skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really give a damn about the ads. It is the database behind the ad targeting that I have a problem with.

Best case it is really no one's business where, when and how I spend my money. Worst case the info could be used to directly harm me, maybe through blackmail, maybe to enable some other crime against me or maybe even to falsely implicate me in a crime that I would then have to spend time and money to defend myself against in court.

As for the change - my credit union has a coin counter, I bring in a bucket of change, they give me dollar bills in return.
Use the tool that is apt for the job. Programming languages and paradigms are tools. Tools are not greater than end products - period.
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Yes, for a new project setting up a custom delivery infrastructure seemed pointless. This is something I would like to remedy in the future though.

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Documentation for the Quel Solaar C gamedev libraries
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Why all this hatred to MongoDB?
Seriously ? People are blogging about MongoDB accusing it from being a "pretensions" database.
What's bothering the most is that these people know a thing or two about computer science, but for instance they ignores something like map reduce in mongoDB...
The police are there to:

- Do you for speeding.

- Protect the establishment.

- Threaten violence.

- Prop up the prison-industrial complex for the benefit of private corporations.

They are categorically not there to help you. They never have been. This is a misapprehension that has been around since the days of Peel. A police force is the state's visible threat of violence against its populace, in order to exact control and to keep the powerful powerful.
I think they have opened the Overton window quite a bit. Today, established journalists and writers such as Herman Lindqvist, Ulf Nilsson, Stina Dabrowski, Elisabeth Höglund and Per Gudmundsson to name a few, use language and ideas borrowed from the far right -- things like referring to people as "ticking bombs" or arguing in a roundabout way that they (some with some of the biggest platforms in the country) can't state what they _actually_ think -- that they are somehow being repressed.
One example is logs. People have logs, and lots of them. They're usually semi-structured (hopefully there is at least a timestamp and topic and severity in each record). You can put them in MongoDB, and relations are probably not a big concern.
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The correct heading would be: "Could Bitcoin be the most disruptive thing to arrive on the internet since the web?"

Rather than look at bitcoin, best to look at the websites that it brings about, and the ones it minimizes -- especially the ones that don't embrace bitcoins, such as banks. You could also measure it as a proportion of internet traffic vs web traffic. The key is that websites use bitcoins, and to take that into account.
1) It seems we have this problem: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/03/25/202471/the-bigge...

Carbon is easier here because it's a lot closer to 'tons of fuel burned'.

2) Aside from that, 'motor gasoline' does not count diesel fuel, which contributes to motor vehicle emissions through our well-developed trucking industry.

3) In re: [3], they're speaking of some very specific types of pollution. Pollution we systematically eliminated in automobiles decades ago and in trucks recently by improving the refinery process & selecting cleaner oil deposits to produce low-sulfur fuel, implementing catalytic converters and combustion feedback sensors, and just generally getting smart about how we burn things. Low-hanging fruit. We could have fixed this in bunker fuel if we'd wanted to by now.

"Carbon pollution" is not like the other types of pollution. It's not a health issue, and it's not at all avoidable if you're using fossil fuels. If thermal efficiency is already up there, there is no reasonable way to reduce it in any sense, other than 'burning less'. It is also basically the same amount of carbon emissions per thermal output from coal to bunker fuel to gasoline (with slight improvements for natural gas). There's no 'cleaning things up'.

4) So... What on Earth were your original numbers supposed to indicate? Where did they come from?
Yeah I must admit the op article seems to be pure political spin. You can read in the official statistics that number of crimes have absolutely exploded in Sweden since 1975:

http://www.d-intl.com/2013/11/08/dramatisk-okning-av-valdsbr...

It seems to me they should in fact rapidly increase the numbe of prisons, if they want to protect people.
Politicians have always run the police - a police force is the government's visible threat of violence and method of control over the population. They're not there to protect you. They're there to protect the establishment.
I've started developing some simple apps with Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu) and it's really cool. It lets you develop web apps in a widget oriented way, and completly abstract the client/server communication.

It's not javascript on the server but that's fine. I actually used the Jwt (java version) with Jruby and Groovy, which is translated from their C++ codebase.
Adding a 'sort by sales' option to Prestashop
But is that the only battery? Is there a battery or cap powering the clock for example? Can that be corrupted?
Time to forgive Ed Snowden and let him come home
Most immigrants come to Sweden for a better quality of life, and they get it: the government gives them housing, social services, education, money etc. Any place in Sweden, even these 'highly dense, poor areas' you're talking about, are better than where most immigrants originate.

Yet you blame the rest of society for not 'integrating' them better? I also hate this constant attributing of violent crime to poverty. There are high poverty-low crime areas in many countries. If you're willing to blame crime on some cultural aspect of society, but only in some cases, then it's a double standard.
No - that's purely a form of idealism.

At best you'll get an apology from the police which isn't worth the effort.
It is not just because of service plan resembling US market but Japanese's favor to Western stuffs. Japanese have been particularly obsessed with European luxury goods (accessories to bags), western cultures, musics, goods and whatever the fancy to them. iPhone of course.
Agree entirely. I've learned this over the last few years.
iFixIt must score Campus2 for repairability!
I think its obvious Twitter moved to server side rendering for control / profitability reasons. Not performance.
I think the author also gets it wrong on the FP side, as he forgets the impure ones, like ML and Lispy ones, where side-effects are accepted.

That is not in conflict with his argument. He does not argue that object-oriented programming or functional programming are wrong, just that taking a paradigm to an extreme (e.g. pure functional programming) is bad.

He is implicitly arguing for ML and Lisp and against Haskell, since e.g. ML is a functional language that recognizes that the world is mutable by allowing mutable data structures.

(Not that I agree - one could argue that Haskell acknowledges impurity even more by making it part of the type system.)
Are NFC enabled 'phones both NFC devices and NFC readers or just NFC readers?

If they start adding RFID tags to 'phones, the only safe way to not be tracked will be not to carry the 'phone.
If you don't know Branson check out his autobiography 'Losing My Virginity'. Worth a read.
How long do disk drives last?
Beware of the political spin!

The article cited is from 2008 and so nearly five years outdated. The rise has stalled and the trend has been reversing with a slight decline of 1% in 2012 [1]. The biggest problem I see is that the the article glosses over the reasons for such a change. There are multiple reasons why crime statistics change, some merely methodological, but chief among them are two factors:

* Changes in criminal law, classifying new kinds of behavior as a crime or decriminalizing some behavior. (Hello Marihuana legalization!)

* Willingness to report a crime. What used to be a run in among adolescents is nowadays often reported as a violent crime. Any kind of rape or sexual molestation used to be such a stigma on the victim that they were (and still often are) not reported.

Same goes for the rate of solved crimes: A figure of "6%" just glosses over the details. It seems low, but what's more interesting is which crimes get solved. Bike theft has a notoriously low rate of solving the crime (1%) [2] and is very common in some regions, skewing statistics. Same for petty theft. Drug abuse is often reported as a crime. There's no chance to ever solving such crimes on a significant level. Also, how does "6%" compare to the years before? Better? Same? Less?

So be weary when reading and citing those articles. Usually, if only one figure gets cited, you're being mislead.

[1] http://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statisti...
[2] http://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statisti...
MySQL replication is the one place it's got the edge.
I'm happy with CampaignMonitor for my email newsletters, and I find the pricing reasonable http://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/
I question their sanity.
Naive American that thinks has a clue about what's going on in Russia (or anyplace in the world outside his hometown for that matter)

American

'nuf said
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> This strikes me as a "how hard can it be to code?" line of thinking. Writing can be incredibly challenging, not to mention the code that drives the event and the testing involved. What I really wish the creators had done is made it much easier to mod the game with player-created content.

Agreed, it's easier said than done but I'm not asking for F. Scott Fitzgerald level of writing, I'm sure you can find plenty of inspiration in the thousands of episodes of various space opera TV shows out there. But I agree that making it easier for players to create contents would be an other way to solve this problem.

> Just putting it out there: this game was created by two guys and it's unknown if they were even able to devote their full attention to it. In my personal opinion, given this context, the result is impressive.

Meh. The other games I mentioned (nethack, DCSS and angband) are all made by small "indie" dev communities and they're open source and they're free of charge, yet they contain a massive amount of assets.
If a single-page app is dependent on SEO it shouldn't even be a SPA to begin with.
"Walled garden"
For those unaware, Richard Branson (Virgin founder) made a bet with with Tony Fernandez (AirAsia founder) in 2010 regarding whose formula one team would finish ahead that season.

The terms were such that the loser had to serve as a flight attendant on the winner's airline. The photo is of Branson fulfilling the terms of the bet.

http://news.yahoo.com/richard-branson-swaps-suit-skirt-honor...
Indeed. For instance, something like

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel-3.1.0.1/docs/Con...

Would be very difficult to implement in a language that is not referentially transparent and lazy.
Sheesh, what's with the MongoDB witch hunt? It seems like HN can't go 2 days without some disparaging of MongoDB. I get it. I'm an idiot for using MongoDB even though it suits my needs perfectly.
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One of these companies has developed something new, interesting, and economically useful.

The other company has great marketing.

One of them is playing a positive-sum game. The other is playing a zero-sum game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game

I don't know that one of these really represents MIT and the other really represents Stanford, but I can tell you that the technology company is adding value to the world in a way that the marketing company is not.
Personally I've never understood why with every single Laptop and Mobile I've ever owned (where I could remove the battery) if I turned off the device, with full battery, eventually the battery dies...

Yet if I power off the same device, take the battery out and leave it for the same amount of time, then put it back and power it on, its a full battery...

On the same note, my iPhone 4, 15" Mac Book Pro w/ Retina, and Lumia 925, all when turned off completely, eventually the batteries die...

Just slower than if they were turned on...
A startup’s crash course in Public Relations 101
Here in Portugal, my brother left his cellphone unattended and someone took it. We filled a claim with the cops (mostly for insurance purposes) and they got it back after a month or so, without so much as a description of the person who took it (I believe they got an address from the carrier).

Of course, this is just anecdotal.
Phones certainly don't have big enough capacitors to store enough power to run a radio. There's probably only a few pF of capacitance in an entire iPhone for example, though it not having an easily removable battery makes that a little moot.
Like somebody else said in the thread, look at crimes like homicide and theft, whose definition are uncontroversial. Crime is rising.
The problem you have is that there are different types of NoSQL databases. Key value stores, document stores, graph databases, you name it they have their own specialty.

NoSQL's name shows just how nebulous the concept is. It was first coined by someone who built a relational database but without implementing SQL, then it was later used to describe distributed, non-relational databases that ignored, downgraded or discarded some form of ACID. Now it can be a retronym for "not only SQL".

In this space, work out what your actually needs are, then carefully research the technology and pick whatever is most appropriate.
Could be a good idea and call it NoGASM. :P
I wouldn't say to stop playing. I was losing a lot of games because I had the wrong notion about how beams worked. It was fairly easy after that. And fun!

But you are exactly right that calling the game "perfectly balanced" is ridiculous. It's a roguelike. There are so many random elements and sometimes you just get a string of bad dice rolls. This topic is brought up explicitly in the DCSS faq (another hugely popular roguelike) and I think it applies here:

>The possibility of unavoidable deaths is a larger topic in computer games. Ideally, a game like this would be really challenging and have both random layout and random course of action, yet still be winnable with perfect play. This goal seems out of reach. Thus, computer games can be soft in the sense that optimal play ensures a win. Apart from puzzles, though, this means that the game is solved from the outset; this is where the lack of a human game-master is obvious. Alternatively, they can be hard in the sense that unavoidable deaths can occur. We feel that the latter choice provides much more fun in the long run.

http://crawl.develz.org/other/manual.html#n-philosophy-pas-d...
Isn't silence-unless-failed just a way of doing > /dev/null ? Since the stderr isn't redirected cron will get the errors but the other stuff goes to null.
I think your example is not a good one and the premise you meant to have it support is flawed.

Calculating the orbit of an object in space is well understood and several orders of magnitude less complicated than the relatively poorly understood processes that occur in the sun.

As the person you replied to said, it is hubris to think that after a few hundred years of studying a 4 billion year old dynamic object that we can make such precise predictions about it. The fact that scientists seem to be baffled by the sun's current behavior should make this point obvious.
This is truly bullshit. Violent crimes in Sweden is at an all-time low. The primary reason for some statistics to indicate raising crime-rates is that the tendency to report a crime has risen a lot lately (a very good thing). The fact that you're feeling this way is purely due to a shift in how Swedish media reports on crime (30 years ago an assault in a smaller Swedish city would not make the national news, now it's very much highlighted), which in this Internet era of connectivity makes you feel a lot more is happening in your near vicinity.
I have done all of that, except tried different ships. I only played with the starting ship, on hard difficulty, because I wanted to finish the main game before trying the extra modes.

Yes, I have maxed out dodge and shields. I have actually grinded enemies until I had every crew member maxed out on every possible stat. It doesn't help one bit, because you can still get hit 10 or even 20 times in a row, even though you have a 20% evade chance, and 20 hits from anything is pretty much enough to sink you.

It is honestly the most frustrating game I have ever played.

Also, I'm not struggling, I just gave up on it for good. I haven't played it in a year, if not more.

I bought into the hype and bought the game and it turned out to be ... that. I just want to give my perspective so other people don't get it and then feel misled.
For your second point, again, I think the point of MailChimp pricing is you may have thousands of emails to send, but you won't be sending to thousands of email addresses. This makes most of their customers start on the free plan, then graduate to something that's not a huge cost.

Simplicity and familiarity are the bread and butter for most of these customers. They're not marketing to tech people. They're marketing to the flower shop on the corner who has a list of 1,500 people and ads 2 email addresses a week.

So, I think maybe we're in violent agreement here :)?

Lastly - the key thing about MailChimp pricing is that you move up and down on their pricing plans automatically. It's unbelievably low friction. Most of the time when you move up or down, it's because you've just imported new people and have a new email to send. So you don't care. You just get on with it and then forget about it later.

I don't even know why I'm carrying so much water for MailChimp, other than I think people are missing the point of what and who they target.
one of the ways that coiuld be used to track feature phoned while they were switched on however was sending specially crafted messages sent to the phone that would force a location update which you can use to grab the cell id, and basically determine movement once you have a few of them.
>as a non-programmer.

>Also have a minimalist (i.e. wraps HandleFunc, not Handler) CSRF package in the works.

Does not compute. I'm fairly sure you're a programmer mate.
Chocolatey NuGet, a package manager for Windows
Here's the google trends link btw http://www.google.ca/trends/explore?q=twitter#q=twitter&cmpt...

You can see that Twitter survived off blog hype and early adopters for 2 years.
Series of articles describing a compiler for the Popr lang called PoprC.
"I just posted on Mark Zuckerberg's wall"
I dont understand the problem, <a href="#video">Videos</a>
and then another a tag with the id <a id="videos"></a>. What can't be found?
Stream from your webcam using GIF in (almost) real time.
Turkish Airlines lets startups pitch to business class passengers
"In this regard I think key-value stores are preferred over document stores such as MongoDB and CouchDB. A key value store makes it clear where the semantics of the data belong."

True, but I've used CouchDB successfully in applications too ... that's a mental "note to self" you need to keep. If the value in a key-value store is completely opaque, you can't do views (my favorite part of CouchDB).
No major Swedish news site is covering this. Interesting.
Well explained.

Essentially becoming VAT registered turns you into a tax collector :-)
"It's important to remember that millions of dollars are lost daily globally to CC fraud."

...and that Bitcoin is not even a blip on the radar compared to the daily volume of CC transactions.
It is the first critique of functional programming I've read from someone who clearly knows their shit.

The critique is 'Haskell takes FP to an extreme and I show this is true because someone tried to implement miniKanren and needed Oleg to do it'.

That is not really a strong argument.

Also note that he isn't really arguing against functional programming, but pure functional programming.

the things that are hardest to understand aren't necessarily the best tool for every job, despite their beauty.

Haskell in itself is a very simple language. Most functor and monad instances are also easy to understand or use. I agree that there is a tendency in the Haskell community to put abstraction on abstraction, especially when the abstraction is new. But in the end, most of the Haskell packages that became widely-used (bytestring, text, vector) are easy to understand and use.
Gotta love mods changing the title, and rendering most of the comments confusing
Pretty sure most immigrants do not want to be "integrated".
Wow! Well I didn't say I subscribe to that conspiracy theory and didn't mean to peddle it either. Just that these incidents work in its favour.. funny how emotional everyone is getting here immediately! :D
disconnect.me is also FOSS.
Additionally, don't make a complaint about the police unless you fully understand what you are getting yourself into. There is a reasonable chance that they will harass you and your family until they can find some reason to arrest you (or they may just arrest you for no reason).

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/11/police-vendetta-la...

A defence solicitor who was awarded £550,000 in damages from a police force after he was wrongly arrested says officers mounted a vendetta against him after one of his clients was acquitted.

James Watson said Cleveland police officers spent three years pursuing him, costing millions of pounds, without finding any evidence against him, before admitting a series of mistakes.
I really don't see that the author put forward a convincing argument. He seems to be stuck in the 100GB data blog post, but he confuses NoSQL with literally "don't use SQL", which is really somewhat missing the point of so much of this space.
And how does that question in any way relate to my little digression?
This is almost the same I also did. Except I'm using iptables and logwatch seems good. I'll read it! Thank you
Honest question - do most people not know who he is? I thought he was known worldwide. I think he has had quite a few cameos/(very) small parts in films/tv as well.
we're not sure what the previous 403 errors were, but they may also have involved women's clothes and too much make-up

Classic. Love their old animated sealt-belt videos, too.
Enforcing equality has historically shown to have the opposite effect. Thomas Sowell, an African American (discrimination is more prevalent in the states) has written extensively about this, as have many others regarding quotas and other forms of forced 'equality'. So no, I won't demand equality, also because I believe in the fact that employers should have the freedom to hire whoever they want without state regulation.

I really don't like this mentality of entitlement, and the excusing of any negative aspects of poorer groups on the richer. Interestingly this behaviour is more passionate in the middle classes than from people who are actually living in poverty. Ted Kaczynski talks about this.
Yes. And? I wasn't mentioning or implying angels or noble primitives or scumbags or anything.
Thank god this hasn't come out yet. Easily the most addictive game I've played in years...I've lost whole weekends to it. I don't think my social life can take an upgrade to this game right now