skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main issue is going to be, that when decisions are made based on popularity and only those the most engaged are participating, the decision is going to be decided by extremists. This somewhat sabotages democracy, as the representative democracy counterbalances those on the fringes with the lethargic majority.

Issue based politics is leading to a lot of problems, i.e. if you would put it to a popular vote, I am quite confident that the death penalty would be back at least in some European countries for child molesters, etc. Popular opinion seems very volatile and if you are able to time your issue driven vote with some incidents of public outrage, you can pretty much able to pass highly questionable ideas. Of cause there is the hope that bad decisions will "teach" voters to do better next time, but (at least in my opinion) there are not many signs that this learning effect takes place with the current party/election system.
Yes, they are. But I have spent a chunk on my life investigating the claims of major religions and when you start poking around you not only find out there is absolutely no evidence to back them up, but there is plenty of evidence that they man made.

So, religion and faith comes down to bending yourself, making yourself suspend your disbelief and accepting premises without seeking any evidence. It comes down to wishful thinking really.
Agreed. These are more like a koan or kata. They help focus the mind in moments of distraction. Maybe like a haiku - simple words to stimulate a beautiful response in the mind.
Update: Textadept slides are located at http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Mitchell.pdf
I've found help on stats.stackexchange.com when I was stuck on a stats problem for work.
upvote for casperjs - it's definitely the best system I've come across for scraping javascript / ajax contents.
But... that's Visual Studio's logo right there.
I enjoyed earlier episodes, in which he featured the projects, sightings, discoveries, and photographs of many amateur astronomers, and later episodes where he remained staunchly supportive of education and amateur exploration of astronomy and indeed all the sciences. I hope the BBC rotates more episodes of the show online for widespread free viewing. Too much to hope that they would ever seed them as torrents, a la beta.NRK.no
Two comments:

IMHO, Python would have been in a far better place if Guido and his team would have been getting paid to maintain and evolve Python, the language, rather than apps and platforms based on Python. I think in the early days at Google he was able to do so, later, appengine took most of his time.

Dropbox is still a startup - despite the substantial investments rounds - since it is still relying on external money (investments) to grow.
You might as well have said young earth creationism. In case of either eugenics or young earth creationism you got people who are trying to use pseudo science to bend the universe to fit their preconceived notions that in one case come from feeling of racial superiority and the other literal interpretation of the Bible. And yes both have been taught at higher education institutions.

But it is getting harder and harder to do that in this day and age thanks to easy access to information and vigilance of the scientific community.
http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/2009/03/visualization-a-la-dil...
23 states (+/-) have Right-To-Work laws, meaning that either party can fire the other at any time without notice.

As Jack Welch of General Electric put it: "You got paid on Friday, therefore we're even."

As I put it: "You paid me for the work I did, therefore we're even."
We still need to scrape many (several 100) clients' websites because they are unable to give us product feeds (adequate ones or any at all) for their stores. But hey, it gives us a small edge because we try harder than the competition.
A bit late now, but 4.1 could get a campaign for this.
Now you're doing more of the same, not contributing anything of value to the discussion in 689 characters.
I've been using Usenet and Newzbin/NZBmatrix for 4 or 5 years. New content has been getting taken down the past few months. Go look at the comment section of any new movie. It got progressively worse, to the point that I was starting to consider what to do next. I suppose I'm not surprised to see this this morning. But it was abrupt.
No Rate-Limiting

Clearly someone's never spent time diagnosing the fun that is scaping HN (yes, unofficial API is available).
From my reading it sounds like we've known for sometime that it was due to strain on the board, but the work provides some insight by mapping stresses, and SEM imaging.

From the conclusion:

"In summary, a methodology has been developed to incorporate DIC technique with SEM images for mapping the local strain fields during whisker growth. By processing SEM images taken in consecutive time intervals over the area of interest on Sn-Cu finishes, the local strain evolution due to whisker growth can be obtained. This methodology provides an alternative way for exploring the complicated process of whisker growth through the page 9 of 13 morphology changes. From the DIC results, it is proposed that strain or stress gradient, instead of an overall compressive stress field is the key for whisker growth. Results from SEM and DIC analysis also indicate that the whisker growth is a continuously dynamic process, during which the subsequent whisker is triggered by the redistribution of strain or stress field after local strain relaxation. The findings have advanced the understanding of whisker growth mechanisms and may provide insight for developing whisker mitigation technology for lead-free solder alloys."
Of course "what is right" is a scientific question. If science (i.e reason and evidence) has nothing to say about it, then what does?

What is right follows directly from what is true. For example, if animals are indeed sentient, if they are self-aware even, if they can suffer, are scientific questions. If scientific answers to these questions are positive, then some of us sufficiently evolved, aware humans can't ignore the fact, and we have no choice but to treat animals differently than what we do now. Some countries like Spain have gone so far as to give protection and right to life to higher primates, our closest cousin apes.

We can decide slavery is not a good idea. We can decide that fairly applied laws, rather than nepotistic favoritism, is a good idea. We can outlaw certain punishments with treaties. We can encourage accountability with the invention of writing. We can consciously expand our circle of empathy. These are all inventions, products of our minds, as much as lightbulbs and telegraphs are.
Thanks for that! I spent untold hours playing Miner 2049er on my Apple ][.
That's odd. I usually receive a donation letter about this time of the year. Anyway, chipped in.

I couldn't get anywhere without FreeBSD running my servers.
I know one of the ex-Interix guys it was an interesting story.
House made of two containers
So where's Apple in this story?
His house is about 10 miles away from mine. I saw him in passing a few times when 'in town'. He was a wonderful local figure and will be missed near and far.
Lei Jun, Founder Of Xiaomi, Might Just Be 'China's Steve Jobs'
You used to be able to by reading back CSS styles of visited links. May be fixed now. http://blog.adrianroselli.com/2010/03/mozilla-to-modify-how-...
As a site owner, I am aware. It seems like all should know.

In situations like this, a pig might take pleasure in watching someone who doesn't know they're being watched. There is no good argument for not telling them.

God reads your minds.

----

God says...

eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up
herself.

13:12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her,
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

13:13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.

13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation,
because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the
people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them
therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
Sounds pretty interesting! Be sure to share it when it's ready.
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I'm not too worried about coronary disease, but I am concerned about my brain, my mental well being, Alzheimer's, cognitive ability, depression etc, esp. considering everyone on this site is at a higher risk for all of these due mostly to the stress of the profession and sedentary lifestyle.

Unfortunately, leg rises, push ups, pull ups etc (strength and resistance training in general) do nothing for your brain. On the other hand brain thrives on aerobic activity, esp. higher end of the spectrum near the aerobic threshold. And this is also great for your mood and general well being.

It also takes a decade to develop your aerobic engine (well there are really 3 - 4 metabolic systems available to you when you do aerobic exercise, but some are so short in duration that are negligible and the others respond to training very well). Developing power at threshold (i.e. put out as much power as you can at a level just at the edge between aerobic and anaerobic) is the slowest to develop.

For more on connection between brain health and aerobic exercise see Dr. Medina's Google talk on his "Brain Rules". It's quite enlightening in general

http://youtu.be/IK1nMQq67VI
Patrick Moore plays the xylophone no more - RIP.
That's not really an alternative..
Thank you for donating!

EDIT: The fundraiser letter is on the website, if you still want to read it: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/announcements.shtml#fundrai...
"not possible" is quite a strong claim in the realm of concurrent software, and so is "simply". Benchmarking is taking a measurements of a nondeterministic process, i.e. a statistical sample. Yes, some problem with the setup is quite likely given the result, but other explanations are possible as well. What if some threshhold for some action that helps the server deal with more concurrent connections was just not hit at 100 connections? unlikely but not imposible.
It's not invalid; it's one of the two ways of using a label element. However, IE 6 didn't support it which is why I always resorted to the ID variant. The difference in typing isn't that large anyway.
And without access to the source!
A while back I wrote a quick little perl script to convert archive.org metadata into RSS feeds that a podcast client can read. So for anyone interested, here is this feed in podcast format: http://sitosis-static.s3.amazonaws.com/foundation.xml

You can also replace foundation.xml with gunsmoke.xml if you want the OTR feed that I originally wrote the script for. Source code available here: http://sitosis-static.s3.amazonaws.com/archive2rss.zip
Very sad. His "Astronomy for the under-tens" was, for a while, my very favourite book. Every so often I think of getting a telescope and re-learning all of the things I learned from that book - perhaps now is the time?
Houston, we've jumped the shark.
I clicked in to this thread purely to post a despair.com link. You beat me to it, and you also posted the most appropriate link!
The Rise of the Secret Supper Club
Brutal? I think it's incredibly fair. I'm being paid to do a job. If I don't want to do that job anymore, I leave whenever I want. If they don't want me to do that job anymore, or are unhappy with how I'm doing it, they tell me to leave whenever they want.

The lack of crazy-ass employment laws is one thing in a long list of reasons why startups tend to thrive in the US more than in other countries.
If you're using ruby, I've found watir (http://watir.com/) to be very nice to use. There might be better alternatives now but it made my life easier when I had to scrape a bunch of our supplier's crappy B2B sites that required JavaScript.
The kernel will try to keep each process running on the same CPU. If one process is using a lot of CPU, it won't (shouldn't) generally switch it around just to keep the CPUs evenly busy.
There are 14 posters here, but the five I can see above the "fold" on my 1440-pixel high monitor are definitely the worst five. The last five posters are awesome because they say something that it's possible to disagree with, and is therefore worth saying. The top five are trite and cheesy.
WAY to Go | Trifter
That's right, in 1984 I was learning to program on a TRS-80 in a public middle school in a random small town, and dreaming of an Apple.... by this time the "Trash 80" was definitely not state of the art!
If 2012 is not done yet then how can we say it was missed?
Games Master was a huge part of my childhood. On from that the work this man did to educate the masses on astronomy was second to none. Back to the stars you go Sir, rest in peace.
why not? admittedly, i didn't use nzbmatrix, but i do use nzbsearch and the ui is simple, easy to use - search is ok, but it seems to get the job done.
Is this a failure for bayesianism in practice? The people with the best priors still lost.
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http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

http://www.whatsmydns.net/#

http://www.whereisitup.com/

http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/

http://www.unlocktheinbox.com/blacklist.aspx?st=BL

http://www.myiptest.com/staticpages/index.php/DomainKeys-
DKIM-SPF-Validator-test

https://github.com/rackerhacker/MySQLTuner-perl

http://www.pantz.org/software/mysql/mysqlcommands.html

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/

http://speedof.me/

http://loads.in/

https://www.pingbrigade.com

http://servermonkeys.com/els.php

https://www.passwordlive.com/

http://dnsviz.net/

http://ddecode.com/phpdecoder/

http://browsershots.org/

http://www.subnetmask.info/

http://bullshitipsum.com/

http://www.tuxradar.com/termbuilder (for the newbs)

add as link to edit a site live (if needed)
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';%20document.designMode='on';%20void%200

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~partha/diffprobe/

http://amon.cx/

http://www.internetpulse.net/

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

http://relayservices.att.com/content/2/im_relay_3.html

http://www.puppetlabs.com/

and of course... http://oldspicevoicemail.com/
That's a great point, for most web services, this request would be blocked at the browser level by the Same Origin Policy. Fortunately for me, this site allowed client-side calls by returning a Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header[1], specifically designed to allow this type of cross-domain access.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy#Cross-Origin...
To be fair, some of his antiquated views stemmed from a deep personal tragedy.
Checkout http://selectorgadget.com as a useful tool for coming up with CSS selectors.
Or some Dilbert giant comics poster.
very well played :)
is there a clearer discussion somewhere that doesn't piss around with that painful tolkein metaphor?
It's not cake we are baking
Yah, I don't understand why people make things so complicated once Javascript gets involved. Just inspect the XHR traffic to your browser ("Network" tab in Web Inspector, Firebug, etc) as you update the information on the page. You'll quickly discover what are essentially undocumented APIs returning the data used to generate the page. You don't need to use or even read through the Javascript that's calling them, you just need to figure out what parameters and cookies are being sent, and tweak those as you wish.

You might have to spoof the Referer header so that it thinks the request is still coming from their website.
Show HN: FollowWWW - a point and click web scraper (early beta)
Wittgenstein left some nicely quotable statements behind, that people think they understand, when in fact they don't. Like Nietzsche's "God is dead"[1], there is a lot more behind the statement than most people know or even suspect. People repeat Wittgenstein's 'conclusion' from his Tractatus, but don't appreciate how much nuance his later publications give to that statement.

This is still the trap I was talking about. I'm not moving the goal posts: I'm just asserting that they are further away than most people think. Some people say: "everyone is a philosopher", to which you can reply "indeed, and most are awful ones".

Instead of asserting all kinds of things in this essay, pg should have asked a series of constructive questions: if something seems obvious, yet smart people disagree, then perhaps, just perhaps, there is something to learn there. Somewhere with deeper knowledge of the subject could then have pointed to material that explains why it just isn't so simple.

That is the bottom line: it just isn't so simple. It is unclear which things 'we cannot speak of', if anything. It is unclear how to make language precise enough to speak of certain things and whether that is possible. Many people have written many things about 'language and truth' and simply majoring in philosophy is just not enough to appreciate the whole of it, like majoring in physics is not enough to understand most Ph.D. theses in physics. It certainly doesn't enable one to conclude that "philosophy is just confusion over language". If only because there are branches of philosophy that investigate that exact question.

[1] This is the entire aphorism and the sentences that follow the proclamation of God's death are essential to understanding what Nietzsche is saying. Those who don't know what follows the proclamation don't understand anything about what Nietzsche was saying. First and foremost: he is not (just) talking about the Christian God.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet
his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves,
the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and
mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to
death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What
festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to
invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for
us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear
worthy of it?
And there is actually research in that says this - productivity plummets after 40 hour on the job, and > 60 leads to less work being done, than in a 40 hour work week, because of high error rates.
Show HN: We Love Icon Fonts - A free & open source icon fonts hosting service
docco-husky looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Why look at Firefox 11 when Firefox 17 is the current release?
3 out of 36 is the current result for Firefox, much better than 13 out of 34.

No DEP, No ASLR: /Mozilla Firefox/maintenanceservice_installer.exe

No DEP, No ASLR: /Mozilla Firefox/webapp-uninstaller.exe

No DEP, No ASLR: /Mozilla Firefox/uninstall/helper.exe
Thanks for posting this. I have never heard of ZURB Foundation before, but it looks like exactly what I need for an upcoming project. Thanks again!
Guy Builds Homebrew Batman Tumbler – Becomes King Of The Internet For A Day
Three South African government websites hacked - Hacker News , Security updates
Stop crowing, London: it’s time to step it up (for startups)
Haven't watched this months Sky at Night yet - not sure that I want to now. Very sad news.

While I love his science writing which is fantastic I still have a rather soft spot for his juvenile SF. "Spy in Space" (a Scott Saunders Space Adventure) was the first novel I bought with my own money at age 7.
DogTube - Cartoon about pet videos
Python Software Foundation will require code of conduct at all sponsored events
To Yelp Or Not To Yelp? Lawsuit Puts The Chill On Bad Reviews
Can't that be due to the lack of fresh air?
As someone who has done a lot of scraping in the past - you just need to change the CSS classnames or re-design your pages once in a while :) This breaks a lot of automated bots that extract semantic meaning from a webpage by using html + regexp parsers.

I would suggest staying away from using JS as it affects genuine users as well (e.g. those who use screen readers).
If you think overpopulation is a real problem, then you have no knowledge of statistics[1], which makes me doubt everything else you said. We'll probably have problem with underpopulation, not overpopulation.

[1]http://xkcd.com/605/
These are standard "tricks" in the high-frequency / low-latency trading space.
One problem with your original remark is that it is openly hostile to women while simultaneously failing to conform to the "scientific" model popular here. You managed to alienate pretty much everyone in one stroke.

If you posit a male-female dynamic, they must be complementary. If male energy is in crisis, so is female. The one requires the other to balance. I was a homemaker for many years. That is a dying role in modern America. But it is the logical and practical complement to the traditional masculine role of going out and conquering the world. It is routinely disrespected by the modern world. You decry what is being done to male energy while actively participating in the modern trend of pissing on the traditional maternal role.

It is no wonder you perceive a crisis. You are shooting yourself in the foot on this one.

Best of luck with sorting out whatever is on your mind.
I think theres a misconception that OS X is in a huge debt to FreeBSD, or even runs it at its core. Apple runs a custom kernel, no relation to FreeBSD, with a mixture of *BSD user land tools--more NetBSD than FreeBSD the last time I looked, but certainly both. That's not nothing, but also not a situation where I'd expect Apple to be donating much.
I just had a torn out page from a magazine with Audi RS4 on it framed and hung on the wall at the eye level. As dumb as it was, it did miracles during the crunch times.
From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward
Some formats are just bad and don't have enough tools, despite their historic popularity. Excel export is one of them- there are not a lot of libraries that reliably read it in all cases, and it isn't even exported properly in many cases (so good luck fixing that). Also changing formats like Apache Hadoop did allows things like sub-linear time (on the master node) file splitting- which is not possible if you are hunting arbitrarily far for matching quotes. So superficially it may look like the opposite of opposing broken formats is "recentism", but there are often good reasons to start over with better trade-offs and better implementations.
The main difference here is he didn't get fired, so no unemployment. Basically they talked him out of 2 weeks wages, as at the time he thought they had the power to just move his resignation date.
That's an awesome list and the last one is hilarious!
... which in itself represents an infinite VS crash-restart cycle that ensues if you ever to mess with a project resource file by hand :)
Pre-Internet. Information overload hadn't been invented yet. We relished whatever rare information we could dig up on what interested us.
There is another common reason companies send people home as soon as they resign: security. These company consider all dissatisfied employees as security risks, and resigning clearly means you are dissatisfied, so they have policies saying upon resignation you'll be escorted from the building. (Usually, to keep it legal, on a 2 week vacation.) This is not too uncommon in financial services.

I consider this flawed reasoning, but the people I've known who where hit by it considered it a nice bonus vacation...
Very good point, thanks!
it's a reputational and data quality issue as well. completely decentralized content distribution doesn't usually work unless there is some kind of curation, there are just too many motivations for disruption. it's not an impossible problem, but long ago ceased being mostly about the technical occupation of shipping bits between nodes.