skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time a service like this appears (along with Fiber, Google DNS, Ajax Libs, Google Analytics, ..) I'm left feeling that traffic data produced as a side product is somehow being reused internally. My wild (and least paranoid) guess is search quality: measuring site popularity using bandwidth as a proxy would be incredibly difficult for spammers to fake on a large scale, and when capturing logs for what increasingly appears to be the comprehensive majority of Internet traffic, we're talking really large scale.

Given user reports and experiences of Google DNS, it seems at least its stated aim is barely satisfied in the general case: it is often slower than local ISP servers. Similarly, sticking a proxy between a user and their destination may add more latency than it could ever save, leading me to somewhat doubt the public reason these services exist.
The reducers versions have the drawback that they aren't lazy because they are defined in terms of reduce; so there is still a place for the core map/filter/etc functions which can operate on, and return lazy sequences without doing any actual work.
It shouldn't be allowed to say things in doesn't mean though.

A government is failing badly in it's duty to the populus if they allow large companies to make known false claims (or indeed unknown claims) as to the legal position of a buyer.

Sure you could sue for fraud or some-such but it strikes me this sort of situation is where government needs to use a strong hand to keep corporations in line.
"This is a long distance call. You must dial a 'one' plus the ten-digit number to complete your call."
Economically, it has never been the case that a country became a leader because it was competent in the arts. The sciences are more important in people's minds because they provide for economic prosperity, an aftereffect of which is the flourishing of the arts.

It's not clear why the author seems to be optimistic. Maybe because the recent economic crisis has led the prices up in the elite art market? If anything, the examples of youtube, deviantart etc. prove that (the visual) arts are becoming increasingly a cheap commodity. So, from the standpoint of "creating an impact" the visual arts (and the performance arts) in particular seem pretty doomed. How long can it be before we have screenplay-to-movie generators? On the other hand, storytelling and music seem to be having a renaissance.

In any case it's bad advice to tell people to study only art or only science as both are necessary for the "advancement of the human condition".
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Yahoo answers has been amazingly useful to me a number of times.
US copyright law considers a performance of a work to be a copy that must be authorized by the copyright holder. For example, a songwriter is entitled to royalties if an orchestra plays the song, and singing Happy Birthday at a birthday party is illegal but you're allowed to hum it (the tune is out of copyright, the lyrics are not), and that is why restaurants have invented their own birthday songs. Back to the subject at hand, the playing of a recording for an audience has been considered a performance since recordings were first invented, so it's illegal whether you're on an oil rig or not.

If the rig is in international waters, the story might be different.
It also has to catch on as a popular thing in society. I like the term "absurdism".
What you say is correct, but what I was trying to say (you may disagree) is that SIRI was a big jump into mobile search, and that it is a bigger move into mobile search than google's hardware projects have been in competing with Apple.

SIRI is still in the early stages and would benefit a great deal from becoming more of an App platform, but I think that is going to take some time due to the nature of how SIRI works.
The devil is in the details (the last bullet point on your first link):

> You may have to pay taxes on any loan amount that is forgiven after 20 years.

Roughly: the more student loan payments are reduced now, the more the borrower will pay in federal income taxes later.

The unpaid portion of the loans will be accumulating at least some interest until forgiven. Forgiveness of that remaining balance would (under today's law) trigger a significant tax event for the borrower.
Buying a large bag of rice and large bag of beans once every two weeks isn't a big problem. Those dry foods have a huge shelf life and are cheap. I didn't say they need to eat fresh baby spinach and kale every day.
I'm guessing that's because some of the software libraries iTunes is built on has that clause as one of its licence agreements
Rambling here, but there seems to be some similarity of artists' plight and programmers' plight.

One of the "problems" with art is the low barrier to entry. I've known a lot of people who were 'artists' who didn't really work at anything solid but rather spent some time emoting when the mood struck them then tried to capture that emotion in some sort of sketch or painting or poem. (I also know artists who are working very hard, have their own modes of expression and are trying to keep things together to make a living. Maybe I'll ramble back to them...)

One of the things that has happened to programming in 'recent' years (I'm old) is the barrier to entry for programming has dropped dramatically. For people who have an analytical bent, it's pretty easy to set up a linux box with a bunch of programming tools (even Windows box I suppose), find some tutorials for building web page widgets, and start building stuff.

They can put themselves out on a freelancing site and make short money building crap software. I've hired some freelancers, and every now and then come across one that thinks he is "all that" but he's really crappy. (I had one recently that tried to upsell me to his servers. Now get this: I have my own, with ssh key access, and told me to send me his public key. He sent me his PRIVATE key. He sells hosting. HOLY SHIT!)

There are a lot of people out there that don't know the difference between good and bad- and, for the moment, they don't care enough to ask the questions that allow them to distinguish. They just want their damn blog up with the mouseover animation- or whatever. And they'll pay for it.

At the higher end, programmers have more of a credentialing mechanism (degrees) which aren't perfect, and perhaps are archaic, but can nevertheless provide a first barrier.

As the person who wants the blog with the mouseover widget, I don't know shit about design or art. If I'm buying art, how do I know what's good? How do I know what's worth paying $300 for and what's worth paying $30000 for?

What's different about the people at the top of the food chain? There's a lot of garbage in the system (does every artist still 'play guitar?') and it can make it a real challenge for the authentic practitioners to be visible without some help with the filtering process.
The linked commit describes it as "Data Compression Proxy, Reduce data consumption by loading optimized web pages via Google proxy servers".
The BBC is different, actually. If you're a UK citizen, you do not have to pay income tax while you live and work abroad. And the BBC is funded partly by an explicit "TV license" payable by any household that has a TV in Britain. So again, if you leave (or just get rid of your TV), you stop paying for it. So maybe it's OK if you can't watch it then (bollocks still, but justifiable bollocks).
It is for me, and I do a lot of collaboration, interaction, and system gluing.

But it's more fun on my own at home. :)
Because the majority of advice is coming from the _wrong_ sources
to ensure uniqueness
We have anti-copyright-theft trailers in cinemas, and they employ similar straw men. "Imagine a world with all cinemas... gone". As if piracy will stop people going to the cinema for films they really want to see.
The Consequences of Sequestration
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only applies to federal student loans, right? Private student loans with Sallie Mae, for example, wouldn't qualify.
Make this nuclear-powered, submersible, and robotic and you'd have one thorny strategic situation for a potential adversary to deal with -- dozens or hundreds of hidden air-supremacy devices able to redeploy at will. And impossible to take out.

Let's say you wanted to protect the west coast of the U.S. You'd deploy 80 or 90 of these things (underwater, of course) along the shore. Every so often, one would surface, illuminate the skies with powerful radar, take out several targets, then disappear. Maybe it all happens inside of ten minutes. Then it relocates. Now picture that happening over a wide area with scores of ships.

My numbers might be off, but you could get total coverage and not really present a target for counter-attack. And maintain that coverage for months or years without having to worry about refueling, port calls, a logistics train, or personnel issues.

Lasers will change things in a big way, including creating completely new types of ships.
Note that the article is considering fruits and vegetables, while I would argue that they should be considering staples such as potatoes, beans, and rice. Staples which are cheap, feed a significant portion of the world, and are easy to prepare by cooking in water.
"Except a rip off"???
"80 Prozent von allem, was über SEO geschrieben wird, ist Bullshit"

some things just cross the language boundaries.
I think the strategy of buying a diversified portfolio of large, boring companies doing core things that everyone needs is a pretty safe bet.

If you're investing, I think that you should have a gambling account too, because it's fun and keeps you interested. It should be far less than 10% of your portfolio, and you should recognize that it's play money instead of real savings.
Huh? The beta has been going on for quite a while and there are no reason for the beta users not to count when it comes to market share.
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Try this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-stonehenge.html . It is blocked in both London and Singapore; if it's available in Tokyo then perhaps you have an odd IP address (giving wrong geolocation), or PBS likes your islands better than mine.
"6 strikes" doesn't make any new criminals. It's a voluntary deal with certain ISPs that doesn't (directly) involve criminal charges or civil lawsuits.
I know developers who can design and code. The contempt is earned as most "UX monkeys" can just sling photoshop and that's the end of it.
Too costly in any startup.
Too useless in anything else.
Some of the live listed 'spam' pages appear to be genuine to me.
No they shouldn't. They should revamp it, remove all the crap content / spam users. If they clean it out and start highlighting the good stuff that they have in there, Answers could be very useful.
The trouble with Clojure in my opinion is the slow JVM warmup, especially when writing small command line tools in Clojure, it's a real pain in the ass to run

lein run myscript.clj

and then sit there waiting for 2 - 3 seconds to see your result. Might sound insignificant but it's noticeable when you're constantly switching between source and result. Obviously the way to get around this is to load everything into a REPL and enjoy the advantages of explorative programming.

This is where Haskell has an advantage, the runghc command is very fast, and compiling your script/program into a static binary means it's quick to execute as well.

Clojure (and Scala) need to sort out the JVM warmup to make them viable general purpose languages.

The bizarre thing is, running Java on the JVM startsup almost instantly.
> which doesn't really work on Ubuntu

It's nothing official, but Erich Hoover [1] patched wine so that it could run silverlight, and created a package that allows streaming netflix via wine+firefox+silverlight [2]. Since Steam and this, I haven't had a single reason to boot my old windows partition. It's nice.

It's possible that this same solution could work for your problem sites.

[1] http://www.compholio.com/
[2] https://launchpad.net/netflix-desktop
If employers are just using a college degree as a signaling mechanism for basic skills, they should just ask for high school GPA and SAT score. Those are the primary criteria colleges use for admissions.
My (initial) experience with Github's Boxen
PBS does not get a lot of money from the federal government.[1][2]. Don't buy the republican talking points. But more importantly how is the geo blocking different from the blocking that the BBC does?

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS
The languishing of iPod Classic is the saddest thing on there to me. I really think the scroll wheel is better than a touch interface. Tactile feedback makes it easier to use without looking.
I'm guessing the intention was to write "expect".
- It runs Google

(It's Google's 'Chrome')
You're not allowed to use JSLint for evil! Except IBM, who got a license. No, really https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
Well, strictly yes, of course you are correct.

I'm talking about boring investing though - slow, boring returns from boring companies. So when Forbes runs a headlines saying that AAPL will hit $1000, the stock ceases to be boring, and so in my mind, it's time to step aside for a bit.
That Google drive could be problematic in a few places. China, for instance. Or, say, remote Montana. Hawaii might suffer from bad latency (or not, I don't know). The Cloud still isn't electricity-reliable worldwide, and until it is, you might want to have your data locally. (And even electricity isn't reliable worldwide...)
They moved it into Personal Blocklist, a Chrome extension by Google. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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> these lenders and schools are businesses and should be marketing and selling you their product

It seems the problem is that they have been able to market it too well, making large swaths of the population believe they only way to a good life is through formal post-secondary education. That put pressure on the government to institute easier access to money for education so everyone has the option to choose to have a good life.

Now, the economic fundamentals are finally starting to shine through the marketing cloud. Not only through the issues of ballooning loans, but also in the realization that not everyone can live the dream sold. It is economically impossible.

It should be self-correcting though. As the costs over returns start to pile up, people will start to shy away from education. The demand will wane, leading to a return of lower, more reasonable, prices for those who are actually interested in academics, not just a job ticket. It is just unfortunate for those who are caught in the current bubble.
This is an area where we can do direct comparison.

Mail- Google has gmail, Apple has iCloud mail. Both have "web 2.0" UI's. I think here Apple wins hands down. Apple's support of sproutcore (what became ember.js) has given it a great lead in the ability to do great web apps. And apple's iCloud.com mail app is a good example of this.

Google "Office" vs. Apple Works - Apple wins again here in my opinion. Numbers, Pages and Keynote are much better experiences than using google's products thru the web, simply because they are native and can take advantage of better APIs. Both products provide ubiquitous storage of your data, so you can access your documents from your iPhone or your laptop. I wouldn't say Google is ahead on services there, but before Apple released iCloud they were.

I really don't think Apple has done a bad job with online services. Certainly not when compared to google. IF you look at iTunes Store-- which is actually an web service-- it is larger than anything google has, except maybe google search, depending on what metrics you use.

It's been stable and robust and usable with great UI since the store was first launched. It's certainly sold more goods than google and made more profit than amazon, I bet.

Apple took the lead with web development way back when it was NeXT with webobjects which was the first modern web development framework. They again have had the best product with sproutcore, dashcode, etc, though they've been a bit inconsistent. Its only recently that google's really tried to produce web development tech, and while go is a good attempt at a language it is written by people who felt comfortable enforcing a religious design choice on every programmer! (namely where the brackets go. I'm fine with people putting them in the "wrong place", I can still read their code. Let them do as they like, but forcing me, at the language level, to do as the language designers like? Well, that's just being assholes, and I won't use the language because of that (not to mention its crap design in some key areas.)

Where google's clearly winning? Ideological propaganda. The whole "open vs. closed" campaign has people actually believing that Google is good and Apple is evil. Apple which has never spied on its users or sold them out to advertisers.
I find this especially true for "Employee Stock Purchase Plans"

You should buy the stock for a discount and immediately sell it. This is because if the stock price falls, you have a huge chance of being a layoff.
Dave Herman is great. I had so much faith in Dave that prior to even seeing the book I purchased a copy for every person in the company who ever deployed JS (~2,000 copies):

https://twitter.com/apaprocki/status/289839413733781504

I only received positive feedback and most people said they learned at least one new thing from the book :)
Parallelization has some fixed cost, so for small (i.e. most) work loads, using it results in worse performance. So I don't see reducers (or clojure.core/pmap, for that matter) becoming the default.

Generally, the part of a program worth parallelizing is pretty obvious: that that is long-running, must process lots of data, etc. Most calls to map/reduce/filter in the average (Clojure) program are nothing like that.

Finally and AFAICT, ForkJoin can do actually worse than a simple FixedThreadPool (as used by clojure.core/send) for workloads that are "symmetric" and not particularly divisible in subtasks.
A remote pacific island, devastated by plastic
Some Hindu thought tends towards monotheism in considering the Brahman to be personal but that's certainly not true across the board. Personally I don't know enough hinduism, or hindus, to comment properly.

For those that don't consider the Brahman to be personal, and some that do, then within their philosophy [or practise] there are certainly distinct gods with distinct beings.

Not everything that is worshipped is a god. You can certainly worship something which is not divine - one of Jehovah's big beefs (!) with the early Hebrew tribes was their tendency to make things to worship.

When Catholics appeal to dead "Saints" (quite contradictory to NT use of saints to mean those who believe in Christ Jesus and so are saved) they ask for them to intercede before God for them. The thought is that the Saints are in heaven and so have the ear of God in a way that mortals do not - that is not deifying the Saints. It is not polytheism in practise or reality.
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This. But you contradict yourself slightly. Your main point:

>>>>There is no dichotomy between science and the creative act.

Well, my distillation thereof at least.

But then you go on to say:

>>>> STEM is important to know in the same way humanities and "creative arts" are important in that they are ways to help you understand the world. Simple as.

Now: 'Ways to help you understand the world' <--- Science/Math is one too. How?

A 'way of understanding the world' is a conditioning, a particular mode of thinking. Usually they require training. An "objective" observer watching a tribal ritual will find the whole ordeal it as meaningless as an "objective" observer who is watching scientists operating a lab. To understand this is scary for a "man of science/math" and it drove me to tears when it hit me from the sky.

As any consellation, the utility of science/math in predictive capabilities gives them a "mere" superiority (please bare with me, I reveal my inner fears here), but they cannot (IMHO) either be claimed more superior to the other because they both stand equally as conditionings. Those greats who discovered the truths of Science had great creative capability, and capacity for communication of profound ideas through elegant vehicles for the appreciation of mankind.

To illustrate: You cannot distil drawing to pure motor skill. This is an over-simplification, "the arts deal in the particular, the individual and the personal while the sciences deal in the general, the universal and the collective". Yet both describe the same phenomenon, one in abstract, the other in concrete, but both mere images compared with the current moment (now), which alone has the airs of Reality.

If I may play my final card: we should perhaps beware of the importance we place on these pursuits, because while they are the current paradigm, we certainly (IMHO) do not tap the entire range of human potential. The question which plays, to me: which came first, me or the world?

It is an interesting one to ponder.

Thank you for suffering my thoughts.
The clean technological solution to roaming US citizens is national ID with a federal government CAS API. I'm guessing people opposed to intellectual property would appreciate that even less.
The agency fired you so they'd keep the account.

What you did was perfectly fine. If someone has enough of an allergy that the closed side of fish sauce would hurt someone, they have to say that, and ask for special prep.
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How is iTunes match a "scam"? It accepts my music downloaded from the pirate bay as proof of purchase then gives me access to it on all my devices.

The hugest advantage is not having to manage all of that music on all the machines in our house. We just have one backup somewhere in case we need it, and then everyone syncs with iTunes Match just the music they want on their personal device.
I do not understand this mentality. The point of higher education is not to get a job. It's to develop yourself as an educated, well-rounded individual.

I would argue, however, that a 'minor' concentration should be in something practical. I was a Philosophy major and CS minor and now I work as a developer. Love it and it was absolutely the right decision.
I think Charlie Brooker's crew nailed it on last night's episode.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRXb2SesfE
> If the government wants to arm drones, then I should be able to arm my own drones.

Surely you jest. Do you honestly think this is a valid line of reasoning?
Doesn't even have to be a terrorist per se.

Seeing as no trial and nothing official of the sort has been taken place in drone attacks, judicially and morally it amounts to killing an arbitrary citizen of a sovereign nation.
Rather than the silly "doubling" headline, there's another number that's much more interesting: that Linux users are 2% of steam users and OSX is 3%. Compare those numbers with total share: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system.... OSX is at 7% and Linux at 1%.

It'll be really interesting to see where the Steam numbers end up when they stabilize.