skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US (and most other nation's) law specifically nullifies either any clause or the entirety of any contract that is found to reference illegal behavior.

In addition, there are also whistleblower statutes, to further protect in such situations.
XXXXX = Metro :-)

I hope the blanking makes more sense to you now (I WTFed at first too.)
> why did you put it on github then?

For other people to learn, as an example of how to use rstblog, easy way to contribute fixes for typos and my horrible grammar. Also the actual texts after publishing are creative commons licensed (which however is not an open source license). It comes with strings attached.

> Are you sure you're not proud instead? :)

I am proud that people like it to the extend that they reuse it. I am proud and happy that people generally seem to like what I am doing. However I have an internal conflict with myself how much of that open source spirit applies to visual design, trademarks, logos and more.

I spend a lot of time to figure something out for the Flask project and the styles that go with Flask and extensions. There I have them under a full open source license with the added wish to the license to be a nice person and only use the style for Flask projects, however this is not binding because that would make it hard to get the project into debian.
The benefit will probably go first to someone like Apple or Google who can both supply streaming content and control the software (and ideally hardware) on devices (I imagine for low-powered devices you'll want hardware decoding, so this will prevent Apple from, say, adding support to existing AppleTVs).

I guess we can all complain when the iPhone 5 doesn't support it.
I have used the GoodReader app on iTouch/iPhone and read about 10 MB of txt files so far. (The 2001 triology, all Stainless Steelrat, the Red/Green/Blue Mars triology, a lot of Heinlein, the Ringworld triology)

I find the iDevice very easi to read on. Perhaps e-ink is even better.
Try Dolphin Browser !
I think more than "you'll break the web" the issue is that it's almost never the right choice to make when compared to using more traditional techniques (e.g. images or svgs). Also it won't work in older browsers.
If logging everyone reduces the powerful to those choices, they'll just figure out a way not to have themselves logged. Fast-track lines at the airport? Super PACs? Setting the price point really high for tracking-free versions of services through regulation or selective investment, and leaving the rest to advertising-supported life-quantization vendors for those same services?

Trying to trap people who have leverage in a bind is a losing proposition. You can't trap people in a bind unless you have leverage.
Yeah, and that's cross browser and available today, in contrast to some of the other CSS mentioned.
The Sun is not doughnut-shaped. The ITER fusion machine is conceptually flawed; the drawbacks are numerous: confinement time, plasma temperature, energy consumption, tritium breed, and there on. It is a lame that mainstream scientists think they are so smarter, but are unable to understand that electrostatic fusion machines are conceptually much better, much more energy-efficient and can be developed with much less money and in less time. http://youtu.be/ro5-QYqqxzM
What? The only thing with BSD it says is this:

> All of the open source stuff I work on is BSD licensed which means you can do with it whatever you want.

Nothing about the website is open source work. It says that if I make something open source it's BSD licensed. You can spot open source work because it comes with a license file that has an open source license in it. The website does not.
Don't get me started on the EU.... :-)
If 80 million sounds too less for this mission, let us assume it balloons to 500 million.
Even then look at the benefits it would bring. Make talented engineers/scientists stay in India and not migrate to places where 'more interesting' stuff is done. Check.
Inspire a whole generation of people to take up science and engineering and to dream of thinking big, and actually have the confidence of knowing their dreams can come true. Check.
Assorted scientific/industrial/capacity creation benefits. Check.
All this at the miserly sum of 0.025 percent of your GDP. I think it is a very wise investment.
Man, I remember reading his books non-stop. The cover image for this news story is actually the first Harry Harrison book I read, "The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted."

I hope somebody picks up the rights to turn these into movies.
It's only a matter of cutting the iPhone 4 LCD sheets larger. (And having a chipset that can power it more efficiently than the iPad 3.) Since it'll come out 1.5 to 2 years later, that's not far fetched.
Yeah, I was just objecting to the implicit (and quite possibly unintended) value judgment.
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The reality distortion field hidden processes
Thankfully not many people listen to those whack-jobs. Their share of the vote seems to be decreasing.
I think the backend won't shrink by any stretch, but the concerns will certainly change.

Instead of generating templates and managing interface state the server-side developer will be focused on cloud-based rendering, streaming, distributed parallel calculations, etc.
>The whole 64-bit Adobe CS for OS X debacle comes to mind, it took them about 5 years too long to transition from Carbon to Cocoa, even though it was clear from the very first OS X version that Carbon was going to be replaced and would never have a 64-bit version.

I think Adobe really believed they could strong-arm Apple on that. I think they were spoiled by Microsoft's dedication to backwards compatibility at all costs[1], and thought that surely it would hurt Apple more than Adobe to let PS languish. I think they were so sure of this, in fact, that they made few arrangements for the contingency that Apple might just call their bluff. So when that happened, they had an uphill battle to fight.

[1] This story comes to mind: http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/04/18/dont-build-apis/
I think it may help if you include this package:
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
Does that work?

Thanks for the feedback!
$100 apps, bibles, big-budget RPGs: The strange nature of Nigerian app market
With my team I use two products: Pivotal Tracker and Trello.

Pivotal is great for development projects. It talks to Github and Campfire, allows us to visually plan things, and has a great worfklow built in for moving stories through the development process. That said, it's not really well suited for either a) non-development projects such as system upgrades, server builds, research projects, etc or b) a steady stream of one-off fixes and tasks that don't tie back to a larger development effort. Small enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure work, and the like. I originally tried to squeeze all this into Pivotal but it's sort of a square peg/round hole scenario.

Trello, on the other hand, is great for all the other "stuff" my team has to do. I can have one board that shows me at a glance what everyone is working on (we put placeholder cards in Trello for projects that are being managed in Pivota - there's usually only one or two at any given time). It's very flexible and adapts well for various types of work. In a pinch, I could replace Pivotal with Trello, but I would lose out on all of the integrations with Github and Campfire, as well as the more structured story card format and the agile workflow. Combining the two gives us the best of both worlds.
Ahhh, it's a stealthy attempt to build a new Google Wave: (logo on their site) https://d233eq3e3p3cv0.cloudfront.net/fit/t/45/45/0*ojw7_5O9...
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I've looked at many of them including BaseCamp, Mavenlink, Pivotal, and we're using Asana. We also use Streak and Boomerang. I have not worked with Trello but will definitely be checking it out. These tools are all great but believe it or not, when I need to do something really quickly a Google doc spreadsheet does the job. We're a small team and need to be focused on getting great product out. Tools that require a lot of work are time sinks and without proper care and feeding they start to bloat with items that are dragged along week-to-week. Anyone get "reminder" emails with tasks that are open but are no longer relevant or just not closed out?
I'd say they are more indifferent than clueless. I've read that adobe makes about 5-10% of its revenue from flash. They can build html5 tools (see edge.adobe.com) and still retain their core business, and hence profits. I wouldn't be surprised if they have been removing resources from flash for years now.
Yes. It's easier to beg for forgiveness than to look before you leap. You just use your parameters regardless of types and let the exceptions fly.
True. Not caring about development methodologies doesn't seem like a better approach though.
Equally valid headline: "Windows Phone and Android are the only mobile operating systems with year over year growth" http://www.asymco.com/2012/08/15/american-exceptionalism/
Or to the internet in general.
This claim is pretty accurate. Since the standard isn't finalised yet it will be a while before the hardware is developed to make it widely used in mobile devices, as it's improbable that a software encoder could be made that uses little power.
H265 has some quite innovative features (over H264), for instance instead of dividing the picture into rows of macroblocks, it's divided into quadtrees, which allow the compression algorithms to make more use of spatial similarity.
Oh, very sad to hear this... The Stainless Steel Rat books were a great love of mine in school. Harrison is a great SF writer!
Just try visiting the page on iPad and zoom. You'll know.

(Hint: browser crash)
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My thoughts exactly. Are they trying to kill their own product? It seems to me that Android is one of the few platforms that would still welcome it.
Indeed. Even if I had, I doubt I would care to sign in just to post a comment.
Exactly. They didn't seem to mention its performance... If this problem has been tackled by traditional CPUs (like we do with F@H), then how did the quantum computer compare?
One would also hope that prosecutors would exercise discretion about prosecuting these cases, but while some might others certainly don't.

Draconian enforcement might be better in the long run, since the laws would get changed.
In Germany Bada phones are quite popular, you see a lot of people with Wave models.
Google is heavily pushing VP8, which is supposedly royalty free. I'd be incredibly impressed if Apple could make a hardware decoder/encoder for HEVC for their next iPhone (or whichever one comes after the standard is finalised), but we won't know until then :)
http://www.webmproject.org/tools/vp8-sdk/
I do love the difference between a marketing organization and standards organization.
Incorrect:

/*
* 1. Corrects text resizing oddly in IE 6/7 when body `font-size` is set using
* `em` units.
* 2. Prevents iOS text size adjust after orientation change, without disabling
* user zoom.
*/

html {
font-size: 100%; /* 1 */
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; /* 2 */
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; /* 2 */
}

Your statement would be true if it was setting -webkit-text-size-adjust:none, but 100% does as the comment says and only prevents resizing when changing orientations.
Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ
How many of those 10 million people were just people that read an article and went to go check it out, like myself, and don't actually plan on using it for an e-mail.

Then you have to factor in all of the people that were already using Hotmail.
>...by 2015, [video] is predicted to account for 90 percent of all network traffic.

So with this new standard, are they hoping to cut that down to 45%?
The evidence suggests business books are... about escapism, like a romance novel
Harry Harrison's novel "Make Room! Make Room!" was the basis for the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green.
With lots of pinch-and-zoom.
The article clearly states Windows Phone's growth was slower than Bada's, so how can you say Android and WP are the "only" mobile operating systems with YoY growth?

Plus, you should never trust Aymco's data. The charts look pretty and as if "they make sense", but the truth is they are always misleading in some way, from what I've noticed, much like Net Marketshare's charts on mobile browsers' "market share", which show iOS at 50% or 60% and Android at 20%, even though there are now about 400 million devices for both Android and iOS, so about equal in market share.
To be fair, especially the landing sequence (the only thing they couldn't really patch) was very well defined from the start. They knew exactly what the Rover had to do, when he had to do it and what steps were involved.*

Generally software just doesn't work that way. (But maybe that was that you implied with "some contexts". In that case, I agree with you)

* I'm not saying they weren't trying out things until they decided how to land the Rover, but when they wrote the software they had very clear requirements.
I don't think it's relevant at all.
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Pfft, thats not a retina display.
I think you meant to say that "acceptability changes based upon the agenda of the media reporting on these candidates."
Progress on Progress Bars: Reincarnation?
Just sayin - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/05/starting_later...
No, video quality will double instead.
well last time i talked to the chrome lead in munich, he absolute could not understand the need for something like nacl.
he was completely convinced that all computation should happen on google servers. that's actually quite worrying, imho.
Boo. I first came across these in the 2000AD versions, and then read the novels after.

http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages...
Facebook comments are crawled.
> the authors of frameworks and libraries still on Python 2 and without having concrete upgrade plans will have to either do something soon or others will take their space.

Do you know of anything new on PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) ? Or any similar library that might replace it for Python 3?
What's totally bizarre to me is that the Wave 3 is a really nice handset on the outside. It's made of out metal and glass, rather than the somewhat cheap-feeling plastic on the Galaxy series. Why some of the hardware choices on the Wave couldn't come over to Samsung's Android range is beyond me.
I'd say that's a good possibility, for now. Consider when Apple rolled out 1080p downloads - the filesizes were only slightly larger than for the previous 720p versions, representing quite an efficiency boost. Adopting H.265 would seem to be able to chop the sizes down.

However:

- tablets and phones are unlikely to be able to take advantage of H.265 until the requisite GPU support arrives. This may hold up widespread adoption for a year or two.

- for how long will the video arena remain at 1080p? I hear Sky (UK satellite broadcasting arm of the Murdoch empire) is trying to nudge toward 4K broadcasting.
Considering how prevalent abusive and wildly inaccurate automatic take downs are one must consider google itself is exploiting the process to obtain personal information. Google absolutely doesn't want you to remain anonymous it diminishethree value of their analitics.
I think they should provide more tools to the uploader so they can make informed choices and defend their rights. I fear google will avoid this this as google benifits from the abusive system.
There do exist people that want to use YouTube and Hulu on Linux, and that's hard to do without Flash.
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Question is how well peer-reviewed the code is before deployment. Facebook is handling a lot of personal data about their users. Security vulnerabilities may not harm Facebook as much as their users.
Does not seem like a minor thing to me and worthy wanting to leave the system. Emailing them worked for me last week. This behavior reminds me of an early ( now-defunct ) social network which upon a person's registration would attempt a login to their email ( hotmail etc ) using the password ( not encrypted ) that the person used to register on the social network. Upon gaining access to the person's email the system would copy all the email addresses from the archive and begin spamming those users with invitations to the social network. As many naive people do use the same password for many services this attack would often succeed.

Quora ( among others ) seem to be taking advantage of our current naive attitudes about social networking, privacy and sharing. It might seem extreem to compare the email hack to these sharing hacks right now, but I think in time we will come to see that these two infringements have more in common than not.

Gratuitous plug for the Freedom Box Project: http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
Show HN: Beelink, The next revolution in your address book?
I thought this was really cool, but couldn't find a repo for this anywhere. Instead of relying on his demo to exist forever, I've moved all his code(minus analytics and sharing) into a github repo here: https://github.com/jonpaul/avgrund-demo

Agreed, really cool concept, but a bit slow. I like where his head is at, though, very cool.
I could see a feature were the server side will just be a PaaS-like service, where only the client side code is needed anymore. Database persistence, handling of static assets and all that will be done by the platform, and most people won't know how it works or care.

For example Meteor goes into this direction, though there is still some server-side code involved, most of it is shared with the client, including database access.

Of course we still have long way to go to really abstract this out this far, but I think it will be possible in the future.
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If you haven't done so already, I would highly-recommend taking a look at Basho Bench, our open source benchmarking tool for Riak.

http://wiki.basho.com/Benchmarking.html
https://github.com/basho/basho_bench
I used to see it, then one day it vanished.
And... how is this different than SSLStrip? Except maybe that SSLStrip also prints out the HTTP form values as the data passes through.
My version of TLDR:

Article is good-written irony-style novel about relation between developers and "best practices" out there. Author is making a high-level (a bit sarcastic) review of bunch of methodologies like NASA strategies, TDD, BDD, DDD, Toyota Kaban, Scrum etc.

There's no point just reading TLDR, go and read the article itself.
Surely the difference between a functioning democracy and a totalitarian regime is trapping people in a bind (otherwise called one law for all).

I am just saying that yet another threat to functioning democracies is coming round the corner, and weirdly, speeding cameras are the canary in the mine.

Wait till the iris scanner that lets you in the office building also does blood alcohol / cannabis testing.
"People were saying precisely the same thing about marijuana having to be legalized by now because so many people in the 1970s were using it. What happened?"

We elected a criminal into the presidency.
Apple has used 'thinner' and 'lighter' as a differentiator across all of its production lines for years. This won't change because their customers use cases.
We homeschool, and I've always tried to present my kids with programming concepts. Scratch, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Squeak, and a few others. My oldest has shown intermittent interest, but he's had plenty of exposure. He will definitely be able to say "I started programming when I was 8" - and I assume that when/if he catches the bug, he will know where to look and what/who to ask.
People Still Believe In Nokia
Sure:

http://i46.tinypic.com/25qu9a9.png
http://i47.tinypic.com/2hhq3ae.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/2j2xrm0.jpg

The images compressed a little on upload, so it actually looks even worse than in the image. The contrast between the sharp text everywhere else and the fuzzy Swing window is jarring.
But in dealing with language here, there are subtle differences in connotation between the two options.

We're not dealing in language, formal symbols exist to remove the ambiguity of language.

Plain and simple, the symbols used don't mean what the poster thinks they mean.
Wildly off-topic: the google io video (last one on the page) has subtitles appearing in 'real time' on a screen as the guys are presenting. It seems to be autogenerated, as the text is very close to what they're saying and I noticed one small phonetic error, but they are much more accurate than any other auto-subtitles that I've come across. Anyone know what's being used to generate these?
Actually with this new standard they are hoping to cut it down to 81.8%
Samsung's Exynos 5 Dual chip supports hardware decoding for VP8, and it should land in some phone and tablet by the end of the year.
The interesting thing is that the BBC were happy to get iPlayer working on the iPhone originally. That didn't have any meaningful DRM, at least nothing that couldn't be done to a similar degree on Android.

I suspect that this is because iPhones are "cool" and someone high up just demanded that it should happen.
Creator here...

Thanks for the feedback and the cool demo. writeLaTeX is also something I hacked together for my own use, but I have been adding to it gradually over the last year.

That's a fair point about trust. I guess I could package it up as a VM for people to run on their own servers, if there was enough demand, but I think centralised hosting has many benefits, especially for collaborative work.
This seems quite similar to SparkleShare: http://sparkleshare.org/

Edit: Oops, SparkleShare is mentioned on the page. Looks like this will work better with larger files. He does mention that SparkleShare is a GUI and not 'just a folder', although in my experience it is 'just a folder', like Dropbox.
You missed an option:
Prosecute the political enemy of whoever is in charge
I want to take on of your points and go on a bit of a tangent about meetings. Specifically, this one: "They are as small as possible, typically including just 2 or 3 people."

I think everybody's goal should be to make meetings as small as possible. If you don't know why everybody there is there, then either they're redundant, superfluous, or lost.

One thing I like to stress in my meetings that I run is that everybody knows why they are there. Even if that's just to listen. Too often, people think that because they were invited to a meeting, they need to say something. This is what generates hour-long bullshit meetings. Sometimes, you just need them to shut up, listen, and take notes.

I've found that if, when you set the meeting, you send a note to them after the invite with, "Hey, I know you're busy, but I'd like you to listen in on this so you understand what's being discussed. I'll get your feedback on it after the meeting." Works wonders and keeps meetings short.
Actually, yes, it means exactly that.

neilk incorrectly used a comparison operator to try and point out the logical fallacy known as affirming the consequent. But thats not what was said.

At least thats what I think is happening here. I can't be sure because instead of using logic symbols they used symbols that are ambiguous at best.
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it took them about 5 years too long to transition from Carbon to Cocoa, even though it was clear from the very first OS X version that Carbon was going to be replaced and would never have a 64-bit version.

That wasn't entirely their fault. Apple actually did promise a 64-bit Carbon and included it in developer previews, but yanked it shortly before Leopard shipped.