skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about two different times. The RGI had a lot of support, and everyone who knew about it knew that it was the right way to go. That was in late July/early August before management started cracking down on internal dissent (the first Real Names PIPs were getting served around late August/early September).

Eng-misc went to hell about a month after that. By that point, it was obvious that RGI was going to fail due to executive pressure and that higher-ups were cracking down on internal dissent, so only the loyalists were even speaking up.
> No, cultures are the same as everyone else. They have humour, art and like to tinker and have in jokes.

Oh, cultures share lots of features. But I've been in a few. Even countries as geographically close as Britain and Germany have quite a few differences.
that's a job not a fellowship

and an abuse of the word fellowship. folks like Gosling, Rossum, Torvalds get fellowships.
And Samsung are plagiarising parasites.
Why does this get downvoted so hard? It's a proven fact that both parties lie through their teeth. I understand HN isn't a political platform, but this is a serious subject relating to business as well as politics. If you're going to downvote, provide a counter argument.
>You seem to deny that antisemitism hate propaganda is prevalent in the Muslim world? This is well documented.

No, I deny:

1) that this is the kind of "antisemitism hate propaganda" that "left wing idealists" (in the western world) embrace.

2) That this "antisemitism hate propaganda" is even prevalent or has any consequence in the Muslim world. I _lived and worked_ in some muslim countries. They could not care less for this stuff. Some do believe it, but it's not like they act on it. Do you know how many people in the Bible Belt believe similar things?

>Continue reading about the expulsion of the Jews for religious reasons -- they had the same religion as the state religion of Israel, if you want more.

Well, I know about that. I'm from Europe, we like History there. Doesn't have to do with present day muslim-israel relation though.

Actually, did you know that in the 19th century (and before), when Jews were persecuted in Europe, Russia and such, they lived mighty fine alongside muslim populations in muslim countries?

FWIW, the majority of jews persecution has happened by Europeans, by far. Including the Nazi's of course. Muslim states don't even come close, and even then they don't do it for religious reasons, but for political ones (ie they are not against jewism but against the politics of the state of Israel).

(Oh, and another tibbit: pro WW-II, the US was also full of anti-Semitism propaganda).
Clumsily trying to drag up politics where it doesn't belong normally gets downvotes, yes.
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In the "sexist bastards" section, his train of thought appears to be implying something like: Randall Monroe expressing a sexual preference for nerdy girls in his web comic is not much different than forcing a woman to wear a burka.

Did I read that correctly?
If the world’s population lived like... (infographic)
>As far as I can tell, this antisemitism thing is mainly from dictators that need an external enemy to hate. (A universal phenomenon in those countries -- and yes, using external enemies is not unique to dictators.) Just see how Iran motivates anything with attacks against Israel.

Dictators do use it, but it works because the population supports it. The people really do hate Israel and the Jews.

>2. Isn't it racism to accept so low standards for [mainly ethnic] groups and assume them to be unable to be responsible for their actions?!

Eh. Maybe. I suspect those who were bothered by this would argue that it's not about race, it's about socioeconomic status. That those of lower socioeconomic status need/deserve help that the rest of us don't is pretty much the core thesis of the left.

>3. This tolerance (of e.g. antisemitism) goes for Muslims living in Western Europe too, which hardly have these excuses.

Even in western europe, you're largely talking about a ghettoized underclass. There's not a lot of tolerance of antisemitism from e.g. serious academics (muslim or otherwise). The nouveau riche sometimes get away with it, but again they're being looked on with pity by the left, and it's assumed they got those attitudes in their early days.

>4. Why do the left accept the arguments and world view (re Israel), when they at the same time argues it comes from a bunch of illiterates that aren't responsible for their actions/opinions?

I don't think you see leftists following the same Jewish conspiracy theories as Iranian peasants. Many on the left do believe Israel shouldn't exist in its current form, simply because we don't think it was right for the UN to arbitrarily confiscate the land of a bunch of (largely) innocent Palestinians.

>5. Should people with low education get lower punishments for crimes? Should they get no punishment if they can't read and don't understand the law?

Speaking for myself, yes that should be taken into account. If you're asking about the orthodoxy, I think the left would object to the notion that the justice system should have anything to do with punishment; its goals should be the prevention of crime, which is served a little bit by deterrence, and much more by reform. If you're thinking about it in terms of preventing re-offending, an uneducated person probably needs to take more time before they're ready to re-enter society. Not that the current prison system is good at helping with that.

>6. Afaik, e.g. Iran has a quite large part educated of their population.

Not really AIUI. There's small a university-educated middle class in the capital, from whom we hear a disproportionate amount in the media because they're the ones who speak English. And these people are quite possibly less anti-semitic than the general population. Certainly the left would expect them to be.
The most interesting thing is that a tablet computer called an iPad was shopped about over ten years ago.
If you took the time to actually read the verdict, you'd see that claim was dismissed. Also, it's not a patent on rounded corners, it's a design patent, which is essentially a patent granted on the ornamental design of a functional item that pretty much every other manufacture has managed not to plagiarise. And what the hell has the "financial crisis" got to do with this? Is suppose that's the jury's fault too now?

edit: language
Access to specifications and access to the hardware.

For coreboot, the hard bit is chipset support. With full specs, a device to work on, and having lowlevel coding experience (not necessarily coreboot), this is an effort of 3-6 months (depends on specs, on how complex the hardware is, and a bit of luck).

Once a chipset is supported, adding more boards is relatively easy.

The main issue is that specs are generally under NDA. It varies by vendor how hard it is to obtain: nVidia is near impossible (the nVidia support we have was sheer luck), Intel rather wants to see us go away (or so it seems), Via can be coerced to give specs to individuals, AMD provides code and specs.

For servers, there's the additional complication of LOM - I'm not sure how hard that would be to support, and I guess vendors vary wildly in how they hook that up to the system.

About Intel E5: We have sandybridge support (contributed by the chromebook team), but I don't know how much Intel changed between the consumer sandybridge and the Xeon stuff. It's also harder to adapt since it uses Intel's reference code as binary component (probably the best they could get out of them).
Agree with both of you. I have a Facebook account because, one time, someone posted a video I wanted to watch and that was the only way to see it. Turns out the video wasn't worthwhile either. I, too, won't register with anything requiring Facebook.
Will Samsung stop trying to bully companies into paying patent licenses twice or changing licensing term because a competitor is legitimately using encumbered parts?
What a crappy website. I've tried 15 times to submit a reply to a comment on that article and each time I get 'Your comment does not pass our spam filter. Please try again.' with no indication of what part of the comment is lacking.
Can someone edit the title to include "(2001)"?

Cute find, but the significance is not clear unless you note the articles published date. It took a little while to realise why LG was spruiking a tablet called an iPad.
Just my experience: I knew one worker in China brought to the US because of exceptional skill. And I know one who came on a student visa and the company later sponsored an H1B.
I didn't say I had to deal with perl code I didn't understand, just nasty perl code. Of course the coder in question is the problem, not the language as such -- I've just seen more obscure hacked together perl code than eg: python.

I'm perfectly aware this is a subjective opinion: I don't like perl very much. I never claimed everyone else should dislike perl -- in fact I stated the opposite -- I see why it appeals to some people.

> My comment however was about Perl's ability to easily evolve the core language via contributions from its community, as opposed to other languages that require a lenghty process performed by the core maintainers of the language.

> "Python has rich meta-programming."
>> Who cares? So do most modern languages.

Well, your claim is that perl has strong meta programming, and that perl programmers use it -- implying that eg: python programmers choose not to, and rather sit on their hands waiting for Guido to bless their new data structure or syntactic sugar for improving arrays?

See eg: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0218/

I suppose this your "lengthy process" ? But the set module was available before it became part of the core language, so if you were the programmer that needed a new datatype nothing stopped you from implementing it and uploading it to the package index? (Although I don't remember quite how well the package index worked back in 2000 -- CPAN certainly has a long and solid history behind it :-)

For another example (again python):

http://kashif.razzaqui.com/30414548
"Javascript's Prototype Inheritance in Python"

As for ruby, note I said "super-hyped". Maybe I should've said "re-introduced", or "introduced to a new generation of programmers", rather than "re-invented".

> It may be strange to you because you are not very familiar with Perl.

Perhaps. I would be very much interested in some examples of the DSLs you speak of. I guess perls regex-handling would lend itself to be used as a poor man's Standard MetaLanguage?
Although the lore.com landing page tells me absolutely nothing, it is absolutely beautiful.
Oh, I see, I was thinking more about a startup project and expecting a thumb rule of viability à la lean startup. Of course income - expenses is easy :)
JQuery 1.8.1 Released
If you suspend, you are vulnerable to reading decryption key from RAM (firewire, ram freezing). If you are doing full disk encryption, then only shutdown or hibernate are secure.
Thank you, some reading to do, starting with the actual paper. Cheers
>It will take a while for the crimes made in the name of Christianity to match the crimes done under Islam.

Well, Christianity had a 600-year head start. But for those of us who care about preventing evils today rather than counting the historical scores, there is more work to be done regarding Islam.

>And even more time for it to match the crimes made in the name of Western superiority. Last time I checked, no muslim country has dropped two A bombs in 300,000 civilians.

No-one pretends that was about western superiority - just about killing them without losing our own soldiers. And using an inflated number (IIRC the accepted historical count is about 230,000, including military) only harms your argument.
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I've used an iPhone and I own a Galaxy Note, and I can tell you that it is nothing like the former.
Amazon blocks free update to a Vi book. WTF?
Two weeks ago I did a promotion for my Vim book and wanted to send you all a free update.

Guess what happened?

My book got withdrawn of from sale of Friday after I posted an update and is now unavailable for purchase even though it is listed as Live on my Bookshelf. The message on the book's page states that Amazon is in touch with me, but so far I have not received a word from the KDP team.

The book was available for sale since early 2011 and I posted an update last week and asked Amazon to notify the buyers that a new edition is available. Then the communication stopped and the book got withdrawn. I own the rights to the book and there is nothing controversial about it. It is a computer book.

I find the whole situation very strange. The lack of communication over this issue is troubling and and I find the behavior and the message posted on my book's site dishonest. Nobody is in touch with me and the book is listed as Live on my Bookshelf.

The update to the book was blocked twice before it went live and this is the third time some is blocking it for no reason at all. Twitter and Facebook KDP reps do not reply to my messages, KDP does not reply to my emails.

The update was the full text of the third edition, which is still available at http://thevimbook.com

I am so disappointed with Amazon.
You might want to google "mughal" and read through the first few links. If you're into comparing death tolls.

If not, why don't you scientifically get yourself the factual answer to a few simple questions:
-> what is the difference between islam and sharia ?
-> does allah literally says women are half a man's worth ?
-> does islam allow slavery ?
-> does islam allow a slave owner to kill slaves on a whim ?
-> does islam allow forcible rape of slaves ?
-> starting at what age ?
> Is culture not just distilled and sophisticated survival techniques?

Not in the way you interpret the sentence. Cultures act like they were only interested in their own survival.
So right now HN has Main, New, and Ask. I'd like to see a top-level "Show". I think that would help us all a lot. I've experienced the same thing.

Sometimes I'm in the mood to read tech articles so I visit the main page. Sometimes I like freeform discussions so I visit Ask. And if I were ever in the mood to review people's sites I'd certainly like a top-level menu button.
> Some pursue happiness by having a lot of children, more than the planet can support.

Perhaps more than their country or their own income can support. But with current technology we can farm enough calories every year to keep every body well fed. (Of course, they are not distributed equally at the moment. But the sum comes out right. And we haven't even really started farming the oceans. We are still mostly hunter-gatherers there.)
The .ca domain threw me off. Is this retirement planning for Canadians? That would make sense. If it's not I'd invest in another domain.
"This is %(adjective)s readable Python in %(genetive)s opinion" % {"adjective":"more", "genetive":"my"}

> 'This is more readable Python in my opinion'

edit: variable names

Also, I agree that for this simple case, perl (and other's) simple dollar substitution is nicer.
You speak in riddles, Sir.
Only it has absolutely nothing to do with race. Culture, sure, to some extent, but it's not like the western cultures treat women well -- and if a TV show just focuses on FGM it does start sound like a conspicuously neat excuse to bash certain races, most of whom would never want to have anything to do with that crap, at the same time providing men with a neat way of dismissing their own sexism as "not proper sexism".

So yeah, unless it's either a victim or an established feminist who was doing both this and intersectionality of gender and race oppression advocacy, I will suspect bringing up FGM is just a racist way to silence feminist.
Report: 40 percent of mobile ad clicks are fraud or accidents
Modern intel CPUs have AES-NI which accelerate AES-decoding:

http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/03/11/aes-ni-benchmarks...
Anyone who issues this kind of criticism, as is inevitable when these animal stories come up on HN, needs to provide a consistent, objective framework explaining why I should not regard their perceived individuality (and accompanying emotional state) as merely the output of a very complex, deterministic state machine. I can think of no reasonable standard which would produce evidence for the theory that your own behavior is everything short of magical, but an animal's behavior is all mimicry, evolutionarily derived to be advantageous for survival, but not indicative of that magical personhood. What evidence should I take to be suffficient proof of the proposition that your emotions are real and the birds' aren't.

A sensible defense against poisoning? Just because evolutionary psych seems intuitive doesn't mean that every seemingly inuitive speculation passes for evolutionary psych. Do you stop eating for a day when your friend has diarrhea from a meal 12 hours earlier? Didn't your highly social species also evolve in an environment where food poisoning was a concern?

On a meta note, while I realize that it's science reporting, which is generally of bad quality -- why does every article on HN about some research findings receive at least one comment from someone at a keyboard who thinks he has a better explanation than people who spent months putting this work together. (Many of whom have committed their lives to this field)

Do you like it when, e.g., a client dismisses hours of your work because it doesn't have the latest X which he only heard about last week, and really has no clue how it works or whether that would be applicable? Don't we all generally think that such a person is an assclown? How is this different?

Or to put it another way, given a short sunmary of the story made for a public which reads at the eight grade level (at best) -- if a person could generate the criticism given that simple input, how/why would it be that the authors who invest their own careers in the research wouldn't have anticipated and addressed it?
Simple: American service has a peculiar quirk in that servers are paid (in 95% of the country) around 2 dollars an hour, and are compensated in tips instead. At minimum, 15% is expected as a tip, even for bad service, and good service has an expectation of 20%. Truly bad service should be spoken to with the manager, rather than simply leaving without any tip.

Note that servers expect you to tell them if something is wrong, so that it can be corrected.

If you have a discount, you are still expected to tip on the full amount.

When you look at the price, add about 9% (depending on locale) for sales tax and another 15% on top of that for the tip. (Tip used to be pre-sales tax, but is considered post-sales tax today.)

Many people tip 20%, but it is not required. Fast food has no tipping. Starbucks and other coffee places, a tip is appreciated but not required. Bars expect a dollar per drink.
Called it: http://nerdr.com/3-ridiculously-slow-systems-for-startup-dis... (Amazon delivery copters)
No, it doesn't. It's possible that whatever browser you're using doesn't support some feature, maybe requestAnimationFrame, but I could onlt speculate here. Flash is used for some ads though. I'd suggest you try either Chrome for Android (if on ICS) or Firefox Aurora for Android (the latter is guaranteed to work because both mobile and desktop versions of Firefox have standards support parity).

Disregarding the technical side of things though, the games themselves are below mediocre from a gameplay perspective.
Seriously, you repeatedly contradict already given Wikipedia links. Go discuss a subject you have less emotional connections to.

>> I _lived and worked_ in some muslim countries. They could not care less for this stuff.

From the pages I linked:

In 2008 A Pew Research Center survey found that negative views concerning Jews were most common in the three predominantly Arab nations polled, with 97% of Lebanese having unfavorable opinion of Jews, 95% in Egypt and 96% in Jordan.[60]

You will find quite a large percentage with these opinions among immigrant Moslems in any Western country too. From the link I POSTED: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_Antisemitism#Islamic_...

>>Some do believe it, but it's not like they act on it.

It is hard to act on hatred against people you threw out from your country long ago... :-)

>>Actually, did you know that in the 19th century (and before), when Jews were persecuted in Europe, Russia and such, they lived mighty fine alongside muslim populations in muslim countries?

Obviously I know more than you... or at least I'm honest and can read. Also in the page I LINKED re the 19th century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world#...

pogroms spread through the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jaffa (1876), Jerusalem (1847, 1870 and 1895), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901–02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901–07), Port Said (1903, 1908), and Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891).
Prior to confronting Daisey, they presented his work as if they had fact checked it. They say as much in their retraction:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/r...

My opinion is that they handled it well, but 'simply the ones who confronted Daisey directly and publicly' throws away quite a bit of the story.
Most of the indians use the traditional BSNL broadband.. of course my smartphone witha airtel 3g , docomo 3g it loads good..
but when i am on my PC,, with that BSNL, things are not so fine my friend..
I'm guessing you have a stake in this game, otherwise some random wouldn't just post this. To be honest, the only thing that REALLY caught my attention out of most (if not all) of the Greenlight nonsense was Routine. That game alone makes me cheer for 2013.

This game looks nice but what makes it different from the other rolling physics/puzzle games? It look damn nice and looks like it plays well, I'll give it that. It just doesn't stand out in any fantastic way (other than being made in Australia, awesome to the max). I hope your project turns out well.

Just remember, being the best playing/looking/story/style in any genre doesn't really cut it. All I see is a capable puzzle game which is for everyone. Which you means it lacks character and also means it's for no one. PERHAPS I'm just lacking actually information and it's a freaking masterpiece with a extremely mediocre trailer. I'll just stop now... All the best
I'd recommend setting your sights on a small company. Once you get good experience, education is less important. The problem I see coming though is that you work at X company for say 3 years. You're going to have a hard time coming up with references since they're all employees at your current company. So do whatever you can to develop meaningful references.

I'd also go to a market with a ton of jobs, such as the Bay Area. It's a numbers game. Eventually, if you're smart, someone will hire you.
Why Promoted Content (Tweet/Post) Is A Poor Revenue Model For Social Networks
Seattle’s Pike Place is not a good place to ask such questions. If they want REAL answers, ask on these websites with facebook signup options.

I don't understand why people hate this option. If you don't like it then leave it, but it does help people like my friends and I.
Wow. Office is literally the only thing that's preventing me from switching to linux. I tried Wine (a year or two ago) and came off less than impressed. I'm going to try PlayOnLinux now and if it's even "good enough" I'm making the switch.

Thank you.
Three kinds of big data
Awesome!!!
i have left it in bg..
man,, nicely done!!!
Yeah, Ubuntu is much closer to what I was trying to say needs to happen to overcome these problems (as a whole distribution, not just a 'desktop environment' like GNOME), and theres a lot of hard work in there, but the issues mentioned will still cause some problems. For instance, difficulty in installing less-common software (see the giant page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware).