skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto. (Though I mostly grew up a lot farther out in the sticks.) I think what they mean is "the area around Vandy and the recently-gentrified portions of East Nashville are liberalish".

That having been said, the general feel of Nashville has really changed over the past decade.

I used to see it as a "dirty, smelly big city", but it certainly feels more alive now than it used to.

Then again, perhaps a lot of that is the fact that I live somewhere else, and now I go there to visit friends and family.

At any rate, glad to see a pyTN conference springing up!
That kind of thinking betrays the idea of diversity existing within those fields.
big government != mind control.

EDIT: to add, I thought that Orwell actually wrote an essay called "I am on the left" although I can't now find it. He was definitely not right wing - he was just very critical of communism as a supposedly left wing system.
I just switched to an Android phone so apologies if this is old news, but as i make a call to people it pops up their last Facebook status on the dialer screen.

I can appreciate this may sound like a total waste of time but i've been grateful of it so many times now!

The effect is almost like my phone could read my mind and it's saying something like "ohh, you're going to talk to so-and-so? Well here's something current to talk about!"
This should be released as free software. It's a mistake to teach children about Computer Science using proprietary software. It's anti-educational.
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On /b/? Where?
I couldn’t agree more.

One thing I’ve been doing lately to mitigate #2 and #3 is to use the repository pattern. Models become POCOs and the repositories worry about translating to and from SQLite/Core Data/etc. Is it perfect? Nope. But it does provide a lot of flexibility, and I sleep better at night knowing that I can swap out the data store much more easily should I need to.
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In what possible way is it relevant? Why would it even be something anyone attending would care about? The conference is about programming, not gayness.

Good on him for standing up for what he believes in, and putting his money where his mouth is. If only more did the same.
Yes, but Baidu Jiasule is an anti-DDOS system- If someone else comes along five minutes later and says they were wronged, you can just switch it over to the new person... There'd be nothing to gain by trying to cheat.
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I love the screencast on the site. Is there a tool you used to get that going?
SA moderation is only successful because it costs you at least $10 USD to restore a banned account.
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I think that there is no actual system in place, and loss of functions- even hell-banning- rests entirely upon the whims of the mods. No matter what contradictory explanations are given by said mods.
Quite insightful but no, compared to many other conservative cities and it's seems to be leaning away from it's conservative past. For example, there's still tons of churches but some of the biggest and most popular are the newer,relaxed ones.
> "Flamewar" is such a Paul Graham term

We were discussing flame wars on Slashdot before News.YC (ahem, Hacker News) even existed. People on the internet before then were discussing flame wars on usenet (as the parent post mentions).
> How did his (alleged) people, connections, and family money make that happen?

Did Scott Adams grow up in a slum and receive a US "inner city" education?

Alternatively, did he grow up on a farm with a family that expected him to work to help support it once he could drop-out of school without repercussion?

Are you starting to see where this is going?
Not really a Python guy, but I'm sure to learn something interesting.
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But we also know there are a lot of people who never pay, and never intend to/can't pay; a moment with Google will find things like ((http://www.pantagraph.com/news/national/trauma-in-the-er-who...):

"Nationwide, the uninsured account for nearly a fifth of emergency department visits.

[...]

Last year, MedStar Washington reported delivering $107.2 million in care for which it was not reimbursed. Nationwide, the total amount of uncompensated care provided to the uninsured reached an estimated $56 billion in 2008, according to one study."

And there a very few extreme outliers who make more than a hundred visits a year.

Anyway, my point stands, I can trivially point to one major class of free riders, which deflates wild claims that it's all the fault of greedy corporations.
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Can apps not have regular payment subscriptions as well? I don't see how Newsstand is necessary for anything you want.
Good grief. It was sarcasm. I was pointing out that the same prose can be used in the other direction with only minimal changes in the logic. Generally that makes for good evidence that the logic is basically flawed and that the "argument" being presented is just an opinion.

And yes: this blogger surely has much better content in other posts, and surely the same nonsense exists on the other side. But this post was only nonsense in one direction.
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Iff I had the downvote button I would downvote.

How is that even relevant at all? Do we all have to agree on everything? Is it wrong for someone to support that?

If that is relevant, pretty much the same mistake NASA has made: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/11/nasa-chinese-...

Not relevant. In an open source web world, people can have different political opinion, social opinion.

If gayes want equality and stop discrimination, then let other people enjoy their own freedom of not agreeing with everything the "norm" seems to agree on. If he's Catholic, do half of the non-Catholic, and anti-Catholic people have to leave this conference?

Sentiment is understandable, but don't bring that up in a technical conference.

The NSA thing at BlackHat is also controversial. While I disagree with what NSA is doing most of the time, I think we should pay some respect to the speaker while the speaker is speaking on stage. You can protest afterward.
I'm fairly certain that Paul Graham doesn't hold the copyright on the word "flamewar". There's no "Paul Graham term" about it. We all understand what a flamewar is, plus or minus a handful of picked nits.

The HN flamewar detector isn't a human being. It's a software algorithm. It doesn't care about the subject of the flamewar or take that into account. It only looks for certain posting patterns.

What you're asking for is something that discriminates (no negativity intended) "controversial discussions" from "flamewars" - where "controversial discussion" is pretty much defined as "stuff I want to talk about".
Aaawww nuts.
Yes, education could be vastly improved, but you know what, my sons school is vastly improved over what I had.

Since 1913 when IQ tests started being nationally or internationally graded, the IQ median has been kept at 100. But without that smoothing the median level of 1913 would be 77 or so today, and the median today would be in the 130s

We have got smarter, or perhaps we have had mental tools passed onto us through education and social norms.

ref: err... a Ted talk recently released....
Finding magazines works a lot better and more pleasant in Newsstand than it does in the regular App Store. All the magazines have cover art that changes with every issue, instead of an icon depicting some meaningless logo. And as a bonus, you can check out all the magazines for free.

I wish the rest of the App Store would be like Newsstand.
Nothing to do with the feed reader at feedly.com though? Granted all the names are taken everywhere for everything, but this seems confusing.
That's what YouTube and Netflix documentaries are for. My kids love them and they give you a break from coming up with all the answers. :)
The topic is undoubtedly important, but is the discussion of the topic specifically on HN really vital to our industry?

I question this because such discussions seem to be, in practice, the exact opposite of productive. They are not so much discussions as they are internet shouting matches. I doubt very few people walk away from those discussions with altered perspectives.
Thought there was something new being announced for Model X. Looks like its the same old model x web page. Am I missing anything?
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I lways enjoy the way he states that he "discovered" JSON. source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trurfqh_6fQ
This...isn't the same as the Feedly RSS newsreader.

Cool idea, but I would be reluctant to adopt Cassandra, but it looks like you can use solely redis?
What is new about this?
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College is wasted on the young.

While I did learn a lot in school, I definitely agree with this sentiment. I'd get a hell of a lot more out of it if I were going now -- ten plus years later -- than I did when I was fresh out of high school.

Of course, it gets a whole lot harder once certain parts of "Real Life" kick in and the ease of dropping everything to spend all of your time learning dissolves in a cloud of uncertainty.
it's a high-tech system called "a screen and my eyes."

I meant the interface the other way around. From your brain to the computer, without any mechanical inert pieces in between. As for the prediction part, note that it exists already in a very early stage and it's extremely likely to only grow. Can't find the exact artical atm, but it was used to move a mouse on screen by someone who couldn't move anything below their head anymore.

I doubt you can

Maybe not on all levels, 100% sure I can for some. Simple example: C++, I need a basic iteration over a sequence. I just think 'ok gimme a for_each on container Foo, calling function Bar'. No matter how advanced the intellisense or whatnot is, it will take me more time to properly type the needed line.
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Yeay sucks a bit, project started more than a year ago, before the google reader shutdown and feedly's rise to fame.
I appreciate what it represents, but that doesn't really address the reasoning behind the use. Beyond (as some people have said) "That's what accountants do", I have been completely unable to find any justification. We have a word for million, and a commonly accepted abbreviation. Why use something else?
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Oh look, I never once said the author wasn't allowed to criticize the way HN was run. I said that if he wants something different, then do it himself instead of trying to hijack HN for his purposes.
I only go across the river to visit friends or go to the tomato fest and Vandy area for McDougals chicken.

I live and have lived in the areas people consider solidly red, you'd be surprised how people vote. They just don't wave a moderate or liberal flag like the conservatives do.
Interesting how the public school "reform" movement in the US cuts hard against this sort of experimentation --- in particular, by mandating curricula, and evaluating students and schools by performance on cookie-cutter tests that make no room for individual interests or variation.
Cameras instead of mirrors? Is that a first for a (relatively) normal car?

Also, it looks like "falcon wings" are going to eat garage door manual releases.
I thought the abuse was part of the story. The lengths we will go to preserve ourselves, even to destroying the weakest of us in the effort. The subsequent Ender novels delve into Ender coming to grips with how he was used and what he did.

Granted it's been forever since I read them.
I share that opinion so I'll answer. IMO, China letting control over currency just slip away is as realistic as China letting control over anything slip away. AFAIK it's still an authoritarian state. It could happen (it has a relatively free economy after all) but it's not consistent with China.
That's very interesting, it suggests a lot of this is to cover the definitely expensive age 50-64 year old window, after which Medicare kicks in.

And, yeah, we should not forget all those who are losing family or 30+ hours/week coverage, the stories about them are legion.
Stories receive upvotes and reach the front page. Certain topics then tend to be aggressively flagged and vanish off the front page no matter how many upvotes they have.
There have always been techniques and methods available to vastly improve the outcomes of students. The problem is that education is a very political subject and the winds shift as quickly as the politicians do.

Education is a favorite pet issue of every wanna-be FDR and for whatever reason, they can't just let teachers do their jobs. They have to tell them what they can and can't teach, what targets they have to meet, create arbitrary and senseless metrics of merit.

So forgive me if I'm unimpressed with this so-called solution to education. Would it be better than what we have now? Sure it will, virtually anything would be that reduces the amount of oversight in the system. Could you sell it to the public? Not a snowball's chance in hell. It wouldn't last a year.
Well culture is an echo chamber. It does not mean it's bad.

I see it as there is a certain culture here, one which i happen to be in agreement with most of the time, while there is still room for dissent.
Yes, there was plenty of abuse going on, and the I.F. thought that abuse was necessary for survival. They never stopped to think if there was possibly another explanation for the first two wars with the buggers and the following calm. They relentlessly pursued extermination of another intelligent life-form at the hands of an innocent minor. In the end it was far from clear whether any of that was necessary, and that is where the biggest uncertainty lies.

It sucks that that was the path they chose, but I can't say that it's something humanity isn't or wouldn't be capable of.
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A "controversial discussion" is what happens here when we start discussing, say, the merits of different memory management schemes. People entering a conversation in disagreement, presenting opposing views, considering other views carefully, and then writing civil and constructive rebuttals to those opposing views that further the discussion. Not a religious war, a technical discussion that involves disagreement.

That is not the sort of conversation that that Paul Graham considers a flamewar.
>Good on him for standing up for what he believes in, and putting his money where his mouth is. If only more did the same.

I don't actually think it's good that people donate money on advancing discriminatory policies, even if they believe in them.
Yes, you can use solely Redis. In fact this is the suggested way to start with Feedly (the example app uses only Redis).
Why don't we just admit that this whole post is just a response to offense at a single post getting bopped off the front page because of a flamewar, when some people really want it on the front page? It's a lot easier when we aren't tippy-toeing around the actual issue.

Sure, the problems of that post were symptomatic of the broader social algorithms of HN, but I don't think they mean HN's rules and the underlying enforcement patterns are inherently wrong. They just didn't work well in this particular case.
Maybe I'm crazy but that looks like a sedan to me.
Still no price. Let's see if they can get the 60kWH front drive around $40k.
Any idea on price? You can put down a 5k fully refundable deposit.
Other good apps doing somewhat similar stuffs;

* http://evernote.com/hello/

* http://www.refresh.io/
But if he intervenes at this point it will spoil the emergent complexity of the community, and hence the beauty he has created per his revolutionary treatise "Hackers and Painters"
This looks pretty cool, waiting for DNS to propagate is a PITA and should help mitigate those "works for me" scenarios relating to out-of-date nameservers.
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I thought it was that they are now taking reservations, but it seems they have been doing that for a while now (over 6,000 reservations have already been made).
Why is this on the front page again? There is nothing new.
We currently support Redis and Cassandra fully. Cassandra has a very high maintenance overhead so we definitely recommend you to start with Redis.

More info here:
http://feedly.readthedocs.org/en/latest/choosing_a_storage_b...

PS.
We're also working on a DynamoDB backend
Is that really the cryptosystem people are using? Generate a new private key for each transaction? Even with as cheap as generating keys has gotten, and as large as the pool of unique bitcoin addresses is, that just doesn't scale. It's a management nightmare. Your system is far saner; Send the payment, send a message tying the address of the payment to the transaction. Only ever requires one key, way less susceptible to weird timing attacks.
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> It's that there are no good publications for it. Publishers just export their PDF into the app.

I don't find this to be the case. National Geographic includes video, and Wired includes interesting intactive content. The New Yorker even includes a section where you can read all the cartoons ;) Hardly just a PDF export.
I'm patiently waiting for a solution on this issue before doing anything other than experiments with it: https://github.com/sintaxi/harp/issues/97

It's a great tool otherwise.
Eh, plenty of people go to college with little or no money, and there's plenty of scholarship opportunities out there. My roomate and I were the only two people I knew in College who weren't there 75% or > on loans. Community college while working is also an option, where good grades can also assist in getting scholarships in addition to getting you credit - I took several and personally found them higher quality than the University courses I took.

> I'm gay, so my parents wouldn't pay or help me in any way.

Thats awful - sorry to hear that.
Yes, and isn't that change usually attributed to types of IQ test questions becoming outdated and part of popular knowledge? Attributing any change in IQ tests to a more intelligent population seems dubious at best. Any chance you have a link to that ted talk?

Also, my ability to communicate instantaneously is absurdly better than what my parents had, doesn't mean we should stop striving to improve improve improve, especially in an area as important as education.
I thought the doors might swing wayyy out, but they don't. Hell, the wing doors probably require less clearance to getting out of the vehicle than traditional doors.

A bit weird how much of the feature brief they dedicate to the doors, though.
So do what I do, move them into a junk folder.

The Music and Videos apps however, are actually useful unlike Newsstand. And these tactics by Apple are nothing like the OEM crapware from the late 90's, I grew up in that era, there is no real comparison here to be honest. They are perfectly serviceable music/video players. If most people use "other, free apps" what pray tell are these apps called so the rest of us could gain from this heretofore hidden knowledge. What benefit do I get from them?

I can already tell you using vlc is... not fun on ios when you get to wanting to stream video or audio. Simpler just to use the music app.
I never liked that guideline, partially because it's mis-stated. In "10 Ways To Do X" there is no gratuitous adjective.

I actually like the number being there- it helps prepare me for what's in the article. It also kind of helps my bs detector. I do prefer, however, that the gratuitous adjective be dropped.
For a long time my friend's last Facebook status was that his dog had died. Really depressing.
Heck, the Armenian genocide even has more textual support - Petra is Armenian.
Yes, but you need enough karma.

See http://www.drugssheet.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#cantdownvote

I don't know how high is the current threshold, but I think it's still around 500.
What is the theme for this conference? I suppose two months from PyT we will enter PyCon!
Speculation on pricing: "Most deliveries are expected in 2015, and the base price is expected to range from $70,000 to $90,000" [1]

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Everyone reads something different from it. When I read it, it seemed to me that Ender spent a lot of time hating the path laid out for him, often able to see what was coming but unable to do anything to stop it, and his issues with it come close to rendering him a catatonic mess.
>>As a consumer, you shouldn't care about whether they use Newsstand, you should care about whether they provide the functionality you want.

Or perhaps you shouldn't tell him what he should care about and what he shouldn't. Just a thought.
Evernote Hello was my inspiration for this actually! I really, really disliked it very, very much and I'm a big Evernote fan. It needs to be simpler, IMO - I want to drive user input toward 0 if I can, let the app do the work.

Thanks for sharing! I haven't seen refresh.io
I do the same thing (in a completely different language, mind you) -- it's quite handy. Especially when I'm working on the original classes and tests without worrying about data storage to begin with: hard-code the stuff that I need right now in the repository layer, and build up the logic. Then, when I'm happy with how that's going, swap over to a proper data-store, and chuck the routing layer in front of it. Bam, and you have a really nice web-app API ready for a front-end.

It's nice working this way, interestingly, sans-frameworks for once. Code is a lot more maintainable too.
Awesome! Any thoughts on HBase support (big HBase user/fan here!)