skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In regard to Ipads, Kindle and Iphone (the three major products mentioned in the comment), FSF has criticized and campaigned against each of them in their campaign defective-by-design. The Windows phones are just a small notice in a long list of criticized products with DRM in them that the owners of the device do not have the keys.

Still, the threat of Restricted Boot is a bit different than then ordinary threat from DRM, in that it targets general purpose computers instead of semi-specialized products like phones and e-readers. The ARM move, while not very threatening today, is the foot in the door to push lockdown to more devices than phones and e-readers. It moves the language from talking about devices (a phone, a e-reader, a microwave), to talking about CPU's in computers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
It's quite easy to do this using traditional relational database technology, and various forms of replication. We've been doing it for many years, likely before many of today's NoSQLers were even born.

In the relational world, we don't really see such capabilities as anything special. They're merely one of the many basic features we've come to expect from any relational database system worth using.
The Industry, by Adam Stacoviak, Jared Erondu, and Drew Wilson.

Great group of folks talking about design-focused startups and a lot of cool front-end tech.
> it's not an issue if you simply wanted to translate Ruby to PHP

This would be a broken transpiler. Headius factoring in all of that logic, just like hiphop-php.
I am well aware. Actually, I thought it was only $90, not $100.

It is the principle of the matter. Paying that $90, when really there is little reason to on x86 (it would be more excusable on ARM), is the equivalent of saying "uncle".
aka transpiler
I've never heard of a public library offering delivery. Could you tell us where you live? Will they take back the old books if they are delivering new?
Asher Wolf's website hacked for speaking up (!Photosensitivity)
Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge
mirror now at http://asherwolf.net
and pastebin text
http://pastebin.com/GDVSsj8V

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A note, Anon Austria has said that they didn't do this.
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, nothing more, nothing less." -- Maxim 29 from The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
"a field where logic is paramount" Which field is that? The field that produces Hacker News threads? The field where Academic Politics are vicious?
Thinly veiled suicide threat?
I love Chrome
I rely heavily on my spam filter :-)
Pretty cool. I like the thinly-veiled SEO work in the "See also" section. Smart :)

On a show's page, I'm confused by the "Featured series" button that leads to the homepage as seen here: http://whenepisode.com/coming/t/breaking+bad Since it's a button I thought it would add the show to the featured shows (for my session), but it's just a link.

That's actually a "problem" I've been having with series I watch on Hulu, which made me check my queue every now and then just to see that, no, there wasn't a new episode of The Office this week…

My way to solve problems is mostly through Chrome extensions these days, so, here is the shameless plug for the extension I built: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/qulu-–-your-hulu-q... A badge shows you when you have new shows to watch from your Chrome toolbar.
FTA:

For me, Twitter is predominantly a link discovery service — admittedly, that is a simplified view, but it’s helpful for these purposes — so I followed-up on her Twitter comments by asking where she discovers links. “What do you mean?” She couldn’t even understand what I was asking. I rephrased the question: “What links do you read? What sites do they come from? What blogs?”

"I don’t read links. I don’t read blogs. I don’t know. You mean like funny videos on Facebook? Sometimes people post funny links there. But I’m not really interested in anything yet, like you are."

Television was a major blow to reading for decades up until the internet, but now even the internet is starting to destroy literacy. It's very unsettling.
If I take this article a bit more literally - I was afraid of flying too (with airplanes), then I decided to put an end to it and took skydiving lessons; Yeah the ones where not only you climb to the sky with a plane, but you jump out of it on about 13k feet (4km). Liberating is pretty much the word that describes it, and I'd also like to think about the same sensation (minus a bit of adrenaline) when you actually succeed (however you define success is up to you) in business.
Wow. Everything old is new again...
So Ireland is now the 12th best place to be born!

Not sure about that.
For starters, we're up to our neck in debt.

Nothing is planned here with the long term interest of the general population at heart.
We have a dysfunctional political system.

For example, we've never had a debate on immigration and yet
from about 0% 15 years ago, now about 25% of births are to foreign born mothers.

And now the leader of the party that, while in government, bankrupted us just a little while ago, is again the most popular party leader according to the latest opinion polls.

I'd take this prediction with a pinch of salt.
The projects have branched over feature politics. FreeBSD is by far the most popular and advanced, NetBSD is very clean and easily ported. OpenBSD was a later fork that emphasises security, and omits binary "blobs". Generally code is exchanged between the projects. Dragonfly BSD is probably the smallest notable fork (there are more). It's relatively recent and is a "logical continuation of FreeBSD 4.x". FreeBSD moved towards a new system for SMP in 5.x.
I've commented on your post itself, but I really fail to understand this rant. Whitespace is optional -- you must know that? And I assume you are familiar with the FFI binding tools, such as hsc2hs or c2hs? To automate the bindings?

Or at least the Storable class for marshalling structures?

The confusion about basic language features is very disconcerting.

And the lack of technical depth to some of the points - e.g. "A lot of stuff is simply not possible without delving into the depths of compilers." - please, do say what is not possible using the FFI.

There are literally thousands of packages on Hackage that use the FFI extensively, so I struggle to understand how you could not find examples of pretty much anything you would want to do...
Is it really better than a loading indicator?

Just use the title link as a reference. First you see chicken wings, then all of a sudden 6 piglets.

The transition paint is really meaningless.
I also second "How to Win Friends and Influence People". I'm just about to start another iteration of re-reading it. I know I still have a lot to work on, but I have already changed things in my life for better thanks to it. The best recommendation I read so far was on LessWrong. To quote,

"An excellent collection of the deeper and most subtle forms of this practice of this sort can be found in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, one of the only self-help books I've read that was truly useful and not a regurgitation of cliches and applause lights. Carnegie's thesis is basically that being nice is the most powerful of the Dark Arts, and that a master of the Art of Niceness can use it to take over the world. It works better than you'd think."

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3k/how_to_not_lose_an_argument/
There are lots of documentation of atrocities made by states.

So, you judge the west with a differently different yard stick because there are corporations here and they are different in quality from e.g. the mass murders of Communist parties (google Great Chinese Hunger etc etc), the Mongol invasion, the Spanish state (South/Latin America), etc...?

Here, in the real world, we consider it bad form to blame e.g. Germans (or the Swedes, or...) for their parents/ancestors misdeeds.

But YOU blame the west for 600 years old crimes -- because some of the countries had partly free corporations at the time!! Wow...

I'll just take one argument here:

The western world started science, partly through corporate research. This has increased peoples' food/health/education for centuries. This effect should be much larger than any corporate atrocities can be. (It would surprise me if you think that is relevant... :-) )

I have a conclusion:

If you're not trolling, I think you "know" that corporations(/the west) are bad -- and really are willing to make any logical sophisms to keep your faith.
Dragonfly BSD is a "logical" continuation of FreeBSD 4.x. FreeBSD changed how it handles SMP in 5.x, while Dragonfly seems to be geared towards kernel level clustering.
While they could have included a link to their existing campaigns against Apple DRM, focusing on one company in each campaign is better than trying to focusing on everyone.

But for explaining why Microsoft should stop even if Apple has locked down devices, if a company is dumping oil in the ocean, people are allowed to complain and create a boycott against that company. If the companies defense is "well, other companies dump oil in the ocean too, so why are you picking on us?" the answer is not to say sorry and let them continue.
Looking at the Unix History diagram:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Unix_hist...

A lot of the BSD that's in OSX actually predates either FreeBSD or NetBSD, coming via NeXTStep from BSD 4.3 and via Mac OS X Server from 4.4. In addition there are FreeBSD influences. NetBSD seems largely independent.

That's also roughly what I remember (ex-NeXTie).
Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person
I'm using "Nvidia X Server settings" tool for setting multiple monitors. Never had any problems with it on my Debian testing. And configuring system is usually trivial. How long ago did you stop using Linux for the desktop? If it was indeed around 1999 - then really, try again. Linux is not standing in one place.
Sorry, I don't think I understand your question. Could you please rephrase it?
However, you still need to work on other people's code bases. I increasingly see parallels between the C++ and haskell. In this situation, both seem to have a reputation for people choosing a subset of a language.
I think the number one takeaway is to focus on things that people want. If you don't have some real evidence that people want what you're providing, you're dead before you start.
> The reason Tumblr and Twitter have any popularity is that they encourage finding and following new, interesting people.

Yes yes yes. There's a huge unsolved problem in the social networking space: meeting new people near you (for purposes other than dating or sex, but that too)

That'll be the next truly big thing, I think. It might focus on places or events, like connecting people who are going to a concert or a bar. That's sort of what I hoped FourSquare would be, but it's even more insular and boring.
I find your arguments somewhat contradictory.

So you want to avoid vendor lock-in, but you see NoSQL databases as being better in some way? They're far worse. If you initially target MongoDB, that's what you're going to be stuck with. You aren't going to be moving to CouchDB easily.

It's far easier and much more reliable to use a subset of SQL that's common to the major relational database systems commonly used today. This subset of SQL still ends up being extremely powerful.

I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at with the incorrect claim that "schema improvements are basically impossible" when accessing a single database from multiple code bases. There are many trivial ways to offer or retain compatibility. Using views is one common way. You then have much more freedom to change the underlying schema, while still supporting existing queries, for example. Stored procedures, functions and triggers offer other possibilities.

An API doesn't magically get rid of compatibility issues, either. You'll need to maintain compatibility within your API, or you'll have to run multiple versions of your API simultaneously, or you'll have to deal with it some other way. All that you've done when using an API is added yet another layer that you'll have to maintain. Duplicating the functionality offered by relational databases within your API's code will only end up taking more of your time.

At this point, I think that we've got enough experience as an industry and a craft to know that it's a good practice to use a schema, it's not difficult to change your schema while still maintaining compatibility, and it's better to keep your constraints as close to your data as possible. Relational databases enable this, while NoSQL databases make it much more difficult than it needs to be, if it's even actually possible.
One related topic that I find interesting is how some programmers feel compelled to make a pivotal distinction between "unique" and "practically unique" with regards to random UUIDs. They refuse to insert UUIDs into a database blindly, even if checking for duplicates implies a heavy performance penalty or even makes scalability impossible.

Personally I compare this distinction to something like the odds of the Earth being destroyed by a meteor. It could happen and it would be a disaster, but the probability is so low that I just decide not worry about it.

So the interesting question is: Which one is the better programmer, the one who trusts "practically unique" or the one who always requires "unique"?
No, it's simply because I still benefit from those crimes even today.
Synergy: connecting your desktops
I make my own pizza dough and other breads that rises quite happily with no sugar in the mix. There's really no need for sugar, though I don't know enough about yeast to tell you how it works.
You're gonna tell me you never got cut up about the way people treated you? You let cool logic rule you instead?

Bullshit! It's a basic fact that most people don't like being routinely belittled and side-lined. That's got nowt to do with gender. The difference is that women suffer it more often and gosh should they have the temerity to complain, suffer a further avalanche of abuse under the guise of cool, logical criticism.

"emotion trumping it on a political correctness card"

Political correctness is just short-hand for "don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be a prick". Pretty simple.

It's naive to think that politics and emotion can somehow be kept out of any human endeavour. So, the _logical_ course is to have a open discussion about how we can maintain respect and encourage all who are interested and able to contribute. That's what is best for the field.

You've got such an undeveloped idea of gender equality that when someone directly talks about it, you want to label it 'sideline histronics'.

You, yes YOU, the individual using the handle etherael are part of the problem.
Building with NodeJS: Persistence
Maybe add a photosensitivity warning on that link, bro.
Remember, now, from yesterday's thread: there's no problem here. It's her fault, it's in her head and she needs therapy.
My point is that there are third world countries (and they are universally regarded so) which are better than India in a lot of respects. I am indian, I have travelled to some of the other third world countries and have seen it myself.

So basically, India is not even the better one among third world countries.
The technical issues - to the extent they can be determined - are discussed on http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/15n9l4/my_rant_abou...
ok, please check for my e-mail to your gmail account. Thanks.
First male that says something like 'I've never seen any sexism in the field' has to leave Earth _forever_.

Of course you haven't my dears, because you don't suffer it, you're blind to it.
While this is a fine idea, why can't that be "opt-out to bots -as-a-whole (as a github account setting rather than per-repo), and then whitelist individual bots if you want to find out if they provide some utility"? That seems like the proper balance between "do nothing by default" and the lest friction required to use bots without requiring those who don't want to be involved at all needing to do anything?

If it's about discovery of bots, then come up with some meaningful way to make them discoverable (presumably better than the Apple App Store zing) without people needing to be exposed to them by default.
You must be very busy, posting that comment on every single article that you don't care about. Gosh you're amazing!
I think this presentation/page isn't simple enough. You use too much different fonts and styles (there are slides with regular, bold and italics style in one sentence). I liked the rocket-shape of presentation though. It's just my opinion, I'm not an expert.
Reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Hobo.jpg
Labels you secretly love...
Many popular cars have electric power steering (most new Toyotas, many Chevys, even some BMWs). A sensor monitors the position of the wheel and drives an electric motor to turn the wheels. They're not completely fly by wire, because the motor augments a traditional mechanical linkage, but that goes back to wanting to maintain the feel of mechanical steering (and also to provide redundancy).
The title has nothing to do with Google.
I have been using http://episodecalendar.com/ for this, to manage my shows and where im at. Does anyone have similar picks?
I think you're confusing Marx with Stalin, Mao and a bunch of other guys.

Marx -> philospher, Stalin, Mao etc -> opressors, mass murderers.

> That is your sin: converting millions of indigenous people to an alien, white, Western ideology that promised heaven and yielded hell.

So sorry, no that is not my sin.

But part of my sin is the fact that the country that I live in exports a lot of weaponry, that the larger portion of the wealth this country was founded on was based on the slave trade and a few other dirty pages in our history.
I'M CALLING BULLSHIT! We are being trolled no question.
And if these patterns hold how can any social media service be the next big anything?

People just want a consistent interface to communicate. There's no UX reason to separate email, facebook, instachat twumblr or whatever from each other.

Yes there are different reasons for communicating but they can all function under one roof. The next big trend of sending pokes with 12 second color corrected videos that get deleted after watching can live inside Facebook, G+, or TwEmail 3.0
No love for base 2?
Which valley? Vancouver has a good market and a great lifestyle. Toronto has a great market, but only a good lifestyle.

I started my career in Toronto but now I lean more towards lifestyle so I moved here to balance it out.
They all use http://thetvdb.com/ iirc.
it was interesting that when we tried to pull together the best blog posts on APIs across the web this year (http://www.3scale.net/2012/12/top-10-api-blog-posts-2012/) the strongest theme was exactly about this - the push and pull of private data and platforms.
I didn't hear about reveal.js. I was considering impress.js (I've known this tool for some time already) as a tool to make my next presentation but I think reveal is better choice in my situation (I think it's easier to use and has everything I need). Thanks for the link!
The majority of whats detailed in her post has nothing to do with sexism.
I agree there are dangers, but I think the way to protect the poor or technologically unskilled is not to keep data sets locked away where only government officials, illegal hackers or bribe paying business people can get at it. The answer is to get it out there and ensure all interests have information parity, surely.

If you have to be a techie to get value from this data then there must be a market for easier to use data analysis tools for non-technical people, which I'm sure the market will fill. (Checkout my profile page, I'm building one right now).
Reminder for Microsoft employees: Remember that Microsoft matches donations to 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.
I'd prefer opt-in, and a nice directory of robots you could essentially subscribe to. I did a little thinking about this a while ago when the Gunio robot was annoying some people about whitespace:

https://github.com/hartez/vcs-robots
My understanding is the BSD projects originally forked over personality/political issues with the defunct 386BSD project, and only later did they begin to focus on certain feature sets.
Curious any OWF developers have a connector they can release to use NSA developed Accumulo NoSQL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo
How could they forget this prediction of the smartphone by inventor & futurist Nikola Tesla?

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." - Nikola Tesla 1926
Now if only there was a bot that could send pull requests to every GitHub repository making JPEGs progressive...
Why do microwaves all have different controls?
I use http://followmy.tv.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/nJmvx
I've been using TV Forecast on my iPhone for quite some time. They also do widget and iPad versions.

http://www.bigbucketblog.com/tv/
What about the Higgs Boson?
Yeah, that's pretty insightful. I can sort of see it happening with games - both Words With Friends and Brainbow Numbers are about playing turn-by-turn while socializing, I'm not sure if you can take games beyond trivial disciplines though.

A social game to learn a foreign language would be interesting.
No, the bad policies of a government, with Mao at the helm, led to the deaths of millions of people. Ted Bundy killed people. There's a difference.
One of the FAQ answers on the page linked to by the "More information..." link on their outage page states, "Cloud services like ourselves someone (sic) experience such outages, it's part of the modern web."

I can't believe that it actually says that. It seems extremely unprofessional to me to make a statement like that.

Downtime like this is not acceptable, regardless how the service is hosted, and who is providing the hosting.

We didn't put up with this kind of outage with the "old fashioned" Web, and we shouldn't put up with it from the so-called "modern" Web, either.
Nice bench, congratulations.
i hear http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/you-made-it-weird/ and http://www.comedybangbang.com/ are also great for comedy that can veer into the deep end.
Good article! I'm quite surprised mobile browsers basically ignore this though. Showing the low quality image when zoomed out, and only the full quality when zoomed in would avoid the CPU issues.
> Like step over people? Screw the ones who love me? Be unethical? Ignore other parts of my life?

To find another, possibly riskier, way if these prove unacceptable (as they should). The point is to not give up.
ask.fm grew more than 5000% in Latin America this past year
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2012/12/Arge...
If you're on a Mac, ImageOptim is the perfect tool that combines a bunch of open projects to crush down images. I use it daily, it's an incredible (free) tool.

http://imageoptim.com/

If you're not on a Mac, the individual tools are still quite usable. Here's some of them.

http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm (pngOUT)

http://optipng.sourceforge.net/

http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/

https://github.com/kud/jpegrescan

http://freecode.com/projects/jpegoptim

http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
It won't let me edit the title so... shrug
Seems it is triggering something in you, perhaps would be beneficial to explore where those feelings come from.