skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is funny because I asked this exact same thing in an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546931

Most people told me it's just not possible from a legal stance, unfortunately. Because honestly I would release most of my works as public domain for people to use as they see fit. Maybe copyright laws will change in the future, but MIT is a close 2nd. Plus it's easy to read and known well among developers(as others have mentioned).
Your question is a little ambiguous, but I think you'll find the answer here:

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide...

Note that the two examples (polarization versus imaginary numbers) differ in one important respect: in the polarization example, negation is rotation by 90 degrees, e.g. from vertical to horizontal. In the imaginary numbers example, negation is rotation by 180 degrees (e.g. from positive X to negative X -- see the link above).
Giving antibiotics to livestock causes them to gain weight. I suspect that this profitable feature is the primary reason that antibiotics are used in cattle. Does anyone in this field have any info to verify or refute?
Original source data:

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/A...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was 2 submissions with /q/ vs /questions/ as the only difference. I wish there were a way to merge comments on the two posts.
Boston bombs: Officials wait to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Beef is a particularly inefficient protein source.
Actually the TL;DR is even shorter: "I won't work on FPSs".

If you read it closely you'll see that he talks about someone who shielded his children from violent computer games, then he says that he'll never work a FPS again citing "ethical reasons", but never produces any kind of argument connecting these two points, or stating what those ethical reasons actually are.

I know it's just a blog post and all but I saw the length of the text and was therefore hoping for a more reasoned discussion rather than anonymous anecdote and soul-searching.

He seems rather hung up on "protecting children" from something, although what outcome he is afraid of is entirely unstated. I was not shielded from the horrors of the world as a child so it is unclear to me what has changed in the last twenty years, or what makes, specifically, the first-person-shooter genre such a travesty in his eyes.
Tell me which is more likely to be a sum of profits for years since 2013. Excel:

SUM(A100:A112)

SQL:

SELECT SUM(yp.profit)
FROM yearly_profitability AS yp
WHERE yp.year > '2012-12-31'::Datetime

(I'm forgetting how to do SQL datetimes, but whatever.)

SQL and other programming languages use words to describe the variables. Treating SQL like Excel would be DailyWTF material:

CREATE TABLE sheet1(
a INTEGER,
b TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
)
Lance Price is quoted in this article.

Here is his testimony before the
House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health. It's a pretty short read.

http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/file...
Unless you write SQL queries that use stored procedures or pre-calculated results tables, and then you just wind up in the same situation as Excel.

I mean Excel is at its heart a query language. So your logic equally applies to Excel, why not write a massive query in Excel that does all the calculations in one go so you can see the inner workings?

All you're really doing is playing musical chairs with the data. SQL query language for Excel query language, and data moved from tables to worksheets.

As I said earlier, unless there are procedural changes upstream nothing will change. A tool is just a tool. You can use it in a way to minimise mistakes, or not. Humans are the weak point.

Now there are tools that automatically identify common mistakes but neither Excel or SQL/relational database engines are in that class.
Presumably. Google even desires to keep the data personalized if you opt in and allow them.
I just refer to the introduction of the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_Stat...

And while we Europeans have our own share of unemployment issues, we at least do not have massive issues with illegal and legal immigration as the US have.
Selling, coding and playing the 'world's largest videogame'
Courtesy of SparrowOS.
Yeah, I've worked in groups like that. Simplicity works great until testers need to verify that the bug was fixed and see the way that the issue was found and how to reproduce it or god forbid the developer rationale in what he did. Then rather than looking in an easy to search system or record they're stopping developers from writing code so they can answer the questions. Then as is typical with informal systems, they have those conversations over the phone which means that the knowledge never goes beyond those two people.

All these failures just get magnified when the software is then distributed out in the field or new developers join the team down the road.
Ask HN: Is the machine seen in "Person of Interest", within grasp of making?
Person of Interest is a TV show about a machine that absorbs all information from every type of source (CCTV, Internet, TV, Radio, Phones, etc) and from this data, finds plots to kill people, or commit terror, etc. See the Wikipedia for the show here [1], and the trailer here [2].

What I'm wondering, is if we have reached a point where this is technically possible and maybe feasible.

What kind of technology would you think is necessary, existing and non-existing, to build a machine of this type.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCM14jNOYcQ
It was a VMWare debug image and it had all that information although it was not as fancy. It did have a good amount of custom code.
The point is the taste and the fact that you can't nutritionally fully replace meat.
So stupid. This is like blaming math because you made an error in your arithmetic.
I think Marco is describing two things that I've felt strongly about for a long time:

(1) The medium deeply influences the conversation. It just seems like human nature that people are much more likely to speak up to complain about something than to say that they liked something. On top of that, the Internet as a medium results in an overwhelming slant towards negativity (the GIFT), nitpickiness, etc. in online reviews and commenting systems. So, you have to take this into account when using online sources for getting a sense of how people feel about something.

An extreme example seems to be pretty much any Linux-centric forum anywhere. An article about some distro or desktop environment or programming language or anything really, no matter what's being discussed, will inevitably be filled with comments about how much it sucks. The more helpful ones will be along the lines of, "X sucks, you should use Y instead". People reply to that one with, "Y sucks, you should use Z instead", where Z is more obscure than Y which is more obscure than X. Eventually things peter out when the leaf nodes are all about things so obscure that there's no one participating who can say that they tried that, and it sucks too. The reader is left with the feeling that absolutely everything is freaking terrible, except for some random thing you've never heard of that no one uses, which is just not true.

(2) From a design perspective, he's basically just saying that you can't please everybody, and attempting to do so may just end up pleasing no one. Certain computer companies are well-known for focusing on a few very specific products with relatively few config options, as opposed to other companies (HP and Dell being prime examples) that try to exhaustively cover every possible niche and top it off with a gazillion build options. The former is intentionally limiting their appeal in order to make something that will make a smaller group of people very, very happy, whereas the latter is trying to be all things to all people.

These are both legitimate business strategies, but if I happen to be in that target audience for the more specialized company, then they are pretty much guaranteed to have my business. The key for success for the more specialized company is to cast a wide enough net as to not restrict themselves to a niche audience, have the design and engineering chops to offer stuff that the all-things-to-all-people companies can't match, and not be tempted by market share to dilute that vision. It's an inherently risky approach but it can be very rewarding, financially and creatively.
The Internet Archive crawler is polite, going at a slow rate.

With a deadline looming so soon, a more aggressive effort is called for.
So I'm a gourmet chef working at McDonalds?! FML
Way back before Excel became widely available, I knew an accountant who used SuperCalc as his word processor.
I have to say, I've been hearing about the challenges for several months and have been far too intimidated to attempt them as I'm a total newb on the crypto side of things.

After reading this article though, I figured it would be safe to assume that I'll learn as I go through them.

Awesome work guys! Cant thank you enough!
FHE is far too slow for any practical use. In a few more years, things might be different, but for now anyone marketing a practical FHE solution is probably lying.
The reason DMCA takedowns work so well as scare letters is that you can get in real trouble for ignoring them. It's not worth the risk.
I wondered if there might be a market for an Excel correctness checker. If billions are on the line, it might be worth a few bucks. But apparently Excel can advise you of common problems like these already.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/correct-common-...

Probably that means such an add-on would not be sellable? However it wouldn't be the first time someone paid lots of money for something that software they owned already did just fine.
I'm talking about the production of beef, not its metabolic efficiency. There are meat products that are much more efficient than beef.
Interesting, what happened to LaunchGram?
At the risk of derailing this subthread, I'd be interested in knowing what's fucked up about the tool-and-die industry.
> Violence is also a constant presence in world history

Actually, it's not constant. It's decreasing.

Check for Steven Pinker on violence. The further into the past you look, the more violence you find —of any kind. Go back to the period where we lived as hunter-gatherers, in Harmony with Nature, and suddenly nearly 2 men in 3 die at the hand of fellow humans.

So, while History does show an everlasting presence of violence, it also shows that this is not hopeless: slowly, steadily, we are making progress. I'd keep an eye out, though: we're not there yet, and each death still is one death too much.
This may have been a genuine error, but the two researchers definitely started the process with a goal in mind...

What would that goal be? According to Megan Mcardle, Rogoff was a mild proponent of stimulus. For example, he said this in 2012:

"Back in 2008-9, there was a reasonable chance, maybe 20% that we’d end up in another Great Depression. Spending a trillion dollars is nothing to knock that off the table."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/17/did-reinhar...
As mentioned, the issue is getting around YDOD throttling (and that the shutdown is happening in 10 days).

If you have proper boxen, you don't need the VM. Here's how to get it up and running on a clean Ubuntu setup for example:

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y
sudo apt-get install git -y
sudo apt-get install libgnutls-dev -y
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev -y
sudo apt-get install python-distribute -y
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install seesaw
git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoo-upcoming-grab.git
cd yahoo-upcoming-grab
./get-wget-lua.sh
run-pipeline pipeline.py [YOURNAMEHERE]
Yes. This is true. No country in Europe has immigration issues. Especially not France.
Thanks for that - it's something that is actually pretty close to my heart but I hadn't thought to throw into the comparison.
Yep, it seems the lenient dupe detector is the culprit (and
it also seems my tin foil hat is on a wee bit too tight).

Anyhow, I'm still curious if HN has gotten any DMCA notices?
Ignoring a properly formed and delivered DMCA takedown notice results in site owner losing safe harbor from contributory copyright infringement claims. So a site can chose to ignore them, but if they do they can then be sued for their users' actions.
False.

The DMCA act is readable; read it.

Effectively, all it does is offer safe harbor for an ISP, with ISP loosely defined.

Congress attempts to offers a pseudo mediation framework to limit/remove liability from the ISP for the acts of its users.

If the ISP complies with the DMCA, the ISP is immune from liability for copyright infringement.

Here's the part the ignorant ignore:

If the target of a DMCA notice sends a COUNTER-NOTICE, the ISP will/must/should put their stuff , else the ISP can be liable for taking it down without case.

Read the DMCA, it's fairly short as these things go.

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Disclosure: I spent $80k on attorneys defending against a nuisance lawsuit and used the DMCA as a shield.
Thank you. It took me sometime to go beyond the initial "up, to the right, better than linear" impression which the glance at a nice redline gives you
I think that depends rather on who you are and your interests, to be fair - as much as I'm a fan of the former, the latter sounds like rather more fun.
Meanwhile abuse of DMCA for reasons other than legitimate copyright claims seems (subjectively) to be occurring with increasing frequency, and, with no obvious penalty for the organisations submitting false DMCA takedowns, so are likely to continue, to the detriment of the rest of the us.

I think the "real trouble" should work both ways.
Why I Hate Your Freedom
Especially monsters like Bugzilla

I just choked on my soda. Bugzilla packages install in a command line and you can be up and running with a product, a couple of components for categorization, and user accounts 15 minutes later.

The only time I don't take that 15 minutes is if I'm working on a project where I'll NEVER be working directly with anyone else. Even then, it's often nice "just in case" someone else comes along later and wants to collaborate, you need to keep up with issues fixed in various releases, etc.
It's not giving everyone AIDS. The article doesn't say that, it says that there were cuts to the health service which meant that "periphery" services like needle exchange programs were reduced which has already lead to a noticeable increase in a certain portion of the population (presumably drug users who share needles) contracting HIV. But you obviously don't care about the details. And what's with the killing babies reference?
I think we need to come up with another term than first-person shooter. There may have been a time where all games in first person were games like Duke Nukem, Quake, Doom, and so on, but I think it cheapens and trivializes what can be accomplished in the medium - not genre - of first-person-based videogames.

Games like "Call of Duty", "Battlefield", "Halo", and so on definitely rot the soul of a lot of developers, but I personally think the first-person medium is one of the best way to do something immersive and interactive.

I don't think Elisabeth in Bioshock Infinite - or a game like Portal - would have been possible under any other circumstances, and to use the term "first-person shooter" for a game like B:I is to misrepresent it to people inside and outside the videogame community.
Excel is part of the cause. It simply mangles and hides programming. So it creates just the atmosphere were people think they can "avoid" programming and use Excel. Not realising that they are programming but in a very bad way.

So don't try to hide and dumb down the programming part. This of course doesn't mean that mistakes wouldn't happen with better tools.

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bdm25/excel2007.pdf
The primary reason for anti-biotics is due to the fact that the farmers feed their livestock nutritionally devoid but massively cheaper corn - which weakens the overall immune system. Antibiotics are not needed when "organic" measures are put into place and cows are free range and fed better, nutritionally beneficial foods to begin with. But that's costlier, so, not going to happen on a commercial scale, regardless of how inefficient and unsustainable it is to continue.
I hate it when people generate these contrived examples where they intentionally stack the scenario to favour whichever way proves their point the most.

Which is easier to understand:

=SUM(profits01_2012:profits12_2012)

Or:

SELECT * FROM dassaddasads WHERE date > 1325394000 AND date < 1356930000

Which is easier to understand?!
Quick plug for License Audit: http://licenseaudit.pivotallabs.com

We developed that at Pivotal Labs since we need to pay attention to licenses while working w/ our clients. Just connect your repos, add licenses to your whitelist, and get updates if you're not in compliance. Feedback welcome!
So's opinion-writing based on breaking news. Slate's just feeling blowback from the clumsily-written opinion piece they published earlier this week in which one of their writers expressed the hope that the bombers were white Americans - presumably because he doesn't want to see another ill-thought-out foreign military adventure.

A worthy enough sentiment on its own, but expressed so insensitively and divisively that these criticisms come across as nothing more than an attempt by the publisher to deflect scrutiny onto other media outlets.
I've been building:

- a Rails plugin

- a Rails app

- an Ember app

- Ember itself

- Several small JS libraries that I hope to use in Ember

Each of these projects gets its own tmux session (I didn't really know tmux before nitrous.io, and I have basically the same advice about tmux that I had about vim at http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi... -- use it to keep open sessions and learn more advanced features as you need them).
Agreed, yet it will be difficult, if not outright impossible, to restructure US (and maybe Mexican) agriculture to raise e.g. pigs or chicken instead of cattle; also, each of these animal races carry their own individual risks - bird flu and "cannibalistic picking" (dunno the English term) in birds, and pig flu for pigs.

The last food-animal-related health problems I heard of were multiple different bird and pig flu varieties, the last major problem with cattle was BSE/Jakob-Creutzfeld disaster years ago. So I think the cost of perfectly fine, but "preventively killed" animals should be weighed in, too.
> There are interests to be balanced

That's why I dislike statements like "party1's rights trump party2's rights." In reality, it's a balance, and that probably means that reasonable people can disagree on where exactly the balance point should be placed.
By far THE WORST instance of ratings pandering by the "news" media were instances of breathless replaying of the dramatic footage of the "suspect" being taken into custody at gunpoint and forced to strip naked before the police would approach (due to the risk of carrying a bomb wired to a deadman's switch). Some networks reran that footage hours after it had become well-known everywhere that the person was not one of the bombing suspects and was just a bystander who was quickly released. Rerunning this footage certainly added to the drama factor but from a news perspective it actually had negative value since it led people into possibly thinking the second suspect had been apprehended and it also led people to believe that man was in some ways connected to the bombings though he was not. It was just shameful.
Hum, that's very interesting. I wonder what the most legally permissive license would be, and whether someone has written it.
>These bacteria are finding ways to get around antibiotics in animals

>"We've actually run out of antibiotics that really keep animals healthy," Price said. "We're finding strains of bacteria in animals that are resistant to so many antibiotics."

How about this novel solution: stop raising animals in a way that requires them to guzzle down tons of antibiotics in order to survive.

I love how this article fails to even mention the possibility that livestock animals do not need to ALWAYS BE SICK. Preposterous.
Roast A Great Tasting Chicken Recipe Read ON
I thought Dell submitted most of those patches to fix bugs in the kernel, not its own drivers.
This reminds me of Edward Tufte's criticisms of PowerPoint [1,2]. Both PowerPoint and Excel are widely abused, in part due to their flexibility and initial ease of use.

However, in addition to problems caused by its users, there have also been problems resulting from design deficiencies in Excel: automatically and irreversibly converting strings representing gene names into dates [3], displaying some numbers incorrectly [4], and incorrectly evaluating some statistical procedures [5].

[1] http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
[2] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
[3] http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/5/80
[4] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html
[5] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=635312
In the end it's always "pilot error", right? But some blame rests on Excel for creating a tool that engendered a level of confidence that was unwarranted.

Excel is designed to be used for mission critical applications under certain circumstances. And it does a piss-poor job of delineating what those circumstances are, it deserves a lot of criticism for encouraging people to misuse it.
Are people taking this article seriously? I'm fairly certain that it's a tongue-in-cheek jab at various other articles recently blaming Excel for the Reinhart-Rogoff thing.

I don't know how anyone could see the last bit about Native Americans and think that the article was actually serious.
Would the Real Sarah Hanson Please Stand Up?
In C++11 that would be:

26.5_meters + 56.3_dollars
Selling, coding, and playing the “world’s largest videogame”
I'm a day late, but it seems that nobody has answered your question. Here are some things you could have done differently:

- Have a vesting schedule for your equity. This way if things go south, you'll have a certain portion of your equity vested.
- Negotiate a higher equity stake in the first place if you're playing such a founding role. In my opinion, if the product didn't exist before you joined the team, then you're a founder. Remember that we're looking at this with the benefit of hindsight.
- Made the agreement up front that you had control over the technical decisions since you have the expertise to make those decisions.
High quality meat is irreplaceable in the optimal human diet.
it is some sort of human phenomenon, where we put up with a lot of inconveniences just to get the real time (or near real time) experience of something..

i think waiting in line for an apple product, putting up with commercials to watch some tv show on the night it airs, paying large premiums for a device that will be a lot cheaper in 6 months, wasting hours in live news coverage to be the first to hear about the new developments of the story all fall into the same category. it just doesn't make sense because all of these things are better at a later time. when there are no lines, and the story is polished and more factually correct.
There is probably not much you could check. You could probably do some type checking but beyond that I see - ad hoc - not much one could do. Excel does already catch syntax errors and a few other errors mentioned in the link. Maybe you could make these errors more prominent. But should we really encourage more development using office software? Shouldn't we solve the actual problem?