skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, the prisons in the nordic countries are among the few in the world which actively do practice rehabilitation rather than just "suck", as OP expressed it. I believe that is the reason the vegan diet was brought up as a big deal - he was treated OK in most other regards, especially when considering how prisons work in other parts of the world. Take a look at this documentary:

http://arenan.yle.fi/tv/2428667
I hate to cite Wikipedia, but the following helpful article has some quotes from Speer's memoir which are relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_...

>A belief that ethnic groups should have pride in their culture and stay "pure" by only breeding with other members of the same ethnic group may not be popular now, but it is not racist.

Actually it is racist.
> Murder has always been illegal, in every society,

Only if you allow for a highly variable definition of 'murder', at which point there isn't much value in comparison.
And who is really going to do that? Do I have time at my day job to port some network packet editor to the platform of my choice? Is management going to fund such an effort, or are they just gonna pay for the app?
The fact that there is no return journey planned makes a lot of stuff much simpler.
Take a stroll through the clinical descriptions of some common medicines and see how often you see this phrase:

"The exact mechanism of X is unknown, however..."

It's kind of frightening.

(two off the top of my head: http://www.drugs.com/pro/klonopin.html & http://www.drugs.com/pro/prozac-capsules.html)
This is really, really clever. I mean, I guess it could be obvious to some people, but I tend to over-think things quite a lot and probably would have never come up with such novel uses for radio-buttons and check-boxes.

Definitely going to be keeping this in mind next time I'm working on a web application.
I really don't think "shortage of advertisers" matters, you can sign up for a Juicy Ads[1] account and place those pop unders and CPM ads on my programming blog if I want, I don't have to communicate with the advertisers I just use an ad platform.

[1] http://www.juicyads.com/
Yeah, what about Julia?

which makes as much as sense as asking

- What about R?
- What about GNU DAP?
- What about FORTRAN?

for writing a TCP server.
No.

A while ago folks tried to have the airfield re-classified for general aviation (GA) and met a lot of resistance from the communities around the field. It failed, as I recall, in at least three ballot measures. So it continues to operate as a 'private' airfield and you can only land with permission of the owner, or in the event of a declared emergency.

That said, the more interesting question is whether or not Google will build their 'urban support area' which was basically code for providing housing for visiting employees (in the truest of 'company town' sort of ways.) A number of people spend significant time working for Google as 'visiting experts' (think professors on sabbatical) and that effort is hindered by the challenges of finding a nice place to stay, except there is housing for a few thousand people already at the airfield (formerly 'base housing') which could be repurposed for that.

Of course if they do that, then there will be a large inflated Google ball that will chase you down and smother you if you try to leave :-)
By that point isn't it too late? Or do you expect people to commit --amend and force push?
It will be interesting if PayPal holds FB hostage the way FB holds others.

Swings and roundabouts....
Hmm. I didn't find it bland, I found it disgusting. I have a hard time imagining it would taste better combined with candy flavor.
Founder Lew Cirne still owns 27.3% of the company (wow!). More than any investor or other shareholder. He raised $200M+ and took little dilution. Awesome to see a repeat entrepreneur who knows what he's doing when fundraising.
Good article - the control of the infrastructure of the internet is a large problem today. For historical context, I suggest looking into Paul Garrin's project Name.Space - it highlights the often-invisible control of TLDs and DNSs by companies close to their respective governments (often granted sole control over their market). Although Name.Space was more pertinent while Network Solutions still held a monopoly over domain registration, it seems like the same kind of problem continues today.

About Name.Space: http://namespace.us/about.php

A good interview of Paul Garrin can be found here: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9805/msg0005...
It would be nice if this were in some sort of curriculum order. It was disconcerting to see that the first topic was Grassman [sic] Algebra.

Honestly, based on my 20+ years in game development, the one essential piece of math I wish all game programmers had in their toolbox is to know basic linear algebra backwards and forwards.
You call it the "shitty friend" thread is pretty inflammatory considering, again, that was the OP's own words (not mine). I turned on showdead and my dead comment that you're referring to sure looks reasoned and measured to me:

I never said anyone specific is self-centered. I said:

>How self-centered do you have to be to not even wish a friend with obvious health problems "good luck" or "feel better"?

That's a rhetorical question.

Then, in the dead comment, I wrote:

> Being a bad friend in this way doesn't make you a bad person…

> But it does make it seem kinda iffy to write a blog post about it, even include screenshots of the conversation, and not (apparently?) be socially aware enough to realize that the deceased man was nearly begging his friend to express some interest and concern. And so many of the commenters, from my perspective, were not picking up on anything the OP did not explicitly lay out in the essay itself, which is to say: his friend was telegraphing his problems in every possible way, and the OP ignored it. People seem to be reading it and thinking, "Oh, just one of those things." But it's only one of those things if you don't think of, or care for, others.

Again, I didn't personally attack alexcap. You are quoting it out of context.

Real inflammatory stuff. If this is what I got hellbanned for, it really makes me wonder about the actual, deliberate, specific, personal cruelty that goes by on a regular basis without banning.

Meanwhile the other dead comment… the one that's actually newest, not the one you claimed above was the newest… is about my bootstrapping conference and upcoming site:

> Oh, good question. I can see why you'd think that.
> Nope, BB will be more like HN, but specifically for bootstrappers and related topics only. IOW: public-facing, free to use. (Although I think we're going to do a MeFi-style $5 or $10 join fee, to encourage good citizenship.)
> It's not going to be a product. I'm not going to run it unilaterally, either. It's for the community.

That is the last thing I posted before being hellbanned.
> So I'll ask: What is it I need to read/work through in order to at least "get" Go and really understand its strengths (whether or not I end up liking it)?

I highly recommend to read this article where Rob lays out the motivation behind many aspects of Go: http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
Present-day science is driven by placebo-controlled research.

Your "need to be able to say" can have no effective equivalent placebo, and any conclusion you drew from such a case study would be unpublishable and invalid.

This is not to say that I think modern science is correct in this, but it does already recognises the flaws in what you suggest - recording accurate data is not necessarily an existing major problem of science. You can easily record all that data yourself (if you have the resources/cash/time to arrange it), which will probably work out great for you, but it won't prove anything more generally.
Examining MintPal Bitcoin Addresses
Driving down that way, I always had a "Yay NASA!" moment when I went by the field. Somehow, "Yay corporate jets!" is not quite the same for me.

They do talk about doing emerging tech research there, so I'll try to remain hopeful until I see what actually goes on there.
Isn't the statistical probability of ordering a non-drug item fairly low? This does not appear to be random. But it's still great art :)
you are too kind in thinking those are honest mistakes. judges will selectively ignore evidence, which might appear to some people as stupid, but i agree with you they aren't - so that's why i said

"selectively so".

here's some more, you give these guys way too much credit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
That wikipedia article supports what I said. And I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but when speaking with others you do need to use the actual definitions of words. If you pretend words mean things they do not mean, then communication is impossible. Racism requires the belief that one or more races are inferior or superior to others. Not merely an acknowledgement that races exist.
sounds like what I'm after. Have you had the chance to benchmark it with anything over the years? I'm just curious about the competition at this point
I believe interesting BTC news, hits HN front-page rather often and from my experience most readers/users are fairly familiar with BTC and understand the technical side (protocol) very well.

Most HNers, being programmers, don't understand the socio-economic aspects of BTC but that's because they don't understand currencies (generally speaking) or the reason of existence of some institutions (e.g. the FED isn't a scheme of the rich for domination of the world's population, which bitcoin will finally set free, to use a free currency, with no fees, hurray!!!).
I don't like go either, but I won't believe that a ghc webserver is a fast as a go webserver until we can see it in the techempower benchmarks.
Take a look at the FOIA Machine: https://www.foiamachine.org/
I'm not so sure that is true. I'd love to see some benchmarking, though.
There are more people than ever in Brooklyn and they are more affluent demanding cabs around an otherwise poorly navigable borough. Some days, weekends and inclement weather, they can't keep up with demand and it takes forever to get a goddamn cab. Also New Yorkers have a "just want" attitude and would rather have rude, un-knowledgeable cabbies than less cabbies.

And who cares if the cabbie doesn't like you. It's your right to demand an exact route as long as you're staying in the city. Tell him you're calling 311 and don't tip.
I'm going to complain that it doesn't work on my tiling window manager. Usually I can't do this because I'm not the target audience.

But this time I am!!! So yeah, menu doesn't work in notion. There you go!
Well then... Soylent is not for you. Enjoy your soup. And be thankful that we are among the group that has anything to eat at all.
Bebek Böcek İlaçlama, Böcek İlaçlama Firması,Servisi
Interestingly, the UK cabinet and parliament had no official hand in the actual decision to expel.

When the US requested the forced expulsion of the Chagossians, the Queen could act unilaterally since she is still the direct ruler of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
This is a play on Darius Kazemi's Amazon Random Shopper: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-...
with the caveat that it's difficult to assess your own reaction objectively.

I feel more in control of my vehicle when I've had alcohol, but objectively I know that's not the case.
>When I mean fucking the internet up, I mean significant degrading of service to extort huge payments.

Isn't this exactly what Comcast already did to Netflix? And they ended up paying up ...
Singular is only a component of the project. Maxima and Axiom contain almost none of the mathematical knowledge contained in the Singular project. No one wants to write hundreds of thousands of lines of code in some other system.
In fact, yes: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/fbifile
It's always worked for my purely IMAP workflow, so I've never bothered trying anything else. It's my personal mail, so I never really end up sending or receiving LARGENUM mails through them.

Personally, I don't notice a difference between them and my work IMAP servers, which have been Google Apps and some Oracle thing.
Nothing I am officially aware of. It could be a structure they created themselves. Perhaps someone can shed better light on this but when we had our structure done, it was base on how the standard structure is set up.
Hey, maybe they'll be launching googledrones from there too.
sorry, it's a pyramid scheme not a ponzi scheme but yeah agree with your sentiment.

although maybe it is a ponzi scheme for the miners now that I think about it.
I think what I was aiming at is integration with other tools, rather than adding those checks directly into GitCop (as you said, there are already services that check code, validate CLA etc).

Or maybe provide me with a Travis-like sandbox where I can run my checks with whatever linter/validator/custom code I want and report the results back?

Just fleshing out some ideas here :)
> They can't hold GT responsible for successfully delivering sapphire, but then simultaneously prevent them from having any authority over a vital component in the building of said sapphire.

Yes, we agree. And exactly what you describe is what appears to have happened.

(disclaimer: I have no involvement with this controversy at all)
Hmmm... are you supposed to rate 5-stars for acceptable service? I've been rating 3 by default - then plus or minus depending on extraordinary things.
Mapkin is doing this actually.

They let users crowd-source their own directions, along with much better turn-by-turn descriptions too. Eg, "turn sharp right just after the firehouse, go past the field and make a left just before the baseball field". Instead of "turn right, keep left and turn left".

https://mapkin.co
Also a cyclist, biggest issue I have is getting things to the correct torque as carbon fibre can be a bit of a bugger, I can't recall anything coming lose on my bike in a long time though.

I doubt I'd buy a 10 dollar but either but if you marketed it as aero I know some who would ;)
The quality of a talk is probably inversely proportional to the "stand-alone-ability" of the slides. If you can get all the information from the slides they're way too dense. The best lecturers use the slides for pictures and as an outline, but deliver most of the information through speech.
On the other hand, continuing scientific advancement requires an exponential amount of resources and I think we may see a high watermark where we have to come to terms with the unsustainability of objective progress in terms of perpetual growth.

We already look back at the early 20th century futurism's optimism as comical, but if we manage to hold our civilization together for another century or more I suspect we'll look back at today's faith in the practical power of data science as equally naive.
30kloc is not a trivial problem, that's a year's worth of programming.

I also love this:

the problem isn't necessarily much more complicated, just larger

If a programmer ever said this to me, it'd be a massive red flag that the estimate they're about to give me is going to be very wrong.
It's a very nice idea, but the validation rules are extremely limited.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but all of the rule options on the site look like they could have been implemented via regular expressions. Given the technical expertise of your intended customers, why not allow them to set a list of rules in the format: [regex, error-message], e.g.

"^.{0,50}\n" "The subject should be 50 characters or under"
"^.+\n(.{0,72}\n)*$" "The body should have lines of 72 characters or under"
"^\p{Upper}" "The subject should be capitalized"
The consistency of their gross profit (around ~80%) is very impressive.
I'd argue that the Grassmann algebra is simpler than linear algebra. Deriving the determinant from its definition makes very little sense to me even today but it falls out pretty naturally from the definition of wedge product, i.e. the coefficient of the highest degree wedge product. Also, a lot of the operations in geometric algebra have pretty much direct geometric analogs whereas in linear algebra you have to jump through some hoops to figure out what the formulas mean geometrically.
I'm using "shitty friend" as a disambiguator -- whether they're your words or his, they act as a unique identifier. And I think your comments in that thread are the likely culprit. You seem to think what you wrote was reasoned and measured, but I can see why a moderator might read them and think "whoa, this is way too personal" and ban you. EDIT: remember, you know what you were thinking when you wrote it, but others might read the same words and take a different meaning. The words you used could have been interpreted as pretty inflammatory. (Again, I'm not defending the hellban as the right decision, just explaining that I see an obvious reason it may have happened. And yeah, I've seen people say worse who didn't happen to get hellbanned for it.)

Your other dead comment was probably posted after you were hellbanned (the point of a hellban is that you wouldn't have known it happened right away). That's why both comments are dead. If you'd been hellbanned for the last comment, only it would be dead.
> Doctor asks, "Well, how do you feel?"

This is why I am working on a line of medication whose only effect is to make people tell doctors that they feel much better now. It's showing great promise in early trials.
That's hard to test because you might kill people or go to jail in the process, not because it's simply hard to test.

Also, concluding through controlled study that alcohol consumption impairs your ability to safely control an automobile is much easier than concluding that caffeine intake impairs creativity.

Creativity for one thing can be highly influenced by inspiration. Driving ability not so much.
Has anyone ever actually done a survey of what's available on these markets. I don't doubt there are a lot of drug offerings but I feel like most of the "It's all drugs!" assertions come authority figures who tend to say that about a lot of new things.
That only makes sense in case of "me too" comments. You have 4 options of response to somebodies comment:

1. Agreeing while providing some new information. So you write a comment (actually you'll probably upvote in this case as well, but whatever).

2. Agreeing without providing any new information. Like, "yeah it's completely right what this guy just wrote". That comment wouldn't be very useful indeed, so that's why upvoting exists. And that's totally normal option, because it's very much possible that some guy just "nailed it" and thus you don't have much to add, yet you want to show your approvement somehow.

3. Disagreeing providing new information. Like, "no, your statement is false, because that and that, here you have logical mistake and there you just got facts messed up: here some link for you to verify that". Obviously, that would be a comment. And that's what constructive conversation is made of.

4. Disagreeing without providing any new information, so you have downvo… but hey, wait, what was that? You can agree without providing any new information, but disagreement is meant to have some reasons for it. So if I disagree I'd better clarify why I disagree or just remain silent completely. Basically downvoting here just means "I don't like your comment" and it's quite reasonable that one shouldn't be able to do that unless he has something more to say. There's just no sense in such a thing as "disagreeing without explanation", unless that guy you disagree with isn't an obvious troll, and, honestly, you can never know if somebody is "an obvious troll" — it's quite likely that you just don't understand his reasoning, so if you don't want to continue discussion you'd better just ignore him.
That's right. contrib was always the red-headed stepchild to core.
The Wikipedia article shows Speer making reference to the fact that Hitler considered Arabs racially inferior.

I am not going to argue the semantics of racism with you. You know as well as I do that there are no examples of non-racists opposed to interracial marriage. Such people could conceivably exist in principle, but do not in practice. I am not sure what your motivations are for trying to defend these hypothetical non-racist anti-miscegenationists, but this has nothing to do with the Nazis in any case.
The British High Court ruled in 2000 that they could do so, but the government ordered the ruling overturned...

Haha I can think of a few leaders of other nations who might enjoy this power.

Of course I have sympathy for refugees of all sorts. However, although the Chagossians were definitely screwed out of their home, it doesn't follow that they have been screwed out of ".io" money. It is an accident of history that TLDs are relatively scarce, that national governments may extract economic rents from TLDs, that some ccTLDs have no corresponding national government, and that the UK happens to own ".io". Nothing any Chagossian ever did entitles her or her descendants to this money.

In a better world than ours, there would be billions of TLDs, and the value of any one of them would be negligible.
I've dug a bit in my Mandrill account and they seem to have such a feature (although it's advertised exactly nowhere). I'll give it a try too.

Update: Mandrill receives e-mail, but then only lets you POST a payload to a webhook. No e-mail forwarding.
How do you charge for something that can be freely redistributed? How can I charge you $50 for software that you can then take and give to everyone for free because of the open source license? Where are people going to get that software from? From me where it costs $50 or from you where they can get it for free? The GNU website says you can charge for distribution, but that was written back when people distributed CDROMS. Now that it's all over the internet, that model doesn't work anymore.

You put binaries up for download, charge $50, and anyone can pay you the $50, take that binary and legally redistribute it for free. Or they could just take the source and build it for nothing and do the same thing. Talk to me about the economics of making that viable. Please, because if you can I would love to do it that way. I would prefer the source code I write to be open source, but I have to eat and my children have to eat and we need to pay rent, and so I have to capture the value too. Software firms with modest sales can't afford to lose a dime they make, so how could they go FOSS?
When you think a little bit, sure. When you think more than a little bit, it's not really that obvious. Remember how Microsoft was a monopoly and EU spent so much time and money on struggling with MSIE to no noticeable effect? Remember what happens now when the most wished for feature of MSIE is "please die already"? So what happened - is that EU that brought that most natural of monopolies down or was there something else? Maybe thinking more than just little a bit is warranted here.
I'd be surprised to see any evidence suggesting anything other than "It's mostly, but not all drugs".
I signed up and thought it was interesting and simple to get started. I liked the voting on opportunities that I could do. Definitely would be up for more side projects while I'm building, but the hassle of finding clients has been pretty prohibitive. Hope this works!
Kind of annoying when people who don't sound as if they comprehend or care-to-comprehend about the complexity of capital punishment have a really hard line opinion about it. Your citation of Louis CK aside.

Is treating someone inhumanely for years going to make them actually behave like humans when they are released? Is it actually better for society to do it? America has some extreme examples of bad conditions.