skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Debian guy, but I gladly put Ubuntu on family/friends computers.

The big plus on Debian/Ubuntu for me is the package manager.
What do you mean by "as much as possible"?
Who chooses the charity? Inheritance is just one subset of the what happens to my money when I die? question. Maybe I'd like to give it to a charity, maybe my children. Do I have that right or should some of it be confiscated and used for something I likely wouldn't approve of explicitly? If so, how much?

We've just chosen the default case to be one's surviving relatives, in order of closeness, if a will doesn't specify otherwise.

Perhaps we should just change the default? Or raise the taxes? Making "inheritance illegal" doesn't really have a practical meaning.
The link makes no mention of RIA. Where were you going with this comment?
Various Ways to Decorate Cars with Stickers
There are many varieties of stickers that can be used for cars. They add to the beauty and outlook of the cars. They are also a great source of marketing and advertisement. Moreover, their usage as a highly efficient decorative item is also one of the many reasons why they are famous.
The worst case of procrastination ever.
Despite it being a rehash of Great Nature vs. Technological Fucking Civilization, Avatar has going for it a much better plot than Titanic, a completely hokey, treacly, implausible film that won eleven Oscars and is still uncontested in terms of box-office revenues.
Props for the literature reference, that's a great book.

I think Jean Valjean was right to steal the bread, if that was the only way his family could survive for that day. But rarely do we meet a criminal who can honestly say, as Jean Valjean could, that he honestly did everything in his power to live honestly and morally. I also think JV's punishment was much too harsh, given his particular circumstances.

But, when people break the law, justice to those they have harmed still must be done. That is the purpose of the law, and the law is not mocked.
To reduce this argument infinitely, isn't the best user experience going to be a nice shiny button to push that says (and does) "Do what I mean".

Actually, better yet if I don't even have to push it and it just reads my mind and reacts. Inasmuch as the above is not actually possible, thought needs to be given to what is possible. In arriving at this conclusion haven't you just said "You need to know how to code" in a round about fashion? Maybe you don't need to remember all the API's, all the tags, every syntactic piece off by heart, sure, but just forgetting about what is real and going off into a fantasy world is not going to get you a useful result either.
Seems like a false positive to me. I can't see any mention of uimserv or .ru in the source of his page.
Instead of charities, maybe require that the money be given to the government.

Moreover, there would be a limit on how much money you can give to your children while you are alive.

If you are poor, you would be able to get money to give to your children.
i see you are incapable of understanding the word "pretend" or visualizing n-problem scenarios....if you still don't get it...i give up...

and im using this code in production.....and its working out great......its a really simple concept.....
I don't see anywhere in the article or in the title where he says that you can't do X. One needs to, again, sweep the author's qualifier "effectively" under the rug in order to construct that straw-man.

The title says that you can't effectively do X using Y. I don't see how the fact that one can do X by instead using A and B in combination with Y invalidates that statement, especially with all the hype built up around Y as the savior of all from the evils of F.

It doesn't feel right to drop carefully-chosen words in order to wage a critique.
Most of the best games on those engines were produced by teams who used the engine as a starting point and built their own tech on top. Many games even contribute back to the parent engine project. Some that stick out in my mind are Soldier of Fortune (complete new damage system for Quake 3), Bioshock (advanced water effects for Unreal 3), Counter Strike (more reliable networking for Source), but there are countless more examples.
He's actually my favorite author, but yeah, when it comes to the actual wordsmithing, he's no Gene Wolfe. The ideas are always great, though, and stories usually are.
It appears that the studio leadership allowed the artists to showcase some of their work to help them find jobs: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=70670

Programmers might not have been so lucky...
Pitching to 150 VCs - presenting at the EI Big Ideas '09 event
There's also a bunch of free online stuff (some of included in that anthology) here:

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Online...
>Instead of charities, maybe require that the money be given to the government.

This is known as tax. We do this to inheritances already.

>Moreover, there would be a limit on how much money you can give to your children while you are alive.

Very well, I'll buy from my son this fabulous vintage 1976 El Camino for the modest sum of one-meeelion-dollars.
I fail to see how the cited article is any different in spirit than a traditional obit. Hasn't it been common to quote people who knew the dead person? And, don't those people usually share a memory or some thought about why the dead person was important?
Wouldn't "developer for Duke Nukem Forever" carry a certain cachet in the industry?
I had to upvote simply because of how brilliant the text width resizing mechanism is. Hint: click the radio inputs at the top of the text.
"The standard libraries that ship with languages have always struck me as kind of odd. Who maintains the quality of these libraries? What happens if that library has a bug? Do updates only get issued with new versions of the core language? And who determines that a library is a standard in the first place?"
Steve Wozniak's business card
And it can be used to cut steak.
that design is bloody amazing!
Yeah, unfortunately this is pretty representative.
FartURL.Com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL, and make it fart
Probably the single greatest flaw of OS X, from my perspective, is how it renders large monitors so much less effective than two medium size monitors - nobody I know would prefer a 30" monitor to two (2) 24" Monitors - If someone could only write a windowing manager that converted a single large monitor to two simulated physical monitors, that would be a start. Even better would be to recognize you need to treat a 30" Monitor differently than a 17" Monitor from a windowing perspective.

That and get Terminal.app to actually _tile_ sanely. If I had a _single_ feature request for 10.7 - it would be a window manager that gave you sane tiling capability.
What exactly is the rationale behind such an unfair concept?

What's unfair about it?
Surely you can at least see the need for some easy to use styling in js?

CSS is good for static content. It is pretty useless for dynamic webapps.
Considering the success and effects of WOW, flash games, and many other time wasters I think the real question should be:

Ask yourself will this stop my users from getting laid?
Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time
Egan is one of those SF writers who lend unfortunate credibility to the notion that the genre is about ideas, not people. The depth of his characters leaves much to be desired, as does his ability to tell a compelling story. However, he's to be admired for turning out original work in a field so drenched in clichéd, repetitive bullshit.
An awesome example of script+effects: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I was all set for an interesting discussion on inheritance vs composition in OO design, and instead I got this?

Ah well, I'll answer the question posed. To me the only reason to reward different people differently is to create incentives to motivate people to produce more. Inheriting great wealth takes people who likely have the ability to produce and robs them of the incentive. Therefore I find myself in complete agreement with Warren Buffett that a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.
I never got a response to this question in the UAV thread, perhaps because it was so busy, perhaps because no one knows: Is there at least strong authentication crypto for the control protocols on these devices? They can carry weapons, after all.
I would have used BitTorrent.
You're forgetting that Titanic was like the Twilight of its time. Tween/teen girls flocked to watch the movie multiple times to watch Leonardo DiCaprio in his love story. IIRC, I remember a claim that one girl saw the movie 13 times. Without the 'teenage heart-throb' factor, I wonder if it can match up to Titanic in terms of numbers.
Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room
He recommends Princess Mononoke.

It's that fact alone that makes me take his review into consideration. If you haven't seen Princess Mononoke, I'd highly recommend it. Actually, I'd recommend all the Studio Ghibli films. My wife and I have the entire collection, and are in the middle of watching the last one we haven't watched yet, Porco Rosso (which is so far, fantastic). "These" are the kinds of animations I, personally, want to watch.

- Visually stunning, without the need for CG.

- Not overwhelming, ie: Not too spastic or overwhelming, commercial-esque, scene switching.

- No overly annoying characters.

- Original content.

You can find the entire Studio Ghibli series online at your favorite Bay of Pirates, but, I'd recommend you actually buy them all, as they are simply amazing. (My Neighbor Totoro is the kid friendliest, and the others aren't necessarily). My apologies if this wasn't specific to Avatar, but I'm just about to finish all of Studio Ghibli's works, and am simply amazed at these films. Fantastic.
The problem is likely that Broussard wanted to make the DN game that would last forever. It would be perfect and without flaw. He did this instead of just shipping one in a series of polished games (which he could have made over the last decade+).

I remember when one of my friends was hired at 3DR and lamented when they were going about one of their engine changes. None of the art assets were usable after the change, meaning they could have just finished up the old game, shipped and then started work on the next one and shipped that too.
>The browser should have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with video and audio decoding.

I know! While we're at it, who had the brilliant idea to put image decoders in browsers? I say let QuickTime decode GIFs and PNGs.
The Internet titdal wave [B. Gates, 1995]
Think about it from the children's perspective.

Why should their wealth be determined in part by something they had no control over?
You know that that Wikipedia article doesn't even have the word "anonymity" in it, right?

There's no general privacy law in the U.S. There's some minor right to write anonymously, extrapolated from the First Amendment, but absolutely no right to be anonymous in general, and in fact the First Amendment goes the other way: Threadless has the right to publish those photos and to make any truthful statements about them whatsoever. In many cases Threadless can even make untruthful statements about the photos and still be perfectly legal.
Metaplace shutting down
Obama to Name Chief of Cybersecurity
Apple Approves Nintendo Emulator for iPhone
Given all the discussions here recently about the unintended side-effects of changing incentive structures, it's worth bearing in mind that providing for one's children (including after one's own death) is an important—perhaps the important—incentive to attain material wealth. Take it away and you may find you have taken away much of the reason people work in the first place.
Complaining about the plot does seem like complaining about the font in a copy of War and Peace. Avatar is a combination of world-building and world-rendering on a scale never before seen.
DNSworks is looking for a technical cofounder.
Greetings!

We're DNSworks, and we're working on solving operations problems. DNS is the first peg in a large board. We're looking for a technical-cofounder to join our team. SOMA is our home, but we believe if someone is a good fit, they can be located anywhere within the same timezone.

What we'll offer

- A significant equity stake
- Caffeine, lots of it
- An opportunity to make an impact on operations groups
- Some compensation

What you bring to the table

- A solid work ethic
- A "Do No Harm" attitude
- Expertise in Ruby & Ruby On Rails
- Love of understanding how things work
- You're not afraid of re-implementing protocols from RFCs
- You have a very strong understanding of TCP/IP

Here are some links to projects & papers that are really exciting to us. http://github.com/jpf/domdori | http://github.com/jpf/eventdns | http://tinydns.org/ | http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast | http://www.pch.net/technology/anycast.php | http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog5-woody-anycast-v10.pdf | http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3258.txt | http://www.quagga.net/ | http://www.bgp4.as/

We're not just a web start-up, we're building real infrastructure, the kind of fun technologies that keep enterprises afloat. If this excites you, then send a tweet to @dnsworks and let's get some coffee!
rsync uses ssh by default, no need for -e anymore unless you need to specify a key or port or blowfish (which you can all do with ~/.ssh/config)
Because capitalism!
What I propose is a more selfish sort of capitalism.
A good point, but I believe that most recent versions (since around 2004, I think) of rsync now use ssh by default, so the -e flag is not needed to use ssh.
"For full access subscribe now!"

So..... shall we just stop linking there or do we all buy subs?
Who Pays for a Telecommuter's Equipment?
Daikatana basically did end up like DNF, although it was finally shipped after nearly three years of delays to critical disappointment. The time frame of the original was similar to DN as was the hype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
I got the article by searching for the title on http://news.google.com/ . I thought Murdoch was spinning in his grave^H^H^H^H^Hoffice chair about that?
The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages
Hey Jonathan, your borderless image class is empty/pointing nowhere.

<img src="buyapp.png" class="borderless"/>
Rands in Repose: Incrementalists & Completionists

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/08/05/incremental...
When I said "not to leave people in a position ..." I wasn't really thinking of people in the UK.

If you can walk into hospital then you're not going to be treated for hunger, if you can't then you'll possibly die where you sleep. I'll agree, in winter in the UK you'll die from exposure before you die technically from starvation.

Yes, in my city the best (in fact only) street work is paid for by the local Church - they do a rolling program of food/shelter moving between a few of the city centre church buildings.

"Finally, if you somehow manage to be completely unable to find food anywhere"

Isn't the point kinda that you can walk into this huge building, nearby and full of food, 20% of which will probably just be binned, and help yourself??

[I'm really not a strong advocate of theft!]
Actually I wasn't even presented with that the first time I hit the site. I hit it again when I saw your comment and saw the 'subscribe now' advert. The first time I just got half of the article, but nothing telling me how to get the rest.
Consider for a moment who writes the loopholes into laws. What a legislator might label a "bad" loophole is one exploited by a business or industry for whom the loophole was not originally, and intentionally, written.
and non-cringeworthy dialogues.
I don't know, but I bought Orange Box for TF2, and was surprised to find Portal lurking in there.
Indeed, it is by design but this is a field in which it is easy to get blindsided for conduct that has never been regarded as culpable on the part of management by any historical (pre-S/O) standards.

Bottom line: for those who matter (i.e., those who build companies and make key decisions on whether to take them public), this is another serious disincentive to take a company public.
As with many government regulations, good intentions but results that are almost the opposite.

It reminds me a bit of this interview with Milton Friedman, which changed my perspective on life immensely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdRpyfEmBE
It varies. He can be a bit plodding sometimes, especially when exploring politics - his characters tend to be introspective rather than bold actors. So I found Teranesia (SE Asian ecopolitics) rather a struggle, but on the other hand I flew through Diaspora, where most of the characters don't even have physical bodies and there were a lot of very abstract concepts.

None of his output is light reading, but (IMHO) it's extremely substantive, as opposed to the physically substantial 1,000 page doorstops and franchise vehicles...I doubt I'd enjoy a novelization of Avatar, for example. I'm into that movie for the magic carpet ride rather than the dialog or character development.
No argumnet based on religion (that is, faith) can also be based on reason.

Something like faith that the universes speed limit is the speed of light - this makes GR completely devoid of reason?

Or that our arithmetic can't be shown to be complete and consistent with and of itself - this makes all of maths (based in this common arithmetic, cf Godel's I.T.) devoid of reason?

The Bible says, James 1 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james%201&ve... :
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
Consistency in UI Design
What puzzles me is why, with their $237e6 budget, they couldn't afford a decent script.
IIRC the licensing terms on MPEG4 are pretty onerous.
If firfox does do it I believe they would still technically be required to pay licensing fees. The only reason they wouldn't is because mpeg la does not pursue them.
A very interesting article. I appreciate the submission, but wonder why you replaced the original title "Tongue twisters:
In search of the world’s hardest language," as I see that in the submitted article?
For the server to commit we create a special user with limited access to a single branch.
It's easy to use ettercap to mount a man-in-the-middle attack?

Self-signed certs are only vulnerable to mitm attacks, but don't most network topologies make doing that pretty hard?
(Slightly) more info here:

http://chicago.everyblock.com/announcements/by-date/2009/12/...
Can you be a bit more specific about what you're doing? DNS is a big field...
You're right.

If someone is born with longer-than-average legs, they should be cut short and the excess given to someone born with shorter-than-average legs. That way, they will both have an equally horrible likelihood of becoming basketball superstars.
My SO has serious medical problems. Shouldnt I be able to leave her the house and some means of support. Most inheritances are fairly modest. Taking them away would only hurt the majority with little benefit to anyone.
I’m not convinced there’s any absolute scale for how hard a language is. If a native English speaker would beat his or her head against the wall trying to learn Japanese, then a native Japanese speaker with comparable intelligence in comparable circumstances would be just as frustrated trying to learn English.
just click through the google results and you get the full story: http://www.google.com/search?q=Yahoo+Imposes+Weeklong+Global...
Or, it would just mean that all the top level execs would work to protect each other.
This is better: All time box-office adjusted for inflation.

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

Gone with the Wind #1, Star Wars #2, The Sound of Music #3. Titanic #6.
If someone is unable to work, then they can get money from the government.
I can't say I have any firsthand knowledge, but since the control inputs would be orders of magnitude less data than a video feed, my peace of mind and sanity has to assume so. I could be wrong, but please don't tell me.
I thoroughly enjoyed Avatar. While its plot wasn't complex, deep, and enriching; it still had a plot. One that was blended well with other sub-plots. It also served well with the world building. The plot didn't distract from it and the eye candy didn't distract from the plot.

It was a perfect balance in my opinion for what it is. A beautiful film that is opening the doors for fresh and new science fiction (which has been lacking).
Securities laws generally would have choked small-business capital formation when first enacted but for the fact that broad categories of "exemptions" were recognized that essentially allowed private placements to continue without being burdened by onerous disclosure and registration requirements.

Attempts are afoot to get a comparable carve-out from Sarbanes-Oxley's most burdensome requirements for small-cap public companies but these have stalled to date as the regulatory impulse continues unabated in today's Washington.
Well I wouldn't label it as another DNF, precisely because it shipped. But I get your point.
Absolutely. The first product we're building is a managed, authoritative DNS service on a highly redundant global network, with a great RESTful API and a low-cost, metered billing. After that's launched, we plan on adding some enterprise features like strong usage and routing analytics, and maybe some DIY CDN functionality. We're also thinking through a number of white-label features for the hosting market.

Likely much to Paul Vixie's chagrin, we're looking at DNS as a good platform for building low-latency, geographically specific services.
Maybe. Obviously, still not good for the site.
If you are going to see grandparents this holiday, a good discussion might be to ask them about their sugar consumption, prevalent health problems now and then, and compare those to your own. Bet there is a big difference.
the Church has not exhausted its resources feeding the poor

And should it? Should we for example sell our local building to pay the heating bills of the local poor? How then will we meet the spiritual needs of the people. Where can we congregate. How will we organise the meeting of the physical and spiritual needs in future years without somewhere to meet together, work together, pray together?
When you don't want the video to start, when you only want to buffer the minimum required for smooth playback, to avoid wasted bandwidth when the user inevitablly closes the window (see youtube, they do this now), a myriad of reasons. Flexability allows inovation.
So CACert in principle is fine, and better than a self signed. It's just that most (windows) people don't have the CACert root cert installed.

I think many of the linux distributions (notably not including redhat) include the CACert root cert.
For those that hadn't already heard, the QR Code on the back of the device decodes to http://www.android.com/holidays
I know, I was being facetious. My point is that the system is ingrained and nearly impossible to change, even if many points of it seem bad or very bad when looked at individually.
So many expensive movies reportedly have terrible dialogue and scripts that there must be a reason other than the obvious. Maybe it's really, really hard to tell if a script is good before it's filmed? I dunno.