skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"All they seem to be capable of mustering is name calling-- like you called me "far out" "uninformed" "wrong", "misleading", "fundamentalist", etc, without never once backing up these claims, making them essentially pure ad hominem."

Wrong. This is no ad hominem, this is you, nirvana, trying to reframe the discussion to your benefit: The OP explicitly says these things in regard to your "views" and the "post", not you[1]. It's only you who insists on characterizing yourself as the victim here. Rather than actually responding to the criticism of the content of your post you instead try to reframe the discussion as an attack on you (which it clearly is not) as opposed to an evaluation of our views (which it clearly is). Too bad you never seem to actually address criticism of your ideology and instead leave with the cop out, "You can't disprove my opinions to myself so therefore I must be right."

Really disappointing to see this kind of shenanigans on HN.

[1] "There's a whole bunch else about your post that's plainly wrong or misleading...In general your post is a rant...Finally I think the tolerance and celebration of these views--hardcore, far-out, and relatively uninformed--in the tech community is a discrediting force..." These are related to the "post" or the "views" and not the person making or holding them.
...software engineers pound away at source code for the 12th straight hour ...
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...34 hours to go...
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..to present a functioning Android mobile application in 48 hours...

Huh??

...I’m leading one of the teams...
...We were vying to be one of six “idea generators.”...
...people with ideas for apps (regardless of experience or qualifications)...

Oh.
I like the idea of customers being able to start their shopping experience on Facebook; e.g viewing selected inventory on Facebook - or any other site for that matter - potentially allowing them to add a product to their cart, and then drawing customers back to a main e-commerce site to continue and finalise purchase.

The idea of having a total shopping experience hosted within the Facebook ecosystem worries me, because it places too much control in the hands of an organisation that's known to be capricious.
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Poll: Preferred alternate JVM language
The .com doesn't make random US agencies able to look what's on the servers. Worst case scenario, they could block the domain. Quite a difference, I'd say.

This is my reason for never deploying an app on anything that runs on e.g. AWS (thus incl anything on Heroku). It's like personally, directly, with no notification and no warranty, selling out your users to the NSA.
I live in the US.

I don't know a single person that's in prison.

I don't know a single person that's been charged as a terrorist.

I don't know a single person whose business has been adversely affected by the government (such as the above).

Seriously!

But they keep telling me that it's happening all around me. They tell me it's a fascist police state.
I like this. A lot. It reminds me of Bret Victor's talk on being able to see what you're changing in a design live (http://vimeo.com/36579366).

The UI could use some work though, it's cluttered.
There is another factor, too: we as coders are principally biased to work on projects which are fun, and that can supersaturate this market. So I just spent a couple days working on a project to embed a couple of lisp-like structures in JavaScript for building up properly-indented HTML templates. The idea came from seeing people who were successful at using the C preprocessor to create templating schemes. I might port the code to a language that I'm less familiar with, like Clojure, just to get a feel for that language, but I wanted the core structure to exist in a context that I was already comfortable with and could debug. (Really that's half the reason why I use Node.js -- back in the IE versus Netscape days, JavaScript was my second real programming language and it always has the benefits of comfort, even as I learn more Lisp and Ruby.)

Anyway, this happens to be useful for me, because it lets me define macros which I can use to build up XML trees. But now if we come to the question: could I sell it for a profit? -- then the answer is "no, because it was too fun to build." Don't get me wrong, it will save me a bit of time (and it might save others a bit of time) to be able to separate my template-development language from HTML -- but I fully expect that a programmer at the startup of your choice who needs it will also say, "this looks like a fun two-day project, let me see what I can do."
The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up

You mean like England, the land of ubiquitous CCTV?
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Bharat sanchar nigam (bsnl) finally learned the lesson moved to opencms
Well, the only Presidential candidate in the US who isn't down with the Patriot Act and its provisions, and doesn't believe the US should be engaged in worldwide wars (aka "police actions"), is routinely dismissed as "crazy" by both major parties. Tells you a lot about the USA.
It always comes back to balance, doesn't it?
"Take a 100-megaton bomb from the Russian arsenal, called the "Tsar," and it will ignite fires across a 48-mile stretch, an extraordinary reach, which makes me wonder, why? No military target is that large. I suspect the designers of these bombs were seeking wholesale destruction, that their urge here was beyond shock and awe, more like genocidal."

No, they were making up for lack of accuracy of current missile technology. You could miss your target by many miles and still destroy or incapacitate it if your bomb had a destructive circle of 48 miles.
seriously, I don't get it why I should use another big node script when there is timeout
Free Indie Games not on TIGS / Indiegames: Spees Kwalas [Brian van Bruggen]
I am less convinced by the color scheme arguments, since colors associations are extremely culturally bound.

Not to mention the relatively high occurrence of some amount of color blindness in males.
Iran halts oil sales to Britain and France
I have a friend who has said that business ethics classes teach how to justify the answers the teacher (and later boss) wants instead of how to ask the real questions. After all, what you get is a series of hypotheticals and asked what the right thing to do is and why. The hypotheticals are written so it's obvious what the teacher wants. So the goal is to justify the "right" answer.

What my friend has argued instead is that the question you are asking, namely how do you evaluate a system? Is it one that encourages the cream to rise, or one where shit floats? To me that's the biggest question.

If you have a business model where the unethical individuals rise to the top (and if they are up at the top that's a pretty good bet) then that's a bad system. If you have one that encourages the ethical folks to rise to the top, then you have a good system.

Now what would I do?

I have worked on projects that others found unethical that I did not, for example, an accounting system for a porn payment gateway. I knew others on the project who did have ethical problems with it. However, the people that ran my customer's business were great--- professional and ethical in terms of running a business.

Similarly I had no problem writing documentation for Microsoft regarding interop of Linux and Windows, even though I was helping Microsoft with Windows marketing and I favor Linux for both ethical and more practical reasons. Whatever helps the customer run a mixed environment is ultimately a good thing.

On the other hand, there are plenty of projects I wouldn't do even if they seem viable. I don't think Monsanto could pay me enough to do anything for them, for example.

As for a next-gen pay-day-loan startup? I would want to have a serious talk with the founders and see if I was missing something. Maybe they have a clear idea on how to make it ethical? Also if I met the founders I might have a better idea if they were being predatory or rather trying to bring a better way for everyone into the industry.

For international arms transactions? Hmmm.... given that countries usually buy arms from other countries, that would mostly be to facilitate organized crime. No thank you.

If it's a gray area, you sit down and try to get a better sense of things. It is possible for a project to be ethical in a sea of poor ethics. If it is unambiguously unethical, I would not touch it. But if the people running it are clearly ethically impaired, then run like hell.

I don't want to be Zinga'd. No thx.... ;-)
You better enjoy it when it happens. The Iraq war cost $6300 per citizen.
Why not use CloudFlare?
Love it. Just center the main table with margin:0 auto;
A geek's Valentine Day gift
It could be also a form of social segregation you're experiencing. For example, people charged with terrorism acts nowadays are found mainly in extremist religious circles and extremist right wing anti-government circles. (In the 1960s/1970s it would be extremist left-youth and extremist black-emancipation circles) The background of people in prison is often a weak economical-social position coupled with bad childhood experiences or psychological problems. If you do not grow up in these social circles (or you've been out of them for a long time) you just won't interact with people in prison or that are charged as terrorist.

That does not mean that these reports aren't exaggerated -- I often wonder about the agenda of these journalists/news outlets--, but it does neither mean you're anecdotal experience is un-biased in measuring the situation.
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Objective-C is a proper superset of C89, C99 and K&R C. You can specify it at compile time --std.
Can we discuss the deteriorating situation in the US like adults and not sputter out epithets like "fascist regime"?

Have a look at what's happening in Syria to see what a real dictatorship is like.
What Happens When China Stops Buying Our Debt?
Sotomayor's recent concurrence in United States v Jones (about GPS monitoring) gives a strong idea of exactly why this sort of thing is damaging.

One thing to keep in mind is that this sort of data, if available on everyone, sets up an opportunity for the rise of a justice system based on "show me the man and I'll find you the crime." And even if you haven't committed a crime, enough circumstantial "evidence" might be put together to convince a jury that you had.

Back in the 1970's, Justice Douglass dissented in California Bankers Association v. Shultz, saying that if the government found financial transactions helpful in monitoring crime, why stop there? Why not require all book purchases, library records, and drugstore purchases as well? Douglass painted a dystopian view of what the nation would be like with these areas of data available to the government and not protected for the consumer. Little did he know that thirty years later we'd have the USAPATRIOT act, bringing us fairly close to exactly what he argued against.

I would argue that statutory protections are not enough. We need Constitutional protections at least in the US as well. Sotomayor argues for this in her concurrence in Jones, and also suggests that we have to think about 4th amendment law in a new way, bringing us in many ways back to Douglass's dissent. There is hope.
People keep making the same mistake that you do. What do you matter, nothing? It is what the majority do, the same majority who type google into the search query box, rather than the address box.
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A day in a life of a social media expert
Ask HN: Online Technology Entrepreneurship Class from Stanford on hold
I've received something like this today:
"Unfortunately, the launch of (...) Technology Entrepreneurship online course has been placed on hold, due to delays surrounding copyright and intellectual property clearance issues."<p>Copyright issues? Anyone care to explain what is the problem here and why "virtual" students create copyright problems while the "normal" don't?
I would have thought that

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would be the smallest.
fas·cism/ˈfaSHizəm/
Noun:

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of
government and social organization.
(in general use) Extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or
intolerant views or practice.

re·gime/riˈZHēm/
Noun:

A government, esp. an authoritarian one.
A system or planned way of doing things, esp. one imposed from above.

I don't think you can get a more succinct description of what's happening to the United States.
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Did you try the OpenGL output?
Yes, I saw that on a few distributions. I do not know why this is the case. Maybe we should add a bigger warning during configure.
Sounds... different than the caching I knew before. Problem is, I don't know Rails at all. Can anyone explaing this in non-rails speech for me?

(Links are fine, of course)
It used to be a linear scale, which is a nonsense. Now it use a quadratic scale (faster to compute than a log and close enough)
Why the downvote? It looks like a very promising attitude, but one has to consider if this added complexity is feasible for a smaller or less experienced shop. The input is important.
This is knee jerk reaction bullshit. How many domains representing commercial entities are there in the States? How many have been closed down?
Nope, only a fork does.
It's only February. Or is the fucking year on a different schedule?
VLC 2.0 has a more native interface. Instead of commenting, you could, at least, click the link...
Package Management in Emacs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
And we supply md5, sha1, sha256 (overkill, yeah!) + signature of all packages.
Color Theming in Emacs: Reload
Securing DNS Requests
Show HN: Landing page for our LSM Boston entry
Log in link doesn't seem to be working:

# Click log in

# Authorize with google

# Get sent to the submit page

# Manually go back to home page, click log in again

# Sent back to home page, and am not logged in. Can't vote or comment.
That's a tricky question and the heart of the problem with it is that human beings are very good at rationalization.

> Would you sign up to hack python for a site that revolutionizes international arms transactions?

Yes, I want to help those innocent rebels overthrow that cruel dictator by giving them a means to protect themselves.

> Would you design UX for a next-generation pay-day-loan start-up?

Yes, what may seem like an extraordinary fee is actually justified by the risk, and many of their customers truly need the service provided. They have no other means.

I face this kind of rationalization in my own job. I'm a director at the International Assoc. of Privacy Professionals. My membership, as you can imagine, is very sensitive to what we do with the personal data we collect. So when the marketing guy asks if he can slice and dice the membership data to do some targeting marketing, I have to assess whether the data he is using was collected with proper permission for that use.

When we collect data it is with the mission of supporting the privacy profession and should only be used for that purpose or to enhance the value the member receives from us. Now, the marketing guy is a sharp fellow and, as such, he will rationalize that it is to the members' benefit that we accurately execute his plan. He will make a sensible case every single time, almost regardless of the situation. It is what humans are really good at.
> full-on fascist regime.

This why you can't judge the world by watching TV.
It is really sad to see normally intelligent people go batshit crazy and start spewing nonsense. Europeans should know better than to throw around the word fascist. I am so sick of whining Europeans that I would almost support stalling the U.S. economy just to drive the E.U. into a ditch.
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This could be a rather interesting poll. Might provide some data around the popularity of alternate JVM languages rather speculating.
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We'd really like feedback on our video. Making progress in one weekend using the lean process is really difficult, but it's pretty rewarding too. I'd recommend anyone give a Lean Startup Machine Weekend near them a shot.
Voting has only just started, but Scala in the lead for now :)
MIT open courseware.
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I'm interested in trying out this technique for a site we built but your comments about Googlebot and the associated downside with long-tail pages gives me pause. Do you have any suggestions on how to evaluate whether or not a technique like this would bring advantages, or is it better to simply give it a try and see how it works out?

In our case, the site features real estate listings, and at any given time there are about 50,000 listings. Each listing has its own page. There are numerous other pages, some of which are just index pages (lists of listings), a couple of search pages, etc. But the majority of pages are the single listing view pages, and then following that, the lists of listings. Let's call it around 60,000 pages or so.

The total number of pageviews per day (not counting search engine crawlers) is less than the total number of pages, but I would be willing to be that some individual listing pages are accessed at a much higher rate than others (namely, the newest ones). The listings themselves are updated on a daily basis, so the cache stores would get invalidated at least once a day.

In this situation, how do I determine the appropriate caching strategy?
I didn't even dare to start the auth process. Who is the owner of this site? Not very much in the open.
But that wont show anything until it most likely already is to late. You dont realy want that value to ever go down, then you already have customers with a worse experience, and when that starts, it goes very fast down the hill.
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what this plugin got me thinking about is an augmented reality for images. what if the hover indication was a modification of the content of the image - a dinner table that adds an extra person at the table on hover.
As far as I know, I don't personally know anyone who:

- has AIDS or is HIV+

- is being restricted from enjoying a freedom due to religious dogma

- who has been a rape victim

- who has been bullied in school for being gay

- who has been discriminated against because of their race

- who has been abused as a child

However, I have no doubt whatsoever that there are many, many people out there (even in my city), who have suffered in one of these ways. And I'm grateful that there are those who support causes even when they don't know anyone personally effected.

*Edit - typo
ArchLinux wiki became, along with gentoo's handbook, one of the few places to get good information about many recurring questions about gnu/linux configuration.
We ship direct to customers in a way similar to how you might buy from ebay an item from a seller overseas and they will send the item. We want to make the process as easy for our customers as possible so we through our couriers will take care of all customs clearance and duties if they apply.

Our biggest advantage of not setting up in the US apart from the legal aspect is being able to avoid a lot of the taxes.

When I spoke to the insurers here they told me that should someone in the US sue us it would be in a US court and not a UK court where as you mention the damages are potentially extortionately high!

As we are a very young company our exposure to the US is low but it is something that I cant ignore as a risk. Intuitively I would agree that the likelihood of being sued is greatly reduced not being registered in the US but it is a market I would like to grow into.

I think seeking advice from a lawyer with experience with US defense is a good advice and I will do this, thanks.
> but it really is hard to stay up-to-date.

Well, you don't really _need_ to; this one is just syntactic sugar, and the others, while nice (or mostly; I'm unconvinced about ARC), are not necessary. I'd prefer to have the options.
Where's the evidence that what happened to JotForms was a malicious act designed to shut them down? From what has been made public, it was most likely a blunder. Mistakes and oversights happen.

> I often wonder about the agenda of these journalists/news outlets

Headlines sell.

> That does not mean that these reports aren't exaggerated.

Out of the 300 million people living here in the US, half on the edge, I'd say if the sentiment you're trying to protect was even remotely true, every other person would know someone that's been affected by the police state.

> but it does neither mean you're anecdotal experience is un-biased in measuring the situation.

If my lack of terrorist friends makes me anecdotal, then you've already formed a seriously biased view of the US.
that's configurable in preferences / under the hood / privacy (the "prediction" option - see https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...)

i have all those disabled and chrome still appears fast to me.
Interesting point on evaluating a company based on individuals' code of ethics compared to their upwards career mobility. But the obvious (albeit a bit contrived) question would then be; What if the so-called unethical individuals measurably contributes more revenue and profit, than the ethical individuals? Is a CEO who allows lesser contributing individuals rise to the top of the management hierarchy, acting ethically towards the shareholders?
Ron Paul is crazy to think that he can make the US better again and reduce it's debt while shrinking the federal government and giving freedoms back to the states.
Just because a candidate has a position you agree on for something doesn't mean they're not crazy.
Not so fast... Clojure also getting some votes.
it used to be the beacon of freedom

No, the US narrative is that it thinks the rest of the world looks on it as a beacon of freedom. A lot of countries do not think "do what the USA does" is a good idea. (Just look at labour law or socialism for one example)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how much effort are you talking about here? Skipping @synthesize on properties or using literal syntax where/when it makes sense wouldn't cause much additional cognitive load and you don't have to convert old code to use the new sugar.
(do we say that anymore?)

No, we say "developed countries"
If they are looking to fill a fixed spot, sure. But more often than not, that isn't how hiring works.
"piggyback onto Pinterest, replace affiliate links again, and let the litigation fly! (I have a gut feeling that a dozen projects like this must already exist.)"

Can you clarify what you mean by this? Specifically 'replace affiliate links again'
http://www.pythonmeme.com/about

> I’m a 11 years programer, and I’m a python new guy.

I am impressed.
The style of music on the one that I downloaded didn't work so well for me. It was too airy and then there were some vocals.

I don't know what style to ask about. If I like to program to uptempo Jean-Michel Jarre and extended mixes of Blue Monday by New Order (the only track of theirs that I am aware that I like), what do I like and where can I get more of it?
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The author mentions that you can leave the type attribute off of <script> tags. You can do the same with <style> tags as well, since it defaults to CSS.