I think (we had a very smart entrepreneurial friend who owned a tech company by day and ran a Shakespearean group by night and weekend, and he still doing both today). And while I admit I feel history was his worst subject, he was still far better at it than most American adults, as supported by his score on the Culturescope test (where he scored higher at age 7 than most high school seniors) and his being a top student at age 11 and 12 in his university's Honors College upper level history and culture courses.

I don't see unschooling as meaning the parents can't provide any direction to the child's education, or use any textbooks, though I also don't think textbooks are necessary for learning in general (the only exception perhaps - and this is only a perhaps - being upper level math).
I do seem to recall there being some way to override the thread identifier for Disqus, though I'll admit that I never bothered to try it.
You obviously aren't power-crazed, or else you would know exactly how to do it.

Reading the recent Vanity Fair (character assassination) piece on Rebekah Brooks[1], you come to realize that she and Kissinger share a great many traits, being power-crazed the least amongst them. So, to answer your question, just look at what Brooks did and you will know how Murdoch does it, as she is him, exemplified. The essence is 'plausible deniability' and getting others to do stuff for you without you explicitly knowing the details. This leads to the non-existence of a "smoking gun", which any prosecutor would need considering you have some very select 'friends' in very high places (Prime Minister level etc).

Some select quotes:

"It was not that Brooks ever lied. She simply “allowed myths to grow and never challenged them,” says Roy Greenslade, the media commentator, who has known her for..."

"I ran the same department that she did, and every week we’d see the bills from the private investigators: £2,000, £4,000.” However, he can’t be sure she always knew what they were doing."

"“She’d get you to do things,” says another former News of the World reporter. “She had this charisma, this magnetic attraction,” he says. “She would praise to high heaven, make you feel like you were on top of the world. It was only afterwards that you realized you were manipulated.”

"Even out drinking after work, “she did not get pissed, ever. She never let her guard down,” and never spoke about her past."

"“Rebekah Wade used to have dinner with Blair and Brown and play them off against each other.” It was artful, he says, the way she made each man think that she was on his side."

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/02/rebekah-brooks-20...
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Interesting. I just did two years to get M.Sc. and started working full-time in IT myself. It is strange.. I always figured I'd eventually be making good money, and I didn't think much more of it. Now soon 30, some of my friends are making a lot more than I do. Only lately do I realize that when my uncle said I should specialize in something other than pure IT 10 years ago (himself having worked in IBM the past.. 10-20 years?), he was right..

This is mostly considering the money-aspect of it. I'll always program, but I don't feel it HAS to be my full-time job, it could be my hobby. Maybe I could have done smart things in the financial service, for instance? Or the oil sector.. I guess the only way to richness in IT is startups or a do other things than program. But it is really hard to do programming full-time at work and then focus on my own thing in my "free-time".

Ah well. Another life.
Once everyone agrees DNS filtering is just wrong, _then_ we can talk about their problems.

Your response is a perfect example of why we are failing the communication war. We simply want to get to the technical end: dns filtering is wrong.

Meanwhile, the opposition is saying: SOPA means more US jobs. You tell me which idea has a better chance of sticking in the average consumer's mind?

A better counter would be something like: SOPA means Americans going to jail for watching a YouTube video. Let them counter with "that's not true!". Well, it is as true as saying SOPA means more jobs.
"E. E. Cummings", actually.

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
Hey, here's a chance to invent some new terminology!

I would say that Norvig's corrector is a first-order spelling corrector, since it works within the context of a single word.

A second-order corrector would take into account the word before or after it to choose the spelling that is more likely to make sense. ("Their coming" would suggest a correction to "They're coming")

Third-, fourth-, (and so on) order expands the distance of words considered.
Apple's goal with iCloud and Air* is not to compete with Dropbox. iCloud, in general, seems poised so that no matter what device it originated on, you can find your data.

Take a look at PhotoStream. Yes, you can't delete individual files, and yes, it has very few features. That's not the point. The bottom line is that any photo you took on your iPhone appears almost immediately on your other Apple devices. You can view them on your AppleTV, you can flip through them on your iPad, you can download them to iPhoto. There's no extra step, the photos just appear.

iCloud is Apple's attempt for this to happen for all of your data. Airdrop is a red herring. It's to solve the short-term problem of "I have a file on Computer A, and I want to transfer it to Computer B." In the end, ideally, this would never happen. Your app of choice would grab the file from iCloud seamlessly.

I don't think Apple cares that this doesn't work on Windows. Like the new owner of the Jaguars said, "I think I can clarify at this point for me a fan is somebody who is a season ticket holder."
It should also be noted and remind everyone who says that the more chaotic and "lawless" nature of the Internet is also what helps innovation to thrive on it. It should be said that you can't have one without the other.
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The thread identifier is not the problem. I'm only displaying one comment topic at a time by using a lightbox. However once I have loaded a Disqus comment topic, switching to another one seems to fail randomly even if I call their documented DISQUS.reset API.
Agree, iCloud isn't really a file sync it's more of an application data sync. I moved from Googles cloud to calendar and contacts because of the seamless sync between my iPhone and Mac.

I wouldn't say iCloud is DOA, more of a lack luster first appearance.
Ah, "freemium". I've seen several games out there with the dual-currency model: normal money for day-to-day operations and "special money" for neat things / making things happen faster, a currency that you mostly get by chance.

So you hook the user with variable-reward conditioning and then encourage him to become impatient enough to pay you $$$... No; I'm not really cool with that. Worst gameplay mechanic ever.
Mr. Jenkins and Premenos also maintained extensive contacts with the Crown of England, including prominent English Lords involved with Internet communications technology.

So... The Queen is in on it?
Apologies for misreading the reframing of "monotonic". I only skimmed the article 'cos i'm familiar with the domain and the ideas expressed in it. It doesn't help that the article hijacks a common term in music for the special purpose of talking about pure sine tones. The rest of my comments hold.
The sections are really short. Giving each section its own URL will make the reading experience horrible. Most of my users told me that they actually prefer a one-page manual because it makes searching easier.
Thanks for the tip, fduran, that looks good!
The White House responding to the petition against SOPA fit HN well since SOPA would impact all of us. But Rupert Murdoch responding to the White House responding to the petition is dipping a bit too far into politics.

I'm starting to agree with the people talking about seeing more Reddit-safe comments. Things like this make HN more inviting to the people who make the comments that make big subreddits annoying.

I'm already seeing a lot of short, substance-free comments. I don't want to be that guy who says "HN is turning into Reddit," especially since I use Reddit, but I've been seeing it more and more lately.
Finally! I was waiting for someone to recognize the name. :D
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I refuse to purchase applications with in-app purchases for this reason, it's not a business model I want to support. Recently dumped "Words with Friends" because Zynga bought them and made it about as scammy as possible. Now happy with Wordfeud.
Second this. When they say it's a jobs bill, counter with something like this is sending more people to jail bill or shutting small American businesses down bill.

Tell them how one server can be hosting hundreds of American businesses. If one store in your mall is selling fake Nikes, imagine if the entire mall would be raided and shut down?

This bill does that. This bill shuts down the entire mall because of one bad store. Hundreds and thousands of American businesses can be shut down for no reason leaving even more people unemployed.

I understand how much we want to argue about free speech and dns filtering. But welcome to politics. This is where we learn from these folks: talk about the topic of the day. Today, that is jobs. Find an angle to link this shit to jobs. The opposition certainly did. We haven't quite(you made some headway by talking about Ford).
Canada bans Fox News, because up there it's illegal to lie in news broadcasts.
I wonder how ppl watch tv. Every 5 minutes they makes a stop for adv block (even it is cut from online video). This makes my mind blowing. I know that this discussion is about more important thing but you "forced me" to spend time to it as I care about SOPA. But anyway I don't understand. TV is annoying and awful.
I was surprised because before moving to SV I spent the last six years working in Bangalore, and I cannot imagine this happening there unless someone proactively went digging for background info.
Numbers about hulu accelerating revenue for the movie industry and actually combating the free pirated ones with a better service might have been a good counter-point followup.

http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant...
I don't know if it's hollow. It's ~10 lbs, 5ft, came with a cheap 110 lb weight set.

I googled up standard barbell weight capacity and most responses on forums and articles say that standards are only rated for ~230 lbs. This one says 300 http://www.building-muscle101.com/weight-lifting-equipment.h... this guy says ~200 http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=945996&pa...

Here it says 200 for 5ft http://www.bigfitness.com/noname8.html and 250 for 6ft http://www.bigfitness.com/weigbarbr6st1.html

It's a nightmare trying to find out the specs. I prefer a 5ft bar. Say I get more plates and this bar can't handle them, then I have to try other bars. I wish I could sell this weight set and get olympics. No worries about capacities there.
Ask HN: I can already touch type, how do I get better/faster?
When I was 13, I learned to touch type. By 15 my average WPM was 48 (Looking back on my SEN reports). Now (I'm 19), my average speed is 57. So in 4 years of typing most of the day, every day (I used my laptop for all my school/college work and most of my exams) I've only improved by 10 WPM. I have friends typing at +70 WPM who've been typing less time than me.

What resources (Free, paid I don't care) are available to improve my typing speed? There are lots to learn, but I already know. Most advise is just to "keep doing it", but it's not working, I'm not really getting any faster.

I've considered switching keyboards (DVORAK) but since I work on lots of different laptops and computers I think it would require too much effort.
Really, I was just about to say "Awesome tweets, the human headline!" ?
are you aware of any other actors that cross that line?
Drop box is just obvious next step: taking file-system to the cloud. Apple is just unfortunately clumsy or it is up to something...

I have Apple ecosystem in my home and within couple of my friends. I just love how it all works together well. Except one thing: sharing and syncing.

The document sharing between computer and ipad through iTunes->iPad->Apps->App (in second! list) is just overcomplicated and does not even allow real synchronisation. That way of sharing breaks logical document coupling as well (by-project, for example). The way of sharing documents between apps is limited as well and it forces me to have duplicates... There many other little things.

I think (and strongly hope) that this is just a transient period. Looks like Apple would like to get rid of classical file system "feel" on the user's side. They either have no human friendly solution yet (measured on Apple standards) or want to do it step-by-step, so users can accommodate to changes gradually.

iCloud is application/document type based storage, iPad is application based file storage. They even added a view to finder: "All My Files", which also hides classical file system way of browsing files.

I do not think that Apple is done with file management evolution. But I feel, that the classical hierarchical file system structure is not the way to go in the cloud based file system...Consider not only your document syncing, but also synchronized file sharing with custom categorization...
I think Google and other web companies are opposed because it will create potentially significant administration burden for them.

That is probably not the only reason, but I suspect it is sufficient reason for most opposition.
Not only that but it's a contrived example where he only picked a password that he knew would match one of the small 256 static list used. It's like setting a variable to a value and then searching an array for that value, knowing it's in there.
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I knew Lyndon LaRouche was right about her! I'll bet Henry Kissinger is in there somewhere too.
The DMCA provides that if you send a counter-claim, the content will be put back up.

> To say that "big guys" and "little guys" are on equal footing with takedowns is to be willfully ignorant of reality.

I'm not saying it's perfect, and I don't know overall whether I like that it exists or not. But I also don't see how it's as much of a problem as people make it out to be, and I don't see how it only favors the big guys.

Let's say you're a small time photographer, and someone steals your pictures and posts them online. A DMCA claim and you can have them taken down. That is in the interest of small folks, who may not be able to hire lawyers or file law suits in whatever jurisdiction is necessary to prevail.
How long/detailed was the phone conversation?

A small coding question isn't too unusual — at least, not for startups. What does surprise me is that the coding question came after they spoke to you on the phone, not before, as a filter.
Well, they offer 30TB transfer for U$300 a month, so you're getting a pretty good deal. Your setup would cost upwards of U$500 normally.
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So do I, in 80% of the cases. However sometimes I think faster than I write, in which case writing kind of gets in my way.

250WPM is at least 2 times faster than I write. That's surreal.
I think the idea is that US sites are already subject to US jurisdiction. Lawsuits can be brought against them already. There is no need for something like SOPA because a restraining order issued by a court can already take a US website down.
I believe the social universe is often smaller in a traditional school than when homeschooled. Public schools are often made up of those living in the same area, which often means similar social economic status rather than a melting pot. I didn't have anything but fellow whites in my classes in public school till third grade, when we had one student who wasn't white, and in 5th grade, there was a second (though I still only had one in my class that year). This wasn't your experience? Then guess what - so much for the shared experience, no matter that we both went to a traditional school.

Having had chicken pox is an experience most of the population also shares. Now I contracted the virus as a baby when my brother brought it home from kindergarten. Can't say as I remember it at all as I was barely out of the womb, but I apparently got so few pox marks that I got shingles as a 20-year-old college senior, and oh what fun that was. Has our son had Chicken Pox? No, as we opted to get him the vaccine. I hope he doesn't feel we wronged him by depriving him of a typical childhood experience.

When our son was 5 and homeschooled, he was playing in the ocean while his traditionally educated cousins were in school. My brother asked me, "When are you going to let him out into the real world?"

My response was something like this:

"If you think your children are in the real world because they are in a traditional school, I think you are deluding yourself. Do you have to ask permission to urinate? No, and neither do most people in the real world, but your children do. Ditto getting a drink of water. Are your children starving? No? Well, that is the real world for many children (as of 2010, the the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization puts the figure at over 13% of the world population is undernourished, but I didn't have an iPhone to look this up on the beach back in 1996). Have your children been sexually molested? Perhaps you'd like to set them up for that experience as it's one many have had."

I gave some other examples of what "the real world" is for other people in the world and ended with:

"I believe we can make our own worlds to a good degree, and feel it irresponsible not to realize that and choose what world you'd like for yourself and your loved ones and to work toward living in that world."
Back when I lived there, it indeed was very common.
Haha, guess I didn't account for selection bias. I just asked a risk aversion question to a group of people who are considering startups (and thus very risk-tolerant). Go figure!
I love the simplicity and clarity of this line:

"I will solve your problem and you will pay me," he told Jobs.
Some of these businesses are definitely not stupid; they provide extremely useful services:

- Bio-hazard cleanup (#14) -- most people would gladly pay someone else to clean up a murder scene rather than doing it themselves.

- Public toilet finder (#2) -- not as glamorous as foursquare, but probably one of the most useful location-based services ever offered on a cell phone.
iCloud is an umbrella term. It makes no sense to compare iCloud to Dropbox. Dropbox doesn't provide app syncing (calendar, contacts, mail, alarms, etc.), it doesn't provide photo syncing, nor Music Match, or anything else iCloud provides and conversely iCloud doesn't provide a portable file system like Dropbox does. At some point iCloud could bundle Dropbox -like services under the iCloud name, but at this point it doesn't.

I use photo stream all the time, rely on contact and calendar syncing, use share music between all my devices AND use dropbox daily. Not once have I had to decide if I should use dropbox for this or iCloud. They simply don't step on each others toes.
You ignore the reality of the situation.
I've been wondering why know one hasn't written an application yet that breaks into a W-Lan Network as an alternative to typing in a password.

Obviously there are some legal considerations in certain countries regarding development, possession and usage of such an application but the risk seems to be rather small if you restrict network services, change the MAC and use End-to-End encryption. Besides you might even get away with calling it a tool for penetration tests.
> Patagonia started with Yvon Chouinard building mountain climbing equipment in cooperation with a machinist and basically out of a shed.

...in the '70s. Clothing manufacturing economics are not the same now as they were then.
for etsy there is dawanda.de which is basically the same thing
true, it's a dictionary attack.

keys = File.read("./dictionary.txt").lines.to_a.reverse
Are you making the mistake of watching the keyboard? Old-school typewriter books recommend covering your hands whilst performing the exercises. Also, make sure you learn all the numbers, symbols and punctuation.