skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and no more opinions or free speech. Stop it now.
Obama Is the First Facebook President -- What Now?
2013 Workout Program: Day 2
Create Objects Shapes Using the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator
Pen Tool (P) is one of the most important tools for the creation of vector objects. They will be describing work with vector objects in Adobe Illustrator.
Nature HATES you.

It is beautiful, magnificent and utterly capricious - inured to cries of mercy, fairness or justice.

If you have ever been camping or in a forest or walked through shrubland this fact will be made abundantly clear to you.

Immobile things like plants have edged leaves, burrs and seeds to sink deep into furs, thorns to prevent casual damage, let alone poisons and allergens. Forget mention of the thousands of insects and their colonies.

The environment is inimical to today's civilized primates we call man.

Hunting IS difficult, as is building tools without things like muscle force multipliers. Sharp edges? Want to beat stones together to get edges? Or do you want to move up to the Iron age? Now you have the option of living long enough to die of dysentery.

What you further ignore is that even accrued tribal knowledge is slowly lost if populations don't achieve a certain concentration. Imagine rediscovering the "art" of smithing, only to lose it by the third generation.

Whats dangerous in that society isn't the sharp edges, its the lack of anything else. Sick? Can't hunt? Good luck. Artery sliced open? Sepsis? Need antibiotics? Lets hope the witch doctor has good juju.
None, as the ionizing radiation and sexual assault at airports has clearly and unambiguously illustrated.

Your notion of vast public dissent is a fantasy.
non political aspects make it interesting enough too. on the verge of autonomous robots and widespread ai, the sinister futuristic world view, where machines and humans kill each other may become true.
Yes, but it's running inside Android. It's not a complete OS that takes over the phone.
NIST Examples of Vulnerable Code (Java/C/C++)
If this ability to decrypt data exists, you have yet another layer for the FOI request.

You must track each and every time a patient's data was decrypted and by whom, and that information must be available as well.

Information that you'll probably also need to encrypt, but still be able to search by patient, date, and decrypter. (requests come through to find all records a particular employee has seen within a certain date range as well)

I can see the start of a rabbit hole, which is why organisations dealing in PID have IG teams or consultants who know the laws and know how much needs to be done.

If a patient thinks an organisation is holding out on them, that patient has a way to complain, and the complaints aren't taken lightly from what I've seen.
This site is primarily for the discussion of startups, hacking, and things people find 'intellectually gratifying', rather than things that 'get your dander up about the government'.

That in no way shape or form takes away your rights and ability to express yourself and your opinions, elsewhere.
Lewd Facebook confessions 'making students unemployable'
Soccer. In fact, the acrobatic "freestyle soccer" sub-category.
The article specifically mentions that the top X% are better off in agriculture. If you have an enjoyable high-tech lifestyle, then you are probably a part of them (as most of HN).
Just so you know, Django has a sort of dynamic finder implemented with kwargs in the lookup

Post.objects.filter(some_field_name=some_value)
Kansas wants sperm donor pay child support
I feel the same with regards to my Nike FuelBand. I even asked Nike if they would provide an API[0] (they won't).

Fortunately their web app keeps your NikeFuel—Nike's activity metric—for every day (in 15-minute increments) as a global JavaScript variable. I wrote a scraper[1] to get me my data.

I wonder if you can do the same with Fitbit.

[0] https://twitter.com/NikeFuel/status/205424488836370433 [1] https://github.com/beaumartinez/fuel
This is the old "7 degrees of hacker news" :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=785461
> What's in your BIOS? What's in your NIC's firmware? What's in the firmware of the router you're wire{d,lessly connected} to? What's in the microcode of your CPU?

The BIOS and the microcode in the processor chip are essentially part of the hardware so they a different issue. I have no incomprehensible binaries installed on my machine.

Ask me about whats in the any package I have installed and I can tell you with sudo apt-get source. Ask me what is stored in any file and I can get the documentation for the file format and tell you what you want to know. Nothing on my machine is the private property of an external organization.

> What's running on Blogger, who's hosting your blog?

My concern is for the integrity of personal property. I want my own personal items to be completely my property and not partially controlled by a corporate tyranny like Microsoft or Apple. This doesn't mean that every machine, including the machines at Google (which hosts my blog and which I use for searching), have to be run on free software, because those machines aren't my personal property they are corporate private property.

> The personal computer is not the only software in the universe -- not even close.

The difference is that PCs are personal property which is something that everyone has a right to. Microsoft, Apple, and other corporate tyrannies are using proprietary software to attack the right to personal property in the field of computing.

> If the world wasn't wired the way it was, perhaps you'd have a shot at the utopia that you're envisioning; really, I do see the benefit.

The point of my previous post is that I won't give up the utopia I already have not that I am "envisioning" something different from what already exists. I already have a machine that doesn't contain incomprehensible binary blobs and which can I can use sudo apt-get source to understand any component.
> how useful and powerful something as simple (relatively) as Hubot can be when connected to a communication medium like Campfire.

I thought so too, so I figured I'd create a hosted version of hubot, so you can get it up and running quickly without much hassle: http://www.getinstabot.com
Microsoft issues Internet Explorer fix
It's being reported that Schmidt got into a heated exchange with Kim Jong Un by lecturing the North Korean leader on human rights violations in the country, to which Kim retorted, "Stop trying to make Google+ happen. It's not going to happen." It's hoped that negotiations will resume early tomorrow.
Your analogy doesn't make any sense.

I'm glad that everybody doesn't think like you do.
Tourism CEO to Airbnb hosts: Get a licence
Learning to Code. Where to Start?
Yup, I use a tiling window manager extensively.
This project was made on Polish hackathon called HackWAW in 24h, so it may lack of some features, but feel free to add issues, fork and commit https://github.com/openlaundryapi :)
Is Google Play’s ‘Make me Asian’ App Racist?
I recently discovered you can use the pins on the Raspberry Pi to programmatically toggle switches! As a software guy, I find that magical. I ordered a cheap 8-relay board [1], and I'll hook some stuff up to it and turn my house devices on and off via the internet!

[1] http://dx.com/p/8-channel-5v-relay-module-extension-board-fo...
It's basically a way for those who are secure in their own identity to inform others of the essential pointlessness of their existence. Fads and trends are actually a con-trick; they bring new cults of personality to our lives. Deriding people for not buying into your neurotic bullshit is dumb as shit.
Thanks, to both of you :)

I will worry about it later then. Can either of you suggest the best blog engine to use for this? I was thinking wordpress. Obviously my experience isn't in web development. :)
Original announcement: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2965

PDF: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/Raspberry_Pi_Education_Manu...
It's under a NonCommercial license.

So not an Open Educational Resource.
> This isn't some web-app whose terms of service you don't like, it's a nation state. People throughout history took to the streets to win freedom/voting right/etc.

Historically, it was much harder and more expensive to move your entire life to another country (and maintain your social and economic ties). People were vastly better off staying put.

Today, that's simply not the case. I moved across an ocean to avoid participating in the US economy in a positive way (insofar as that is practically possible being a denizen of the Internet) for under $1500 and all while maintaining my personal and professional connections to those still resident there.

Perhaps this antique notion of "taking to the streets to win freedom" was the appropriate choice, then.

I know for a fact that today it is not only demonstrably ineffective, but also entirely unnecessary.
I suppose instead of someone flying cargo planes full of rubber dog shit outta Hong Kong, they can at least print their own and save SOME airmiles...
HTML5 is now stable and "feature complete"
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Some forms of farming cause ecological destruction. Many species have gone extinct because of farming methods. Animals and plants have been bred to extremes; some animals are unable to breed without assistance, others have trouble walking. Huge areas of rainforest are cut down and replaced with unsuitable palm tree plantations. Humans introduce foreign invasive species as a method of "pest control". Those new species cause havoc. Farming contributes significant amounts of pollution in the form of fertiliser runoff or CO2 or slurry lakes.

"We eat what we need. We protect what we need." seems pretty profound to me.
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I can explain it: It is not "giving up" to leave a physical location that is uninhabitable.

When you can't freely transfer money or have private electronic conversations (telephone, SMS, email, whatever) as a median citizen not under suspicion of a crime, you must leave the place in which you are, just as you would have to leave your private home if it were completely flooded or exposed to the elements.
This is just silly. Agriculture has allowed the population of the Earth to explode, and that has included increasing the population of poor people. However, technology is also lifting those people out of poverty. The developed world includes more countries today than it did in 1950, or even 1980. In the next 50 years several more countries are poised to join the ranks of countries with wealth similar to that of the G7 today. In all likelihood there will be a swathe of newly minted developed countries including Brazil, Nigeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, etc. as well as many Eastern European countries by the mid 21st century. And in the meantime many of the most poverty stricken regions of the world will be less so by then.

This is not hope or optimism, it's merely following the trends that have been consistent for the last 2 centuries.
Nothing in an office is necessary aside from some desks, some chairs and some computers. The rest is set decoration that can be skipped, but sometimes a little expenditure improves the quality of life for all people.

Something like a 3D printer is ridiculous in the context of most office buildings, but the people at GitHub having one might lead to an interesting side project that becomes something valuable, or helps to consolidate 3D printing repos like they did for code. Never know when a toy might become something useful (see the Aeropress people, made boomerang toys, fiddled about with another concept, ta-da Aeropress).
Could a touch-friendly Ubuntu be a game changer?
>Point2: Nothing that CS conferences or journals ever publish will blaze a new trail. They too will always be playing catchup.

Actually, it was a lot of this published work that resulted in: Internet, Networks, Filesystems, OS(Unix), Compilers(LLVM) etcetc.

Granted, a lot of research does not result in any useful product, but that isn't what research is all about. Its about exploring the boundaries of our
knowledge. Trying wild ideas that you couldn't do within the time and
budget limits of a company... because some of those wild ideas do work spectacularly in the end
I think Mr Un is absolutely spot on with his agenda but he's got to unravel many years of crazy before him without getting knocked off himself.
For time, you need a system that let you easily express the year cycle, since the the climate affects a lot of things from economy to sports.

We need to be able to easily count days, since we sleep at night. (It would be very difficult to change to, say, a 20 hour cycle.)

We could skip the month, week, hour, minute and second, but the year and day are essential.
Yes, I believe the best is to prove they are inefficient and a complete waste of money.
>Their record during WWII is shameful.

It's not like the US welcome Jewish refugees either.
"For example, a web developer will be looking at 2 windows all the time - a text editor and a browser."

I'm a web developer and I never do this. Why would I? One window is always sufficient for me.
Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google
and eventually it gets cheaper on average for everybody.

Sometimes cheap drugs get more expensive, so that's at least not a universal truth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/business/questcor-finds-pr...
Canonical to Announce “Next Generation” Cross-Platform Ubuntu?
It's often about race. Just look at the comments justifying racism when it comes up here.
Not intelligently aware of themselves? In what way? There was little difference between what they knew and how they acted - there was their own tribe, and there were other tribes - and people today, where you can see cliques and groups naturally form in schools and elsewhere.

> epidemics that wiped out their whole tribes.

These things were supremely rare. As the article notes, the rise of death by disease at scale was a direct result of higher population and density, as well as likely poorer sanitary conditions.

Let us presume a disease randomly shows up and infects a tribe, killing all of them. Now what? The disease dies out. In fact, our tribal nature is in effect a preventative measure against precisely this, as it causes most human societies to develop boundaries with each other. A deadly disease survives by spreading, which is a difficult thing to do in a world of tribal societies.

> Which I also think kept their population growth in check.

All animal populations are kept in control by basic ecology - when there's enough food to support a larger population, the population grows; when there is not, it does not. Humans are no different (until modern times with birth control/women empowerment/etc.)

> Agriculture seems to be a inevitable step for any intelligent species to take if they want to live in organized ways like societies, states and countries.

This is an interesting point. Agriculture has allowed larger societies (tribes are organized societies, and good ones), but not better ones (yet). I don't find this particularly surprising - a highly refined technology or method is almost always better than a newer one, even if the newer one eventually equals and surpasses it. The gun took hundreds of years to replace the sword, the car decades to replace the horse, and today we see new forms of energy production gradually moving to replace oil. Humans and developments in human society are no different - agriculture is the only way to support larger societies, but we have yet to correct for all the problems it brings that tribal societies had long since solved.
The corollary (and parent's point) is that securing excess votes will worsen your bill with no benefit to you, so you avoid this.
I get that using client-side fonts adds dependencies and complexity, but XLFDs are not "simple"... for the user, anyway.

I dunno. The Suckless guys may feel that simplicity of implementation is king; I believe that simplicity for the user is more important. Each to their own.
You're right, but just want to point out that it is typically trademarks that apply to names, not copyright.
>Speed would be one. A horse can't maintain a fast pace for very long. A human on a bike can go much further than a horse can run in one day.

Citation needed.
Android never used the word "App" in the name for their store. First it was "Android Market" and now it is "Play".

I think it is silly that Apple is attempting to "own" the word "App", but the fact that they went after Amazon and not Google has no larger meaning other than the fact that Amazon was using the term "app store" and Google wasn't.
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To be fair, they already have an Apple Store: store.apple.com (it's marketed as "Apple Store"). Also, they do put a pretty prominent Apple logo on each device: notebooks with nothing but a glowing logo on the back, iPhones / iPads with a reflective metallic logo, heck, even the power chargers have an embossed logo on them.

I'm not sure whether Apple should be able to patent the name "App Store," but it certainly does raise a question of what a brand is. Surely, before the iPhone, people off the street would be confused by the term "App Store". Yet, after the iPhone (iOS >= 2), you could pull someone off the street and they would say something like "oh yeah, that's where you buy apps for the iPhone." So I don't think it's reasonable to dispute that Apple popularized the term "App Store," essentially invented it in the public eye. That said, it is a store to buy applications, which Apple did not invent, even in the public eye.

There are lots of terms / brands which encode the product in the name in a fairly obvious manner. Should American Airlines be allowed to use that as their brand? Or is it too generic, given that there are many airlines based in America? Should a brand like KitchenAid be able to patent their name? Or is it too obvious of a name, given that the company produces aids in the kitchen? Should uniqlo be able to patent the term heattech, or is it obvious given that it's a technology designed to preserve heat? It's a very difficult distinction to make, and I'm not sure which side is right.
Megaupload: U.S. Deliberately Misled the Court with Unlawful Search Warrants
When I first heard about java applets many years ago, I had an irresistible intuition that they were somehow related to Apple.
this is great. thank you!
I don't think you understood that scene from Office Space correctly.

In my opinion it was supposed to be ironic. He is supposed to be communicator but he can't communicate his importance and he is showing very bad communication skills. After all it was taken out of context.
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Apple Is Already Testing The iPhone 6
Wow, this came at exactly the right time, I am planning to start designing enemies for my current game this week. Quite insightful.
The author is Jared Diamond - IMHO one of the great thinkers of our time, who certainly deserves serious consideration. His books, "Guns, Germs and Steel", "Collapse", "The Third Chimpanzee" are excellent, thought-provoking (even worldview-altering) reads.

That said.. he is right, but from the vantage point of someone in this day and age, who loves science and technology, who has benefitted from the efforts of the billions of post-agricultural humans, I selfishly prefer this outcome to sitting around gathering nuts in uncomfortable underwear, waging endless war with neighbouring bands and tribes.

Sure, agriculture produced a Long Dip in living standards, with population increases outstripping any gains made in production. But the whole point of a large population - perhaps the only redeeming feature of civilization - is that one can trawl the probabilistic waters and produce the few very mad, very interesting geniuses who make it all worthwhile.

I've always thought that the Matrix really came about due to the natural tendency of civilization to increase population density. From the open savannah to cubicles, cars and capsule hotels.. the Matrix is just highly aggressive telecommuting.

And it worked, too. Humans maintained ever higher population densities, produced lots of crazy geniuses who kept improving the interfaces, until significant bits of personalities could jump across from brain to brain. "AIs" were nothing more than mobile multiple-personality disorders. Morpheus' crowd were basically scavengers, helping keep the Matrix clean of dangerous personalities while maintaining a reserve pool of free-range human at Zion, in case the Matrix needed to be repopulated... which it did, from time to time, after epic meme-virus infections which killed off most of the existing inhabitants. The whole "AI vs humans" story and attempts to kill Morpheus & co was a big piece of drama to keep them righteously motivated rather than relaxing with the blue pill.
Some way to keep the postings brief would be a huge benefit I think. Many are overly long and make for too much information. Less is more. Just the essentials should be listed, with a link to more information if desired. Maybe using a form to fill in the post rather than free-form. Postings should be 4-5 lines long, not 40-50. Filters for location, job type, and skills would be next after getting the brevity handled.
Few men want to be free; most just want fair masters.
the link is broken, at least for me.
After all the buzz, is App.net going to make it?
Lisp Hackers: John Fremlin
or TGV (puts on his French hat :o) ).

Basically, modern train technology (although old train technology can have its charms)
Actually, for 2012, kickers are 61% for 50+ yard field goals [1], including an incredible 10/10 performance.

[1] http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/stats/byposition?pos=K
> Vic Gundotra disagrees.

After Google+ failed as a social network, despite Google using all their Google-muscle to shove it down everyone's throats, Vic Gundotra claims it's not a social network.

This is more about not admitting complete and utter defeat than anything else.

If Google+ is not a social network, why do I keep getting a million emails about people wanting to share stuff with me, hooking up with people, getting requested to add people "I may know" and a red notification-icon with "my notifications" in the top left screen of everything Google, despite me having opted out, requested my profile be deleted and disabled Google+ for my gapps domain?

Why does Google+ act as the desperate kid who is constantly trying to talk to you and be social all the time, if its not a social network?

If it was merely a profile-service, why would it constantly need to pester me, even after I've told it to go away a million times?

Google+ is easily the worst product Google has ever launched and has seriously damaged my impression of the company as a company just launching good services you can opt in to use, not the Microsoft which attempts to shove everything down your throat. Google Wave was a massive flop, but it was a flop you didn't have to use. And it didn't affect you. Google+ is different.

Make no mistake about it: Google+ is very, very bad. Bad execution. Bad product. And bad for Google's image as a whole.
> Seriously, I've seen the term bandied about for a decade now and its definition changes every 9 months.

That's the main point of it i guess.
ok that was too easy.
"Anyway, yes, there is a bit of anti-iOS sentiment there, you’ll be constantly teased about Obj-C’s strange syntax..."

Ah, yes, and Java and C++ are all flowers and unicorns flying around.
> blocking access to police and government vehicles, using smoke bombs - anything which causes chaos but does not physically hurt anyone

Do you really recommend becoming a terrorist in the US right now?
No.

But of course if ``group`` is not used afterwards it can be inlined to

dct.setdefault(key, []).append(value)
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That'd be 2.5400000000.... cm