skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect that sexting will be redefined as non-criminal behaviour or as a minor offense, within the next couple of decades, simply because the alternative is to eventually criminalize a very large chunk of the population.

People were saying precisely the same thing about marijuana having to be legalized by now because so many people in the 1970s were using it. What happened?

Ultimately, having laws most people are guilty of breaking is a valuable tool of social control. As long as selective enforcement is practical, having something on nearly everyone can be a huge tool.

So the future of blackmail will be like what we have now: Some people get away with things that utterly end others, based on a combination of gender, social class, and who they're trying to appeal to. I doubt the laws surrounding this will meaningfully change.
Ask HN: Does it makes sense to manage users like this?
There are rules in place in HN that will give you a period of time as a new user when your username is green and people can see your posts. Then either manually or automatically after some time, your username becomes black, and this can mean one of two things:

1. You are an active user pass the trial period and people can see your posts.

2. Only you can see your posts.

Instead of this, why not just keep the user from posting? All I have to do to get another user is to delete the news.ycombinator.com user cookie and create another user. You could block by IP, but we all know that causes problems. Is this a commonly used way to manage users, by making their comments totally invisible to others? Why can't this community be more open?

Also, why show the up arrow by each post if it doesn't do anything as a newbie/ghost user?
As someone who occasionally outsources to India, you've narrowed this article to something tangible, and you've brought this whole discussion into focus. India is obviously going to take this route and they will get their mission without the huge expense of fuel. They will get all the information they need, plus potentially access to a lot of infrastructure info they didn't have before from NASA.

My guess is they'll have access to long range wifi technology which will enable them to improve their own networks and internet access, which is the heart of their economy.

So essentially India is looking at this as another outsourcing project.
The problems in governance are not because of lack of funds. There is a lot of pilferage, corruption and systemic faults. I agree Space Missions wont help in those but it will help in ways it is supposed to (Science and Technical research).
The Atlas V which launched Curiosity weighs ~300 tons, which bounds its fuel cost at ~$300,000 (at $1/kg).
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Fair enough. You have a valid point.

Do consider then, that the projected cost of this space mission IS far lesser than what India spends on lot of the basic infrastructural needs that you point out are missing.
They are missing, yes, but if you only look at present day snapshot it won't give you the entire story. However marginal it might seem, especially to a first-world citizen (I mean no sarcasm when I say this) education is getting better every year, employment is on an average getting better. Agricultural outputs are worrying but we have had massive monsoon shortages of late.

Almost everywhere the situation is made worse by corruption at every level. But we can't stop trying to fix things. As someone else points out on this thread, in the grand scheme of things this is an insignificant cost. FWIW some really intelligent high-school students might just decide their future based on news of such missions.
Login is through facebook so you can just check the appdata, which says 270k MAU : http://appdata.com/apps/facebook/136609459636-quora
Thanks. That's an especially poignant title for me considering that I just posted this, which will probably be dead/deleted by the time you click on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385454
Not only a major boost for Python 3 adoption but also a reference for how Unicode handling [1] can be successfully ported from Python 2.x libraries.

They seem to be on schedule as well, which is brilliant [2].

[1]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingDjangoTo3k
[2]: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/mar/13/py3k/
That's a nice example. I'm interested in PyQt but never used so it's good to see an example.

Others might find the source interesting at : https://github.com/halitalptekin/Araci#readme

For my own purposes (to understand the source and the screen shots) I used Google Translate to translate Turkish (which I don't speak) to English (which I do, sort of).

It might be useful if you're reading the source (of course bearing in mind some of the translations might be a bit wacked) ...

"Arama icin hazir" -> "Ready to Search"
"Kayit" -> "Recording"
"Uzanti" -> "Extension" (possibly "File Suffix" ?)
"Kelime" -> "Word"
"Bulunan" -> "The" (?)
"Ayarlar" -> "Sets" (perhaps "Options" ?)
"Hakkinda" -> "About"
"Arama Yeri" -> "Place to look for" (possibly "Search Location")
"Uzanti Seçimi" -> "Selection of Extension"
"arama yap" -> "Search" (appears as function name 'aramayap')
G'day, I'm the guy that made it. I agree with your comment completely, I had one pretty big constraint though; one element allowed. I'd like to think that is why it is getting upvoted.
Unbounce's free service is pretty good, and it's what I've used, but you say it's not for you.

It sounds like you need to create landing pages repeatedly, and you don't want to pay recurring fees, so why not get some landing page templates from ThemeForest or somewhere, and use it on your websites with your styling? I guess it'd take some work, but you could make them customizable for your needs.
Thank you for the support!

To clarify, the validation studies will be matched to core resource facilities and commercial research organizations, who specialize in conducting certain experiments on a fee for service basis. As they are paid upon completion of a service, regardless of outcome, we feel they are the solution to many of the misaligned incentives in academic research.

With respect to communication between the original authors and those conducting the validation, we definitely agree there needs to be some degree of communication, given the complexities of research. We will originally match a researcher to their provider in a blind fashion, so they have no choice in who conducts their study. But once a provider is selected, they can communicate with one another in explaining the methodology, experiments, etc.
Wise comment about JPA, it's full of gotchas and just when you need something fancy that you think will justify all the troubles of setting it up, you find that is impossible either because of a bug in your provider or because the spec just didn't cover that case.
On the rest side the real beauty of it over SOAP is that you don't really need a framework, I use Spring MVC but I set it up to the barebones because much of it is not needed.
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I liked the concept a lot, would definitely use it... but on Chrome 21 + Windows it's really, really slow, looks like it's rendering a 3D model.
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You're welcome! We completely acknowledge the difficulty in reproducing scientific research, acros disciplines. We are focused on preclinical biological research for now, but hopefully in the future we can expand to other areas like CS and Statistics.
Why not just tell them they are going to Mars and then drop them off in New Mexico? They both look the same to me, and in spacesuits, maybe they won't notice the atmosphere is breathable.
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"Are we going to see candidates for the highest posts raised from toddler-dom in hermetically sealed media bubbles by their dynastic political parents"

In the UK I'd say this is pretty much the case now. Ed Miliband the current leader of the labour party was a SPAD (Special Adviser) and so I'm pretty sure was David Cameron (Prime Minister).

These people are very obviously taking a predefined career path destined for high political office and avoiding any incriminating evidence of having a past will be part and parcel of that.
I totally agree with what Woz is saying. I do wish that there were tools more readibly available built into our browsers filter content, but I think that is just an opportunity for tools like NetNanny, etc. if Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft (except for Bing), Google (except for Google search), and Opera aren't doing it.

I wish we had the same freedom here in HN, but we don't, and I'm not sure why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385454
Well, the authors of frameworks and libraries still on Python 2 and without having concrete upgrade plans will have to either do something soon or others will take their space.

Python 3 is here, now.
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Wow, that guy have some cool experiments: http://hakim.se/experiments
You're right, but I think that most people who would like a robocar place the most value on doing something else while en route.

Even if it took longer (which, I agree, it would (unless the traffic was all robocars, which I can imagine actually being more efficient in many traffic scenarios, despite their slavish adherence to regulations)) I still think that most people would be happier doing something important or interesting for 35 minutes than they would be getting there in 27 minutes that they weren't able to use because they had to drive.
IIRC Mint uses a read-only API run by Yodlee
AES.io: is not as smooth as Trello or Asana, or some other collaboration tools, but with client-side encryption it is much more secure (plug).
Maybe. But consider the cost here is comparable to building anything up to at most a few tens of miles of decent quality highway. It's a tiny investment to start with.

And this money does not magically dissipate - a lot of it effectively functions as subsidies to create high-tech jobs in the country, and a decent chunk of it will find its way back into government coffers as tax.

Demonstrating the ability to send probes to Mars could also do wonders for Indian companies that wants to compete for international satellite launch business, for example.

It could be a waste, but it could also very well turn out to have a good enough ROI to increase the amount of cash available for basic infrastructure needs.
Odd. Trello is the first task list tool I've actually enjoyed because of its simplicity. To add a task I just need to click, type, and press enter. Done. To reassign a task I click and drag. Done + the satisfaction of seeing my todo list shorter and completed list longer. Love it. I don't even make use of 90% of the features but they're basically invisible to me.

This is a "nice to have" feature, but my main complaint is probably how I feel it's difficult to report off of my data (see trends, etc.).

I'd never heard of Asana but now I'm curious to try it out.
Awesome, good to see this move forward. However, what is the django ecosystem support like?
Smooth and slick on my iPad; depends on support for hardware transforms.
I think most embarrassing thing someone will be able to dig up on you on 2033 will be some record of you violating one atheist commandment: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HfSXLXtVnOI/SUEdIwEEDnI/AAAAAAAACC...

This could bury your political career.
Gentoo is fantastic until you realise you are wasting ages compiling everything.
It's true the issue of reproducibility in research is a complex one, with many underlying factors. Culture, misaligned incentives, and lack of resources play strong roles.

We believe however our Initiative can help in laying an initial framework for how one can possibly address aspects of the problem. We've tried to build incentives (ease of outsourcing, rewarding publications) that factor into this issue, and can assist in improving outcomes. But we definitely agree that a holistic solution will require further changes to the academic research infrastructure.
1. I wish I could have done this.

2. For the right $$$ I'd still do this today even post college with a good salary.

Two benefits that would help me even today: cash now is better than cash in the future & personal relationship with a mentor who is fiscally tied to you for 10 years.

I take it back. I would definately do this now. Not only do I get a mentor, but one fiscally motivated to help me.
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Easy to verify someone, ask them for the j'th and k'th character of their password along with their post code.
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The NSF CISE guidelines (which apply to much of the funded CS research that folks on HN care about) currently require you to retain all data required to reproduce your experiment and make them available to any reasonable request:
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/cise_dmp.jsp

My advisor is on appointment there right now, and they're working on guidelines that require you to provide full reproducibility of your program results (modulo system differences). At least for software, things are looking up. Of course, reproducibility is both infinitely easier (I can do it on any system!) and harder (what do you mean the kernel patchlevel or CPU/GPU sub-model-number matters?).
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I remember when it was just a bunch of geeks hanging out in the back of a pub... now look what it's become! :-)

Major congrats to Ben and Dmitri for all their hard work on the meetup. Great work.
It's been well established that you can paint just about anything with oil paints. Why do people go to art museums?
I think Facebook and other such sharing services are going to make candidates' lives much more visible...for the presidency, everything is open to fair game and things such as personal privacy mean less...because this person is vying to be the most powerful person in the world.

It's common for medical and financial records to be released to the public...so how can a candidate justify not releasing FB history? we might be so used to/numb to social-sharing that it'll seem strange NOT to have it open (i.e. "what do you have to hide?")
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I am surprised that it costs lesser than India's unmanned moon mission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1).

If ISRO can pull it off for under $100 million, that would be quite an achievement. Given the recent commercial interests in space, there might even be an opportunity to become financially independent by offering services for others.
Technically, init is also a program that launches other programs with its own special config file; it's just so much more limited than systemd that it has to hand startup over to scripts.

You don't need a special program to read logs; you can use whatever syslog daemon you want; you just don't have to. I really enjoy journal's ability to filter the logs precicely by all sorts of fields.

Actually, it's just the opposite of "relacement of files with APIs". A program's command-line is an API that you call using a program; that program is being replaced by a file.

I don't think you've actually used systemd if you claim that it "sucks the fun out of computing". I find the the "systemd-analyze" and "systemctl dot" tools to be a lot of fun.
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Very nice!

Add:
text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;

to the .macbook css, so you can add text to the screen ;)
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The UK's well defined path to democratically elected leadership is somewhat unique though. http://80000hours.org/blog/22-how-hard-is-it-to-become-prime...
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There really should be a warning on all these demos, something like: "Don't actually draw with css in the wild, you'll break the web."
RP-1 is kerosene, so by analogy with other petroleum fuels.
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That's pretty much it.

If a request via 8.8.8.8 surfaced at a DNS server in North America, and DNSMadeEasy (in my example) then answered that request with a "Oh, you must be in North America, well for you the IP address of the web site is"... then you might not have got the answer you expected.

i.e. You might be in Spain, and using OpenDNS (or Google) the DNS query against DNSMadeEasy might surface on the East Coast of the USA, and as such you'd end up at Linode Newark rather than Linode London.

That particular example is pure speculation, but it illustrates the point.

As I said, I believe that the amount this must happen is just a slight edge case and as a whole isn't worth troubling about. But it is there as an edge case I'm aware of.

And if someone reads this thread and thinks, "Hey, this distributing SSL stuff is a great idea.", then as always, caveat emptor and check whether any potential issues that might arise are an issue for you and your application.
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Plus, everyone is used to TV shows in "space" with 1g, so weed out the people who would be suspicious about the lack of 1/3rd g. And when they get excited and point out that it's raining, say that it's an effect of global warming.

Even easier - use a large sound studio. Sort of a small-scale version of Truman.
Wikipedia don't need to be cool. It just need to be simple and clear. It don't need a better logo or anything. Wikipedia is content and people who are building it. You design is ok for a design brand or a contemporary art stuff but not for the worldwide encycopedia.
I like the sarcasm and wished I worked there. Argghhh devs just want to code and be trusted to code.
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I'mno expert, and I have no inside knowledge, but as far as I know, new users can upvote things, and their posts are visible to everyone.

On the other hand, if you've attracted enough flags on submissions and/or downvotes on comments then you can be slow-banned, or hell-banned. Being hell-banned means that everything looks fine to you, but no one else can see or be affected by your actions.

This has been discussed many, many times - search for the terms. If you think you have been treated unfairly then email pg and ask to be reinstated. Again, search for contact details, and search for advice on how to get a response from a busy person.

In response to why hell-banning is used, if someone is a troll then it's better not to tip them off that you know they're a troll. Hell-banning is the best way to do that. There are occasional false positives - I've been caught - and they get sorted quickly by an appropriate email.

If you tell us the username you think as unable to votes and/or unable to post then perhaps we could look at previous submissions and/or comments and offer advice.

Finally, the guidelines specifically say not to post questions like this here. You might want to read them.
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I couldn't find a price, W tells me:
"All told, the final product is more expensive than straight-run kerosene. On paper, any petroleum can produce some RP-1 with enough processing. In practice, the fuel is sourced from a small number of oil fields with high-quality base stock. This, coupled with small demand in a niche market compared to other petroleum users, drives the price."
What else would you run on it? Android? Why not just buy an Android tablet then?
Why? It's only a few percent larger delta-V:

http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/index.php?id=29335&L=1

It's also much smaller -- this article puts the weight of the Mars orbiter at 500 kg total, vs. 1,380 for Chandrayaan-1.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/aug/09/india-s...
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With 97 comments (as I write this) I'd say many people :-)
All meetings are optional - it just depends what you're prepared to pay for missing them.

In this case, I'd say there's no/negligible cost to missing the meetings on a no-meeting day, unless the entire group of people have decided that it is worth breaking the no-meeting rule. Of course, you should let people know that you won't be there in advance...
Best thing I've seen all day.

(Go ahead and downvote me, this comment has absolutely value, yet despite knowing that I'm so happy I still feel compelled to post it. :)
Yeah, but then when developers in other OS besides GNU/Linux take the same attitude, they get bashed to death for not caring about portable software.
What's key to a nation's development is education. Emabarking on these kinds of enterprises provides just that: it developes the knowledge, expertise and capabilities of both individuals and institutions in fields like computing, electronics, mechanical engineerig not to mention softer skills like project management, international relations and so on. Additionally these kinds of endeavours promote national pride and inspire schoolchildren to study science.

And finally, snarky for sure (assuming you're american), but people in glass houses etc. America has a large population of poor yet still finds room to spend 500bn a year on defense (whilst only a paulty few cents for NASA)
> I am surprised a Clojure programmer would have much respect for Rails. Its aggressive share-nothing approach leads to inconsistency, poor performance, awkward architectures, and over-reliance on external state management.

When evaluating what tool to use for a project, there are many things to take into account other than the technical superiority of the tools. Relevance Inc, one of the strongest backer of Clojure, still make use of Rails for client projects. Rails' huge web dev ecosystem really made many common tasks as simple as importing a gem here and there and making a few method calls. It all comes down to the right tool for the right job. I'm interested in your take on how Rails' "share-nothing approach", awkward architectures etc.

> Clojure has all the power of Ruby's dynamism

Yes, and then some. Without repeating what you have already said, I would add efficient persistent data structure to the Clojure's list of awesome tricks. Doing functional programming in ruby and python, for example, will force you to trade value immutability with efficiency -- a penalty that one does not have to pay in Clojure.

Clojure is definitely gathering a lot of following. Like many others, I have picked it up, played with it, and never looked back.

But going back to what was said before. Yes, Clojure is awesome. No, Clojure is not obsoleting Ruby or Python any more than those obsoleted PHP, at least not now.