skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PSY - GANGNAM STYLE - 1B views
Would we say that WQHT 97.1 FM in NYC is not a music broadcasting business just because it's listeners don't pay for the service? Would we argue that a lot of users threatening to stop listening is meaningless because they can't stop paying the station?
It's actually much easier to disprove the fact that the bible is literally true by reading the first few pages, where the creation of Adam and Eve is told in two different ways: one where they are created at the same time and the other with the famous rib.
> It might not be appropriate for you, but a good way to handle MySQL backups is to maintain a mirror.

DELETE * FROM business_critical_data; WHERE obsolete = true;

You were saying? :D
What is "at-will employment"?
Yeah, although it pretty much depends on how you define bible.

The Catholics use the KJV with the Apocrypha inserted between the OT and NT. Most of the denominational churches (loosely what you referred to as Protestants) use similar bibles unless you want to be picky over their use of different translations or get into which original manuscript they were translated from. And that's just getting warmed up. I'm into this stuff.
I wish there were a way to make a repo an archive, an inactive repo, so it doesn't count towards your private repo count. The same goes for deprecated repos.

I still have some older repos I keep around because they show how (poorly) I coded way back when, and I don't plan on showing that to potential employers perusing my account. :P
kind of similar to cloud app, accept with out the personal touch.
You can't really speak for everyone who does not believe in the Bible. Intolerant atheists are not exactly rare, nor are followers of other religions who are not very accepting of bible-believers.

Don't be so sensitive. I said "slightly", but it is definitely belittling.

edited for clarity
None of that is mentioned in the linked page or the pledge. What I see is:

>In the coming weeks and months, we must come together around common-sense solutions that will prevent the gun violence that has become all too frequent in communities across the country. We welcome everyone to this dialogue—we want to hear from gun owners who think it's time for a change as well as folks who are still on the fence.

From some quick google searching it seems you are referring to the different "demand a plan" campaign. That was never linked to in this moment of silence.

edit: to your edit, I'm pretty sure it's a different group of people, even if they are related.
Great question, here's the scoop!

The corporate-ir site is actually part of Thomson Reuters and our press releases end up there.

If a particular AWS release includes both a press release and a blog post, the press release goes out first.

After the release shows up in public I publish the blog post and submit it to HN.

Quantum fluctuations of the universe caused the press release to get more votes than the blog post and that's why it's on the front page.
I wouldn't recommend gentoo
as a beginner's distro. Way to throw a newbie into the deep end and potentially alienate them to linux forever
I love the community of languages that have adopted LLVM as a back-end: http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#external-open-source-...

Pure, FAUST, Julia, Clay are all very promising and I didn't know about Open Shading Language or Portable OpenCL.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/

[2] http://faust.grame.fr/

[3] http://julialang.org/

[4] http://claylabs.com/clay/

[5] https://github.com/imageworks/OpenShadingLanguage/

[6] http://pocl.sourceforge.net/
I Use Ugly Languages
I think you are exactly right. If you are a sensible person the story is the low hanging fruit for any "not literally true" argument but if you are some sort of biblical literalist then the story is the obvious starting point. If you can get people to buy into that one, the rest fall like dominoes.
Thank you. I shall both upvote your original comment and thank you for your update to your original comment.

I am one of those literal word of God people, but that kinda comes with the territory as a pastor. :-)
It would be a tremendous gain for the project if someone zipped up an all-in-one, ready to use package for Windows consisting of Clang and working standard libraries for C and C++. It doesnt (yet) need to be the new libc++ STL, a copy of the GCC libstdc++ libs would be enough.
"Apparently not, if you claim to be aware of what ID is and make this defense against lazy apologism."

No need to attack me personally.

ID is: The theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity[1].

That's what I understood it to be, and that is what I believe. If I've given the impression that I believe it to be something else, I apologize for that.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=define+intelligent+design...
But I thought the new terms didn't change anything and we shouldnt be worried about them. What changed with that made up point?
Australia also has some interesting history with daylight savings. I remember it being used for a discussion of DateTimeOffset in .net because it could showcase all the different scenarios.
In addition to the first book of the Bible, I would suggest checking out the first chapter of Why Evolution is True. I found it to be an extremely elightening introduction to evolution. It hit that sweet spot of having just enough technical information while still being a "page turner." I ended up reading the thing in two sittings.

At the very least, it would give you a more credible line of argument by explaining why you disagree with the theory of evolution, rather than citing a very old, often incorrect book.
There are also fairly epic floods or lands lost to floods in fairly recent times (i.e. since the last ice age):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

Not to mention a large tsunami in an area where you really wouldn't expect it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide

Part of me sort of wishes there was some kind of record of these events - even if it was a bit mangled.
Does the author of this article believe that computing power is measured in feet?

Seeing some of the hype of raspi is kindof sad. It's a linux box. It's a small, cheap linux box, but it's just a linux box.
You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If... you assume that your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail.

http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html#e-postag...
See my comment to your other comment for a response re: the definition of ID.

I understand that you believe me to be irrational. I do not believe that God guided our development at all. I believe God created all of creation ex nihilo, from nothing. I understand that you believe differently, I respect that. I just ask that you do the same for me.
a mirror, a mirror, my republic for a mirror!
No.

What we really need is timezones that are always straight hour offsets of UTC, and no DST. With that simplified, we'd keep the benefits of timezones but have less problems dealing with them.
That is exactly why I switched to Arch linux a few years ago :)

I love Arch's KISS approach and the ease of administration. Gentoo is an incredibly customizable distro that leaves quite a lot up to the end user, and because of that it can be a great learning distro for some people. But yes - at the time I made my switch I was becoming impatient with time time I was putting into administering it.
If you are the first hire, have a market rate salary, post angel round, I think the going rate is around .1% to 2% (on the high end) vested over 4 years or whatever. But seconding most of what other people are saying, the stock options are most likely worth 1 month's salary at best with the default value of $0. Thus, it's better to negotiate for better salary.
Though not for coining it.
I fail to understand the point to this. People have been building GSM base stations with $1,500 USRPs for years (not knocking the USRP, awesome piece of test equipment; it has been on my wish list for years now). So someone tacked a $35 Raspberry Pi to it.

Now turning a Raspberry Pi into a USRP for $35, that would be disruptive.
Eh... I get what you mean, but I think (as an example of many) the whole business of stamping out sword "replicas" of famous swords from fiction establishes a precedent for using the word like that.
We’re all living longer, but longevity increases not benefitting everybody
Is anybody else still waiting for their license keys? I reached the confirmation screen (which I saved, hooray) but I've yet to see an email, charge on my credit card, or receive anything else. My order was 20+ hours ago.
This is a personal opinion, so please ignore if you do not agree. I feel there is too much adulation (perhaps bordering on unhealthy, even) around github and its services. So, every thriving alternative (to github) is very welcome in my view.

(git is a great VCS, etc., etc. But other VCS' are not exactly unworkable, you know)

This might be OT but, I am genuinely curious.

Why not SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/)? They are the grand-daddy of free and open hosting. They have been around for ages and providing free hosting services to all and sundry for as long as I can recall. I for one, am very grateful for their support of all the various open projects and the FOSS community support, before FOSS took off like it took off now. I have benefitted and continue to benefit from many a project even to this day -- and I am sure many of you all do use SF hosted projects too. One example, all the portable apps for example, are hosted with Sourceforge. So, why not use them and show your support? (Vote with your purse, etc., etc.)

P.S:- I don't have anything to do with SF. I am just interested in other thoughts and views.

EDIT: And Sourceforge actually allow you to host binaries unlike the recently inexplicable github rule of we will allow you to upload large, cutesy cat photos in comments, but disable hosting of binaries

Am I the only one who also enjoyed SF's newly revamped UI to keep with the times?

EDIT 2: They have recently started a monthly campaign called "Featured Projects" on their blog to highlight projects that don't have active work being done on them. So if one is interested one can "adopt a project" and nurture it back to health and relevance. E.g.: http://sourceforge.net/blog/featured-projects-2012120/

And then there is the "Project of the month" http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm/

EDIT 3: In case others are interested (or may not be aware, as the case may be), there are also other VCS and free around those VCS repositories. Sharing it out of interest.

E.g.: https://launchpad.net/bzr

https://launchpad.net/
I used Clang 3.1 to compile some small C programs on Windows, and the only problem I ran into was Clang defaulting the search paths based on the compiler used to build Clang itself. So, kind of goofy that Clang usage depends on whether you used MinGW or MSVC to build it (why isn't it compiling itself, anyway?), but easy enough to work around by adding the search paths on the command line.
Referring to "Bible fanatics" is no more intolerant than referring to "Tolkien fanatics". If you're being downvoted, it's because you're applying an inappropriate and prejudicial label.
I do not find this to be the case here on HN.

When there are difficult or tragic circumstances and we believers speak up to try to help or encourage, we get voted up, but the rest of the time, we get downvotes and negative responses.
This seems like it could go well with a gumroad integration so you could sell things as well. Haven't really thought through it much but it could be interesting.
Even if you're not religious, you don't know whether or not such an ark ever existed. Even if you don't believe in the Bible as being an accurate recording of events, it's still possible that some of the stories could have been based, even in part, on actual events.

Let's take Noah's Ark for example. It has been claimed that there is evidence that such a flood may have actually taken place [1]. It's even been claimed by some explorers that they found remains of a large ark-like vessel (though the fact that these explorers were evangelical Christians makes the credibility dubious, and thus seems unlikely) [2].

I'm not saying whether or not this stuff happened or whether or not I believe it. All I'm saying is, given that stories could be based, even if exaggerated, on actual events, and given that unbelievable feats of engineering and construction exist from long ago, like the pyramids for example; it seems closed-minded to make disingenuous and dismissive statements about something we don't know with certainty.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/evidence-noahs-floo...

[2] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100428-noahs...
Thanks for the recc goostavos, I (truly) will check it out. Thanks also for being amiable.
>I wonder if China will ever have a revolution

I think, personally, that the Chinese government will just get more democratic over time. It's worth noting that China is certainly moreso now than it was a few decades ago.
How can he impound it if there was no contract saying how much he will pay for it?
They do it all the time, at the very least in the form of lobbying. Sometimes they do public advocacy that is more direct. The affairs of state can affect a company in the same way that it can affect individuals, so it can be in the interest of business to butt heads with politicos.
I love how everyone just accuses Instagram users of being irrational here. Maybe they just realized that Facebook pulls this same shit over and over and when Facebook bought Instagram and started making changes, people felt they were doing the same thing as Facebook and left. There is a reason you don't shit on your users and then mock them, it makes them stop trusting your brand, which is what happened here. The response would have been different if GOOG, Twitter or even Yahoo had bought Instagram because they seem to communicate with their users in a way other than talking down to them.

One of the things that bothered me the most about this is as an ex-Facebook employee, its pretty obvious when the PR machine gets revved up. The second people pointed out that these terms weren't ideal for the user, I would guess 20 of my facebook friends posted articles basically mocking the idea that these terms were bad and boom, because Facebooks internal PR team says that the terms are good, anyone who disagrees is stupid and naive. Great way to deal with your users, mock and talk down to them because of a mistake you made. I bet the WarZ developers are proud of Facebook today.
I wonder how many people started writing a reply to you, attempted a few drafts, but ended up just slowly removing their hands from the keyboard, turning off their computer, and sinking their face firmly into their palm, never to return to HN again.
Show HN: A DNS server that removes the top million domains
You are right that "pay to send" solves the spam problem. But gmail filters spam so well that this is already a solved problem.

Additionally, the sidebar ads in google or facebook are auctioned off to the highest bidder. So users are already receiving improved targeting based on pay-to-send. The only problem I see this solving for users, is that they collect the money instead of facebook or google.

That is very little money on a per-user basis. So it's not solving a meaningful problem.

I agree that there is huge potential in "pay-to-send." But this marketing appears to be off-the-mark.
He is really bad at titles[0] and he also seems to publishing one article every 3 hours. Journalism surely has changed.

[0]http://m.techcrunch.com/bloggers/darrell-etherington?icid=tc...
I understand that to be your opinion. I (and most Christians) however, have a different opinion: that there absolutely is a contradiction. I wouldn't call it a fact.
Please don't refer to atheists as "militant" unless they're wielding weapons and waging wars for atheism. There really are militant groups in this world, many of them militant in support of their religion; it's utterly unfair to put "atheists who oppose religion on Internet discussion boards" in the same group as true militants.
You probably know this already, but you can use a cheap DVB-T usb dongle with a RTL2832U chipset to do a lot of things that used to require an USRP [1]. You can't transmit though.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR
I am a heavy Trello user. I would say it, Asana, new Basecamp and Flow have pieces of ActionMethod in them.
It left me wondering: could smaller rocky planets have rings or would their gravity pull not be enough to maintain them?
I selected several TLDs if that helps.
To be fair,

In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone making $STATEMENT, approaches 1.
It appears someone has done some work on it. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%2...

I gave it a very quick look however got missing DLL messages (pthreadGC2) when trying to compile. I don't have the time to look into it today, hopefully over the Christmas break I will be able to get it working. If I do I will look at how sensible it is to maintain a similar Windows build. A standard Windows build available as an archive or an installer would be great.

EDIT: The error messages look like they may be related to Cygwin although I could be totally wrong on that, it is just the readme mentions Cygwin but nothing else :)
I think that assumes some serious hand waving on the part of both your app and the api's. Assuming that just pointing at the root of another API is going to mean your app will magically behave properly using both API's is making a lot of assumptions either in your app about how the API's work. For example, say one API calls a delete call "delete", another calls it "remove", another calls it "obliterate", and at the same time one API takes an id on that method as input, another takes an email address, another takes a username. In that scenario your app might be written to remove something based off an id and when you switch API's the new one expects you to obliterate based on username. Hypermedia doesn't save you there.

I'm all for pluggable protocols and standards, but Hypermedia links in your API don't magically get you there. They might help, but no more than a standard spec with standard URL patterns would.
Second, it assumes that the USPTO's search actually works well (it does not).

Google Patent Search may help https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts
UK parliamentarians edit their Wikipedia pages from the parliament
New metamaterial lens focuses radio waves
Same, too little too late for me. Kind of figured they'd find themselves in a big enough pickle to have to revert back. But the tos changes gave me the spark I needed to escape. Instagram is no where near essential enough to my life to pull shit like that. I like how everyone started posting articles like, "you wouln't do it"...About how everyone makes empty threats about quitting in times like this but never does. I found the decision easy. And i'm probably better off for it. A stack of burnt out 612x612 images was useful 10 years ago, the novelty is far past gone.
Your point about "Tolkien fanatics" is a good one, but I was not reacting to just one word. As a Toby Mac fan, I like to refer to myself as a Jesus Freak, so mere labels aren't the issue. It's the tone of the whole comment and the inference that one who believes the bible is the literal word of God is an unwise and foolish person.
If you're in the mood and fast, you can prefix each line with 4 spaces to get the more traditional monospaced layout of that.
Ask HN: Can anyone really learn iOS in 8 weeks?
People continue to be in disbelief when I tell them we took five amazing people who have little to no experience with code and helped them become employable iOS developers in 8 weeks during our pilot program this past fall at the Mobile Makers Academy (http://mobilemakers.co)

I've had this conversation with so many people and the feedback is typically "iOS is so much harder than Ruby on Rails, you need more than 8 weeks". I'm assuming this comes from the lack of experience with compiled languages, memory management, etc.

What are your thoughts on being able to learn iOS in 8 weeks and becoming a jr. developer? Is it possible?
Haskell and Rust are also worthy of mention here.
Hacking Audio with Node.js
Also this lot: http://www.lightbuckets.com/
Great response.

I would think it took some time to compose that. Out of curiosity, is this procrastinating before finals, or is this free time after finals?
You are kidding, right? Unless you have some really weird definition of "large animal" in mind.
For many, it might be too much. For me, and possibly others, it was exactly what was needed. I wanted to learn about things like partitioning (I had just destroyed my family's HDD while using another distro's GUI installer, and wanted to know how do it the right way). I tend to be a bottom-up learner. Years later, when I started studying computer science at a university, I would be more interested in assembly than java. The approach has served me well, but others certainly benefit from learning in other ways.
Slick 1.0.0-RC1 released (Scala database query API)
Well, with a functional mirror to run manual queries against, you wouldn't be running the risk of running such a query on your prod DB anyway. But yeah, you still need a dump.
Simplest website content management system
Two things that are missing from Gist's for me:

1. The ability to save a commit message with revisions of a file in a Gist

2. The ability to reference a specific revision of a Gist file when embedding it.

But yeah the login thing is pretty annoying.
The Complete Guide Of What's To Blame For Our Debt Problem
You missed my favorite LLVM-based project, ispc[1].

In a nutshell, it brings nVidia's SPMD programming model to normal SIMD-capable processors. Any CUDA code out there is almost trivial to convert.

[1] http://ispc.github.com/
You can run your daily/hourly backups on the mirror and not impact performance on your main database.
The article references the phrase "the cities of the coast shall tremble" as being in the New Testament [1] but the closest verse I could find is Ezekiel 26:18 [2] which is in the Old Testament.

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/science/slideshow/2012/12/12/man-buil...

[2] http://studybible.info/LITV/Ezekiel%2026:18
snowy here and winds gusted all night. It is almost noon here.
If you have to reply to get paid, you could hire someone on oDesk to reply to your gramicon mails for $3/hr.
Great question. GO.CO is the registry that owns the cTLD and "resells" to GoDaddy. GoDaddy and other registrars are essentially resellers of each TLD, if that makes sense.

Another way to put it... GO.CO as the registry makes money every time GoDaddy, NameCheap, etc sell or renew a .CO domain.
On-demand pricing is $4.60 at the moment which isn't bad considering what you get ($110 per day; $3300ish per month)

Well, depends on what you compare to.

The reserved price for 3 years is quite revealing in this case;
So Amazon asks $16924 upfront and... wait, $17k upfront?

You can buy an equivalent supermicro box with 24x2T, 192G Ram (not 128) for $10k. Thus if you rent the reserved EC2 variant for 3 years you end up paying at least a 4x markup versus housing a dedicated box.
The most shared, saved & cited academic papers in 2012
Doesn't seem too kooky, there's $163 billion spent every year to do just that: http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/dispannouncements?article=1590
The "free market" is an oxymoron. You can't have markets without at least property rights, and property rights are a regulation that take away the most basic freedom of the human animal: the freedom to kill what it can and take what it can.

Don't pretend that we are arguing about anything more than the merits of particular kinds of regulations. It's intellectually lazy.
I thought it was industry norm to link a press release to the blog post. In that case, the blog post would go out first. What's the reason you decided to send out release first? I'm genuinely curious about the reasoning.