skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I agree entirely with what you identify as the premises of the problems. Can we decentralize to a level where hierarchy isn't implicit? An abusive father or tyrannical HOA seems a much more real threat for most Americans than an inefficient FDA.

While I accept that a lot of the "less government" rhetoric around here, and even among many politicians, is motivated by sincere ideological conviction and a belief in the efficiency of decentralized organizations, the net effect of this ideological surge within the US over the last 30 years has been a redistribution of wealth and privilege that has sharpened the hierarchy.
NASA Releases New Pioneer Anomaly Analysis
Don't do it! You really don't have more important things to spend $2000 on?

Fight the power :)
Internet Explorer 9, by Far the Best Browser at Blocking Malicious Downloads
Is the code open source or do you have plans to open source it. I am actually pretty interested in this and would love to be able to read the code for it.
-Steve
"Of course, we also let you play with a preview version of your website’s CSS without inflicting any half-baked designs upon your website’s visitors. That’s the version you edit in the WebPutty editor."

"You can always export a pretty-printed version of your website’s CSS at any time (both the preview and published versions)."

See my other post, I believe you have not understood their product very well.
I agree with your analysis of the argument being presented, however I disagree with the argument itself.

1) Street light burns out but hasn't been replaced yet, making street dim

2) Dim lighting leads bystander to mistakenly conclude that accused was present at scene of crime

...

5) Thus, for the want of a light bulb, someone is put to death.

My contention is that it is a failing of the process for the Jury to reach the conclusion based on a forensic analyst's mistake. I'm not an expert on courtroom proceedings, but I certainly hope that if I am ever asked to give expert testimony in court, I will not look the jury in the eye and claim in loud, ringing tones that I am 100% confident of my findings when spelunking through a database format I didn't write that was written by code I haven't examined line by line.

If I was foolish enough to make claims like this, I hope someone would cross-examine me properly. I hope that someone, somewhere would suggest that there might be any number of reasons why the word "chloroform" might appear on the hard disk in that spot and give alternate explanations. And so on, and so forth.

If people are being sent to Death Row based on what looks to me like incredibly scanty evidence, I don't think the scanty evidence is the problem, I think the process for evaluating evidence is the problem.
I don't know anything about archery, but this strikes me as a weird metaphor - is the amount of wood that goes into an arrow really what makes it hit the target?
Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoonist) had a similar example of a company that paid its testers and developers a small bonus for each bug found and fixed. So of course the developers started intentionally coding bugs just so they could get paid for fixing them.
"Everyone look, <New, unproven technology> will replace <Popular, proven technology>!"

The problem is it never does actually replace the proven technology. Makes for a good blog post, though.
I'd love to hear from Mozilla how they got the 64bit version to be faster than the 32bit version. The 64bit versions of apps tend to have to move more data, due to the increased address size. The big advantage the 64bit versions tend to have is more registers for apps, but for most real apps the increased memory pressure is a bigger deal.

Looking forward to Mozilla's blog on writing high performance 64bit apps. :-)
I can't imagine better tool to help finding unclosed divs.
CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment?
I'm curious if you used this already since you've been working w/ Fog Creek or if this is the first you're seeing it too.
You are correct. Sorry about that.
I'm making my own journey through similar milestones, and I'd agree. It is easy!
Given the first-day issues with launching experiments under the Google brand, would it make sense for them to sometimes 'stealth launch' projects without an explicit Google branding? Experimentation is important for innovation.
I did read through the site, and though I did not download the tool and try it out yet, the site seems to be catering to an individual who is used to SSHing in to / FTPing up to a site and hitting refresh (I did this when I was first learning about the web way back when as well, and I can appreciate the productivity gain here).

The hosting of your CSS files on their servers is also not suited for a development environment that has more than 1 environment, as I would not want to be editing files that are on a live server on a regular basis without first making those changes locally (and possibly checking them into an SCM of some sort first) because my css would quickly become out of sync across environments.

May I ask, the projects that you work on, do you have more than 1 environment that you use and do you collaborate with any other developers on these projects?
Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle
Canned goat might actually taste pretty good. :) You might have something there. Kidding aside, why not ask Google to add temp accounts associated to a main account? I would love to have temp emails/identities that I can create and reply to from only one account. Like Visa or MasterCard have temp credit card numbers. Then when I'm done, just toss them out. Maybe you could associate an email/identity to a circle. I think it's early but I don't see many roadblocks.
A bigger arrow to hit a bigger target, perhaps? I don't know. I obviously intuit the metaphor, but it's sort of lost on me too.

Off to wikipedia...

Edit: Also, I should note that this tangential thread is why I love HN.
That sentence may have been updated to clarify:
“It’s even more strange because JSTOR has settled any claims against Aaron, explained they’ve suffered no loss or damage, and asked the government not to prosecute,” Segal added.
Developer’s API for Unicode Character of the Day
Restaurant accidentally serves meat, and is being sued
An invitation to lie about JWZ
Fun stuff. I'd be tempted to either a) run a deployment step to freeze CSS locally or b) do some nginx reverse proxy magic to grab the latest CSS and cache it for a long time (I.e. only grabbing it from GAE once per revision).

That's a fairly consequential thingee to have on a server with availability independent of one's own.

If folks want I'll OSS code for this, although at a dozen lines in Rails it is barely worth typing git clone...
Check out http://juststand.org/. That (and talking with colleagues who stand at their desk every day) motivated me to try standing.

Thanks to Fog Creek providing adjustable-height desks for every employee, this was really easy to do. I started with 2 hours each day one week, then 3 hours the next week, etc., until I'm now standing the whole day. I love it.
Reliability. It is sometimes thought of as correlating to how much weight a particular data point may have in making a decision. In this case, the data is not very reliable but a seems to be evidence crucial point (the intent demonstrated by earlier information gathering). It speaks to a particular case of a justice system presenting evidence without reliability meta-data.
what if I need to add a div?
Something I didn't include in the actual post: I don't want to say everything is easy. If one of your goals is to scale your service to a five-hundred box setup, that's probably "hard".

But everyone has those vague, important motivations in their lives that are more a matter of willpower than anything else. Those are the meaningful goals. Those are the "easy" goals.
I don't think it's really "hacking" the DMCA when you are simply committing fraud and breaking the law. If anything I would call it simple bulling.
I was disappointed to find out that it was not, in fact, a web putty ...
No, sorry to say, but I am not.

Every corporation should be in the business to maximize profits.
A high profit margin should normally relate to a higher price which will lead to a less optimal acquisition and retention of customers. A larger customer base provides stability for sustainable growth.
The low karma he would supposedly get from simple comments should be feedback enough.
I think it could. Now with Oauth becoming more and more of a standard for signing up/in to sites and the wide adoption of RESTful API used for messaging, it could work.

Glad you liked the post.
How to stay sane in the corporate world
Nope, no watermarking. My third download worked and I got an InstallESD.dmg md5 of b5d3753c62bfb69866e94dca9336a44a. Googling for that it seems to match what the torrent sites are serving up for the Gold Master build.

It's odd that I had two failed downloads in a row... Either an app store bug or this MBP is maybe having memory issues or something. It's odd because I haven't had any issues like that before, and I tax it quite a bit.

Or maybe this was just Apple's way of making me rationalize a MacBook Air purchase :-)
The APIs in Lion which enable the saving and resume are built to do their reading and writing asynchronously. So long as the developer makes use of the new system APIs, it should be a nicer experience for a case like Logic with its significantly larger files.
Yeah, I think that's why its array manipulation performance was slower in the 64-bit version -- but I was very surprised to see that almost everything else was faster.

64-bit web apps... whatever next!
Sure, all the problems I listed are solvable. In fact, they've already been solved - by e-mail.

The bitching about having to sort e-mails and manually add filters? You have to manually add people to circles, too. And what happens when someone who's not in one of your circles shares something with you? At least currently, there's no way to filter them based on anything.

"But we can just add filters to Google+!"

We already have filters in e-mail.

I feel like I sound like a grizzled old man ("we used to code uphill both ways in the snow!") but I really don't understand how G+ is superior to e-mail.
How come I use Firefox 3.6 and there is already a version 8? Man, things go fast...
Anonymous hacked ex-president of Colombia's Twitter Account
On the contrary, for almost all types of common array code the compiler is really good at optimizing away the bounds checks (see http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.86.96... ). Things only get tricky when you have, for instance, arrays of indices into other arrays, or when the next array position to examine depends on the contents of the one being examined. Even there though (and even in array-heavy code), bounds checks don't typically take up a ton of program execution time.
It's what you always wished Firebug's css view would actually do.
I haven't used it. I will never answer questions about what knowledge I have/had regarding clients' upcoming product releases. You don't have to be Steve Jobs to get touchy about that one, and it's specifically enumerated in most NDAs I sign.
Taking the stairs is such an easy way to burn a few calories. It surprises me how few people do it in my office.

Although, as shown by your story, some people just aren't able to!
This was an easy OS upgrade, but I have two complaints nevertheless:

1. App Store had problems loading this morning - I could tell they were hit hard, and certain elements both on the App Store featured page and the Lion page didn't load until I retried a few times.

2. There was a scary moment for me when I was upgrading this morning. After reboot, I saw four options. These were the top two (I cannot remember the rest):

* Restore from backup

* Install OS X (and in gray, smaller text under "Upgrade to Lion")

Apple could have done a better job here: they should have been able to detect that I was in the update flow and put "Install OS X" first. They also should have said "Upgrade to Lion" instead of "Install OS X". Seeing restore first and install second, I assumed something went terribly wrong.
Look at the pictures: http://www.thelimitisinfinity.com/
For laymen, it's a pretty good definition of getting into space. And it sure looks like space!
more mass = more efficienty energy transfer from bow to arrow, better energy conservation in flight, and deeper target penetration.
I love the Tesla cars and nearly twist my head off whenever I see one, but can't help from wondering if they will eventually be viewed in the future much as the Delorean is today. Without the epic collapse of the founder, of course, but purely due to economics.
Yeah, we're still working on a way to make this work better for the sort of ongoing web development that most HN readers probably spend a good amount of time doing, but we do think it is very useful for smaller sites that don't need parallel deployment of markup and style changes.

We're also releasing this very early, for a Fog Creek project, to see what people think. It might be that this becomes a desktop tool using something like Titanium, or we might try to integrated version control into it as an alternative to publishing. As such, we're open to suggestions and feedback.
So, You Think You Have to Deal With A**holes? Think Again
Maybe it's a momentum thing: an arrow with more wood would be heavier, and as a result it would create a greater impact.

Weird metaphor indeed.
How does this explain the need for greater than gigabit networking?
> Oauth becoming more and more of a standard for signing up/in to sites

I think I actually see that less than I did a few years ago. OAuth was hard to implement, and not that easy to use, so a lot of people got turned off by it.

I'm curious to see where BrowserID will go.
So what you're saying is, if you want C-like performance in Java, switch to C?
Love the humor and simplicity of this product, but I can't get it to show me the CSS unless I add yet-another <script> and <link> tag to my source.

http://i.imgur.com/eKKxY.png

Seems like a Web Putty browser plugin would help preserve the "local transparent editing a la Firebug" use case. Transparent meaning, no edits to your existing HTML required to demo different CSS stylings. Or am I misunderstanding this?
Unfortunately law seems to be one of the most conservative institutions (i.e. slow to change) in existence. It it set up to be an adversarial system between two parties, and most of the institutional structure depends upon that. Between the desire for an adversarial system and constitutional right to trial by jury, I'm not sure how you can really move away from my expert witness vs your expert witness when examining evidence for a jury. Any ideas? A "technical judge" that adjudicates evidence into more explainable forms to be explained to the jury?
I can definitely appreciate the usefulness of realtime here, 'n having led teams in the past I'm all for using tools like Sass/less/blueprint/etc that expedite development time and empower the team. I guess it's the 'Publish' part of this tool that is really irking me, as any environment I've either designed or been a part of has always had a process for sending files to live, and it never included editing and saving files already in a live environment without some intermediary testing platform first.
I think it's more like: we've got 1 ton of wood. Should we make one really big arrow, or a million smaller ones?
I like do to pushup intervals while I am at the computer at home. Be allowed to do it in the work and not be considered a crazy freak would be awesome to me. I really feel better and "more alive" after some pushups, and it boosts my productivity.

But I dont like the idea to do it as a group. I like to take my time and do the max repetitions that I could possible handle. Do it as a team would be limiting.
Also, computer forensics is ALL ABOUT dealing with fucked up data in bizarre formats (if the design of the format doesn't make it bizarre, the baffling habits of its users and provenance of the data will).
File and Video sharing sites Banned in India
Depending on the situation, you could have a hostile work environment[0]. Take a guy who is over weight and weak, make him feel uncomfortable about not being "good enough" to do the push ups, add "good natured" ribbing from co-workers that goes on day after day and subtle "anti-team" vibe because the rest of the team is pushing up together.

Likely? No. Possible? Yes. Something to watch for but not something to stress unduly about.

[0] Remember, hostile work environment is not about any specific protected class (age, race, etc), but about general feelings of harassment and discomfort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment
If you truly need C-like performance in Java, use C++.
Anonymous also hacked the current president of Colombia's Facebook account
Filtering IS a pain point if you have very different audiences amongst your facebook 'friends', like real friends vs co-workers vs parents. Not having filtering may prevent you from making a personal post that would be funny to your friends but crude to others. The author asks how many people want fewer readers of their posts, but for non-technical users, number of readers isn't a concern at all. Publishing something embarrassing then remembering your grandmother is now a friend, on the other hand, is an annoying concern.

There's still a question, though, of whether people will think it's worth the effort to categorize all their contacts. I'm not sure how many will bother.
Yeah, we know there are tools out there that do similar things (Backfire, live.js, etc.) but we do think the hosting will appeal to some people (with gzip and etags set up properly) and SCSS/Compass, which make working on CSS much nicer, is a huge selling point, personally.
The Rise of the Fake Apple Store
The last part isn't true. I've got the bottom priced 11" and being an entrepreneur I use it heavily for design. My only issue is the memory. After CS5 and a couple other programs I was down to 10gb.I'm 80% in front of a big cinema display but even working on the go its great. Photoshop too. My usual is itunes, mail, 5-10 safari windows, Photoshop, Illustrator and no spinning wheel of death. My experience of Apple is nearly 10 years and came from a 15" MBP that died.
If you're questioning it, go for it...

You'll feel like James Bond when on-the-go.
I'd guess it's a mass thing. The more mass you have in the shaft of your arrow, the more momentum it has- ergo, the further it flies and the harder it strikes the target.
Twitter Poised to Close a Two-Stage $800M Funding
Yeah, I didn't see a way to change the HTML broilerplate without pointing to an actual webpage that has to have the webputty css and js links in it.
If you try it out, you'll see that there are two modes, Preview and Published. Your changes don't go to anyone else until you are done with them, so we won't serve up half-baked CSS while you're still working on it. Once you're done, you hit Publish and only then is it live.
Introducing Lager - A New Logging Framework for Erlang/OTP
Exactly, because otherwise you get assembler-like productivity. Specifying memory layouts in Java is much more low level than C or C++ programming.
That has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever. Provide locked bike storage with a roof and showers.

What happened to come to work to, well, work?
If you're planning on making a 1-ton arrow, you better factor a massive ballista somewhere in those plans.
You've got good points, but I think Google plus ties alot of functionality into one service, or at least it seems like that is the direction they are taking. Imagine when you can do more than email can today. Share google docs while "huddling" then turn around and post something interesting you found to everyone. I'm not saying it's the be all end all, but it's a step in the right direction.
I don't know. The SASS stuff seems awesome. Though, Firebug can handle a lot of stuff that it's making out it can't.

For example, the article says that you have to do a lot of tweakage with the element inspector. This isn't 100% the case and I think that paints Firebug in a less than positive light. The element inspector is a really useful tool but you're just not restricted to that.

There's a CSS tab next to the HTML tab. This presents the full stylesheets to you pretty printed, editable like you would an inspected element. I can often author a lot of CSS in this window in:

a) A much shorter space of time.
b) Less amounts than I usually would.

Why point a? When you can see the CSS changing in real-time, you don't have to constantly refresh. Yes, there are ways to reload CSS and I use them often but it's not quite live like Firebug is. The second point is pretty much for the same reason: since you're making the changes in real time you can see exactly what changes what. This makes it less likely to over-step, in which you could be writing redundant CSS.

Firebug has it's downsides, such as it's clunky way of editing with pretty printing. There's also how it assumes the formatting of your CSS. You can use it in a similar way to an editor too but this removes pretty printing. Another big thing is the ability to lose work on refresh if you're not careful.

I can indeed live with the above. I don't think there are many instances where I would like to add in extra assets. I am quite a forgetful person.

Either way, the issues with Firebug can be patched over and I'm certain can be fixed. I don't think linking additional JS and CSS can easily be rectified with this.

What could be missed is the publish feature but not exactly ideal in a fair few number of situations.

This is from somebody who has to work on a lot of static websites and restrictions insist on pure CSS and HTML.
It sounds like those XML files are already there when you install the windows or mac version. Why don't you just open them up and edit them by hand?
Do we know how much of this is really true? The only actual quotes in here are a pair of vague tweets.

This could be fear-mongering by the anti-music groups, or it could be a stunt to give Skepta more attention/credibility. Or it could literally be false or an otherwise non-story.

Of course, it can be true after all. It just sets off alarms in my head saying "this doesn't seem vetted."
I find it hard to believe to. How was the study done? If you ask me, and if I'm a pirate, I say that I download illegal to try. But my actions may not reflect that reality. They really need data based on behavior, not surveys (I don't know if they used a survey, but not sure how'd they do it otherwise).
I believe it is not about killing the research, but more of killing the public aspect of it. They want to be less open about future products/innovations and be more like Apple.

Edit: To make it clear - Not that anything is wrong with it. It's probably better for the company.
The quote seems to be missing the ending, i.e. "much more typical for X to do Y than some_other_thing_or_some_other_person".

And I agree wholeheartedly with your final sentence.
Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron
I expected to see a lot more correlation/causation pedantry show up in an HN post that uses the term "proves" followed by a subjective claim.
What makes something a "meathead" or "nonmeathead" exercise?
It is my experience that employees who hear it phrased that way, though, will from painful experience assume that they're about to be blamed for something.
I know this is an older topic, but I'd have to imagine that going to Mexico to some sort of villa would have a similar result and be a heck of a lot cheaper, especially if you're already in San Diego.
Apple's definition of a "Universal Binary" is an executable the runs on both PPC and x86. However, it is possible to create a fat binary that runs on all three architectures at the same time.

An example of how to do it: http://ngmarley.com/blog/osx-universal-binary/
goodbye pagespeed / pagespeedonline / mod_pagespeed ...