skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the current reality is more of a mix between "A Brave New World" and "Farenheit 451". Bradbury deserves a mention there.

Funny you would say that... I agree, although I wasn't thinking about Fahrenheit 451 when I mentioned another "mix" scenario in another thread[1] that touched on Nineteen Eighty-Four.

My thought then was:

Interestingly, I think reality is converging towards something like a hybrid of the two worlds described by Orwell and Huxley. Well, in the case of Huxley not so much the literal use of hypnosis and psycho-analysis, but if you treat that stuff as a metaphor, then you can see the connection.

TV, pop music, Fox News, and so much other low-value content has become the "sedative for the masses" at the same time that the government assumes more and more power and control...

"Of course," you might say, "we're nowhere close to Orwell's world with his Minitru, etc ." But if you substitute "We are at war with the USSR and the Taliban are our allies and have always been our allies" and "We are at war with the Taliban and the Russians are our allies and have always been our allies" for certain bits of Orwell's work, you might notice some eerie parallels and scary possibilities.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3671843
Baseball must be especially tough for players, considering it is mostly just individual contests over and over, pitcher versus batter. On team sports like basketball or hockey you can always rationalize that the rest of your team should have done more.
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> Apple developers used Objective-C for over 16
> years just fine

The initial release of OS X was March 24, 2001. IIRC, ObjC was not used on MacOS 9. Unless you're talking about the creation of OS X out of NeXT (which Apple purchased in 1996), and therefore Apple employees (not just 3rd-party devs that work on the Apple platform).
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There was a great AIGameDev.org article recently about evolution being used to balance a tower defence game.
Should we[1] be shopping around for doctors? Hire a doctor like you would a Web Developer, what are your prices, experience, show me some of the stuff you've done before, etc. This is typically done with cosmetic surgery but should be we doing it with required but not emergency situations?

[1] when i say "we" i mean you Americans, i'm in the UK and have the NHS
Yes, WordPress requires a database; but when has this been an issue for business people, real bloggers, etc. to find a decent host with database support?

Sure, Jekyll sounds like a more efficient solution, but most people don't have a "pain" point when running WordPress - at least not one that can't be solved with a plugin. (Most people)
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Could the credits be embedded in the copyright for the software/eula/about in the App?

The GIStiquette, seems to imply that there is almost always some copyright in the footer of the map.

Could this copyright be embedded in the documentation (à la MIT) and still comply?
Are you objecting to the use of the word 'tool', or do you not consider ANGELINA to be an evolutionary process?
Not even HTML/CSS?
In summary there's no force to drive down health care costs if prices are not made public. If I need an x-ray, I want to be able to shop around with quality and price information made public.
Thanks. I came here just to bitch about pedantic plural company verb usage on HN. As an American, it's nice to know I can be proud that we've got this usage sounding right.
I wonder if this is a temporary quick and dirty solution from Apple, pending a full-scale switch to their own maps in iOS 6.0.
It is the page I was linked to. But responsive.is displays a random website, and this website in particular didn't work. I guess if I had realized it was just a random website perhaps my reaction would have been different.

Edit: For some reason, http://responsive.is/trentwalton.com now works fine. A Quirk, perhaps?
Go blue ocean. If you're being true to your vision and individuality, it will always be good enough.

P.S. I'd like to qualify "good enough". I've poured blood, sweat, tears and spit into ideas that ended up being completely ignored by the world. I still consider them good enough though. I am still proud of what I accomplished.

You are the ultimate decider of what is good enough.
We just had a baby and I got a fully itemized bill, down to the total time spent with a head nurse vs the lower down nurses (billed at different rates).

I agree that I would have liked to have known that if my wife buzzed for a refill on her water bottle that we would be billed for the nurses time at $120/hr.

But even if I had known that, the total bill was discounted from 10k to 7k due to an agreement my insurance has with the hospital, and then my 80 | 20 kicked in and our out of pocket expense for a delivery, care and 48 hour stay was $1400 + a $300 copay. So many factors involved would have made estimating my final cost pretty difficult.

And that may be the point. It's not so much about transparency, it's more about how complicated the billing actually is.
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This doesn't actually surprise me. If you consider the role of random brute forcing via dictionary attacks is to locate the appropriate order of tokens that work together to create a coherent meaning you're essentially not providing any more security with more words. A "Password" is a phrase composed of tokens that are the alphabet, numbers, symbols. A "Passphrase" is composed of tokens that are known english words. By taking the corpus search method to determine natural phrases they're essentially trying to identify the total breadth of 2+ token combinations that make up the english language.

This does break down like they said when you stop using coherent meanings. A passphrase that is HorseQuoteBulb would be hard to guess in comparison to HorsesEatHay or something of the same style.

The same goes for passwords: while it may be easy to guess a password as "phrase" it suddenly becomes a lot more difficult to randomly attempt guesses at "7_-Az!e".

Eventually I think we'll all be forced to use two factor authentication for added security. Here the user is mostly safe from their own ignorance where the danger of having credentials stolen is more prominent in the form of Man in the Middle attacks.
This seems like a fantastic way to explain responsive design to clients.
Out of curiosity, I made a comparison between the two towns where most of my photos are taken as seen in GMaps vs. OSM.

http://cl.ly/133M1H3W2W362S2F0l13
http://cl.ly/2P2d3y042N1T0o2p390H

600k and 60k inhabitants respectively.
"Their own maps"? These are their maps. They are rendering them, they are hosting them. If you mean "their own map data", then that would be silly (& expensive) for Apple to either (a) drive a car around everywhere like Google Street View or (b) licence some third party mapping company. OSM is a good solution for Apple here.
Good overview. I've been a fan of node.io for node scraping for a while. Lot's of stuff built in and you don't lose your jQuery selectors.
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RasPi didn't muck up, the factory did, and presumably the rework is on the factory's dime (with a fat apology).

But your point basically stands.
I couldn't agree more and was about to make a comment like this. Bootstrap does not mean that you don't need a designer or time to think about UX, and it makes me ill to see all these sites coming out with no thought put into design or ux that are boostrapped and they say "hey look how great this is, and how fast I made it!"

Straight up default bootstrap is even worse in my eyes than craigslist style css. It's overused, and it's not enough to impress anymore. Take 6 more days, talk to a designer, and make this a real blog.
I think the point is to show the part of the page that is visible to the current device and fade out the rest, but only when you've force picked a size.
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The important sentence here:

> By default, CouchDB prior to version 1.2.0
> makes [the /_users] database world-readable.

Note that the current stable version of CouchDB is 1.1.1.

I assume that "world-readable" in this case also means world-readable over HTTP, if your Couch server isn't firewalled.

Update: If you've already filled out npm's "reset password" form, but haven't received an email yet, @isaacs says that the email bot might be backlogged by a couple hours.
Comparing Apple, Google and OpenStreet Maps
It's more of a "Apple created the home computer all by themselves at a time when absolutely no one else was creating home computers. They invented the home computer from scratch," myth. In a decade or so, we're likely to see the same thing about Apple regarding the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Apple's 'marketing buzz' spiraling out of control within the general public until the statement becomes something akin to, "Apple invented everything that they've ever used from scratch... even their office furniture."
Exactly. Someone got assigned to "blog duty" at the TSA, of which TSA management has no idea what a blog is, or why it is important, but there is a regulation somewhere, or a rule, that says the TSA must maintain a blog. So someone maintains a blog.

This is my estimation of the situation.

A Hanlon's Razor moment: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Also Spain has errors, they call the Madrid area "Los Madriles" which is pretty funny.
Which programming language you learn and use doesn't matter?

Really ?? It doesn't matter for most people because they only know C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python and other similar language as they all provide same kind of "thinking technique" and you have been programming using same techniques your whole life.

Try to learn languages like Lisp and Haskell and over a period of time they will change the way you think about programming and if something can change the way you think about solving problem, it does matter.
Do you have a source? Wikipedia seems to agree with mine:

>In [British English], collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare 'a committee was appointed' with 'the committee were unable to agree'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
i meant osm. sorry for the misunderstanding.
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Still not a fair comparison. I guess the only truly fair comparison would be a Total Cost of Ownership, but those can be difficult to accurately determine. Specifically how much you might lose for uninsured breakage, etc.
How could one abuse free health care? Booking two heart surgeries when you only need one?
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300$ ? it's okay ;)
To be fair, the "shit happens" statement is from the POV of a customer - and that's quite correct. We don't have further insight in to what the Raspberry Pi foundation is doing or communicating to their manufacturer and I doubt it's a "ship happens" attitude there as well - but that's just a guess and that's all either of us really have.
They did buy c3 technologies so they are probably up to something map related.
Thanks! Node.io looks excellent! As a commenter on the parent article pointed out it handles errors, is multi-threaded and allows you to use jQuery.
They give me half of a 2TB drive? Doesn't that mean that I'm getting only one copy of my data stored outside my house? So if a power surge fries my equipment, there's one copy of my data spread across a couple dozen other machines. I guess that's fine as long as no one but me experiences any failures...

It's possible that they're just overselling, and they expect most people to use only a couple hundred megs, which would allow lots of redundancy. If so, that seems like a really bad idea, since heavy usage of an on-site disk is likely (let's back up all these pirated movies!), and their buildout requires either signing up new customers or swapping devices, neither of which is quick or cheap.
Didn't Wuala use to do something like this? Except more for P2P file backup rather than sync?
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Incompetence doesn't change what this is. Simply describes the manner in which it was done. Incompetent "stealing" or malicious "stealing", it's still "stealing."

* Stealing is very much the wrong word here, but I don't know if this falls under copyright infringement or something else.
It points to the absurdity of those who claim US healthcare is a "free market". It's a cartel whose hooks are WAY deeper in the political system than just about any other industry, including oil, agriculture, or telecom.

Don't like it? Then your choices are either go elsewhere or die.

It's tempting to advocate a UK-style system, but I'll need more proof that NHS is not a political tool to depopulate the opposition.

Yes, some of us septics/savages watch the PM Q-time and never a session goes by without someone in the opposition complaining about hospitals and clinics in their district closing...
I have a feeling this response is doing them far more harm than good. It's just a simple admission that everything stated was true and I'm going to make it into a high school argument and call you some guy with some crude video that's irrelevant.
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If you're doing your best at what you're best at, but in a field that gives you no pleasure, will success even be enough?

Doubtful.
Downvote and don't reply all y'all want.

Using activations as a metric is bad.

"India is dominating America because they have far more human activations (births) than America!"

There's a good analogy as to why 'activations' do not tell a complete story.

Please reply with what other metrics people use when saying that Android "dominates". I'd honestly love to know. Otherwise, it's nothing more than a mirror of rose-tinted Apple fanboys, it's Android fanboyism.
I did something similar last week -- you should invest in theming your site away from the default bootstrappy look/feel. Also it would be helpful to add details some more details about applying/switching themes and perhaps mention customizing the page lists used in navigation via declaring pages in a defined group in the YAML front-matter of a page and iterating over them in your layout's default.html.
Compared to the Java and C# libs, yes, the C++ std lib is small. In terms of complexity and ease of use, it's a different picture.
Is MacRuby truly abandoned? If so, then I'm saddened. I just started experimenting with it recently and found it to be the answer to everything that frustrated me about obj c.
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Probably I was duped, but I didn't read the OSM statement as watered down PR at all, but rather as a reasonable human reaction to such a high-profile use of their labor of love with an unfortunate caveat - maybe sufficiently advanced PR speak is indistinguishable from genuine human interaction.
Right so the license says this:

If your application displays Places API data on a map, that map must be provided by Google.
Places API responses may include Listings provider attributions in HTML format that must be displayed to the user as provided. Any links included in the HTML must be preserved. We recommend placing this information below any search results or Place Details information.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/#Limit...
> Reset/change the password of any service that has the same password.

Well this bullshit has to stop. I use the same password on most 'low-risk' sites, and I can't remember them all (can you remember all the blogs you have signed up for?) so I can't 'change the password on all other sites because CouchDB uses a retarded security scheme'.
I thought the same thing. It was one of the reasons I didn't think they'd be able to do a retina iPad, it would just be too expensive.

Look at the prices of your average 47" LCD HDTV sets, way over $500. And they're probably making less money per unit than the iPad. I don't know how Apple is doing it.
Ignorance or maliciousness dont' change what they did.
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I am not entirely sure why so many people oppose hacktivism to the work of Gandhi, MLK, etc. It isn't the same, but it is much more in the vein of passive resistance than violent protest. First off, lets scope out the acts of civil disobedience here:

The incumbent powers (gov't, companies working for them, etc), have defined a set of rules stating "this stuff is not for you to know, besides we are only doing good, so trust us", but there are acts by them that sure look a lot like abuse of their power, but they don't bother to justify them. They keep stuff secret and carry on despite concerns. So a group of people comes along and decides not to honor the rules about secrecy and instead makes effort to bring information about the questionable actions to light. The civil disobedience here is simply not honoring the rules about secrecy. There is no violence, no one is harmed physically by these acts. There may be financial harm done (almost certainly actually), I am going to agree with that, however defer discussion for a bit.

Let's look at classic passive resistance movements for a moment. They work largely by gatherings of people in demonstration of solidarity, combined with acts of civil disobedience. The rules in place are ignored intentionally, with no physical harm brought by the demonstrators. However, financial harm is a frequent result of this. Sometimes it is just a side effect, such as disruptions of business via protests, or less productivity due to people not working. Other times however, this is an intentional consequence. Yes, MLK, Gandhi, and Mandela all caused intentional financial harm to their opponents. They organized general strikes - preventing business from producing goods and making money. They organized boycotts (denying business revenue). They intentionally arranged demonstrations to cause mass disruption.

So is the financial harm caused by hacktivism terribly different from that caused by other passive resistance? Probably not for the most part. There is the fact that hacking can also be looked at as a form of sabotage - hence my comments on similarity rather than congruence. However sabotage is not black and white... other forms of sabotage which are considered OK in passive resistance movements include work slowdowns, poor quality control, and so on. This is a bit I need to think on more, but I don't feel it throws a wrench into my argument ( :) ).

Finally a big component of many passive resistance movements is publicly outing those who work against them. This may not be organized by the central organizers, but it happens, and is considered a big driving force of the movements. Think about the anti-Vietnam protests and the investigative journalism which fueled them (e.g. the pentagon papers). These information leakages are always protested by the incumbents with the same cries of "harm" and "danger" and "secret violation".

All that said, I must disclaim here: I am not taking a stance on the actions or politics of Anonymous or Lulzsec. Just pointing out that on a "passive resistance - terrorism" scale, hacktivism is still pretty left of the middle ground.
It's subtitled in English here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idICUSiGcqo
My wife had a baby a year ago, and it cost us nothing.

I live in the "third" world.
Yes, bandwidth is a concern, but it should be easy to let users choose bandwidth limits. The question then is whether the product is still useful if it takes 10/20/30 months to fill the hard drive. I suspect that there's a segment of the population for which it will.
Same here, I'll have to put something together with this later.
Why is there no link to information about the team under About?
37signals is posting flamebait on their blog? This is just weird. And not worth reading.

Now go get back to building the web, you smart folks you!
I think their message is just right. I would reserve calling them thieving bastards only after they explicitly refuse to give credit.

What Apple did is shameful but I think what OSM is doing is most likely to promote their goals. Let others write the outraged articles.
This is excellent, I was just complaining about the 32-bit-only medium high-cpu instance types yesterday. Now I just wish they'd add another mid-range instance with ~3.75 GB RAM and 2x2=4 or 2x2.5=5 CPU. Basically combine the higher resources from each of the medium types.
The design works for a certain state of the components market. As time passes some parts become harder to source, or pricier than others that provide better performance or functionality.
This sounds awesome! I've been waiting to see a step this direction for a long time. For a lot of people dropbox is the best tool for files, but its ridiculous for the trip between two computers in the same room to have a layover in A3.
Upvote us, downvote us, ignore us – I don’t care

I think this is a good attitude to have, but I have to point out that obviously it matters a little. Otherwise, this post wouldn't exist.
I wondered that too. I don't have the app, but I would bet that Settings > General > About > Legal Notices would be the place to look?
The fact that they are so open with the process is what (for me, at least) keeps me happy with it and I'm fine with waiting.

Can't wait to do cool things with mine!
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Actually those editors are free (from the perspective of the periodical) so the problem boils down to nobody wanting to publish in your journal because nobody reads it and so it holds no esteem.
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We could infer the value of a HN front-page post to someone of this business model is $150.
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The ability to collapse the nested replies.

This would aid in keeping page formatting within bounds, and also in scanning the scope of the threads.
The intellectual laziness shown above indicates that you cannot be trusted even with a MySpace profile. Or especially a MySpace profile.
mmm... I think the long-term benefits of being so popular on HN are harder to pin down than simply putting a dollar amount on visits based on referrer. When a bunch of developers are constantly reading your blog they don't have to signup to effect your bottom line. I can't imagine how many people I've recommended the service to over the years, and the number of them who I know to have signed up for paid plans is many times greater than one. It's important not to underestimate the influence of silent, non-converting traffic.
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Humans have different reactions. The way OSM is reacted is very much how I personally would react. That’s why it doesn’t seem the least bit fake or watered down to me.

I guess if you are angered easily you might not understand how OSM could react that way, but please understand that just because you personally wouldn’t react that way doesn’t make it fake, not human or PR speak.

Humans really react and talk that way. It’s perfectly normal.
Microsoft is not responsible for people hating to type commands in the command line, early computing is. In the past you were forced to type commands to get anything done and a lot of people hated it. The introduction of the GUI made things "easy" for most people.
>so I can't 'change the password on all other sites because CouchDB uses a retarded security scheme'.

So what? That's the trade off you signed up for when you decided to use the same password for 'low risk' sites.