skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it's in that context one should view the price to Obama: It was a signal to Obama, and the US, of the amount of contempt a lot of the world held Bush in, and an attempt at encouragement to put those years decisively in the past.

While that award is ridiculed outside the US too, I think few Americans appreciate just how terrifying the thought of anything like a continuation of the Bush legacy was to many people the rest of the world. We were shocked when he was elected the first time, and even more so that he became president a second time (and it doesn't matter that it was close, anything but a landslide for Gore would have still shocked us). It seemed like America had gone totally of the rails and was firmly headed into a level of previously unseen craziness.

After the election of Obama is the first time I've seen non-Americans in many larger European cities hold parties to celebrate the election of a US president.

It didn't matter that whether you believed his campaign promises or his background or that he is still far to the right of most of Europe - he was still someone who at least appeared to people to have some measure of intelligence and restraint. Someone who would at least listen to foreign leaders instead of some voice he believed to be God.

Merely by stemming the neocon tide, he was seen as a giant step forward (or backwards, to the saner era of e.g. Clinton, who was probably more popular in Europe than in the US, or even Bush senior; heck, we'd even take Reagan)
I have been depressed too for years.
What I can tell you is that one day, something wonderful and completely unexpected can happen and change everything :-)
But you should not count too much on it though. In fact, I would say you should do the best you can to stop worrying about yourself and care about things that could help others. It's after you have done that for some years that the wonderful things are most likely to happen!
Like the example ~300 line tetris implementation for tinygame: https://github.com/nmillerns/tinygame
Except that uses raw prints and termios in python instead of curses
Seriously? back at you. It's absolutely terrible, fails as a phone and I would rather have no smartphone than using that.
“Science does not advance by guessing”
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I think it is not acceptable for a webpage to max out my CPU, just by visiting the page. If it does it after I have pressed some button or something, it would be okay.
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So your definition is "corporations are effectively above the law if they do things I think are bad" ?
You're not :)

I am a scumlord though cause I do it in nano
I wrote the above article. I will try to answer any questions that I see here.
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Most of the time I could download any video on any place with youtuve-dl.

Sometimes I have to read the source code of the page and change the web address I give it the program, though.
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Of course it’s politicised. It’s about politics, after all. I do think it’s quite transparently political, both in intent and outcome. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Honestly, I’m not sure how you even think a non-political Peace Prize would be possible.

Also, I really don’t think Snowden should get a Peace Prize. It’s not like this opinion of yours that Snowden would be a worthy recipient is some kind of objective truth or even self-evident.
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
-- Dorothy Parker, "Resume", 1926
Sarah is a great interviewer, only realized that when I watched more interviews from others.
As a Vim plugin, you get a lot of features of Vim for free (e.g. search, familiar bindings). And the code is only 56 lines. A stand-alone program would likely have less features and be much longer.
That is actually more or less what happened to me, too. :)

Certain bad things which had been hanging around lifted, certain good things came into play. At that point I still had quite a depressed mindset but I had wanted to improve my life for so long and I had a lot of inner strength so I was able to grow a very positive, healthy mindset.

I really agree about trying to point yourself outwards and to help others around you. That's so important to me. In fact I have taken some off work recently just to create something which I believe might help people.
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I, too, have always wanted to beat away police officers with my testicles. [0]

[0] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlft8n_pom-poko-balls-again...

(not really NSFW unless you work for some ultra-conservative group of some sort. It's from an animated film.)
Awesome event. Thanks Liam.
My friend sprinkles crystalized coyote urine around his trash the night before pickup and it keeps them away

... for now...
I think the OP's point stands. Society and the law isn't trying to understand and reduce the deaths of so many guys.
Interesting that the section of the press release about Malala doesn't mention that she was shot in the face for her activist work, and kept doing it regardless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai
"* Vexed by crippling anxiety about whether you're going to be laid off"

Sounds like a regular normal day at an American company.
I always felt CSS solved the wrong problem. It's too low level -- and it doesn't really help separate content from elements as much as it should. It feels like the designers looked at what people were already doing with tables (forcing old, DTP-style layout on web pages, ignoring the ability of user-agents to prefer how content should be presented) -- and tried to separate that layout out from the mark-up. So you ended up with two types of mark-up, just as with tables, semantic mark-up (h1, p, em, img, a/href, li) and "layout mark-up" (span, div). To a certain extent CSS was successful in making table-markup semantic again. But pages are still evolving away from being easy to parse for content, just as they were with table-based mark-up.

I still think Adobe's proposal:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-regions/

is a much better way to solve the problem how "how can we let publisher dictate how the pages should look, users be damned, but still keep the html-markup simple and semantic" -- than the traditional CSS model.

All that said, sites like the legendary CSS Zen garden, does illustrate that CSS is a powerful tool, and offers quite a few improvements over plain old html+tables:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Still wish they'd gone with something that was more informed by Desktop Publishing Software (along with some proper support for breaking up words, a la:
https://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ ).
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what is the relevance of that blue spike? Incandescent spectrum looks much more linear (http://housecraft.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/spectral_res...), but appears to maybe emit more (just judging by eye) aggregate blue energy than the warm white LED.

Then again intensity towards blue-green still seems much higher in the LED, and maybe that matters more?
No, my definition would be that multi-national corporations are effectively above the law if, in a particular jurisdiction, they can engage in behaviour that companies constrained solely to that jurisdiction cannot engage in.

I am glad that we have cleared up the difference between being literally and effectively above the law, but I doubt we'll make any progress towards agreement about what being effectively above the law might mean. As we have already circumvented the HN efforts to avoid debates that aren't going anywhere several times, I guess I'll leave it at that. Have a nice day!

edit: Just to be clear, my above definition would also extend to arbitrary numbers of joint jurisdictions. So if corporation X, doing business in jurisdictions A, B, and C, can engage in behaviours within jurisdiction A that are unavailable to corporation Y, which only does business in jurisdictions A and B, then X would be effectively above the law with respect to Y. This definition seems very natural and clear to me: one group is allowed to do things another group isn't by some special status, ergo, they are effectively above the law.
Yes, but thanks to project managers and bean counters everything has to have a project/cost center etc

1. A lot of people are going to complain if you improve things but it affects them (even if it's a global improvement and affects them is: works faster. Yup, I've seen it happen)

I agree with the spirit of your post, but the chances of this happening there I'd say are almost zero.
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Oh man...I had completely forgotten about that show.
I have used PowerShell, and currently learning Clojure. They never occurred to me as being similar - or did I miss the point?
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You must be logged in to use a timer? Pass...

Edit: Here's what I see http://imgur.com/0bA7aJ3
If Apple was hated, you would see the same thing happen to them that happens to Microsoft. How often do you see big Microsoft news on the front page of HN or a Microsoft liveblog on Ars Technica? Almost never, where with Apple every word they say is splattered across the news for weeks.
This is from 2006 which is not indicated in the title.

Some of the problems have been solved in the meantime. Also it's a long list of complaints without alternatives or suggestions.
> By what right

You assume 100% self ownership of one's life, which I find silly. Society makes large investments in individuals and typically they have long term duties that cannot rightfully be abandoned.
<body>
<main>
<p>It can be much better if you avoid abusing
HTML classes for style.</p>
<p>Classes are meant to describe the role of
the tag, not its presentation.</p>
</main>

<aside>(use Sass instead)</aside>
</body>

--

/* Sass + Neat */

body { @include outer-container; }
main { @include span-columns(4); }
aside { @include span-columns(3); }
"I was inarticulate" is such bullshit. He was perfectly articulate in expressing the message he did. It's the content people are reacting to, not the presentation.
Automatic inlining is used in some contexts, notably emails where everything else works barely-if-at-all.

The biggest loss of using inline styles everywhere would be for instances where the appearance of the DOM is changing dynamically. Instead of just saying "hey, make that node have the class 'shinyWidget'", you'd wind up needing to specify all the styles that shinyWidget includes - and then reliably un-apply them when the node was no longer shiny.

Bonus fun if two things want to change the style of a single element, though that's still sometimes a headache with CSS and specificity rules.
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So wait because your pet candidate didn't win it's a farce? Children's and girl's education rights are completely worthy of a prize.
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In a statement to Microsoft employees Thursday night, Nadella went further, saying he was "completely wrong."
As the other person said, it's a lot about encouraging today's heroes into continuing with what they're doing. However, the prize should be awarded when the results of the person's work has really passed. Plus, it's only one person a year out of the other hundreds or thousands of people who don't get recognized. But again, it's a Nobel, whatever that's worth nowadays.
You are right, BUT sorry, this is unpopular on hacker news

Try to show that there is no difference between woman and men and you may get upvotes.

Edit: And hey: Life for femals is much better between 16 and 35 (and deteriorates quickly after that).

Man,... I know a lot of grumpy old woman.
I read some senator wants to hold up the US investment for helping out in Africa for political reasons. I suppose there are no voters in Africa so why spend money there. Not in my back yard often goes both ways. People are dying in Africa, why should we care. Of course this is a world problem but politicians seem unable to grasp that.
16,000 homicides total (firearm or otherwise) in the US in 2011.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Well there goes his database: "Error establishing a database connection" :).

Here is a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ...
This is cool! on the about page (http://news.fiddlewax.com/about) you thank nodejs. Is this project written in nodejs?! If yes, then when's the android port of this out ?
I was about to get all OOH, CAR PORN STATS but then I saw the Dodge Challenger/Charger SRT Hellcats... which are literally half the price, and faster. Womp womp.
As I wrote a few weeks ago[1], I hate this way but I can't argue with results. It's quicker and simpler to solve low-hanging fruit this way, which lets me spend cycles on application logic.

[1] http://swizec.com/blog/i-was-wrong-about-angularjs/swizec/66...
That was a stupid statement. Raises don't come to anyone who doesn't ask, men or women. In addition, raises don't seem to come at all in IT, except by changing jobs.

Unfortunately, when you feel it's time for your compensation to be bumped, it's probably time to look for another job. And that's ignoring the situation where you have a bad manager/company where asking for a raise will instantly make the environment hostile.
I started mostly with "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". I wanted to learn objective-C, but I hadn't convinced myself that an iPad was worth the investment yet. From there I worked on my first iOS game with a combination of Stack Overflow and Apple references.

My first big project was "Ocean Commotion"[1] and the motivation was that I didn't see many good multi touch games in the app store. It still disappoints me how most iOS games would be better suited to play with a mouse or keyboard when there is this amazing interface available. Did you know an iPad can handle 11 touch points at once, and an iPhone can handle 5?

My game started out as two orange rectangles that I could drag around on a blue background. Once you realize that views all get their own inputs then having 5 objects all respond to touch events at the same time is pretty straightforward.

For your first app I recommend starting with something simple. One recent game I made was "Jack Slap"[2]. It is a simple reaction time game, and would make a decent introduction into working with Xcode. Don't worry about the details up front. Just think of a concept or single feature you like and start doodling in code to get a feel for things.

My biggest challenge is probably my artistic ability. You can tell that I got an artist involved for Ocean Commotion, but not for anything else. Making an app look good is an important part of the process. Fortunately there are lots of artists out there who can't code to help you out!

[1] http://oceancmotion.com

[2]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jack-slap/id846622220?mt=8 (iTunes link)
Kissinger won it jointly for a concrete agreement ( http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/... ). The rationale for Obama arguably had no such concrete achievement: "The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."' . The full rationale is at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/... .
Asking doesn't work in any corporation I've ever been at. There's an annual review cycle.
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Suicide in otherwise healthy individuals is (imo) a mental health issue. Abortion is not.

Your initial comment that I responded to implied that discouraging suicide is or should be in bad taste. I don't agree with this statement.

My position is predicated on the assumption that life is better than death.
OpenBSD's reallocarray extension
reallocarray(3) is a malloc(3)/realloc(3) extension from OpenBSD, it is very portable and easy to incorporate into existing codebases.

The intention of reallocarray to replace the following idiom:

if ((p = malloc(num * size)) == NULL)
err(1, "malloc");

..with the much safer:

if ((p = reallocarray(NULL, num, size)) == NULL)
err(1, "malloc");

In the first example, num * size may lead to an undetected integer multiplication overflow.

reallocarray(3) performs the same overflow detection that is conventionally done by calloc(3), but without the expensive memory zeroing operation. It returns NULL on overflow, with errno set to ENOMEM, as is permitted by standards.

It is now being used extensively by LibreSSL as within OpenBSD's own userland; and in the kernel, as mallocarray(9).
One large factor is the prevailing gender discrimination against males in medical care. Those men who goes against gender roles and actually do seek help against mental health problems are often meet with disbelieve, and do not get the same treatment and support as women. Doctors are found to diagnose depression in women more compared with men, even when two patients have similar scores on standardized measures of depression or present with identical symptoms.

That reported suicide attempts and thoughts are much more common among females than male seem to have quite obvious reasons. Most men do not report it, and from those who still do it, many gets ignored and is thus not recorded into the statistics.
If you were a Jedi and your mind were stronger than everybody, maybe that would work. But folks can fork things any time they like, and they do.
I agree. We were producing the cleanest HTML back when "semantic web" was all the rage. Around 2009 I guess?
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FTR, Ceylon's Java interop is _excellent_, especially in this latest release, and Ceylon makes it absurdly easy to use the Java SDK directly from Ceylon.

Indeed, the Ceylon compiler's Java backend is actually built on Open JDK - that is, it is essentially `javac` itself that generates the bytecode - so we know that the bytecode we generate is extremely close to what Java itself would generate, including full information about generic types that the Java compiler can understand.

So, sure, we have the language module, and `ceylon.collection`, `ceylon.locale`, etc, which abstract away from the JVM, but that's necessary, since Ceylon also runs on JavaScript VMs. That _doesn't_ mean you can't easily use `java.lang`, `java.util`, and the rest of the Java SDK if you need it.

So it's not quite right to think that Ceylon is lacking in this area. It's actually a strong point of the language.
Employees shouldn't get raises because they ask for them, it should be part of a company's annual review process.
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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/...

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/lib/...
My position sees death as a permanent zero. If your life is continually in the negatives and you have to work every day to keep it there then putting it at zero permanently without any more effort required seems a good deal to me.
The interesting parts of Microsoft get a lot of press. Consider how much coverage a hypothetical Halo 5 would get before release. The real issue is MS produces little interesting new tech. Granted, I actually like developing for C# far more than most systems, but embrace and extend just does not make for much interesting news.
Well in America anyway, the dominant culture is of an independent right to choose your own way. Especially in the arena of personal health and welfare.
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The guy misspoke. And he's being contrite and immediate about it. I'm inclined to give him a break.

As someone who frequently thinks out loud as a way to work through ideas, I totally get how you could say things that you don't mean or come off entirely wrong given hindsight.
I had a job for four years at a small company, didn't get a single raise. I told them I was quitting, and ON THE SPOT they offered to DOUBLE my salary.

No thanks. I'll be moving on.
I'm accepting pull requests for my tilde.club page (http://tilde.club/~urschrei) at https://github.com/urschrei/edit_my_tilde, if anyone wants to put some of their own content / JS /CSS / images up.

A merged request triggers a web hook that pings a heroku app that performs a git pull on tilde.club using Fabric
Death is not really a zero. There's nobody left to do the measuring. Its more like a singularity?

Its a curious notion that folks dwell on about what its like after death. How about - you won't be there? The question is nonsense.
It consistently amazes me how many developers write code without thinking about tests. I've entered large scale projects, where I had to write code that interacted with a number of other components, and when asking "What happens when (possible failure case)" I get a shrug, "We've never seen that happen in development", and when I ask "Okay, how can I mock that failure case out sufficiently that we can see what the system does, and make sure it works okay?" I get a deer in the headlights look back.
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Well it all depends how you handle `null` at the boundary between the two languages. In Ceylon, we let you write either:

String str = javaObject.javaMethod();

or:

String? str = javaObject.javaMethod();

In the first case, we insert a runtime type check that throws an `AssertionError` if `javaMethod()` returns `null`. In the second case we don't.

That is to say, the Ceylon compiler recognizes that it's dealing with a Java library where information about null is simply missing from the method signature and adjusts accordingly.
Well, to know that it wasn't enough money to care about you would first have to have done the math to know that it was only $900M.

I like your first point about it not being about the money. I suspect it's more about proving that their new (at the time) approach to startup investing, their new appreciation for founders, their completely differnt model was right and that the conventional wisdom that came before them was wrong. At least that would be my biggest satisfaction.
I'm guessing he means continuity of the experience. One of the complaints was that you never know what happens when somebody leaves; did they get fired? Or are they on a new project? Did they quit?

Having a manager who's consistently there, who knows the people on interproject and is aware of the comings and goings that you can bring questions to would help clarify that.
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Good question. A lot of people don't believe in DRM, which operates on a very similar principle, but maybe because Snapchat is perceived as user-friendly while DRM isn't?

It's not as if they don't know about the analogue hole either - a lot of people who have absolutely no clue about how a computer works will, when asked to take a screenshot, point their camera/phone at the monitor.
> the development of unix is something I'd be interested in reading more about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html

http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj...

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/historychapter.html
But others in this thread are acting as if he "misspoke" which clearly wasn't the case.