skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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5:17 AM PDT Between 12:51 AM and 4:52 AM PDT we experienced elevated packet loss affecting instances in the US-EAST-1 region. Some of our APIs also experienced increased error rates and latencies. The issue has been resolved and the service is currently operating normally.
The analogy only holds if you expect Reddit to behave like an open/libre platform. As a private organization, they have no obligation to do so. They have very strong motivations to crack down on activity that reflects badly on them (as these recents events threatened to), yet they do permit much more than many organizations would.

By contrast, the government is supposed to have free speech as one of their fundamental legal principles.

It's a poor argument to suggest that people advocating censorship on Reddit are very similar to those advocating censorship in society at large.
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It is not a false dilemma. droithomme was offering an alternative to punishing a speaker for another actors unlawful action, not stating that one or the other must be done. No dilemma. No false dilemma.
> architectures that don't support byte access and have 16bit-wide chars and ints?

0x10c ?
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good luck :o)
WeeSpring is a social shopping platform for new and expecting parents
Since it's a bit hard to get to the actual chat interface in the initial phases of this experiment (not enough users) and we're not allowed to build more until the judging period is over, here's a screenshot of how it looks when you do get to it:

http://cl.ly/image/3e1v1q390M3Z/teachly.png
I haven't read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, but someone has uploaded a two hour long instructional video with Betty Edwards with the same title on YouTube, which might be of some interest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkRwRDdajo
Sometimes I wonder if biting my fingernails has helped my immune system.
I'm curious to see how things will play out between the likes of Accumulo and HBase.
On a side note that is marginally related to the Pi. Does anybody know of any electronic stores that run electronics courses/nights to get people/kids/students involved in electronics.

I know that gaming stores sometimes hold tabletop gaming nights which is logical.

It seems to me that Maplin/Tandy/DSE/etc are missing a trick in terms of getting people actually interested in and knowledgeable about the things they sell.
That would almost be a net win. Higher rev per console, for sure.
There's really no need to be such an asshole.
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Maybe because it's duplicate content from http://ithinkinco.de/ ??

The domain you link has some other curiosities - wget-ing robots.txt returns a 500 whilst using a browser gets a 404.
Is it actually true that real loss isn't necessary to be unethical?

Plagiarize a paper in college, you have caused no real loss but still been unethical. Say you knew the topic very well and could have done the work yourself, you just plagiarized because you were lazy to get around the whole you harmed yourself argument.
Dreamhost Builds New Public Cloud On OpenStack
Because it never ceased. If you ever used an algorithm or algebra you owe it to "those nomadic" Arabs.
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 17, after many years of living with it. I decided I would not take drugs for it. I was afraid I would lose my creativity and that kind of stuff. I started rescheduling my tasks so the most boring ones would get the time of the day I would me most inspired.
It helped for a time, but I couldn't stay in the same place for too long.
After some years frequently changing jobs, friends and hobbys, I finally found my place.
I've been programming since my childhood. Sometimes, ADHD helps (giving ideas on how to solve problems), some other times, it gets in the way, making me lazy to solve some repetitive problems.
After 4 or 5 different jobs, I found one where it doesn't get repetitive. I work in projects that last around six months. Each project uses a different language, with different teams and tools and routines. It's been like heaven.
After I started working here, my whole life improved. I stopped growing tired of people and could finally keep the same friends for a long time. I even started a serious relationship.
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How long do you think Gagarin will last?
Paul Graham. Isn't it common knowledge that this is his site? I mean, I suppose that legally, it's Y Combinator's, but PG wrote it and has always run it.
Transhumanism: Is it right to hack our bodies?
We ask Anders Sandberg, a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford about transhumanism and its moral implications.

"It goes back to the medieval alchemists. They wanted eternal life through alchemy, which they would of course argue was something real and concrete."

http://bit.ly/Qh2gLP
Isn't GPLv2 still problematic for websites, unless you want to use GPLv2 for the rest of the website as well?
Ask HN: Am I being paid fairly?
I'm a 26 year old programmer working for a large IT company as a temp. My current job is at a large investment agency.

When comparing myself with others in my field, I find myself having better skills than any of them. I know I'm good, other people say this as well.

However, my employer doesn't want to give me the salary my colleagues have, blaming the current economy. My gross income is 2800 per month. So that's almost 17 euro per hour, versus the 75 euro per hour what's being paid for me. So, 75 / 17 = an operating margin (is that the correct term?) of 4.5. Ofcourse, the company has overhead, so they ask a standard margin of 2.6 which includes a profit margin.

Furthermore, I do get an end year allowance of 8,33%, normal amount of holidays, and a lease car (catalog value of 33.000 euro) which costs me 380 euro per month. So my net income is somewhat around 1500 euro per month.

Is this normal?
This might come as a surprise to a lot of people (namely those of you who seem shocked that torrentfreak is cheering on Microsoft), but just because someone is generally anti copyright does not mean that they don't have soft spots for certain companies or certain franchises, or that they rank spoiling a blockbuster as a pretty crappy thing to do.
Free! Especially since this builds upon work done by others.

I'm pushing open source hard at the company I work for (Draftfcb). It has been an easy sell, actually. This is one of a few projects our dev group has released, with more on the way... http://dfcb.github.com/
I hope longer than this fad with Christ lasts.
Did you stop reading halfway through? Note the points about hateful, discriminatory, and deceitful speech, which comprise a significant portion of the article. Yes, hypersensitivity to religious criticism by some Muslims is a part of the reason for the problem, but much more than that was discussed.
Market Design Economists win Nobel Prize
I got the same in chrome. I then pressed cmd-z (undo) and it duplicated the text that got changed without removing the color.
A complete Nintendo Entertainment System cloned in an FPGA
I cannot think of any jokes about straight people that are at all comparable to jokes about gay people. Do people joke about straight people's health or sexual activities on the basis of their sexual orientation? Do people say or joke that heterosexual relationships not being real realtionships (i.e. Mitt "I didn't know you people had families" Romney)? Do people joke/say that heterosexual people shouldn't be allowed near children? No, these jokes don't exist. If you can find some, please provide links.

There are several definitions of sexual based discrimination, one is essentially "making references to someone's sexuality and implying everyone in that group is the same (in some attribute)". Lots of people like this definition because it's nice and simple and it means homosexuals can be discriminatory or joke about straight people.

There's another definition, which is talk that's designed to maintain & reinforce the institutionalised power structure among sexualities (specifically to maintain advantages that heterosexuals have). Right now, if modern USA/Western life was a video game, "straight" would be an easier difficulty level than "gay". There are statistically less problems for the "straight" group. Sexual discrimination talk is talk that re-enforced that imbalance. This definition is harder for some people to accept because it means that you need to look at yourself and think about what power imbalances you might be benefiting from, and it means you can't just do s/gay/straight/g and make it just as racist.
If you are an actuary you are already a data scientist.
If you don't get the response you want here, try the Workplace Stackexchange - http://workplace.stackexchange.com/
Referly (YC S12) Adds $1.1M to Grow Referral-Driven Shopping Platform
> They're massively over-represented in crime statistics.

Can you show data?
In an interesting turn of events, the article about machine learning was trolled by a bot.
IBM counts government-backed companies as competitors for its IaaS in France
"Your argument isn't morally analogous because theft implies EA were deprived of something (EA still can sell and play their games), when the issue at hand is the EA botched up controlling access to their product. In your argument, Apple can't sell the stolen merchandise any more."

This whole "if you still have the physical object, you weren't robbed" is a rationilization. If your school decides not to give you a diploma you still have whatever you learned - but now the value of your education in the marketplace has been reduced.

Repeat after me: "Taking something that isn't yours without permission is stealing."
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I don't really think this is true. I'm in a small market full of stingy clients, and most developers sell their time to each other at $50 an hour and bill clients at $80-150 an hour.

It really depends on your goal. If your goal is to work with good clients and spend a bit more time on sales (maybe a 40/60 split), then a higher rate is what you want. If you want to spend more time developing and less time on sales (say, 20/80), then your rate will probably be half of what it could have been.

If you don't want to do sales at all, and just focus on development, you're not going to be able to make it as a freelancer.
Al Roth is basically a computer scientist masquerading as an economist (or the other way around?) -- he does a lot of work on stable matching algorithms, including involvement in designing the medical residency match, kidney-donation match centers, and Boston public school assignments. If you haven't heard of him, you should definitely read a profile.

Shapley also won--I don't know much about him, but I'm sure his theoretical contributions are the underpinning for all later work in the area, he's a giant of the field, etc. etc. etc.
i guess no-one else here cares, but i had a quick look and santander.cl seems to not do this (but i just logged in and looked at cookies, which all seemed to be opaque).
Module support is (maybe?) coming in ECMAScript 6.
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There are some good bits. If you're a good problem solver you'll get what he's trying to say:
"Have clear goals.

Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of achieving your goals. Accurately diagnose these problems.

Accurately diagnose these problems.

Design plans that explicitly lay out tasks that will get you around your problems and on to your goals.

Implement these plans—i.e., do these tasks."

You probably want to read the book if you want to manage people in a company like his; He later gives lots of tips on how to do it; The tips make a lot more sense if you understand his "principles", because its how they are derived.

I agree it was wordy, but it was only an hour or so read to read part 1 & 2 and beginning of 3, which he said was what you want to read if you didn't want to read all of it.

There was also some stuff about when to hire and fire people, and how to cultivate the people in your organisation.
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I agree and encourage anyone who has ummed and ahhed about viewing lectures online to check these out to see just how accessibly and watchably it's being done. e.g. Clear video with good audio and auto-page-turned lecture notes on the right.

Back in my day (2008) we had nothing like this, and that was at a top 5 UK Math(s) University.
I don't think it is a weak argument at all.

Sure Reddit is a private organization but being so makes it a softer target for censorship advocates. They can try different techniques and arguments in that sandbox and get an amplified, but not dissimilar, return on their actions. It can also serve as a morale booster for those groups.

As they hone their message and techniques against a large, democratic, and heterogeneous population, they can use those same tactics in society at large to provoke the same change in more inertial government.
Not really, big coup for Christianity was conversion of the Roman empire and that was most definitely peaceful. Contrast that with how Middle east, and North Africa became Muslim
Impossible to argue with, and no it doesn't make it not true, but also not true.
His use of "I" seemed to me he was trying hard not to declare some principle as unilaterally true but to say it is what he found to be true, in his experience.

"it is very, very, very wordy and poorly formatted!"

I guess that's why its undervalued.
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Try tumblr.com and stackoverflow.com after logging in; it doesn't deal with redirects for logged-in users well.
Undead.
Some high profile copyright-circumventers have a "don't pirate games" view. They've suggested people have two xbox360s; one cracked for homebrew and programming, and another for legit games online. They seemed to agree with MS and the mass ban of cracked boxes.

And there are a (admittedly small) number of people who only pirate things i) that are not available legit ii) as a try before buy, with deletion for content they don't want and purchase for content they do want.

TF usually has sane commentary. And their biases are open and upfront.
>Also without reproduction nobody would be here.

I know that, I was being sarcastic towards the attitude that sees things that formed the bases of society since ever was one, like reproduction, are viewed as "optional" or "sexist" nowadays, because we should be "above that".

Of course we only get to have the privilege of saving that (and still have a human population on the planet) due to overpopulation in other parts of the world, and we still get declining and aging population our own countries for that.

That's also why we get to have our LGBT privilege. In the large scheme of things, a mostly LGBT society would mean a dead society, because of no reproduction.
So, you judge a book about management principles by the CEO of a company not by how well he articulates those management principles or how true you think they are but by his level of physics and biological understanding.
Awesome project. Just submitted a pull request to allow URLs which start with https:// (right now it appends http so https://domain/ becomes http://https://domain/).
It's nice to see a HN submission of an on-topic stackoverflow question (instead of all the off-topic ones that get submitted, followed by comments complaining about the question being closed on SO.)
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A company called Get Up and Go
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This is awesome, thoughts?
Love this idea but really it would be great if they could offer a more expensive and powerful version as an option.
Linkless.
Amazon looks to acquire TI mobile chip business, report says
I think this is largely a myth perpetuated by benchmarks that were faster GC'd than with some system-default badly-tuned malloc. There are gains to be made by copying, generational collectors, and it's impossible to generalize to all workloads, but a basic tenet of optimization is, so they say, that being faster is doing less work. Garbage collectors do a lot of extra work checking the heap, and thrash the cache while they're doing it. Batching a bunch of allocs/frees isn't an advantage exclusive to GC, since any allocator could be easily extended to do the same.

And yes games especially are finely tuned to their allocation patterns. Generational collectors somewhat emulate the kinds of region allocation games do. I know I've read war stories about fighting the GC in for example C# XNA games to avoid random stuttering when collection kicks in. For games you'd want some kind of incremental background collector, but these are kind of like "sufficiently smart" compilers. They work until they hit the case where they have to fall back to stop-the-world collection.

Unless your memory patterns are horribly irregular to the point that they fragment your heap (completely avoided in e.g. console games) and you need to compact memory heavily, non-GC code will just do less work than any type of GC.
If you enjoyed Nagel, pick up 'The Mind's I', an anthology edited by Douglas Hofstadter

Edited by Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett you mean ;-)

Daniel Dennett's philosophical writings on consciousness/AI and religion are also very approachable. His "Intentional Stance" is a classic IMHO. I've not read all of his later stuff - but Consciousness Explained is also very good.

(His four Fs definition of life always cracks me up - fight, flee, feed, and... mating...),
The case of t-shirt guy (Barry Thew) is much worse than "4 months for wearing an offensive t-shirt".

Turns out he has a history.

a) He's a psychiatric patient, on anti-psychotic meds with a history of compulsory in-patient detention,

b) His son died in police custody 3 years ago.

He also has a series of criminal convictions, most recently for cultivating cannabis, but I'd like to note that there's a really strong association between schizophrenia and self-medication with cannabis. (I'm told -- this is purely anecdotal, but comes first hand from a dignosed schizophrenic -- that it makes the voices shut up for a while.)

The judge tossed out the mental health argument advanced by the defense. Moreover this case was a public order case, a minor one, but came up before a judge in a crown court (usually the province of serious offenses such as robbery and murder), who imposed a much heavier sentence than would normally be the case for a public order conviction. (Public order offenses are frequently dealt with by a spot fine or, at worst, brought up before a magistrate who has much more limited sentencing powers. It may be that Threw's status -- he was also found to be in breach of a probation order because he was found to be in possession of cannabis -- accounts for that, but: WTF? Four months for possession of cannabis, and another four months for wearing a loud t-shirt in a built-up area? What are we coming to?)

Thew is pretty obviously a petty criminal and what, on the internet, we'd term a troll. But his treatment by the state in this case is odious and heavy-handed, and raises disturbing implications.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/11/manchester-man-jail...
I will greatly miss uriels 'outbursts' in #suckless :(
Yes the ignorance and hate on that comment exceeded my daily quota and ruined my day. By the way, how do you downvote on HN? Do I need more score?
Require.js is great combined with [LiveReload]( http://livereload.com/ ) during development time. It's the fastest method I know of to reload your page and see the changes.
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The long journey towards good free video conferencing
What would you like that code to do? Fork the process and set x = sqrt(2) in one branch and x = -sqrt(2) in the other? In fact, should its behaviour depend on whether or not your floating-point implementation has a value such that x == 2/x holds exactly?

No, wait, Real is actually a type class, not a type, right? Perhaps when you write that code the system should extend itself to support an infinite-precision real-number type that implements Real, and make x be exactly sqrt(2)? (And exactly -sqrt(2), of course.)

All of which is just another way of saying: I really don't think it's quite fair to be disappointed that Haskell doesn't try to solve the extremely difficult (not to say provably unsolvable) problems of "doing logic to figure it out".
Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days..

I'm one of those who actually completed this course (with a score of 73.10/780) but it doesn't make you a data scientist. It is only the very beginning.

The course itself is a brilliant work of a passionate top-of-the-field professional. No wonder coursera.com is such a huge success.
Just as an aside: that's a misattributed quotation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
Simply sad.
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I moved to Europe somewhat recently, and I haven't seen any tolerance or understanding: people are incredibly racist towards anyone with non-white skin, and it's socially acceptable to make snide comments about race in polite society. The U.S. (where I come from) is not exactly a pinnacle of race relations, but I was shocked by how much worse it is in Europe. There was a professor in my department of Bangladeshi heritage, and she got all sorts of weird comments. And as a CS professor, she was obviously not going about committing crimes, but rather writing research papers, but this didn't seem to matter to people.

In Denmark, at least, there's also this inaccurate perception, like what you mention, that immigrants are causing all the violence. But here we have basically two main sources of violence: biker gangs, who are mostly white, and immigrant gangs, who are mostly not. The kinds of people who vote Danske Folkeparti and are really worried about crime never seem to mention the biker gangs. Same in the UK: a huge amount of crime in the UK is caused by lower-class whites, the group sometimes derogatorily termed "chavs", and overlapping with "hooligan" culture. But you don't see the BNP complaining about them. Why? Because that's where their own members come from.

Some of my family is Greek, and there is no real tolerance there either, except from a smallish segment of left-wing internationalists. There are 2nd-generation Chinese-origin Greeks who speak perfect Greek and are generally integrated, but are still called racist names and considered "foreigners" by the Greeks who have a very ethnic view of Greekness (the majority).
It would be great if the auth didn't require access to my private repos.
If you follow through to the story that shows a picture of the keys two things are notable: these are pretty easy keys to duplicate (especially given the nice clear photograph of them) and it was the New York Post who both broke the original story and posted a picture of the keys (face palm).
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Why I pay extra for “business-class” broadband at home
One should not speak ill of the dead in places where people have come to pay respects.
I remember a bank I used to work at got bought out by Suntrust. After we had been migrated over, for some reason I had decided to check out the cookies they were using. Sure enough I saw my full SSN there. They don't do that now, but even as a junior developer at the time, I was pretty taken aback.
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hi, i was just taking a real good look at the www.google.com/robots.txt and i found this little gem in there

Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/trends/websites/sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml

besides that fact that google killed on of their more usefull tools (google trends for websites) it seems they forgot the tell the robots.txt team (if there is such a thing)

well, anyway, i just wanted to say: google trends for websites, you will be missed.
I'll put this in to perspective for you, you earn 4 times the amount I do for the same field.