skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think that the court prosecutions in the UK against Twitter and Facebook users have gone too far and that this is a worrying trend.

Overall, the UK has good freedom of speech (not perfect, but then which country has?).

As others have pointed out, you can criticise politicians and the government in the UK without of fear of criminal penalties (unless your language is threatening or racist).

I think in the UK, we tend to show a little less deference towards politicians and high-ranking officials than in the US. And that means people are not afraid to be critical face-to-face with politicians (without fear of reprisals). For example, here's Nick Clegg (the deputy Prime Minister) facing a bunch of angry students who don't mince their words

http://youtu.be/88fQ2RIoqQA?t=1m44s
Linkbait. According to the Vatican Obervatory blog [1] this story is a calumny.

[1] http://www.vaticanobservatory.org/VO-NEWS/index.php/recent-n...
Should check out this post as well for all the third party javascript plugins:
http://www.queness.com/post/13029/extend-twitter-bootstrap-j...
"Up" this if you read "Cradle of Filth" instead of "Circle of Fifths"
lol
I don't recall Facebook having ever attempted to prevent discussion of this subject -- it is just not that well know.
This is quite neat, thanks a lot!
Link to the Github repository, which is oddly missing from the post: https://github.com/haberman/dumpfp
Cool! How do you collect data?
OK, you are right, but this really is how Japan does it. See po's answers above for more background.
Thanks a lot! This is the one reason that keeps me from using python.
is there a demo somewhere? I tried to do something similar but the ycombinator.com domain returns the "X-Frame-Options:deny" header which makes iframing impossible. Also in order to vote by simple GETting a url you have to include a CSRF token as a URL parameter.
And then there is the question of what an "event" signifies. I noticed the other day in testing a web app that the Windows Phone 7 browser fires the "keyup" event before the character of the key is added to the relevant text box value - while all other browsers I have tested update the text box value before firing "keyup" (although after "keydown" of coure).

Just a thought: Is it fair to characterise this as JavaScript madness and not DOM variations?
There aren't similar topics for men because men's sexuality is thought as being bestial, mechanical and obscene and vulgar, while women sexuality is thought as being sensual, soft, sweet and so on.

Plus the nerd's world is full of men who are fascinated by women, and so they obviously are by women's topics. That's the reason why this article is that successful - even if the content and the descrition of the technical process is nice, there is nothing really incredible here, it's a soft easy reverse engineering and basic electronics hacking ... Nothing to justify the fist rank on HN during several days.

There should be a study about that. "How a women's sexuality topic make the nerds thinking with their wand only".
This will be much more feasible when you drive a robocar. Put it in automatic-only mode, take photos before you leave it, and the insurance will cover all your potential problems (except the inconvenience of coming back home when the car isn't there.)
What is the difference between them? Noob here.
Then any browser will try to load the script synchronously. This ensures asynchronous loading and if there is a problem with button server, it stays there.
When driverless car services are a routine way for people to obtain a car on demand, renting a car at an airport is just one subset of obtaining a car for a one-trip use. It will be interesting to see whether the existing car rental companies have the management strategies and algorithmic understanding of maximizing car return on investment needed to make an on-demand driverless car service a part (and eventually the whole) of their business model. Whoever wants to be in Flightcar's or Silvercar's (or Uber's) business has to think ahead to what the wide availability of driverless cars will do to their whole industry. Those who disrupt can be disrupted in turn, if they are not ready for the future.
You can scroll the display same way like you scroll any other window.
The potential for harassment is greatly ameliorated by the fact it's the caller who pays -- receivers don't pay anything in the UK, ever. And while you're harassing, you can't use your phone.

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone being harassed in this way. A few pranks, maybe.
The whole "something to fall back on" thing used to work for college degrees, but these days it doesn't seem to be much of a safety net.
It's not the same thing. One man was ranting about the airport. It's ok to investigate him, but it seems rather obvious it was just ranting.
The other two apparently made negative comments about british soldiers. That is nothing like yelling fire in a theatre.
Intressting.

Going a step further would be to give the vibrator some AI. There is of course some need to monitor pleasure, I dont know if that is easily possible but one could implment some kind of AI that would to that.

The next step would be to sell it to millions of woman and analysie all the data. Would be intressting what could be figured out that way.
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As long as that mirror is moving there is no problem, but if it should ever stop you're in immediate trouble.
Read the changelog (I skimmed it first, lists what you're asking for): http://vitalets.github.com/x-editable/assets/x-editable/CHAN...
A lot of the time the benefits are there to 'sweeten the deal', their monetary value to a business is low. Turning them down won't net you their perceived value on top of your wages, they're also not a lock in to a single employer as for the most part most employers offer the same benefits, more often than not sold from the same group.

Plus I can't imagine anything more soulless than going to work every day and thinking that I'm there til I'm gone. Almost like getting into a relationship and thinking its just for the moment. Our jobs shouldn't rule our lives but it almost sounds like the author is just grinding it out, rather than throwing yourself in and revelling in the joy of the work you get to do.

Maybe I'm weird though.
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I was in a really cool bookstore in Broadstairs in England recently that doubles as a pub. The building was originally a church (hence its name - The Chapel: http://www.pubsandbeer.co.uk/index.php?ID=P&pub=3021 ), then a bookstore, and now a hybrid bookstore/cafe/pub. During the day it felt like a cafe/wine bar, with people sitting around having coffee or wine & cheese while reading books/newspapers. At night it felt more like a pub (albeit a fairly chilled out one). They had loads of local beers - they even had live music. Could you go for something similar?
The funny thing about all the Gnome 3 complaints is that I felt exactly the same way about Gnome 2. I had the perfect Gnome 1 desktop configured and then Gnome 2 came along and removed every configuration option. That was about the same time Miguel began integrating Mono into everything and I realised that whether he was aware of it or not everything he did was to assist Microsoft in damaging Linux. There was a new Unix out in the form of OS X so I jumped ship to that and haven't looked back. (Until now, since I'm finding the Apple ecosystem too restrictive and looking at something more Free.)
I'm not a radical feminist in the sense of "intercourse is rape" but hmmm... I think I have body modification phobia - so that would include women getting breast implants - and also exhibitionist phobia and also pull-the-wool-over-your-eyes phobia. (Although quite frankly, I wasn't fooled for long just based on the extremely masculine technical writing. I have never read anything that a woman wrote that looks remotely like that. Sorry.)

If the article had been open about scanlime's transexuality it wouldn't have irritated me nearly as much, but my interpretation was that it was (unconsciously, perhaps) designed to validate that she really is a woman. No, you cannot actually change sex, modulo some crazy gene therapy.

I know I was kind of unfair in my original comment. I think it was really me whinging that the HN crowd wouldn't be gushing like this if they all knew that scanlime was trans, and then me also getting annoyed at my guess that scanlime was complicit in this. I feel like I need to say sorry. Sorry. But I'm about to undo my apology :/

In general, I get really annoyed by queer people making a point about their sexuality (e.g. gay men who lisp), and in my mind this article counts as such. They annoy me as much as frat boys and drunk girls in skimpy clothes and people wearing leather collars. I basically think our society is hypersexualized and that this is bad.

I don't know if trans women are objectifying women merely by existing. Most men do this, so it's highly likely. My most heinous viewpoint is that queer/fetish sexuality is likely to be some kind of psychological defense mechanism against childhood trauma, and while good and perfectly acceptable if it works and life is functional, it's important to keep the source of it in mind. Oh and finally I'm very likely not a radical feminist because I don't believe in equality between men and women but rather a kind of complementarity. (Yes, universal suffrage is good, and woman should be allowed to have jobs, etc.)
From what I can understand, looking at one site that uses the button[0], it just displays current votes and links you to the submission. It doesn't do any voting from the site like a reddit button would do.

[0] https://bountify.co/blog/host-your-own-hacker-news-button-se...
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Check out the X-editable demo (it's linked from the page), it supports inline editing.
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Calumny.

"The LUCIFER Project is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). It is a collaboration of five German institutes, Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Max Planck Institut für Astronomie (Heidelberg), Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching), Fachhochschule für Technik und Gestaltung (Mannheim), Astronomisches Institut der Universität Bochum."

http://www.astro.rub.de/LuciferHome/
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Hypothesis: Hipsters are the yeast of gentrification.
I think a large problem is in our psychology of not wanting to scrap our previous labor even if it was substandard.

At this point I hope most coders are checking in code regularly enough that they could identify a point close to where quality declined and could throw everything after it out.

Personally, I usually start a day with a review of the previous changes but I rarely back out low quality changes. I often realize a continuation/rework has taken longer than a full backout and redo (and I have virtually never been disappointed by a redo,) yet there is a psychological barrier to overcome before backing out.
To you there may be a difference, but to me there is no difference. Same with this guy:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/06/justice/obama-threat-arres...

And that was in the US, where he was supposedly exercising his right to free speech.

Calling for people to die will get you in trouble, no matter what the medium. For the record, the full text of the 'negative comments' post about British Soldiers read in its entirety:

"People gassin about the deaths of Soldiers! What about the innocent familys who have been brutally killed.. The women who have.been raped.. The children who have been sliced up..! Your enemy's were the Taliban not innocent harmful familys. All soldiers should DIE & go to HELL! THE LOWLIFE FOKKIN SCUM! gotta problem go cry at your soldiers grave & wish him hell because thats where is going.."

Not exactly a text for which you should go to jail, but then neither was the one about killing the president. Neither one of them is an example of responsible online behaviour either and I'm not one bit surprised that trouble came of it. The world we live in today is hair trigger about stuff like this and it has nothing to do with free speech. It's simply because a lot of people are very nervous and would rather err on the side of caution and jail a few innocents than they would take a chance and be left holding the bag if things turned out bad.

If you don't take that into account when you act then you can go around and blame the system, but that's like blaming the weather for being rained upon.

Personally I think the authorities (on both sides of the pond) should just investigate to send the message that there is some oversight but it should never make it to prosecution. Unfortunately fear & politics seem to go hand in hand this decade (and probably a few to come) so over-reaction will be the norm.
Surely you must have miscalculated, if you are using the 1058 sequence then AOAKN would read BOFSO
I guess because they promote free market and competition ... might sound paradoxal, though ... gonna read the article.
If the schools suck, then don't bother with college.

If you are horrible in school, then don't waste your time and money.

If you have a burning desire to do start a business (other than freelancing) or to travel, etc, then skip college.

If you believe that you want to be a developer / designer in the future but not so sure about details beyond that, then college might be good.

The great thing about college is that it's a good environment for discovery and being around a lot of other people at the same stage of life as you are. It's also a good environment for learning from others, bouncing ideas off each other and experimenting with starting businesses with your peers. Who knows, maybe something shows promise and you can drop out. ;)

Keep your freelancing to a minimum because after those first couple of years or so, you can get to a point where you aren't learning nearly as much as you could while working on your own stuff. With freelancing, you get paid for what you know. With side projects, you can greatly expand what you know. Since college is generally a time where your living expenses are relatively cheap, this is a great time to focus on side projects rather than spending all your time on freelancing.

Keep in mind that programming skills are most valuable when they can be combined with deep knowledge of other domains. Most developers, especially those who are self-taught, know programming well, but not much else at a similar level of understanding. Consider topics such as statistics or other engineering / science fields. Get internships in areas which aren't programming. This will make you more valuable and will also give you a leg up on your ability to break into niche areas which don't have a lot of competition in delivering services if you ever decide to start a business.

Personally, I did horrible in school and freelancing ended up devouring me. So, I dropped out, stuck with freelancing and eventually moved abroad.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of! Thanks for the link to stable distributions -- hadn't heard of them before.
Clickable: http://honba.co

edit: Some trends like The blue / light green SAT guide being totally vacant in the middle of the year are quite interesting!
Ageing users are not the problem, UI racing to the bottom is.

As noted in another reply, computers are becoming entertainment appliances for most/many people - so the UI is trending to their skill and interest level. Remember the flashing 12:00 on your VCR? That's the level of UI we're heading for.

This race to the bottom leaves the rest of us, thems of us that actually use and understand these things, behind.

For unrelated reasons, I installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.10 yesterday and I don't hate my computer anymore. I don't "love Ubuntu" again, because Ubuntu is now just the substrate on which Cinnamon runs. If reinstalling the OS weren't such a pain, I would, but for now I can live with Unityless freedom.
i'd like to see it written without a loop, using map or filter...
My only interest in renting cars is long term, greater than one week rentals.

I move often, and when I'm going to be in one place for more than a month I buy a cheap $1000 car. Then I sell it, usually for around $1000. Sometimes I take a loss, sometimes I make some money, it's a wash.

But when in I am in town for less than a few weeks, I rent. Always with Enterprise. Never on airport. In fact, I've taken hours of busses from the airport to save $100 on a rental.

I think it's easy. I go in, I sign a few times, we walk around the car and I leave. Done.

Getaround is cute but its too expensive, Flightcar sounds nice, but it amplifies all the problems that Getaround has.

Meh.
Awesome stuff! Now the next step is to integrate that with AngularJS and it will be perfect for my current project :P
Ask HN: Is this idea worth pursuing?
Hi,

At work we use 3 different web applications - one to manage payrolls and HR, an application to manage inventory and one to manage our client relationships. Each of these applications is standalone, hence when a user wishes to change their details, a person in HR must make the changes 3 times. As you can imagine, this becomes quite tedious and leaves room for entry error.

I wrote an application using Python and Django that allows the HR staff to enter the details once, and update all applications accordingly (and they love it). I have written it in such a way that with some work, it will be easy for an employee of any company (with granted access) to also setup this software for their system.

Do you think it is worth putting the extra effort in to be able to release this to the public, or has this done before and will be pretty redundant?

Thanks
If you don't want forms, use inputs with no border or background except when :active.

Why does a regular form not work for a profile?

Salesforce.com does a reasonable job of inline editing as they turn ALL fields on the form editable. So the annoyance of not being able to select text to type over it only happens once.
The official language reference[1] covers this, provides the most recent information and is undoubtedly correct.

Why would I use this instead? In fact looking at the description of `__del__` there is some very crucial information missing regarding access to globals and circular references.

[1]: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html
This is a lazy comment. Is it possible to include both popup and inline JS of this at once? (the demos are mutually exclusive)
Almost everyday several articles that have nothing to do with women are voted up a lot on HN. I think that answers your question. You could perhaps ask if there would be a penalty for penis content, but that is a different question.
Well you may not be able to release it. You wrote something for your office, so I'm guessing you did it on company time? Depending on what kind of agreements you signed when you were hired, you may not have the rights to release it. I would definitely make sure you are in the legal clear before releasing anything like this.
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Except that person is going to bounce as soon as a better opportunity (not involving Java) comes along.
I'd agree with that sentiment. I've met people with masters degrees working in a captcha farm. Makes you think about perceived versus actual value.
The Wikipedia has some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s_2-state_3-symbol_Tu...
I saw the headline and immediately said to myself "I bet that server's already dead."
I accept them just fine if it's by someone who rejects copyright of his own works. I don't accept if it's done by hypocrites.
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I'd love to - sadly, I'm not wicked near any hubs of Tex-Mex food. Any recommendations for Scottish taco shacks?
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A liberal arts degree, no, but an engineering or computer science degree can be extremely helpful.
if I'm not mistaken, it's because of slower internet speeds in Belarus and Opera is pretty nice in the respect to having your browsing done on Opera servers and the response is archived and sent to the browser directly, saving some time and money.. but most people are not OK with this from a privacy standpoint in the US or Western Europe
My answer to GP looks silly now. I see what he meant. The submission title should change to vote-counter button to avoid the confusion.
The actual website is down at the moment but heres a link to the full PDF.

https://github.com/RafeKettler/magicmethods/blob/master/magi...
I'm not sure how it goes in USA but in the countries I know when the child is born his/her name gets registered at government office and when the child reaches 18 he/she gets plastic card that is his/her proof of identity.

I think this id card should contain private key securely embedded and public key easily readable and that government should publish public keys. To avoid leaking of private key this ID card should be able to cryptographically sign given data without revealing private key.
Great stuff. I'm gonna incorporate this on my upcoming blog. Thanks!

On a side note. Could someone at YC fix the up vote arrows here? It's really hard to hit these tiny arrows without hitting everything around before, really messy. BTW, a larger textfield wouldn't hurt either.

PS: Sorry for stealing your topic, I just felt the need to say these things which I think don't bother only me. ;)
Going to top incubators with sex related product is tough.

I'm Vibease co-founder. We tried and we keep trying. So far no luck.

This is our pitch:
Vibease helps couples to stay intimate, even from a distance. It's a mobile app for couples with personal massager integration.

Note, we didn't even put the word "vibrator".
The rest of the story you can find it from here: http://tech.co/vibease-vibrator-app-2012-11
I can say that Opera has been the #1 browser in Georgia (Republic Of) for many years. Now it's either 2nd or 3rd, after Chrome and IE.

Many teens still prefer Opera for unknown reasons here.
Would somebody explain this step in his explanation?

http://izbicki.me/blog/wp-content/plugins/optimized-latex/im...

How does he go from (a - b)^2 to a^2 - b^2? What am I missing?
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I typically see that done like this in my Twitter crowd...

> There are exceptions to this, but generally agree "@natesm Don't use 'RT'. Use proper retweeting."
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You still need an administrator for google apps.

Managing a file server, even if it's just a static workstation on a windows network is easy from security to backup - it's all guided configuration.

Seriously - everything that google apps does can be done on offline MS office and a cheap hosted exhange account.
It worked fine on my ipad running ios5
The students were also working with a relatively small set of data;

ANN-s are overfitted more often than not.
No I'm just well versed in business risk assessment and sound engineering decisions.

If we were to deploy google apps and that happen we'd be down approximately £120,000 a day (we actually make money).
There isn't any. Unless you can pay more for skilled labor than unskilled labor, you are not going to be able to hire anybody.

The solution is to adapt or close the factories down, and go work at McDonalds (or get a better skilled job elsewhere).
Before and after investment doesn't have that same nice feel of before and after sales.

Looks like the investment came in at a good time though, that "before column" was looking quite slim.
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The console syntax seems to be Python. I'm excited how this could enable an easier modification of minecraft, especially for beginners.