skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an uncommon distinction, made only by very few people in that way.

“Democracy” never meant only majority rule. “Democracy” is more commonly used as an umbrella term, that can refer to majority rule, but also constitutional republics.

It’s all semantic pointlessness anyway, obscuring meaning by fighting meaningless bullshitting battles.

Why obscure meaning by insisting on making a difference between democracy and constitutional republic when it would be much easier to just directly contrast and compare “majority rule” and “constitutional republics” with each other? You don’t even have to use the word “democracy”.

It is all perfectly clear and using “democracy” to describe a constitutional republic is not some grand conspiracy.

It’s pseudo-intellectual semantic stupidity.

But if you want to embrace this semantic wankery then one thing is clear: democracy never only referred to majority rule. That’s completely absurd, it was always broader than that. (Looking only at Athens suffices here. That was never a constitutional republic, but it also was never a majority rule. For example, some offices were assigned randomly.)
I've actually had a lot of success using Knockout doing some single page apps. It seems Angular is similar?
Does anyone have any reflections on the psychology of conspiracy nutters?

I have two friends who will believe pretty much anything that involves the government/corporations and nefarious activities. Evidence is strictly optional. Indeed, evidence to the contrary is not sufficient to disprove these theories. Or its just part of the conspiracy.

The funny thing is these people are otherwise quite intelligent and capable of rational thought. They have decent careers and neither are social outcasts.

If they had failed careers/relationships etc I might understand it as a coping mechanism to internally justify failure. But that is not the case here.

I dont understand why they believe these things. But then I dont understand how faith works for religious people either.

Anyone have any insight to this?
Why Hypermedia APIs are bullshit
I think you described exactly what I meant by "allergic to conditionals": a philosophy that conditional logic never belongs in the presentation layer. I didn't intend to imply a value judgement.
It depends on MacVim on OS X.

So for terminal Vim'ers:

1. copy the mvim script from MacVim to /usr/local/bin (or wherever)

2. ln -s /usr/local/bin/mvim vim (assuming you've ditched your old vim symlink)

Linking directly to the MacVim binary causes these sorts of issues[0].

[0] https://github.com/altercation/solarized/issues/60
I've had 300+ domains with GoDaddy for over 10 years now and I've never had a problem with them.
>she is a target because she is a woman

We don't know that. This is an assumption made with no meaningful evidence.
Then it should work with YCM in your console as well (whether it works depends on the terminal emulator). A map is a map.
I'll interpret that as an optimistic: "Never or soon."
The "military aged males" killed by drones aren't US citizens. This memo does not suggest that the US can kill any military aged male regardless of nationality.

And no, it would not be plausible to say that Wikileaks could be described as "associated with al Qaeda". You could have used the same reasoning in the 1930s and 1940s to suggest that the US could have killed Charles Coughlin; after all, he was on the radio advocating for Mussolini and Hitler!
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I am absolutely empowered, as an individual or on behalf of my company, to tell this guy he is an ass. Or to ask the conference organizers to boot him. But I didn't feel like doing either. I didn't even cross my mind at the time.

It's kind of like when a crazy person yells at you on the street. Yeah, you could tell them to stop, because it makes you uncomfortable, but that would require even more interaction, and they'd probably do something to make you even more uncomfortable. Easier to walk away.

At least by sharing it here some people can learn from the example of what not to do :)
Your 4 points at the end are all true (and true in general), but Facebook's valuation on SecondMarket was not a stretch-- in the IPO they sold 425M shares at $38.
"Pinterest, an online scrapbooking and social networking site with no revenue, became worth $1.5 billion in less than three years."

Does 'no revenue' qualify as a business model?
GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
IE is only at 13% on Omegle. But I'd still hesitate to tell those users to get lost.
Very cool. Has anyone gotten this working on Windows?
Ouya console will be sold at Best Buy, Target and GameStop
ok I liked one theme of color, whats next?
should I download image and put as body.background?

or you could provide the image link on the mini window just to help us?

thanks
If majority are smart, democracy would suffice.

It's not really a matter of intelligence.

Most people, including most intelligent people, do not believe that a person's life completely belongs to himself or herself.

Instead, they think it belongs to the family, or the community, or God, or the nation, or the government, or those with less money.

It's actually a major intellectual achievement to be able to affirm the principle that an individual's life belongs to himself.
The valuations at which VCs invest are not unconstrained though. The valuations at which they invest have to be on average a lower bound on eventual exit valuations, or they'll at best break even, and a VC firm that does no better than break even in one fund will have a hard time raising its next one.

E.g. if a VC fund invested in 10 companies at a valuation of a billion each, and 9 tanked while one ended up being worth 20 billion, they'd fairly happy. But all 10 can't tank. It has to work out on average.
This looks great. Non-semantic completions (for languages not covered by libclang) are very useful as well. I'm an emacs person and dabbrev-expand saves me a lot of typing in any mode.
It doesn't really depend on MacVim, that's just a binary distribution of Vim for Macs that is proven to work.

Vim from Homebrew doesn't work though, something is wrong with the way Homebrew configures/builds Vim (don't know what though).

You can certainly build a Vim from source for Mac and have that work well with YCM, the only question is why would someone go through the trouble of doing so when MacVim does it for you.

Even if you prefer using Vim in the console and don't like the GUI, MacVim.app has a normal Vim binary inside it that you can call.
Yes, quoting from the article: "All of the above works with any programming language because of the identifier-based completion engine. It collects all of the identifiers in the current file and other files you visit and searches them when you type (identifiers are put into per-filetype groups)."
I've struggled to say this and not sound snarky, but, in the face of this, how can we not admit that there's a bubble? Do we really think that all 40 of those startups could actually find someone to buy them out, completely, at 1+ billion each? (And I don't mean with the plan to turn it into an IPO and get rich/get out quick)

A billion dollars for a survey website with no clear sustainable competitive advantage?

Spotify seeing a ~3.5 billion valuation in the face of an estimated loss of 40 million for 2012 – owing your existence to an industry that is kicking and screaming into the digital age (and with strong bargaining power and a strong sense of greed)? It's possible – and Spotify is an exciting entry with some clear success, but almost 4 billion in valuation strikes me as bubble territory, at the moment, given all of that...

Just my daily dose of skepticism...
Wow and it didn't cost $70? :)
Umzug wien
Umzug , umzug wien
Eine Umzugsdienstleistung ist in jedem Fall eine riesen Vertrauenssache, darum bemühen wir uns bei jedem Umzug stets unsere bestehenden sowie Neukunden zur vollsten Zufriedenheit zu stellen. Ist der Umzug in Wien der noch so weit, wir sind allzeit bereit!
There is nothing wrong with that code. The comment is strange, but the code is fine. 'swap' function call has to be resolved via ADL and this is how it's done correctly. It's unfortunate that the C++ Standard essentially requires swap to be called this way (i.e.: using std::swap; swap(a, b);). In your code it's best factored out into a separate 'swap_helper' function and this is what's done there.

C++ is convoluted. Sometimes code that seems quite wrong has a good reason to exist.
Let me offer a counterpoint to HN's cynicism. I watched the Super Bowl with tweets streaming through, it was fun and engaging to see reactions and wit to everything from plays, Beyonce, and commercials -- within seconds. If I scroll through now, it's like retelling a joke when the timing is completely off, and shrugging it off as, "well, you had to be there." It doesn't diminish the experience at the time, but it's hard to it relate now.

This isn't the first time for me that Twitter really added to a lengthy real-time event. I fired up my Tweetbot for both Hurricane Sandy and Election 2012. It depends on who you follow, but for me, it made for a much more entertaining night than just watching the CNN talking heads.

As for the value that these brands got, it's hard to say. We're still in the early stages of brands + social, and Oreo can't possibly account for an extra box of cookies sold with any level of confidence. But I do know that I enjoyed seeing Audi, Tide, and Walgreens get retweeted more than I saw my SF friends swearing at the 49ers for the 100th time.
I haven't tried, but I've done everything possible to keep both the code and the build system cross-platform. I've written OSS cross-platform C++ code using Boost before (with CMake as the build system) and had it working on Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD without modification. I've applied the same principles here, just haven't tested it on Windows or written docs on how to get it working there. But it's doable, certainly.
> However, there are a number of classes in Rails (and presumably other Ruby projects of similar complexity) which can be tricked into evaluating string properties as code when they are created, and ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet::NamedRouteCollection is one.

And that is just insane. But I come from PHP where eval = evil

Why Rubyists don't care what they are evaling as long as what they personally intend to pass into eval is useful?
The title is admittedly overcooked. But Super Bowl commercials cost $4mm but the tweet was free ...
My start up is about removing the physical limitation of being at only one place at a time. More on it here http://blog.spidr.net/2013/02/05/hangout-anywhere-anytime/
Earned media is a part of any successful marketing strategy.
Drug testing is also a good measure of how big-brotherish a company is, and whether it's worth working for. This swings both ways.
This is really embarassing... I put it in my calendar wrong, and made the trip up to Tokyo today. Oh well... maybe next time I will come.
It's not evil. It's not mean-spirited. It is a tad sexist, but not in a super offensive way. Probably the worst thing about it is that it's turning away some women and some feminist men. I doubt Gun.io intended that.

I think it's a good example of an easy thing to change for the tech community to be more inviting to women. If we want to break down stereotypes and gender ratios in tech, one thing we can do is make it more inviting for women to work here.
Of course it's a bubble. I think most of these will burst, but some of them will withstand it.

One thing to remember: it's in the best of interest of everyone involved in a bubble to deny there's a bubble. These investors who say "it's different this time" have no credibility.
Yes, but Skype is not fully decentralized. Skype is no safer than any e-mail service.
Well, it's an answer to the paradox of choice.

Also, JavaScript is not a bad language for UI development at all. It certainly has its warts, but I liked it more than the other frameworks I've done UIs in: Java Swing, Perl/Python Tk or Haskell WX.

Admittedly, I really liked the FRP logic part with Haskell, but actually using wxWidgets was pretty poor. Also, JavaScript has some very compelling FRP libraries itself which could probably be adapted to work on Gnome.
While they can, it doesn't mean they should.

Mitsubish are selling product, while this is a portfolio design and thus should require less attention while you work on clients.

The solution is not to blame the victims of the theft. Agreed that shaming isn't always the best idea either though.
In the particular case I referenced, he was, Abdulrahman al-Alauqi was born in Denver and was aged 16 when he was killed.

Coughlin could have faced the death penalty for sedition; but he was silenced by his bishop before that was necessary. And the logic in this document is perniciously close to that used to incarcerate thousands of US citizens of Japanese descent after Pearl Harbor.

This is why we should not vest the executive with untrammeled ability to kill on their own authority, but should restrain them to a procedure that asks them to justify the exigency to a judge at the very least.
It would make sense if they had no intention to aggressively expand abroad. They are doing exactly the oposite. In the last two years they launched in 20+ countries. Like I said they have the ultimate distribution platform for their content and the cost of expending it abroad is marginal, a couple of CDN deals and some marketing.
Yeah, some proprietary form of WebRTC, though. You know Microsoft...
> Does 'no revenue' qualify as a business model?

Only if "no revenue" actually means "no profits". There are perfectly sane business plans that grow the company and pay all the salaries, but don't turn a profit. It can't go on forever, but it's not a disaster either.

I suspect the OP didn't actually mean "no revenue".
Do we really think that all 40 of those startups could actually find someone to buy them out, completely, at 1+ billion each?

That's not the bet investors are making. They're betting more on IPOs than acquisitions, and they're betting that the entire portfolio will end up net ahead, not that each individual company will. And indeed it would be extremely unlikely for a group of 40 startups not to end up with a power law distribution of exit valuations.
"Fukushima was an inside job."

Bravo.
But see, that's kind of the thing--how a valuation is computed and what that actually means are two different things. For instance, let's say I put $10,000 down on a house in 2007 that's worth $500,000. Is that house really worth $500,000, or is that valuation a side effect of easy lending? I guess it depends on when you calculate that worth.

But take 5 companies that have a combined valuation of $5 billion according to their last round. My point is simply this: those companies together are not actually worth 5 billion dollars, in that you cannot find someone to buy them at that price. You can sell portions, sure. But you end up with less than the 5 billion quoted in NYT.

But as pg points out, in practice, nobody is trying to buy companies that way, and there are many other factors at work. And hey, maybe 4 of those companies go out of business but one of them is the new new thing--then it just doesn't matter and you've been successful as an investor in super risky businesses. But even still, there's a difference between the cost of part of something versus the cost of the whole--same difference between paper wealth and actual wealth.
> The average man has no more power than the average woman.

Can the average woman apply for any given technical position with an equal chance of being interviewed by a person of her gender? When the average woman's colleagues organise a social event outside of work, does she feel as powerful as the average man when she's the only female in a room full of inebriated men? When the average woman's colleague accidentally says something sexist and nobody else notices because she has no female colleagues, is she as powerful as the average man?
Here is SF. I think the guy thought he was flirting with me. It was not effective :)
I'd be willing to believe that is all if Obama (or was it Bush) didn't start enlisting children as possible militant targets. If they can bend that rule to change statistics, they or someone else could bend the rule to mark anyone as target.

Example

1. Well you looked like one because of the beard
2. You or someone that looks like you promised to "Cleanse the US from face of Earth", etc.
3. You had a piece of wood that looked like a gun, so capture was infeasible
4. State you belonged, sponsored some terrorist 10 years ago.
Why Google’s settlement with French publishers is bad for the web
This is a tired, erroneous argument which surprisingly still gets dragged out, and was commented on back in 2004 [0]:

"The skeptic attitude to consensus usually starts with “there is no consensus”. That’s wrong, and they usually retreat from it to “but consensus science is meaningless”, and/or “consensus has nothing to do with science”. The latter is largely true but irrelevant. The existence of the consensus doesn’t do a lot to determine what science is done; it doesn’t prevent contrary lines being explored. But the consensus view does come into the tricky interface between science and policy, and science and the media."

[0] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/just-w...
That other text editor doesn't cost $70 to use either ;)
You are stating all of this within the context that the governments should have nuclear weapons. The people (around the world) should have free and open nuclear power. Just because we have nuclear weapons does not mean we should have to use them in negotiations. Sure it helps to have power in any negotiating situation but why do we even get to a point? Isn't that akin to saying "We have power. You don't. Do what we want." This is not how government should be run.

Feel free to message me to continue discussion.
Huawei to offer budget-friendly 4Afrika Windows Phone handset in Africa
Warning: Wikipedia entries on climate change have become heavily politicized, and entries on individuals are often rewritten to make them look ridiculous. See for instance the media coverage of William Connolley's role at Wikipedia.

I tried editing a few inaccuracies related to a scientific misconduct hearing involving Bjorn Lomborg, and was stunned at the vicious personal attacks I received in response. I gave up on Wikipedia at that point, as have many other moderate, reasonable people.
The indictment against Bradley Manning states that he is being charged with knowingly giving information to the enemy. Since he gave the cables to Wikileaks, is Wikileaks "the enemy"?

It's a valid question.
Ah, pardon my naivety. Well, I'll look at the figures you provided then. Thanks!
Congratulations! You are a genius. You have created a MVP comedy generator!

You're about 15 iterations away from making a billion dollar service that creates and sells movies to hollywood and television stations.

On a serious note: I've lived with a conspiracy theorist and the pattern I've noticed is this. Theorists take things that were mistakes or unintended and say that they were done on purpose to benefit someone. 9/11, Iraq, etc.. So you're actually really close.

I love this. Someone should get a really serious looking gentleman and make videos of his reading this as if it were real conspiracy news.
Well no, I won't be taking a reduced salary for they're willing to pay (close to) market rates.
Your image failed to load (for whatever reason; don't count on a refresh to fix it--the failure may have generated a 404 that's neatly cached by my ISP). My browser doesn't display ALT text for dimensioned images (or the ALT text won't fit in the image placeholder area). I don't use a screen reader, and I'm not an HTML-savvy user. Now what?

Accessibility first — it affects a lot more tan disabled users. Usability second. Pretty if you have time, and only insofar as it doesn't interfere with the first two.
Democracy: A system of government in which every citizen is entitled to participate equally in government.

Republic: A system of government by the citizens, as opposed to a monarch, emperor, or dictator.

Constitutional republic: A republic in which the powers and functionining of government are restricted by the constitution.

I don't necessarily think "democracy" and "republic" are mutually exclusive.

I do think "democracy" and "constitutional republic" are exclusive.

For example:

In a democracy, someone else's wish to confiscate my property counts equally with my wish to keep my property.

In a constitutional republic, the government's powers are limited by the constitution, providing protection for citizens against arbitrary governmental powers.

Of course, you could have a constitutional republic with a poorly-functioning constitution, which in effect functions more and more as a democracy. So there are certainly mixed cases.

Some people would resist the definitions I have given, because I define concepts so clearly. But that is the very point of concepts: to capture the essence, not to capture the mixed cases. And objective concepts are a necessary part of rational thought.
While that is the title of theregister's piece, it is not true. The bindings of no other language are being removed, the GNOME project has just decided what answer they should give to the question "What should I write my new app in", and to try to get one language's documentation up to really high standards.
> Does anyone have any reflections on the psychology of conspiracy nutters?

I'm sure we could collect as many theories about conspiracy freaks as there are conspiracy freaks, on the ground that most of psychology is speculation.

> Indeed, evidence to the contrary is not sufficient to disprove these theories.

That's one of the attractions of conspiracy theories -- most of them can't be conclusively disproven, because most require proof of a negative, which is an impossible evidentiary burden, for reasons given here:

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

Conspiracy theorists and crackpots have a lot in common. One thing they share is the idea that, unless their critics can disprove their beliefs, the beliefs must have merit. In other words, they hold the opposite of the null hypothesis (the idea that an idea with no evidence is probably false) -- they also unfairly shift onto others their own burden of evidence.

> The funny thing is these people are otherwise quite intelligent and capable of rational thought.

Intelligence is no assurance of reasonable thought processes. For that, one must understand logic and certain scientific principles, like accepting the burden of evidence for one's own ideas, and being willing to sincerely doubt one's own conclusions. I have always suspected that conspiracy theorists (and crackpots) never learned the basics of evidence and research.
Thanks for the reminder, was too naive!
It does look fun.

But the programming done here is very imperative and procedural in nature. Not to say it can't or shouldn't be done. It just doesn't seem like a very good case for using a functional programming language, although the title seems to imply that. Anybody attempting to learn Clojure this way is probably missing out on the actual merits of functional programming.
I'm not familiar with all the startups mentioned, but I have to say this: I think Pinterest will be a several billion dollar company and either IPO (likely) or get acquired by Amazon (maybe). If I could buy the stock a decent price, I would.

I say this based on (a) my own experience seeing it drive traffic to some recent consumer projects and (b) seeing how every woman in my life (from my 18-year-old daughter to my 62-year-old mother in-law) uses it as a giant shopping list for their lives.
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