skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never seen a single example of a person who:

- criticizes israel in public, in ways anti-semites like to criticize israel
- is not anti-semitic
- does not include any clarifications in his criticism to differentiate himself from anti-semites

I think all good people know such clarifications are needed when you sound like you might be an anti-semite but actually aren't. If you leave them out, you're giving aid and comfort to anti-semitism and misleading people about your character, at best.

Note that any old clarifications won't work. Many anti-semites try to clarify how they aren't anti-semitic. A decent person would have to figure out how to say something that objectively differentiates himself. And he would care to do it if he wanted to publicly agree with the anti-semitic position on some specific point.
Applying Lessons from Cloudkick
This! My fb news feed is heavily spammed by products a few of my friends 'liked'.

Making the situation worse:

- Some ads, one example for me is TD Bank, are shown repeatedly and redundantly months after months. You'd think they would know I am not interested by now.

- On 4.7" screen phone, these are almost full screen ads.

- I'm pretty sure the people who 'liked' these companies aren't aware they are continuously spamming me.

I usually don't mind a few ads if it will pay for a free service and when they are well targeted I might even click on them. Just the other day, a fb ad reminded me to go to a delicious local burger place I don't enjoy nearly often enough. However the current level of ad aggressivity is way past the limit of what is acceptable.
I that It's awesome for developers to make a living. I really want the gaming industry to flourish, and I want people to be able to live off the work they do. In that context, I can totally empathize with developers doing things differently so that they can survive.

However, as a consumer, I don't want to be part of that model. I don't want to encourage that kind of behavior, and I don't buy those games. As someone who does play many games, I love the boxed software model from a consumer standpoint.

At some point, I think video games need to start costing more. I think indie devs are really selling themselves short with their prices. I don't have any data to back this up, but I see plenty of games that take years to make by dedicated independent developers sell at launch for less than half the price that games normally sell for.

I feel that indie games are being artificially devalued, and that's hurting indie devs. I am willing to put my money where my mouth is and pay double what I pay now for most of my games. I just wish others would as well.
First of all, a CS degree is not just a prep-for-a-job program. CS a wide and interesting field, and a good undergrad program will give you a set of analytical tools that can be used in many places, not just software development job.

That being said, it's not for everyone.

Personally, I really enjoyed my undergrad studies and continued to get my Master's degree as well.

In terms of work, I think that a well-rounded CS education gives you an edge over uneducated programmers in the first couple of years - A CS graduate is trained to analyze and abstract problems, which makes it easier to deal with large and complicated problems faster.
After a couple of years, this edge is gone - Experience matters much more at a soft-dev job.

As for convincing someone to give you a job - Show them something impressive that you've built.
You'd think a company like Google would have a better system...

I would think the opposite, since Google is not used to selling physical products and they've managed to botch every previous Nexus launch in some way.
Hello. I'm the owner of the site mentioned. I'm not sure I understand your comment. Why do you feel my site is unoriginal? Scott
I think rather the opposite is true. People communicate about violence, especially warfare. As Twitter et al transition from 'businesses' to 'methods of communication' this sort of thing will become more and more common.

The alternative, of course, is irrelevance. (Or convincing people to stop being violent. Ha.)
Follow up: actually this trick does work, the second time you do it. Currently downloading.
Cost of power, power supplies, motherboards, memory, networking equipment, efficiency losses from synchronization, etc...
Anyone want to throw together a scoreboard while these idiots butcher innocents and each other?

You would need to scrape Twitter to get events, you could scrape EXIF data on the coverage photos and use D3 to visualize the results, and use HTML5 audio to run a reading of Twain's "The War Prayer" in the backgruond.

You could even expose a simple REST API to let the IDF and Hamas POST targets and PUT munitions/attacks, and then give some neutral body a key to confirm attack success or failure.

We could have badges. We could have freemium content--exclusive access to kill videos, or you could buy coins to sponsor your favorite charity for repairing the region.

It'll be great.

EDIT: Come now, sarcasm detectors. The above is meant in jest (mostly).
1 line longer, but extensible.

#!/usr/bin/env python
rules = {3:'fizz, 5:'buzz'}
for n in xrange(1, 101):
print ''.join(n%x is 0 and rules[x] or '' for x in rules) or n
I am also currently looking for a technical cofounder, solid article
Yes. People stay on my site and view 10+ pages at a time and usually end up either clicking an affiliate link to go buy something on Amazon, for example, or clicking an Adsense ad, which is their own choice. Thanks for your feedback. ~ Scott (webmaster of the TBFA site)
Siri already talks to Open Table, and fandango can't be far behind with all the movie stuff you can do with Siri already.

Very interesting look at Siri's potential (via everyone's favorite Gruber):
http://counternotions.com/2012/11/12/siri-future/
Yes, it is multiplayer. You capture portals and others can come along and blow them up, taking them for the opposition. The promotional video certainly captures the feeling of 'someone is attacking this portal.. wait.. is it that guy over there staring at his phone?'
a US pint is like 450ml.
The site is offering a free service, like most popular sites offering free services it is monetized by ad traffic.
The Intel Xeon Phi homepage mentions that Cilk ++ and Intel TBB support the Phi, which would imply that the Phi has C++ support.

If you run Linux on the Phi (which Intel ships in their Manycore Platform Support Stack), then anything that runs on 386 linux should run here, which should include Python and Haskell.

If you don't choose to use Linux on the Phi, then your tools options will be limited just like they are if you choose to not use a regular OS on a PC.
Confusingly, while rises in the general price level are called inflation and that's what pretty much everybody means when they talk about inflation a proper term for an increase in the money supply is also inflation[1]. I would strongly recommend people not use the term "inflation" that way unless you're careful to distinguish the sense in which you're using it, since you'll usually just end up confusing everybody otherwise.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_inflation
This is wonderful! I especially like the detailed coverage of Backbone views. They tend to be the most perplexing part of Backbone (do I nest? how much? how do I track them? etc...) and you outlined your use case nicely.
Each node can have its own type system, when it makes sense to do so. The arcs between them just need to agree on how they communicate.
Hi Trotsky, the site and content are not low quality. I understand what you are trying to get at, but it was really just my poor choice in linkbuilding activities that got my site penalized. Also, the fact that I have an EMD (Exact match domain) doesn't help as much either. ~ Scott
>The hardest part about discussing FizzBuzz is avoiding derailing the discussion into FizzBuzz code golf.

Well, since we're going there... have some JavaScript again!

for(var i=0;i++<100;console.log(((i%3?'':'Fizz')+(i%5?'':'Buzz'))||i));

In the spirit of http://140byt.es I also condensed my pyramatrix function (though without the visualization) to 135 characters:

function(a){a=a|1;var b=[],c=a>>1,d=Math.abs,e=0,f;for(;e<a;e++)for(b[e]=[],f=0;f<a;f++)b[e][f]=1+c-d(d(c-e)>d(c-f)?c-e:c-f);;return b}

And to get the same visualization as in the original version, you can use this helper function:

function(a){var b=a.length,c='',d=0,e;for(;d<b;d++){for(e=0;e<b;)c+='['+a[d][e++]+']';c+='\n'}console.log(c)}

Assign those to say, pyramatrix and visualize and you can call visualize(pyramatrix(n)) and get the same pretty output!
Almost.. 1/2 year to go.
I did read your post, I was disagreeing with this:

> They can't be peers, they have fundamentally different ideas about what is most important.
If Google sold 1 million vs 30 million would really matter to you as a consumer? The sales numbers only matter to stockholders, competitors and analysts. Why is there such a demand to know how much N4s were sold during launch to the consumer? Aren't we just perpetuating the "sheep mentality" Android users accuse Apple users of by demanding that we know the sales numbers during launch to assure that we don't have buyers remorse?
Official three.js editor
I participated in the Iama also, I didn't find anything that was questionable about Scott's methods. What specifically didn't you like?
It wasn't the casualness of it - I literally had no idea what to do about nodes "near me", or what "battling" those sprite things did for me.

Plus, those were the only two game mechanics I saw - I could battle things, and then I could click on nodes, and neither really seemed to progress me anywhere.

I feel like that game should have had a much more thorough tutorial.
As someone who has played 1000+ hours of TF2, I do agree that this is dissapointing. Some items have changed silhouettes, and that can hurt gameplay.

However, TF2 was very much on the right track to have the perfect combination of revenue generating side-items with unchanging gameplay. Just because they've strayed a bit does not mean that it can't be effectively used for other games.
How many Canadians clicked through expecting this to be something relevant to your preschool children? (Treehouse is the name of the TV channel for preschool kids in Canada)
Um. Did this article just compare having face time with their doctor or case worker to product sales?

Hey, since this isn't obvious, the reason we want more time with our doctor is because our doctor knows more than we do so we don't know what sort of questions to ask, so we hope that the more time we spend there the more likely we'll remember something or he'll ask us a question to discover something. Same with everything else that is NECESSARY and has severe life consequences.

When I walk into a store (or virtual store) I already know what I want because I researched it before I went in. I want only 2 things from the sales staff: Where is the product and where is the end of the line for the cash register.

Granted, some people are ignorant or can't be bothered to research before they go buy something and will need more coddling, so there should also be services available for those people.

The worst thing that could happen is if you take away the option of fast customer service just because you find, on average, the consumer is happier because the service is slower. Make BOTH options available, otherwise people like me will hate shopping there.
Yeah, I don't have any data to back it up -- it's just intuition -- but I've got to think that spending $5000 on Farmville just can't be right. I mean, that'll buy you pretty much unlimited movies, music, and TV for a year, with maybe a vacation thrown in there. And the games they spend it on are terrible. I'd understand if it was Starcraft or something, but it's nothing like.

When I was a teenager playing video games all the time, I had a great desire to develop them. Who doesn't? I think that was at least partly responsible for my learning to program. But as an adult, I'm a lot more ambivalent about the industry. Sure, it's art, and some games are awesome, but some also scare me. I can't shake the feeling that some games have a genuine psychological addiction element, and some people might not be well-prepared to cope with that rationally, and the whole thing looks kind of . . . exploitative.

I'm not as sure as I was, when I was 13, that I want to be a part of that.
Why do people (professionals who are not in marketing) use Facebook?

As a user of HN, Twitter, Reddit, Google Groups, and Usenet, I honestly don't see the attraction. Seems like it is fraught with annoyances.
This was a clusterfuck, but I'm still sore at Yahoo, when the same thing happened to me trying to buy world cup tickets. So I dunno if others are any better?
Hi xpose2000, sorry to here you are disappointed. Like I said before.. I'm pretty big on sharing my knowledge. I hope my experiences can be used to help someone else avoid the same pitfalls I did. That's all. I'm pretty sure SEOmoz decided to publish my article because they saw value in what it was saying and figured their user base could benefit from it. ~ Scott
This is a good point. Newtonian mechanics is fairly simple to understand because it operates at scales and velocities we are familiar with. Hell, I'd say you can grok a lot of it by throwing stuff in the air and thinking carefully about what happens.

On the other hand, I'm reminded of the following lecture by Brian Cox. He explains the double-slit experiment, draws things on a board, shows a really nice physical demonstration with water, and.... the person on stage is still completely lost: http://youtu.be/PaGwpbHJWGE?t=1m54s

I'm not sure how much better that could possibly be explained.
I was hoping for the same but this would mean people could register dozens of accounts to get a lot more storage.
I personally avoid any listing which labels developers as such.
Regulators: open source software might constitute "predatory pricing"
I'm halfway through Six Days of War by Michael Oren, and I think the most obvious thing that social media companies have done to handle the conflict is simply to exist.

[Kindles suck for skimming back though a book, and I don't have an eidetic memory. My apologies if I get any of these facts wrong.]

On the first day of the 1967 conflict, based on glowing, but false, reports from the Sinai outposts, President Nasser and Egyptian military leaders thought that they had knocked out most of the Israeli air force, when in fact the opposite was true. The cascade of misinformation not only aided Israel's efforts against Egypt, but it also lead Jordan's King Hussein to commit to the conflict in the West Bank. Similarly, news of Egypt's success is thought to have emboldened Syria and lead to the battle in the Golan Heights.

Now, 45 years later, with the social media and other communications channels available, there is less chance that the conflict could escalate due to false information. (It could still escalate for other reasons, of course.) It's just a theory, but maybe Israel's in-your-face social media strategy is a blunt retaliation to any Baghdad Bob style reporting taking place within the Arab world. Their goal might not be to provoke the enemy, but instead to dampen any groundswell that might occur due to false reporting.
If I ever develop an HR system/title hierarchy (and I don't see this as likely) titles will be more ornate at the bottom. At the top: Programmer.
Even if it's not faster than light I'm hoping for teleportation that means no line of sight required and distance boundless wireless transmission. I could totally settle for that.
I'm glad you found my article useful. I tried my hardest to be factual and to back my observations up with data. ~ Scott (the website's webmaster)
Does that mean that Quantum teleportation will never have practical applications? If you need to send a third piece of information at the speed of light or slower, why not send all your information through that channel?
Hey, if you're on Amazon East there's a correlation.
no, there's still a huge confusion out there towards what constitutes quantum teleportation. all I can say as a layman is that this title is very misleading, you still need a standard information channel to transport the information about a single qubit. wikipedia has more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
For some people, Facebook is their primary means of communicating online.
Released Today: Turning NGNIX into an API Proxy
> What irks me the most about this whole ordeal is the utter lack of communication from a company that prides itself on being open and transparent.

The amount of suckage with Google's automation-first customer service pattern and the corporate ossification of the various carriers still leaves an opening for Apple to exploit. The question is, will Apple remain supple enough to exploit this, and will the other companies wise up?

(I'm on a 2nd hand Verizon phone bought off ebay, with StraightTalk no-contract 4G for $45 a month.)
In the past rejection emails have gone out between 5pm and 8pm Pacific. I can't speak for the emails inviting one to interview unfortunately! I expect the partners are busy evaluating applications up until the last moment.
Seems like they launched with 1000 units or less. 3 stores in LA got 5 units. So 15 units for the 2nd largest city in LA? They probably got shipments late, or manufacturing went behind schedule, but they had a published launch date so launched even though they weren't ready.
Ok, I'll cop to the fact that I've given this a slightly sensational headline, and it's only part of the story, but I'm a bit worried by the idea that the concept of "predatory pricing" might be applied to open source software.

I'd really like to hear from people who know more about the regulatory bodies in the US and Europe, as this story could be FUD, but it's hard to be certain. If it's true, what might the implications be for open source/free software?
As someone about to embark on a large-scale project re factoring to backbone:

Thank you!
I'm sure "multiple Nexus 4s" is a problem a lot of us would like to have :)
It is pretty common to use a function like this when digging into objects in general JS code:

function get(p, o) {
var parts = p.split('.');

for (var i = 0, l = parts.length; i < l; i++)
if (o.hasOwnProperty(parts[i]))
o = o[parts[i]];
else return undefined;

return o;
}

var o = { a: { b: { c: 1 } } };

console.log(get('a.b.c', o)); // 1
console.log(get('no.way', o)); // undefined

I'd be more likely to reuse something like that because it's already useful in the codebase than bringing on another library.

However, I am speaking out of ignorance, as it appears that the library you cite does a lot more than this simple thing: https://github.com/afeld/backbone-nested/blob/master/backbon...

In any case safe lookup methods are very useful!
I said the majority, I linked to something saying the majority.

Your mistake is no random accident. You should go learn positive things about Israel until you wouldn't make such a mistake again.
> Maybe there's some minimal good in just knowing how violent others can be, but when I wonder if our communication tech can be put to far greater and more beneficial uses like promoting peace and resolving differences, I remember the words of Douglas Adams:

> "Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

That's a good quote, but I think modern society's take on violence is to make it highly scenarised. A Brave New World kind of violence, where you know where the good guys and the bad guys are. One could hope that increased media coverage would lead to less wars, because people would realize how disgusting it actually is. That is, until you realize the Romans watching the gladiators also got their violence along with the daily bread.
Because life ?
Some love for JavaScript applications
Yes.. it was going well for me until the penalty. (That was my fault and I don't blame Google at all). ~ Scott (TBFA webmaster)
the President is charged with executing the laws as written

The President has told us on many occasions: "And where Congress is not willing to act, we're going to go ahead and do it ourselves." That's a direct quote.

The rest of your logic is flawed because you assume that the President is following the rules in the Constitution. Seems to me that he's playing more of a game of "Catch me if you can". Nixon would be jealous.

The President will do what he wants to do, and it's not like the national media will ask many questions about his usurpation of authority.
Hardware sales are vastly different than software sales. Revenue is much higher in hardware based sales due to cost of materials.
I've gotten a rejection email at 4pm Pacific in the past
Katy Perry, Rihanna sign ad attacking Pandora for copyright proposal
Not very composable or nice. Bespoke solutions are besides the point and the very thing I was decrying.
People click the ads on my site because they find them relevant. ~ Scott (Site's owner)
Goes back farther than that. German metal band Accept had a song on their 1986 "Russian Roulette" album called "TV War" basically lamenting the (already present) desensitization towards war brought about by bringing it safely into the living room while it remained "entertaining and far-far away".
Stolen code, 9-month hacking spree lead to criminal charges
Until very recently they were a fringe party with microscopic public support. The ongoing Greek financial debacle and resulting terrible economic impact and sometimes violent civil unrest has given them enough of a boost to actually win seats in the Greek Parliament.

It's not so much that Neo-Nazi's in Greece exist, but that the Greek people are starting to take them seriously and listen to what they have to say. It might be akin to members of the KKK being elected to the US Congress.
Anonymous Launches #OPIsrael in Response to Israel’s Live-Tweeted Attack on Gaza
You obviously didn't read this part:

"While this strategy worked for CDBaby, there are some businesses and situations where the "more time with customers" approach won't work.

Some services rely on solving problems immediately. Ecommerce merchants need to figure out when they can spend time with customers and when to act quick. If a customer is calling with a complaint about service or product, you need to gauge their disposition and act accordingly. But if a potential customer is inquiring about product features, shipping rates, or something of that nature, you have a great chance to give them their answer and also build a positive relationship with that person. Like the case study above proves, service should never be "rushed, ignored, and poorly diagnosed."
The Golden Dawn party has had 18 officials elected to office. They have also been linked to racial and hate crimes since 2002. They used to be a relatively fringe group, but since Greece's bankruptcy, they have been gaining very strong support very fast.
It's very possible that they'll get bumped by a few weeks like these other people here. Still, two lottery tickets is better than one, right?
Is it really latin? The reason I ask is Fenster is the German word for window.
Humble.
Honestly, no?

My refrigerator, toaster, TV appliances, and washing machine are all relatively locked down as well.

Android is a MAJOR player still (at least in install base, they're proving less popular as far as dollars spent in the first world). The fact Mozilla is writing their own OS instead of supporting Android is silly. Their OS will not end up running on apple phones, and if it could, the'd get more bang for their buck porting android to apple/winRT hardware.