skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments on this article, including Marx and an indirect link to a journal article about game theory in a biology journal are a great example of the "je ne sais quoi" that keeps me coming back to hn.
I was in China for a month. And I had to look extremely hard to find 1 obese person everyday.
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I noticed the lag with pressing the super key in unity, as well. Then I found out that Super+a is apps, Super+m is music, etc and that anyone of those is usually faster in coming up than a pure Super (for the default lens or whatever). I'm wondering if it's "waiting" just a bit for that +[a,m,etc]...
Obviously you will write faster code if you use directly OS functions, but your code will be less portable.
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For me it is slightly different:
When I login "Indian guy with Indian credit card, Indian registered Kindle, Indian shipping address, etc..", I get $9.21.
With an anonymous browser window, in India, I get: $9.48, no taxes and free international wireless delivery.
I guess this is just third-world / first-world price discrimination.
Why is this the story that's occupying the blogosphere's attention? While we're wrangling about this, the main stream media is talking about the doxxing of Amanda Todd's alleged bullier by Anonymous.
"Eating healthily is more expensive than eating junk"

This assertion is blatantly false. I can get full on excellent quality food for about the price of a mcdonald's meal + a bag of chips.

I've eaten like crap, and I've eaten well. It's very cheap to eat healthy. Most people are just making excuses for not wanting to practice self-control or educate themselves.
It works. My scuba diving instructor taught us, that you can use toothpaste in your scuba glasses when they get hazy all the time.

Spit also works, which is handy when you are in the sea, but not so much when you have to clean your headlights :)
Personally, I love social sharing buttons. Without them, I believe sharing of pages (especially blog posts) would decrease drastically. I am a fan of minimal design trends, omitting everything but the essential from a page and I respect why some people have strong feelings on the subject.

I think we, as the tech community need to find ways of facilitating the needs of everyone in a way that's natural. I like the idea that I can share to Facebook (with my close friends) to Twitter (with my followers who may or may not know me in real life) and I can also see the use for Google+ and LinkedIn for sharing with professional contacts.

What does need to die however, is the overuse of social sharing buttons. I've been to way too many sites where you have a social sharing strip before AND after the article and then a floating sidebar to top it all off.

Would love to see a report from KISSMetrics / Mixpanel on how effective the various implementations of social sharing buttons are.

Edit: Said "personally" too many times
Swap the pasta for eggs.
If you want responsiveness, check out openbox. For intermediate users, the setup isn't difficult.
You're not wrong. I'm surprised my answer's got so much attention to be honest, because it's so common in Rails apps.
A bit of advice: avoid using flags altogether in your user interface unless you really, really need to refer to specific national/political entities. There's far too much room for error or offense, whether you're incorrectly assigning the wrong flag to a geographical region or have not represented the flag correctly. I haven't looked at the flag set, but I'm betting there are errors related to the correctness of layout, aspect ratios and colors and to the clarity of symbols and text.

Even more importantly, never use a flag to represent a language choice.

(* most major websites do avoid using flags, but one notable exception is Apple, which completely corrupts every single flag with their own shiny style: http://www.apple.com/choose-your-country/ ...)
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It signifies the number of columns and how many columns each section, or div, takes.

In your example, the first section would take 2 columns out of twelve. The second section takes the remaining 10 columns.

Or, col-3-12 & col-9-12; first section would take 3 columns out of twelve and the second takes the remaining nine.

What I'm curious about is if doing something like this: col-2-12 & col-8-12. But I'm too lazy to download the css to see for myself.
Do you have any links to the bugs? We use 5.4 in production and haven't had any issues with APC, so I'm curious if we're missing anything relevant to our use case.
One very helpful side effect, however, was that he exposed Anderson Cooper for the integrity-free yellow journalist he is (at least for those paying close attention).
Being not from the West Coast of the USA or not in my early 20s or for some other reason I really had no idea whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to be 'crushing it'.

In which social group is this a commonly understood phrase and could you advise me on whether I should start dropping it into conversation to impress my peers.
It also gives people more info to search with.
Someone replied to his Twitter post on this topic with an interesting point:

https://twitter.com/b6n/status/258785250145087488

The message "This price was set by the publisher" only appears when he's logged in. That message is a tipoff that the book is sold under the agency model, where the publisher sets the price and Amazon takes a cut off the top. Under the agency rules, Amazon had no choice but to sell at that price.

HarperCollins, the publisher of this book, was one of the three publishers that settled with the DoJ in the lawsuit that accused the publishers of colluding with Apple to use the agency model to impose price-fixing on ebooks. As part of the settlement they agreed to knock it off. [1] But obviously the DoJ does not have jurisdiction outside the USA, so they presumably would still be free to force that model elsewhere.

Tim Bray is based in Canada, so if he's logged in Amazon presumably would treat it as a Canadian sale, and still sell the book under the agency pricing?

edit to add: I tried going to Amazon.ca to see what they'd show a US-based customer, but they don't seem to show me Kindle versions of that book at all.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/06/apple-ebooks-idUSL...
This might help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/70540/how-can-i-set-default-t...
This would make more sense if reddit karma corresponded to respect. I post some really lengthy replies on reddit that take a lot of time to put together and are really helpful - these usually get 1 or 2 upvotes at best. I was slowly building comment karma and then I posted a 9gag link in a comment and tripled my karma overnight. It took 20 seconds to post.

And as far as the value of link karma - well look at the stuff that gets the highest votes on the site.

I'd have to lean towards reddit karma being meaningless/worthless/whatever you want to call it.
> The question of how an individual can lose weight is pretty well understood (if difficult for many to practice).

From reading discussions and articles about it that pop up here from time to time, and also from talking with my family and friends, I'd disagree. What I actually perceive is that in discussions about loosing weight:

- a) people generalize personal anecdotes,

- b) there are dozens of popular diets, and people usually quote their favourite,

- c) whatever Real Science gets quoted, will soon be challenged by another paper saying something opposite,

- d) people try to reason from common sense ("surely if you eat less X you'll be less fat, because X does this-and-that"); I was a believer of the thermodynamics-like theory that deltaWeight = weight + (calories in - calories out)*stuff; many a post on HN convinced me that it's not true, even though it sounds much more obvious than typical dietetary nonsense you'll hear from your random friend.

I'm against blaming everything on people being not determined or hardworking enough. For one, it's wrong attitude (any system that assumes strong willpower or moral high ground from people will fail because of human nature; it's better to engineer around it), and secondly, there are indications that the same diet/exercise combination executed with the same determination will have great effects on some, moderate on others, and zero-to-negative on few unfortunate people.
So many people seem to misunderstand this and what free speech really means.
They're not talking about free speech rights; they're talking about free speech principles.
+1, thanks Dan.
I can't speak about the Internet at large, but Reddit was a YC startup, and its growing pains are instructive for those who want to understand where their own startup dreams may lead, and the challenges of managing the unintended consequences of disrupting industries and/or society.
> but the filthiest asshole isn't Brutsch IMO.

Gotta disagree with that. What this kid was doing on a micro-level hurt and affected far more people than Gawker ousting him. Plenty of trolls have been made public before, but outside of the risk of finding a job and the initial backlash, they aren't doomed to lifelong persecution. Whereas his words and actions could have prompted someone to hurt themselves or just cut themselves off from the world.
Unlike Nike with its Armstrong advertising, Reddit exerts very little control over subreddits. That's by choice and by design. Reddit basically tries to keep itself from getting sued, and leaves the rest of the community rule-making to subreddit mods.

Why is that so hard for people? People want to make reddit responsible for everything that happens there. But the users are the ones who are actually doing the posting.

Let's recognize the truth: that those users are the relevant moral agents when it comes to their posts, not reddit. Reddit's not responsible for violentacrez' fate any more than it was responsible for his posts.
"wasn't purposefully ruining someone's life,"

debatable based on the content in some of those subreddits where he was active.
Is that so they can get free advertising on the highway signs that show nearby universities? I always thought that was a very clever trick.
> Very simple and lightweight, as advertised

> perfect on IE8

> use HTML5 semantic tags (header, section, etc)

You can only have two of the three things that you have on your wishlist. IE8 doesn't know how to apply CSS to HTML5 tags. This is typically fixed with html5shiv, a JavaScript library. But including html5shiv would make this grid less simple and less lightweight.
This isn't meant to be a retort - I agree that there is a lot of mess in deb-ubu/gnome 3. But if you have the time, try fedora on bare hardware to get an idea of how gnome is supposed to work. You probably won't want to stick with it for a variety of legitimate reasons, but the core ui feel is very, very nice - and that's what I wish I could get under ubuntu.
"Mr. Brutsch, who was fired from his job following Gawker’s expose, is now soliciting programming work in the porn industry."

I don't know the porn industry all that well, but it does seem slightly unlikely they'd want someone with a history of pre-18 sexualisation on the team given how hard they have to fight to stay legal.
So much wrong! [EDIT: OK, not quite as much wrong as I thought]

"Most of what we eat will be broken down to one thing: Glucose. Glucose is our fuel, keeping our brains awake and alert."

Say what? Fat is not turned into glucose (fat -> free fatty acids and glycerol) [EDIT: Wrong here, as glycerol can undergo Gluconeogenesis to produce glucose]. Protein is not turned in to glucose. [EDIT: I was partially wrong here too, see comment, as Glucogenic Amino Acids, from digested protein, can undergo Gluconeogenesis too :-/] Neither is the cellulose in my vegetables, etc. etc. Pretty much only the starch I eat, the sucrose and the glucose I eat goes to glucose.

"The most important part here is that we are in full control of how we release glucose to our blood and our brains."

Huh? Really? "full control" are we? Insulin doesn't play a part??

So here is an article basically suggesting that the readers attempt to eat slow release carbs (better than fast!)... all day long to sustain their blood sugar level? Graze... all day long? Specifically dark chocolate and chocolate?

Well, it appears so, yes. Which is pretty much a recipe for decreasing your insulin sensitivity, generally accepted as BAD for your health.
Perhaps you could be a bit more clear. What Java situation?
> This assertion is blatantly false. I can get full on excellent quality food for about the price of a mcdonald's meal + a bag of chips.

Not that kind of junk. Think ramen noodles.
The real hypocrisy is Reddit trying to promote free speech by censoring Gawker's websites.
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The issue I'm seeing is that IP protections are government-granted monopolies and I can't think of any good that ever came from government-granted monopolies, except maybe in healthcare for some European countries, but that's highly debatable too.

It's also a fact that a monopoly is against the free market and while it's completely debatable whether this is good or bad for innovation or the common good ... in a free market, the law of the fittest applies. The ones that innovate are the ones that have a head-start. The ones that don't either die or if they are too big to die, they are subject to the innovator's dilemma. This is why you can see newer technologies and platforms disrupt older and bigger companies. But unfortunately, these big companies, instead of innovating and keeping pace are now choosing to use the ultimate weapon against free-market competition: government-granted monopolies.

This notion that you have to be rewarded for ideas and designs is completely preposterous, because innovators are already rewarded by the market for being first. And if not, they shouldn't get rewarded with such a monopoly anyway, because if these monopolies go so out of control, there will never be another Apple, because Apple themselves got a lot of ideas and concepts from the prior works of others.
People have fought over meaningless things since the dawn of time. The crusades come to mind in that respect.
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Oscars : attract viewers and make people more "bankable".

Rooting for a sport team : meaningless

Person of the Year : built your credibility, bring recognition etc
Entrepreneurial circlejerking at it's finest. "Rocket Science isn't hard, you should try pitching a new app to a VC."

I don't want to downplay starting your own company as something trivial. However, I think I can say getting a spacecraft to leave our solar system after 35 years of reliable operation without any physical servicing is harder than convincing a few people to buy your product or lend you some money.
> I can already tell when someone is guilty of plagiarism

Plagiarism? The case has nothing to do with plagiarism. It's not about copyright, it's about registered designs. Quoting TFA: "It is not about whether Samsung copied Apple's iPad. Infringement of a registered design does not involve any question of whether there was copying: the issue is simply whether the accused design is too close to the registered design according to the tests laid down in the law." And it isn't.

Example: If I have never heard of the ipad, and come up with an identical design purely by coincidence, then I still do infringe their registered design right. Conversely, if I copy Apple's design exactly but then alter it enough that it "produce[s] on the informed user a different overall impression" from the ipad, I don't infringe.
No, the sarcasm is obvious. It's just not very funny, and doesn't positively contribute to the level of discourse here.
And even worse is using them to indicate languages. There are countries with more than one language (e.g. Belgium which Dutch, French and German) and there are languages which are used in more than one country (think us.png vs gb.png for "English").

So, rule of thumb:
- never use flags to indicate a language
- use flags to indicate a country only after thinking twice

EDIT: Nonetheless, this flag collection looks awesome, and if I ever have a legit use case for flags in a GUI I'll definitely use them. Thanks for sharing under a free license!
1) Awesome. That's the biggest usability improvement right now.

2) Accept all CC info at time of posting a bounty and create a Stripe customer record. Charge automatically when the user accepts an answer--acceptance is the delayed "confirm payment" step, so to speak. Create a system whereby the deadline for bounties applies to both parties--poster must accept an answer within 7 days, unless there are no answers or something. Figure out how to handle bad answers, etc. Or make it so they will be charged automatically in 7 days unless no answer is provided, and the bounty will be applied equally to all the responders or something. Get creative. The forced charity thing really shouldn't be happening. Give the money to the people who take the time to answer questions, leaving it up to the poster to ensure they award the full bounty to the right person. Keep a reputation system on a post:accept ratio or something so responders can get an idea of whether they're likely to be awarded a bounty from a given poster or not.

3. That's a bit tougher one to answer from the outside. I can't figure out how expenses could be as high as the upcharge. I completely understand wanting to make money off the service, and think you absolutely should. But, upwards of 300% is a bit much. The reason this sticks out so much is that people will accept fees, but when the fees get excessively higher at different steps in a way that is not an equal percentage across all steps, it becomes obvious that there is something wrong. I think this is highly likely to be noticed among the audience using this service. So come up with a flat rate that applies across the board--say, 10%. Enough to cover Stripe's fee & have a bit extra left over. You should be making money off building up a vibrant service, not off gouging your users.
Looks good. Your #viewport div causes a strange error with having a horizontal scrollbar @ ~789px. Instead of using the margin-left, why not position it with left and top since it is already absolutely positioned?

Edit: you can probably just change margin-left to left and create the same steam effect that is offscreen when the browser is too narrow
I open a nightclub. People drink. They fight. They hurt themselves. Do I get to shrug that I exert very little control over what people do in my nightclub?

It's my choice whether I exert control or not. It's Reddit's choice not to exert control, and of course they're responsible for the consequences of their non-control.

To my mind, they took the money. taking the money and then saying they're not responsible for his fate is not the moral high ground. It may be pragamatic, it may be just business, but it's hardly laudable.
Yeah, it's interesting to see the mobile approach with this. A single browser based share button which can be hooked up to all the social networks that are important to you.

One thing this misses is the social proof aspect of the sharing buttons.
This is dangerous misinformation.

I'm sorry, but if your "math-heavy" code performs better when oversubscribed, then it is a massively suboptimal implementation. As a performance-oriented mathematical library developer, with colleagues at many of the major supercomputing centers and vendors, oversubscription is a hazard that we guard against on CPU architectures because it is always slower. Many supercomputing environments use a kernel that does not even support over-subscription.

Note that GPUs are different in the sense that over-decomposition is necessary to cover latency, but even there, you generally get better performance at lower occupancy due to better register reuse. SMT CPU systems, most notably, Blue Gene/Q, often require use of multiple hardware threads per core to cover instruction latency and keep the prefetcher busy (due to allocation of outstanding requests). This is not over-subscription because those are bonified hardware threads.
But then it won't fix it sooner than in 10 000 years.

Technological progress (and life style changes that follow it) has outpaced whatever biological processes of adaptation there are by many orders of magnitude.
The default fee is currently very small (0.01 BTC) per transaction. Compare that with credit card fees of $0.35 + 2.5% per transaction, and you will see the draw of Bitcoin for large businesses with lots of credit card transactions.

The transaction fee mechanism is a helpful free market tool that gives more freedom to Bitcoin spenders: for low-importance transactions, the spender may choose to save on fees at the expense of a long, uncertain confirmation time.

Of course the miners have no obligation to anyone, and at this point in the game, block rewards are high enough that transaction fees do not really factor into the decision on the transactions to include in the block. As block rewards shrink, transaction fees will become the miners' main source of income, so fee-less transactions will take much longer to be confirmed.
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Grooveshark or Spotify?
I had the same problem as it seems the convention isn't explained on the website. However as soon as I took a look at the code it became clear that the numbers represent fractions.
.col-2-12 is a column that is 2/12 in width (same as 1/6) and .col-10-12 is 10/12, respectively.
This is where I don't get the duality of how people perceive the internet as a medium.

We want the products we build that aren't (to counter your definition) "in the real world" to give us salary, a future, wealth, whatever... but you flip the viewpoint and someone doing something they wish to do "not in the real world" is completely meaningless (and this implicitly has no value). The fact that people achieve A surely means there are endless scenarios where B is not true.
A bit of advice: actually look at something before judging it. If you'd downloaded, you'd know that they all look correct.
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Of course, but at that point you likely wouldn't be using any R-leaning webservers; rather, you'd start with any old web server, and then just make shell calls to R. Or, you _could_ do the "R as a service" type thing, and have your normal [Django] stack make a webservice call to the R-webservice.
> "In agreement with the court ruling Apple acknowledges Samsung hasn't copied the design of the iPad

The court ruled no such thing. "[The case] is not about whether Samsung copied Apple's iPad. Infringement of a registered design does not involve any question of whether there was copying: the issue is simply whether the accused design is too close to the registered design..."
Copyright has taken too much from society to benefit IP holders. Corporations have the power to erase context from your life. It reminds me of Soviets erasing people from history.

Universal doesn't approve of your dancing baby? Sorry, but that event is no longer something you can freely distribute.
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Doesn't this strike anyone as unusual? IANAL (or a solicitor for that matter) but this seems like the sort of ruling you'd get in some sort of defamation case. This was a patents case. Isn't the court over stepping the mark with this, or is it not unusual?