skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and so the trolling begins.

Seriously though, this is news on HN why? MS not allowing a sexual term in India.. ooo, what about Google helping the Indian authorities on the arrest of an Orkut user over making comments about a Political leader in India, even though freedom of speech is one of the six fundamental rights the Indian Constitution grants its citizens.

Which do you think is the worse of the two?

It's not that I'm pro-bing, I'm just anti-anti-bing. How about we give the site a few months to fuckup before we start with the comments like above.

I'd much rather see people judge the site based on its merits rather than get so instantly polarised before it's had a chance to find its footing.
In what ways do you regret your choice? It wasn't clear from your comments.

Also, Bristol is a lovely city.
Do you have any references for your position?

Proposition 13 is not California's problem, read this if you are interested.

http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/034048...
"Oddly enough in recessionary times, customers are prepared to take more risk with a young company if they believe that that company offers them a tremendous advantage that will help them become more efficient or lower their costs."

I don't think I understand the significance of this statement. You always buy a product that 'offers a tremendous advantage that will help [you] become more efficient or lower [your] costs.'

Is the significance that in a recession a prospective customer is less likely to buy 'the standard'?
Wait, tell us more!

What made you stop going to the elite school?

Did you have any tricks to help you find those excellent professors?

What other exciting things?
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I'm from France and this is even worse than in the UK here. Matter of fact, a lot of people go work in the UK because its more merit based than France.
You know pj, deleting all your comments and thus ruining an interesting discussion doesn't make you right; it makes you a sore loser. The fact you have been reduced to such a childish "last word", rather than just admitting my point, speaks volumes.
Welly, Shh!! It isn't ready yet for prime time.
Microsoft has finally understood how to generate buzz and get publicity... even without having to spend 100 million dollars.
I wouldn't say I've felt inferior. I've occasionally felt significant regret over my collegiate decision. But then I remember that most such people wind up paying $200k more than I did to go to college. Going to an MIT or Harvard might have gotten me somewhat better connections and opportunities, but it is difficult to see those as adding up to that large of a difference.
That just links to a big pdf with all the licenses (understandably, it was a pain getting the actual list out of that, but here it is)

Apache license

Prototype JavaScript Framework

Flex

Bzip2

Openssl

Curl

SSLeay

Libpcap

Fontconfig

libxml2

Bitstream Vera Fonts

Uriparser

Giflib

Ksoap

Poly9’s polyvalent URLParser class

Wbxml.java , Wbxmlparser.java , and WbxmlSerializer.java

Liboil

stlport

Sudo

lcu

Dhcp-client

NTP

PPP

libxslt except libexslt

jpeg-6b

Expat

c-ares

Freetype

Putty

Dropbear

Ncurses

Md5

Libpng

Strace

zlib

Datejs

libspeex

speex

Cairo

libunwind

Wpa_supplicant

Pmipclib

tiff

JSON-C

JSON

AGG

The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle

script.aculo.us

Jemalloc

Npruntime.h

The wxWindows Library Licence

dbus

Host AP

File-backed USB Storage Gadget

SQLiteJDBC

libvorbis

libogg

VLGothic Proportional Japanese Font

Minifier

CJK Unicode TrueType Fonts

JArgs command line option parsing suite for Java
wow, overpowered as hell

needs nerf
Yes, but I actually sort of prefer the way this incentivizes sharing of interesting links with the community. That is, the only way to get the stuff you don't like off of the front page is to share something better!
Thanks for compiling the list. There's a lot of interesting software I hadn't heard of.

A cross referenced database of open source software used in commercial products would be interesting too.
Dawkins... , whose books have contributed to [his field]... not at all.

Ever heard of a "meme"?

Dawkins has contributed plenty to his field, and he writes very accessible books.

That essay by him obviously doesn't criticize the entire field. He's just telling his readers to put up some nonsense filters before they start reading padded fluff.
it's left leaning government expenditure programs. [...] Commie mentality. It's the blend of this socialist and capitalist ideology

I keep reading similar sentiments, but I don't really understand it. I believe the tax rate is basically on par with Canada's (so, pretty high). However, to give two counterexamples, California obviously doesn't have universal health care, and I've never seen as many homeless people as in the Bay area (the weather might have something to do with it). So what does all that money get spent on, compared to other states which might be more right-leaning or have lower tax rates?
The "most fundamental parts" have been around for about 50 years. It's just a matter of combining them right. They are quote, eq, car, cdr ...
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Well it's simple I'm currently living in Malaysia if a search engine doesn't allow me to search for things I'm not going to use it...

I'm not much pro-google either for the reason above... It's just that I think such action from MS is short-sighted (and don't tell me it's because of the local regulations since Google and Yahoo here do search for those terms).

Now it's true I guess it doesn't add much to the discussion, it's just that I'm quite irritated when I see a company that self-censors in order to get the local governments to appreciate them.
And I don't think a direct democracy like California or Switzerland could result in enslavement of 49% of the people like you suggested in your comment.

the only thing worse than democracy is every other alternative

I agree, although I'm not sure if with democracy you're counting both representative and direct democracy as I am.
I have stopped to. Thought I don't get excellent facilities, or a good geek crowd as name-brand colleges have here in India, I've started to believe in myself... ever since I did some freelance web design last year, and got myself into computer security related intern this summer, I've been more confident over my belief that "brand name doesn't matter, if I have skills and confidence over what I know, I can surely find the best for myself"

Have you ever felt inferior for not being from a name-brand college? - Yes, in the beginning of my college days, when people would ask me which college are you from? I would tell, and they would go... hmm haven't heard the name... okay.. whtever.

Do you feel inferior for not being... ? NO way, I wish to be a grand brand myself, why the heck attach branding n stuff to college, be the name, influence, etc yourself :)
pg is designing the language right now. It's not being polished; being readied to build twitter on top of. The important thing right now is the actual design of the language, not all the random helper functions. They can easily be added in later. If you're going to build a production application on top of arc, making sin shouldn't be much of a problem -- it won't take very long, and is one of the least of your concerns.
One anecdote does not a general rule make.
So you need a formal business structure to charge anyone any amount of money? I just made a proposal to advertise for a local business that will get me two figures per month if it's accepted, covering 25-50% of my current costs. I would rather not drop the money on an LLC until I have some idea of how it might get recouped...
Well, simple question... have you used Bing extensively before today? If so, have you searched for content of a sexual nature and if not, do you honestly care?

For all we know, it could have been an oversight on MS's part (the site is less than a week old) and it will be a simple case of switching on or off a setting eventually, like what you can do with Google.

EDIT - I signed into Bing using my Live account and noticed theres a setting to filter sexually explicit content like with Google, so perhaps this is the same thing, maybe you just need to sign in to do it.

EDIT #2 - I just switched to India & Malaysia's settings (was on Australia) and noticed that you couldn't set location or the sexual settings (seemed like a recurring theme), but then switched to China and noticed you could set Location, so perhaps its just a bug
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It is blocked in germany and in many other countries. Try searching for sex in bing.de
An excellent post.

As we all know, there are times when it no longer makes sense to keep maintaining legacy code which has begun to collapse under its own weight. In that spirit, I invite HN readers to look into the Bay Area council's proposal for a constitutional convention: http://www.repaircalifornia.org/index.php

Politics is an awkward subject, as evidenced by the often febrile debates here over libertarianism, the role of government and so forth. But those of us who are residents of California owe a lot to the state - not to be confused with The State - and as hackers, pride ourselves on having the energy and insight to make things work better. Rewriting our socioeconomic source code is a messy and likely thankless task, but no less worthy of our participation for that.
> Another alternative, used by lots of languages/libraries, is to maintain a cache of recently compiled regular expressions. Of course, this doesn't help when you have a loop that uses 15 regular expressions but it only caches the last 14, for example.

Nitpick: it depends on the replacement policy whether it helps. If the cache is MRU, for example, it would work fine.
Two serious lessons learned:

1) Don't try to get through a Boston summer without AC

2) Don't try to code 18 hours a day on a 12" laptop

sub lesson to point #2: Don't try to code Rails 18 hours a day on a Windows laptop. It's a joke.
why does a consumer electronics piece have `strace` included? they must have forgotten it in there, or whoever compiled this was looking a debug piece.

Also I am guessing it's the Apache license, not Apache httpd.
Your last two guesses are spot on.

Since the Kama Sutra India (and the rest of South Asia) has been subject strong to first Middle Eastern/Muslim and then Victorian British influences.

That said, in most countries, there are huge differences between different socio-economic and ethnic groups, to say nothing of differences between individuals.
I'd never heard this song. I can't help but wonder if the lyrics were part of the motivation behind the followers. The guy himself was "unstoppable" and he had to be unstoppable!

Full song, better quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIRpKa5ZMA
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I switched to bing as my main search engine 3 days ago to test it out (I like the idea of having more than one search engine with significant market shares so I had to give it a try). Now it's true I hadn't search any content that triggered the filter in that time (I don't only think about that :-) ) but not long ago I was looking at what was the legality of having pornographic photos uploaded by users in a user generated content site and if it was better to filter them out systematically or wait for members to report such photos and those search wouldn't have worked on bing.

But as said, it's mostly an emotional argument on my part because I don't like companies to self-censor themselves when they could help the countries to become more opened..

I've also signed into Bing with a live account and didn't notice such a setting... maybe it's also disabled in Malaysia?
Anyhow, I'm one of those strange people who block the google, bing and yahoo cookie because I don't really want search engines to have a complete history of my searches associated with my profile so this wouldn't be enough...

EDIT: Small fact in passing: while it blocks the english term 'sex', it doesn't block the malay word 'seks'... Strange now this term is also blocked??
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I can see why, but the details matter.
I feel that, but I see the issue is not being as connected.

People who went to elite colleges built a valuable network, many of their friends and class mates are in big business or startups. None of my class mates are anywhere near the valley or startups.
Rarely do most people who go to top schools pay full price. Only those from extremely wealthy families do.

All (yes, all) the top schools are need-blind, meaning they don't look at your financial situation when deciding whether to accept you. A few of them (Stanford, Harvard I think) are offering completely free tuition if your parents make less than $100k. For other situations, you typically would get around 75% of your tuition free even if your parents make over $100k a year.

The difference in first year average salary for an MIT grad vs. a state school grad is enough to make up that difference.
Did you create that account for the sole purpose of making that joke!?
Maybe it took him dancing to all those other songs to get his first follower... Surely he had been noticed by many at the festival before he was unstoppable.
OK, but the fact that you said, "at least 9 of those 10" instead of "10 out of 10" suggests that we're not really disagreeing. I'm not saying they're completely meaningless, but they are extremely noisy, to use your term, and very expensive to obtain, in terms of time and money.
I think this highlights a weakness of Arc -- while terseness is probably wonderful once one has Arc in one's brain, it makes things considerably less legible to everyone else. Contrast with presenting CL/Scheme to proponents of the other, where I would assume they could mostly muddle through, Googling one or two odd things. Have you ever tried Googling "arc no function"? (Lisp analogy may not be accurate; substitute Python/Ruby or C#/Java if it makes you feel better.)
A more important question than whether you feel inferior is whether you are inferior. The answer to that one is "no".

If you feel inferior, but aren't inferior, then the problem is your feelings. Change them.
The Kama Sutra is 1,600 years old. It's like comparing Roman debauchery with puritanism in Arkansas. Modern India indeed leans heavily socially conservative.
I grew up and live in Europe. English is not my native language. When I was a teenager, the words Stanford, MIT or Ivy League were totally alien to me. In fact the world and the metaphor they represent were all unknown to me.

I wish I knew of their existence, but nothing in my environment prepared me for being one of their students.

So of course these institutions are for an elite. Not everyone gets the same opportunities, because not everyone is even aware of those opportunities.

A sense of sadness suddenly shocks you when you realize it's too late for entering in the circle.

The article and the comments here are mostly American-biased. In fact, HN is many times very American-biased. There's nothing wrong about it, but please realise it.
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I never even mentioned the Constitution, so that's not my argument. You probably assumed I was talking about the Constitution when I said titles of nobility were supposed to have been abolished. In fact, I was referring to the idea that our society is supposed to be an egalitarian one (in a legal sense).

As for the rest of your post, it no longer seems relevant.
have you personally seen cases where you were discriminated against but an MIT grad was given preferential treatment? or is that just a general sentiment you're conveying?
"Rarely do most people who go to top schools pay full price"

The fact that you have to state that shows there is an issue with information.

I scored really high my SAT/ACT (and again on my GRE I scored perfect in 2 of the 3 categories - in English I was weaker). But I didn't grow up with friends/family who went to top schools, and growing up in eastern kentucky, my public school didn't let me know that I should be applying to "good" schools.

I think that many computer geeks grow up having a hard time fitting in at school, so they don't think that they have what it takes to go to the elite schools - especially if that geeks grows up poor in a rural setting.
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"note: most students at top phd programs didn't go to major name brand undergrad programs... they went to small (not well known) schools and accomplished meaningful research that would have been harder to accomplish in a cutthroat name brand atmosphere."

i think it depends on the department. some smaller departments at top schools are fairly elitist in their admissions, mostly since they're based so heavily on recommendation letters. if you didn't go to a top undergrad institution, chances are they don't know who your letter writers are and might not give as much weight to your letters or application. just speculation, tho :)
Memetics was influenced by him, since he coined the term, but it's hardly a "field" in the same sense as Computer Science!

In writing his book, Dawkins ignored the last 2000+ years of scholarship on the nature of ideas, and influenced a tiny group of academics who are completely isolated from any other form of philosophy.

The Journal of Memetics (which was the only one of its kind) ceased publishing in 2005.
I like the premise: To help non-coders make modern websites.

My project is similar in premise.
I admit I haven't installed your framework but here are my thoughts.

I think you either are a coder or you aren't. I don't think its beneficial to have a middle road. Things like dreamweaver are said to allow anyone to "make a website". The kicker is you need to learn how to work dreamweaver. All you are doing is trading one learning curve for another. It doesn't make sense to me. I'm not saying you are trying to be dreamweaver, the example is meant to illustrate the problem with targeting non-coders and telling them "hey you can make a website with my program".

The point of all this is that since my project involves the same premise, and after thinking long and hard about it, I realize that enabling non-coders to make websites is all about the UI. If you tell a guy that is just starting with code "hey you don't have to write any sql!!! Well he won't know what that means either way, so your proposed benefit flies right over his head.

I would say I am probably in your target userbase. I know how to code well enough to understand the benefits of your framework, but since I know how to code well enough to understand your benefits, that basically means I'm already comfortable writing sql and enlisting MVC to make things easier on me. (I use kohana). So as much as I appreciate all the work you've put into your framework to help me, I am extremely hesitant to abandon kohana and learn alchitect.

I guess my point is about marketing. Figure out exactly who you want to target, and make a product that fits their needs to the T.

In my case, my project targets non-coders. Therefore it must be 100% about the UI. Think of weebly.com That site is bleeding out of the nose with insane UI features.

I'm not saying in any way that this is your demographic, but rather to encourage you to pinpoint your customers!

Hope this helps.
Wow, I genuinely never knew that about the UK. It's strange how the flood of information on US universities drowns out everything else.

From what your saying, that makes Oxbridge rather attractive for many people on this site, who were never interested in being "well-rounded" just for the sake of university admission.
We did pretty much the same. I remember sometimes it would rain like crazy out of nowhere. We'd come to dinner soaked to the teeth! good times, yo
Williamson said that a year ago, his agency received 300 requests a month for domain names; now, more than 1,300 requests stream in each month.

1300 requests each month!? How can they possibly handle the deluge of domain registration requests?
"Few people really want a true "classless society". I'd assume that few of the founders on HN plan on donating 100% of all income they earn above the median level."

There's a difference between believing that a classless society is a worthy goal and, noticing that one is not currently in a classless society and that being in an above average class has certain benefits, seeking to achieve an elevated class for the time being.

I would like to think I am a fairly strong believer in a classless post-scarcity utopia, but giving away most of what I own is not going to bring that any closer - all I'd be doing is reducing my own power to act. Better to retain it for now and use it to work towards the long term goal.

Sounds self-serving, maybe, but what can you do?
There's a similarly long screen of copyright and license declarations in the iPhone. Go to:

Settings -> General -> About -> Legal
The paperwork moved a lot slower in 1994.

Sidenote: I love how Wired has archived even the graphic that says "on newsstands now". How quaint. An indication of simpilier times. Daddy, what's a newsstand?
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An excellent example of both faux-deconstruction http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html and intellectual impostors as described by Dawkins http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html, also seen on Hacker News :-D

Seriously, read both those articles and compare with this if you think I'm trolling.

Anti-consumerists dancing on capitalists' graves are getting jiggy too soon. Eyeballs still equals sales, there just isn't quite as much money swirling around the system right now.

[Edited for clarity]
Cuil also generated a ton of buzz and publicity.

Blocking random keywords just makes a search engine look stupid and useless. By all means have a filter and allow users to decide on adult content, but outright blocking is just a silly decision, especially when the blocking is broken.

A search on bing.de (Germany) for "sexual healing", the popular song by Lionel Richie, is blocked.

The blocking seems ridiculously bad - "sex":blocked, "teen fun sex":allowed.

"bear sex","horse sex":blocked, "goat sex":perfectly acceptable, have as much as you like. A dangerous precedent pushing entire countries toward goat porn.

I'd suggest changing the title - this is not just India.

Germany, Turkey, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and 'arabian countries'.
The reason given was 'You will leave, who would understand and maintain all these tables'

Well, that's a good point. Fixing the database is great, but there has to be someone who understands the system after the intern leaves. At that point you need to figure out who would maintain after you leave and get them to be the champion of the new system.
I doubt it's intentional. Pornography is illegal in India (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_india#Online_por...). Microsoft is being conservative when complying with the Information Technology Act of 2000.

"According to the act, anyone publishing or transmitting or causing to be published or transmitted content of a pornographic nature can be punished with imprisonment or a fine." - http://in.reuters.com/article/paidmediaAtoms/idIN19619307872...
Barring people from using recursion is certainly bad, but firing people who don't understand your recursive code is probably worse.
How do you explain them blocking "sexual healing" in Germany?

That is a complete fuck up of the highest order IMHO.
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