skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would downvote this if I could. I have no idea what your reference to 44 points means. Is that good? Is that bad? Why do I need to know?
Bradley Manning.
In an international commodity market we all are connected "to some degree". Think of it this way: as North America imports less Middle Eastern oil, there's more middle eastern oil for you
Site design is nice. Just started giving it a go. I'm hesitant to use more "social networks" in this case that term doesn't seem to be quite right. Half wiki half network.

Always wanted one of the Lego Death Stars. Not sure if this helps me find one, but interesting. http://curicon.com/items/view/17052/lego-10143-death-star-ii
Thanks, as said in the post - we’ll keep at it as the only way to find out what’s cool with Apple and what’s not is to submit stuff to them and hope to have a constructive dialog.
"..., it cannot deliver raw binary data to JavaScript, because JavaScript does not support a byte type"
Incorrect. JS most definitely supports binary data using byte arrays with Uint8Array, etc or using canvas data binary
"It’s easier to hide a small file than a larger module." my mind is blown. small files are not like small rocks. it's a computer!
People don't want to just "see the content".

That is presumptuous: Most users have zero choice in the matter.
Just found this through the TechVibes post today. Pretty cool stuff. I'm actually working at a startup that has some similar ideas, though where you're doing something based more on social news aggregators, we're doing something more like twitter. Anyways, very cool and good luck!
You're welcome! They're all impressively researched while being relatively easy to read. If you want to add one more, Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic is good too.

As all four books point out, there's basically no intellectual case to be made in favor of low height limits, strict parking requirements, and lot setbacks in urban or heavily urbanizing places. The only "case", such as it is, comes from NIMBYism and existing landlords or landowners who are seeking to nominally protect their perceived investment.
I use WorkFlowy.com to track what I did!

Every morning WorkFlowy sends me an email with all the tasks I accomplished the day before.
This way, I can ensure that I'm being productive! :)
And thieves should just turn themselves in.

...Canadians

(but yes, conceptually you're right)
> I have not seen the math but in order to achieve any meaningful scale it needs to be huge

How can you make a statement like that? If you're not aware of the mathematical basis for the plant then you can't quantify "huge". You're either regurgitating something you read elsewhere without any real understanding, or you're simply making untrue statements.

If this is a ridiculous concept, what do you propose instead? Further oil exploration? More coal? This project is making a meaningful step towards reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. If you want to criticise, fine, but please at least take the time to properly understand the costs involved and the alternative options.
I think it's a matter of attitude. Your response didn't add anything to the discussion, you seemed to refuse perfectly valid advice (by your message, you didn't read - or understand - the original article and the advice I gave you, while given in a more than a little condescending tone - sorry for that - would enlighten you) and people around here don't really welcome that.

I regard it as a feature rather than a bug.
The number of people who say something along the lines of "You shouldn't be able to move up without an understanding above ~60% of the grade level math." is seriously scaring me. The ability to move up past the broken system is important. Needing more assumes Math is being taught and not "math".
Realistically, they won't. But ideally, they should. Wouldn't that be a lovely world? Damn Canadians and their happy thoughts... :)
I thought everyone knew this already.
TIL is over at reddit.
Humans aren't capable of maintaining that obnoxiously fake American-style smile for extended periods of time, either.

I can't wait for these things to be shuttled into the dustbin of history.
didn't they do this last year, after the US released a report...on itself?

So is this an annual thing now?
I like the idea of a world that dynamically responds to you better.

Are you on a speedy networked desktop? You get the bells and whistles version. Are you own a tablet with less bandwidth? We note this, and load the appropriate version. Are you on a mobile phone on the move? We load the mobile edition which is about efficiency and speed. The user doesn't need to make decisions, but the site architect should be seamlessly making them behind the scenes.

Also, I'd love it so all versions to have the same content, optimized for all homes. If I visit another mobile/tablet site that reduces content for "my convenience" I will start punching web developers. :)
I hope you say crap meaning human rights violations justified because the other does too.

If you mean crap as in pointing out the inconvenient truth to invite dialog, then all i have to say is fuck yeah America!
1. User needs to connect their Instacast with Flattr via OAuth.

2. Monthly budget cycle means that even if it comes to unauthorized usage the loss is something that Flattr can easily cover.

3. Any user complaints will quickly surface the possible scammer and since payouts are not immediate it’s easy to freeze accounts.

So far Flattr has a track record of 0 scamming, phishing or fraud, knock on wood.
The people that are usually fighting are the ones from which freedom has been forcibly taken. There was no option.

You expect me to have sympathy for people that are whinging about their iPhone not being as open as their Raspberry Pi? Where's your rage about refrigerators or washing machines? Why isn't your car's firmware open-source?

You want freedom, you can get freedom. You want a polished, appliance-like phone, you can choose that.
Thanks for the objective review.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625

Consensus seems to be that he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity:

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solv...

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves...
The US govt. doesn't include itself in its annual human rights reports either (see: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index...).
It was the total upvotes the article had when I wrote my comment. I found that rather surprising.
Canada needs its own report after mass arresting 400 protestors recently in Montreal and 700 during G20.
Good point, added to the beginning of the post.
Many of the puzzles in the Prof. Layton series on the Nintendo DS can be solved with basic math: simple logic, combinatorics, linear equations, trigonometry and a little analytic geometry.
The number of upvotes on the submission.

Anyway, I thought it was amusing. Sort of like the old Soviet Propaganda about how the US is a capitalistic wasteland of suffering. [0]

[0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OkqSvw7Mw
The issue isn't what format the content is in, but that it's retrieved through client-side logic rather than as part of the query response.

Also, what's wrong with HTML/CSS that is in any way resolved by XML/XSLT? I'm genuinely curious why somebody would put their content into a format with no default, well-understood display semantics.
It's not as simple as saying that damage to the tissues of the spine are the cause of back pain. for one research example of many, see:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8747239

Studies like this have shown that herniated discs and other types of damage once thought to be the cause of back pain are present in pain-free people with a high rate of incidence.

Further, it's not known what the tradeoffs are in terms of risking damage vs the benefits of increased strength.

I do think extra research is needed.

FWIW your definition of heavy and mine seem to be about the same: A weight the subject can lift with perfect form for a small number of reps, e.g. <= 5. With training, likely to be in the range of bodyweight x 2 and up.
I already like this 100 times more than pinterest. I think it's a perfect slice.
沈阳丰胸最好的医院
He did show up to nurse the crashed server back to life :)
The stuff about arresting protesters was really ironic.
On a related note, there has been a growing anti-foreigner sentiment in China in the past few weeks following a widely mediatised sexual assault on a Chinese girl by a British man. Just last week, me and a friend were drinking calmly at a bar when suddenly, two Chinese men smashed bottles of beer on our head. We were the only foreigners in the place and we have no idea what could have motivated this act apart from our presence there. I strongly hope this was an isolated incident and had little to do with the recent anti-foreigner propaganda. Some references:

http://www.dailydot.com/society/anti-foreign-sentiment-china...

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/05/15/beijing-pledge...
That strikes me as curious. While I'm certain there is a reasonable explanation, i.e., "This is a report on foreign governments.", it would make sense to include themselves. Why do you suppose that is?
Recursive dogma
I toss the "take notice" into the execution pile. That's why it's 90% of the work. That includes understanding why brands fail regardless of the quality of the good or service. It includes understanding the pains of your userbase, the expectations they have going in, and what you have to do in order for them to converge and spread your technology in an organic manner.

It is the holistic picture that constitutes success. That's the "other 90%" and it's a black art.
Pot, meet kettle?
actually, as a patriotic american who cares about human rights - I appreciate such reports. For anyone else who feels the same, here's a perhaps more reliable, effective source: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/americas/usa
Just to add one anecdotal data point, I've done that and so far(for about 1 year) I have not had any problems. I do squat, deadlift, bench press, press, pullups, and situps. I've worked my way up to 230lbs + bar in deadlift and 200lbs + bar in squat. I experience a little muscle soreness in the back but that is all. I still need to watch what I eat and walk to burn calories since I still need to lose a little weight.
I got some Vibrams around Christmas and have been wearing them solidly for about 2-2.5 months (since the weather warmed up). The harder layer of rubber has already worn through on the heel, exposing the softer layer. I'm not so sure I'll be getting another pair.
Agreed. I'm certainly not condoning that behaviour in any way. I'm merely speaking to the 'China v. America' debate. Just wanted to clarify that.
FWIW, your layout is completely broken for me in Firefox on Windows XP, and the web font looks terrible on this platform (sorry).

I agree with much of the other constructive criticism you've received. In case it's helpful, your 20 seconds of attention on a first look over a CV would go something like this if I were the reviewer:

1. Made an effort to produce a distinctive on-line CV. Good.

2. Layout at top of page is broken and chose an unusual and poorly rendered web font. Bad.

3. What does he actually do? Generic terms like "building web systems" and "creating beautiful code" don't tell me very much. Neutral (but wasting time).

4. Ah, OK, he's a full stack guy, with a variety of modern tools listed. Better.

5. But despite talking about HTML5, CSS3, and other modern front-end technologies, the layout is completely broken again around that diagram, and neither the typography nor graphics are well done generally. Bad.

6. Despite claiming many years of experience, the practical skills and attention to detail aren't up to professional standards.

7. No hire.

I am left with the impression of a Jack of all trades but master of none. I did read on to the end of your CV after I recorded the above, and to be brutally honest, it reinforces that impression.

You're a contractor and keen to learn new technologies, which suggests that while buzzword-compliant you don't necessarily have much depth behind any of the technologies you mention throughout the CV, and nothing you say anywhere really counters that impression with hard data about years of experience with each tool, how many projects you've done with each tool and what kind of scale they were on, etc.

You're a UX designer, but your CV isn't optimised for scannability at all.

You adapt to change, yet the reason your layout is broken right at the top of the CV is that you're using a static background image to create a bubble that doesn't quite fit the text you wanted to show in it, instead of gracefully degrading CSS3 that would have expanded automatically to fit that text.

You believe in lots of testing and continuous integration, yet you've failed basic cross-browser compatibility on several counts, all of which would be common knowledge to a good web designer/developer.

OK, enough with the negativity. I figure that usually being brutally honest on these occasions is more helpful in the long run than sugar-coating stuff that is bad, but please don't take any of this personally or think I'm just having a dig.

If I were you, I would either spend a bit of time polishing up my front-end skills to get the design into shape or acknowledge the limitation (both personally and by toning down the related content in the CV) and get help from someone who is an expert in that particular area. I would also get help from a professional careers advisor or other CV-writing expert on how to organise your content for the way real people are going to read that CV. You do have a lot of potentially interesting material in there, and I totally respect that you've made the effort to present it nicely, but the rookie mistakes in the design and lack of scannability are letting you down right now.
Many of the people responsible for reviewing qualifications are not capable of assessing ability by reading source code.
I don't think Manning could be called the typical activist. His case is a rather extreme example of the kind of discipline military organizations apply to themselves.

Having said that, I'm too uncomfortable with his situation, but I would be that for every Manning there are a hundred Chinese who already got shot.
All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
Does anyone know how they handle the problem of the mirrors tarnishing and getting dirty over time?
I'm surprised Wilson didn't mention being aware of evolving projects on github and subscribing to open source mailing lists. It's easy to look at a project that way and see who is contributing the quality commits and LOC.

Maybe he was thinking of these things under the heading of #2 and watching the competition.

I think recruiting talent from other geographies is key. Instead of trying to poach talent from other companies in SF or NYC, why not look for people in markets where developer jobs aren't as abundant?
It would mean not making the changes to get it in, which Instacast did.
I think we can safely say Apple has dropped their party manners and shown the knives.

Unfortunately android is the only possible competitor I see, and the carriers have pretty much guaranteed that android won't be any freer for users or developers.
Perhaps you're right. I feel like China has regressed quite a bit in that capacity though. I try and stay up to date on American politics and from what I can tell, there are some 'good intention' efforts towards fixing some of these issues.

Unfortunately, a lot of them seem misguided; in my opinion.
This is basically what Asda Smart Price and Sainsbury's Basics do in the UK.
For a fluid layout with rounded corners I would have probably gone with CSS3 (versus corner divs), but since the block is fixed-size I could just suffice with one bubble.png as the background to upgrade the ie8 experience. And left it at that, being pragmatic and all.
GameMaker CEO wearing blinders - we're coming after them
FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
This way madness lies (thankfully)
Maybe we should think of this more as a supplement to the existing US published on on hundreds of other countries while omitting themselves.

Of course it's a bit hypocritical but a) that's sort of the point, where does the US get off writing these reports either all considered and b) so what? Why are we saying it is hypocritical? It mostly reads as a collection of facts and statistics. We are annoyed because in this collection they read a bit like a condemnation from someone we also view guilty of most of these... transgressions? However the underlying data shouldn't be dismissed just because we don't like the publisher, that's terribly unscientific. And if we insist upon this, where is the uproar when the US publishes its reports?

Ignore the hypocrisy, it's a BS smoke screen to try and dismiss the facts and stats. And yes, they don't paint the greatest picture. But maybe that should be looked into instead of just being ignored because we don't like it. Hypocrisy of the publisher has nothing to do with the validity and accuracy of the message.

The hypocrisy argument can go round and round without accomplishing anything more than saying no one can talk about anything. It is unproductive so let's abandon it and actually talk about what some of this article is shedding some light on. Are we happy about that? If not, what can we take away from it and what can we do?
Their conclusion that because it doesn't steal money it can't belong to cybercriminals is bogus and show how little they understand of the industry.

I've heard of researchers from one company dumpster diving the competition. A worm (as amateur as a 20mb one ) could easily be the work of those kind. But i think it gets less press than "evil country" "omg world cyber war" ...not that it may not be happening anyway.
IPhone 5 hires press shot leaked on Macrumors
curious as to why this is different/better than so many other editors?
It's not about the technology, it's about the purpose.
Beautiful site. Maybe someone can do similar diy approach for startups.
Something something heal thyself.
I don't think that can work.

Maybe for a few exceptional cases like Facebook or Twitter, but 99.99% of developers don't have near that much leverage.

In this case, for example, if Instacast isn't in the AppStore most people will simply choose an alternative "podcatcher" that is.

Honestly, most of the companies who could vote with their feet on this issue need the AppStore a lot more than the AppStore needs them.
TLDR version:

1) actual networking, people you know

2) poach from a small company

3) acquihires

4) india

5) naive college students

6) poach from a big company

7) the vc's son
Give them some credit. Duqu was written using a nonstandard C extension for OO and it was pretty heavily obfuscated iirc.
WWDC 2012 - split a hotel room?
Is anybody interested in splitting a hotel room near the Moscone center 6/10-6/15? Being right next to the conference would be convenient, allowing for extra sleep and less commuting during this intense week. If we split a room it could end up pretty cheap per person. I'm a grad student, iOS developer, and CEO of a startup in NYC called Vantageous. I'll also be teaching iOS development in the fall at Cornell.
The NDAA has just passed a couple of months ago, Guantanamo still exists...

The US is actively and obviously violating human rights. I don't see how one could possibly get the idea that there even is the wish to seriously mitigate those violations let alone a genuine effort to do anything about it, quite the opposite actually.

Bush managed to give the US a reputation in Europe that is almost on par with Russia and China. Why do you think that is?
Nope, just random Muslims (Guantanamo)...

Us is a large net positive force in the world, but also the largest one on hypocrisy. Unless you include talking without doing anything of cause.
I cant recommend workflowy enough. It's my 2nd most-used app (gmail is 1st).
But I guess that would only be valuable if they also gave you a static IP.

Why? That's what (Dynamic) DNS is for.
I am curious about anyone currently trying to build a communication tool, and their argument for why it is a better solution than email.
Or, the designers/developers can make sensible decisions about what to include. The existing tools are fine, and provide plenty of techniques for optimizing to different viewing platforms and environments. The problem is people getting carried away with the whiz-bang stuff that's possible, while ignoring degradation. I can't imagine how XML/XSLT would be any better.
Ask: iOS question - border that rotates with view but doesn't scale with it?
I am a long time web developer.
Started developing for ios.
I've created a view.
The user can rotate, scale and move it.
My question is, how do I attach a border to it in such a way that the border will rotate with the view, but won't scale with it?<p>Thanks.
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Can you not see that there will always be room for songs and movies that say something truly new about the world we live in?

No, I can't see this. I think it quite likely that fairly quickly, we will reach the point where existing art is sufficient to satisfy most people. At some point, the quantity of good art will be vastly larger than the amount of consumption any human can do in a lifetime.

And even if this is false, what happens when machines do just as good a job at creating art as humans do? Do you believe some sort of "meta-art" exists that machines will not be able to perform?
To everyone shouting "hypocrisy": the primary focus should be on on real problems in the US that need to be fixed, not on China's hypocrisy. Criticism should be taken seriously on account of its merit, not on whether the one giving it is perfect.

Think about what the policy of not taking criticism seriously when the criticizer is hypocritical would lead to. How many people do you know who are absolutely perfect and completely unhypocritical? Most would say no one, but nearly everyone is going to agree that a perfectly unhypocritical person is at least very rare. So if you won't accept criticism except from perfect people, then that's tantamount to not accepting criticism at all. And is that a good policy? No.