skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
postfix, prefix. Gear gets a randomly generated name based on what special properties it has. So the red club of the owl is a club that has added fire damage(has red prefix) and a health bonus(has owl suffix)(or something I only play diablo causally so I don't know the affixes off hand.)
I'm still very new to Node and this has been a great resource ! It's very fun and engaging and I love that it doesn't hold your hand through the whole process. Great job!
Is the purpose of banishment to protect the rest of the tribe from the offender, or is the purpose of banishment to punish the offender?

The difference may seem academic, but I don't think the difference in attitude could manifest itself in how the banishment actually takes place. For example:

If you are part of a group of sailors that want to banish that big meanie captain and start their own little floating hippy commune, do you throw the captain overboard? Or do you throw him into a lifeboat with a radio and enough food to last until he is found?

The second is not best described as 'punishment'.
The term itself suggests superiority, by using the word "exceptional". That isn't a word reserved for comparing different things that are different but not objectively better or worse.

> It seems to me that there is a difference between calling someone out on an inferiority complex, and calling someone out on sharing a country with people who have an inferiority complex.

And that person didn't say that he's from the US, for that matter. But you can read a personal attack into it if you want.
And where is the money in backing up sites from other hosts? I don't really see it.
You mean that it's not clear if copying the handle will copy the data or just create another reference? At least in the STL that's kinda clear: vector will copy its elements (if they are pointers, it'll copy the pointers. if they are values it'll copy all the data), shared_ptr will copy the handle pointing to the same shared object, unique_ptr is not copyable and so on.

But agreed, it's opaque when working with third party code. Gotta figure out the conventions.
If you are a company selling a platform, those are some wise words to live by.
Too little too late. The only thing that can redeem D3 in my eyes is the removal of always online requirement. With AH gone there is absolutely no excuse for it to be present.
Hehe. Oops...
Version 3, compatible with the latest test vectors published here: http://keccak.noekeon.org/KeccakKAT-3.zip . Our hope is that the algorithm won't change, but if it does, we'll bump version numbers and support decryptions with the old.
A patent troll takes a punch on the nose, but there are still (too) many
(Jonathan, please read this comment in a completely respectful tone of voice, because I'm not, and I'm sure Nick was not, trying to start a FoundationDB vs Datastax pissing contest!)

I can easily believe that adding CAS in combination with Cassandra's other features and design choices was harder than providing it in other contents, and that it required novel ideas! As an architect of a distributed, transactional, ordered, fault tolerant k/v store I know quite well that providing multiple properties in combination is usually superlinearly difficult :-) It's also clearly not true that open source projects only copy, unless you are inclined to believe that there is nothing new under the sun at all.

But in your view, do (for example) MongoDB, Zookeeper, HBase, Couchbase, and etcd also provide "lightweight transactions"?

If not, why not? If so, why is a new name for this feature necessary?
Because of his dubious actions in contrary to his rank, I imagine? :)
This is interesting though this biggest problem is their seed groups are in the size of 1%-3% of the networks population. If you can affect that much of a large enough network, to constitute 'viral', in the first place then you probably don't need an algorithm like this anyway.
"This is the only truly just reason for impeding anyone's freedoms. Rehabilitation is certainly a noble end"

Yes, that makes sense. Rehabilitation is something that you might as well attempt while detaining somebody dangerous, but detainment is obviously the priority.
Thanks! I will definitely check some of those out.
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While it could certainly be improved, it does explicitly make false filers liable for damages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...
Sadly, I find myself preferring the iOS 6 look
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I know you can't see upvotes here, so I hope it's not useless to post a 'me too' type post. Just to say I'd definitely pay for this on a desktop, I doubt I can draw more accurately with my finger than a mouse and your algorithm isn't bad at all - I have no doubt it'd translate brilliantly.
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It does if the rewards aren't monetizable because of their ability to break the game. People grind for hats in TF2 all day, and by getting a hat you don't break the game. The problem is when you reward people with things that break the game.

Don't break the game for profit; simple, no?
>Who really believes that a person can murder someone else, ... out of pure malice, and then be allowed to enjoy the same happiness as if they hadn't committed that act?

Who really believes that such a thing would be possible, regardless of external punishment?

Surely only a psychopath could kill someone in anger and not ultimately be destroyed by the act, almost by definition, and we've already decided that those people are medical cases, and that punishing them literally does nothing.

I guess it depends on how you personally view human nature; this stuff is hard to pin down. Maybe I'm just naive.
Why is the title
"Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big"

When the article is "Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big"

Two totally different points?

And I'm sure it was correct to begin with.
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Finland had below-average schools until the 1970s, then they got serious about reforming them, and now they're on top. So none of this bullshit applies.
I don't spend anything like 15-30 mins in Trader Joes. I know where the things I want are, I might sometimes spend time browsing the wines for something new, but this is no different that browsing the same online.

I just don't get the big deal, it seems like whining to me. It really isn't that big of a deal, you take your life so seriously that you can't spend a little time looking for food you might enjoy. Maybe it's because I'm European where we the attitude to food is different.
Obviously if the Politburo had been able to anticipate what Gorbachev would do, they would have had him killed instead of appointing him premier.

If Gorbachev had known the results of his actions ahead of time, he might well have chosen differently. I certainly don't assume that he wanted to kill the USSR. I agree with you that none of the old conservative dudes would have done what Gorbachev did, but that was the reason they chose him rather than another old dude in the Brezhnev-Andropov-Chernenko line. Even the old dudes knew that the economy was failing, and had been for a decade. Therefore they chose their youngest member as Premier. When he made major changes as they had asked him, I'm sure they were uncomfortable, and they might not have anticipated those particular major changes, but they couldn't very well be surprised. If there had been a radically authoritarian hard-line Communist option that he felt stood a major chance of saving the USSR, Gorbachev might well have chosen that. In any case, please don't take Gorbachev's actual, unsuccessful attempt to save the USSR as proof that no one knew it needed saving.

Gorbachev's actions were not so unlike Deng Xiaoping's in a similar situation, although of course results differed. That events turned out so much better for the Chinese Communist Party might be because they got a slightly earlier start, because of differences between China and USSR, due to chance, due to something else, or (probably) a combination of all of these. We in the West hold a more nuanced view of Deng, because we had a chance to see what he did after he won.

I'll make this prediction: if the government of Iran ever starts genuinely reforming itself from within, it will be because they have judged Iran to be in a very precarious situation, from which their current policies are unable to extract them. If the result is a radical departure from the existing political structure, simpletons in the West will lionize whichever youngish cleric is most associated with the reforms. If instead they succeed in their intentions, and just make small necessary adjustments to Iranian society, we'll all ask ourselves "why couldn't Iran have had a Gorbachev?"
Let me say first that I am a technologist and I do have generally speaking an optimistic view of the future where technology actually solves most of our problems. I believe in the concept of the singularity where super-intelligent AI makes human intelligence irrelevant. I have a completely different worldview from almost everyone reading this thread so what I am about to say will probably just be dismissed as "conspiracy theories" or something but I need to say it just in case some people may be able to get something out of it without dismissing it out of hand.

Its going to be difficult for anyone who routinely exposes themselves to mainstream news sources to see any of what I am about to say as being credible. Especially in the tech community where rose-colored glasses are almost ubiquitous.

He wonders why they didn't stop the Syria chemical weapons attack and the Boston one. The reason is that those were false flag attacks. The Syria attack was committed by US-backed rebels and then blamed on the regime in order to be used as propaganda to motivate the extension of the covert proxy war in Syria into an overt one involving the US forces directly.

The Boston attack was used to motivate gun control which is important for securing the state against dissident factions when the economic situation deteriorates dramatically as it is likely to at some point when a substantive challenge to the petrodollar status is mounted.

Back to the war in Syria, I urge everyone to take a look at some maps of the middle east and Africa and make an X in all of the countries where the US and allies or related countries have been involved in recent decades (centuries). You will see that this is a long term military campaign rather than a series of isolated wars. Also take a look at a list of countries by proven oil reserves. Also look up 'petrodollar'.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2007/01/359290.jpg

The Afghan War should be considered the Third Opium War as it was largely motivated by the Taliban wiping out the heroin cash crop belonging to the Anglo establishment and intelligence agencies. http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Afg...

The purpose of the NSA is not to control terrorism. It is to keep tabs on potential enemies of the US, both domestic and foreign. All US citizens and foreigners are actually considered potential enemies of the state. The closest thing for people to understand is to compare it to the East German Stasi. This type of apparatus may seem unnecessary now while the US is fat, happy and sitting pretty, but like I mentioned, the petrodollar cannot continue forever, and the state knows that. Economic conditions will some day change very dramatically and lead to large-scale hunger, and at that time the previous removal of citizen's arms and vast surveillance network will make the state much more secure in the face of growing domestic dissent.

Of course since most people have a totally different world view and are constantly bombarded by propaganda on television, this will all just seem like nonsense to you.
It seems implausible to turn this into a business. So, you have this seed group per network and, what, charge some amount to reach this group on the assumption that they will care enough to propagate the message? Seems that quality and relevance of content are still the overriding factors.

Also, wouldn't many of the same people be members of the seed group, leading to message fatigue amongst their connections?

Seems like something out of which you may raise the hopes of many a marketing department, but which ultimately proves impracticable.
The article is written by The Guardian. I control-f'd things like "usa" and "america" and found nothing in the article itself.

But sure, the article was written to discredit America. Everything revolves around you.
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I, like many people, get distracted by easily-corrected mistakes. You can call that a fault of mine, and people like me, but since it's relatively easy to lower the barrier for us to easily consume the material by correcting the language, I think it's worthwhile.
Yes, but the ship has to still be seaworthy to make it to India in the first place. The CC is definitely not seaworthy, so I expect it will be towed to the closest shipyard that can handle it.
Seriously, it's as hot as the last circle for about 20 percent of the year, but when it's 10 degrees out you sack up and deal with it.
well the design is complete, we printed some first round tests, and adjusted the tolerances, and the final device is being printed as we speak.
I hope it takes off.
Both are ways to return money to the shareholders with the balance shifting from giving more flexibility to the shareholders vs more flexibility to the company. Of course the chunks are substantially larger when it comes to buying back individual shares vs paying out a (still relatively small) dividend so there will likely be a balance struck between the two.

By announcing a share repurchase they are also signalling they believe that the shares are undervalued but the strength of that signal is strongly dependent on the amount of money they commit to buying back stock, in this case about 1/7th of their total cap.
Just about anything on the JVM (Dropwizard, Play, Finagle, Scalatra, Rest-Express, Rest-Easy, Compojure, Unfiltered, Jersey, Vert.x, Spark), Go (Gorilla, Beego, Revel), Lua (Lapis), Haskell, Erlang...
Congrats on the funding. However, I'm not sure what Apiary does, or why I'd use it. Could someone help me? Is it an API mocking tool? A documentation tool? Both? Can I use it next to my existing source tree?
I'd bet it's drowning in bureaucracy for a reason — Battle.net is a common component in virtually everything the company creates, so any change to it will impact a lot of people's work in unforeseen ways.
Just did some background reading about that work. It does seem to be quite important, at the very least because so much has been influenced by it. Although in some other readings regarding Aristotle's political theories, I had a hard time getting past his views on slaves.
I watched season 1 of house of cards on netflix. I noticed kevin spacey's character plated halo late at night to unwind. Realized it would probably work for me too, so I bought the new metal gear game on xbox the other day. So far it's working.
I wonder if the 297 number is essentially the ratio of the entire network to the seed population? So, you pay to reach x people who then spread it to 297x others.

Still, dubbing even this ROI would be a huge stretch.
Is is just me, or are their docs kind of yuck/hard to read?

http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/#vehiclecommands

My biggest problem: way too much visual emphasis on 'GET' part and not enough on the actual URL. That has way more priority, to me.
I wonder if it really will though. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, STL is an output format (think PostScript) that I would be a little bit surprised to see checked in to a repository. Maybe diffs for 3D source formats will come in the future?
so many kids will become unemployed in China... those poor poor item farmers... won't someone think of the children!
Slightly off topic, but the font used in the slides is Vollkorn:

http://friedrichalthausen.de/vollkorn/

http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Vollkorn

I figure there are some designers or people interested in typography that might appreciate this information. It was rather easy to eyeball due its strong and distinct serifs at large point sizes, although the stylesheets verify it as well.

Even more off topic: you'll also find that Vollkorn is one of the fonts available for use in the Google Play Books app on Android. If you use Google Play Books, I recommend trying it out. It's a fantastically readable font, especially white-on-black, for late night readers like myself.
> if the visual presence of the OS disappears entirely from
> apps,

This actually was one of the goals of the redesign: make content the most important thing on the screen.
not an easy topic though.

some crimes are easier to stomach than others. some sentences are not meant to help the person going to prison, but protecting the population from that very person.

the lax practices in western europe have led to numerous cases where prisoners where able to rape/kill people while they were on "prison vacations", in german called "freigang". very often an expert psychatrist had deemed the prisoner to be stable and reformed.

a guy in austria has just killed 3 policemen plus 1 ambulance driver. if he doesn't kill himself (standoff is still ongoing) - what exactly is there to reform? 4 people are dead, the lives of their families are forever impacted by this. why should the assailant have any right to return to society? he decided to deny this right to 4 direct victims.

should marc dutroux ever go free? breivik? why do they need to be reformed? should the gangrapers in India go free?

the victims and their families should come first. you rape, kill, maim? consciously? ok, face the consequences. this reformation BS is ignoring the plight of the victims and their families.
Loans in India require collateral, educational loans included. In this case bank's appraisal might not have been high enough to cover the expenses or the land is already under a collateral, in which case his only option was to sell.

The article seems to be made for increasing hits by painting a sad picture. She would have gotten full scholarship in lot of colleges if she is as smart as they say she is.

Also most people in India won't worry about taxes as they are below poverty level.
I had the opposite reaction. In the large majority of these I think the original looks better, sometimes significantly so. But I'd be curious to see a poll of HN opinions.
Didn't help that every level 60 demon hunter is literally identical except gear. I can take your guy and put on my gear and continue where I left off.
Interesting, although I'm not sure why they are setting an invalid value for Image.crossOrigin. The only valid values for this are "anonymous" and "use-credentials". Setting an invalid value (like a URL) is treated as "anonymous".

EDIT: And when running the jsfiddle demo, it looks like Google isn't sending any CORS headers from the given map image, breaking the demo entirely:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?scale=2&center...
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> I don't think speeding fines are really punishment. It is a cost that you are not willing to pay without good reason.

I think that it would be fair to say that this sort of imposed cost is a punishment. It seems to meet definition 2b here (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punishment). That cost/punishment/whatever isn't worth the reward, so I don't do it.

I mean, it isn't a "speeding tax" or "speeding fee" that you pay for the retroactive right to speed for a while.

As another example, the fine here for violating open container laws in a public park is something like $25, which I would gladly pay on some nice summer days for a personal permit to drink in the park. I don't drink in the park and accept the possibility of that fine though, despite the naive cost/benefit ratio working out. It isn't just about the $25, I also don't want to be fined. The "fine" part I don't like; the "$25" part is okay.

(Repeat offense will of course result in the loss of your license, a penalty that acts as a more severe punishment but also a form of detainment. When your license is taken the idea is that you cannot endanger the public until you prove yourself capable of driving safely (prove yourself rehabilitated))
Awesome, that's a great show too and a great reference in the media :)
Hi,

thanks!

Yes, it is both and yes, you can add it to your source tree through our github integration.

Our idea is to have a human-readable, human-writeable DSL to describe your API. From there, we generate both documentation, mocks, debugging proxy and tests.

You can use it to describe your existing APIs, but in my mind, our biggest value lies in conversation around API design that happens before you start implementing.

Hope this helps!
Run exit nodes from VMs in a country you don't live in, and run them entirely from ram.
This is a really insightful article into Norway's prison system. I wish it had also gathered opinions from the victims of crime. I presume there is broad support among the Norwegian population for the length of sentencing.

In the UK, the press often goads the public with stories of "soft" sentencing. The article mentions a young man serving 11 years for murder. That pain will last a lifetime for the family of the murdered person. If I wondered if I could accept a sentence of 11 years as suitable punishment for the murderer? Would I be so bitter and angry that I'd wish for more? (Yes, I know this is why we have courts to make judgements).
very nice work. the logo reminds me of james halliday's art -- did he make it?
I think it's because people upvote most often when they share a particular opinion -- and your first opinion is mostly about the title of the article.

For example. I saw the title, clicked through (also opened comments), gave the page a once-over (didn't even read) -- came back here, and saw that first post. I also agree with the guy said, I thought they came up with some amazing new way to view regular diffs in 3D. So, I would have upvoted. Maybe it's just me, but I'm guessing far more people do that
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I doubt they learned their lesson yet.
Google also had the advantage of original founders who remained extremely engaged, and have re-emerged as leadership - founders who are ultra-talented and ambitious engineers. The X Lab gives Google a place to continue bringing in top engineers regardless of what the Mountain View office is like.
How do you get to that? The UI is basically the same, but flatter. In addition, iOS 7 is not about aesthetics, it's about depth and movement...
That was actually a really cool presentation. Are there any papers out there for someone who is interested in segmenting data like that?

Also, on the topic of "LOL", and the related acronyms, I think this little cartoon explains it well: http://www.27bslash6.com/lol.jpg
I know someone who bought a 4 plex here in Dayton for $50k in cash, and earns 500 per unit ie 2k per month or 24k per year. Paid for the investment in 2 years, and is now earning 24k per year residual and bought another property for 78k.

Renting is a good investment if you can handle sourcing tenants and outsourcing or handling maintenance issues.
The money comes from being a resource for anyone who needs to restore the site and use the archive as only one example. That "anyone" can be a service provided by the archive or access to the data can be sold to the person (tech or previous site owner) that wants to restore the site.

Even if for some legal reason the data couldn't be sold it could be offered in exchange for a donation.

This is not "archiving the entire web" it's archiving the type of sites (of size and purpose) that are most likely to need the service.
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