skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't find these two examples comparable because I find it hard to believe that the American population is currently voting or acting to reinstate slavery.

When you pay your taxes to the Pentagon and vote to reelect George W Bush, AlQaeda members see you about the same way that Allied pilots of World War 2 saw the innocent German civilians that they fried with strategic bombing.

A friend of mine would have been killed in the 911 attack had my friend been on a different train, so I'm not pointing this out because I enjoy being attacked by AlQaeda. I'm saying this because I feel the responsibility issue is similar to that in last election in the UK, for the following reason:

The election was a choice between Dumb and Dumber because of our electoral system. The system makes it infeasible for any party other than the big 2, so at best you get to vote for the second-worst policy or waste your vote. There was a referendum to move to preferential voting instead.

The people voted for Dumber, and then voted against electoral reform. So the current bad policy continues by popular decision.

If I'm not supposed to blame the British people for choosing this stupidity, who am I supposed to blame?
Original news on HN from Raspberry blog:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4654251
That's exactly why I thought about it in the first place.
"A giant leap for me, a small step for mankind."
Awesome, mine is supposed to be delivered today!

We're planning on using it to control an entire room… AC via the GPIO, lighting via a USB power relay and TV/Soundbar via HDMI-CEC. Tying all of this into an API to be controlled by iOS apps. Excited!
that's right. plv8 works. but it certainly does not feel like using a postgres index but a map-without reduce-framework. so i hope that built-in indexing will come sooner than later... :D
This is what Technical Analysis was like in the 70′s before computers
Twenty days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565587

Twenty-seven days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535417
Outstanding site. I'm a paying user of DeployHQ at the moment. My biggest issue there is not having the ability to add new deployment servers via an API. Any thoughts on adding API access at some point?
..."zombie Muhammed"! ...I REALLY wanna see a photo of that, so if anyone has it PLEASE post it anywhere online!

(though, to be fair, resurrection was Jesus' thing, so he would go better with the zombie thing, and maybe the costumed guy got what he deserved for mixing things up...)
It would be a weird machine!

sizeof(char) has to be 1 in both C and C++ (5.3.3, para 1), and this is the smallest addressable amount, so should be a byte on most machines. "Plain ints have the natural size suggested by the architecture of the execution environment", which on most modern machines is not a single byte, but 4 or 8. Also C++ says that an int must store INT_MAX, which according to the C standard has to be at least 32767.

So you could have sizeof(char)=sizeof(int), but it would have to be on at least 16-bit addressable machine, with a natural machine size of 16-bits. Possible but very unusual.

(For the recent draft of the C++ standard which I refering to, see: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n337... )
> I'm really curious how you would suggest to measure the "true value" of books. ... Aesthetics (here book appreciation) simply isn't objective to begin with.

And this would be the crux of the problem. We have sales numbers (objective) and reviews (subjective). It is compounded that undervalued books will have fewer reviews to work with.

But the hardest part is that people are not good judges of these things. Or maybe they are, but they have different tastes than you do. So, to action!

1) You rate the top 100 books in amazon as high valued or not.

2) A scraper + statistics finds people who agree with you.

3) Looking at the bottom half of books, find those which your subset of people like.

4) Farm it out to netflix, since that is what they do anyway.
I don't mind giving them $99 but I'd like the latest source on Github so I can fork and send pull requests easily.

[edit - ok. Not necessarily in Github but at least in a publicly accessible DVCS repo]
...found it actually (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xULoUXkBia0/T0_8AxXVVGI/AAAAAAAACH...) ...though still, he should've really changed the headwear and colors and made it a Jesus zombie :P
A more reasonable view would be to note that those who engage in lawless action should be responsible for their own actions, regardless of whatever speech or opinions they claim made them engage in criminal behavior. No one makes you engage in criminality. It is something you choose to do.

This seems like a false dilemma: either blame the speaker or the doer -- not both?

Moreover, the question is open as to whether or not some speech in some circumstances can provoke violence where otherwise none would have occurred. All you are saying in response to the question is an unqualified "no."
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This is just another sample case demonstrating how otherwise intelligent and competent people really need to be educated about web development security.
That 'technicality'(1) was the universities lack of effective checks on students right to be in the UK, which they had 6 months to fix.

I don't disagree that foreign students bring a lot to this country, and that the handling of this thing by the government was extremely poor (2), but you're conflating two different issues in order to make a point about the Daily Mail.

It seems like you're guilty of the same simplistic arguments.

(1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19419395

(2) http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/aug/30/london-metro...
If you're western/male/white/straight you're playing life on 'very easy' mode.

But what does this actually mean? Explain it like I'm 5.

Do I need to earn more EXP to level up my computer programming ability? Do my enemies automatically gain +10% disruption resistance? In video games the meaning of "nightmare difficulty" is quite concrete. Not so much in this conversation.
This sounds like an interesting project. I kindly direct your attention to http://code.google.com/p/openhab/

Best of luck to you!
What's your background? Are you a programmer? Maybe check this out:
http://katemats.com/what-every-programmer-should-know-about-...
Careful of spending too much time on this, it reeks of premature optimization. You'll have much more knowledge of what's important to spend time on after you launch the site than before.
Wow, this actually helped me understand the proof of Loeb's theorem, which I've always had trouble with. But I think the most confusing part is the fixed-point theorem it uses, which I've never seen a nice proof of; the Haskell code seems to be just implicitly accepting that a fixed point exists when he defines loeb x in terms of itself.

Is this something Haskell does in general? What happens when you try and write a function that doesn't have a fixed point?
Would you care to elaborate on your objections? I'm guessing it might be along these lines: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

Is so - remember we aren't necessarily trying to parse HTML. You could probably fix most of the things that are likely to get screwed up by various browser quirks in ContentEditable.
I love/hate that, in the three months since I placed my order for an RPi, it keeps getting upgraded before I can even get my hands on the dang thing. Ah well...
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I loved the view from the balloon when he jumped, just incredible.

Is there a video of his on-man camera view?
I like your style of using 'jeeves' as the namespace for useful helper functions :-) BTW, I have been recently working on a sticky buttons plugin myself https://github.com/naiquevin/jquery-sticky-buttons Uses jquery, no hosted example, not quite well documented and I have no idea if it works on iOS but I am planning to fix the last these points soon (except jquery)
I bookmarked your link. looks good and long :-)

I am not programmer, only Web App owner.
I have people that code for me and now that the site is finished and about to release i would like to know what steps should i take.
What are the differences between designMode and contenteditable? I always assumed they were different names for essentially the same thing.
In actual practice (as opposed to a narrow experiment) women are more likely to be hired, promoted, or given a grant than a similarly qualified man.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12062&page=R1
That's annoying for us early adopters but oh well. Good news for people still waiting to receive theirs
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I got off my motorcycle in my ass-less chaps, walked up to the ATM machine and typed in my PIN number to find out that my account was my account.

Yay redundancy!

(I'm just having a little fun at your expense of saying PIN number in the title.)
Googlebot will definitely see it. Googlebot is essentially a chrome instance.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182579
Of course this happens on the day I finally receive mine...
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RS specs page has been updated:

http://raspberrypi.rsdelivers.com/product/raspberry-pi/raspb...

I'm very happy that my order has been delayed.
And - what's your point?

Automation of mining is inevitable. Everything is actually.

It's like saying people still make bully whips just as cars are starting to hit mainstream - you are correct about the present - you are wrong about the future.
If you want this as a service, you may want to look at http://about.me/
Thanks for the link. Are you aware of similar projects?
Very bad:

- Manual loading of jQuery, will lead to multiple jQuery loaded

- Missing apparently all action hooks, see wp_head(), wp_footer() etc. This breaks basic blog functionalities and many plugins.

Not good:

- Hardcoded path to CSS files, see wp_register_style etc

- Hardcoded path to JavaScript files, see wp_register_script etc

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development would be a good start.
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> What happens when you try and write a function that doesn't have a fixed point?

It's like non-well founded recursion, it loops. But as a bonus, some cases are caught at runtime :

x :: String
x = x

main = print x

./x
x: <<loop>>
> You have to move fast enough that when you fall you miss the earth.

So what you're saying is that there is an art, or rather, a knack to flying, and that the knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss?
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But, from what I understand, if I structure my software using Graph, it should be much easier to run it using Storm, even without automated tooling. That way Graph becomes a stepping stone: structure your software, and if you need Storm's parallelism/scalibility, define a topology using the same functions.
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Hey everybody, just wanted to let you know about a new ebook I've published. In a very short format, it teaches the fundamentals of investing.

Although there are many investing books on the market, I felt that almost all of them obscure the basic message that nearly everybody should be investing, with less-important complexities.

I run a technology company, and so this project was a bit off the beaten path, but I think the potential benefits are important, and that's why I decided to write it.

I hope you enjoy it.
targeting women affects 51% of the population, so it has a pretty high return on investment.

You are misusing the term "return on investment". Return on investment = outcome / investment (or log(outcome/investment)/time, which is the rate of return).

The return on investment due to targeting women is (# of good developers found who would not otherwise be developers) / (cost of targeting).
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6) Considers "social conservatives" to be lower than dirt, but would like nothing more than to control what everyone does, says, and thinks to make sure that no one's feelings ever get hurt
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Show HN: All films for rental on iTunes (in 61 stores) by price/popularity/genre
Well, there's the fact that marketers are primarily there to make things look interesting. We're all very aware of this. Marketers gonna market. A snappy bit of branding like 'The Edge of Space' sounds much better than 'Jump From High Atmosphere'.

90% of the people who watched probably don't care that it's not technically the edge of space, and whilst we can all spend time quibbling about it and getting semantics right, we're wasting time going "Not technically space!" when we should instead be focussing on the achievements made.
I cancelled my order a couple of weeks ago, because they keep delaying it. Waited 3 months.
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Thus, the price of progress. But I'm glad they are in a position to negotiate better pricing on RAM. I assume the volume and high demand allows them to approach any RAM manufacturer from a better position versus when they started as an unknown entity.
He used to be a research physicist in the old days.
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Then why doesn't this search return any posts?

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-a...
> For another, the hype has been a bit excessive on this one. Calling this "the edge of space" is not really honest.

And you can probably thank the Red Bull marketing teams for that, it's their job to spread exactly that hype, even if it's completely dishonest.
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Classic ad hominem...
I think he has a point: using a touchscreen on a desktop device has been known for ages to be uncomfortable for long periods, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22

However, that setup he has there is looks very bad from an ergonomic standpoint, and he's asking for carpal tunnel trouble. For your workstation, you really need a good chair, one that adjusts to have your feet flat on the floor while keeping your elbows above your wrists while typing, and if at all possible adjustable height rests for your arms. A 2nd-hand Aeron chair is definitely, definitely worth your money. Your wrists will thank you. Also, the top of your monitor should be at eye level (stack books or whatever underneath if you're too cheap/broke for a stand), otherwise you will hunch your shoulders over and get upper back pain.

Listen to me, O Teenage Hackers, or one day when you are as ancient as I you will wish you had :-)
For starters create a basic web app. Pick something you or you and your friends/family are interested in.

Maybe a to do list app or maybe an app that you can chat with your friends on or track your DVD/other collection . . . organize photos or maybe a family meal planner.

Pick something you are interested in and then start trying to build it at a basic level.

There are lots of tutorials out there for the individual components you'll need.

Once you have the basics up and running then start adding features.

As far as the APIs go choose something simple for starters, like obtaining a piece of data you want to incorporate into your app via an API and go from there. Maybe creating a basic HTML5 mobile weather app.

You are going to have to learn some things on your own even in college so don't worry about advanced classes not being available at your school. Classes are typically going to be behind the latest trends anyway. They provide a good foundation but won't cover everything you need.

Some ideas for new things to check out . . . skills to learn.

Learn to develop mobile websites and apps using jQuery Mobile.

Learn Ruby on Rails.

Create some simple iOS apps.

Create a websites for friends and family.

Good luck!
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In the comments of his that I saw in recent threads I read, I liked this guy's taste in code. For me, that's pretty rare on HN.

What the heck happened? Was he seriously ill? Judging from the commments I saw, his mind was apparently in good shape.

RIP luriel and condolences to his family.
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The main achievement being convincing this 90% that it was the edge of space.
Here's hoping he died of old age surrounded by his loved ones after having lived a rich life.
The only balloon that is imaginable to fly in outer space is one that launches so fast that it reaches escape velocity and than continues like anything else we send up there.

Even if it where possible to build something lighter than the vacuum of space, without a gravitational force and space being so uniform ... where to would that balloon "rise"?
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Imagine that now responding to your customers' appeals is a great fun. You get no spam or junk mail anymore, there are neither dispatching questions to one of your colleagues nor assigning of your own ideas to someone else. How about making a computer classify appeals and assign them to the right person?
http://ideahq.r12.railsrumble.com/
His about section is kinda ironic now.
that's pretty much always the price of being an early adopter, on the other hand you've had all this time to play around with it which certainly counts as value.
Yes, because "free speech" is nice and all, but there are some opinions that you should not have, even on a liberal place like Hacker News.

One should not be allowed to divert from popular opinion (be it popular in society in general, in some conservative circle, or merely popular within the hip crowd), even if he is not being trollish and is providing arguments about it.

In issues where most HN people agree, you should not dissent, because we have already reached the absolute enlightenment and correct opinion on things such as "sexism". No need for discussion or argumentation any more on this front, except to agree with each other.

I propose we call those "hell-banning" provoking arguments, "thought crimes".

Which reminds me of the 3rd most popular article on HN today:

"Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exceptions designed to maintain social harmony."
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Did anyone else notice the comments on this article?
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Somehow in what he liked about Japan I find it unlikely he was of "old age" but maybe I am wrong.
Really awesome that they could do that!

But I have no idea what I'd use the additional 256 MB for, in my experience the bottleneck so far has always been the CPU.
The last Apollo mission was almost a decade before the first flight of a space shuttle.
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Who decides ultimately who is hellbanned or not ?
In that case, I was very much mistaken!
Not sure if it's him but this site leads to a Facebook profile on https://www.facebook.com/archangel.uriel
IDEA HQ – new way for managing customers' appeals
We participated in Rails Rumble 2012. It our first Rumble and I think that we've done it well!

So here is a result – IDEA HQ. Imagine that now responding to your customers' appeals is a great fun. You get no spam or junk mail anymore, there are neither dispatching questions to one of your colleagues nor assigning of your own ideas to someone else. How about making a computer classify appeals and assign them to the right person?

Our filter is still learning, so please be indulgent.
> You appear to believe that a resurgent radical Islam is primarily due to the rise of wealthy Arab states, and yet these states are aligned to the West, armed by the West, and also suppress the same radical elements you wish to neutralize domestically.

To add a touch of concreteness, according to "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright (which I cannot recommend enough if you're interested in that bit of modern history), an explicit motivation of Osama bin Laden was the US's continued presence in Saudi Arabia (at the regime's express invitation). The book also contains an account of Hosni Mubarak's rather heavy handed suppression of radicals in Egypt, and how that motivated resistance (although focused on Egypt, they were co-opted by bin Laden).
> I'll bet he would have a different opinion if it was him standing on that little ledge before stepping off.

I don't know. Most scientists I know have a tendency to put things back into perspective to highlight the really impressive stuff, so yeah, afterwards they would very probably say "Yeah and you may think that was high, but compared to a school globe, on scale it was only a millimeter. Isn't it amazing how stupefyingly BIG space is?!!", though that may make the Red Bull marketing team somewhat angry :P
In many cases you can trade speed for memory or vice versa. For example, a good garbage collector provides better performance than most manual allocators, but needs two or three times as much memory. Likewise, use dynamic programming and cache values extensively.
This started a little before 01:00 PDT (08:00 UTC), so we're approaching the 3 hour mark now. FWIW, that's about 1h15m before there was any sort of indication of a problem on status.aws.amazon.com
Makes me really glad I delayed ordering mine. I kept putting it off due to site crashes in the beginning, then the wait times. Mine will probably just be a toy so I'm happy letting other people enjoy theirs first. Plus that means they will generate some cool online projects and support I can look at when I start playing with mine.
Wow, you're so incredibly racist and bigoted that it's sickening. I didn't expect the likes of you to be on HN.
I suspect this will be shown in the upcoming documentary. I understand the BBC were filming this to be shown in around a month's time (National Geographic will show a 2 hour documentary on this based on the BBC footage).
>Why can't the article just come out and say what it means? Militant Islam scares the crap out of the West, and we're willing to pass laws and endure a certain level of self-censorship to avoid provoking violence out of these people.

No, it's not just that.

Western politically correct liberals, the kind of people that likes to hell-ban dissenting opinions on social issues on HN too, is all for self-censorship on lots of issues, even without involving the "scare of militant Islam".

People also get the equivalent of "hell-banned" from the media, or get fines and prison terms and such for non-PC talk that has nothing to do with muslims. If you count "hate speech" in that, a loosely defined term that can mean anything, it gets even worse.
Site is a joy to use, and enjoying the new design touches.

The iTunes option is a great addition.

Keep it up!