skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Thanks for correcting me!

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html
You may be able to write the custom data structures more easily with the STL than in C.
Capitalism as described is yes, but humans are based among other things on greed and they are part of the system.

Please don't make the mistake of confusing the system with the agents in the system.
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Go, Python, PHP, are the primaries but language doesn't matter.

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Attempt to hack WordPress with a pull request
Apple’s Patent Win Is Bad For Us All
Ask HN: How are you applying your hacker skills for the election?
So there's this big election thing going on, and I was wondering what HN-ites are doing to meet the challenge of getting their preferred candidate elected.

Campaigns are fought on more than ad buys and inundation, so I'd be interested to see how - if at all - you are trying to push the election in your favour.

With all the weekend projects and "Show HN" submissions making it to the frontpage, maybe you have some clever political hacks to share?
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Asus Zenbook Prime works fine with a few tweaks.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbookPrime
* Lehrer takes copy from previous pieces, sometimes whole paragraphs, and uses them in future pieces. The author is ambivalent about how big a transgression this is, but in 18 pieces he looked at, it was easier to count the ones where Lehrer hadn't obviously recycled copy.

* Lehrer copied multiple paragraphs from a press release directly into his piece. More egregiously, he attributed text from one press release as if it had come from an interview.

* Lehrer plagiariased at least 3 journalists, one of them at pretty extreme length, and another so obviously that he copied mistakes the original journalist had made in the underlying facts.

* When Lehrer was working with actual quotations from sources, he changed them, effectively altering what those people had said.

* Lehrer made numerous factual mistakes, like any pop science writer, but when those mistakes were pointed out to him (including by other journalists), rather than issuing a correction, he ignored the mistakes and then repeated them in future articles.

I found this pretty damning.
Christopher Hitchens, for all his thuggery

What thuggery was this??
I think the biggest problem with adoption is going to be integrating them into traffic. A car that obeys the speed limits and follows at a safe distance is going to have issues driving in someplace like Los Angeles. It will be interesting to see how that plays out. For instance, what happens when other more agressive drivers learn that they can just cut off driverless cars and the software will just happily slow down to let them pass? It's a really interesting problem set.
Where do these guys pull these weird model numbers from. Can't they choose some thing simpler to remember.
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That's incorrect, the first cellphone with MP3 playback functionality was the Siemens SL45, introduced in 2001. I used to own one, it was a fantastic phone for its day.

The Samsung SPH-M100 (aka, the 'Uproar') was the first cellphone that could play MP3s from internal memory, as the SL45 required a MultiMediaCard, but it was beaten to the market by Siemens.

That said, this all comes down to FRAND vs non-FRAND patents all over again. I truly believe that this distinction is something that needs to be clarified or even completely removed if we're going to make any progress on patent reform.
It is my understanding the DoD uses IQ test only for initial entry into the various services. I believe the threshold is 105 (although some military guys have said that at the peak of the Iraq & Afghan campaigns recruiters would let a few sub 105s in, quotas & bonuses.) I would be interested in a link to those studies (if you have them available.)
The best way I know of to deal situations that make you uncomfortable is to expose yourself to them, often but at low intesity, and build up a tolerance. Start small, and as you handle each issue, you'll find yourself thinking "I've got this, can't be much worse than [x] that I did last week."

I used to be a really heavy traveller, carry everything I could possibly need with me, just in case. I gradually whittled that down, and now when I get nervous about forgetting something when I pack, I just tell myself that so long as I have essentials (eg wallet, passport/ticket, change of clothes, netbook), I can fix everything else. So set yourself up with small stressful situations, know that you have a relatively painless way to back out of them, and talk yourself through it.

Have faith that you can fix whatever situation you find yourself in. You may have to start out by lying to yourself in saying that, but as you try (and succeed) you'll find that yes, you can handle things. Even the ones that really worry you.
Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia
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Being a total financial layman, I can't understand most profit and loss documents, finding them far too overcomplicated. This was perfect for me to understand exactly what was happening.
Show HN: Placed, Location Analytics for Apps and Websites
But you deference the addresses just C. I'd say it's more a like a pointer than not. And this is where I have I issue. You don't deference addresses in Ruby or Python. When you are writing data structures in Perl you have constantly have to deal with extra syntax (and mental work). I'd say about 10% or so of my syntax errors come from this and it's completely unnecessary. It's a huge pain (to me atleast).
It's based on individual property rights, trade and reinvestment of capital accumulated due to said rights.
> Soy lowers your testerone level, so I hope not.

From what I've read, this isn't cut and dried, so citations would be helpful. Wikipedia links to some meta-study that concluded there was no affect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#Men

In any case, there are other plant-based proteins that are not based on soy.
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Yes, I definitely agree that Perl is harder to learn than Python. My point was that people may not have the time or interest to learn Perl, and so when they see Perl code that they do not understand, they blame it on the language instead of their own lack of knowledge.

Perl has a very rich and powerful and expressive grammar. It takes a good bit of effort to learn all of it. Python has opted for a grammer that is much more simple. That definitely has its benefits. For me personally, I feel constrained when writing Python code due to its lack of expressiveness.
Soy meat products are absolutely awful. They fail to compete with everything but the most processed cheap meats. Soy hamburgers aren't even as good as the cheapest crappiest frozen bulk-store beef patties. They are a far far cry from being able to compete with a fresh patty made with fresh chuck.

One of the biggest follies of the soy meat industry is trying to make their products healthy by default. Until they may a soy-based animal fat alternative, they don't have a fighting chance of competing. People who truly enjoy meat realize the importance of fatty tissue and how it contributes to flavor.

Go eat a slice of nicely prepared picanha, fat rind and all, and then show me a soy-based product that is even in the same ballpark.
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I saw the original post, and it was clearly written with emotion and without understanding of their business strategy (which can be questioned, but firing Sheryl is really a silly idea).
Glad the OP recognized that. Let's move on.
CrunchBang is the best-looking distro I've come across. It also comes with scripts that will install common proprietary software like Chrome or Dropbox.

Obviously you could accomplish all of that by installing Debian and spending hours configuring it yourself, but that seems unnecessary when others have already done it for you.
How I analyze my Google Play Android App install stats with Python
Site is in English, run by a US based startup fund/accelerator, why do you think other countries would post here?
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In wich I rant about developing on Android
If you could post a link to tomorrow's discussion, you'd have something. "You sunnavabitch! Lemme see that browser... Howdja do that?"
The remakes look really good -- good job! Does the original Pac-Man remake use the same AI behavior as the original arcade version? I ask because I tried using the "safe spot" trick (src: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Man/Tips#The_safe_spot ) and the red ghost caught me every time.
If it was an illegal seizure than the victim should sue. That's the only way to make change here.
Am I up voting or down voting on Hacker News
I see a post. There is a grey triangle to the left of the post that appears to be pointing up. I click on that triangle and the triangle disappears. Have I just upvoted that post or have I removed my default vote?
I doubt the font police will knock down your door, but it is legally dubious. https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=92&#... If you don't have a WebOS device, you can find the URLs in this document http://thyb.net/cosmos/coconutfont.css

And I believe these are the instructions for changing the font in the Luna launcher (although it might be easier when you're running it on a PC) http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/197905-how-c...
Before the IPO when a couple of people asked me when I would buy FB stock, I told them that I wouldn't pay more than $10 for it. They're starting to believe me now.
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This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4461562
and beware: if you mistake in a couple of symbols you'll get a crappy TN screen with absolutely awful viewing angles (like in mb air)
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It used to be that if you wanted to corrupt your government so that you could gain a business advantage, it took a while. You met some politicians, you made some donations, you "entertained" folks. Legislation was introduced. It might take several tries before it was passed.

What I see now is that the system has granted itself so much administrative discretion that you can use government as a direct agent in trying to kill your competitors. The threshold for getting the big stick of the government out and whacking your competition is so low that you're presented with multiple choices: go for their domain name. Find a violation of the thousands of various codes they must comply with. Use your patents to start a patent war. And so on.

The beauty of this way of doing things is that the more you either screw somebody else over or get screwed over, the more you end up doing all the corruption activity that you used to have to do on the front end -- but this time it's to be left alone. So in this case we have people pleading with their Congressmen to try to get the system to work correctly. We've switched from corrupting a somewhat honest system for your own purposes to paying off a somewhat corrupt system in order to be left alone. Based on this, I predict political campaigns will continue to draw exponentially more money as things progress.

Interesting times to live in. We obviously need a secure, private, P2P domain name system.
IMHO the way forward is to heavily regulate the treatment of animals on farm and largely do away with factory farming. The meat that gets to our table wouldn't even be that much more expensive. Most humanely raised and slaughtered me is only marginally more expensive and that is largely because people are will to pay a premium to know the animal has been treated well. If all animals had to be treated equally well, the prices would drop to near the current prices of factory farmed meats today.

Eliminating meat is a non-answer, but legally requiring the humane treatment of animals raised for slaughter is a platform that you wouldn't have any difficulty getting most Americans behind were it made a national issue.
On the contrary, your own logic would imply that a boycott is the only logical action to take.

You say that it is "actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible given any legal and ethical [sic] way it can". So, the only way to help Apple management back off from the use of preposterous software patents without the serious risk of breaking that law would be to enact a boycott and create a serious damage to the company image for doing so. A damage that could make that course of action not the one to "make as much money as possible".
You have just upvoted.
> I'm sure it can be helped, but I'm not sure if the kind of cool Neil Armstrong displayed can really be developed.

Neil Armstrong was a test pilot. The kind of person who is told to push designs to their limits, and is responsible for keeping things in line when it's all hitting the fan. They need to keep cool, and it can definitely be developed, as I'm sure it is for any test pilot.

It's developed through a combination of intimate (intuitive) understanding of your equipment and the situations you find yourself in, an expectation of yourself to be able to handle whatever's thrown at you, and repeated exposure to stressful situations, so that you are familiar and comfortable with them.

I don't know how much this last one applies to Neil Armstrong specifically, but many people who keep cool in the face of death can do so because they've already accepted that death is a very real possible outcome. Even when the stakes aren't so high, if you've analyzed a situation before going in to it, and have decided that you are comfortable with any likely outcome, including the worst possible outcome, then your mind is freed from worrying and can focus on executing.