jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Although his death was tragic, it was not an example of the targeted political murders that have occurred in America's past. To put this in context, take a look at some of the other riots that Wikipedians have co-categorized with the 2021 Capitol riot. We should not think of things like the Lincoln assassination as if they are mere founding myths - they happened, were perpetrated by humans with the same nature, and we are all descendants of the people alive at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:White_American_riots_...
There’s probably some political infighting going on at twitter’s decision making committee. Maybe some people threatened to resign or something, or maybe @jack just told them to ban Trump now.
Assange is such an attention whore that I wouldn't put it past him to turn off all his servers and send out a press release saying "Look at me, I'm under attack!"
Properly, but then the fun things usually happens when somebody does something you wouldn't expect.

Sadly, I don't have the money to buy it; would be awesome as a place to create a free port of call though. Work on your startups while sailing the mediteranian. Plus no pirates are stupid enough to attack an aircraft carrier.
Soon to be joined, I expect, by one of the two brand new ones. Look sharp and you can also buy the aircraft to go with it, as the UK has decided to simply hope no carrier-borne aircraft will be needed for a decade or so.
Germany actually suggested that Greece sell some island to pay their debt - more of snub than a real comment though I think
Whoever is behind the attack should just DDOS all of the media sites that have the leaked information.

In seriousness though, the attack probably will moderate the damage slightly, as I imagine Wikileaks was going to publish all the raw documents on its site, whereas the other sites will probably just give summaries of the important points. Sure, Wikileaks will eventually come back up and have all the raw data available, but the peak viewing time was going to be today. If I were trying to minimize number of eyeballs viewing the raw documents, I'd take this approach.
I would imagine that that £91.56 price difference edd quoted is not for "extra s&h and sg&a", but rather a cushion against currency fluctuation. Apple does not want to start suddenly losing money on their products in the UK if the dollar suddenly gets stronger.

Of course Apple could change the price based on exchange rates, but price hikes anger consumers, and there may be laws that make it difficult to suddenly raise the price anyway, especially if they have advertised them in catalogs, etc. And that's not to mention all of the third-parties that would have to sync up with Apple on these changes, and all the wrath they would face from consumers, etc.

So I think that their strategy is to set a price that gives them a currency fluctuation cushion and round it to an attractive number that ends in 9.
I like it! Some random thoughts:

I'm not sure about the name. I was expecting a Splunk competitor. "Graph Anything" might be better, but then I might have thought that it was similar to Google Chart Tools. Actually, have you considered integration with Google Chart Tools?

One feature which would be really nice would be some sort of anomaly detection and alerting heuristic. How about something that works with Google's new prediction API?
Congrats on the launch! Have you considered also posting a privacy policy to let folks be more comfortable integrating this API into their apps? For example: how long is the data stored, is it encrypted in any way, is there any way to purge the data, and so on. (I am not a lawyer.)
Can anybody explain how they get the number of five Higgs particles?

If they count one doublet as 4 particles, two doublets would be 8 particles, right?
I've had a few small sites (sub-50k uniques) hosted on Dreamhost for the past year. They go down. Alot. And the support is very slow to respond.
I'm a happy customer of Slicehost. Their customer service is top notch. The few times when I needed help, I went to their chatroom and people were there to help immediately. They really do man the chatrooms. Very responsive and helpful. It's not easy to maintain such high standards for years.

Their articles is another plus point. It's constantly updated. It covers most of the things you need. No doubt they are not the cheapest. But their customer service more than makes up for it.
Oh, you're totally right, but you know Google could implement a competent phone support system.

And I love correspondence by email as well, but it appears Google even goes to great lengths to avoid that (this case exempting).
If remote editing vim is your only requirement, it should be noted that up-to-date versions of vim will handle scp://, as in "vim scp://hostname/file_to_edit". (Emacs users have Fish) (you should already have ssh keys setup)
Thanks. There's a number of tools to generate screenshots, including browser automation (sometimes used for testing) and third-party APIs.

I'm using the WebThumb API right now:
http://webthumb.bluga.net/home

If you want to build your own, you could use Watir or even shell scripting to put together a sequence that opens a browser, takes a screenshot, closes a browser, and crops the screenshot, etc.
Can I interest you in a jellyfish?
The vast majority of Apple dividends are paid to investors, not employees.

The "worst labor" are jobs that are so much better than typically brutal Chinese rural labor jobs that thousands of applicants stand in line for hours to get them. And Apple audits its labor practices, unlike solely owned Chinese companies.

And the corporate tax rate has never been 80% in the U.S. it was 40-46% in the 1980s and highest ever was 53% in late 1960s. And corporate tax rates were lower than todays rates for the first 163 years of U.S. history, they were first raised above 20% in 1940 to help fund the war.

And even though the current corporate tax rate is historically low, it's still an impediment to returning foreign profits. Repatriating foreign profits costs a minimum of 21%, more with state taxes. For companies it's still cheaper (and legal) to keep the profits in their foreign subsidiaries and wait for a repatriation window, or borrow against some of the deposits to pay dividends.

You should try studying history as well.
The first meeting with Golem appears to be around 34:14. Not a bad job of Golem if you had to create him with makeup and costume only.
Yes but you also don't have to prove that your dog is the latter, so...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

When the US passed the 55 mph speed limit, it was generally ignored by motorists and wasn't really enforced by a lot of states--and it was eventually repealed. Key difference though is that the feds never had enforcement authority unlike the case with the DEA.
How did you find my pin-code? (9003)?!
Having a Monarch does not mean a country is not democratic
Yeah, but it doesn't help in a situation where you're trying to stand up for yourself and defend your judgment to a boss or client. You're using an example of your past failed judgment and foresight to argue for the accuracy of your current judgment and foresight.
I think this would work even better if they had 1 permanent resident to keep the place clean, and such. Free rent?
It'd be nice, but I wouldn't count on it happening too soon: the necessary APIs don't seem to exist.

It's based on the gdata-python-client library (http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/) for accessing Google Data APIs, and the complete list of them (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/directory.html) doesn't include Gmail/reader. It does include a bunch of things that this doesn't support yet though.
Ah okay, cool.

Just got the hostel analogy from the way it was described I suppose, the idea of meeting people and having a place to quickly plop down at if you need a place to crash when you're someplace new.
I hear Dustin Curtis has one we can use ;)
I wanted to see how this might affect touring cyclists, but it seems fairly easy to bypass the town of Black Hawk if you were riding in the area.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=black+hawk+colorado&um=1...

Not to say I agree with the new law, but I'm not going to worry about it if it isn't really going to affect anybody outside that little town.
I'm just going off the following quote:

> the author stripped down Chromium for the UI

If it's just CEF then I feel like that wording is misleading.
> Were I the judge...

Your mental model of a typical American judges values is, unfortunately, unrepresentative in the extreme.
Nobody is pointing the massive flaw in the headline ?
This count does not consider products that have not been killed (e.g. Gmail)

It's only the average lifespan of killed products.
Oh, does Nintendo not allow you to ship updates? That would make it a pain to support!
Should be mentioned the AMD CPUs featured are the previous generation (7401) CPUs.
Yeah, I was also annoyed to see that stupid comment. These tree root bridges are amazing, especially because they can take so long to complete, so the person who starts building one know he may long be dead (or at least old) before it's really usable. So putting in that comment about cities and climate change was basically just a chance to add some buzzwords, even if it's a total non sequitur.
To me Tarkin felt much more natural than Leia in that film. Maybe people with more "official" face expression are in danger sooner.
You won't be able to legitimately cash it out, you'll be imprisoned again for money laundering.

So you'll need to take your winnings to a third world country and generally watch your back.
Virtually everybody who writes an article about a nonnotable topic ends up objecting, often loudly, when the article is deleted.

For further comments on this issue, I'd like anyone who has posted an article that has later been deleted to tell us all about the sources that were posted with that article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

I wonder what sources people are finding before they post new articles.
We're just getting started with DataMapper too. Lots of things planned in the future as we refine the API and internals.

For example, we're looking towards allowing normal ruby objects to be persisted, not just objects that include DataMapper::Resource. I'm also working on a query/adapter layer that will allow more complex queries to be constructed similar to ARel called Veritas (http://github.com/dkubb/veritas/), except it will include alot of the things we've learned about working with 40+ datastores, some vastly different from RDBMS.
Sure but you can also use es7 today (which I did).
Yeah this was in part because of H.B. 6 the nuclear bailout which is also related to one of the biggest bribery scandals in Ohio politics. The smart meters were mandated by the energy efficiency aspects of the renewable energy provisions that were stripped out so that they could give money to make nuclear energy and coal power plants stay on-line. They cut the renewable energy goals and energy efficiency provisions so they could pretend like they were saving consumers money by giving the $ directly to the nuclear plant owners. Of course most of this is on-hold right now due to the 60 million dollar kickback and court injunctions but so far the legislature doesn't seem likely to restore the energy efficiency aspects. The utility companies still benefit from real time monitoring of their customers and remote cut-off but I guess there is no way to interface with the meter directly now.
Would this be recommended to those who have no experience in programming but want to learn Swift?
Not a full stop whatsoever. You don't just get to say I'm wrong without explaining why.
Poor people can't afford things. So what?
If this story had happened in real life, and the problem had been more complicated than anticipated, and Charlie had realized this, it would be likely to fail, because he did not have enough leverage toward the upper management to get the resources required to succeed, so in that case the project would be likely to fail, or at least be severely delayed.

However, Alan was making the problem more complicated by introducing a lot of accidental complexity, and I have often seen that this is done even when the problem is more complicated than anticipated. Such a project could easily create enough work for 10-15 people in the hypothetical scenario in the article if the project had enough necessary complexity to be a four person project.

It is very hard to distinguish between what is necessary and accidental complexity, and that is precisely the point of the article. Prestige is very often bound to how many subordinates you have rather than how well you solve a particular task, so making your project artificially complex can be a strategy for climbing toward upper management. This may of cause be a conscious or unconscious from the employee/manager in question.
I think this is mostly true.

However, if you were watching someone prepare the most exquisite steak, and it took lets say a full hour to trim the meat, get the pan ready and properly buttered, cook off the edges of the steak, etc, and you were sitting there watching the chef go through this metiMaybe we just care about seeing the complexity in an operation for it to have value.culous process, then perhaps you wouldn't be upset that it took so long--and most likely would enjoy the steak more, having seen the entire complxex and careful process to cook the thing.

Similarly, if an oil change was a complex operation and you watched the mechanic half-dismantle your car to change whatever needed changing.

Or if you watched a programmer bounce around the screen in vim for 20 hours; coding, testing, tweaking, and debugging.
Given the typical lead-time for an article to appear after the vendor is notified, the news begins to spread, publications take notice, assign someone to write a story, and the story appears, then you're arguing that the term "zero day" should, practically speaking, never appear in the press.

I'm not sure that's a helpful definition. It's pedantic to the point of no longer applying to any real-world situation and thus sort of pointless.
Or:

( loop for die in dice sum ( face-value die ))

Been a while since I've done any lisp, but pretty sure that is how you would probably do it.
Why is it impossible to rebase? I didn’t understand the conversation around merging and rebasing
The lambda stuff is in g++ 4.5, which is a stable release, right? It's not really experimental.
Sell when you can, not when you have to.
I don't understand how Android allows you to pass data between applications while iOS does not. I'm under the impression that I can use copy/paste and custom protocols to pass information between applications on my iPhone. Am I missing something?

If there's any cultural divide Gruber alludes to, it's that iPhone users tend not to know a whole lot about how the phone works deep inside, and whether by necessity or curiosity, Android users do.
I've been in several university classes that issued practice exams which contained questions that showed up word for word on the test. It's actually pretty common.

I suppose if I found the actual test listed the questions in the same order as the practice test, that would be worth noting. But it doesn't sound like that's the case. The professor and his students merely pulled from the same test bank. Since it is so common for questions to be recycled, even years later, I have a hard time finding fault with the students. I think the professor is entirely to blame.
This seems like a piece of advice that sacrifices truthfulness for wit.
Wow, talk about a biased article.
Interesting article, but reading it with the text left aligned with no margin is a very fundamental design flaw that ruined it for me. I'm not being pedantic, but typography and type layout is a fundamental aspect of the user experience.
A US soldier stationed in Iraq called HP Support when his copier stopped working and HP Support told him that he had to PAY for their advice to fix the unit. This is his response. Enjoy!
The problem isn't 'fragmentation'. The problem is that some hardware can't handle the way they wrote the code. They are going to write a version that uses less processor power and release that as well.

If they had written the 'lighter' version first, it would run on all devices.

Nobody ever talks about the PC market being fragmented, and yet it's nothing but fragments. It's difficult to find 2 PCs that are identical unless they were purchased at the same time. That doesn't stop developers from making apps and games for PCs.

When they say that 'fragmentation' prevented them from reaching the whole market, what they're really saying is that their software uses too much CPU or another resource.
Sorry if this is off-topic with respect to the content of the episode, but does anybody know what kind of software NPR uses to create these transcripts? There is a very specific structure to the layout and I'm wondering what the data entry UI looks like, if it's a commercial package, or if they rolled their own. Thanks.
A number of the tigers are on nature preserves, with help from scientists/conservationists. That would reduce the infant mortality rate since these tigers aren't really "in the wild".
Funny you mention Wargames. That scene was probably the only realistic scene in the movie. They got that suspiciously good. The one before it, where he arrives at the LCF and it's a disguised farmhouse was idiotic.
this.

I cant seem to find a .deb + bleeding edge Gnome system anywhere. Ubuntu Gnome is what I use right now, but Fedora 22 is so good that it is making me jealous.

I would pay money to get a Debian based Gnome distro which is constantly updated. And now that is even more critical as Ubuntu goes off in Mir territory while the rest of the world go to Wayland.
The people doing this also aren't likely doing visa runs, they'll just come in under the 30-day visa free entry and then go home once it expires. Much harder to get caught that way.

Though I did read rumors of Thai police cracking down on a coworking center in Phuket.
What i find quite surprising is that by some magical coincidence just as us puny humans mastered digital photography and managed to miniaturize electro optical sensors to a point where they can be emended into virtually any device and then sent out 100's of millions of people armed with these sophisticated cameras the UFO phenomenon pretty much died out...

For the most part the "latest" UFO shots you can find out there are grainy film cameras shots from the early 90's just about when the X-Files was fresh and cool.
As we get closer to the 2000's for some reason all of those photos dry out, i guess ET's are just camera shy.
Did anyone ever actually believe that there was a fire-all-ze-missiles button? Even without specific knowledge, a reasonable person must realize that such things have to consist of complicated logistics and multiple levels of redundant failsafes both human and machine.
Suggestion for your description: "High Quality 3D graphics" comes across like you're scraping the barrel for bullet points to put on the back of the box. To boot, I can say from experience that the ones that put that on the back are usually the shovelware games with graphics that always look like they're one or two generations of consoles behind (i.e early-PS2 graphics on a PS3 game, etc.) Now obviously you're doing this all on your own and I'm not going to hold you to the same standards as a multi-million dollar project. I guess my point is, that kind of blurb invites criticism. It's like a chef bringing you a steak that he proclaims "perfectly cooked" when it's clearly overdone.
I actually can’t recall the last time I looked at an iOS app that didn’t use a build script, Rakefile or Cocoapods/Carthage (the latter of which is mostly written in Swift, it should be noted).

It’s true that Apple has to prioritize though!
I agree, you had to many things running... What is the advantage of Disconnect when have ABP and Ghostery installed?
Seems to? How can you even know how to comment on the gotchas if you don't know them?
I am not saying Dart and CoffeeScript are comparable in terms of features -- not at all, rather I am saying that both Dart and CoffeeScript have served similar purposes in showing where the JavaScript language can evolve towards in the future.
Is there an e-mail subscription option for this?
Going forward, option 1 is the only realistic way to ensure privacy. We leak too much data. It's not completely out of the question that in a few decades, extracting audio+video information on everyone, all the time, will be technically feasible. Add that to tracking software to monitor movements, and a state-level adversary may very well be able to know everything about you. Encryption doesn't help if they're listening to every word you speak in your house. Even today, what are the technical limitations in deploying array microphones, or laser listening devices?

(I'd say TEMPEST style attacks might exist too, but display technology advancing might put a crimp in that, maybe.)

We've seen places use MAC addresses and WiFi probes to track people. In the future, it may be possible to do active monitoring via cameras, then correlate to identity by sweeping up organic pieces and sequencing DNA. (Maybe? I don't think there's any theoretical problem here, is there? We shed hair and skin all over.) Heck, I'm a bit surprised places aren't collecting fingerprints left and right.

It does not seem like there are available countermeasures. You'd need a constant energy+matter shield everywhere you go. Instead, making surveillance tech strictly limited seems like the only real defense. (Just like nuclear defense relies heavily on restricting access.)

This is a prediction of a shitty future, but do we realistically expect tech advances to stop soon? If you went back 30 years and polled people, they'd probably think the surveillance that's done today to be inconceivable.
It sounds like you've been considering shutting down for about a year, but you didn't tell your users until today?
These techniques are extremely easy to bypass. It's like confirm('are you bot?') for CAPTCHA protection. It will detect headless browsers until someone decides to bypass it with proper headless webkit or something else. "and a sophisticated adversary will get through eventually" -> "any adversary will get through it in a week max"
Sounds like you have a great vet who is on the cutting edge. Most veterinary clinics are not that technically sophisticated.

Also, a lot of our (note - I am a co-founder of VetPronto) technical platform is focused on making the experience as painless as possible for the vets. This involves setting availability, scheduling, records, billing, taxes, etc. It is one of those things that, if working properly, will be invisible to the end user (but is a non-trivial technical and operations effort).

Lastly, pardon the confusion around our boot-strapping. Up until a month ago, we had never raised any outside funding.

Thanks for your comment!
You're right but to be a nitpicker a more appropriate comparison would be the sega megadrive/genesis - it had very similar hardware and capabilities to the original amiga (1000/500/early 2000s).
Interesting. I'm finding the opposite to be true. While it is easier to "get something working in Python in a half-an-hour", it didn't get easier "to release something that people want".

I'm sorry about your copy of Turbo C. Mine worked fine. Still enjoy pudb.
This is just awful. For everyone wondering "how bad can it really be?", they can put whatever cost they like to keep your domain registered. I have a small carpooling site for ski fields in New Zealand - snowpool.org . I've run this for 10 years, as a fun side project. If they hike the fees to 3K a year (or whatever) then there's just no way I'd keep it going. I've have to migrate somewhere else, which would be a complete pain in the ass.

I find it just awfully sad (and probably corrupt) that this happened at all, and I really hope there's some higher authority that can roll this back - or at minimum bring back the price-cap.

Very sad times.