skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrinton is petty, but mostly harmless. Murdoch on the other hand is a power broker who enjoys spreading FUD to serve his services on both a national and international scale.

HUGE difference IMO.
This is a possibility but not everyone can and not everyone browses with GM installed. Would it hurt?
Aparently their main page loads HN as an iframe and hides all techcrunch stories. Kinda funny.

Probably someone that was sick of techcrunch on HN made it for himself and there's no major conspiracy of password stealing or SEO tricks.
These guys are paying $50+ per click.

Do you have a source for that assertion? I know of loans and mortgages making $100+ per score, but not per click.
I heard an activist at Copenhagen try and be alarming by stating that the cost of doing nothing would become 20% of GDP.

Big deal!
Entrenched interests have always fought progress, whether it was French button makers in the 17th century (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070110/004225.shtml)
or Big Content today.

Thankfully economics always seems to win out in the end.

It's just disappointing that our elected representatives aren't concerned with representing us.
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Just host your own avatar and OpenID service. That's what I do. Of course a bunch of my info is listed in the whois for the domain so this is moot anyways.
25%-30% of the worlds human population has been wiped out in under a year a few times. Sucks to be the 1-in-3 but fuck it, let's go shopping.
Update 1
I'm for a democracy of input, but a autocratic way of making decisions. Hence the following.

- place of meeting: in Utrecht
- Date: soon (tbd)
- Digital home (temporary): here on HN or http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-nl/
- Non-commercial and low-cost (so no Igluu)
- Important? Passion&Spirit

I would like to organise this thing. Seriously. Lifelong hacker but rusty on the tech-skills. So I have developed reasonable social skills ;) If you all have a true interest in this I would be a very happy man.

Suggestions are welcome regarding:
- possible locations in Utrecht
- presentation-style (long-medium-short)
- topics
Note GP said multiprocessing (that is a python library for multiple processes with a thread like interface, not green threads.) As for why some see it as not enough well it is kind of like CGI vs FCGI spining up a whole new process with and VM is not a cheap operation compared to starting up a thread. Sure you can work around it with design changes pools and what not, but some would rather see the problem fixed correctly rather than worked around.
Like, gag me with a spoon.
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"Okay. I know you're not the real Santa... But I know you work for him." ~ Kevin McCallister.

How about teaching your kids about the boogie man who will snatch them if they misbehave? Anybody ever had German fairytales read to them when they were young? Gory stuff.
Most people don't really want privacy anymore

I agree on that one. Even though large groups of users scream about and sign petitions regarding Facebook's changing privacy policies, I'm convinced most users don't really care about how public their wall-to-wall conversations, photos, etc. get. I'd argue that if 100, 200, or 300 'friends' can see what you're posting on Facebook, it might as well be completely public. Facebook isn't making friending obsolete, users are.
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No, I remember reading those comments before this revision.

I was under the impression that these Google code wiki pages were kept under source control so you should be able to view histories etc. but I can't see any obvious link.

Found it, the change to this section was done 33 hours ago, a diff can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/detail?spec=...
When I check my GMail spam folder, I get spams at about the rate of one per minute these days.

Filtering those manually became unworkable for me years ago.

I maybe see a spam in my inbox once a day. It goes up and down, as spammers find workarounds and then Google fix them.

The email address I use is 10+ years old though.
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Are you familiar with motion-based alarm systems that show a red LED when they detect motion? I heard of one parent that told their offspring that those were video cameras linked up to Santa and that the red light meant he was watching.
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Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing: the article above is advocating that we all publish every detail of our research proceedings online. What I'm saying is, that doing that would jeopardize your position as a researcher: the average labjournal is full of thoughts and ideas for further work. Researchers however don't get rewarded for inspiring peers, they only get rewarded for doing the work.

If we want to encourage people to disclose all their data, we need to get rid of the system where grants, tenured posts, and awards are all based on authorships only.

I'm not sure which idea you think is appalling, as I don't have any idea as to how to do it! One way would be to establish something similar to PageRank: if you publish a database of, say, world-temperature readings, an indicator of its value might be how many online labjournals in the world draw data from it. That's a very raw idea, and obviously not good enough, but calling it appalling before I even came up with it?
Fantastic! There's also this thing: http://www.elfontheshelf.com

It's an elf that sits on the shelf and at night "goes to talk to Santa".
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Deployment is just a part of dev/ops cooperation, not the whole thing
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Diesel trucks are the trucks which are having higher thermal efficiencies and which results in more miles per gallon in the longer run. This makes the owner of the truck quite beneficial as higher is the mileage and average of the vehicles
I don't want to put professional qualities of Google engineers under doubt, but could someone explain to me why it's so complicated to remove GIL in Unladen Swallow? As far as I remember, UnSw targets LLVM which is an advanced VM with JIT compilation (i.e. not fully interpreted). Jython does (I'm not a Jython developer, so may not know the details) nearly the same, but targets the JVM and Jython does not have GIL as a result. What's the key difference between LLVM and JVM in this regard?
The implicit suggestion that this is because of privacy laws is silliness. There are plenty of industries in which Germany is ascendent (automotive, biotech, chemicals) which have no more lax information security requirements than computing. I mean, wouldn't you call bullshit if I said, "Maybe if the US had stronger privacy laws Europe wouldn't be dominant in the chemicals industry..."
It's not clear to me what the value is in the idea.
Maria Montessori had an objection in fairy tails for kids. She argued that it does more bad than good when used at wrong age.

Read more at here
http://www.archive.org/stream/mariamontessorih000209mbp/mari...

(look for "The Question of Fairy Tales")
Teletext used to distribute source code on their computing pages 600+. I didn't have a teletext reader and used to transcribe it from the screen using "STOP".

I never understood why modern TVs didn't cache every page in RAM instead of waiting for it to come round next time.
Who here uses Arc and would like to do a project customizing news.arc?
Basically, I have been working through a design spec for the last 10 days or so and am looking for someone to implement it.

Ideally you have been wanting to hack at the forum anyway. Of course I will pay. It's not really a startup, BUT, there is a business model: users will be able to send messages to their twitter followers according to their location that they enter: good for touring acts.

So, you can either be looking for a somewhat small project by which to implement some requirements, or, you can put more creative energy into it and work with someone else who wants to transform the current forum.

I actually have a number of enhancements documented and the current spec all but implements just a few.
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Off-topic, but what solution do you use for your OpenID service ?
But at the same time if your kid isn't believing in Santa then he's going to have to carry that opinion around and interact with other kids that do believe in Santa. This will help them ponder "truth and lies" in the same fashion.

Saying "doing something technically wrong to my kid cause it improves them" isn't a terrific argument IMO.
Someone needs to get in touch with their young self a little. Jeez lighten up. Go watch Miracle on 34th street a few times.

Believing in Santa is FAR far better for the world than being religious.

>> "children... - they want the truth - "

BS. They don't want to know just how completely fucked up the world is. that's immoral. Give them at least a few years of blissful ignorance.

Here's what happens when you tell kids the truth (I know, article wasn't quite saying this, but it reminded me):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1hqaN8riU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFfb4dWB9vM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iyxFLaSXw
I think www.seats2meet.com (located at the central station) is THE place for meetings like this in Utrecht.
it's like reading a post from a mirror world. in my world i make it easy to find my email address by googling my name - it's a link on the top result. why? because then people can send email. as a result they do things like offer me jobs and pay me. why would i want to stop people knowing who i am or what my email address is?

(fwiw i currently use gmail for spam filtering, but have also had success with spamassassin)
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Yeah, call out charge for washing machine repair is around £100 (minimum), actual cost is travelling 14 mi (at most where I am)@ 50p (that's the reclaimable amount for mileage) plus the "engineer's" hourly amount for perhaps 2 hours (I'm going with £25 per hour gross). So not £157 but £57 - the company absorbs the downtime costs of callout personnel - this would make a whole heap of difference in whether it is worth repairing ones washing machine.
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Is copyright infringement progress? I'm sure the plurk.com folks would not agree. Long live double standards.
One of the basic assumptions behind green threads is that you aren't going to make blocking OS calls from your green threads - the interpreter should intercept those, run them in a different thread (or ideally, run with async I/O) so that it can schedule a different thread until the call returns.
They did change the caps from what I've read (there was a court case about it in the US I gather) but the real fix on teh iMac was putting ventilation holes in! Who'd have thought. Damned form over function. Also I gather they use slot mounting GPUs now?
Again, maybe I have misunderstood, but I'm under the impression that nearly all of the data in question is publicly available elsewhere (from original sources, as the CRU hasn't generated that much data itself, it relies on organisations the world over to pass their data on). A figure of about 2% has been cited for data that wasn't available elsewhere, but I am not aware of the validity of this figure - we'll have to await the results of the current review to know the real figure. Furthermore, the current claim is that that remaining undisclosed data is not undisclosed for nefarious purposes, but simply because it is data collected by commercial entities that have not granted the CRU the right to redistribute the data. That's another thing for which we will have to wait for the review to know the real story.

As for preventing critical review, I am unaware of any such activity. Do you have a citation?
How about teaching programmers to program without using threads?

edit: sure downmod me. It's crazy talk! How could programmers do without threads and concurrency issues and all of the other blocking problems. Hardware should handle multiple cores. Not programmers.
I suppose the "I don't lie to my kids" gang tells their kids the real truth about how they were born when asked?

Give the kids a break. Let them have some fun and holidays. They don't need to grow up on day one, do they?

... further more, its perfectly reasonable, I presume, to tell them about an omniscient being who listens to the prayers of billions of people every second, every day and answers them? The Santa Claus "lie" is much more benign compared to that one.

Ho! Ho! Ho!
That may throw an exception if greeting is "Cheers" and the tap is dry ...
The first thing I thought of when reading the story was can we do the same thing for God?
The simple answer is that LLVM does not come with a garbage collection system, and the JVM does.
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If I now that someone is called John Doe the result space is almost the same with or without gravatar's hash. It's nothing a brute force attack can't handle.
You mean like the multiprocessing package? http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
I don't think concern for mosquitos was the main reason for banning DDT.
Complex in memory data structures are the main use case that is not well supported by multi process architectures. There's a trend towards in memory databases and using disk for archival only, so this issue is becoming critical.

Processes don't share pointers, they only share BLOBs. Threads do share pointers and that's why they are more suitable to in memory data analysis/manipulation.
Death: Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes.

Some of my favorite Pratchett. If you know how the passage continues then you know why its relevant here. If not, I strongly recommend!
One other potential difficulty is that Jython doesn't aim to be 100% compatible with existing C extensions. Unladen swallow does. Plus, I believe Unladen Swallow is essentially a branch of the CPython source code while Jython was written from scratch.
This looks good -- thank you!

I actually hacked up a half-baked version of this the other month, and it's been sitting around waiting for me to polish it or to find something better. And now here's the better, polished version ready for adoption.
Don't forget the terrorists and (copyright-) pirates.
+1 on Amsterdam, Utrecht will do as well though.
Could we have a poll on what city to do the meetup in?
This prompted me to ask this question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1914605/what-does-pythons...

I'd like it if someone could show me how the garbage collector is related to removing the GIL.
I'd call heavily reduced costs of distribution progress. Ultimately (when the dust settles) it will mean that a greater proportion of your music dollar can go to artists who create songs and less to the intermediaries.

Really, the idea that someone can write, produce and perform a song, upload and market it themselves and then either sell it to people across the globe or make money off extras (ie concerts, merchandise, etc) is unbelievably cool compared with what had to happen in the past.
ok, i've added windows ... now it's your turn again ;)
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Note that Python doesn't use green threads. It uses real, native threads. The thing is that the interpreter will prevent any other threads from accessing it until the GIL is released.
This sort of attitude is why we're still forced to support IE 6
The Bedford Incident in an oblique sort of way.
But can't you teach kids that directly? I'm fine with losing a little authority if it means letting my kids know it's okay to be skeptical.
8 core, with each core having 4 threads, will soon be the norm. Forward thinking: Imagine that in a phone!
Doesn't that very photo you link to show a light obscured by snow?

(The top one a little bit, and the middle one much more so. The bottom one is the clearest because the snow can't build up on the cover of the one below).
See, the issue here is that you seem to think without a heavy layer of delusion, the world is fucked up. What about those of us who think the world is incredible and wonderful, and that there's more than enough magic for kids to spend a lifetime in love with without ever needing to be lied to in order to obtain it?

Here's where I point out that the Santa Claus we know and love was invented outright by Coca Cola in the early 20th century in order to sell product. So it's not even that you're perpetuating an ancient fantasy, it's that you're perpetuating a marketing myth. I'm fine with pervasive marketing, but the fact that you think without it kids will be fucked up goes to show how effective Coke's strategy was.
I'm down for that! I'm from Utrecht.
I suppose the "I don't lie to my kids" gang tells their kids the real truth about how they were born when asked?

Is there anything wrong with that? Conception is really, really cool. Like how having sex with people leads to babies.

You don't have to get into the details when they're young, but saying "Me and Mommy made you" is a simple, honest answer that might provoke more questions and an interesting talk.
It already looks like this is going to be too small.
you might also try out utterson, a unix based variant (make, zsh, ksh, awk, m4, etc): http://github.com/stef/utterson
I wish they would enable some sort of HTTPS support on CloudFront. It's a major pain to have an image or file on CloudFront and try to serve it on a secure page. IE throws up a security warning and people run away.

HTTPS can be done by falling back to the original S3 bucket address, but still, a major pain in the ass.
Did plurk sue a poor PhD student who downloaded 30 songs and win a judgement against them for almost $700,000? There's a right way and a wrong way to handle copyright infringement.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/o-tenenbaum-...
This guy has clearly read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People. He's handling a pretty difficult situation (assuming he does have IP) pretty well I'd argue.
I can see you're the dad in those clips ;)

Lying (selectively and in moderation) is the foundation of having human relations with other people. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy the wonders of the world, share love and grow up to be well rounded interesting people. It's just another thing people need to learn - when to lie, and when to tell the truth. The idea that all lying is bad, is ridiculous.

My daughter lost a tooth yesterday, and we've told her to put it under her pillow so the tooth fairy can give her some money for it. Is that also wrong in some strange way? It's an example of many lies that people tell when people are worried/in pain, that make them feel better.

And FWIW, Cokes strategy is lame, since we buy Pepsi due to the better taste. I don't think the connection between Father Christmas and Coke is extremely strong in the UK, it's just another corp. that has TV ads on around xmas featuring him.
I'm interested, I live in Leiden.
The real truth about how they were born? Er, yes. (It sounds -- perhaps I'm just mistaking your tone? -- as if you think that's such a ridiculous idea that it's safe to assume that everyone lies about that, but I don't see why.)

How does not believing in Santa stop anyone having fun and holidays? I think the fun is mostly the parents' -- awww, isn't it cute the way they believe in Santa? -- and misleading your children because you like it when they believe falsehoods is Not Nice.

As for that other omniscient being who might give you nice things if you're good: so far as I can tell, parents who believe in that being usually tell their children he exists, and parents who don't usually don't. There isn't a longstanding tradition of telling your children things that, to the best of your knowledge, are false there. That seems like a relevant difference to me.

(I'm sure there are parents who teach their children to believe in God as a behaviour management tool, despite not being theists themselves. I'm also sure that just about everyone who opposes teaching children to believe in Santa thinks that's immoral and likely to be counterproductive in the long run.)
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There's at least somewhat of a good reason for still supporting some version of FW 2.0 - the iPod touch, which has a fee for upgrading to a major version.
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Sounds like a good idea. I'd upvote you but I can't seem to vote on comments for some reason. Too young, or new?
Can anyone find a working link to the actual video file? I tried http://proedvid.stanford.edu/knuth/091208/091208-knuth-500.w... with mplayer but it tries again and again without ever starting. Inside seem to be more links. Curl has no luck either.
My favorite part is the warning at the beginning. Apparently, they don't believe that kids shouldn't be told about Santa Claus that strongly.
http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID. Simple setup, works nicely and like I said, it supports pavatars.
I am very happy to see this--setting up streaming servers is a pain and I already have tons of video up on S3.
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The goal here is not to find out if an e-mail address is valid. It's to find out if the guy that leaked inside information on an Apple fansite is an Apple employee. It's an issue of privacy, not spam.
I think you're being downvoted because people disagree with what you're saying. In my experience you need multiple threads when you want multiple things to happen at the same time. i.e. if I have a client/server architecture and one client instructs the server to perform a long running task then I don't want the server to appear frozen to all my other clients, which it would if the server ran in a single thread. I don't really see how you can get around this. Do you have a solution?
How many of you guys are going to do this?
What value do I provide to the society if I'm able to predict the stockmarket movements? I will end up very rich for sure (meaning I will hold a lot of assets that other people's work created) without having contributed anything in the general production of goods and services and without commiting any fraud or getting help from government.
what is your theoretical maximum amount of people (we don't need to sit)?
and the walking time from Central station?
Uh, Detroit?
What I am expressing is my general perception of the intentions conveyed in the published CRU emails. In order to provide citations I would have to go back and re-read them to collect all the bits and pieces that led me to my conclusions. I'm too busy with other things to do that.

One thing I consider preventing critical review is the lies about the original temperature readings that were thrown away in the 80s. The only plausible reason for lying about that is to make it easier for them to defend their own conclusions and make it more difficult for critics to check for errors.

But as I said many times before, I'm not one of those who claim to have found some kind of unambiguous smoking gun in those emails or code comments. Not about the science proper anyway. It seems to me that there is an attempt to hide something but I'm not quite sure what that is and whether it's of major consequence to the science itself.
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The provided link worked, but died after about 5 minutes. The server is probably overwhelmed.
I wanted the octopus to eat the narrator instead of the shark! Where's David Attenborough when you need him?
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Utrecht++