skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple points. First of all, you being a women in this case seems completely irrelevant to both your question and the people who responded to you on SO. Was the injection of gender supposed to give us context for your response, or imply that you were responded to differently because of it?

Secondly, I guess we can disagree with what "mean" is. As you yourself pointed out, his response was super helpful to you -- and he isn't even paid to do it, just a friendly internet volunteer, helping you with your problem and linking you to more resources. As for what you called "mean" ... lets deconstruct that a bit...

"Learn to write Python code properly according to the style guide" -- not mean, a short and to the point recommendation, abrasive at worst.

"PEP-8 filter highlights only bad code" -- obviously as PEP-8 is a style guide, he means 'badly styled code', he could have made it more clear, but I think the context is obvious.

"and in your case the whole file is badly written." -- this is important, it explains why there is markup on every line, and again PEP-8 is a style guide, so he is saying your entire file is badly formatted by PEP-8 standards. Again, nothing hurtful in there.

I can see how the words "bad code" might be an emotional trigger, but in context, it makes perfect sense and since you didn't show any real code, just some boilerplate Poll/Choose -- I can't even fathom what there was to be defensive about, or hurt by.
"ok, i just googled
[...]
10 600 results"

Most of which, to be fair, seem to be descriptions of this exploit, or pages listing open cams. The number of cams actually accessible is a fraction of those, and the number unintentionally left open a smaller fraction again.
Mental illness is not a joke [VIDEO]
As franze pointed out, you can specify not to index in robots.txt (I have not confirmed this). The intent of dissalowing crawling is ambigous. Maybe they do not want their content cached, or the extra load on their server, or any number of reasons.
If you need to de-index a site, you should use the robots.txt directive. If it has already been indexed and you need it de-indexed quickly, google offers tools to do so [1]

[1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
I was shaking my head the whole time in disbelief.

Then I got to the footer: "All stories published on this site are works of satire and parody."
Web video players aren't the only application in the world for video codecs. VP9 will be a great option for anyone writing native code, for example phone apps or PC/console games.
Why Apple’s Innovation Is Under Threat
Why is it that nearly everyone who has children feels the need to impart birthing advice on expectant parents, and child-rearing advice to new parents?

The only advice I give now is to ignore all the advice everyone else gives.
This was right on the Eve of World War I. Sad to think that many of the young men in uniform probably died in the trenches at Marne or Verdun over the next several years.
Big arrays in Java
Java's built-in arrays have one limitation: you cannot create arrays which can hold more than Integer.MAX_VALUE elements. This might be sufficient for most use cases, but if you want to do some big data computations, it might become necessary to hold more than ~2.4 billion elements.
Wow. There is at least one printer on there in a US governmental department, and on one of the settings pages is a huge list of emails of employees. And now I'm probably on some kind of list.
Nice find!

Also, it'd be interesting to just crank the log level to maximum on a normal piece of DNS software, and post some links around in IM clients and elsewhere, just to see if anything anywhere kicks in. The experiment could be repeated (on different subdomains) with a more clever implementation tricks later.
It took me a while to understand the extent of what these guys were up to, but I now get it.

Assuming that they give you the option to store historical data, they truly are democratizing access to all the data that's out there.

You can start with one analytics solution, and then add / switch to an alternate solution at will. Your data is no longer locked in with one vendor.
I used to do it so I could print stuff for consumption or filling out when I got home from the field... also, because I could (a good reason for anything). Now I use IPP for the same purpose, less security risk.
In Defense of 'Good Enough'
BSC Trip to Kyiv, Ukraine: Business Networking
I can just imagine someone in the ad agency saying "We should create a Tumblr blog around the ad".
These pictures are part of a huge collection assembled by the banker Albert Kahn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)

Other pictures (about 1200) from the Albert Kahn collection, from other parts of the world: http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete...

There are some wonderful pictures in that collection. My preferred are the ones with people living in a way that doesn't exist anymore like the ones from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Ireland, Benin and South East Asia.
I'd say there's already a sizable contingent that prioritizes scores over pure learning.
It mostly comes down to the fact that shadowstats keeps their data behind a paywall and it has very little peer review.

http://voxrationalis.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/the-absurdity-...

Also MIT collects a large amount of data using online prices to determine inflation rates http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/

So the inflation calculations might indeed be inaccurate but there isn't much solid data to back it up.

I personally find it better to focus on issues that have lots of data such as the debt crisis [1], the growing costs of SS and medicare and the harmful effects of industry/government collusion [2] which are all very real and can be proven.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Debt-Supercycle-Changes-Everyt...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/XwyV4yi.jpg
So you're also giving advice to new parents then? :P
It's a social feature on Tumblr. It's like "Favorite" on Twitter.
What about erlkernel? That's fun to say.

Or Erlkerlnig, now it's a Goethe reference!
I hope this movie doesn't make Woz as the guy who was total nerd and didn't know what to do with computers.
"But the kids never asked to be born. As parents, you are essentially forcing life upon another being."

This is illogical. They can't ask to be born because they are not born yet. In your argument, the arrow of time is pointing in the wrong direction.

And the parents are not forcing life upon a being like some sort of genitals-based Dr Frankenstein rigmarole - they are creating the being.
If you guys remember my credit card between donations and give me an account that will notify once a month (or so) of new patients, it'll actually become a problem for my bank account.
Probably because they feel they've succeeded at something really difficult (which is true) and want to show off to the newbies. Coders will do the same thing, but it's not as grating in that context because coding is not something that everyone is capable of doing.
Apple under Jobs was chaotic, but it worked -- because it was Apple under Jobs.

Apple under the Cook is focused and prioritized. Every single decision by the company is collated and quantified, and some actions taken by the new CEO, such as the Maps apology, would never have occurred under Jobs due to his arrogance.

It also puzzles me why some people who have no inside knowledge of how Apple works or what the executives' psyches hold find it necessary to publish articles seemingly attempting to predict the fact. Leave Apple in peace. They're a technology company like any other, and the gravitas of the hype surrounding them is slowly fading, as it should. Grandiose and ostentatious product unveilings are a thing of the past, but I doubt that Cook has forgotten how Apple is supposed to work -- that the hype is supposed to die down after a few years, and then after two or more years when things are going steady, the controversial bombshell will hit.

And that is something that Jobs would never have overlooked while appointing Cook as CEO.
Unless VP9 decoding is implemented in hardware chips like H.264 is and H.265 is going to be, it'll likely fail.

It sucks, but I'd much rather have a "non-free" codec that plays smoothly on all my devices than a "free" codec with lag issues on everything but my computer.

Try playing 1080P H264 videos on your tablet/phone without using the H264 hardware decoder and you'll know what I mean.

Decoding H265 and VP9 will likely be even more resource intensive than decoding H264 already is

And really, does the closedness of H264/H265 really matter at all for the end users? x264 seems pretty free to me, what is the difference in reality?
"1.7 million downloads last year" is quite a high figure for a language not in the TIOBE top 50, or with only 1200 books (all titles) sold worldwide in 2011.

Perhaps the author could break down the download number into how many for each of Groovy's almost 20 releases last year, and how many in each different distribution channel, e.g. direct from Groovy website, fetched from Maven, Eclipse, etc, or bundled in Grales, Gradle, or as some addon alongside Python and Ruby in some other software.

And for each, provide some evidence for each number in the breakdown. The author's had 2 months to find evidence since the last time I asked for some. If there's still none provided, then maybe the claim just isn't true. The author is a non-technical project manager, who's writing style sounds like the speech of a fly-by-night recruiter or seagull manager.
>Now granted it could be that I only had access to this because I was doing the scan from "inside the system" instead of outside via the web

If 'inside the system' means from a University internet connection, that it is very much a security hole, as anyone physiclly present could exploit it. (Or at best any person who the Univeristy allows on their network, which is much larger than the group of people who should be able to touch those settings)
Britain's £1m and £100m banknotes
Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Has Apple Lost Its Cool to Samsung?
Because being a father is the only thing I've ever done that is pretty close to being mystical, and I'm proud of it?
No pity required— that man doesn't exist. If people actually thought that way they'd be disabused of the notion after the first few counterexamples they encounter.

Just-world, like other stereotyping biases is so insidious because the mistaken belief starts with the truth: "The government is usually right, so it's (very likely) right in this case (and the rightness justifies the outcome)". You can, perhaps, debate the "usually" but that misses the point: In terms of _justice_ and human rights it is improper and immoral to reason using coarse prior probabilities: You should be no more likely to convict a black person because statistically black people commit more crimes, people should be judged on their own merits. The underlying fallacy in many instance of just-world is the mistaken belief the its proper to apply your belief that the world is generally just to a specific case of potential injustice.

So there is no dissonance for most— they think "well, I always believed the government was only usually right. No one is perfect, and see— the system worked!".
Why do you take Peters' claims about Heymann's motives seriously?
Sure. But I was just assuming that VP9 would be similar to VP8 which found most of its usage in a web browser.

But VP9 is pretty much a non starter for any embedded device as well. Apple, LG, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony are patent licensors so they have every reason to use H.265 in their own products. So that takes cares of the majority of all of the mobile and console markets.

Then you still have the situation where even if H.265 and VP9 are supported equally everywhere why would anybody use it. H.265 will be technically superior, be built into the core OS SDKs and have far, far better tool support from content creation to editing to output.
If you fail to have your own children, you break a chain of procreating that runs back millions upon millions of years. Interesting to consider.

Have got a six month old. Loving the whole process.
The Million Dollar Club: Quantifying The 1M/1M Value Equation
Militarization of police forces and the minimization of community relationships. Chalk it up to the war on drugs. Related: stop-and-frisks in NYC inherently make law-abiding members of the community afraid to go to the police for help. Between the fear of being treated like a criminal when you're not, and the fear of being strung up for being a 'rat,' law abiding citizens unfairly targeted by such things are caught between a crack rock and a hard time place.

Not saying it's right, or moral. It's just a symptom of the underlying disease of treating drug abuse as a criminal issue instead of a medical issue.
The "Get Luma" button on that page just kicks me to http://itunes.luma.com/ (the home page).
I was disappointed to find out that not only is Minecraft
closed-source but it also hasn't shipped an official API

There is currently a plan for this to be added to the game, there's no public time-line but they are working on an API. There are also some really amazing community projects that have built this sort of thing, server side there is bukkit and client side there is forge.

http://dev.minecraft.net/blog/ https://github.com/Mojang/Minecraft-API http://bukkit.org http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/
Why I dread going to the Apple Store
As someone who spent six years trying to conceive and failed, reading this post makes me feel really bad.

I'd point out that it's not Hacker News, but I'd have to do that for 50% of the posts on the front page at any given time.
While not as sensational, I did once buy into this line of reasoning when it came to procreation. Then I realized that we live in the most peaceful world that's ever existed, with the best medicine/life expectancy, most amazing technology, and with so much yet to discover and further improve life.

It's a copout. We're not optimistic, you're pessimistic and cynical. Let others choose the lives they want to live, with whom they want to live them because we only have this one life.

It may not mean much in the long-tail of human experience, but the moment you look into the eyes and hold your own child is one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
This guy has worked on all sorts of awesome shit that he gives completely free to the community. Heaven forbid he miscalculate time like 90% of Kickstarter. Yehuda clearly didn't take the money and spend it on beer and hookers so let's collectively get off his ass about sending a few postcards out late.
Hardware support for VP8 exists, though it's not widespread as of yet. Tegra 3 has it.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-3-processor.html

As with most software, the closedness of H.26X matters a lot more to developers than users.
I like to see hands, do you turn off your cellphone in flight?
I have been wondering how many people actually turn off their cell phone in flight. Many people just turn off the screen and don't bother. Others seem very concerned and make sure the phone is truly OFF. I was thinking about this the other day when I was on a flight and my iPhone power button had stopped working, I certainly had mine on. I think we all know it doesn't matter though, with of the devices out there I'm sure each flight has at least 50 devices still on in a plane carrying 200 people.

I bet there is a good portion of us that doesn't bother, can I see hands are you ON or OFF ?
"They can't ask to be born because they are not born yet."

That's the point. They don't have a choice in the matter. The choice is entirely the parents' (assuming it's not an accident or rape).
My thinking was that the college educated applicant has had the course content fed to them whilst the other person has presumably acquired the knowledge more organically.

The non-college acquisition is likely to be part of a wider more connected level of knowledge too as that knowledge - that matches the college acquired knowledge - is a snapshot, the college educated person is more likely to be limited by the boundaries of the course material.

In order to acquire such knowledge in the field the non-college applicant is likely to have needed just the same interpersonal skills and a whole heap of drive and enthusiasm for their subject matter. On top of that they, presumably, have proven ability in their field if someone has been paying them a living whilst they've been applying this knowledge.

>Given two candidates of equal knowledge, one with no degree and one with a degree in art history, I would hire the art history guy with little hesitation. //

Art History is awesome; a single term of that at undergrad level enriched my life considerably. That aside the guy with art history and (presumably) programming knowledge is likely to have a useful diversity of approach.

I think I'd have a greater expectation that the subset {k} of the candidates domain knowledge implies a larger superset {K} for the non-college candidate.

[disclosure: I'm uni educated and don't work as a programmer]
ah my bad. Thanks for pointing out.
I can't tell if you're trying to make an ironic joke or if you mean separating certification from the acquisition of knowledge?
Microsoft Surface and USB devices
I agree on the point of transaction vs investment part of non-profit. CRY (http://america.cry.org/site/index.html) has been doing it for years for educating children and they are quite successful (what I've heard).
There are open alternatives like Daala. The patented codec won last time (H.264), but history might not repeat itself this time.
Programmer’s Editors, Illustrated.
You might want to read up on Billy Graham, you are confusing him with some other TV minister. I might not agree with all of his beliefs, but I do believe he held them honestly and dealt with others the same.

I would expect that tone of comment on other boards but not here.
Hablamos español and we tried to check out your site but it appears to be down (maybe because of HN traffic?). Two quick answers to your question about how we operate efficiently at a granular level:

1) We may have a slight advantage working in healthcare. Our partners already collect patient info (and sometimes even photos) for patient medical records, so requesting they send us that info isn't a big ask.

2) We leverage technology to ensure we can efficiently process and allocate donations. Look at kiva.org - they've leveraged their platform to fund individual microloans for nearly a million people, and that's a much more complex process (because of repayments, interest, currency conversion, etc.) than a one-way donation for a medical treatment.

Happy to talk more offline if there's any way I could be helpful: chase at watsi dot org.
What it's like to have a child is indescribably wonderful and it gets better from there.

Congratulations.
Is there a fact we can examine to answer that/those questions?
> The name "Kerlnel" is going to be a problem, because it's so awkward to say out loud

It sounds pretty good out loud if you say it while doing a Stephen Hawking impression.
Why You Need to Fail - by Derek Sivers
First Steve Jobs movie gets red carpet premiere
So, Quora blogs show up in HN as coming from a (quora.com) domain with no subdomain (like x.tumblr.com)?

That's going to get annoying very fast.
I'm amazed at how the color changes the emotional response I have for these kinds of pictures. My mental image of 100 years ago seems very abstract, as if events and people from that time have the same reality of Sherlock Holmes. Somehow the color drives home the reality of where and who these people were. It makes me wonder what effect color pictures, or even better - color movies, from hundreds or thousands of years would have.
BlackRock invests $80 million in Twitter valuing it at $9B
Ergo, the universe would be better without life?

This kind of philosophy is baffling to me. How could anyone find it attractive, except for the perverse pleasure you get from trolling other people? And what kind of value is that to base a life on?
We even have a word for it: Apprenticeship.

There's more theoretical knowledge behind nursing and engineering compared to carpentry and plumbing, but, really, the idea of on-the-job training with someone who knows what they're doing watching is something we know works because it has worked for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

So some degree programs will entail an apprenticeship. That's going to be a lot more difficult to game than a multiple-choice exam would be.
Because we as humans share our life's experiences with one another. It's how we learn and grow and become better as a whole and as individuals. If I can share something I've experienced with someone else and it even has a remote chance of helping them deal with something I found difficult - I will do it.

This is why many of us are here on HN. To learn and grow, to gain insights from those who have had experiences that we may have in the future.

The advice I will give is to accept advice graciously and consider it. It is all an advice-giver can ask.
I put mine into airplane mode. There is no scientific reason to need to turn it completely off; the announcement is just because it's an easy common denominator.
Mieux Que Nue [better than nude] at the Moulin Rouge.
The article has a bit of a misstatement about Cargill and its cohorts in regards to this type of technology. They are actively selling this support to farms of all sizes and have been for years. I wish these folks luck, but they are competing against some of the biggest companies in the world who have been pushing this tech for awhile.
"Hypothetically, how would you feel if a business owner knowingly profited off of illicit activity while keeping jusssst enough distance between himself and the criminal to say "I didn't see nuthin!"?"

The point of a system of laws is to draw the line somewhere. If he is just far enough from the criminal to claim that he cannot stop the crime from happening on his property, then he should not be prosecuted.

"the theory isn't preposterous and litigating the case isn't absurd"

The theory is not preposterous if we are willing to accept tyranny and oppression in this country. Keep in mind that the government was attempting to take this man's property, sell it, and recycle the proceeds into the budget of the very police force that targeted him. That sort of power has led to self funded police -- police forces who budgets consist entirely of proceeds from the sales of seized property and assets.

It should scream corruption to anyone who is used to living in a free society. That most Americans do not see just how corrupt that system is is an indication that boiling the frog slowly is a viable strategy to establish fascism (but did we really need to be told that?).
When serving video, Flash can act as a container for any type of video, as such it can serve VP8/VP9 just fine. There is no technical barrier here.

As for VP9 being a 'non-starter', nonsense. The reason Google is creating their own in-house codec is obvious, 'online' video will be used in an ever-increasing number of services in the future, services which Google wants to provide. As such Google wants their own codec so that they don't have to licence from someone else.

When you record video in your Google Glass or play/record in <insert Google product/service here>, it will use Google's own VPx codec.
Amazing. But the lost knowledge really drives home the need for thorough documentation. Not only of the artifacts but also the design processes used.
See danilocampos's thread
"If I don't do it, somebody else will" -- Dr John (Such a Night)
Tag-extract: A tool to automatically restructure text/outline using tags
Medium, 37 Signals and ALA look nothing like Bootstrap at all, so I'm not sure why you made that comparison.

I am not a fan of this new redesign at all and feel like Medium and 37 signals do the simple/clean layout approach much better than A List Apart. But as with all three designs, the primary focus is on the content, which I guess is why some people seem to think they lack 'personality'.