skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God is not flaky. You have to hold-up your end.

"Failure to rescue"? God said the holocaust was to "compact" the Jews. As I think about it, Israel couldn't happen without the Holocaust. On Arabs and Jews, God said "Oil funny, hopefully."

God says...

thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be
afraid of the beasts of the earth.

5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the
beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and
thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in in his season.

5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it
for thy good.

---------

God says...

9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac; 9:11 (For the children being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God
according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;) 9:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the
younger.

9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid.

9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that sheweth mercy.
Is this the 2007 MBP you have? I would love to know the details of your upgrades because I have an '07 17" MBP that needs a refresher. Specifically the amount of RAM you have (I thought 4GB was the max) and the SDD?
iPhone + foldable, full-size bluetooth keyboard. Fits in your pocket, and good enough to comfortably write an entire novel on. Plenty of iOS text apps, too. I like Notesy and SimpleNote.
The cost of coin flipping is probably more than the cost of seat position transfer.
His point is that he's pushing off the extra hard work to be done only once, rather than at every pipe. I'm not sure how he needs to recheck his assumptions there since he stated them.
Oh, come off it. Have you really had a 5-year-old open your electronics? If they find a screwdriver they can stick it through the screen just as easily whichever screws Apple uses, and that seems like a more likely damage path.
Doing essentially what you seem to suggest: giving people a choice of a new thing and not taking any old things away.

You really think Apple will be selling old-style MBPs indefinitely? It seems like the product line is going through a transition, and the old-style MBPs will be the end of the line.
I'd be worried either about games of Dust being one-sided due to events in the EVE world, or to advantages in EVE becoming meaningless in order to ensure that individual games of dust are competitive.
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It does export pieces of the design in html/css.
Retina reluctance: Why buy a locked-down laptop?
Relating this back to a recent blog post from Michael Abrash on how and why he got to where he is, the post starts thusly:

"It all started with Snow Crash.

If I hadn’t read it and fallen in love with the idea of the Metaverse, if it hadn’t made me realize how close networked 3D was to being a reality, if I hadn’t thought I can do that, and more importantly I want to do that, I’d never have embarked on the path that eventually wound up at Valve."

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...
active listening works with everyone when done correctly. If done incorrectly, it's horrible and blatantly manipulative. You reflect, not repeat. it's to indicate you're listening and done right is very natural and what gets people to talk their heads off for hours on end.
Ditto for Mac/Safari. There must be something diabolical and/or useful to do with this tech but I'm struggling to come up with a good use case other than 'because kitty'
That is a really good point that we will immediately implement in our Terms of Use.

2. That is a brilliant suggestion, I have a personal side project that is very much on this using mobile devices! This would be a great addition.

Thank you, this is exactly the type of feedback I was hoping for.
I tried a few different photos of multiple cats. It'd always get 1 correct positive, but never more than 1 correct positive. In every image's case, it would have multiple false positives in a cat's fur patterns.

Here's one example:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--RBVfn6FzOI/Tq5kOxFGKEI/AAAAAAAACn...

Neat start, though. I have a particular interest in this subject as I'm entertain schemes that allow our cats into our garage while locking neighborhood cats out. I ran into similar issues with fur patterns during image processing techniques. I'll probably end up relying on a more simple solution: RFID tags attach to their collars.
It's the same with cameras, iPods, and everything else at a lot of retailers. They often aren't even charged. Why even have a real one on display then?

I had a somewhat similar experience with the Apple Store though. I wanted the 15" MacBook Pro with the matte, high-res screen, but my local Apple store doesn't stock those except for the highest end model. So they "lost" a sale, but they don't care because I'm still ordering it from the same company. That's the power of owning the whole channel.

10 PRINT "I AM AN ELITE PRE-TEEN GEEK IN THE EIGHTIES!"
20 GOTO 10
Neal Stephenson is a master of the diatribe. In almost all of his books he takes the time to go into detail on some arcane subject. While I may not be a master after he is done I feel like one.

When it comes to a mainstream adaptation I wonder if they will retain the diatribes. It would be really interesting to see how an audience takes to his level of engagement in a specific subject.
I know it's not in the fun tone of these particular proceedings, but consider that this exchange illustrates a problem that does exist on the Internet: the DMCA, as it exists today, seems to create asymmetric incentives for the infringement vs. protection of copyrighted content.

The collection of copyrighted content from around the web can be "outsourced" to the users of a site like FunnyJunk or (as the letter points out) YouTube. The content is then hosted and advertising run next to it, generating revenue for the hosting company.

This basically allows companies to leverage the fans of content against the creators of that content. People upload The Oatmeal comics to FunnyJunk because they like the comics! But by doing so they are enabling the redirection of financial gain from The Oatmeal to FunnyJunk.

To fix this redirection, the owner or controller of the copyright must then file DMCA requests for each individual instance of infringement at each individual website. It's an impossible task, as The Oatmeal has pointed out repeatedly. And I don't know of any way to crowdsource it--to incent The Oatmeal fans to do it for The Oatmeal.

We're all cheering for The Oatmeal now, but tell the same story with The Pirate Bay and Sony Music, or YouTube and Viacom, and would the comments below be of the same tenor? I would guess probably not. But the structural issue is exactly the same.

I'm not advocating for any particular solution, just trying to draw parallels.
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Honestly, I was not aware of that! We certainly don't need to modify your profile or read your direct messages.

The only thing we use it for is to check the mentions and follows so far.

Thank you for your help!
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4116499
You may also find "taming your outer child" to be beneficial. I came from a rather disruptive household, and this book is how I know now how to be a good parent and not pass that stuff on, and also to be a "fully functional" human being.
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I don't mind the splash page, but I do mind the obfuscated links. Previously, I could just tell the name of file to the friend who new my public folder address.

The 'get link' feature adds garbage in the link that nobody can hope to remember.
If it's under warranty (be it 1 year or Apple Care), aren't you not supposed to remove or replace the drive?
If I were interviewing you and you said "I don't know" I would say "try to work it out". Jumping ahead and saying "I don't know but I think I can probably..." will earn you a few extra points.

I recall one interview where I asked what sort of responses an HTTP GET might result in. The candidate knew 200 and 404 but that was about it. Then I asked, "If you were writing the HTTP standard, what other responses might you include" and he told me about HTTP 304 Not Modified and the related cache-* headers, which he was clearly re-inventing on the spot. I scored him very highly for that.
Simple: Install a random number generator and a light, connected up to the handle. When you flush, if the light goes on, put the seat in the down position, if it's off, put it in the up position.
Thanks for saying it explicitly this time. And I mean that.

I did not intend to make a huge deal of this. Witness my original content, which was very brief. I wanted to convey that though the hyperbole was meant to garner a "yeah, I know exactly what you mean," it instead jarred me. Others obviously did not have this problem, but I don't think I'm alone here. Whatever you write, you're not going to please everyone. But in this case I'm not sure the hyperbole was even needed at all. The point could easily have been made in other ways, with just as much economy.
>But really, this is just JS wearing some new clothes.

And that's not a bad thing.

If you want FP and encapsulation, you can write something like this (functionally equivalent to the OO version, unlike TFA's example)

move = ->
alert "#{@move_verb or "Mov"}ing..."
alert "#{@name or "It"} moved #{@distance or 1} meters"

snake =
name: "Sammy"
distance: 5
move_verb: "Slither"

horse =
name: "Tommy"
distance: 45
move_verb: "Gallop"

move.call snake
move.call horse
kids are people. people are kids. People are just as out of control as kids are when it comes to dealing with their emotions or the emotions of others. You may need to make the implementation more sophisticated but the general theory is all there and all correct.
You can get Apple to replace that battery.
I could use a RAFC right now for cell-based internet here in Russia. There are 4 providers for wireless internet (3 UMTS and one CDMA450) and none of the three UMTS work reliably. Haven't tested the last one yet.
On Windows XP, the Dropbox folder appears underneath "My Documents" by default. This is probably because prior to Vista, Microsoft treated %UserProfile% like a system folder, and so the only link most users would know is "My Documents". Even more confusing, pressing the "Up" button in "My Documents" would take you to the Desktop unless you navigated to the folder by specifying its actual path.

Perhaps also worth noting, in a clean Win7 install, the folder is initially labelled "Documents". It's not until you install a program that tries to access it by the "My Documents" link (there's actually a hidden link with that name) that the folder appears to rename itself to "My Documents".
I have a domain that I registered well over a decade ago. It's a simple, single english word and an extension. I don't even reply to the ones that don't give me a price up front.

The ones that have given me a price haven't been in the ballpark to make it worth my while, but at least they get a reply (aka communication channel).
This must be the 'classiest' case of the Streisand Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Werl%C3%A9_and_Manfred...
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Hey HN!

I'm a fellow hacker and I'm fascinated by the competitions, so naturally I decided to build a little one page web app, based around that...thought I would share!

www.pwnvfail.com

Thanks
Jason
@PwnVFaiL
http://www.pwnvfail.com/
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Do you rewrite the hosts on all third party sites to be the site domain? I'm still not following this setup.

Silk is an entirely different setup. Silk (a) manually sets their SPDY gateway as a browser proxy, which is a system level setting, and (b) silk does not tunnel HTTPS requests. CloudFlare obviously doesn't have control over my browsers proxy settings, so if the page I'm loading is abc.com/page, and that page has a request to twitter.com/widget.js, then the browser should open a connection directly to twitter.com to fetch that resource.

P.S. SPDY does allow tunneling HTTPS, but once again, that requires a system level proxy setup.
Perhaps checking trace route with mtr should give you the answer to 2.
Paul Miller, one of The Verge's editors, is taking one year off from the Internet. He's blogging about it (via a USB stick that someone else publishes from) https://www.theverge.com/label/offline It's very interesting, especially "Ghost Limbs" and "Ignorance".
> If you buy a laptop, you're not returning it because there's something wrong with the software.

Sometimes it's not easy to tell if you're having a software or hardware problems. Especially for your average customer.

If my mom gets a "No Operating System" message on boot she won't spend time trying to figure out if the disk died or something overwrote the boot sector.
Always assume Murphy's law will hold, regardless of what service provider you use.

If you were running your own database, you surely would have had rigorous backups because the responsibility was on you.

Assume that if a service can fail, it will. If data can be lost, it will be. Then, plan accordingly.

EDIT: grammar
There is also "People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts" and several other books that cover this topic. And no, the title does not fail to deliver.
Interesting. Using canvas allows us to do a couple things:

- draw vector shapes

- export images on the client side

- filters/effects in the future

- pixelated zoom (not implemented, yet, though)
A Year of Hermit Hacking
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115372
If 30 days is too much, we're launching a free app that lets you cut off social media for 30 minutes at a time.

https://monotask.com (downloadable now)

We also have a pro version that lets you customize your whitelist and blacklist.

We hope you use the time to make some awesome stuff!
But the article wasn't about cheating. It was clearly an allegory to support what he said he was going to talk about in the opening statement.

You're entitled to your on interpretation of course, but I think its disingenuous to look at a letter with this context and say his great concern, which he took time to write a letter about during the age of telecommunication, reminding his son that cheating isn't part of marriage.
Great post - I've been using RescueTime to be more mindful of how I spend my time and curb my social media use.. Great idea to have a 30 day challenge
US Defense contractors recruiting offensive attackers by the hundreds
For the curious, the author references this Microsoft paper, "Cat Head Detection - How to Effectively Exploit Shape
and Texture Features":
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80582/ECCV_CAT_PROC.pdf
1. The original post had a couple of people who experienced Linux drivers throwing the thermal control systems of the laptop in a loop, and damaging it.

2. Was there anything wrong with the laptop (70% of returns work perfectly)? If not, and it is returned in a non-original condition, why the hell would Newegg (who's margins are 1%) accept it and take a loss on it.

Again, Newegg makes 1 dollar for every $100 sold, this is the lowest margin in the industry, and is why their prices are cheap...

They simply can't cover people burning out their laptops with bad drivers, or accept working laptops with a missing OS, that might or might not have been partially damaged.

They also can't cover people buying a laptop simply to see if Linux runs on it, knowing they can just ship it back. They probably don't want that type of business.
My observations also hold, I have never once had evidence that a woman has raised the seat. Leaving out this possibility is on the same level as assuming that things fall downward or that the sun rises in the east.

(Honestly, though, who doesn't check the state of the seat before commencing operations? What sort of fairyland would you have to be living in?)
The Baroque Trilogy literally changed how I see the way the world works. Those endless detours are worth quite a lot.
Interesting. I wonder if moot will adopt this for 4chan. Recently he's seemed interested in optimizing the site (most notably by cleaning up the HTML/CSS and adding mobile support).
Not nearly as enjoyable as standing up.
Where's everyones sense of information hygiene?

Don't return a system that you've actually used and put data
on without secure wiping it, and if you're a retailer
don't pass on somone elses malware-ridden child pornography containing worm box to an unsuspecting
customer.
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"Most streaming code should really be a separate app anyway."

A great deal of the reason you are saying that is because it's too hard to do anything else today. That doesn't make it the right answer.

It is far easier to take a fundamentally-streaming stack and layer conventional request-response on top as a special case than it is to take a conventional request-response stack and layer a stream on top of that. It isn't even that much harder to do it right if you start with that from day 1, but I've had a devil of a time convincing anyone in the early phases of web framework development of that. ("Why don't you do it yourself?" I'm full up for spare time projects at the moment... and also, I'm really trying to resist adding yet another web framework to the world.)

Of course sometimes the right answer really is a separate app. But you should do that because it's the right answer, not because your stack forced you to do it that way.
The test images didn't work for me (Firefox 5.0, don't ask). However, saving the test images to my desktop then dragging them in worked fine.
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1. If the laptop was damaged because of the user's actions, then that should be their reason for rejecting the RMA. Not "you installed an operating system".

2. If there was nothing wrong with the laptop, then that should be their reason for rejecting the RMA. Not "you installed an operating system".

I don't understand why there is such an obsession with their margins. How does that matter to me as a consumer in any way? I am purchasing a product. I expect to be able to return it if it is defective. Period. I do not care why they lie and refuse to accept a return on defective product. I do not care how much or how little money they make. I care that they are an honest business I can trust. If you value doing business with companies based on how little money they make, you are welcome to choose to do business with companies by that criteria. Those of us with different criteria do not become objectively incorrect for using those other criteria for making our decisions.
"He's always this good... ...When done well, responses like this are like a perfect movie review"

How is his win record or success with settling or preventing lawsuits? In the end isn't that the thing that matters? (I ask the question regardless of the outcome of this particular event).
Not with DSL.

At least in europe the last mile is always BT/Deutsche Telkom etc but the other ISPs put their adapters in their racks. So it shows a different ISP all the way to the host but they are on the same wire and the same PSU in the same cage.
Yeah. My $1400 laptop, and 3 years officially up next month. Funny thing is, because of the GPU (GTX260M) I'm pretty confident that I can easily pull another year out of this. Unless they launch a new console.

It's strange that not just games, but even software requirements are indirectly influenced by consoles.
(spoiler) i lived life. the end.
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can we stop now, I'm getting really upset
I've done much the same with my 2009 MBP. I love that laptop.

However, something to keep in mind here is that the upgrades we have performed are built in to the retina MBP (SSD/Ram anyway).

The drive will be upgradable by third parties before too long, just like the Air. Ram is an issue... no real answer there except to max it out to start.
Also, don't forget that DMCA is not "Internet law", it's an US law.
I thought it was pretty readable, but painfully predictable and fairly unoriginal. It was pretty much Stephenson's writing style grafted onto a grocery store checkout line novel's plot.
Microsoft manufacturing it's own tablet?
It's Terrifying How Easy It Is to Airbrush Photos With This Software
Your cat may already have an RFID tag - they're used in the process of "chipping" cats so that they can be traced if they find themselves at a vet without their owner. If there is one, it'll be on the back of their neck.
HP’s Z620 redefines the workstation
This back and forth public argument feels a lot like the hype up for a professional wrestling, boxing, or mma match. Both sides talking themselves up while the audience picks sides and eats it up.

I'm sure this wasn't intended but it's fascinating to say the least.
elegantly put. but it's funny how much of our lives we live with our eyes shut.
Or simply flushing out the <head> of a html document before the body is generated so the browser can start pre-fetching resources. That's the main use case that motivated Rails to implement streaming.
Agree with you.

As I've said before things like this are like wd-40. The carrier wears off and the active ingredient remains to provide the benefit.

"consider how little people are going to remember about this incident in just a few weeks."

Exactly. One of the reasons people pick fights with market leaders. It gets them exposure. Even if they loose the fight.
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Open-source mapping stack
You can certainly work around it but the trade-offs of working around are very platform specific. For example, Node.js or Erlang apps do not need another infrastructure because streaming is in their foundation, there is no need at all for another stack. On the other hand, rack-stream forces you to use thin (so you can choose in having a specific stack or deploying it all together with thin).

In any case, the main point of the blog post is the amount of effort required in wrapping existing Rack middleware so they play along with streaming but still in a non-optimal way. For example, see the connection management middleware in Active Record:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/3-2-stable/activerecord/...

Even more, if your rack-stream middleware is after the connection management middleware, each stream loop will first need to pass through the proxy call. The longer your stack, more proxies it will likely have and more cost will be involved in each stream.

So yes, you can work around but requires a lot of extra work and is not as efficient.
Cool. So, if I take a picture at the mall, the picture stays at the mall? Meaning, other people that go to the mall will see that picture? Or is the picture available to people near wherever I happen to be?
Maybe I'm a skeptic but I figured he'd manage to get out of it somehow...