skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.celestis.com/memorial/newfrontier/a-h.asp
I'm not sure you are representing the views of the "terrorists" correctly.

1. Terrorist is not an accurate title.

2. From what I've read the metaphysical argument that "Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" is not the reasoning behind these actions. The argument used tends to be the same as the anti-nuclear argument. Given the facts, the danger is too great.

3. Plenty of people in the scientific community have serious objections to the way GM crops are used and promoted. It's not an anti-science movement anymore than the anti-nuclear movement was an anti-physics movement.

4. I agree with your assessment that this is a PR maneuver aimed at the general public.

5. The campaign is being managed by the PR firm 'Sense About Science' which is funded by a number of private firms. The claim that this is purely about public scientific research is PR.

Sense about science has done some good work in the past with regard to fighting science libel laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_About_Science
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I hope they also have linux distributions for it other than android. If it works with arduino, these could lead to very inexpensive analog/digital controllers.
Rather than a rip-off I see it as an indicator that the software development industry is moving away from list-based issue tracking to visualizing the development process in a more intuitive and transparent way (cards that move through different stages) which imho makes a ton of sense.

We've built https://www.blossom.io for exactly that reason. But there are many tools out there that use this visualization or a hybrid of lists and cards, so from my POV definitely not a rip-off, just a natural evolution over the last few years.
As interesting as the finding is, it's not exactly surprising that college students learn as well from software as professors. What I want to know is whether K-12 students (especially the lower end of that) learn just as well. My intuition is no, that early childhood education will always require some amount of human educational support, but I'd love to see research confirming or denying as much.
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I don't know. Money isn't fair. Some people have it, some not.

And usually people don't purchase things because they are "fair". People purchase luxury cars, big houses, drugs etc. for purely selfish reasons, to enjoy life. If we think that currency is just another selection in the market, people will use the currency that will benefit them most. Fairness has nothing to do with it.
It could use a "Key generated in `c:\users\james\.ssh\`. Don't share keys indiscriminately." dialog, but that's about it to achieve social engineering education parity with ssh-keygen. Users aren't inherently less secure just because they didn't copy and paste a command and see a randomart image.
Go to Home Depot. You can now make PayPal mobile payments.

You're going to use your bank for payments because you already have low-cost ways to make payments already (ie. checks, debit and credit cards).

But... there are millions of people in the US who operate outside of the banking system. They are mostly poor or working off the books in some form. For these folks, the idea of buying a $100 topoff card at a gas station to have access to mobile payments makes sense. How do I know this? Becuase the same folks are paying $5 for a disposable debit card today.
Oh I agree, I'm just providing examples. As I stated, the instructions are quite nice and easy to follow. I'm just pointing out possible problems people may have during the install process when so many people seem to be saying surely no problems exist because it is so simple.

I tried to make it quite clear that it was all hypothetical and outside the scope of the instructions, maybe I failed. But they are indeed possible problems that people can have during the install process. Whether the people are correctly identifying their problems is a different discussion. You are making my point for me, it is simple for you therefore it should be simple for everyone else. I'm just saying that it is quite possibly not so simple for other people, for various reasons. Nothing more.
The guy on the right in the video, who calls the IPO the "ultimate muppet-bait IPO", is Henry Blodget, the CEO of Business Insider.
I like the idea but I can't use it because I need to be able to manage more than 50 issues per version.
The "market" is usually caveat emptor - the buyer has to take into consideration how much they trust the seller. On top of that, society has some laws against fraud that make lying more harmful to the seller. That means the buyer can have some amount of faith in the seller. For publicly traded companies, this goes a lot further. The SEC is supposed to create an environment with reasonable auditing and pretty harsh penalties for lying. This is supposed to facilitate a huge amount of business, since all the businesses can trust each other a lot more (when the stakes would otherwise be high enough to attempt fraud). So really the only thing preventing fraud at that scale is the SEC, and if it's compromised in any way, we're kinda doomed.
I agree. Using this tool alone won't make you effective at using the shortcuts.

I think it is a good first step though ,for people like me, who use VIM on a regular basis with a fairly limited vocabulary of shortcuts. To actively learn new shortcuts, I usually need to write them down somewhere next to the computer and then keep referencing them (especially when they are ones I don't use very often so they take a bit longer to memorize). Something like this is great because it will at least drill the shortcut into my head, so that while it won't become habitual to use it (and I'll need to make an effort to make it so) at least I'll be able to mentally reference it when I need it without having to look it up.
Thanks I appreciate it. Expanding to other areas is definitely on the agenda. Hope you enjoy it!
It's not the airplane; those facilities are simply called by different names in different parts of the English speaking world. Toilet, restroom, bathroom, WC, etc.
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They could display it as a graph with function names like a call stack. Most IDEs support most of the features shown in a piecemeal fashion but Light table seem to have the features more integrated, reducing the friction between coding and testing.
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Things move fast in all industries these days, that's no excuse to hypermonitor Facebook's earnings. If you were a JP Morgan shareholder, you'd agree that surprises happen everywhere.
It wasn't really C vs perl, the languages have pretty different use-cases. Rather it was that he used awk, and said he considered perl "an unreadable write-only language". That was only half the issue though, he was also widely respected as an old school unix hacker. Like virtually all of the old school guys he preferred using BSDs, and slashdot was a linux noob circle jerk at the time (it may be still, I haven't been there in years). The combination of those two things led to a lot of really bad comments that demonstrated just how terrible the slashdot community really was.
Is 80000 particles the limit?

With Flash you could render +300000 particles years ago:
http://www.unitzeroone.com/labs/alchemyPushingPixels/
Ranking for Signal to Noise Ratio
The author of the article, Henry Blodget, was investigated and fined and banned from working in the finance industry by the SEC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget

He probably doesn't agree with the prevailing (?) wisdom that the SEC is toothless.
Right now it goes at most one level deep into the call tree to prevent what you're talking about. The thinking I've had so far is that you then have a few options. You could go to one of the specific functions and say I want to see everything, you could go to a specific token and bring up its definition, or you could "focus" it to switch the starting point to that function. I think any of those could work, but I haven't tested them yet :)

To your second point the normal caveats of a replish environment will apply to any code execution stuff :) And the benchmarking mode was a simple example for working against functions once you already know they're the bottleneck. In a real application you probably need help getting there.

I agree and I think a big part of the job ahead is to understand how we can ensure these sorts of experiences mesh and flow together when working on something larger. Fortunately, Light Table itself provides a great project to prove that on.
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In a way Amazon is an absurd object lesson - their P/E ratio isn't far from double Facebook's and Facebook was five times as profitable as Amazon last quarter. If anything, Amazon shows that as long as you're profitable and retain a controlling stake in the company, the media's and Wall Street's much-vaunted expectations aren't worth a damn.
The swing arm and one of the two main structural parts of the chassis broke. He'd want to have a welder with him.
Come own Kicksend's Android app
Kicksend is looking for someone to completely own our highly important Android app.

The kind of people we like usually have a strong track record of shipping high-quality projects on the Play Store, have a keen understanding of metrics and can rapidly learn and adapt to just about anything. Also, they are often described to others as "such a nice person" by pretty much everybody.

This is a position with massive ownership and freedom. You'll be a part of a very intense and very small product team that ships and learns on a daily basis.

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Teasing a new product requires a delicate touch...
Well if you read one of the original articles, you'll find out why.
Hmm, any evidence that Celestis has cargo on this flight? Their web site doesn't say they were involved with SpaceX.
If you let them catch up, you can make a sort of pink torus around the mouse.
It's just crazy how slow Firefox gets at the simplest samples from the D3 site.

Just try the "Evolution of Wealth & Health of Nations" in Chrome AND Firefox http://bost.ocks.org/mike/nations/

Is there any open source version of your port?
Googled for "blogspot", picked first random domain I saw, "weliveyoung.blogspot.com", fetched "weliveyoung.blogspot.com/robots.txt" with curl, got a redirect to "weliveyoung.blogspot.co.uk/robots.txt", fetched that, voila.

Perhaps there is a user setting that controls it.
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It would be better if maybe there was some ipsum lorem text that was updated based on the key compos. the text was acting on. That way if you get a drill item wrong, you get some more positive feedback wrt the key-combo, and if you get it wrong, you get some additional feedback wrt what that wrong combo does.
Looks more promising every time! While I like the idea to not work on your stuff as files, I have a question in that regard:

Do you have specific plans on how to incorporate version control when not primarily relying on files?
It's stated that he didn't have to go far; one of the reasons he didn't just abandon the car and walk was the amount of tools that he'd be leaving behind to be stolen, so...
LinqToSQL 4 Life! Seriously though, EF confuses me as a DB architect. With LinqToSQL I can drag may tables over from the DB, set up the relationships and I'm done. I can understand EF from a code first standpoint, but my fear, as with other MS techs is that when it comes time to optimize your DB layer you are going to have issues.
This is a gross distortion of the argument that Take The Flour Back is making. TTFB cites legitimate and real scientific concerns; they don't caricature scientists as evil by nature. Their claim, in fact, is that the people doing these experiments are not acting as scientists, in the sense that they are ignoring serious environmental dangers and running these tests purely for grant money. And I think that's a legitimate concern, for what it's worth. It's very hard to do legitimate science right now because of the money. We see this in medicine, and we certainly see it in agriculture.

So this video might be effective if the only think you know about TTFB is that they're "environmentalists," and if you extrapolate from this that they're crazy spiritist loons who hate science and knowledge. But you would be flat wrong if you did that.
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I recently heard about picturefill, it looks pretty cool to me!
https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill
And Cyanogenmod doesn't have to get carrier approval.
It's still serializing to files - it has to, our workflows are entirely dependent on them :)
The original Reuters article does a better job explaining this than the link-bait title here: http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USBRE84L06920120522

FB amended their S-1 to lower revenue forecasts. Following that, a research analyst at Morgan Stanley cut his revenue forecast on FB close to their IPO. Nothing here should fire anyone up.

Equity research must be conducted independently of the investment bankers' non-public information. Given that they are opinions assembled from public data I don't see how disclosing it only to clients is a problem. If you want to publish a newsletter with stock tips and only disclose it to paying clients that is your prerogative, too.
As a long-time fan of Junkyard Wars, I approve :)
This is wonderful. Turn on some good music and play around with this, makes me think it would be a fine music video for some remixed songs.
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I think the competition in this space is great. The lower prices are very appealing as well as the ability to get access to more of these board since it's so difficult to get a Raspberry Pi.
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Insider trading (and the wider 'market abuse') can be extremely difficult to prove. The FSA fines a handful of people each year, and prosecutes even fewer.

If firms chose not to trade, when they otherwise would have done (which seems to be the case here), based on insider information, that is nigh on impossible to prove.
I picture a payments system on Facebook being geared to person-to-person payments and web payments, not in store, mobile payments. Need to pay back a friend for dinner, split the rent, pitch in for a co-workers gift? FB is a natural place. These type of payments could make people very used to paying with FB as well, potentially opening the door for use in more traditional payment scenarios. Year after year I've been surprised that nothing like this has emerged on FB.
If you come up with some new code in a "scratchpad" area and want to save it, where will it go? In a new file? Appended to the end of an existing file?

Similarly, if you edit one of the "supporting" functions that appear and want to save those changes, will they be saved in-place (e.g. line 217-241) in whichever file that function is from?
I enjoyed the shortcuts HTC added to the HTC Desire, and easy way to get to last running apps, settings, some regular settings as well. I haven't looked at ICS, but HTC definitely add to the regular android experience.
Looks like you can use whatever you want. The one I linked to is the default.

https://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
If it was charged on a credit card, can you call your cc company and dispute the charge ? They usually do that without much trouble.
"We removed FB buttons and traffic from Facebook increased."
I'd give the article more credit if the author knew that "phenomena" is a plural. How can Facebook be a "momentary internet phenomena"?
I just joined Facebook a few months ago. I was afraid of it being a huge time waster with low signal to noise. So my expectations were quite low. Turns out the experience, with less than 30 Facebook friends, is even worse than I imagined it would be. The only thing I actually like about Facebook is the ability to reduce the amount of noise by blocking excessive posters and things like what video someone watched or what article they read. My main Facebook activity is managing noise.

There's a billion dollar business that's going to happen some day that will get you the information you really want, without the information you don't want.
>A research analyst at Morgan Stanley cut his revenue forecast on FB close to their IPO. Following that, FB amended their S-1 to lower revenue forecasts. The latter may have been informed by the former but it cannot be said that the former was influenced by the latter without more information.

It was the opposite. Facebook filed the amended S-1, and Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs changed their forecast.

From the Reuters article:

>The change in Morgan Stanley's estimates came on the heels of Facebook's filing of an amended prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in which the company expressed caution about revenue growth due to a rapid shift by users to mobile devices. Mobile advertising to date is less lucrative than advertising on a desktop.
This is about the price-range I would like to see for a ChromeOS box.

Put it in a box I can hide behind a standard monitor, let me reuse the old mouse and keyboard and I can finally throw away the Windows XP PC my in-laws are using for Chrome and Freecell. And use 1/10th of the power.
From the transcript (http://sites.google.com/site/qitranscripts/transcripts/1x10) - just the tidbit about 6% savings in fuel cost just by reducing airflow sounds completely implausible:

"Stephen
Well, the question is . . . It was almost certainly a bad idea, erm . . . It was a lousy idea, in fact, 'cause when smoking was allowed, the cabin air was completely replaced with fresh air every three minutes, and now, the airlines save money . . . they save up to 6% of their fuel bills by using a mixture of fresh and recycled air--

Julia
And SARS.

Peter
Ohh.

Stephen
--yeah . . . using under half the amount of fresh air needed for comfort; increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the cabin; causing dizziness, and nausea, and allowing viruses to thrive. Passengers think that, because they can't smell smoke, the air is fresher. This is not so. Apart from anything else, it has dramatically increased the number of air rage incidents. One of the earliest reported incidents of air rage involved a passenger in first class, probably trying to take his mind, erm, off cigarettes, by drinking too much, and he was refused another drink, and so he decided to lodge his displeasure, and shat on top of the food trolley.
"

While Patrick Smith may not be an air conditioning expert, as a pilot he's required to know how the AC systems work and how to operate them, and if there was a widespread modification to AC systems or pilot procedures after the smoking ban, I'd expect him to know about it and mention it in the article.
Congratulations. Most people buying Android are not, they just want to be able to do what their mates with iPhones can do, but cheaper. And they can.
> And the last time you use Java was....5 years ago?
> I know Rails and Django and I used cherrypy, cheetah, and sqlalchemy as well, and Java is on par with both modern frameworks if you know to choose the right frameworks.

What are these frameworks in Java you talk about which are as expressive as Django and Rails? Less verbose that it was before isn't the same as as expressive as Rails/Django.

> In fact, I do not have to deploy multiple processes one for Rails and one for sinatra or node.js. Just some app server or web container and I am ready to go.

Rails/Django deployment isn't that hard. If you are talking about a large app, deployment is a very small consideration compared to other aspects.

As far as multiple processes go, more often than not, large apps are run as collection of co-operating services. That is by choice, irrespective of whether it's implemented in Java or Python. Which one of the examples you listed you think runs as some app server and container?

> ... And you are asking me to check out a "toy benchmark"?
> I care more for the overall solutions from deployment, tools, etc. End to end baby...

All benchmarks are toys. If you want "end to end", the only way is to do it is to implement the same app in Python and Java, and then compare them. Doing that would be batshit insane(sure, we are going to do too versions of pinterest to compare whether we write it in Java or Python), nobody does that, nobody should do that.

As far as benchmark goes, I only claimed that out of box code in Java performs like dogshit, and I am to jump hoops, I would rather jump hoops in Python, Ruby, Clojure et al.
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The hubbub is because for a little while it was looking like rockets and space might have become a thing of the past for the USA.
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The environmental protection movement is slowly acquiring a mob mentality where new ideas that modify nature in any way are scorned upon without any scientific evaluation. All this GM backlash while millions starve across the world and food prices are increasing.
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So if I'm getting the timing right, in the week leading up to the IPO, they were just about simultaneously dropping their revenue forecasts while boosting the initial offer price?

This whole thing just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Plenty of editors offer split view editing. You'll need to actually open the route, model and template files, but it's easy enough to have them all open at the same time. The real challenge here is how they'll handle larger files (real-world production code rarely is that small and clean, you almost always have complex logic and a number of database calls).
This is a silly viewpoint. It is silly because it is disempowering; it is admitting defeat before even trying to learn how markets work. Yes, nearly all markets are massively manipulated by those with weight, with the Forex markets being one of the least manipulated because those who would like to manipulate them generally don't have the means to do so.

The important thing to realize is that markets, manipulated or not, are pain optimization machines. They move in ways that maximize psychological distress to to the greatest number of participants, and this happens for sound fundamental reasons based on human psychology, moment to moment supply and demand, and the way in which most people approach a trade-slash-investment. This is often expressed as "markets move because they have to, not because they want to" or "markets move to where the stops are and then reverse". They don't do it because of nefarious secret masters, they do it because that is the natural state of operation of a market.

I strongly recommend reading Mastering the Trade by John Carter - it's one of the best books out there to explain why markets act they way they do in a clear and easily understood way that makes sense to non-traders.
So Facebook expressed caution about revenue growth, and the banks downgraded their earnings forecast?

I really don't see what the story is here!

In fact the WSJ suggests that if they had released these revised earnings forecasts publicly, they'd have been breaking SEC regulations:

Underwriters are barred by Securities and Exchange Commission rules from publicly issuing research on the IPOs they are involved in. But analysts are allowed to discuss their views with clients during these so-called road shows.
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