skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would like to know here is:

1. How frequently US administration asks Google and other content companies to pull content for political reasons?

2. Has Google ever complied with these requests?

3. How much of this content was pulled because of blasphemy reasons?

4. Is it the official policy of US government to try to censure any speech which can cause negative reaction from violent extremists abroad, or there some violent extremists that US government is more afraid of than others? If so, who takes these decisions and is his salary paid from my taxes?

Ideally, these questions would be answered by the free press. But with current state of affairs they are more likely to engage in political gamesmanship and issues like which politician's dog ran away 30 years ago and who of the politicians was a mean kid in kindergarten.

Also one must note that while White House has, so far, been powerless to remove any content, any of the RIAA members can instantly remove virtually any content from YouTube just by the virtue of claiming it's infringing. Of course, if the victim fights back fierce enough, it can be reinstated - but then it can be removed again by another claim, can't it?
It doesn't look like C!!!
I'm very pro free speech, but I actually wouldn't mind if the video went down for a couple of days ("under review") while security at embassies was improved, and for time for the mobs to settle down a bit. I would absolutely be against pulling it, but delaying or putting it in context wouldn't hinder free speech and would potentially save lives.

I'd also like to see Google run a clickthrough redirect preroll or ads on the page explaining that they don't support the content, it doesn't represent Google or the US, but that free speech is valued. Google did something similar with an anti-Jewish/Nazi googlebombing of "Jew" in search results (http://www.google.com/explanation.html)
I am saying that the White House tried to interfere with someone's 1st Amendment rights which is not in keeping with the oath to the defend the US Constitution.
Interesting post but without any source
General artificial intelligence does not exist yet and is most likely not coming anytime soon. Perhaps it's the speech interface which raises people's expectations in this regard.
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Interesting. That changes things. Do you have a citation of what the video's authors said?
>"Would you go to a place where 99 chefs, each one, will cook a meal for free so you can choose the one you wanted the best? "

That sounds to me like a great way to choose a chef, no?

When I go to buy a car, I haggle with salesmen and test drive cars, all for free, before I choose one. When I am condo shopping, I go see many buildings, and many different agents give me the sales spiel, free, before I choose which condo I want and provide the commission to that realtor.

I don't understand how this method is in any way bad for the consumer.

As far as this service, it's good idea, but that price point is pretty intense. I'm not very good with PowerPoint, but I can definitely "prettify" more than 4 slides per hour. At that pace, I'm paying you $100 an hour for equivalent work? If you can find enterprise clients willing to pay, that's good stuff for you. But I couldn't pay this.
He wasn't killed because of the video. He was killed because he was representing the US, aka Big Satan. It amazes me how anybody watching the news for last 20 or so years can still talk about it being about specific video or cartoon or poem or whatever and if only it wasn't there everything would be peachy. It wouldn't.

And it wasn't "just a request". It was a request from US government - the body created to represent all US citizens and protect their rights, including free speech, which is in the First Amendment of US constitution. When Obama is a private citizen again, then his requests will be close to "just a request". Now, nothing he says or does is "just a" - it's always "US president's".
> It probably polls the servers every X seconds.

And then you could write out a new static file, just once, and send it to your edge server of choice.
Do it. It may be possible for someone to create a third-party client for WhatsApp instead of relying on the official version.
Is the court system really a profit centre for the state?
Hate speech is/should have a very narrow definition. If we define hate speech as "anything anyone might take offense too", we make the term useless.

There is a difference between someone goes around shouting for the extinction of a race, and someone doing bad and amateurish satire. Trying to combine the two, and you are indirectly making the first type more acceptable.
Yeah, exactly. I think giving it a female name raised expectations too.
I suppose that's true in situations where there is a significant advantage to being 1st over third or just being in those top percentiles. Splitting hairs over a topic I didn't disagree with you on from 24 hours ago, but I'd say that sorta breaks the metaphor for this particular situation. There isn't really an advantage to being the world's greatest programmer vs the world's top 1% of programmers. When you get to that level it's all gravy.

Which makes me realize I have no idea who the world's best programmer is.
then maybe you should have said something along those lines earlier, instead of repeatedly asserting that s3 and dropbox are equivalent (and then asking if you'd missed anything).
They should have samples. every designer/design firm has at least some kind of portfolio they can show customers. these people are probably not professionals.

PechaKucha! 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, 6 minutes 40 seconds. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha)

But to be honest, if you go there each slide would be simple; a picture + 3-5 word caption. This service is probably aimed at the clueless business type who do bullet point heavy slides. They would do much better to charge by perceived length of presentation; but this is a subjective metric.
I think that Microsoft is feeling the heat from Linux/Android, which is why they pushed Intel (& AMD) to go Windows-8 only.

It also is quite likely that that AMD Hondo requires power management features that are not currently available in the kernel/ UEFI bootloader for Linux. Hopefully someone will find a way to support the APU, even if not officially.
I'm not a Go developer, but if you start having performance problems in Python, that might be a good time to consider Go.
And finally, the results have been fucking great. The Tesla Roadster is absolutely unbelievable, it's more fun than most roller coasters. According to the reviews in car magazine, the Model S is similarly unbelievable in similar and other ways (fantastic ride/handling, absurd acceleration, great cargo capacity, seating for 5 comfortably, 7 with kids). And SpaceX is demolishing the other space launch companies in their space in terms of price to fulfill a launch. He's got way more license to dream up crazy things without being called out than pretty much anyone else alive.
A large majority of whatsapp users use it as a straight-up replacement for normal SMS. It's easy to impersonate someone's account and pull off the whole "I am stuck please wire me money" scam.
You could just as easily store the result in a plain file somewhere... a database seems like overkill.
I don't know if "gambles" is he right word - he's not a complete idiot after all. He puts his money where his mouth is, because he really think his projects are that important. He's taken every chance to prove that he believes in his visions, which is truly inspiring.
You know how as a kid, you were taught "don't believe everything you see on TV"?

Context is important. Video clips rarely tell the full story.
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The trick is that there are two different sorts of "expect".

Suppose a parent finds their teenage kid watching TV instead of studying for an exam and says, "I expect you to do well on that exam tomorrow!". Do they expect their child to do well? Yes. Do they expect their child to do well? No, they would be foolish to.

At the present, both types of "expect" apply to this discussion. Some companies seem intent on eliminating one of those expectations, but they cannot do anything about the other.
I guess that matters for some people, but do you really use your phone to call people all that often? I'm still on my parents' family plan with 700 shared minutes and we rarely run out. And I'm never leaving the plan either, because I've got grandfathered unlimited data, which is a dream come true on Verizon, especially with a Galaxy Nexus running Jelly Bean.
Could you explain this? This chart* would suggest that, while LTE bands are shared between the CDMA model and the non-North America GSM model, none of the models are both GSM and CDMA capable and therefore are not "worldphone capable". I would love to be wrong about this so please elucidate the situation if you are able.

*http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
Bollywood vs. Bin Laden
Most of us aren't sociopaths. We'll have some empathy for the chef. The reason it works out for the car salesman and real estate agent is that a commission on one sale more than makes up for many lost sales; if they could have more sure sales their commission would surely go down accordingly. This isn't the case for 99 designs or 99 chefs.
You don't need macros to solve this problem. You can use unique types, STM, etc. to forbid the data sharing at the type level and ensure a coherent memory model.
Do you think Monty Python films should also be classified as hate speech?

There is a difference between making fun of an religion (Islam), and incite violence or prejudicial action against a group who are practicing the religion (Muslims).
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That's only until the TSA gets involved.
The video strongly implies that Muslims as a group are violent (watch the part with the father and daughter early on). It presents Islam's founder as a horrible human being, and a religious fraud.

This is not quite as mild as it gets with regard to criticism of religion, but it's pretty close. If this particular video were to be legally actionable, no criticism of a religion where it intersects with testable reality (making positive claims about nature contrary to science, claims of historical fact) would be safe without fear of prosecution. I am sorry that so many people have died, but I cannot blame this video without completely throwing out the American version of free speech. I guess we're just going have to solely blame the killers instead.
GroupMe does the same, I believe.

https://twitter.com/GroupMe/status/208200154484981761
Grado SR80. ($90-100)

1. Best sound I've ever heard from headphones (compared to Bose QC2, Seinnheiser HD-280/202, Audio-Technica ATH-M50). Frequency response sounds flat to my ears but it could use a bit more dynamic range. However, the great sound is partly due to their open back design which leaks sound like a siv. This means I can't listen to music as loud as I want sometimes when in the office or library.

2. Huge foam cushions are super comfy. I often leave them on for full 8 hour days with no comfort issues.

3. Well built mainly due to their simplicity. They have a very unique retro design which I like but others may think is ugly. 1 year warranty.

Audio is very subjective so reviews like this aren't worth much. Your best bet is to find an audio dealer that sells the headphones you're interested in for a couple hours of listening.
I wish they told me that in college ! :-)
weird that this is greyed out, since it seems to match all the source my fb friends and i have found:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/09/13/libya-attacks-a-wake-up-...

http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/romney-jumps-the-shark-libya...

http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=14332

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0912/Libya-attack-...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/libya-fast-team/
You could invest the time and learn how to do design good presentations. Honestly, better communication skills are important for everyone. For the aesthetic stuff (fonts, colors, layout) that we are less skilled in, copy style what you like best from your favorite presentations given by others.
I am writing an article right now about how I went from Go to C++. Hope I can have something up here soon.
While I respect the budget pressures of K-12, I'm not buying that an extra 10 MBytes/user on student-grade SAN/NAS storage is even measurable, let alone significant. Storage/Bandwidth cost curves have been remarkably consistent on their shifts over the last 20 years.

You might want to re-evaluate where you are focussing your energy on optimization.
> Unless you're extremely poor, spending twice as much at McDonald's won't affect you (and, consequently economy) in any way but it'll affect people working at McDonald's.

Not so fast. I can afford to spend much more at McDonalds, but if I do so, I'm not spending that money somewhere else, regardless of how much money I have. You have to assume that I get no value from spending that money elsewhere to conclude that spending it instead at McDonalds doesn't affect me.

However, even with that assumption, it's absurd to claim that my spending more money at McDonalds and less somewhere else doesn't affect the economy.

You're going to have to argue that the economy benefits from spending money at McDonalds vs somewhere else. The folks who'd otherwise get that spending will be very interested to see that argument.

Moreover, you're making incorrect assumptions about McDonalds customers. They're (typically) not all that well off. More to the point, they're extremely price sensitive, hence the success of the "dollar menu".

We can test your claim in a situation more favorable to it than the real world, namely airports. It's inconvenient to "bag it" and the clientele is reasonably well off. Yet, many folks do, and not just because they don't like airport food. (The Denver airport, for example, has some decent places.)

You're claiming that airport food places could double their prices without affecting what people buy. Do you really believe that? (You can't argue "but airport food is already too expensive" without providing a quantitative argument showing that McDonalds in South San Jose isn't in pretty much the same situation.)

If folks are actually price-insensitive, what limits prices at airport places? (No - competition between restaurants doesn't explain it because the airport could charge them all more money.)

FWIW, I picked "cleaning service" for a reason. The low-end cleaning services in San Jose raised their prices 7-10% about a couple of years ago. (I looked around when mine did.) Mine claimed that she and her competitors lost accounts when they did so and that some went out of biz. She says that there's less money being spent on cleaning services even today.

How do you know that she's wrong?

And no, customers' response to a price increase does not depend on why the price is increasing. (They may be happy with a price increase accomplanied by some other change, but that's not what you're proposing.)

> I don't know what the answer is

You claim to know enough to know that there's no effect from raising the minimum wage.

> but you certainly haven't proven that 20% rise of McDonald's prices would cause McDonald's collapse

I didn't say that it would cause a collapse. I'm pointing out that the "no change" claim is almost certainly wrong.

If you think that McDonalds is cheaper than a sandwich that you make yourself I understand why you want to avoid quantitative arguments.
+1 for Bose Quiet Comfrot. The AAA battery requirement sucks, but it's a small price to pay for sound proof, comfort and solid construction.
I didn't sneak in. I was invited in. If you don't want me in - put a gate in front, just like any cinema theater does. I just won't visit.

> just do not read/watch my content

I'm pretty sure I don't already, and wasn't really planning in the future either. Many content providers actually take considerable efforts to get me to read their content. I'll stay with them, I don't have too much time to waste on reading random stuff on internet anyway.

> just pay me directly the same money I would get from adverts

To get my money you first have to give me something that I value more than money. What have you got to offer?
In practice, wrapping a return value in a monad looks exactly like returning a regular value in another language: return x.
As I commented on this issue earlier,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4511247

"As we read news reports about violent responses to the video, from people who seem to be quite confused about who produced the video, it's important for all of us to remember the basic issue here. The basic issue is whether people in free countries, like most readers of Hacker News, are going to be able to enjoy the right of free speech throughout their country, on any subject, or whether any American or Dutch person or other person accustomed to free speech who happens to be within reach of attack by a crazy foreign person has to prepare for war just to continue to exercise free speech. On my part, I'm going to continue to comment on public policy based on verifiable facts and reason and logic, even if that seems offensive. I am not going to shrink from saying that people in backward, poorly governed countries that could never have invented the Internet have no right to kill and destroy just because someone in a free country laughs or scorns at their delusions. The people who are destroying diplomatic buildings and killing diplomats are declining to use thoughtful discussion to show that they are anything other than blights on humankind."

Allow me to reemphasize this point. The many participants on HN who criticize TSA "security theater" as a meaningless reduction in the freedom of people who travel to the United States are right on the basic point. If free citizens of free countries can't live in freedom because of fear of terrorists, the terrorists have already won. You and I should be able to speak our minds and express our opinions in the manner of all people in free countries--sometimes agreeing with one another, sometimes disagreeing, but always letting the other guy have his say. To engage in self-censorship because of fear of violent thugs is to be defeated by the thugs.

I think jerf correctly responded to this issue the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510637

If I organize a riot involving thousands of people that I manage to incite into killing people, and I claim my reason is that I heard that some guy is Glasgow made fun of the American soccer team over beer... that guy is Glasgow is not the real reason. It doesn't even qualify as a metaphorical fig leaf, it's just a lie. When the excuse is this tiny, you shouldn't even give it the time of day.

AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the two replies to this comment posted as I type this edit. I will defend to the utmost your right to free speech, to be enjoyed wherever you live or travel.

I wonder if the reason that books by Robert Spencer

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Infidels-Guide-Koran/dp/15969...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Truth-About-Muhammad-Intolerant/dp...

have not been used as a pretext for rioting is that the instigators of riots don't want to draw attention to these books, which might lead a lot of people around the world to reexamine their beliefs.
The tip atom would be oxygen, as CO adsorbs to metal surfaces via carbon-metal bonding.
With the Bose, the battery drains if you keep forgetting to turn the button on your headphones off. Now its a habit to turn off my bose when i'm not using it.
In other words, acid doesn't produce profound thoughts, it just makes you think your thoughts are profound.
Age is correlative to wisdom, and yes, wisdom has plenty of value.

That being said, there are lots of exciting things to do when you know not what you realize. Especially for certain types of overachievers and perfectionists, we are significantly more hampered by what we can do excellently vs what we can simply deliver passably.

Go enjoy life and collect those data points, success and failure. :)
> The longer you are on this earth, the more wisdom and experience you will acquire.

Well, maybe. You get experience when things happen. The more you play it safe, the less happens. And you only get wisdom when you think about your experiences.

There are plenty of people with wisdom well beyond their years.

> The main problem with being young is that you don't realize what you've yet to realize.

Bad news! It gets worse. At some point, just when you start to feel like you know what you don't know, you realize that they are making new things up faster than you can keep track. Talking to people a generation younger than me can be a humbling experience. I have to tread carefully, as you do when you're talking with a person from another country.
Being a tech-savvy developer at a startup doesn't have a lot to do with whether you'll like Quora.

Quora appeals to people whose intellectual curiosity about a certain set of topics is strong enough that they will endure a bunch of crap from egomaniacal Quora power-brokers.
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I don't think OP actually wants to know how he can do that with post-processing, but in a real Emacs session.
The Khan Academy Internship Experience
Memorial fund donations for John Hunter's [python dev, RIP] 3 children
Regarding 2), I'd like to point out that just because you "leave" Facebook for another social network doesn't mean that you'd delete your Facebook account. In other words, the decision to use a new social network wouldn't preclude you from still logging in to other services with your FB login.
Thoughts on virtual instructor led training
He was too Mormon?
If you are into hacking for STEM education, checkout phyzixlabs.com. I am not familiar with sprite animation, is it something that could be used for building sims?
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It is highly possible the Laminar Research people didn't post this or don't read HN. If you have good advice to give them, you should probably contact them directly.
Well, if they were feeling ballsy, they could just declare it unused, break it up, and start assigning it. A lot more network nerds would listen to RIPE than to some random UK pension bureaucracy.
We use S3 behind 1 second max-age cloudfront to serve The Verge liveblog. It's been nothing but rock solid. We essentially create a static site and push up JSON blobs. See here:

http://product.voxmedia.com/post/25113965826/introducing-syl...
This is Not the Craigslist API You’re Looking For
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It is widely agreed that this behavior is a hack in Python. It is not a role model.
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That is like return codes in shell.
sony headphones MDR-XB500
http://www.itechnews.net/2009/02/20/sony-xb-series-extra-bas...
may get a bit warm after awhile, wish top had huge foam too
>If the protests had been peaceful [...] I doubt this request would have ever been made //

So USA doesn't negotiate with terrorists but does what they want as long as there's a threat of violence?
I've got an even cheaper one : http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/open-workbench-logic-sniffe...

It has some limitations of course but its open source and I'm in the process of building a USB analyzer with it.

As for scopes the Rigol ones are quite popular, and with a logic "analyzer" (if you are an EE they aren't really logic analyzers, they are more like channels in a binary oscilloscope) I've got a Rigol scope as well but its not nearly as reliable or accurate as the Tek2024 which is my 'goto' scope.

A number of folks make cheap USB attached scopes which run a program on a PC for the UX, which is nice but I've got one that came from a company now gone that only runs on Windows 98 (or ME if it matters). And no documents on how to make it anything else. Sad really.