skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related, I've seen more than a couple of Bucharest stray-dogs which actually learned how to use the pedestrians' crosswalks, i.e. only crossing the street when the light was green etc. There was even a promo made by our local traffic police that was based on this: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gCQ7qZ1pR...

Later Edit: And the dogs weren't actually mimicking the behavior of the people waiting for the green light to turn on, because even when the light was red there were a couple of people crossing the street but the dog wouldn't follow them.
> Here in Spain

spain/poland/russia/uk/germany/france/italy/everywhere...

it's easier to be aware that journalism just works that way - ideologies are commercialized.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL, united states talks about human rights hehehehe
I've been doing this for a while with Ifttt, which has some instant hooks and no stupid limits.
Cool - a review of Viola the first browser I ever used (in late '93):

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Viola/Review.html
Feel free to write your own version and release it under a more permissive license then.
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Welcome to Hacker News.

There are some guidelines here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
tlb of yc fame, turns out, is the guy who wrote the analog-tv-artifact-simulation code in jwz's xscreensaver:

https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analo...

I have little doubt that all of jwz.org text rendering will be fully analogue-simulated once the monstrosity that is the supermajority of the installed base of web browsers supports such folly.
There can be no improvement without awareness. Criticism can be uncomfortable, but, if properly analysed and acted upon, it is healthy. Although I do not think that this criticism was intended to be constructive, we can easily treat it as such, and gain advantage from it. A fusillade of brickbats can, if caught deftly, be quickly built into strong foundations.
Thanks. I don't think that article glorified anything though.
That seems about right. I make decent money, I buy what I want, and I can't imagine that I'd change my life significantly if I made 2x or 10x what I do now. Big house, fancy car? Meh, who cares.

But give me 100x or 1000x my current income, and things start to get interesting. There are plenty of things I'd like to invest in and make happen, if I could easily throw around a few million here and there.
The difference between 'grok' and 'use'.
While I agree with you I think its equally, and if not more important to have a broad high level knowledge of topics.

I taught myself recursion, threading, bit manipulation, design patterns etc as I needed them. I knew what problems they solved at a high level and only learnt the implementation when I needed to.

For example, I only knew about where you might use the decorator pattern before I had a programming test for a job which required you to "create a plugin system". A few hours learning how to actually apply it and I was good to go.

Also if you surround yourself with people smarter than you, you always have someone to point you in the right direction.

This is why I love HN, even though my background is engineering. I get a high level understanding on marketing, design, sales, hireing, product development etc etc

Its cliché, but "learning how to learn" is whats important to me.
Also important for black start capability are back-up batteries for the the switching equipment. If those run out, then you won't be able to reconfigure your network topology while bringing it up. Doing that manually takes a lot longer and could add days to a black-out.
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True, but the best way to hear about what happens in country X is not always through X's MSM.

The same holds true for China and North Korea.
I was wondering the same thing and it seems these numbers were automatically added by the NeXT editor [1] (which also explains the special NEXTID tag in the header) and are not actually useful. They would make sense if the links where section titles for example.

[1] http://www.the-pope.com/nextid.html
Reading between the lines...

1] Military has too big a delta over civilians; how can I help reduce that delta sanely?

2] Too much of our communications remains plaintext; how do I roll out crypto today?

3] Our economy has non-productive members; how can I help those who want help?

4] People still don't like most other people; how can I detect/counter any biases I might have?

5] People still sexually abuse and torture other humans; how can I help victims, and help deter future violence?

6] Children don't have rights; how can I help children who want to accept adult responsibilities?

7] The US military costs a lot and seems to only make enemies. What can I do to make it act more like Switzerland's army, but without compulsory service? Or to at least be adequately compensated as World Police.
Almost certainly Charlie Stross. (cstross here, and elsewhere)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understa...
Dupe from 3 days ago (78 comments then):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5616462
I know that got added. In terms of time spent it's pretty much a side quest. The only thing you need to grind to get there is ender pearls, and you can easily collect them a minute or two into the game if endermen happen to spawn. You don't really need any equipment either. A wooden bow should suffice.

I do like minecraft, but the idea that the end screen represents any kind of progress wrt what you spend 95% of your time doing is ridiculous.
I grew up writing my own games on the C64, and one of the fun things that always got me was how close the video RAM was to the memory containing your program itself.

So if you had a game where you moved a little character around the screen with the joystick, and you neglected to handle the case where he went off the screen to the top or bottom, you could crash him right into your source code (which was being actively interpreted).

It'd dump you out abruptly, you'd list your program and find that a section had been monched and now contained a bunch of random special characters. Ouch.

That hardly ever happens to me anymore, writing front-end code for the browser. But still I make a point of checking my bounds, just in case!
I consider TV Tropes to be the spiritual successor of wikipedia, and what wikipedia should have been, and would encourage people to contribute there instead - even for more "encyclopaedic" topics, its "Useful Notes" articles are often more informative than their wikipedia equivalents. It has an explicit policy of "no such thing as notability".
It's right there at the start of the law you cite in A.1.:

It is unlawful for an operator of a website or
*online service directed to children*, or any operator
that has *actual knowledge that it is collecting
personal information from a child*, to collect personal
information from a child in a manner that violates the
regulations prescribed under subsection (b) of this section.

So either:

* service directed to children (LEGO, Disney etc)
* actual knowledge that it is collecting information from a child (birthdate, age etc)

My understanding was from internal legal guidance at a previous company I consulted for but I haven't worked on COPPA projects for a few years so I don't know if there have been any major cases.

In any event Path specifically asked for birthdates and then allowed children to carry on and use the service with no changes which is a violation that should have been spotted by anyone with some understanding of COPPA.
I totally agree and I'm surprised by all the negative comments on this page. These measures seem to be going in the right direction:

1 - encouraging entrepreneurship by reducing the risk (no more bad credit score aka banning 040 code)

2 - increasing the reward through tax breaks on early capital gain.
It's like regular encryption except you only need to encrypt 1 in 10,000 bits for it to be effective.
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Lots and lots of good things: more stable tax rules, reinforcing and stabilizing the JEI (which is a HUGE win, since it was changed every year...), right to fail, startup visa.

Also, creating incentive for big companies to work with startups is awesome. The bigcorp/startup link is almost non-existent here (compared to the US for instance). This one alone will help the ecosystem big time.
I like to say that, in Europe, we believe in a peculiar kind of social mobility. Social mobility ends in middle class. The old aristocracy has secured its benefits in special untouchable jurisdictions (Switzerland, luxembourg, lichnestein or dozens of capital havens), and is actively preventing anyone else from entering the club. What's worse, they don't even invest, preferring to spend on luxuries.
This is strictly r/worldnews material.
Imagine trying to keep 1.2 billion people under a what amounts to a fascist/statist control if they were are as heavily armed as USasians
Are marginal tax rates rare ? It alway seems like people don't understand how they work.
But i don't see how you could do without them, there would be a strong incentive not to change bracket.
France is not sprinting. No amount of measures will change the main issue we have in France : the people.

I am French myself, moved to Canada 6years ago, then moved to London a year and half ago. I have kept a very close eye on France, I tried to find jobs there, interesting jobs, but it is just not happening, there are so many hurdles it's not even funny, just to list a few : salaries are way off compared to places like London or Berlin, Paris is expensive and being pretty much the only place to find "startups" you become locked with a small salary and high expenses, it is elitist as hell, unless you have an engineering degree, good luck finding a decent job, and even if you find one, it'll take years before you move up or get a raise. The list could go on and on, but it is clear to any frenchman/woman who decided to move away that any amount of measures will not change the culture, a culture of elitism which doesn't leave room for talent.

I'll add that there are decent jobs in France, but there are scarce and the fight for them is high. You are more likely to end up working for Peugeot, AXA or some big corp like that. If you want a future in tech, avoid France, that place will never rise to the challenge.
It may seem unlikely, but that's the way it works (see better examples in the michaelt post above). Often postcodes cover more than one village, and there are thus duplicate street numbers or names. Some attempt is made to avoid clashes for new addresses, but there are plenty of existing ones. You need more than a postcode and number to identify an address, sometimes a street and/or village is also required.
Now I feel quite stupid that I got pretty lost and overwhelmed in the Moscow Subway System when using it the first time. I had a printout of the map, don't speak/read/understand the language and had no internet connection. I think the dogs win this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterlin_paradox

When GDP rises above certain level, nation as a whole does not get any happier. Individuals do get happier when their income rises above their peers, but on the other hand, their peers lose some happiness.
I don't think it was just "pros". I had assemblers during my high school years. In fact Atari shipped one as a cartridge

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

With which I wrote several programs during my high school years. The thing that sucked about the Atari Assembler Editor is it worked like basic. Lines were numbered. You'd type LIST to see your program each line prefixed by a number. LIST 100-200 would list lines 100 to 200. Etc.. But you could renumber lines to insert stuff if you ran out of line numbers.

That was replaced by the Atari Macro Assembler.

http://www.mixinc.net/atari/amac.htm

Which I also had in my high school years before going pro. It was pretty similar to modern assemblers.

I don't remember the price but I wasn't rich so it couldn't have been that expensive. It's possible I pirated the Atari Macro Assembler (thought I don't think so) but I couldn't have pirated the Atari Assembler Editor Cartridge :-)
Normally i contact the authors of GPL code and ask them nicely to move to LGPL. It has been working so far.
Indeed when you do work on a feature branch, you shouldn't rebase.

But when you're working on master, or a branch that's also remote, then you have to rebase. If you don't then you get completely meaningless merge commits. If 3 people merge when they just want to push a commit it then you're history becomes a tangled unusable mess.
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I suppose you can consider that the high number of deaths due to firearms in the US goes against the right to "life[1], liberty and security of person".

From a European point of view, the US right to carry/own a weapon is so used and out of control that it affects this basic right to life.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_life
Chinese viewpoint === everybody else but the US viewpoint
"Fully homomorphic" means "a computation can be done on two encrypted values without decrypting them." It is an extension of partially homomorphic systems, which allow some computation which cannot be extended to arbitrary computations.

A good usage case for partially homomorphic systems is public elections. Suppose given E(x) and E(y) you can efficiently compute E(x + y). Now imagine that you arrange a set of bit-fields as:

1000 1100 0111 0111 0100 1110 0010 1001
(random) (check bits) (votes Alice) (votes Bob)

In other words, the current vote tally is being represented as a number E(0x8C774E29). You can now create two ballots, E(0xBF010100) and E(0xBF010001). You can add either of those ballots to the vote tally even though you cannot read the vote tally. We can make all of these numbers public knowledge without disclosing your vote -- i.e. a public database can say "Alice's vote was E(0xBF010100)" and "Bob's vote was E(0xDB010001)" and once that encryption is performed, third parties cannot actually verify that Alice didn't vote for Bob or vice versa. So any member of the population can take the public database and confirm that the arithmetic was done properly on the encrypted vote tallies, without figuring out what the actual votes were. Then at the highest level, the tally can be decrypted to find out that Alice won the vote, without disclosing exactly who voted for her. The "check bits" form here a sum of votes as a quick check that someone didn't just add some random ballot in there to screw with the system.

Of course, you need more bits as you want to have more candidates and more voters; and there are problems with confirming that a number looks like 0x010100 and not 0x050500. But fundamentally you can get these really cool cryptographic voting systems which preserve the anonymity of your vote at the lowest level, but can be audited at the lowest level (i.e. we can potentially remove votes, say, from people who were not alive at the time of the election), the votes have perfectly auditable mathematics up to the regional level due to the public databases of encrypted votes; and then once the population is large enough to suitably anonymize the vote, you can decrypt and tally votes publicly too.

Now that's if you just have some function esum such that esum(E(x), E(y)) = E(x + y).

If you have enough to make a full set of logical gates, you could in principle do an entire computation on a set of inputs which you couldn't possibly know, so that the "cloud" could "compute" with your data without ever actually knowing it.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ - Does that go the same for Reset CSS?
Here is a copyable list - http://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/humor/writegood.cfm
French startups. Bunch of pissy little whiners. They cry when nothing is done to help them, cry louder when something is done to help them. And the same people who spend so much energy bashing any government, left or right, cry like babies to get any state subsidies for their failed ideas. And they dare call themselves entrepreneurs. I wonder how do so many foreigners succeed to start their business in this country.
the Impots are really nice and competent. the few times I got some issues with them, a mail solved the issue. really nice and polite.

URSSAF or RSI on the other hand...
Apple in apple:
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>you're still alive, creepers haven't exploded in your face, and you're not starving
By that metric if I dig a hole three blocks down and cover up the top I'm doing well. Minecraft just isn't something with important objective progression. It's about doing what you want and having fun. The survival elements are mostly a thin veneer on what creative mode is. The important part of minecraft is not anything that you could call a 'game'.
For the whole article: Citation needed. Note the site at which it is posted and the author.

Something that really was news at October 2012 I've found here:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-politicia...
I cannot understand people who feel "on top of the world" yet are still working within a business that is not cash-flow positive month to month.

"We didn't need a break, we felt great. Better than great."

Yet they are still burning up runway. Just lunacy.
Beside the "040" indicator everything else sounds like golden bullshit to me.
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You also have to take into account those that are pirating anything in sight and might only have a slight interest in playing if they every get around to it or might play for half an hour.

These people count towards the piracy number on hundreds of games yet would only ever buy a small fraction.
While it seems ridiculous to complain about which FOSS license is being used, it's a legitimate observation since there are certain app stores that disallow GPL'd code entirely.

It'd be nice if the author was willing to change the license but it's not something one can reasonably demand.
Again, promises. And F. Hollande has not a good track records of keeping promises.
You sum up everything. If you fear the failure, you can't be successful.

That's a french mentality issue (I'm french)

French people need to understand the learn from your failures concept
Some ads now do not offer for you to skip, I think this is ad and region dependent though.
Well, when 95% of the article supports one idea and only the last 10 lines mention the potential issues with it, I call that very biased at the least.
I am a soon to graduate CS student, while I know a lot of theory about algorithms, data structures, parallel processing, numerical methods , architecture etc., sites like codecademy/treehouse/codeschool are great supplement. At university I learned basics of programming in java/C but only used them in some theoretical projects to learn about some algorithm/concept. Those sites are great to get into more practical aspect of computing and if you know basics of CS are a great way to pick up new language/framework/field.
> In this case, the problem is that development isn't being done on a branch.

Huh? Do you mean it isn't being done on a topic (aka feature) branch? Master branch is still a branch.

> there's no excuse for doing your work on master.

Many people, including myself, aren't going to create a new topic branch for drive-by commits, such as fixing a typo.

> Work on a branch, merge your branch into master when it's finished. ... Don't mess up history just to work around bad workflow.

You're technically rewriting history, but it's not like you're rewriting history that's been pushed (which is typically a big no-no). Many people prefer a cleaner, more linear history from rebasing.

And if you're implying that using topic branches somehow fixes the "problem" of having to rebase, that's not true. If you've pushed your topic branch to a remote git repo then anyone else with commit access can make changes or you can even make changes on the remote repo if the web interface allows it (like how GitHub does).
Maybe, but that's probably not the right forum for politics...
Read that second page, specifically the "Overall air direction is changed to go down" in the last two pictures.

You can also see this from conservation of momentum; it requires that, if something goes up, something else must come down. With an entire airplane going up, there isn't much else than air to come down (exhaust gases are another option, but then, you are talking rocket, not airplane).

And yes, gravity means the (airplane plus surrounding air) system isn't closed, but its effects only make matters worse; airplanes have to throw down air even to maintain level flight.
Well, I think some people see it as a recklessly irresponsible thing to do for citizens' safety.
Making generalizations is not my thing but I know two things.

1) A crisis and less jobs means more and more young people here are just saying "fuck it, let's startup my own business".

2) Some French startups have done great and became global players in the last couple years, like Criteo, and there are plenty new and fast growing companies that are recruiting talent not only in France but from all over Europe.

I should know, I work for one such company, it's called Pretty Simple, and its hit social game of investigation is in the top 5 Facebook games. And we're recruiting like crazy (jobs@prettysimplegames.com), from iOS devs to game artists to game designers. We have self-taught people as well as engineers. We're nothing like the outside cliche of France would have you believe, and we're kicking ass with an international team that speaks English interchangeably with French.

Also, Paris is one hell of a cool city to live in, we've got good food, good parties, good benefits, and good people, and living here is not that expensive either when compared to London or the Valley.
What do you guys do about multiple accounts? I have my email on a Google Apps for Business account since it's set up on a custom domain, but I have my legacy gmail account for everything else (Search, Maps, YouTube, Google+, Play, Checkout, the list goes on). Since there's no way to merge accounts, and Now can only use a single account, I can either have it only get data from my mail, or get data from everywhere BUT my mail.
Sheep is a bug in the language and the only reason it's not fixed is because it's not used very often. Like scissors and pants, which have correctly evolved to "a scissor" and "a pant" where I live. On the subject of Lego:

Lego the company - "Lego had high profit this year"

A lego heap - "Put away the lego when you're done with it"

A lego piece - "I'm looking for a 2x3 lego and three 2x2 block legos"

It's all very understandable and natural and you should just let go.
This isn't a real Chinese viewpoint, this is propaganda issued by state. I know many Chinese who are throughly disgusted by the official media.
Source code to original web browser from CERN
Does that make it any less true?
Especially because the author Long Xinming is the founder of http://bearcanada.com/, which is (if you take a look) a rather extreme anti-US, antisemitic blog... I'd not trust OP's article.
AMD (Intel too, sometimes) often goes on talking about its new technology, yet customers have shown they don't care. There are literally only two things that matter to buyers: price and "speed." Anything else is just PR hype for the investors.
'perhaps' 'may' 'word has leaked' aka no real evidence + a bunch of scandals most people know about already. That sort of sums it up for me.
Exactly - consider flagging the article.
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