skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mike, this "second view" of yours is oh so close to propaganda of Russian TV. Calling everyone a fascist and hiding the inconvinient facts. There is no second view within humam rights framework.

- Yanukovych's power-sharing offer is a sham. It is not true power sharing until he is a president - he controls everything.

- Just looks at the definintion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism. Yes, there is a nationalistic element in Svoboda party. It isn't pretty itself as well, but it is far, far, far from fascism. Nobody besides Yanukovych is authoritarian here.

- protesters were beaten up for 2 months, but didn't fight back. Only when Yanukovych decided to forbid peaceful protest in general the aggression from protesters started. I don't think police should be just standing under Molotov cocktails, but their reaction SHOULD NOT be shooting from a sniper riffles, killing 5 people, violently beating up protesters, kidnapping protesters from hospitals (!) beeting them up again (!) and taking them far into the fields and leaving there to die on -10°C (14°F) (!).

- Yanukovych has indeed been elected through democratical elections. That is true. And what has he done since then? Jailed his main opponent Yulia Tymoshenko. Changed the constitution to have full power in his hands. There is not a chance now that the next election under him will be fair. And you can state whatever you want but Party of Regions did loos a lot of electorate now. It is not half of coutry now at all, as you've stated.
Thank you Raganwald. You are comment #500 on this page, I've read them all with an angry feeling, and you are the first one who touches me.

You've made a decisive point in a 500-comment HN flamewar. Congrats.
Its awesome,good job.
Greetings from Cairo. I will you all good luck in Ukraine, especially in Maidan Sq.
Yes but as I suspected it features a scripted A.I. while I was looking for a real 100% "thinking" dynamic and/or even machine-learning based A.I.

Quoting from: http://voices.yahoo.com/what-good-ai-bad-ai-7633798.html

"Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. These two games feature the most scripted A.I. in the history of video games. And yet, I love the A.I. of both games. They're programmed to react differently to your different actions and while everything is pre-programmed and you'll learn just how scripted it is by the time you're about half-done with the game, there're so many different scripts to the A.I., that as predictable as they are, you'll en up having a lot of unique and unpredictable moments in those two games."

Compare that to "Creatures" for example.

Quoting from: http://aigamedev.com/open/highlights/top-ai-games/

"Creatures is an artificial life program where the user ‘hatches’ small furry animals and teaches them how to behave. These “Norms” can talk, feed themselves, and protect themselves against vicious creatures.

It’s the first popular application of machine learning into an interactive simulation.

Neural networks are used by the creatures to learn what to do. The game is regarded as a breakthrough in alife research, which aims to model the behavior of creatures interacting with their environment."

So I am sure that no matter at how good MGS 3 might get, given I am specifically putting attention to this aspect (and that I am not really interested in stunning graphics and such), at some point I will surely notice its scripted behaviour...

Thanks for the suggestion though, it might still be a good game to play. :)
Can you advise me on how to proceed using the stuff I learn?

How did you learn these stuff and used it to make a product ?

How to practise the programming stuff one learns?for eg I am currently learning javascript and jquery library,Can you suggest on how I may improve my skills?
You know why it isn't successful? Because everyone will remember 'bro'. Scandal and analogy is sometimes an efficient way to do marketing.
Forcing snap elections by encouraging defection from Team Yanukovych by the elite, i.e. bureaucrats, the military, and the oligarchs.
There are threads like this one that become explicitly about gender. They aren't particularly inviting. Sometimes they make the front page, in which case there is a semblance of discussion. They aren't a great advert for hn as an inclusive space though.

In general the problem is more with the atmosphere in threads that aren't explicitly about gender. This means things like the language that people use or the assumptions that they make when writing a comment. Sometimes these aren't very welcoming to women (other groups too), or are just offensive.

When people get called out for this behaviour, it can spark a big shitstorm of argument in which people often lose all concept of polite discussion and ask for rigorous proof that someone does in fact feel marginalised. This isn't very encouraging.

Links to geekfeminism seem to provoke a strong reaction from some people, but here's one for you:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Male_Programmer_Privilege...

I encourage you to read this (even if you don't agree) and then spend some time on hn just thinking about the content of discussion knowing that some people might feel this way. Empathy is the key.

Not all of the examples on that page are applicable here because this isn't a physical space or a workplace. Yes, a lot of them are anecdotal - it's a wiki and a collection of peoples experiences. I'm not saying that you are necessarily privileged. Treat the page as it is - a collection of experiences.

I've bothered to type this out because you seem to be reasonable and to argue in good faith. To understand why people feel marginalised can take a bit more than logical argument though. You need to be open minded and to attempt to empathise with other people.
Yep, I know the Mac's text looks blurrier:

Link for anybody else interested: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp... (linked articles are good too)
Ask HN: What's the cost of a task in Crowdflower?
hey guys I have scoured their site all over but failed to find an exact number/ball park for the cost of a single task.

The task involves completing a survey on my website.

has anyone used crowdflower? what was your experience. I already tried mobileworks and it was a huge disappointment largely due to unpredictable cost and quality.
Your link supports xenophanes' claim, particularly the "Wii transition" section.
Wait, firewire devices are allowed to write to any address in memory they like to? How ridiculous is that? Why is there no memory protection?

I wonder how to block this... It seems like it can only write to the lower 4 GB... RAM is cheap... so add an addtional 4 GB and then modify the kernel to load everything critical above the boundary?
How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases
True this. I live in Cairo at this moment. It's similar here.

I visited Kiev three years ago. It is a beautiful city.
That's the thing. That's why some women notice and others don't, and it's always split. The women who notice, notice that the use of the word bro EXCLUDES them from the joke. The women who don't notice, don't recognize or don't care that they're being excluded. In most fields, these jokes happen all the time from women AND men and everything is sunshine and rainbows. But in programming, the jokes come almost ubiquitously from men, about men, with nothing AGAINST women except for just ignoring the existence of female programmers. And at some point, it becomes really difficult not to notice the constant exclusion.
They also use Molotov cocktails to burn/kill police officers and some of them are using those air(?) guns.
The key is that there is little to no destruction. Destruction looks like [0], what you see on the pictures from Kiev is a minor annoyance and can be fixed within a few days. Burning old car tires might not be the ecologically best way to dispose of them, but as long as it is limited to a short period of time, it likely does less harm than a single day of people commuting to work by car in a given metropolitan area.

Oh, and regarding your apparently main point that destruction cannot bring wealth: If destruction results in large-scale investments in the right areas (think Marshall Plan), it can bring an enormous amount of wealth in a very short time.

[0] http://img.welt.de/img/bildergalerien/crop108305768/83787296...
546 comments, including:

- 530 talking exclusively about the name,

- 14 mentionning the name as an issue and

- 2 commenting on the real, useful, technical stuff.

Thank you HN
On my 2.3.3 phone, the quick rating widget takes the entire width of the phone and about 15% of the height. Any flick that originates on a star is irreversibly treated as a rating. Once the star is touched, there is no way to cancel the action. My flick style never results in any accidental 5 stars (because it is near the right edge). Wonder how many of my app users are inadvertently screwing my rating because of this design. I am surprised that Google's has such a low regard for UI design. They hide their contact forms, and don't respond when you happen to find the form.
Well, I always use it when I have the chance: it's easy to turn on, and it catches nasty bugs. Why wouldn't you turn it on? Even if you have a large legacy code base, it's still a a win, since you can turn it on function-by-function.
None have been killed with a Molotov cocktail so far.
IOS in-app bug reporting with annotated screenshots and the console log
Three ways brick-and-mortar can leverage mobile
In the late nineties, some of the Linux distributions were also already viable. E.g. I remember introducing SUSE Linux at my high school in ~1998, and back then it could be installed by a reasonably technical person. Which was not that much different than Windows 9x, given all the work that was usually required to install device drivers, etc.

We also had some desktops with KDE and most students had no trouble doing their usual work (web browsing, text processing, e-mailing, etc.).

I wonder if things improved that much. Yes, we now have Android and iOS, which have a limited scope (portable devices). But, on the desktop and laptop it's still Windows. Mac is only an option for the rich contingent of Western countries. Meanwhile, the Linux desktop has splintered into a market where there are no clear market leaders anymore - Red Hat abandoned the desktop, SUSE is not really visible anymore, and Canonical is working hard to get rid of its user community. That, plus a half a dozen desktops (GNOME, Unity, Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, Xfce). Frankly, it's a mess! However, what's perhaps more damaging is that 'the hope' is gone. There was a time where many people believed that the Linux desktop would eventually take over. Now nobody believes that there will ever be the year of Linux on the desktop and a large number of developers has left to OS X.

The only spark of hope are web applications, since they are platform independent and there is usually some competition. However, you never purchase or own an actual license. So, the vendor could go bankrupt, cancel development, remove features that are crucial, etc. You can never make the decision to stick with an older version, since you don't own a license. Moreover, usually you get a backup of your data in any easy way, let alone convert your data to a web app of a competitor.

tl;dr: mobile devices are not good computers yet, on general purpose machines one of the best competitors fragmented itself into oblivion, in platform-independent web apps you are dependent on the whims of the vendor and locked-in.

To end on a positive note: at least Android is mostly open and captured most of the smartphone market and will do the same on tablets. It's really good to see the work of the Cyanogenmod community, etc.

Edit: Downvoters: Is it because you believe that the Linux desktop hasn't fragmented? Do you disagree on the downsides of web applications?
Does Cellular Replace Wi-Fi?
it is legal to record them if it is clear you are recording them i.e. holding up a camera or phone that any reasonable person who deduce that they were being recorded. Recording someone with a hidden camera can fall under wiretapping laws if it is a two party state. The laws usually require both people to be aware they are being recorded and the fact that your camera is hidden means the second party i.e. the cop, does not know he is being recorded
> (although it's certainly starting to resemble that, recently)

Recently? :) Find some articles and pictures from the '70s.
MS pulled some shady shit, no doubt about it, but I don't think MS has ever been the serious threat to freedom that other companies have. The PC has always been an incredibly open platform. That openness was taken advantage of by many competing operating systems, especially linux, over the years. And remember that the "PC" in this case extends to the server market as well. It's always been possible to build PCs from parts and put whatever OS you wanted on them, and MS has always been a part of that phenomenon while Apple and other companies preferred much more closed ecosystems. We should remember that, and give credit where it's due.
Right now my Play store app is asking me to rate apps I have neither bought nor installed. If I dismiss one, it shows me another such "not purchased" app. I've seen 3 already. Is this happening to anybody else?
Until not too long ago, the PS3 Store was a desert. There were some small games, but no blockbuster titles. This has only changed relatively recently, probably because the App Store is so popular.

It is a huge step backward. Before I could borrow games from friends or sell them. But I think there won't be a big outcry as long as most games are still available on a disk.
The Mini-DIN (the main connector on moist early Macs) wasn't proprietary. Isn't it still what PCs use to connect the mouse & keyboard?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DIN_connector

Even the 128k Mac had mostly standards-based connectors.

Mouse port, 1 eight-bit keyboard bus, 300 baud, RJ11 connector for the Macintosh Keyboard. Two RS-232/RS-422 serial ports, 230.4K baud maximum, DB-9 connector, and sound port for external audio amplifier or headphones.

http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/computers/mac.html
>no one wants to be associated with feminism anymore

Oh gosh, you're commenting on HN, you obviously should have some data to back your opinions with? Right?
I would suggest that it's more likely the protesters simply do not have interest in killing people.

For example,shooting during riots in the '70s in italy was very common even though we do not have a gun culture.
That's really a definition problem. For most people I know outside of IT, the App Store is the magical wonderland that frees them to do things they previously could not - or even did not know was possible.

By the time most people find what I find practically unfree (inability to access sandboxed data) they ignore it as just one of those things or try looking for another app. By the time a mass of people find this ethically unfree I suspect the App Store will simply have vanished in commercial swamps.
Not that I agree that this is a good thing to do.... but why this way, and not via the API?
This is a full-length, 1 hour 36 minute demo.

Paint demo is around 42 minute. At one point when Paint was demonstrated I heard a background noise "that's incredible". That's how incredible and how shocking people found when computer was no longer a terminal, but with a mouse and a control menu.

The Mac Writer (around 51 minute) was also very simple yet efficient. For example, once the writer entered the format mode, the options for line space is right on the top and easy to click. Then I thought "geesh, we can't even fit anything on the screen with all the buttons in Word unless we hide them into a drop-down list." I always have trouble locating the line space option in OpenOffice or Word. Having used Word 2003, I rather go back to 2003 and stay that way.

What have we done to our software? The tools we use are becoming so complex.

History note: being the first Macintosh, this is an expensive equipment. The sale didn't go very well because it was very expensive...

Here is the teardown of the 128K Mac; http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Macintosh+128K+Teardown/21422
just think about it this way if illegally collected evidence was allowed at trial police could do whatever they wanted. If police illegally search you home there is no criminal penalty for the police, at most it is a civil rights violation which can only be challenged in court. This means the police could just search ever single house in a crime ridden neighbourhood and arrest everyone who had anything even remotely illegal. Imagine having to live in a poor neighbourhood where once a week the police kicked in your door and searched the house. It is already getting pretty bad for cops searching every vehicle of a minority they stop
I'm not sure if treating men as the default is the best way to go here, dear. I mean, it's the 21st century already.
Can you please give some examples?
Video cards require their own heat sinks and fans because the average video card these days uses more power at peak than a CPU. However, video cards these days also tend to have the same sorts of power throttling that most cpu fans have these days, so tower boxes are a lot more quiet than they were a few years back. Also, there are a lot of different case sizes even in the area of "tower"s, with many of the higher end ones being very quiet even at full power. Also, for super-quiet computing, there are companies that make fanless power supplies now, or for those really concerned about silence, there are water cooling setups that use their big radiator, and a large, slow fan, to quietly cool the gpus and cpu in a modern system.
Look, if you're looking for an alternative, you might as well go as simple as possible. Otherwise, you're never going to get unhooked from the behemoths of today.
I had a similar moment of realization about gender equality once. I used to believe that IRC was a very nice medium because the gender of the participants was not revealed (unless they wanted to), so (I thought) it was entirely free from gender prejudices.

Then, I discussed with someone on the channel of a hackspace I used to go to (but had just started attending so I didn'n know the people well); I had never seen the guy IRL but he said he would attend the next session so I could figure out who he was in real life.

But when I come, none of the participants were him. And then a female participant shows up and a while later it turns out that "he" is her, and I was shocked to see how unexpected this felt.

I'm not implying that the IRC user being female was in any way shocking, nor did I believe that the women who had joined us (and, this time, the only female participant around) could not be a "real" participant to a hackspace. It's just that, while I had wondered of every participant whether it was that IRC guy or not, I just hadn't made the connection for her.

And, thus, I realized that, without even noticing it, no matter my opinions about gender prejudices, I must have had a pretty strong mental image of that IRC user being male, for me to be so surprised when she turned out to be female. IRC wasn't gender-neutral. It was male by default.

I'm not sure how related to the discussion this is, but for me this was the moment when I realized that prejudices weren't just something that stupid people did, and that I was also influenced by them even if (especially if) I didn't notice.
True, I didn't mean to imply that there have been deadly casualties, but that's the goal of throwing Molotov cocktail on someone. Saying that the protesters aren't using violence is wrong.

None have been killed because they have firefighters and fire extinguishers with them, doesn't change the fact that throwing Molotov cocktail into someone's face can, and probably will, kill them.
Still works but most likely it will be an easy fix for Twitter to revert it.
Awesome! Thanks for taking my tip on-board! Other than my initial reaction to the tweet, compliments on a pretty sweet idea!
Live in public I guess, those two demonstration are very closed and it was not available publicly wasn't it?
In fact I would like someone to point me to a documented case where a riot officer has ever been killed from a molotov cocktail because I seriously do not think it has ever happened anywhere in the world.
YOU moved the discussion goalposts by bringing up your trip to Asia in the first place. And then you told me I had no right to be indignant about the systematic exclusion of women from tech because it was a "first world problem" compared to the discrimination you faced in Asia which, of course, you didn't even care about anyway! So don't try to tell me that I'm unreasonable.
The shell exec magic, especially when combined with notebook mode and pylab inline, can make some simple analyses of text data really dead simple. You can, for example, do something like:

my_data = !find . | grep .log | xargs grep interesting_event | awk '{print $3}'
map(float, my_data)
hist(my_data, 12)

Which will dump out a nice pretty 12-bin histogram of whatever the numeric data in the third column of output, of messages containing interesting_event was. To get this sort of fancy, run `ipython notebook --pylab=inline` and enjoy!

EDIT: for context, I wind up using this all the time to tease out information from Riak logs, like how long Bitcask merges take, in aggregate, and for locating particular events in time and characterizing their frequency.
Ask HN: Best forums for remote workers?
I know about weworkremotely by 37signals but I can't find too many forums dedicated to remote work out there. Any hints?
How to Remove Ask Jeeves Toolbar From IE/Firefox? (Removal Guide)
I didn't look - apart from making it pretty, what did Apple do with video beyond a PCIe x16 riser (like http://linitx.com/product/pci-express-x16-gen2-flexi-riser-7...)?
> the only thing that made them do it is GPL

That's the only thing making them do it.

Whether there are other benefits to giving away source code is not relevant. What they might have done is not relevant. No one could ever say whether Apple and Google and Samsung would have gotten together and made a web browser in collaboration without the GPL.

The fact is that they did not do it without the GPL.
Randomly, but seldomly. I use a hackintosh for my day-to-day work, and so far I only had one update where I needed to roll back until new patches were available. 10.9.0 to 10.9.1 went completely smooth for example.
I am "kind of" in the same situation. I also have some savings and I dont want to use them, however, it seems it will be necessary.

You should consider it a bet. If you are convinced that your startup will fly, maybe you should bet everything?

Just ask yourself if you were willing to bet say 20k$ if you'd win 500k$ with a 50% chance and lose everything with a 50% chance.

Unless you already have family or other people to sustain you CAN take that risk. With 25 you still have decades to worry about your retirement...

Try to at least find one client paying something (which is the "market test" seeing whether they just find your product nice or whether they really want (as in $$$)it).

Also, check out http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/startup-failure-post-m... and make sure you're doing none of the mistakes over there...