skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean that the commenters weren't real—sorry for the imprecision. We use the term "sockpuppet" rather loosely to include cases where people show up to comment only as part of a story they're trying to push. When a bunch of new accounts show up to do it at the same time, we ban them, because that's not a legit use of HN comments.
I wouldn't bet on it. http://pwnyoutube.com has been around for quite a while now. Although if I remember it right, youtube blocked some IPs associated with tools that let you download/convert videos, as these services violate the terms of use.

Btw: I find it nice that this tool supports https. pwnyoutube.com requires you to remove it manually, which makes it so much more inconvenient to use.
ah nice, an mbox rival.. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/
Von Hindenburg was certainly no moderate socialist of any kind. He was nominated exactly because he was seen as a link to the previous (aristocratic and Bismarckian) past without being too virulently anti-Socialist -- a safe pair of hands, so to speak, but certainly not a "christian socialist" of any sort. In fact, his suspicion and eventual (mis)treatment of the SPD was one of the causes of Hitler's rise to power.
If Baru volcano in Panama goes off, then folk opposing a Nicaragua canal may end up looking silly as well though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%C3%BA_%28volcano%29
The readability is really bad, and clicking an image brings me to a smaller version?
never!!!
Absolutely! May be able to work together. What's the best way to reach each other?
You're conflating several concepts with conservatism.

Sure, there are branches of Conservative thoughts that intersect with National Socialism, but the very same thing can be said about social liberalism.

In reality, however, neither side -- left or right -- in America is that close to the ideas of National Socialism.

To suggest otherwise is either genuine ignorance or a weak attempt to score political points.
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I've recommended a "web app first" approach to some of my clients.

You might find parse.com services cover your user and notifications requirements, and perhaps even your REST backend.
Google Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It
> I think this thread has reached a Godwin level

Well, it's hard not to mention Nazism in a thread about Mein Kampf... (sorry, I couldn't resist -- I do get what you are saying though).
fix_entities is a parameter. It's not guessing, you told it.

You could vaguely criticize the fix_entities='auto' setting as a guess, except it's a guess that's only wrong if you manage to provide it an HTML document with zero tags in it.

An example of a false positive is "├┤a┼┐a┼┐a┼┐a┼┐a". That is what I mean by non-serious text. False positives will always exist, and you should appreciate that I'm testing on millions of examples to find out what they are. Your suggested machine learning approach would never get to 99.999984% precision.

Using non-ASCII is totally fine, and this library would have no purpose in an all-ASCII world.
Ok, point taken. But at least I was correct in saying "a caricature" rather than "the caricature." Man, that's a lot of people.
On June 2001 I had a stroke, ended up in a hospital, got diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizoaffectiv...

A misunderstood mental illness that only 0.5% of the population has that is like a cross between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

I was making Windows and Web Apps 80+ hours a day, under a lot of stress and had just recently developed high blood pressure and my meds weren't right for it yet.

I ended up on short-term disability, got paid $500/month instead of my salary. 9/11 happened and then anyone with a mental illness is never looked at the same way again. I returned to work in November 2001 and once I had a panic attack from the stress I was fired for being sick at work.

I kept looking for work, anything I did find didn't last long, as soon as they discovered I was mentally ill, I got fired.

I ended up on disability in 2003, and been trying to get off of it since. Trying to get a startup going, but lost all of my friends and my family disowned me.

You cannot force IT people to work under a lot of stress and not expect them to develop a mental illness because of it. I suppose that is why they hire 20sometimes, they can handle the stress, but once they get mentally ill from it, fire them and hire someone to work cheaper to replace them. How many suicides in the industry before you figure out you need to treat people with dignity and respect and not stress them out so much?

I get accused of having autism or asperger syndrome because of the way I talk and write. I am 'high functioning' as opposed to those who are 'low functioning' and not as smart. Before World War II they would take high functioning mentally ill people and treat them to develop their talents to be used in complex stuff like code breaking, etc. But after world war II they only treat the low functioning mentally ill and the same thing doesn't work for high functioning mentally ill.

My p-doc claims I speak a certain Filipino (It is Tagalog but I didn't want to correct him) language that only other high functioning people can understand, and that this is common in the tech industry to speak that language that the average person cannot understand.
It continues at http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/2....
The last four digits of your credit card should not be considered secure information. It's printed on all of your receipts. You carry it on your person in plain text. Many of your online accounts will display it in your account settings without an additional login. It's probably in both your mail and your email.
Once someone has it, they can use it for years for recovery on any service that accepts it, and I know some will allow full account recovery using it alone.
> What this article somewhat mentions and what seems really weird for people that like Pen and Paper and want to play this new edition is that they are releasing the CORE books over the span of a few months. It's kind of weird for players. Sure we get the Player's handbook this Tuesday, but without a DM book and a Monster Manual it makes things a little limited for a few months.

This is not new. It seems strange, but each and every edition of D&D so far has been released this way, one core book a month for three months.

It's a time-honoured tradition, but yes, a strange one. I just don't know the full details about why.
Shouldn't you be more worried about legal issues of turning a copyrighted broadcast, possibly not even uploaded by the content owner, into a gif?
I wish them the best of luck, but I don't really buy their claim that a flight they are publicly listing and charging a fee for is private cost sharing.
Undoubtedly part of the German electorate responded to Hitler in despair, as you say; however, you cannot discount the fascination he inspired in the middle classes by appealing to their sense of glory. He took that element from Mussolini, who developed it in a country that wasn't on the verge of despair as much as stuck in a lull and lacking self-confidence.
If you hunt them for sport from childhood, the survivors get wily indeed.
I made the switch to management and did that for several years. I don't regret it at all. I learned lots and had a bunch of experiences that I would never have had otherwise, but I eventually made the switch back to being a "lowly" engineer. In the end, I personally had a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment in that role than in management.
Disappointed you can't make a Palindrome out of it :(
Is it just me or does the title seem like it has an extra level of 'meta' to it?
What's up with the emoticons?
Thanks. :) It's my first Rust project to learn it.
Inside the Barista Class
This is neat but putting it in front of the URL gives me:

GIFhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Which doesn't work. I am amazed that Google hasn't complained about the gifyoutube.com domain.
China has trade volume, Russia has a military. Together, they form a powerful adversary.
It's amazing to me that, in all likelihood, had Hitler decided to call it quits earlier, the world would have sat back and allowed him to keep some of his conquests (eg Denmark, Norway or Belgium). Today it would be unthinkable to allow a large nation to invade Belgium with no counter international military response.
#11. You consider yourself an outsider

Reminds me of the story of Lamborghini. There was a young fellow named Ferruccio Lamborghini who built tractors for a living. He bought a Ferrari and was disappointed, so he approached Enzo Ferrari with ideas to improve it. But Ferrari, in his arrogance, didn't want advice from a lowly tractor mechanic. Not taking no for an answer, Ferruccio decided he would build his own sports car instead. The rest is history. I don't know if that's true, but it's a great story.

Moral of the story: If someone approaches you with a criticism, be quiet and listen.

More info: http://www.lamboweb.com/History.htm
M-x doctor

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Fun stuff.

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Looks like Japan's solution is to let in more immigrants or they come up with a robot at extremely low cost and low energy consumption.

Japan would rather have robots than immigrants but ultimately, like immigration boom that happened in the west due to lack of indigenous population supply, foreign workers has to come.
If the machine works decently these will sell really well(if not the next generation model or a competitors will). Every overpriced coffee shop, bakery, and restaurant that can think of something creative to do with it will want one.
Reality is really starting to catch up with sci-fi isn't it?

Anybody else reminded of Sigfried Von Shrink from Gateway?
Only if it erupted while they were wearing silly socks. Said volcano is nowhere near the canal.
Gitcritic does some of this right now as a webapp, including side-by-side diffs:

http://gitcritic.com

https://github.com/danvk/better-pull-requests
The sad part is, I think they would have been arrested for terrorism charges if they tried this today.
This seem counter to other things I have read about eliminating left turns, etc.. Maybe they give directions but not with a phone with map or GPS? It seems crazy to not use GPS enabled mapping for a delivery company.
Sprint phones also use SIM cards too, for their newer LTE devices.

Some LTE devices have embedded SIM cards (baked inside the device so they aren't user removable, such as the Photon Q LTE).

But those are still SIM cards, all Sprint LTE devices have a SIM card of some sort.
The annotate button covers the highlighted text. And I don't just highlight text when I speed read, I do it all the time because it is easier on the eyes - it is just a habit common to speed readers as that's where most people pick it up.

Moreover you actually break selection pretty badly along with it. There are other ways to annotate than to pop crap up every time a user highlights text.

I'm in no mood of solving UX problems for a website that has gotten me so disgusted within seconds of opening it. And no, this is not an exaggeration. Imagine if, while reading the newspaper, every few seconds some really annoying guy moved it out of the way and yelled "DID YOU SEE THE SPORTS SECTION?" or similar crap you don't care about. This is the most direct analogy I can find to explain the situation to someone who doesn't highlight-read.
My blog is officially part of one of the content owners' networks. Plus there's the whole "fair use doctrine" that generally allows small snippets for commentary purposes.
It's interesting to see that the drawing functions are defined using tupled parameters: https://github.com/google/codeworld/blob/master/codeworld-ba...

Is this to make it easier for beginners?
Perhaps not Belgium, but consider eastern Ukraine.
> The UK is far more democratic than a great many countries

... and far less democratic than many others.

> and has been making democratic progress longer than many countries have existed

... or, in other terms, has been slower to produce a soundly-democratic system than many younger countries.

In fact, one of the main puzzles constitutional scholars struggle with, is exactly this: how (and why) did a nation that reached substantial parliamentary rule so early, deliberately refuse to evolve towards more democratic forms of governments for so long? Why did England fight the French Revolution so bitterly, when on paper the French were just completing the job started in Westminster so many decades before? How can aristocratic privilege survive, in this day and age, in the same nation that first theorized it as fundamentally unjust?

I know this can be difficult to understand for people grown under the ultimate myth of Westminster "mother of all democracies", but there are other models out there; and some of these models are ultimately much more coherent, in theory and in practice, than the constitutional hodgepodge we experience in modern Britain.
I agree with the statement about Astoria. I live next to the neighborhood on Roosevelt Island and spend many Saturdays/Sundays walking the neighborhood because of the great food and people. The NQ line that runs through Astoria will take you to the heart of Silicon Alley.

I also recommend checking out East Harlem. There isn't a ton going on up there, but rent is cheap and you can hop on the 4/5 and be at Union Square in ~20 minutes.
I'd rather have less MP if it means a better noise profile, and AFAIK there is a a fair amount of parameters affecting image quality other than the sensor itself.

These samples from the A7 don't seem to come close in color reproduction or dynamic range: http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Alpha_A7/sample_image...

I don't own either so this is just armchair judgement.
Heh so did I. Kinda funny how the original post was related to collision detection in a different game.
Now we just need something like this for gfycat.
Yea, Mao Ze Dong wasn't the same thing though. It's estimated as many as 60 million people died in China from hunger. Many others died from the civil war (Cultural Revolution). There may have been some genocide but the term doesn't apply as well as in Germany/Russia.
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> At the time, my father—who earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell and his master’s at Johns Hopkins

Nothing cooler than rich kids taking all their advantages they were given and use them to live like paupers with zero concern for the the world around them.

> I can report that Fin and Rye both learned to read and write with essentially zero instruction, albeit when they were about eight years old, a year or so later than is expected.

I'm pretty sure that's closer to 4 or 5 for most kids who grow up in families from the Cornell / John Hopkins pedigree.

> I want them to remain free of social pressures to look, act, or think any way but that which feels most natural to them.

Awesome how the author takes his past issues of "social pressures" and maps them onto his kids. Wonder if he ever realized that "social pressures" are one of the most natural things a child learns.

This thing is full of gems. I shouldn't be so sarcastic about child abuse, but I just can't help it. I've met far too many of these clowns in my life.
Study countries like Singapore, Korea. They are countries that in the last 50 years or so were able to escape poverty in just one or two generations. Maybe even Vietnam or Thailand which I think are not quite in poverty so not nearly as prosperous as Singapore or Korea.

The education system in both countries is really really intense -- like Korean kids go to school at 8am and get back home at 9pm!!!

It's very hard to say -- obviously or there wouldn't be poor countries! For example, there are a lot of attempts to explain China's success versus India. Indians will blame corruption -- but there's massive corruption in China. Some observers say that it's China's iron-fisted rule that gets things done that's driven development instead of India's clunky not-so-effective democracy. But most observers seem to find and you would expect that democracies tend to have economically better off populations.

India to some extent has become internationally famous as a hub for software development -- and it's certainly helped India and positions India fantastically well for the future as softwares gets more and more important. But if you look at India's accomplishment to date and the IT industry -- it looks really pathetic actually!! But that's how you start. India's whole IT industry is around $100 billion/year in revenues for something like 2.5 million people. IBM does that much in revenues with maybe 400k people or 16% as many people!! Google does $60 billion/year or 60% of the entire Indian IT industry with something like 3% as many people...so Google is like 20x more efficient!!! So the Indian IT industry is literally just throwing cheap labor at problems -- not very creative or intelligent. But anyway, that's how you start. I wonder if you can go back and look at when China's manufacturing hub was $100bn/year -- maybe sometime in the 1980s and see how it evolved versus India's IT industry growth, and also how wages increased. Maybe India can follow such a trajectory as China did. China now wants to build up IT!

Just a few thoughts, observations!
Making “NSA-Proof” Social Networking Mainstream
There are a lot of things I like about this, but I am do see some issues.

I think the boys are learning a lot of very interesting skills, but I think they would struggle a lot with becoming lawyers and doctors like the author claims.

My biggest concern would be their reading skills, and later, their advanced math skills.

He says they read fine, but reading is something that must be done almost every day for years to get to a highly literate point. Literacy and reading comprehension are essential skills to navigating the modern world.

I am just not sure what kind of jobs or careers they will be prepared for later on.

I mean, it sounds great and I would love to have done a lot of this stuff as a kid, but I just see issues if the parents don't really stay on top of it.

If you grow up hunting, fishing and farming, you don't exactly prepare yourself to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer.

On the other hand, if you have the reading and maths skills, you can still be a hunter/fisher/farmer.
> you told it.

Another commenter claims that this worked:

> ftfy.fix_text('L&amp;amp;Atilde;&amp;amp;sup3;pez')

There is no “fix_entities = True” there. Indeed, if the library would require such a parameter, what would be the point? If you already know the encoding, the library has no reason to exist. Therefore, the whole point of the library is to guess the encoding.

> you should appreciate that I'm testing on millions of examples

Examples taken, I would assume, either from your personal use cases, the use cases of your customers, or some sort of general grab-bag of mis-encoded text you could find. I would assume that this one-size-fits-all ad-hoc rule set would be wrong for many users in their specialized use cases, and would bite them when they least expect it.
Teaching Is Not a Business
It obviously is, otherwise who was quoted?
>There was no pretence at higher purpose or salvation.

Maybe not in the traditional form (with religious meaning), but in a new, nationalistic form. The pretence of a higher purpose of the NS system was in my opinion, that the nation will succeed in its god given plan to succeed. You can hear it shining threw in many of Hitlers speeches.

No, when you understand "purpose" in a strict religious way, it did not have such pretence. But when you have an open mind to something that is more common than religion, it definitively had.

There are also many things that are clearly directed into a cult or replacement-religion. Also Hitler uses many religious phrases and imitations. Many see this as a clear sign for a cult.

Also the fact, that for example the wife of Goebbels killed her children, speaks clearly that many people (many killed themselves either) lost all hope and life purpose, because the NS system was (for them) something like the salvation for the German nation.

>The entire German political system became a suicide and death cult, and swallowed itself whole.

Now you say it yourself and contradict yourself by saying that it became a cult. It was a kind of cult and thus had the pretence of a higher purpose. (of course, if you always define "purpose" as going to heaven, you are right -- but in my opinion there are different levels or kinds of purpose).

That is right. But this was possible, because with the dead of the system, many of the involved people also lost hope for Germany as a whole. I don't want to excuse, what they did (some of them slaughtered their own people and behaved like real monsters), but in some cases it might become a little more understandable.

I also don't want to show this cult in a shiny light. It was really a death cult (and that from the start) -- but because of a different reason: The system was based on the notion, that the German nation will rise -- and the condition for that was, that others had to fall. It was a kind of social-darwinism (hope, got that word right). This whole notion: I will rise, and others have to fall (for that) is anti-christian and a total abuse of Darwins findings. It is a cult, based on the death of others. What happened was, that this death fired back on the Germans.
> Conservatism doesn't send people to concentration camps

Doesn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
Awesome proof of concept. Do you have a public directory of people involved to test this out on? I'm a man with a message and no one to send to.
Well, it made sense while I was typing it :) I think you're probably right because "socialist" had a different meaning in a post-Bismarck Germany. If we consider what Fabian Socialism meant in England maybe. Even then the makeup of the Fabians was much more literary and not at all military. That doesn't work, either.

I'd have been better off identifying him as a Christian Democrat although that lacks something. He was one of the last of the Junkers Prussian caste to rule, and that really doesn't compare to much outside Germany and then only before WWII.

Of what came after, I'd say the CDU is closest to what von Hindenburg stood for, although it's still a stretch.
> It's the library you use when the data you get has already been decoded incorrectly.

Wait, does this not make the usability of this library very limited? How would I know that something has been decoded incorrectly? If I’m already handling this manually, what is the point of having a library?
The entire "war on X" formulation is a Fascist concept. Though the war on terror involved literal military action, the "War on Drugs", "War on Poverty", and so forth are reminiscent of Mussolini's series of initiatives such as the "Battle for Grain", "Battle for Land", "Battle for the Lira", and "Battle for Births".
Mental Illness is not a Defect
So in other words, this library is only for “serious” text. You know, I’ve been accused of hating fun, but I you think you beat me, having written a library which is incompatible with it.
Surprisingly fun. Suggestion: Take a big chunk out of the timer when the wrong choice is clicked, so a sense of urgency is created instead of immediately ending the game.