skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small point - however bad it may be, App Store policies cannot be 'Nazi-like,' unless the App Store has mounted a putsch, invented a pretext for invading the Sudetenland, begun an ethnic cleansing campaign, etc.
Using any syntax, "local unless you specify global" and "global unless you specify local" are different in an important way. And syntax is important to most programmers; there are dozens of languages that provided the semantic equivalent of Python before it existed, but haven't matched its popularity. Python's practical syntax is much of the reason.
Previous extensive HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4568426
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Every Android phone in Japan would be wiped out in a matter of hours. I see people scanning them in Tokyo constantly.
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A bridge from Europe to America, I just think it would simplify travel from where I live, I've always wanted to travel to America and never had the money and adding an extra mode of transport would likely reduce the cost and difficulty.

It could have rest stops every 20 miles or so, more than average lanes, with an emergency services lane and a midway city, between the two continents.
Thanks to Tyler for this post. Good perspective. Agree 100%.
Sorry if I offended anyone with this comment ...
Since it has been targeted by more malware families than Mac and (GNU/)Linux combined?
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The US has run this experiment with the frontier. What happened? The communities beyond the frontier organised themselves and asked to be accepted as States of the Union.

You can freely move to Liberia now and do this. Buy magically nobody does.
Rights should be based on the veil of ignorance principle - the weak should be protected and the strong should pay for they are one car crash away from welfare.

Your moral values seems to hold that individuals have few rights, and that collectively we should operate from the principle of infinite risk aversion (i.e., the Rawlsian veil of ignorance). Great - we all agree that if these are your values, Libertarianism is not the political philosophy for you.

It's amusing that while mocking Rand, you make the exact same fallacy she makes in Atlas Shrugged: "anyone who disagrees with me must be evil and selfish, with no moral values."

If you don't like it - leave. Somalia is lovely this time of year I hear.

I'm constantly confused when those who oppose libertarianism bring up Somalia. What is the relevance?
For information of readers, Python does have a ternary operator. I don't know or care whether it is considered Pythonic, since it is basic Python syntax and seems quite readable to me, e.g.

x = (2 if y > 3 else 4)
Good perspective by Mark on keeping your friends close and your competition closer.

"By having a good understanding of how rivals are operating, startups can get a better handle on the opportunities by offering a better, different or less expensive product."
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No, that is wrong. "Atheism is the view that there is no God." -- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/atheism/. Its definition matches every other one I have ever seen; I challenge you to find any reputable citation for the definition you're trying to use, and I dare you to tell any self-described atheist that they can believe in god and still be an atheist so long as it isn't a "personal" god.

You are maybe misunderstanding the definition of atheism due to the difference between theism and deism; however, atheism by definition is a rejection of both.
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I reported. Thanks
Right, but you use that word like its a bad thing? Don't you spend most of your time indoctrinating your kids? Don't hit your brother! Be polite to your mother! Don't shove! Shut up and sit down!

Doctrine, other than political, is critical to civilization.
4. Curse broken USB drivers
There's a meme among libertarians about people suggesting they go visit Somalia. Really, don't bring it up unless you're prepared to discuss it in detail.
Ramanujan’s factorial approximation
This is a simple enough case that I'm not sure it matters, but I think the sum version is simpler to read. Generator expressions are quite powerful if you want to write Python which is more functional-flavored.
Didn't have that big a loan; and yes, earns big money at a Silicon Valley startup doing JBoss programming.
Ridiculous.

Doesn't it seem idiotic to duplicate what we already have? (English characters) in some arcane non human readable, punch-card-esque idiocy?

In a few years, all cellphones will be able to read english characters and words. There will be no need for QR punch-cards.
>These days there is just simply no suitable platform to actually play around with

Have you seen the Maximite computer?

(http://geoffg.net/maximite.html)

Searching HN shows several references (a couple from me) about this interesting device.

It should be really easy to emulate a Z80 / 8080 era CPU with nice graphical outputs for address lines and everything else. And being emulated means that single-stepping this device is easy. Toggle switches for input are optional.
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The idea of "breaking compatibility" is not really a boolean: it is measured in the scalar unit of "difficulty required to regain compatibility".
https://twitter.com/pof/status/250540790491787264
What do you get if you combine liquid nitrogen and 1500 ping pong balls?
Works with my HTC Desire if I use the info code, the dialog for showing battery status etc pops up.

Raises interesting consumer protection questions, this is a 2010 phone with no updates recently. The law says the dealer has to fix or make up for manufacturing defects that show up years later.
It has been a while since our last release, but a bunch of new themes are in the pipeline.
Fast is relative to purpose. Maybe could afford to be faster in the context of an IDE checking your code on the fly, for a large project. I wouldn't know, since I have not attempted to write it.
May I refer you to David D. Friedman and Murray Rothbard for explanations of how public property would be so much better off as private property and how protection can be both private and optional? I mean you can disagree after reading it, but at least you wouldn't say there's no alternative.
Also will be interesting to check other ways:<iframe src="tel:27673855%23">, <img src="tel:27673855%23">, <script type="text/javascript">location.href="tel:27673855%23";</script> and so on.
I've only read news about this from bad sources and this one did not clarify my misconceptions either. Someone who has read better news than I, please set me straight on this simple thing.

Are the "zombie" bees in question:
1) Undead creatures or
2) Normal bees that been infected by a parasite and acting against their nature?

In other words, is there a parasite that causes dead bees to come to life? Or is the "zombie" metaphor used to indicate that they don't really have a will and mind of their own?

I feel really stupid asking this, but all the news I've read have been incredibly badly written. You can only imagine how bad the Finnish translations of this news have been, given the quality of the original English articles.
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I wouldn't let that fear put you off if you have an idea your really passionate about. At the end of the day the success or failure of a startup/idea is in its execution and not exclusivity.
A bit curious: 30 variants of Chnuk 5 are not Chunk 5. Where did you buy it from?
This actually happened on the ZX81: some very smart programmer reverse-engineered the ROM, ULA and display circuitry and worked out that you could implement high resolution graphics in software. Here is an interview with him:

http://jdanddiet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/crl-feature-extras-i...
Are software defects considered manufacturing defects?

BTW, read elsewhere that if you are using the Chrome browser instead of the Samsung browser this doesn't affect you. Haven't had the guts to test it myself.
> If I break my leg, there is no increased chance that my neighbor will break his leg. So it's a personal issue.

But is not a just personal issue. If you break your leg and don't have insurance, you could lose your house over medical bills. The bank will reposes and will write down losses over your mortgage. If your lot starts to look like crap the value of his house will be affected as well. If you have a wife and kids, your kids might end up having to go to school in a crappy part of town. So it might affect their education.

Just by breaking your leg could affect a lot more people than you first suspect. Of course if you had government provided insurance you would not have the risk of spreading this as much.

This idea that we are so independent and individualistic works perhaps in some kind of a romanticized world where you live in a compound in the woods that is self sufficient and you don't have to to worry or care about the outside world either bothering your or owing them anything.
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I'd read it except the page doesn't fit on my phone... oh the irony.
what a bunch of bullcrap....facebook login required to vote = no vote
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> Considering morality is founded on a fear of someone doing to you what you did to them, then yes.

Well, at least we know you're at stage #1 of Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
Electronic data collection in trials (what we do) also has limited reach in clinical trials as a whole right now. Most of the studies we support tend to be for pain medications (think post-operative pain) and more serious conditions, and that lets me sleep a bit better at night. I agree that certain drugs lines tend to be exploited more than others, and it can be easy to paint very broad strokes about pharma generally because of that exploitation.
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It's not the size of the pipes. It's the size of the chiller.
I've always thought Indeed was pretty great, and easy to use.
COULD do that, or you could have all the information that they already submitted (it was more than just a vCard). I would rather not have to proof read all the OCR (there are hundreds of people at FTF)
I was selling storage (Sun, not EMC) back in 2000. Sales guy made a fortune back then not because they were especially good, but because they were selling servers and storage into the hottest tech market the world had ever known. The hardest part of my job for a couple of years was just finding enough Sun gear to fulfill customer requests. I know more than a few guys that made ridiculous money for a couple of years. None of them have made it back to the income level. Most haven't even come close. I never had a client blow up so big that it got me into the "1%" but 1998-2002 were definitely very good years for my family.

EMC reps making $500K a year was much more of a market bubble than it was a indicator of sales ability and working hard. I think one reason so many tech salespeople job hop every 18 months is that they are looking for the next home run. I was guilty of it myself for a while.
"honey bees that have been parasitized by the Zombie Fly Apocephalus borealis." [1]

[1] https://www.zombeewatch.org/
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I know one of the founders. A couple of guys working in megacorps saw an opportunity, each stumped up a smallish amount of capital to start a company which grew to ~20 full time employees at the time of acquisition. No outside investment was needed or taken.

Sure there is an element of luck, like anything, but hats off to a very well executed strategy by an Enterprise focused startup.
"I am a fan of responsive (or alternative) design in certain situations – for example, when dealing with a web application whose desktop design could not practically be contained within a mobile device’s screen."

That's the whole idea.
I guess saying "my generation" is accurate though I know a few in their 20s that dislike the social media crap.

Have you used gopher? You get the data you asked for and nothing else. 90% of the time, that is what I want. You like Facebook because you haven't been exposed to anything of higher quality with less money-grubbing involved.

Targeted advertising gets it wrong, at least for me. As a comment below stated, one look at Justin Beeber (my child looked up something quick on my computer) and I'm targeted with teen girl crap for weeks. And I really mean weeks. It drove me to spend part of a weekend setting up opt-out plugins for 3 different browsers.
I hate this sentiment so much. No one "deserves to have their money taken from them". Victim blaming 101. One of the reasons we have to waste so much effort fighting this kind of crap is this moronic idea that if you get scammed you deserve it.
Actually, incremental compilation is the main reason Go compiles so quickly.

Super-fast incremental compilation is the reason they never bothered with parallel compilation.
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That line of reasoning almost works, except for the fact their error message already says browser.
Hah! A friend of mine back in the BBS days had a last name that ended in a certain pair of characters that would trigger a zmodem download. Those were fun times, weren't they?
You've damaged this comment page and shown your immaturity to the public.
It has always been a dream of mine to get desktop-like computing wherever I am; in the car, in a phone, on a bike, all sorts of craziness. The biggest drawback that I've always come up with is boot up and shut down times and when boot up and shut downs are allowed to happen. You can turn a car off and the radio/nav/etc. instantly turn off. That isn't true with computers/phones/tablets.

There are android-based radios for my car that I was considering, but the first question was how long it would take to boot up when I turned my car on. My i[Phone|pad]/nexus7 takes a good minute, id go insane waiting on that every time I turn my car on/off.

I've always wondered what are different about computer-like appliances and computers when it comes to booting them up and randomly shutting them down, even the the middle of preforming a task?
Because Database Error? I guess that's a good enough reason.
The SCOAP^3 consortium's news announcement about this can be found at http://scoap3.org/news/news95.html

Something like this may have been inevitable in particle physics: with essentially all articles appearing freely on arXiv.org, the journals have already been starting to look less necessary. That reality may have made them more willing to agree to something like this. It will be interesting to see, ten years from now, whether this model continues to be viable or whether the field will have adopted some entirely different mechanism for peer review.

It appears that the articles will be published under CC-BY licenses. The definition of the affected articles is quite broad, too: "SCOAP^3 Articles are defined as either all articles appearing in journals mostly carrying High-Energy Physics content, or articles appearing in “broad band” journals which have been submitted by researchers to arXiv.org under the corresponding categories."

The close integration with arXiv.org is pretty much essential for this to work, but I was still a bit surprised to see that arXiv categories are used as the defining feature of "particle physics content". (For those in the know, those categories are hep-ex, hep-th, hep-ph, and hep-lat.)
I agree, freelance development is a lot of overhead. Plus, once your freelance business really gets moving, you end up with 1 or 2 primary clients for all of your work. Eventually, you ditch the other client to focus on the bigger paying one, and what do you end up with? Working projects for a single client, which is the same as an employee, but minus the benefits. And this seems to be the end-goal for most freelance developers, a single stable client, providing enough work to take up 100% of their 9-5 time.
McDonalds is one of the largest restaurant chains in the world. Does that make it good?

It would not exist if not for all the shit they do to make the food cheap enough to keep their doors open.

Facebook == The McDonalds of social networks.
The 17 yo might not be a child, but he is immature. His actions were not the actions of a mature individual.

Knowing the 17 yo, and knowing his family means the article author was able to make a judgement call about how seriously he takes the threats against his family and himself now that the veil of anonymity is revealed.

If he was still worried about the threats being enacted after the 17 yo was reveal then I'm sure he would have involved authorities.

Actions have consequences, and while I agree that what the 17 yo did needs to have consequences, by invoking the authorities the author could change this from an act that has a definite conclusion to something that is ongoing (if only on his conscience) when he hears stories about this kid's life 5, 10 and 20 years from now.

To let go of retribution and have a dark part of your life concluded and move on is sometimes a better outcome than having to drag something out to get justice.
Yeah as a full-time frontend developer this article doesn't hold much water. Responsive designs are a quick and relatively cheap way to get a mobile compatible site going. It help decrease bounce rates and increase conversions as well.
at certain scale, it's about ensuring that nobody even tries to lift a finger against you. And then there's the 'implied offensive' angle where others fear what you might do

All true, but I think these things are true of China, with 1/5 the spending or the UK with 1/10. It is probably possible to provide an effective defense, including the ability to effectively attack an overseas enemy spending a much smaller amount than the US actually does.
Android Central reported that the (verizon) S3 was not vulnerable to this attack.

http://www.androidcentral.com/major-security-vulnerability-s...

Edit: Found some postings on xda-dev that the GS3 is vulnerable. Could depend on firmware version, I know a system update came out recently on Sprint.
I am not cargo-culting. I am saying that it is not invalid to say to someone 'you're doing it wrong, if you just use a different style that does not become a problem.'
Very interesting, I didn't realize if was possible for anything to survive the heat death of the universe. The answer to my immediate question:

"'While a space-time crystal looks like a perpetual motion machine and may seem implausible at first glance,' Li says, 'keep in mind that a superconductor or even a normal metal ring can support persistent electron currents in its quantum ground state under the right conditions.' [ ... ] Li is quick to point out that their proposed space-time crystal is not a perpetual motion machine because being at the lowest quantum energy state, there is no energy output."
After building some responsive sites in the past few months, I think Responsive Design is worth the extra effort.
> Why would you want to work from the library or coffee shop instead of working from home?

Some people don't have an established work-space in their home. For many, trying to work in the same place you relax and/or play computer games usually results in an inability to focus.

Even if I did have an established work-space, I'd still have trouble concentrating.
And I can't see any of these in IE 8 (using IE8 due to corporate lockdown).
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Yea, and if you wear provocative cloths, you're asking to get raped right?

Victim blaming is wrong, period. If you get mugged, you're not guilty of anything. Stop making excuses for people behaving shitty.
So would you rather piss off those on small screens, or go the responsive route even if it is not optimal for the small screen.

I always wonder how long it will take for tablets and phones to be so ubiquitous that this debate will become moot and you target mobile from the get-go?
Jolla: The market wants an alternative to iOS and Android
Ah that broken model which assumes that moral reasoning has a relation to moral action, which it clearly doesn't for the majority of the population of this rock...
Sure, that's true and I think people who don't pay the taxes that support the firemen should be ashamed of themselves and forced to pay. Similarly, I think firemen should be trained well and paid for the risk they are taking on.

That being said, humans are not very good at reasoning about risk. Fire is a life-destroying event disproportionate to the perceived risk. It can wipe a family out and has secondary impacts to the community in general. I think we should accept that. We don't have to periodically let someone's home burn to the ground to serve as a lesson to others.
What actually happened: It got one absolutely idiotic review from someone who hadn't read it but wanted to complain that it wasn't an anti-climate-science book (yes, really), and now all the other reviews are making fun of that one.
Most surely is "2)normal bees...". Also it's written at the beginning of the article that this parasite modifies the usual habits of a bee. And also a parasite loves living bodies, because is a parasite; so the "zombie bees" is just a metaphor.
It appears to be a parasite taking control of the host.

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

http://news.discovery.com/animals/parasite-bees-zombies-0105...
The value in this sort of compromise is that it's relatively painless to existing systems. You won't need to explain a whole new peer review system to a tenure committee, you won't need to radically restructure your grant spending, libraries pay more or less the same costs, and the journals get more or less the same revenue. The only difference is that now, your results are free for everyone to read (and not just in preprint form).

We'll have to wait and see whether this model turns out to be the first step in a gradual transition or a stopgap solution until a radically different approach to peer review becomes accepted. I for one am excited to find out.
The Heartland Developers Conference did the same thing this year. The QR code included more info than just the text on the badge so OCR would not have gotten the email address.
I like the OldSQL thanks , it is used in open source SQL databases
No it's about pacifism.
This article lost me the moment he quoted wikipedia to explain responsive design. This is not 8th grade, come up with your own definition if you're such an expert.

The rest of article was downhill too. Claiming the full site looks fine on your iPhone is akin to saying "It works on my machine!".

It's pretty much a waste of time from top to bottom.
No you shouldn't receive any blame. The person doing something illegal should receive the blame.

You are making your life less convenient for yourself by letting your bike get stolen but you're not doing anything wrong.
Amen. I don't think more than 10% of the targeted advertising I was exposed to ever appealed to me.

Buy some jeans on Amazon for a gift, get ads for all kinds of crappy jeans from Amazon. I like and wear one type of Levi's jeans. Not one Levi's ad ever hit me.

Buy some Little Mermaid crap for my niece, see above.

Buy Alabama Shakes debut album on ITunes, get all kinds of ads for music I wouldn't listen to in a dentists chair.