skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't scroll down far enough to "see everyone", but according to the legend, there are no people in Antarctica. Since it's neutral territory, I guess those people are naturally residents of one of the other continents, but it still seems sad in some way.

EDIT: I guess I would have also split north and south America into two continents ... sorry I didn't notice before!

EDIT2: I should also note that one of the goals on my bucket list was to travel to all 7 continents. I've found out that getting to Antarctica is hard without specific skills (and in some cases, specific employers ... who knew there were polar service companies: http://rpsc.raytheon.com/). I guess my best bet is to become wealthy enough to fund an expedition of my own ... but then I'd have a hard time justifying the cost.
You'd have to grant starlog read-access to your repos for that.
general contempt for silly surveys that bear little purpose and whose results are easily predictable before hand.

In my opinion the option for over 80 is the proxy vote for please don't post things like this.
Maybe I'm just of a different mindset but if they offered to return my laptop I would have gladly accepted.

For it to be such an issue in the beginning and then not-so-much in the end is suspicious.
I present, No True Hacker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman). Some hackers are interested in the results of the poll. Some resent any effort by anyone to collect their personal information. Some just wanted to click all the buttons, to see if they could. None of these are more or less valid than any other viewpoint, and it's silly to argue about what this portends for the HN community.
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They seem to be confused. From wikipedia:

>As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the five regions of the world and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each colour corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and Oceania and red for America (North and South considered as a single continent); this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin had intended it (the quote above was probably an afterthought).

If you stop to think about it for a moment, if that were the case, it would make the olympic logo seem quite racist.
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Some kind of bizarro spammer.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-45/

This means that I can build the developer tools in, say, ubuntu, and/or that I can cross-compile to target iOS?
Under 10 year old users should have to have their parents "e-sign" a permission form before they are allowed to browse.
Is there a particular color Africans or Asians prefer to associate themselves with moreso than the colors chosen there? Just curious. I don't see how associating a certain continent with a certain color would be racist.
Do browsers still implement <marquee>?
are those cells really that strong? :o
We are Mt. Gox: AMA
Less is more, as in coding.
A new post st http://laptopiniran.tumblr.com/post/47772239088/further-news

"The innocent new owners of my laptop have been in touch and are mortified about the story and are keen to return the laptop.

Given the huge error of judgement on my part in sharing the story and failing to respect their privacy I have asked them to keep it by means of an apology."
As someone who was diagnosed with Aspberger syndrome, reading that article made me want to throw up. There can be significant differences between a number of people with the same diagnosis, and generalizing them all under one mocking nickname of "aspie" is disrespectful. My diagnosis is not obvious to anyone talking to me unless I were to disclose it, and I have done very well in school leadership activities; I particularly enjoyed being involved in a debate club. I don't want Aspberger's to define me, and I wish that CNN would be more supportive of people who are working to overcome their disabilities instead of writing a puff piece about how special and disabled we are.
(Obligatory) Those who make a thing (not to mention give it away for free, in this case) can name it whatever they like. If there are people out there not using the GIMP because of its awesome name, well... That's their loss, but long live self-expression.
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Actually their official video about withdrawal methods disagrees with you / wikipedia.

Right at the start she clearly says "Mount Gox" - http://vimeo.com/m/40056755
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Agreed. This is a brilliant scheme for building backlinks. Adding it to my list of blackhat garbage.
Installing a new Android home launcher, setting up llama, etc on Android is NOTHING like trying to work through an automanual and make changes to your car. This analogy is utterly wrong..
I think Python is an excellent choice for people transfering their know-how from other platforms (e.g. Linux) to Windows.

The win32* libraries (as installed on a stock ActivePython .msi install) allow you to automate a lot of the windows platform, including a lot of the native api, implementing or controlling services, babysitting/killing/restarting windows tasks, talking to office applications, odbc databases, ... and I used it quite a lot to do automation tasks involving all these things.

Python is a very nice glue-language, not only on Linux. And I've used it to much advantage on Windows. I've

- talked to lab-equipment using provided .dlls (using ctypes) or serial ports (using py-serial)

- talked to other applications via OLE (querying some windows-only document management system and retrieving data, querying Excel to get data out, remote-controlling Word to fill in forms) to interface with the Windows-only crowd that is prevalent in big corporations.

- accessed databases over odbc

...and had most of my Unix-based tools, scripting know-how and methods (talking over network-sockets, using urllib, ascii-files, regular expressions) available to me, without resorting to ugly .bat-files, vb-script or vba.

Also I did some rudimentary UI development using wxpython.

I normally prefer coding under Linux, too, but I have to say, python under windows was not unpleasant at all.
Call for speakers? :)
Me too, time for a chrome bug report.
So far it seems to work that way, yes. And no, not because there's no way a prediction of that sort can fail. Slow, steady gains and a long plateau would disprove me. But this doesn't happen because BTC basically seems to suffer from massive hype cycles.
But talking to customers is exactly what these guys did:

> So we talked to a few artists who said they thought it was a cool idea. BOOM! Our idea had been validated!

The idea had not been validated at all, just been told it was "cool". What they should have done next (or possibly at the same time) is spend a couple of hundred dollars on adwords to see if a cool idea converted into something people would actually want to buy.

What they should not have done is

> stopped talking to artists for a year and built (and rebuilt) the software until we thought it was acceptable

My point is that I would far rather spend $200-$500 on adwords and not on 1 year development of a product that is thought to be cool, but no one has actually had the opportunity to come to it fresh and click on an "order now" button.
Not a single word about Windows support on the website. Since its only requirement is Qt > 4.8 it shouldn't be a problem though.
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Just wondered how the population stats are measured? I.E. How do we actually know that there is this amount of people in the world?

Asia
4,221,013,428
Africa
1,056,035,237
Americas
947,209,798
Europe
738,356,924
Oceania
37,384,613

World
7,000,000,000
Intentional contamination or no, patenting genes and extorting royalties from people propagating self-replicating organisms is very much evil.

If farmers want to pay for seed stock of known features and quality, that's great. What they do after that should be totally under their control and domain. A legal precedent for interfering with the ancient practice of saving seed and selection of seeds from desirable plants is so entirely "evil" I can't explain it to someone who doesn't "get" it already. The evilness or any corporate control of genetics in the wild (outside of their production labs) should be self-evident.

I laugh at the audacity of garden catalogs that warn that you cannot take cuttings of certain patented items, like thornless blackberries. Blackberries are stupid-easy to propagate with cuttings, and it is completely absurd to think that people will (or should) obey such a warning.
Soon!!! Are you in? :)
> They can't even enter McDonald's contests like Monopoly.

This is plain wrong. The McDonald’s Monopoly contest is held in all (participating) Canadian McDonald’s restaurants, including Quebec’s. Source: I live in Quebec.
The storyline is:

Laptop stolen, police report filed, laptop shows up in Iran, owner shames the people in possession of laptop, owner realizes he attacked the wrong person when readers and commenters pointed it out, owner realized the people in possession of the laptop are nice and now fells guilty, owner decides to give laptop to them as a nice gesture for the Internet to see.

The part that's not mentioned: how much compensation he received from the company that runs the tracking service. If its more than the laptop cost, the owner is still net ahead.
This reminds me, if you're near a *nix termial, go and type:

cal 9 1752

(dont worry `cal` just shows you a calendar).

You can also use this to troll developers that are doing anything that has a calendar.
I live in Quebec and worked in big organizations, even public ones like the Governement and a city, and never ever heard that. Source please?
YESS!!
I just use Dash (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash/id458034879?ls=1&mt...), which by the way has become my most important tool. I use it a thousand times every day and it makes me so much more productive - no more Googling! Combined with a fast harddisk, a query never takes longer than a second to complete, for basically every language/framework I develop in (iOS, Android, Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, jQuery, CSS, HTML).

Now that I read it, I sound like an ad, but it's really that good :)
Off topic: Can anyone recommend a good command-line mail client. I'm used mutt quite a bit. Wondering if there are any more out there that are at least as good as mutt.
> On this page you can see every single one of us. One by one.

If you want to count them one by one at 1 per sec, you'll need ~220 years.

Edit: I just noted that it was already mentioned in the counting all of us section...
Oh, I really like this concept although I'm a desktop Linux user (one of the few!) and couldn't use this unfortunately.
I think it does. Language discrimination can be an extremely vitriolic form of oppression, and don't underestimate how much it sucks to be a second class citizen in your own country. Just look at the AAVE thread on HN a couple of weeks ago.
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WTF @Gravatar, did you just forget about the rest of the Internet using you?
For me, the main difference is, I've submitted bugs to Microsoft's bug tracking database (for both free and paid products), and someone has ANSWERED.

Their products can even subjectively have more flaws than Google's - I switched from Hotmail to Gmail, Windows Phone 7.5 has a lot of frustrations built-in, and Chrome is faster imo than IE, but one thing Microsoft does a lot better than Google is tech support.

When I needed them to come through (for critical business needs), they have. Google hasn't. And that's why they have my money, and Google doesn't (even though I WANT TO pay them for said support, and believe their products are better).
Exactly! As simple as that! This is why we are always (almost) excluded from any contests :)
Seconded, love Dash! I used it for iOS exclusively until I found it it actually supports other languages and environments, like Clojure! Excellent tool!
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(Side note: It's been a few years since I looked through the specs and maybe I missed something)

IMAP flags are sadly severely lacking in what they can represent. The character set isn't even enough for unmodified UTF-7 (Punycode could work, but only for one-word tags) which renders them useless for user-chosen labels so few mail clients actually bother supporting them in that way. Thunderbird uses \label1 through \label5 but the names that are displayed in the UI are stored on each computer separately so you'd have to set up the labels you use on each machine (which kinda defies the purpose of storing that on the server). And short of using a »label configuration mail« on the server I don't see an easy way of supporting them completely server-side.

I'd love to completely forego folders and use tags/labels/flags/whatever they're called exclusively but last I looked IMAP wasn't able to support that.
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i'm assuming i shouldn't try to print this at work?
It's always difficult to make arguments based on common sense on a board frequented by engineers:

I will concede that it is mathematically possible the results are accurate. It's extremely unlikely, so unlikely I find it absurd you're bothering to point it out, but you are right, it is possible.

Notice the top comment to the OP is now pg saying exactly what I'm saying...
According to the CSS it's '"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", helvetica,clean,sans-serif;', so this might be a browser/setting kerfuffle. It works fine for me (FF/Chrome/IE on Win7).
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This is not french ;)
I'm not american only puberty applies.
So once again, I wish I was 10 again.
Wow that was a long read, but very very interesting. To tell the truth I still don't really understand what Eurobonds are and how they work.

I also wonder if Soros is acting here more as a philanthropist or primarily as an speculator. He is famous for shorting sterling, making a £1 billion GBP and being one of the primary players in Black Wednesday, back in 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

How much of this article is then spin and how much is it truth? Part of me feels that in the depth of the article is a mixture of the two.

As a resident of Germany with both US dollar and UK Sterling investments, I am interested to know where I should start to move my assets should a) Germany accept Eurobonds, or b) Germany leaves the Euro.

Since a) is presumably probably more likely, would the Euro immediately become stronger? Should I start moving money back into Euros already? My assumption is that should Eurobonds come in, the Euro will regain its previous strength against the dollar and sterling, hence I should be moving money into Euro. I assume that a strengthened Euro would also have a negative effect on sterling? Especially considering the relative weakness of the UK economy in the short to medium term. All of sudden the Euro isn't the punchbag of the speculator and they go after the next lame animal. In my opinion, that could well be the United Kingdom.
Why are we just making stuff up?

This is not true. Contests must abide by any local laws or regulations in any jurisdiction they're run in. If you don't run the contest in Quebec (e.g. if you disallow Quebecois entrants) then and only then are you exempt from their laws.
This is a very good explanation. I have a couple questions though:

Is the chain-length of 100 arbitrary, or is there an optimal length of these chains?

How many times would you run ORATION through the one-way function and compare it to your rainbow table before you decide it's not in the table?
very neat - i think it should use "green" to indicate faster response times instead of red... also the URL length available to ping is very small...
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I couldn't agree more - as another person with Aspbergers I feel that this article tried to fit us in to the broken genius pattern, rather than recognize that these kind of syndromes manifest themselves differently in every person.

I am in no way special or helped by my syndrome, I am not difficult to work with, I am not in any way disabled, like normal people I have issues with emotional repression and other peoples point of view, but that being said I am human, first and foremost.

No one (outside of medical and psychological circles) except my girlfriend, mum and best friend know I have Aspbergers, my differences are just a part of my personality.
Really great feature I recently found out about: type e.g. "android:" to only show Android docs. That's superuseful for people like me who rapidly switch between languages (e.g. jquery -> ember -> jquery -> css ->...).
It's not so much as a "thing" as it is "shades of grey". Autism is considered a spectrum disorder with a huge range of capabilities included.

I've got some of the tendencies too. I've overcome all the social aspects, but I still often prefer being alone to think. Being social actually takes work but "being the machine" (as the article calls it) is easy.

EDIT: And of course I'll hire someone with Aspergers ... but maybe not for a sales position where schmoozing customers is a big part of the job. The hiring process is the same regardless as you need to evaluate each candidate's suitability in filling the open position.
Yep! I'm using it right now and I liked it very much. The power of Google with privacy. Thanks, man! =)
This seems a liiiiiiitle bit overly sensitive to me.
I'll even add that if your comment isn't in proper Québec semantics and grammar, you might be subject to flagellation.
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Before they are allowed to comment, please. My 10-year-old self liked programming and perhaps would have found this site.
So you are saying that almost all studies in social sciences (e.g. psychology) are invalid because almost all of them require participants to voluntarily sign up for the studies.. Also most psychology studies are done with college students, hardly a very representative sample of the population...
I could certainly recommend myself.

:)

I've been an editor for more than 30 years.

ca.linkedin.com/in/leeghunter/
Tiny Darpa chip has six-axis inertial guidance for military GPS backup
national geographic has a trip there that's only 12k~ a person
http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/expeditions/ant...
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Have you tried Claws mail? :http://www.claws-mail.org/ It has support for gpg (inline and mime) and is multiplatform, maybe you have done and you don't like it
Hmm, maybe we need another poll to decide? :-)
> compensation

Does the service have a replacement guarantee or are you implying that this was a brand deal and he's being paid for the posts?
Check out this one: http://starlogs.net/#s-t-a-r-w-a-r-s/episode-iv
One of the reasons I really like Google Groups is that it lets me treat something as a mailing list. By and large, I want to use an email client for serious discussions, not a 'forum' thing. Adding this functionality would be super cool.
"Given the huge error of judgement on my part in sharing the story and failing to respect their privacy I have asked them to keep it by means of an apology."

So, the victim apologizes for shining the public light on the theft of their property. (In this case, even with the software, it's unlikely that the new possessor would have been identified without the publicity.) Furthermore, in lots of places prior theft invalidates later sale and transfer of ownership even if the illicit purchase occurred without mens rea. There's no insurance policy on counterfeit money either - in this case the current possessors (presumably) paid for a second-hand (high risk, possibly stolen) laptop. Buyer beware; they should absorb the loss and give it back (assuming the facts are as they seem, and it's not just one big astroturf).
NSQ treats the message data as an opaque blob so the format wouldn't directly affect it (except on some lower level related to overall message size I suppose). It would impact your producers (encoding) and consumers (decoding), obviously.

re: de-duping - there are lots of things to consider, I highly recommend reading through http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2270/archives/2012/papers/we..., it's a fantastic paper. At a high level the answer is idempotency.

What sort of use case are you thinking of? (context would help answer your de-dupe question)
Completely agreed. I found the article mildly infuriating. Aside from the fact that it manifests in many different ways, I wouldn't even think of Aspergers as a disability in the "traditional" sense; people with Aspergers are just different, it's not like they function any less well than people without Aspergers. I don't have Aspergers myself but a good friend of mine does, and the casual stigma and misinformation I've observed drives me crazy.
How can you call that overly vociferous without thinking the same thing about "Apple's joke of an operating system"?
Asperger isn't a binary diagnosis; it's more of a continuum.

The skills that make you a good programmer place you a little further out on that continuum almost by definition. [1]

Therefore the real question is: Do you feel you would benefit from the treatments that become available to you were you to receive the diagnosis?

[1] The simplest way to (sort of) get that is this quote from Inventing on Principle: "People we consider to be skilled software engineers are just the people really good at 'playing computer.'" (http://vimeo.com/36579366 @ 17m40s)
If someone would come up with standard terms for sale and purchase (like Fred Wilson at AVC is doing for VC) and it wasn't tied to a real estate agent but rather to a license fee (a few hundred dollars) then you might see this thing get legs.

A lot of what the other companies did was standardize a transaction (through their website, with a credit card) and that's what real estate needs.
True. Given the desire not to talk about mathematics in these blog posts I am opting to excise that rather than fix.
You would be surprised at how many nobodies still refer to it by the old name. It's also much funnier to say outloud.
I dont agree. Unless you compare their (our) french to your Paris based backward french dialect.
»[...] that lookup table is going to be as long as the dictionary! What if he has to take it somewhere [..]« ... now he has to carry around the rainbow table and the dictionary. This didn't work out as expected. ^^
I always go back to mutt. It does one thing, read email, and it does it well.

The key is to set it up appropriately. Don't use mutt for downloading your email, especially if you wanna deal with IMAP. Use isync (mbsync) for that purpose (I used to use offlineimap, but it's buggy and not very fast).

There's also notmuch, which I use for indexing my email. It also contains a pretty good email reader.
Looks nice, price seems right. I'll have to try it when I have some free time.
alpine?
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We're not making stuff up. If I run a competition and someone from Belgium enters (and wins) but I have no presence in Belgium, I'm in no way subject to Belgian laws. How can I possibly be? Google doesn't have offices in Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, or South Africa. I highly doubt they're complying with local laws regarding competitions in these jurisdictions!

Google are subject to Quebec's laws because they have offices there and a Canadian subsidiary. If these things weren't, they wouldn't have to abide by such laws. Even if Quebec said they had to, they wouldn't have jurisdiction.