skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"screaming profanities in the cathedral" - this is
factually incorrect, they did not.

BBC thinks otherwise, reporting on "Their brief, obscenity-laced performance" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19297373

Listen, I am actually against hate speech laws everywhere, including Europe, and I believe the church has no place in the modern state.

But I fail to see any Putin connection in Pussy Riot arrest and their jail time. Pussy Riot got jailed for hate speech. That's a fact. Any Putin association is a result of a well executed PR campaign. Everybody knows that... ))
I think this is a very good advice, but for me it was the other way around: using assembly was easy when I had to because I already grok the pointers from C.

I remember in a programming language course we had to write a compiler for a subset of OCaml to MIPS assembly. I had literally no trouble adding support for references, while for others who did not grok C pointers (or had never programmed in C), it was less easy.
And socketstream can run on top of express as well.
But in the end, only Hollande and Sarkozy had a chance to win

The runoff system sometimes provides different results in the second round, true. (And you know that it only applies if none of the candidates has more than 50% of valid votes, right?)
I have to disagree with most suggestions.

What criteria would make someone purple ? Popularity ? Number of karma points ? What would be the incentive to respect them more then others ? And why would they deserve more respect than others ?

I'm a long time HN reader and I don't have much karma. Its because I try to post and comment wisely. Why wouldn't I deserve respect ?

My impression is that radical comments are more prone to votes since they pull on the emotional strings.

It would be a bad idea to favor people voting in the new section because I bet people would vote blindly just for the benefit of voting.
Hmm, bad timing. I could help you, and I would like to, your project is interesting enough and I badly need design help in other projects. But I don't have that kind of time you're asking for, won't have it until next year. Keep tweeting about it, I might be able to join at a later stage if you still need it.
What do you guys think of Lovestry?
A girlfriend sent me today a link link to Lovestry. "Lovestry dates online for you and all you need to do is just go to dates" ( online dating as a service).

I did not believe it first, but I got a beta account and the concept and site looks nice. The online dating experts were also very helpful. What do you guys think of it? http://signup.bibano.co.uk/
For anyone, like me, who had no idea what reverse debugging was, you can step backwards from a breakpoint/segfault or whatever. http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/news/reversible.html
This article was linked repeatedly in the comments of the prior posts. But hey, whatever, down vote me to oblivion, about what I've come to expect around here. Sorry for sounding like a dick but I really am sad about how meaningfulness has decayed around here. People expect opinions to be spoon fed to them easily, that's not how it used to be.
I dunno, are we even allowed to criticize things on HN anymore? Seems like we can't go a week without someone complaining that HN is a horrible place with vile and unhelpful people.
Impressive (even more for the geek me) but done before. Only relevant because of comparison with hellish OTA process for non-Google Android devices.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/android%20nasa%20ota
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It's easy to over-emphasize the importance of the voting system. I note how you contrast the badness of winning with 43% and 48% of the vote with a guy who won with 29% of the vote. Yes, you get the run-off, but most of the time, that just degenerates into a free-for-all in the first round and the "real election" between the two "real" parties in the second. You even get the issue of vote-splitting: In 2002, Front National narrowly beat the socialists, so the run-off was between conservative Chirac and far-right Le Pen. Chirac got 20% in the first round and 82% in the second - on a 32%/68% favorable rating.

Voting isn't really about lofty ideals and finding the best person for the job. The presidents of France aren't significantly or consistently better or worse than the presidents of the US. The fact is that across all the voting systems in the free democratic world, the people elected are rarely brilliant and visionary leaders - they are just good enough and there is a solid mechanism for firing them if they screw up badly enough.
Yes, they are probably my favorite links to clicks nowadays. It's original content and I like to see what the community has created or what problem they have and how the community is trying to help out.
I sent an email to Bell Labs a couple of weeks ago suggesting that Plan 9 be released as "public domain" code. I even suggested that this could be a great way to honour the late Dennis Ritchie (who worked there, of course), getting the code "out there" for all and sundry to use, no strings attached. Unfortunately, I didn't get a reply, so I guess the email was deleted without being read. ( Probably thought "Arrrrgh! Another one of those P.D. zealots!" ) ( And they'd be right.... ;) )

I just think it is TRAGIC and a HUGE waste that such an elegant and beautifully-designed OS as Plan 9 continues to basically sit in a backwater, ignored and unused by almost everyone. And it is sitting there when I am convinced that a P.D. release would see its use rocket into the stratosphere.

What would be the harm in releasing it to the public domain? It is already open-source so it's not as if any revenue would be lost.
It would be a good P.R. opportunity for Bell Labs too (and as I say, a nice way of honouring D.R.

Let's face it - if Unix itself had been released as P.D. in the first place, then there would have been no need to reinvent it (as with the BSDs and Linux). It could simply have been continually improved upon. That's where I'm "coming from", as it were.

SQLite shows what is possible with P.D. code. It is apparently used in darned-near every smartphone out there, so it's not as if companies won't use P.D. code if it is good enough. If it meets their needs, they will go for it.
It's even worse, given that this is actually old news: the zero determinant prisoner's dilemma work was already posted to Hacker News and discussed back in May.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4026711

That said, this actually is probably the first actually useful new article posted on this subject (as in, by someone who actually understands the math).

(I therefore upvoted you, as I think you are expressing a valid conceptual problem with the repetitiveness of the front page recently; between App.net, Twitter, and this, it seems like the same few stories keep getting recycled; I also, however, upvoted the actual article.)

(Wow, and apparently I now have a "full disclosure": the guy who wrote this article is the brother of a long-friend of mine; I did not know this before writing the "that said" paragraph.)
> *People don't need to live abroad to come to these conclusions.

Yes, yes they do. Actually you're right, it's not a panacea, and to most intelligent people they gain this wisdom with age and maturity. However, we have a serious media problem in the US that doesn't always tell the truth. So, it's extremely difficult to learn about the world outside the American bubble.

Also, I did notice you are from the UK. It's much more culturally accepted to learn about the World outside of the UK. America, not so much.

...and how did I come to this conclusion? Because I'm American and live in your country! This isn't some sweeping generalization I heard on the news, I concluded it after having lived here. You'd be shocked how little Americans know and understand about the World.
Perhaps we should eliminate parties altogether. The existence of party whips and cabinets in many countries tells us a lot about their "representative" democracies.
this was a great post. its hard to deal with negativity when you're so close to the things you share on HN. But I agree just getting one positive and constructive comment is worth filtering through a lot of negativity. Its where another guy shows you something you've never thought about and it makes the code beautiful, or a critiques that helps make your app a better experience for people who have gotten a genuine interest in it.
If you think OWS came close to revolution you should switch the brand that you're smoking, it's not good for you :)

OWS was completely insignificant movement without goals, purpose, ideology, leadership, ability or understanding of anything that happens in the society. It was overhyped, mostly by sensation-seeking reporters that want clicks/eyeballs to run ads and by leftist press outlets because they wanted their own Tea Party (which of course no revolution either, but at least had some successes to boast).
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It's the centerpiece for interacting with apps. It's key. In fact, I'm betting it contributed to people confusing android with ios, it's that similar and pervasive. Before they were ripped off the biggest complaint about the iphone was it didn't have android-style notifications. There were many different knockoff apps since people disliked ios notifications so much and apple ended up hiring the lead dev from one of them(mobile notifier) So Apple greatly benefited from ripping off android as this allowed them to close an obvious gap.
I'm curious why you're moving from Australia to Canada? Canada has a lot going for it, and it's definitely cheaper, but in most regards I think Australia has its act together better.
I am so glad I went to Dia:Beacon when I visited NYC. It was awesome, absolutely beautiful and literally a breath of fresh air. And I mean literally, I almost forgot what fresh air smelled like after a week in NYC :-P
I just experimented a bit with Blessings and I love it! I have used some urwid for terminal projects, but for the next one I'll consider Blessings as well.

Also I can't believe how few lines of code it is...
I almost feel worse about him being able to recover the data than I did about the original story. Firmware password being resettable by Apple is totally understandable (although ideally there would be a system specific disk key which couldn't be recovered, so any firmware password recovery deleted the drive).

It also clearly shows that without File Vault, the remote wipe feature is basically worthless. With File Vault, it's redundant.
Sure, but besides some small design and stylistic differences, Python and Ruby are extremely similar, in almost every way.
> only a small minority of readers bother to click the tiny "More" button

The size migh be an issue, but the greatee problem is that by the time I reach the bottom of the page, the link has usually expired. If you want your users to see the next page, that really is inexcusable.
After years of working with Django, I choose Node because of an abundance of developers with experience in Javascript, an environment free of context shifts when moving between languages, and code portable to the front and back end of the stack. Python is much "shinier" to me, but I think Node will make my company more competitive.
That "standing around with guns" is called a Mexican standoff: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MexicanStandoff , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Standoff
One thing that occurred to me only after leaving the US: only in America can you consider yourself "educated" or "well cultured" and yet have never been to a place where the people did not speak your language!

Isolationism has always been the biggest threat to America's success. I wonder if it's only coincidence that the height of America's power came after it sent a large chunk of its young population overseas?
Check out what Panic had to say on the subject: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/01/panic-on-the-mac-app-store...

I'm extremely skeptical about the long-term viability of the app store model, just as I was about trying to build on top of other people's platforms (Twitter, Facebook). But, that doesn't mean it can't work for you for a while, and if a company like Panic thinks that they should be in the app store, then that's probably worth considering.
> Which America this guy is from?

Really? Can you give a little more evidence to support your claim?

I'd love to see a clip of Romney or Obama saying "We're looking to copy the french healthcare system". They would get murdered for being "Un-American".
Well, Light Table supports both vim and emacs bindings anyway.
Xcode 4.4 adds support for Obj-C literals
See http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html for more information, but some examples from that page:

NSNumber *fortyTwo = @42; // equivalent to [NSNumber numberWithInt:42]
NSNumber *piDouble = @3.1415926535; // equivalent to [NSNumber numberWithDouble:3.1415926535]
NSNumber *yesNumber = @YES; // equivalent to [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]
NSArray *array = @[ @"Hello", NSApp, [NSNumber numberWithInt:42] ];
NSDictionary *dictionary = @{
@"name" : NSUserName(),
@"date" : [NSDate date],
@"processInfo" : [NSProcessInfo processInfo]
};

This, especially the NSArray/NSDictionary stuff, should make coding in Obj-C so much faster and more pleasant - well done LLVM team!

PS: Not sure if the object subscripting stuff is supported yet, but that looks awesome too!
A short note on the express pro/cons:

It does come with a MVC example, but you can of course also use one of the well known frameworks like Backbone, Spine, Knockout etc.

Idea here is lightweight and a solid foundation that allows broad usage.
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The priests did not write research papers and publish it in peer-reviewed journals. Neither did they bother with controls in experiments. So please don't be snarky.
I didnt vote you down.

That the article was linked in comments is just another indicator it should be submitted.
I've taken your suggestion as the basis for a proposed shorter letter for translation into French.

I posted this draft letter as a comment to my latest weblog entry in http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/08/unanswered-letter-to-mcdon...

Please take a look at this proposed shorter letter, and I would welcome comments on this proposed draft short letter in http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/08/unanswered-letter-to-mcdon...

Best regards,

Steve
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If so, the laws need to change. There is no reason why this type of behavior should be condoned. Employees have a right to be legally protected from these shenanigans.
Are you sure? I can see a correlation between the rise of hell banning and the decline in general quality.
Note that you are comparing a big chain store (Circuit City) with small business (a Turk). Most businesses in the US are small businesses, which behave differently than chain stores. And if you think that that the Turk wouldn't get back the price of his tea hundredfold when you buy that rug, then you're very naive :) It's just different styles of conducting business - in some cultures, the negotiations are supposed to be personal and simulate closeness and friendship (even if parties are hoping to cheat each other as much as possible), in some it is supposed to be businesslike and impersonal.

As for the Apple store, I had been a number of times in Apple store in San Jose, that's abut 15 minutes drive from main Apple campus. Almost each time I had the worst experience. I had to wait for a long time, workers kept redirecting me from one to another, and since the policy is that there are no lines in Apple stores, I had no idea when I am going to be served - I just had to aimlessly wander around the store and wait for the moment where some "genius" is ready to grace me with his attention. I had to explain what I need to multiple people, which for some reason didn't talk to each other, and I observed multiple store workers not busy with anything but somehow still unavailable to help me. I am totally unconvinced about that being the paragon of customer service.
This result doesn't seem all that impressive. In the end it's just an example of the advantage of being able to pre-commit to a strategy. The linear algebra parts are entirely unnecessary (although interesting).

For example, suppose we're playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma. I pre-commit to a strategy: if you've defected in the last 5 games I will always defect, otherwise I will defect unless I haven't cooperated in the last 4 games. In this situation your optimal strategy is to always cooperate, even though I'm taking advantage of you. Punishing me won't change my strategy, I've pre-committed to it. The rational strategy, and the one evolution would eventually settle on, is to always cooperate with me.

I think the main thing that bothers me is how the result is characterized as "theory of mind" beating evolution. As if evolution couldn't stumble on such simple strategies, and pre-commitment had no cost or associated risk of going extinct.
It is an issue that is found in other countries proportionately to the prevalence of socialism. The French, for instance, will not only blame everything on the government (or people who have had success), but expect everything from it (find me a job, keep me healthy, save my company from bankruptcy, provide me with nice state-sponsored TV fiction championing the values of "diversity", etc.). You don't want America to go down that road.
Funny you should ask. I had a suite of apps for iPad/iPhone and Mac that I submitted to the app store. Primarily because I wanted to build on top of iCloud (you have no choice there, non app store apps cant use iCloud). I wrote the desktop app first, submitted it, then wrote the iPad/iPhone app, and submitted them. To my surprise the iOS apps got approved in 6 hours, the desktop app for the Mac app store sat in review status for a month.

I cant get into the details, but only after I bugged the app review team did they tell me that the Mac app (which is exactly the same as the iOS apps), would be declined even though the iOS app had been on sale for weeks and was approved in 6 hours.

They also said that they will be potentially pulling the iOS apps now that they realized their mistake.

Anyway, its a great idea to build for these platforms. And this is the rub, because you never know what Apple is going to do, you tend to shortchange yourself, and reduce your investment of time and energy, because you dont know when your done if Apple will approve it.

As for iCloud Apple suggested I use a different cloud API. I find that pretty shitty, and I had other apps planned for iCloud that I will not be building on top of their stuff at this point.

This kind of experience is not unique to me. But seriously consider whether the distribution channel is worth the hassle. Chances are its not and getting your app in google search results can be generally easy.

good luck.
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> It never ceases to amaze me how many people "fall" for this "lifetime" pricing model.

While I agree that a "lifetime" or "unlimited X" pricing model will nearly always end up unsustainable, I think you've got your conclusion the wrong way around:

It never surprises me to see how many business end up shooting themselves in the foot, offering a "lifetime" pricing model early on.

Because really, you can't seriously take the business' side in this, when they don't make up on their promises. Doing that is wrong and dishonest.

The customer might not have been very realistic in their expectations, but the business actually broke their promise.

IMO the former is merely not very smart, while the latter is actually wrong.
What makes Android an Iphone rip off. Google bought android in 2005, was the iphone out in 2005?
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...

Can we try not to revise history.
The haxe macro reads the file at runtime. Your clojure macro reads the file at compile-time. The proper version would be :

(defmacro get-file-contents [s]
(if-not (string? s)
(throw (Exception. "Expected string"))
`(slurp ~s)))
Thanks, I'll check that site out!
Valid question because I would generally agree that AU has quite a bit going for it.

The single main reason is location. AU is FAAAAAR from things. I fly for work to the US and Europe several times a year. This gets very old very quickly in AU. To get to Singapore, which is the main hub to Europe, is 8hrs. That is already longer than the longest US flight. To get from Singapore to Europe is between 12 and 14 hrs. To get from Sydney/Melbourne to LAX is 15hrs. Do this with two kids and you'll just hate life.

Also, for the kids, the cousins, grandparents and aunts and uncles all live in the US, which is a quick direct flight away. This is the single biggest factor.

This is more a huge pet peeve of mine and I wouldn't move because of this, but I hate the nanny state that is AU. The government here is very restrictive and tends to take away rights "for the kids". There is constant talk about an internet firewall and quite a few other little things that add up to "nanny state". I told my wife that if we stayed in AU it might cause me to get into politics b/c of how messed up it is. It is that bad.

And, lastly, we've had an adventure. We are looking to settle in to a place for 10-15 years or so while the kids grow up and go to school. If it wasn't for the above, AU might have been that place, but the second item makes it hard for us to be this far away.

I say about AU that if you can leave your former life and live in AU (meaning, you live, work and pretty much embrace the AU life), AU is AWESOME. They really do have quite a bit going for it, even with the nanny state item. They don't call it 'the lucky country' for nothing!
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Also remove the downvote button and replace it with "flag this comment"
Just curiosity... why is it that you can't post to HN without Tor?
That's truth.
In Russia we do not have normal opposition.

Nemtsov - unpopular because of his past, Limonov - too radical, Kasparov - is just a clown.
Not sure about the downvotes... But my point stands: As an American, these seem to be common political tactics here too. If GP doesn't want to compare Putin and Obama on votes, I'd appreciate a point-by-point breakdown along these axes.
I find it weird that the rover wouldn't have enough storage to hold both the logics of the landing and the surface mission. I mean, SSDs nowadays can hold hundreds of gigs and are very small.

Does anybody have more details on that? A complete software update just sounds like a really risky thing, for something that you have no physical access to.

My opinion is that they probably have really strict protocols from legacy missions, and since they just work, they're not going to change them.
Yes. I was actually thinking about this. However, you have a similar problem with the current model: two NaNs can have the same bit pattern, but still have to be unequal.

This is somewhat simpler--as long as either argument to (==) is NaN the answer is False. However, you still have to figure out that at least one bit pattern corresponds to NaN. If you want them to be equal, you would have to figure out that both are NaN. This is certainly a little more difficult, but I think it isn't much worse than the current scenario.
Well, you're wrong about one thing: that's not just small businesses in Turkey. Even very large chain stores have the same level of hospitality. And it's not just stores. As an example, tomorrow is the start of Şeker Bayramı (literally translates as "Sugar Holiday" but is just what Turks call Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan). The holiday lasts for 3 days. I received a text from Turkcell the other day stating that they were giving everyone unlimited texting during the holiday.

Edit: Also, of course the Turkish businessman is making back the cost of the tea. It would be foolish to think otherwise. The point is that (if you want to go all Econ 101 on it...) Turks tend to think in terms of straight profit, whereas Americans are much more obsessed with opportunity cost.