skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as they do not accept pledges by credit card, only PayPal, and their PayPal account is registered as a 501(c)3. (It looks like this campaign accepts credit cards, which would imply the answer is no.)

http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/20517411-how-to-check-i...

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I got a red box, chrome 21 on win 7.
Will services built using App.net be better for users? I think it's up to them.
That's too flimsy a reason for labelling a product as "going downhill", in my opinion - but to each his/her own. You do realize that VS2010 has way more functionality than VS6 - debugging parallel apps/attaching to native, non-native processes and being able to step through both varieties of calls/code completion and snippets etc?
You are not understanding the nature of the problem. I have not only used ZMQ extensively in distributed systems but have modified the internals for some purposes. The problem is intrinsic to its design.

Robust, high-throughput distributed systems are built around the concept of Nash equilibria. To ensure that, there is an optimal ordering to the set of possible message operations over those queues. It gives them a priority and you attempt to schedule operations in approximately optimal order. The ordering is not fixed; every message operation on a queue may have side effects that alters the total ordering of message operations for any process associated with that queue. Consequently, the schedule of operations over the entire set of message queues must be adaptively and dynamically imposed in order to approximate a good Nash behavior.

In real software, this is usually just a simple state machine that adaptively prioritizes operations based on the aggregate state of those messages and queues. Also, we usually approximate ideal scheduling for performance reasons (and good approximations are usually good enough). Priority modifying side effects propagate throughout the distributed system; local modifications in priority provide stabilizing negative feedback to the global behavior. (See also: greedy routing optimization problems etc. This is a pretty complex area of mathematics.)

Consequently, there are some popular design choices for network server systems that tend to work poorly for distributed systems, either because they prevent the creation of an effective operation scheduler or because they hinder the propagation of negative feedback that prevents pathological interactions.

Giving every socket its own OS thread or similar is right out. That lets the operating system decide when operations are scheduled and the operating system has no concept of prioritization in the sense that is important for distributed systems. Trying to use thread interlocks to impose an order leads to pathological context-switching storms. High-performance schedulers are cooperative. (You can design a schedule with multiple threads that executes with minimal interlocks, but it is not trivial.)

Unlimited buffering and hard-limited buffering are also poor abstractions because they obscure the state of a queue. Robust schedulers often prioritize queues based in part on how it reduces total buffering. For some good designs, you can prove the existence of a reasonable upper bound on the total buffers required for a node or queue with no hard limits on any particular buffer. It is an elegant side effect of scheduling interactions in a distributed system but requires a scheduler that is aware of many aspects of buffer state.

In principle, it should be possible to design a message queue abstraction designed for the requirements of distributed systems. It would not be as simple as ZMQ though. ZMQ is not designed to support that use case, so in cases where I am building a non-trivial distributed system protocol, we build on top of epoll directly. It is not a knock against ZMQ, it was designed for other purposes.
PostgreSQL is Engine Yard's New Default
And will it run under Linux (wine) - http://www.go-oo.org/~fridrich/msvc6-linux.png

:)
For what it's worth, the target of this ad won his election. I'd like to think that an attack ad this stupid had something to do with that...

http://www.tampabay.com/news/brandes-wins-state-senate-distr...
Keep telling yourself that. Just because we're not the audience of BCC or AR doesn't mean you're not selling something to us.
I am unable to reply to my sibling poster, but I believe what you're saying is that having a hideous and unreadable syntax that forces the use of typedefs just so others can understand what you have written is a sign of deep, unfixable badness. And I agree.
The article mentions potentially using LPRs to catch illegal immigrants -- how? Wouldn't this fall under the umbrella of just catching unregistered vehicles? You need a driver's license to register a car, and you need a birth certificate to get a driver's license.
Why would Sweden be more likely to extradite to the USA than the UK? Sweden is neutral whereas the UK is a USA ally.
I suppose someone should update this question then, because it looks like to me the limit is 255...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4354921/css-is-there-a-li...
According to this comment:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...

DefCon is a party.
Or maybe he is fascinated by Tesla's life and is willing to use his own publicity powers to help a related cause?
But no, that doesn't make any sense.
I strongly advise anyone who isn't familiar with English law (so, you know, most people here) to actually read what lawyers have to say about the matter. There is a very good legal analysis here:

http://www.headoflegal.com/2012/08/15/julian-assange-can-the...

Whenever I see a story here about Julian Assange I just sigh. I don't understand how on the one hand people can be absolutely appalled when stories about sexism at conference, in the workplace, etc etc come along and then take the sort of attitudes we see here.

Sweden would like to question Julian Assange about allegations made be two women. These women have a right to make these accusations, and they have a right for the state to investigate them. Nobody could possibly deny this.

Maybe, just maybe this is a big fit up from people 'out to get' Assange. But you also have to concede that both the simplest explanation, and one not beyond the realms of possibility, is that these women are genuinely making these accusations. They may not be true, but the truthfulness of the allegations is outside the scope of an extradition.

Most people accused of what Assange does do not have the luxury of fleeing to a foreign embassy. I don't see why it is so controversial that Assange should go and face these allegations. Supporters of Assange really can't have their cake and eat it.
Let us know when it comes out! We'd love to give it a read.
Ownership increases the value of products
Is the price of the business trip in anyway linked to certain political 'disagreements' in Cairo which happens to be one of the locations.
Without charges (i.e. being placed under arrest) he has every right to freedom of movement. Ergo he can answer (or not answer) questions wherever he damn well pleases. If that's so inconvenient for law enforcement, charge the fucker and arrest him.

I don't understand why it's gotten to this point- you charge and arrest him ... or GTFO.
> They've been increasingly good.

They've been great and I got most of them too, including this one, but it's not better than the first Android bundle with Osmos and the World of Goo. Osmos alone is spectacularly good, it's the best indie game I've ever played -- the idea, the mechanics, the music... it's incredible (no, I don't know the author but I bought it three times).
The problem it fixes is that "fashionable" people don't like wearing bike helmets. They don't like how helmets look, mess with their hair, whatever.

So if even one person who won't wear a bike helmet uses this instead, consider it a success.
Are you being sarcastic? Low quality comment nonetheless.

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To parent of his comment, what do you mean exactly? Firebug already lets you change code and see the results immediately.
If it's propaganda then explain the reality of it, don't just claim victory through superior hidden knowledge and wander off.

In regards to your second point, I deal with smug bastards on a day to day basis. Smug isn't so much about how someone looks as it is about how they look at you.
I see a price of $31.47
At this point you are the product Patrick. The second you decide to monetize the patio11 brand (maybe by writing a book?) you're going to print money.

PS: write a book.
Cool idea, but does it make sense to put a museum 70 miles outside NYC on the far end of Long Island? How are people going to get to this museum? It's not near anything.
Ecuador's justification is that they believe there is a chance that the USA is planning to extradite him from Sweeden and then charge him with a crime which is punishable by death. Ecuador believes that a death sentence is a violation of Assange's human rights.
Developers will need to be paid somehow. Absent revenue sharing directly from App.net, that means it will have to come directly from users or from ads. Unfortunately, users usually choose ads.
red box on Safari 6.0 on OS X Mountain Lion
Are you looking at the Kindle version? Are you in the US? Might be a US-only price.
That's pretty cool of MA. They seem to have provided pretty quick turnaround and resolution, once they became aware of the situation and its possible repercussions on innovative companies operating in MA.

As companies see quick response to something like this they might say, "gee, MA responded quickly and found quick resolution to an emergent issue; they are receptive to new ways of doing business, I think I'll do business in their state" as opposed to a possible recalcitrant alternative, which could have happened ---letting the process drag on...
As a huge fan of many big-budget TV shows and movies, I am not inclined to gloat about the death of the content industry until there's a viable replacement business model.

It's easy to criticize the content industry for their abusive practices and outdated business model, and point to something like the direct sales approach, which has had encouraging successes in books and music. But it's wholly unproven on the budgetary scale of, say, Game of Thrones, Lost, or The Avengers. And if content is distributed freely (through lending or otherwise), then it may be that the creators cannot recoup their costs, and this content simply won't be made.

It's possible that a Kickstarter-like model will emerge, but that's far from guaranteed, and I observe that Kickstarter projects themselves operate on a "scarcity emulator." For example, projects often provide artificially exclusive digital content at certain funding levels.

It may come down to a conscious choice to accept some limitations on our personal digital property rights in order to enable something we can all enjoy. We make that same tradeoff in the meat world all the time: you cannot block a river, sunlight, a view, a storm drain, etc. even though they're on your property. I would prefer limiting my property rights to that content over that content disappearing altogether.

Lastly, pirates are no allies of personal property rights. Pirates distribute unambiguously stolen content (for example, the X-Men Origins workprint) just as readily as merely copyrighted content.
Sexual assualt charges have ludicrously low conviction rates (rapes especially), they are usually a he said, she said affair unless there's a significant degree of violence. Going down a peso route would be a lot easier, lower burden of proof... And evidence that can be fabricated without bringing a victim or witness to court.

Secondly, if the us wanted assagne they'd have him, shifting to Ecuador is probably a lot less safe than hanging around an EU country IMO

Thirdly, he had his chance to go back to Sweden, he ran. He had his chance in the uk, he ran. He's not showing him self to be of good character if the acts of abuse of process he claims to stand against are being carried out by himself

Guilty or not, he's got questions to ask. Running away isn't going to make his issues disappear

And lets not forget, sexual assault is a serious allegation, and if you had any sense about you, someone lying about using protection would really piss you off. Apart from the fact it means putting a woman at risk of having to look after a brat for 18 years plus incubation, there's also the risk of disease, complication through pregnancy and common flipping curtosey.
He was arrested, and his extradition was ordered. Then he sought asylum with the Ecuadorian embassy. That's what this is about.
This seems to be taken from this answer on a question about HTML/CSS specificity

http://stackoverflow.com/a/11934505/950912
That's nonsense. You only have to look at Roman Polanski, who fled rape charges to a foreign jurisdiction and the amount of press generated over that.

The women accusing Assange have a fundamental human right to due process. It is extremely unusual for someone to deny that process by fleeing into a foreign embassy. Wikileaks adds to the press, but it is noteworthy regardless of that.
Is the SSLiverse a Safe Place?
I see $31.99 in Australia. The interesting thing though is that the link has a referral code in it. Maybe the submitter is trying to make some money on it with some bait and switch
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Firebug doesn't sync the changes back to the original code.
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I can't help but hate the guy. I just can't help myself there.
No dude, it’s fucking easy being a guy, twice so if you’re white, three times so if you’re straight. In fact, that’s so true it has come to be known as The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

You cannot argue that “it’s tough being a guy” and then say you weren’t comparing it to being a woman. What the hell else were you comparing it to, being a Tyrannosaurus? However tough you may think your position in life is, chances are pretty high you’re living it on The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.
Wow, I remember when FRTWSTAR3 were <$7k, now they're about $20k. (post-9/11)
> He’s a pompous ass, pure and simple. No conspiracy required.

I don't get where this sentiment comes from - care to explain?
Yes! And if you're so worried about how "technical" you'll sound when asking for feedback (which you may or may not get - nobody's entitled to give it), you also miss out on the potential to get some data points to refine your approach in the future. Sounds like a good opportunity to repeat that same old mistake all over again and write it off as "I just wasn't flirty enough." Not the problem, never was the problem.
> Sweden would like to question Julian Assange about allegations made be two women. These women have a right to make these accusations, and they have a right for the state to investigate them. Nobody could possibly deny this.

You may have missed this bit in the article, at the very end:

"An offer to the Swedish authorities by Ecuador for investigators to interview Mr Assange inside the embassy, was rejected."
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00572.html
> roads are for cars, not bikes

I agree roads are mostly designed with only cars in mind.

That sounds like a bug, not a feature.
Why would you try to visit the entire world if you only have 2 weeks of vacation available? At best you would have time to visit a handful of landmarks per city before getting right back on a plane. That's a complete waste of money.
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If all they want to do is question him, they can easily do that without extraditing him. That said, I don't know the details of the case nor any of the evidence. For me it looks like this could have been easily solved using technology, but someone is not willing, and that makes it smell like politics.
Which is of course a highly suspect claim to make, since both Sweden and the UK do not extradite for crimes that are subject to the death penalty.
Note that the arrest warrant does explicitly claim rape, though it does so in a very vague manner.

Someone pointed out at the Guardian's site last night that the warrant presented to the UK courts actually is worded in a very contorted way to claim an allegation on rape on the basis that one of the women was in a "state of sleep" without actually stating whether she was asleep or half asleep and whether or not there's a claim that she was not consenting or unable to consent.

If she was claiming to be "half asleep", which is what has been stated previously in the Swedish press, and aware of what was going on, she might very well have been in position to legally consent, and there's to my knowledge not been a claim in Sweden that this in itself is what gave rise to rape claims, but that the rape claim was predicated on him not using a condom in that instance, despite her previous insistence that he had to.

It could be just an innocent bad wording, but given the rest of this case, and how this curiously misrepresents the claims presented in Sweden, this does seem rather odd. It would have been trivial to precisely express the claims presented in Sweden in unambiguous terms in far fewer words than they used.
Yeh, but McKinnon may well be mentally ill. Look at the Natwest Bankers, the guys with the battery for other cases where it happened fairly quickly
it's a feature not a bug. lol
Under no circumstance will I keep photos natively in the iPhoto application/folder. What I do is go to the advanced tab in iPhoto and tell iPhoto NOT to pull a copy into it's directory. Simply unload your photos into the filesystem somewhere and drop that folder in iPhoto. Keeping your photos beholden to iPhoto is just asking for trouble.
From an article about the charges [1] "...one of the women alleges that Assange behaved threateningly with her and held her down to prevent her from reaching for a condom. He did end up wearing one, but she thinks he ripped it and deliberately ejaculated inside her. He also later rubbed up against her with his pants off, she says, against her will. The other alleged victim claims that she struggled with Assange over the condom all night, had consensual sex with him when he finally put it on, and then woke up later in the night to find Assange having sex with her, without her consent and without a condom. In my personal and professional experience with rape, these kinds of allegations are both credible and common."

These are definitely allegations of sexual assault, and the described behavior treads perilously close to what everyone would agree is rape.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/12/the_p...
Part of the issue though is that Assange has volunteered to speak to Swedish authorities to answer these accusations but they have refused to do this.
I know IDEA (IntelliJ, RubyMine, etc.) has an browser-tied debugger as well; haven't made much use of either for web dev so can't give a fair opinion on how they compare.
Microsoft doesn't allow passwords greater than 16 characters in length
+1 gdilla, I completely agree with you. It also gives context behind who the commenter so I can make judgement whether to trust the author or not. This is one of the primary reasons I like use Quora (over Yahoo Answers w/ fake avatars) and read the replies to questions because I feel like that it's a real person with a real identity who is talking. Sites that use FB create effective barriers that bridges the gap between the offline and online world.
According to the CSS 2.1 spec, “Concatenating the four numbers a-b-c-d (in a number system with a large base) gives the specificity.” Base-256 is the obvious way to encode each digit efficiently, and I suppose all browsers that do this are still in compliance with the spec.
Actually a really cool way of storing passwords in plain sight.

EDIT: Though if you were really secure, you shouldn't be typing your passwords into a third party website in plaintext. Alas, I'll have to write my own.
It's Tesla's old laboratory, so it has something to do with Tesla, and isn't just a building. I'm sure people interested will go out of their way to get to this museum.
So? Sweden is well within their rights to refuse that offer. They have an outstanding, legitimate European Arrest Warrant that was subject to many appeals, all of which were denied. I do not blame them for refusing that offer: are you suggesting if they did interview Assange in the embassy and decided they wanted to charge him he would just walk out happily? I doubt it.
I agree, let's move the building to Central Park! Will you start the Kickstarter campaign or shall I?

PS: Long Island is the most populated island in the US, it has 7.6 million inhabitants. Also, Brookhaven is in the middle of the island (close to Fire Island), not the far end. The Hamptons are way farther out, and yet plenty of people manage to find their way there.
Are the Swedish police acting in a manner representative of a suspect wanted for questioning, known to be in a foreign country? Does Sweden regularly request extradition of people in similar circumstances?
Is this really a novelty in the states?

In the UK most police forces have traffic units with ANPR cameras on their vehicles, hooked up to the various national databases to provide details of the vehicle, whether it is insured, MOT'd (tested), stolen, has any markers on it (previously linked to drugs, firearms etc.) and so on.
I'm a little surprised by the HN crowd's desire to turn this into some kind of Michael Bay movie with diplomatic explosions left, right and centre: the phrase "act of war" is being dropped around as if some kind of violent confrontation would ever actually occur between Ecuador and the United Kingdom based on this. This is simply not the case; at most, it would be loosely unfair of the British government to 'bully' Ecuador into its bidding and they would protest as harshly as they could (not very). This is not a fair system; international relations is a system wherein "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"[1].

The Government here has advised that under through a sound legal process it may revoke the legal status of an instituion within and on its territory. Is this right? Well, it's a little unusual...alternatively, ignoring the interests and desires of Sweden, the European Union and the United States would be still further unwise for the British. Britain has its interests, and it must do what serves them best.

In this case, doing something less than usual is worth it: there's virtually no downside to upsetting a small Latin American country in the process. The British government just won't care. It's not fair, but for better or worse, that's that.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides