skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice long form.

But I'm tired of hearing about this guy's lifestyle or his character.

That's not the really interesting issue here. The issue is technology. Some people undertand it, some don't. Dotcom says as a youth he took the time to undersatnd X.25 and PBX's. Yet the companies using these systems did not. Regardless of his character, it's everyone else's failure to take the same sort of interest in understanding technology, yet at the same time using it _and_ placing an enormous amount of trust in it, that leads to problems.

Hollywood wouldn't be in quite the same mess they're in if they aggressively pursued understanding competitive technology down to the last detail. And why couldn't they? It's going to eat them alive and they know it. By becoming the "experts", they could stay one step ahead of competitors. They might end up competing with themselves (the old technology), but that's inevitable anyway. Technoloy is going to transition. No one can stop this. If the entertainment industry made the effort to know internet technology the best, no one could out maneuver them.

All Dotcom's riches are riches that would normally belong to Hollywood execs. Why are the riches moving to nerds (many of dubious character)? Because they are moving to the new technology. In a sense, money doesn't care who the recipient is. It generally moves to the technology, not the person. Whoever understands the tech the best has the best shot at getting the money.

The issue here really isn't some nerd like Dotcom, or his life story, it's the transition of technology and the refusal of some who have deeply vested interests in what this technology can do (distribute entertainment), to make the effort to understand it.

The spy agency in NZ dismissed the gentleman who was in charge of tapping Dotcom's communications. The news tried interviewing him and he refused to talk to them. I'm guessing here bu I doubt he ever wanted to get involved in this mess. Do we need covert intelliegnce to discover copyright infringement? People are downloading free movies! Red alert! His dismissal seems totally unnecessary. This whole incident should never have happened.

Forget about Dotcom. It's time for the entertainment industry to come to terms with the internet. It's early yet. They have as good a shot as anyone to profit. Maybe this case will finally get the message to Hollywood execs that their defensive strategies are not working. They are not fighting people (like Dotcom) they are fighting technology. They need to start thinking like entrepreneurs.
Get a big 16:9 one, and use a wide, vertical taskbar. It'll cut you down to 16:10 and you get the joys of using a wide, vertical taskbar: http://snag.gy/0pZP1.jpg
This thread makes me very sad and happy at the same time.

So many of the comments show an ignorance I thought to be a thing of the past or at least taboo.

But there seems to be just as many other commenters trying to help educate and enlighten, it's great to see that we are at least making progress.
Terrible analogy. People aren't discriminating because they think hijabs are unfashionable. They're discriminating because they correctly interpret the hijab as a religious marker.

Did you notice that your advice basically amounts to "do your best to look like a straight, white, middle-class Christian"? And that you are basically blaming the victim? Both strike me as terrible advice.
He was wearing the shirt 'no bitch ass ness' while presenting
I suspect this may just be a case of lack of religious competition in the area your friends live and work in. I grew up in Utah, so of course few people changed their religions, but Mormonism is fairly successful at converting people outside Utah. They do so best by establishing communities and inviting others to join their fun activities. Sure, in America most conversions are just to a different denomination of "Christianity", but religious conversion happens all the time. (A Pew study indicated that 44% of Americans have a different religion than the one they were raised with.)
> but if you can put in any data you want, you could poison the compression enough to put it into a bad state -- one where effectively nothing compresses properly, and you end up with your own data completely in the clear.

This sounds interesting, and completely counter to my understanding of how compression works.. I thought CRIME's innovation was to exploit compression ratios as a proxy for cleartext. Poking a compressor into emitting probabilistically assigned bit-aligned symbols that happen to correspond to its input seems unlikely.
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The latter was said by a child, so it's not even worth talking about. The mother acted wrongly, not the child.

But lets twist it, only without the masquerade: Imagine 'Ela' is on holiday in the Near East and wears a tank top. Don't you think that people would 'look funny at her'? She also might get molested for not being dressed properly. Local women even get stoned for that.
Zen coding syntax is fantastic, it makes generating HTML in my editor a breeze.

Stick to ">". That's the standard CSS for indicating a child element.

e.g. "div.myclass > h1" indicates a div with class "myclass" and a child h1 element. In zen, it outputs:

<div class="myclass">
<h1></h1>
</div>

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#pattern-matching
Well, that was basically Ela's experience as well, and it was educational for her.

If you really want to do skin tones, you'll need decent makeup. If you're in a big city, just go by a serious makeup store. (In San Francisco, Kryolan is great.) Otherwise, call up your local community theater and ask them to put you in touch with a makeup artist.
If I were a muslim girl getting discriminated against for wearing a hijab, I'd stop wearing the hijab.

So you would, I guess, also suggest that Sikhs should stop wearing turbans, Jews should stop wearing a kippah, nuns should stop wearing habits, pagans should stop wearing pentangles, etc.

Not only is your suggestion frankly both offensive and pretty idiotic, but the world it would lead to would have even more discrimination than now and be a hell of a lot more boring.
How can you be sure they're not part of a fringe cult that doesn't require head coverings but still kills people for making eye contact?
Maybe he actually cares about the future of culture, recognizes that Wikipedia is extremely relevant, and wants to make a difference. Maybe he thinks more people outside current 20-somethings should care about this issue, and is thereby inviting them to join in the conversation.

Attribute no more malice to any one else than you attribute to yourself.
Unfortunately not - sad truth.
This "white girl trying to wear an hijab" screams to me as a kind of self sabotage. She won at the genetic lottery : she conforms to the usual expectations about "looking good" in the country she lives in - did she never realized that privilege/advantage before??
I'm not talking about an existing book. I'm talking about the case where she's trying to predict the chance she'll be able to write a new book, before she's started it.

Her previous books should give her confidence that she'll be able to write another. That is one way in which she can judge her own abilities.
It looks like maybe you didn't read my whole comment.
I came here to say this. The glossy MBP 13" screen has driven me nuts, I did the whole online petition dance, and it turns out the MBA 13" isn't half as bad. Dropping the glossy black bezel helps, too. The only thing better would be a matte, black bezel (to hide the camera hole).
> The latter was said by a child, so it's not even worth talking about. The mother acted wrongly, not the child.

Chances are the kid's asking the question because the parent or another adult equates a head scarf with terrorism.

> But lets twist it, only without the masquerade: Imagine 'Ela' is on holiday in the Near East and wears a tank top. Don't you think that people would 'look funny at her'? She also might get molested for not being dressed properly. Local women even get stoned for that.

NONE OF WHICH IS THE LEAST FUCKING BIT OKAY, EITHER!
I'll ignore the ad hominem and the argument by implied assertion and assume that we have different definitions of "making people's lives better". What's yours?
I tend not to. Yes some may have insanely jealous boyfriends, but it's harder to tell in the absence of visual clues. Typical muslim garb is a signal which does tend to stand out in some circles, and that's one of the things I infer.

No, I don't think every time I look at a woman in a hijab she will be killed, but it does come in to the back of my mind more often than it does when seeing other women in local shops/stores/malls.

Is it prejudicial, as in pre-judging? Yes. People wearing certain types of garb send out signals intended to portray specific meaning. Sometimes extra meanings they didn't intend are also inferred.
You might also appreciate Black Like Me (1961)[1]. I think I read this in middle school or high school. A white man poses as a black man for several weeks in the racially segregated South.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me
Excellent point. But "if the result of happiness_from_identification_with_current_religion + happiness_from_how_people_make_me_feel" is negative, maybe a) you are unhappy, b) it's not an untractable problem because c) there is something you can change in the equation, and there is something you can't change.

You know the saying - you can't change the others, only yourself.
I was walking through TSA about a week ago and someone about 5 people in front of me was wearing a hijab, and of course they didn't have to take it off while I had to take off 2 of my layers and then be patted down. I wouldn't have had to do any of that if those same people who wear hijabs hadn't taken many American lives over the years. I'm pretty sure I have a right to have my well reasoned and justified prejudices. If nothing else, I am much more aware of my surroundings when I see someone wearing a hijab. This heightened awareness is simply my human nature taking over.
So what? Is being "not as bad as fundamentalist states" enough?
When I see a woman in a hijab, I also tend to look away - but it's because they're worn for modesty and I worry it would be disrespectful to them to "gaze" longer than necessary. Can somebody more familiar with Muslim thinking comment on this? I've visited muslim households where modesty was so important, the women would not even present themselves (however well covered they were dressed) in front of men outside their family. So although this style of hijab is much more "modern" - I still don't want to make a muslim woman feel uncomfortable.
If it did, it's still okay to post it now. Have you heard about Marcus Aurelius's Mediations? They're great. You should read them. (Hint: not the first time that's been said in a public forum, or "news aggregator", if that's what you want to call it.)
Total false equivalence. We aren't responsible for what happens in other countries. We are responsible for what happens here. And if Ela is on holiday and wearing a tank top, she wouldn't be doing it for religious reasons.
Why has Facebook's stock market flotation been such a disaster?
Did you take the time to read the article linked above? What part of it did you not find compelling? It's a rant, yes, but it contains a series of direct refutations of Roth.
30+ years of experience has given me enough confidence that the chance of that happening is pretty low. Honor killings and female mutilation is statistically higher than non-head-covering eye-contact-killings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing_in_the_United_Sta...
Sorry if this is rude, but this post feels like a bleeding hart white liberal voluntary experiencing with discrimination caused by obvious self sabotage - and then discovering that discrimination exists indeed, and blogging about her discovery.

The obvious next step is converting to some religion or faith which requires unusual clothing or body painting, to "make a statement"/ taunt/provoke and then complain about how unfair the world is, for her VOLUNTARY CHOICES.

It's not about blaming the victim - here I would like to blame someone who wants to play the victim, while people are actual victims.

Such a voluntary self sabotage is insulting to people who suffer from discrimination for something they can't change (such as unusual appearance coming from different ethnicity, disease, etc.)
Some things are worth being unhappy about.

"The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became."
The difference is that propaganda taught us that the "West" is educated, culturally sensitive and inclusive. The "West" loves to spread high ideals like "Democracy" and "Freedoms". And it seems most have internalized that attitude.

Saudi Arabia makes no claim about being open or tolerant of other religious practices, sexual orientations and so on. So at least they don't pretend, in that respect, they also don't get criticized for hypocrisy, while the "West" does.
User's old profiles were very valuable. Back in the day, most bands were heavy MySpace users. They built up a huge number of followers. Now that customers have moved on, bands can't access their old fan base. They had to rebuild their online fan base for outreach & engagement.
The complexion doesn't matter, they are religions, not ethnicities. Also you are likely to get an even bigger reaction as you would probably then be viewed by some people as some kind of traitor.
Right, and this is basically saying that we should be aware of how much anti-Muslim prejudice sucks to experience, so that we can start changing ourselves.
Some politicians wanted you to think that's what the Muslims wanted. I guess that worked.
So your baseline for acceptable behaviour is somewhere that women get stoned for wearing a tank top? You don't want to aim just a little higher?
> Chances are the kid's asking the question because the parent or another adult equates a head scarf with terrorism.

So either the parents or even the kid itself is brainwashed by poorly spinned U.S. TV.

> NONE OF WHICH IS THE LEAST FUCKING BIT OKAY, EITHER!

Ofc, stop screaming, I didn't said it was.
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In YAML, this is 9 objects in memory, one of them is a scalar, the other 8 are arrays of size 10 that happen to be pointers to the other objects. Not very big at all...
much less than 1k. It's not even interesting since YAML competently serializes graphs that are far more complex. Lots of reasons to trash YAML, this isn't one of them.

As aardvark179 noted, a usage concern with YAML is more with how an unguarded application might fail to check for
serialized graph cycles.
44%? That sounds extremely high to me. What sorts of explanation is offered for that?
Indeed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2010/08/25/cab-drive...
Back button doesn't work.
...quick and to the point article explaining it, and comments to get you going further with it: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/290 (I know, it sucks when RTFMP gets you into a sort of dead end...)
To the extent they're in the US, they may have been westernized to some extent, and yes culture and religion can be separated, but again, my understanding of the culture is that women are not as free/liberated/equal as men.

Posted elsewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing_in_the_United_Sta...
I'm not sure I agree with that saying. There would seem to be overwhelming evidence against it for one thing.
It is pretty easy to get punched by a white guy by talking to a girl in a bar in the US, where there will never be a religious Muslim.
Not being given looks by people passing by is exactly the reaction headscarves, burqas and other similar garments are supposed to produce. They represent chastity and modesty, and showing off your bodily features definitely doesn't fall into those categories. The concept of sending a message to people by fashion is very simple actually, and I personally think that reacting to such a message does not represent ignorance. Take the scarf off and let your face and hair be visible - people will look at you. Cover yourself in wraps - people will turn their looks away, and that is exactly the intended effect. It might seem strange to a white girl in a western society, but that doesn't change the fact.

As far as terrorism reference goes, that's a perfect example of generalization, another thing the whole humanity exercises daily simply because that is the way our reasoning works. Unfortunate it might be, but people generalize everywhere and about everything, and especially so when they are frightened.
How about we just look like people, not religious entities? Never understood why people like wearing symbols of oppression.
It generally does apply to second hand sales, but we are used to being able to resell physical goods, so the issue was forced.
Considering the large percent Linux users frequently using SSH, I'd stick a link to this (and to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/290) in all newbie targeted Linux tutorials... I just hate the world for letting me live without this knowledge for close to a year since diving into Linux.
I honestly believe America is captivated right now by fear itself.

It could be nuclear fallout from Japan, or Islam, or H1N1, or drug cartels in Mexico, or Canadian healthcare, or communists, or the Arab Spring, or any number of other things that for all intents are purposes are almost entirely non-threatening to the average citizen on the street.

The focus of the fear is completely irrelevant. The primary goal is perpetual fear itself.
Anyone here coding on a Pixel Qi screen? The OLPC in reflective monochrome mode looks nearly as sharp as e-ink but refreshes at 60Hz.

This is a 7.5 inch screen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/2113877184/sizes/o/in/pho...
Enhancing the linux terminal by thinking functional
It's rude, and also poorly thought through. You're spinning imaginary scenarios and then getting your balls in an uproar about them. Relax.

Ela did not "play the victim"; she is not asking for sympathy. She did not sabotage herself; she is whole and unharmed.

I also am dumbfounded that you think it's offensive to victims of discrimination to try to understand them by experiencing discrimination.
12-bit ADCs! Woohoo!

If they ever reach 16-bits (or beyond!), our lab may buy them weekly. The 10-bit resolution of the Arduino ADC is the biggest single thing that's kept us from switching to them for general-purpose DAQ.

The speed with which Physics undergrads can pick up the Arduino environment trumps anything else we use. Yes, we can implement I2C/SPI communication to another ADC chip, but the development environment isn't nearly as stable (chips and vendor-specific serial protocols change). The knowledge that the Arduino codebase should remain moderately stable over time makes it worth our trouble to develop for it.

Thank you, Arduino-folk!
I think you are mistaken cowsaysoik. You can have your single page app load any content requested by the URL. Single page doesn't mean landing page, it is used to refer to sites that work like apps. The page is only loaded once,a nd then portions of the page are changed based on the users request.
"The Closing of the American Mind" Reconsidered After 25 Years in Print
It looks like maybe you didn't read the linked page.
> People don't believe in a religion because it's convenient.

How is it convenient _not_ believing in a religion?
Did you posted it over reddit?
Hey, I hope you see this. The reason it's unclear is that it's difficult to differentiate between the screenshots, and the text that makes up your story. The hipmunk screenshot is the best example of this: your story is white text on a black background, which is exactly the same as the screenshot. When skimming (and skimmers gonna skim), it's pretty hard to notice the story text.

The other part that's confusing is that sometimes the story text is on top of the images, and other times it's in a rounded-corner box that looks very similar to the image--in other words, is the text part of your story, or is it a screenshot/photo?
What happens if TV goes the way of music and newspapers?
How physicists win at roulette
Despite your condescending tone, I agree with the premise of your argument. But it's not like buying music from the distributors will help the artist, so the reasonable alternative is to get it from the source or not at all.
Exactly. This seems like brilliant marketing (for a brilliant book, judging by the book reviews).
The arduino.cc link is: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoDUE

It says the page will be available on Monday, when you can buy it.
I'd be astounded to actually see a case of an honour killing which was caused by fleeting eye contact, none of the ones in that article are, why not just treat them the same as you would anyone else?
There's a big difference between knowing that you have an advantage and actually experience what's like not to have it. It's extremely easy to take things for granted, even if you once didn't have them; it's much easier if you had them all along.
eduardordm, nice details you have put there.

Can u please elaborate more on :

"Why are you paying the heroku premium? Build you own aws servers, put nginx and set cheap instances behind it. Let capistrano be your heroku."

Like how does that setup works?
If you can put arbitrary content into data to be compressed and don't have any real length limits (<1MB or so, probably) then skewing the probabilities to have the compressor spit out the data you want is pretty straightforward. I'll write a blog post on that at some point, as it's a technique I abuse in a couple places.
I use hotmail as my primary address. Why ditch it? I access my email via a client 99% of the time anyway. What tech savvyness am I missing?
The USA with the UK blew up the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and George Bush called the Iraq and Afghanistan wars a crusade, which is the Christian form of the term jihad. I suspect that the high-horse you have climbed onto here is actually more of a shetland pony.
Imagine if a 17 year-old Saudi/Persian/Pakistani girl decided to wear a tube-top and skinny jeans and no hair-covering out on the town in Mecca or Qom or Islamabad.

I am sure the only response would be remarks from children who are not yet attuned to social norms, e.g. not commenting on peoples appearances. After all, we do live in a globalized society.
Yes, I'm thankful I don't live in such culture: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/obscene-us-manga-co...
No it is not enough, but it could be worse. And for most regions in the world IT IS worse.

Stop implying such bullshit into others statement. All I said was that in those countries people treat foreigners much worse. I didn't justify or judge either side.
Ask HN: Are any Startup School videos up?
Please post links if you have them, thanks!
I'm not a gamer, and don't know anything about the space, but I really like yOur clean and simple design.

I think you could do better on the name though. How do you tell somebody about it? Are they going to get the spelling right? Does it have some significance to gamers?
ReFr: A New Open-Source Framework for Building Reranking Models
So the fact that there's discrimination in other countries makes it OK?
In your opinion, what has driven its success? Is it stuff that people with time but little money could emulate?
> Burak hocam sen paylaşırsında ben vote etmem mi yahu

Google Translate has a fun take on this:

> I do not vote you fuck my teacher John paylaşırsında
I wonder why you choose to compare your country to "one of those countries" when you clearly indicate you think they are not as good as yours?

You are like the coach of a sporting team pointing out all the teams that finished lower than yours on the ladder and saying "We did great compared to them. Good job. Keep it up."

Surely, if you were actually interested in improving your team, you would point out the teams that finished above you on the ladder and say "We can do better. Here's where to improve."

Somewhere along the line, America was so busy congratulating itself that it has forgotten it should be striving to do better.