skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the lack of dead bodies from privacy intrusions; they are there.

Ukrainian peasants were deported and killed for having more property that their neighbor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization
14.5 million dead

Central and Eastern European Jews first had their privacy violated before their jobs taken, moved to ghettos then to concentration camps. Imagine having a German last name but a Jewish grandmother, privacy matters. Or imagine if Germany did not have a handgun registry-- then its harder to confiscate guns from Jews, which makes its much more dangerous to herd them into camps.

Privacy loss ends in dead bodies-- but only after its too late to regain.
My opinion, not at all official, even though I've helped out a tiny amount with the program as a mentor/judge:

The program basically cherry picks people who are already really successful and very likely to be successful no matter what. It then gives them a great 2y opportunity to work on cool stuff in lieu of college, which may work out for them, or may just be a great experience if they go back to college or take a job somewhere. Leaving college, instantly becoming part of a well-connected silicon valley network, etc. is a big advantage; while leaving MIT or Stanford may be somewhat debatable, leaving podunk u (especially if you're going into debt while there, and not getting much out of it beyond a curriculum you can get from the internet for free) is a more clear case.

There are basically two classes of people who don't belong in college now: the super high achievers for whom the opportunity cost of being in college is too high (Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook vs. Harvard, etc.), or people in marginal schools getting little out of it.

It's easy to take people from the margins of the first category and help them to be more successful (or just give them "parental cover" to drop out and follow their ambition). This is nice for them and for society. More importantly, it creates great examples to use in the debate over the latter. Not statistically valid examples, but politically valid.
The meaning of the equation is that which causes us to study it rather than an arbitrary selection of symbols following arbitrary rules.
Pengobatan keputihan
Anda sebagai wanita mempunyai keluhan kewanitaan ? yaitu keputihan yang sudah menahun. simak solusi terbaik obati penyakit keputihan dengan Obat herbal XAMthone plus sebagai solusi pengobatan keputihan terbaik.

Sebagai wanita dewasa, tentu Anda pernah mendengar istilah keputihan. Nah, kali ini kita coba pelajari lebih jauh apa dan mengapa keputihan itu dapat terjadi pada seorang wanita, serta bagaimana cara terbaik untuk menanggulanginya.
This is a significant reason that many Unix hackers prefer languages like C or Common Lisp where the same symbol means the same thing system-wide. Plain text grep, sed, and ex commands make refactoring quite simple and don't require fancy plugins to figure out what a name means in a given context.
Crowdsourced Jukebox Startup Raises $1.2 Million
Sony Launches Four New Xperia Smartphones
ICANN isn't doing this as a B2C venture -- they're targeting companies with enough cash to protect their names.
>Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food

Erm, Tripe, blood pudding, sweet breads VS Tiramasu, Sushi, Lobster

Sorry Gran!
Handling Internationalized domain name (IDN) in scripting.
> thinking that "building" is the action of pressing a button in an IDE GUI (and that "writing a program" means launching a big wizard that pukes a dozen files into a new directory) is just depressing.

I use UNIX as my IDE almost exclusively. When it comes to Java however, I don't think there's any way to avoid using Eclipse or Netbeans or something. Any nontrivial Java project is going to be convoluted enough that using the traditional tools is an exercise in futility.
I meant adjusting naturally to the different source of nutrition. If you're a vegan, you would normally need to be very careful of your diet so that you do not introduce nutritional deficiencies into your system, or you would need to subsidize your nutrition with vitamins. Long term, the body could find a way to bypass the nutritional subsidies --it could take a very long time (cows had to develop additional stomachs to adjust to eating primarily grass, for example).
Emotion is not an inherently bad thing. It has a bad name among us geeks because it sometimes creeps into purely technical discussions where it has no place, to be sure. But when an unjust law is used to perpetrate evil - and make no mistake, that's what's happening here - the emotion of anger is entirely justified and appropriate.
It's not indistinguishable in nutrition.
Can you site some proof that we are physically meant to eat meat that doesn't use observation as the main reasoning? We are usually characterized as omnivores because of a vast amount of observation of people eating meat, however our bodies aren't exactly designed for it.

For starters, the small intestine of carnivores is much shorter than non-carnivores and has a higher level of acidity in the stomach. This is because the nutrients need to be extracted and the waste expelled before the meat rots inside the body(which it partially does in a human body since our intestine is much longer by comparison than other carnivores).

There's also the issue of short, dull, canines and much smaller temporalis muscle that powers the jaw. This is why we have to spend more time chewing and grinding meat down into smaller pieces instead of just tearing off chunks and swallowing it whole like most carnivores. We wouldn't be able very easily bite through hide and tear chunks of meat off nor would we be able to digest (most)raw meat without getting sick.

Most of our carnivorous traits are remnants from evolution that were never replaced. We more closely resemble a herbivore that has maintained some basic primal ability to process meat than we do a carnivore that has adapted to process vegetation.
Ask HN:What valuable company is no one building?
Minds+Machines looks like they applied for 80 tlds. This is just going to get ridiculous.
http://ac/ didn't work for me.
"Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case."

This is just technology marching on, it is cutting edge engineering and manufacturing and Apple care is next to none in the industry. To call a person buying this a fucking idiot is akin to an old timer smacking down the youngsters about modern TV's because you can no longer swap out the valve tubes.
What important problem is no one solving?
I'm comfortable with college-level math: linal, multivariate calc, set theory, various logics, geometry, proofs, and tensors; in the contexts of pure mathematics, compute science, and physics. I've experienced rote memorization, free-form exploratory learning, and much in between. I agree that most people never get the opportunity to learn how fun and beautiful math really is, and believe it's a tragedy that proofs and problem-solving are so seldom explored.

That said, the mechanical process of algebra is an important tool--one that can be honed by repetitive training. Having those physical patterns of grouping, distribution, cancelling, ingrained into your brain can make more abstract explorations easier. It's like learning how to walk in order to backpack the Wonderland Trail, or practicing strikes in martial arts to gain a better understanding of partnership. To that extent, games like these can be a fun and useful part of exploring math.
I agree that it is important to recognize the limitations of this approach. As a high schooler (and even as an undergraduate in mathematics), you learn all sorts of formal systems. As a mathematics researcher, one of your charges is inventing interesting mathematical concepts to play around with. Obviously this is a bit much to ask out of DragonBox! And even more modestly, the ability to sit down with a problem and say, "Ah, but what really is going on here?" is a deep and difficult skill to impart. I don't know what these people were lacking, but if they didn't know how to move symbols around, I might have started there...

(BTW, an inconsistent set of rules would correspond to a version of DragonBox where there was a cheat code you could enter, and then easily solve every problem. So it would not "work just as well", and this would be pretty clear to a cheating gamer.)
Twitter releases Elephant-Twin, a Hadoop index creation framework
Interesting take. Could you comment on my sibling comment?(Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106554 )
New Macbook Pros Declared Unfixable (Soldered RAM, FTW)
I keep thinking "You will be assimilated" ... and it's simultaneously a scary idea and strangely desirable.
Seriously? Debugging in Sass is a no-brainer - it barfs as soon as there's an error and it's blatantly obvious as soon as you load the page, since the relevant errors are splattered all over the the top of the page (this is a good thing).

This proposal by the W3C is definitely not-even-half-baked.
The author seems ignorant of the fact that the Macbook Pro is still here, with optical drives, firewire, ethernet, and now USB3. That's going to be the obvious choice for a lot of users.

Surprised he didn't put Firewire on the list.
"He's put up $60 million of his own money to stake his claim on a giant"

Unfortunately this is a typical article simply quoting what someone says as if it is fact. If you do the math on what it cost to apply for the TLD's it would be more like $10,000,000 not $60,000,000.

At the very least it would have been correct to say "He says he plans to invest up to $60,000,000" not to make a statement of fact. This is exactly how the media builds legends. "He's put up" indicates a statement of fact that is to be believed.
In other news: "Why getting punched in the face matters, even if you heal".

Seriously, out of all of the human emotions, why do we constantly feel the need to justify the desire for privacy?
The one thing that would make me buy this machine is the screen. But in apples usual "we know better than you" attitude they don't allow you to run the os at native resolution without scaleing. This is a huge deal breaker for me and is the one thing that is turning me off this machine.
Crowd Contouring on the Casino Floor
A somewhat related video that often gets posted, but is worth posting again: Why you should never talk to the police (even if you have nothing to hide!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

It includes some stories that illustrate why information about you, even when you have done nothing wrong, can be used against you by authorities, even purely by mistake not accounting to any corruption/bias/pressure-to-catch/punish-somebody, etc.
I remember you said once that rote practice and drilling of arithmetic helped even higher math. I agree. How is drilling mental math any less mechanical than the unconscious familiarization/ingraining of algebraic concepts of this app? In both cases there is an intangible benefit beyond the process.

For the brain, prior meeting in a simpler guise is useful in reducing friction when incorporating new concepts. I imagine it like starting off with good weights when doing a search with no global.
Show HN: Snapquest - Pinstagram with live photo stream
http://snapquest.me - Launched the site two weeks ago with an idea of discovering and sharing cool photos from a random person's perceptive via a live instagram photo stream taken recently in a given city. Every now and then you come across some really awesome pictures which I have pinned to my Pinterest Board here http://pinterest/ankurpatel/snapquest/

Plan is to add more cities. Would love your feedback and feature request for snapquest. Thanks!
I am, of course, exaggerating when I talk about all startups being web apps and iPhone games. On the other hand, an awful lot of the startups you'll find floating around the HN ecosystem do seem to fall into one category or the other.

Many startups do, indeed, work on bigger problems. Batteries, solar power, freaking space travel. But who starts these? Not people who picked startups over university, that's for sure. To work on big real-world problems, you generally need a pretty darn strong background in science and/or engineering before you can even get started.
I don't mean debugging in the sense of "there's a compilation error", I mean in the sense of "oh, that box has a blue border? That's wrong- what line did I define that variable on?". As I said, it's not a huge problem right now, but in more complex files it can take time to track down the original definition that led to the CSS you're seeing.
Ah, what a mess.

Hopefully no one will create problems for them since it seems their intentions are good, and 826 Valencia (McSweeney's nationwide network of writing workshops for young people) is quite awesome.

I don't know what their original contracts with customers said, that contract is what needs to govern what happens to money collected that was not distributed. Perhaps the contract never thought to take into account left over money though. If that's the case, then the leftover amounts, calculated as the percentage of funds received per person that weren't disbursed based on their reading habits, should be refunded to the original customers. I think it would be worth also emailing each person and asking them what they want done - do they want it donated to 826 Valencia, or would they prefer their money back. Most will give permission to donate it since they are each small amounts anyway, but others will have problems getting ahold of them because their emails will bounce. But it will at least allow getting permission from many as to what they want done. This is all presuming, to state again, that this case of undistributable funds was not covered in the original contract.

There is one case I am familiar with where a person collected money for a certain cause, but wasn't able to use the money for that cause. He didn't keep track of the people who he collected the money from (some of this was passing baskets around at churches) and so he just decided to donate all the money (around $10,000) to a different charity he chose. He ended up charged with theft and misappropriation of funds. So you have to be careful with this stuff. (No case citation as I know the person professionally and don't wish to call attention to him, just making the point that collecting money for one thing and then spending it on another can lead to problems in some cases even when your intentions are pure.)
Here comes the circus would be more correct, in my opinion
Looks like two tests (test_where_error_with_hash and test_where_with_table_name).

You can see those tests here:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/att-504/3-2-sql-injectio...

(this is for 3.2, you can change the patch name for 3.1, etc.)
Thanks for the reply. ctags is a great tool, but it is not as easy as an IDE. IDEs keep track without my having to explicitly rebuild the tag data base. IDEs have plugins for different languages. The dynamic flagging of errors and warnings without having to explicitly compile is a time saver. Refactoring tools can also save quite a bit of time. Renaming a function becomes trivial in an IDE.

Of course, there are many things for which vim and bash (":%! sort -n" anyone?) are far superior to an IDE. I tend to use both.
Yeah, for it to extend to "police state", you'd need to have cops manning the cameras at all times, ordering people around via a mounted speaker.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6524495.stm
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Web developers make oversights. The important thing is that they come back to correct them.
Not yet, but I'd imagine there are plenty of folks working on that.
I’m honest, and not a huge fan of clothing, so I ostensibly do have nothing to hide. But there is a difference between being an open book and letting anyone read you at any time for any reason. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear—if and only if no one will abuse your information. Not to mention people just like privacy, and it’s a basic right.

If someone were to walk in on me having sex, I might be a bit embarrassed, but not unduly bothered. If a voyeur were to surreptitiously watch me, that’d be a breach of privacy. It’s about who’s consuming the information, not who’s producing it.
The making of the MOO ad
Karl Popper's "Introduction to the Logic of Science": A Summary
47% Increase In Daily Backups Over 2011 - 5th Annual Backup Survey
I'm pretty sure op meant it in an humorous way.

I also think it's a weird non-feature. That's certainly the one item of the survey that made me tick.
In a programming language, you have syntax and semantics. Syntax tells you what you can write and how; for example what is a valid program. Semantics tells you what a program evaluates to, and maps your programs to another domain.

Here you have the same thing. In math you have syntax, and semantics. The other domain from semantics might be abstract, or it can be purely mechanical, but it can also be connected to reality. If your operations map to nothing that makes sense to you, the operations are just mechanical; you solve equations in some way because you know it's right but you don't understand why. If your operations map to other domains that you understand (also if they are abstract domains in your imagination), you can understand why the operations work like they do, and you know why you have to solve them the way you do it.

Maybe the equations don't have a specific meaning per se; but if they don't have any meaning for you, there is no way you understand what you are doing when you solve them.
Or call what SASS and LESS do global constants.
That was a torturous, long winded, poorly written article. The author identified early that the retort "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" was a powerful one. He then reinforced the power of that retort by struggling to rebuke it in this article.
Feminist In The Middle
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They offered a service similar to adblock and noscript, but offered money back to the sites to make up for the loss of ad revenue. To my eyes, your post came across as critical of this service, so I apologize if I misunderstood, but you should be leveraging even harsher criticism against projects which deny sites their revenue and don't offer that money back to them.
Square now processes $6b in payments annually, employs over 300 people
> I could compute the determinant of square matrices,

I learned to do this too---and then promptly forgot---several times over until someone finally clued me in to the fact that the determinant is the scale factor of the linear transformation associated with the matrix. Then everything clicked.

It's not just that I couldn't remember how to define/calculate the determinant, I also couldn't apply it usefully in my (proof-based) linear algebra class because I didn't have any intuition for it or any way to connect it to other concepts.
The screen's OK, once you get used to it, it'll stop feeling like a big deal, the extra pound and a half is something you'll feel every day.
Why the UK govt. wants us to airmail 1kb text files by CD
For whom? Certainly not for me, I'm quite willing to pay a cost premium for real meat.

For poor third-world villagers, then? I have my doubts. I mean, so many cultures in the world attach so much cultural significance to eating meat, and the less often you get to eat it the more significant it is.

That is a pretty weird false dichotomy there, and I don't know if you intended it, but you basically just divided the world into "people who can afford and are willing to pay extra for real meat" and "third-world villagers". Also, meat substitutes are already winning on price in some Asian cultures.

You'd think that "feels just like a real vagina, only much cheaper and less trouble" would be a selling point, but it turns out that they're significantly less popular than the real thing.

And then you followed it up with one of the worst, and most sexist analogies I've ever seen.

First of all, why it's sexist: for your analogy to work, you must assume that the difference between a fleshlight and a real vagina is less than (or at least comparable to) the difference between meat and meat substitutes. One of the principal differences between fleshlights and real vaginas is that real vaginas have women attached to them. So if your analogy is to work at all, we must accept that the significance of a woman is less than the significance of the difference between fake and real meat. Preposterous.

Secondly, why the analogy fails anyway: I think you'll find that if it were a contest to see what's rubbing penises the most, men's hands would be winning by a landslide.
So, You Dropped Out of College
Are you _really_ sure you'd want that (I think my eyes wouldn't like it)? You can run it at 1920x1200 though.
I'm going to be a tad pedantic and note the following:

- bash and make are completely separate programs. As a matter of fact, I spend half of my time developing with ksh and Solaris make. The two programs you mention don't go 'hand in hand'.

- `find | xargs grep` is a terrible construct. 99% of the time (if not a lot more) you'd prefer using something like `find -exec`, I have yet to come across a version of `find` that wouldn't work that way.

My point is not to be an arrogant prick, and criticize the parent post. These kind of misconceptions usually indicate poor understanding of the larger Unix philosophy. By her own admission, my parent "just do[es]n't know enough".

I believe that in order to truly use Unix as an IDE, one has to go beyond the (arguably bad) reflexes taught by common GUI IDEs. It's not simply a matter of "What command can replace feature X from Netbeans/Eclipse/Visual Studio/...?" Modern IDEs weren't conceived with sed/awk in mind, aren't (for the most part) scriptable like most Unix shells are, and aren't sitting on top of a freaking Lisp machine like emacs is (you know the whole enlightment deal, lisp is superior, bla bla bla).

I am sounding like an evangelist, Unix tend to do that to me. I am trying to make a simple point:

It's normal to feel that something is missing if one is simply transposing her knowledge from point-and-click IDEs to the Unix shell.

(To answer your question, a combination of sed and awk does wonder to rename across the code base. And SO much more ...)
Cloud production aka Makerbot Prime
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Well, I claimed my $0.50
If Apple were to make Porsche they would make you buy a new every time a tire got punctured. They and their fan boys would market this as though, fixing tires is so difficult that its better to throw away the car and buy a new one instead.

What's troubling about this whole debate is the way, Apple and their fan boys and presenting it. All of sudden overnight, changing RAM is being portrayed as the most difficult thing you could attempt on a computer. So difficult that it would be rather better to buy a new than changing it.

I think we all be thankful that this mentality hasn't spread to other makers, else all of us would be piling laptops like bricks every time the battery went dead or the DVD ROM stopped working.
And meat does not contain any chemicals? Here is a 40 page list of stuff you can find in your meat besides antibiotics and growth hormone:
http://concordfood.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=494...

To list a few: Chlorine dioxide, Lauramide arginine
ethyl ester, Potassium diacetate, Sodium hypochlorite, Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, Ammonium hydroxide, Sodium
tripolyphosphate, Bacteriophage preparation, Cetylpyridinium chloride
It seems like whenever people say this they are only considering wiretapping or similar invasions that don't cause them any personal inconvenience. They're not thinking about the TSA, personal searches, searches of their property, confiscation of their property for further investigation, etc.

My response is something like "so you'd be fine with a random mandatory search of your house twice a year, that takes 12 hours, during which all your electronic devices will be confiscated for two weeks of processing?" They'll say "no, that doesn't happen." But it will with their attitude.