skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, courts ultimately derive their principles of justice from the values and traditions of a people.

That's a valid POV, but it can hardly be stated as fact. For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights owes its existence to a broad consensus that, actually, certain fundamental principles of human rights are universal, and a South African has as much of a right to not be tortured by his government as an Englishman does. Of course, not everyone agrees, but denying any kind of universal quality to human rights is a fairly... niche form of cultural relativism.

> That's why international tribunals can have no legitimacy.

Aaand that's just a non-sequitur. The ECtHR has legal legitimacy to rule on UK issues because the UK voluntarily signed the ECHR. Its rulings do not have direct effect in the UK, but have a certain amount of indirect effect nevertheless because Parliament passed a law in 1998 giving them that. (FWIW, since then, the ECHR - which was mostly drafted by an Englishman - can also be enforced domestically in UK courts, and the ECtHR have only rarely overruled UK courts on ECHR interpretation issues).

So the situation here is the executive (GCHQ) possibly acting in violation of the will of Parliament (as expressed in the HRA1998). Parliament has delegated the task of deciding when the executive has violated its law to various judicial bodies, domestic and international. That's not subverting democracy. It's enforcing it.
For testing you can even run it with 'java -jar gitbucket.war', and five seconds later you have it up and running.
I use bpython, personally.
> You can get fantastic [design] work for the price of a beer – definitely for under $20.

Bullshit.
Cognitive dissonance is a fascinating area of research.

It's amazing to me that people can believe, utterly, such obvious tripe. "All climate change research is paid by cunny people who create carbon quota trade market out of thin air, and seek political control in their own coutries."
To say it was heavily inspired by GitHub would be an understatement.
I think people are pretty concerned about means as well as ends. That's why all parties want to reduce crime, and yet none campaign for a policy of "dispose of crime reports after 24 hours" which is almost certain to fulfil the objective function for "reduce recorded crime" (and will probably get passed in "futarchy" if someone proposes it and the market acknowledges that the highly-weighted variable "crime rate" will undoubtedly fall as a result).

Instead of voting for the party that wants to reverse something that directly impacts their welfare or they otherwise consider to be stupid or immoral, the electorate is forced to listen to a set of explanations of mathematical equations that try to reverse engineer how it could have been passed, and how to remove it with the least side effects. If I want to pay lower taxes I'd prefer to vote for the party that makes lower taxes for people like me a core plank of their platform, and not a set of equations purporting to show how a tax cut could feasibly be approved by the market in the current economic climate provided variables P, Q, R and S were held constant and Z was reduced by a couple of basis points.

It's quite possible that a party advocating a high weight on lower-quartile average incomes and a negative weight on birth rate wouldn't want some nutters to propose the "compulsory abortions for offspring of the unemployed" law, and get it passed, but I'm not sure a welfare function that could avoid all such unintended consequences even exists, never mind one intelligible to the average voter.
why not just go with Webkit nightly if you want it so badly?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
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This is all true. There were early ODBC drivers and COM wrappers for Python, too, back in this time period.
Your evidence-based, nuanced response is most helpful, thank you. Are you a designer by chance?

(Someimes good enough is good enough)
I'm really looking forward to tagging files in Finder. An integrated solution, unlike OpenMeta.
Well, first of all, they generally can't.
There's a great example here of a well done Dockerfile and implementation using supervisor.
Well, I don't know about terminators or replicators but they could do a self-solving rubik's cube once they'll have built 26 of these blocks.
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Can't edit on mobile, but here's the example referenced:

https://github.com/dotcloud/collectd-graphite?files=1
Who defines and enforces "rule of law" and "human rights"? These people are the rulers then. When some "majority" or "president" decides that "X is a basic human right", then suddenly everyone who produces and sells X must sell it for government-imposed prices. Or has to go to jail.

It would probably be cool if we figured out all basic human rights once and for all and had the written laws enforce themselves without human supervision. But the reality is that people are doing harm to people, not papers. And people decide when this harm is justified and when it's not.
To really put it through its paces you need to feed it reviews of The Room[1] from imdb:

>It is, without question, the worst film ever made. (--) But this comment is in no way meant to be discouraging. (-) Because while The Room is the worst movie ever made it is also the greatest way to spend a blisteringly fast 100 minutes in the dark. (--) Simply put, 'The Room' will change your life. (0)

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/
I agree. While I'm totally Visual Studio free now (since I don't like running VM on OS X), I haven't seen this type of instability in a LONG time.
Well, I would put it differently: you simply misunderstood what he (Walter) was saying, and then (too quickly) concluded that he therefore must have a deep misunderstanding!

But I admit my critique is a bit unfair and "ad-hominem".

I've been reading the financial press (in London, I work in the City) for the last 5 years. The austerity "caucus" - those who have advocated "austerity" policies - have simply been wrong every step of the way. They predicted hyper-inflation, high US treasury yields, and a strong recovery in Ireland (where austerity has been forced by the ECB). Instead we've had moderate to low inflation (too low at times), unprecedented low yields for sovereigns who can borrow in their own currency, and a never-ending recession/depression in Ireland.

The "Keynesians" (Paul Krugman, Martin Wolfe, Joseph Stieglitz and many others) have been right. They have a working model (IS LM) which they refined after observing Japan's lost decade. They've used it to make predications, and been proved correct.
You are trying to suggest that Samsung have done no wrong.

The fact that you think that says much about you.
Judges everywhere tend to be "unelected". That's not innuendo. It's a fact that constitutional and legal scholars tend to be acutely aware of when determining the scope and balance of powers in a judiciary. Constitutional scholars constantly raise the same point about the US Supreme Court: its justices are unelected, and we are not a nation governed by philosopher kings.
Just create a bootstrap shell script that can be run on any machine. At a high level here's what mine does:

1) Install git
2) Clone a repo with all of the dockerfiles in it (each dockerfile corresponds to a container)
3) Install Docker
4) Start containers using the previously-mentioned scripts

The advantage to using a shell script for this is that you can start it manually or via an automated system. All you need is the bootstrap script and you can start your app on any machine. Well, apart from the distributions the post mentions I guess.
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Webkit browsers are ubiquitous - they're on almost every smartphone sold these days, for a start.

Everyone else still uses Firefox around me and wonders why someone would ever install a browser from an advertisement company.

I have no idea who you have around you, but that is a very minority opinion. Chrome's usage keeps going up and Firefox usage goes down.

I've used Firefox on Android (including Aurora) and it's fine. I don't see what makes it better than Chrome.

Though I don't think your whole comment is "weird", I think that we both have different experiences.
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The only worse thing to training employees and losing them is NOT training them and keeping them.

--Zig Ziglar
Yeah, it takes like 15 seconds.
True, but I believe the argument still stands for other ML algorithms, such as support vector machines. There is no way to query directly why the SVM maps an instance to a label.
RhodeCode does Git AND Mercurial and not "just" only Git. A big pro for me.
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> Keep decision-making securely ensconced in the airless bunker of the executive wing. Avoid empowering mid-tier employees lest they suddenly become entrepreneurial and unpredictable.

Just my opinion, but I think (8) is the most insightful of these and perhaps the least obvious (though they are all obvious to an extent). (8) is also the hardest to do right. You don't want to drag a developer to five executive meetings a day so that he doesn't have time to do development; that could in itself drive him/her away. But you also don't want any of your developers to feel like they don't know what's going on with the business at a higher level, and if they have an insight there should be an easy and comfortable avenue for them to discuss it.
When you imagine what a psychological impact shuttering SR would have had early 2012 its completely amazing how fast bitcoin is growing. Its legitimate uses are compelling...
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Here are some results from my benchmark [1]

results for 20000 parallel executions, 1 ms per I/O op

file time(ms) memory(MB)
promiseishBluebird.js 1076 76.08
async.js 2634 113.79
promiseishKew.js 2654 123.50
promiseishQ.js 56508 804.21

note: async.js is basically waterfall from https://github.com/caolan/async

[1]: https://github.com/spion/async-compare
Not exactly on topic, but the biggest usability flaw in HN is the inability to minimise a post (and its child comments), coupled with no hiding of child comments a million levels deep (this I'm fine with, if you could hide posts). Having to scroll down half a page to see what other discussions are happening around a link really blows.
Note that this is hosted on GitHub and not GitBucket. I made the mistake of thinking that the linked site was a running instance.
Too bad that government workers will not be allowed to find a freelance gig in the time that they are/will be furloughed. They need to get prior approval so that there's no conflict of interest. And since their supervisors are also furloughed, they wouldn't even be able to get said approval.
I find it surprising that instead of shutting it down they didn't turn it into a huge honey trap.
One of my main reasons for using FF is firebug. That said, chrome's dev tools are wonderful and I'll often use both in tandem.
As far as I'm aware, Firefox doesn't support h.264. They support codecs provided by your operating system. Firefox can't include h.264 decode because they would be violating patent law.
The sun is going to burn out some day. When that happens, no one will care about ocean acidity.
Stipulate that our basis for comparison is the US just to keep things simple.

First, a lot of angst and effort goes into circumscribing the powers of the federal judiciary precisely because they're unelected. They are for instance limited to hearing actual controversies involving parties with standing.

Second, our constitutional system "works" because it follows from an actual constitution, which was ratified and over 200 years reshaped by elected representatives of the people. In no place in the US system is there an escape hatch for the Supreme Court to do whatever it thinks is right while contravening the constitution. A strong enough democratic majority can in fact force the Supreme Court to do anything, by amending the constitution.
> Facebook’s data center (bottom) spends nearly two-thirds less energy on power and cooling than a typical facility. The building’s upper level (top) pumps in frigid air, cooling the servers below, then vents warmer air outside

Pumping warm air outside feels really wasteful.

Is there any work on increasing efficiencies with waste heat?
In the short to medium term, Netflix, etc. will just fallback on delivering streams through Silverlight of Flash. That's what they do know and those plugins will keep working. There's precedent for this in the way that many websites would deliver H.264 encoded HTML5 videos to browsers that supported those, but used Flash when Firefox didn't support H.264.

In the longer term, Silverlight is abandoned and Flash is on its way out. I think it's unlikely that Firefox holds out against EME in the long term, but it could be that it slowly gains a reputation for being bad for many streaming sites. The Flash fallback is buggier and less featureful than the streaming in other browsers, maybe slower as well. At some point, people upgrade their computers and find it hard to get a Flash plugin that works and so they eventually give up and switch browsers.

I'm not sure how technically possible it is, but another option is that Netflix and similar companies will write their own plugin for Firefox which supports DRM. Presumably they will try to make a plugin which is not a platform like Flash, but only serves the purpose of doing the DRM. An equivalent, but probably techincally superior, option is to put the DRM into an asm.js blob.

Some people in this thread believe that the lack of support for EME will put pressure on media companies non-DRM streaming options. This strikes me as wishful thinking. In the short-term, the existence of Flash and Silverlight fallbacks mitigates the pressure on Hollywood and streaming providers. Again, see the H.264 story. In the long-term, Hollywood's smart enough to realize that if there exists a DRM solution for Firefox today, then it will be technically possible in the future as well.

That's why I don't see the point of boycotting EME. If it could plausibly lead to DRM-free streaming options, that would be an improvement, but I don't believe it will happen. On the other hand, from a binary blob perspective, EME plugins are strictly better than NPAPI plugins, and second, users who don't want DRM can always not use it. All boycotting does is reduce the options for users who are willing to accept DRM.
> > fantastic [design] work...

> (Someimes good enough ...

Can you see the problem here?
What if you are over thinking it? Maybe he was gay and knew he had to be careful from experience?
Cool, time to make MongoDb web scale! :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Yes, I'm hopeful multi-monitors will work as well as Windows 7 now without me having to use third-party window managers and such.
This might be the greatest advertisement against tying browser releases to OS releases. Mad.
> Now I need to make sure that I don't get confused about this in the future.

Are you going to delay or force that?
Nitpick the nitpick, you can install applications on iOS that are forced to use the not-as-up-to-date-as-Mobile-Safari WebUIView. They are not allowed to roll their own engine.
Slightly off topic, but at what point does "big data" just become data?

According to wikipedia (which is in line with how I think about big data) "Big data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. "

However, as "big data" becomes more mainstream and more tools/services exist to accommodate data at the peta/exobyte scale does that whole definition stop being relevant for kinds of data we're talking about?
Like function templating using the Function constructor, try-catch wrapping, closure avoidance and many more. The source is a goldmine of JS optimization techniques (some V8-specific, some not so much)
For Unix and Windows support with both and Git,Mercurial you can try RhodeCode also. https://rhodecode.com https://secure.rhodecode.org/rhodecode-enterprise
There is already a race underway for the new winner in this hungry, insatiable market.

It's a cat and mouse game where mouse have an distinct edge.
...why? What LinkedIn integration does Android have?
Given the smiley at he end of the parent post, he probably won't be there for a long time.
I'd say HTML5 DRM is the far lesser evil in this case.

Completely disagree. HTML5 DRM is non-interoptable but disguised as interoptable through its HTML form. That makes it much, much worse.
No, Atlantis dissapeared over a week ago without refunding user's money.
Closed two weeks ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/20...
Hmm… I think that's pretty much what Brendan did, although he likely started with Self instead of Smalltalk. JavaScript makes a strong emphasis on objects, and had closures from the beginning. Then it has a Java-ish syntax.

As for actually implementing a smaltalk interpreter, it can now be done in 300 lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeN2IC7N0Q (I believe he used Maru http://piumarta.com/software/maru/ ) With current techniques, a language specialist can implement Smalltalk in a day.

I'm not that strong, though. It could take me from a week to a month, depending on how much I need to learn. (Parsing the syntax is easy, but I'm less sure about the semantics.)
> Incidentally, C2 is a strong acid

It’s almost impossible to produce a lot of C2 because it reacts with itself and produce some Carbon compound, like an amorphous version of graphite, similar to soot. In this version it can be compressed and buried.

(The main problem with this idea is that the decomposition needs a lot of energy.)
Maybe you can try RhodeCode supoprts both hg+git and it's super easy to upgrade. https://rhodecode.com https://secure.rhodecode.org/rhodecode-enterprise
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Yeah, I get that a lot. Theoretically, this is possible by supporting Mono and switching to PostgreSQL/MySQL. Practically, given my limited resources, this is not something I will be able to do in the nearest future.
I did the same!

It also doesn't seem to like swear words and web abbreviations (like j/k for example).
Perhaps with more data (from twitter or similar) it could go a long way though; as it definitely needs to learn about the more uncouth words.
> MongoDB ... now has about 600 customers, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and MetLife Inc.

I wonder what services they sell to scale it to those customers. It sure doesn't come that way out of the box. Any Mongo customers here?
Impressive. And they're actually a real big data company, not one just tagging big data onto what they do.
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The Pons / Fleischmann claims about their "cold fusion" experiment had nothing to do with aneutronic fusion. In fact, the definitive debunking of their claims consisted in the failure of other labs, and of P & F themselves, to detect fusion byproducts, including the expected neutrons: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/050399s...
I'm not a Lisp nor Haskell programmer though I plan to learn both. The article was quite interesting especially the part about macros. How much does lazy evaluation decrease the need for macros?
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About 10K years.
The things that irked me most about this terrible article have to do with the absence of any real product that "startup" has to offer, and when it does talk about making a product it's more a cumbersome afterthought than anything else.

Don't I need a product? Nah, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

Hey, just outsource that onerous coding task to some monkey, it's not important.

Don't get me wrong, not every founder needs to be able to do technical stuff. But I believe some understanding of what it is that you want to build is essential. If I had a cent for every time some "ideas guy" asks me to think through his entire product for the first time and then build it for a couple hundred bucks I'd have ...more than 20 cents I think. For some reason the same cheapness showcased in the article always coincides with the most clueless people.
Don't worry about thinking carefully or critically! No time for that! Get a website up now!
Wow. You complete and totally 100% missed the point of my story.

I used the example of neighbors because they are (in some neighbors) neighborly, and do altruistic things for each other. When there is a big snowfall in my neighborhood, all my neighbors come out and help each other shovel. There is mostly apartments here, so very few people own a snow blower and everyone needs to dig their cars out. I live alone and whenever someone sees me shoveling by myself, someone always comes over and helps me shovel without expectation of anything in return and its always a different person from last time.

When I make baked goods, I usually stop by the people who live in my building's apartments to see if they would like some of what I made.

I once needed help carrying something up the stairs, so I just knocked on a neighbor's door and he came out to help me. This it the neighbor who doesn't have to pay for internet because I let him use my WiFi.

There's somewhat of an "rule" if someone is in need of something, they just need to ask, and everything works because the give and take is pretty even, nobody takes and takes and takes without giving.

The point is, the person shoveling snow did it to be nice, and to help a neighbor out. Once the person being helped offered a reward in return, they are now putting a monetary value on the help they received and the value was insultingly low, saying "this is how much I value you." If they just said "Thank you very much" then it just remains as an altruistic gift to the community.

I used the neighbor example to make altruism more evident, to not think of it from a purely business prospective.

Yahoo have 2 choices to not offend people:

1) Bug finding is simply an altruistic act from the community.

2) Pair fair compensation.
Neither of which are allowed to use their own rendering engines because of Apple's policies.

Even if its not true (I have half a dozen current gen devices and end up using them all regardless of my beliefs), you definitely opened yourself up to a 'Do as I say, not as I do' attack.

Just ignore the trolls.
It's very cool and very clever from a hacking and engineering standpoint but I don't see what they're aiming for.

It seems they want to make groups of cubes that can autonomously reconfigure themselves, but what will they do once they get that? What task could they achieve?

I guess it could make a fun toy but I can't think of anything else.
> Perhaps the fragmentation it will cause will destroy closed media on the internet as a whole.

It almost certainly won't. The majority of consumers won't care (or even notice) so long as good products are being made with the technology.
It's just a buzzword now. "Let's use cloud to do big data analysis to proactively synergise our core competencies".
There's a fine line between labeling pornographers as exploiters (which certainly some are, though there are exploiters in many industries as well, even in software dev.) and slut shaming. A woman who is thoroughly in control of every aspect of her pornographic career and who receives the greatest part of the proceeds from it cannot reasonably said to be being exploited.
I know they're hiring like crazy in their new office in Dublin. Big growth spurt, massive cash injection, interesting to see if they become the first big "enterprisey" NoSQL provider.
> I'm disturbed that in an alternate universe we could be reading about Kraft's reelection campaign.

Both serial killers and politicians (and CEOs) have sociopathy in common. It's not a huge leap to imagine such a universe. Think of all the innocents killed at the hands of the current slate of US politicians.
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