skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am beginning to realize that I made a mistake when I started talking about Eeastern Europe as a whole. I am Czech and I only know the Czech Republic really well (and Slovakia, for obvious reasons).

And also Eastern Europe is apparently not as homogeneous as I made it to be - there are big differences for example between catholic countries like Poland and atheist countries like Czech Republic (tolerance to homosexuality, abortion and stuff like that are strongly related to religious views). Despising Jews? I have seen it way more in Western Europe than here.

And if you are black or Hindu or Pakistani please excuse that some people have some bias... please try to understand that this has been very closed society and up until recently there were no black or Hindu or Pakistani people at all. People could not travel during communist regime... there was basically no opportunity to learn tolerance to different cultures etc. Yes, there are some racists here (like everywhere else) but I believe that Czech people are generally above average tolerant. But I am obviously biased.
As someone who doesn't have a Facebook account I hope that "Facebook does it" isn't going to be a reason to stop or start. That being said lucky Facebook rarely does something interesting or original :-)
I would say this is the one feature I miss the most on OS X, copy just by selecting text and paste with middle click.
IOW his bags were seized.
"Explaining why communism always fail without faulting communism even slightly" is a very rich genre.

Please be clear on what you mean by "failure".

For Russia itself, communism was actually very successful economically speaking: Their economy grew more quickly than the average for other, non-communist countries that were at Russia's level of development.

With this aside, and going back to what we were talking about (i.e. state violence and repression), your point is a rather weak one. During and in the aftermath of revolutionary phases, there tends to be violence. You yourself conceded that these measures were eliminated and/or scaled down in Russia without outside intervention once things had settled down.

This kind of thing has nothing to do with economic organization and can be found in capitalism as well. Just look at what's been going on in the Middle East and Egypt in particular. Those are far from being communists, and yet the cleaning-up after a coup d'etat was quite brutal.
Here's a pretty truthful evaluation of the direction Gnome is going, by the smart, geeky folks from the Linux Action Show:

(Just watch 20 seconds... you'll get it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z8K...
Yay!

Now I'm just looking forward to the update where this is quietly reinserted and things start acting weird.
However, the comment for re-enabling middle click paste seems to indicate that it will indeed be removed in the future:

"We're not really ready for this change, and we haven't
messaged it properly. After discussion with Allan Day and
Jakup Steiner, we'll defer this change until the next cycle."
Thought about this before, but there is one problem: you still leak loads of metadata just like with e-mail (whom you're communicating with, when you're communicating, how much you're communicating, and perhaps other things). Because of this, I didn't see any advantage.
> Is there an easier way of pushing changes to the server that I'm not aware of?

Are you using source control?
Oh, it did survice the boat trip (see e.g. paper bag parties). It only died overseas, not during transit, if at all.
What the hell did you just build?
Crowdfunding with no restrictions, rules or protections is just an anonymous PayPal account or a shoebox with a hole cut in the top.

Nobody is stopping you from doing that if your desire is absolute freedom in how you collect donations and what you do with them. The point of Kickstarter is to find a balance between allowing creators to do whatever they want and helping them end up successfully funded.

You sarcastically say good luck with that as if this isn't a proven method that leads to far more success, but it is. While it's always been possible to solicit donations for a project, it's really only been successful and widespread since the the existence of projects like Kickstarter that put pressure on the creator to actually deliver.

The pretty website and the name aren't what makes Kickstarter successful. The rules are. Nobody was waiting all this time with a project they wanted crowdfunded just hoping for someone to launch a website to make putting that up easier. They were waiting for a platform that users trust and are interested in. They wanted a chance to actually be funded if they chose to put themselves out there. If they thought they could get that "with freedom" they would have done so already.

So good luck finding people that want to throw money at your ideas with no rules, restrictions or protections in place. I think you'll find it's a pretty shallow pool. Keep in mind that absolute freedom from the perspective of a creator equals absolutely no accountability from the perspective of backers and crowdfunding requires both to be successful.
This is completely off the front page now. On a quick count, there are now 11 articles that are on the front page that are all older, have less points, and have less comments than this post. I would be pretty curious to hear an explanation.
I agree. I think these ads are targeted at existing users.

They're in part, an effort to reduce dissonance.

"Cognitive dissonance can occur across multiple product lines as well as a competitor's products. Advertising and promotional campaigns can help raise consumer confidence about making product purchases and reduce the chances of buyer's remorse that may cause consumers to return products in favor of those offered by the competition."
It's astonishing how quick they can expand something as complicated as payment processing to many - bigger and smaller - countries in Europe.
You might want to read about fully homomorphic encryption, the PCP theorem and many other mind-blowing results to have come out of computational complexity theory community in the past 15 years. These results use powerful mathematical tools like Fourier analysis on the boolean cube. Here are a few links to get you started:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jmitesh/Mitesh_Jain_files/draft....

http://theoryofcomputing.org/articles/gs001/gs001.pdf
So, one of the purposes of the application video is to judge a person's accent? Is that fair?
This ban has been overturned.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ20...
I tried it, but I'm very picky. :) For example you don't support Swedish so the Ö in my name gets replaced with OE which is not ok. Then for good paragraphs you also require Swedish hyphenization. Lot's of small details like that so for me, right now, using your system is not an option for my latex cv.
NASA's Quarter Billion Pixel Display- Hyperwall 2
For that to fit occam's razor I think you need to demonstrate that communist societies actually suffer a higher rate of failure than any other -ism. Most nation states fail. You might even be right to say that most of them fail in short order. The French alone have been through 5 republics in the last couple of centuries.

The simplest explanation, imo, is that power accretes in all civilizations, perhaps moreso in ones that face internal strife or hardship, and that power structures eventually collapse. Regardless of economic or political system.

And from another angle, if a capitalist society fails, is the most likely explanation also the ideology itself? And if both ideologies are to blame for their failure, what's left?
> Generally functional languages will share more data than imperative languages, and therefore will copy less data.

It's the opposite: functional programs prefer immutable data and the only way to achieve this is to copy a lot more data than you would if you were just overwriting existing objects.
Somewhat related:

http://www.ted.com/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_habits_of_ha...
Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness
This is what matters in life .. the 'experience of a product'?

What the..
Practice Preksha Meditation http://preksha.com

It's free to learn.
Indiegogo was a client of mine, and I know a decent amount about the crowdfunding space. The way Kickstarter and Indiegogo do things has fuck-all to do with limiting innovation or stopping people from creating real products.

Without violating my NDA, I can share the following:

Both companies have the same set of goals: to provide a marketplace for innovative ideas. They have different ways of achieving this.

Kickstarter does this by allowing select projects to be associated with its brand, which due to their selective nature, confers a perception of trustworthiness to potential funders. You know that there's very little chance of a Kickstarter project being a scam, and moreover, that the project you fund will probably make good on their promises.

This is why they've stopped allowing product mockups -- to lower risk for funders.

Indiegogo is more liberal, allowing your project to succeed or fail based on the strength of your network, rather than the additional trust conferred by the brand itself. While the guys over at 'gogo are really focused on preventing fraud, the very nature of 'every project can be funded' means that more projects will fail to ship.

In my experience, Indiegogo is really great for projects where the goal is not some type of new product, but rather some sort of well-understood goal. Like saving a clinic for pregnant woman in San Francisco, or raising money for a child to get a lung transplant. Kickstarter is more about innovation -- Cards Against Humanity, the Pebble watch, etc.

Same goal, different ways of getting there. Basically, Kickstarter is Apple, Indiegogo is Facebook.
This is brilliant. Can we clone you to restaff the TSA?
:)

Applying Bayesian empiricism! My posterior measurement of P(redeemable|young) after a lifetime of observation is too high. While I'm on the topic of children; how is it just to kill the youth of Egypt for the flaws of their ruler and his enforcers?
>>It's own occupation for 24 months, then it becomes reasonable occupation.

Reasonable occupation is pretty vague and I think this kind of word-play is what helps insurance companies find reasons or even solid justifications to not pay up in the end.

As your parent comment implied, the insurance company can just argue selling lemonade or pencils is a 'reasonable occupation' and can even prove there are people surviving daily on such a business. And all that can become a base reason to just not pay up.
Sadly Germans hate credit cards.
It's sad. No, scratch that, it's fucking outrageous that this explanation is even necessary. Somehow we've internalized the notion that kafkaesque nightmares are to be expected and necessarily endured by good little citizens in order for our country to continue to exist or something. In many ways this is more frightening than living in a 1984 style dystopia. Living in a dystopia of our own making that receives more popular support than condemnation is almost too distressing to contemplate.
One you get into one EU country, dealing with other EU countries is probably quite a bit easier...
I would be interested in a Japanese viewpoint - is there a resurgence of a pro-Emperor viewpoint in Japan? I'm guessing there is an agenda behind this - similar to the same agendas persued in Texas textbooks or a hundred other education-as-politics decisions

But just as in Texas and elsewhere - the best innoculation is transparency.
There are whole books written about how terrible JavaScript is, and yet it is one of the most popular languages today. People have learned to work around the quirks and develop best practices to avoid pitfalls.

PHP is an actively developed language. It has its pitfalls and problems, but is also provides more modern ways to use the language that avoid those problems.
Facebook finally wins  lawsuit on Sponsored stories
how to get the list of urls in this example on http://noodlejs.com/?

the selector: 'h3.r a' allows only to get the list of names
GNOME 4 will be just one button that makes fart noises when you press it
Why Women Prefer Working Together (and Why Men Prefer Working Alone)
I'm in an office in Berlin as I type this. Every person around me has a credit card. Every German I personally know, including my destitute student friends, have credit cards.

It's not like online retail isn't a huge business here, and credit cards are the easiest payment method available, due to the incredibly restrictive nature of German banks.

A lot of startups here have been screaming for this day.
[Firebase Founder] Hi Robin,

You’re right, some folks don’t fully setup their security rules. We remind our developers to do this, but can -- and clearly need -- to do more. Your suggestion about requiring security rules is a good one. We’ll be going through our customers and providing more personalized feedback on their security rules in the coming days. Also, we are working on additional tutorials and examples to teach our devs how to use our security rules in an interactive way.

Thanks for pointing out some of the areas we can improve our examples. They’re intended to illustrate design patterns, not be robust production apps. Again, we can do better here, and the code we use as an example should be bullet proof.

Like any application, Firebase-powered apps are only as secure as the developers make them. If you do not control access with security rules, your app could be vulnerable. XSS attacks can affect Firebase apps like any other application.

Finally, we would have really liked you to provide responsible disclosure on the specific Firebases you found issue with and given us enough time to speak with those customers before taking this public.

We’ll reach out to you via email now.
You're twisting the ad. They didn't say "this is what matters in life", they said "this is what matters". It's an ad for a consumer products company, and the implication is pretty clearly "this is what matters when designing products", not "this is what matters in life".
And they save your MAC address to their database.
Especially if that first country is Germany, as they're one of the economic powerhouses of the EU.
Really?

I'm certain they hate the notion of credit too which has long been attributed to their post-war mindset.

Are other European notions similarly disposed towards credit (and thus credit cards), too?
Please qualify "most people".
The average Facebooker doesn't know what that is and doesn't care. Just like so many people listen to music on iPhone or laptop speakers, quality seems to no longer matter.
I think you can add this with BetterTouchTool. At least I managed to add an almost plumbing rule with middle clicking on my old MB, I have to try it on the new, though
Credit card usage is somewhat lower in Germany (though by a smaller margin than people think), and we considered holding off 'till we had a better answer to this. But we thought about it more, and talked to a bunch of German companies, and realized that a lot of German users want to sell to a global market in the very same way that, say, an American company would -- there isn't necessarily a tight coupling between the geography of your customers and the geography of your business. (This is what's great about the internet!) Travis CI is a good example here.

Seen this way, we figured it made sense to bring the capabilities that US users have today to Germany as quickly as we could.
I find it helpful to think of a muscle as an analogy for my brain. Thoughts are like contractions - sometimes they are purposeful when they are part of a movement, an extension of my will. But sometimes they are not; in that way the incessant chatter of the internal monologue, or worse yet, stress, is similar to a cramping muscle, a flood of contractions that come unbidden. Meditation, then, is similar to relaxation exercises, doing stretches or posture training - teaching your muscles how to be at rest. This can then also translate into efficiency and economy of motion when you choose to move, not to mention more energy, because all the useless contractions/thoughts haven't worn you out beforehand. Also, yoga makes a lot of sense when you think of it this way, because you literally do this for both your body and brain at the same time.
It doesn't make sense, just put those 2.5K to upgrade your retirement plan.
7 Steps to Beat Procrastination
Just got accepted into the Australia Beta, its working awesome.
Chrome screams out an https error on the first link.
Plan weekly. Review daily.
This is fantastic news for german startups. I wish Stripe can expand to more countries around the world faster!

Anyone knows how easy would it be for them to expand to Dubai for example?
Diaspora was 4 (and then quickly 3, and then tragically only 2) just-out-of-college/still-in-college dudes who were tasked with building something competitive with one of the most used pieces of software of all time while inventing-brand-new / re-purposing-in-novel-ways encryption and federation technology to store and transport the data. They did amazingly well, all things considered, and the project continues along at a faster clip than most all of the flash-in-the-pan "whisper tech" / "encrypted rss" / etc stuff I see at the top of HN every day since Snowden.

If just 5% of the people who bitched about Diaspora "failing" or tried to build their own competitor from scratch just contributed instead, then I think we'd be much farther along.
In 4.1 they'll remove the fart noise, because 'not everyone will have sound hooked up, and we want to provide a consistent experience'...
Let me preface this by saying this doesn't reflect on the technology scene or any technology companies therein, only the town itself. But you've got to live in the town so its important.

By comparison to SF and LA its high. If you're not white you'll feel it and every now and then if you like the bar/ club scene when you try to get in the bouncer will say "Your pants are too low" which in my opinion is code for "your skin color is too dark"

Having lived in the south most of my life I've figured out its mostly from Austin's sad and hardly talked about lack of diversity and the xenophobia that generates.

For what it feels like to be a minority in Austin here's really good read

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/what-nobody-says-about-aus...
Or someone who uses maven...
A reply by a Gnome dev to an older bug (536271) about this is even more telling:

I would even go as far as to disable middle mouse
paste without exposing any GUI option for this [...]
A hardcore unix person will shout and scream if we
try to remove it, yet it is flawed. We should remove
it and use a one, predictable way of copy & pasting.
Ask HN:  Statistics on startups that lose a co-founder early?
Does anyone know of any statistics on the success/failure rate of startups that lose a co-founder in the early days, say before demo day or Series A?
As someone who's fought for months with the ARM cortex-a9 cache prefetch behaviour and behaviour of the various memory attributes (not intuitive and only partially documented), I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Those are bits of hardware which are supposed to run around GHz speeds, they might look clean enough on the surface but when you dig deep enough "hic sunt dracones".
Honest question to everybody:

Would you trust your financial data (= growth data, etc.) to a company like Paymill that's owned by a clone factory (i.e. the Samwers') or do you think that's being paranoid?

EDIT: I wasn't asking for downvotes, I was asking for rational comments, explanations, thoughts.
"Wait here for someone who will escort you out" = "he was detained."

"The bag had to remain" = "they seized his bag."
Non-orthogonality: Multiple features that accomplish nearly the same result in different ways.

For a language maintainer, this is another piece that will have to be supported, troubleshooted and documented.

The other problem for users is that it gives a sense of confusion and uncertainty (Paradox of Choice) about the correctness of a program that may lead to multiple refactorings that don't add any value. Also, more features require more learning and makes programs harder to understand.

The goals of any good language should be correctness and understandability. Arguably, Python learned the lessons from Perl. But there are many different languages, and some are better in different instances.

What Nimrod turns into will be hard to say, but Go and Erlang need more competition.
Thank you guys/girls, we have being waiting for this for a while now, we almost went with Paymill , so this is some awesome news. What's the issue with being able to accept Dollars only with a US Bank account, would you fix this after the beta or is it supposed to stay like this? ...or have I misunderstood something?
Note that in California the Unruh Act more or less states that businesses do not have a right to refuse service for anything not related to the business transaction. For example, the ACLU was successfully sued under the law for kicking off-duty police officers out of a seminar on police surveillance, and banks have been sued for denying loans to homeowners who expressed interests in running home-based day care centers.
> So I'm not worried about the NSA as much as I'm worried about Facebook or Google circumventing ethical principles in lieu of targeted advertising, using my face/name without my consent, backing up private data when I want it deleted, etc.

But this is what all pragmatic people should be worried about. I highly doubt the NSA is going to care about me at any point during my lifetime (although I am a fanatic and would prefer they are unable to), but I measure the odds of Facebook misusing my information in the ways you mentioned as very high.

The largest problem I have with the NSA is that it's a breach of the 4th Amendment AFAIC and I don't like the direction US law enforcement is going in general if these things are condoned.

I never thought Diaspora would be successful, but I am disappointed to be right on this one so far.
> it is one of the most popular languages today

Javascript is popular because people have no choice but to use that. Let's be truthfull here.

Only a few people actually like this language.If it wasnt for the web nobody would use javascript ,which is totally inconsistent with the strongly typed DOM.

Kudos to microsoft as they created DHTML.
ARM Acquires Internet Of Things Startup Sensinode To Move Beyond Tablets
I cooked a few burgers on the engine block of my 1983 Toyota Tercel back in the day.

On my current car it's got so many plastic enclosures all over it that I can't find a hot area for my burger action. A real shame. This skill seems to be almost magical when I tell people about it :)
Not a form of theft, but it is a seizure of property.

This is interesting. The argument is over whether he was detained or whether his property was seized. Fun shell game there. Not....
Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) Eyes China After Strong Start in Hong Kong
We'll add USD -> Euro German bank account very soon. Want to drop Thairu an email (thairu@stripe.com) and we'll ping you once it's ready?
Something that might be of interest to this community: https://register.blib.us : We have been working on it for a couple of years now. Someday in the near future, we plan to go open source, but haven't taken the plunge yet.
The Real Generation Gap: How Adults and Teens Use Social Media Differently
I'm curious to see how this plays out. The X default with two clipboards is insane, but I think the best option is to merge those into one and keep the middle click.

The design docs: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Selections