skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixed the title!

There should probably be a bandwidth or connection cap, but I'm reticent to set one before I know what typical usage looks like. I would only want to set one up to prevent abuse of the service.
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Access to the source code is not a precondition to understanding how software works. It certainly helps, but it's not a requirement.

If anyone believes that, they're effectively saying that it is absolutely impossible for a human to program in machine code. Which is obviously false.
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Also perhaps "porn addiction" is a good argument in a divorce case?
Is this majority you conjecture educated in (or even vaguely aware of) the subject matter? Why should their cynical assumptions be viewed as what-should-be?

I get that importance is subjective. That being the case, why would you choose to support your own opinions by appealing to the cloudy ignorance of the majority?

My opinion: some tides suck and should be swam against. Sometimes it takes an uncomfortable amount of effort to avoid drowning.
as will "domestic partnership"
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...and make sure your HR department is up to speed with the new rules. Hopefully this will make HR admin simpler, since everyone will now be subject to the same set of rules.
This would absolutely not make the IRS happy.
I have not said it's awesome, I just said it is decentralized :)

How will your system cope with the augmentation of transactions? I see you use a consensus based system like Bitcoin, and these tend to take more and more time to converge when the number of transactions gets bigger.
With all due respect to your "rare birds" analogy, donate to your local symphony if you truly support it. Don't just talk about it and don't make me pay for it. I have my own entertainment I value and I would prefer my money go to support that instead of your own personal preferences.
I just hope the desktop versions don't go away.
I don't watch much sports :(

Looks like Jordan was MVP in 95-96

the main character of the movie Thomas Ian Nicholas who played Henry Rowengartner - neither of which show up in the 95-96 season roster

The rookie of the year for the NBA in general was Damon Stoudamire from the Toronto Raptors; I can't find who the Bulls thought their "rookie of the year" was specifically though...

(yes, i saw it was a "sql query" but i thought there was more to it; like try to find out who the actual rookie of the year was for the bulls)

or... am i over analyzing this?
> (And, no, rereading 1984 doesn't count.)

I think (re-)reading 1984 probably counts a lot more than reading a great amount of business/self-help books.
I would say (d). A friend of mine was on a plane next to someone (I think in Deerhunter) and she was talking to him about his salary oddly. I remember it being around 80k but he wasn't working 50-60 hours a week. I think someone at that level is closer to 25-40 hours.
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Invariably when you hear about a "war on Christianity" in first world countries, the topic is a manufactured non-issue. It never stops, and logic plays no part in it.
Yes, this is the second fundraiser for JSGIT development (the first was http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creationix/js-git). See also http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creationix/js-git/posts/... and its comments
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I'm in the exact same position, except I'm waiting for results to come out this week to officially confirm that I've failed my degree.
It's unfair to think that I've only started getting all interested in computer stuff right after my final exams. Before that, my best effort was pulling allnighters and scraping middle-marks in everything. My morale was super low until I decided to shift my procrastination from the Daily Mail to places like this. I then started to read articles on how to be happy and how to be self-sufficient and blah blah, and amazingly I feel quite encouraged by it. I then reached the milestone of "Mebbe programming isn't so bad after all" and now I'm looking at Ruby4Kids.
I know your level's not as low as this, but I think it really helps to stop thinking about the future and just take baby steps in any direction you feel like doing. I'm not even bothering to fill in graduate job application forms because of the stupid computer-filtering thing that guarantees of my rejection anyway, but my 'plan' for the future is just keep crawling with my 'self-education' and keep eyes and ears open for ANY opportunities. As crap as the situation looks like now, I don't believe at all that I'm ungifted and because I'm not like the others chasing grades and stuff [tries to look smug] I think I've got qualities that most others don't. And failures aren't bad at all, in fact it can be a USP.

And don't think of the future too much! Opportunities are always everywhere, guaranteed :)
(now need to repeat all this to myself)
They're betting the dev tools farm on Brackets, an open-source editor written in JS. To enable it to run on ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, or iOS, they need to have a better cloud filesystem story. Since git is the de facto format for sharing code across machines, they want to integrate git into Brackets. Then, you'd be able to write code on a device that doesn't have a traditional filesystem, locally caching changed resources and offloading the data persistence aspect to a service like BitBucket or GitHub.
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They make more from Pandora than they ever did from radio... and their music accesses a larger audience.
iOS 7 was clearly designed to show off what’s possible in 2013.

I absolutely agree with this point.

And, while I disagree with the post's main thesis — I believe the changes were in no way directed towards the web — it's a pretty entertaining take on the updates, OP.
Is it truly "working with" if they compel him to speak though? ;)
That's exactly the point. Sometimes breaking a persons ribs is a good thing. The medical argument I made was just meant as an example of a positive use of porn. There are surely others, such as in sexual dysfunction therapies, and perhaps in spicing up intimate relations within long term relationships. It's just not a black and white situation where porn should clearly be cast as a societal evil.

My goal was to illustrate at least one uncontroversial use of porn that was positive. Someone willing to concede this point must then think more carefully about which uses of porn are positive and which are negative rather than dismissing them all as inherently negative.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you claiming that what's stopping the average artist from selling as many records as Justin Timberlake is collusion among the major record labels?
Wish it described how it quantified fame. Looking at Texas and seeing "Dr. Pepper" instead of "ExxonMobil". Second rate soft drink brand trumps one of the top ten companies in the entire world in market cap and revenue? I realize it may not be easy to quantify fame, but it makes all the other choices suspect.
Secret courts, secret judges, secret police, secret torture, secret wars...

These acts are not what one would expect of a nation which was once the bastion of freedom for all the world, and I agree that the US & UK have been acting hypocritical for far too long now.

Can the "American Dream" survive the current state of affairs?
Not much has been made of the fact that skips count as plays... I wonder what proportion of plays are skips.

Does anyone have information on what a radio station pays for one play of a song, when they have an audience of, say, 100,000?

Edit: ah, I should have finished reading the original link, they make the latter point well.
> "If cognitive skills became less valuable in the labor market, wouldn’t one expect wages to fall more for college graduates than for others?"

Apparent stagnation could also occur if a small proportion of graduates are become significantly overvalued for non-cognitive skills while a majority experience wage stagnation or decline.
This article is proof to me exactly what Google has been pioneering I feel.

I remember reading that when Google launched fiber, it wasn't looking to become a provider, but more so to push the industry due to the US being behind in speed. If more areas have faster speeds and are affordable, then products like Google Drive and YouTube (4K HD videos) will thrive. Basically, Google is hedging it's future, by pushing the industry.
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I hate this answer, and it crops up in many places in this discussion and on SO/SE. What you are basically saying is "it's their game and you can follow these rules or go away". Sure, it's their game... and it's a shame many of the best players hang around their playground, otherwise I would depart in a split second. And the moment another alternative shows up, I will. Until then I will just take what I can and give back... well, less than I would if the rules were more sensible. And I will whine. :)

Disclosure: they have closed a few of my answers that I actually went to some length to make good - but apparently "which library" type of questions are not appropriate for a programming Q&A site?!? Go figure.
I thought that stood for "Hillary Rodham Clinton" at first, and thought they were being a bit presumptuous there!

(I know she's a supporter of gay rights, but it would be a big leap to translate that into rainbows showing on her google results page)
Where do you live? There's a lot of "digital agency" type work that is good for someone with ADHD. But it's all in LA or NYC.

edit: also there's always QA
I thought about it but decided that it would be too much effort and too costly for just a hobby of mine.

So I contacted the german Pirate Party about the issue. (About that and german air space maps which, too, are not freely accessible while being produced with tax money).

I assumed this issue would be a great fit for the PP's agenda. But I guess they have more important things to do (like wasting time with arguing about childish bullshit).
the title is misleading then.

edit:

birth of reddit the idea started with pg, etc.

birth of reddit the company started with alexis, etc.

imo conception starts with the idea.
The majority of people are sharing more about themselves online. Not less.

So it matters even more. People need to be educated.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/115365194873502050036/posts/XXT7...
Not if the price ceiling were selectively enforced against only one type of radio station. In your analogy this would be the e-commerce company has to buy twinkies from their supplier at 8x the price everyone else pays by government mandate.
Yeah, I have to agree. I get the GP's point, that 1984 is the polemic pamphlet for anti-authoritarians...but it's a fine piece of literature on its own ground, one that I've always found new insight or a previously unnoticed turn of phrase on each reading.

However, if you're tired of 1984 but are still on an Orwell kick, his non-fiction is equally fantastic.
Well, the democratic options are limited. Aside from calling your representatives in congress and encouraging everyone you know to do the same.

The electorate is uninformed and easily manipulated. Bias in the news media is generally to support the status quo and not rock the boat. Lively debate occurs mostly for easily understood and emotional issues. Covering complex issues with complex answers is not a winning strategy for aggressive ad revenue goals.

With an uninformed and easily manipulated electorate, elections are largely influenced by money. Corporations and wealthy people contribute the most money to election campaigns, and therefore have a significant amount of influence over policy decisions and positions. Gerrymandering is also a huge problem and further reduces the amount of debate and competition during elections.

Lawrence Lessig (through rootstrikers.org) is a pioneer in raising awareness on how damaging the above situation is to a healthy functioning democracy. Awareness is the best thing we can do to improve the situation. If you're interested, check out this TED Talk that Lessig did: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
Or it could be encrypted by a random key with high entropy, that Apple does not have, because it is encrypted by a key derived from your password. See, for example, LUKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup
Not sure if this is verbatim, but one of my favourite quotes is a Carmack quote:

"If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of cpitalization. you need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your regrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it."
Calls incoming to my Google Voice number already ring in Hangouts for me - I actually use that any time I have to do phone conferencing now, since I can just use my computer headset rather than futzing with a phone headset.
No sane man is threatened by feminism?

So when feminists pass bills that implement mandatory arrest policies for the male in any domestic violence calls.... a man would have to be insane to be threatened by that?

Or when a feminist twists the definition of rape so that over 1 million male victims of rape are ignored every single year (which then allows them to come to some nice fancy conclusiosn like "95% of all rape victims are female")... I'm insane for being threatened by that too?

And then we have NoW, the biggest feminist organization in the entire world... I must clearly be insane to be opposed to the fact that they constantly rally against any group or bill that tried to remove the bias from custody trials (in which mothers get custody 90+% of the time).

And this is only scratching the surface...

I suggest you stop being so ignorant of the many legitimate reasons why people have a problem with feminism.
The NSA is wholesale collecting data and later using a secret court to authorize them to query their own databases [1]. PRISM is not just an interface. It is officially known as SIGAD US-984XN which means it intercepts and collects electronic communications.

[1] Bamford, Binney and the ACLU at Defcon 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIz-RNUL1g
I always thought it was ironic that 1984 is pretty much standard required reading in US public (government-funded) high schools.
At a certain level (500 I think) you can downvote comments. No one can downvote submissions though. There is some evidence that your score affects how quickly your comments "sink" on a discussion page, but they never disappear or anything.
It's nice in remote desktop. When you aren't in full screen mode it was annoyingly difficult to get the mouse exactly on the single-pixel-or-two hot corner.
I was wondering why I would want to upgrade from 2012 because windows 8.1 isn't it. Now I know.
It'd be nice if they supported TLS 1.1, the CBC ciphers are not supposed to be vulnerable there and they could drop RC4. TBH I wouldn't use RC4 at all these days...

Unfortunately Firefox doesn't yet have TLS 1.1 enabled (apparently you can manually enable it in about:config in recent versions), but Chromium does.

TLS 1.2 would also give them GCM, but AFAICT the only browser that supports that on Linux is Konqueror.
What's your genius?
I decided to shift my procrastination from the Daily Mail to places like this

Careful, HN is drug to many of us coders, proof is in the account settings with the maxvistis and mintimeaway settings.
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*Not official legal advice:

Registering the trademark probably gets you nowhere with this. You still have to gain popularity with the brand etc. and the mark has to be known to consumers etc. A lot of things go into making a trademark protectable IP and the registry really isn't too high on the list.

In IP, one of the cases we read involved the University of Texas' Longhorns symbol. A small company was using the same exact image (different colors), and the court ended up finding that there was no trademark infringement b/c the Longhorns association w/ the symbol wasn't strong enough (the court relied on surveys of the general population).

Trademarks are one of the weaker areas of IP law. You can't really trademark something that doesn't exist yet. There has to be a strong association between the trademark & your brand etc. & there's several factors to weigh when 1) determining if the trademark exists & 2)determining if they have actually infringed. Also, if it's just a name, it'll most likely be harder to prove a trademark, especially if it is a descriptive name etc.

Oddly, if they're copying the content from the subreddit, and it's your original content, you can probably make a legitimate copyright claim.
> viewing pornography (and relevant compulsion) is a way of maintaining a state of denial regarding their own poor sexual performance.

I think that's a bit off and the answer is far simpler. I have sex regularly with my wife and still consume porn, as do many others. I have a child. I don't think you could describe my sexual performance, which I assume is meant in the evolutionary sense, as poor.

I don't mean to be crass, and this conversation is already pretty much there, but ejaculating is fairly similar to urinating. It fulfills a necessary bodily function of discarding old sperm. All primates do it and if you restrain yourself, your body will do it involuntarily (ie you'll have a wet dream).

Personally, I prefer not to have to change my underwear in the middle of the night, regardless of how pleasant the experience may be.
Is there any sort of catalogue of all publicly available GeoJSON datasets available on Github?
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What about document oriented editing? Forms and word processor kind of functionality?

I'm researching browser development frameworks and languages to develop an XML editor. Editing should work more like Google Docs than CodeMirror, and with rudimentary form support (think key-value metadata, not complex forms).

So far I have settled on using contenteditable, but structural editing of XML in document oriented fashion is still an open question. One user action can result in many XML tree changes, like pushing enter twice inside a paragraph should split it in two (and thus close and create any number of tags). Also, there is no schema to describe XML document's editing workflow. Your post on IDE as a value gave me insight for a possible implementation.

Also, big thank you for LT. I'm enjoying using it immensely.
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No, but before the internet the realm of completely untested novel psychoactive chemicals was confined to certain circles of chemists, academics, psychiatrists, and social commentators/reformers. The first person to test 2C-* series was Shulgin, and only after systematic titration on himself did he ever think of sharing his discoveries. Today it is a little different.

Today, someone can find a lab willing to synthesize a chemical for very cheap with the intention of selling it for a huge profit online. That person then posts on a board such as bluelight or erowid, where the first introduction of its ABUSE is documented. Users of the board are attracted to the novelty of the new substance, and are encouraged by the community to follow the behavior of 'researching and sharing' by acquiring said substance, ingesting, and then relaying back to the board about the experience. They are likely some of the first people in all of history to ingest the substance. If you don't think this is inherently dangerous behavior I don't know what to tell you. I don't think it detracts from their goal of harm reduction, but that element of the community exists and I do think it warrants more scrutiny than immediately dismissing my argument.

If you want to read a well researched book on the phenomenon, pick up Drugs 2.0 by Mike Power. It's on amazon's UK site.
Ah, I guess they are taking another approach than just using JGit... Eclipse Orion (similar to Brackets) services Git support via a service that is powered by JGit (and in theory, can be swapped out in the future): http://eclipse.org/orion/
People can't draw swastikas anymore without invoking political and cultural symbolism. Sometimes groups appropriate symbols in ways that render them cultural signifiers. Seems like a somewhat trivial comment on such an important civil rights issue.
Yes, just like they can draw maple leafs without thinking about Canada. Did red and blue on the American flag ruin the colors for children in the rest of the world?
I don't know about American journalists, but here's a thread worth unraveling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye

With the War on Terror coming home, should Americans expect special treatment?
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You can't do that with public financial statements. When preparing financial statements, there is a process called intracompany balancing, where you pull out any revenue/expenses that were generated within the reporting entity.

If that nonsense was allowed, then every company would show revenues in the billions. The finance department would pay the the HR department for HR services, the marketing department would buy millions with their own company, etc.

It is common for internal accounting books to record these intracompany expenses/revenues for record keeping. For instance a TV Show pays for ads on the same network, but before Disney reports profits publicly all of that accounting cruft must be removed.
Even Opera (12.15, the proper one) has TLS 1.2, and Firefox doesn’t even have 1.1? Why?
How about going back to version numbers so it doesn't matter what year it came out like everyone else?
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I'd rephrase that as ios7 was clearly made to catch up with android 4 and holo, but maybe that's just me.

there's nothing revolutionary in ios7 shown so far. that said, I can't wait for Apple to sue Android over the things they just stole from them.
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It has been shown that monkeys are willing to pay for porn, too (or apes or chimpanzees or something, can't remember the exact differences).
Stallman is under no delusions, he makes concessions all the time. He uses computers in a very extreme manner, finding fault with even all major Linux distros, but does not demand or expect that other do the same. He knows that other people will make practical concessions.

Fucking hell, even of Steam, the popular game distribution and DRM software (which distributes primarily DRM'd closed source games) running on Linux, he says:

“This development can do both harm and good. It might encourage GNU/Linux users to install these games, and it might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with GNU/Linux,” he wrote. “My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm. But there is also an indirect effect: what does the use of these games teach people in our community?”

Would he use Steam? I can assure you not. Even so, he thinks that Steam being on Linux will likely do more good than harm. This is not extremism, this is pragmatism.
Makes sense because tapping into underwater cables seems much more expensive.

"The NSA spent more than 15 years working to develop the technology to tap these cable strands. The Navy has almost finished outfitting the nuclear-powered submarine USS Jimmy Carter with state-of-the-art technology for undersea fiber-optic taps, according to people knowledgeable about it."[0, Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2003]

[0]: http://cryptome.org/nsa-seatap.htm