skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reluctant to link to them because they were all Drudge Report style aggregators of the type that are frowned upon by HN. Anyone curious can just Google "Romney win riots" and see for themselves. We're talking hundreds or thousands of tweets of this nature.

To be honest, I'm not really bothered by either because it really just amounts to verbal graffiti. I don't think any of those tweeting were future black panther revolutionaries, any more than I think the ones featured in this post were future James Earl Rays. They're all just lacking empathy, common sense, and inhibition on Twitter.
This is consistent with parallel data from lipid research. To wit, some people have low cholesterol due to medication. This reduces their risk of MI by X%, say 40%. Other people have the same level of cholesterol due to genetic effects. From the statin trials, we would think this would correlate with a similar risk reduction. Instead, those with a genetic basis for low cholesterol appear to be protected even more than one would anticipate.

This effect has been attributed to the lifelong exposure to low cholesterol levels. This is not a closed, certain conclusion, but it is supported by the data.

The parallel would be that lifelong exposure to high blood pressure leads to changes over time and produces accumulating harmful effects. The notion is reasonable on its face.
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With a sample size of 395, given the intensity of feeling around general elections, all this really does is show that America is staggeringly not racist.
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Mine says it's up and it works fine from the UK.
If others are encouraged to make similar "jokes," yes.
No, this is prior art: http://www.eqcity.net/microsoft/micro58.htm

It's from 2001, shortly after the announcement of Windows Genuine Advantage.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. But before I read this post I was going to say how much I love Firefox but regret how they fail to address bugs before implementing new features. 800,000 bugs is nothing to be proud of.
Er, on the other hand, many people actually like gnome 3 (myself included), but it's typically the people who don't like something that are the most noticeable, because they complain a lot.

I.e. "I saw lots of complaints on HN" is not a particularly good measure of anything...
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Fun fact: if your pressure is getting measured less than 5 minutes after you enter the seated, relaxed position, it's likely to be bogusly elevated even if you don't have white coat hypertension.
Christ this is idiotic. I bet they are just polling the IG API for data, probably tied to their client's username or preset hash tags. Woe be the business wonk who falls for this.
I don't think so either, I just don't think its an excuse to say colleges and universities (especially since they are all federally funded) can practice extremely predatory financing expecting a kids parents to know better for them.

I agree you should not alter open agreements, but those agreements are already biased by federal dollars in the form of guaranteed stafford loans. We need to get rid of federal loan and grant guarantees that are not merit based limited funding that happens after acceptance (so that schools can't focus target anyone getting a federal scholarship).
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The NIF reminds us that the line between optimism and overselling is a thin one that can too easily be crossed.

http://www.nature.com/news/ignition-switch-1.11748
I wasn't surprised by the examples of the just-world fallacy running amok in this thread, but I was surprised by how many people made counterarguments. Is HN finally getting a broader worldview?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/the-swift-rise-and-sad-fall...

This is one that I can recollect of. There's another one that's pretty old but I can't seem to find it. Maybe they deleted it? Sometimes their comments are reset. Not sure why.
Sure it is: it's called fractional reserve banking.
Maybe someone add Debian should have paid attention when they included the incompatible license? This really looks like a Debian tantrum because they screwed up by including it.

It seems like this Debian developer is mad because an author didn't write a license the way he want it written?
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> It's all about growth and profit, not improving quality of life or reducing risk.

And sadly, it would seem to be the attitude of SV as well. From all the discussions and submissions here I get the impression that the concept of earning money by actually helping people and/or giving them real value is slowly getting forgotten, drowned by A/B tests, ad-revenue, eyeballs & stuff.
What would most people do if the software just didn't exist?
What if I see someone using the word and include their tweet in mine, to tell them what a racist idiot they are? Then my tweet would be counted racist simply because it contains the word. This is not a thought exercise, I watched it happen (the tweeting, not the counting).
Thanks :) So Henry, do you still work for Techcrunch?
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The Apple Software License Agreement for OS X Mountain Lion[1] is not your friend here.

…you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:… (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

So development, testing, running OS X Server, and non-commercial are the legal uses.

The Mac OS Server license is more restrictive, a single copy on Apple branded hardware.

EOM

[1] http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX108.pdf
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I like the Pro Mini because you can have it in 3.3V version, easier to interface with low-voltage devices like sensors and GPS chips.
Great writeup. Hopefully they will implement all of this before the time I need to use Stripe (still planning to at this point anyhow).
Great comment. Only tweak is that it's Lancet Neurology. Cool that it's done in the Framingham study.
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Until the cheapest deals on TV will have such devices bundled with them, thus incentivizing people to buy them anyway, until it becomes a de-facto standard.
I'm not sure if this was a snarky reply or not, but you can get pretty cheap english translators on oDesk. Average price is $1/minute of translated material. The accuracy is usually superb, especially considering the price.
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I am using it and finding it very helpful. It is moving me forward.
When I said entitlement, I should have been more specific. I was referring to the growing belief that all student debt should be forgiven and that things like medical care should be free for everybody. Whether the word "entitlement" sounds dirty or not is entirely up to the reader but that's exactly what these things are. One person's "entitlement" is another person's "right". I just happen to disagree that these things should be rights.
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skyscanner.net does (or has done in the past anyway!)
You're such a browser hipster ;)
Irish newspapers have some curious views about search engines
Actually I run a data center in Iceland.
Many of these accounts are clearly 4chan-style trolls. Although sadly, it's not the majority.
Unfortunately, gnome-shell desktop components are closely tied to mutter. For example, the fallback gnome-panel [1] and the gnome-shell gnome-panel [2] are two entirely different beasts (same goes for cinnamon, where they've never had a fallback panel to begin with). There's just no way to run mutter and xmonad at the same time.

It is becoming ever so difficult to be an xmonad user who enjoys the occasional niceties of modern desktop environments (panels, widgets etc). The state of component reuse in modern linux DE is just miserable.

Kudos to the KDE people for keeping their desktop 'dissectible' after all this time. I've had great success in using plasma-desktop with xmonad in the past. Unfortunately, KDE looks/feels wrong to me in ways that no theme has ever been able to correct (see [3] [4]). I wish they adopted 'flatter' look & feel guidelines - right now, there is just too much bling, roundedness and qt widget animations for my taste (relying on SVGs for theming plasma is overkill too, imho). I have a lot of gripes (still can't get over Akonadi needing mysql) with KDE, but I really do respect the work they do.

We can't have nice things ...

[1]: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/tree/gnome-panel

[2]: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/panel.js

[3]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png

[4]: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1.2...
Think about it. If you heard "The problem with Democrats is young minority women" what would that mean to you? Right now, nothing, but if you (assuming you are male) were unable to get a prostate exam without spending $18209389012830 whereas it was, and always was, easy for women to get breast exams for free under their insurance, this statement would mean something.
Reminded me vaguely of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn The Radioactive Boy Scout..
The problem is that the code on json.org is almost free software, and easily mistaken as such.
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People are still hungover from the media myth that O* is a bunch of disorganized kids causing trouble.
If it ever actually ends up in court it has had far more than a single repercussion. Mere legal threats, or even the possibility of them, can seriously get in the way of productivity.

Yes, it's stupid, and we should all lighten up and be able to laugh about it. We should also be able to laugh at obvious jokes about having weapons at an airport.

There are some really unfunny people in this world, and in the meantime we unfortunately have to just deal with it.
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> So please try to move your #includes down into the cpp files whenever you can!

It's OK within your code, but not in your public interface. For example:

Type& GetValue();

Sure, you don't need Type to be fully defined when you declare GetValue. But it's very likely that your users will need it when they use your function. So, please, for their sake, have your header files include everything they will need, and not only what you need. Thanks!
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So, just to be clear, your take is that the authors of software are not in fact entitled to use whatever license they please?
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> You cannot have freedom without having a rule for freedom.

Of course you can. Freedom is the lack of restrictions.

I think you're confusing freedom with rights, which do indeed need protection. An argument could be made that what the GPL attempts to do is assert a right to the source code which they protect with restrictions to the developer's freedom. (Just as the right to life is protected with restrictions to the freedom to kill.)
The problem isn't that people are pursuing degrees, it's that some are pursuing economically unviable degrees. Here's a little anectdata from a friend. His daughter is in debt $60k for a degree in theater. Did well in college, but wants to "make it" in NYC.

Now obviously the theater industry is very competitive, especially in NYC. So while trying to do various theatrical activities to get her foot in the door, she's a dog walker. She doesn't make much money, so she's qualifying for assistance.

She could move back home, get a job in a different field (her dad has lined up several paying jobs), but she wants to stay in NYC. She's unable to make any payments on her loans, so those are going to build up quickly.

This is what drives fiscal conservatives crazy. And when groups are asking for student loan debt forgiveness/bailout, it's doubly frustrating. She's making multiple choices that are fiscally imprudent, and expecting to be subsidized both in assistance and loan forgiveness.

TLDR, basketweaving degrees aren't worth going into debt for, but an entitled generation wants to "pursue their dreams" on someone else's dime.
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His website:
http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Welcome.html

As speculated, he did indeed build a fusor:
http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Neutron_Sources....
Nobody calls a death threat "hate speech." That is implicitly suggesting that the people who use the term "hate speech" don't consider it hateful.

Now if you queried someone directly, they would of course say it's hateful (I would think). So what that ends up suggesting is the term "hate speech" is really just a short-hand for racially derogatory statements. AKA racist comments.

People have decided the term racist and racism are too detached and not emotionally impactful, so now we have "hate speech" which is more forceful.

It does, unfortunately, seem to imply that somehow threatening someone with death is less hateful than racism.

Now, the post you were replying to seems to be a reaction to the post which uses racist tweets and hate tweets interchangably. That apparently stuck in his craw, so to speak, because there were plenty of other very hateful tweets going on during this election that had nothing to do with racism, yet they are excluded from a post discussing "hate tweets."
Here is a brief Ted talk he gave, http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear...
800,000 reported bugs, not unfixed. Plus there are a lot of duplicates, invalid and similar.
Mozilla bugzilla has reached bug id 800000. Mozilla typically file a bug for every actionable item, not just defects; the number of non-bogus, non-duplicate, non-feature-request, non-tracking-bug, and non-firefox-bugs (website, thunderbird, all other products since inception) will be much, much fewer.
East Coast US here - it's really slow and timing out occasionally.
A problem with piping curl output through "python -mjson.tool" is that you can't include the response headers, which is sometimes useful.

(This was enough of a problem for me that I wrote a simple curl replacement in Python so I could have pretty-printed JSON or XML and response headers, or send the response directly to a Python REPL console as an object: https://github.com/cobralibre/hotpotato )
I see you have 'closure' listed under client side languages, are you referring to Clojure?

In which case it is most definitely server-side, unless you meant Clojurescript?
I agree, I was recently diagnosed with it and I have similar experiences.
I self-medicate and my productivity soars. Works for me too.
What about mapping tweets by black people saying they would riot if Romney won?

Your "racism" is too small.
Then we need to change this narrative, because it doesn't fit the real requirements of the job world. Trade schools, apprentice programs etc are common all over the world, but not as well accepted in the US.

You know who I envy? The electrician who came out last week to install a whole home surge protector. He makes excellent money, in a relatively safe work environment, and has reasonable hours. There's a whole world of "skilled" trades that offer gainful employment without a four year degree, but as a society focused on bling, we don't give those careers our blessings.
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As a young "minority", living in the South (Appalachia), I just don't get this... People in the South have been as kind, welcoming, and intelligent as people from other areas I've lived/visited.

There are idiots on all sides of the political spectrum, and throughout the world. Lets call them idiots and stop trying to map their behavior to demographics. Maybe it's only been my experience, but as a "minority", I can't wait for all this racism talk to end.

I'm just a human.
Great, then the whole family can watch "Sherlock Holmes" :-)

(the Robert Downey Jr steampunk version, where he does just that in one scene)
95% of Black voters cast their ballot for Obama.
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What about the people who voted for Romney because he is white? What kind of question is that even?

Suddenly when it's a black guy THAT'S the issue. How brain dead.

Wanting your kid to have positive black role models is not racist, no. That's a not very sophisticated but very valid and certainly not racist reason for voting for Obama that's entirely based on race.
What would make you think that was a snarky reply on my part?
The link there might have been NSFW at some point but now it's just the trees, same as the SFW version. And obviously I want to see the NSFW stuff. :(
Have you considered making a version without the Apple's frameworks integrated, i.e. the core Obj-C runtime, so you can run on Linux (then you can scale more efficiently on EC2 like Heroku).

I think there is a demand for people who need close to C performance without the need of messing with pointer explicitly and with sane OOP support as default. Your user base is large due to the number of existing iOS developers, and able to interop with C libraries is also an advantage.
What about renting?
>> peformance difference is clear for virtually any static or dynamic language you care to name <<

JavaScript

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programs-are-fas...
Gnome was taken off as the default because it wouldn't fit on a CD. After some work to get it to fit on again, Gnome is back as the default.
Under which circumstances is it not racist?
Maybe a hardware speed bump.

I generally find the hardware cost is not dominant with respect to bandwidth and physical placement costs. So even if you pay almost twice as much per compute cycle[1] it is still buried in the other deployment costs.

The bit that keeps me from using Mac Minis (and I have a huge software reason to do it) on my server end is that I don't trust that I can manage them remotely. If I can't get to a console and reboot with remote media I'm not willing to commit to it in production. If you are big enough to have 24x7 staff colocated with your hardware then things are a little different. Then they'll just cuss at you for making them drive a little cart with a monitor and keyboard around the place.

EOM

[1] It isn't that high for one unit, compared to reasonable quality commodity gear, but when you look to comparing, say 16 Core i5 processors of power there are some nice commodity solutions that are much cheaper than 16 minis.
You set up a strawman, and then change the point. Defending irresponsible behavior won't do much to improve things.
Here’s a good article from the YouGov site that describes their methodology: http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/23/obama-stays-ahead-ju...
Indeed, and that is what we're doing right now. However, it would be nice if they dealt with creating nicely formatted invoices and emailed them so we don't have to.
Nice..Consider giving my start-up a discount please :)
A couple of guesses:

- single does not mean no kids

- once you are in debt, you may have problems getting out of it (you spend a lot on credit repayment rates)

- does spending include investment? for example would a life insurance / retirement fund count towards "spending"?
My boss just took me out for a couple of pints and I'm sat in the office as we speak, so at this moment in time I am probably the most qualified person to speak on this.

Alcohol does not make you a better programmer, it dulls your mind and makes it easy to get distracted and it slows how quickly you can think.

Perhaps this increase in productivity is merely you feeling happier because you are indulging yourself, if you no longer find your programming fun you are probably more laid back about it when you are a little drunk.
Probably because there are better Ruby programs to be written for those tasks :-)
Apart from that, GDM itself performs horribly. I can almost always see a lag. Shouldn't happen on core i 2nd Gen atleast!
But currently you don't HAVE to go to the polls and submit an unmarked ballot.
Making everything SaaS neatly solves the piracy problem. There's a business incentive to only let your users rent your software.
Because he's black? And I suppose white voters voted for Romney because he's white.
whoa! thanks.
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Teaching someone to measure risk is part of parenting, and a good sign of maturity. Driving without insurance is strike one in that calculus, and then hitting a pedestrian is strike two. Helping them out of debt is merely enabling strike three in this scenario.

Take a look at your local newspapers mugshot section. Ours publishes them online, and when bored, it's a fun diversion. The majority of the arrests are for DUI, or driving on a suspended license from a prior DUI. A great cross section of people who don't even care about their impact upon others.
Ah. I suppose being a conductor in normal conditions isn't a factor in this situation (plasma is plasma is plasma). Opacity being the main factor in heating makes sense.
Whoah, this discussion turned hostile pretty quickly.