skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>This is sad on a number of levels. For one thing, the friendships were actually closer and longer lasting at the small colleges, suggesting that there is nothing intrinsically beneficial about seeking out similar people. (Opposites don’t attract, but they should.)

This parallels closely my experiences at a certain UC in the bay area.

It was ironic because for a school that preaches diversity, for a student body that is self-proclaimed ultra liberal and progressive, it was socially very conservative. The better off white kids hang out pretty much with only other better off white kids in their frats..the asians have their own frats..so do the blacks and hispanics. What's more, there is not too much interaction between these groups to the point where you can really feel uncomfortable if you find yourself in a group where you don't belong.

I don't really know where I was going with this, other than people definitely tend to form cluster of like-minded people.
> Radley Balko wrote about instances where RIAA (or MPAA, can't remember) representatives were with federal agents during raids.

That's fairly common wrt trademarked goods (such as high-end purses). I assume that the reason is something along the lines of "federal agents can't recognize counterfeit goods".

If the trademark owner is liable for claiming that something is counterfeit when it isn't, that doesn't seem like a horrible idea.

How do you think that federal agents should recognize counterfeit goods?
Hurumf Kids today "Young man when you get to my age and your knees are shot you will thank the bicycle gods for gears" :-)
I hate to use the word "Agile" because it has lots of baggage at this point. There's the lingering smell of snake-oil salesman, the push-back against hardcore zealots who can't cross the gap between theory and practice, and the overly simplistic "I know what the English word 'agile' means" interpretation.

And while I love what a lot of people are doing around "Lean" software/startups, I'm starting to hate using that word, too.
> Deeper however, too many laws are passed because lobbyists are paid to ensure that corporate interests are taken care of.

Except, SOPA isn't passed yet, and so far, the push back has been successful. There is still a fight, but the corporations aren't winning.

And we do have the means to voice our opinion. We have our own version of lobbyists. Not only do we have the ability to directly contact our law makers, we can also support organizations who do have the time to fight these battles for us. EFF is a great example.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

They do accept donations.

Other organizations out there include Mozilla, Apache, etc. Couple this with support of companies that support the things you want. And if the companies do support something (for example, BSA's support of SOPA, and by extension, Apple and MS), you complain.

> I don't have a lot of time to push my agenda

I can throw that back at you: if your agenda isn't important enough to put forth effort, and for you to take a part in the process, how will I know your opinion?

If you don't speak up, you can't complain when no one listens.

Note: I'm not trying to insult you. Hopefully I don't come off that harsh. =)
Please note that this is a demo (outdated too) and not really authorized by the project itself. It's unfortunate that some folks feel a need to put something up so quickly.

If you want to look at the current status of 2.0 and help test the release, please look at the 2.0-wip branch: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/2.0-wip

The team expects to release something in a few weeks.
My mother and stepfather traveled around the world over a year in their fifties. They bought a ticket that let them take any flight west for about $2k, sold their house, put all their stuff into storage, took care of insurance and little details, and left.

I have two sisters, a step-sister, and a step-brother.

What are you waiting for?
90% done, only 90% left.
This is interesting; could you give some examples of what you mean by a tactical situation?
I don't think that the 2012 cost of transferring water from Earth is relevant.

Think of it as a benchmark.

We know X costs Y, so Z needs to cost less to be viable.

This is useful even if the value of Y declines. It ought to: there is money to be made in reducing transaction costs.

I'm more bullish on the prospects for living off-world.

If we can get there for a reasonable cost, if it's possible for people to live there, people will go.
I'm really glad to see this. This looks like a great resource, and with community contributions will only continue to get better.
I wonder what benefits localStorage would have over cookie based sessions in enabling anonymous usage over longer periods of time. Are user behaviors for clearing localstorage different from cookies?

Seems like an interesting thing to test on my new project.
To mostly mirror what eru said, we can easily combine hydrogen and oxygen just by burning them together.

You can also extract amounts of oxygen and hydrogen from more complex substances and turn them into water through the magic of that science we know as Chemistry. You should expect that this will generally take a bunch of energy, though.

Nanotechnology has the potential to let us construct much more complicated sorts of chemical structures. It would be really neat, but wouldn't really change how much energy it takes to separate water out of other materials, and would probably be a lot less energy efficient than standard industrial methods.
Cocoa Auto Layout Visual Format Language
It's still waiting for someone to die. I think a flat term in all cases is best, still living or not.
Great post. Anything to get programmers traveling a lot more. We need to get out there and see the real world, a world other than silicon valley, understand problems and spot potential opportunities. Only by making peoples lives easier by solving problems can we build more meaningful businesses else we will keep getting more of "me too" features built to share what you are thinking while on the pot.
+1 to the EFF taking donations. This is just how things get hashed out in a huge representative democracy. Let's make sure our side is well-funded. The EFF runs on under $4m/year. That's chump change.

10,000 people donating $30/month would double the EFF's revenues. That's the cost of taking your girl to the movies or buying an EA game on clearance, and unlike those things it doesn't go right into the pockets of terrible companies.
That is what I do not understand about how the SOPA debate has proceeded. Google is one of the fastest growing, most profitable and innovative companies in the world, and a clear example of american innovation and economic dynamism, and yet its name is slandered as "thieves" and as profiting from crime, by a U.S. congressman no less.

If the same allegations were laid against any other industry in the United States like the automotive industry or Wall Street, there would be more indignation.
Sometimes it takes much longer than six months. This is what it looked like for my company:

http://i.imgur.com/LE2kK.png

Even if 2010 and 2011 are ommitted for scale, the first 3 years of those graphs are essentially flat.
working to enact common-sense legislation

That's one of my pet peeves, right there. The phrase "common-sense legislation" seems to be a code for either "we can't come up with a rational argument", or "you're not worth the trouble of proving this". Either way, the party saying this is hoping that we'll simply accept it at face value, and not think about it more deeply.

It's common sense that the sun revolves around the earth, and the idea of Evolution is completely offensive to common sense. The fact that something is appealing to our intuition is really only loosely related to its veracity.
That's the first time I've heard of SOPA being described as protecting consumers. It seems to me that consumers are knowingly buying the counterfeit goods or consuming the IP that is targeted by SOPA.
First step: create "online borders" around US (they tried to do this in Europe) to "protect our jobs" and all that.

Second step: filter the information you get in US. Make the Internet more like TV. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XPiqhN_Ns)
I use something like this on FivePad[1]. Users get a "profile" record right away that gets attached to a "user" record as soon as they register.

[1]: https://www.fivepad.me
Let's drop "Google Contractors" for simply "Google." It doesn't diminishes the act and it's clearly a PR sleight of hand.
SOPA was never dead.
At most is was just revised or slightly watered down, and I don't think anyone really believed that "Big Media Co" was going to back off that easily!
"Not working on Google projects anymore" doesn't imply the same thing as "sacked" where I come from.

I think people want a better explanation then what we've seen so far. Vandalizing wikipedia for teh lawlz is one thing, vandalizing OSM with potentially dangerous things like switching one way streets is another kettle of fish. Especially when your employer (err employer's employer) runs a well known competitor.
And being located in a place that's willing to pay its developers 100$ an hour.
How much does a "small teaching university" pay for access to scientific journals?

I'd guess that a "teaching university" would have nearly the same need for access (if the teaching is any good), but much less need for submission, compared to a "research university", so the teaching university should benefit from shifting cost from access to submission.
Yes, but actual programmers with an altruistic desire to improve the state of software development are never going to be as loud and noisy as various salesmen (agile consultancies, agile coaches, agile tool developers) and hence the latter group of people are going to take over the word "agile".
But don't you see, copyright extension is supporting the statis quo. Certain works are in copyright, and they don't ever want that to change. </irony>
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This is not exactly what you're looking for, but 99designs.com is a neat site.

I used to enjoy conceptart.org, too, but haven't checked it much lately.
How about a movement to destroy the MPAA?

Or at least a movement to hit them where it hurts until the MPAA starts coming up with some different ideas that don't suck?

Start striking at the MPAA directly.
Woz praises Android, blasts iPhone limitations
I've always liked this little underdog gTLD - hopefully this will help it to pick up some public awareness. Lots of good names available plus you can register a .pro name right now for under 3 bucks:

http://www.encirca.com/domain-news/2012/pro-under-new-manage...
It's easier. I go to another UC myself and while I agree with most of what you say, I see more and more people interacting with one another. Hopefully this trend continues.

But I get it. For almost all of our evolutionary past, we were in tribes where everyone looked like us. While we're more open to diversity, it takes a certain type of person to want to go outside the comfort zone.

In the past, this would mean getting eaten by an animal or getting killed by a rival tribe. If you looked different, believed in different things, etc. you are dead.

So being with like-minded people, even if you're liberal or whatever is the remnants of human evolution that we haven't fully gotten over yet.

Besides, it's safer. Easier to relate to people who look like you and think like you.
It's absurd to claim that this is costing American jobs, even if it were directly causing significant harm to the Content Industry.

The pirates aren't taking the money they would have spent on content and burning it. Instead, they're spending that money on something else. So it's not that jobs were lost, or even that the total GDP was reduced. It's simply that the money was spent elsewhere: it flowed into coffers other than those of the MPAA or the RIAA.

So at the very worst, from an economic perspective, the damage is that resource allocation is happening somewhat inefficiently, with money being directed to the consumer's second-higher priority relative to Content. There's no reason to think that in the big picture this is harming total employment or GDP any more than a thousand other inefficiencies that regulations have created in the market.
Well, the grid system of bootstrap could be used for a lot of wrongness, but by then you'd be avoiding most of its base system anyway and could do the same amount of damage with any kind of simple CSS grid.

I'd go a step farther and say that even the little bits you can change are prone to abuse and/or simple hard to get right for a number of non-designers. The generator system above actually just fills in some blanks, which isn't exactly the difficult part for programmers. It's what you fill in those values… My idea for some part of "custom" generator would be selecting a palette from a reasonable large number and then probably some basic font types and weights, similar to type-a-file[1]. Then add some customized icon set[2][3], and you've got something that's at least a bit more unique.

1: http://www.type-a-file.com/

2: http://iconza.com/

3: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=102435
Good point. It is a bit confusing since it looks fairly official and all links point to the project. Hadn't seen this discussion previously:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/twitter-bootstrap/ux...
I came across Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer[1] recently. It's released under a creative commons license (CC-BY). It's still a work in progress, but might be interesting anyhow.

[1]: http://nlpwp.org/book/
Curb Your Distraction
Who designed the Yelp logo? [Quora]
I've used both. I found Zurb to be lacking in components related to Bootstrap. Bootstrap is definitely more featured.
What are your distractions and how do you avoid them?
Text from PDF:

January 17, 2012

WASHINGTON —The following is a statement by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on the so-called “Blackout Day” protesting anti-piracy legislation:

“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major
concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together, some
technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their
corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to
agree is very real and damaging.

It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use
their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the
marketplace today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as
gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their
corporate interests.

A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected
and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign
criminals. It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to
stage this “blackout” to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to
combat piracy.”

About the MPAA

The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion
picture, home video and television industries from its offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Its members
include: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.;
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLC; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

###

For more information, contact:

MPAA Washington, D.C.

Howard Gantman
(202) 293-1966
Howard_Gantman@mpaa.org
Oh yeah, it's just another set of nice-sounding words to make the bill sound more friendly. Just like how NBC's VP called it a "jobs bill," playing on the hot 2009-2012 buzzword "jobs." If anything, older consumers are way less willing to pirate a product; they tend to look for legit brands. It took a lot to convince my mom that streaming TV shows online was (mostly) legal before she would do it. As for younger generations, they know very well what they're doing when they pirate.
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Yeah, absolutely. Making people better aware of best practices so they don't have to think about it is a great mission!
>just passing through, seeing the sites, and meeting some people.

Is what most people do because they are very short of time, due to the fact that the time they have is vacation time from their full time job. This forces them into a particular mode. But for many people, this is still very rewarding.

>"Traveling" is really not as enlightening as people try to pretend.

I think there's a big difference between spending 3 hours and 3 days somewhere. There's also a big difference between spending 3 days and 3 months somewhere. And then even further, you could spend 3 year somewhere.

I know in 3 months we don't get the same level of experience as spending 3 years, and we may well find a place where we want to spend 3 years at a time.

Everything in life involves tradeoffs, especially travel. I won't knock someone who spends 3 hours in a place I spend 3 months, anymore than I would want to be knocked by someone who spent 3 years there.

But I strongly disagree that you can books and media can replace travel. Sure you can learn a lot, but the experience of living somewhere or even visiting is a lot different than seeing it portrayed by others.
NHS facing neurology disease time bomb
It's disingenuous to believe Amazon is pretending anything or won't eventually offer IPv6 IPs. They have a massive, global, proprietary internal routing infrastructure -- it takes time, resources and lots of testing before rolling out new services on that infrastructure.
It's already on the front page.
Wow look at that gorgeous parseable plain text. I miss the web of old sometimes...
Not just accent. The amount of sample data they have seems to matter a lot too.

Google voice works much better now than it did when it was first released. But it's still fairly easy to find a phrase that it will mess up. For example the names of craft beer breweries and the names of their beers. The individual words it will recognise fine. Put them together and it just fails.
Interactive Twitter Visualization: Election 2012 (made with d3.js)
Glad to see there are some variables for setting things like the navbar colors - I just started adapting a site to the 1.4 version and had to start out by changing all of the rules individually so I could implement a different color scheme.

Edit: Actually, I take it back as there are still hardcoded colors and the assumption that you are using white as the text. Would be nice if it was based off a few variables instead.
Not sure where the OP is getting ipv6 from, but DS-lite is not actually common, because most ISPs are still providing ipv6 as an extra not exclusive, or people are using tunnel brokers. So most do not provide ipv6 only. However if you have a lot of ipv6 machines behind one ip provided and you want to know what to do the OP's question is sensible. The answer alas seems to be to just run your own NAT alongside ipv6. DS-lite is just getting someone else to do your NAT.
HStore looks great, but as I understand it, it's just one level of key-value - JSON (and any document database) lets you store nested hashes.
You go on strike to protest against your employer; if you agree with your employer get back to work.
"Then out society wouldn't have any big-budget movies, and we'd all be worse off."

That is quite a leap of logic... Though it is interesting that you use the example of film, considering how often film so often lifts from the public domain.
When I was in Deadhorse Alaska (near Prudhoe Bay) ran into a couple of argentinians who had driven up. About as far north as one can drive... and they went south to patagonia to start their trip, too.

Always wanted to do that.

Great thing about traveling in alaska-- you can just pull over to the side of the road and sleep. Spent weeks doing that, and the only "incident" was when an Alaskan Pipeline worker woke me up (it was noon! I my clock was thrown off by the 24 hour sunlight) to make sure I was ok. (I was relatively near the pipeline at that point, and they patrol it.)

Thanks for sharing your experience, I'm enjoying reading it!
Native JSON features submitted for PostgreSQL 9.2
Thats unusual. A real IP? What is it?
Chinas GDP hits 7.49 trillion US dollars in 2011
They were contractors. Google isn't their employer and can't sack them. All they can do is ensure that they no longer work on Google projects.
Heh, this was not my experience at all. I knew several very diverse groups, basically made up of random people that met in the dorms.

Of course, I have to admit that my friends are actually fairly alike: almost all are EECS with some other engineers thrown in. But this does not reflect most of the groups I knew in the dorms. (Also, ignoring the EECS/engineering bent, my best friends are also a fairly diverse group.)
It's an upper-bound, sure, but I don't think it's relevant because I think that if we have a moon base, it's going to necessarily decrease by orders of magnitude. At that point, we're dealing too much uncertainty; we don't know how to mine water on the moon, and we don't know how much the transportation cost will decrease.
Let's not and say we didn't.
Blitz.io: Using redis transactions with CouchDB
LiveReload hasn't been that consistent for me. I do wish that not to be the case.
Good on Google for (apparently) taking appropriate corrective action in this case.

As comments at TheVerge note: this is the third notable instance of contractor misbehavior in very recent weeks for Google. Seems to me that the company needs to tighten up its contractor vetting and oversight markedly. This is a general outsourcing problem: delegating work to another entity means you've created a new obligation within your organization to oversee that work.

It's hardly new, and it's hardly specific to business. Apple, Dell, HP, Microsoft, and other are currently dealing with fallout from outsourced labor practices, particularly in China (Foxconn / Shenzhen), but also India and elsewhere. The US government has seen much criticism over its outsourced contracts. BP has had some disagreements with its contractors Cameron International, Andarko Petrolium (Mitsui Oil exploration), Weatherford International, Transocean, and Halliburton over fish-oiling services rendered.

What might be interesting would be to see a clever and distributed solution by Google. My expectations aren't high, but it's definitely a wicked problem and they'd be a good crew to tackle it.
Chlorophyll in Green Veg Can Help Prevent Cancer
When I run into a similar issue and don't have a programmer to talk to off-hand, I write an e-mail describing the bug. I usually don't send the e-mail because by the time I finish writing it out, I've figured out the answer.
Overworked employees could strike back in '12
Saving the New Year
I don't know how much more Google can do than not contract with them any longer, or make sure that "they are no longer working on projects". They aren't employees, they can't be sacked in the usual sense.
My grasp of the details of bike terminology is rusty, but don't cruisers usually have a single-speed freewheeling coaster-brake hub, rather than a fixed hub? So when you stop pedaling on a coaster, the wheels keep turning freely, and when you try to back-pedal, it applies a brake inside the hub? As opposed to a fixie, where the pedals turn whenever the wheel turns.
Surely they can't just not route to part of the internet?