skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I take your point. And really, I didn't intend to have a political argument, just to identify the political dimensions of statistics.

(Of course, the Israeli-Arab conflict doesn't encapsulate the 'entire history' of the Jewish/Palestinian-Arab conflict either, some of whose bloodiest events happened before 1948. But that doesn't alter its magnitude.)
Another part of the global anti-cybermoney-publicity-campagne that we can see right now starting is a study of the European Central Bank on "Virtual Currency Schemes", Oct. 2012.

Read it:
http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes20121...

Edit: BTW, if you are interested in international monetary policy you can find many important publications on the ECB site:

http://www.ecb.int/pub/html/index.en.html
Let's start with "support for finally in try/catch blocks". In 2012 this is a new feature?
> THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

Interesting thing to say given that php.net itself runs a development version of PHP.
"We also dropped support for Windows XP and 2003."

Well, that sucks. And everybody was laughing/bitching/both at MS for dropping support for them with VS 2012.
That is, in fact, a valid email address (in the sense that it will pass all complying validations).
if the second blaat via DNS is resolvable, it will work fine.

A company I consulted at had a mail server that was internal only, and via their DNS server, they had resolvable names for department1, department2 etc...

They used to send messages to addresses like user@department1, user@department2 etc, and as each resolved fine and it worked very well.
>> contract law and dispute resolution pre-dates the idea of a police force by hundreds of years.

So does centrally controlled currency...
That's fine if you know a machine called blaat.
Because the domain name doesn't need to be fully-qualified; it can just be a machine name on the local network.

To illustrate this: "user@localhost" is a valid email address.

All these overly complex regular expressions miss a major point: even if the e-mail address is valid according to the RFC it doesn't guarantee that:

* The domain name exists.
* The user exists at the specified domain.
* All of the SMTP servers between you and the recipient adhere exactly to the RFC.
* The user actually owns or has access to the e-mail account in question.

Whenever I need to validate an e-mail address, I just use something simple like ".+@.+" to ensure sanity and move on to more pressing matters. As a friend once pointed out to me: it's usually far more damaging to reject valid e-mail addresses than to accept invalid ones; be liberal in what you accept and verify the e-mail address by sending them a confirmation mail.
you can't send mail to a TLD

Not only is it possible, when I used to work for a company that administered a TLD, I did just that, sending and receiving email with the address t@TLD.
s/Bitcoin/cash/ and all the negative arguments about propensity for criminal activity are quite amusing.
If by "default" you mean "voluntary default", perhaps yes, in the context of the debt ceiling debate.

However, since the US government cannot be forced into default - after all, the US government runs the USD system, and all its obligations are denominated in USD - this is all just political posturing.

It's kind of depressing how effective this posturing is. It's a testament to the terrible state of public education about fundamentals of our monetary systems.
My apologies, then. It was my mistake.
Full rated torque at 0 rpm.
Maybe it'll make you happier to know that I can't run it on Chrome because of driver issues I assume.

On a more serious note, WebGL is pretty new and this is a demo.
This is trippy and awesome :))

Here's hoping we see a lot more interactive experiences soon!

If anyone is inspired to try to build something of their own using Three.js, we're working on tools that will help. More here:
http://verold.com/blog/2012/11/6/threejs-needs-a-cms
That's not an employee handbook, it's a company: 1) giving itself a blowjob, and 2) recruiting (a certain demographic).
There is a middle ground ... I have had success using an approach like the one found in this Python library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/validate_email

It performs regex validation, and if that passes, tries to get the SMTP server to validate the user's presence. Quite useful for when a user might fat-finger their username in the address.

So, for compliant mail servers, sending an email without verifying receipt via some confirmation token is no more reliable than this method (if it will falsely validate the user, it will probably falsely digest the message as well).
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> HTML / CSS: You should know all of this, but back-end developers generally don't have to do most of the heavy lifting here. It's very easy to hire someone to turn your PSD's into HTML / CSS and then the back-end devs can take it from there.

In an ideal world, yes. Unfortunately, you can often end up with HTML templates and CSS stylesheets that might fit the bill visually but simply aren't fit for purpose in other ways. As developers we need to consider factors such as the behaviour of the page and maintainability of the system as a whole. A badly designed stylesheet may be brittle and resistant to change or may even do things in a way that is incompatible with the frameworks and tools that you are using, and many designers aren't even aware that such constraints exist, let alone what problems they may cause.

For example, I was once given a CSS stylesheet to work with (for which the client had paid quite a large sum of money) that declared <span> as a block-level element. This caused no end of chaos when we had to use it along with ASP.NET validator controls on a WebForms page, which of course makes liberal use of <span> tags for inline validation messages.
Value is just what people think something is worth, it's a shared illusion, not an intrinsic property of ... anything much.

Having a static, fixed supply and independence from central control makes something valuable to you, not so much to me.

>If the supply of BTC was infinite, it would have essentially no value

But there are many other circumstances that could result in BTC having no value, regardless of scarcity. For instance if people stopped using it, at all. There would be no value in being the only one with bitcoin, regardless of how scarce they are.

edit: Probably not the best example, but either way, value is a perception.
Yes, especially websites should accept more than [a-zA-Z0-9] for the user part. This would allow filtering emails. E.g. gmails can tag emails this way: john.doe+spam@gmail.com
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Summary? Why is SSL not needed for the site? (could I MITM some JavaScript that does something bad?)

The domain is registered via an American provider, using a proxy service. This seems strange.
> It's very easy to hire someone to turn your PSD's into HTML / CSS

My experience has been the opposite. Why? Because understanding how the site's likely to evolve, which items are one-off HTML usage, which need to become generalised components and which CSS is going to be reapplied in similar but slightly different situations through the other X00 pages of the site requires insight and skill.

You can blame the business for not providing a detailed enough spec to the HTML/CSS developer, but having tried providing loads of detail once, it just didn't work.

Bad developer, bad spec - whatever, I do it myself now through necessity to deliver a good job, not through choice.
> The disclaimer clearly shows you realize they have different purposes. So why the antagonistic tone?

As stated in the disclaimer itself; because people use backbone as if it will help them manage the complexities of creating rich client side UI, when I actually think it's a terrible choice for that.

> If your issue is really as stated that people use Backbone for the wrong things and to highlight the benefits of data binding for views, then address that, instead of writing some inane comparison blasting Backbone for not providing features you the at the end admit isn't its focus.

I want to grab people's attention that they're doing it wrong. It's like when you slap someone in the face to wake them up.

> It's a bit as if I were to review your blog post as musical theatre and then at the end admit I knew all along it was actually a technical blog post but that I'd decided to slate it for lack of singing anyway.

Well, you're evaluating my article as if it was meant to be an objective non-biased review of "pros and cons". It's not. It's an opinionated piece of text that comes from personal frustrations.

Though for the record, I actually respect and admire the author of backbone, after all, he's also the author of coffee-script, which is just awesome.
A parser would likely be shorter and easier to understand.
I won't make the horrors accessible. It will merely serve as a live propaganda feed mediating and obscuring the suffering happening on the ground.
Windows is really a second class citizen in the PHP world, I imagine that there are very few live deployments of PHP on Windows servers.
I feel the same way as you. I won't be applying anymore: this was the first time I applied to an incubator. I built a startup before (that succeeded) and we got a lot of rejections, but thing is they were pretty much immediate. They didn't feel so bad, no anticipation was built, there were similar opportunities to try.

YC is unique, it gets emotional and the anticipation drains the very energy you need to succeed.

Good luck,
Any idea why typing in 568 Broadway NY gives you an inside view of the Armani Exchange store across the street from the actual correct address? This works on both qsview and showmystreet...so I assume there's an error in the Google database.
For the lost 'tough innovation opportunity' - yes, too bad.

But those same artists can now create a hundred or thousand individually different Wookies or Tie Fighters or many fully animated Na'avi [or Gungan].

The creativity is not lost - it's now massively leveraged.
There doesn't need to be a dot on the right side.
I don't know much about the patents but is grammer of the claim is considered or not as in the claim it is referring to finger and if i implement the same animation which is done by using two or more fingers, am i infringing the patent.
Yeah, I got 1 question from PG, which really got my hopes up, because I wondered, "why would he ask this if he wasn't interested?" This was especially so since his question implied interest.

A real bummer. I wouldn't have been so heartbroken if it hadn't been for this message, which really got my expectations up. It's my own fault though.
> MVCs like Rails/Django if you can't push that stuff to the client

Uh, how exactly would you push your API to the client?
Snake moving across multiple devices
A cross-browser snake working with pywebsockets.
(The python implementation of websockets)

Each new client extends the area of the snake on the right side.
Ok why do foreign governments also hold Euros, British Pounds, Chinese Yuan, Japanese Yen and Canadian Dollars as reserve currency? You're tinfoil hatting bit too hard here man.
Did you read that reference all the way through? It's not at all convincing, IMHO. In nearly all of his experiments you need a gain factor of at least 5-10x before the high frequency range starts to damage the tweeter. He starts with analysing artificial waveforms, and the effect actually lessens as he tries it on more real-world examples. My conclusion: don't play HIA's UFO Detection System too loud? Which no sane person would do, anyway.

That aside, I've always perceived some type of limiter-effect whenever I turn up VLC over 100%. Which is not clipping. I never really considered whether this limiting happened in VLC, the OS or my soundcard. It's a small laptop so no fancy soundcards either.

So, checking VLC's preferences, under Advanced>Audio there's an option called "peak protection", which is on by default. Sounds like something that does a type of limiting?

But I may be wrong, I just checked, (apparently my VLC only seems to go up to 200% by default?), but with a sufficiently loud sample, I could definitely hear clipping, instead of limiting.

But, just like your reference says, at the moment you've applied 5x clipping that's pretty extreme. You might as well have a 1-bit waveform at that point because it'll be either up or down. It won't sound like the original any more, at all. If you play that to your expensive speakers at high power, and think it's a good idea to do that for a while, then I really don't think it's VLC's job to protect you from yourself. The only possible excuse might be someone that has a long playlist of quiet sounds, amped up to 400%, leaves and isn't there to correct it when a forgotten loud track starts up. But that scenario is somewhat far-fetched, somewhat stupid and at 400%+clipping still not certain to damage the tweeters much more than loud sounds might do in general, clipped or not.
Like the idea of RSS feeds aggregator. Created a Pinterest styled mobile news app myself. Do you plan on adding images ?
It strikes me that several of the languages that gained popularity at the turn of the century are having a bit of an identity crisis in the face of their increasing irrelevance. This is especially evident in PHP, but I'm beginning to feel the same about Java in the face of JDK8.

With the new breed of popular languages (Ruby, Python, Scala, Clojure etc.) heavily influenced by functional programming, it seems as if the incumbents are desperate to remain relevant by adding comparable features with little consideration for their impact on the language as a whole.

For me, PHP has become (quite some time ago actually) a "kitchen sink" of a language; if another language has it, it's a fair bet that PHP will try to add it at some point in the future.
Thanks for your comment. Yeah, it really really sucked the wind out of me. It's not going to stop us from going forth, but it is a momentary pause to catch our breath and get back up from the floor.
While I have no quibble with the economics presented here, it is very important not to overlook the potential negative externalities immigrants create by voting. The data suggests that immigrants often enter the US and vote in ways that make the US more like their homeland:

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-gop-can-teach...

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-hispanics-are-...

Whether this particular instance is a good thing or not depends on your perspective (and is really not something to discuss here), but it is important to recognize that immigrants can do a lot of good/bad in the voting booth.

Unfortunately, political externalities are a hugely overlooked aspect of this issue.
If you pull tweets into your site using JavaScript and the JSON API endpoints, it WILL BREAK next March when Twitter turn off v1 of the API. You need to move to oAuth before then. This library and plugin does the heavy lifting for you.
With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add the start menu back?
I find it pretty entertaining that this RegEx is so big that visual patterns emerged. In my browser there are clear diagonal lines of "@" symbols across the RegEx. If it looks like ASCII art, your RegEx is probably too big.
It's a bit harder for someone to take over your computer to create cash.

It's pretty hard for someone to hijack your wallet with a Trojan and if they do get into your bank account that way then the police and the bank might take an interest.

I know this is a meme in the BTC community - any criticism of BTC as a payment method is met with the claim that "it's just like cash" and any criticism of weaknesses of BTC as a currency is met with the claim that "it's a payment method and a commodity". To me it pretty much fails at all of the above.

There's no doubting it's good for purchasing contraband though.
Anonymous warns Israel: 'No one cuts Internet on our watch'
It is using the standard Google Maps API (version 3).
I've found that the Django admin will usually only get you so far. After a certain point you really have to break out of the built-in change_list's etc to efficiently get what you need.

I still use the admin as a wrapper but for a lot of the views I've written my own handling.
this is actually hilarious
As per html5 spec the recommended regex is:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$/

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/states-of-the-type-attribute.html...
You have to start download before the browser has finished loading the mp3.
They're running a patch level update in production, not a development preview.

There are obviously going to be substantially fewer changes between 5.4.8 - 5.4.9 and 5.4.8 - 5.5.0
Compared to the Federal Reserve that creates money out of thin air, whenever they want, and dilute the value of the currency in the same time? That doesn't worry you at all?
I don't know; maybe you have existing Clojure code that you need to use?
The only? Greece may be collapsing. To say that other Euro countries are also collapsing would at this point be hyperbole.
I'm not PHP's biggest fan, but you have a strange metric for success.
>Given that Bitcoin records all transactions for posterity, and given the ongoing rise of "big data" analytics, I'd say Bitcoin is likely to be harder, in the long run, to use for shenanigans. A government currency has forms in which transactions create no paper trail. Bitcoin does not.

I did some research on anonymity (mentioned in that document); I find it hard to project how private Bitcoin will be in future.

Our impression was that currently many users were careless, and that many identities (in the form of publicly disclosed Bitcoin address ownerships) were linked to meaningful transactions; such that with basic network analysis it was possible to passively observe semantically meaningful transactions, like "the person who owns this twitter account, which seems to be a real person, donated to wikileaks" or "this account which is a public organisation donation address is linked to an address that transferred bitcoins to that other organisation".

We speculated that if Bitcoin became widely used, without changes in usage patterns, then a large e-commerce site (someone like Amazon accepting payments in Bitcoin - leaving questions of scalability aside) could passively observe much of what was going on on the network, because they had so many known identity-address pairs to start with (e.g. shipping addresses).

But the other argument is that its probably relatively easy for usage patterns to change.

I think you have to assume that end-users will always be careless. We see this in almost every security setting. So it doesn't matter whether its possible for sophisticated users to guard their privacy, if you don't get privacy by default.

But people could build overlay systems which are backed onto Bitcoin. A lot of the wallet services are like this already, and are not readily amenable to the blockchain level analysis (although of course you then you are trusting your wallet service with your privacy and money).
Alternatively core or client developers could add protocol-level or low-level Bitcoin mixing (again, with an overhead cost, so there might be scalability concerns), or develop client interfaces which encourage more privacy by default.

Its too early to tell how observable/analyzable it'll be in steady state, if it builds traction. I think its possible the system will end up much more observable, for casual users, than cash or even credit cards currently are, but I don't think that's inevitable.
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I am one. The regexp performs better than the parser, and works in my existing perl code, and has a lot of visibility now, so it's a no brainer for me to use it.
Totally agreed, but I think it's worth pointing out that you could technically "own" the Bitcoin "printing press" if the $BTC distribution is skewed drastically to a particular majority (who could then corrupt the protocol/subsequent block chains). This is why initially, many people were told to use different mining pools or exchanges, as I recall there were a few majority cases a year or so ago (even Mt. Gox still handles > 50% of trading volume every day [1]).

That being said, assuming that everyone plays fair, uses common sense, and keeps the Bitcoins distributed fairly evenly, there shouldn't be a problem (after all, that is how Bitcoins were designed).

[1] Bitcoin Charts, "Exchange volume distribution." http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/volumepie/
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One minor visual thing:

The Bootstrap Navlist .well has some inline style to remove the padding, so the blue highlight goes from side to side.

padding: 8px 0px;

It's a bit weird that it's not in the actual Bootstrap code, but that's what they have in their doc example (to be exact, they don't show that in the example code listing, but if you examine the example it has that code).
It's kind of interesting that we've almost developed an expectation of JavaScript being simple. It's easy to forget what a pain it was to write cross-browser JS even 5 years ago. I like this progress.
Induction motors are good for some things, bad for others

It has all to do with speed x torque (x power) behaviour, and how it's controlled.

To change the speed on an induction motor is complicated, as opposed to changing the speed in a DC motor, where you just change voltage supplied
Be careful as validating email addresses like that will quickly get you grey or blacklisted by various spam cops. The method works well for a few addresses, but you can't use it to validate thousands of addresses at the same time. I learnt that the hard way. :)
I doubt that, I know of a few companies running PHP on Azure because they like it and others running PHP on Windows servers because their IT dept refuses to support Linux.
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That's true, although it seems like a lot of those apps might not use MapKit in a way where its use is a problem, right? Apple's maps probably works okay if you already know where you're trying to go. It's location and directions and such that are the problem.
UN's ITU wants to kill the idea of net neutrality
Couldn't the US emigrants correspondingly change the way other countries work?

Really what we're saying here is that governments would no longer have a monopoly on administration, since people who didn't like their government could move freely to another jurisdiction. Since I didn't actively choose my government -- I just happened to be born here -- I think this is a great thing.
They have recently made a lot of noise about incompatible Android derived OS in China.

Like the Alibaba OS Aliyun. The name election is interesting. Yun is mandarin for cloud, which according to the news it is a main feature of this android bastard child, saving your data to the cloud like iCloud for iOS

http://www.zdnet.com/cn/alibabas-aliyun-os-hopes-to-be-andro...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57513559-94/google-alibabas...

Just my two cents
I sort of think I want a dumb phone and tablet more than I want a smartphone. It would be nice if the tablet(or other nearby computers) could ask the dumb phone for authentication.

Not a solution for everybody, but it would be nice if it were at least a possibility.
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I don't ever want to consult an employee handbook. I especially don't want someone to tell me to RTFEH.

At Pivotal we have an e-mail alias for making any kind of request that will get routed to the right person and dealt with/responded to quickly. No guesswork required, no flipping through an employee handbook.

There's also a person everyone gets assigned that they can go to at any time with questions about how to enter their time, what to do about a bad situation at work, or whatever else they want to talk about.

There should always be a person available, not (just) an employee handbook.
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