skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes, they kind of did have those powers, thanks to the passing of the Pro IP act in 2008, which allows them to take town .com, .org and .net websites. SOPA would've just allowed them to take down foreign sites. They already have the power because the Internet wasn't awake enough at the time.

But that's alright. What's important is that first we stop this trend - not a single law like this passes anymore. And then we try to reverse the trend - repeal Pro IP, overhaul copyright laws, etc.
Zynga stock value jumps 40% because of Facebook's IPO
Popup seems to be missing a close button, so I can not even see what kind of apps you deem to be "premium". Also the word "premium" lights a red light in my brain that means "scam".

Not saying you are a scammer, just saying what my internal bayesian classifier has learned about "premium".
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/216086-Mental-muscle-six-w...

the above talks about TDCS, but also meditation, bright lights, playing music. Good read
Even worse, the government is RESPONSIBLE for destroying the American diet in the first place. So now this author's solution is what? More government. Unbelievable.

The increase in useless glucose carbs over the last decades was the food industry's response to government guidelines designed to reduce fat intake. Guess what? Not all fat is bad for you. To make fat-free food taste better, they added sugar and insulin-system-destroying carbs.

So now the government is going to make more decisions for us in some new scheme to improve all our lives. To create a utopia here on earth that's always just a few new government programs away.

Let people make their own decisions when it comes to their own health and well-being.

I know, not everyone can make great decisions. But to whom are we abdicating decision-making authority? To health experts? No, to a bunch of guys who won a popularity/political contest and put their buddies in charge of micro-managing your life.

People need to be concerned about the health of themselves and their families. They can't just be mindless zombies eating whatever someone else tells them to. Creating new laws, regulations, and perhaps government bureaucracies take us backward -- not forward.
Sometimes there's just something you want to exist that doesn't and you need to make it. Look at how many artists and writers toiled at their craft for their entire lives without any reward. I doubt many of them had the goal of becoming more powerful in order to consume more stuff. At least if they did, there were no doubt countless easier ways they could have gone about it.
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I agree, but the trade-offs depend on your goals, and for each of those there is a best solution. If you want to provide a good reading experience on the web, you have to use appropriate layouts.
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Good idea in theory, however it's important to note that used car prices are negotiable, so while the car may be listed at a higher price, the seller may also be willing to accept a much lower bid.

Widespread use of a tool like this would eventually put downward pressure on prices towards the sellers' reserve price; still in the short term as a buyer you could be missing out on a great deal if you ignore the "hidden" listings.
More like http://statuscode.org/ really (whose launch was delayed to this week ;-))

But, no, I didn't really invent the idea and there's more than enough room for multiple players in this market. It's almost my full time job now so I have a strong interest in trying to be the best but there are lots of other frequent newsletters on similar topics that have been around 10+ years and have 100,000s of subscribers :-)

That said, I appreciate the show of support nonetheless - thanks!
And here is the link to the Reddit post. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pb63q/speed_run...
> What if the human brain is nothing more than evolution's play for an immortal creature?

This makes no sense. There is no intelligence behind evolution. It simply selects for the most optimal outcome. It can't plan for anything. To say that we were imbued with intelligence to achieve some future goal makes no sense. Intelligence was selected for immediately apparent benefits.

If you need to believe in some grand design and intelligence, G-d is your answer. Evolution is not.

As I already said, there are animals and plants that are for all intents and purposes without any upper limit on their lifespan. We are not them. There is a reason for that.
The real difference is that Google's IPO was a Dutch auction. This was particularly accurate because of how much information asymmetry there was with Google. Not everyone knew where the value in Google was. Everyone knows about Facebook. That complicates things. I wrote about this recently if you guys wanna take a look. http://ashoknayar.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/ipos-the-social-w...
Interesting. I tried to find out how it works to make C safe but did not find anything. As well it seems there is not much activity. Last update was in August 2010.

Would be interesting to see if this compiler has any performance advantages and what are the security advantages.
This looks very cool. I've been working on a similar project built on top of Node.Js and Connect (https://github.com/mdp/middlefiddle)

It lets you use Connect compatible middleware to alter the request or response - (https://github.com/mdp/middlefiddle/blob/master/.middlefiddl...)

There's a bunch of these proxies out there, and they all provide something different, but if you're just looking to inspect the HTTPS request, I'd also recommend the excellent Charles Web Proxy - http://www.charlesproxy.com/ - I bought a copy years ago, and it's been invaluable.
So, in other words, Google stops operating in India.
19 y/o schoolboy gets his weather balloon 2 km higher than the MIT team
Also, for 9 out of your 10 closest friends, another one of those 10 friends is taller.
If printing is significantly cheaper than producing the object, industries that manufacture the products will just switch to printing, and mass printing will surely let them make a cheaper product than the one you'd make at home. At that point, the only advantage printing gives is convenience. And you can compete with convenience.
It's the difference between building a game to sell an "experience" to a customer, and building a game to maximize the amount of revenue generated from each player.

Imagine if film makers stopped trying to make good movies and instead focused on making movies where you had to pay more money to see the ending of a movie, or perhaps to pay to see a different ending to a movie. You'd sit down in a theater and then right at the climax of the movie you would have to pay more to continue watching.

Then making movies would be less about making a "good" movie and more about creating the best hook to get people to pony up more cash.
Is GigaOM Buying paidContent?
That picture is of ex-Sir Fred Goodwin (AKA "Fred the Shred"), who hasn't been RBS CEO since 2008.
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Yes, it is one of the neat languages with the green threads that I alluded to towards the end of the article.

Your description also fits CPython, though ;)
I think it's a good idea (hence http://statuscode.org/) and think there's more than enough room for multiple projects in this space, I'd already found several before I started on the SC project a few months ago.

There are about 101 glossy celebrity magazines all competing with each other, 101 documentary TV channels, 101 radio stations.. I like to think that we're all just making the market bigger rather than dividing up some specific number of subscribers :-)

What matters is our individual take and individual editorial direction, and that's very hard to copy. Good luck!
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Very astute point and I would grant that it could be a consideration when writing a program for which you don't intend to ever output content on the web. I personally believe that an extra byte per character is a rather small price to pay for all the good of utf-8 and I would not even give a second look to utf-16.

Now, consider that if you decide to use utf-16 to publish your Japanese text as an HTML document (whose syntax is entirely ascii based), you might lose its "saving advantage" and could easily end up with text that is actually larger in utf-16 than in utf-8.

Also take a look at this: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/102205/should...
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I would define this as a tool assisted speed run (TAS). Check out TASVideos.org if you are interested in reading more. The site is dedicated to TASing console games in emulators using various programming languages.
It doesn't matter who their target customer is, gambling sites are higher risk than traditional ecommerce sites. They have higher chargeback rates and the industry has a lot of bad actors. Is it shortsighted to blindly drop a startup just because it's gambling? Perhaps, but if you just go on industry averages there is higher risk there.
Even on Linux WebKit and Gecko use UTF-16.
Or they'll switch to producing the "ink" for the printers, as that's also a pretty non-trivial business from what I've understood (and will even be more so when 3d printers can print more advanced objects).

3d printing will be a win for convenience and personalization, but not for cost, certainly not if you want to produce zillions of equal objects.
Doesn't matter whether it's mindless or not. Consumption is consumption. Educating yourself by reading programming articles could be considered an investment, which is the distinction you want to make here, but if it's not an investment towards future production, then it's still just consumption and not much different from playing Farmville.
MooTools. Dojo. The herd has been thinned a bit over the last few years.
At Mozilla, we use a homegrown template called Playdoh[1][2] that includes split settings file, some sample deployment scripts, and lots of useful libraries that handle stuff like secure cookies, localization, strong password hashing, etc.

I'm not super-familiar with our deployment process, but I do know that we have internal git repos that hold our production and dev environments (like local settings) and use puppet for setting up servers.

[1]: Github: https://github.com/mozilla/playdoh

[2]: Docs: http://playdoh.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
What is Zynga making per paying user?
Of course, using a paper simulator to showcase printed material makes complete sense :)

My comment was related to the (common) case where someone thinks this is the best way to adapt printed content to the web, and that people actually want virtual magazines instead of something suited to screen reading/interaction. Fortunately that appears to be a dying mindset.
For the record, I'm in the UK. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with gambling in moderation, it's a lot of fun after all, however, I'd be very surprised if the public opinion about the gambling industry wasn't within the league of those of the tobacco and arms industries.
How it is different from DMCA takedown requests? Under DMCA you request website to takedown content that violates copyright. Under Indian law, you takedown the content that is deemed religiously offensive or blasphemous.

Edit for downvotes: I'm against takedown requests. I'm extremely disappointed that Indian govt. is taking such a narrow view. I'm genuinely interested in knowing how these requests are different from DMCA takedown requests.
Five open source hardware projects that could change the world
> Without formal CS training, you will not get to access those problems.

This is also a false dichotomy. You do not really know what people are working on outside of the college setting.

Computer vision is pretty low hanging fruit for anyone to take on. I will grant you that it may be difficult to access medical data outside of the institution, but the same ML techniques can be applied to other data that is relevant. As a hobby farmer, I see all kinds of interesting places for ML on the farm. How many CS students are working with that kind of data?
I think whether it's addiction of media, drugs, or even Facebook, most people are aware of what they're doing. This notion that we're unaware of our addictions, that "denial is the first mistake" is all bullshit. People are particularly rational (in their own respective idea of what rational is) when it comes to addictions. It's just a cost benefit analysis. The cost is time and the opportunity cost of what we could be doing versus the benefit of being connected, consuming information (even social), or the high. How each of us weighs those options is a deeply subjective thing, but to say that we're not aware or that "we have a choice" to be producers, with that pedantic tone, is just wrong.
Hmm looks promising, but the only problem is every where we go, school, work, internet cafe etc.. we would have to go back the QWERTY layout.
I know it's probably harmless, but this is one of those things that I rather wait before trying it out. You never know, there could be very small hidden side effects. The brain is so complex and poorly understood that I rather not mess with it in this way.

Examples: maybe this will make you likelier to have a brain seizure when you are just 60 years old, maybe after prolonged use one region of your brain is more active making you behave differently (could be positive or negative), maybe it will make you more susceptible to Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc...

That being said, if everyone was as coward as I am, we would have missed on lots of inventions.
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The Startup Visa Act will allow entrepreneurs to keep their companies and their jobs here in the United States.
I'm of course not saying that the current British government compares in any way to the Nazi dictatorship.

Well, Godwin's law be damned, it compares in at least several ways. The Nazi dictatorship was just one of many unjust regimes in the past. No reason why we cannot compare it to others, past or present. They did kill millions of jews, communists, gypsies and gays in concentration camps, but lots of other regimes have killed millions of people too.

Now, as to how the British government compares to the Nazi dictatorship. Well, they have even worse mass surveillance program (CCTV) that the Nazi's had. And the British had invaded and enslaved more countries during their colonial era than Germany ever did. And they are responsible for lots of subsequent wars in their old colonies, since they used "divide and conquer" tactics (establishing artificial buffer states, playing parts of the population against the other, et al) to ensure continued dependance and instability after de-colonizing them (from India-Pakistan, to Israel-Palestine, to Ethiopia-Eritrea, to Cyprus-Turkey, the list goes on).
As it stands, the printing materials are the main money makers for several processes.
My theory is because most sci-fi enthusiasts are not biologists. They simply do not understand how powerful enzymes are and prefer to think about synthetic nanorobots instead. Plus it sounds cooler.

You don't need to reverse engineer your entire body to understand a single enzyme. We do it all the time in biology. Furthermore, even if you create something that goes haywire in an unanticipated scenario, your body has good defense mechanisms against biological abnormalities.

It doesn't know what the hell to do to quantum dots or nano-scale inorganic materials
I started using SteerMouse to get rid of the acceleration, which helped that part of the problem, but I didn't have an explanation of why playing Starcraft 2 on OS X feels less accurate than when I play on my home computer except that it didn't 'feel' right. I don't notice it when I'm just working or browsing the internet, but when I'm trying to accurately control mouse movement to specific spots repeatedly in a game, it's a glaring flaw. Kudos to the author for figuring out the root cause of the issue. Hopefully now someone will be kind enough to offer a fix.

I can't understand why this issue would persist in a major operating system.
Not at all! I think it's totally valid to use some gut instinct here.

My instinct is that there's a scale from Facebook -> Twitter -> GitHub in the services that our target audience uses (less nerdy -> more nerdy).

Since GitHub performed better than Twitter (by a significant amount, although that's debatable) then I feel that the Facebook end of that scale isn't worth even testing at all. Instead, it would be more useful to try services on the GitHub end of the scale, such as OpenID or maybe something more novel like BitBucket, Heroku, Dribbble etc.
I think it's reasonable that all people (or their guardians) know exactly what they are putting in their bodies. We have an entire infrastructure of schools to educate people regarding healthy and unhealthy choices - if people choose something else who are you or I to say they shouldn't consume it?

I would argue electrical wiring or other infrastructure is no different. If it poses no threat to my neighbors' property or infringe on their rights in any way, why shouldn't I be free to proceed? I'm not saying that I'm not glad that there are standards I can expect a contractor to meet - I just don't think they should be a requirement. In the computing world we have POSIX - it's great if an OS implements it, but a very popular one which has succeeded in the market is not beholden to the standard (though at one time implemented it).

Unfortunately, this is why I'm also against universal health care. There is a huge conflict of interest. People who make stupid dietary decisions are going to use the majority of health care resources available. It is unlikely that someone making smart, healthy choices will be able to get the same benefit. While I think a basic level of care would benefit all people, I am unwilling to act as an enabler for people who have no interest in looking out for their own best interest.

There needs to be an underlying expectation that people are responsible for their own choices and actions. People need to be more active in their decision making, not have choices taken away from them.
http://brmlab.cz/project/brain_hacking/tdcs
I have never noticed it while using a trackpad however I have noticed it while I was using a Bluetooth mouse (I blamed it on the mouse) Now I don't know if it's the mouse or OSX.

For gaming it would be a bad thing however I don't have the time to play games and even if I did I would boot into Windows to do it.
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This project seems alright enough for a mini hackathon. I would be interested in building such a site, however I lack some knowledge in a few things that are needed.

Subscribing to Hacker News I have figured out it being simply parsing the RSS feed to generate links. How do I go about doing it for the other types of feeds? Does Twitter and Google+ feeds require integration with their individual APIs? Any help is greatly appreciated!
If it is Google, why doesn't it look like Google? Why is it 'wesolveforx', and not solveforx.google.com. Why PHP? Why do Whois records say the site belongs to:

Registrant:
TBA Global, LLC
535 N. Brand Blvd suite 800
Glendale, CA 91203
US

Domain Name: THINKBELIEVEACT.COM
Sooner or later, Canada, UK, Australia will be in full competition for the top entrepreneurs. The US's loss will be their gain.
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And why should not a stolen diamond be returned by the colonial thieves that took it?

(btw, I'm not an Indian)
Clearly people, in aggregate, need to have some choices made for them.

No, I don't think so at all.

And it's critical for people who oppose the "control state" (for lack of a better term) to stand their ground on this point.

Otherwise, they are throwing away the fundamental principle, which is their only intellectual ammunition.

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There are lots of trivial applications of this (like electrical wiring). But gettings bogged down in those is missing the forest for the trees.

However, just to prove that the principle still applies, I'll answer your electrical scenario:

If electrical wiring were not highly regulated, best practices and self-regulatory mechanisms would be develped to deal with the situation effectively, just like any aspect of any industrial activity that is not regulated.

It is key to recognize the truth of the part in italics. Just think of how commerce and trade work - there are abundant examples.
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Unsurprisingly, it appears some people disagree. Maybe they're working for Goldman Sachs.
A 2.0 release would be a reasonable point to potentially break legacy code.
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Everything you linked is still theoretical/hypothetical.

Those links basically prove my point. What you linked is possible right now using biology. We don't need nanorobots to modify DNA, we have enzymes and viruses that work really, really well.
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Software engineering is a generalist discipline: how to solve problems and add value to organizations using software. It applies whether you're writing performance-critical weather simulations or web apps.

I agree absolutely. I've done jobs in scientific computing (whoops! knew nothing about interfacing with hardware, had to learn) networking (whoops! knew nothing about SNMP, had to learn) and stock trading (wtf is an intermarket sweep order? time to learn again.) There's a role for specialists, and I like the fact that I become more valuable and more independent as my domain knowledge increases, but even more I like that my skills transfer from one vastly different domain to another.

Someday maybe programming will be specialized. Like medicine: there's no way we would let a chimpanzee doctor operate on a human or even prescribe drugs to one. Right now there are natural areas of specialization, but specialization just isn't what it's cracked up to be. Anyone who has dealt with hired guns in software knows that specialists can't compete with smart generalists who are close to a problem. It's as if botanists performing surgery on close friends and family members always achieved better medical results than surgeons operating on people they didn't know. What's the use of specialization in a field like that?
Basically they did that too:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-n...

Called ReFS though.
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Last time I shopped for a used car, the ones that were lowest in price, age, and milage were vehicles that had a, shall we say, "interesting" past. One had been in a wreck (as revealed by the Carfax), and another had been used by a heavy smoker and had cigarette burns in the interior.

Their filtering approach seems like a sure-fire way to filter out intact cars in favor of listings for ones like these.
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Yeah I thought that maybe the bone of the skull insulates, but it is covered in blood vessels that form the cage.
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I would use Ender and pull together various micro-libraries/modules.

http://ender.no.de
Well ... The real motive for this is to some way cut out sites like wiki leaks from revealing the names of corrupt Indian politicians who have siphoned of tax payer's money to their Swiss banks accounts.
You are right.
FTA: Last year, India passed a law that makes companies responsible for user content posted on their websites, requiring them to take down anything deemed offensive (”ethnically objectionable,” “blasphemous,” or “grossly harmful.”) within 36 hours in case of a complaint.

The only difference is that the exact definition of offensive content is not clear.