skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about this too. I agree that counting on donations in sufficient quantity and regularity is like buying lotto tickets to pay your electric bill.

And if they add a premium tier... well then that kind of kills their differentiation, doesn't it? They're aiming for the niche of free, modest, simple, laissez faire vis-a-vis content. When you take 'free' out of the mix then you're in the arena of commoditized cheap hosting; inertia would be the only reason for someone to upgrade their free account to a premium plan.
It certainly makes handling passwords easier. Another option, though, would be to use Persona, in which case you don't store passwords at all.
What a cesspool of a thread. Why is HN consistently at its worst when gender issues are brought up?
"Anyone with an elementary background in physics can see that...", or the real kicker, "As is apparent to introductory students, "
1) I think you may be incorrect about the advocating of illegal acts thing, but neither am I a lawyer so lets agree on "they could get sued out of existence." Totally valid.

2)A larger point is that the public/private divide is a false dichotomy. We have our lives and we want to be able to express ourselves. So my point is that the difference between the government and kickstarter banning something is one of degree but not in kind. It is a restriction on expression within a space. Granted, a much smaller space.
A least a starting point on Colony Collapse Disorder:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
It's worth mentioning that NSA is a very large organization with lots of different functions. I can imagine a stodgy Ada-programming division in the NSA living alongside a division that, say, knew how to reliably exploit heap overflows in 1991.
I'm guessing pointing a CNAME to this is not supported?
I am a fan of "I'm sorry" posts, though they have become frequent enough to become cliche. When they put a $25K donation behind the apology, then it's a lot more than false humility.

"Fourth, today Kickstarter will donate $25,000 to an anti-sexual violence organization called RAINN. It’s an excellent organization that combats exactly the sort of problems our inaction may have encouraged."

Well done!
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I spent a couple of summers as a lifeguard at a college swimming pool, and I have seen this first-hand.

As a lifeguard, I was well trained in how to rescue but not particularly well trained in how to recognize a drowning victim. There was a time I watched a boy bobbing up and down in the water, looking upward, mouth open, but not appearing to gasp for breath, the whole time wondering if he was in trouble. Luckily he was less than two yards from his mother, and she eventually picked him up. (Also luckily for me, she didn't think anything of it, or I might have been in trouble -- she probably didn't recognize that he was actually drowning either!) Only when I read the original publication of this article was I certain that he had been drowning at the time.

A side-note so that I don't seem like a complete abomination of a lifeguard: I did save a drowning victim at that pool. She displayed the TV-portrayed signs of drowning after jumping off the diving board with no idea how to swim. Probably due to the adrenaline rush, the rescue is a bit fuzzy, but that's where the lifeguard training kicks in.
hmm. well i also read sometimes on phone, its simple layout actually makes it very easy to open up on mobile phones. Though link issue is still there in the mobile version also. instead of long pressing, the link should be opened up in new tab.
It took maybe a minute but it was a minute I chose to spend, not a minute that was stolen from me. See the difference?
You're confusing censorship with boycotting. I don't care if his book gets published...just by nobody I do business with.
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It depends on who you're talking about. There are many different types of gamers out there. The biggest violator of this is what I'd call the `en masse` gamers - Those that play only the most marketed titles that 'all their friends' are playing. 95% of their library include games like CoD/Modern Warfare, League of Legends, and Diablo III.

The second violators of this are what I'd call the `On-the-Go` gamers - People who play games that don't take a ton of involvement or time to get going into them. Their library typically includes games like Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Sim City, and Nintendoland.

Coincidentally, it seems to be that the biggest names out there seem to focus their marketing on these two archetypes the most. I partially think it is because they're the least interested in all the crap and drama that goes on in the games industry, and secondly, they're the most impressionable when it comes to marketing. Make things big, gritty, and loud to attract `en masse` gamers - Make things colorful, shiny, and quick for `On-the-Go` gamers. Easy money.

It is quite a bit more difficult to reach the `core` gamers (of which there are many sub-types). These people care less about games being easy to consume, and more about the quality and depth of a title. These gamers have no problem with voting with their dollar and will often prefer games they know and love if the newest game doesn't look up to par. Unfortunately these types have been slowly getting outnumbered as easy to consume games bring in new customers that don't really care about the differences between developers or publishers.

Regular gamers can be great customers, but slowly it seems like games are being marketed toward gamers who don't care about the games they're consuming and who won't complain when 50kg of DRM and ads are tacked onto their game.
I didn't catch it all the first time either; luckily it is 6 seconds long and loops continuously, so you can take as long as you like to dissect it (or go to their site if you want to read about it instead). I think it's an effective way to drive home how fast the process is.
Another bit that makes drowning deceptive is that most of the time the victim will be in relatively shallow water or fairly close to the edge of the pool. If you can't swim its usually hard to get out to deep/open water (unless in a beach break) so a lot of kids that struggle will do so within a foot or two of being able to reach a wall or shallow enough water to stand up in.
Not even a bit.
I would say yes, with the volatility of bitcoin, at this stage in its life, it is considered a high risk asset. It doesn't have the historical precedent to be considered a safe asset, like other commodities
Most drowning victims are children, so they're not really strong or heavy enough to be a serious threat to an adult who is a decent swimmer (or possibly even able to stand in water where the child is drowning). It's still worth being aware of, and using a life ring or pole or lifejacket or something, but if there were a 5 year old child drowning in a pool, I don't think "might drown me too" would be a realistic fear. (obviously there are ocean/river situations where anyone would be at risk)
I'm not 'in the business' - just have a couple hives in my yard.

The epidemic, sometimes called 'Colony Collapse Disorder', has been in the news for years. IMHO this seems especially to have hit commercial operators, who truck their bees all over the country. I blame it on the pesticides and the trucking.

The pesticides are nasty for sure. Its horrible to see an entire hive die off.
To my understanding the two sides of this issue are whether or not Kickstarter has the right to choose what is on their site. I say they do. I do not understand the position that they must allow any project even if they don't want to (as long as they comply with the law)

The issue of whether this book is misogynist or not doesn't really matter. You can still buy it if you want or any other legal material you want to buy. Just not on Kickstarter. There are many stores that don't sell things I want to buy.
From the very same article you tried to read:

> JavaScript turns the PNG and JSON into an animation, using either the canvas element, or emulating it using overlaid div elements for older browsers.
Needs more <frame>s! And I count a grand total of zero <blink> and <marquee> tags. C'mon people, if you want to party like it's 1999 you've got to step up your game!
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> To be fair, it could just be some other random jerk on 'net writing something sympathetic.

Nope. The author of the book who was promoting his project on reddit provided the linked the above pastebin text himself.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/1dvnem/above_the_...
>I'm curious how the funding was going before this, I can't imagine it was getting much traction.

The kickstarter blog post mentions that they couldn't stop the project from receiving funds, so the project must have been fully funded for that to happen. I don't know how much they were asking for, and whether or not they got more funding than they requested, though.

EDIT: It seems they made $16,369 pledged of $2,000 goal.
I'm a pretty staunch civil rights advocate, so I acknowledge that it is hard, but that shouldn't stop me ignoring that Kickstarter's value judgement here has, at least in my opinion, erred on the side of draconian.

As someone who occasionally consults for other political groups and startups, I don't necessarily need to start up a new project to spread my message, IndieGogo already serves the more avant garde fairly well -- but my course of action will be to stop advocating the use of Kickstarter and instead start recommending IndieGogo and its ilk.

For the record, I am not trying to assert that Kickstarter did not have the right to do what they did. Obviously it's their site, their servers, etc., etc.; I just really wish they hadn't chosen this course of action because I feel that they went the wrong way, and I will act accordingly.

But again, even more sad than that is that there are 50,000 young people (at least according to @dosomething) that were so eager to see a project censored.
What I especially liked about this demo is how it antiquated, dated, obsolete and generally uncool the current refuelling process appears in comparison.
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This is such a load of shit. There are so many circumstances in which someone may feel powerless to say something or engage in a resistive act, or may be physically incapable of doing so that the time. Rapists use the justification of lack of "acceptable" resistive force all the time, there is no place for this kind of comment.
This "defense" misses the point.

The gist of the controversial advice is "Don't wait for signs before you make your move. Let her be the one who rejects your advances. If she says no, stop immediately and tell her you don't want to do anything that would make her uncomfortable. Try again at a later time if appropriate or cease entirely if she is absolutely not interested."

This is not a defense. This advice leads to sexual assault. You are assuming your partner's consent, and placing the burden on them to reject it. That is the problem.

Without a clear verbal confirmation of consent, or an explicit proactive action, you cannot know if your partner is participating willingly. Failure to reject is not the same thing as consent, and no adult should have difficulty understanding the distinction.

If you follow this advice, you will rape people while believing that they are just shy.

And for what? To avoid the embarrassment of saying, "So do you wanna fuck?" How old are you?

Or are you worried that if you ask a woman "So do you wanna fuck?", she might say no? Do I even need to explain what's wrong with that?
It does add extra computational power to your log in though. While it is a minimal amount, depending on the size of your application it could be notable.
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Is that just because gold is strongly anti-correlated to the dollar? I don't know for sure, just speculating.
Is there a movement in the US yet to ban neocotinoids? I would like to donate if so. I saw a few bees dying on the ground last year, but this year it seems much worse. I've probably seen five bees dying on the ground in the last week, and I don't even spend that much time outside! (This is in the East Bay near San Francisco by the way.)
1) Don't do anything that doesn't have her consent.
2) "Yes means yes" is a better slogan than "no means no."
3) Always be conscious of whether she seems comfortable or not and whether she's enjoying herself. This can be tricky, but always, always err on the side of caution. If she seems merely bored or uninterested, you should consider that a no.

That's really all you need. That and volume: if someone isn't interested, don't take it personally and don't force it. Just move onto someone else. Most pairings aren't meant to happen. If you follow my earlier advice and take care of yourself, it will pretty much automatically.
The author forgot 'Stale docs'. Once the docs are written, 'that task is done' and new features or changes aren't documented...
This seems like a great concept, but I'm curious as to how it works, how reliable/comfortable it is to wear, how it deals with false positives, and so on. The fundraiser page doesn't seem to address any of that.
Fascinating... and I'm guessing there isn't any immediate action to limit the use of the suspected substance?
Where did you get the 37,500 mile number from? That's saying you get 100 mile range when the advertised range is 265 miles. Even being conservative and saying 200 miles puts you at 75k miles after your 375 swaps.
>On the other hand, if no life guard is present, don't just let someone drown, but saving them is a risk.

If you have to do this, my thought has been it is best to approach the drowning person from behind as to make it harder for them to grasp you in their panic.
It's not protection. It's respect.
Since the DCT has an implicit even extent as opposed to the DFT which is strictly periodic it's much more resistant to removal of high frequencies. Most signals (especially image blocks) aren't periodic, so the DFT uses a lot of energy to represent the discontinuity at the edge of the signal. The DCT avoids this discontinuity by implicitly mirroring the signal at the edges. This is what is meant when the DCT is said to do better energy compaction.

signal DFT DCT II v-nice and smooth, easy for cos() to fit
\_ \_ \_ \_ _/\_ _/
\ \ \ \ / \/
^sharp, high-frequency discontinuity
this will make a large value at the top of our spectrum

The other reason is that pixel data has no imaginary component, which obviates half the DFT's spectrum, with the DFT requiring complex math regardless. The DCT is purely real-valued so it's a matter of one real output per one real input.

Since the DCT is just an even and real-valued special case of the DFT, those two make up the whole difference.
It doesn't matter how many dates you've been on, if you do this and the person didn't want that you are committing an assault. You don't get a license to do something just because you invested some amount of time or energy into dating, saying otherwise is a direct promotion of rape (remember, the majority of rapes are committed by someone known to the survivor).
how can batteries build up in one location?
Does Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?
I really don't think I am. The actions of the petitioners (or at least the threats thereof, whether or not they were made) could have been seen as boycotting, at some point, in the future, but the actions of Kickstarter terminating an already funded project and refunding the donated moneys is a notion far closer to censorship than to boycotting.
Well...except that it does. :/
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"Workers plan to wrap bee-proof netting around the trees in an attempt to prevent the deaths of more bees."

Gee whiz, how about NOT SPRAYING POISON ON THE TREES in the first place?!
Thanks for clarifying and sorry about the hive.
The law is mostly about the general rules. Legal analysis tends to be about edge cases, only because those tend to be the ones that are interesting to fight about. The general rule is that you can pretty much arbitrarily revoke license to use your private property.

Vis-a-vis beach access: the exception arises in that context because the waters of a state and all submerged land and land up to the mean high tide line are public property. Thus, while you remain free to revoke license to use your property arbitrarily, you can't use that to unfairly monopolize access to public property.
That wasn't really my point. It doesn't inspire confidence when the host says "hey! put your stuff here! I'm not sure that I can pay the bills each month but I sure hope we can. Oh--and I have no idea how this will scale."

It's all understandable. But even if it's free and even if my content is stupid, I'd still feel a little uncomfortable because of how much doubt the owner expresses over the viability of the service.
If PRISM was "nothing," why is everyone involved so worried? Why are they giving such careful, specific denials about what PRISM does? Why are they talking about how much harm it does to our intelligence gathering if people know about PRISM?

The series of "least untruthful" statements by the Obama administration, its allies in Congress, and the leaders of the NSA and FBI suggests that there is in fact a story here.
And it is easy to see that whenever women are mentioned, or connected, people like you feel like you don't need to back up your assertions with facts, quotes, figure or any kind of argument.

Hn is an intellectual place. That means that we sometimes discuss news that requires you to read and understand the other sides point of view, not merely dismiss it out of hands with a few choice words that are chosen to silence debate, not to improve mankinds understanding of things.
> You do not need to resort to pulling out your dick and forcibly placing the woman's hand on it in order to "make a move." There's literally hundreds of other things that aren't sexual assault that you could do before resorting to that.

Context: this is part of the penultimate chapter, which is about what to do when you’ve gone on several dates with a woman and now you’re alone with her. Many women expect men to take the first step, the chapter explains how to interpret the signs and act on them. One of the first sentences of the chapter is:

“IMPORTANT NOTE ON RESISTANCE: If at any point a girl wants you to stop, she will let you know. If she says "STOP," or "GET AWAY FROM ME," or shoves you away, you know she is not interested. It happens. Stop escalating immediately”

The part about taking out your dick is after the sections about kissing, fondling and fingering. NOT taking out your dick at this point would be more curious.

The chapter in question so you can judge for yourself: http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/1dvnem/above_the_...

Now, I don‘t particularly like the tone of this guide and I don’t think it‘s very insightful or well-written, but it’s definitely not anything new or out of line. In the genre, I personally prefer the writings of David DeAngelo.
You're the one who is reaching, by bringing up very specific exceptions (Civil Rights Act Title II) exceptions to the general right to exclude on private property. That's one of the most fundamental aspects of private property: the right to exclude.
> Ask 100 women if they find it romantic to be kissed without being asked or if they want to be asked first. I'm pretty sure the answer is: being kissed, don't ask.

I am pretty sure the answer is more complicated.

> Thing is, if you try to kiss her and she doesn't want it, she'll turn away and that's it.

Well, the problem is sometimes if you are too quick, your greasy lips might end up on her lips, making her smell your foul breath. And even if she turns away, it will not make the first seconds of assault unhappen.
The bullshit excuse I keep seeing about "taking quotes out of context" is making me mad. The author himself, removed those specific passages from his Reddit thread when the shit storm started brewing.

If he worded what he wanted to say correctly and with the proper context, why remove them?
Are you dense? If someone was OK with that kind of intimate contact at that moment asking would result in a 'yes'.
crypt() is not extremely easy to use. Actually, it's fairly hard and easy to get wrong. The two things that people usually get wrong is a) salt generation and b) fixed-time comparison.
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I missed the chapter on murdering your partner.
The people of the United States are innocent until proven guilt. Their government does not deserve the same benefit of the doubt.
Yes, instead of writing an excellent article that explains some principles that could help hundreds or thousands of open source authors improve their projects, he should have taken the approach of shutting up and fixing every one of those projects himself.

Open source should not be about efficiency! It should be about never pointing out anything wrong unless you're willing to change it yourself! Down with feedback! We hate feedback! We're open source authors and we don't have to take it anymore!
The tension in feminism between sexual liberation, on the one hand, and repression of male sexuality on the other is remarkable. And make no doubt, feminism is now included in the official religion of our day. How long before "misogynist" tweets are banned on twitter? Before "misogynists" are kicked off of facebook? And don't worry gentlemen, it is not violating your freedom of speech because these are private companies controlling every means of communication you have...

We are slouching towards a soft tyranny of the mind, driven by the marxist ideology that each member of an "inferior" group has the right to not be offended.
One thing that I learned (accidentally) that helps when watching a fast paced Vine video like this, you can click the video to pause it, and again to resume playback (useful for trying to read the buttons that are being clicked, for example). Maybe everyone else already figured that out, ha, but I think GIFs conditioned me to think things like this didn't have pause built in.
How on earth could you conclude that? It's a group of 14 people. It isn't terribly unlikely that they weren't chosen solely on race and gender. Not to mention that they're all federal judges, and the federal judiciary isn't well known for its diversity.
he might e thinking of writing another language, which he's comfortable with, vs javascript - for portability
Features, features everywhere.
“The fact is that of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees.”- UN report.
Not facilitating the promotion of sexism and materials that essentially advocates for sexual assault isn't a statement on any gender, but rather the company is not there to support oppression.
This annoys me greatly. Whether or not the book itself was bad, an open platform shouldn't have to apologize for not immediately censoring its users on public outrage. To the contrary, I would have expected an apology if, given the first blush or public outcry, they suspended the account without a proper investigation into it.
Except generating a random salt and the proper hash format to provide as input to crypt() is surprisingly difficult, especially in a cross-platform way. I recently replaced my custom crypt wrapper with the userland implementation of these functions, and in the process I discovered my custom wrapper had some rather non-obvious bugs.
Actually, the book has an entire chapter on long-term relationships and compatibility.