skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They don't do this because that would actually increase the price of the RPi to its (commercial) market value, which they do not want.

Think about it this way: If they auctioned, and people value the Pi to $45, it would be impossible to get it for $35 because the price would never go that low.

However, the way they did it, some people get a bargain (they were willing to pay $45 but only had to pay $35), but some people get it at the intended price (which is still a bargain).

And the probability of winning the lottery of who actually gets one, becomes one that depends on persistence and not on direct monetary expense.
Blunt and to the point: "Depending on a product with a flaky delivery issue is a terrible idea".

Rude and unnecessarily offensive: "You are an idiot".

The second one fails the "say it to your face" test in the site's guidelines:

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."
Something like this? http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=13
They didn't, someone else did.
cool idea - but no chance your getting access to my private repos
I second that, and think a fairly obvious extension to it should be "... and DEFINITELY don't put it on Facebook."

At this stage, I think it should be a given that anything you put on Facebook (and perhaps any other web service) will eventually end up public to the world.
Weird, I don't quite understand how the pointers would be "too much for the JVM". I suppose this will depend on how many layers your skip list has and how big it is etc.

Is there some reason (related to GC or whatever?) that it is bad in particular to use pointer heavy data structures on the JVM?
Bundling Python files into a stand-alone executable
Maybe a naive question/response on my part but why not rather encrypt it and hold it in a session? Or if you have to put something in a cookie, just a reference that points to some data on the server like an id, which has no real meaning to the end user?
Currently they do not have a solution for this. Luckily it is easy to detect people gaming the system and I believe they handle collisions by hand at the moment. I can only assume this money will help them build a proper solution to this problem.
There are two that look like "Rustle" and one that looks like "Hostle". As for the ones with the toppled 's', the toppling looks awkward against the 't' and is crying out for much more refinement.

Also, is this really Hacker News? Flagged.
I'm a full-time Vim user who has never taken to `bindkey -v`. The reason is simple: I'm using insert mode 99% of the time, so using vi keybindings just makes me have to hit an extra key.

However, it is useful some of the time. Since viins is pretty useless by default, you can spice it up by setting custom bindings (e.g. copy emacs') and get the best of both worlds. Furthermore, this may be helpful: http://www.bewatermyfriend.org/media/vi-mode.zsh
arggg really dude? I dont want my web site on that please!
That's a very bad example that misses the point, one that builds confidence that "privilege" is PC BS, as yummyfayitas points shows.

The discussion of "privilege" , like so many things, is corruotd and drowned out by extremists, so its salient points get lost.
I am certainly willing to admit that I enjoy dark humor. But then again I am also willing to out myself as a regular 4chan user.

In my opinion this form of dark humor/ridiculing is even necessary. It keeps society "sane", as it counter balances those sacred cows, and brings more relativism into the perspective.
The researchers actually do set up competitions to see who is best. However, there are few entrants. In kaggle there are 1000s of competitors, so it's a better judge of whether they are legitimately improving the state of the art (rather than simply schmoozing their local funding agencies).
And what would that achieve in that case? Nothing!

Just as not being on Facebook achieves nothing — you'll just be completely defenseless if someone tags you in an image (which is horrifying — as far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable solution is to allow only tagging of actual users, and only the ones who consented to that).
> inoremap jj <ESC>

A mapping I've been using for years. I'm pretty sure between this and Ctrl-c, I never hit escape in Vim anymore.
Busines is mispelled in the title.
I wonder how easy it would be to just apply a transform that reverses the fish-eye effect. If the source video were high quality enough it might be pretty interesting.
RFTA

They did not do that. What happened is it appears a friend who did know added them to a group and before they connected to joining that showed up on their feed. They did nothing. They were passive, and they were still outed because facebook didn't ask for permission and broadcast that they had been added by a third party to a group to their wall.
Cardboard bicycle can change the world, says Israeli inventor
If you mean by "gaming the system" that people put their own referrer tag in the link, I agree.

But I'd game the system by spamming the whole service and recommend as many products as possible.

To be honest, I don't believe that refer.ly will succeed. It adds a layer of complexity to the end user. If I recommend a product, I just write a simple email to the persom I'm recommending to. If I recommend a product on my website, I just write about it or use affiliate marketing (e. g. my own Amazon tag). What would I need refer.ly for?

A couple years ago, I've seen a startup called loved.by (google it) which was the exact same thing. It seems that the pivoted now to a more generic affiliate marketing platform.
I would add that having your true/correct beliefs offended should not be excuse for burning or destroying. I met quite some people who seem just as offended when what is known to others as true is questioned or criticized. It's curious that it's not really about the truthiness of the belief. It's about responses people choose. Anger, or worse, aggressions, are rarely if ever the right response.
What exactly would "other" be?
I know very little about hardware hacking aside toying a little with Arduino.

There is a low voltage hook on the AC system that is specifically designed for this sort of use - although it will probably still require some sort of low voltage relay.

The room has been purpose built with remote control in mind so all of the lights etc have separate switches in a specially designed cupboard.

As for the HDMI-CEC, the only thing we really need it for is volume up/down on the sound bar. This is because the TV itself is a Sharp Aquos which has it's own remote control protocol that works over either IP or RS232 and can do power on/off and source changing. The TV's own CEC will control the sound bar volume with the TV's remote but errors when I try it using the IP/RS232 protocol – hence the need for separate HDMI-CEC. I've been diving into libcec which has now added native support for the RPi and it looks like sending volume up/down is relatively simple.
We're creating a more targeted platform than AngelList called EquityLancer, aimed at providing a marketplace where equity is used as a currency. In doing so, the jobs on our site are guaranteed to offer equity.

We've seen more than 90% of the jobs posted on our site also include salary. After reading many of the posts in this thread, I'm eager to expand the functionality of our platform's tools to include many of the methods described in finding a job outside the popular platforms.
How is this partisan? He explicitly calls out both parties.
This comment appears fairly too frequently in response to this article.

At least that gives away all those people who didn't read it.
What a coincidence. I emailed you about 10 minutes ago regarding this exact post!
I would prefer that the government not sell ad space at all. (The reason a subway should be built is to transport people from one place to another, that's what you are paying taxes for). The main point I was trying to make is that we should consider other rights when defending free speech (or other rights, including not being exposed to things you don't want yourselves, or your children to be exposed to). Defending almost any right to an absolute extreme produces consequences that are harmful to individuals and society (as your example illustrates).
What should the search gem provide?
I'm not following your line of reasoning. Everything is data at the end of the day. All you're doing is creating a predictive model. If the business conditions change, you wold simply send it to the data scientists to reformulate a new model. That's no different to sending it to kaggle again.
Which companies have these diversity quotas? I want to avoid them, as their work environments (and perhaps products as well) are rather unpleasant.
The system you describe is using the List-Unsubscribe header, which is actually formalized in RFC 2369 and (if it exists in the email) seems like a way better solution than search for a piece of text.
What are some questions you feel aren't accounted for in existing climate models? Do they significantly alter the IPCC predictions?
Sprint agrees to merger with Softbank, 3rd largest Japanese carrier
Hard drive replacement program now covers iMacs sold from 2009-2011
Griefer is just a troll - or perhaps a more extreme troll, one that will go substantially out of their way to evade a ban and continue being an asshole.

A hellban has its utility, but it cannot be the only method for censuring abusive users. It needs to only be applied in cases where the user is likely to try and continue to antagonize the community by dodging a regular ban, and sparingly.

The problem with hellbanning on HN is that everyone knows it's going on, and it's become such a big deal that it greatly reduces its effectiveness. As you said, if a troll suspects they're being hellbanned, they can easily just sign up for another account.

I'm of the opinion that hellbans are way too common on HN where in almost all cases a regular old suspension/ban would have sufficed.
Casualty of the Math Wars
Don't feed the troll. But who feeds you?
On top of all the other issues, add the fact that some browsers no longer delete sessions cookies when you close the browser. Notably, Chrome and Firefox.

http://dalevisser.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/how-to-fix-firefo...
I did read it and I was making (poorly) a different point: the problem here is that you see the solution as technical ("Facebook should have better privacy controls") whereas I see the solution as personal ("Do not use Facebook"). I do not believe that it will be feasible for Facebook to both add functionality over time and preserve privacy and so the only solution is not to use Facebook at all.
It's down for me:

"This webpage is not available
The connection to www.codetable.org was interrupted."
I think the historical narrative that Louis CK has presented in the clip is wrong. Sure at any point in the past 500 years you could probably point out a group of white men that are far better off than the majority of society but those people would always be outliers.

Imagine all the men born in German and Great Britain eighteen years before WWI. Just as they were graduating secondary school they would have been drafted and forced to kill each other in some of the most horrible battle conditions in recorded history. Does lying in a waterlogged trench, dying slowly over three days of a gut wound sound like a privilege?

Men currently account for 92% of occupational deaths in the US. Imagine what it was like a century ago, before occupational safety standards. A coal miner in 1910 had the privilege of being able to vote and to wear pants but his wife had the privilege of not being crushed to death in a poorly supported tunnel or dying of black lung.

Men have far higher rates of mental illness and drug addiction. Men are more likely to attempt suicide and more likely to succeed. Men who are victims of rape or domestic abuse are often ridiculed. At least one study showed 40% of domestic abuse victims are men. The majority of US rape victims are men. Unemployment rates are currently higher among men.

Imagine you're a woman and you really like small children and want to work in a career with them. That's perfectly acceptable.

A man doing the same thing is constantly viewed with suspicion and often faces false accusations.

You say men have the advantage of being treated with respect but I think that is highly dependent on the circumstances.

I will readily admit that the greatest factors that have affected my life are random. We all play the birth lottery but I don't see your ranking of various characteristics as justified or useful.

To me it just seems like a way to dismiss people and their achievements because of things beyond their control.
When you have already remapped Caps-Lock as an additional control, why not just use Ctrl-[ instead of the 'jj' remapping for Escape. It saves a bit of Vim configuration, and also works in Bash vi mode.
I agree. Nobody is ever going to attempt to write the theta in ASCII or bother typing it given that it's not on most keyboards. Math and practical programming are different worlds, each with their own notations. Programmers are quite used to using ASCII.

Also, if someone says "My algorithm is O(n log n)", doesn't it make sense that he means both the lower and upper bound? Even if technically correct, you wouldn't say "My algorithm is O(n^100)" when it's O(n log n). It's an English language thing...

P.S. I didn't read the article because it's not loading, but can kind of guess the context from your response and noticed this problem before.
jQAPI crowdfunding campaign
Please read the article. They didn't do anything. Someone else added them to a group called Queer Choir. They were not prompted to join. Then it was added to all their friends' timelines that they were now in this group, including parents. At no time, did the student do anything. In fact, they had privacy controls setup to not show have updates posted to their parents timeline be default.
Alexis Ohanian interviewed after talk at Waterloo
The images switch quite rapidly. I prefer the rate they have at http://filtermusic.net/ One per song could also work.

I think you should use some transition effect for images.

Controls clip at the bottom with Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9414611/turnchannel.png
I just saw your email!

I wish I knew more about the UK job scene....I'm in the US so I don't have any personal experience there. Are the big job boards the same there? (I'd guess Github, StackOverflow, 37s, angellist are the big established boards everywhere, but not sure.)
>Why do you think LGBT can't reproduce?

Well, B (and maybe T's) can.

But LG cannot by definition, except if they momentarily act like non LG's by reproducing with other partners against their own sexual preferences.

And that if they _do_ have the will to reproduce, considering that in primates in nature it's a strictly heterosexual deal (and in fact, the male/female sexes were evolved as a means to that very end).

In addition, for several prominent LG thinkers, "gay marriage" and "having a baby" (surrogates, etc), is the losing proposition of adopting/mimicking the dominant paradigm. Essentially it's the opposite of feminism.
A lot of houses in South Korea have electronic locks. We got locked out on Christmas eve because the batteries didn't work properly in the cold.
The only one that's remotely scalable is #135 even though you'll a) lose the runner really quick and b) he looks tired. The runner in #89 better defines "hustle", but his movement would likely ruin the flow if he was positioned on #135.

Also, putting a runner on there sends a message immediately about who your intended audience is. If it was just a typeface that insinuated effort/movement, that might be better than trying to put clipart in there that could throw people off about the purpose of your service, which isn't just funneled to runners.. particularly with the success of technologies already devoted to them like Nike+.
MiniFlame - A New cyber espionage malware discovered
This basically illustrates one of the biggest issues with the privacy debate. Generally, "enforced transparency" advocates (who are against things like pseudonyms, like that Google CEO) are often privileged people who have little to lose through not being private, and cannot understand or appreciate the need for privacy by people, for instance, activists who's identity who is kept private to shield them from personal attack, people with a sexuality that isn't accepted by people they know - transparency advocates forget that we don't live in a perfect world and that everyone has the right to shield themselves from irrational people who would destroy them on finding out certain things about them.
Sure.

First, note that there are roughly three times as many Russians in Finland as there are Somalis:

http://www.stat.fi/til/vaerak/2011/vaerak_2011_2012-03-16_ku...

Then, look at this: http://www.stat.fi/til/polrik/2011/polrik_2011_2012-04-02_ta...

Unfortunately that's only in Finnish, but here are some key words:

- "Suomen kansalaiset" = "Finnish citizens".
- "Venäjä, entinen Neuvostoliitto" = "Russia, former Soviet Union"
- "Raiskausrikokset" = "Rape (-crimes)"

Then, take the year 2011 for example.

2011

- Total number of rapes: 644
- Total number of rapes committed by Finns: 474
- Total number of rapes committed by all foreigners: 170
- Total number of rapes committed by Estonians: 15
- Total number of rapes committed by *Russians*: 3
- Total number of rapes committed by Swedes: 3
- Total number of rapes committed by *Other Foreigners: 149*

Other than Estonians and Russians, there were 13 other language groups listed.

Let's be "generous" and assume they account for 3 rapes each, much like Russians and Swedes, even though they're much smaller minorities so the numbers are probably much lower.

That leaves us with 110 rapes committed by Somalis. Now I'm no statistician, and not very good at math either. But when Somalis outnumber a much larger minority in rape statistics 110 to 3, it seems that they're pretty fucking Rapey.
Here, another perspective (from the muslim world) on free speech. Appeared in Foreign Policy magazine. Makes good points.

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/18/globalizat...
This DEFCON incident? http://singlevoice.net/2012/07/12/sexism-redyellow-cards-at-...

It was more about sexual assault, and it was more about behavior at parties than at DEFCON. I know the line blurs, but once alcohol is served, it is hard to say the event is a professional and reputable one.
Mobile Wars | S3 Mini vs. iPhone 5
I used to use 2 NVidia cards. 9500GTs to be exact. Nothing special about these cards other than they had dual DVI output.

Nowadays I just use one card with 2 monitors (Linux), and use synergy to bring in a 3rd monitor from a MacBook.

If I were doing triple displays today, I'd look at something from ATI with Eyefinity.
All of the above are relevant. Tech wise there are few that stick out aside from those which is why we are really pushing to be a bigger player as we reckon the UK tech job scene needs a lot of TLC.
JavaScript Library Poll Results
`bindkey -v` puts you in insert mode by default (there's a way to make it not do that, but the default is insert first).

So there's not really an extra key, you get both benefits :).
The fatality rate per participant is a lot lower now than it was in the beginning "It used to be referred to as sport death", but it's still about 13 - 30 a year. Mostly due to accidents involving landing and other entirely preventable things.
This is a great list - thanks for sharing.

A thought: we get a lot of submissions like this (which, by and large, are all quite useful.) I wonder if there's an opportunity to consolidate (and vote/rank?) these sort of productivity/workflow/life efficiency improvers. Maybe something StackExchange-like (or Reddit-like)? Doesn't have to be super-complicated - just a list, a rank, a chance to vote, and maybe to comment.

Anyone done this yet? If not - here's an idea for someone to work on :)
Although he haven't broke longest free-fall by time, he broke the record of longest free-fall by distance. Baumgartner opened parachute after 36 529 meters[1] of free fall, breaking the record of Yevgeni Andreyev from 1962 by something over eleven kilometers (24 500m)[2].

I yet have to see an article reporting on this. I only stumbled upon this information when browsing related wikipedia articles yesterday while watching the quite boring ascent.

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9607604/Skydiver-Fe...

2. http://www.fai.org/record-parachuting category Freefall distance

NOTE: While searching for some reliable source I've found that he only broke his own record today, and that the Soviet record was broken in July. That's why no article mentions it... I'll leave this comment here as it is still interesting.
Assignment to the House Science Committee correlates with a -$46,000 drop in fundraising relative to all other committees in the House. Though Science has oversight over important agencies, like NOAA and NASA, they aren't a lobbying target. The result is that the best & brightest in Congress avoid Science, and adverse selection produces the worst possible Committee.

What's particularly aggravating about this is that there are agencies properly in the purview of Science & Technology that are lobbyist targets, but that aren't managed by House Science. FCC, for instance, is overseen by House Commerce; DARPA, obviously, is House Defense.

The fact of Congress is that if you don't play the game, and get the best committee assignments you can, you lose your seat. Each Congressperson can only have 2 committee assignments. Principled pursuit of the right assignments is thus a bit of a stag hunt.
Social Media and Chronic Disease
Same. I'm weary of inoremaps and Ctrl-[ is just really easy.
I haven't looked for a job actively for about five years or so and I hope that I don't need to ever again. Instead, I get contacted regularly by recruiters, founders and other hiring agents who, unfortunately, I mostly need to decline. (Otherwise I wouldn't be getting any actual work done!)

Chasing listed jobs is a mug's game for two reasons: (i) you need to compete with a mountain of applications, and (ii) people often list jobs that they aren't entirely serious about filling. Even if you have a strong resume and put 30 minutes into writing a good cover letter for each applications, the odds really are against you in this case.

Factor (ii) is still a problem if you get an interview because many organizations put multiple random barriers ahead of applicants. For instance, if you don't pass some test or flub a question or one of the fifteen people who talk to you just doesn't like you on an animal level you've wasted all the time you've put into the process.

Anybody who's using a recruiter, on the other hand, really wants to fill the position. The odds are in your favor because the recruiter is going to walk if the company keeps putting candidates through the gauntlet and rejecting them.

So how do you get people to call you?

Be active on the web. For me that's meant developing a few side projects and also developing connections and adding some content to LinkedIn every day... Even when I'm not looking for work.

If you get yourself known you can quit wasting time looking at job boards.
You're correct. I should have specified that the values do not matter. I have updated the README to account for this. The reason why I wanted to make this an option is because, in certain cases, someone may want to keep their headers as a collection of ids pointing to something else, and I wanted to allow them to be able to just pass in this collection/object literal without having to convert it to an array.
I was actually more surprised to see a reboot on a customer-facing ATM screen. I don't think I've seen that in the US. Maybe I lead a sheltered life.
Not using Facebook isn't really an option for kids these days.
Edile v0.2 PyGTK text editor in one file
I do this as well, but I sometimes question whether or not it was worth the frustration when using a colleagues computer.