skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might not work properly for users in China. It's telling me I don't have JavaScript enabled, when I do (Firefox on OSX, no weird extensions), and based on the tab bar icon is still loading after >2 minutes. Perhaps you're loading some blocked-in-China script that's preventing your page load event?
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It's a tough line to walk, no question, but I think there are few "normal" people who don't think we have jumped the shark here.

I do agree that not voting in corrupt people (and really punishing those who are shown to be corrupt; not just reading a letter in Congress). More importantly, move the power and influence closer to the people. I have far more sway over my mayor than I do over the President, and I'd trust him with more of my money.
I think the experience of taking the classes is far richer than just reading a good text book. Advantages: video lectures with "pay attention" embedded quizes (that you can re-watch parts of as required), tests that you learn from by taking repetitively until you get a good/perfect score on, class forums, and homework that is automatically graded.

Really, no comparison.
Just moved ours to Route 53 in the afternoon. I had been on the fence lately, especially after doing a few of the tests on http://cloudharmony.com/dnstest, but the move so far has been simple, and new relic reports nearly similar results for us.
There is no obvious implication of the abc conjecture to cryptography.
If nastiness wasn't natural, it would take more than being able to get away with it to bring it out.
I think they mean "This Robot Could Be Your Body Double"
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I have this setup locally and it serves its purpose very well. I would recommend it as well.
Humans are just another species of animals, why wouldn't they have an instinct? The only difference is the cultural conditioning, which suppresses instinct behavior.
Another option that I've heard good things about is called PowerDNS. It's full-blown DNS server which includes a RESTful API.

http://www.powerdns.com/

https://github.com/Habbie/powerdns
It seems like admins are "fixing" the titles of every blog post on the front page submitted with a bit of context in the title. This is the kind of thing that is not necessarily a terrible idea, but should be discussed openly rather than silently implemented.
> So skeuomorphism is now anything besides Windows Phone style "pure digital"? ... I don't know why texture is such a bad thing. Of course you can overdo it like anything, ...

Here's a key to interpreting the internet (and, well, all of society really, but the internet is like normal society on speed):

(1) People love to whine.

(2) People love to feel that they're on the cusp of a trend.

(3) People love to repeat what <somebody smart> said, because that makes them feel smart too -- but often don't really understand the basis of <somebody smart>'s statement (details matter!).

(4) People like black-and-white, crisp, clear-cut dogma; details and shades of grey are confusing and annoying. Whoooo, slogans!

Apparently, for whatever reason, some people have decided that so-called "skeuomorphism" is so-misguided, so-yesterday, so-OMG-ARE-YOU-STILL-DOING-THAT?!1? No doubt there is a kernel of truth behind this, but it's also probably completely swamped by the resulting noise...

Anyway, right.
Update: The page did eventually load and worked properly. I looked at your page source and found Facebook and Google Plus, which are both blocked here - that would probably be what was stopping it working before. Perhaps you should load these asynchronously, instead of waiting for them to load / time out before updating the information?
Not to the satisfaction of current PC gamers. PC gamers are shifting to 120Hz monitors to reduce lag (the shorter the brain->hand->mouse->game->gpu->monitor->eye->brain feedback cycle, the better a gamer can react to changes in the game). Network play with current PCs would introduce at minimum two full frames of lag (one buffered on the PC after rendering, before compression; one buffered on the receiver during compression, before display).
It isn't overlooked, follow the link to the technical report.

http://www.tappi.org/Hide/Events/2012-Nanotechnology-Confere...
The null hypothesis around here seems to be that HN mods are changing titles because they are title nazis. Instead what might be happening is the algorithim is retitling the posts. Example: if 10 people submit the same link, only the first one creates a post and the others upvote that post. But what if the other 8 still count as title votes: say 8 of them use the same title, then the title in the first story auto-updates to use the common one (which of course is the actual post title). The net result and the whole point of all this would be to strip out anything added which includes both positive context and negative bias/editorializing.
You persist in assuming he had malicious intentions. Do you have a good reason to conclude malice rather than incompetence?
Yeah. I am glad though. The 20 year old me would have seen any number larger than his student-limited wallet and swapped careers instantly :-)
How about Obama's own 2008 campaign promises?

From the "Security" section of his main "Blueprint for Change" (http://blatantreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/obamabl... p. 71):

>Reaffirm our Values: Obama and Biden will restore respect for the rule of law and America’s values. They will: reject torture with- out exception or equivocation, including so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” like waterboarding; restore the Rule of Law by closing Guantanamo and restoring habeas corpus; and provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track down terrorists without undermining our Constitution or civil liberties.

Similar statements are made in other 2008 campaign documents, and with more detail.

Before you object, I do realize you're saying two different things here: (a) that it wasn't one of the "main" things he ran on, and (b) that promises to restore civil liberties "weren't really there" except in liberal imaginations. I can accept the first, but the second is completely untrue.
"At this stage, 42Floors only serves the Bay Area, but Freedman tells me that the New York City launch is just over month out, likely followed by other technology hubs around the world like Cambridge, Boston, and Seattle."

Funny definition of world. Regardless, congratulations!
I don't know if the update that added it was present when you read it, but the quote from TechDirt explains why it might be a "privacy disaster."

And the post on OpenCongress mentions that "inclusion of this report [to examine the legality of limiting liability of private actors for disclosing information] suggests that the Administration may believe there is a potential work-around for the privacy laws."
I wonder how much bad the drought would have been had we done something like cut back on livestock farming. If all of the water that goes towards growing livestock feed + keeping the animals watered instead went directly to plants grown for human consumption, would it have still been as bad?
Perhaps, but it seems to me that the "X" was a premise about how 4chan relates to people who taunt it openly. Then an analogy was made to sexual assault and landmine victims and then it was "you couldn't be part of group Y" that would have first-hand knowledge of sexual assault and landmine morbidity factors.

I'll say this: anyone who goes around using sexual assault victims and landmine amputees for their analogies is just asking for it.
Where do you live? One often overlooked avenue is to get contacts in the local tech community via meetups/OSS. Having an existing employee vouch for you is a big leg-up, but of course that person is putting their reputation on the line, so they have to really know your talent / passion / dedication first. Probably not what you want to hear as it doesn't help find a job today, but having people that can vouch for your skills, long term, is invaluable and takes time to build up, so starting ASAP is a good idea. One of the open secrets in the tech world is that most job qualifications are a bit overboard and can be waived entirely for a good candidate. Just realize not ticking any of the skill boxes AND not having an inside recommendation is a hard thing to overcome, so you need to attack one angle or the other.
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There is some evidence that Democratic presidents use EOs more than Republican presidents[1]. What I don't know is whose EOs are "worse". I'd as soon Congress rip much of the EO power back out of the President's hands.

1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Orders_and_Proclamat...
There's no such thing as bad publicity!
Paying customer here. I hope they don't do that. If you consider a dyno to be a unit of some set of resources, having a free dyno tells you exactly what to expect. Although most apps do not scale as a linear multiple of the number of dynos you have due to other bottlenecks, the resources you have increase linearly. So, having a single unit of resources to try out is a really great model that would give you some peace of mind in scaling.

After all, most successful apps will quickly outgrow their free dyno (and that is without even considering at least an additional dyno for background services).
abc conjecture is asymptotic. That is, its statement is of the form "for every positive epsilon there exists a constant". A proof can be constructive, that is, an algorithm that can calculate a constant from an epsilon, or it can be nonconstructive. For any practical application it would seem a constructive proof is needed.

I am not at all qualified to talk about the claimed proof, but I think it would be nonconstructive.
It's entirely plausible that you work for the FBI and are trying to discredit talk of the FBI's involvement by proposing relatively poor arguments to the contrary.

See how ridiculous you sound?
For reference, I don't use/care about 9to5, or Instapaper.
But, when a media outlet trash talks your service, are you not entitled to bar them from the benefits (pageviews) they receive from your service?
1 year away? It looks like we _are_ in a period of global riots: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen. The sectarian violence in Iraq. Anarchy in Somalia, South Sudan. I don't think we've ever seen so many independent conflict areas.
That's a good point. My intention was that it was more likely that there was a much richer story than "X is trying to screw Y". Thanks for explaining so I can make my comments closer to what I'm trying to say.
It's called learning. Most of us get to make our mistakes in private or only in front of a few people. Some folks are public figures and get to show the whole world. On the whole, he has been a good guy and I am willing to move past it because this stuff happens.

It is very much like what I tell people about System Administration: "all your successes will be in the darkness and all your failures in the full light of day".
The original comic is quite entertaining (if you don't mind silly/inappropriate humor). It's called "QA Confidential", and tells the story of how to get a job in QA and milk it for all it's worth. It was written during the heyday of the dot-com boom and nicely captured some of its irrational exuberance.

http://leisuretown.com/library/qac/
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I think the problem may actually socializing and not really communication. I noticed that people often confuse/combine the two. I haven't met any programmer that can't communicate, but I have met many that aren't very social.
Apologies, thought that this was an "Ask HN thread" and missed the OP article.
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Your design is definitely superior from a usability standpoint. Mad props to the OP for a nice site (though the reports of inaccurate reporting is alarming) but tomorrow I will be going your link to my phone girl. An example is the OP's large logo icon in the center of the page (serves little to no purpose) and the requirement to scroll the page to find extra info. Good on you man!

Edit: suggestion - allow the subdomian feature to work with www in front. A lot of the type of people who will be going to these pages will automatically type www dot in front and it bounces to the homepage. Still of course works, but removes the nifty send button.
Aero glass is gone in Windows 8. Design flair is different from skeuomorphism, you can have one without the other.
I know many find it creepy as hell, but I love this thing. Wouldn't be fun seeing it as an enemy though.
No we're not. Countries that have (or had) long standing dictatorships are rioting. The closest the first world has had to a riot is when Canada lost that hockey game.
If you guys ever think about são paulo I would love to help.
People have been predicting catastrophe for thousands of years. Without some reason to believe these people (and "a graph that shows correlation between some points that might well be cherrypicked" doesn't count), I see no reason to give this article any credence.
I've adopted the policy for my own comments to delete (immediately) any comment that gets a downvote. I wonder how many other people do that.

I do find it discouraging how quick people are to downvote things they don't personally agree with, rather than simply downvoting noise, spam, or low-quality comments. :(

(I cannot downvote people myself.)
Well in all likelihood, Rodrigo will probably leave/get fired and then go do his own startup! This is clearly not working for him!
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Let's just forget the mass protests all over the western world recently then.
Just curious, how can you support a president who is so blatantly a hypocrite and liar? I am not suggesting that Romney is a better alternative by any means, just curious as to why smart people like yourself continue to stand by this man who could care less about civil liberties?
Going with my instinct, I would definitely assume malice. In this very post, Marco says that he overreacted in part due to his anger at 9to5Mac.

But in the end, I don't care if it was malice or incompetence. I refuse to believe person who made a mistake and apologized > person who never made the mistake in the first place. Learning is fine, but some things you shouldn't have to learn.
yes, prime factorization is the predominant method for making cryptography "hard" to brute force. Earlier in it's history, discrete logarithms were also used to make brute force un-palatable, but factorization based cyrptography rules the roost right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_logarithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization
What about the Occupy Protests in LA?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
I think we can also question whether the computer makes you smarter. IMHO, computer or internet are tools. It's up to the owner of the tool to use it.
Oh man. Can't wait.
Here's one out of my personal playbook on both sides of the hiring process: Find a company that has an API and build something with it. Make a mashup, augment a feature that they have, or build a missing feature. This shows them that you are passionate about their company, have the ability to execute, and can deliver value.

Find a company that you want to work for that doesn't have an API? Build one for them. Scrap their website, grab some basic data, and show them that you can build a rudimentary API that gives customers access to build on top of what they want. Or build out a cool feature that they're lacking.

More than programmers, companies are looking for people who can help them improve their business. If you can bring passion, execution, and vision together you'll always find a job you want.

Also, we're hiring: http://www.globalgiving.org/aboutus/jobs/software-engineer-f...
I had a bit of a different thing in mind, my implementation is here https://github.com/component/component, it's certainly more opinionated, more of a framework almost, but solves more problems (of mine at least)
In the US, that happened. Low quality beef is cheap right now -- my supermarket is selling Select grade tenderloin for US $5.99/lb, becuase ranchers are dumping livestock on the market.

In a few months, that same cut of beef will be 250-400% higher.
This article would have a lot more weight if it was served from mit.edu or even cdc.gov.
Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit? Sure, they can block sites and no one will blink an eye,.

I think the difference is what kind of service it is. the blocking affected Instapaper's users perhaps more than the site itself.
I'd definitely defend bower here, there's no reason to use npm for this, it just makes things confusing and ambiguous, and leads to stupid suffices or prefixes like the several "-component" modules I have
Here's a dumb trick that's helped me run: I set up a custom playlist on my .mp3 player which goes for exactly as long as I intend to run that day. Then I run until the music stops.

It's trivial, but it's made a real difference.
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If you follow defaults you'll be using SQLite in Django and won't have any of the MySQL headache.

But you're right about needing PIP.
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I have found OneNote to be an excellent tool for this. One of the main apps that make it worth running a VM for me.
In my experience tinkering around at home with my kindle a year or two ago, the eink display is fast enough that using Vim on it feels about the same as a noticeably slow but still usable ssh session. With a real keyboard attached, it is something that I could see myself using.
(not)Instascraper
When I submitted the article, I left the title exactly like it is at the source. While I do try to follow the HN submission guidelines, I did wonder if the title would be insufficient to readers. My quick thought process concluded when I felt that HN readers would be sufficiently guided by seeing the instapaper.com domain. That's not to say I assumed reader familiarity with the recent 9to5-Arment issues, just that the Instapaper name would tell readers it had something to do with the app/service rather than a topic Marco Arment was writing on his personal blog (marco.org).

I thought that was a reasonable approach. Not perfect, but ample for what I assume is a thoughtful readership here.
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Livestock farming is crucial to keeping grain prices stable. Human demand for calories is relatively constant, for obvious reasons, but only accounts for a small majority of grain demand in normal years. The remainder is consumed by animals and by industrial processes.

When grain gets expensive, feeding animals becomes expensive. Raising them becomes unprofitable, so farmers dump their animals onto the market which 1) lowers the price of meat 2) makes a large number of meat calories available for human consumption when they are needed most and 3) reduces the demand for grain, dampening the price rise for grain.

This effect has mostly replaced the need for the long-term grain storage that countries used to do.

So why isn't working now? One word: ethanol. President Obama could single-handedly stop the current food crisis by eliminating or suspending ethanol subsidies and mandates.
I ask myself, what would I rather do? Vote for a guy who wants to close Guantanamo Bay but not enough, and who wants guaranteed-issue health care enough to stake his Presidency on it... or, implicitly or explicitly, vote for a guy who doesn't want to close Guantanamo Bay and who has said his first action after election will be to set in motion the repeal of guaranteed-issue health care?

I guess I'm just a dummy.
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I don't know if the update that added it was present when you read it, but the quote from TechDirt explains BZZT COMPUTER OVER. VIRUS=VERY YES.
Haskell code names all identifiers except unused ones place held with '_'. (Unlike perl, which has the day default $_ often in scope)

Haskellers completely avoid introducting entities (like function arguments) where they aren't needed.
My reading is that a single device appeared four times in the logs, twice named "Hutch" and twice named "Paul's gift to Brad".

If that is the case, it would be a pretty striking coincidence for it to be someone else.
You get 512mb of Ram for free on Heroku. 1024mb of ram for $36 per month. How much does $20 buy you on linode, and how much is your time worth?
I think adding tiers would muddy their service model – the default answer is /always/ not to do something, adding a feature or constraint should only happen with a compelling reason.
Obama tried and failed to close Guantanamo Bay, losing a great deal of political capital in the process. Do you think the Obama administration is writing memos encouraging the use of waterboarding, like David Addington and John Yoo did in 2003? I don't.

I don't object to this on a technicality. I object to it on the substance.
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If you are working on a serious project you are likely to write some db specific code, sqlite3 is only suitable for general ORM-only tasks.
That's like asking if it's wrong to eat your pizza crust first. Some people will claim sacrilege, others may nod in agreement while they wipe pizza sauce from their face.

Either way, you can't go wrong.
I can completely understand Marcos reaction here. 9to5/Seth seems to have been persistently badgering him. For example (Seth's words):

But in updating, I spelled his name wrong —”Marcus Armento”—as a laugh.

and..

I also linked to his Tweet above about spelling his name wrong and the funny replies it received.

and more...

I (also jokingly) called his app “Instascraper,” which publishers often
call the app because it removes ads from the websites it views. “Scraping”
is what publishers call bots and other robot services that strip content
from a site and republish it without any financial payment

That was in addition to the stories of Instapaper as a source of the leaked UDIDs and previous unflattering commentary.

Marco isn't completely blameless, however I completely understand why he was upset. Banning 9to5 was a step too far however he realized his mistake and owned up to it.

Dare I ask - what else do you want?
"The more people are sharing existing child porn, the less profit there is to be made in producing new material."

a) the producers aren't necessarily driven by a profit motive

b) it's not like they spend a lot on sets and crew and equipment, so 'break-even' isn't even an issue. They'd be taking that trip to Thailand anyway.

c) Porn customers value novelty, so there's pretty much always demand for new material, whether or not there's a viable business model.
1 half term as Senator, a few years in the state senate, community organizer, lawyer. Hmmm. I wonder what other former Presidents I might find with a similar bio. Hmmm... I might start by looking in... Illinois?
Reference:

http://csrp1.hku.hk/files/975_3792_927.pdf

It definitely isn't drawing any conclusions based on a single hour, but on repeated therapeutic interactions.
"You've picked apps with necessarily minimal interfaces;"

Necessarily? Have we really forgotten what search engine UIs looked like before Google came along?
I think this is a great idea, assuming people are willing to talk honestly about their failures. It's always better to get the story from the horse's mouth.

From there, analysis is a crowd pleaser.

In the mean time, here's an article about some (not so commonly admitted) reasons that startups fail: http://billysbilling.com/blog/The-Five-Biggest-Mistakes-You-...
As journalists they have to mention that every single time.

Why?

Are reviews of the 2012 Honda Accord obligated to mention that the design of the car's steering wheel is copied from Alfred Vacheron's 1894 Panhard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_wheel#History)?

If not, what statute of limitations are you proposing on this mandatory statement?