skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only works if you set up an "identity" for every possible e-mail address that you use.

If you use e-mail the way that phildawes and I do - that is, using a catch-all for your domain and giving a different e-mail address to each organization - then you would have to set up an "identity" for every e-mail address you've ever used in your life. For me, that number is in the hundreds and I don't have a list of all the ones I've used.

If I'm wrong, however, then please give more details on where to find this feature!
Applications that run outside the browser is really a trend when it comes to twitter apps, good to know that they still support this view.
The costs are just too high unless you only seek the romanticism of taking a boat with likely non-English speaking crew for weeks at a time across an ocean. A round-the-world ticket (www.oneworld.com to start) is usually a far better value in terms of seeing many places on a (much more) flexible schedule.
A big part of me feels that it's too bad that integrating a scripting engine todat means linking a library, whereas a decade ago it meant thinking op syntax and building an interpreter. More efficient, of course, but where's the soul? :-)
>> The mediocre mistrust the exceptional man because they don’t understand him, and they fear him because he can do things beyond their comprehension. As far as human memory is concerned, this circumstance has led to bloody conflicts — Christ was neither the first nor the last excentric to be crucified.

Someone read far too much Nietzsche that week.
Does anyone understand the first panel?

I see a bunch of people in a room, one with a can of soda, and another with a banana. Is this a party?
RGB isn't meant to be intuitive, I think.
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I think some people around here haven't seen Little Britain.
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Considering that you can ship a container from China to USA for about $3-4K, the quoted prices seem quite high at $125 per day.

Sure, food is included, but given that the ship no doubt purchases food in bulk, as well as resupplies itself at the cheapest ports, it would seem that $50 or less per day (perhaps double occupancy) would be a lot more reasonable.
Some more links:

http://thetravelersnotebook.com/how-to/how-to-travel-by-carg...

http://wikitravel.org/en/Freighter_travel

http://www.gonomad.com/transports/0011/miniguide_freighter_v...

http://www.gonomad.com/transports/0906/freighter-cruising-ex...
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There sure is a lot of editorializing in this piece. ..acknowledged that if he's successful, business interests that have chafed at new regulations will have a chance to rewrite the law..., ...Scalia, Roberts and Alito pounced..., ...Justice Scalia, sarcastically...

Hopefully this was to "jazz it up" a bit. Because it looks to me a bit like the reporter finds SarBox to be goodness, those who question it partisan, and the court something like a football match.
Ask HN: Resources for learning to write wrappers to C libraries
My background is in a little python and i'm learning Scheme right now, but whenever I try to create something non-trivial in Scheme I never complete it, because of the non-availability of a wrapper to a C library that I might need for that particular project. My knowledge of C is very rudimentary and hence I'm unable to write the wrapper myself.

If I were able to write a wrapper to the C library, I would be able to complete the projects and probably become better at Scheme (and also in whatever language I decide to learn in the future).

Does anyone know of tutorials or books that are specifically geared towards writing wrappers or something like that?

I tried searching google but didn't find what I was looking for.
If ever they could monetize it would be with firehose, not something I think it's really worth giving away for free.
I speculate that the price is that high because they can afford to charge that much. A cargo ship can take only 12 passengers at most... and there seem to be a few 1000s of people who are really into this kind of traveling. Suppy & demand is the most likely explanation for such high prices.

For example, the following company charges $2,500 for a 20-day voyage from Long Beach to Shanghai:

http://www.freighterworld.com/places/fareast.html#LaeiszCAX

If the flight ticket is approx. $1,000 and 20 days of rent in LA are at least $500, then one is paying a $1,000 premium for the experience, which does not sound too much if one does it only once. Travel by cargo ship on a regular basis would be unaffordable, though.
Maybe he's blinking out morse code with his eyelids.
So has tbird, actually.
Anyone who likes this should also check out mpd:

http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

More work to configure, but also works on Linux. There's a wonderful ncurses interface called ncmpc as well. mpd + ncmpc has been my iTunes in a terminal window for years.
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You cannot possibly read too much Nietzsche :). However, you can take it too serious or too literal.
``In a second procedure, which is the favored treatment in the United States, a single, very high LSD dose (0.3 to 0.6 mg) is administered after correspondingly intensive psychological preparation of the patients. This method, described as psychedelic therapy, attempts to induce a mystical-religious experience through the shock effects of LSD. This experience can then serve as a starting point for a restructuring and curing of the patient's personality in the accompanying psychotherapeutic treatment. The term psychedelic, which can be translated as "mind-manifesting" or "mind-expanding," was introduced by Humphry Osmond, a pioneer of LSD research in the United States.''[1]

Read the rest of the reference, you'll find why/how LSD became associated with the counter-culture, and then became illegal because of that. My take is that LSD, when administered responsibly, can lead to major positive life changes for those in need.

It is a pity that it is illegal, which only increases the risk of abuse/work dosage/mixing with other stuff, but perhaps in a more civilized age...

[1] Hofmann, Albert; LSD: My Problem Child; url ->http://www.psychedelic-library.org/child4.htm
Yah - the morgue is the archives. This is what newspapers call it too.
It's not correct to say that Picasa is emulated using wine. Instead, it's a native Linux app that has been ported using WineLib, which reimplements a lot of the Windows API, but compiled to Linux. Instead of replacing API calls with the Linux equivalents, there's just an additional layer that redirect calls or implements them.

Wine and WineLib are different things.
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At FOWA a few months ago, the Ordanance Survey (a taxpayer funded organization that handles postcode and general surveying in the UK) had a stand asking people to pay the typical exhorbitant amount of money (a few hundred pounds a year) to access the data their taxes already paid for.

Pretty much everyone at the conference doing anything in the geo space was using the 100MB file that gets uploaded to wikileaks every few weeks instead.
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With Python, there is a well-defined and well-documented C API, as well as support for ctypes. Ctypes allows you to call into C-interfaced libs with very little code. The Python C API allows you to write modules in C that behave like modules in Python. With Scheme, there are multiple implementations and no standard one, but most implementations provide a functionality for calling external code. Here's a nice list: http://community.schemewiki.org/?ffi
Rather than tutorials, I'd start by trying to dissect existing library wrappers and figuring out how they work. This is how I learned to write Python extensions.
The next step is to interface that with an exercise bike.
I think they recently said they're going to go with ads (that users will apparently love).
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whoa- thanks for this. I was literally seconds away from making a big mistake...
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While there might have been $400b in CDS written against their CDOs, many of those CDS had mutually exclusive triggers, or were used to hedge against each other.

For example, say I make a $200 bet with you that a coin comes up heads, and a $200 bet with pg thatit comes up tails. I've made $400 in bets, but I have only $200 in liabilities. Or I might buy a long position in apple, thinking it will go up. Then I think Steve Jobs might die, so I buy a short position. I now hold twice as many contracts, but my liability is completely covered.

$400b in CDS is a meaningless number until we know how much of it was a liability.
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I don't really think this post has much value. This item stood out as particularly pointless (see article for image):

Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC.
"From the press release two days ago, regarding the first (CERN) collisions... I vote this image as the ugliest and most useless visualization online. It may not be the most garish or info-deprived, but when normalized by the money, time, and scientific effort that went into it, I think it's a clear winner! Based on this image, it doesn't matter what scientists learn from the LHC, because nobody will understand any of the resulting visualizations... I can only imagine the conversation: "Don't you see? The blue dots only reach the giant red bars, but the pink dots reach clear through the green bars out to the purple bars... and we have unit-less axes everywhere! Grand unification theory, here we come!"
Note that two years ago there were a lot more cargo ships putting around, because the economy was moving that much faster. Meanwhile, air travel had higher demand for the same reason. Presumably travel by cargo ship was less costly then, and that's when many of the people who enjoy this got into it.
The problem is more fundamental. The more of your life you conduct through the centralized conduit of your internet connection, the more power someone who controls that conduit has over you.

Cases like child pornography are the wedge justifications for putting into place controlling mechanisms, and cheered on by lots of well-meaning people. But once the controlling mechanisms are there they can be used and abused for political and commercial gain by police both public and secret.

The inherent non-visible, automatable and centralizable nature of such controls makes them more powerful than any real-world analogue. No large conspiracies, long chains of command or big bribes for armies of cronies are needed for historically unprecedented manipulation of the futures, careers and freedoms of people and companies. I don't think one can trust the law to catch up or to be effective in restraining those with the power. The bogeymen of terrorism and child molestation are more than effective enough to frighten the councils of old men who largely control court decisions.

IMO, decentralization and transport encryption, to the point that real-time centralization of control is infeasible, ought to be baked into the design of such a vital infrastructure. The privacy problems are going to get worse. We're still waiting for the big scandal, the hidden nuke test that went wrong, which will make this need obvious to the public at large. If we're unlucky, we might never see that scandal.
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That was a good one. I didn't see it coming at all.

I am in the minority of developers that thinks XSLT is actually kind of cool, for a lot of the reasons spelled out in the article.

It just has the worst syntax of all time. And despite all its power at transforming data structures, the designers decided is should suck at pretty much any other task. So every non-trivial XSLT job includes some kind of foreign function call.

I'm not an expert, but it seems there are lots of libraries in functional languages that far exceed XSLT, like Haskell's HaXML.
Yes, I probably should have been less blunt. I was partly thinking about this article

http://www.computorney.com/anonarticle.htm

which concludes that "anonymity in cyberspace is a fundamental underpinning of democracy"

In 1995 the Supreme Court struck down an Ohio law that required the disclosure of personal identity on political literature.

http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Essays/Civil-Liber...
One thing I absolutely hate is not being able to use something without signing in/up for it.
Hm, seems that using `mdfind` is rather slow. Probably using Spotlight's API via RubyCocoa/MacRuby will be faster?
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Do you know whether it is fairly easy to build open source programs such as bash, grep and sed for the Android platform? If so, is there any such common effort? (Maemo example: http://repository.maemo.org/.)

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It's not entirely fair comparing to to 1.3.2

jQuery has made some gains in 1.3.3 and even more in the 1.4 alpha.
Overall, I like it. It would be nice if there was less clutter, and larger pictures to draw me in.

Being a data guy myself, it would be nice if you could build in some light algorithms to hide all the art that I find distasteful, but I guess that is a task for another day!

Good amount of pieces, btw. How did you manage to get that many people on board?
I've looked into this and reached the same conclusion. Longer trip? Fewer Amenities? More expensive? It doesn't add up.

(really all I want to do is go fight pirates)
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Interesting talk, even if the video quality is just OK.
Why not? Comparing current versions seems fair to me.
Ah, I didn't realize that you could add payment info from your phone. I'm not sure how safe I'd feel about that.
Methinks the speed gain was at the expense of cross browser support.

Not supporting the majority of installed browsers is an interesting approach to web application development.
I looked at this a couple of years ago - the big handicap for me is that it looks difficult to guarantee vegetarian food. From what I could find you had a good chance of getting away with it, but nobody who'd guarantee "yes, we will feed vegetarians".
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You know that the crews are not only discouraged, but usually not allowed to fight back with real firearms for fear of retaliation ? The pirates are ready to die, after all. The most they'll do is use a fire lance to keep the pirates away or wash them off-board.
Why did I post this? It's a highly-emotional and slanted piece!

I posted it because 1) I never hear the other side of this argument, and 2) I'm guessing that everybody on the board will oppose the views expressed, thereby limiting the amount of BS that goes with typical internet-policy pieces.

I like Forbes as a TV personality, but he's way off-base in this piece. I can't decide if he's misinformed, purposely slanting the piece for his own gain (lots of red-meat political phrases in there), or just hasn't heard all of the arguments.

I'd bet on the third option, but I'm not so sure one way or the other.
They do seem to support older browsers: just as loadable modules. I am not opposed to the idea that the library runs different code on different browsers to get the job done if I get the same result and a performance gain out. On the other hand it's not code that I would want to debug.
It doesn't say that the access would be free of charge.
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Google now seems to include a twitter stream for some searches. I see a latest results stream at the top with a pause button, I wonder if this is something new and if everybody sees it?
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jQuery 1.3.2 is not the most recent stable version.

jQuery alphas and betas are quite stable. The 1.4 alpha passes all current tests in all browsers.

That's a big selling point for jQuery. I'd much rather see talking points about the robustness of the development and QA process of various projects.

Also, the quick turnover for the "fastest" JavaScript library makes speed a fairly useless metric for comparing JavaScript libraries. Even if I was so concerned with speed I'd much rather see a comparison of the versions I'd likely put into production if I started a greenfield project today.
system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible

This worked fine on Leopard, but on Snow Leopard the play button on the MacBook keyboard just launches iTunes. I usually chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes to suppress this annoying behavior (my default music player is Songbird).
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> Neck muscles, shoulder, upper back.

I have the same problem. My wrist/forearm problems are symptoms of a problem that starts up at the shoulder and back.

One thing that has helped me tremendously is a foam roller. I have one that allows me to lie on it with my spine parallel to the roller length. I use it in the morning before work and in the evening after work (for about 10 min.) and I find it really helps release built-up stress and fatigue in my back and shoulders.

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This is the stuff they are benchmarking for:

http://github.com/MadRabbit/taskspeed/blob/master/tests/jq-t...

There is literally no isolation between what is being tested and how much performance goes into unrelated operations.

Example: The test for the bind operation executes the "ul > li" selector before performing the bind, thus the results are affected by this.

I could be wrong, but it seems like a benchmark specifically tailored to the benefit of RightJS and it provides no indication for overall performance of RightJS based applications.

RightJS might be wicked fast for all I know, but this test suite is not going to convince me.
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It depends what your writing, and your target market. Most people using webapps/modern websites are doing so with good recent browsers.
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First off, The "average" PHP / MySQL shop will almost never be cheaper on amazon. Are you kidding me? The average php and mysql website has one server or less. You dont have 2, or 3.

I said multiple times that 1-3 server shops are irrelevant for this discussion. At that scale you can use anything and it simply doesn't matter either way.

Since you seem to have mild reading comprehension issues I will spell that out for you: Neither will a profitable business break a sweat over paying 500 more or less on hosting. Nor do many of the benefits of EC2 come into play at such a small scale.

So either throw out some stats and numbers or stop bullshitting people. There are enough people blindly drinking the cloud hosting koolaid without the fake facts.

I don't like your tone. I explained four possible use-cases in my last comment, I don't think I used "fake facts" anywhere. If you are immune to basic math then that's your problem, no need to get personal.

Its cheaper to have your own engineer and manage xx servers on colo then it is to have amazon.

I conclude that you simply have no idea what you're talking about, much less about the figures involved. Furthermore an EC2 instance apparently killed your pet dog at some point in the past, which now prevents you from any rational thought in that direction.
But war is fast going robotic? OTOH, China, the world's factory, can certainly make lots of robots. :-) :-(
In my view it's useless to argue about interpretations. Last I checked they had the same predictions.

Not true at all. If the superposition in the QM formalism merely represents our ignorance about the system's state, rather than an objective reality, then QC loses the massive parallelism which is supposed to make it so much more efficient than classical computation.
On the other hand, are Google required to store the data? I suspect they aren't, they only need to hand over what they do have when asked. So they could always let you opt out of them tracking your data. Which they don't. Sure, it might slightly reduce the quality of search results those users get to see, but that's a sacrifice I'd be willing to make.
The ads on the last two pages were breathtakingly horrible. It is hard to imagine how that sort of advertising could ever have been legal.
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Write your own specific tests if you suspect bias.

I doubt there is any real bias though, js libs have different aims. Some aim to have complete browser support at the expense of speed+size, some assume a certain level of browser, and so come in much faster.

The fastest lib though is always going to be no lib. It's far easier to optimize your own code.
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> The report suggests the average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information in a single day.

Whoa, that's a lot of data.

Interestingly, though, the Comcast ToS (just as an example: http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/) would see users capping out on bandwidth allotments in just a week at this suggested rate: 250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB.

Granted, those gigabytes can come via non-internet channels, but that number still seems mighty high.
Why should he write his own tests? Jquery has proven performance and reliability where as all rightJS has are objectionable tests.
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