skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always enjoyed Chris Rock's commentary on the subject of platonic friends. Seriously though I think everyone is a bit different on this one. I've had multiple female friends and there was often some sexual tension but honestly that may have been part of what kept some of the friendships interesting. It is a kind of like a relationship without the actual sex. This might come up most often for people once they get out of college in the context of a "work spouse".
Highcharts looks slick. My weekend project is using Flot. If I ever generate some cash from it I might have to buy a Highchart license and make the jump. Looks so much better...:-)
Any thoughts on how this development would affect PyQt which provides Python bindings to Qt ?
Object-Oriented CSS is Crap Long Live Object-Oriented HTML
This is motivation -- Joy in the Congo: A musical miracle
Or to fail and still retire filthy rich. When the reward for failure is more than you need to comfortably retire, what's the rational incentive to succeed?
Sony to cut 6% of its Global Workforce
Craig isn't optimizing for profit. He's optimizing for maximum user benefit, and letting the users decide what benefits them the most. Mostly they want free classifieds without paid advertising attached, so that's what he gives them. In a few cases, the users wanted to pay for classifieds, and those users are the only reason Craigslist makes money.

Judging Craigslist by the standards of a profit-seeking business is entirely missing the point.
Mostly, but not really, apart from the binary image itself, its dependent shared libraries are also loaded, and the various images loaded might have virtual address space reservations marked in the header. In normal scenarios there should be enough contiguous address space, Go programs only link to ntdll.dll and winmm.dll. While it's true that on recent Windows versions these two shared objects pull around 30 other shared objects, all the DLLs shipped with Windows have a base address chosen so that they only take a very small chunk of address space and most address space is contiguous. 512MB of contiguous reservation shouldn't be a problem to get.

The fact that this is not happening means that 3rd party DLLs are loaded, this happens if you use a program, knowingly or not, that install user mode hooks.
TwiDAQ: The social exchange
FWIW, since I only really have experience with Snap: When comparing to Ruby frameworks, you could roughly say that Snap is to Yesod what Sinatra is to Rails.

Snap is relatively simple and as such easy to fully understand. But since it is a relatively simple framework, you have to mix and match other packages to get the functionality that you want.

Yesod on the other hand is very elaborate - it contains a lot of functionality and relies fairly heavily on the use of Template Haskell and Quasi-Quoting.

As with Ruby and Sinatra, it is mostly a matter of taste. Some people prefer lightweight frameworks and add the components they need, while others like to do things within one well-integrated framework.
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One factor here is that the people running Hollywood studios assume that men don’t want to buy tickets to a movie where the main female character is anything but the romantic partner of the main male character. (Yeah, the success of the Harry Potter series demonstrates that this assumption is bullshit, but... well... studio execs have a lot of practice rationalizing away exceptions like this. It’s like their assumption that white audiences won’t watch movies with a black main character, unless that main character is played by Will Smith.)
> a dying internet giant is looking to unlock the value of its patent portfolio.

Selling it to another dying giant that will use it against each and every competitor that doesn't have a cross-licensing agreement.
You can sling dicts around in Haskell too if you want to. The reason people don't is that the alternative is easier.
Raspberry Pi passes CE and FCC regulations
Hmm, torrentfreak, I don't think this is how the US legislative system works.

Luckily the actual source, <http://a.fightforthefuture.org/sign/obama-sopa/>; has a more reasonable request: Tell Obama to promise: "I will never advance legislation that blocks websites or disconnects Americans' internet access."
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I would also downvote, but this was my exact thoughts, and it has nothing to do with Obama. Any politician when pressured enough will make a promise to you. It's getting them to keep it that is the trick.

If anything, this will have the exact opposite effect than intended: instead of stopping SOPA-II, it'll just create a lot of talking points and rhetoric which will provide cover for the actual roll-out.

Best thing I've seen so far is punishing politicians that propose bills like this. That's the way prohibition got passed in the states: the movement just made sure that politicians were punished or rewarded based on their taking political action, not promises or speeches.
"American's just don't have friends. We have weak acquaintencnes. Why? Nobody seems to know."

I thought it was because we replaced our communities with networks, is that not correct?
It's a trick used by consoles to increase performance.
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Jobs also said "real artists ship." Perfectionism with set deadlines seems to be a pretty good compromise-obsess with making your product as good as it can be but don't let product concerns push back your deadlines.
For me, $5k/month won't be able to do it. It's good enough if it's a salary, but a job also includes other things such as health insurance, 401K, and intangibles such as social contact with other human beings. So for me, the amount would have to 3 times my normal annual salary.

I currently make $7K a month with 10 minutes of work a month (creating a newsletter), so I agree - the path to residual income is much easier than creating a startup. But it definitely doesn't feel like I can quit my job anytime.
Thanks! After "pretend that if is a function" I do immediately proceed to explain evaluation semantics: "what does it mean by 'if is a special form'? It turns out that if isn’t a regular function." Of course, I am open to suggestions for better wording etc.

That's assuming you were talking about the "cc-mode customization" chapter. If I've called "if" a function anywhere else please let me know! And keep the feedback coming. :-)
>The United States has absolutely no credibility or capability as a defender of freedom, on the net or otherwise.

If you make childish statements you will be treated as a child, and rightly so.
They really have to change their website, but in particular that cheesy/glossy logo.

It just looks awful.
I would recommend the ideas and techniques from this book -- Codermetrics.

It's software development centric but the idea is very interesting for measuring personal performance and productivity.
As an ex network admin, not having port scanners and vulnerability testing tools would make me feel blind. Those tools have very legitimate uses. Port scanners don't even have to be used for security purposes, sometimes you can't access a machine and want to see what services are active and open to the world etc.
You might want to contact the debconf video team for advice/help. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam

I've worked on it before, so you can PM me if you have any questions.
Google confirms new gTLD bids
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He means people, not objectified people. I assume his statement was only meant to apply to people you know or meet in real life.
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About most companies in the storage market seem to be following this trend.
I don't think this comparison is accurate at all. I suspect the author has only used Snap and not Yesod. Actually I don't know if there is a single Haskell programmer that has seriously tried all three web frameworks.
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Yep, the figure is going to vary person to person. For example, I'm married and my wife brings in an income and will be able to provide health insurance once I jump ship, so that number is lower for me than it would be for someone without that additional income.

My point though is that for every person there is a monthly mostly-passive income which, if achieved, would let them live a similar lifestyle as being part of a multimillion dollar acquisition. And it's a hell of a lot easier to reach.

Do you think it's easier for you to make $5K/month passively or make $5M from a acquisition? $10K? $20K?

Edited to add: Why not invest more time into your newsletter so that you can leave your job? If you truly invest 10 minutes per month and believe that there's still room for growth, why not spend more time getting it to the point where it does cover your health insurance and 401K? Or if there's minimal room for growth why not try to replicate it? Or does the money not even matter: do you want to stay with your day job because it gives you purpose and socialization? Your situation is fascinating and I'd love to hear more about how you got to where you are.
> 2) Geeks also love to trash languages that they don't know that well

Usually, fresh (and valid) criticism can only be found when someone who knows a language abandons it in favor of another. Some of my criticism of Java and C# would, probably, refer to features and techniques that are outdated. However, other aspects would remain as they were (tendency to depend on overly complicated tooling, verbose syntax, relatively low productivity - here we are, headcount-wise, mostly a Java shop while delivered-product-wise a much more even split with most Java projects being delivered late) and my criticism should still be valid.
He could have retired filthy rich when he left Google.

Money is not everything for people like him, and even when it is, often it's about sustainability and providing long-term for his dear ones. A one-time payment which screws his monthly income and his resume at the same time doesn't fit at all in this picture.
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"Indeed, both hacking tools and firearms can, in addition to their more obvious harmful uses, also be used to alleviate and even prevent harm" they also have non-defense uses (Hunting, sports or network analysis in the other case). They are probably used for those things more than for criminal purposes.

I don't have to say that I am on the fence on certain aspect of gun control. Rules regulating storage (I'm from Canada) are in my view valid. So are rules on certain classes of guns. At the same time, any gun can kill so some of the restriction might not be useful but like I said I'm on the fence on a lot of these things.
The parent post was saying that the only thing necessary to get enough Vitamin D was to 'just go outside.' I'm failing to see how this validates that premise. Attempting to eat more eggs/seafood/liver to gain more Vitamin D would seem not that far off from attempting supplementation if the only reason that you're eating them is for their Vitamin D content.
Differences between HTML 4 and HTML5
Today we take a few steps back and take a look at some of the differences between HTML 4 and HTML5. This is intended to be a useful overview, not an exhaustive reference, but remember that things are still and always changing. We can’t deny the fact that HTML4 is the most successful markup language in the history of Internet ever. HTML5 builds on that revolutionary success. To start coding with HTML5, you don’t need to change the way you used to code in HTML4. With HTML5 you have new semantic elements, direct support for audio, video and a cool new canvas feature.
Stop thinking about writing programs and start thinking about building a language to write your program in. That's Lisp.

If you approach Lisp the same way you'd approach C or Python, you'll fail.
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Initial thought was that the introduction/explanation paragraph was difficult to read due to the font. The rest of the page is far easier to understand
"Investigators believe the findings may help to explain the personal dynamics behind some bullying and hate crimes directed at gays and lesbians. Many believe that attackers often perceive some level of threat from homosexuals."

Or: They're just an easy target, like most minorities or people who can be singled out from the crowd. Bullies don't want their victims to fight back, so they stick to easy targets.
Can you get it through a host like sourceforge/github, or through a package manager like macports/homebrew? I can only find a zipped file on the web...
That's actually a fairly neat question for sifting different types of Utilitarians. Do you care about other people's happiness, or about their utility as they define it? In B you're really screwing over one of the couples, but they won't be around to be unhappy about it.
You should always pick the right language for the job. You could have written the right language in Lisp or you could pick a good enough language to solve the problem.

Good enough is good enough.
Totally awesome. Quite frankly, I'm mad I didn't get to it first as I'm also obsessed with these grades.

I would suggest maybe changing the tag-line on your front page to "there are no more excuses for the unknown reasons behind your favorite restaurant's grade, but that's just me.

Also, on Firefox 11 for Windows XP I'm having a hard time even reading that text. You might want to consider adding a little weight to it as it's quite badly aliased.
Quantom Computing One Step Away
Haha, I just assumed it was CSS already. Google be slackin' yo.
The true story behind the feature you're building.
guns are not a good example. there is no way i can use a gun for constructive purpose.

think of a knife. 99.99% use the knife for good reasons. However, some use it to harm others. Does it make sense to outlaw knives?

I use wireshark often to see what goes into the request. A lot of developers use it. I think it is mostly used for good intentions.
I have one question about yesod: how easy is it to switch templating languages? I had a look at it more than once, but hamlet always turned me off. Is it easy to switch to, say, hastache?
Oh. Well thanks for the lesson, then. Glad to know that the US is highly regarded around the globe as a defender of freedom and liberty. Had I actually listened to what people around the globe had to say about that, rather than only to you, I might have thought otherwise.
Random question: I believe a while back Yesod did RSA encryption of client-side cookies. Is that still happening?
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Looking for a partner/buyer/idea for rrrewind
I built rrrewind.com a year ago (it's like a time machine for popular content) and I still love it and use it, but I don't have enough time to take care of it.

Then I'm looking for:
a partner that can build on top,
or a buyer that loves rrrewind and is not going to destroy the site with cheap ads
or maybe another way.

Please email me if you are interested or comment to discuss.
It does. Rails and Node have beautiful sites, but not necessarily beautiful code. Yesod is the other way around.
And because they are typically further away, so the view cone needs to be smaller feel right.
I think that should be the aim for any tool conference, to help new users get a leg up and to help existing users move it forwards. Same for Emacs. The great thing about Emacs is that it's so big and versatile everyone can learn something new all the time.
An open letter to language designers: Kill your sacred cows.
Be sure that you have the fixed version: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/593 as there were errors in the previous.
Just an aside, “whilefalse” is a great name for a programing blog.
Imagine if it had been Perl instead?

Well, there was an attempt to get PerlScript to run in the browser, but the hoops you had to go through to get it made it unattractive compared with JS that got native browser support.
I suspect it's much worse than that. Consider a tool like Wireshark, which is widely used by people developing and testing all kinds of networking software, which in turn handle small tasks like running every home and office network on the planet, not to mention the Internet. Of course, any protocol analyser that you can hook up to your switch/router/etc. to make sure it's sending the right traffic in the right directions could also be stuck on a laptop near any unsecured WiFi network and used to sniff other network users' unencrypted traffic.

The correct solution to this problem, if secure communications is your primary concern, is for the people who understand the technical and security implications to make networking secure by default. Get rid of unsecured WiFi and replace it with something using full-time encryption.

It's also important to educate users of insecure networks so they understand the risks and know what to look out for and what they should do and not do to protect themselves. Use HTTPS where it's available, check you've got the little padlock icon before you type private information into a web site, that kind of thing. Obviously much of this is good practice if you're using the Internet, even if your immediate connection is over an encrypted wireless link.

Of course, there is always option 3: do nothing about the technical vulnerability, but legislate to ban Wireshark and numerous other "hacking tools" like it in the hope that bad people won't exploit that vulnerability. Unfortunately we'll probably have to close down the Internet shortly afterwards and revert to connecting a printer to everyone's PC at the office so they can exchange documents, because no-one will be able to make any networking kit that actually works any more. But that's a small price to pay, for at least we will have stopped Evil Hackers from monitoring our networks!

(Obviously there's a little hyperbole in that last part. But only a little...)
Yes, the default session storage is in encrypted cookies because it is convenient and good enough for many use cases. The session code is extensible though and someone has already written a Redis backend.
I'm having the same issues with Chrome 18.0.1025.151 on Windows 7. I pulled it up in IE9 and it looks good.
If you consider JVM startup and the JIT compiling to be part of a bootup procedure of a widely parallel cluster, then we're in a pretty good spot these days to do parallelism with just a little code.
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How to request for unban a banned domain in hackers news
Hi Guys, I have been using hacker news from long time and I like the links here and even benefited from some exposure in past, but due to my ignorance I got my blog http://javarevisited.blogspot.com banned by over submitting post. Its more than a year or so but still its banned and due to which no one can share my post in hackers news. Is there any way I can request moderator to unban a banned domain ? I know the rule now and ensure that I will not submit any post myself.

Thanks
Javin
Will do, thank you for the pointer
I compare with the heuristic, that when even mainstream newspapers start writing about investments in the stock market, it is time to leave. Just like 1999.

Computer programming is, in my experience, a cyclical job market. And not always in phase with the general economy.
Ask HN: What are your marketing must-reads? (esp. mobile app marketing)
My team (read: myself and my friend) would like to go into our new endeavor as well-informed as possible. Other than reading HN regularly, what are the best resources on marketing that we should be aware of?

I'm hoping to avoid "top 10" anything. Books, tools, blogs, and any other resources are very much appreciated.

What are your favorites? What do you consider required reading? What should be avoided?
Usually the right next number in a sequence is the one with the lowest entropy, but of course the answer that the post's author says is the "correct" one is far from the simplest way to generate the same sequence of 7 numbers.
Thanks. The implementation is also very well documented and there are so many different customizations that can be made!
The only thing they can actually do is tell Obama to promise he will veto any SOPA-style bill. He can't actually stop a bill from being written, at least not yet.
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Agentzh is doing some super impressive work with nginx+lua. Openresty is a very interesting project with tons of features over standard nginx and is highly recommended
All the materials to build a firearm can be obtained from most large hardware stores.
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11 years of Erlang
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&gl=US...

I was having trouble getting reception, here is the Google cache if others are in a similar situation.
Fairly impressive how many boxes you can spawn before it starts to stutter.
ZeFrank Returns
Can you explain what is childish about that statement, instead of saying it is childish and leaving it at that?
relevant:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3816771
it usually takes longer to come up with an initial Haskell solution. But then that solution is usually very clean and elegant

The big thing that jumps out at me like that in my experience is: it takes longer to come up with an initial Haskell solution that compiles, but when it compiles, it almost always works first-time; while, in a less rigorous language, I can get it compiling a bit sooner, but any time saved there is lost many-fold when it doesn't actually work.
hamlet is by far Yesod's best feature. I have already ported it to Ruby (hamlet.rb) and Javascript (hamlet.js).

Many users come with different pre-conceptions about what a good template language should be, but once they actually start using Hamlet, they love it. So honestly I am not 100% sure how much effort using a different template language is because not a single user has wanted to switch to an alternative.

That said, give us your use case on the mail list (after giving hamlet a shot) and we will figure out how to make it easy for you. Also, we have users using mustache client side after first generating their mustache templates with hamlet.
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