skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the farmers can select for effects, not the reasons for the effects.

You've just argued against animal husbandry, by the way.
Why would you count on Amazon's help?!
The problem is that you can legally sell a kindle.
One thing which is hinted at, but not explicitly called out, in this article is that some politicians are just batshit insane.

See for example the recent politician who plead guilty to perverting the course of justice. He got a camera generated driving penalty. He put his wife's name on the ticket, forcing her to take the penalty to avoid political trouble for him.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21320992)

His ex-wife is alleging some remarkable things about him too.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21372250)

Some might say that resigning is the honourable thing to do. But he did this ten years ago, has denied it ever since, and even when it went to trial he tried very hard to get the case dismissed. (That failed twice.) He only left when there was absolutely no option for him.

This kind of single-minded idiocy affects many politicians of all parties.

Blair and Bush saying that Iraq was connected to Al-Qaeda; Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; Iraq was ready to launch WMD within 45 minutes; Bush declaring "Mission Accomplished" in May 2003; these people are so disconnected from reality that it must be a pathology.
If it was a $50,000 car, I'd expect the police to put in a fair bit more effort to recovering it than a $50 kindle.

When your cell phone gets stolen, the police are the right people to turn to, not your network provider.
Sometimes the middle-of-the-road option is worse than either the left or right options. Also, don't underestimate how important it can be to have definitive winners in debates. Compromises in heated debates can lead to prolonged foot-dragging and resentment that can be worse than both the disease and the cure.
He's not saying anything much different than what people like Vilfredo Pareto(of Pareto principle fame) and Oswald Spengler and others of German Conservative Revolutionary movement... they were right of course but they also provided an ideological basis for fascism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto#Fascism_and_pow...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West#Democra...
Wow, that's an awesome feedback and great link! Thanks for your kind words! That's a pity there's no API access to user's saved stories (as far as I know). This would be great source for Bayes training. Maybe a chrome extension could train Bayes on HN visited links.
ASAP is equally rude and lazy. Define when you need something by and tell the person why. Offer them the ability to agree to your request, or to politely and promptly reject it, with reasons why.

ASAP is a warning flag. Avoid working with the ASAP brigade. If you must, then educate them in the above.

Any other opinions/solutions?
90% of startups/small businesses failing is a figure often thrown around but when I researched it I found no rock solid evidence of this number, also found wildly varying definitions of what a startup is, and what counts as failure. The link in the OP article links to another article which links to another article.
Thanks for the heads up.. we'll fix that up straight away.
So the answer is "no, not a parent".
Yes, much like "passwords" and "file permissions." Good thing Ubuntu doesn't support either of those anti-freedom "features."
"They concede that the opposition may disagree with the party in power on precisely how the state must operate, but agree that it should operate..."

I don't get that sentence from TFA. Is the author really against any kind of statism?

Even most libertarian don't argue that there should be no state operating at all. Only crazy anarchists advocate for no state at all, like in Somalia ; )
Do you write code that uses ALSA? I do. It is not "fine". It is maddening. By comparison, Core Audio is a dream. Windows is a bit of a zoo but all the pieces are there.

Replacing X isn't so dependent on drivers as you might think. A big part of what makes X so horrible is unrelated to how X interacts with the graphics card -- most of the nasty bits actually sit between the X server and the client application. The protocol was invented in 1987 and was designed around assumptions that just simply aren't true any more. These days, you want to shuffle pixmaps around or get a GL/DirectX context, and you want to do it locally. X is optimized for sending pixel operations over a network.

Let me make an analogy for X: imagine designing a protocol for making phone calls over an email system. That's what doing anything modern on X feels like, most of the time.
re.findall() returns all non-overlapping matches. We need to use a positive lookahead on the third part of the pattern to stop it from consuming the non-character:

re.findall(r"[^a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z]+)(?=[^a-zA-Z])", ..)
In the UK at least there might be some, for me, rather undesirable consequences of such a scheme - for instance we'd probably get the death penalty back.
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Why are falkvinge.net posts still upvoted here? This guy is a quack with no grasp of the law whatsoever.

The linked analysis on the blog contains the real consequences of this ruling:

- posting pictures online that one took himself of someone else's dresses can constitute copyright infringement (not so interesting, this has long been the case - but it's a point that often gets the I-hate-copyright quacks up in arms)

- the distinction was made between 'for monetary benefit' or 'for the public good'. The 'public good' to be interpreted narrowly - saying 'I uploaded the new Metallica album to the pirate bay is my way of sharing culture' is not 'for the public good' (this last point was not made explicitly in the ruling or the analysis but it's implicit from all the previous case law; it would be interesting to see a judgement otherwise, but to the best of my knowledge the ECtHR has so far even refused to just hear cases based on this argument)

- furthermore, to quote from the analysis : "Speech, messages, pictures and content which are merely money driven do not enjoy the added value of the protection guaranteed by Article 10 of the Convention. In the Court’s view, the margin of appreciation in such circumstances is a very wide one, even in a case where the interference by the authorities takes the form of a criminal conviction or a very high award of damages, both ‘sanctions’ with a risk of having a chilling effect." This is merely reinforcing existing rulings at various levels that got the general interwebs riled up - "it's inhuman to convict somebody to millions in damages to run the pirate bay!" Sorry buddy, ECtHR just said it isn't.

- Choice idiocy, typical falkvinge style:

"When this court makes a decision, that decision gets constitutional status in all of Europe (except for Belarus, which is not a signatory)."

Oh please. OK, not everybody has to be a lawyer, but at least read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism_and_dualism_in_internati... before making dramatic claims like this. Also, using words like 'constitution' that have very different meanings between legal systems (hint: it usually functions very differently in civil law systems as it does in the US) usually only adds confusion; in this case, I'm not sure if it's deliberate or just because of general incompetence.

"A court that tries somebody for violating the copyright monopoly must now also show that a conviction is necessary to defend democracy itself in order to convict."

What? What the court said was that the 3-step test established in many other aspects of ECtHR rulings apply here as well; he even quoted it one paragraph above his claim: "Exceptions can be made to Human Rights according to a well-defined three-step test: the verdict must be necessary in a democratic society, <etc>"

How he got from that to what he claims, I can only ascribe to acute illiteracy.

Please, sensible people on the internet: don't get your case law reporting / legal advice from falkvinge.net. If you think his reasoning will help you defend your case in court if you even end up there for copyright infringement, you'll be in for a very rude awakening.
Luckily they couldn't do that -- not without quitting the EU, which would result in an entirely different clusterfuck. (And I need to blog about the second-order consequences of that at some other time. For starters: the way the City of London would respond (mostly by pulling the eject handle and relocating to Frankfurt and Paris), the way the US multinationals who use the UK as an Anglophone business centre in the EU would respond (ditto), and how the Commonwealth would respond ("we only loved you because you were a cheap way to get our exports into the EU. Bye!") ...
I would add that long-tail media consumption reinforces the tendency toward special-interest groups.
What stoppes the new debate players to become "compromised" like the old ones when the entire thing becomes serious and the stakes get high?
AFAIK only the network stuff was, up until XP and Server 2003. They rewrote all of that for Vista, partly because the original code didn't keep up well with newer developments.
In the UK there was a problem of people reporting their phones stolen so they could break the contract.

One police station I walked into had a sign saying that they investigate all reported phone theft, and would vigorously prosecute anyone making a false report.

In general you report the phone to your service provider (so they can block the IMEI (and there's a potential 5 year prison sentence for people who change that) and then the police to get a crime reference number and then whoever has insured the phone (sometimes the provider) to give them the reference number.

Perhaps this is a niche for a specialist to enter. Create some tool that gives law enforcement and phone providers easy to use data-mining to allow them to track stolen phones and catch thieves. (I haven't described it well, but this would be something with tight integration between law enforcement and providers; it'd have some kind of auditing to ensure correct legal documentation; it would allow data on many phones to be displayed so you could heat map where phones are stolen from or where stolen phones are ending up, etc.)
Ruzzle Lego Mindstorm solver with Node.js
How I increased my blog’s Search Traffic by 44% in under a month
That's not a bad idea!

I personally would like to see very simple laws passed:

a) to be able to work as a politician you must first have been working at least x years in the private sector

b) if you're father / mother is a politician, you cannot become a politician

This would solve two of the biggest issues with politicians in Europe:

a) gross incompetence

b) conflicts of interest

In Belgium there are a lot of "son of..." which are becoming ministers and whatnots. And there are regularly scandals about public funds disappearing in the pockets of families where both the father and one of its son are in power.
The ancient Athenians agreed with you that sortition is more fair than election, for many metrics of fairness.
With Node I would use a combination of npm's site which is their package manager which ranks libs and has a wealth of info for each package and github.

When you publish an npm module it gets put on their site automatically, then there's a lot of javascript scraping sites that watch npm's site. Before you know it your module has a decent amount of coverage which in return makes it much easier to find as someone who is searching for modules.

I also never had a problem finding a good lib in Node because there's a few stand out Node devs who are insanely productive and produce extremely high quality libs on a regular basis.

With Go it feels like there's 3 or 4 lib searching sites but all of them are really flawed. Then on top of that Go code is hosted on a bunch of different sites.

Top Google results are also not very good. In that Redis search example I searched for "golang redis lib" and the highest rank result was for some lib with almost no traction and had a questionable API.
Ask HN: Is there a service that will submit an API request on my behalf?
For instance, I have an API call that remaps an Elastic IP to another EC2 instance in case there's a failure. I have the call saved on my mac, but in case I had a failure while I was out of the office, it would be nice if I could visit a webpage, send an email, tweet something, etc, and a service would send the API call on my behalf.

Seems simple enough, but I can't find anybody out there doing it.
Good to see you following up on this and tweaking it some more.

Having done this kind of thing a few times in the past I have to ask, which line in your test harness actually checks that the end result vector is actually sorted?

If thee is a small error in splitting and merging it might only throw an out of sequence element on a rare occasion - in such circumstances it might be wise to log the seed value used for the "random" sequence so it can be retraced and debugged.

If you're after further challenges have a shot at cranking out the largest number of uniformly distributed random points in a 3D unit sphere (or generalise to a unit N-sphere) and look at testing both the speed and whether they are in fact uniformly distributed at all scales.
He also authored jslinux[1] in 2011.

This guy is amazing and I am truly envious.

[1] http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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I have exactly same story. Had spent a week struggling with Indian Police, and amazon did not help at all.

Twice this has happened and I have not bought a third kindle although I desperately want it.
+1. Enterprise still on the way.
I am not anti-statist. I was trying to set out the difference between systems that acknowledge a Loyal Opposition, and totalitarian/one-party/monarchical systems, where the centre of power explicitly rejects the legitimacy of other groups' aspirations and desires for how the state should be run.
Yes I can!

The point is this: reddit has a certain demographic that you don't find on most websites: mostly tech geeks that embrace modern web technology and a very high proportion of programmers. On the other hand look at slashdot, horrible discussions, just a random pile of opinions with many flame wars.

That said, discussions in News forums (news paper, news agencies etc) are often very stupid or unpolite. But I have seen that they are at least slightly more polite in flat forums. There is less repetition and if someone complains about unpoliteness, this is taken more seriously by the followups. Of course flat forums are way more work for the commentator because he needs to read all the posts that were before and make conclusions based on them. This can be next to impossible on an article's comment section with high load.
Love the first graphic and how it twists itself to show the recovery partition on the right side of the graph so the green bar can be as far left as possible. The article lost all credibility at that point.
Brilliant article. Very well put. I love the example of a mobile interface for explaining why using select menus for navigation is a bad idea.
Hacking IFTTT
In that case it's exactly the same as if Microsoft never used the code... it would still have disappeared. That's what would have happened if it were GPL code. Proprietary software vendors can't use GPL code, because there's no way they can use it without making their entire product GPL... which most software vendors won't do.
You've conflated owners and users. FOSS movements are advocating owners' rights, and only users' rights when the "real" owner of a piece of software or a computer has been demoted to a user.

That's why FOSS software like NFS respects file permissions, and web servers include HTTP-Auth.
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555867
Network providers can give you current information of location, once you show them report that you have registered the device as 'lost' with the police.

A least this is how it happens in India
That would just make lobbyists and bureaucrats more important. Would your grandmother know how to draft a law governing water purity standards?

Also juries are known to be easy to manipulate. Perhaps legislators are as well, but I don't see government-by-jury as being clearly superior.
Old article resurfacing again on HN, neverthless he is everyone's idol
Oh that's interesting, missed that the first time around, thanks.
Well yes, I am left of centre.

But I was trying to articulate an argument that doesn't rely on that.
Maybe he thinks of you as a friend?
The social buttons that follow scrolling with a lag are maddening. Very distracting.
This makes me wonder: How will today's games be preserved in a collection like this?

I'm sure the DRM servers for games like Assassin's Creed won't be maintained for more than another decade, if that. Then, you have all kinds of PC games with limited authorizations. Most people also have numerous digital games tied to their Steam / Origin / Amazon accounts. If any of those disappear, you could lose a big chunk of your collection. There's no way to pass those games on to anyone else even if the services are still around.

It seems piracy is the only hope of preserving today's games for future generations.
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I agree that it's a difficult issue, as some might feel it's an intrusion of privacy if that data is used. Other might feel it's annoying to have to up/downvote stories both on HN and on your site. That's a trade-off. Perhabs both, or allow import of saved data, so users can make a dump from HN and import it in your site.

I think the other HN api used to have that (if people trust them to pass their user/pw to HN safely), but seems to be disabled: http://api.ihackernews.com/.

So yeah, the easiest way to start it would be to have people up/down vote on your site, or use a heuristic measure such as: if you click a link, you "like" it, if you're shown a link, but don't click a link you "ignore" it (which should be less negative than hate, as there can be a number of reasons for not clicking a link).

As in:

I get a list of 10 items from each category, of those 10, which do I click, which don't I. So once an item is shown to me - save it as "bad" by default in the DB.
If I click it, change it to a good result.

You'd might have to change the weight more than this, but it should be a good start, and requires the least amount of effort for the user.
In the real world as opposed to in an ideal world.

The unfortunate fact is that police have more pressing issues to deal with than petty theft, no-one is going to be taking more than a second glance at any CCTV footage, and you're certainly not going to see it.

Also with respect to 'privacy warriors' you have to way up the weights of the possible pros and cons. In the best case scenario you retrieve a piece of low value electronic equipment. Whoop-de-do. In the worst case, violent ex-husband finds the whereabouts of his ex-wife and assaults her, or worse.
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Unfortunately, the UK (or a post-independence Former United Kingdom) leaving the EU seems to be a clusterfuck that seems to be gaining a surprising amount of momentum.
Sorry if it came across that way - it surely wasn't meant as prying into these people's details. I was just wondering about how people end up with the names they have.
"My only piece of advice is to get a solid background in JavaScript, then move forward, appreciate the blood, sweat and tears Resig put into jQuery"

I hear this point made a lot, for example in reference to learning Ruby before Rails or C before Ruby, but I don't think it's right. They used to teach kids Latin before Spanish or French (in the 1700s):

"We are told that it is proper to begin first with the Latin, and having acquir'd that, it will be more easy to attain those modern languages which are deriv'd from it" (quote from Ben Franklin's autobiography)

But that's silly and no one does this anymore because LATIN SUCKS and it's harder to learn Latin than any other language. jQuery is easier to learn than JavaScript. Why not start with jQuery and then learn JavaScript after?
How dare he thank the community that supported him in time of need and where he feels welcome and at home!

Snark aside, some of the most amazing thinkers humanity ever produced were pretty damn insane (Newton, for example, was quite bonkers). As Geoffrey B. West said: cities last while companies die in the long run, because cities tolerate crazy people and companies don't. I highly doubt you risk going insane because the author of a book on programming is an openly devout Christian. AFAIK, Knuth's works weren't considered brain damaging either.
While I agree with the general sentiment, we should remember that while things might seem bad now, the general state of things for the average middle-class Westerner is unquestionably better than at any time in history. Just half a century ago we a decade of crushing world war, and before that (in America) crushing civil war, and not that long before that kingdoms and tyranny, and things go way downhill past that.

Now that's not to say that everything is peachy, that things can't be improved, or that we shouldn't strive to do so. I guess Stross's question is, can things be improved given the current system? I don't know. Some days I suspect that human pettiness, fallibility, tribalness, and forgetfulness will doom us to forever repeating a cycle of violence and revolution.

On a side note, sometimes I feel that America, despite our relatively prosperous position in history, is on the knife's edge of falling over into a blatant Minority-report-ish surveillance/police state. Look how fast it happened to other countries in history that didn't have the overwhelming military power and surveillance infrastructure that America has in place today. What would it take for the country to tip over the edge? Could we stop it if it happened? Would we want to? (Apropos: today on NPR they had a quote from Brennan at his hearing where he said, without a hint of irony, something along the lines of, "drone strike killings of Americans will never be used for people who have committed crimes in the past; only for people who pose a threat to America in the future.")
It doesn't seem to be a place to get started for Go though. I just did a search for "golang redis" and it showed me a single perl redis lib?

I like the idea of the reviews and ratings though. Normally I would put almost no value in a rating system but we need to somehow separate the good from the bad without having to dive in and look at and profile code from 20 diff libs on a daily basis.
The Man Who Quit Money: An Interview with Daniel Suelo
So, make a brand new email address and abandon my @gmail account?

If I was willing to do that: I'd just leave Gmail for a superior service!
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Ah yes. Sometimes the mob does have teeth.
'leftist slant ... but'

You make it seem as if sounding like a leftist discredits him. In any case, you are right about what happens to the newborn Arab democracies, but these countries have very immature political systems and they are not analogous to the much more mature western systems. Democratic elections is only one feature of a well functioning state, the rule of law and accountability take much longer to grow roots, and only then does democracy show her true value.
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