skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think not.

If he'd been planning to use his own death to bring about radical change, you'd think he'd at least have arranged for a suicide note to appear on his website after he was gone, or something.

I haven't seen anything like that, and if it existed and was accessible to the public, I'm sure it would've appeared on HN's front page by now.

Then again, if he was planning this, we could account for our observations by saying maybe he mailed instructions, passwords, documents and public statements to someone he trusted to make the greatest impact with it, and that person's sitting on the information, watching the momentum build, waiting for the most effective time to release it. The noise about this has been deafeningly loud for us in the tech community for quite some time, but only in the last day or so have I noticed this story being picked up by mainstream news outlets.
Latin is related to many things, but surely we can agree it's not a "must learn" for someone designing a device driver.

Something as general as "don't make me think" may make sense for API design, but honestly I doubt the applicability of "The Elements of Typographic Style" or "Grid Systems" to library documentation and API discoverability.
A friend of mine went six weeks after it all kicked off, said he really enjoyed it and never felt in danger.
"I can't make myself blame the prosecutors involved when most federal prosecutors are similarly heavy-handed (and, quite possibly, were acting within a reasonable interpretation of the the law)."

A person who works to enforce immoral laws or immoral sentences is an immoral person and should be treated as such. We need direct accountability at every level, otherwise the buck is passed around in a circle indefinitely.
I hope it's a good talk as well however I have heard from a couple people I know well that minted is kind of a meat grinder in terms of turnover and not a very fun place to work and also not awesome from the designer side either. I understand the business is pretty seasonal but I don't think the people running it realize what that kind of environment does to people. (or maybe they do...)
Typography is hard, if only because it's quite subtle until you really start paying attention to it (in everything). How good or bad a typeface may be is irrelevant beyond a minimum quality, e.g. it's kerned well, it has been pixel hinted. It's simply a question of appropriateness.

The reason Arial is often, arguably inappropriately, slated as a bad font is because it stacks up poorly against other fonts in the situations where it's appropriate. Helvetica is more sterile, balanced, and tasteful — it does most of the things Arial does, but better. The only advantage Arial has over Helvetica is at smaller sizes on the web, where the head of the t, tail of the g, and terminal of a help to make the characters more distinguishable (in theory).

So beyond quality, it's about what's more appropriate. Then of course you've got to set it well, but that's practice.
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Google’s AngularJS framework is in view in the post - and it really is useful to folks like Data Scientists (as opposed to GUI engineers/front-end developers). Automatic data binding and a set of directives (that look like HTML elements and attributes when invoked) make the language feel like HTML the way it should be in a world of responsive GUIs and Ajax. For Data Scientists (and others who don't have the time / interest to delve deeply into the latest JavaScript libraries and development practices) it is great to have a sort of and HTML-like-Domain-Specific-Language-Extension that is fully functional and maturing quickly.

AngularJS is not new to the mainstream JavaScript community - but it is to many others who can derive a lot of benefit from it. Good see to a tutorial to get such folks up and running quickly with it.

BTW - if you prefer text to video, here is a related post from the authors blog:

http://jphoward.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/end-to-end-web-app-...
What does Nginx offer that HAProxy doesn't? We've been using HAProxy 1.4 for over a year now, up to 1500 req/s on a virtual machine. It's the most reliable piece of all of our infrastructure. Hardest part has been tuning the Linux instance for a lot of connections when encountering DDOS attacks and the like.

We also run another HAProxy instance for rate limiting for attacked sites that feeds back into the main load balancer. And this is Layer 7 load balancing including inspecting headers. Never breaks a sweat. 1.5 supports SPDY, which is the last big thing for us (though I need it in the opposite direction from other mentions, used alongside stunnel).
He was smart individual, who believed in his cause and acted upon it with his best intentions.
I can not imagine why he would be insane other than his beliefs do not resonate with widely accepted beliefs.

In my country if you say to doctor that you believe in aliens, you are labeled mentally insane and proscribed some mind numbing drugs.

Still, I pay tax for brave men and women to go and kill people in other countries and that is obviously fine.
"All these books are great but they are theoretical in their approach."

You've never read them then, as they all use real world examples. Don Norman's has 3 Mile Island for example.

"It's good to be knowledgeable about Golden Ration or Fitts Law but it wouldn't be of immediate help on your next project."

The Golden Ratio is one ratio, there are many. Some more, some less, aesthetically pleasing.
Fitt's Law is basically about the metrics of completing any action involving your hand and a target, say a button or a link.

Consider an HTML pag with no graphical embellishments beyond a white body colour and a dark gray text colour, the proportions and spacing allocated to each bit of content will decide if people find it beautiful or not, and the ease with which they can interact with buttons and links will decide if they find it usable.
Would you guarantee that optimizers wouldn't use heuristics at IPO stage?

Either way, you are right, and my comment should have been: 1) constraint 2) providing clues to developers 3) providing clues to optimizer.
End to End JavaScript Video Streaming
Note that my response was mainly to the "hard to understand because questionmarks" part of your post. I think that's a pretty weak argument, and that being clear about which part of the code depends on the ifs easily makes up for weird syntax or whatever. The "that is goofy, this is mature" stuff is ridicilous.

I get that there are other reasons for sometimes choosing if-statements instead of if-expressions in cases like this. But then it quickly comes down to a bunch of technicalities (language can't do this, debugger can't do that, ...), and really, even if we're talking C++ stuff only I would not agree with it as general advice.
Anyone from India (bangalore/cochin) interested in organizing such a hacakthon?
To add more, as well: we use HAProxy for deploying (tell it to take down nodes using the unix socket), we have it set up to meter requests to a machine just brought back online, and with one command we can route all traffic to a standby Apache instance that serves a maintenance page. On top of that it has the monitoring page, and using the socket we pull stats every minute and ship them off to Librato Metrics as well as watch for high sessions and the like. I (obviously) cannot sing its praises enough.
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What exactly are you trying to do? Where in the chain are you hoping to terminate SSL? Do you need to inspect the traffic before load balancing it?
wot no 50 years sewing mail-bags?

Could it be that a justice system matches the punishment to the crime and the criminals?

How come they were not extradited to the USA where they could be "fairly" treated and the copyright owners could sleep easy.
I share your opinion and thank you for this clear response, but I do have a technical background. All the instruments that I play right now (HTML/CSS and RoR) I taught myself. But I am still miles away from building a MVP that enthuse audiences the way it should be. ;)
How much traffic are you pushing through it? I've been planning to set up stunnel + HAProxy on separate instances once we're comfortable going with 1.5, but am curious if we could get away terminating SSL on the same instance as HAProxy runs.
How 'bout that.

I thought this would have been submitted days ago.
So if some girl breaks up with a guy who she knows has depression issues, for some silly reason, does that make her a murderer too? Aaron was responsible for his own actions.

That doesn't make the prosecutors good guys - far from it. But they didn't kill him.
Good question xSwag, I suppose I don't. I clicked the wrong link in an email.
I actually think the basic docs are very good for going over theory. There's a more readable version of them on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/haproxy-docs/wiki/HAProxy

Beyond that, it depends how you're using (HTTP load balancing, TCP only, etc) Got any specific questions? We've been running it in production for over a year.
Update: I made an interim Twitter account so that I can communicate with support here
https://twitter.com/yesgothacked
I am no lawyer. But my guess is that when you commit a crime, they look at each and every action of yours and try to find out which all laws and how many times were you breaking them. Then they weigh in the sentence or each of them separately and add them up eventually amounting them to disproportionate numbers (35 yrs) in many cases. I think theoretically this number can run unto multiple of 100s even.
I wouldn't call it exceptional beauty. Code can be beautiful, but most projects in gaming (or actually any other branch), just as the author of this article says, gets released under pressure. And yes, this pressure is more common and results in bad, smelly or messy code. However, quake and doom's source code were released/open sourced after the game was released. Maybe they cleaned it beforehand... This does not take away they have a strict procedure and quality control during the development. I have seen/read the code and it is well written!
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I'm not sure what you're driving at.

I quoted it to show that the blackout period is created by the "must not broadcast" phrases. So ... you're agreeing with me? I'm confused.
I remember studying some of Noether's early work in a course on classical mechanics at university. It's one of the things I remember from my degree that still blows my mind.

Noether's theorems in classical mechanics associate symmetries of the laws governing a physical system to conservations laws of that system. For example,

Spatial translation symmetry => Conservation of momentum
Spatial rotation symmetry => Conservation of angular momentum
Time translation symmetry => Conservation of energy
Phase symmetry => Conservation of electric charge

When you study relativity, and unify space and time into four dimensional spacetime, it becomes clear through Noether's theorem that energy and momentum are also related.

Much later on, around 2008, a friend of mine working at Cambridge generalized Noether's result [0] to include non-smooth symmetries as well - showing how CPT (charge-parity-time) symmetry in the Dirac equation leads to new conserved quantities. Epic work.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3943
It will be covered by the same response made to the Ortiz petition....they group similar petitions, such as the secession ones by individual states
I don't want to seem snarky, but that first picture you have there, the one of a collection of books where I have to tilt my head to read them and that book on the left is called "Design of Everyday Things" and talks about designing things so that ... for instance... people don't have to tilt their heads to read them.

Why don't you rotate that picture, 90 degrees counter-clockwise?
I say 50%; you say 80%. We could both be right. Here's why:

The odds you would use in the grandparent post's calculation would be different from the average conviction rate, because you'd have knowledge of the specific facts of your particular case, which would affect your estimate.

Despite all the noise HN's made about this case, I actually believe that most of the people who are punished by our justice system (1) are actually guilty of the crime(s) they're accused of (Aaron probably was), and (2) don't have mitigating factors that might cause the case to be dismissed by the judge when he/she becomes aware of all the facts, acquitted by a sympathetic jury, given a small fine or other slap-on-the-wrist sentence, or successfully appealed (Aaron's case clearly did have such mitigating factors).

Let's say hypothetically that, of every 100 defendants who go before the court, W=70 of defendants are rightfully convicted, X=10 are wrongfully convicted, Y=10 are rightfully found innocent, Z=10 are wrongfully found innocent. I'm using the term "innocent" here to lump together category (1) above, "factually innocent" (he/she didn't do it) and category (2), "morally/technically innocent" (he/she did it, but it shouldn't be a crime / sentence is far too harsh / prosecutor/police tactics were unconstitutional / jury didn't believe the evidence was good enough / good defense attorney managed to inject reasonable doubt / jury nullification [1], etc.)

Let's say you're being prosecuted. You know the above numbers (or they're your best estimates based on the available data and reasonable modeling assumptions). You know you're in the "innocent" category, that is, that you'll either be in X (wrongfully convicted) or Y (rightfully found innocent). Your chance of being wrongfully convicted is thus X/(X+Y) = 50%, as I stated.

But from the point of view of all cases, the overall conviction rate is (W+X)/(W+X+Y+Z) = 80%, as the parent stated.

The above numbers aren't based on any actual facts; they're made up to agree with both the parent's stated 80% number for overall conviction rate, and the grandparent's stated odds of a particular defendant's chance of winning of 50%.

These computations are an example of Bayesian reasoning [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

[2] http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
Probably the departments of MIT unconnected to the computer science one where they may have different opinions on academic property
I just want to point out that the comments in the article are almost as interesting as the article itself.

Don't miss them.
websites are sequential art i.e.: the github (logged in) start page http://replycam.com/i/GitHub-20130115-111913.png (left to right), your standard responsive (corporate) website http://mobiletest.me/#d=iphone4&u=http://www.fullstackop... (top to bottom)

and also: you can't separate text from design (like in comics) a point that "understanding comics" makes quite clear.

and user interaction: changing from one state to the next, from one webpage to the follow up webpage is a transition, a transition like form one page to the next, also from one panel to the next - and you can determine how the users experiences the transition, like in comics you can go from one detail to the next detail, from moment to moment, from one aspect to another aspect, or from boring to surprise (or, you can even go completely dada).

"understanding comics" is not a 1:1 analogy for website/webpages, but it helps you to really understand your pages, your design and how the users experiences them.
The most tantalizing idea here was that "Local code should explain, or at least hint at the overall system design." I was disappointed that there was no further reference to it after the introduction.

In the end, much of the article was yet another articulation of syntactic preferences.
It is a sad thing it doesn't get enough publicity despite the effort put to it I guess. As far as I know, it got covered in a few Arabic forums and magazines, but didn't get any global awareness.

I myself learnt about كلمات because the guy behind it was a TA in our university. He's a real inspiration and some of his ideas are really innovational.

Judging by your name, I think you are an Arabic speaker, if so you could check his blog to see for yourself http://iamsamy.blogspot.com/.

About a year ago he started another blog titled Computational Thinking in Egypt if you're interested: http://ctegypt.blogspot.com/.
What is bizarre is this: how are they getting the money to build all these huge, fancy buildings and hold these kinds of ceremonies? This must be hundreds of millions of dollars. And they aren't all in podunk towns; one was even in Israel.

Are they that good at wringing money out of people? Wow.
Blog post: http://ssj-gz.blogspot.de/2013/01/emscripten-qt-progress-fas...

Code: http://qt.gitorious.org/~ssj/qt/emscripten-qt

Other report: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3N...

Related:

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client

https://gitorious.org/qmlweb
From the article:

[n2] This section is also why one must beware
of long-running NIFs. They do not per default
preempt, nor do they bump the reduction counter.
So they can introduce latency in your system.

The OP calls them NIFs, but it is essentially what you are saying.
We're not talking about putting them in jail. You can't compare them to Aaron Swartz.
Don't try to use this method to do mind calculation, it may cause senile dementia.
I can't read the sidebar due to a lack of contrast: http://contrastrebellion.com/
interesting experiment! but I think we should benefit from other cultures experiments also; I mean, is there any similar (Chinese,Japanese, ...etc) programming language? and what are the benefits or experience they got from these languages?
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It's hamsters all the way down. Not blaming any hamsters for wrongdoing is implicitly agreeing with the system.
Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?
That's actually a terrible article about body text. Maybe it has the right conclusion, but it might be wildly wrong.

This seems the most trivially easy thing to A/B test. Does anything less the 16pt cost you revenue?

Simple question, yes/no.

Actual data is so much better than someone's untested opinion which has been shown time and time again to be worthless in real life.
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Every year during Chinese tradional Spring Festival, billions passengers travel across the country(The official number is 3 billion passengers this year).

12306.cn is the website for Chinese to book tickets via Internet, the traffic is very high.
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It's relevant because it's the fate he chose.
I'm pretty sure the whole "religion" is designed as a machine to extract the maximum possible amount of money from psychologically vulnerable people. Basically it's like an RPG - you level up slowly, paying gradually more as you move up the stages. The level of craziness starts off low then climbs in step as you effectively prove at each step that you are credulous enough to swallow the next stage up. So they don't tell you about the alien spirits reborn in volcanoes until they are well and truly sure you will fall for it (and the accompanying multi-thousand dollar tomes of gold-lettered L. Ron Hubbard-penned secret ultimate final truth (oops - ultimate until the next stage!)) And there are all sorts of ways in which doing the right thing and supporting your new friends involves parting with lots of money - for doing so of course you are congratulated and told you are wonderful by your new best friends.
Wrong or not, Ed's comment was very cold-hearted, uncompassionate, pretentious, egoistic even sexist. That said, I see a lot of this in IT/tech word in general and it makes me sad to work in this field.
Microsoft needs a Windows 8 fix now
From what I read, they're pretty good indeed. Time magazine's "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" article @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html
Pretty sure newspapers and magazines have been running advertorials since forever. If that's whoring, then it's not new. Anyway, the entire fabric of society is soaked with advertising, so who really cares?
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So if some girl or boy with popularity in school verbally threatens me or accuse me of being fat, stupid, a Jew, a religious nut, a christian or atheist or whatever and bullys me into suicide it is not their fault? What Aaron did was great, moral and maybe illegal but that doesn't warrant the 35 years of federal prison. Maybe days.

And before you say anything about the persecutor doin his job the elected Nazi Hitler were just following orderz and the law.

They killed him. And they knew he was at suicide risk. I would end my life rather than going to federal prison until I'm 65 for freeing tax payers research. Federal cases 80% conviction rate.

I hate the game and the players willing to play the game.
One that has buffers.
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The guys from Scientology's PR department requested moderated comments with (I suppose) overtly negative comments removed. As they were paying for the content to be run, they were free to request any terms and conditions that they desired. The Atlantic was free to accept or refuse the terms and conditions and in this instance chose to accept them.

For what it's worth I found it interesting to hear comments from people outing themselves as enthusiastic Scientologists. First time I've come across that on the web.
Really uncomfortable reading here (regular PC in a regular office environment) and according to Chrome's inspector it's #777. If I remove the "proxima nova" font it improves a bit because of Helvetica's added weight.

Really unfortunate design for an article about design, and blaming the users' browsers, operating systems, lighting conditions or etc. is NOT the correct approach.

On a more useful note, I enjoyed Fred Brooks' "The Design of Design", on the process of design rather than on visual design.
Got any actual reasoning to offer? All you've done so far is make an unsupported assertion.
I found the Non Designers Design Book by Robin Williams irreplaceable. It really improved my understanding and skill. Instead of mediocre and bad designs, I can now create stuff that passes the bar. The most important thing it teaches you, is how to detect what is bad with some design and what to do to fix it.

http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...
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I don't know. Although we are talking tail end of the 90s, there's passing reference in No Logo/The Shock Doctrine (forget which, but think the former) by Naomi Klein to lifestyle marketers that would follow a couple of people in their target demo around without their knowledge.
See 'namecoin'.

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