skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because a person may not have had the luxury of time (due to socioeconomic concerns) to think about how their behavior can demean and exclude others doesn't give them a pass forever.

We shouldn't tolerate ignorance, just because it's the lowest common denominator, exhibited by some people from the lower-middle class, as you put it. It's the world views behind ignorance that are most damaging, and I think the wealthier classes are probably just as guilty as the lower classes there, even if they can hide it behind gentility.

I think it's a lot different to ask people to adapt to a culture of mutual respect than to ask a woman to adapt to a locker room bro culture.
Use Jstylo/Anonymouth instead, they know all about the translate trick plus google had the original
This wasn't a half-implemented feature. It was a fully implemented and debugged feature. I was experimentally removing it in favor of a different approach and didn't want to have to go dredging through source control or reinvent and debug it later if I decided we needed it.
It's a wargame. Think of the origins of chess.

Playing an intricate game of strategy/deception/organization/finance can be a form of "practice" for the other things in your life.
I haven't handled routing yet, a lot of people seem to use https://github.com/flatiron/director, which I would probably do. This is the one area where I missed something from Ember.

For models, I've just rolled my own so far. I've experimented in one small project with having a global state object that cotnains all application state data, and then just having domain fns that operate on that data. Inspired by the react people's descriptions of "flux" architecture. It felt really nice.

When using Ember, I got really confused by Ember's Ember Data vs. Ember Model vs. whatever conversation. Again, I just didn't really know what to do here, and I attribute it to my own shortcomings.
Ok. By "these laws" i meant not exactly the list of laws by 16 Nov, you are right in this.

The idea is that protesters fight against EU-like laws from one side and want to join the EU from another (read the source with google translate). Looks like double standards for me.
There're 236 pages there. Can you be more specific?
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Remember to use Handlebar comments in your templates, instead of regular html comments.
Fortunately, the United States appears to be at a two-decade low in new prison admissions:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/chart-lead-vio...
True. And Norway's a sovereign country, free to introduce immigrants at a rate that works for them. The New York Times just featured an article about how Norway's immigration is creating ethnic ghettos.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/world/europe/anti-immigran...
While the reasons people mentioned here are all extremely valid, I found another reason:

To sign in to Tip4Commit (which appears to be required to collect your money), I have to grant Tip4Commit read/write access to what GitHub calls my "Personal user data". Now I suspect if they change my name or something it wouldn't be the end of the world, I could just revert it, but if you hover over the little ? icon it reveals that it also gives them read/write access to YOUR SSH KEYS. Now that right there is probably why larger devs don't do this.

Someone, please please please tell me I missed something...
He points back to static typing, but honestly I think UI code is harder to keep organized than service code (which I presume is what the Haskell backend does). Usually it's the UI that has to swallow the biggest chunk of the mismatch between the programming model and the user model – and as you move to smarter clients like you would with Ember.js, you end up pushing nearly all of that to the client. And you have to start interfacing with substantial complicated pieces of code, like the browser, code that every UI has to not just use, but negotiate with. All this complexity can be a way of coping with this system – not just coping with the system of a dynamically typed language, but all the many conflicting constraints in a browser environment implementing a UI for real people.

That said, there are differing opinions on which part you should "simplify" through a framework. Some of them are going to feel more magical than others. And when you come in with preconceptions about what makes a good environment, you're going to think about how the framework and environment lives up to your ideal. Some things you fix, some you leave as they are – and choosing the right battles is incredibly important. But service code and UI code are different sorts of warfare against complexity, I'd be skeptical of intuitions across the two domains. (None of which means Ember.js gets it right either – but if they don't, then I doubt the why is they just need a statically typed language.)
Same here - I went looking because of your comment and then accidentally kudo'd it.
I understand the frustration of the author, but it's hard to tell exactly what the source of his issues is. Not enough information is provided in his descriptions to actually understand what is going on. I suspect that either he has run into a bug (which of course should be fixed) or that he's misunderstanding the behavior. It's very possible that he was given some bad explanations for the behavior which has further confused him. I've reached out to him to see if I can get some more insight into the details of the issues.
Process is considered killable after onPause, there's no requirement that onStop is called. And, in practice, onStop/onDestroy are rarely called outside of an activity calling finish() on itself.

But that call only gives that activity a chance to save state, not the process as a whole. You don't run around stopping all your services and such in onPause(). There is no SIGTERM equivalent where you can go around doing actual cleanup work for the entire process.

As for Services you'll note it's considered killable at any given point, there's largely no guarantees other than it won't be killed in the middle of executing code in onStart/onStop. But during the bulk of its actual work it's totally up for random killing.

And fwiw foreground processes are totally considered killable. They are the last in the queue, yes, but they are still in the queue.
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The bug could have been avoided by using Handlebars comments, rather than using normal html comments.
I'm not sure; is the fact that someone did both better or worse, given that most of the "top", all-in players aren't?
There is no information about the newsletter or why it's subscriber base grew.

Right now it feels like a cheap marketing ploy.
Can anyone who is more experienced with ember help explain what was going on in those two weird examples in the OP? (Commenting a widget affecting another one and setting the "bar" field also changing the value of "foo" field)
Anybody else get invited a few weeks back and now feel the pang of no longer being in an exclusive club? I need a hug.

Aside: I think this is a great blogging platform that turns quite a few people away because of Dustin's bravado.
I'd be happy to help :) What age guys are you looking for?
The author of the 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper was identified through textual analysis of his writing.

Actually, that's incorrect. Nick Szabo is a candidate to be Satoshi Nakamoto, but the post claiming to use stylometry to out him is garbage. Gwern (who is no stranger to stylometry[1]) explains: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ruluz/satoshi_naka...

Stylometry was only used on JK Rowling after a tip-off from an anonymous source. Even then, it's not clear how useful it was in outing the author. Tools and algorithms are getting better, but even modern stylometric methods will give you false positives on a large corpus. People simply aren't that unique.

1. http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20script#stylometrics
Given Hacker News's passion for North Korea, we should note Wikipedia, citing "Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (2012) The Hidden Gulag, 2nd ed.", lists a rate for North Korea (6-8 per 1,000) about the same as the United States (7 per 1,000).

This page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... -- lists several countries with comparable rates not fully treated in the page in the original link.
I always thought the quality of the article was more important than the quality of the blogging engine.
It's an easier argument than purity-vs-no-purity.
EEGLab, a Matlab plugin used by brain researchers, at least used to use explicitly single precision floats for data series.
That's an interesting UX decision since I'm pretty sure you could undo Kudos on the previous version of Svbtle years ago.

Are non-undoable likes the logical progression to the likes-only-no-dislikes method of social media validation?
Today I wrote about something similar:

http://blog.steve.org.uk/it_is_unfortunate_that_many_compani...

If you did (re)find the site please do post it as a comment. I like the idea of remote-sysadmin, and did ponder the value of advertising myself for it, but I couldn't quite believe there would be a regular market for it.
It depends on the return value, yes. I usually try to keep modules small and use some kind of threading (needle + thread analogy, not os threads/web workers) strategy when building functions -- pulling out common patterns into globally visible utility functions that work with common types (e.g. jQuery events/objects).

It's not ideal, but in the absence of a true type system, it's all about mitigating potential problem areas.
Yes, I think it's a bit tongue in cheek. There are few countries that compare to Scandinavia and Finland in terms of quality of life - Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Switzerland...nothing else really springs to mind.
Oh that's great! You may want to remove that from your sample app—it gave me the impression that I'd need to set that everywhere.
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My first question is: "who is this for?"

The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control?

Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post.

I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products: we go through the features, but don't identify who the product is for.
Your username on HN is not so anonymous, Jackson Lewis.
Agree. For me anything that says, "LIKE X on Facebook." is an instant non-starter. At least give people an alternative, non-social registration mechanism.

In fact, if there is an old-fashioned non-social way to do it, I'm more inclined to actually use facebook or twitter since it doesn't seem so pushy.
He does seem to have a habit of only engaging when he can nitpick or twist the argument, which is the definition of bad faith.
Disagree. This kind of disproportionate outburst is not fit for HN. "Go fuck yourself" and "A-hole of the thread" have no place here.
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Great read. I love reading about a successful startup that isn't in silicon valley
Yes I have checked out the relevant law here now (Dangerous Dogs Act 1991) and it says

You can be fined up to £5,000 and/or sent to prison for up to 6 months if your dog is out of control. You may also not be allowed to own a dog in the future.

If you let your dog injure someone, you can be sent to prison for up to 2 years and/or fined
Officially, 180-something, but they voted by show of hand (because the opposition prevented proper voting procedures), which is illegitimate, and a blatant violation of protocol. Moreover, photographs prove that most government deputies didn't event bother to raise their hands, and the parliamentary speaker simply came up with a number.
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If svbtle isn't quite right for you, check out Silvrback: https://www.silvrback.com/

It's similar to svbtle in its simplicity.
If the copy is off-putting, it's because my natural cynicism that such text is used to polish up an otherwise mundane and common pattern...however, this copy gets a thumbs up from me for its relative lack of adjectives...e.g., none of this: "Svbtle's beautiful dashboard"..."It gracefully encourages"..."an amazing flow of beautiful draft posts"
Why do you call laws that exist in specific EU countries, often for historic reasons, "EU-like"?

Some EU states might have all kinds of weird laws, like, you should not be rude to King, or that you should not blasphemy against Anglican faith - but how does all that automatically apply to Ukraine?

Unless you have a case of uniform and mandatory all-EU anti-protest laws that are rejected by Ukrainians, you have a shaky position here.
Yep, I have watched most of Hugo in RiftMax theater. The resolution is of course low but the 3d effect I get in the Rift is much better than I have ever felt in a real theater.
Just installed. I hope this is easier to use than XPrivacy. Thanks!
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Actually, the opposition is saying that is this not enough, and they will not stop until the president resigns.
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A film director could still restrict the viewer's vantage point to just by having a few camera angles shooting the same scene from different angles. The camera technology should at least allow viewers to move their head to pan around.

Sports leagues also assumed that more live TV coverage would decrease ticket sales, but in reality TV became the promotional vehicle that grew their audience and increased demand for tickets. Nowadays most leagues could care less about ticket sales, as long as the seats appear occupied on television, they'll sell tickets at prices that match the demand, but otherwise make room in the game for commercial breaks because the TV audience matters more.
The keyboard heatmap code is nifty enough to justify this being on the front page of HN all by itself, which is not to say the rest is without value -- quite the converse; I hadn't thought of doing this sort of usage analysis with Emacs, but I think that's going to be my next weekend project once I'm done updating weatherline-mode.
It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design.

Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.
I don't mind those explicit set calls as much. I prefer when `obj.foo = 10` is a side-effect-free operation that only affects `obj` instead of something that triggers bunch of layout updates and got knows what other changes as well.

I do agree on the callback thing though and I find it kind of sad that not many people use CPS compilers for JS even though things like Cofeescript and SASS are pretty common.
> "Like invasions of privacy, rape, murder, bank robberies and traffic accidents will inevitably occur, no matter how hard we and our communities establish defenses against them."

The crucial difference between invasions of privacy and the rest of your list is that strong deterrents exist for the latter part of your list. Even if you ignore the legal consequences of rape, murder, and bank robberies, all expose you to the risk of violence in response to your actions. Traffic accidents are by definition both unintentional and unexpected, whereas most invasions of privacy are not.

These things have all been minimized to soceitally acceptable levels because of specific deterrents that are in play. Presently, there are few deterrents to both public and private invasions of privacy by large companies or institutions. Until strong deterrents exist, the violations will continue. This is why a few changed rules at the NSA and a slap on the wrist for senior intelligence officials won't prevent privacy violations in the long term. Until jail sentences start getting handed out that are comparable to those for robbing banks, large institutions will continue collecting troves of data and using it to rob people of their privacy.
Are there any other OS' similar?
I presume the RNAi described here targets regions of DNA of about ~20 nucleotides. Off-target effects are par for the course, but if you pick your 20 nucleotides carefully, you can get pretty precise. Common off-target effects also come from an orthogonal RNAi pathway that would would affect particular endogenous RNAs sharing the first ~7 nucleotides in that sequence.

Your argument about "toe-to-toe with evolutionary biology" is a little misguided. Everything about agriculture and pest control is going toe-to-toe with evolutionary biology. You either let evolution run all over you, or you try to keep up. Monoculture is a problem, but crop diversity wouldn't eliminate the evolutionary challenge - it's just another mitigating strategy.
It is. That's why dcurtis kept it so exclusive for so long. Svbtle now has a reputation for quality and can offer you the halo effect (for the time being). Surprised he isn't charging anything for it though. Quality will surely go down and dilute the reputation of just being on Svbtle.
Your comments bring up an amazing point for someone that is wanting to respect their anonymity.

Using anonymity techniques and then intentionally but subtly leaking information that points toward someone you want to frame would likely be tremendously successful.

The target would scream "I'm innocent" as they're dragged off to jail.
Great stuff guys, keep it up!
OTOH, finding removed code in your history is still a pain in the ass, unless commit messages are well and clearly crafted (which they usually aren't, and even then the keywords you search for may not be those you committed under).

VCS may need to grow a "full history" blame, which displays all hunks removed from the file.
> I think it's because male psychology leads men to being larger risk takers.

Without citing a source, you might as well say black psychology leads blacks to being larger risk takers. Otherwise you're just describing your stereotype.
> Yes, if they wired it. In my experience, actual design with this best practice is frustratingly rare.

Keep in mind how precious board space and GPIOs are in a modern phone. The boards are tiny, and even with 8 or 10 layers, they are still packed with traces on each layer.

Add to that, that the processor itself doesn't have a lot of GPIOs left over for a design like this. There are soooo many peripherals these days. Sure, you could use a port extender, but that is (a) another chip, (b) extra board space, (c) extra cost. So that's not going to happen unless something really important needs it, like the audio subsystem.
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He has been using HN over 900 days, and this is on the front page -- it's quite possible he simply saw the article and comments just like you and I did.
What's IIT and CMU? SVP?
I like the functionality, I'm ambiguous about the design, there where a few times where I had to stop and really think about the UI to figure out where I needed to go or what I wanted to get back to.

I also (and this is purely a personal thing) find that much whitespace like staring into a lamp I suspect I'd be using something like stylish in short order (might be nice to have something like a night mode, readability does this really well see here.. http://i.imgur.com/dTMrqId.png )

That it handles zooming really all the way up to an insane level is great (I'm 34 this year and my eyes are crap..) and it looks really nice on my old Nexus 7 1st gen.

Kudos :)
In my case, the "exclusive club" of "thought leaders" itself turned me away from Svbtle.
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The topic is too generic. You should add a sample email to the page so that people can have an idea what kind of newsletter they are subscribing to.
Rap Genius Launches App That Could Wean It Off Google’s Teat
Natural causes, then.
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I've been waiting for someone to write about this I first saw the demo.

More over, I think games are the future of movies. Tied in with Oculus and Omni, you're now in an interactive VR movie where you can choose the ending.
Popular misconception here: That disclaimer meant possession of the card is not identification, since it doesn't have any verification like a photo. The number does represent identification, as far back as 1943.

Source, the Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/141/why-does-my-old...

The SS card is a name-to-number mapping once the name is already identified by another document like a driver's license or passport.
Patches speak louder than words
Same here, it's not even worth going on their site.
If you hate superfluous adjectives don't ever watch an Apple demo video (I suspect that is where the approach got widespread traction).
The problem with the 'wean it off Google's Teat' is that the drop in visitors documented via Quantcast shows that Rap Genius is extremely dependent on Google for most traffic. Even if the app appeals to hard core users, how does this address the huge base of infrequent visitors, who come by Google and won't have / use this app?
Meanwhile, Norway has 1MM per capita in assets. Their net debt as a percent of GDP is -165% while the US is +88%
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A little bigger than Montana + Idaho.
At least, his email is visible in every commit:

> untraceableblog@outlook.com
Texas is about 15% bigger (because everything is bigger in Texas).
Great feedback. Think this can easily solve the problem. Thanks!
Hi, Canadian immigrant to the US. People in the US tend to use debit cards tied to their bank accounts which are also Visa / MasterCard cards. These cards can be swiped as either a debit card (requiring a PIN, similar to Interac) or a credit card (requiring only a signature, or nothing at all in some cases, like a gas pump). They don't force you to use it as a debit card because that would preempt certain transactions, like online ones. (My theory is that this is part of why the US has a far bigger online economy than Canada, beyond simple population density.)

Canada also has far stronger central controls on, for example, their banking system than does the US. In the US, such things would be considered onerous government regulation, even if the long term impact was positive.

Interac is a Canadian-only thing, BTW.
I like the part about shooting video.
I did some work for my third year dissertation on performing exhaustive testing on floats. Worked well enough, but I was never convinced that it was an especially effective way of testing.

If your test oracle is code itself, then it's not unlikely you'll make the same bug twice. I can't find the paper I'm after, but NASA did some work here.

If your test oracle isn't code, you have the problem of working out the correct outputs for the entire function space (at which point maybe you'd be better off with some kind of look-up table anyway)

The next problem is your input combinations grow much faster than you are able to test. Most functions don't just work on one float (which is very feasible) but they might work on three or four streams of input, and keep internal state.

The moment you have these combinations you run into massive problems of test execution time, even if you can parallelise really well.

Butler and Finelli did some work http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~tashbook/fall2009/cse308/butle... also at NASA investigating if doing a sample of the input space was worthwhile, but their conclusion was that it isn't helpful, and that any statistical verification is infeasible.

In my report I ended up concluding that it isn't a particularly useful approach. It seems that following good engineering practice has better returns on your investment.
Not to be confused with Steve Gibson's SQRL authentication system: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
meh, while there are certain truths in what he says, it only paints a very small picture of Scandinavia. I mean which nation doesn't its faults? Uninteresting.