skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And will you apply science to an angry mob burning US flags and killing because of a movie?

You have so called "social sciences", but they are pretty much useless otherwise there would be someone paying them a lots of money to figure out what will happen next for example in the Middle East.

Sciences are very limited once you get a human being with free will into the equation. And then you multiple that by culture than by genes then by experiences and then by 6 billion.

I love history. And the main reason for my love of history is love of science fiction. If Nazi Germany never happened, don't you think that the whole story would make amazing science-fiction? How you apply scientific method to history? You can analyze, but as soon as you do your results/opinions will be different than anybody else's at least at some level. It's not like we all know 2+2=4. Now try Why people voted for Hitler? Good luck with your fixed narrow-minded analytical mindset to figure this one out. You can have debates for years about it and still you won't know for sure anything. Science is for people who want the right answer right away. Life is more complex than that simplistic view.
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I believe you are letting your raw feelings get in the way of making technical assessments and decisions.
Does anyone have a response to this position with respect to modern economics? Specifically, when economists test their models, what are the control groups that they use?
Just like http://tormovies.org but with less choice.
1.5 The software decides that Man is a virus and must be eliminated.
As I understand it, patents apply to applied inventions, not to concepts. In other words, to patent an idea, you need a working model. A patent is a time-limited legal monopoly on making the application, granted in exchange for disclosure of what the application does and how it works.
What happens if he doesn't get a publisher for it? Would it not make more sense to use the money from the Kickstarter campaign to allow him to work full-time on the book for 6 months and then self-publish?

Edit: It sounds like a really interesting subject, I hope he succeeds as I'd love to read it.
May be you meant: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gaza+Strip,+Shamal+Sinai,+P... ?
(Follow-up post after re-read.)

Actually, maybe these things have features that I wouldn't know of being only a curses person. I'd be interested to know more if you wrote up a blog post. Email cratuki at the google mail server.
I ran these benchmarks myself. The pgbench score just failed to run - I tried a few times but it wouldn't even start. I put it down to a bug in the benchmark. Should have explained.

But yeah, no diskio tests here really (other than the pgbench one, but I don't know to what extent that would have tested diskio). The benchmark suite tests were chosen by Phoronix. We'll do a diskio one at some point too.
"Michael Shermer ... defines scientism as a worldview that encompasses natural explanations, eschews supernatural and paranormal speculations, and embraces empiricism and reason."

I'd consider widespread adoption of that worldview to be the sign of a culturally advanced civilisation, and it's opposite to be the sign of a backwards one.
Cool, enjoy your piece of junk Dell laptop.
This is clearly a comparison of on-demand instances, where the common unit is the hourly rate as with other IaaS. Reserved instances in themselves have a cost in terms of commitment or risk (if you aren't able to sell them back later).
Spacious buildings can be a problem. You decrease the density of engineers / square foot, which reduces collaboration.

Of course, skyscrapers can also be bad, as it limits mixing. People only tend to interact with people on the same floor.
Well done. Now let's see if tptacek puts his money where his mouth is. :-)

And for fairness sake I'll try to summarize your argument, Gumbo:

Endeavors that either add relatively nothing or have negative consequences, such as negative productivity, simply for pure financial gain, are not noble endeavors.

To paraphrase Gérard de Nerval, our industry is a hovel and a place of ill-repute. I'm ashamed that God should see me here.

How many great engineers are working on sites that allow people to share pictures of their cats? How many of our most talented minds don't even know who Ivan Sutherland is? How many are trying to tackle hard problems, and how many are trying to get rich putting what we know in a new dress? It's a rhetorical question but answer it to yourself anyway, because it's so sad.
If anyone is interested, I've just written a small Grease Monkey plugin to convert the magnet urls to real torrent urls on moviemagnet.net and movies.io, thanks to torcache.net:

http://pastebin.ca/2205840

[EDIT] Updated pastebin URL to point to a new version which includes torrentbutler.eu and removes the jQuery dependency.
Which model. If it's a G-series, you're probably right.
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I thought "Bricking" is a relative term. For someone with an compatible in circuit debugger/programer that phone would be probably salvageable. For someone else a corrupted operation system could be indistinguishable from the "bricked" state, because of lack of experience, or skills to fix the problem.
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Then why not go by EC2's spot instances? Those would still be cheaper with zero upfront commitment.

A c1.xlarge spot instance is $0.07/hr (right now) compared to the on-demand pricing of $0.66/hr.

That means, assuming pricing stays consistent, a c1.xlarge instance would cost $50 a month compared to $466 a month with Brightbox.
If you're logged in Google knows what smartphone you own, might as well serve app results tailored to you.
This article was written by the same guy who last week described Steve Wozniak as "infamous" in a different article, then later went back and changed it.
+1 Your existence will be cold, lonely, and meaningless if you only ever act on falsifiable information.
The dream drop program wouldnt happen to be ramits would it?
Looks pretty good. Just so you know, your Google Analytics js is commented out.
Radio-over-fibre promises to spread the Web
I think in real usage (in my experience), this is very rarely the case. The only thing Generics are really extremely useful for is writing data structures that you can re-use with multiple data types.

Also, I tend to appreciate Go's approach of writing more code in these situations, because in general the code is still far more readable than a C++ Template (for example).

The Go creators have not ruled out adding Generics, they are simply being very careful about how they implement it. I would rather have this situation than something like a generic Java/C#/C++ style generics implementation rammed in because it is demanded by people who have hardly touched the language (or refuse to touch it until said feature is added).
Whenever I see people claiming they did something for 0$ I find it disingenuous. It reminds me of the old JWZ quote:

> Linux is only free if your time has no value
> Science is for people who want the right answer right away. Life is more complex than that simplistic view.

A simplistic view is assuming that scientists (and for that matter geeks/math guys/programmers) see things in 0-s and 1-s, strictly defined terms, etc. Math and science are much better equipped to handle fuzziness and lack of precision than any kind of "common sense" or soft whatever. It's just the other way around - handwaving at things because they are fuzzy and complex is a simplistic thing. Approaching them with combined might of all the advances in understanding and technology is what scientists do (or at least should do).
> The most popular web frameworks i've seen for Go so far are Web.go (a Web.py clone) and Revel (a Play clone).

Unfortunately both web.go and specially Revel were developed by people that were not (yet?) familiar with Go's style, and they simply cloned what they expected from other languages and frameworks they were more familiar with.

Gorilla[1] and pat[2] (by the creator of Sinatra, who is now a Gopher) fit much more with the Go style and philosophy.

[1]: http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/

[2]: https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
Yes, these are valid disadvantages of doing rendering code on the client. In your case, and many other similar to yours, using Go with abstract interfacing wouldn't be practical.
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He claims to have been beaten by his guards in numerous ways while in prison. http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/maziar%2Bbahari%2Ba...

"Of course there was some physical torture. He beat me, hit me with a belt, punched and kicked me but to me the scarier parts were these conversations because I could see he had a very wrong view of the world.
I say "I was wrong" quite a lot in fact, and I think it's an important ability. Of course, it's easier when you've been called out on some trivia or an educated guess, but I'm not often confronted with something I said that is diametrically opposed to what I currently believe. Is anyone?

(Cue political jokes)
Here are a few userscripts that I find helpful on profile pages:

https://github.com/skratchdot/github-repo-filter-info.user.j...

https://github.com/skratchdot/github-repo-counts.user.js/

https://github.com/skratchdot/github-get-missing-description...

They don't address your stream comment, but one of my gripes is not being able to see repo counts when filtering, or having the option to fill in "repo descriptions" for older projects.

EDIT: I like the re-design and the fact Github is constantly evolving
That is exactly my travel rig. I don't use it full-time, however-- I would spring for a lenovo ultra probably if I was going to do that.

But I have the advantage of the dev environment I like (even mimics the full rig), I can work on a plane without wifi (my netbook runs servers just fine), and I can boot Win if I need to. It also fits easily onto even a small airplane tray/table.

The only drawback is that unity isn't quite as good as the netbook remix ubuntu used to have. And some progs like mysql workbench don't respect monitor size and make their windows too large (thank god for virtual desktops).

I will probably do this for my next 'round' of tech investment again rather than go ipad.
Because it's not a common unit for comparison. The spot price can fluctuate. Obviously.

(you edited your comment, so I'll edit mine :) ...

How can you assume the spot price will stay the same?
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Rackspace hands over management of the OpenStack project to a foundation
#2 also applies to most Macs, which is why I paid extra for a matte display on my Macbook Pro.
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I haven't written anything real in Go yet, but there is a lot of articles about it, and many parts of it do appeal to me. I like how they didn't write another language for the JVM, I like the c inspired syntax, I like the concurrency model they have, etc. It also seems to be getting a lot of praise in
web development circles.

But am I the only one that cringes at going back to writing & and * for passing parameters etc. for web development? I know there is sometimes a need for really managing memory but... I'd love a simplistic language built around the ideas of Go (small runtime, fast, type safe, compiled etc.) for building web apps.

Time to download Go source and tinker...
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No... You fix it 
"
Mercurial versions 1.7.x and up require the configuration of Certification Authorities (CAs). Error messages of the form:

warning: code.google.com certificate with fingerprint b1:af: ... bc not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting)
"

Why can't you just take care of this at your end ... Why force users to deal with it ...
The one thing I wish were clearer is whether a respository is a fork or not. I'd like to easily be able to scan the page and pick out the forks.
I don't think its about 'eliminating' per se, but simplifying the structure of how it is all written, shortening and removing unnecessary cruft and duplication (which there is tonnes of). For instance the common-sense things that currently have multi-page long guidelines to describe them like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_create_hoaxes and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_disrupt_Wikipe.... It would be easy to remove these as separate guidelines and to just include the pertinent text of them (prob. doesnt need to be more than a couple of lines) is a more major policy/guideline.

They could also do with creating a better front-end page for understanding/browsing the various policies and guidelines.
Should all languages also allow users to define flow control structures?

Yes, some languages do this, but there is (as almost always) a trade of between simplicity and flexibility.

I think Go strikes a very nice spot there.

In go the built in datastructures are very carefully selected, and are extremely useful, while when you need to build your own datastructures is both simple and powerful (you have direct control over memory layout), you just can't build magically generic datastructures, but that always comes at a cost, and Go's interfaces also provides ways to write generic code that are quite powerful.
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A video that should go viral
Kind of like arrays in C or in pre generics Java and C#. Definitely not ideal but not that unusual either.
What is life without death?
None, because economists aren't big on testing, AFAIK, and empirical methods beyond meta-studies. It's still a very soft science, correct me if I'm wrong. Joke was that an economist that tests his hypothesis is a trader.

Econometrics and psycho-economics have just overturned the rational actor model that was the mainframe of classical economics. Maybe they'll add more empirical methods as well.
Like everybody, I've been hearing good things about Go lately. But although I'm curious about the language, its homepage (http://golang.org/) doesn't make a great impression. It looks very amateurish and unappealing.

And you can pretty much say the same thing about http://www.scala-lang.org/ and http://clojure.org/

It might not seem like a big deal, but it would certainly not hurt a language's popularity to have a slightly nicer site. Unless of course these languages don't want to become popular.

Edit: I actually can't find a single language site that looks good. So maybe bashing Go for this is unfair, although I still find the Go site particularly bad.
This is how it should work, but unfortunately it seems that the patent examination process does not work that well: Often trivial patents or patents with prior art are granted anyway, and one then has to risk going to court to invalidate the patent, which is highly undesirable for e.g. a private person developing free software in their spare time. Hopefully, in the US this will improve with the new patent reform.

Personally I believe that we should simply abolish software patents: Innovation in the software world seems to thrive without a patent process too, and in fact the patent process seems to be a major hurdle for small players to enter an existing market here.
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What do you propose as an alternative that addresses the deficiencies you identify here?
No, that's just naturalism, and there's nothing rational or advanced about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)
Revel is getting traction mostly among people who (like its author) are not very familiar with Go.

As gorilla http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/ and pat https://github.com/bmizerany/pat (by the creator of Sinatra) are much more in line with the Go philosophy.
The customization is not stored on the client though. I can just go to your domain and copy it.
While I'm not an iOS user, and you may be correct about average users, getting to a web app is simpler than installing and running an app:

App Web
1. Open app store Open browser
2. Search for google maps Search for google maps
3. Click first result Click first result
4. Install
5. Open app
Someone can just steal your two factor authentication token by asking for one at a forged login page.
Google executive Jeff Huber says: "We look forward to providing amazing Google Maps experiences on iOS.﻿"

While this more than likely means that they are going to create an app, it leaves it open enough that it could just mean that they're going to improve their mobile web app version of maps.
We have a rotary phone. Until the most recent change on our RCN connection, it would have worked when the power was out.
"They want large teams of mediocre programmers to produce code that is very supportable."

I think any argument that uses the phrase 'mediocre programmers' should set off alarm bells by now. Its critique by slander. The creators of the language (who are not mediocre) like simple languages. The desire to make things more transparent and simple is does not reflect on a person's capacity it reflects on their taste (insert Einstein quote, St Exupery etc). Ken Thomson is not an idiot for example but:

"Computer: Your nominators and endorsers for the Kanai Award consistently characterized your work as simple yet powerful. How do you discover such powerful abstractions?

Ken Thompson: It is the way I think. I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things.

The converse is true, too, I think. I can't from the building imagine the Tinker Toys. When I see a top-down description of a system or language that has infinite libraries described by layers and layers, all I just see is a morass. I can't get a feel for it. I can't understand how the pieces fit; I can't understand something presented to me that's very complex. Maybe I do what I do because if I built anything more complicated, I couldn't understand it. I really must break it down into little pieces."

Is he an idiot because he couldn't understand it? Or they giving awards to the wrong people? Could it be that to recognise everybodies limitations when working with code day in day out (not just the mediocre people) is actually a valuable insight?
Irrelevant. The XPS13 only has Intel graphics.
Nice, taste your own medicine AV companies!

Recent movement (last couple of years) by AV companies blocking everything which leads legitimate small businesses to take the stupid whitelisting route via AV companies or pointless customer calls to explain it's a false positive (and even when customer is convinced it's still not good enough because corporate doesn't allow them to exclude some binaries or disable AV).
Yes! Thanks for the corrected link :-)
Shouldn't they just rename the language to GoLang?
Finally an antivirus product I can approve of.
"programming to that in a way that is nonblocking".
It is strange that go it compared to Node.js and this sentence is false. Each function has a Sync version to program in "blocking" way.
I just decline to install them, myself.
Realistically even if you had the equipment, those phones are beyond economical repair given the amount of time you would have to invest in fixing them.

Even if you remove key Windows files sometimes Windows can recover its self using the backup copies located in %windir%\winsxs\Backup (and several other places depending on system configuration).

But generally bricking refers to the state of disrepair where something has to be thrown in the bin because it cannot be used in the future. The closest PC equivalents would be either corrupting the BIOS/UEFI or over-heating a component like the graphics card.
Just tapping a letter (so 'a', 'b' or whatever) automatically completes matching themes from the list of what's available, which kind of helps if all you wanted to do was browse. But yeah, it'd be nicer if you could just view the lot.
Damn, I can even remember what the B: drive is for!
Apple iOS 6 Leaves Out Google’s Mapping Data
Well the official gallery is here: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
How can we assume Brightbox won't raise prices?

How can we assume Amazon won't raise base prices, possibly affecting the spot market, then again this is a spot market! It's like asking how can you assume stock prices (not exactly equiv, but thats not the point) will go up or down?

How can we assume anything?

We don't. I think the assumption on the wrong feature to market is the problem here.

I only care that right now, EC2 spot are cheaper by a large margin. IF the price raises to match then I'll adjust. I'm not locked in.
True, I've "bricked" my Android phone a few times by flashing a new OS version, and always recovered it with ADB.
You can simply back up your key (encrypted with a password!) on a cheap USB stick or CD you keep somewhere that you consider safe enough for your purposes.
Me too. Useless without a list.
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All the custom stuff is in a PPA[1]. Some of the patches are already merged into Quantal.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-k...
For those interested in a legit variation on this theme, check out http://www.moviepresto.com

Pretty much every movie out on video is available via one of the online platforms (currently iTunes, Amazon Instant, Netflix, and Redbox), but availability outside the US is still frustrating.
It's equally fair to say that there is a lot of blindly anti-Apple articles that make the front page here.

"Are we supposed to roll over and shut up because the almighty Gods at Apple decided this was the best way to do?"

No. But by the same token claiming something s broken within hours of it's release and without any measurable data is hyperbolic and at this stage in the game somewhat OTT. Much the same is true with mapping. As another poster has said, don'rt buy their products, or if you are developer, don't develop for the platform. Of course multinationals make mistakes. It's far too early to claim that this is the case.

"...this is the twenty first century and we have a whole generation of digital natives who will ask Google for an answer before they get in the shower-- and they're users too." And I'm willing to bet that they are still not representative of the majority of end users. It's not as if these users aren't catered for either - Android is an excellent mobile OS that is far more friendly to the end user that wants that level of control. No, the biggest issue we have now is the over inflated sense of entitlement that the many on the internet seem to have.
Just add maps.google.com to your home screen. I was doing that even before the new iOS. It's better than the new Maps app or the old one. Bicycle directions!

Also, FYI, the previous Maps app did use Google Maps, but the app itself was written by Apple. I once was at a Google event and asked a Googler who works on Maps about it. They have been frustrated for years that they could not update that app when they added new features to Google Maps. I expect within a short time we will see an iOS Google Maps that is on par with the Android app.
Actors and Processes / Communicating Sequential Processes
Interesting look at Go's concurrency vs Erlang's concurrency.
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Apple called out on iPhone 5 "world's most advanced display" claim
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Thanks for the update on the licensing.

Barman does have a lot of great features, and hopefully I will be able to try it out on a test system sometime soon.
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Indeed. So do I; 12.04 runs flawlessly on it out of the box.
Finally an antivirus that really works. Next in series: antivirus shows message "please install linux and get rid of me".