skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely understand the spot you are in and can see how you are rationalizing it. The policy approach just doesn't fit for me (nor does it need to). I only commented because I do care about the Python community and hope to attend this event.

When I read the article I can't help substituting "label on cup" and reading incident as a coffee burn.]

Seeing "we now have an anti-harassment policy!" followed up by "and women are specifically encouraged to attend and apply." makes me cringe.

It doesn't feel like the way to encourage my wife (engineer) or any of the numerous women I have developed software with that the conference is an awesome event.
Fwiw, here's why Bootstrap uses LESS instead Stylus/Sass:

http://www.quora.com/Bootstrap-front-end-framework/Why-did-T...
if they really needed that much data they probably just requested access to the full phirehose
I have a friend that continually exclaims "This is the <over-the-top adjective> ever!"....about everything.

It get's old when every dog you see is the cutest ever, every movie is the best ever, every thing you eat is the tastiest ever.

People really do overuse hyperbole
That's what I'm thinking. For all I know (or care) the OP may have just posed the question as a hypothetical. I'll never start a cable company but I'm interested in the answer.
So, basically, you think I have Munchausen therefore I have it and there is no need to actually engage me in discussion. Color me surprised.
We're fine with scrapers and scraping infrastructure, although tubes.io is a very interesting idea.

I'm more interested in what I can do to write fewer scrapers since the content is, at a high level, relatively similar. I've just started with experiments writing "generic" scrapers that try and extract the data without depending on markup. It's going to eventually work well enough but to get the error rate down to an acceptable level is going to take a lot of tweaking and trial and error.

There's a few papers on this, but not much out there. That's why I was interested in someone else working on the same problem in a different space.
My new web marketing strategy: Begging
Don't be discouraged by the age of this article, it's still the best answer to the GP's question.
try the Office Space kit by thinkgeek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8e6c/
The NET act criminalizes any willful "copyright infringement" (the term used in the act) so long as it's done for financial gain. Contributory or vicarious liability for copyright infringement for linking is well established.

At any rate, services like these rely on the DMCA Safe Harbor provision. Regardless of whether the potential liability is civil or criminal, you can't have actual knowledge of infringing activity on your site and the ability to remove that activity from your site and claim safe harbor.
Actually, most of what we understand by "politics" is exactly that - people banding together to control other people - on the streets or sometimes even in the privacy of their homes (like drug laws, occupational licenses, etc.) It may sound tyrannical but it is not only natural - it is one of the most common things out there.
There's a nice brochure (PDF) on the Foundation's website:

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/FBSDF_3-fold_2012...

Key points:

* Robustness
* Networking
* Security
* Scalability
StockTrade: A stock trading game
> And diagnosing someone with Munchausen after a few minutes of internet argument -- that's scientific? Since when?

Since psychology began to masquerade as a science. Want to get better, fairer treatment? Visit a hospital instead of a computer science forum. But I suspect you've already been turned away from any number of hospitals.

You're the one who chose to post your rant on the least likely of forums, one that discusses computer science issues. So either stop complaining about your treatment by unsympathetic computer scientists, or choose another forum.
My analogy is not perfect, but in it the actions of an immune system map to the actions of a car owner.

If you get sick, you can see a doctor, or you can try to fix it yourself (with your immune system). If your car breaks, you can see a mechanic, or you can try to fix it yourself (with your hands).

Do you think that mapping is sufficiently flawed to render conclusions I draw from it invalid?
The show will most likely continue, with Chris Lintott presenting instead,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lintott
Wow, thanks for that link, that is amazing. So a child is flinging crabapples (which are tiny) at the mailman. Rather than ignore it or tell her to cut it out, she is arrested and put in the system to teach her a lesson where she is brutalized with progressive increasing severity, making her more and more angry, and misbehave more and more, getting charged with trespassing and creating a disturbance. Finally, with her never having committed anything that most rational people would consider serious crimes, she turns 18 and they lock her in adult prison in solitary confinement where she kills herself in despair.

According to http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/out_of_control/ the crab apple flinging charge ended up resulting in a total of 4 years hard prison time.

The methods used against this child by the Canadian authorities are quite interesting. In this article we find that they would transfer her from place to place wearing a black hood, CIA torture/Guatanamo Bay style, and drugged with powerful sedatives administered without oversight of competent medical authorities: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/31/ashley-smith-.... From this it is clear her abuse was not something that just happened at a single rogue facility.

If you beat your dog everyday and it finally bites you, is it a bad dog? Is the dog mentally ill?

I see she was adopted and is obviously from her appearance an indigenous first nations child. It's quite common for these children to be kidnapped from their nations by the canadian government in order to be resocialized away from their culture under the guise of protecting them and the premise that first nations people are incapable of caring for their own children and exposure to their own culture is a form of abuse. It's a racist and genocidal policy the goal of which is to exterminate their ethnicity and culture. This has been called "The Lost Generation". http://www.akha.org/content/missiondocuments/thelostgenerati...
Thanks for this link. This is very close to what I was thinking - didn't realize there was a name for it.
90 percent of the time the answer is pip.

Things can get trickier on Windows if there are compiled dependencies. You'd better hope there's a precompiled binary for you in that case.
Reminds me of Kevin Rose blaming Digg's failure on waking up one day to realize that everybody in his company was a B/C employee.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2352521
Modern medicine basically works like this: you destructively remove the offending condition as down to the root cause as you can reason about, and then let the body heal itself and recover from the shock of the treatment. While this is great for many acute conditions, I can understand why people might want to choose something else first.
Mz may have been referring to the fact that CF patients often have chronically infected lungs, and share infections with each other when in close proximity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis#Chronic_infecti...
As long as things keep going multi-core, ARM is going to be just fine for me. x86 compatability not such a need.. We've got Linode for that. ;)

Most PC-on-Sticks' use HDMI video output. I have a small dodgy cable rig to go from HDMI out to Lapdock HDMI in, but thats just because: Motorola. It could be quite feasible that Lapdock clones will arrive soon, with standard connectors..
I have searched before and didn't really come up with much that is a wiki. Everything is a blog
> I am pretty tired of being dismissed ...

By scientists in a science/technology forum that has no connection whatever to health or medicine? What did you expect?
You don't use an adblocker?
True. I was using the term "theory" in the loosest sense. It's more of a philosophical guess.
Very cool. Another noteworthy AR game: http://qonqr.com/

Full disclosure, I'm not affiliated with the company but I knew the team that started it at a Startup Weekend a little over a year ago. Great guys, cool game.
You could maybe take a half-step with "underground catering". Cook for parties and such.

I know someone who has a bbq place in a small town, and he does catering with it. Most of it is bbq, but he's personally a foodie and he does some very adventurous high-end menus for special events. It's nothing he advertises, but if you know who to ask...

His is legit since he's a food business already, but it feels like there's room for a similar but underground vibe.
Well, it probably sucks for Wikipedia because users aren't seeing the Jimmy Wales messages everywhere if they find the content through Google.
it's amazing how much it even changes my daily routine and how I walk around....no longer is it the fastest route; it's now the route where I can hit the most portals haha
The President of the Free Software Foundation Accuses Ubuntu of being “Spyware”
It could allow him to adjust his testimony in trial, to align with other evidence reported.
Still very very heavy on battery though.
I imagine the LLVM people.

If you look at the LLVM documentation there is still a lot to do to be able to support most performant GC algorithms.
The numbers disagree with you assertion(s) - we have increased sponsorship due to the actions taken, we have increased the number of female presenters/speakers, and we have an astounding number of thank you's from women within the community with regards to the actions taken and statements made.

I am not "in a spot" or "rationalizing it" - I have concrete proof that changes like this in combination with a massive amount of outreach has had an extremely positive effect for the community and conference.
I built a steambox a few days ago. Dropped $500 for a pretty performant dedicated gaming box. 8gb ram, 120gb ssd, and a $120 video card.

The Steam big-picture mode is pretty slick, but not all of the games work seamlessly with an xbox controller so I've found that you generally need to keep the mouse and keyboard around.

Instead of keeping it plugged into my TV, I now plugged in an old monitor and the girlfriend has been enjoying the sims 3.

Steam absolutely knows what they're doing and they have a real shot of widespread adoption if they build their own linux based Steam Box. The big issue is going to be game compatibility with whatever hardware / controller configuration they go with.
I did not say CF is transmitted by germs. But infection is what kills people with CF. In other words, germs.

You are trying awfully hard here to peg me as a lunatic. It makes me wonder what your stake in this is. It is rather bizarre. Most people stop arguing with me at some point. If you really believe me to insane, why bother talking to me?
You can use BeautifulSoup with lxml if you like, although I just use the HTMLParser in lxml these days and don't use BeautifulSoup any more. It seems to work a little better, at least for my uses.

http://lxml.de/elementsoup.html
No, I didn't meant it. It's a too common mistake to make.
spent quite a lot of time on Miner 2049er here ! other big atari titles at that time were Jumpman and Pogo Joe.
Wait, people are driving to play this game? It doesn't seem right to burn gas to play an online game. If you walk or ride a bike it's a great way to get some exercise. But driving?
> attacking me while I defend myself.

You have done no such thing. You haven't defended yourself, you have only complained about unfair treatment, just as though you were as mentally ill as we are beginning to suspect you are.

And your choice of forums can only add to the presumption: "Hello, computer nerds, here's my personal story about evil, uncaring doctors".

> All of which you are free to stop doing if it bothers you so much that I feel I have a right to defend myself when so treated.

And you have the right to stop posting, whenever you want.
They're not scientists, they are data artists, data miners, or maybe applied statisticians; but they are not studying and attempting to understand the world in a quest to further man's knowledge.
I think it is better to support the sites you like and avoid those that you do not, than to leach from all sites without discretion.

(I have no idea what moistgorilla's issue with kotaku may be.)
Thank you. Yes. We are vulnerable to infection and living together exposed us to the same things.
What? I meant your CF being unfortunate, not your recovery. I don't think anyone would say a recovery is unfortunate. Sorry if I was unclear about that, it was not my intention.

To my point though: if your posts have become increasingly bitter as people stop listening to you...why keep posting at all? That was my point.

I'm a diehard Windows Phone 7 fan, but people on HN decidedly do not like WP7. I tried to defend it for a long time but simply stopped, because no one listened to me or cared. I don't go into iOS/Android threads and post bitter comments about WP7. It isn't productive.

So that's a silly analogy (obviously, phone operating systems != life threatening disease), but the substance of my point is the same.
I love this idea. Not as something to realistically help you get started, but purely educational. There's so much knowledge tied up exclusively among people "in the industry", that would be great to get out into the public.

I would love to know all the things involved in starting an airline. How are planes actually bought? How are mechanics actually procured? What kind of safety regulations are followed? etc.

I once read the book "Starting & Running a Restaurant for Dummies" just to find out how it's done. It's fascinating!

But turning it into a Wiki, for anything, would be so much better. You can have summary sections, that link to fuller articles, you can cross-reference how to hire a chef (both for the restaurant, and for the airline catering), and so on.
I remember I wanted to buy Zaxxon for the Colecovision, and it was $59.99. This was in 1983. It seems that the top games are always $60. Of course, $60 in 1983 dollars is $140 in 2012 dollars. That's a lot of money for a faux-3D sidescroller!
Very well said.

Personally, I tend to think of it as hindsight before the fact.

When people look back at major events like WWI, WWII, the fall of Berlin Wall, and eventually the Soviet Union, most of the signs were there. There were subtle "vibrations" appearing in the system and major rattling in the system. It's only after the fact that everyone says "oh yes, given A, B, and C, it was obvious."

I think about Seldon's psychohistory less as predicting the future and more of simply identifying A, B, and C before the "obvious" event occurs. Throw in the Second Foundation's tweaking and it seems plausible.
One more step in creating the 'too old'
As nice as it is to link to the actual interview, the blog post does so as well, and adds its own content to the mix. I don't see what's pasted or spammy about this.
Mapping Apple's Retail Expansion
Linus may be known for his usage of four-letter words, but the code of conduct isn't (primarily) about profanity. It's about sexism and harassment, and I haven't known Linus to participate in or condone either.

(Another tangential point about Linus and language: he is very good at targeting his profanity. He doesn't drop f-bombs every third sentence, he saves them for when they are most effective. I don't think "knuckle-dragging troglodyte" quite applies.)
> to actually engage me in discussion.

What discussion is that? If you had any idea what a discussion consisted of, you would be well underway by now. And you would have avoided trying to connect CF with
"germs", even among computer people, people you obviously chose in the forlorn hope of sympathy from ignoramuses.
And a more direct answer to "Why hasn't anyone tried to .." is that many have tried to do that and failed - but the general public doesn't see that because such attempts tend to simply result in a wasted year and a wasted million, written off before even getting to a launch.

The failure point is content. If you wonder where to start - try to figure out the content deals, because all other aspects (technical, customers, design, etc) are much easier and can be solved if you have money; but without [good] content, your TV service is useless.
Why will you be banned? Do you know about the reason?
You seem to have missed the point made that real cold medicine is only so effective anyway with some potential side effects. So for some people a placebo would actually be better.
That's really interesting, thanks.

I worry that it's not going to replicate a real browser accurately enough, but I'm excited to try it out a bit.
Nothing is really anybody's fault. People only do abusive things because somebody else previously did something abusive to them. This is not likely provable, it's just a belief I have. Of course victims still need to express their anger and abusers need to be held accountable, but it's also important to ask, "How can I not be an abuser or a victim in the future?"

Of course a complete apology feels good, it provides absolution. It will feel even better if forgiveness is tendered by the employees. But to reiterate the real challenge is not getting into situations like this in the future.
And we haven't even gotten around to discussing the difference between real placebos and the phony, cut-rate kind. :)
It is actually scary considering that the analysts Wall Street would be considered specialists in economic forecasting and prediction.
I produced my own statically generated wiki that uses forms, email, and a cron job to receive changes, regenerate the site, then upload the changed pages. It's crude, old, non-standard, and definitely not what you want. When I made it some 13 years ago there were no alternatives. Still runs, mind you.

So it's possible, and I'm sure someone has done it, but I have no suggestions. Sorry.

Added in edit ...

Have you had a look at this: http://code.google.com/p/statwiki/ ??

Or this: http://ikiwiki.info/ ??

Or this: https://github.com/arthurk/pyll#readme ??

This also has a lot of information:

http://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-gene...
I support sites that I like (RockPaperShotgun, 4chan) by directly giving them money, so that I am the customer, rather than the product being sold.

That, and the number of high profile incidents where attackers sneak Flash 0day exploits into ad networks, are the reasons why I block ads.
I came here to learn to program, so I can more effectively share what I know. It is a legitimate interest in HN. I was not ranting. Merely defending myself against rabid attacks, as often happens when I try to talk about this.

Seriously, why does my supposed "mental illness" have you so wrapped around the axle? Such a strong, persistent negative response is the sort of thing I usually see from people with CF or with a child with CF who feel personally threatened by my views.

Anyway, I am about to go to lunch. I will be gone for a bit.

Catch you later.
Consumer Travel Alliance recommendations for airport security
Seemed like a good example of classic errors being made: 'waterfall' approach, 'kitchen-sink' requirements. It's the opposite of iteratively 'growing' a system.
I am going to guess you are sarcasticly "surprised" because he is saying something that you have heard many times before... my money is on, "Because it is true".
Such disappointing news compounds last weeks troubles. When nzbs'r'us shutdown over similar payment problems. Payment is a huge achilles heel for these services. Blocking payments was used to hurt WikiLeaks, and Dutch usenet providers have recently lost the ability to use paypal for payments too. A popular bitcoin-esque service can't happen soon enough.

http://usenetreviewz.com/dutch-usenet-providers-banned-by-pa...
Part 1 (from yesterday): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893457
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It's not clear that the people with the best priors lost -- the people with a great deal of prior information (the specialists) are also often still using SAS/etc. and linear regression / classical neural nets / etc. Many of the people doing Predictive Analytics (A term I hate) in large organizations have spent 20 years gaining domain knowledge and not keeping up on state-of-the-art methods (there are only so many hours in the day). I mean, hell, Andrew Gelman's multi-level modeling book is considered pretty advanced to this day, which is hard to understand as a machine learning person.

The challenge with black-box models is "how to extend them" -- reasons I still have a great deal of faith in the power of Bayesian methods and the utility of joint inference. I think modern methods have really commoditized the predict-y-from-x problem, but there's a lot more to it than that.

The future, in my opinion, is letting you specify more, richer, prior knowledge, to solve more interesting problems. That's why I work with bayesian nonparametrics, and am excited about probabilistic programming: http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/NIPS*2012_Workshop
> If you really believe me to insane, why bother talking to me?

If you really believe you have a medical case to make, why are you posting in a computer science forum? What's wrong with:

http://www.reddit.com/r/medicine

> Most people stop arguing with me at some point.

Yes, and I can see why -- you're inaccessible to reason.
There is nothing "rude" about asking HN to chime in on your exploratory-stage ideas, especially when they are uncommonly ambitious and not your average badgeville startup ideas.
Face it, Foursquare is not going to fetch you a mercenary if you ever needed one.

Why can group-mulling of ideas, be a terrific endeavor?

1) It can stress-test your idea and expose the glaringly gaping holes you might have overlooked, in the very fashioning of the prospect itself.

2)Some ideas may not lend to "socialization" because of their inherent nature. Helps to have them flagged -- if not decimated -- before you even begin.
Eg: A startup seeking to disrupt the litigation law market isn't very readily socialize-able as one targeting the fitness trainer market.

3) The group-mulling process need not be just one-way beneficial. The "mullers" stand to benefit from having their horizons broadened too.
They might for once realize, that there are entire industries -- non-glamorous but nonetheless high gravity, real-impact ones -- waiting to be disrupted beyond the Mayorvilles and Filtergrams of the valley.

This kind of mulling happens on Quora all the time.

HN should encourage it.

Again you are just being asked to mull.

Not leak insights from the equity-research desk at Goldman Sachs.

Chill with the dressing-downs.
I think it comes down to "failure" vs. "feedback." I don't look at a negative encounter as a failure. It's just feedback.

I ask myself, in a non-judging way, "what could I have done differently?" Sometimes the answer is "nothing" - you just caught someone on a bad day. But sometimes there are some things I can change about my behavior. If so, I try to incorporate that and go forward.

Whatever happened has already happened. You can't go back and change it, so there's no point in ruminating on it. But you can change how you behave in the future, and that's what a lesson is for.
I hope he asks OEM's to only use Linux on their boxes, although if only some use it, the others will be pressured to use it too to keep prices competitive.