skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little off topic, but a fault with django-compressor is that if you ever want to use jinja2, it only supports generating the compressed versions on the fly rather than via manage.py - I made a nasty hack that lets us do that but it wasn't easy.

An even worse problem is that you won't be able to transition to using async dependency loading for your JavaScript since there's no way to get the filenames of each compressed bundle that you'll need to pass to whatever lib you're using.

These problems don't apply much when you're just prototyping something, but it turned out to be an awful hole we dug ourselves into when we ran into severe performance bottlenecks with Django's template rendering and serving all our JS on page load.
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Yeah, they talk about using it for runners but how quickly does it fill? Would it require a full marathon length to fill a single water bottle? It may still be practical even if that's the case. I'd like to know more.
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Apart from publishers such as O'Reilly , Baen and Pragmatic what are some good places to buy DRM free ebooks from ?
Good stuff. You need to get this into Bootstrap.
I'd rather get hit in the crotch than use Firefox over X forwarding. Slow on top of slow. There is some interesting work with NX and NX-like solutions that make it much more tolerable.
So to be fair here, there were two issues at play:

1. Oracle's patents that Google supposedly violated. (And thank God most of those stupid patents were actually invalidated)

2. Oracle's copyright on its APIs that Google also supposedly violated. The API discussion involved the copyright part of the case, and here the question "What is an API" does become central, especially considering that the judge decided in the end that APIs are not copyrightable - when such a decision is made it'd better be crystal clear what is meant by an "API"
Even in the cities not listed there, it is certainly in the air. People talk about start-ups routinely now. A lot of younger people are involved in start-ups or know someone who is.
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Yeah if you believe it is truly better why not try and get it built into bootstrap?
Well, that's precisely the problem with Rochester. It's not the place, it's the people.

That's why organizations such as this exist:

http://coworkingrochester.com/
http://interlockroc.org/
http://refreshrochester.org/
http://rochestermade.com/

If you don't like something about where you live, either change it, or move. Complaining about it for the sake of complaining won't change anything.
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HTC Droid DNA Now AVAILABLE WITH VERIZON FOR $199
Don't call it "a new OS" if it's really just a bunch of programs running on Linux. Maybe I'm research-biased, but the OS is the kernel, and whatever userspace you put on top is gravy.
It looks good, but the animation is really slow on an iPad 3
Cool stuff. Will use it on my next project!
I also grew up in Northern Virginia. I now live in NYC.

I hadn't considered the broader effects of this sort of migration, until I recently read "The Big Sort", a brilliant book written in 2009 that describes how like-minded people are "sorting" themselves through migration. One way to quantify this effect is to look at the number of "landslide counties", i.e. the number of counties in the US that preferred a presidential candidate by more than 20%.

You can see a map showing how these landslide counties have sharply increased here (the top map is from 1976, and the bottom map is from 2004): http://www.thebigsort.com/maps.php

What's happening is that voters are moving with their feet to be with more like-minded people. This skews many counties towards a particular direction (either Republican or Democrat). Further, as counties tip one way, the minority viewpoint gets suppressed in just the way you described (e.g. if you're a Democrat, why bother voting for Governor in Texas).

One thing that surprised me in the book is that not every state is homogenous. The author lives in Austin, so he spends a lot of time talking about how all the liberals move to Austin (and conservatives move out). So even in the bastion of Republican Texas, there is a liberal enclave.

Looking at Des Moines, it seems that Des Moines is a similar liberal enclave. For instance, in 2008, Des Moines, Iowa voted for Obama over McCain with a 23% margin: http://www.city-data.com/elec08/DES-MOINES-IOWA.html

So it seems like there are a fair number of liberal enclaves in conservative states. To give another example,"The urban core of Kansas City consistently votes Democratic in Presidential elections": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri#National_...

So even if it's true that "Silicon X'es can only happen in liberal pro-intellectual areas", there seem to be enough liberal enclaves in conservative states that Silicon X'es could possibly arise.
That's a good point, and you're probably right about folks who haven't lived in large cities like that. Everyone's experience is different, I guess I was just expressing my own personal experience against the article.
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You're not maintaining good relations to ask a recruiter to give you $500.. you're communicating that you have entitlement issues.
Here's a possible helpful adjustment, if a recruiter is serious about representing you, ask them to write up a contract guaranteeing that they will donate $500 from the placement fee to the charity of your choice. If they fail to do so within 30 days of your starting date, then they are liable for the entire fee generated from your placement to be sent to the same charity. By doing it this way, you still know if they are serious, it's not about you getting money, and it helps society.
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preach! Haha. Turns out there's more than one way to hang yourself with this stuff. The problems we ran into were similar.
It seems it is less of a problem to patent something physical (like an engine). In modern times there are few physical things that do not involve some kind of software, so it makes sense (although I'd still prefer not to have this at all) to patent the thing as a whole.
My understanding was that the Panama canal is mostly used for international shipping and that your NY -> LA use case would not be as common as East Asia -> Europe. Do you have the data to back this up?
I think we're not going to agree on what constitutes a change in principles by the time this thread leaves the homepage, so I've tried to narrow the scenario, which I guess leaves it open to being seen as a strawman.

But consider the gist of MLK's situation:

1) His primary goal was to create equality among whites and minorities. I'll agree that he never wavered from that. In the same way, every major figure on either side of the abortion debate, at every point in the continuum, will argue that they've never wavered for their respect for human life. The problem is getting to that big goal, and that path almost always requires wavering.

2) In support of my point, the idea of desegregation was so big that organizing a campaign against it devolved into a messy unorganized effort (current-day example: Occupy Wall street). When he tried to campaign against ending desegregation in Albany, he had very little success. He underestimated the widespread opposition to such a sea change.

3) In Birmingham, he changed his strategy to attack obvious injustices that moderately conservative whites could back. Yes, changing the bus-seating policy is a form of desegregation, but it was possible to change that policy and still have Jim Crow laws still be the law of the land.

So if you were an observer of the civil rights movement at that time, yet outside of King's inner circle, what could you possibly conclude except that from Albany to Birmingham, MLK has moderated his stance against desegregation? Certainly, as the audience that MLK wanted to reach -- the white status quo -- you could get on board with treating blacks more decently, as long as they didn't go to the same schools your kids do.

It's only after the successes of these limited campaigns that King himself could be seen as a successful leader of the movement. His strategy to fight small battles as to be more palatable to segregation-supporting whites was critical...and it was politics. Politics is about compromise and choosing battles wisely. The problem with your argument is that you don't see that one man's "choosing battles and running away to fight another day" is another man's "spineless flip-flopping appeasement", which MLK certainly was accused of being. It's only through the passage of time, when all those events are compressed into a convenient explanatory narrative, that you can think of it as MLK Jr. being a constant, unwavering political force.
> You will never, ever get a single recruiter pay $500 to see your CV.

Good, then. I have never found a job through a recruiter, always through word of mouth.
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Blog post posted to http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2012/11/speculating-about-hyper... and with any luck there will be discussion about my version of the idea at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815665.
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chase - this is great :) if you're up for it, we would be happy to donate some iOS time to the mobile app.
Thanks. I'll check it out, if I find time to care about the American economy.
A recruiter improves hist relation with his client for every good C.V. he sends. My time is not worthless, why should I let a recruiter profit from it?
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My friend saw the 10 minute Hobbit footage and said the exact same thing.

He felt like he was looking at a play of the Hobbit--watching costumed people walk around a set. He couldn't get it to shift into that "watching a movie" place in his mind.

But you're right--it might be that 10 minutes is just not long enough to adjust. I'm skeptical but I do want to try it.
If a small company wants to survive against the big guys, they've got to exploit market inefficiencies. It always surprises me when someone insists that technology start ups can only exist in a small part of California or Massachusetts where they're competing directly for every kind of resource (people, space, etc.) with the richest companies in the world. There are huge universities all over the midwest that produce tens of thousands of engineering and computer science grads every year. In my opinion, any one of the Big Ten college towns would be a great place to build a company to last. Plenty of grads would stay close to family in the midwest if they could and it's easy to find cheap space to work. You'd miss certain parts of the startup infrastructure like specialized lawyers and ridiculous numbers of venture capitalists, but you'd also cut down on distractions from the hype machine.
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I would appreciate feedback on www.schoolnotez.com

Think of it as the ultimate digital notebook. It is built on HTML5...Play with the graphing calculator:) or the sims (think virtual labs).
Hmm air can carry a few grams of water per kG of air [1] and 1kG of water is one liter, so if you can pull 1g of water out of each kG of air you need 1,000 kG of air. Stole this from wikianswers: "Each mole has a volume of 22.4 liters and a mass of 28.97g/mol at STP, therefore a cubic meter of air is 1.293 kg at 0o Celsius on the coast. An average mass of 1.2kg per m3 at room temperature and standard pressure is often used as a rule of thumb." so that would suggest about a thousand cubic meters of air flowing past this bottle's extractor area to get one liter of water out of the air.

No idea how long that would take though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Relative_Humidity.png
I'll take "it's" and "its".
I've tried django-pipeline and it seemed great when I started, but ultimately I had to abandon it because I discovered it would've taken an inordinate amount of work to get it compressing the CSS/JS assets efficiently. Out of the box (just following the documentations suggestions) the django-pipeline compressed JS was 5-10X the size that I get after django-compressor is done with it (and with compressor I didn't have to do any tuning or optimization beyond basic configuration).

At any rate, I'm happy that you were able to get it working, Mike! That is really neat. Do you think you'll write a blog post about how you did it?
Google's use of patents with motorola was defensive, going after those who are suing android. Google never used patents offensively in the whole company history.
Laptop fingerprint scanners usually work by just storing the windows password in the registry (under reversible encryption). I'm not sure that's really a security enhancement.

Example: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/windows-passwords-ex...
Chrome popped this up from the torrentfreak page:

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As a lobbyist, I seek politicians that share my values (e.g. protect voter privacy).

The biggest challenge with lobbying is education. That whole reality-based thing. I've only lobbied on issues that nearly everyone is in complete agreement over (e.g. fair and accurate vote count), but the details were in dispute (e.g. touch screens are secure, reliable vs all forms of electronic voting are bad).

In the case of patents, the original US law states their purpose is to foster innovation.

The current game winner's defend the status quo making the argument that the patent system is working. Stallman and other advocates are arguing that patents hurt innovation.

Same values. Different policies.
Submission title is accurate.
I agree the rearrangement of the word order is confusing, but I can also see that Musk could have been saying "it is not an evacuated tunnel". (In fact this is the default interpretation I would probably take...) Listening to the original quote could help us, but ultimately there's no way to know if he's talking about tunnels in general or just evacuated ones.
I've been working on this roadmap idea for some months, but when I saw the Meteor devs' roadmap on Trello yesterday, I thought I oughta put a proof-of-concept up within a few hours' work, mostly a fork of the Telescope app, to validate my idea.

To eat my own dog food, I want to have Leakmap's own meta roadmap up soon, so users get to decide what's more important next.
> Richard stallman has always been eccentric and unwavering in his stand on politics around software.
Somehow, people find this odd, wrong, and or bad, and I dont understand it.

"Eccentric" is synonymous with "odd". It would be irrational if people somehow found him eccentric and not odd.
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Maybe this sling is the "loop" in Hyperloop.
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"That would be an argument against science"

No. Great science is done by people who are more like Newton and Tesla, not people like you and Edison.
No, NTSC on a CRT is drawn one line at a time (it is physically scanned by the electron gun). But TV is not NTSC any more and CRTs are dead/dying.

Your HD flatscreen (plasma or LCD) does not draw one line at a time. HD is decoded into a framebuffer and that framebuffer is drawn on the screen in some hardware specific way. It may be rectangles, or the whole screen, or different vertical/horizontal slices (with very high refresh rates so you don't see flicker).

Edit: Moveover, "film" is almost always digital nowadays (I don't think I've seen a non-digital projection in the last 5 years) which means that the picture gets to the screen via some form of LCD projection. So your home TV and film are basically the same at this point. You would've been right 10 years ago, though.
I think the fault runs even deeper than that. The idea that "if lots of ignorant people work together and find common ground to agree on, something intelligent will pop out" seems to be a cornerstone that we have built our society upon. Two ignorant legal teams duking it out is not the recipe for a sensible outcome; the only thing that happens when one of them wins is that they can convince themselves that the victory must mean something profound.

The only hope for the system that I have seen so far is surprisingly intelligent and sensible judges injecting sanity into the system.. but that is hardly something to rely upon.
Coding Standards don't solve every problem and should thereby not be implemented?

The truly evil thing about coding standards is what they do to your heart, your team’s heart. They are a little message that you are not good enough. You cannot quite be trusted. Without adult supervision, you’ll mess up.

No, they simply are conventions making it easier to communicate and understand each others code.

Please go write some code instead. You know who you are.

Yup.
Google Maps (including the navigation function) on my Android phone. Saved me numerous times.
Info I've found so far on rate of water capture:

(MIT, 2011) "In some field tests, fog harvesters have captured one liter of water (roughly a quart) per one square meter of mesh, per day. Chhatre and his colleagues are conducting laboratory tests to improve the water collection ability of existing meshes."

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/fog-harvesting-0421.html
Hey guys, it's the author here.

Working on this site, I really wanted to try all of the modern best practices and try to make something really awesome. I hope you all like it!
I would be glad to take your questions / feedback :)
I think you consider the writer of the virus, whereas 46bit means the writer of the article
Awesome site man. I'm learning PHP so that I can make my own personalized news site like that. Can you give a short summary of how you built it? Or what technologies I'd need to use to create my own news aggregator?
I've been looking for additional resources to learn more about how to create nice visualizations, especially using D3. It seems to me that with D3 there is a lot of power, but this comes at the expense of a proportionately steep learning curve.

I've also found http://gis.stackexchange.com to be an excellent resource for finding techniques and getting help with visualizations programming.
This isn't something that FCC regulations would easily catch. I'm assuming that the USB connector is properly grounded when the hard drive was being tested and no device was connected when the laptop was being tested.
Yeah, this. I've been using the Chromebook as a mobile dev device since the week it came out (lucky enough to get in on the original Play orders) and the primary frustrating thing about this box is that an inserted SD card sticks almost halfway out of the case.

I was hoping the device would allow sdcards to be fully inserted as is the norm on most PC laptops, so I could just insert a hefty 32GB card and treat it as almost internal storage. But nope, Samsung can't not take a design idea from Apple, even when it is one of their occasionally bad ones.
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!(evacuated && tunnel) == (!evacuated && tunnel)

Actually, this is true when evacuated is false and tunnel is true.
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I've been using this (as well as helping give feedback on it after I developed my own and realized this one is better). This is by far a much better solution because it handles responsive resizing, z-index and smaller devices a lot better.

Issues have been opened referencing this modal and there has been no response from @mdo or @fat on it other than to say that they were working on it themselves for a future version.
My family is all from South western VA (250+ years), I grew up in Northern VA, I still live in Northern VA. I agree with you 100% and it breaks my heart to say so. I would love nothing more than to move back down there to raise my family, but my talents would just be wasted.

I think this, much more so than "greed" is what is leading to the growing income inequality in America. The intelligent people are living with intelligent people and having intelligent babies, who grow up to have intelligent babies with the intelligent kids down the street.

I'm still not sure if this is a bug or a feature.
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This is a pretty good one: http://ocdevel.com/blog/nodejs-frameworks-comparison
I think a modal that can launch another modal is by definition no longer a modal.
> install a camera that takes a shot when you take possession of the car, and when you relinquish it.

Such a system would be good to have anyway as part of a dashcam. One facing forward, and a fish-eye facing the rear window and also capturing the interior of the car. I am hoping that car insurance companies will start offering discounts for cars with installed dashcams.

A tangent of a tangent now, this would be great (though creepy) for public restrooms. Given that there's a physical method, like positioning on the door, that prohibits it from seeing anything while the stall door is closed or locked, I think it would cut down on the seriously depraved messes people leave behind when they know they can get away with it.
This may be a stupid question, but if the device requires power in order to move air over the water-collecting surface, would it work without power if it were outside in a breeze? Or is there something about the air flow in terms of its characteristics or location in/on the device that requires a manufactured flow?
I've been looking for a better modal for Bootstrap for a couple of days now, this is perfect!
I think he has a point. Rather than making coding standards where your organization adopts a "best practice", just try to write clean, understandable code. Folks who can mess up, will mess up: we've all seen unreadable "Hungarian Notation" code, we've all seen weird conventions (like all instance variables are prefixed with "my"). They don't help.
...Or, in the case of rootkits:

> "Oh, this will never happen to me!" -everyone, long after they were hacked
Well, I mis-clicked and downvoted this - my apologies.
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go write some code, don't write blogs.. then.. work with some other guys and theeeennn let's talk about coding standards
I would never write such a story about something like "don't use conventions"...

I didn't read the entire article because I am not a novel fan
But your interpretation is much, much weaker than "a not evacuated tunnel".

If it's not a tunnel, it's still not an <i>evacuated</i> tunnel.

But if it's "a not evacuated tunnel", then it must be a tunnel.

Edit: Actually, I think with the article "an" between the "not" and the adjective, there is no way in English grammar to interpret the "not" to negate only the adjective instead of the whole adjective+noun "evacuated tunnel". Unfortunately I'm neither a native speaker, nor a linguist, so I cannot back it up with anything but feeling for the language and the fact that this is how I always see it used ;).
this is indeed THE BEST web service that I've ever seen EVER. @chaseadam17 Do you take advantage of mobile apps/fb/twitter/etc.?

One thing I realized about your service. It's sustainable. Resources are NEVER depleted. I have a lot respect for Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, but according to them they intend on spending ALL their money on charity in their lifetime. So that means the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be non-existent 100 years from now. Watsi is a gamechanger imo.
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