skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You mean just like every other business book? :)

Yeah. I had a site doing summaries for those for a while, and the percentage of them like that is fairly high. He's definitely a bright, interesting guy, who seems like the 'real deal', and not just some 'guru' kind of self-promoter. However, that book really can be compressed into a brief summary.
I love Hawking. But unfortunately, this interview is too short, simple and obvious to be interesting. Reminds me of:

http://xkcd.com/799/
Pastebin + Tor?
I've watched numerous Russian colleagues use it and it does not look appealing. These same colleagues do not seem to understand the power of a real *nix shell. You end up doing less typing if you really know your shell and how to pipe etc.
I wonder if setting opacity to 0.999 in CSS would prevent the blurring without stopping scaling on zoom.
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Every time I get a VISA prepaid gift card, I simply buy an amazon gift card with it. I've never had any problems doing this.

Now, it's not like I don't have other identifiable information on my amazon account (a real credit card, a previously used shipping address, etc), so it's not anonymous, but they do accept prepaid cards.
I don't think the current level of abuse and hypocrisy is greater than in the past hundred years. The us has always preached freedom and democracy while conducting secret wars, openly supporting utterly horrific dictatorships etc etc

I remain to be convinced it is a lot worse than previously, and most of the world still tends to believe Churchill's maxim - democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all the others

Tl dr - keep insisting on an end to torture sure, but don't say it was better in the old days.
What about AppJS (http://appjs.org/)?, I never use it, but it seems promising.
The ESTA fees don't go to Florida in particular, but in part to Brand USA. I think the rest goes to the TSA to offset the cost of operations. Brand USA gets up to $200,000,000 from ESTA fees based on tourism industry support.

All states' tourism situations have been ailing, starting with the reaction to 9/11. The ESTA fees are unpleasant but given that there is now a recipient of those fees with a vested interest in increasing visitation, there may be tangible benefits for future visitors.

The $10 fee transforms visitors from a drain of security resources into profit-generating customers, which obviously can lead to a sea change in the way visitors are treated and the processes they are subjected to by the TSA. It will take time for that to occur, though.

Disclosure: I work for what could be considered a state-level analogue of Brand USA.
No, it's not. I have a TI6x laptop, 4gb of RAM, plenty o' CPU and with no other user-space programs running, it still takes FOREVER to start. I feel like i'm launching Eclipse or something.
Not true, you'll likely have to go through a bunch of prepaid providers but there are certainly providers where all you have to provide is your postal code.

I run pretty much everything through these cards online to avoid fraud / identity theft issues and prefer the ones that are easiest to register for online purchases.

Bitcoin transfers are anonymous but not untraceable, eg. with enough circumstantial evidence surrounding the transfer you can be fairly certain who made it... if you use a wallet service then its not really anonymous at all if you have access to the wallet providers database.
Share cpu / cloud public
Share cpu / cloud public
Motor Matic Injeksi Irit Harga Murah
Motor Matic Injeksi Irit Harga Murah – Motor matic berteknologi injeksi yang irit bahan bakar dan berharga murah (ekonomis) merupakan solusi terbaik bagi para konsumen yang ingin memprioritaskan nilai efisiensi di dalam penggunaanya, ditambah lagi issu yang bergejolak pada saat ini sehubungan dengan penaikkan harga bahan bakar dan pencemaran lingkungan yang sedang marak diperbincangkan.
Getting Android to Recognize Apple Touch Icons
True enough, but there are also the mobile ports of older games -- notably the touch-friendly ones like monkey island, but more serious 'gamer' games are also coming, such as the Baldur's Gate rerelease. There are variations on C&C and Starcraft (official for the former, less so the latter). There are board games like monopoly and card games like poker and even magic the gathering.

On the social gaming side, I agree that very little of what you do in things like FarmVille actually seems like gaming, but then that was also my experience with much of World of Warcraft…

I think you just have to give it time -- gaming on mobile devices will probably grow up with the users, who seem to be predominately younger folk and teenagers from what I've seen (referring to mobile gamers here, not smartphone users in general).

Also, I have high hopes for the low initial cost and easy in-app purchases finally leading to some decent story-driven episodic games.
I can appreciate the technical explanation as a programmer, but as an end-user of PS: I don't care. It's slow.
Wow. What a fantastic resource. Thanks for sharing.
The OP solution looked messier to me honestly. We already use the pattern above in JavaScript quite successfully. I'd rather see the above implementation with a simple validator in place of extract().
> Not really, you lose most of the validation and documentation...

This is only true if you don't replace these forms of documentation with something better, which I'd do.
agreed, git-cola is way more usable than the git command line for breaking your uncommitted changes into a series of partial commits. that's the one time i will absolutely use a gui tool as being the best tool for the job.
"Cast Iron" Dave and an EU referendum
Why? This is a horrible idea. It makes your code so much harder to read or reason about, because it's impossible to tell what variables will be passed in without looking at every single callsite.
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Just more specious left wing crap. We've seen it all before. Move along.
My advice is to always work in a job where the tasks you perform constitute contribute to the core business activities and not supporting activities. The best opportunities and career come out of working in places where you are seen as a cost and not an expense.
That's an interesting way to express this!
It is "Part 1 - The Basics"...
Everything old is new again.

This sort of thing was mainstream in the 50s. British acts would record and release cover versions of US hits months before the US record companies got round to releasing the original versions in the UK.
What you've described is essentially how credit card processing for online gambling works. Except it's shoe stores and other places that sell stuff similarly priced to what an online gambler might charge his card.
Thats obviously a no-starter. Its not expensive because its "snuck into the control channel", which is only partially true. If that was the case and it would be immensely expensive to transport data that way, there would be a technical solution in no time.

Remember that before SMS, most payload was sounds, voice communication. Even with codecs that is still much more bandwidth intensive. And don't even get started with routing voice cross-carrier with minimal latency; atleast with SMS you can still temporarily hold them while you wait for capacity to free up.
I'm really happy to see the, charging right from the get-go. I've seen a lot of my friends build a simple app that they want to make a little side income with but they usually make the tragic mistake of launching it as a free service and charging after it gets some attention. The logic is that no one will pay a no-name developer for something simple like this. That logic is wrong. Yeah, lots of people can implement the same things themselves but most won't and they'll pay for the convenience of having access to these projects. If you start charging after launching as a free service you're pretty much doomed as users get a sense of entitlement and feel like you've pulled a bait and switch on them. It's far easier to charge from the start and delight users by bringing down the price later if you can than it is to start free and increase the price. Joel from Buffer actually wrote about that recently and it's something that I've taken to heart. Kudos to RaterLater for having the balls to charge for their work in this crazy web culture of entitlement.
The United Nations Isn't a Serious Threat to Internet Freedom—But You Are
Few Android users keep the default backgrounds so it's only natural for Google to change too. It also makes it easy to see that it's new and different.
Seriously. Implementing your own language features like this is a MUCH MUCH bigger kludge than just using your language as-designed. Code like this is so much harder to reason about and read, and so much more complicated.

If you really feel you can't program effectively in a language that lacks keyword arguments, then for christ's sake, use a language with keyword arguments.
I just took a trip out of the US down to Brazil and back a few weeks ago, and dear god, coming back into the country at the airport in Atlanta...

The tourists probably had about 20-30 minutes before getting out of the terminal, which is bad enough, but the US citizens were in a Disney World-esque line that was long enough that I missed a connecting flight scheduled an hour and a half after we arrived from Brazil.

That was bad enough that I sure won't be flying out of the country for anything less than at least a couple days worth of stuff. I feel bad for anyone coming through who isn't a citizen or can't speak perfect English. The immigration building had these massive screens overhead showing serene farmland scenes and images from across the country, while two or three thousand passengers are stuck in a line desperately waiting to get home or to their hotels at 1 AM. It's all very dystopian.
In MediaWiki, to create a new page, I create a link to it, then click on that link abd edit the new page. In Scribble, this workflow doesn't work; maybe you should add that functionality.

Also, why do I have to repeat myself and say "[next page](next-page)"? I prefer the MediaWiki syntax where I can just say "[[next page]]"
WordPress has a similar approach. The wp_parse_args function which accept an array or a URL-like string. You can also pass default values (and extract() them if you want.)

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_parse_args

You can pass the arguments as an array or as a URL-like ampersand separed string.
Because iterating great design is so obvious & effortless?
I was going to ask "Source?" but decided to look it up for myself. For anyone else reading this: cynicalkane is right, sms messages "travel on the SS7 network in tandem with voice call signaling traffic" [0]. For a great overview, read this HowStuffWorks article [1].

[0] http://www.ncs.gov/library/tech_bulletins/2003/tib_03-2.pdf (this whole bulletin is pretty interesting: it discusses the fact that SMS service is often maintained even while voice service is down, such as on September 11th 2001).

[1] http://computer.howstuffworks.com/e-mail-messaging/sms.htm
"Lee: Yes. It’s my expectation that in three to five years it will actually look unusual and awkward when we view someone holding an object in their hand and looking down at it. Wearable computing will become the norm."

- http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/clear-glass-leaders-g...
Judge Dismisses Apple/Motorola Patent Case
"I claim that any GUI which sufficiently exposes the underlying tool’s features to know with confidence what clicking any button will do fails at being any more intuitive than the command line"

Based on that claim, he should also be opposed to word processors, visual text differs, and vi. After all, all they expose are the features of troff+Ghostscript, diff, and the combination of ed and sh.
I don't think it does history, which is a shame.
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Java processes with high CPU due to leap second
A leap second caused Unbxd Search - our java based application to go down.
Lean Startup fell pretty flat for me. It felt like there wasn't much "there there". Recommended alternatives:

Read it, liked it more than Lean Startup: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055D7O1U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Started reading it, seems much more thorough than Lean Startup: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984999302/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... - annoyingly does not have a Kindle version.

Haven't ready it, heard it's good: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006UKFFE0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

And of course, my favorite of all, because it's full of real, practical advice, Start Small, Stay Small.
But we CAN'T be LN - Donald Knuth said only one person in 50 has the brain wiring to handle it, and we WILL NOT respect the people who do - we are stuffing our fingers in our ears and going 'LalaLALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU'.

This can't work.
If there were some successful API companies in past, they would probably go an API route.
The problem is that Ad based business is well understood while selling API and selling real-time information and being a 'real-time information bus' is something quite new.
> America was recognized all around the world at the time of its founding (and a bit before, even) because it was a grand experiment in personal liberty under the rule of law. The resources were a nice bonus, I think, but then again there have been many counter examples where countries/societies have had tremendous resources and failed to rise because of it

The article specifically mentions the Mississippi River, and compares the cost of transport by sea, road, and rail. Control of waterways has always been key to great power status. Controlling the world's oceans, especially chokepoints like Panama, Singapore, and Hormuz, lets the US project maritime power. Controlling the Altantic slave trade gave England, France, and Spain the upper hand at various times, and big wars were fought for the prize. Joining the Yellow and Yangtze rivers into one via the Grand Canal around 600ad by the Sui/Tang dynastry is what propelled China to become the world's greatest power for a thousand years. The Romans took over the entire Mediterranean, settling the entire coastline, after smashing Hannibal. And of course, control of the Nile, Euphrates/Tigris, Indus, and Yellow river basins is what made agriculture viable in the first place.

It was the abundant crops that allowed some Americans to think about liberty. An Amerindian displaced from the Mississippi 200 yrs ago or a homeless Black 50 yrs ago won't understand any of the "liberty" and "rule of law" there's been.
I'm curious why this is being down voted. It seems obvious to me that if international tourism to the U.S. declined sufficiently then industry would put great pressure on the government to make the process much more inviting. I think there is near universal disgust with the TSA and ICE.
"Well it looks like Team Android have conceded a penalty, but the players are crying foul play saying Team Apple dived. Some team Android fans are also attempting to stage a pitch invasion to protest, but are easily held back. Team Apple scores! The game continues..."
Don't suppose Matasano's looking for a Polish outpost? ;)

Should I ever end up in the States, like it or not, I will be beating down your door just for the chance of an interview.
That's not how the code works; I can assure you after using it for some time. The client code (the callee) is in control of variables and lists explicitly what will be provided, either as default or as an actual (keyword) argument.

When using EXTR_IF_EXISTS and list of default values, you know exactly what variables you will get -- either passed as argument, or by default, by reading the callee.

When not using EXTR_IF_EXISTS and you want to extract only known-good variables from untrusted input, array_intersect_key() helps.

The idiom may seem strange at first, but once you get used to it, you read it naturally. That's the thing with idioms, after all. Point in case, our new hire got up to speed very quickly.

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EDIT: in some cases I just skip the extract()ing and simply access $args['field_name']. It's safe as PHP will raise error, stop execution and drop to error handler if some field was not provided by mistake -- or malicious user action. And any superfluous fields remain unaccessed, safe again.
I wasn't making a philosophical statement, I specifically qualified it by saying "as a physical unit." That's still nowhere near precise enough, but I only meant to point out that we typically don't conceive of time as an emergent property of physical processes (i.e., entropy change), but as a local property of a very specific atom, such that time passes at a constant rate, if only because we choose to define it that way. "Telling something about time itself" sounds like a philosophical question which I fear has no definite answer.
There's potential truth in what you're saying, but that doesn't mean that a tourism tax is far from ideal. The economics of governments and their agencies are very different from those of companies.

Most importantly, while private companies have a market incentive to treat customers better when they pay more, governments don't. This is because governments both have a monopoly and so don't face outside competition, and because they don't face bankruptcy if they don't draw in the $200M in funds that you mentioned.

Instead, all that the federal government is saying to the TSA/other ESTA recipients is that "we made a tax which generates $200M, so we expect you to step up your services with the funding". It works only partially, because the only motivation that ESTA recipients (especially the TSA) have to improve is the word of god, and not any meaningful amounts of hard cash profit. The TSA is the worst of all with this, because unlike state marketing authorities, the TSA has no theoretical benefit from increased tourism. The smaller and more local the agencies you are analyzing get, the more like businesses they are, and so the more effective an ESTA would be.

So having an ESTA to make the TSA better is essentially just the same as increasing the TSA's funding from tax dollars and telling it to be better. Then you might as well do the latter, so as not to discourage tourists since tourists are much more likely to stop coming to the country than US citizens are to stop paying taxes because the income tax went up 0.01% to fund the $200M.

And even increasing taxes isn't ideal, because theoretically, if the TSA experience being better is worth the money, tourism will increase proportionately, and tourism's benefit to the economy will drive up tax revenues automatically without a tax.

Most ideal of all would be to find a way to privatize the TSA in a way that's safe and efficient, because then the new TSA corporation(s) would snap to market equilibrium.
Thank you for the correction, I said TSA when I meant DHS. I agree that they don't have the power to seize your VPS at the border: what I said is that they have the power to seize hardware that you have on your person, which is a non-trivial factor. They've proven themselves willing to abuse this power.
Nah. The internet was built to be decentralized with no single point of failure. Twitter and facebook and other centralized services are not the future. Cloud and tiers are fine as commodities, but having ONE company manage ALL the infrastructure for a particular type of communication is not the "internet way". The futurist in you shouldnt be upset.

Imagine if all email went through a single company's servers, and "fail whale" meant you had to WAIT until Email.com was back up until you sent that file to the coworker across the hall from you...

What we need is a protocol and a decentralized, open source reference implementation.
I agree with what you say, except for point #1. At least as far as Europe or East Asia is concerned you can find much faster and cheaper internet connection. Even for hosting it's common when buying from Europe for them to advertise unlimited bandwidth - which usually means up to 10T/m and you get slowed down after.
His immigration status is a red herring in this whole ordeal. Everyone in the USA is descended from an immigrant or perhaps the native people that the USA crushed when it was setup.

Many documented US citizens live in poverty. Shall we just deport them back to the USA?
I've been tempted to get ahead of the game and start wearing facial-recognition-jamming face-paint just as a fashion statement. Unfortunately, for this particular use case, the makeup makes you memorable in its own way.
The odd thing about the universe seems to be that the distances are so vast that it almost doesn't matter if there's other sentient life here or not because it's far too distant to be of any relevance.

Travelling between stars is incredibly expensive (in terms of pure Joules) and time-consuming. I can see the logic in the theory that the most likely outcome for any species reaching sentience is to destroy themselves. either through direct means (eg nuclear or biological war) or indirectly (simply running out of resources)
This idiot just proves most of this: http://two-pi-r.livejournal.com/622760.html

If you just want to stick up for your "favorite" PHP
framework simply because it's the only f**king thing
that you know, then go f**k yourself with a hand grenade.
There are very good reasons I am advising you not to write
new things in this f**king completely broken piece of shit,
and security is only one of them.

Amen.
By the same standards , Apple is saying that all the value of Galaxy Nexus is worth four patent many of whom are contestable and attributable to broken patent system. As far as I can see apple is saying contextual search done from many resources is worth $349 per galaxy nexus..but 3g that makes such a search possible is not worth $12 assuming retail cost of iPhone as $500. The FRAND is such a easy excuse to hide behind, when you use real technology to make stuff work and are unwilling to pay for it. Compare it with slide to unlock or searching multiple databases on a phone. I am pretty sure none of the technology that Apple 'invented' are being used here. Google came out with their own ways of making this system work.Apple are welcome to come up with their own 3G standards if they don't want to pay for it.