skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a raw list of those who voted for ACTA

ALDE: Newton Dunn, Takkula

EFD: Allam, Provera, Tzavela

PPE: Audy, Bendtsen, Berra, Cadec, Casini, Dantin, Dati, Deß, Florenz, Gahler, Gallo, Gauzès, Grossetête, Hortefeux, Juvin, Lamassoure, Langen, Le Brun, Le Grip, Lehne, Mathieu, Morin-Chartier, Motti, Ponga, Posselt, Proust, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Riquet, Rivellini, Roatta, Sanchez-Schmid, Vlasto, Weber Manfred

S&D: Moreira

And those who abstained:

ALDE: Chatzimarkakis, De Backer, Hirsch, Klinz, Krahmer, Lambsdorff, Manders, Meissner, Paulsen, Reimers, Thein, Theurer

ECR: Ashworth, Bradbourn, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Campbell Bannerman, Chichester, Deva, Elles, Eppink, Fajmon, Ford, Foster, Fox, Girling, Hannan, Harbour, Karim, Kirkhope, Kožušník, McClarkin, McIntyre, Nicholson, Ouzký, Stevenson, Strejček, Swinburne, Tannock, Tošenovský, Van Orden, Vlasák, Yannakoudakis, Zahradil, Zīle, van Dalen, Češková

EFD: Rossi, Salavrakos, Vanhecke

PPE: Albertini, Andrikienē, Angelilli, Auconie, Ayuso, Becker, Boulland, Böge, Băsescu, Caspary, Collin-Langen, Correa Zamora, De Veyrac, Dehaene, Dorfmann, Ehler, Essayah, Estaràs Ferragut, Feio, Fisas Ayxela, Fjellner, Fraga Estévez, Gardini, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Giannakou, Gräßle, Herranz García, Higgins, Hohlmeier, Hökmark, Iacolino, Ibrisagic, Jahr, Jeggle, Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Jordan, Kalniete, Karas, Kariņš, Kelly, Klaß, Koch, Koumoutsakos, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kuhn, Kukan, Köstinger, La Via, Liese, Lope Fontagné, Lulling, López-Istúriz White, Macovei, Marinescu, Matera, Mato Adrover, Matula, Mauro, Mazej Kukovič, McGuinness, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Muscardini, Mészáros, Naranjo Escobar, Niebler, Ortiz Vilella, Pack, Papastamkos, Patrão Neves, Pieper, Pietikäinen, Pirker, Preda, Pöttering, Reul, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sarvamaa, Saudargas, Saïfi, Schnellhardt, Schnieber-Jastram, Schwab, Sedó i Alabart, Seeber, Sommer, Striffler, Svensson, Tatarella, Thyssen, Tıkés, Ulmer, Vaidere, Verheyen, Voss, Weisgerber, Wieland, Winkler Hermann, Zalba Bidegain, Zanicchi, Zeller, Záborská, de Grandes Pascual, del Castillo Vera, Šadurskis, Šťastný

S&D: Christensen, Correia de Campos, Costa, Jørgensen, Schaldemose, Thomsen

from page 19 of this document: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=PV&re...
I've written "large" systems in PHP and some things annoy me, but I imagine this is true with other languages too (I hear from Ruby and Python devs all the time, some things get annoying).

That said, I spend most of my time on the web writing templates, and PHP is amazing at making that easier. There's a good reason PHP is used in ~78% of all web sites -- most of them are basic blogs or content sites.

Most web development is just templating attached to a business model layer, so why not use a language ideal for templating?
> (heck, why do I need to call 'php composer.phar' instead of 'composer'?)

You can.

http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally

$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ composer --version
Composer version 6573fd3
Thanks. Important to mention that is text only.
C is intended to be low-level, like an extra fancy set of macros for writing assembly. It is intentionally not supposed to do that much for you because you need greater control to do things like writing UNIX. Nonetheless, if you use it seriously then you will find that gcc does outright refuse to compile a great many things that it recognizes as broken, rather than chugging along. There is no way to simply suppress all compiler errors because there should not be.

Nobody in this discussion has raised the possibility of writing web apps entirely in C and suppressing all compiler warnings as they did so. That is a scary idea. And it gets even scarier if we are advocating for newbies to start writing web apps that way.
No, they're trying to stop devices they see as copies from entering the market place. They have no way of stopping competing but different things from entering the market. MS did and used it.
> it simply lacks everything

Can you elaborate on that a little please? What does PHP not have that all the other choices offer that make such a big difference?
They're trying to stop copycats. Do you see any lawsuits over the Windows phones?
I assume then that there are also no languages that don't share qualities with PHP?
On Phonoblaster it's actually "live" but your music selection is being broadcast on a continuous loop and not just once, so yes people can listen to it later.
Nice, I've not heard of this before and I'm about to start the process of picking a code editor for my ipad.

I will say this, I wonder if Apple would approve it if you were running the code locally. They've certainly eased off in some respects about people running interpreted code locally for certain applications. The difficultly would be then building the interpreter in without a load of hacks and workarounds and spending lots of time for Apple to potentially say no.
Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]
I had the exact opposite reaction to that. "But is it too nerdy to catch on? To run The Simplest Federated Wiki, you’ll need your own web server" How is running a web server nerdy? Does this person not realize that wikipedia is also run on a web server, or that most people will be reading this very article online? The Web is one of the biggest things going on right now and certainly one of the fastest-growing. It concerns me that people aren't even taught the basics of running their own servers. How are you supposed to participate in the Web if you don't even have a web server?
I suspect Almaviva is talking about the biases inherent to publication / talking about results.

Consider, by analogy, the event "rolling a six sided die and getting a 6 and announcing that fact to the world".

"What is the probability that random events could produce a result that large?": one in six, per die roll. The question excludes the whole "announce it to the world" filter.

"What is the probability that these results [getting a six and announcing it] occurred by chance, rather than being a signal?": We have no idea. If the person announced "I'm going to roll one die and announce the results, regardless of the outcome", then it's one in six. If they kept rolling dice until they got a six, then the probability is 1. If they rolled 3 dice, then the probability is 91/216.

The point is that the scientific method has all sorts of biases (publication bias, confirmation bias, etc.) and p-values are rarely "probability that the result is wrong".
As it is stated, it is 'official fork' which is also stated in README of the original kripken/speak.js. It has no intention of claiming the fork as 'the official speak.js'.
right. I could write a short shell wrapper as well - but why do I have to? I don't have to with pip or bundler.
>Sure, but there's an important difference between "giving away one product to sell others" and "using a monopoly position in one market to eliminate competition in another"

.... you mean like using a near monopoly in search to finance paying manufacturers to use Android?
Actually, according to Cialdini's Influence, complimenting works even when people understand that it is, in fact, flattery: "First, the evaluator who provided only praise was liked best by the men. Second, this was the case even though the men fully realized that the flatterer stood to gain from their liking him. Finally, unlike the other types of comments, pure praise did not have to be accurate to work. Positive comments produced just as much liking for the flatterer when they were untrue as when they were true." [1]

[1] Specifically, he cites Drachman et al. (1978) study.
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Standard null hypothesis testing -- including what they're talking about here -- focuses on

P(results | random noise is active)

You're talking about

P(the thing we care about | results)

The former is more like a simple sanity check. If random noise could have produced what you see, you shouldn't take the results too seriously.

The former tells you a little bit about the latter -- which is good, because the latter is what we actually care about. But you can't explicitly compute the latter without making much stronger assumptions like priors and the like. That's why this last step of reasoning is often performed qualitatively.

A good stats book to read about all this is Larry Wasserman's http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/all-of-statistics/
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Lawyer up. Get a lawyer who specializes in employment law and get them to handle it - they're certainly going to know more about your possible remedies than the internet will, and are much closer to being able to do something about it on your behalf than we are.
they can shutdown iGoogle when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Plenty of things can go wrong telling people what you think.
If it's a contracted work and you have piece of paper i suppose you should be fine against scam, but you cannot be always 100% sure that the company has actually the money. that's why you should ask for something at the beginning.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197570
yes I first thought it is spectrum version which I liked to play
I made this - Rethinking Code Ownership
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This happens a lot on sports-based subreddits as well, when there's a game on.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199015 with discussion, and currently #6 on the Front Page.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but it seems we've reached the point that not only can we not shrink the size and scope of government power, we can't even stop it from growing.
If making money with linux (on the customer side) would be that easy there would be more usable and good looking software.

But asking money for end user software is something you really don't do on linux so there's no really well designed software.
That's definitely where I see this going. A market like that can make Valve a ton of money, but also help support a new generation of indie film makers.
Both of these places sound like Walmart. Kevin Turner used to be CIO of Walmart and I think he introduced stack ranking there.
Another (even older) game with a dirt simple level editor.
Repton for the BBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNRlnNIOXwk (turn volume down , the music will make your ears hurt)
> The sort of content that sends most Wikipedia moderators into catatonic seizures indexed and available.

The reason it is anathema to the Wikipedia concept is because Wikipedia wants its name on good content, not Alex Jones JOOZ-DID-IT (Oh, and Aliens-Big-Pharma-Bilderberger-USPS-Did-9/11 Too) bullshit, unless such bullshit is clearly marked as coming from a specific minority viewpoint.

I think that's a great reason to keep the crap on the current version of Wikipedia to a minimum: The world is confusing, especially when there are people like Alex Jones out there trying to make it more confusing to sell more videos. Having something where you have a good chance of getting the Sane People Version of controversial (or only-controversial-because-of-the-crazies) topics is invaluable if you want somewhere to start. Especially if it's a topic that books aren't really written about, like specific health scams.

So the Federated Wiki universe will need some way to mark specific forks of articles as being from a given group of people, so people aren't mislead into thinking that the sane editors approve of the version of reality Alex Jones is selling the gullible.
You have to first be accepted into their beta.

Next time you open Steam once they accept you, you'll see a message in the deals popup that comes up from time to time.
What if they are not interested in money?

Also, how do you approach them?
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How would you ask? What if you cannot meet them physically?

Say you email them; what do you do if you don't get a response?
There's no reason you couldn't. It wouldn't be Python, but you could do it by defining a new file format to be parsed by the server (mod_whatever).

The earliest Python web frameworks were obsessed with this kind of stunt and it gave rise to a profusion of templating engines, some of which look pretty much exactly like what you are discussing.

I think what happened is that people tried it and found that the advantage is not that great, but the disadvantages are substantial for things significantly beyond "hello world".
When you send money to another individual what kind of check is there that you've sent the money to the right address? I read there's a confirmation step but in the event you accidentally sent the money to a random person that person could confirm too. Maybe a CRC on the phone number?
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Step 0 is to formally demand the money, either by issuing them an invoice (if that was your normal practice) or a written demand letter. Email should suffice at this stage.

Odds are strongly in your favor that they'll simply pay, perhaps after taking a bit of time.

Escalation options abound if they refuse to pay.
They actually charge money to use the (pro versions of the) service!
If you have difficulties in accepting criticism based on a factual quote from a (peer!) reviewed document, then you might consider changing your behaviour.

The moment one experiences the consequences of such discrimination, things get far more real than an absurd conclusion you are alluding to.
What an awful but amazing episode that was. Wife and I had to verbally remind ourselves it was just fiction. (we repeatedly found ourselves stopping and rewinding scenes. How ironic!)

Episode 1 was fun and entertaining. Episode 2 is a nice mid-week entertainment, nothing stellar. Episode 3 is just gut-wrenching :-)
> I guess since benchmarks are not completely worthless,

The original keeps getting re-iterated:
http://programmingzen.com/2007/11/28/holy-shmoly-ruby-19-smo...

The original author, on a basis of a fib benchmark, concludes ruby 1.9 is faster - that is as flawed as it gets.

Did you try running with Python 3? You will get around the same time as you get with Python 2.7. Pick anything from here http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... and run it with Python 2.7 and ruby 1.9. The programs which are faster with Python 3 will be mostly faster with Python 2.7. 2.7 isn't slower than ruby 1.9; it is faster in most of the cases.

Regarding the fib example, when the original was doing the rounds, I didn't find any explanations from python or ruby implementors. I can't say why, but most likely python has a higher overhead with growing call stacks, and ruby does some optimizations.
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We hired Northstar for a small job to build steps off the back of our house. The firm was very professional, very responsive and tech savvier than most contractors. Russ O’ja responded quickly to emails on his iPhone. His foreman showed up on time as promised, cleaned up afterward and the steps turned out far nicer than what we expected.
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HTML also chugs along at all costs:

You don't have to close tags,.

You can add(misspell) unknown attributes to tags.

<input type="text"> works the same as <input type="foobar">

You can have multiple tags with the same ID field.

You can do ALL that and your page will still render, and probably look just fine. That's a major reason why the web took off. Because it didn't take perfection to get something done. Anyone that wanted to make a webpage could fumble around and make something that looked like a webpage.

Perhaps the web would be in a better place if browsers gave an fatal error if it tried to load a page that doesn't validate ... or maybe there wouldn't be a World Wide Web, much like there aren't any CueCats lying around.
It was the first game I ever made a level for actually.
I spent untold hours with the original game.

I don't want to be a downer but I have a hunch that a sequel this late after the original is only going to appeal to nostalgic gamers who played it. From what I saw in the video it doesn't look like Jetpack 2 is going to offer anything new other than new graphics and 2D physics. The original was a great game for its time but it's pretty dated by today's standards.

What I want to know is how these new features will update the game and provide an innovative new experience. I played the original but playing it again with new graphics and gimmicks isn't going to excite me. If the video demonstrated some new puzzle mechanics enabled by physics or new challenging enemies or twists on the game play mechanics I think I would have a far better opinion.

Instead I feel like it's just going to be a clone of the original with a couple bells and whistles. That would've been great if this were 1996.
I believe that two party is the lesser of your problems. The huge dependence of Congress on lobbyist money is worse. The whole system is basically legalized corruption.
If you look at how many votes they pick up, there isn't such a wide gap between the top three parties, and several of the minorities take a substantial share too. However, our first-past-the-post system for general elections magnifies any differences. Usually this gives the largest party a disproportionate number of MPs and often an absolute majority. On the other hand, it potentially gives a lot of influence to even very small parties if there is a stalemate between the two largest parties that means neither can form a government alone. So perhaps it's not so much that we have a 2.5 party system, but more that votes count on a very non-linear scale.

Incidentally, I would characterise both Labour since Blair and the Conservatives as being some way to the right on most social and economic issues. It's not yet clear how much Miliband, E. will bring things back to Labour's more traditional left-wing stance. The Liberal Democrats still seem to be quite left-wing in principle, even if they have to temper that to some extent while they are in a coalition government. I'm not sure we really have a mainstream moderate/centre party in English politics today, though obviously none of our major parties are as polarized/extreme as in some places.
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> The European Commissioner responsible for the treaty, Karel de Gucht, has said that he will ignore any rejections and re-table it before the European Parliament until it passes

Is it just me with limited political understanding or is making this claim publicly just an outrageous slap in the face of EU citizens and democracy? Could someone with better understanding shed some light on the processes at hand and how de Gucht could make that statement without instantly being oust from office?
I hope it doesn't come off as too harsh. I mean it in a good-natured way and obviously you're putting forward your ideas which is a good thing.

Why do you think the term 'variable' is the source of confusion and 'property' is better? If so, why not use a 'prop-' prefix?
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I am under the impression, that what you think is not entirely true:

"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

Perhaps an answer to the naive question:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1127343?ln=en

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Spin_(public_...
A number of these critical articles point out problems from 5 years ago... which are also still problems today.

I would have more sympathy if it were clearly evident that serious bugs were taken seriously rather than being ignored for a decade
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>> If they liked PHP so much, they would have used it.

> Or they got tired of being bullied by people like you.

Or they really aren't a fan of PHP?

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo...
At the same time... Vodafone doesn't have any banking regulations like deposit insurance does it? That seems like a big deal to me. What happens if Vodafone goes out of business? What happens if they decide to just keep the money and shut down the service?

These are low likelihood events, but then, so was the financial collapse of 2008.
At this point we are unlikely to switch to leveldb, work on that has stopped. During integration and testing for leveldb we made a lot of progress on sqlite optimzation and the leveldb advantage diminished significantly, if not disappeared.

(Notice that the bug you referenced hasn't had any real progress since it was filed in August 2011, and work has stopped on the parent bug for integrating leveldb.)

I don't know much about the particular performance problem you're referencing, but I doubt it is as simple as sqlite not being fast enough.
Well, wasn't Welsh largely applying this to sales people? If what the people do is essentially known and fully measurable then it's easy to look over a few years and say "John consistently delivers less than anyone else" and know you have the whole story. As soon as you get into software development it gets a lot hairier.

Another problem with any ranking system is that a ranking is static but actual performance is fluid. Just look at K1 results and then look at the records of the fighters. They've all fought each other and they've all lost to each other. So Hoost was better than his peers four times, but he also lost to those same people. You can say he is better in "win points", but this would never help you predict if he would win his next fight.
to quote somebody who claimed to have invented the Internet:

...inconvenient truth?

What makes it even worse, is that the worse comment is actually factual.
The point is more likely to be transactions than savings
At best it could perhaps eradicate the need for prostitution

As silly as the parent posts' hypothesis is, this is actually an interesting speculation. You don't need to go too sci-fi to imagine a point where the quality and ease of video chat outweighs the risks of a lot of riskier sexual behaviors. Heh, as distasteful as ChatRoulette could be, I wonder if it's a portent of an actual positive change.
I personally don't see the point in iGoogle, but it was perfect for a certain demographic. Anecdotally, I know of quite a few middle-aged people who learned to use the internet when portals were king. After Google surpassed Yahoo, they simply switched to iGoogle.

Even with Google Reader, RSS feeds aren't very easy-to-use for non-technical people. It's going to be interesting to see how they adapt now.
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incremental progress and changes can come from this. but nothing truly revolutionary will come from this strategy.
Ah, fortunately, we aren't measured by LoCs. Instead, we're measured by the number of items we manage to knock off our in-house half-arsed basecamp reimplementation. Not quite as bad, I guess.
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Exactly, the mods are there to keep the crazy out but occasionally you need to reference some of the more outlandish things for various reasons and letting people for things off into tinfoilhatswiki.net would be good for the mods sanity and useful for people who need to reference the over the top stuff. Not sure how the link direction would work, but I'm sure there's a way.
How can they possibly have up to 9 sigma? 6 sigma is a failure rate about 1 in 10 billion, whereas 9 sigma would be 1 in 10^19 or so! That's oddly similar to the number of grains of sand on the earth![1]

[1] http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html
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