skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were a child though, my measure of a good purchase decision would probably be how much entertainment I got for my money. In that case, blasting $50 on a freemium game might not seem like a bad purchase at all. What will you teach your kids to use as a measure of a good purchase? For an adult, you have all kinds of financial responsibilities to account for, so frivolous purchases can screw you over. As a kid, you have no financial responsibility and no consequence for spending all your cash on frivolous stuff.
The "4chan crowd" usually only needs some token amount of motivation, and a target. It doesn't matter of they care about the 'core values' at stake. IIRC, in the case of Adria Richards, it was posted somewhere on 4chan, and that's when things really took off (at least in terms of volume). The '4chan crowd' really only had to take offense to her 'name and shame' attitude, without caring about the larger 'sexual harassment policies at tech conferences' issue.
Yeah maybe I'm just cynical.. but something about that just seems a little forced, like 'look we're definitely still cool, see i swore!'.

Also comes off like he's slightly resisting the merge with Yahoo, which seems a little strange given they've just dropped 1 billion on them.
More like ad-nation.
I read your comment before clicking on the link and now it's impossible to read.
What makes you think we should be taxing income?

There are other means of taxing the citizenry and funding the government. Why should we tax the compensation for work, physical and/or mental, of the population? Better would be to narrow the compliance field to taxing consumption. And in the US we are generally voracious consumers (can speak for the UK).
SEPA Direct Debit
Since Textmate is ONLY available in Mac (not other OS) , that might the main reason why sublime2 succeed .
Yahoo's Tumblr Buy Fails Four Tests Of A Successful Acquisition
Setting Up Octopress With Org-Mode
Workflow for blogging with Octopress from Emacs Org-Mode
I'm not assuming anything. I'm asking for clarity.
How is that going to play out with 3d printers?
Yahoo paid $ 1.1 billion to advertise its logo on Tumblr?
Yahoo: "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business."
Not particularly. However, there is a lot of theorizing that Meyer could possibly be a fix to this issue. This acquisition is probably the first thing she'll be graded on.
While its cool demo of what CSS can do... The reality is: CSS is not meant for this.

Its a cool demo but technical speaking its nonsense to use CSS for this. It should have been made with SVG, or a similar kind of technology. There are enough vector renderers for example the canvas element if there is no SVG support.
For a more unix-y version of this, check out Jshon.

http://kmkeen.com/jshon/
I will be getting firefox-os just out of principle. I have a hard time trusting Apple or Google with my data. A (relatively) independent foundation just gives me a little bit more peace-of-mind that they are not trying to track, mine and predict the latest byte out of my phone.
I'm not sure, but I think I did understand what you were saying. I was genuinely interested in undecidable problems people might run into and that are easily seen to be at least as powerful as the halting problem. Thanks for the example!
acquires or aquires?
> You put people in jail who break the rules of society.

The US puts more people in prison than any other country. Is it really worth the cost of imprisoning people for non-violent crimes?

It doesn't appear to deter people from committing crimes. It certainly doesn't help criminals rehabilitate and become productive members of society.
Shape is a retangle. Shape::Circle inherits from the Shape.
Is it reasonable?

Shape class must have color attibute only.
Shape::Retangle and Shape::Circle should inherit from the Shape.

And

...

package Shape::Retangle;

use parent 'Shape';

sub new {

my ($class, $args) = @_;

my $self = $class->SUPER::new( { color => $args->{color} || 'black' } );

$self->{length} = $args->{length} || 1;

$self->{width} = $args->{width} || 1;

return bless $self, $class;

}

...

package Shape::Circle;

use parent 'Shape';

sub new {

my ($class, $args) = @_;

my $self = $class->SUPER::new( {color => $args->{color} || 'black' } );

$self->{diameter} = $args->{diameter} || 1;

return bless $self, $class;

}

...
VIM too here, since Vim wasn't on the list.
I think it can be both. I'm using Tumblr as a blogging platform than a social network. I spend more time writing content than looking the posts of other. I migrated from Blogger to Tumblr coz I feel that blogging is easier there.
Most people in the prison system are there for non-violent offenses. [1] In Chicago, blacks were arrested (before decriminalisation last year) for cannabis consumption at a rate of 15 persons for every 1 white person despite similar rates of cannabis consumption among blacks and whites. [2] People who have gone to prison for any of offense have a 40% chance of eventually going back to prison. [3] I would suggest that the change in incarceration rates starts with less racist policing.

[1] http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1118

[2] http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-marijuana-arrest-...

[3] http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/08/prison-math
I've aliased vim -> "vim -p" which opens files into multiple tabs when passed as arguments.

I've rebound the arrow keys to switch and move tabs and buffers.

* up/down: previous/next buffer

* left/right: previous/next tab

* shift left/right: move tab to left or right

inoremap <Up> <esc>:bprev<cr>
inoremap <Down> <esc>:bnext<cr>
inoremap <Left> <esc>:tabprev<cr>
inoremap <Right> <esc>:tabnext<cr>
noremap <Up> :bprev<cr>
noremap <Down> :bnext<cr>
noremap <Left> :tabprev<cr>
noremap <Right> :tabnext<cr>
nnoremap <silent> <S-Left> :execute 'silent! tabmove ' . (tabpagenr()-2)<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <S-Right> :execute 'silent! tabmove ' . tabpagenr()<CR>

As for working with multiple files easier when vim's already open, it's a combination of Command-T, Buffer Explorer, and NERD tree.
Did anyone tell Marissa that Tumblr is free?

Spending $1.1 billion just to post a single post, seems just like a huge waste of cash...
Fair enough. But the big ships have a lot of inertia while turning and her efforts to change the corporate culture (something everyone says she is doing atm) will need time to give results. So she will have to use whatever teams and people she has available right now.
God I wish one of these companies would release a decent candy bar qwerty. Am I really the only one??
Gotta hand it to him. That's commitment!
Yeah, I did too. Thanks for responding to criticism in a prompt, civil, and understanding manner. :)
...and then Instagram
Perhaps the disparity is that the business reporting to UK authorities is the subsidiary subject to UK tax law and technically a licensee of the main Starbucks corporation which reports record profits from it's licensing operations to the UK licensee.
Same here, firefox flags formulae.
I think luck was a big part of it. Plus, Tumblr is a really cool name (compared to Posterous ), it's catchy, unique, and 'hip'.
Yahoo Buys Tumblr: First ever acquisition announced by animated gif
...and with emacs listed twice.
Geany on Linux, JEdit on Windows. Line numbers, full paths, reasonable cursor behavior, color-coding for various languages, plugins, keybindings are mostly conventional and fully configurable, etc. - and both are GPL.
Hey I'm just glad someone out there is doing /something/ instead of just being a talking head on TV all the time.

Flaws and all, he's putting his money where his mouth is. Kudos.
Wow - this came out of nowhere! How did they keep it so quiet until now?
I agree with you, but I don't think sex perps are statistically prevalent in either group, they are probably in a group by themselves. While the typical brogrammer is absolutely capable of making lewd remarks, it's unlikely he will engage in aggressive acts, because he is already very successful with women - why would he want to jeopardize that.

Like you, I would also consider myself a reclusive geek, and probably like you I wouldn't even consider that kind of behavior, not only because it's wrong and frowned-upon, but because the thought of doing this would never occur to me. Most geeks I know fall somewhere in this spectrum between "ladies man" and "recluse", but I can see none of them exhibiting the kind of behavior we're talking about.

Hence I believe there must be a third group of people who are, for lack of a better term, insane beneath their fake exterior.
Want To Be More Productive? - Improve Your I/O
If you have more ways to improve your I/O - please share :)
> ...mincraft is a diabolically addictive game

Yes, Minecraft is really addictive.

> So what age should I set him up with mincraft? Is it suitable for 5 year olds?

Content-wise, it's definitely suitable for a 5 year old, the addiction aspect is something you'll have to manage. It may be a good idea to start with the creative mode.

The survival mode contains no graphic violence and the enemies are zombies and skeletons that are already dead, although you might have to kill some cute animals to eat (you can play vegan if you like the challenge). There's no sex except animal reproduction, which is represented by tiny hearts and small animals appearing.
As in 'fuck yeah, 1.1 billion times'. Unfortunately this won't last long, meaning David staying as the current CEO. I've seen this over and over, recently (at least recent in my mind) in the example of WOOT where all their important pre-acquisition staff left 6 months - 1 year later.

People that start successful projects from scratch don't like deviations from the main mission statement they have set in the beginning.
Evan Miller, I love you.
Confusing availability solely with cost and not time.

Flour costs about 3 to 4 hours to bake some bread or at least an hour to make a homemade cake or cookies. That's the most expensive.

Pasta will cost me 1/2 hour absolute minimum to make spaghetti and meatballs. Cheaper, but still expensive.

Next cheapest is garbage grade fast food. Well, you're in for a long walk or a short drive, I figure I can get to the closest McD and get served "something" in less than 10 minutes. Cheaper yet...

Cheapest of all is a can of soda. I can hit the vending machine at work and walk back to my desk in about 3 minutes.

Hmm and the cheaper they are on this list, the more blame they get for making people fat. Some of it is the hair shirt brigade with the usual claim that if we had to raise our own apple orchards we would be holy enough, err, good enough, err whatever we'd be thin.

I will say that a significant medically diagnosed food allergy in the family is probably the most effective weight loss plan I've ever heard of. No wheat ever again, you say? Well that eliminates 90% of the grocery store's processed/junk food right there.
I always believe that Marco is already a millionaire with his blog and Instapaper earnings. But I'm curious how much of Tumblr he and David still owns.
There seems to be a massive anti-Yahoo struggle going on in HN at the moment but I feel we need to look at this impartially. For better or for worse, the fate of the company is tied directly to the actions of Marissa Mayer now, this is no longer 1999 and Yahoo is no longer the same company.

They have this image (which they rightly deserve) of being a big, bumbling ancient Behemoth of a company which provides no real use or purpose to the internet, but this could well be part of a bigger revitalization.

Cutting off the fat of the company, bringing in new properties with the intention of keeping them alive, changing the company dynamics to make it a better place to work, bringing in more talent and having a much more youthful outlook on things... These are all good things.

It remains to be seen whether or not Yahoo can perform this transition but things look good for them, if they stick to their guns and simply improve Tumblr without lowering its value to the community, I can see a real future for Yahoo, one where it isn't just irrelevant, but where it makes it's own products and creates new and exciting applications.

What I really want to see, is whether Yahoo is capable of making the move to generation XI and what it brings to the table now it's finally left the time warp it was stuck in.
Is it CUDA only or can we submit code written in OpenCL, DirectCompute or C++ AMP etc?
That is a vast over simplification of what Yahoo is buying. They will get a lot more than advertisement space- they will get reams of user data, they will get the platform, and even as a "separate business" they can still place operational goals and shape the direction of the business model.
It's terrific that Tumblr and its investors get to make a lot of money.

I just don't understand all this talk about Tumblr remaining independent of Yahoo. Yahoo is mostly a pretty stagnant company that needs new ideas and ways of thinking and doing business. Tumblr offers that opportunity - making the central point of interaction a user-defined dashboard rather than an overly-programmed portal that fewer and fewer people visit out of inertia.

Sure, let Tumblr be Tumblr so you don't scare off its audience. But unless Yahoo itself becomes more like Tumblr, what's the use of spending $1.1 billion?
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>only meant to be rolled out as a very last resort in the emergency situation that Nazis had occupied England.

Source? I'm reading that it was to be used if they experienced a "national catastrophe" or bombings with poison gas. I don't even know if it makes sense to print a propaganda poster for use after occupation.
Hey there, I'm launching a new online workplace at the moment - https://www.cresters.com. It's in an early beta stage but I think that the focus of the site will cater to your needs. The way the reputation system works is that everyone starts from zero and builds up proficiency scores for each of their skills (e.g Node.js, Python but also Translation, Proofreading, Graphic Design, etc) based on the feedback they get for their work on relevant gigs. The site then proposes users to gig posters based on their proficiency levels and the poster's budget. You can start work on low-paying gigs working for entrepreneurs or individuals and work your way up to better-paying gigs for larger clients. If you get average/poor ratings in the beginning (along with constructive feedback) but keep improving and get better ratings gradually, the more recent ratings will carry more weight in your proficiency scores so you won't be penalized for using your first low-paying gigs to try your hand at new technologies. I'm talking to the first clients at the moment but I am hoping to ramp up pretty fast. It would be great to get your feedback if you have time to check it out!
Show HN: In-browser virus scan
What about Blackberry Q10, or the likely more affordable Q5?
Store them in a local encrypted wallet, I wouldn't leave them on any remote service.
Yahoomblr?
Ask HN: Visiting to meet education startups
I run a EdTech startup that lets publishers create and sell their own "Rosetta Stone". I will be in SFO for about a week starting May 21. I'd like to have short visits with other EdTech startups. Contact me at mike@chuala.com if you have time for a visit. We are looking for partners and for intros to investors. Thanks
Furthermore, would an American population really support -say- a nuclear attack on China because certain information was compromised, or because the lights went out in America for a few days ? A week ? Fat chance. Would such an attack stop the cyber attack ? Probably not. Disconnect from the internet ? Not an option for any trade-based nation, plus also unlikely to stop the cyber attacks.

First lesson in international law - there is no international law, because the actors involved are sovereign and only prolonged warfare can -sometimes- dislodge them, at massive cost. So open violations of international treaties, even on large scale, are let go without consequences. Say, for example, something between legal discrimination (at minimum denial of religious freedom, article 2 UNHR) and religious genocide is happening in most/all muslim countries (with countries like Morocco and Turkey "merely" discriminating and Sudan, Pakistan and Bangladesh regularly being accused of large-scale state-sponsored religious genocide). And it's not like most of those countries are even a real military threat.

For China the question may be simpler, of course. It is certainly, shall we say, "absorbing" a few of it's neighbors. Again, what are you going to do ?
They get people linking to their page instead of the underlying YouTube video, hence better pagerank.

They get people visiting their page instead of just YouTube, and some of them reading other bits of their blog, hence more visibility for other stuff they want people to read.

They get their brand associated with Bill Gates doing cool philanthropic stuff.

The more difficult question is what benefit Hacker News gets from a link that goes there rather than to the underlying YouTube video. Actually, that's not a difficult question either; the answer is "no benefit".
Totally possible. I was referring to how fuckyeahX.tumblr.com is a popular formula for Tumblr blogs that focus on X.
rachelbythebay's comment is an interesting choice. The core idea could make for an excellent launching point of discussion, but worded so tersely it comes off as very dismissive, which is exactly what you are trying to rally against.

it became a "magnet for upvotes" and nothing better ever had a chance to reach the top to encourage more interesting discussion.

This is an interesting way to think of it. I think we could agree that the most valuable comments will not necessarily appear until the article has aged a bit. Clearly HN tries to combat this by moving certain new comments to the top for a little while, but perhaps something more dramatic is needed. Perhaps for a certain period in the thread's life, for example, distribute comments with positive scores using some random seed such that higher rated comments will generally be near the top to avoid wading through a morass of poor quality, but any one (positive-scored) comment might be at the top for any given refresh.

P.S. I don't think you deserve the downvotes you are getting. I obviously don't exactly agree with you, which is why we are having this discussion, but I think you raise valid concerns and make them in a reasoned and articulate manner.
So web 2.0.
I'm with you in that argument, and here is some code to prove it; a little script that orders all 'divs' based on their size; the jQuery implementation freezes the page for a few seconds while the native one does not (Chrome 26 - i7/2.67GHz - W7 64 bits);

$("div").sort(function(a, b){
return $(a).width() * $(a).height() - ($(b).width() * $(b).height())
});

[].slice.call(document.getElementsByTagName('div')).sort(function(a, b){
return a.clientWidth * a.clientHeight - (b.clientWidth * b.clientHeight)
});
I totally agree here. Sublime is just an rebound. People will move on.
I think they should converge to Old Editors like Vim/Emacs because Editors like these don't die, they never have. They keep coming back, like a Zombie (Not the best example I could come up with).

But being on Emacs gave me an advantage of persistence. In past I have changed companies, development machines, operating systems and programming languages but never editor. It was always there, available.
Let's be honest, the US isn't really famous for only doing things sanctioned by the UN.
Gravity Defying 3D Printing Robot
I don't take drugs. I think there are good reasons for people to not take cannabis. I am strongly in favour of cannabis legalisation.

The amount of time and money spent dealing with cannabis is mind-boggling. About 50,000[1] Mexicans have been murdered in the recent drug wars. Some of those are because cannabis is illegal.

Cannabis prohibition is going to be viewed with horror in the future.

(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2084224,00.htm...)

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/opinion/hit-mexicos-cartel...)

(http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statistics)

(http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/05/05/fbi-marijuana-is...)

[1] numbers are hard to check, but some people say 62,000 since 2006.
I've been working through the following book:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/06...

And it has a chapter (2 and 3) on stepping through exactly what algorithms and data structures Einstein used to figure out that time itself slows down for you to explain why traveling at fractions of the speed of light does not change how fast light passes you by. More important than guessing time as the variable property, he was expert at creating experiments to disprove his hypothesis. "If this is the case, we should be able to do this exact experiment to expose the exact value for time dilation as you approach speed of light."

The book is about creating a program which exposes the operating principles of Einstein's neo cortex that can do what Einstein did. To create simplistic models that explain the underlying principles of physics, and has the ability to say: "If we model the phenomenon like such, than we should be able to observe the following phenomenon". Then to go out and perform a test gathering evidence or disproving it. Then brute forcing this process and selecting for the most simple model that explains all available data.

Show all hypothesis that explain all available data, that have not been disproved, sorted by complexity of the model with most evidence collected for it, and least evidence levied against it.

If each of these processes could be automated, we could use the world's supercomputers to crunch out 500 years of physics scientific discovery in a few years.
I read somewhere on HN yesterday that David still had a 25% share, though I can't find the link so no citation unfortunately.
I could see how some people might interpret it as such, but my impression was that tripzilch was aiming for a more general metaphor. The term "stockholm syndrome" might also have been fitting. I interpreted it as a general statement about victims becoming inured to their suffering to the point where they start to defend it.
Python Development 101
I don't work for Yahoo either, but I still wouldn't consider working there even with Marissa Mayer on board. It just has a better CEO but it's still a doomed company. I can't think of a single Yahoo! product that I sincerely believe in and would be excited to work on.
The title here, although it matches that of the linked page, conveys little information to anyone who doesn't already know what it's about.

("Modern GPU is code and commentary intended to promote new and productive ways of thinking about GPU computing. This project is a library, an algorithms book, a tutorial, and a best-practices guide.")

Perhaps something like "Modern GPU: NVIDIA's guide to making effective use of CUDA"?
David Karp
There no XCode. Oh no.
I suspect that being locked up alone with one of the world's most obnoxious trolls is unfair punishment for whoever that cellmate is.
I've been waiting five days for an "international wire transfer" the other way around - Mt Gox to BoA - to go through. A month ago, the same transfer took two days.

The article mainly discusses Dwolla's connection (I'm not using Dwolla), but also mentions a Wells Fargo account that was also seized, and I'm wondering if that's the account where my money is supposed to come from.
Seems like her full name was taken.