skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "any" short-circuits: that smells the same as a list comprehension for side effects.

The beauty of Python is that the one, obvious way to do something is usually the right way. When you try to force something like this, you either run into silly bugs like "any" short-circuiting, or you waste your limited brainpower trying to avoid them. You're usually better off looking for algorithmic or architectural optimizations for speed, or refactoring for readability.
We (my company) actually take this to another level. We provide branch level grouping.

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

The reason why we've created this feature was because in the enterprise world, it is not uncommon to construct a release based on branches from various repositories.

We also have a smart attributes technology that will allow you to assign arbitrary meta data to a pull request. With this technology, you'll be able to ask questions like show me all the pull requests that have a priority greater than X.
I recommend Cave Story+, Bastion, Terraria, Spelunky,
Legend of Grimrock, and Machinarium from that list. I would also add Dungeons of Dredmor and La Mulana. Merry Christmas.
The Robotic Legs of the HAL Exoskeleton
Love the narrative approach in this infographic. The Japanese sure accomplished their goal of surprise attack!
>Perfectly justified considering it's much less effective than other vaccines. So it is a "vaccine".

The definition of vaccine is: A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.

Nowhere does it say with 100% efficacy...
The "50% efficacy" doesn't indicate that the vaccine provides 50% effectiveness in blocking a particular influenza; rather it stems from the fact that the particular influenza(s) being targeted might not be the ones passing through an area. "The flu" is an umbrella term for a number of different infectious strains (that mutate), and the object of the game is to detect early on which virulent, dangerous and uncommon strains (already active elsewhere) are most likely to spread widely and vaccinate against them. Frequently, less-virulent strains to which a large percentage of the population has already been exposed will be ignored (hitting somebody with hundreds of strains to develop immunity to simultaneously reduces the effectiveness of the vaccine for all of them). And there's always the chance that a particularly nasty strain may become epidemic after this year's vaccine has been formulated and distributed (in which case, there may or may not be an effective vaccine available in time for people to develop immunity to that strain). So even though you have been effectively vaccinated against the targeted strain(s), you can still contract other strains. And you may have a miserable time dealing with something you did catch, which can keep you from thoproughly enjoying the fact that you didn't catch something that may have been many, many times worse.
Have you considered getting a stand alone mp3 player? If you're really into music, the sound quality on a Cowon or a Sansa clip is better than on any phone I've listened to, and the battery lasts much much longer (I get about 100 hours on my Cowon J3). You can pick up a Sansa clip for about US40, and it comes with a Micro SD card slot, so you can chuck a 32-64gb card for not a lot of money.
It doesn't remove those talks at all, it says that these are factors to consider when trying to determine if a talk is likely to perpetuate a hoax or not. Just because there are exceptions to any of these flags doesn't mean they aren't valid criteria.
I haven't been following those discussions very closely, so I'd love to hear more. It's not clear to me where that hypermedia approach might take us, as a community. My first impression is that this feels like an approach that requires more upfront buy-in from the API providers, and puts a fair bit of burden on all the clients.
They're accredited for 80+ TLD. They also have nice, user-friendly business practices:

https://iwantmyname.com/about

I love iwantmyname, I buy all my .io names from there.
A very understandable misfire by FB's porn detection algorithms, considering the unintentionally saucy text submitted with those cute photos of Nut the cat: "...Here you can see in more detail how Nut presses her face as hard as she can into mine. She does this all night, by the way. If I move my face away, she rearranges herself to grip the back of my head as tightly as possible. If I'm face-down on the pillow..."

--

Edit: changed "probable" to "very understandable," and quoted some of the text submitted with those photos.
I can't believe Braid isn't on that list. SUCH a great game. Also, Portal is a must-play if you haven't already.
Money isn't really an issue for me as we're talking a couple dollars of difference. Ignoring Godaddy's politics, I would still not use them because their web interface is not only terrible its also user hostile. Its all upsells and ads.

I'd put up with this crap for a free service, but when you're a commodity then you better add some non-negative value to your service.

Jesus, how did GD get so big anyway? Are horny geeks this gullible?
The squatter has several names registered, has indicated to me that my particular name of interest is for sale, and he asked me to give him the best possible price. I said $300, and I never heard back from him. If I want to use the name, do you have any suggestions?
How does a whois record matter to a company? Do customers look that up? And why would NameCheap being the vendor matter at all? Is something like Lycos better?
A Google+ hacker news community.
An accelerometer so good that only quantum mechanics limits it
June 5, 42. USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

It has not declared war since.

How do you detect that any given country is behind an attack launched by a botnet of American computers?

Heck we still don't know that it was the US who were behind Stuxnet.
Agreed. For me however I push myself to talk to others I respect about my work. This forces me to articulate what it is that I'm doing and why I'm doing it the way I am. I found this technique priceless.
> the how-should-we-make-people-less-sick front

This isn't controversial on that front unless you're a scammer or a moron.

Seriously. We need to stop pretending like the anti-vaxxers actually have an argument. We're not CNN. We can financially afford to state the facts of the matter without injecting false balance.
I've got two kids in school. I know the pain of the inane zero tolerance policies such as those. However, harassment in any form, when corroborated, is just unacceptable.
> Saying "voting against their own interests" is really insulting.

I'm sorry to be blunt, but people who find such a statement insulting should get off the internet. That said:

> Do we dismiss Bill Gates as being too dumb to care for his own interests when he says his tax rate should go up?

No, he is caring for his OWN interests in saying that. As does Warren Buffett. Sure, his narrow next year interests are to pay less taxes. But his long term interest is that he will not have to hire a private army to protect his every move because of social unrest. Nor that he will have to finance his own private hospital for his kids, because disease control in communal (non-profit and for-profit) hospitals is breaking down. Nor that he will have to fly in everyone he wants to meet because the road infrastructure is breaking down.

What Bill Gates and Warren Buffett understand is that the US is falling behind, and they don't want that to happen. That IS in their interest.

> Sometimes people feel differently than you. Even if it would be in their personal selfish interest to agree with you.

Yes, and I respect their right to do that, even if there is no logical way, selfish or communal, short term or long term, in which it serves any measurable interest of theirs. But I also reserve the right to call them stupid for it (for being unable to demonstrate to a mythical "objective observer" that their votes support their interests, that is. I won't call them stupid if they can soundly reason about it, even if I disagree with their reasoning)

And I repeat again: Gates and Buffett are talking their interest.

Joe the Plumber is stupid (reminder: he complained that although he is making $40,000 year NOW, he's going to buy his employer's business in the future, and make $200,000/year, and at that point Obama's tax plan to increase tax over $250,000/year would hurt him. His statements were logically incoherent, statistically improbable. And yet, he was sure that he had a solid case against the Obama tax plan of 2008. And so did hundreds of thousnads (perhaps millions) of others. These people are beyond help or hope. (To be clear: there are reasonable considerations against Obama's plan. JtP could not, however, elaborate any that were against his interests)
I'd modify your "people innately have rights" to "there are freedoms which benefit both individuals and the communities they're a part of, which should be treated as innate rights." A bit wordier, but useful in defining what, specifically, entitles us to any particular right.

Personally, I think our right to health is more precious than our right to property or wealth. I'm not opposed to wealth by any means, and entrepreneurialism is a wonderfully fun enterprise, but they are lesser concerns than whether or not people are dying for preventable reasons. Ideally, a government encourages both health and entrepreneurialism by finding ways to pay people searching for more effective healthcare, then by rewarding the people who find it, but that's not what we're debating here.

The answer to "Should the government take my money to pay for somebody else's flu shot, if they cannot afford it?" is a near-unequivocal yes, for me, with the one condition being that I have enough money to afford that flu shot for them. Some people can pay for many more flu shots than I can, and I do believe that it's moral to request that they do so.
Well, I'm glad that you find writing algorithms not tedious, because I surely don't want to be doing that! Architecture and good software tooling are what really tickle my fancy. It's good there are people with interests along the levels of abstraction.

I agree, I dislike "design by committee". However, sometimes you get to work with those magical, rare people who are both seasoned architecture gurus and have very good social and speaking skills. Working with these kinds of people is an absolute joy -- I will learn more in an hour of watching a skilled developer program than I will from a month of reading online material.
Is Mule xml based? Sorry, no thanks...
Doesn't that entail having sex? I'd check your figures.
The checkboxes are genius. I've never considered restyling checkboxes using a label - very good.
How Stripe thinks about product management
Thanks. Can you point me to their company name on ICANN's list?

http://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accredited-list.html
They do have amazingly cheap SSLs, I picked up a few wildcard SSLs for <$40/year on Cyber Monday
Targeting The Enterprise, Openera Is An IFTTT For Email Attachments
I never touched on the validity of the points he was making, only the god-awful nature of the discussion.
I don't see why giving away free flu vaccines should be at all controversial. Does not compute. It may be related to controversial topics, but it is not in itself controversial.
Cyberdyne was the name of the company that created the Terminator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
LTE: Sweden leads for speed (US 8th)
I think this is a very good point, and I totally agree about the importance of emotion and the appearance of justice in our legal system. But I'm not sure it follows that the appearance of justice is at odds with getting things right. A better system would get things right and feel like a fair system to the participants.

My personal opinion is that you can get both with a more transparent system. In theory, a transparent system would drive consistency, and consistent outcomes would hopefully converge around correct outcomes.
I don't actually know why I returned recently. I have been asking myself that here lately. I don't have a clear answer, at least not yet. I think probably the answer is rooted in "I have stopped bleeding to death, so my brain is probably functioning again. Thus, like it or not, I need an outlet."

Historically: I originally joined to ask a specific question. I stuck around to get some of my intellectual needs met. I ended up feeling super burned by some things. I go on haitus periodically, usually not something I plan. I just get busy with other things I guess. I had some conscious reasons for my most recent hiatus but, looking back on it, it roughly coincides with a timeframe where I was bleeding profusely and my brain was just not working. I have health issues. Sometimes hn is just too much. (shrug)
http://www.facebook.com/index.php?stype=lo&amp;lh=Ac_MAQ...
Heh, I wasn't even thinking of the anti-vaxxers! I meant more the "how should we pay for the things that make people less sick" front, which seems to the debate broiling up here.
Neat idea! But I get this message when trying to paste:

"It looks like you are using Firefox 17.0. Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to operate unless you are running Firefox version 4 or higher. Consider updating Firefox."

I have FF 17, with no JAVA.
A good thing is still a good thing even if it's done for bad reasons.

(Hell, a good thing is a good thing even if it's done for completely insane reasons, too.)
>Not having a degree in something disallows you to "make an effort to engage with other scholars"?

For non-trivial things? Yes, generally. Why not?

I mean, why do guys with phds in earth science or geology have to get lumped in with nuts like Neal Adams and his expanding Earth bullshit? Why would Tedx weigh them as the same?

I'm so sick of this "My bullshit is just as good as your facts" Fox News mentality. There should be discrimination and vetting and standards. The world simply has too many opportunistic and money hungry crackpots. These guys can go start their own little events.

The problem with branding yourself as a rebel outlet is that only a very, very small percentage of rebels know what they're doing. Climate change was once a rebel position, but the science backs it up, so we can rely on a basic form of meritocracy in academia to help unpopular ideas along. We don't need comic book artists going to conventions and yelling about "the establishment holding down expanding earth theory" and then trying to get a talking gig next to a real scientist who gives a shit about the science.

This also applies to guys speaking outside their fields too. Okay your phd is in engineering but you want to give a speech on how global warming is fake? Yeah, no thanks.
I bought a pack of 400 small round black stickers because of blue leds. For some of the leds it takes two to cover them fully, or one will dim it enough to be acceptable.

I put them on "everything"
So in other words, one is supposed to detect bad science using bad science?

If I were to take the stage saying "I can't disprove Theory X using empirical data, but here are some red flags that cast that theory into doubt", many would consider that textbook pseudoscience.

I'm not saying that red flags and intuition have no value, but they should be taken with a boulder of salt, and definitely not suggested to a layperson who may not have the experience and context to know when red flags should and should not be applied.
Why would you even post this comment in this thread?
Nokia 6303 eh?

- MicroSD card
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- basic camera
- basic video recorder
- FM Radio

Perhaps an Orange Rio or Rio2 would do instead? ZTE with orange branding and Java based apps. Reasonable alpha keyboard and quite cheap in UK.
To echo the sentiment above. I use NameCheap, and am very happy with them. Easy to use, and they leave me alone. I will never use nor recommend GoDaddy ever again for their SOPA support, bad business practices in general, tasteless ads (not even offensive, just bad), Bob Parsons, and horrible product.

With plenty of competitors out there, most offering similar prices and better services, I don't see any reason to use GoDaddy.

But it is curious that 27% still use it. I'm guessing those people are just too lazy to switch.
You know they run facial recognition on every photo, right? That makes doing any statistical analysis of "face", "nut", and "hard" look very, very cheap.

Also, while it is totally true that image recognition software does chew computational resources, FB (and Google, and the other web-scale companies) have computational resources up the wazoo. When you've got 100,000 servers and could sic an Ivy league worth of vision research PhDs at the problem, this issue (like many others) gets slightly easier. Besides, it scales better than people, and the alternative is tasking 1/2 your CS team (Facebooks has several hundred people IIRC, might be larger now) on what is, approximately, the worst job you could imagine.
This is a huge step backwards. I don't understand why anyone wants this to be done.

Banks are already great for things that banks do, like insuring deposits and putting your account within reach of authorities. Presenting an ID to get a Bitcoin account which is regulated by central authorities, both private and government, seems antithetical to the purpose of Bitcoin.

This isn't to say one organization going mainstream PSP will hurt Bitcoin. I simply don't see the point, that's all.

The rest of us will continue using Bitcoin through Tor and i2p, keeping our money safe and anonymous.
Nmap Source Code Evolution
I suggest you look at the work on "interface driven development" with swagger: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/swagger-swaggersocket/...

There's plenty that API providers can do to make things saner for all of us, and themselves. Problem is, many (if not most) of them don't seem to care enough. As users of APIs we are their customers, and we outnumber them. Let's find a way to show them the benefits of making our lives easier.
Obvious: The cat was completely naked.
My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields Reflects on His 'Arrogance'
(For the record, I am running my own mail server, but I'm not currently accepting applications for new accounts. I will be sad when I want to grow past 25 users if it means I need to start paying $5/mo for each of them, because I never learned to scale on my own.)
I remember watching Google testify regarding SOPA and how difficult it would be to find and block copyrighted content.

During their testimony they alluded to algorithms which can find pornographic material based on skin tone and other criteria. It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook implemented something similar.
> why would you even be speculating on whether this makes "business sense"?

Why not?

Also, it might make it more likely to happen next year if it makes good business sense this year.
I tend to agree, with both you and feld on your points. The only thing that really stands out for me is that, its there when I need it. When I'm lost I can pull up directions. If I'm standing around I can browse or play a game. If I need look up something quick I can google. If I need to compare prices I can amazon. If I do get an email that needs an immediate response I can do it (although email and chat are really a discipline on the user part to not answer everything right away). And of course pictures and video at a moments notice.

Its these quick types of interactions that make this technology endearing for me. Otherwise all these apps are just complete nonsense.
Do you have numbers to back up the idea that the flu vaccine is not useful, or are you just scaremongering?
a few years ago Tenable's Nessus scanning tool had a "porn detection" feature that was... not terrible. I imagine time + facebook == something even better. Or maybe not.
> there is no objective way to say that Ubuntu search surveillance is harmful

I would argue that all 3rd party "surveillance" is harmful.

Where I define 'surveillance' to mean information collected about individuals (and their computing systems) without their full conscious knowledge and active decision to give it.
There's no such thing as "free" health care. Not to suggest that the solution to our health care problems is simply through the kindness and charity of those that can afford it.
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/facebook-to-c...
The legal industry is perfectly suited to be utterly destroyed by startups. It's pure information work, it can be done from offshore, it is generally disliked by the public, and as a whole is pretty much entirely technologically inept.

Certification regimes present a barrier to full automation, but with so many young and unemployed lawyers, you could easily get around that as well. Just do most of the stuff on the computer and let Mr. cheap-young-JD sign off on the last mile work on his phone. Each contract he goes through knocks another $100 off his student loan bill. Use the law schools' oversupply to break the legal industry and bring cheap legal services to all.

The main threat will be regulation. Putting lawyers out of work will mean they will try to rewrite the law to ban you. Depending on how you structure it, you might want to ally with a few firms in each vertical to rain fire upon their competitors. As long as you divide and conquer, and some lawyers are profiting from the new regime, it will make it much more difficult for the ABA to achieve consensus on the imminent threat your startup undoubtedly poses to the health of the republic.

EDIT: Even more interesting...as a dotcom you may also be able to market your services in a way that normal lawyers cannot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_advertising#In_the_United...
For a fictional point of reference to the above sentiment: remember HAL 9000 in 2001: a Space Odyssey, and the explanation of why it went homicidal as given in 2010: Odyssey Two. It had two directives: preserving human life and the mission; the first conflicted with its ability to ensure the other's success once the humans started plotting to turn HAL off. In the movie (at least), it was implied that the mission's importance was imparted by Presidential authority, and was given a higher priority than anything else.
Windows XP search assistant* has a database of file types it uses for filtering and to determine which files are worth searching into. It also has a small misfeature where it updates this database every time you search. It doesn't send anything to Microsoft about what you're searching for, it's just an overly persistent auto-update mechanism.

The usual suspects freaked out about this, of course.

* The little dog that makes intermittent scratching noises when you accidentally leave explorer open, slowly driving you mad
Testing Strong Parameters With RSpec
We mocked out the API layer to achieve the demo so it'll be slightly slower when it has to make real requests to our API. That said, the live version is quite snappy!
> History has shown pretty clearly that governments on the more-coercive side of the spectrum have caused more death and destruction than those on the less-coercive side.

I'm not seeing it. Absent governments in the third world cause quite a bit of death and destruction every year.

> A government coercing dollars out of a population by force and a society that is based on using products produced by people other than themselves are two different things altogether.

Until somebody steals something. Then you've got two options: Either you let them take it, in which case you're communist and don't have property, or you chase them down and make them give it back, in which case you're a despot and every transaction made is only made with your implicit consent.

There ain't no free enterprise.