skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it used to be recommended that applications accept ; to separate query string parameters so that if a url containing query string parameters was double-html-escaped for some reason...

e.g. a link to

http://example.com/?colour=blue&age=old

with link text

balloon

should appear in html as

<a href="http://example.com/?colour=blue&amp;age=old">balloon</a>

but might erroneously appear as

<a href="http://example.com/?colour=blue&amp;amp;age=old">balloon</a>

...or if a (simple) client neglected to html-decode the uri for some reason, then the link would still work.

Whether this was officially recommended or was merely a folk recommendation, I don't know.
git push. no no rather tag and checkout/sync etc
Nice goalpost-shift there. I never claimed that it was.
Thanks. The controls for this used to be different (I think it was previously command-option-volume), and I had just assumed that they had removed this.
Price based on the value you provide to your clients and customers rather than the effort you put in. Understanding the value you're providing (whether its in consulting, products, or as a salaried employee) is the key to getting other people to agree that you're doing a great job.
The classes are useless fluff. The topics themselves are interesting, but at least for me, academic rigor is so lacking that I'm bored to tears. It's been suggested to me by someone who knows me that it's not easy for everyone like it is for me, and that's it's just because I'm smart that I'm bored. While this hadn't occurred to me until she suggested it, I suppose it could be partially the case, but I suspect the perceived easiness (as well as the actual relative easiness) of the average liberal arts degree does a lot to influence the type of student who chooses to pursue it.

Interestingly, a lot of the people you'd revere and read and study in an English class are people who had no formal English training whatsoever, or maybe high school level at best. It's only in recent years that colleges have managed to spread the myth that you can't have really learned something if you didn't pay $100,000 to do it. To me, it's just silly.
We are going to make the core Wolfram Language available as a cloud computation type platform in the near future. The main idea is that anybody should be able to run Wolfram Language code using their browser as a frontend, without necessarily having a license.

Specifically, I would be very surprised if small programs are not free for anyone to run, and if we don't offer some free tier (X minutes of kernel time a month).

Really, we have a strong interest in making WL ubiquitous for doing algorithmic and knowledge-based work. That does certainly mean opening it up more, though as some other people have pointed out, that is probably not going to take the form of open-sourcing the kernel [at least, not until we have different revenue streams in place].
Basic Income has been a hot topic in Germany for years, and while it is radical, I still think it's worth a try. It completely shifts the labor market, and has the potential to raise average life quality tremendously.
English major to a master's in psychology to self-trained programmer, see the pattern?

I was interested in all three, but programming was the only one that grabbed me in a wow, I really want to dive into this world, kind of way.
Python's urllib and urlparse make this trivial. urllib.urlencode / urllib.urldecode and urlparse.urlparse
I'm going to integrate this server into my project..
The Biggest Reason Most Sales Campaigns Don’t Close
Never heard of spaceball.gif?
"Jorge, though, first in his family to get to college, might just take it seriously, and wind up somewhere ugly with too much debt, four years gone, and a piece of paper that nobody wants."

This exactly. This sort of lie about college--that it doesn't matter what the cost is--is perpetuated by meaningless and empty platitudes. Unlike many others of the kind, however, it has the potential to permanently destroy a young person's life. High school guidance counselors whose parents paid for their education still continue to advise kids without any parental support that they should spend as much money as possible to get the "best" education they can afford. It's cruelty of the highest form: apathy towards those from lesser circumstances than you.
Have the same thing (as detailed in my other post to this parent) and i also suffer from Tinnitus. Interesting that some people on HN seem to have the same issues, even if its just for the "i am not alone with this" feeling. You kind of loose faith in yourself if nobody around you, not even the doctors, has ever heard of what you try to explain.
meaning == romance ??
When I read own code that is older than a month or so I'm annoyed because that code should have been a lot better from my current perspective.

If this feeling ever stops it means I've stopped learning and stopped personal progress. I'll stop coding that day.

Thankfully it didn't go away for the last 30 years I was programming, so it will probably stay with me a little longer.
Is Facebook becoming Tencent like?
Snowden didn't circumvent anything, because he hasn't released anything. Snowden has made a lot of grandiose claims which he can't actually back up, because beyond a few slides and some very common knowledge stuff (NSA hacking China) which he could've outright made up he hasn't been able to show he could do any of the stuff he claims.

If you were aware of any notable hacking incidents in China, and could claim to have privileged knowledge, then it's easy to say the NSA were behind whatever you want (just in this case, obviously the NSAs mission would imply it attempts hacking of foreign networks).

PRISM is disclosed via a powerpoint presentation. Presentation as in, a thing you tend to show to a large audience. Its highly likely he was simply given a copy of it after being shown it, since good internal education and knowledge sharing is a pretty core concept to running a successful enterprise.
Exactly. I think the article here is laboring under a hugely faulty implied methodology for the way human beings work. We aren't robots. We aren't going to read something, even something we agree very strongly with, and then suddenly change everything about our entire lives.

Human behavior is more often a matter of degrees and shades. It typically takes a while for things to sink in, and it typically takes a while for people to actually implement ideas they think are good.

What that means is that it's not just a simple binary matter of people reading something that should have an impact on behavior and then either it impacting their behavior a lot or not at all.

And that's true of everything, from political beliefs to personal beliefs and ideology to personal and professional behavior.
I have met a LOT of people who thought that their degree in English, psychology, art history, and the like was going to get them a $60,000/year job fresh out of school. Heck, even some of the artists I know expected to be able to pay off their $80,000 in student loans with their art degree.

Now they sit around their parents house whenever they're not at their part time retail job and complain about how "the economy" screwed them over.
Maybe NYC has changed? My only visit was in 2009, but I found them to not be particularly unfriendly. I think you might be right about the bluntness, and as you say bluntness and friendliness aren't in opposition.

I was eager to get there since "at last, I can talk to someone at normal speed!"... but they still didn't talk fast enough. They could understand me at normal pace though, so that was enough :)
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Darn it.. Too many interesting things to do. I really need to lose the day job.
Declining to answer is a sure giveaway of the answer in an open hearing ;) I suspect there's a number of situations where lying to Congress is not a crime. The "Gang of 8" and the "Gang of 4" are almost always aware of the truth, usually the entire intelligence committees. Members of Congress are not automatically trusted with the deepest national secrets just because they are elected.
Just installed and ran their server - there's a demo site built in. Looks neat, but I'm not sure how secure it is. Saw a demo of their qr code-reading mobile auth app earlier this year that looked interesting.
Jeremy Rifkin - 1995 - The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era

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

In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminated tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He predicted devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers would reap the benefits of the high-tech world economy, the American middle class would continue to shrink and the workplace become ever more stressful.

As the market economy and public sector decline, Rifkin predicted the growth of a third sector—voluntary and community-based service organizations—that would create new jobs with government support to rebuild decaying neighborhoods and provide social services. To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers.

--------------

Jeremy Rifkin - 2005

http://www.foet.org/press/interviews/Spiegel-%20August%203%2...

European politicians often like to blame outsourcing for the disappearance of jobs. But
in reality the work isn't going to the Chinese --it's going to the robots.
XBox One's uturn on content delivery
> What? Why not develop a Mathematica alternative?

Or "adopt" one of the existing open source projects developed as Mathematica alternatives.
> What a physicist once told me is that the range of frequencies that are visible to humans and animals correlates very well to the frequency range under which water is transparent.

I always thought that it was related to the spectrum of sunlight.
There should be a comma there: "really, really"
I've been living on the Eastside for almost half a year now, and I find people in the area extremely friendly. Also in Seattle.

I guess it's a matter of what we're comparing to. Compared to most southern Brazilian people, Seattleites are very, very friendly.
"My messages have become shorter and more direct". This is a good thing. Not everyone can or should be a Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Faulkner. It seems to me the way you've written this post is not so bad. All you have to do to make it a real, long-form essay, book, or series, is to collect your thoughts, organize, and be unafraid to edit (or pay someone to edit for you).
Completely dominated by open source projects.

This helps my theory that when you release open source code, you are improving the baseline technology for the entire world.
I had a friend in Charlotte show me the panelling on his house - you could remove it with your hands (he pushed it right in with a mild press), pick out the insulation, and punch through the plasterboard inside. I've never before been in a house where you could break through a wall with your bare hands.
In central and eastern Europe (I mean outside France, Germany, UK) beef tastes like shit, no matter how the steak is prepared, unless you're happy to end up in a place with "american (style) steaks" (that are usually made from beef imported from UK or USA) or good French cuisine. It's basically a whole different animal, not a metaphor: the cattle are never the famous and tasty american Back Angus or anything similar, their meat has a totally different texture and flavor, and by different I mean horrible (usually... I'm sure a French cook can make a dead rotten rat taste divine with all those marinading and sauces, but that's a different story...).

...now about lamb and pork steaks, it's different story, but beef steak in any "non beef loving country" is always crap.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907999
I once asked a Scot if they had any wooden houses back in his homeland. He replied "Yes, we keep our lawnmowers in them"...
How does Frotz deal with the "no interpreters" rule in App Store?
The problem is that if they didn't fill it with self-aggrandizing gibberish, people would easily understand what they mean, and then go: wait, didn't so-and-so write about this already?

Science still has legitimate frontiers. English, in many instances, does not.
How on earth is that in any way credible? Most of the article is predicate on exacting details from a supposed GRU report that is never shown and doesn't seem to exist anywhere else aside from regurgitation from whatdoesitmean.com.

If he was travelling to the Israeli Consulate, he should have turned west at Santa Monica / Highland and stayed there most of the way. Instead he was traveling perpendicular by going south on Highland (spotted on the dashcam at Santa Monica / Highland and crashed south of Melrose / Highland). Roadwise, that takes him further away from the consulate, not closer. Even as an alternate route, he should have taken Sunset, which still would have meant going north or west from that point instead of south.

I also like how the article is so resolute on how there is no impact damage and how it had to have been hit by a drone / missile when the video and eyewitnesses say otherwise.

I liked his work and am sad that he is gone, but how is a drone strike more plausible than him possibly falling off the wagon and drunkenly crashing his car, which by his own admission, he's done before?
In Soviet Russia, newspaper reads you!

(In Capitalist America, newspaper profitably sells many copies of you and goes on to a healthy IPO).

((In Strossian America, sentient uploaded newspapers rove the clouds. They hunt in packs)).
I've always wondered why people would use Bitcoin to launder money. I mean, in a "real" investigation on the fact, Bitcoin's blocktree serves as an infalsifiable ledger that can trivially be analysed by a computer. Would make laundering harder, not easier in my opinion.
So this is you being one of those Americans who thinks America is the center of everyone's world. Putin, doesn't broadcast on American networks, in America, because they're American.

What do you think happens in Russia?
Interesting. The web site really makes it sound otherwise:[1]

Then any changes you make to its folder will
automatically be committed to git, and synced to
repositories on other computers.

Nevertheless, I checked it out myself and you are indeed correct.

I guess that means I'm out of legitimate excuses? :P

[1] - http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/quickstart/
I think it is mostly wonderful. In the part of the third world my parents are from unless your family is independently wealthy then you simply won't be able to afford to go to college and thus are destined to (at best) have some very low-paying menial labor job.

Contrast this with the US, you can get federally-backed, low-interest loans, go to school majoring in engineering and move from poverty to middle class in one generation.

Pretty sweet deal, imo.
It is just education. It is hard to argue that going through the course is not making you a better programmer or that knowing someone did is not a strong signal they can implement complex requirements.
What code does one have to show for college. That is not the point. I think the author just realized he either doesnt need to send that strong a signal thtough pure education (maybe his work allows him todo it cheaper) or the course is too hard for him(again not an insult I think I would feel the same)
Depends where you are in Oz. In Melbourne, you don't have bar brawls. There is some violence late at night outside the nightclubs when they close, but the 'bar brawl' is largely myth here.
"The progression of the English major is that typically you go from thinking you're a hotshot writer to understanding that you are a bag of presuppositions and ill considered narratives... A well trained English major is the first to point out that their precious interpretation is probably not correct"

In other words, humility. You learn it in science and engineering, too. It's hard to get through rigorous training in those fields without grappling with your own limits. You can't fake it. In computer science, the computer lets you know when you've failed. In science, the data tells you when you're wrong, and, failing that, there's peer review. In math, you have proofs. Any endeavor that is empirical and data-driven exposes nonsense efficiently and ruthlessly.
> "The opportunity to own the place where people go for long-form reading is a very large opportunity, especially for advertising," said Josh Elman

Is this an admittance that their current advertising offerings don't generate as much revenue as desired?
I fail to understand how people accept that, especially the last part. That's basically taking away their right to defend themselves and their families. That kind of law favors and protects the bad guys - what's the point in that?
Pretty sure he would have found a way even without these advantages. Might have taken a longer time, might have been a pretty ugly show, but once the conviction the hardest part was over.
that's part of it, but there is also an increased emphasis on intent away from skill, and 'craftsmanship' has practically become a bad word. On the other hand, this unfortunate turn has made places like the American Visionary Art Museum (which celebrates "idiosyncratic skill") really interesting.
Sounds like they was raided for having stolen OEM parts or likely something else illegal. Apple isn't a government body, they don't have licenses. There are a few reasons a business can be raided, taxes (and Miami clubs were notorious for not paying them) is damn near the #1 reason.
The difference between compsci and english is that if your prose is not clear in the latter, you'll still get an A (or even get an A because of the lack of clarity), whereas your code will not work in the former if it's muddled to the point of obscurity and non-functionality.
I am able to accept that there might be wolves in woods but not that I will be robed on street.

Some typos are too good to pass up.
Weather - always sunny. I think OP spending too much time in the SF Bay Area. Bay Area is among a few places in the world that has the best weather year round.
4chan could destroy popular tech blogs and fora. The main difference is that the people in the government have more pubes and slightly less porn.

They're both gangs of people who have personal motivations but a mob mentality.
Coming up with research ideas
Haha, this. Exactly what I was thinking when reading the article.
Show HN: App to upload and share photos from your own server
Wouldn't it be easier to contribute those changes to Unison instead of starting over?
I read more books before I started college than most of my liberal arts college graduated friends have read in their entire lives.

Some of them still haven't read Orwell.
A Pianist’s A–V, by Alfred Brendel
:) It dissipates after a while and some of it turns into liquid so if done properly you should get the "liquid amount" ordered up to the little needle mark on the glass. A different culture.
Here in the UK I always get an ale that spills on my fingers when I carry it as it is 100% full...
Nice idea. As I'm living in Europe I'm not so interested in American prices, eventually you want to expand it to € as well... Sometime...

And please round your prices to max of two decimals.

Nice work!
Basic income could pay for itself with the things created by people who are doing what they want, as a result of losing their fear of falling below a basic level of living.
>Sorry, buying illicit drugs is a crime in this country, seizure of assets and materials used in the transaction is part of that.

This assumes that you accept the premise that a government should be able to steal property, simply because it doesn't like certain kinds of transactions.
We're acutely aware of this. It's always a challenge to onboard users to a tool this broad and deep.

Refactoring our documentation a bit for M10 will help, the predictive interface in M9 helps, and there are some cool "code hint" ideas that are coming in M10 that will hopefully make it easier to keep learning.

We'll also soon be launching a community site to make it easy to discuss functionality, seek answers, and share code. For now, http://mathematica.stackexchange.com is a good resource.

We're also working on getting some materials about the Wolfram Language that should make it easier for people with existing programming experience to grok what is unique and different about WL, and how they might go about learning it.

Probably the best resource remains the existing Mathematica documentation. It is vast -- containing for example more than 100,000 evaluatable code snippets that demonstrate each function being used in multiple ways.

It is available online (http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...) as well as in-product (double-click function you want to know about, then press F1 or Cmd+Shift+F). Following hyperlinks from familiar territory can get you a long way.

It's quite easy to get lost in it, of course, so here's a short list of "bread and butter" functions that I think every WL programmer should know really well: https://gist.github.com/taliesinb/5848321

Lastly, here is an eclectic mix of guides that might serve as good 'anchors' for some documentation spelunking:

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/LanguageOverv...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/RulesAndPatte...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Patterns.html

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/StringPattern...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/BlocksAndL...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/LevelsInEx...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/ApplyingFu...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/Manipulati...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/Introducti...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/SymbolicGraph...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/Compile/tutorial/Ov...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/GraphsAndNetw...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/MatricesAndLi...
You can always opt to drink only Mexican beers there. Last time I was in the US, some of these beers were up to the level of European beer quality, some better, some worse, but in the same league.
Dunno. They feel like pretty big changes to me. I imagine it'd have to be completely gutted since the entire protocol would have to change.

Plus, I am not fond at all of its interface/configuration. Very complex.
> Maybe NYC has changed?

I dunno; the first time I visited NYC was in 1989, the last time a few years ago. Details always vary of course, but the general vibe always seemed pretty much the same to me.

[By reputation, the 1970s were sort of a low point for NYC in general, but I don't know how that was reflected in peoples' behavior...]
In the future, even this small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers (to which I belong) may not be needed either, as computers will become self-deterministic.

What will be the real long-term solution when the value of a person to society can no longer even be roughly approximated by his income?