skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realized it's time to learn how a computer really works. I actually know how they work in theory but now I want get my hands dirty working close to hardware. And, because I love games, love making games and love the GBA, I haven't found better way to do that. =)
Quora Plans To Expand Beyond Q&A
This thing looks about as seaworthy as a tin bath with a missing plug...

Oh look, glad to see my instincts aren't wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%27s_Ark

So it doesn't actually even float on its own, it's built on top of a steel barge. Fox News: "functioning" ark, "functioning" journalism.
All the "dude" has to do is take his stuff out of Chad's garage and he gets to keep it. Same with all the instagram users. If someone is storing your stuff for free, expect it to end at any point.
The author is overlooking the point that, even with all the military might of the US, if it truly becomes tyrannical and rolls into parts of the country it deems "rebellious," there's a lot of firepower out there (ca. 300M guns) to overcome, and a lot of loss of life involved.
Maybe it shouldn't be espoused as science per se, but I think calling it a fraud is equivalent to my calling your belief system a fraud.

Smart people can believe foolish things. Smart people can believe things that are wrong. Simply believing something that is foolish doesn't make someone a fool.

If you were believing something that was false, or was a fraud, would you not want someone to tell you? If you have sufficient proof for what you believe, and it withstands critical examination, does it matter if others consider it foolish or a fraud?

Criticism of beliefs is not the same as criticism of believers.
2012 in America: the year in review [Awesome usage of CSS3]
"I Use Languages I Already Know" might be a better title.
Interesting idea -- the pen is mightier than the sword after all, right?
I feel the same when I write in English versus French. When I write in French, I feel like I am spending much more time trying to make my text elegant. I think I've heard this from other people as well but in the end, it's probably mostly subjective.
Easily switch twitter accounts online
It's the deep end, but there's VERY detailed and explicit instructions on how to swim. And almost zero risk of actual death.

I wouldn't recommend it for someone who's never touched *nix before, but if you've installed Linux, and run apt-get a couple times, it's enormously edifying.

I never felt like I "got" Linux until I installed Gentoo.
I think it's more like calling someone a good person even though everyone understands a good person has flaws, or calling someone a bad person even though they've done a few good things, if you like.

Regardless of your personal feelings, when someone advocates a regulation-free environment, they mean one with those minimal market regulations. This is understood in any conventional( * ), practical discussion as well as most philosophical, legal and economic debates. If all parties understand this, and would prefer to use shorthand in order to quickly arrive at the heart of a particular matter, then I question whether it can be considered dishonest.

* By conventional, I mean to exclude, for example, a discussion between two anarchists -- I mean a mainstream discussion taking place in Western civilization.

Edit: I need to clarify that while this is all understood, it may be forgotten by someone in any particular moment. However, if reminded they will likely have no objection. This is what I meant when referring to people who forget in my earlier post.
Chad offered me and my friends a place on his lot to store our stuff. He told us all about how safe his lot was and how easy it would be to find our stuff.

Now Chad says that to pay his bills in the future he's going to let strangers pay to wear our clothes. And he won't tell us when they do, or how often, or which clothes they wore.

Which I think is cool, because hey, free service, free market, amirite hackers?
Scala maybe? But yeah erlang has its own austere beauty.
It's a pointless article without knowing what the project is.

I wouldn't use perl for my multi-threaded enterprise messaging solution, but I might use it for a useful text analysis tool.
I basically agree -- even if all guns were banned, I'd probably confine myself to voting, organizing, pushing for legal changes, etc. If it ultimately failed, I'd move somewhere with more liberal gun laws, like Canada.

If cryptography and free speech were banned, and the legal routes were exhausted, I'd use cryptography and guns or other energetic chemical reactions to resist what were clearly "all enemies, foreign and domestic".

Guns and crypto: better together.
It also stretches credulity to argue that the right of citizens to defend themselves from tyranny in a militia means it's acceptable to own and keep a semiautomatic high-calibre firearm with a 50-round magazine for personal use.
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We need to start building crypto in, from the beginning. The crypto should be just another feature--totally transparent to the user.

That way, when it is later decided that everything has to be monitored for commercial, or security, purposes, it now has to be explained how a feature--which the user has been taking for granted--will now suddenly disappear.

The hope, of course, is that this would be more difficult for Acme Inc. to do, as opposed to just silently handing out the keys to the backdoor.

I also believe that this way of doing it--essentially announcing that privacy is ending when cryto is removed--might cause a bigger outcry. It is pretty clear, by the lack of reaction to threads like these, that the user already expects to be monitored.

We need to change the default back to a world where the user is not being watched.
In-App purchases hack for Google Play
Why is python considered elegant where tcl is not? I find python robust rather than elegant.
That is well put.
This seems (to me) more a 1st amendment issue - freedom of speech/press/petition?
All of the packages listed there are unofficial. Your question should be "why did a Gentoo user step up and make a package before a Debian user did" The official package is for Ubuntu.
Here are the alternatives that I have seen posited as being cleaner / more correct for the ones mentioned:

Perl -> Python
PHP -> Ruby
C++ -> Java or Go
Erlang -> Haskell
Tcl -> Python or Scheme
Prolog -> Lisp
Shell -> ?

These aren't so much my designations, as what I've seen in various references on the internet over the years.

Confer for citations of peoples elegance / cleanness opinions:

Tcl war usenet posts
Perl vs Python wars
C++ - Paul Graham's article on what languages solve,
Rob Pikes reasons for creating Go.
Erlang - Damian Katz "What Sucks about Erlang"
Prolog - see above (re prolog syntax in Erlang)
Tcl - Eric Raymond's comments on Tcl and Perl vs Python
Shell - no citation, but I think defensible

In almost every case I would face the mental blockage mentioned if I were to try to use the language to the right, compared to the one on the left side.
Haha, yeah. It's always pretty funny when in a room with successful app developers and seeing how many have been hit with litigious welcome packages for having an upgrade [to pro version] button like myself, or other trivial feature in their app. It's like a coming of age marker for app developers. Once you get successful enough to look like you have money, you are going to get a welcome package. A lot of devs won't even say what specifically since the settlements forbid it.
It also stretches credulity to argue that the right of citizens to defend themselves from tyranny in a militia means it's acceptable to own and keep a semiautomatic high-calibre firearm with a 50-round magazine for personal use.

No, it really doesn't. Especially when you consider that the SCOTUS has found the 2nd Amendment to refer to an individual right[1]. The "militia" stuff is a red-herring these days.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
The pro erlangers I know are mostly lisp or haskell programmers who consider erlang as a pact with the devil.

It's all relative. Joe Armstrong himself said he made engineering compromises in the design of erlang because he was concerned about software useful for the telco industry, not an academic exercise.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment
during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence . from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. "
Thomas Jefferson

"The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton
Motivation and hard work beat IQ
Thanks for doing this. I have gone through a similar course on bash commands though it was not interactive but just list of basic commands and explanations. This is very helpful in building Linux knowledge for enthusiasts like me.
This may be related to Reg FD. AFAIK press releases are considered fair to investors since they're guaranteed to hit everybody's Bloomberg terminal. Although Jonathan Schwartz convinced the SEC that blogging is compliant with Reg FD, I suspect many companies don't want to risk it.
Could he not have asked you to maybe pay something, instead? I mean, it's not "everything's free" and "we're selling your stuff" are the only two options here...
Everything About eBooks & eReaders, Pt 6: Amazon Kindle Fire HD
There were people who did ("You can see my new page on netscape!") but maybe not in the way you're thinking. At the time (1994) we all called the browser "Netscape", once we got used to not calling it "Mozilla".
The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed
I don't live in the USA, but I live close enough to it to pay attention to what's going on. I know the difference between the relentless bombast of right-wing propaganda and what most people are actually like.

As for the risk of people dying if something is done: we know for certain that people will continue to die from gun violence by the thousands on an annual basis if something is not done.
I'm sure Steve's estate has heard a lot of claims along the lines of "But Steve said he'd pay me X." It's unfortunate, because while Steve may have said that, in many cases the claim may be fraudulent.
I don't know... given that the US government has classified crypto as "munitions" in some situations, I'm not so sure that it doesn't make sense to consider the Internet as "arms" in a sense. OK maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but it's not completely implausible.
As Iraq and Afghanistan have surely proven, guns are not the primary weapons of a revolutionary force. It's improvised explosives and plain old sabotage that will make an occupier's life exceedingly difficult.

People with guns are just convenient targets. They're the ones that get shot first.
This argument would make a lot more sense in terms of the First Amendment.

Conflating it with a media topic du jour (gun control) just weakens the argument, for me at least.
The business of miring companies down in a series of tactical declaratory judgments and reexaminations.
Isn't this what Freedom of the Press is supposed to guarantee? And Freedom of Assembly? I don't see why we have to stretch the 2nd Amendment when there's one right before it that does what we want.
The planet and the rings seem to violate 3D spatial relations. ie, planet appears outside the orbit of the rings, for example. Its a touch awkward. On a more subjective note, the outline of the planet in artificial colour (the corona effect) seems a bit ?? overdone.

I'd like to see other renderings.

edit: I think there is a bit of an optical illusion, part of which is happening because of the over-saturation of the corona. The image makes more sense if you soom out a bit and understand you are looking <up> at the planet from the souther hemispher (ie, below the equator/rings belt). The missing rings should be in the fore-ground but are absent due to shadow. Again, the corona;s colour saturation is so strong it throws the image constuct off when looking at it in more magnification.
Also, their wiki is amazing
Prolog -> Lisp ? Prolog is a logical and Lisp is Multiparadigm/Functional, completly different.

I'd also change Erlang for Go, and maybe add Scala there too.
So they are using a DVB stick to broadcast the video stream back to monitor the autonomous model airplane, which is awesome. I tried looking for a site where hobbyists are doing this without luck. Can you link to a site where I can learn more about this specific use case?
"A well informed populace being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to access the internet shall not be infringed."
I'm on the opposite.

In fact, I run away every time I hear "Date or Money" and [any other platform except Java or .NET] in the same sentence.
This looks pretty cool, but I also have the impression that we may be DDoS'ing some service by 'burst' searching through this tool. Is it the case?
I'd like to see him try to fill that ark with two of every kind of animal on the planet.
Edit to edit: you're right based on what it says now. I could swear that yesterday there was a more clear link between the two -- I really think it has been edited.

Also, they seem to be somewhat more open to gun owners talking to them. I do not remember the "we want to hear from gun owners" line being there.

If I'm misremembering, that's my fault, but if they actually responded to criticism and edited their message/approach to be more inclusive, I'm impressed. They probably have 30-50% of gun owners supporting them anyway, but could get to 70-80% by being rational about specific policies they want.
With performance and reliability measured in feet and inches this says absolutely nothing and is nothing more than a PR stunt.
Crowdsourcing the hidden count of gun deaths in America
A respectful note from the rest of the world: the current, conventional interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is batshit crazy.

It would be hilarious if it didn't predictably result in over 30,000 gun deaths a year.
Seek out opinions and seek agreement from classmates with direct experience.

Report individually but en masse. (Don't go together as a mob, but do all file individual reports. Less threatening, and it lets the administration independently collect and collaborate details from different individual.)

Don't threaten. Just state the facts, and try to remain collected, clear, and focused on a productive resolution.

Quietly put the word out for future classmates. Pay it forward by helping them to avoid being screwed. It's an imperfect marketplace, but eventually the school will find interest in "resolving" the situation with an instructor/professor that students actively avoid. In this latter step, avoid situations that can open you to personal liability, if the attendant risk to you is significant (e.g. online reporting sites). In this modern age, "word of mouth" can still be tremendously effective and verbal communication continues to be used to avoid a record that can work against the communicator (in this case, given your analysis is correct, a form of "whistleblower"?).

P.S. If there isn't widespread agreement and support among your classmates and associates, then it may be time to revisit your own assessment.

Akin to this, it shouldn't turn into a witch hunt. Give specific reasons if/when you advise other people to avoid an instructor; if your argument is primarily emotional, reassess.
Isn't the Raspberry Pi performing a lot of SDR signal processing in this case? The fact that it's powerful enough to do so seems interesting and newsworthy to me.
Thats brillianty funny, now us geeks have our own chuck norris.
Invitation to Judge the 1M/1M New Year Challenge
I've always wondered how the world in general can tolerate something like that. Here we are adding leap _seconds_ every year or so, and yet we're all totally fine with the same, indistinguishable hour repeating once a year.
I've really become quite a Rust fanboy, although I haven't written tons of code in it.

IMO, it's considerably more accessible than Haskell or a ML-family. I'm not precisely sure why, but it seems to "make sense" in a very straightforward way. Some of it I think is lessons-learned from older languages, some of it might be the syntax, some of it just might be mental fit.

Certainly - and this is a huge deal - I could realistically see using Rust in an enterprise scenario where we don't null pointer exceptions but we do want type safety yet we don't want to buy into Java or go full functional programmer with Haskell. Of course that's a few years out, but, but but! That's cool!

I look forward to using this latest version and working away on writing Rust at home. :-)
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Steve Jobs yacht seized because heirs refuse to pay designer Philippe Starck
How did they do their ranking? Is it based on a web crawl, dns stats, other? Is their list of the top million domains public? I would love to see the data.
100% agree. IANAL or constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that history plays a big part in the interpretation of this as an individual right. It seems more likely to me that we could get new laws on the books, or perhaps expand the definitions of the 1st amendment to include electronic communications, that get a radical new interpretation that the internet is a weapon.

"The pen is mightier than the sword" has been around a long time -- tell that to the gun nuts though.
Yet whenever you see prolog or datalog reimplemented (see On Lisp, PAIP, AllegroGraph, Clojure Datalog implemetation, etc) the implementers have tended to appropriate Lispy syntax rather than the original Prolog syntax.

This might also just be laziness, or perhaps simply love for lisp syntax by people using lisp.
Flutter Adds Gestural Controls to Netflix, YouTube, and More
I think it's the same reason that you replace Erlang with Go, because they both aim for concurrency. So in terms of writing ai programs, why can't Prolog be replaced by Lisp?
Shipping a browser in a year, starting with a browser, is less impressive than shipping a browser in a year starting from a GUI toolkit.

(To be fair, Mozilla shipped a browser in a few months after founding, and Konqueror didn't work well enough for me to use it as my primary browser at the time that the Safari guys took it. And, as the other comment pointed out, it actually took the Safari guys a couple of years.)
the author thinks (incorrectly) that the prefatory clause overrides the operative clause. The operative clause being that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"

But, for the record, at the time the "militia" was considered to be every able bodied male in the country.
There is a long history of cryptography-as-munition (ITAR, Wassenaar, etc.), and during the crypto wars of the 1990s, a second amendment defense was something people discussed many times.
I must say, we recently upgraded to "Business" for the 100% uptime and the layer 7 DDOS protection and were impressed with the prospect of using Railgun.

After a couple of days of trial and error (kept failing due to too many open file handles) we now have it running smoothly but have noticed little to no speed improvement both vs what it was before and vs other sites on the same environment.

Would be interesting to know if anyone else has had a similar/dissimilar experience...?
The 2nd amendment is like a parabola from the bible, you can give it any meaning you want. I am pretty sure nuclear bombs are arms but nobody is crazy enough to pretend it includes those. But those would destroy a tyranny for sure (along with anything else).
Mantras to Live By in the Software Biz
"I’m approached during a conference by a young developer, he scans me from top to toe and says: What are YOU doing here, because obviously you are not a developer. "

Jeez.
Wow. Thank you for posting this. In light of the superstition of the day and recent events, I am reminded of Bill Hicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUiwTubYu0
I agree 100%. If needed, I'm sure the NRA could get 500 million or so to start a militia. They may not be in the best state physically, but that's not needed for guerilla-style warfare. But I think we're a long way off before that happens (even though the gov't is already pretty corrupt).

I agree with the author that the Internet is a much more powerful tool in terms of affecting policy in Congress. We saw that with SOPA/PIPA, and I bet we'll see it again if there's another bill that similarly tries to restrict our freedoms. It's not perfect, but it effectively amplifies a single voice and can even replace physical organization.
What is it ?
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Thanks. Added it in the comments.
I would say that the list boils down to free-form vs. structured more than anything else.

All python code looks about the same due to it's structured nature. Because of this, the language appears more "elegant". I'm a devout PHP coder, and build on custom frameworks to do whatever it is that I need. I have some pretty big applications as well. My preference is entirely for free-form languages due to the fact that I can control elegance and readability. It may require more effort, but it is certainly doable. In fact, I'd like python a whole lot more if I wasn't forced into the structured paradigm.

In short, lazy coders make ugly code despite the language.
"first they came for guns, but I didn't speak out because I wasn't a gun owner. Then they came for the internet, and there was nothing I could do to stop them."
i learned linux the hard way, eons ago: i broke shit. didn't mean to, i just did. then you learn how things fit together when you try and fix them.

(it's also why my shell was ksh for eons, my editor was vi for eons, etc. all stuff you have when /usr won't mount.)
Don't disagree. But rather than being 'dumb' they are being 'too clever, by half'. And that is the problem.

They are grooming their users to be abused, building trust to be exploited. Like pedophiles.
App Store vs Google Play
I think having the "I'm paying a million dollars for certification?" conversation is a step up from the old days of enterprise or carrier equipment where they'd essentially say "It costs a million dollars. Take it or leave it." Projects like Asterisk and OpenBTS have revealed that there's not as much magic there as people thought.
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Interesting -webkit CSS Properties
The Daily Kos (of all places!) published a wonderful defense of the Second Amendment. Regardless of its application to the Internet.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/07/04/881431/-Why-liberal...
Also, you can just hack a PID controller yourself on an arduino. The main concept is pretty simple:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

And get a thermocouple from adafruit:

http://learn.adafruit.com/thermocouple/

And maybe a few relays for the power shutoff mechanism.

Total cost including arduino should be around 50 bucks and a fun weekend :)