skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the tragedy of the commons point, but I think it might be a smaller piece of the puzzle than industrial farming. Pretty much every chicken that is raised industrially is given regular doses of antibiotics to "prevent" rapid spreading of disease through large chicken stocks. Which would happen easily since the chickens are kept in such close quarters. Just about any non organic chicken you buy has antibiotic resistant bacteria living on it.
Bread that lasts mould-free for 60 days could cut food waste
Responsive Typography in Web Design
Responsive web typography is something quite new, so not many people know about it. The techniques used are still in development and you can’t find much about it on the internet.
ummm ... so, well, if you really want to be loved and be genuinely good, then think about open sourcing. interesting pattern i'm observing among the new (younger) generation of developers ... many are implicitly not testing IE, and some are opening rejecting IE support ... and I don't think it was a question of performance as it was the values that go into the browser and the community behind it.

Here's an example from earlier this year.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/01/bootstrapped-startup-saves-...
From what I've read. You're probably right. They're worried that mutations make it hard to lock down the exact properties of any given phage treatment, but that would be a risk I'd be willing to take. Especially since they're in wide use in some countries with no horror stories that I've heard.
You don't have to go so far as to outlaw DRM. Books are usually exempt from sale taxes and VAT, right? Make it so only e-books without DRM protection have the same exemption.
Portlandia. zzz.
Windows PC Sales Down 21% Since Windows 8 Launch
sigh. my wantrepreneurial dreams are dashed ...
> Assuming it is correct to say that antibiotic-resistant bacteria evolve in response to the (over-/ab-)use of antibiotics -

Keep in mind that this class of antibiotic is always administered by IV, so if there is overuse or abuse, it is by doctors who likely already believe in evolution.
Yeah, well, but x-type only requires a 2D canvas and that has worked for ages now, even without hw acceleration. WebGL is still a very different beast that can work, or not, or only crappily, depending on your browser, OS, graphics card and driver. I guess the percentage of those who don't have or dislike Flash is smaller than that of those who run into WebGL problems.
India's Startup Village has 1GBps Internet and it’s Not Google Fiber
Dollar-Less Iranians Discover Virtual Currency - Bitcoin
OpenSuse seems like a good one.It uses KDE by default.
Interesting idea, but the name maybe should be nudged in a different direction. When I saw the title, I expected this to be the next evolution of those creepy Japanese full body printed cushions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_pillow
Should charge by the word read perhaps? Though I'd get charged extra at night when I wrestle with the same paragraph repeatedly before passing out.
Not really; as they say in the post itself, "Facebook’s business is different than Amazons and the impact on their business will be different."

Amazon's core business is selling stuff to customers: additional latency might occasionally turn away a customer. In Amazon's scale, that's a million-dollar opportunity.

Facebook's core business is having users click on ads: at first, latency's role there might seem insignificant, but it is an interesting intellectual exercise to figure out whether it really matters in Facebook's scale.

Even more interesting would be if you had some data to show precisely how much.
I'm a xmonad user and I use tmux. I agree that they both provide similar benefits, but the killer benefit for tmux is the persistence. I can have n sessions open and it's still easy to switch between them. Just disconnect the old one and attach to the new one. With xmonad you would either need to have many topic spaces (and recompile config when you want new one) or close the old ones
Lovely tutorials.
Everything is normal..(also have AB+ and ghostery) worth mentioning that on checking it is v20 of chromium (ie from the software center), v23 is apparently the current stable chrome version.. are you using that?
Good point. Not sure if it's still applicable, but wasn't it such that you couldn't carry your iTunes library over international borders?

If it's DRM'd then I'd expect to pay far less for it. I've got a Kindle, and I won't buy any books for it - because I feel so uneasy about where I stand on this. Which is a shame really. Add to that, that paper copies are somehow cheaper a lot of the time, and that I can pass /sell them on, after reading. Prevents me from becoming spineless.
A whole extra line above the working prompt? That just seems unnecessary.

If you need that info at any particular moment, make a command. I used to have one called wi (short for Where am I?) that threw out similar info. But displayed constantly? Yuck!
I'm pretty sure that KSR mentions the possibility of some of his characters finding a chunk of Yucatan on Mars - so its perhaps not completely crazy...

Some impact events appear to have been a lot larger (and therefore presumably a lot more energy) than Chicxulub - e.g. the Vredefort Crater in South Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredefort_crater
Not only is it Flash, but it requires the keyboard as well.
Anecdote time!

Last week I got a missed call. Called back, they guy asks me who I am, and then he remembers -- "Oh! I remember why I called -- I work for AT&T and I accidentally disabled a phone on your account. I'm really sorry." It was my brother's phone and we'd have to get a new SIM card at an AT&T store because the rep couldn't reactivate it remotely. He gave me his AT&T ID, something like "kiloB" plus some numbers.

The AT&T store in our area doesn't carry SIM cards, so we had to order one from them and it took about a week to arrive. Meanwhile my brother had no phone and no voicemail.

What he didn't tell us was that he had also mistakenly added a phone to our account (used by a stranger) and which did not have a data or text plan - the stranger didn't know this, and we were billed for his data and texts.

They refunded my account eighty dollars to cover the texts, data, and some inconvenience, but what the fuck.
"business plan" file type:pdf
"business plan" file type:doc
"security policy" file type:pdf -site:.edu
> Why do people always go back to analogies to physical objects/scenarios when discussing digital content?

Because it's hilarious, just look at them! See it's exactly like when you try to fit many clowns into a tiny car, and you know you could fit in just one more, if only you could remove the steering wheel to make room. Except it's got a steering wheel lock. Now in a traditional car, one of the clowns would hand you the key, but with DRM, that clown is a robot and it's stuck behind all the other ones, just out of your reach.

See how that works? Now it's your turn. For instance you could try arguing my analogy is flawed because in the EU, most cars are even tinier.
Windows 8 fails to revive falling PC sales
Google Hacker (Userscript)
Sad are the times when running your idle desktop environment with less than 400MB RAM usage is considered an achievement.
It's worth pointing out that "apt-get" is not what the typical user will be using, and hasn't been for many years.

The typical user will open the software centre GUI, or just press Windows and start typing a package name or search term.
It was obvious.
The world of PC's is fading and nothing can be done to revive it.
As noted elsewhere in this thread, a stack-based design typically produces more compact bytecode. Compactness was a concern for us because of the size of FB's PHP code base. Also, generally speaking a stack-based design tends to be easier to deal with when working to get a prototype VM up and running quickly.

Many of the advantages of register-based designs (ability to optimize by rewriting the program at the bytecode level, ability to write faster interpreters, ability to map bytecode registers to physical registers, etc.) weren't particularly attractive to us because we knew we were going to build an x64 JIT that did its own analysis and optimization to take advantage of type information observed at run time.

Thus, we drafted a stack-based design for HipHop bytecode. It captured PHP's semantics correctly and happened to fit in fairly well with PHP's evaluation order, so we ran with it and here we are.
Ack! There should be a new line between each of those search strings.
This comment confused me on first reading. In Australia, it's very much common that you bring your own bed (and other furniture) with you from place to place. (You can get furnished apartments, but they're much less common, at least in Sydney.)

Are you in the US, or somewhere else?
Since Google has also confirmed that Syria is offline now, we should spread the word about the telecomix dialup project: http://dialup.telecomix.org/

How could the information on that page be spread within Syria? SMS, MMS, Phone, Fax, Mail?
People really really want a Lumia 920?
It look like Mozilla is considering JPEG XR support:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/2012-November-26
International phone access in Syria is abysmal though. I've been there and to call my parents in neighbouring Lebanon would sometimes take me ~20 attempts to get a successful phone call through. It almost never worked in less than 5 attempts. My hunch is that they artificially limit the number of simultaneous international phone calls so that they can more easily monitor all of them.

Further corroborating that theory, when we first got there, we were told by Syrian friends never to discuss anything that might be possibly misconstrued as political over the phone and especially international calls. I was there when the trouble started(I eventually left around June of 2011, some 3 months later) and during that time I'd have friends/family call to check up on me and I could never give any status updates about what was happening just that my surrounding area was calm and that I was fine.

TL;DR; I would guess that international dialup, if you even managed to keep it up for any length of time given the difficulty of calling international would quickly flag you as "suspicious" as these things are heavily monitored.
Time Warner CEO Reacts To YouTube's Massive $100 Million Bet On Original Content
Awesome!!!!
Loved to see a gigantic difference engine work.
Would like to give this a try, but I don't use Windows. Should it work on Linux? I imagine a lot of early adopters of such a system would not be using Windows...
Seems like it solves the cuddling problems but creates a whole new how-to-have-sex problem, I can imagine a bunch of positions would be made rather awkward by this mattress.
For the printers I've tried OS X and Linux on, OS X have required digging through the manufacturers website for driver downloads, while Ubuntu recognised the printers immediately.
One of the last videos out of Syria before it went offline [graphic warning]
Being a little disillusioned with Adobe tools, and assembling a game dev enviroment on Linux, I am trying to setup some of my game art workflow using Gimp/Inkscape/Blender/other.

What I'm hoping to acchieve is have a bunch of scripts in Python (as all those listed apps are conveniently scripted with it) to speed up the asset generation, and possibly explore some of the design aspects achievable through procedural methods, as designers using Adobe tools do have a slight tendency to be uniform in their output.

Many of the methods in these articles may well be in part scripted, for instance http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.in/2012_02_01_archiv...
Google + Twitter launch Speak2Tweet - where vms are automatically tweeted
Im not a expert but I think the V8 compiles methods that contain controlflow even in the basic compiler.
Dust, and dust removal, and dust prevention, present risks to old books.

(http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/what-we-do/what-we-protect/c...)

(http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/servlet/file/store5/item3780...)

Some oppressive regimes will confiscate some books. I don't know what happens to that book afterwards.
> What is Syria's cellular data infrastructure like?

Well, there are 2 cellular providers. One is completely state owned and called "Syriatel" and the other is MTN(http://www.mtn.com/). Though MTN is extremely heavily regulated by the state.

Also, Syria enforces a web filter(similar though not as sophisticated as china's) which also affects browsing over the cellular data network. So even cellular providers eventually go through some choke point which is state-owned so that the filter can be applied.

In other words, if the state wants to cut off internet, cell isn't going to save you.

> USB is a client-server protocol. It probably wouldn't do too well over a carrier pigeon.

I think he meant literally sending a USB thumbdrive via a carrier pigeon. See this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8007897/Carrier-p...
I know it's not really relevant to the app you built, but the "galaxy/space effect" on those buttons is gorgeous. Well done.
Not at all. As long as you know the ones you'll be using a lot (food, water, thank you, how much, etc.) you'll be more than fine. Honestly, all you need is body language. I actually have a couple of Korean friends whom I whent out to eat with and without us having a common language. This was back when I knew very little mandarin.

Book your flight and go. Hit me up if you need anything!
For those of us who aren't raging anti capitalists, it's fairly obvious that something can have artistic merit and be designed to promote something. If you have an actual argument to the contrary that extends beyond "The fuck?", it'd be great to hear it. Quoting a comedian is not really an argument.
A nice and democratic one, they will just take the oil, don't worry ;)
I assume the backend is not on github? At least I couldn't find it. If that's the case I find the title misleading as the code that does the analytics work isn't shared.
I meant as in you get a new perspective after all that you experience here. You're right though, no right or wrong here. Cheers!
Not the OP, but in the UK(well, London at least) it's very common to have furnished apartments and not to lug your furniture every time you move.

Access to many apartments and houses in London is very restricted. You'd have to take your furniture apart to get it through the door and up the staircases.

That said, a mattress will fold and bend round corners easily, so I don't think this is a big issue if you're renting. (Getting rid of the landlord-provided mattress may be a bigger problem in my experience)
I've always found Photoshop difficult to draw in, and haven't really enjoyed drawing on a computer since Deluxe Paint. However, Inkscape (a program that I've not seen before) looks great, and I will be trying out the tutorial. Thanks.

I'm also tempted to say we should all post our helicopter drawings!
Thank my brother, he's the author! :)
I think there is a project of that sort going on, there was a guy from Facebook at the jvm language summit this year.
Japan Overtakes US to Become Top Country for Google Play Revenues
Well, we hope this is enough...
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/Windows-Store-and-the-...
To be fair, comparison between Inkscape and Photoshop is not really an appropriate one, as one is a raster and other vector based tool. It's usually Gimp vs Photoshop and Inkscape vs Illustrator.
Non-profits have a charter to be innovators
Indian Railways website uses an algorithm to separate male & female passengers.
I wouldn't read much into it. When HP started selling Stratasys 3-D printers it got the same reaction as this. They were also only sold in a couple European countries. It had nothing to do with broadband and everything to do with a VP from Europe thinking it would be a good idea. The experiment fizzled out after poor results.
JHERE - A Simple But Powerful Map API As A jQuery/Zepto.js Plugin
Oh man, this is the guy who made emogame and emogame 2. Loved those games!
Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad
Foreign governments make it very hard for Chinese citizens to travel abroad (not to mention their own government doing the same thing to them, once they rise to a certain level). Solution? Build replicas of the things so they can see them in China instead.
If I leave some of the thorns on, I tend to get more replies

I take issue with both your points and with you. I had written up a fairly thorough response, but I'm not interested in talking to someone who is basically trolling for attention. If you don't think your points are interesting enough to discuss on their merits, I guess it's a valid strategy to inject a bunch of extraneous flamebait, but you can hardly expect to be taken seriously for complaining that people address your flamebait presentation instead of your weak argument.
The Python Software Foundation always struck me as a bit similar.
I reflect on that Bill Hicks rant occasionally as I get older and wiser.

It was stirring and idealistic when I was in my 20's.

However over the years my instinctive distrust of the world of commerce diminishes as I realise that humans live, swim and breath in commerce. It was here before art-with-a-capital-A and it will outlive it.

The other thing to remember is that art-with-a-capital-A was largely an invention of the Romantic movement. Artist-as-lone-hero and all that. It's not an eternal truth and in fact it creates a fictional view of the Artist that I distrust more over time.
I was tempted to post it too!
The actual analytics work is done by the Python scripts which are open-source. See https://github.com/bitdeli or sign up to Bitdeli where you can see them in action.

The backend takes care of the plumbing: receiving and persisting data, scheduling scripts, managing computation nodes etc.
Please, fix your CSS for mobile use. It's impossible to read because, if I zoom, the sidebar gets bigger too
I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
Still way too complex, simplicity means subscribing to the ed school of prompts: neither `$` nor `#`, just `?` when the previous command returned a non-zero status.
Good advise. If you can at all stay out of a hospital, the better your chances of avoiding these highly selected bugs. It makes sense that feeders are nursing homes or establishments that have some palliative care, as many patients there have somewhat weakened immune systems, whether from age related illnesses or otherwise, and the prescription of antibiotics is, as it is in many other scenarios, excessive. [1]

Stay as strong and as healthy as you can, and condition your immune system as best you can is good advise.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226092810.ht...
As much as there is an aesthetic link between the berlin sound and early dubstep, the croydon lot weren't listening to lots of basic channel and stuff at the time.

The UK scene has its own independent subbass heritage. People in the london scene at least aren't generally that aware of what comes out of europe, especially back in the web 1.0 era we're talking about.

Check out this from 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doMX6su9Ue0

And this from 95: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQZxMoF8Kc

Both pure london sounds.

Burial in particular was already doing that sound without having ever having heard of basic channel, until kode9 showed it to him.

http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/soundboy-bur...

Also living next to hardwax doesn't qualify you to know about tunes. My mum used to live near blackmarket and she hasn't got any dubs at all.

EDIT: Also technically the R&S lot took that sound from english people like Mad Professor in the 80s :P
It looks like they run a pair of fasteners through the whole stack of slices, to prevent them from separating too much.

That will definitely prevent the ends from falling off. Not sure how effective it will be on a slat base.
Why Django and Rails CMS Are So Rare
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There is an important difference which is that is a time of transition. There's nothing stopping anyone getting their browsers into shape and these APIs are slowly solidifying.

The story with Flash was much more single-vendor-dependent despite the half-hearted noises Adobe made over the years about supporting alternative implementations.
The only form of stock exchange in Syria is the Damascus Securities Exchange. And that's it. Syria is pretty much a Socialist nation. Under Bashar it had been slowly moving toward a more capitalistic model but that was pretty much just crony capitalism full of corruption and the state still pretty much running everything even though it was supposedly private.

So no, no markets in Syria.
Engineering JavaScript's eval
Inline editing: Create.js in CMSs
You know that old TV show set in an office, where all the female staff took a break to drink Diet Coke and ogle at the window cleaner? Turns out it was just a publicity stunt by Coca Cola.
> A whole extra line above the working prompt?

Because it's frequently useful, and thus the tradeoff of a bit of space for simplicity, speed and familiarity is worth it.

> If you need that info at any particular moment, make a command.

Right, so your prompt is composed of nothing but the hardcoded character `>`? (you obviously don't need the $/# toggle as you can use `whoami`, and you don't need the previous command's status as that's what `$?` is for)
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And on a more practical level - good graphic design usually has more artistic merit than whatever the Saatchi's just dropped several million on.
Jailed ArmA 3 devs send letter from prison as Czech protests escalate
Syria Completely Cut Off From the Internet
Firefox, Chrome, and Opera support SPDY. Apache, nginx, and Node.js support it. Large Google sites support SPDY (gmail), so does Twitter, and Facebook is working on it (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep/...).

I don't know what qualifies as widespread to you, but this is at least a great start. And there are plenty of good implementations to reference.
Endless Space: When Triple-A Developers Go Indie
The Fantastical Mac Calender Application Now Available For iPhone Users
Keep encrypted files private even from governments demanding the password
What map does it use ? Won't there be a licensing problem when using these maps ?
And thank god for the original C&C. I still think the soundtrack was brilliant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAaq5JIhW0