skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The pragmatic reason for having compulsory voting is to provide a better sample of what the population wants. In effect, to dilute the crazies.

Yes. It forces the expression of weak preferences which otherwise wouldn't be expressed.
Jesus H. Christ. My impression was that Medal of Honor/Call of Duty had turned into soulless, corridor shooters with no open gameplay at all, all the while painting a picture of a black and white world where you get to kill people for the crime of having a beard. This was bad enough, but that was just nauseating.
Thank you so much! So awesome to have so many people genuinely supportive of what we're working on!
In the sense that this is an age-old dream of mankind (see Tower of Babel), not an idea someone grabbed away from you before you could create a startup.
You are a very good guesser.

Today's activity has given us a few ideas about how to make those "flyovers" more frequent.
Mbeddr: An extensible version of C for embedded programming
The Mess That Is Google Shopping
Looking forward to the Android app. Five years maybe?
Sounds pretty stupid, but it sounds like you should be able to get round it by sticking everything in a scrollable wrapper div (height:100%; overflow:scroll) when fullscreen mode gets activated. Or just do things the old fashioned way and tell the user to hit F11 (or apple-shift-F on mac) to put their browser into manual full-screen mode, which supports scrolling.
Well I never had my IP banned but I did have my account hell banned after about a dozen posts as you can see. Oh, actually no, you can't see, because it's banned. No, I never bothered to get another account, now I'm just a taker not a giver.
Okay. If that is what it takes, count me out. That is an insane amount of time to spend doing something that we as a species have worked so hard to overcome the need for.
An odd way to begin a moral rant. Anyway nobody plays the campaign mode and all the high-speed low-drag cool guys have beards now.
Not only should he not be driving without insurance, but he's almost certainly at fault for hitting the pedestrian. We put some debtors into prison for lesser forms of irresponsibility.
And this is the precise reason we exist. :)
A Quick Look at the Twitter Phish Rotating through Domains
I'm quite fond of requiring people to take the citizenship test before being granted their rights as citizens - including voting.
Their privacy policy prohibits sharing of personal data with third-parties, so I assume that they don't. There really seems to be nothing to see here.

Cloud storage of mouse settings is perhaps a bit wacky, but I really don't think there is a conspiracy behind it.

It might make more sense for the driver to allow local configuration, and then sync that to the cloud, rather than the other way around - but meh. The lack of internet connection probably isn't a real-world problem for users of a mouse targeted at MMO gaming.

I've got one of these mice, and I can't reproduce any unresponsiveness when the driver transitions from online to offline.

I think the real lesson to be learnt here is that even if you've done nothing wrong, if you don't want to be the target of internet hysteria, be very careful that no feature in your product can inaccurately be described by people on forums with the letters D-R-M... especially when it isn't.
Great news! I was banned last week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4736919), the bann was lifted in the meantime. But this will come in handy the next time I'll be developing an extension for HN and will refresh it all the time :)
If you lose badly enough at credit that you end up declaring bankruptcy, maybe homeownership or car loans aren't for you. Just a thought.
Yeah. The problem here isn't really whether we have to turn up the aircon in the summer. The problem is agriculture. Right now, when there's a particularly hot summer, you get (at least here in Switzerland) lots of news stories about poor very poor harvests due to the heat. With a 2-5C increase, nearly all summers will be particularly hot, and nearly all harvests will be particularly poor. And we simply will not have enough food in the world.
The Puffin Charmer
Just sent an email, Jonathan. Thanks in advance!
Twitter goofs up, resets passwords
Combine it with video chat? Skype or Google hangout?
Tablets Cause Wi-Fi Stress: Truth And Fiction
Article doesn't mention Sam Wang. His confidence level for Obama winning was at 99%

http://election.princeton.edu/
Part of interest compensates the lender for risk, but the rest of it--most of it, in fact, if you have good credit--is just time value of money.
It is called the PPIP (Public-Private Investment Program) Some info: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/01/richard-alford-why-ha...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/04/ppip-banks-making-a...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-Private_Investment_Progr...
My point was that requiring people to vote doesn't make them discuss voting. Most people simply aren't interested in politics in this country, unless it's the machinations of the local footy club.
I made games while I was in school. Lots of games. PC games, iOS/Android games, and even some homebrew 360/PS3 games. All of those games helped me get the attention of technical directors at a couple of studios and got me my first two internships and eventually a job as an engine programmer on a multi-platform game engine.

But the code in those games was crap. Looking back on the early stuff, I am amazed it even compiled. It wasn't until I had to work on a +500k LOC codebase with 30 other programmers for a year and a half that I learned the importance of writing code that can be easily read, understood, and modified by other programmers (or even myself) six months after it was written.

Writing maintainable code is a skill that comes naturally to every good developer after they have to work on the same code base for an extended period of time. Dan hasn't had time to do that because he's shipped 20 different apps in the last 2 years, but now that he's working on his own startup (and will be for the foreseeable future) it sounds like he's learning the value of elegant code.
Chris Wilson is an author of this and at Google so I guess Chrome at least will implement. No idea beyond that.
Nice catch, updated the title.
This sounds outrageously risky. Unless you have written, signed approval from the IRS for your plan I wouldn't dare make a move. Once you're in their sights it's damn near impossible to get away. In the current economic climate it doesn't take much to convince a jury you deserve to go to prison for tax evasion and/or fraud. A pro-bono lawyer can not stand against the legions of the IRS.
any link to the original article?
Al Gore is still fat.
Why we need a software museum
That's the best explanation I've read of why quantum tunnelling doesn't allow FTL information transfer. Thanks!
What elitist tripe. I've worked polling booths in Australia where people have come in and done exactly that (they have actively made a decision not to vote). That is their choice and I think that should be respected. I have no respect for the people who passively or apathetically don't vote.

Politicians should represent the entire country and that is why I strongly support compulsory voting. Politicians should be forced to govern for all. That means people you disagree with and people you consider uninformed. That is also why I believe prisoners and convicted felons should also be given the right to a vote. If someone is going to pass laws that affect you, you should have a say in who that someone is.

Their votes (for any value of them) are just as important as yours and you should come down off your high horse and reconcile yourself with that reality.
It would be dominated by the chamber of horrors.
The fact that lenders were able to win short term profits from the ignorant and irresponsible does not exonerate the ignorant and irresponsible.
It's amusing that jwz brings up the California Proposition system and says that you should vote no on everything when that itself is an uninformed statement to make. Even if you want to keep the status quo, simply voting no on every is not necessarily the correct decision.

In California all referendums (still named propositions on the ballot) are flipped. That is, voting YES means that you want to keep the status quo and voting NO means you want to change it.

I think uninformed people voting no across the board is what caused Proposition 40, a referendum dropped by those who originally proposed it, to get 27% voting no, despite absolutely no one being on the no side.
It makes me think that one non-negotiable feature of any webapp architecture is to detect situations when inbound strings are placed in any context where they can be interpreted as code, and either refuse to run or at least spit out a severe warning.

And there are no webapp architectures which do this.
I'm not much of an OWS supporter, but a lot of the criticism of it really bothers me. Just a lot of hypocrisy to be frank.

- This entitlement thing. I don't see what's entitled about giving one's own time or money to a cause you believe in, to go camp out for weeks or whatever. It seems like a lot of criticism of OWS centers on them acting like they deserve to be given jobs, but I have trouble taking this seriously when the same pundits complain about slow growth in their stocks/financials due to decreased consumer spending and unemployment, and want to know what the government's going to do about it.

- Civil liberties and free speech are supposed to be the cornerstone of American democracy and yada yada, but people suddenly feel extremely threatened when people want to exercise them. Who cares, let the hippies have their say and their signs. Why let it bother you?

- Loan forgiveness, bank bailouts. This is the one that really annoys me because criticisms of OWS on this front tend to be so inconsistent. If a student gets over their head in debt trying to earn a degree, we shouldn't think of helping her out because that's a terrible case of moral hazard, and we'll only encourage that sort of risk-taking behavior. But if bank executives commit fraud and bet against their customers, then get multi-billion bailouts for their companies and multi-million severance checks for themselves, well, you know how business is, these things just happen, there's no help for it.

Anyway sorry for the rant, but I just think if you disagree with what OWS proposes, you should make an argument against it (or even better, just ignore it) rather than resorting to personal attacks or condescending catchphrases like "entitlement".
Oh! The benefits of dynamic IPs.. :)
I hope you realise that not all black people are decendents from slaves and that not all white people are decendents of slave owners. And a hint: there are also other races beside whites and blacks.
Oooh, I wonder what "he" might choose for a username on a social media site!
hey, do you know if it is possible to buy up a specific person debt? or just general debt contracts?
> Until someone figures out how to put Internet into a bucket to use as a battery, please let me work off-line when I want.

Offline storage. Page caching. It does exist. It is the functional equivalent to batteries in more ways than one too - you are limited in capacity, but not as much in transfer rate.
Did you read the article? Drew Linzer is one of the specific people it rates Nate Silver against.
Triggers a hunger response somewhere in my brain. "雞肉和米飯" definitely does not.
You Can’t Put A Price Tag On A TechCrunch Post
Fuck you. And yes, I'm taking the post author's words here. Because he's right.

You're brainwashed. Your vote actually means zero. ZERO. It's an illusion of choice, NOTHING more. So yeah, fuck you and your peers.
This is a serious mistake
Yesod (a Haskell web framework) tries pretty hard. e.g. http://www.yesodweb.com/book/shakespearean-templates
A Letterpress CLI built by hacker and for hackers
Looks like a very bad idea to me, since people who know more are more likely to think they don't know enough (e.g. Dunning-Kruger effect).
>Not when the majority of jobs that create a vibrant middle class in the post-industrial United States require at least a college degree.

That's a self-refuting argument. If your degree was really the ticket to a "vibrant middle class" job you'd be able to pay off your student debt.

You just failed at basic logic.

Saying that jobs of type X require a degree IS NOT saying that getting a degree guarantees that you will get a job of type X. As an example, a law degree is required to become a lawyer. But only something like 70% of people graduating with law degrees will pass the bar, and be put on a track to a job where they can reasonably expect to pay back their debts.

I also see that you are happy to blame the victim. Yet many victims are not to blame. Let me take a real example, my wife. She got an MD. She went into residency. She got injured, had to take time off then leave residency. She is in another residency now. She still does not make enough to contribute towards her debts, I've been doing it instead.

She did nothing wrong. Yes, the degree was expensive, but an MD is generally a worthwhile investment. Yes, she got injured. But that was not her fault. There are no guarantees in life. Bad luck will happen to a certain fraction of people. It happened to her.

Now you have a lot to say about planning. Well back when she took on that debt, bankruptcy could discharge it. It was not until after she had the MD that the rules changed on her. Thanks to me, she's not in trouble. But when she took on the debt, the bank agreed to one set of risks, and then Congress changed the terms of the contract out from under her later. In what world is it fair that you sign one thing, and then because the right politicians got bribed, you're bound to a different thing?
The fact that YOU want to discriminate based on skin color today means you are the only racist. Multiple races have faced systematic oppression eg. Chinese/Japanese/Jewish and are now some of the most successful in society. They didn't need affirmative action to get there.
As an American, I want people to vote who want to vote and for no other reason. They should have nothing stopping them from voting if they want to, and nothing artificially pushing them towards doing so either.

The big problem in America with voting is that election day is not a national holiday. If there should be any incentive to vote, there should be fines for employers who don't give election day off (not saying people cant' elect to work that day, but it needs to be a default holiday), or a mandated pay hike to employees working election day (say, doctors, police, utilities workers, etc that can't really have a day off).

But absolutely don't mandate individuals vote. Its their right not to. You don't get to go around telling other people how to behave if it doesn't negative impact you. And the people not voting now won't become more inclined to get involved because they are forced to, in the same way children aren't intellectually stimulated by being forced to go to public schools.
May be it can push us so have a little less horror to show ?
...and if they are all hitting HN at the exact same millisecond, then their connection should be delayed

HN serves with connection-close, not keep-alive, so as soon as one request is done, the connection is freed for the next visitor on the same IP. This would just force them to be in single file on a very quickly moving line instead of requiring dozens of connections to be served all at the same time.

Think of grocery store with one super-fast express lane vs no express lane and a dozen very slow cashiers and people with full carts ahead of you.

Don't knock connlimit until you try it. Again, it's not a ban, just backlogs the requests.
You would bring your own mouse, however when you sit down at a tournament machine you will need to install specific mouse drivers and get it configured. Being able to sit down at any machine and just plugin your mouse/kb and have a familiar setup seems like a great idea to me.
Ransomware Scams Net $5 Million Per Year
They usually offer Ubuntu Software center versions that are kept up to date.
Original post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft...
You erroneously conclude I think I am the first person to think of this. I do not. I know my sci-fi and biblical and human history (20 years of studying intellectual and cultural history, thank you). I've read about the tower of babel and grew up on wanting universal translators.

My comment was a bit of bittersweet admiration at a very specific success in implementation. Can we just assume that the average person on HN knows wtf a universal translator is, and not every time someone says, "I had this very idea" that they are making accusations that company/person X is stealing the idea away? Christ. Not a single word was spoken that this idea was "stolen" or "grabbed away". Nor were words employed signifying that "I thought of this first and completely independently".

I was saying it looks like it's too late to be the person who gets to be first to demonstrate it. And by "very idea" I meant, quite specifically, how cool it would be to be able to translate my voice into another language in near-real-time. And by "Rats", I meant "Oh snap, looks like others have been working on doing that same thing and impressively pulled the damn thing off."

If you spent a moment looking at my comment history, you'd see I am usually quite clear in stating what I mean directly. Had I meant to imply an idea was "grabbed away from [me] before I could create a startup", I'd have used those exact words. Instead, I said that I'd had this very idea years ago and only recently thought about how the tech might be there today to make it happen, and maybe make for an interesting startup. I didn't even try to imply it would be my startup.

Nonetheless, point taken. I'll ensure I more specifically couch any future statements about having ideas with the qualifier that I am, in fact, not implying that I had it first or independently in the whole of human history.
OpenTok on WebRTC (Chrome and iOS)
One step closer to getting through the Curiosity Cube
Overclocking a Sega Genesis
It also makes it nearly impossible to slowly read one's own comment history, as the "next" pagination links are session data dependent and are garbage collected quite frequently.

This is, quite possibly, the worst webapp I use on a regular basis.
Odd, perhaps, but mocking things which some consider sacred is how one gains credibility on the 'net!
That stuff is so trivial that it's hilarious to call it a philosophy. By these standards, sponge bob has a sophisticated philosophy.
Just because you have a name for non-Jews doesn't make it a cohesive group and most importantly nowhere near a minority.

It's insane to say discriminating against a minority is like affirmative action for everyone else. So if I don't like Bob I could phrase it that it's not that I don't like him--I do!-- it's just that I like everyone else better (including other people I dislike). And for someone to fall for that would be ridiculous.
To an HR person, the programmer with the most number of years of experience.

Here's to the technical interviewers out there who know all too well that there is no correlation between number of years of employment as a "software engineer" and the quality of the engineer.
News Flash Corner: there is always somebody who thinks your electoral opinion is line noise in the system.
Keep your database config for the app in version control with the code, and change to another database per branch.

This means your data in that db will diverge from the main branch slightly, but if that is too much of a problem and you need constant updates from live, you could look into migrations like those used by rails, which store your db changes so that they can be replayed on top of newer data from master and bring it up to the new schema. It's quite easy to setup a bare bones migration system using plain SQL migration files and some scripts if this is a problem you see often.

I often work with several branches of code in rails, and it's not a big problem, you just need a system for keeping the data in sync with the code.
He mentions in the comments that Wang's website doesn't appear to give the raw numbers he needs to analyze its accuracy.
The entrance math exam in MSU is not pass/fail but graded. There are two math exams (at least in the "math department", I imagine she meant either Mech-Mat or VMK), written and oral. Written exam consists of 6 problems with the passing mark 3 and maximum 5 (you only need to solve 5 correctly, 5th and 6th problems are the hardest and usually allow a choice between an algebra and a geometry problem, giving the time limit it's hard to solve both). Oral test is administered by drawing a random "ticket" with two general questions from the school program (e.g. "What are properties of a triangle?") and the problems the person conducting the test can choose based on the answers and the result of the written test. Answering two "ticket" questions correctly gives you the passing grade (3) already. So there is no way anybody could be failed by any number of the problems given during the oral test if they managed to answer the "ticket". At the worst case one could be dropped to 3 at the oral test, giving total of 8 for the both math tests and that's a pretty good mark. Total test score of 13 (you need to get 5 for the third marked test, written Physics and pass unmarked written Russian) is guaranteed admission. 12 - is a good chance of admission and, depending on the year, even 11 can get you in.

However there is a shortcut - under some conditions (either being a subject of one of Soviet "AA" incentives or being a winner of a math Olympiad), 4 or 5 for the first test (written math) gives automatic admission. 9 for the both math tests is also automatic and unconditional admission.

So the way the hard questions in the oral test come up is usually when you get 4 for the written test. If you could not solve 5th or 6th problem in the written test you are at the average level and giving you 5 (and automatically admitting you) in the oral test would defeat the whole purpose of the shortcut rule to secure admission for the exceptional students. So you have to get 4 or, really, 3 and such a question is to ensure that.

I don't know about anti-semitism, maybe there was some yet I have seen plenty of Jews both among students and faculty so, evidentially, they have not been entirely kept out. Yet I have seen a lot of people (of all origins) complaining about entrance exam being "too hard" and them being persecuted for various reasons. The reality is that pretty much every year from 70s to late 90s there had been several candidates for each student place so some people had to fail the test.
Almost. There.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Kino
Show HN: Our real-time multiplayer HTML5 strategy game, with an Erlang backend.
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Maybe, like jacquesm, it's my lack of experience in retail, but doesn't "money gone missing" show up on the books quite easily, especially after a quarter? You sold X, so you should have Y, except there's only Z (Z < Y). Or, if they didn't register the sales, then it should have shown up as theft?