skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If anything, we can breathe a bit easier here in Romania with all the gangs gone to better countries.

Ha! At least two parties (the gangs and the Romanians in Romania) are profiting.

> I do disagree though that deporting is the way to go. The problem is real, and shoving it under the carpet doesn't really solve much of it. What is needed is an EU-wide solution, and it needs to be well-thought and well implemented, because the problem isn't easier.

Yes. My criticism concerns only various leftists who believe that Romania's (and Bulgaria's, etc) problems should be solved by Sweden alone.
I once wrote a Python program that would generate Java classes for sending SNMP notifications. It would take a text file describing the messages and generate a MIB file and Java code for each message from it. A message description looked something like this (don't quite remember exactly now):

oid "1.3.6.1.4.1.12345"
group "1"
message "MyNotification"
field string message_body

and it would generate a Java class called MyNotification which contained about 100 lines of code to handle sending and receiving of these notification messages, plus the MIB equivalent so that network management tools can understand the message.

Once the messages were defined, they rarely changed since customers would have to change their network management tool configuration, so it was mainly only used to add new notification types once the original set stabilized, but it saved a ton of time over having to hand craft each message type.
Likewise. I usually only end up searching the web-in-general for answers when the product documentation doesn't help. When that's led me to stackexchange, more often than not the threads asking my exact question have been closed as "too general" or similar.

The most recent example, in my case, was:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10166086/good-examples-of...

"Can anybody recommend some [PHP] programs for me to look at, that promote best practises, but are simple enough for me to understand?"

"closed as not a real question; It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. [no it's not] This question is ambiguous [nope], vague [no], incomplete [er, no], overly broad [no], or rhetorical [still no] and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form [no again]. See the FAQ for guidance on how to improve it [mmm, passive-agression]."

... er, WTF guys? Given the minefield that is trying to write good PHP, it's a very good question. A couple of good answers had, I note, already been given, which puts the lie to the mods' reasoning -- but they killed it off anyway, even though it was showing promise? Really?

Reeks of power-tripping or jobsworthy moderation to me.
Despite the vague "stickin' it to the man, we're all in this together" vibe (which I like), I'll note that his T&C is ten browser page-downs worth of text. Which is fine ...
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> Do you feel the same way about, say, garbage collection?

What.

Obviously garbage collection would be even worse than the introduction of threading concepts into C++.

Since you seem to think it's a reasonable thing to compare against, it's clear you have no clue of the perspective Blunt is taking into this.
Firefox too. I did not know it doesn't work in Safari though.
Should you enter the whole names or only the first character of each? Or something else?
First look at Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
It isn't dead. This hatred towards flash has become a mob mentality and it's stupid. No one's charging you to run their software. There have been a lot of amazing cross platform applications made because of flash.
Are you sure that's normally done? We had general liability insurance, is that what you're referring to?

It's not just about cost though, it's attention. Think of the google/oracle trial: Andy Rubin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, etc all have better things to do than be in a courtroom.
I personally have no particular affinity towards Louis C.K. but I can sympathize with disliking fanboyism threads on here. That being said I don't know why you attempt to equate this particular form of marketing to corporations or other non-artistic entities. It makes no sense, as you said. For artists and groups that people like, support and spend money to watch, I don't see why the mechanics of what Louis C.K. is doing wouldn't translate to success assuming a current baseline of supporters. After all if all major comedians did this then that would certainly cause a stir.

I don't believe anyone would make that correlation with shows. It does seem to support, however, that by offering such things at a low-cost (low barrier to entry) that they would tend to be just as successful as the package deals and other ways in which companies like HBO get you to buy them.
I guess I must not have that many browser windows scattered around the place when I'm using OS X or Windows and on linux I use a tiling window manager, so its trivial to tile both windows side-by-side and then drag between them.
The US has political parties, the two dominant ones keep the rest out creating an illusion of choice.

It's the worst example of party politics.
'They call it "Liquid Democracy" and it involves members making suggestions online which then get bounced around through chat rooms, which they call Pirate Pads, before emerging from cyberspace into the real world as policy.'

Liquid Feedback is a server software (implementing LD for an organization) that allows proxy representation. If I think person X can vote for me on topic Y, I can say so by using LF. And I can change my mind from one minute to another not only every 4 years. Here is a longer explanation:

http://communitywiki.org/LiquidDemocracy

Pirate pads are not chat rooms but Etherpads to work collaboratively on documents (that happen to have also a chat function).
1) It does not follow from "I am not responsible for Romania's poverty" that I claimed "I built Sweden". Läs om, läs rätt.
2) I am not unemployed, nor paid to work with my hands.
3) Even unemployed people and manual laborers can have valid views on things, you elitist.
4) I never once mentioned wanting a free ride!
You travel with cds?
This might sound like a ugly workaround, but since I'm stuck with a windows-only compiler/IDE at work, I resorted to have my files put on a linux-machine and exported via samba to the windows computer.

I run git (and texteditor, scripts, ...) on said machine and the IDE is more or less only used for it's "Build" button.
>the end result of which will be a much weaker euro. There are no winners in any of these scenarios, only losers

Germany is the winner in this scenario. Having the Euro as a currency is a great boon to their national economy. They were at a trade deficit when they used the DM, but ever since the inception of the Euro, they have been cleaning-up export wise.

Germany benefits from the Eurozone as consumers from EU nation-members can buy German products with no trade impediments. Germany benefits even more from a weak Euro as it makes their products very attractive for purchase from non-Euro countries.
Ditto for Perl: https://metacpan.org/module/Lisp::Fmt
Everyone is some kind of fundamentalist, but people keep their ideas to themselves to keep an even keel because inexperience in expression tends towards bad outcomes. I have no scientific evidence for this, but this is my amateur reasoning in observing the personal growth in others.
Caveat: There's a difference between code that writes code to dynamically expand/fulfill an abstraction, and code that is merely generated to satisfy what would otherwise be a copy-and-paste need. I know I missed this when I first was exposed to the concept of code generation.

I was ecstatic that I could write a large chunk of my code automatically. What I eventually realized was that I had missed abstractions that would have allowed me to achieve the same ends with generics and dynamic programming. Also a change of language (C++ at the time) would have drastically changed my perspective.

YMMV.
Don't get scared. Get Android.

Don't do business with a company designed to take advantage of you. Problem solved.
Interesting, how would that affect the answer? No, it is a real bus, like the ones they use for humans in public transport. Interesting, if you're curious because aliens might be a different size, no, it is a bus for human-sized things. No. Nope. No, they are normal golf balls. Maybe, after we estimate the number, perhaps we can estimate the time-to-fill based on various rates of child-miscreant golf-ball theft. etc.
The usual way that these get in is when people upgrade WordPress by simply doing a tar -zxvf wordpress.tar.gz. This replaces files, but often there are many legacy files from older installs that never got deleted.

In my case, the attack was from "/blog/wp-content/themes/default/functions.php", which isn't even a theme in recent WordPress builds; it's simply been left over from the many upgrades over the years.

The other most common route for such injection is not always WordPress itself, but instead through insecure, third-party themes, since theme designers are not always programmers.
Vulnerabilities in the CS products are manifestly less threatening than vulnerabilities in Flash. The interaction required to trigger the flaws is (usually) much more deliberate, and the installed base is much smaller. Also, outside of Acrobat Reader, it is much harder to construct a credible spear phishing campaign using CS5 document formats (your benefits statements aren't normally .AI files).

Flash and PDF were/are genuine frustrations for the industry, but not because Adobe was particularly irresponsible. Instead, the problems with PDF and Flash were (a) that they were large complicated C programs built at a time when secure programming wasn't widely understood and (b) they were installed everywhere, making them particularly juicy targets.
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
We're already well on our way to getting nowhere with this.

> Not-so-obviously, if I had qualms about my job I wouldn't be doing it. Some people are for sale, I'm not.

So participating in the financial industry driving the Western world's economy off a cliff is fine, but having to work with .NET is where you draw the line?

> I know these sites. They're rather juvenile

These sites discuss (the economic) Reality, and what's going on in it. Trying to discredit them is logical, of course, for someone working for the financial industry.

Here's someone with a more somber take on things, in case it helps: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/ - he's on the same page with the aforementioned two, though.

> There is nothing bad about making money from financial services.

No? Well, what good is there about it? How does it benefit the real economy, where people use their time and skills to produce something of value, which they then exchange for goods and services as necessary?

What is it that grounds the financial industry into the real economy? In other words, in what ways is it not about making money with money?

> If you stretch it a bit, you can call it "making money with money" the same as you can argue that the sole reason for any imaginable job is making money. It's not.

Huh? A job is an arrangement where an employer pays someone a salary in exchange for using his time/skills in a way that benefits the employer (in a monetary sense, ultimately).

For both parties involved, it is about making money. Otherwise we're talking about some kind of charitable operation.
Recently, I was in a group, and it came up that we don't know why people join the organization and what they want to get out of it. So I asked, why don't we know these things? This question was met with emotional violence. I suspect that the reaction to interesting questions is a litmus test of the intellectual health of an organization.

Arguably, a natural reaction to a question that evokes a strong feeling is to take that as an attack. (Example: If the world was created in 6000 years, how did these seashell fossils get inside mountaintop rock strata?) Often, this natural reaction cuts off an opportunity to learn something interesting.
Well, the people at the speed dating thing were generally recruiters closer to the HR end of things, so ...
That's how IE6 used to be, too. But because they eliminated all their competition, they didn't have to advance it anymore. It was cheaper and easier to keep it the same.
That is true, but talking with a strange (presumably attractive) woman at a (presumably crowded and loud) bar is at the most uncomfortable extreme of the average shy man's social comfort scale. Friendships and relationships are important, but there are plenty of ways to pursue them that are at the other end of that scale.
H

is "Hello World" in HQ9+

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/hq9plusplus.html

:P
Some elections in the U.S. are nonpartisan, meaning that no parties are recognized by the electoral officials, or listed on the ballot. For example, the Nebraska state legislature is nonpartisan, and so are a number of cities' mayors, Houston being the largest.

That doesn't keep people from de-facto running as party representatives, though. They can't put their party affiliation on the ballot, but they can say in their speeches which of the national parties they prefer, and parties can issue press releases explaining which of the candidates they support. So it tends towards a two-party, first-past-the-post situation.
It may have been a very good idea, but the sandbox implementation was shoddy, and 'Local Machine Zone' exploits are one of the main reasons IE has such a terrible security reputation. So other browsers should be wary about introducing a 'privileged mode'.
Then how does one write about interesting open questions? If the implicit assumption that there aren't any interesting open questions, then I have doubts. Such a field should be a mature industry, and not a field for startups or serious research.
Everyone should check out the source code of Liquid Feedback (LQFB). It's really a mess of pg pl/sql and lua. Zero! tests.

http://www.public-software-group.org/liquid_feedback_core

http://www.public-software-group.org/liquid_feedback_fronten...
> the youngest ever International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist to date

I don't see how when he started dating is relevant here...

On a serious note, I find this puzzle far more interesting than Fermat's Last Thereom, even though it doesn't seem to be well known at all. Probably because it hasn't been solved and subsequently been the subject of TV documentaries, admittedly. Are there any other comparably simple/intuitive rules in mathematics that have never been fully proven?
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that's probably already reserved by some new fad where the notion of objects is considered absurd.
I don't feel the same about SO not being a community.

Even though I'm not a very active member, I'm in contact with quite a few people I got to know from SO and even met some in person.

In my opinion it's just that communication doesn't happen mainly on SO itself.
As far as I understood the discussion
(more methods for interaction have been suggested since the beginning of SO) this is deliberate.
i never understood why very old people are allowed to drive. we love them and everything, but after a certain age driving can be a dangerous activity for the drivers and for the other participants in traffic. why not have some special requirements for elderly drivers?
For what it's worth, whenever our family has a conflict that's possibly legal with someone, it is resolved pretty quickly once something is sent on my father's legal stationary.

Lawyers scare people, can't hurt.
> I daydream of a programming language to which I can fuzzily explain my needs and it automagically solves problem

That's the core of our startup :) We're building robots who can build games. You just give us basic simple instructions like "this type of gameplay, with these features and these characters" that can be described in 5 lines of code. And we build a whole game with it. To the user, it looks automagic. But inside, it's just a compiler that converts one data format into another.

> Natural language processing might be hard to debug as part of a programming language though.

You don't really need to go there. Just limit your input to what your compiler knows. Instead of trying to guess intent from ambiguous input, you just give them options instead. If you really want the user to have the freedom to type their ideas out, then use auto-complete and/or code suggestions. That "feels" like natural typing, but dodges the problem with NLP that is trying to guess what ambiguous input means.
The summary mentions "...won't be upgraded to Precise until next year because of a nasty Python 2.7 incompatibility bug." What's the bug?
Just one character for each (That ends up being a common theme across quite a few of the chapters I've done so far at least)
I took a look at the sample games and the code looks.. interesting, though I admit I understood close to none of it ;-) Though I understand the constructs (I played with Forth and Factor in the past), I find it hard to keep a mental model of the stack in my head. I do have a soft spot for concatenative languages though so I love seeing stuff like this - great work!
"would software patents be as bad if"

You've chosen difficult wording here. When you ask if things would be so bad if we lessened their badness the answer is obviously no -- things would be incrementally better if made incrementally better. But this is no more than a tautology. Software patents are bad, in any form. They can be made not-quite-so-bad, but they will always be harmful to the intellectual development of society.
Generally the expensive part in rural locations is paying to get miles of lines in. This cannot be used offgrid.

Also, when you have a long line to a rural location, and the power goes out due to an ice storm, welcome to the bottom of the repair priority list. I've been there for up to 1.5 weeks before. :) Having the solar power cut out at this point is not a good design feature.

Sounds great for urban use though.
In my opinion, that IS an ambiguous question. Not in the sense that it's hard to understand approximately what you're looking for, but that it's not obvious how to choose the right answers. I agree that this kind of moderation can be a bit heavy-handed, but I think one of the goals of SO is to have provably correct solutions to questions, not an "answer wiki" like Quora. You can't really "accept the right answer" to this question in any fair way.
Sexy Look, Sexy Hook: How Wearabl Rocked Their Launch
Why 'Whale Trail' Is Going Free-To-Play, And How A Flop Is Seen As A Journey
GeoGame for Android released
This is great. Thanks for the link! The example in the readme suggests that jslim can reduce simple apps combined with jQuery by up 28%. I wonder if it can achieve more if jQuery was modified to let you specify selectors by function calls instead of selector string. For calls like $("a.button"), the static analyzer may have trouble removing unused code such as the parts that deal with descendant selector, ID selector. If selectors where specified as function calls like $.find($.byTag("a").byClass("button")), static analyzer may identify and remove more dead code. Though it probably isn't worth the effort if the code requires such drastic modifications.
I believe if you just call said vagrants/thieves what they are: gypsies, Bulgarians will be less likely to be insulted.

Us Romanians are more used to being confused with gypsies than Bulgarians, I guess. Gypsies even when to the trouble of renaming themselves to "Rroms", so they are more easily confused with Romanians.
A good waiter will probably be 100x better than a bad waiter. If you've never had a truly good waiter though, you'd never know just how good a skilled server can be.

A fast construction worker can easily be 100x faster than a slow one. This includes knowing how to do something, when to do it, how to prevent errors that must be corrected, managing physical tools and physical supplies, and conducting inspections. Finally, the difference between a fast construction worker and a slow one is that the fast one shows up the day he's scheduled to show up, and finishes on or before the scheduled completion date. The slow worker shows up a few months later, without all of the necessary supplies, and drags the project along for weeks or months.
"No one's charging you to run their software."

I haven't seen anyone claiming that either. However, you're being forced to install and run it to access certain sites and that's why I'd be more than glad to see it replaced with a more open technology as soon as possible.
I am fascinated by the preference for Xmonad as an alternative to Unity/Gnome Shell.

Would Gnome 2 -> XFCE or Gnome 2 -> Gnome Classic not make more sense?

Or is it more along the lines of: we have to change anyway so lets have a look at a workflow that really fits how we work?

I say this as a humble end user who has gone dwm/dmenu -> Unity with 12.04
I have never seen anything equivalent on any big-name person/band on the internet. If you have specific examples please share them because the Radiohead experiment was one-off and it has long since ended.

batista already mentioned Stephen King.

It was sometime around 2000 and he decided to release a chapter at a time for free while accepting donations. He set some sort of barrier (I think it was 50%) and if the donations/downloads ratio fell below that, he'd stop publishing. After several chapters, the percentage inevitably fell under the 50% and he stopped publishing.

It was a novel (pun intended) experiment but at the time I certainly felt King was being quite antagonistic to the audience with the constant threats to cancel the experiment. And, well, I don't think the book was very good either, although it did go on to be published traditionally later on.

The idea of the e-book was very nascent at the time and there was no real understanding of what formats to use and on what devices (and e-books 10+ years ago were almost entirely for desktop use). If King did the same now using a Louis CK model, it would probably work well but.. heck, King doesn't need to try it because he's already as wealthy as any author should wish to be.
Court rules that Google-NSA spy ties can remain secret
Very old people differ greatly in their driving ability. It's not fair to generalize. In any case the problem isn't old people, the problem is bad drivers. How about forcing everyone to re-take a driving test every x years? How well would this go over?
Self-improvement makes me sick.
Google Doodle for Mothers Day
How is the security now? I basically gave up on Diaspora after their first code release proved to be pathetically insecure and showed that security was not even vaguely considered from the start (Outside of encryption between pods).
isn't number 2 and number 6 both NEMA? The only difference is the grounding part
Funny: Ashton Kutcher tries on Steve Jobs' signature outfit for new film
My general impression is that women will receive comments from other women that are generally different to the comments from men. And while these female-to-female comments may not be sexual per se they are not always going to be 100% positive when a women is trying to do something non-traditional.

Basically some other women will often be just as discouraging and as sexist as some men. They will reinforce the same strict gender stereotypes for the same illogical reasons as the men.
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> This has to be understood in historical context.

Thats what he said. How do you know that he honestly sees this as a problem for the country and not just a problem for his party? He is literally advocating getting rid of political competition and decreaasing the overall possible choice for the electorate, so you have to be really really sure that he is honest and has no horse in this race, but as a member of a party which wouldnt be affected by the change but immensely profit off it, he has one.