skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's to minimize, when the only potential victim of his actions said that were not harmed (and indeed they were not)?

What conflation? Do you think criminal charges for violating a website's terms are not ridiculous? Do you use adblock?

If you think democratic forces in the US are still working properly, I can see why you'd find realism to be melodramatic.

And finally, if you think powerful enemies in the US amount to nothing, you are again extremely naive.

In any case let's hope you aren't caught using adblock and violating a website's terms and being completely financially ruined in the pretrial stages of a frivolous prosecution.
Air Force Commander calls Iran's suspected program 'a force to be reckoned'
Remixers give credit.

This is actually an interesting part of the culture around copyright: People seem to think copyright law is actually about plagiarism, so as long as they explicitly say they don't own something they're in the clear. It doesn't work like that, but it's how people seem to want the law to work.

What's more, plagiarism is reliably punished using whatever social means the community has. As we see here, in fact: Mentioning it is pretty much the only recourse left, so that's what we do.
UUID, not UDID. The latter is an unique identifier for iOS devices.
See who any Facebook messages are posted to
On Facebook when accessing messages, you can change the message id in the URL and see for any message who it is posted to.

e.g. try this in your Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/messages/503348860
or see a screenshot here:
http://postimage.org/image/a6w7x76yv/

It doesn't show the message so I can't think of a serious problem but I'm not sure I should be able to see who a message was posted to.
Correct. That is pretty much exact reproduction of Google's statement when they cut off Facebook access to Gmail contacts. The irony.
If you simplify like so, it is still push and pull. One less thing to type.
Huh? They actually charge a hefty fee for publishing: http://www.plos.org/publish/pricing-policy/publication-fees/

The donations and open-access merchandise are a nice extra.

They are turning fabulous profits (almost $3 million in 2010; $4 million in 2011 -- these are net profits), but, being a non-profit, must invest them back in the organization.
Thank you for your reply Peter. This information is priceless. In ~6 months we will release something and we're starting to think how to make it to these sites. So again, thanks!
Hi,

Sorry I deleted my links, I was one of the first comments and just wanted to compliment you without appearing like publicizing myself. I'm founder of 360cities.net, panomonkey.com and sphericam.com. I wish you had contacted me before, even if you wanted to fly solo on your project I would have been happy to at least point you in the right direction on some stuff. :) Please do contact me at 360cities on the g mail domain or skype jeffrey.s.martin, would love to hear more!

cheers!
Anonymous contributions with git
I used to enjoy creating simple animations for basic algorithms.

You can try writing a program that displays animations of different sorting algorithms (a nice way to compare the sorting algorithms). You can make the animations something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bubble_sort_animation.gif

Also, you could display an animation for the Tower of Hanoi problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi)

Try exporting the output as .gif and have fun.
Have you studied the subject? I doubt it, so please stop. Paparazzi usually focus on public figures like actors, which don't have the same rights over their own image, since they have voluntarily exposed themselves to the public.
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The site describes the popup as an "overlay." Another commenter used the words "div popup."

I'm writing this on a machine with Chromium and Firefox on a nearly new Linux Mint 14 install (all packages are up-to-date) with no browser extensions or other weirdness. When I click the "Pay with Card" button in the article, both browsers open it in a new tab.

Are my browsers broken, is Stripe's code broken, or is there some miscommunication about what the button is supposed to do?
I'm not sure whether a constantly growing economy is good or bad. Seems very multi-faceted and almost meaningless, really. An economy could be growing or shrinking for so many good or bad reasons.

I think the point we're making is that if people couldn't make the transactions that they wanted to make, it would definitely shrink. That feels like a bad reason for why an economy should shrink.
I'm torn on the issue. In my view a politician is actually a service provider doing the mundane tasks I can't be bothered to do. It would be a huge waste of time if a majority of people had to keep up to date on all political issues.

Most of the current "internet voting" systems provide a way to delegate votes, but often those are delegated indefinitely and lead to power concentrations on a few active people.
Is this what HN has come to now? People jumping to ill-informed conclusions simply for the sake of triumphantly finding an ostensible flaw are voted higher than people who know what they're talking about?
Has anyone else not been receiving 'charge.succeeded' events on their Stripe webhooks? We have been receiving all events except that one, even when all charges are succeeding as verified through the management panel. This is a big problem as that is the event that's used to actually process a payment and create a new account.

The problem seems to have been going over for around 8 hours now.

We've received no reply from their support in 4 hours.

Anyone have any ideas how to get in contact with them at this time?
That's $40 Brazilian reals... roughly $20 USD.
Lived in the Midwest for well over a decade. Drove 48 hours straight to GTFO of there with extreme prejudice at the earliest opportunity. There's a few top tier universities, some big transnationals like Monsanto, Boeing, Nestle - you know what great if that's your thing. Personally I didn't ever think "big money" was the best reason for living in the midwest while I was there for so long, but I digress.

My caustic opinion is if you're not a farmer or self-sufficient type who is thrilled with the opportunity to live outside of a big city, then try for a city on the coast, like San Francisco. Big midwestern cities just aren't "all that" relative to their coastal counterparts. In the midwest you get:

- Higher crime rates and corruption

- Miserable, MISERABLE prolonged winters

- Salted roads --> depresses the value of any enthusiast (Porsche/BMW/Ferrari) type cars you might have on resale

- Rampant backwards conservatism

- Uncomfortably hot and humid summers

- Tornados and severe weather

- A severe lack of places to go and things to see

After living there for so long, I have a really tough time understanding why you would want to stay there if the opportunity to leave arrived, unless you're involved with a major university or are a farmer / homesteader type person living in the country. Bottom line, if you could magically swap San Francisco with Chicago, social network and assets included at no cost for a day I bet 100% of my money a bunch of Chicagoans would reconsider their whereabouts, and most SFers would be PISSED.

Also. And this is important: weed is legal or effectively legal for most of the west coast. This may not be a big deal to you but it's just amazingly energizing to live in an area with sane people who are not brainwashed as opposed to backwards conservatives so prevalent in the midwest. People are healthier and more active here, and I feel many are a bit more open minded. You can call it a negative that the startup scene is unavoidable, but really, isn't fluorishing innovation what you'd expect to see in any super happening big city? If you don't want to see innovation, maybe city life isn't for you, maybe dairy farming is for you.

just my 2c :0 plz dont hate me
You also can't send a message the the recipient, so it can't be used to spam recently active users.
The 2nd most annoying part of the story is Wired requiring stupidly large images so we view extra ads, which in this story is a screenshot of the YouTube player.

Someone literally decided that would be better than embedding the video the entire article is about.
Lance says he wasn't caught because the drugs were already out of his system during the races. So was the doping just for training? I'm not clear on that part.
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kind of similar to the song "rapper's delight" which lifted bars from another artist, to the extent of spelling out his name in the first line.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappers_Delight#Grandmaster_Caz...
I'm wondering if this could be see for programming?
Infinite screen of data/code, just turn your head.
A more comfortable solution is to get some good noise-cancelling headphones. I have used Bose QC15s for about 3 years and QC3s for several years before that. They are indispensable to me. Audio-Technica makes some less expensive models that block nearly as much noise but are less comfortable to wear. I also hear good things about noise-cancelling earbuds.
That is not message id, it is the profile id of the person to whom message is to be sent.
They didn't used the word 'model' but said, for example, in final paragraph:

“His code was clean, well-written, and submitted in a timely fashion,” ... “Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building.”
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Hahaha, you wish! My problem isn't lack of demand, if anything it's women pouting because I ignore them, and dudes being aggro because said women are pouting. so thanks for playing. Maybe you should simply speak for yourself and otherwise get off the strawmen...
In the first paragraph of your post you should mention what alias does.

Or at least make your value more clear on the rest of the page. I don't immediately understand what your product does from the small hard to find "manage your aliases in the cloud" phrase.

In fact the first thing I'm aware of when visiting your page is that it is very easy to register for your service. But it's very hard to find out what that service might be.
It seems that question has almost completely fallen off the radar today. I've experienced medium sized voldemort clusters eating up huge amounts of extra RAM (of the order of 100% overhead[1]) to avoid falling into pathological GC patterns over long runs. Actually I shouldn't really single out voldemort. The problem is java.

Java[2] is a terrible platform to write large in-memory caching servers on. The write and access patterns are a complete mismatch for the assumptions made in the generational GC algorithms that most current JVM's sport. Most caches will evict on an LRU basis, which means that almost all allocations will end up in the old generation heap before finally being evicted. Which is precisely the counter-optimal case for the basic assumptions that the generational GC model relies on (that most objects are short-lived and get swept while still in the "young" heap (which is ultra cheap).

Footnotes:
[1] "overhead" here means precisely how the parent post defines it.
[2] more precisely, the commonly used freely available JVM's that most shops use. There might be better GC implementations (e.g. as claimed by azul) but I don't have any direct experience with them.
While I agree with the response in that Kerr has presented an overly condenatory view not necessarily warranted by existing evidence, I have a feeling that Kerr was trying to compensate for the huge amount of pro Aaron noise. Noise that is, likewise, overly simplistic and dismissive of laws and existing evidence.
You're missing like, all the verbs! "switch on", "read" are the ones I came across in the first minute. Seriously think about implementing everything which the How to Play IF Postcard mentions: http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/

For that matter, serious consider using an existing IF engine.
Since there were bots the poker sites have started detecting bots. If a player played every day exactly 800 tables (or exactly e.g. 8 hours), it would be instantly banned for being a bot.

Bots have a lot of randomization now to make it appear human: sleep randomly to emulate "thinking", click on different parts of the button, randomly move the cursor around but still humanly, click next to the button, move the cursor on one button before moving it to another button to actually click, and so on...
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A popup preventing me from closing the page? Seriously? In 2013?
Thanks, I thought it was clear from the three feature boxes at the top of the site but I see what you mean. I've added a few extra words into the opening paragraph.
I get quite upset when I see companies scaremonger for PR rather than try to help those who are actually doing things.

It seems to follow a particular pattern. Find a bug or bug class in $product. Then start screaming from the rooftops about how the sky is falling without telling people how to stop it or what the problem is. Finally release limited fix info via a mailing list or conference. In the end, everyone loses.
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Political discrimination in the technological field of Venezuela
Oracle's deceptive marketing...
Well, I seem to have at least 5 peeps who silently agree -- two who vocally disagree. And you didn't mention anything in the movie, you know, pointing out a flaw in what I said; and you won't even watch it yourself - so what exactly are you berating me for? lmao...

you explicitly admit ignorance of the actual subject matter

Bullshit. Read it again, slowly this time.

No big need to attempt to offend passers-by with my disdain.

There is plenty of need. Nietzsche said "it's not your job to be a fly swatter", and I was all like "fuck you Nietzsche, you can't tell me what to do!". It's nice for you if that's not your thing, but not really relevant to me otherwise.
Yes, the Right-Left rule is the one to use; I first read of it in Anderson & Anderson's _Advanced C: Tips & Techniques_. Having that simple rule, there's no need to struggle over qsort()'s declaration and others, or create unnecessary, one-use, typedefs.
Of course. That's why people should write 90% of the non-speed-limited code in something higher level and the speed critical things in C

"And contrary to what is spattered on the boards, C is not an understandable, close-to-the-metal wrapper around assembly instructions (compilers have advanced quite a bit)"

Yes, it isn't BUT it is (due to compilers supporting) the language where you can drop down to assembler or something closer to it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/26td21ds(v=vs.80).as... in the easiest way
The screenshot clearly shows the two requirements:
- Compromised with the Bolivarian revolution.
- Age and gender Male, from 30 to 45.

How do they check your political affiliation?, you might as. Simple, they have a Database called "Tascon" that shows for for who you voted in previous elections (this is suppose to be a secret).
Ah, the joys of exploitation.
What's the best way to post tweets exceeding 140 chars in iOS?
What's the best way to post tweets exceeding 140 characters in iOS? I've seen recently this > LiberTweet.com that does the job both in Chrome and Android - but no iOS.
I'm not dumb and I even have the time, but I'd still give proxy to someone who I thought serious understood the issue at hand (so, say, an economist for economic issues). Unfortunately, we currently get the worst of all worlds, representative democracy where the decision makers are career politicians and rarely experts in anything. A representative technocracy would suit me.
Maybe they should try to hire the chinese guy instead. After all, he already knows the code and has proven that he can work well.
No, because compilers are prohibited from changing the meaning of the program. Changing a lazy value to a strict value is only permitted when the compiler can prove that the value will always be evaluated. It can't do that for unboxed arrays because that is a global change, so it has to leave it to the programmer.
Part of the point of the original article is that not even assembler is "close to the metal" any more. How long does that fragment of assembly code take to execute? Depends on whether the instructions are in the I-cache, whether some previous branch prediction has failed, and whether the data are in the cache. All this adds up to a couple of orders of magnitude.
When a company feels its user is using its data for commercial purposes and has shown some threats to its business, the company would restrict the access to its APIs and/or services. Names that I can recall now are Apple, LinkedIn, FB, MS, and Google.

The irony is no matter how nice a company plans (or fakes) to be, business rationale usually triumphs all other things. Do no evil anyone? ;)
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Thanks for the comments! I'm one of the authors!

1. For Python 2/3 compatibility, we recommend SIX.
2. We recommend using Jinja2 where you need it, not as a replacement.
3. PIL on Python 3 is not yet solved. This is part of the reason why the Python web world has not transitioned over completely. It's a huge blocker.
4. We plan to cover South in depth. In the BETA or FINAL editions of the 1.5 book.
5. You implement SQLAlchemy in DJango via "import sqlalchemy". You do lose lots of goodies (ModelForms, Admin, a bunch of views, etc)
6. django-social-auth is something we hope to cover before FINAL
7. On web hosts (webfaction, Heroku, et al), we didn't want to turn the book into a tome about deployment. Each provider does things differently, and we would have to keep track of all that and update when host providers change their services. So rather than describe deployments in depth, we're going to link to their documentation and let them handle it.
I don't see a way around it (doesn't mean there isn't one), because how would you identify the economics expert? Seems to me it would still boil down to marketing, the "expert" who advertises himself the best would win. Obviously that advertising could not happen in terms of presenting economics knowledge, because few people would understand it. So the advertising would be in things people understand, like looks, presentation skills, charme... So basically just what already happens.
Emphasizing that you're a way to manage bash aliases rather than just aliases might go a long way to clear things up. I thought for a few minutes that you might be a way of managing my facebook, twitter or hn profiles.
"[...]since my performance doesn’t define me, I don’t have to be the center of attention in my classroom. I can do experimental things, and fail. I can get out of the way of my students... I can open up the classroom for things like inquiry-based learning. I don’t have to be in control of everything. I don’t have to worry about what people will think of me."

Useful quote. This is a big issue in teaching. The increase in monitoring/criticism of the teacher's performance (at least in UK where I teach) leads to risk avoidance and increased conformity, at least in UK.
I've never even thought of it that way. It's great to have other people's perspective.

I've mentioned bash here and there but I tried to be generic because people using other shells can also use the site.
Well, they definitely sell 'em in stores in every decent-sized city I've been to in the state...
Yes, it was the same for me.
I guess then the next stage would be eye-tracking, so you can glance around without even moving your neck.
Why is it different just because it's in your user account?

Everyone with access to your Mac can access it just as well, i assume. I guess it can also be read by applications, uploaded to the internet? I don't have a Mac so i don't know the restrictions but i would consider it privacy information that i would like to know if and where it's stored. There is a reason you can delete your browser history. Or your recently accessed files list.
> Imo, that is a big fallacy. I believe religious beliefs can no longer provide sound ground for adjustment in today's world.

The Buddha himself rejected to answer metaphysical questions:

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

Buddhism puts the emphasis on direct experience of impermanence and how it leads to suffering.

Apart from that, most people have not trouble believing in contrasting theories or living by contrasting morals ;).
Let's not revert to ad hominems so quickly. If you looked through my submissions, you'll see that I explained the problem elsewhere. Here it is again:

Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets.

Additions to the ring are not atomic, therefore quorums aren't.
_> What are the success rates?_

Poking around on the HFEA website, I found the national averages for the UK. Using fresh embryos from donor eggs (which seems the closest equivalent to the present case), 31.7% of embryo transfers result in a live birth.

That will vary by clinic and country, of course.

Source: http://guide.hfea.gov.uk/guide/HeadlineData.aspx?code=157...
I think the real future of this is some sort of spinal substitution where you can override the nerve response for the entire body.
I don't know about things like radio buttons that look like physical switches, that's often going to far for my taste (unless it's for atmosphere in a game), but when it comes to the bevels etc around which much of this discussion seems to actually revolve, perception of that pseudo-depth seems to be simply another dimension with which to differentiate, just like color, font, size etc. Those are subject to fashion, too, but that doesn't make them entirely 100% useless or 100% useful all the time, if you know what I mean.

But I'm probably just rationalizing, I haven't grown old of that basic "light from top left" pseudo 3D since Amiga Workbench 2.0, and I won't tire of subtle gradients, ever. I think I'm fine with my "design" seeming old-fashioned or even primitive as opposed to being hip; I genuinely like bevels and gradients, I'd use them if nobody else did, and now I can finally prove that haha (though when everybody used them, there was so much to learn from, so I'm glad that happened ^^).
I think this has a 120degree FOV but actually changes when you move your head, so it's much more natural.
I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.
Pretty sure it's because Gumroad uses Stripe. Heard that from a rival CEO though... So don't quote me.
The thing about git is that the key concepts of its internals are sufficiently clean and sufficiently fundamental to distributed version control that they are both easy to understand and very useful to understand.

So what you say isn't really true. I would improve it to say that the existing terminology doesn't appear logical until you have learned about those basics. This is not the fault of git: any system becomes incomprehensible if you approach it with concepts in your head that are incompatible with that system.

A complete beginner may not want to start out by learning those internals, and that's okay. But at some point, it definitely becomes a worthy investment to take the mere hour or two that it takes to read through the relevant parts of the documentation.
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