skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people get annoyed by all the JavaScript frameworks and Databases coming out in regards to adoption from a company point of view? I mean every other day a new database comes out and claims to be better in one way or another than something else and then its like "fuck I picked X when now there's Y"

It seems over the last year technology has been growing more rapidly than any other period.

Fun times but so hard to keep track of everything!
There are two sides to the scourge. WRT the BBC, they produce quality content, partly funded by us Brits and partly funded by exporting the content to other countries.

With the internet they have limited choices:

* Keep things off the internet and disappoint everyone

* Put things on the global internet and lose export value

* Put things on the internet but geolocate to the UK and retain export value

Clearly for them, the quality of their shows, and for the British public, the last option is the best.

It's a strange system because the BBC is considered public broadcasting but is still funded (i.e. paid) by us citizens. You have to take the UK only as a subscription that we have implicitly paid. Of course, it would be great if they offered an outsider subscription, but there are undoubtedly internal political reasons why they haven't.
Been around for a couple of years. Should have been mentioned way sooner. And i completely love this
Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US government itself.
Huh, I never knew that was there; thanks!

In production code I would probably use Crypto.Random.get_random_bytes().
So your dilemma could be a false dichotomy if (and I realize it's a big if):

* BBC puts things on the global internet

* Global users can discover it more readily

* BBC becomes well-known as a provider of quality content

* Demand for BBC content increases because of the online content already available

* BBC can charge more for future content (which it can export first to high-profit-margin channels, then publish online later)
Sorry, I'm struggling to come up with another reading of "This is exactly why gender roles are so important." I'd love for you to clarify.
> As a society, we need women to bear children. Why do we force her to choose between work and family?

That's not strictly true. We need some women to bear children, but we don't need nearly as many as currently do it. We have a shortage of many things on this earth, but human beings aren't one of them. Why should society be encouraging women to have children when it's objectively better for society if most of them don't?

Strict population controls, like China's one-child policy, are probably a step too far, but not encouraging parenthood seems like a reasonable middle ground.
I think James Altucher would approve
>Isn't my issue obvious ?

Not touching that with a 10 foot pole... (just teasing, just teasing...)

But seriously, it sounds like what you want is a keyword matching engine. Google, for better or worse, has decided they know enough about their user's searches that they don't mind modifying the query parameter in an attempt to retrieve what people want rather than what they literally say they want.

I understand that you don't feel they're serving your needs any longer, and that can be frustrating. I think, however, that you can preceded mandatory terms with a + sign to require it to be present on page.
Does anyone have a great responsive navigation widget you would recommend using with Skeleton?
A lot of people believing something doesn't make it true.
When you say "A lot of Europeans," can you cite a source, like a poll or even an internet forum, where like-minded Europeans express this view?

I'm not challenging your assertion, I'd just like to see it in action and measure it for myself.

Edit: in case you edit or delete your post, this is what I'm asking about:

Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist
attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US
government itself.
Solar radiation splits water into hydrogen and oxygen at high altitudes. The hydrogen is then light enough to escape, driven by more solar radiation.
Very much what I was going to suggest, as well. But I think that would mean the Earth formed in the outer solar system and migrated inward later. Not sure if there is any evidence compatible with or contradicting that.
Do you think this iOS Game idea will be fun? I do
The response from PubPeer's lawyer is certainly interesting, particularly the analysis of the images in question. But I wasn't trying to argue one way or the other about the actual merit of the accusations really. I was more pointing out that it seems fairly clear that someone, acting entirely anonymously, was set on getting this man fired. He did indeed lose a job (in fact two!), seemingly because of the efforts of this anonymous source, without any kind of formal inquiry or detailed analysis of misconduct. And the alleged actions of the anonymous attacker were entirely unprofessional and just plain shitty. Does the guy deserve to have his career destroyed? I have no idea, but trying to do so in such an underhanded mean-spirited way is just nasty. But this is academia after all...
I was going to say that: More often than not in life we find our greatest strengths are enablers for our greatest weaknesses.
There's a good quote from one of the German generals involved in the plot to kill Hitler, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord), on that subject:

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.
Are you kidding me, I'm trying to take down my internet history, not keep it around.
Just to be clear, Google is subject to this law because Google operates and has offices in Spain.

It seems reasonable that Google should comply with the laws of where they do business.
Windows Presentation Foundation does just this with the XAML markup language.

Mozilla does that with XUL. That's what they're trying to get rid of.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-you-need-to-know-about-9-11...
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In case of Django, the RunSQL command [1] in migrations makes it very easy to use partial indexes. There are a couple of examples on Stackoverflow. Definitely a low hanging fruit and worth those 10-20 minutes to setup.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/migration-operatio...
I suspect the argument there is that not offering maternity leave discourages working women from procreating while there is no such disincentive for those not working. And so those often without the means of supporting a child will be the ones having the children.
Hard work can also just be mentally exhausting, and it's much easier to just wait for a proper creative mood than to struggle for who-knows-how-long trying to do something you know you can easily do with far less effort at a later time.
Wrapping web APIs made easy
Right, and they are not going to be doing business in Spain.
If it has a commonly understood colloquial meaning you could use colors, hand signals, flashing lights and a presentation of types of mollusks and it wouldn't matter at all. It's the phrase that has the meaning, not the words -- those are inconsequential.

This is why people who think it matters stay constantly confused at common turns of phrase and try to correct them, they've completely lost the forest for the trees.
I don't see how that answers my question, nor do I see a citation.

Edit: I'd like to point out that my father also had a career. Does that put me at any disadvantage? Did he also do a half assed job raising me?
Google should charge for listing, and it would be a nice coincidence - totally random of course, that the amount they charge is exactly the same as the amount they have to pay.

Kind of like what amazon did when France forced them to charge shipping.
I feel compelled to point out that it's not possible to downvote the people who reply to you. I'm certain that you don't intend to imply this, and I think most people here know this, but it does come up on occasion.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalresearch.ca
What? Where did you get that. Google news is shutting down. Google is not, and I've heard of no plans to close their Madrid office.
Come on downvoters, it's a naive question, but not the sort of thing that needs to be punished...
Only half of Google embraces minimalism
I am not in disagreement with your assesment of Kiraikou and I don't see how any of that ties into your original statement

"However terribly Zubaydah was treated by the CIA, we should probably remain clear on the fact that he was believed by everyone involved, including Kiriakou, to have been an integral part of the Al Qaeda network."

which seems totally unrelated to anything you have posted above, which was what make it stand out in the first place.

I cannot see any other way of interpreting it than the way I mentioned in my previous post, could you clarify what you meant by this since I am obviously not getting your meaning?
Thanks Ashleyreddy. Prototyping and 3D printed parts are exactly where we want to go with the idea. When you used Elance, were you the person posting the project? What was the iterative process like?
She is choosing to pay other people to raise her children so she can pursue more money. Why is this commendable? Why wouldn't raising a family be more commendable?
Well, it's like that Bill Gates quote: "“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
If you believe in evolution, you believe that different genders have different traits that make them better suited for different aspects of life.

When you have a child, you make a choice that you will help raise it. You are responsible for another life and that IS your job. When you decide that you want to be responsible for another life but then make choices that directly contradict that like not being around for the majority of the day, you hurt the child's upbringing.

No matter what your reasons are, a child misses out on the growing experience that nature and evolution have designed. The reasons behind that decision may be unavoidable and I don't see the world in black and white but if you want to be a parent you should act like a parent to the best of your ability.
You can't make a durable write to disk in 15us. SSDs are around 2 orders of magnitude slower than that. 15us is about right for in memory on two nodes in a single data center though. Most people wouldn't consider that durable though.
Exactly, and this is not something many first time parents would realise. Early on, your child is still developing sight so your opportunities to interact with them (besides nuzzling, helping your partner, etc) are quite limited. Your baby will be sleeping or feeding at the breast of your partner. You will be able to help out with nappy changes or bottle feeding from expressed milk, but other than that, your leave might be better saved for later months (or even years) when they can make out your expressions or grasp objects at least.
I didn't answer your question because I already answered your question in my original comment. Your response was your own cognitive dissonance.

As for the citations -- http://lmgtfy.com/?q=effects+of+growing+up+without+a+mother
Thanks, we changed it from https://archive.org.
I just donated... I use them all the time to look up old computer magazines from the 90s.
And in any case, the public funding argument never hindered the excellent BBC worldwide radio service.
Google already makes billions from Wikipedia. The problem with kicking money back is that nothing goes to the contributors, but to the useless Wikimedia Foundation.
Okay, that's helpful. And do you think, or not, that means people should be classified as either workers or parents at birth?
Their 2012 990PF: http://207.153.189.83/EINS/943242767/943242767_2012_09c9e75b...

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I don't know about mobile (I've only noticed a small banner on at the bottom of the page on WP), but it appears they're using the exact same style of banner that Wikimedia use? They even explicitly give thanks to Wikimedia in the footer of their fundraising banner. I think both services are great, so I don't really mind if either of them decide to optimize their conversion rates, just like any other startup would.
> Men don't get equivalently "punished" when they have a child

How long is the average paternity leave for new fathers? Or are you suggesting that fathers don't have a right to paternity leave and thus raise their children?
Completely off topic, but I really hate articles where all I initially see is a headline and a large, unrelated image.

I hope the trend dies quickly...
Congratulations, I thought I'd managed to go a whole year without hearing about process limits and the grim future we face. Seriously, every 6 months or so for the last 15 years or more there is an article published explaining the end of the PC revolution. Google the terms "end of silicon" or "end of moore's law" and add a custom date range like 1998-1999 and you'll get dozens if not hundreds of articles from reputable sources saying that we've come to an impasse or that in 3, 5 or 10 years we will be screwed.

When chips started hitting the limits of the photo-lithography process, they switched to lasers, UV, DUV, and now EUV. Transistors start leaking so they redesign them time and time again. We've gone from completely 2D Circuts to 2 layer 3D to what's it at now 16 layers? The end is nigh and has been since Moore came up with that god damn law.

My point is that there's a lot a really brilliant people in the field who've been working for years if not decades to address problems we haven't even had yet. We're perpetually on the verge of a crisis, and simultaneously on the verge of a solution to said crisis.

We're in an age of ridiculously powerful machines that we don't know what to do with. If suddenly all progress halted in chip development and we had to make due, we'd probably enter into an age of hyper optimization where software engineers would be scrutinizing every clock cycle furthering the annual performance gains we've had for the last 40+ years.
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Eh... while I agree that overpopulation (on a global scale) is a real problem, it is also true that most highly educated/industrial societies have problems with too few children being born. I seem to recall that the average needs to be around 2.4 children/family for population to not decrease.

The US overall might not exhibit the typical traits of an educated society (family planning) -- I've not looked up the numbers. But with poor social mobility, there would still be a problem.

As for looking at the issues from a global perspective: do we really think importing children from third world countries is a viable, moral and/or sensible approach? If not, the sane plan for the future, is to encourage sustainable family planning everywhere: more children in the rich/highly educated part of the world, better access to contraceptives etc in the poor/less educated parts.
Incorporating, Clerky or another service?
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If you guys have used such services yourself, which did you use? And how was your experience? Pricewise delawareinc.com is $229 whereas Clerky is $381 and both essentially offer the same service. I'm leaning towards delawareinc.com but wanted to get some feedback from you guys. Thanks.
A better quesiton is why she would attempt to do both at once. I delayed children by 20 years to be a startup founder, and I'm very happy about that. But that's her personal choice.

She's not working longer hours to increase her income. When you found a startup, the outcome is either zero, or something good. It takes 8-10 years to find out.
> It seems over the last year technology has been growing more rapidly than any other period.

I tend to agree with this statement. The entire stack appears to be going through a revolution.

The data layer in particular is seeing very rapid change after being largely (not entirely) static for decades.
That's exactly how it has to be done. Google can't be allowed to copy the content or parts of it without permission of the creator. We shouldn't forget that they're making huge amounts of money by selling others work here. On the other hand Google claims to create "real value for these publications by driving people to their websites", which is often true in the short run. So the publisher can consider allowing copying parts of their articles. And Google could even consider charging them for this service.
No, people should have the right to choose. At the least being around sometimes is better than nothing.
Thoughts on using this as a cache instead of memcache or redis? Yes, it does not have nearly as many features or functions but when raw performance is needed I could see this working (given an api for using this via Node.JS, PHP, etc.).
I think there are countless people who manage to balance both with flexible or part-time roles, or assistance from childcare, extended family, etc. And for them and any others, maternity leave is a huge help when it's available.

If the mother is permanently at home while the father is 9-5, does the child struggle to relate to a respective gender as a result, even with your favouring gender roles?
So you are saying that Google should be charging the sites money since it brings them ad traffic?
Employment negotiations with a union, right? Hard to see how a clerk or factory worker would have enough leverage to get a fair shake.
May not necessarily be a popular opinion on here, but I'll state it anyway:

Google may not directly profit from Google News, but they still manage to extract value from it. We exist in a top-heavy paradigm where giant servers profiteer off the work of everybody else, capturing a disproportionate percentage of the total value created.

It's unfortunate but not unexpected that Google's response is this snarky blog post. But I wish people wouldn't pretend this is somehow a giant government tipping the scales against "openness".

I see this more as an institution in charge of making sure our collective greed not getting the better of us trying to distribute wealth to those who create it proportionate to the value being created.

Is it a futile attempt, likely unaware of its own vision? Sure. I just wish Silicon Valley would get its head out of the sand and realize that the current paradigm isn't necessarily sustainable for anyone -- whether you're the one sitting atop Mt. Server enjoying crazy network effects or the person contributing value for peanuts (if you're lucky).
Except _internet_history_ is no-one's to control; once something is on the internet, it belongs to The People.
I think the goal is to placate local, entrenched media.

Big news companies have complained for years about aggregation yet generally sulked when it's been removed (see Germany).
At first Google was a search algorithm, but at some point they decided to have humans review and rank the important queries. Important as in query volume.

Why use humans? People can decide if your navigation is intuitive. They can decide if your page looks like crap. If 230,000 people are searching for "coconut oil" per month (actual numbers) then it's worth having an intern spend 15 minutes to make sure page 1 of "coconut oil" looks right.

Google can afford that. They need a human to decide if the "user experience" is actually good vs. disallowing the back button and forcing the browser to crash, which is how I suppose you could fake a "time on site" metric if this was just an algorithmic problem.

Google is now more like playing Zork. You type "Go North" like 10 million other people before you typed "Go North" and Google has already crafted that experience you'll find in next room. (Which makes me wonder, do they score how boring you are based on predictability?) This is becoming more and more obvious over time as a search for "calculator" shows you an actual calculator that a human at Google created. That's not an algorithmic response.

Similarly, I see that human touch coming more into play with voice recognition, Google Glass, Siri, etc. Call that "AI" or whatever. You ask Google a question and Google has already sculpted a slick answer based on tons of testing. That's how I see Google as a search engine now. Part of the crawling is interesting (recognizing objects in photos?) but I think human reviews of all the important websites and SERPs, that's harder for a competitor to reproduce.
Yes. Newspapers have lobbied the government to impose a "Google Tax".

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/29/goog...
After Google Plus was released, Google changed its search syntax slightly so that you now need to "quote" mandatory terms instead of prefixing them with a + symbol.

http://waxy.org/2011/10/google_kills_its_other_plus/
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/3oI...
If you think that HR department is a charity, then you do not really understand what HR department does. Try running a company without one, and see how much money you lose.
I'm not sure how this totally nonsensical and erroneous reading of the post and subsequent comments have hijacked this thread, so at the risk of being patronizing allow me to explain this as simply as I can:

Spain passed a law that "forces" news publishers to collect a levy from online news aggregators.

Online news aggregators will be fined if they aren't paying the copyright levy (yeah it's that ridiculous).

Nor publishers or aggregators can optout of this arrangement.

Google is stopping the Google News aggregation in Spain. They are NOT GEO-BLOCKING IT.
I enjoyed this quote. Thank you for exposing me to this man.
> A big ah hah moment for me was realizing that money is a representation of inefficiency.

Ehhh. I guess that's basically true, but people would probably read the wrong idea into it if you phrase it this way.

An economist would rather phrase it as "a dollar spent on something is a vote for there to be one dollar more of something." But it can be flipped around to your line of thinking as "a dollar spent is a representation of one dollar's worth of dissatisfaction or unmet need that someone has." If everyone has exactly what they want, then market velocity goes to zero. Money doesn't cease to exist; it just ceases to be moved around. (Inflation is, partly, a disincentive for ever letting this happen.)

Either way, even in a post-scarce utopia, capitalism would still survive; it has useful emergent information-redistribution properties beyond its use in plain survival. For example, an "everyone gets a basic income and spends it in a market" system thoroughly beats a central-allocation system when it comes to figuring out what crops need to be grown, what factories need to be built, etc.