skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UN said that cutting down someone's Internet was a human right violation, not that broadband Internet is a basic human right (maybe it's implicit, but it's not the main purpose of the definition).

Now, on court, you could appeal to human rights (and, worst case scenario, to AI) if, for instance, you are being prosecuted for rousing up an insurgent concentration on Facebook. Equally, the UN could interpose when a country decides to cut off the Internet to avoid communication during chaos or protests.
I agree with this.

I'd try and learn the basics of coding, put together a prototype and get some initial feedback. It will be much better to seek a co-founder at this point, who can help you complete the product and launch it.

It's not easy, and it is going to take time but that's probably the best way to go about it.
Thanks, it's not going to be easy but I think our matching is brilliant and we have a fantastic team :)
I guess it will cost me some karma, but...

Yes! Please do it. And put large text saying "This is blogging platform. Please DO NOT build your next e-commerce site using this software." :)
"Maybe we'd be better off saying certain categories of animals deserve a higher level of ethical and legal consideration."

Ethicists use the term animal welfare (as opposed to animal rights) for this reason. No one at least at this point thinks that animals should be allowed to vote, which is what equal rights for animals would imply.
well, they'd find out eventually, that's my worry. it's tough to speculate on something like this.

this is the culprit call:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/lookup

i store anything that might provide sensible statistics later on from that response (so no profile colors or photos)
Which version of the API are you using?
When cetaceans let us know that they will mutually honor some sort of Interspecies Protective Treaty, I will be the first in line to support the move that they should have similar protections to people.

Until then, I don't want to see such beautiful intelligent creatures harmed -- but murder/manslaughter charges would be inappropriate if one were inadvertently killed.

The current animal protection/endangered species protection rules are sufficient.
Code Reviews: Good idea, bad idea?
I don't think he was asserting he lacked the right, merely suggesting that he refrain from exercising it.
Russia Passes Far Reaching Internet Censorship Law
Microsoft’s security team is killing it: Not one product on Kaspersky’s top 10
It is amazing how well Apple has done in growing so massively during a world wide economic downturn/depression.
Follow the goal creep
What are those two commands?
To be clear, it exists in most/all countries, even here in the states thanks to human trafficking.
Our first, yes, but not our only. Otherwise, dolphins and whales might be extinct soon. There's nothing preventing you from supporting both, say, Amnesty International and Sea Sheperd, or Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace - or all of them. This is not a binary decision.
Imagine that you are given a massive code base, full of bad practices, code duplication, no uniform coding style, lots of it written written in COBOL. Most parts of it are written by average or incompetent programmers. If you attempt to refactor or get rid of something, you are met with a stiff resistence by people who don't want to lose their jobs or just don't like change. Would a programmer want this?
Isn't this similar to Skimlinks i.e. you don't get paid by them until conversion?
>and this could be attributed to women having better-developed social skills (without having to hypothesize some kind of "female approval" dynamic).

Why is inventing something that makes no sense "women have better social skills" a good plan, but a well known observation "women's social interactions confer social status on men" bad? What social skills are women using to get the men in the office to carry boxes of paper? Do you seriously think a man could just practice socializing really hard and suddenly be able to ask another man to do that and have it work?
> I can't see how the ad network could audit conversions with certainty, unless they were also processing the payments.

A ping script, from the ad network, on the transaction completion page is all that's needed. Pretty straight forward.
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It is good (?) to see competition. Yet, I would like ads to be beautiful, at the very minimum. Yours do not nicely blend in. Ads well done are those coming from 'The Deck', for example.
Especially when you consider that there are people whose only viewport is mobile devices.
I don't know much of anything about Rails.

As for the per-post CSS files it would be easy to do with a Posts custom field. You could take text input (CSS) and spit it out in the header using a basic query on the current post.
Does that number include pre-orders? Because really it would be 10 days since preorders began, not just three.
Saurik's techradar link is a good one, considering it was written shortly after the OHA announcement was made.

The thing to remember was that iPhone had just been announced and everything was about to change radically. Even in this 2007-2008 timeframe everything was about the mobile web. Google's intent for Android - as it was explained to us - was to get the rest of the planet that didn't own a PC into a mobile device that they could use to see the web...and see Google's advertising by consequence. There was no App Store yet. Even Apple was trying to get everyone to do their apps in Safari, remember?
A rather limited set of rights to be sure. Children, unless emancipated, lack a great deal of the rights that adults enjoy.

Perhaps this is the best way to legally consider dolphins. They have approximately the same rights as human children, until any one of them decides to ask for more.
> we've found this works better with sites that add value

I haven't. CPA tends to be the last resort of desperation for publishers -- unless, of course, the publisher's site is focused on the kinds of products advertised in the CPA network. Even still, realized CPM will be low.
And it isn't even relevant now. In the PC market Apple needs no large market share to make boatloads of money.
SaaS that helps create log in page with user options to log in via email fb etc?
I think Android went on to fill the same role for mobile devices as Windows did for the PC.

A platform able to run on a large number of devices, not perfectly tuned to the hardware as iOS, but very good nonetheless,

Google managed to spot the market opportunity with great timing and went for it with pretty good execution.

This should have really been Microsoft territory, I wonder if the scenario will change somehow with Windows Phone 8 ?
A program a watched a long time ago showed researchers working with dolphins. They would draw something with a marker on the side of the dolphin, and then it would race to an underwater mirror and contort its body to view the mark. The researchers said that this demonstrated self-awareness. As for being compared to humans, meh. I donno.
I applaud you for taking on this industry though paying on an action is more beneficial to the majority of advertisers than the majority of advertisers, and the advertisers are the side you don't have yet.
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I never thought that FB was a good way to do that (even before the changes). This relies on people being on FB to get the news. Email distribution would be a better option for communities.
(we even convert links into affiliate links automatically)

How does this play out? Your service looks incredibly interesting, but is there any way I can disable this? I don't want to trade my visitors' goodwill for a few bucks.
Didn't a NASA satellite already detect methane in the Martian atmosphere a few years ago?
We are working on different ads styles all the time to make sure they convert, I've see the Deck ones before and whilst they look good, I believe they are paid on a CPM basis so are more for branding than actual clicks (but that doesn't mean we won't try an adstyle that looks like that).

We've built our system to be quite flexible, we can make changes and push it across the whole network or just a small part within minutes for a nice a/b test
As a species, humans agree to basic rules of conduct that form an implied Social Contract.

Can any non-human species do that?
Maybe it is a good idea to ease the load on the API by scraping the HTML pages of twitter. Follower count is right there.

This solution is only partially ugly if you are only after the follower count of a username.
see, this is what I came for. I believe there's room for optimization within the limits I have to adhere to right now. your approach seems like a stab at it and I'll think this through again in a bit if it makes sense. but you're hitting the nail on the head in terms of where my problem is, i can't change what twitter does, i can display partial results but it's suboptimal in many ways, so how can i make these partial results the best possible quality? this is where you answer seems to make sense - thanks. i'll think about this one for sure.
In the long term? No way. Only humans have the potential to spread themselves off this rock and throughout the solar system and beyond. Dolphins are limited to where we take them.
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I'd love for a blogging platform that let me use custom CSS, Markdown (because I post code all the time on my blog) and free hosting.

Where is something like that?

Wordpress, atrocious code support.
Jekyll, too much configuration. I don't want to learn Jekyll I just want to post code.

Where is the middle ground for people like me? Sounds like this hypothetical "Ghost" is just what I'm looking for. Now if someone could build it...
i've switched over to the new version now, except for a few calls.
FYI these are mostly product overviews and don't really teach you how to do anything.
Test it, measure your revenue per 1000 and dump it if doesn't work for you. There's plenty of competition in this space.
You can of course disable it when you generate your adcode you can untick +links :)

It works by simply converting a link that you write to amazon.com or thinkgeek.com and adding some affiliate tracking code so if someone clicks on the link and buys something, you can earn some revenue from that :) but yes opt-out is simple (I don't see how your trading visitors goodwill but obviously I'm biased ;) )
Are you suggesting that different languages and tooling would make different players on the team 'A' players? Sorry, but I find this to be an extremely dubious claim.

At the risk of coming off as a completely arrogant ass, I've been an 'A' player in two completely different language, stack and tooling environments so far. Now I find myself shifting the lion's share of my coding time from back-end to front-end work, but aside from an initial adjustment period, I don't find this to be a huge hit to my productivity or effectiveness.

I'm pretty confident most other 'A' players can do the same easily, probably more easily than I can. Am I unhappy in an environment that forces to use tooling that I find to be unproductive, sure. I've been here before, but nonetheless I was still one of the 'A' players.

A players are not different because of having the right fit with tools or projects, or because of more (or less) education. They are different because they have a good fit with their purpose combined with passion for what they do.
Developers just cannot stop building blogging engines.
Y U No write title in coherent English?
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Yep. To be chief executive, one needs to have executive experience in managing large organizations of diverse talent. Except for the last election cycle, the US of A went for about 40 years of electing a president with executive experience (governors mostly, but also some people who had been Vice President, or ran the CIA).

The last cycle was an aberration, in that both major party candidates were legislative politicos (disregarding McCain's officer status in the Air Force), and there was no clear large organization management experience in the field.
What about re-using keys of your other registered users to handle the API requests of users with a lot of followers in parallel?
You also need scientific experiments in order to argue that humans are self-aware. Indeed, young humans aren't self-aware, hence Piaget's classic experiments on development to show the emegence of self-awareness.

The article does allude to a couple of experiments in the article ("pass" option if they can't answer a question, self-recognition in a mirror). I agree it needs to be studied in more depth to make these assumptions and certainly to confer new rights.
I know you aren't actually this stupid, so what exactly is the purpose of your continued trolling? We both know PGP is only covering the distribution portion of the chain. If Theo is owned we're fucked, and if we're owned were fucked (obviously). This is true with PGP, or with what we have now.

So you are saying the openbsd devs should waste time with PGP to solve an issue that is already solved (distribution security). The machine that would be signing the releases is already generating sha256 hashes of them. So as long as you can verify you are getting those hashes from that machine, you are as secure as you can get, PGP or not. And since you can get them over ssh, with a well known public key, you already have everything you need to deal with tampering during distribution. If the machine was compromised and those hashes altered, then it would have been just as much an issue if PGP were in use, since they could alter the binaries before they were signed. You already know all of this, I know you know this, you know you know this, so what are you trying to accomplish by pretending you caught a sudden case of mental retardation?
Thanks Matt - I don't necessarily doubt that WordPress users are blogging, it's just that WordPress(.org) isn't focused on those users any more.

That's fine, as mentioned in the post, but there is a reason that Svbtle (etc) is suddenly the flavour of the month, and it's not just cause Dustin is the coolest kid in San Fran.
Why are HN linking to advertising? The "article" offer no insight about the books.

Having a single page with only images to products, is what I call a ad page full of ads, and are the same style as those I get in the mail. Whats next, a link to a "free coffee at Starbucks this weekend" page?
We partner with the major affiliate networks to use the conversion tracking they have, We also do regular test transactions to make sure that it works.
Right. Because no country ever had a revolution before Twitter and Facebook existed.
If it's really "strong AI", whether some humans want to grant the AI "rights" or not is irrelevant. Kind of like ants deciding whether humans should get a share of the harvest.
Yes, they are also CPA.

We've also got something similar to them, in that we can rewrite links on the fly, converting them into revenue-earning links, if they match one of our merchants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
No one is stopping you from helping fix the problem of slavery, especially not animal rights advocates.
I would assume it includes the pre-orders, because if it did not then I would guess we would see a headline more like: 3 million iPad Minis in three days PLUS another two million (or whatever) in pre-orders!

Regardless, that's an impressive number for a device that already had well established competition and Steve Jobs claiming nobody wanted it.

EDIT: oh wait, that's 4th gen and iPad Minis combined? I thought it was for just the mini. Are there numbers out there about how the mini sold? I don't see it broken down in the press release unless I totally missed it. I think it's a bit unfair to say that the latest iPad and the mini doubled the number sold of the previous iPad since that's comparing the totals of two products against one. Still, impressive numbers.
I thought this was one of those negative rights, i.e. it doesn't have to be given to you, it just can't be taken from you.
Yep, Skimlinks also do the link conversion as well.
In defense of Herbert Hoover, he wasn't a terrible president. The chaos caused by market speculation was out of his control. It's always possible to point out something that someone could have done differently in hindsight. More than anything, he was made into a scapegoat for problems that were caused by others.

As an engineer president, Hoover did a decent job. I don't think that a stock market crash is any proof that engineers don't make good politicians.
No, I meant in such a way where a successful conversion couldn't be hidden by the advertiser. They could very easily serve up a completion page with the ad network script missing half the time.
Any feedback appreciated, feel free to tell me what you like about it, or why you think it sucks.
Couple of quick questions:
a) Interesting they're not breaking it out between the two given substantially different models and price points?
b) The two questions about the Mini are i) does it cannabalize the higher margin "normal" iPad sales and ii) does it slow down Nexus/Fire Android tablets? If it does i) and not ii) then it's arguably a failure. If it does ii) and not i) it's a wild success. Without a break out here between the two models it's really hard to know how to judge these numbers.

I most interested in day 30 - 100 when the initial buzz wears off.
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Yes, since they bill at shipment. And it includes iPad 2 sales as well.
Interesting project though there are more than just two candidates. I'm not interested in either of the two choices you provided.
Bingo.

Build a computer model for an internet forum, no problem. Build a computer model for a military and economic superpower with numerous distinct regions within it's massive boarders, diplomatic histories, and all of the personal neuroses of all the people you are going to be trying to get anything done with... well, let's just say being able to actually work with people are the most important thing.
I hate you a little bit. I read the whole website and started looking for a download/signup link until I found out it is just a prototype, I'm very sad now. :(

HOWEVER, your idea / prototype / concept looks awesome and it is something I have been waiting for!
She has rights because she is human. Her parents and other members of society vouch for her right to a position in society and accept the responsibility of her membership. The practice is so ingrained and a part of the fabric of our society that it's just accepted implicitly.

It has nothing to do with how capable she is of accepting responsibilities in her current state.

Non-humans have no such implicit acceptance of responsibilities and inclusion within the framework of human society by humans.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so I'll just assume the worst.

Yes, it is - there's a lot more non-techies than there are of the other kind, so it makes sense that you focus your efforts on the larger market.

As for the whole "language that beginners use to learn about programming", do you mean Python or Java? PHP is everywhere but the last I checked, Python and Java are the teaching and taught languages.

PHP itself is designed to get things done, not necessarily elegantly. For all it's problems, it is a workhorse and blaming the language for what the users have done is just wrong. Programming languages are like hammers and should not prevent one from doing something stupid or irresponsible. Doing the smart or right thing is the responsibility of the user.
His argument about "No Corporate Arm of The Law" seems a little flawed. He compares WordPress to Mozilla and argues that Ghost will be more like Mozilla. Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit arm of Mozilla Foundation. They are nearly identical to the relationship between WordPress Foundation and Automattic inc. Each companies corporate arm generates revenue and reinvests those dollars and development resources back into their open source projects. This is the reason WordPress and FireFox have been such successful open source projects. They have the right balance of leadership, resources and community involvement.
No evidence points in that direction. It'd be possible if Apple had only a small amount of loyal customers (like in the nineties), but obviously they do not.
Apple did a global launch, so they come from 34 countries. Plus a ton bought and shipped back to China since China was not part of the initial launch.
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gem install rails
First, you could try Datasift or Gnip, who both sell twitter data, and thus have no API limit. Not sure if you can afford it, as it does have a cost.

Second, maybe you could use the streaming API: you could get part of the data that way, and have more credits.
If users follow back, you could use the sitestream, although it's quite different to work with then the REST API.

Thirdly, if I read correct, if Alice and Bob are both your clients, and Fred follows both, you now collect Fred's data twice, right? I would put a cache in between that. Riak, cluster of redis, or even S3 or DynamoDB.
If I can help more, send me an email (in profile)

Lastly, if you have twitter investors in your userbase, ask for an intro to talk to twitter. They see the value of your service.
If it's anything like the iPhone 5, it'll be the total number delivered into a customer's hands - which will include some pre-orders but not necessarily all of them.
While theorizing tests of animal psyche and self-awareness might be helpful to the purpose, but what we humans forget is the preciseness of agent Smith's evaluation of us:

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." [1]

There is no chance any animal/fish is going to survive the brunt of us 9 billion in next fifty years.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1-DQ2Wo_w
You still require honesty from the advertiser. Whats to stop the advertiser omitting the script on every nth completion page to reduce their outgoings? Maybe omitting it for high value orders as test orders are likely to be low value, whitelisting the ad networks known ip ranges etc.
No, the player should not show play or pause while the video is loading. There are more than two states the player is representing with only two icons. Adding separate buttons would not help that.
this saddens me.

the promise of blogging for me has always been the ability to have my own printing press and know that nearly everyone else in the world had access to one as well.

i'm still trying to understand how this "evolution" has actually decreased the quality of communication.
Another important thing to consider is the content that drives the two platforms. If you didn't buy any music from the iTunes store and just ripped stuff from CDs/Napster/Limewire/Kazaa, all the music that worked on your iPod worked on your non-Apple music player as well.

Such is not the case with apps. If you've spent a few hundred dollars on apps over the course of a few years using iOS devices, the cost to switch (assuming you care about continuing to use any of those apps once you're on Android) is pretty high.
Funding water systems in Kenya with mobile banking
The aged Rails blogging app Typo did this, and it was very useful.