skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad that set of comments called out the pendulum staying in a plane as being wrong. Like the article says about gyroscopes, tilted pendulums move in an odd but predictable way. For example, a pendulum set up on the surface of the earth rotates at a speed proportional to the sine of the latitude.
Aren't Swedish companies like Ericsson, Volvo, Scania, Saab, etc into innovation and mass production? I would say that for example Spotify (and many other Nordic companies) are quite innovative as well.
"The new version defines unauthorized access as "the circumvention of technological access barriers,""

Um no. You don't need to circumvent anything to be "unauthorized".
If you really want the Soda Stream, you can get an adapter for a paintball CO2 cartridge. http://palmer-pursuit.com/cart/soda-stream-course-thread-bot... for example.
I agree that I think the Pirate Bay case has been handled badly.* However, the Assange case (sexual harrasment) is totally unrelated to Wikileaks.

For someone living in Sweden the idea that a woman affiliated with LO (Workers Union) would go the errands of the US government trying to get Assange convicted for sexual harassment is unbelievable.

* http://blog.brokep.com/2012/07/04/nadeansokan/
I think everyone is aware of that by now. Someone brings it up every time tuition comes up.

Given their acceptance rates, this is not an option for even a majority of HN readers.
The problem is that different people use different editors that have different settings. One person uses four spaces, another used 8 spaces, and a third uses tabs. Suddenly, your python code doesn't work well anymore, commits/diffs become very confusing and web services that have source viewers produce messy views.
Looking back a single generation might be too short a timespan to get a good gauge of homogeneity, but I think going back five hundred years, several hundred years before the foundation of the nation would be far less meaningful, to the point of absurdity.
Sneaking into the closet is trespassing. Plugging into the network while he's in there is not trespassing.
Your name-calling aside, how do you propose that the Ruby community deal with these inherent problems with their software and their attitudes?

Will they do the responsible thing and throw out all of the existing, poorly-written code?

Will they collectively ditch RubyGems in favor of a system that has some modicum of security built in from the start?

Will they throw out their flawed development philosophies, so that they don't get into the same situation later on?

I'm unfortunately inclined to think that we'll just see more of the same. These problems will be "patched" over, at best, rather than fixed at the root. In fact, proper fixing of these issues would go against everything that the Ruby community stands for.

That's why I think that moving away from Ruby and Ruby on Rails is a responsible approach. Some problems just can't be fixed, and I think we've encountered some of those in this situation.
That's American exceptionalism for you. I imagine it gives us a sense of purpose to believe we live in the most corrupt, illiterate, violent country in the world.
No one seems to have proposed such a system, either for Bitcoin or for earlier proof-of-work systems (designed for fighting spam, that sort of thing). How do you come up with a decentralized secure system with verifiable problems which can come from anyone which they couldn't've computed the answer to in advance or have chosen it to be especially weak but which answer will still be actually useful?

I keep some notes on the topic http://www.gwern.net/Notes#a-bitcoinbittorrent-driven-econom... but so far I haven't seen any proposals which might work.
Is it the institutions that cause divisions, or is it the divisions that cause the institutions? I don't think this answer is as clear as you suggest, because a great deal of beliefs and ideologies are passed down by institutions such as schools, which are of course mostly government controlled. Is it merely a historical artifact that the US has so many creationists?

I use Canada as an example because I think it's interesting how two countries that were basically founded by the same people (European settlers, mostly British in the early years) have diverged so greatly in both governance and ideology.
It's not useless; BitCoin security depends on the majority of hashing power being in the hands of benevolent users. People who invest in ASICs and other mining hardware have an implicit incentive to be benevolent (because a collapse of the system means they won't see a return on their investment). So developments like this strengthen the security of BitCoin.
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Yes, definitely. I'm working on it right now, actually. We're building an API that Cliff Mass is using right now, so everything is in place and working. I have to finish some features in code, document everything, ensure there are no privacy breaches, and then we'll go live with it. I'll keep you updated.
Bitcoin's proof-of-work system requires a problem that is difficult to solve, has a predictable and adjustable difficulty, and allows solutions to be verified easily. Many hash functions, in Bitcoin's case, SHA-256, meet these requirements. Protein folding and weather prediction do not.
So what is the author proposing? Maintaining the status quo, because we cannot expect to measure anything accurately.

I do agree with the author that the current problem with education in the US will not be solved with measurements alone. The problem seems to be systemic. But it would be a start.
Förstahandskontrakt is more like 17 years in the most popular parts (Vasastan in Stockholm).

It is possible to get a sublet or such but it tends to be expensive and quite time consuming. A lot of scams going around as well so one has to be careful. Prices indicated above seem quite accurate.
This is why I never want to work in dev or qa for medical machines. If I were involve in this product's design, the guilt would destroy me.
Is that food-safe? And is it taking Airsoft containers to use for sodastream, or is it taking sodastream containers to use for airsoft?

An initial web search shows this, but I have no idea how accurate it is.

(http://www.micromatic.com/forum/us-en/trouble-shooting-beer-...)
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IANAL, but I think a big factor would be whether it acts as a substitute. Since they aren't being used as a TOS on docracy, then it shouldn't be an issue. If you copy a TOS and use it on your own site, then it could be a problem.
For those interested, there's an Easter egg in the lower right corner, it's that very small lambda icon linking to this Youtube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZUNLV7e3vU

"Star Trek - Data asks his creator a question"
In my opinion, you should be able to measure how well a country is governed by the amount of trust the people put in their government. I think the Nordic countries would score fairly high in that, but honestly, there are huge problems in those countries as well. Every country is run by imperfect and irrational people.
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At the risk of sounding cynical:

1) CFAA should have been scrapped entirely and a new law written, this time in good faith, and actually taking into account the technology of the first decade of the 21st century. This law should keep an open path to sensible application for at least a few decades to come.

2) This is unlikely to pass as-is when corporate interests haven't put their fingers into the pot yet.
This is more a problem of how rest of the world is governed than how Germany is.
not sure what kind of statistics would be good and not violate the NDA =) but our internal rubyhackers mailing list is one of the busiest lists that I'm on. I myself am not a Ruby fan, so don't know any details.
"There is a common story that airline ticket prices rise significantly if you buy them less than two weeks before departure. And that any time before that will yield standard prices."

Is that a "common story"? Because IME it's not true at all. Prices seem to rise fairly steadily from at least a couple of months before travel.
Fastest growing county in the USA: Douglas, CO
I will tell it everything my wife tells me not to tell it

Good luck staying married, with that attitude. If you don't parent as a team, you'll fail in much worse ways than doing the "wrong" thing wrt Santa.
They cannot afford to make 1000 of them and keep them for themselves. They need the money up-front, and to get that they need to sell them in advance.
I had a take home exam in Combinatorics that was 9 questions. I had 20 days to turn it in and worked on it each day for about 8 hours. I finished 5 questions with a mountain of paper turned in. I was pretty depressed thinking I had blown it. Turns out someone answered 7 (Math PhD), 6 (Physics PhD), 5 (two of us) and the rest 4 or under (6 or 8 students I think).

I never ever wanted a take home final like that again.
I do not question the charity and helpfulness of these nations. Neither do I find any issues with their foreign policies. My point was directed more to how the society (not the government) deals with the immigrants [1].

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/world/norwegian-schools-segregation-sp...
A lot of things are possible with C++, but they are universally just that - "not quite as neat".

:)
It depends how the flag process works. The model should be that there's a background rate of accidental flagging, not all of which are immediately unflagged. Action shouldn't happen unless the signal is sufficiently above background. In that case, increased random flagging shouldn't affect things beyond shifting the spam/no-spam border slightly.

There should also be a time average, with a slight delay so people can fix a mistake.

When done well, there should be no need for an annoying confirmation button. This is important for two reasons. First, you otherwise penalize the people who are flagging, which is something HN should want. Second, confirmation requests like "are you sure" quickly get habituated, so people don't pay attention to them.
The corruption perceptions index, which is one of the factors the Economist ranking takes into account, is one possible proxy for the level of trust people have in their government: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/

Trust is a more general concept than just perceived lack of corruption, but I would guess the two are closely related (though which direction the causality goes in is an interesting question).
I'm guessing you have root control of the server? Install Varnish, it's a reverse proxy that caches request results in the RAM.
Thank you, iSnow! Makes perfect sense.
This makes me so happy. I've got my first on the way in about a month. I'll have to bookmark this for future use...
the biggest problem is you don't know how to make it profitable with more money. if your capturing email address on customers visitors you can try selling other products etc to your list.
Switzerland is not in the EU. They're not even an EEA member.
Most families have no control over their kids, they are spoiled rotten, and they don't know why, they will grow up leeches on the system, open your eyes they are all around us. Beep boop does not compute.
Like these?

> let lst = [1,2,3]
> lst!!0
1
> lst!!1
2
> let arr = listArray (0,2) [1,2,3]
> arr!0
1
> arr!2
2

I don't see how it would be particularly helpful to have the arguments to the indexing functions the other way around, but in case you really like the index coming before the list/array, you can always do

> (!0) arr
1
> (!!1) lst
2
You need to hire a sales person to take care of sales/marketing for the rest of you.
Well, please enlighten me then. If the possible penalty is 100 years he is facing a possible 100 years.

Together with incompetent juries this becomes a high risk gamble.
I'd recommend http://devopsweekly.com/
Teaching colleges of course take teaching seriously. Research universities place higher importance in research, but do take teaching also seriously simply because undergraduate tuition contributes to a big chunk of their revenue.

>But measuring employee or teacher performance is not science.

This assertion is baseless.
HR =) he generated quite some interest among our Seattle folks, so most likely they already knew about him
How do you know that it is Americans who are pushing that narrative?
There's always a tradeoff between security and other variables. There's no such thing as 100% secure, so where you make your stake in the spectrum of security depends on your business domain. Just as you have different engineering requirements when building a spaceship vs a prius, you have different software practices for different types of projects.
I knew I'd heard the name "SodaStream" before. The other day, walking around in the Castro in SF, I came across a bunch of protestors who were calling for a boycott of SodaStream: http://www.codepink4peace.org/section.php?id=470

As a person who hates the throwaway bottle culture of soda (and the HFCS, etc.), but who also supports middle-east peace, I'm torn here. :-/
It's not the role of OpenBSD or any other distribution to provide those gems.

I don't know anyone that rely on system packaging to get gems or eggs or CPAN module. And it would be silly because you can't run an arbitrary ruby/python app with and arbitrary version of gems.

And IHMO Debian should take the same decision and stop packaging gems and eggs.
I have a Defy too, but with CM7. Is CM10 working well on yours ? And can you tell me where to find it ?
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You didn't mention the J1, which is surprisingly versatile.

A first glance at the O1 makes people think they don't qualify. I would be surprised if anybody who can code has a less than 40% chance of getting the O1. I've seen it used for 17 year olds, people without degrees, etc.
Yep. I don't know why anyone would want to install something like Rails, Django etc... via their distribution or OS's built-in package management system. I think it's silly actually.

Ruby has rubygems, Python has pip, Perl has cpan...
Python.org's been targeted quite enough alright[1].

PyPI is arguably more secure though the surrounding implementations are spotty. You can at least verify the package uploader's identity with some certainty using PyPISSH[2], and sign your package with GPG[3]. The problem is, PyPISSH and signing your package with GPG are not required for compatibility reasons.

[1]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/WikiAttack2013

[2]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypissh

[3]: http://pypi.python.org/security
Because I hear it from my friends, and most of my friends are American. And frankly, I imagine non-Americans don't think about us that much.
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Maybe. But jumping to conclusions about other people's parenting is the prototype of the slippery slope.
What's wrong with the answers?
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looks quite interesting, but it appears that there is no way to switch the keyboard layout, that not easy to 'see' the key they highlight, and press it somewhere else!
For its small size, Sweden is an outlier in terms of successful big companies, however most of those were formed a long time ago.

H&M: 1947,
Ericsson: 1876,
Volvo: 1927,
Ikea: 1943,
ABB (formerly ACEA): 1883,
AstraZeneca (formerly Astra AB): 1913,
SAAB: 1937,
Electrolux: 1919,
etc

These have been the backbone of Swedish innovation for a long time, but we can't count on them anymore. We need more Google's and Apple's. There's Spotify, Digital Illusions (now EA), Skype (sort of), but there are no big successes anymore.
> And let's not forget that Norway's wealth

If oil wealth was all you needed to have good government, then the arab world would look drastically different from how it does today. I'd say that natural resource wealth actually makes it HARDER to have a good government, as it'd be a more tempting target to corrupt.

> There's not much to be said against Sweden and Denmark though: one could sum up their success by saying that they simply never went down the road of screwing the population in order to be able to reduce corporation tax

Sweden actually has a quite low corporation tax.
> If he was not "authorized" access, what is the authority, and when would the authorization have taken place?

http://ist.mit.edu/help

> It seems a terribly tough row to hoe.

Indeed, I'm finding myself in a strange place in this debate, because I do think that computer crime laws are very vague and extremely harsh, including the ones Aaron was being prosecuted under. But I think Aaron's defenders go too far when they claim he was completely innocent.
My parents didn't tell me Santa was real, unlike most families, they have NEVER once lied to me. As such I am a highly productive citizen about to retire to entrepreneurship early 30's.

I find your response stemming from a false assumption as evidence that you are spending too much of your neural network trying to deal with the deceivers in your life. Instead of having success, coming to right conclusions about things, you instead come to false conclusions, evidence of failure, can't get things right the first time. I find it disturbing and yet an addition to my understanding of how present-emotional people work. Without automations for the lower classes our society would not run as is.

When you get back into work Monday morning, you did your thing wrong, you'll have to correct that as well.
yeah I can dig that, there's a hell of a lead-in for any nano-tech.

I guess this trick is different because it's a process or function - similar in vein to those used in the nano-tech drug delivery systems. Which, if you think about it, are very similar (in kind) to viruses in the way they work. Whereas the nano-valve allows the (directed/conscious/intelligent) production of controlled environments - which are similar to cellular structures.

When I first read about it I figured it would be jumped on straight away by the big material science players like Intel or IBM for the production of VERY highly controlled doping for instance. Which is why I think it could be accelerated in it's development in comparison to other nano-tech. But I'm no expert in this area. I'm just interested in the intersection between technological solutions and biological solutions and nano-tech is a big ping on my radar in that respect.

To me it represents a phase-transition in the development of life. First we had utilisation of latent energy, self replication, environmental stabilisation (cellular), multi-cellular structure, agent based systems, environmental stabilisation (social), meta-agency ("knowledge" and "culture") and now meta-matter. But as I say, this is not the considered analysis of an expert, just something I find intriguing. In my wildest dreams this new phase will attain stability and the descendents will look back on our current phase like we now do with mitochondria. (Suffice to say I'm a fan of "Deep Time").
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I probably phrased it poorly. I was trying to point out that populations in the US mostly come from somewhere else and how quickly each group homogenize with the rest of the population differs greatly per group and region.
That's just the weird cargo-cult "hacker mentality" intersecting with parenting.

People would submit articles entitled "How I hacked my children", if it weren't because there was a nagging feeling in the back of their skull that something wasn't right about this attitude.

Doesn't stop people from applying it to everything else, though.
Yes, also I had much trust in the Swedish justice system, but after all the Pirate Bay and Assange stuff, my trust is wavering.
If it's an interesting fix, please consider doing a post like "What I learned from getting slashdotted by Hacker News".
A friend of mine has a theory that if a job can be done remotely from a few miles away, it can be done remotely from outsourcing-country-du-jour, so remote workers are first in line for outsourcing.

To what extent do you think this is the case?
The whole point is that the earbuds won't seem to have a life all their own. They'll continue to point straight to the floor of the plane, no matter what the wings are doing relative to the earth out the window.
I see your numerous FUD posts about Ruby, Javascript & others since a few weeks now, and I'm curious:

What is your magical langage / technology that never had any security holes, nor any misconception ?
Great idea; if I find the time I'll think about putting something together. Good to know there is interest in this.
Here's a line of code taken from a (Haskell) Game of Life simulation I was writing just a couple of days ago [0]:

showGrid (Grid _ ((_,b),(_,b')) arr) =
L.intercalate "\n" $ cut (b'-b+1) $ map toChar $ elems arr

This is the full code to convert a state of the board to a string, ready to be printed to stdout. It consists of a chain of four function applications, which respectively

1. Get the elements of the array as a list (elems)

2. Convert each element to a char (map toChar ... toChar is defined elsewhere - it's also a one-liner).

3. Cut the list into sublists of the correct length (cut (b'-b+1)).

4. Join the lists together into a single string, separating them with newlines (L.intercalate "\n").

Three of the four functions are curried. I contend that without currying by default, it would take more resources (in terms of lines, characters and mental effort) to write this function.

[0] https://github.com/chris-taylor/Life
>next time you write a post like this, I suggest explaining what is socialism in your post

I believe linking to the wiki and clearly directing him to the exact place in the wiki (the first line) communicates the information very effectively. Barrier to entry is zero and if he wants to keep reading he can go more in depth.

>I don't see why if using the correct word is called "accurate," then using the wrong word is called "dogma"

Using the wrong word is not, by definition, dogma. Dogma was inferred from other verbiage in his post, and is my opinion and the impression I got from his language.

>I'd like you to imagine what Hacker News would be like if people corrected technical ignorance with...

See above, -I don't really think this was technical ignorance. Of course I could be wrong, but that's not the premise I'm working with, or the impression I got. Hence the snark.

But as I already mentioned, I shouldn't have bothered to reply at all to what I saw as a dogmatic post. I think there's and adage about what to do when you're coming up short with niceties that applies here...
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SNR is way too low in this discussion thanks to non-parents posting. Peace out.
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That all depends on a really lots of factors IMO, most notably: continent, the number of airlines competing on a given route, is it a high peak time (e.g. vacations, xmas, May period in some European countries when there are lots of possible "long weekends" due to national holidays).

In my experience on the route I'm flying (indirect European connection, only two airlines competing, not many connections each day), the price in time is growing kind of exponentially. The threshold for sudden change is about 2 months (i.e. the price difference between 2 and 4 months in advance is not huge, while 2 and 1 month it's bigger). Moreover buying ~10 months in advance is more expensive than say 3 months before.
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I use Python + Pyramid daily; and I love it. However, I love Haskell more. Yesod/Snap/Happstack have quite a ways to go before they are on-par community and feature wise with Pyramid/Django/Rails/etc... but it's mature enough for production use.

With a little extra learning curve; it beats the pants off of Python + Pyramid + unit tests and lots of extra debugging time.