skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After giving in and reading Ender's Game for the first time, I didn't like it. I thought that Card was using children as main characters as an excuse to avoid character development (just having your child character learn something is a way to fake it, the character remains one dimensional while learning something concrete about the world.)

I told people this and they told me to read Ender's Shadow instead. Same complaint, the characters are shallow, no matter how vivid on the surface.

So then I decided to pick up a Card book outside that series, and read The Memory of Earth. Stunningly bad. Seriously hack work. A few years later I looked it up, turns out all he did was plagiarize The Book of Mormon and add a nominally sci-fi theme. What the hell?

Every time I complain about Card I am told that I just need to read more Card. No, not anymore.
This is an such a bone dry straw man it's liable to spontaneously combust in the summer sun.

The fact that corporate overlords selling Java made certain overhyped promises does not have any bearing whatsoever on the merits of Haskell.

Let's break it down: Java fixed memory management at a significant performance cost, but they didn't solve null references, and in practice it was a big enough of an advancement to actually get a foothold against C++.

Haskell on the other hand actually solves null references as well, so the bugspace that it actually eliminates is easily an order of magnitude bigger than Java's, and it does so without being particularly slow or verbose.

Now as to the rest of your argument, of course it's true that FP principles can be applied anywhere, and given the correct discipline you can achieve much of the same benefits through careful architecture and coding practices. However what you're dismissing is the value of the compiler guarantee, and that should not be minimized. Of course we can look at any code sample and reason about how it should be structured to minimize side effects. But the problems with mutability and null references are endemic to large systems, not isolated features. Where Haskell's guarantees start to shine is when your code base goes over 100kloc and no one person understands the whole thing anymore and the preconditions informing the design no longer apply and things have been hacked from a dozen different perspectives. In this case those guarantees have non-trivial value.
I'm interested in the Twitter permissions required.

* Read Tweets from your timeline.
* See who you follow, and follow new people.
* Update your profile.
* Post Tweets for you.

Does Twelephone only require posting tweets and following new people for completing positive actions by the user or is this like FB apps that spam your feed? Could those permissions be added as needed; I'm assuming that you don't need to follow new users or tweet anything for me to direct connect a Twelephone session with a current friend??

It seems incongruous you tout privacy features as a bonus (http://twelephone.com/#learnmore) but that to use the service Twelephone gets access to everything one does on twitter.

Perhaps these are just standard permissions that twitter hands out with user authorisation?
Look at it this way. Improving your website (which is already nice btw) means more people signing up to be notified when you are ready to launch.
I can't wait for Camlistore to keep progessing. Eventually all of these "personal clouds" will just be a tiny "app" floating on top of Camlistore.
I personally think the 7 day average gives a better picture than the 28 day for the usage trends. 1 day has too much noise with the day of the week variations. In th 7 day average you can see a decrease after the last spike.
> That isn't unions' fault

It is, in fact, the unions' fault. The prison unions and police unions are huge proponents of the drug war, longer sentences, etc. It isn't just there fault, of course, America's general Puritan streak helps, but the public unions have really capitalized on that.

> other countries with more powerful unions don't jail themselves like this.

What happens in other countries isn't a good model for the U.S. Sub-segments of the population don't viscerally hate each other in Frankfurt or London the way they do in L.A. or Detroit. It will be interesting to see what happens to the internal social cohesion European countries have enjoyed post-WWII as middle eastern immigration continues to rise. A few more muslim youths rioting in Paris and I think you'd be surprised by what kind of police escalation Parisians will be willing to put up with...
> All of these new services that enable poor or lower-income people to serve rich people (Uber, TaskRabbit, Instacart) have been enabled by two main things: an economic recession that permanently eliminated a lot of jobs and the recovery which drove economics gains to the 1%

The 1% don't use Uber, TaskRabbit, or Instacart; they have actual personal drivers, servants, and chefs.
Oh yeah? In what universe are the folks that work at VMware and Telerik crap, while Moneybookers is acceptable? Mightily smart and motivated people work in some of the big companies, and I've seen instances where bright sparks leave the corporate world to try and turn their own ideas into reality. This is not a down-sloping trendline.
Wow. Did Apple dictate that publishers change their Amazon contracts? If so, then I completely agree, Apple is clearly in the wrong. However, this is the first I've heard this. Can you lead me to supporting evidence?
I only have a 128GB SSD on my MacBook Air, which is my primary computer. I used to run out of space until I read somewhere that you can use DropBox advanced settings to not keep specific directories on specific devices. So, I am not likely to have directories like, for example, videos2012, pictures2012 synced on my Air but they are on my old Linux and MacBook Pro laptops which have lots of disk space.

With high network speeds, I can quickly re sync directories, or just power on one of my old laptops.
> Also I the links in this thread show a side of the books that is far from "apolitical", although they were moving and profound for me.

Ender's Game STILL sells 100K-200K copies per year.

It is HUGELY popular, so of course some people on the internet are going to ride the publicity coat-tails by smashing it.

Just because two academics find a way to compare the plot to the life of HITLER does NOT mean that Mr. Card had that in mind AT ALL.
Ha, true. Thanks.
It's not closely tied to real money; not by design.
That's a side effect, due to the relative stability of the in-game currency, and the ability to convert in-game currency into in-game stuff, and the number of players. This creates a real-world demand for in-game stuff, and bingo, you have a market.
Does Plug provide any redundancy or "RAID" like features?
The Disciplines of User Experience Design
I don't believe fibre cables are single length. Between your point of signal origin and the destination are already a number of boxes that act as repeaters. To split the cable, you'd effectively add in another one (or subvert the provider, of course). Or I believe you can tap the cable anyway:

This is a nice primer on fibre:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245230.pdf

And here is one talking about its security, in particular vs tapping (the conclusion: it can be done):

http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/physcial/fiber-...

Finally, I always figured that tapping fibre was exactly what this was for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
But the problem is that Google works so well because it tracks me! Search is local and contextual.
He was repeating every small phrase three times though, it was hard to tell if it was automated or habit.
For 2012, Defense Department requested $17.3 billion to operate, maintain and modernize the more than 2,200 systems it uses to manage finances, human resources, logistics, property, and weapons acquisitions.

I don't have much to say about this, except "wow".
Ah well, had hoped there might be an already made thing out there. Thanks!
Spying agencies spy, news at 11.
Luxembourg Prime Minister resigns over spy scandal
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$1.4B Mobile/Browser Toolbar Startup Conduit Is Splitting
When I saw this was on the 37signals blog, I reflexively expected a post by DHH, and now my funny bone is disappointed.

Snark aside, any trick you can use to place the humanity of the other person you're interacting with in the forefront is going to help you avoid snapping at them, which is generally a good thing. The world can always use a little less hostility.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting to find it here. This style of pricing isn't entirely unreasonable, and you do find charges based on peak monthly usage elsewhere (it's reminiscent of 95th-percentile bandwidth pricing, for example). But AWS otherwise has pretty straightforward pricing based on micro-accounting of usage, so this seems atypical for them.
The problem with the term 'professional' is that the word is ambiguous - do we mean 'people that live off this' or 'people that know what they're doing'? I have two professional photographer friends, and neither have the slightest clue how to protect their data. They live off it, but never grow out because word of mouth is karma and you can't lose someone's wedding photos. These are people that have a duty to protect other people's memories, and are leaving it to chance. They are everywhere.
Yeah, I've always sort of made fun of my father's hunt-and-peck typing technique, but one advantage is that it works just as well on a tablet with an on-screen keyboard. So, his iPad is better for him than any laptop would be.
Dave Cheney also just released a profiling wrapper, would you mind elaborating on the differences?
Is there any reason to switch if you don't really care about privacy? For me DDG is just a skin on top of the Bing search index with a silly name. Why would I use it?
The New Bronze Age: We're Entering the Era of Tough Ore
Ask HN: Tips on preventing credit card fraud through Stripe?
Long story short, I run an online selling platform like eBay. We take billing address, Cvc, expiration, use https but still got scammed. We basically hold onto the payment until the seller ships and forward them a cut but just got a call about an unauthorized debit purchase from a lady in Texas from our site.

Any suggestions ?
I fully agree with your point, but there is a union that contributes significantly to the prison-industrial complex: the various prison guard unions. (Also culpable are privatized prisons, which are often little more than slave labor camps.)
Oh man, that brings back memories. "Im in fire? WHAT? (dies)"
It's 2013, not 1973, so I'd replace 7-bit with UTF-8 which is its natural extension.
SplittableRandom proposed by Guy Steele for JDK8
I used to do exactly the same thing, (most productive time of my life, startup didn't make it though) and there's nothing wrong with that at all, where the problem lies is when people make like that should be normal, because it isn't.
Not my searches. If I need something location sensitive, I have no problem adding the location in the query.
Today you, tomorrow me.

Just to add content: hardware, software, programming, protocols, networks, chips, cords, formats, and onward. We are in a profession that creates a certain amount of ego once we have overcome an obstacle. There is an endless amount of information with an endless growth rate regarding technology. We are all ignorant -- it is just to what degree and which niche! I still remember 15 years ago and having my feelings hurt on a daily basis on EFnet. It hardened me, but I also learned how to dish out tolerance.
How do the Start Page and Ixquick search engines differ?
The Apple II had a monitor you could reach via:

]CALL -151

and you could type a program such as:

*300:AD 30 C0 88 D0 FD 4C 00 30

but while there was a disassembler (300 L) there was no assembler!

Fortunately, if you had Integer Basic, you could do:

]INT

to get to Integer basic, then go into that monitor:

>CALL -151

then jump into the "mini assembler" inside Integer Basic:

*F666 G

and now you're in something resembling an assembler:

!300:LDY#$0
!302:JMP$309
!305:JSR$FDED
!308:INY
!309:LDA $320,Y
!30C:BNE $305
!30E:JMP$FF65
!$320:48 45 4c 4c 4f 20 48 41
!$328:43 4b 45 52 20 4e 45 57
!$330:53 21 00
!303G
You speak as though Windows and Linux dont exist. Over 90% of the market use those operating systems. Did I misinterpret your comment, or do you really live in that much of a bubble?
> Work should be about providing a means for you to live your life.

I have a problem with the often-used word "recreation": it can be interpreted to mean that your job is your life, and anything you do to rest or unwind from work is just a way to come back to work more refreshed and productive.
To amend: two new rules were proposed as investor protections. They will have their own comment period and may or may not be adopted. They are:

- Companies need to file with the SEC 15 days prior to generally soliciting.
- Companies need to provide additional information about the offering.
Fortunately, there is a userstyle, aptly named "startpage clean & minimal", for fixing the ugliness.

http://userstyles.org/styles/85728/startpage-clean-minimal
GULLible, I guess.
Probably the biggest risk to crowdsouring is a reestablishment of the middle class. That will drive wages up to the point where these services end up too expensive or too poorly executed (by bottom of the barrel labor).

On a positive note (for these companies), I don't see the middle class coming back any time soon.
I'm using the word "1%" in the recently popularized figurative sense, the people who make enough money to outsource things like hailing a taxi or doing grocery shopping.
The author of Land of Lisp (an excellent and fun primer on writing games in Common Lisp) is both an MD and a hacker. Perhaps you could try to get in contact with him for advice.
Seems like it was about 1995: http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/about/history/1999.html

But it peaked in 2000:
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/about/history/2007.html?WT....
These splitter work in the domain of light-pulses transmitted over a fiber. So you get 100% of the messages, but the flashes of light representing the bits will be much weaker. Probably this will mean that you have to put in much more effort to decode the signal than a usual network-device will need, and also probably means that you will have a higher number of errors in your data.

On the other hand, if you'd tap only a short distance downstream of the transmitter (or an inline amplifier), that 1% might be plenty, undisturbed by the distortions introduced further on the line, so probably that's the preferable tapping location anyway.

[I know that I'm oversimplifying a lot here and modern optical communication systems work much different.]
Bing is only one index source. They have their own crawler, plus they pull from dozens of other sources.

http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-source...
> And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on every linux server on the planet

No it isn't. Maybe it's still installed on most shared web hosts (no idea, I haven't used one in years).
I used to be a volunteer junior firefighter as a teen (many of Long Island's fire departments are volunteer based). Fire engines were sent out on emergency calls because many times the situation calls for tools and equipment that ambulances don't carry. I doubt it was budget-related, considering nobody was on payroll.
First and foremost, like many others have said, I am rooting for you. I am glad that your site has been a success so far and hope you are able to take it in a new direction. As far as the new design is concerned, its completely within your right to keep it as is. That being said, here are my thoughts:

Likes:
- I like your avatar and banner at the top of the page.

- your choice of colors and fonts is nice and feels cohesive.

- the lug for the "Learn to Code" section is a nice touch.

- Prominent placement of the "Get started now" box is very eye-catching.

Dislikes / suggestions:
- The overall layout feels cramped. It seems like you are trying to fit a lot of content on a single page. This is why the new design feels so different from your original site.

- Fewer number of featured sites (with the option to scroll through more) might be more visually pleasing.

- I notice that most "generally accessible" sites (read: tumblr, twitter, etc.) have the ability for current users to type their credentials and sign in without leaving the page. It seems like this would require and extra click on your layout.

Best of luck to you. I cannot wait to see neocities mature.
I believe that these are standard Twitter permissions. Twelephone only needs tweet permissions. We're not using any other Twitter APIs (other than OAuth).
DDG is headed in the right direction. But it still isn't quite ready for me to use it daily. I start typing a query in and have to wait a minute wondering why the suggestions aren't showing up. I am completely used to how Google works.

A critical feature I would like to see are real-time search results that Google added a few years ago. Autocomplete suggestions are also critical.
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I periodically mail a DVD of important stuff to my parents and ask them to toss it in the basement. You could do the same thing with backup tapes, or whatever.

Drives/tape/flash/dvd is pretty damn cheap and easy. These S3 type solutions would have to be much cheaper to be interesting.
But it seems like that still has all the ambiguity I mentioned. It could still be construed as root level access, or an FTP server, or anything in between.

Also realize that Glenn Greenwald shares a good amount of blame for this misquote. The first line in the first article about PRISM is "The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n...)
Firefox has built-in support for Keyword Search bookmarks. You don't need to install an add-on to create aliases.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

If you bookmark any website's search results page, you can add a keyword and edit the bookmarked URL to include a printf-style %s placeholder. When you enter the keyword plus some string, Firefox opens the bookmarked URL, substituting your string for %s.

For example, I have a "w" keyword search for Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?search=%s and a "yt" keyword search for YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&search=Searc...
> yet you hear stories about the Maddoff's of the world running 30 year schemes which very much hit 'sophisticated' investors.

Proving that the scam artists will find a way no matter what the regulations say.
except the sensor isn't a CCD, and your argument is complete nonsense. Of course a 5D mkIII is a better camera, of course it will produce better results, but my point was that if you're going to down sample, why not save yourself a boat load of cash and just use a Rebel. I guarantee you'd never see or know the difference. It's not until you make a large print that the difference would be apparent, and since you've stupidly downsampled you've lost that advantage.

You might want to read this, it will help you understand how sensors work.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-sensors.ht...
How is a subtitle database any different from a legal standpoint than a lyrics database?
For a customer that just doesn't get it, I don't see why the dishwasher/vacuum cleaner analogy is bad as long as it's delivered nicely.
And if that then becomes the new average for DDG, is it still misleading? According to the chart, it has a great chance of maintaining its post-Bloomberg new levels.
> "every other place"

Vegas is not the only location of legal casino gambling. It is by far the largest but there is significant gambling activity elswhere in the US.

Wikipedia mentions these markets:

1. Las Vegas Strip $5.550 billion
2. Atlantic City $3.943 billion
3. Chicago region $2.092 billion
4. Connecticut $1.448 billion
5. Detroit $1.36 billion
6. St. Louis $1.050 billion
7. Tunica Resorts, Mississippi $997.02 million
8. Biloxi, Miss. $833.50 million
9. Shreveport, La. $779.65 million
10. Boulder Strip (Las Vegas) $774.33 million
11. Reno, Nevada $715.23 million
12. New Orleans, La. $653.05 million
13. Downtown Las Vegas $523.82 million
14. Laughlin, Nevada $492.51 million

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino#By_region

There are also numerous casinos on Indian reservations across the country.
XING launches new profile
Obama signs executive order to allow shut down of all US communications
It's a telling indicator of just how far the modern thought process has been pwned by belief in government-uber-alles that the oppression of a group finally stopping implies a manifest right to have the government promote this group, and that those who disagree are bad people. If we actually had control over the complexity of this beast, we would have simply had the government stop this business of marriage-sanctioning altogether - removing the injustice against the polygamists, singles, etc along with the gays. But don't worry about their plight for long - I'm sure some will be the subject of another feel-good political distraction in two decade's time.
>... getting investment funding for small businesses is very hard. This rule change makes it much easier.

That isn't necessarily true. Just because small businesses can freely solicit investment doesn't mean that actually raising it will be easier.

People seem to be making the assumption that there's this huge untapped market of rich people (read: accredited investors) who are not actively investing in businesses today simply because they haven't seen an ad or received an email inviting them to get in on the ground floor of a great opportunity.

I don't see much evidence that this is the case, and based on my experience, the reality, for better or worse, is that you're either tapped into funding channels (or can work your way into them) or you're not. This doesn't mean that no money will be raised in the fashion you describe, but the notion that there's going to be a flood of wealthy individuals writing checks to people and companies they just met is absurd.

As far as the specific situation you described, $200,000 is a modest amount. If you had a wealthy individual, or group of individuals, truly interested in owning a bar, it's far more likely that they'd purchase it themselves and hire an experienced person to run it. What incentive would they have to give any equity ownership and control to a group that couldn't "even come close" to putting up $200,000 themselves? "Accredited investor" doesn't necessarily mean "intelligent investor" but a lot of the comments around this general solicitation change assume that there's an abundance of accredited investors who are, for lack of a better description, utter fools.

This discussion around the lifting of the ban on general solicitation also seems to assume that this will most greatly affect startups/Silicon Valley and small business, when in fact this will almost certainly most greatly benefit Wall Street and the financial establishment.
The take home concept here is great: Work hard at something and practice, practice, practice.

I took a break from C++ for years.

I wanted to write a video game.

So I started everyday doing something in C++ on the game and I am now a few months into it and I NEED to work on it everyday.

Karen. Thanks for sharing this. Valuable.

PS. Where did you get that weekly planner you use as a journal. I like the layout!!
Obama gives himself control of all communication systems in America (2012)
I think this is him now -> http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=73484462
Heh, thanks for the heads up. Looks like it's fixed- it was an issue deploying NLTK.