skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Puppet doesn't require you to do any Ruby.

Also, Salt is written in python, for which the same argument holds as well for almost all environments.
X4’s first line on Karma affecting your mood and life is dead on. Divorcing your self-esteem from these social indicators is important, but difficult as the whole point of them is social coercion.

Which in a round about way brings us back to why you should care (but only a little)- karma exists to push people into conforming with the rules of society on the site. If you are being punished too badly in the karma ranks you are not conforming. (Karma also has a lot of noise - a little punishment is to be expected.) This will presumably be punished with a hell ban after some instance of severe enough non-conformity, and with that you’ll be straight out of the community.

I’d look at what you are doing, and if the things you are being punished for are things that matter to you (and thus perhaps you should give up on this place), or are stylistic, or some form of social grace. In the latter cases you could conform with little sacrifice and that would give you a better platform to interact with others on the site, while at the same time removing those ugly drops in karma:)
The End of "Disruption:" Is that term even relevant anymore?
This is an awesome idea and has massive potential for the Open Source community. With this plugin I can immediately start an interaction with the coder of any random line, without doing any extensive research about who that might be and how I could reach him first. At the same time this interaction will be public and thus generate documentation.
Saudi Arabia changes its working week to Sunday-Thursday
The Opt key in "Cmd+Opt-V to 'paste'" is unnecessary.
great blog post thanks for sharing, I feel for you.

"Within a few weeks I get my typing up to forty five words a minute one-handed. Everyone is very impressed, but what do they know? It’s half the speed I could type before"

I know that feeling for sure, been monitoring my typing speeds for a while since I lost dexterity in my left arm.

bro fists with strong hand
> This issue matters and it's germane to HN on several fronts. If you don't feel the same, just don't click on the links.

I agree that it matters, and it's important, and so on. I also feel that it's something of a watershed in the site's history in that there are a lot more unrelated political articles appearing in its wake, with negative consequences for the quality of discourse and content here. I feel that, long term, if not checked, this will lead to a decline in the quality of the site. Actually... I'm a bit pessimistic in any case. This latest go round seems to have attracted/brought out people mainly interested in politics, so I'm not really sure there's much that can be done in any event.
Unitary patent and unified patent court in the EU
"But pushing citizens to use Linux is NOT government business"

Not sure where you are from, but in Europe/UK local governments do get involved in promoting what might be described as lifestyle choices. E.g. smoking cessation, getting more exercise, healthy eating, making recycled furniture available cheap to poor people by establishing and promoting 'social enterprises' as we call them in the uk.

I see the free CDs as that really, just saying 'there is an alternative to chucking your old PC away, just try this and see if it is enough for you'. Not so much pushing linux from any political/anti-microsoft position, just saying you don't have to spend (more) money.
In China, being a Politburo member makes you a billionaire
If what you ask is if mocl compiles to C first (like Chicken and Gambit), than yes. It is the same.
Humanism trumps nationalism. This is a good creed, that can keep us out of many wars. I still think the author should be proud of French food and French culture.
There is also a Chicago startup that has come up with a solution: http://bikespike.com/. They just finished a successful Kickstarter of 150k+
Well for one thing we no longer have moral standing to object if another country is caught hacking mobile data carriers in the US.
Does anyone know if they support the full OpenGL this time, and what version? I imagine since AMD's GPU's do, PS4 should, too.

Also, too bad it's not Linux. That could've helped Linux gaming a lot. We'll have to wait for the Steambox to help with that now.
Ok, so now you're saying that "the rich shouldn't be forced to give up their assets for those who didn't earn it." and still "for BI to work, this essentially _has_ to be the case!" So basically you're saying that BI is in it's essence totally immoral, which is exactly what I wanted to prove.
Apple no longer cares what language you use, as long as new code isn't downloaded to distributed apps after installation. So it's okay to use CL as long as there is no facility for interpretation of CL downloaded from the net.
SCOTUS passes on big affirmative action decision
PS4 runs Orbis OS, a modified version of FreeBSD that’s similar to Linux
I'm proud of French food when manage to cook something good :)
Thanks for writing this post so I didn't have to. The readers of HN for the most part belong to a sort of protected class and do, in fact, have some political power. It's the time to beat this drum as hard as we can. I think it's time for this issue to stay at the very top of our consciousnesses.

Obama's twitter account is blithely tweeting about climate change (also important) when the blatant end run around the bill of rights should be one of the most important issues of our lives. If this kind of practice becomes the norm, then the 4th amendment is a hollowed out shell that once meant something, and future generations will never even know what it was like to be protected from unwarranted search and seizure.
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> Notably, this results in election candidates adopting populist policies that more closely represent their constituents.

I think a better term is more centrist policies. In compulsory systems, the Median Voter Theorem [0] is a much more accurate description of behaviour.

In particular it means that the major parties can't be captured as easily by highly motivated minorities. And it also means that our politics is very transactional compared to countries with voluntary FPTP. No need to "get out the base", so no need for soaring rhetoric and less need for negative advertising. Some people see our generally uninspiring politicians as a bug; I see it as evidence of underlying features.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
They made the source code available on GitHub
https://github/certivox
I think Apple will accept anything compiled with mocl. A similar project is RubyMotion (for Ruby obviously) and it seems to have no problem with Apple.
> Ecuador too of all countries is taking an anti-US stance. It's a
> strange country to claim to be supporting human rights

If you're already on unfriendly terms with the U.S. it would seem to
be in your interest to undermine them and cast them in a bad light.

You don't need noble intentions to score political points by accepting
a high-profile refugee fleeing from a government largely hostile to
you.
Simply the best way to find my next job! I like the company that is offering a free dead spider to new employees.
Moderation is for removing submissions that are not appropriate, not for removing the things you don't find very interesting.

There's a clear distinction between the two.
if this is as good as it claims to be that's pretty cool. I use Google Authenticator for some things but's no good if your damn phone has died!
That's perhaps the most hilariously ironic first paragraph of an article I've ever read.
Yes. Less waste, and in theory users will be given more secure and up to date software experience, which should provide safety and confidence for online shopping, for more tasty taxable purchases.

+1 for environment
+1 for Capitalism

EDIT: last +1 for education, and employment. No need to get a new fancy computer to do your homework or write a CV.
WikiLeaks says approached Iceland, other nations over Snowden asylum
Also a very sobering addition. Conformity has always been very hard for me and has caused me problems throughout my life. I've been kicked out of schools and thrown in jail for non conformity. Knowing this I have to constantly battle this emotion inside me. I want to be part of this community because I love tech and development. I need to find my place here and I think this comment helps me. Thanks
"On one hand I don't believe we should be completely isolationist"

Agreed. But we (USA) should be non-interventionists. Isolationism is when you cut off economic ties and restrict travel in and out (think North Korea). Non-interventionism is when you stay out of other nation's political affairs (politics, war, economics).
So when are they going to enable 4.3? Soon or in another 3 years?
Language is very important, and by repeatedly referring to what the DEA does as "seizure" or "asset forfeiture", this is itself an attempt to shape the conversation. They operate within the State's legal framework, which is why those euphemisms get used, rather than what they'd be called in almost any other circumstance when done by others (armed robbery, theft, etc).
Imagine if this were a Russian or Chinese story of this magnitude - isn't this how its press would report the story? Wouldn't we be surprised if the press did not focus on the circus of the affair and failings of the accusers rather than the abusive power of the state.

Would not the US press mock the complete blurring of state propaganda and journalistic ethics?

This is a travesty for an institution that holds a constitutional responsibility as a check on the state. Our press has mostly turned into a deliberate pun - The Peoples Magazine.
I've implemented similar designs in the past, but found ltree[1] to be much more useful/expressive when it comes to needing to fetch, order and manage lists of hierarchical data.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/ltree.html
Sort of. Arb means risk free and cost free gains, so this could still count. Lower liquidity could be considered a risk, but some people would take the gains and not care about immediately cashing out, esp since you could trade back to BTC once prices normalize and cash out on the alternate exchange before the withdrawal hiatus is even over.

The bigger issue is the funding costs across exchanges, but the fact that it goes down between events signals that arb-neutral differential is lower than during the event-driven spikes he points out.
You can't make people like you, but you can be a likeable person, the way that you do that is to serve people. Help them better themselves and in the process you better yourself. You learn valuable skills like patients and empathy both go a long way and people see them in your actions. When people know you are a genuinely good person not acting in self interests they are more likely to genuinely like you both on and off line. The original poster is right, the quest for karma or any other recognition is a self serving quest, the fruits of which are always tasteless and unrewarding because they are a quest for acceptance hidden behind a trinket. Once you receive the trinket the acceptance for that act is gone and you are left in the same state you where before that. It's akin to a drug and it can become addictive, because it is not permanent, the high of momentary acceptance fades and you are back on the treadmill. Now if you contrast this with genuinely improving someone's life then every time you see the person you have helped in a better state you see the trophies of your accomplishments and is far more rewarding.
This is one thing about GaTech that really annoys me. Every professor seems to remove thier notes at the end of every semester and only post them when the content becomes relevent to the course. You cant look ahead and cant reference them afterwards.
California sends a cease and desist order to the Bitcoin Foundation
Calling Democrats "the left" is an interesting oddity for everybody outside the US. In most other countries the mainstream political spectrum of the US would go from right (Democrats) to far right (Republicans).
How is it? Linux has 4.3 support (with Nvidia drivers).
The Father Revealed in the Son

25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
The intention of the city is not to push its citizens to use Linux. They just want you to install Linux instead of disposing your old PC because it's not capable of running a newer version of Windows than XP.

Sources (German):

- Original motion: http://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII2/RII/DOK/ANTRAG/2927956.pdf

- News article: http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Muenchen-will-Windows-Ausst...
living legend!
I forgot to mention that just installing ruby is a HUGE PITA on anything but the most common OSes. It took me 3h last week to get it on a CentOS installed. And I don't even want to try to get it running on our Solaris hosts...

Point is: Python is the number one scripting language (after bash) for sysadmins just like Perl used to be.
He has always communicated his own point of view, which I think is fine, even as a reporter. But in the past I feel he has spun yarns and made connections that don't exist for sake of a story and his point of view. That does bug me.
or emojis, that would be cool!
Preference deals only really matter in marginal electorates in close elections.

In Australia seats are laid out by a politically neutral Electoral Commission. There's no gerrymandering, so seats can and do have a varying distribution of "safeness" for each of the major parties.

In a safe seat, the necessity for preference deals is greatly diminished.

Only in marginal seats do preference deals count, and only when the nationwide margin of preference is sufficiently close that a few seats will decide the election.

The upcoming election is absolutely not shaping up that way. On current figures, the Labor Party are going to be thumped very hard; potentially the worst drubbing in Federal election history. The Liberal-National coalition have somewhere between zero and zilch requirement to kiss up to minor and microparties.
Well, yes...... I know that now. But my initial reading did not catch that. Hence the confusion.
while I like the sentiment, I don't think Carter's framing of the issue will be successful.

right now the issue is framed as: sacrifice liberties = being 'tough on terrorists'.

what's needed is some rhetorical jiu-jitsu.

frame it as follows

Non pants wetter = I'm not afraid of terrorists and to the extent I am afraid, I'll overcome my fears and take the risk of a terrorist attack to preserve our great american traditions.

Pants wetters = everyone who's so afraid of terrorists that they'd sell out what it means to be american
Is there an epub available?
Please, please, never do this.

Programming like this in SQL is a maintainability nightmare. Can you even imagine how difficult it would be to modify this to add in new features? I've worked on projects where people have done 'clever' tricks like this, and it always ends in terrible awful terrible. The SQL itself is also non-portable which makes it even worse.

Follow the advice of Justin in the comments there and rather denormalize - which basically means caching the results of deep tree queries at the top level where they can be easily and simply understood.

EDIT: If you don't like the idea of denormalizing, another simple alternative is to create a separate lookup table/model which you can use to easily map back the items to the correct parent.
Except I don't seek to use force to impose my will. You're suggesting that this is the only acceptable means by which to make change happen. I think that Bitcoin itself demonstrates that this is not the case. We can have a currency that does not rely on the State's bureaucracy. This is, of course, a great to some interests, which is all the more reason to see to it that those interests are defeated (imo) in favour of a free digital economy.
That they are populist I would tend to agree. Having voted in both the UK and Australia, I've concluded that compulsory voting in Australia leads to a type of popularity contest, and that the so called informal vote is viewed as either one of an error, a wasted opportunity for democratic engagement, or an act of stupidity. Certainly when counting votes, the informal votes are discarded as merit less.

In the UK the election turnout percentage is just as important a metric for measuring overall confidence in the political process as the proportion of votes gained for the candidates. Another dimension to voter attitude which is lost in the compulsory system I believe. As it shows a general vote of confidence, the entire political class is highly observant of it.
I love this idea! I don't read very much fiction because it's hard to find something worth the time investment. This model would enable me to find and buy fiction books I'm interested in.
It's hard to find an O/S w/o python these days. In the env. I work in we don't have ruby at all installed (Solaris, CentOS, BSD, Windows).
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How does one get a fair trial in any nation with a free press and freedom of speech then?

If the jury has been tampered with, it has been by the incessant media coverage, which is permitted by the wide-ranging protections on the press, protections which Snowden is fighting for along with the rest of our Bill of Rights, no?
I suspect that a trial that would result in Snowden being found not guilty is nearly impossible--given anything like competence in the prosecution team. But is a fair trial supposed to be like a fair coin, with an even chance either way?

Note that I am not saying anything with regard to rights and wrongs, merely about laws.

[Edit: changed "found guilty" to "found not guilty". Thanks.]
We're talking about a country which dropped two nuclear warheads on civilian areas. It's a shame and a delusion to even think that the US even once were a symbol of "moral leadership" with "consideration for human life".
Edit: I know this sounds like a cliché and a simplistic point of view, but I think it's quite interesting to look at the US history with this in mind.
This is huge for student rights. They loudly announced a strict scrutiny standard on all due process claims. No longer can a university simply claim it's policy is constitutional on vague public interest arguments. It has to put out the data and prove it. For race based admissions this might be a wash, but for students accused of misconduct this is a huge boon that they will get due process.
I have to say, that last bit about not getting paid to write this comment on HN made me wonder what percentage of comments on HN are paid for. I never thought about it; I guess if asked I would have guessed 0%, but you never know...
The CDs may be free to the recipients, but they were not zero cost. The money to procure them came from somewhere.
Yes, most of my stuff is kept in sync with git. But there are many things I want to keep in sync that I don't want to check into git. I'd rather they just sync automatically without intervention from me.
No, because it would still have extremely limited network effects.

I don't blame you or what you are trying to do, it is the nature of the beast. Introducing a new programming environment is hard enough when it is free, it is nearly impossible when it isn't.
How can ECC be fast enough in Javascript? Anyone tried this or am I first?
Quick Start Guide to Setting Up Octopress From Tumblr
Why the defamatory article? Journo's can't have opinions because the Washington post decided so yesterday? On the flipside, why should we trust the wash-post since they clearly have an agenda too?
Have you tried Googling salt stack? I've had zero problems finding tutorials and documentation.
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I'm not saying no one has broken the law or regulation. I'm saying that's what the regulation describes as "national security information".
Interesting how the US equates her own jurisdiction with 'the law.'

During the HK debacle they made this statement:

> If Hong Kong doesn't act soon, it will complicate our bilateral relations and raise questions about Hong Kong's commitment to the rule of law.

And again regarding Russia:

> I would urge them to live by the standards of the law because that is in the interest of everybody.

Universal jurisdiction is a difficult policy to enforce since it can be challenged so plainly and directly by other state actors, especially if it's enforced selectively based on diplomatic convenience.
Not to mention reduction in costs for local and national government if people can fill in forms online as opposed to paper or going to an office...
Is Scratch being used at Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, FourSquare, Simple, and many others?
> "But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim."

> "Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking [...] but they do have to be deeply interesting."

I understand that many people here share your pessimism and this NSA business is surely getting tiresome for them.

It might be I'm just more naive and personally invested in this widescale spying thing because privacy on the internet is something I've always deepely cared about. But that's why, until this thing is sorted out (if at all, I have no idea how), all this wonderful technical stuff that's usually discussed here appears somehow less important in the lights of recent events (to me).

Edit: That doesn't mean that we should flood Hacker News with links to unreliable tabloid articles and force out the technical content entirely, of course. There has to be a middle ground.
I'm glad many Americans are beginning to discover this for the first time, but for many of us, this is old news. I mean, the entire nation (USA) is built upon the bodies of the Natives who's land was stolen or coerced from them and then built by enslaved peoples stolen from Africa (as the Marley song goes). The story of post-"discovery" North-America is the volition of human rights - this is nothing new. And granted, the situation is much better than it was in the 1700s/1800s. A little context goes a long way in terms of talking about anything from foreign intervention to NSA spying.
Ask HN: Help create a new word: Solusify
We've all done it. One post on HackerNews and suddenly we begin to question everything we know about programming. You dive through benchmarks, bug lists, mailing lists, etc. and four hours later you realize you are on step 8 of a tutorial for some new framework you think will solve all your problems.

I humbly propose a new word specific to this issue:

Solusify (n.) The act of spending more time researching and learning new tools than actually using them in production or solving problems.

e.g."Stop solusifying your nomenclature and get back to solving real problems!"