skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
according to:

http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/63922/pirate-bay-doet-aangifte-te...

(dutch)
Update 22.03 uur: Joris van Manen, advocaat voor de stichting Brein, laat in een reactie weten dat het Experian-rapport voor Brein "geen enkele rol" speelt in de zaak tegen de beheerders. Het was destijds bij een brief aan de rechtbank toegevoegd in de zaak tegen Reservella. "We doen helemaal geen beroep meer op dat rapport. Het is ons bekend dat de gegevens erin niet kloppen."

Update 22.25 uur: Tim Kuik zegt in een reactie dat Brein zich inderdaad niet beroept op dat rapport in de zaak tegen de beheerders. Volgens hem is het rapport wel degelijk authentiek en afkomstig van Experian, maar bleek het niet te kloppen.

"Dit is afleiding, het zoveelste rookgordijn. Deze jongens blijven verstoppertje spelen. We hebben genoeg bewijs dat de beheerders verantwoordelijk zijn voor The Pirate Bay," aldus Kuik.

Persoonlijk doet de aangifte hem weinig. "Sunde zégt dat hij aangifte doet. We weten het nog niet. Ach, ik merk het wel. Van die vorige aangifte is in elk geval ook nooit meer iets vernomen."

Translation:

Update 22:03: Joris van Manan, legal council for Brein respons that the Experian report is no longer playing "any role" in the case against the owners [of tpb]. The report was added with a letter to the court in the case against Reservella. "We don't base anything on that report. We know that the data in there isn't correct"

Update 22:25: Tim Kuik responds that Brein indeed doesn't base anything on that report. According to him the report is authentic and it came from Experian, but it turned out not to be correct.

"This is just a distraction, the nth smokecurtain. These boys continue to play hide and seek. We have enough proof that as administrators they are responsible for The Pirate Bay", according to Kuik.

He's not bothered personally by the filing of charges. "Sunde says he's going to file. We don't know that yet. I'll fin out about it. That previous filing was never heard from.".

--

That may all be true, but I can't believe that the court is going to be happy with a party that has apparently not retracted a report that it knew to contain false information.

Also, if Experian says they didn't make that report and Brein says they did, where did it really come from ? If it can be pinned on Brein that they did falsify information it is going to hurt them tremendously. One thing they do is continuously harping on being on the right side of the law, if they falsify evidence then that veil is pierced once and for all.

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out over time, but I don't think 'we're not using that report' is going to make this go away.
So, basically he gets an award for not being George Bush?
No one here is going to defend Glen Beck, so at best it would just be a one-sided conversation congratulating ourselves for realizing how irrational he is. This doesn't seem like a productive use of anyone's time.
Less stuff. Less bulk.

Can't see that. Imagine getting rid of the regular key-ring and just attaching a bunch of these new-style keys to one another. See what an unwieldy blob that gives?

And about bulk. Excuse me but what kind of key-ring do you carry? Mine weighs all of half a gram or less...
> You have to remember, it's a big deal for the leader of a Superpower.

Dude, Bush invaded two countries for no particular good reason. Clinton jumped into the middle of a backwards country's tribal civil war to draw attention away from his personal life. Obama can't close a fucking prison? Seriously.
You're right about people needing to understand bash and Unix commands - I've seen two 20+ line Perl scripts that run the equivalent of 'date -I' and 'nc' respectively.

That said, I believe bash is somewhat limited for system administration - which I know is very odd amongst system administrators - but please let me explain why.

Using the shell on a Linux based OS in 2009, you miss out on:

* filesystem events (inotify)

* hardware events (dbus)

* config for programs with tree structured configuration (lxml)

* config for programs with sqlite based configuration

* RPM / yum beyond what their command line apps expose (and perhaps dpkg/apt too, but I need to investigate this further).

...as the commands / shell function libraries to handle these are often immature compared to the equivalent APIs. As a result, you get sysadmins causing unnecessary load by polling a file repeatedly at intervals (eg, via a cron job) rather than letting the kernel tell them when their file has changed.

I'm hopefully giving a talk about using richer languages for system administration at PyCon 2010 - I'd love to hear any thoughts or opinions on these matters fron HN readers.
Yep. It should be a prize for achievement, not for intentions.

The Nobel Prize has just devalued considerably.
2) He wants to close Guantanamo. I know he hasn't done it yet, but it can't be easy.

It's not about being easy or hard, but about the gigantic class action civil suit awaiting the U.S. government the minute they release them.
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Find out if your local development agency or similar in Europe has a fund for international business development. I wouldn't be coming to SS if I was paying ;-)
And uses Vicks to summon tears.
Yes, just see how well it worked for Yasser Arafat...
And rightly so.

You break it you get to buy it. It's amazing that so many people bought in to that stuff under Bush, I always thought that if there is one thing America will forever have to live with then it is Gitmo. Just like the Dutch have their colonial crimes and the Germans have world war II.

Some things can not be excused. Keeping people imprisoned without due process is such a crime that history will definitely remember, and that's besides the 'details' such as torturing them.

And doing it on foreign soil so you can pretend it's not an American thing is even more disgusting. If you do a thing like that at least have the balls to do it in your own country. And if that is impossible then don't do it.

Someone ought to end up in the Hague over that one.
I don't know why you saying this , but from what I learned from his shows, he is trying to work with facts and only with facts.
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Like someone said on Twitter: I just played Solitaire on my computer. And goddammit Obama won that too.
Apparently, there were a record number of nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: 172 people and 33 organizations.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20090227/120342505.html

Unfortunately, the list of names won't be revealed for 50 years.

Without the list, it's hard to compare everyone's accomplishments.
hm, my xmonad shows gimp with multi windows free floating. wich makes more sense for the current gimp.
You might get lucky and go to jail in some countries.

Or at a minimum redflagged.
> No one here is going to defend Glen Beck,

I wouldn't be so sure. Which would turn it into an exasperating thread, and be an even bigger waste of time, and change no one's opinions. Which is what 99% of politics discussions are on the internet.
You can do simple meditation by just reading a book about it and following through. Although high-level meditation should only be learned from a master, I would say that the advices that you have in this thread are pretty efficient. Just don't try do to anything else, like meditate with music or any other New Age or whatever. Meditation is very simple, which is why it is hard at the beginning, but it is also very profound and very powerful.

One of the keys to meditation (and to most of Oriental arts) is consistent practice. If you can find supervision it is better, but you can go a long way just by practicing consistently and correctly.
At first glance this appears to be a shameful betrayal. But included in yahoo's terms are agreements that users will not use their services to violate local laws. Dissident Iranians are much better off following advice from Reporters without Borders:

http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=3384...
I wish all the luck to puredemo's version, mine took all of 5 minutes to make and was just for a quick laugh :)
Nit pick : Could the original poster or moderator fix the typo in the title? Price -> Prize
yeah, and all the rules read to me as being aimed towards "have mercy with the reader", which applies to writing code as well :)
Yeah I saw it also , it is really based on facts
Did you read the post your replying to? The poster pointed out that he's got other things in his life. When you grow up you might decide that $20 to spend time with your kids when they're young is cheap.
Looks like it uses native widgets and fonts, as it should (GTK stands for GIMP ToolKit after all). If it looks bad, GTK (or its theme) is to blame, not GIMP itself.

BUT I think you are correct, some UI elements, especially in the palettes are too large.
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I haven't seen gevent before but it looks really cool. Its also impressive to see Django running on top of libevent - something I'd never thought possible.

My big concern with this framework though would whether it could cope with accessing a database or similar datastore without blocking. My guess is that it currently doesn't.
> But considering how leaders of Superpowers have behaved in the past, he is unique.

Yes, he is unique. As is everybody else.

Uniqueness is not a reason to give someone a prize, achievement is.

And from where I'm sitting the only thing that has changed is that the American President is no longer making a fool of himself on the international stage and hasn't made the rest of the world wonder if he still has all his marbles.

But to give him a prize for that belies the people that have in some cases paid with their lives for achieving their goals, and then to be awarded their 'prize' 30 years after the fact.

There should be some honour in being awarded a prize, this is more like an incentive to keep going.
A bunch of the nobel prize winners have been posted here over the past few days. True, this one is more politically charged, but it seems to fit within that trend.
Thanks bemmu.. ours started out as a lark as well, but then we ended up spending a considerable amount of time on it.
You can bet that the other threads had no mention of Glen Beck.
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In contrast, Arizona State University actually withheld giving Obama an honorary degree normally awarded to visiting speakers on the ground that his main achievements are yet to come:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/...
Two reasons:

1 - it's unreasonable to not ask why saving $20 is worth many hours of your life;

2 - Why would you assume that mucking about with php and wordpress, then validating front end code in ie{6,7,8}, ff, safari, and chrome is in any way fun for the vast majority of developers?
Will videos from the speakers be available online after the conference?
Fair enough, I'm defending the posting, not the comments.
Spot on. I wish we lived in a world where he could openly acknowledge this:

"I want to thank first and foremost my predecessor, George W. Bush, without whose service as a stark contrast, I could not have won this prize (nor, perhaps, the presidency)"
Any mention of Obama or Bush or Ron Paul or whoever, is pretty much bound to devolve into controversy of a more or less unenlightening and, all too often, unenlightened nature.
They jumped the shark when they gave the prize to a boastfully-amoral purveyor of warmongering realpolitik in 1973, an unrepentant terrorist in 1994, an ineffective cronyist international kleptocrat in 2001, a self-aggrandizing bigoted apologist for dictators in 2002, and a scientifically-illiterate shill in 2007. Jumping the shark is what they do.

I'm not sure its a club the President wants to join, at least not this early in a first term.
Saying "We should seek everyone's support in the iraq war" is not politically risky but saying "We should talk with Iran no matter what" really is risky in the US.
It's usually rogue APs that cause Wi-fi issues. Two access points broadcasting on the same channel and/or two channels that conflict.
Well in his defense it's not like he asked for it. Gibbs first response to the news was "Wow". I think they are smart enough to know that far from being a feather in their cap this is a potential PR crisis on their hands.
I guess there is a lot of Obama supporters - naive fellows.
Worth noting that ol' Dubya was the only POTUS willing to appear publicly with the Dalai Lama, at the risk of offending China. Clinton didn't, tho' he did meet him, and Obama has refused to even meet him (see link on my other comment).
My theory - Republicans bribed the Nobel Prize Committee to award this to Obama. Cheap for an instant PR disaster.
Same, but possibly an email mismatch between the one on the logged-in HN account, and the one that you used to apply to Startup School? (That's the most obvious thing I can see about mine, anyway.)
Actually we're filtering the input fairly extensively. At this point there shouldn't be any searches that would be considered illegal. Raunchy maybe, but not illegal.

* Ironically the terms that get flagged aren't what people would expect. Anarchy, animal rights, veganism, and food not bombs all get flagged in the U.S.
For almost a year, Yahoo stopped accepting new e-mail registrations from Iran [1], but I'm told they didn't touch existing accounts. Last August they started accepting new registrations again [2]. I think sanctions wouldn't be any issue because no money changes hands? That was apparently Google's position.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/07/yahoo_google_microsf...

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/yahoo_microsoft_iran...
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i'm never quite sure how important replication is for a DB to succeed. up until recently i didn't need it, and now oracle provides master/master - so that's transparent for me. and i don't have to worry about how to setup the apps to be master/slave aware.

who really is using mysql replication. and how interesting was a master/slave setup - the only kind of replication provided up until 4.1 (2004). i would imagine if you know howto setup your apps to work with only one master, you would know about postgres.

would really be interested if any middle-sized (not slashdot) websites use mysql replication (which setup) and since when.
The pro Obamas fellows doesn't understand that it always finishes the same way... the guys in uniform come to your home...
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That issue (accessing databases without blocking) is why I've recently started getting interested in DBSlayer from the NYTimes:

http://dbslayer.org/projects/dbslayer

It's a proxy that lets you make SQL queries against your database over HTTP. Since all of the event based web frameworks (Twisted, gevent, Tornado etc) allow you to make non-blocking HTTP requests, using DBSlayer could instantly resolve the blocking database query problem.

To my knowledge no one has written a Django ORM backend for DBSlayer yet, but it would be a fun hacking project.
Thanks!

Your concern is valid though, if the database module is a wrapper around C library which uses blocking sockets, each database call will block the whole interpreter, not just a particular greenlet.

This is not specific to gevent thought. Tornado and Twisted face the same problem and Twisted has a threadpool to cope with that. I guess I would have to implement something similar for gevent.

However, if the database module was a pure Python or used libevent underneath then it would integrate with gevent seamlessly. Alas, it's rarely the case for database modules (?)
One of the stated goals of Django's template system is to be "safe" - to ensure that template developers can't cause too much damage. The Tornado model essentially allows arbitrary Python code to be evaluated, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but would break the contract Django has already established. I think the smarter {% if %} statement proposal is much closer to Django's philosophy.
"There are those who do technology as a job, and there are those who do it as a passion. We want the latter"

Every company wants the best employees, but how many want to pay the best salaries?
To play the devil's advocate...

USA has a prison system that is 19th century, compared to the rest of the western world. How much worse is Guantanamo than that? Also, afaik prisoners of war can be held until the conflict is ended. The conflict in Afghanistan is arguable not ended.

What I find shocking is the water boarding and sending people for interrogation to places which are really barbaric.

Edit: A couple of grammar changes.
This makes him the second American president to get a Peace Prize for not being George Bush, which the head of the Nobel Committee actually admitted to reporters when Carter got the award. I stopped caring about their opinion on anything after that.

But the chairman of the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee said bluntly that the award was meant to slam Bush's policy on Iraq.

"With the position Carter has taken...(the award) can and must also be seen as criticism of the line the current U.S. administration has taken on Iraq," Committee head Gunnar Berge, a former labor minister, told reporters.

(Reuters)
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I think Obama deserved Nobel Prize. Let us check his struggled Childhood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama#Early_life_and_career
Me too. Is there somebody we should contact about this?
It depends on whether it's a coded way of asking if the candidate is married/has kids.

Interviewer: Do you work on an open source project outside of work?
Candidate: No, I'm too busy looking after my kids and Church activities
Interviewer (thinking): Oh shit, I better have a damn good reason to give to HR if I reject this candidate...
http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bikeshedding.html

wether we should call it thisObj or self :)
I'd be interested to see what happens if a conference purposefully doesn't have WiFi. Would people talk to each other, or just not show up? Sitting in an audience of a couple of thousand, everyone staring at their screen (that 'Cannot find server' page is enthralling)... it does make one despair for human society, sometimes.

On the other hand, when there's a bad speaker, we'd be limited to Solitaire; and unable to Google further resources, or diversions, or complain about it on HN.
I would have to see one to test its durability and see how awkward it is to use. Nevertheless he is selling a stake in the Split Ring Key Blank Intellectual Property (patent) and gotten plenty of press.
The GIMP certainly is not GTK+. GTK+ is a totally separate library. Installing GTK+ does not magically bring with it the GIMP's code. There are hundreds of GTK+-applications, across loads of platforms, that have nothing to do with the GIMP.

It is correct that the toolkit was originally created for the GIMP, but it's not at all tied to the GIMP now.

The GIMP developers often push issues into GTK+ whenever possible, they treat it as just another library.
Or the democrats did it, so Obama can hold a long rejection-speech, highlighing all the people more worthy of it than him for an instant PR success.
If they can increase the transmission rate of this technology then this could possibly be a game changer. Imagine just shaking hands with someone and having stored his contact information, picture and perhaps a small cv, that would be really cool.
Although I don't know if there are any health related issues with this tech that could create a problem with it's adoption.
Just a minor correction, his surname was Gandhi. I completely agree with you though.
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Will be missing out, a little sad.
> USA has a prison system that is 19th century, compared to the rest of the western world. How much worse is Guantanamo than that?

Good point, so maybe upgrade the US prisons to Guantanamo Bay standards ?

> Also, afaik prisoners of war can be held until the conflict is ended. The conflict in Afghanistan is arguable not ended.

But it isn't a war. Besides that, even if it was there are pretty strict guidelines on the treatment of prisoners of war. So either they're civilians that have been arrested for crimes or they're prisoners of war. You have to choose and then play by those rules. Inventing new terms ("enemy combatants") isn't going to convince anybody but the most gullible.

> What I find shocking is the water boarding and sending people for interrogation to places which are really barbaric.

This we fully agree on. Even torture can be outsourced it seems. But I think that does not remove the responsibility for it.
huh. I got the message, but when I went to RSVP it immediately said "We're sorry to say we didn't accept this application. We had more than twice as many applications as there are seats in the auditorium, so unfortunately we had to reject a lot of people we would have liked to accept."

So I'm wondering if I should show up or not?
in his defense it's not like he asked for it

Let's see if he turns it down. Either way, it's a win-win of him and he'll get plenty of adulation.
I used Gimp a few weeks ago to resize a picture .. I'm still finding Gimp windows on screen ...

thanks folks, I'll be here all week!
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I didn't know that the Nobel peace prize was awarded to the person who struggled the most in his childhood.
Obama spent years at the U of Chicago law school, a place that publishes by the pound. He didn't publish a single paper the entire time he was there. My guess is that's why they withheld the honorary degree.
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http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6628/smallphotoshop.png

Yes, its 100px wider, but still, imho Photoshop makes a lot better use of precious screen space. Compare the buttons under layer palettes. GIMP has 32px icons, while Photoshop has over 10px smaller ones. Or the slider, in Photoshop under "Navigator" and in GIMP in the Layers palette. Actually just compare Layers palettes in each. GIMP uses lots of superfluous labels and huge font size compared to Photoshop In my screenshot Photoshop also has 2 more palettes on screen.

Photoshops UI is also quite flexible, allowing to move and resize palettes freely, dock and undock, and group palettes to tab-groups. And layouts can be saved and then selected with just few mouse clicks. This allows it to scale across monitor size and count relatively easily.

edit: Sorry for inflammatory Photoshop vs. GIMP post
He also gets it while USA are in two wars (wars which have very little to do with peace and most likely related to oil and revenge). Anyhow, I like Obama as well, but giving him a peace award is just too early.
Please, a more credible source and better context too. I have hard time believing Ambedkar actually said that.
Nobel Peace Prize. No reason to drag the other Nobels into that.
Regarding the point 6), he actually did achieve that - missile shields in Czech Rep. and Poland were cancelled. I am not Obama fan, but there were much worse choices in the past.