skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry but the attitude of half of this thread is simply disgusting; from 'haha' to you better provide food before creating space missions. I was just as skeptical about the budget and our capabilities (Yes, I am an Indian - if that wasn't obvious already) but I, even after having actually suffered from poor infrastructure and have seen failed launches as well as people suffering from hunger, support the cause wholeheartedly.

If you have a problem with how your government's aid money is being spent in India, please go forward and lobby for the aid to get cut off. How we spend our tax money is a decision that we should be allowed to make.

Honestly, I am surprised that HackerNews has the sentiment of pointing out expenditures on science to be extravagant and unnecessary by using social conditions as excuse, while there is so much more we could save by changing our military, social or economic standpoints. US's military budget was $663.84B in 2010 [1] while United Nations budget was just around $5.2B during the same time [2] and it's not that United States is all free from hunger or food insecurities [3]. So please, whichever country that you belong to will have issues just like us. We probably have a lot more of those than you do, but we have the right to decide which of those do we want to tackle now at the expense of being behind in our long term goals. And I request you to keep your preferences to yourself and stop forcing your morality/ethics/logic onto us in such private matters.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
[2] http://www.un.org/en/hq/dm/pdfs/oppba/Regular%20Budget.pdf
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger#In_the_United_States
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> Not sure why you think it doesn't scale as well.

The reasons why JavaScript is thought not to scale well are very-well known. They include:

Minor syntax issues:

- Deeply indented callbacks, passing a function to a function to a function and the resulting complexity of flow control.

- Issues with "this" become more likely with larger codebases. I know that JavaScript's "this" WTF is very old news, but it's the gift that keeps on giving.

Major design issues:

- JavaScript is not an OO language, it is a language that provides an OO construction kit. The OO patterns are layered on top of the language, the best idioms (e.g. self-invoking anonymous function, revealing prototype pattern) are not obvious and took a while to become common, and since none of them are mandatory, they can be ignored, mixed and matched or just gotten wrong. This is not a prescription for trouble-free scaling of the code.

- Lack of a built-in packaging/module or linking system. Requirejs is filling this gap, but for a long time most JavaScript code just wasn't partitioned, it was put all in one file. It is unreasonably hard to build large systems this way.
Seriously? I was very disappointed when I got to try Jira. It's slow, clunky and ugly. Bugzilla is a bliss compared to Jira..
> I have no idea of the US situation.

Well there's the speedy trial thing. There's also the right to an attorney which turned from a negative right into a positive right.
Indian organisations are notorious in having extremely low estimates that later blow up to 4-5 times. So while I have more trust in ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), their numbers might be off by a factor.
Very cool. Nice work.
And then spend the next year supporting it because people have paid 99c and feel that they can now demand support instead of asking for it? No thanks.
Obviously the Django ecosystem can't start supporting Python 3 until Django itself does.

The porting process (which is still in progress for Django) shouldn't be too difficult for most pluggable applications, as Django strongly encourages using unicode everywhere.
When was the last time you tried it? I just did a deployment at work (hopefully replacing BMC SDE) and it's rather snappy. Not as fast as plain HTML of course, being Tomcat on the back end, but I couldn't possibly describe it as slow, or clunky, or ugly.
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nice to see django take python 3 seriously
Sounds like you'd love the Forth environment built into the OLPC firmware.
> having laws most people are guilty of breaking is a valuable tool of social control

Not to dispute anything you are saying, this seems to be a preferred tool n some authoritarian countries. The downside is that it places a huge drain on economic activity, since one has to "keep up a good relation" with the government officials at all times. Needless to say, policy more in line with democratic ideals should be more efficient in the long run.
After using LaTeX for the past ~8 years one thing I have noticed is that instant preview is not adapted at all: LaTeX compilation is simply too slow. I prefer compiling when I want to see how things turn out after making a bunch of changes rather than having the compiler throw out a bunch of errors — and breaking my workflow — just because for some reason it decided it should recompile while I was in the middle of writing a macro.

Another minor quibble I have with these kind of services is that they often only support [pdf]latex, I'd like to be able to use [xe|lua]tex (after having a taste of fontspec/unimath I simply can't go back).

Other than that, great project!
Honest question since I'm confused about terminology: Why is ARMv8 described in places as "backwards compatibility for existing 32-bit software" when some existing instructions will be removed in AArch64?
This takes away no choice, I'm sure if you want to use old style init that'll be available too, you'll just sacrifice easier config, faster boot, better diagnostics, logging and profiling of boot.
> this file disables the webkit text size adjustment on the iPhone.

No it doesn't.
Headcase.js - Use CSS media queries with CSS classes and JS event.
"predefined career path destined for high political office"

At least the Romans and with their cursus honorum actually required things like military service:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum
I'll actually upvote you, because I agree this is great. With the 3.3 release almost through the door, 3.x becomes a simply better Python than 2.x and time is ripe to start switching.
I wish I could care about this, but the 'doxx' and lulz and generally childish writing make me assume this is another case of internet entitlement issues.
I think Charles is probably wrong on this point, although not necessarily for the reasons you state.

Simply because a law is violated by the majority of the population doesn't ipso facto make it a bad law (although in some cases this is certainly true). For example, many people break speeding limits, but we also accept that in some cases speed limits are justified. It's a matter of degrees.

'Sexting' laws are similar to age of consent laws. For example, a 13 year old girl (or boy) sending indecent images of themselves to someone many years older than them is clearly a problem. Two 13 year olds sending indecent pictures to each other may be morally concerning to some, but it's not going to bother the law.
You have the right to determine how you spend your own money. Whilst you are still taking handouts from other nations, then it is not a private matter.

The US does spend a lot on their military, and they may have some very deprived areas where people have less food than required (but I highly doubt anyone in the US starves to death).

Likewise, though, the US doesn't have young girls whose job it it to collect other peoples faeces with their bare hands [1]. I would say a country that has that doesn't need a Mars mission.

[1] http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=o0vpXaPf_9AC&pg=PT62&...
Preview doesn't work for me on latest stable Chrome and Win 7.
Github: https://github.com/sakamies/headcase.js

"By defining the media queries in the <head> of your document, they'll be reusable in css and javascript. In css, you can use regular descendant selectors instead of media queries. This simplifies the syntax and removes the need to ever copy & paste the same query in multiple places."
Just FYI, Trello can be much more than a task-list-tool. It can be.. whatever.

It's extremely flexible. We used it for a system design, and the lists are not todo's. One list lists all the database tables for example, but we're still experimenting so this might not be the best way to do it.

Only drawback so far is that it's kind of slow on my machine.. And i fear what thy may charge eventually.
C'mon, it's CSS, you can easily remove that line with the textarea declaration and you're done leaving it to whatever is used by a browser. Or make it all serif, it's that easy.
Nice read. Nothing new, just read the old Greek philosopher Epictetus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus.
I've found the Clojure community at large to be well reasoned in general and very intelligent. KirinDave's posts may be a little hot, but I think it is a sign of growth for Clojure. Ruby/Rails also had (has? ;-) ) a problem with smugness as it was gathering rabid following. Let's hope that this is a sign that Clojure is also building up a gathering of all sorts of interesting characters :-)
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Thanks for all your hard work guys. It's one of the few meetups I try to attend every month, and I've seen some excellent talks over the years, and met some really interesting people. Highlights for me were Joel Spolsky, Eben Upton, and being proved wrong about Shed Simove! Good luck with your move to the valley Ben, and thanks to Dmitri and Steve for keeping it going.
In addition to the responses from others and depending on the password restrictions set by 1and1, there is no gurantee you can use the same/previous password when you try and reset it.
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Regardless of the truth of this woman's specific claims... This seems like the point at which youtube has to make decisions about who their automated takedown system actually serves.

Reddit's CEO refers to Reddit as akin to a city-state and himself as mayor. Youtube has essentially the same problems in governance. They have to juggle a host of competing interests ranging from free speech rights, to copyright infringement, to the right to privacy. It has constituents large and small, individual users on up to multimillion dollar companies. Their constituents are not aligned on a host of issues, and this is clearly one of them.

So we know whose side the federal government is on, the question is, whose side is Youtube on?
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Lie detector avatar on the southern border.
What can Freenet do well already?
I'm not sure instant preview is a compelling feature. The whole point of LaTeX is to put content before layout.
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Heck, I don't even use Django. But I'm in the lucky position of having been able to switch to Python 3 already (some of my code still has to keep compatibility with 2.6/2.7, which is reasonably doable, but much of it even gets to care about nothing but 3), and I'm happier now than I was on Python 2 - it's a better language now. I'm frustrated about having to defend that view to people who are frustrated about the transitional pain all the time, so a big milestone toward getting that pain behind us is a cause to celebrate. A Python 3 Django is a big deal both pragmatically for all the great sites using it _and_ psychologically for the Python community.
Regardless of your personal feelings for this woman, do you agree that this is an exploit that youtube exposes where attackers may be able to get personal information about a youtube account holder?
Never ever feed the trolls. - Old Internet saying.

(This argument always always comes up and goes nowhere, and is a well known time sink. People who keep bringing it up in every other thread are trolls. Lots of people with nothing to do but hate and or give unasked-for advice jump on these known timesinks if you give them your attention. Not worth responding to them. Respond to people who have something useful to say.

Meanwhile India (like every nation on Earth)does what it does, depending on local perception of policy needs and all the blather on Teh Internetz by people who have ideas on what she "should" be doing is irrelevant. Don't lose your temper, because it just ends up making trolls happy and derailing useful discussion)
The old init will still be available, but the point is that anything built to run on systemd only, will not be easy to use with older systems without effort to backport them. This isn't much of a problem if you do choose to use systemd though, because it's backward compatible with older scripts.
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Do you understand the difference between retained and shallow heap in Java?
Oracle, AMD urge support for Java GPU proposal
And advertisers often lean into it by often preferring not to know precisely how effective are their ads.

That has not been my experience at all.
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The use of 'Patterns' in the title is getting some heat but I think it's because his title 'Patterns for Research in Machine Learning' is a little play on 'Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning' (usually known as 'PRML' or 'Bishop') which is a text book by Chris Bishop, arguably the bible in the field.

This is good advice, especially saving intermediate calculations to file which can make iteration much faster. I have witnessed a lot of research students set a job running which will take about an hour, look at the results, say 'd'oh!', change one line of code in one of their functions and set the whole monolith running again, needlessly repeating about 55 minutes worth of the hour's computations.
It's true that AMD is being disingenuous with Bulldozer, but on the other hand their SMT threads share less resources than other implementations (they have separate integer execution units for example, which makes them much closer to "full cores").
"Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain’s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844...
Well the page says Improves usability with subtle improvements.
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I didn't use the right phrase; what I was trying to say was, don't knock it until you know all of the facts; norswap is assuming the worst, but that's where the problem is, the assumption. It's not more valid than assuming the best. Without the facts, it's all just speculation. I didn't mean literally try it, but know exactly what the problem is before you knock it down... sorry for the misstatement.
Transfer the ownership to EFF and put their info on the form?
you're getting old.
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You seem to assume the "iPad Mini" hasn't been in development since well before the Nexus 7.

Given how short a timeframe (4 months) Google gave the development of the Nexus 7[1], and Apple's supposed "don't release until it's 'perfect'" attitude, I wouldn't be surprised if it was indeed the case that the iPad Mini entered development first. If so, does it really count as "me too"? Or just later to market?

(speculation) What if the Nexus 7 was a response to the rumoured possibility of a 7-inch iPad? A way to try and capture that segment of the market before Apple rolled into town?

[1]:http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/08/06/se...
Interesting technique, and I see how the behaviour of the opponents can be annoying. But the lawsuit threat is ridiculous. Is youtube required to provide free anonymous video hosting to this person? Perhaps she should ask for her money back instead.
Perhaps they should refer to 17 USC § 512 (f). She can sue for misrepresentation. Frankly, I'm surprised that nobody has! I'm sure if she wanted she could extract a lot of money. It would sure stop frivilous takedown requests, too!
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The posting implies that the RL information required to make a counterclaim will be supplied to the party making the complaint.

Is this indeed how YouTube's process works? If so, it certainly would seem to be problematic. A proxy, such as a shell company, or simply a friend, would seem to be plausible alternatives.
Not sure that Hacker News is comparable to an art museum. But point taken.
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Yeah that was my initial reaction as well, I just don't see it happening at all. I mean, we have to be serious here, they are going to put a Rover or something on Mars for $80 Million?!.......Nah.

I'm not saying that's they wont EVER, but they have to join us on planet earth before they start dreaming of other planets.
Seems smooth on a galaxy nexus with chrome 18
Take it you're an Aussie. In which case, more power to you (I'm in Newcastle). Lovely icon.
I've been using dropwizard for a new project and I'm pretty happy with it so far. It's a great head start and a simple architecture.
yeah we already had in Pyramid 1.3 for ages ;-)

I can never be surprised enough how people are excited about django features that others take for granted.
I'm far from an expert on this topic, but it seems that you're still missing the main point--this talk is exactly about how to model time dependent data (immutable data), and how not to (mutable state, oo). Hickey definitely isn't advocating a system that can't change with time. Such a system would be pointless. He wants changes in state (which, naturally, occur on a time axis) to be represented by new values, not as in place, destructive updates of old values, as it's done in oo and currently popular databases.

If you look at the results of this approach in Datomic, I think you actually do see a design that treats time as much like a first-class citizen as it's ever been treated, in the sense that time essentially acts as a primary key, and developers are provided with a time machine that allows them easy and efficient access to any state that has existed in their data in the history of the application. (In theory, at least--I haven't personally tried Datomic).
I'd much rather have clean, reusable HTML. CSS you can use preprocessors to abstract away the messiness.
That's precisely why I call BS on this story. Anyone with a Google Analytics account would be able to look at the huge disparity between billed clicks and the clicks to their own site. Even if they were billed based on impressions (CPM), which could muddy the waters somewhat, surely someone would notice that their net CPC with this network is 10X that of their CPC on other networks.
They're talking about stuff like the MIPS MT-ASE for instance.

http://www.mips.com/products/architectures/application-speci...
I find Clojure Programming (http://www.clojurebook.com/) to be an easy and practical introduction of the language. It often compare and contrast the Clojure way of doing things vs scripting languages like Ruby. After that, Joy of Clojure (http://joyofclojure.com/) dives deep into the whys of the language. Even though it was written against Clojure 1.2, it covers advanced topics like continuation passing style that were left out of Clojure Programming.
That is not how the DMCA works. All she has to do to file a counter claim is submit contact information of someone authorized to act on behalf of the works submitted, be that an attorney, friend or other business agent (the only requirement is a US address). Do you think Britney Spears puts her personal phone number on RIAA take down requests? The RIAA doesn't even own the copyrights they get taken down themselves, they're acting on behalf of the copyright owner.

Also, if you're a site owner or content owner, you need to go right now to http://copyright.gov/onlinesp/ and register as a designated agent for content and notifications. Get ahead of this before it becomes a problem. It's $35.
Because the ARM front end is so simple, it isn't hard to have multiple ones. One of these will be able to run existing 32-bit software.
yes you are right about the population growth, I thought this too - but think of it like a school year or something like that (i.e. there are, in most industrialised countries, pretty much the same number of people going into a year of school as the year before - we have a rectangular (as opposed to pyramidal) population tree.
Most people experiment with drugs in the same age groups, and In australia over the last 15 years heroin use has been falling (although slight bump last year or 2) - thus the 'cohort' or number of people trying heroin is not increasing, certainly not at the rate of population growth.
cheers!
Maybe I haven't read K&R carefully enough but how can you have a function declaration like

sleep(chan, pri)

without any data types?
Yeah they could at least distribute that money to the super poor, instead of turning round and smugly saying how its peanuts and they don't need it. There are folk there who would kill for a peanut to line their bellies.....literally!
The EFF famously sued a DMCA troll, it was quite dramatic. https://www.eff.org/cases/diehl-v-crook
I use Ubuntu on my HP Touchpad. Functionally it works well, but in practice it's awful. it really seems to be expecting more than 1GB of RAM, even though I'm running Xfce. I can easily pin the processor at max with most tasks, even though it's a dual core 1.5Ghz. Touch is still awful, despite Unity. There's no good on-screen keyboard. Ubuntu is Windows 7; it looks good for touch but it's really not.

Everything works, but not well. I don't see Surface or other mass market tablets being able to run it any better.
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His lawyer advised that because he signed a non-disclosure agreement with the crooks my friend might be legally liable if he turned them in to the authorities

What does the lawyer have to say about the friend talking to Cringely?
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Non-violent action is far more effective than civil war.
You have to email privacy@quora.com

I also deleted my account when news of this nonsense non-feature hit. And their disabling it doesn't earn them back any points in my book.

There's no way to honestly make that move as a mistake. There's no way to 1. implement this feature as an opt-out and 2. do it without any notification to the userbase, as a mistake or as a "failure of communication".

This move can only happen, and only happen the way it did, because there is a core irreconcilable difference between my concept of privacy and theirs.

And as far as I'm concerned, their concept of 'privacy' can go get fucked with a rusty pitchfork.
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Very interesting read. The best information I got out of this was the: columns: 30em 4; property.

Explanation from the post:

The width you specify isn't an absolute, it's a goal. If 2½ columns will fit, you'll get two columns 45em wide each. If only half a column will fit, you'll get one column 15em wide. So the width might not always be what was specified, but for the reader, the design always fits the screen perfectly. And since the column heights are auto-balanced, the layout always fits the content.
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A question about how HN works. I'd submitted the same article to HN at a much less opertune time so it fell off the "new" page before it got its first upvotes. [1]

Normally when somebody then resubmits the same article at a better time I thought they had to add a '~' at the end of the URL or something, but I don't see anything like that in this case. So how'd they do it?

(And I should say I'm glad that you all get to see this article, so thank you enos_feedler).

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4380604