skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are literally spouting bullshit out of your ass. Insanity? Are you fucking kidding me?

Blow it out your ass pops, you're making shit up.

This kind of flatout lying is even worse than people who pretend drugs have no risks. Making risks up to scare people into agreeing with you is no better.
Maybe I'm the weirdo, but I think that's an extremely useful results page. What are you looking for when you search for "sushi" besides (more likely) nearby sushi restaurants or (less likely) information about what sushi is. The screen real estate seems to reflect those two possibilities in what seems to me to be a sensible proportion.
Not exactly sure what you're asking, but GLSL and OpenCL are for two different domains: GLSL for graphics and OpenCL for calculations that are not intended to show up as graphics.

They both run on the same hardware, but I don't have enough (or really any) experience with OpenCL to say if it feels more or less powerful than GLSL.

Edit: It turns out that I have no OpenCL hardware support (mid 2011 MBA), so I guess the hardware isn't necessarily completely similar (i.e. it can support GLSL and not OpenCL)
Hi bigd. I've only tried the free demo of rosetta stone and it was too short to make me form a useful opinion about it.
Anyway I would prefer free material.
I've been using StartPage.com which another HNer had recommended. I like it better than DDG because it seems faster and it also uses Google's search results instead of Bing's.
Some days ago I saw an ad for DuckDuckGo on 4chan and found it pretty funny. A squirrel was searching for "traps", "clop clop", etc. and the duck anonymized the search.

If the add was really made by the DDG guys they earned some respect from me for having a sense of humor.
"Man, Microsoft has done some bad things in its day, but these days they're just semi-evil -- not evil enough. Where can I go to do some real damage? EA? Activision? Wait, I've got it! Zynga -- the cow-clicking people! It's perfect!"
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Kids should spend have instruction for a while and then pushed out to play for a while. Alternating back and forth, maybe an hour each way. Then we wouldn't have as many fat kids and we wouldn't have so many kids disrupting classrooms. Our children aren't automatons, they need plenty of time to be kids. There is a lot of value in play.
>or just for fun/to get a message in front of the 4chan community ("MODS=FAGS", promoting a board or thread/contest, etc)

I'll buy one for sure
Totally. 4chan really needs to start collecting user data so that they an cozy up to the NSA. It's really hard to get on good terms with them without any data for offer. </sarcasm>
Always been there, always will be. One of the last beacon of a censor-free internet.
Did you also read the part where it said "If she doesn't, I'm afraid she'll miss out on one of the most important rites of passage."

Psychedelics are a tool to be used for self discovery, not some seedy thing only losers use. Maybe you are the one who is blinded by preconceptions here, not him.
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The best way to achieve that noble goal would be to open up their search index (unlimited API access) and build a marketplace around search, just as they have around Android, Youtube and Chrome.

Search has a very long way to go and they can be moving much faster than they currently are.
I'm an /int/ regular. Nothing bad about that. You just have to have a well oiled BS filter :)
First, historically mass education of the type we now employ is only about a century old, and designed to produce factory workers not to promote creativity. Learning to handle monotonous boredom and obey orders was of primary importance to a factory worker.

Second, much of this is unprecedented. When my parents were children, they didn't attend Kindergarten, and first grade was a half day. When my parents younger siblings were children, Kindergarten was a half day. When I was a child, I didn't attend preschool.

In 3 generations we've added more than 2 years of education for every child, and that education is qualitatively quite different, even from what I experienced (Kindergarten 23 years ago)

When I was in kindergarten the majority of the day was playtime, we had 30 minutes of recess, 45 minutes of mostly freeform PE, 30 minutes of naptime, and a few hours of structured playtime (drawing, making crafts etc...).

From friends of mine who are teachers, since no child left behind, all of that has been removed or severely restricted. Recess is now 15 minutes, PE is more structured and not every day, no more naptime, and they don't have time for freeform activities because the curriculum is so dense.

In Kindergarten we spent almost the whole year learning the Alphabet. Now the curriculum assumes that children already know it.

Teachers know this doesn't work, but schools are obsessed with testing and metrics to the determinant of real education.
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That in itself is an example of the spread of a meme.
Google with Adblock does the trick.
If you have a large enough user base built up, cross-promotion from your own apps can work wonders.
I guess Reddit could complain to the DA and press charges under CFAA, but the irony would probably cause the internet to implode.
Reddit users were a humongous part of their visitor-base, though. I don't know of many people outside of Reddit who have heard about them.
Because most likely those schools were in the business of producing zombies, or scared shitless kids due to teacher's punishment techniques. Those days are gone for good unless you are in the third world countries.
I would love to see livememe bring a lawsuit, not because I'm trigger happy but because it sounds like they lost a ton of money which only had one direct cause.
There are three kinds of countries: 1) those that have an extradition treaty with the US, 2) those that don't and are neutral to the US and 3) those that don't and that are enemies of the US

I'd say Russia was type 2b: a country which is basically neutral towards the US but can afford to anger them whenever they want to (arguably angering them infrequently actually strengthens their foreign policy hand). See also Russia's outspoken support of Assad.
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There are plenty of other scenarios possible, including one dictated by Occam's razor:

3) No backchannel negotiation of any sort has taken place. Putin is just looking at the situation pragmatically and he understands that harboring Snowden would cause more harm than good to Russia.

This reminds me of a story that happened in 2012 where thieves managed to steal the secret recipe of Coca Cola and offered to sell it to Pepsi. Pepsi immediately called the FBI and had the thieves arrested ([1]).

Putin is exactly in Pepsi's situation: gaining knowledge of the confidential information that Snowden detains has very little benefit and very, very high cost. Simply not worth it.

[1] http://www.uber-facts.com/2012/12/3-arrested-in-coca-cola-se...
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Is it possible that you have a security hole, and malware authors have started actively taking advantage of it? If Google recognized that, your page could be a good signature for malware that they haven't detected yet, and you could get automatically blocked because of it.

This is, of course, just a random guess to throw into your brainstorm.
Agreed! Personally, I use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, but I have a ton of respect for Google. The blog post is complaining about some trivial stuff, that I'm sure Google has spent (hundreds of) thousands analyzing.
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Yeah, but people should not be cut off just because you need to do something slower for them. A worse user experience is better than nothing at all.
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Any particular reason why most of the examples uses "sudo" while already logged in as root?

Additionally, either you have some strange prompts set up somewhere, or made a few typos when copying and pasting; a couple of places you appear to be logged in as a someuser@<...>, but with a hash-prompt(#) -- usually reserved for indicating root/super user access.

edit: Personally, I actually found the official documentation more helpful, even if it is very brief:

http://gitolite.com/gitolite/qi.html

In particular, it highlights that gitolite needs to run under a user, and needs a (your, the admin's) pubkey for setup -- but there's no need to generate a new one.

Behind the scenes, the pubkey used is added to the gitolite user's authorized_keys-file (and so is any other keys added, when users are added).
Other than the insulting title, this isn't really making any points that haven't been made innumerable times. Education is getting far too expensive, too many people are thrown into prison for non-violent crimes, we spend way too much on military.

These observations aren't all that profound -- in fact I believe a majority of the younger generations agree with all of these points.
The rub is that a paid result can be just as useful from the consumer perspective as an organic result. If that's the case, Google will show the paid result every time.
They used to behave here 30-40 years ago as well. Getting your hands beaten with a wooden ruler is a hell of an incentive.
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I love Didot! My only wish in this department is that the type houses would make it cheap to license fonts for mobile applications.
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It's sad there's not more awareness of the optimal form factor for wearable computing revealed all the way back in 1981 [1], if maybe a bit oversized and rudimentary by modern technical standards:

http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/312162/312...

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082186/
There has been research on this with adults.

People who fidget in meetings pay attention better and retain more information.
As a french, France (aka our executive branch) is not going to grant him asylum. If he wants it, he will have to make a formal request and have our judicial branch decide on it. Because the USA are on our "fair countries" list, the decision must be made in at most 15 days and will not be so easy to get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum#France

I do believe our judicial branch to be fair, although there would be tons of pressions on them. But fair doesn't mean granting him asylum, it means judging is he indeed would be persecuted unfairly.
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USAA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAA#Returning_profits_to_the_i...), although most people aren't eligible (https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/pub_eligibility_task_entry).
In high school (in the early 2000s, in the US), class participation didn't mean just answering a question when called on, in my school most of the time it meant preemptively offering an answer without being called on. You got graded on having the initiative to answer without the teacher asking you directly.
The main point of the whole thing is not that Americans would be idiots, but rather that the way the United States is being governed is very suboptimal to the wellbeing of the average citizen and average inhabitant of this planet (yes, the way Americans live, how much they consume, has a great impact on every single human being on this planet).

Many points made are very clear, and well supported (e.g. income equality: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html).

As it happens, I have similar political views with author of the infographic, and I admire Northern European countries. But that doesn't mean that I have something to criticise about the USA. My home country is way behind in terms of government transparency, and liberal, free-thought of its population.
This reminds me of the Chapel programming language (http://chapel.cray.com/), which seeks to be a relatively high-level language for all parallel computation.

They differ in that Harlan is just for GPUs, while Chapel aims to be good for all parallel computation. Also, Harlan uses Lisp syntax, while Chapel's syntax is C-based.

Any comments on similarities/differences between them from those who know either one better than I?
Aaaah...good ol' G1, that was my first smartphone too, then I had to get an iPhone for coding. Nothing like typing out code on a pocket keyboard.

I think Apple is very similar with requiring an account to activate the phone's functionality. If I remember correctly, the 1st gen needed to be synced with iTunes (directly to a computer) and the latest iOS devices require an Apple ID.

I haven't had an opportunity to try a Firefox phone yet, but I'm really hoping that it doesn't require some cloud based account to function. Just having all my data in one collective resource bothers me.
Are we using the same bing? The searches I just tested returned just as many bing-centric results as google does.
I cannot possibly pour enough irony tags onto the following words.

DAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA, you think human development and well being are important to the ruling class! WHAT A NAIVE IDIOT!

If only!

Now for the more serious talk.

Firstly, Americans have been convinced that freedom is property, and property is freedom. Since every good American knows that Americans love freedom, this means Americans love not only capitalism (in the sense of an unplanned market economy with free entry/exit of markets) but True Capitalism (this being the total elimination of all institutions that do not derive from private property). The process of this moral and political transformation of the American people has, ironically but quite predictably, started to make the predictions of Karl Marx come true. Ayn Rand, after all, was a Marxist in every detail except that she was on the other side.

In addition, a fundamental shift is happening in the world. It's going slowly enough that the general public aren't much noticing it, but it's certainly quick enough that by this time I think the entire intelligentsia everywhere is thinking about it. To cut to the point: productivity! It's rising so far, so quickly now that while we won't have a "robots do all the work" situation any time soon, the days are ending of most of the population having a productive job where their labor can out-compete sufficiently developed capital.

This shift goes much, much deeper than a mere economic crisis. This is a civilizational crisis. What do you do when most of your population is unproductive excess? Well, what seems to be happening in most of the world is that the "productive" elite (that is, the remaining elite who either hold appreciating capital or whose labor can still out-compete capital, this means us guys!) has begun to disregard the mass of the population entirely. Most people no longer matter. In fact, even most holders of traditional capital (factories and such) are being out-competed now. It's coming down to holders of land, robots, fuel, and money being the only ones with any actual pull.

Turns out capitalism doesn't collapse and bring about an inevitable socialist revolution; that was a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the Left. No, it collapses into rentier-driven neo-feudalism because "without these hands, not a wheel shall" stop turning.

None of which is to say that this is some inevitable process. It's not. We can change it tomorrow, if we want to. The problem is that this is the outcome of the deeply-rooted moral choices our societies have made. Capitalism can only behave this way because despite having abolished all other Grand Narratives our societies still worship at the alter of Productivism.

So make yourself useful, stick up for the useless, or die.
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How come they don't seem to have this problem in China, India or Germany? It isn't that kids can't handle the workload, the problem is the boring curriculum.
There are many different, relevant parameters:

1) Start-up time.

2) Performance with 25+ tabs open.

3) Performance on older devices.

4) Performance with a "basic" set of extensions.

I don't really care about benchmarks these days; I am much more interested in whether a browser supports HTML5, WebGL, etc. I'm currently bummed that Opera 13 doesn't display shapefiles on GitHub. :(
I wish there was a way to just leave this one comment and stop all other comments. Because this comment is perfect.
I am building a Cross-Platform Hybrid Mobile API Runtime for packaging Html/C#/Lua Apps into Android/IOS, where the device functionality like Bluetooth, NFC, Push is accessible using Ajax Web Services. Unfortunately, Mobile Browser/WebView sucks in low end android phones, though it is good in IOS

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=arshu.appgrid....

To overcome the performance problem have to eliminate the browser with a OpenGL Renderer which can render GUI generated using HTML, which i have started building, but still a long way to go.
GREAT post. I can definitely relate.
I disagree. The BMD systems are an essential way for Poland and other eastern european countries to counter Russian influence by guaranteeing a US military presence and negating the effect of short-range missile deployments.

Bush started it for good reason - it is in the US' best interests to keep Russia from becoming dominant over eastern European countries. They already use natural gas as a major level over countries (remember when they switched off the gas due to a 'pricing dispute'?).

We want to mitigate Russian influence in their periphery as no one in Europe or the US wants another warsaw pact. Russia wants to dominate them because their security stems from having a large buffer between them and germany (or anyone else for that matter.
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Good snarking! And on a serious note, I think the main comment here isn't about the actual issues, it's about Americans reaction to them. We appear to be OK with this or at least not willing to do enough about it.
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Any guesses as to what the "3 × 9 in" dimension refers to? Is this
a photo, a postcard, the size of one component, or what? I'm thinking
that the wooden mounting board would be around 18 inches by 24 inches.
Seriously? The one thing that all the "tin foil" people were talking about for decades is finally proven beyond a shadow of a doubt - and you're still going to refer to them in a derisive tone?
Same here, latest Chrome 28 beta.