skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what is to be done?

It really boils down to the US/UK hegemony crumbling, something no small civilian group should be able to effect, which is why this is such a difficult question. As it has been historically, this will almost certainly be due to a combination of a losing war, the rapid economic decline of national economies during a losing war, and finally terrible civil unrest and something like revolution. These will be dark days indeed, whenever they should arrive.

The odds are slim that the new seats of power will be any less abusive/corrupt. An anarchy-leaning person would hope for a largely unfilled power vacuum instead, much like the early Middle Ages in western Europe.
I tried to follow the "fact" that the legal counsel was forcibly subjected to DNA registration, and the link went to the Wikipedia entry for the Pirate Bay raid. Which then linked out the reference for that specific "fact" to a blog that no longer exists. And this was the law student's (the referred-to "legal counsel") blog. Not exactly great.

Also the notion that the Judge in this case somehow picked himself and was corrupt to the bone was completely disproven the last time that site made the front-page on HN on the subject (in the comments section of the article - probably deleted later on).
What does step one "Invite family members or friends in the country you're travelling to." have to do with the app? Are the cards registered in the names of family members or friends?
Crowdfunding Explained Via Drawings
>The point is that stuffing more data-structures into a lisp ruins it.

Could you please support this assertion?
Obviously it's a bit of a stretch. The term is being used here because it's another example of corporations becoming powerful enough to impose their will on the the justice system of a territorial state.
Well back in the 90s we kept the machines lean more because disk space was fucking expensive.
Seems like you could more or less test out the setup with your current machine but VMs on a remote server so you could get an idea of the latency and see how well it works for you.

It seems like a reasonable idea to me if you always have a fast connection.
Suckless Philosophy and Manifesto
But we are talking about something different for the case of Cocos2D:Ricardo Quesada (Cocos2D owner) has made specific GPU optimizations for the framework himself on iOS.
Why We Have a Right to Consumer Genetics
Feeling [Lucky|Stellar|Doodley|...]
On the Google Home Page https://www.google.com/ just hover over the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on the Google Home page. It randomly spins to feeling lucky or stellar or doodley and each takes you to a different page on the web.
Python is the only line in this graph with a steady upward slope. I think it's fair to say it's the language of the decade if you're not looking at market share, but growth.
> mandatory Unity interface

Mandatory?

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

* log out
* choose kde
* log in
"It seems bbc did not link the company's website"

The Beeb has to remain non-partisan commercially (in the UK at least) as they are tax payer funded - I guess inclusion of a link could constitute some form of advertising and might upset other companies.

A pure e-ink device might not appeal to users expecting a nokia/apple/samsung like screen response ("wot? No colours?") which I imagine would eliminate it from market. [I would love such a device]
Bill Gates was the founder... Larry Page is the founder... Ford was the founder... Bezos is the founder
Previous discussion
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382
Who isn't extremely left wing compared to the US?
I think BrB 23:4 is relevant. Aiding a criminal act is in itself a crime.

So the argument of "they're not distributing content themselves" is invalid. The argument should be about the legality of file sharing, property and ownership.
Last update was 4 months ago..is this still an active project?
Upvoting it even though it's a pretty old piece and has appeared on HN before. A very inspirational piece of work, and a creatively fun way to learn about the ubiquitous ELF format.
Just to point out other options, Lime[0] is a JS game engine that's almost an exact clone of Cocos2D. So it's also a good JS choice if you like the Cocos2D way of doing things.

[0] http://www.limejs.com/
Polaroid wants to print your Instagrams
Why would they register that domain? From Wikipedia:

Under .US nexus requirements .US domains may be registered only by the following qualified entities:

• Any United States citizen or resident,

• Any United States entity, such as organizations or corporations,

• Any foreign entity or organization with a bona fide presence in the United States

To ensure that these requirements are met, NeuStar frequently conducts "spot checks" on registrant information.
And it only took 25 years since the language was born for the those tools to become available!

In all seriousness, C++ is extremely difficult for automated tools to work with, including C++ compilers.
Well, they're not betting with real money, are they?
Why not? I don't see a reason to use it myself, but hey, a diverse software ecosystem is a healthy one, and good ideas can come from anywhere. So, "yes".
Why Do Stars Think It's O.K. To Sell Soda?
Let's be honest here. He didn't use a Nexus 7 as his phone. He got rid of his phone and carried a tablet instead. I think this distinction is relevant because a data connection is all that matters. The source of the data connection doesn't.
Relevant discussion from an hour ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016357
Is Google committing a crime if it indexes a CP site? Are you committing a crime if somebody links to CP in your blog's comments? Of course not. Having a link to something is not a crime.
At first I was about to dismiss this as TIOBE-like crap. But giving it a second thought, there is a deep difference in methodology.

TIOBE - language is popular if "<language> tutorial" brings up lots of results on Google
This page - language is popular if many people searched "<language> tutorial".

It's not hard to see that the second one is a much more interesting metric. That said, it's still far from being enough to evaluate a language's popularity. On the other hand, it can be at least mildly correlated with the amount of people wanting to learn said language over the measured period of time.
And why is it that women get a pass for being sexist, but men don't? If women want to be treated equally, then it should be okay if men refuse to attend their conference talks as well, right? After all, we're only doing what they're already doing.
> I don't know what to think about web-apps based operating systems like Firefox OS yet,

I think it is a mistake. A modern operating system, particularly on mobile where power management and security are concerns, needs a mature well-optimized managed code environment to write middleware and more complicated applications in - hence Objective-C with automatic reference counting on iOS and Java/Dalvik on Android.

HTML5 for all uses under the sun is going to either underperform users' expectations or drain power, or both; and letting unmanaged C applications in is a recipe for disaster.

I would like to be excited about this, but I do not think the architecture as presented makes any sense.
It's a neat idea and I'm glad bitcoin is moving forward, but to me this is really dirty business to be in.
I also own an x1 carbon -- it's a great laptop, linux runs on it flawlessly. If the battery was changable it would be perfect.

I've not had a problem with the keyboard, and I also own a thinkpad with a "real" thinkpad keyboard. I wouldn't say I prefer one over the other, they're both solid keyboards.
True that!

> "As soon as a name becomes known, all sorts of political shifting occurs. They've got several layers of scapegoats and fall-guys to take the hit when abuse of power, corruption and treasonous behavior are provable."

After political shift/transfer bring out the new profiles and names. I am sure their number wouldn't be more than let' say - Facebook? :)
> How is luring a thief into your apartment considered a good idea?

This is the most important question. Thinking of the potential fallout is absolutely terrifying.
Huh? You link to your Twitter and Github in your profile, are you representing Twitter and Github by doing so?
This all makes today a very good day. :D
Your Next Computer: In Your Car, On Your Face, On You Wrist Or In Your Ear?
The new gen ones are getting there. Triton eInk colour is capable of animation, though it's all dithered. Epson make some good fast chips to drive these displays. It's great that there's good progress being made with these. They're much better in sunlight than backlit LCD's IMHO. A pleasure to read.
Ask HN: Willing to trade one video feedback for one startup tshirt?
1. Take out your iPhone or video recorder

2. Tell us one thing you love about Poutsch or one thing you want us to change (https://poutsch.com)

3. Send the video to hello@poutsch.com

4. Receive your Poutsch t-Shirt (looks like http://blog.poutsch.com/2013/01/06/win-a-poutsch-t-shirt/)
Formatting tip: Instead of typing <p> literally into a text box on HN, you can press enter twice. HN parses a (very limited) subset of Markdown[1].

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
Anarchy and other ideas for self rule
You should get a tattoo across your chest that says "HN means the world to me" then make a youtube video about this of you crying screaming "DON'T ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH HN" <p> Thank you.
"Open source software is not made for average users. Everything from the interface to the installation procedures on most open source software is designed under the assumption that the end user is familiar with CMD/Terminal commands and bizarre user interface"

False. This article seems to just be spreading FUD about open source.
Interesting point. This will be dependent on the site receiving significant traffic will it not? If the CDN node you go through doesn't have an open connection it will be slower. If that CDN node isn't getting new traffic it's going to close it. It's only going to hold that connection for a reasonable length of time.
Ask HN: Using a trademark in a domain name.
I have a pretty good geographical specific domain name which makes use of the word Java (there's a massive java market here).
I am worried that if I go live with my niche java jobs board that I will get a DMCA / cease and desist from Oracle as it's their trademark.

Any thoughts?
I don't call myself "Some Dude from Github" or "Some Dude From Twitter." In a social context, when you choose a handle, yur being very specific about identifying a connection between yourself and anything your handle represents.
Me and four friends all got Pre 1s or Pixi Pluses, and every one of our phones broke the same way, the non-speakerphone microphone stopped working, so I had to make all my calls on speaker.

Before that the rubberized back came off all three of my colored back pieces for the Pixi.
Mars Curiosity rover discovers unusual flower-like object | Science Recorder
The point is that the more of the details you have committed to memory, the better your able to "think outside of the box" because your limited cognitive capacity is not bogged down by the minutia. The analogy of fluency in natural language I think is very relevant. The difference in complexity of thought between someone fluent in a language vs someone just learning isn't a matter of intelligence, its a matter of having the building blocks of thought committed to memory. The more of the details that are second nature, the higher level of thought that results. I don't see why this is any different when it comes to programming.
Nice summary, but there's also QUEUE/YOU somewhere in there.
Actually, I put two returns in there and HN put the malformed paragraph tags in for me :-S
I don't know about Sweden, but at least in Dutch the term is increasingly used in discussions about corruption in Western countries as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
It would be better to start convincing people of the value of not associating one expression of opinion with the entirety of a community.
You are the nicest person I've met today, but it's early yet.
Founders can (should?) become part of management teams as their startups grow.
It's ok if you like running raw queries. But there's no decent orm you can use to abstract away the sql. node-orm does exist, but is currently very much alpha quality and does not offer nearly as many features as other orms in other languages.
Mahindra Pops up in two wheeler industry with new Centuro and Pantero
Thanks! These keep getting better and better.
I was never in academia, but I was a researcher (at NASA) so I played the publishing game. And if you look at my record, I was relatively good at it. Not only was my publications list fairly long, but my work was also pretty widely referenced. But since my career no longer depends on it, I am now free to say that I credit my success almost entirely to gaming the system. This is not to say that I didn't do good work (I think I did), but there was virtually no correlation between what I thought was quality work and what I actually got rewarded for. The vast majority of my publications were minor tweaks on previous work that were specifically engineered to get past the program committees of key conferences. My best work (by my own quality metric) either went unnoticed, or could not get accepted for publication at all. When it got to the point where I was faced with a very stark choice between continuing to produce bullshit and get rewarded for it, or to do what I thought was good work and eventually get fired, I quit.
Introduction to Microcontrollers - Part I
I don't think that people's problems with perl < 5.0 was it's lack of "object oriented" features. Perl's object system is quite interesting, but orthogonal to the perceived ickiness of perl the language.
I think this person probably didn't want to use their real name (fair enough, these debates can get vitriolic) but wanted to make it clear that they're familiar with the ongoing debate about this topic on HN (I think it has come up enough times to be considered an "ongoing debate").

If I wanted to indicate those things above, how else should I do it? I guess I could include a preamble to my comment explaining it, but that's still going involve mentioning HN.
This betting site has a really stupid betting system. It appears that the amount of money you receive isn't based on a pricing of the bet, as is done on all real prediction markets, but based on a simple payout of all the bets received on the other side of the bet by the end of the bet date. This system has two practical consequences: 1. You can't determine the markets current probability estimates from the current state of the market, as you can with priced markets. 2. You should never bet until the last second so you can know the odds for the bet. In fact, it would make sense to create a sniping bot that would programmatically calculate the odds, compare them to your probability estimate, and only make the bet if it is favorable. There is another site called Bets of Bitcoin (http://betsofbitco.in/) that has similarly dumb rules.

Edit: It appears that they actually tilt the payouts of bets based on an arbitrary weighting factor towards earlier bettors (arbitrary in that it doesn't at all take into account changing risk circumstances or likely levels of risk decay as a real market would), in some undisclosed fashion. I recommend that no one bet on this highly flawed system.
Hm, maybe I'm wrong about that applying to posts. Or maybe there's a bug.

At any rate, sorry for implying you didn't know about the formatting.
Is the problem here the syntax of saying "some dude from HN" vs. "some dude on HN?"
Do we really need competition ?
I will clarify that I liked the Pre but the hardware always came out 6 months too late.

The Touchpad was decent hardware but it was up against the iPad 2. The 16gig version was $499 yet the camera function didn't even work correctly when it was released! It should have been released at $399 at the most. Who at HP made this decision? Did they really think they could justify $499 for hardware that had fewer apps and 1 camera instead of 2 and was thicker than the iPad2?!
Is there really something like a "save way"? Every expressed knowledge can be wrong in the end. You can increase your level of certainty by checking the origin of the information, reputation of source and author, or by measuring against common sense.

What degree of certainty is needed for - looking up a subject you are generally interested in? A undergrad paper? A local newspaper journalist? A doctoral thesis?

90% of my Wikipedia usage falls in the category of self-education and general interest. Wikipedia is certainly a safe source for that.
Because the W500 doesn't support more than 8GB ram and uses the old Sata 3Gb/s interface which I believe would be a bottleneck with the latest SSD's.
Show HN: weather forecast in realtime
I'd love Objective-C if I could do just a little bit more with it. iOS and OSX are great, yes, but I don't just code clients all day. A few more libraries for heavy lifting server side coding would be fantastic.
Chakra Linux 2013.01 brings KDE Software Compilation 4.9.5
But running code through a compiler is akin to making sure the statements in a proof "make sense." The proof as a whole can be complete rubbish, which still making sense at a page by page level. I can't work out if you're trolling, or if you really don't understand my point.

A lot of undergraduate mathematics has been converted into forms that automated proof checkers can work with, and have verified. But new math just isn't like that. It's not yet well understood, it's got small gaps and bits that are wrong in inconsequential ways, and it's got an over-arching sense of purpose and meaning. Trying to convert a recently produced proof into a form amenable to checking is just not going to happen, and by the time it is understood well enough, and completed to a sufficient level of detail to make it possible in a sensible amount of time, it's pretty much pointless.
That's a really interesting perspective, I will chew on it. Thanks!
Intent makes a big difference here.
Most of the stories I see that claim how the US is some type of a corrupt police state are selectively filtering and misreporting reality.

There was a story that made the rounds a while ago…

A felon flees police in a car, and later specifically swerves left to run-over the cop up ahead that is trying to deploy spikes on the road, and ends up running over his legs.

Minutes later that felon crashes the car.

At the same time cops run out on him (while lying on the ground) and (having learned of him trying to kill the other cop), react badly and give him a half-a-dozen or less punches and kicks ... lasts a few seconds.

When the media reported on this, they cut out everything but a man laying on the ground and a group of white cops attacking him.

Everyone had a field-day on the internet saying how this was a police state.

But no one acknowledged that the same exact day, 100s of thousands of cops did their job, stopping crime and protecting the citizens. Some risking their lives to do so.
I had 2 problems in 10yrs with Hetzner, very very few.
I'm pretty sure you still need all the jquery plugins / css files bundled with bootstrap. This is not a matter of cdn or not this is a matter of bloated libraries that try to do to much things at once. If you want that you can still use ExtJs...
Of course I am biased, just like any other publication. The principal difference is that I openly declare my bias, and try to provide alternate sources for verification.

Cheers,
Rick
I would love to use it but last time this came up (almost a year ago), people voiced security concerns.

Any different perspectives on this now?
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Yeah, I can't disagree with any of what you've said here. The TouchPad was one device in the Palm family I never picked up, since the writing was on the wall for WebOS then.
Ideas are the only place to start a startup. Without the idea on how to solve your problem you have nothing.

Nothing to fail with, nothing to execute on, nothing to keep you going.
You're thinking of another judge, in the Netherlands. I haven't written in English about this subject before AFAIK.
Because Google and you are not setting out explicitly to build a set of links to copyrighted material against the wishes of the copyright holder. It's all about intent. If I go to a high-street store called "Kitchen Goods" and buy a knife, that store's fine. If I go to a store called "Jay's back-alley shivs" run out of the inside breast of his raincoat between 02:00 and 04:00, he's probably not fine.

The law recognises intent in most situations, and the Pirate Bay exists to provide access to expensive-to-create content without compensating the people who made it. Hence, they have problems (and justifiably so).
The article sounds a little like business studies 101, but I think it's a good read and a lot of people should think first before investing in a business.
What does a Product Manager at Facebook do?
> Wikipedia is certainly a safe source for that.

Until you want to know about India-Portugal relations.
Illegitimate - no. It's my site and I can confirm that. I've been working hard on it for quite some time.

Suspicious - well, that depends on exactly what you are suspecting.

Cheers,
Rick
I love mosh, I've been using it since it was released and it's been working flawlessly.
The problem is having no better way to identify yourself than HN. It's like how it's perfectly fine to mention what your Reddit username is, but posting on YouTube "LE REDDIT ARMY IS HERE LE LE" is uncool.
That's because we already have a word for a base two growth: doublings. Being engineers and having two words, it's best to be maximally precise by assigning each a distinct, unambiguous meaning.
What does popularity means anyway ? i do javascript all day, i hate it , i prefer python or C# , does that make it popular ? to me no.
Should entrepreneurs discuss politics on social media?
Yes, sometimes it's misreported.
Many times it's spot on: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/
Actually no, the tiny island of Malta where i'm currently stationed has only recently seen it's first retail Apple store (not official Apple store) and they lock the laptops down for security reasons such that you cannot pick them up to test how they feel and weigh in the hand. Crazy, I know.
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Sweden has been a close ally of USA ever since the end of WWII. This was necessary due to our location near the USSR.

We might not rely on direct aid but with a small (nowadays) military and an export oriented economy being friends with USA is beneficial.
The Pirate Bay is indeed a technical trailblazer. Not necessarily for back-end architecture or user experience, but damn, the site is resilient against anything you throw at it.

Pretty much every Power That Be <tm> has tried to bring the site down, and it still stands.

That's amazing.

Cheers,
Rick
Just under 5'9", which I suppose is a fairly average height. Re: vaguely viable, I'd say my main prima facie drawback is very thin hair on top.

There's no doubt in my mind that shorter men have a tougher time, but I don't think it's limited to online dating. One thing I've (anecdotally) seen help shorter men is a muscular physique, but I agree that a short man will likely have a higher ratio of first dates to relationships. It's not like a successful relationship is out of the question, but the process of attaining it can be longer and more emotionally taxing.