skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that's been working to wrap my head around how to work with and develop d3.js visualizations, this provides a great example of what's possible. Looks good, and the source definitely gives me a few things to investigate!
Those jokes made a clean getaway.
Initial support for the CSS Flexbox Module has been landed. It is disabled by default but can be enabled by setting layout.css.flexbox.enabled to true.

This is actually a feature I'm waiting to see on at least both Chrome and Firefox (without vendor prefixes). I haven't been tracking the spec closely enough to see how close it is to being finalized since the "new" flexbox model was adopted.

Other changes that interest me for fairly obvious reasons:

Preliminary support for WebRTC.
New HTML scaling algorithm.
Performance improvements around tab switching.
Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates.
Support for W3C touch events impemented, taking the place of MozTouch events.

The last one for better, less specific Javascript.
Thanks.

Well, I started off making an app for collaborative stories; and then switched to poetry on the assumption that it might appeal to more people.
“Watering Hole” attacks targeting political sites
I've been using the beta channel since FF6 (maybe) and, as you said, it's been quite reliable. It's fun because you feel like you're somehow an insider and privileged because you get features (that no one but you would care about!) earlier than everyone else. Yes, these are quite silly feelings, but what the heck.
It's about objective breaches of both written law and higher individual freedoms. On a global basis. Facilitated by your government. Against citizens of its own and other countries. Regularly of late. To US benefit. There's no conspiracy, it's objective fact.
I agree with you its ridiculous, but this was used by many 'back then' as evidence ;)
The hidden history of Bengali Harlem
Can anyone confirm whether final flexbox support was added? http://caniuse.com/flexbox suggests that FF 18 only has support for the old version of the standard.
It is open source, but I can't seem to find a license on that page, so it may not be free software. I would be reluctant to modify and redistribute copies of it.
yes. and swipe to camera did not first appear on iOS but Android(maybe HTC or Samsung? I can't remember)
What would be the best approach to automate this so I could put in a URL and it detects as much as it can about the website?
I have lived in France for 24 years, and TV shows were (in the 1990s and 2000s - not sure these days) routinely late or early by ~5 minutes or more with respect to their planned time. I totally understand why the operator needs to watch live TV to know when the show ends, given that the window of power surge is only 5 min.
I have found simplicity in design and thinking about performance to have a symbiotic relationship. Performance concerns prompt simplifications in the design, and simplicity in design uncovers new ways to improve performance.
You're welcome, good luck with the site and with the new customers! :)
Sony leverages content pipeline for ultra-HD offering
I can only speak for web application development, but $140k is definitely not for "extraordinarily experienced and talented programmers only" in San Francisco for someone doing js/rails.

Are the people you know working in startups where part of their compensation comes in equity, or the prestige of working at a well-known "great" place?
This is great! Proof that code is art.
As referenced from Mozilla[1], Firefox and Opera support the new spec without prefix, Chrome supports it with the -webkit prefix, and Internet Explorer supports the old-flexbox.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Using_CSS_flexi...
Actually, insofar as the goal is to reduce cars on the road, it seems entirely sensible to me to exclude children -- or anyone without a drivers license -- from counting towards the passenger threshold.

I'd be all for having to produce N valid licenses in the car to avoid the ticket, rather than N human bodies. (That also neatly sidesteps the issue of corporate personhood.)
Apparently, yes, as long as they declare it in the manifest:

http://lunarfrog.com/blog/2011/10/03/winrt-storage-overview/
I've been extracting stuff out off .bib files and using GraphViz to graph citation and collaboration graphs for some time. It is very handy for personal research. But even in that limited context I've been finding that the graphs can get very messy, very quickly. And GraphViz can get bogged down trying to come up with a neat layout.
Or two to four months, as the article specifically states.

That was actually one of the valuable research results; 500 days was not a better test than 120 days.
Generating QR code of current Page URL
Can you pls get in touch with me at tarun dot anand at gmail...
Actually, I do have the integrity and expertise to back up my assertions with reasonable arguments.
The book that defined modern campaign reporting (2010)
The layout is really wide for a 1200px screen, I'm sure there must be other ways to do this. The background does a tiling effect when zoomed out. Not good.

Where's the music? I was really expecting music but you might have licensing issues I guess...

Nice effort overall. Keep going :)
Richard Cramer has just died (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/richard-...). This article seemed more fitting to post.
I think these things are beside the point. People are not products, and thus aren't subject to appeal through opulence. It is conceivable that one would buy a product simply because it is expensive in order to distinguish themselves or satisfy some arbitrary desire to have expensive things, or because they view cost as a factor in "quality." People, on the other hand, are more akin to machines in that their only value to a company is through the utility they provide, and thus money spent on hiring should be minimized so that its returned value can be maximized. The fact that expensive things are alluring doesn't work with exclusively utilitarian commodity goods, like labor. So the fact that the service is expensive won't make it any more appealing to employers. (Or, it might. I don't know what goes through the heads of recruiters. But, a rational actor in their position wouldn't draw your conclusion.) Companies are trying to maximize value, which means minimizing the cost of labor. This includes both the money they pay to their labor and the money they pay for their labor.
They do this every time: Make a news event around the appearance of a new Firefox release on the FTP site before it is officially announced/released.

Although this stunt seems considerably stupider now that everyone running a recent version of Firefox will automatically get updates...
What about pregnant moms?
Very useful, if you want to make a checkpoint (possibly for /), break things and then get back to the original state.

If you'd do that for / , your own system would start behaving, like a system booted from LiveCD. And, after reboot, would return to the origanal state.

Overlayfs is pretty cool actually. Allows you to overlay a lower directory with some other upper directory and mount the result somewhere. All the changes that you are making in the mounted directory would be visible to you, and would be stored in the upper directory.

In the example above, after running this command, content of your $HOME would stop changing. But you still will be able to change it, with all the changed content going into tmpHome.
That's what I going for. I tagged it as "Code as Art." I initially dubbed it a poem but decided it read more like a letter, instead. Personally, I think it qualifies as code prose.
Yes, I recommend Blue Nile too. Before you complete the order, give them a phone call. The operator I reached offered me some very good advice on choosing between two similar diamonds. They had the same price approximately and same ratings, but the dimensions were different and she explained which was more aesthetically pleasing. They do publish the dimensions, but as someone who knows nothing about jewelry I didn't know what to make of them.

They offer engraving too which is a nice touch.

Very nice experience overall. And not a bad startup idea on their part either.
Since this is an offline class in Dublin, CA, my best suggestion is to ge tin touch with the local tech community there and spread the word. Though its January 8, the class is in January 12. You might be a bit to late to start promoting it.
Yes, I recommend Blue Nile too. Before you complete the order, give them a phone call. The operator I reached offered me some very good advice on choosing between two similar diamonds. They had the same price approximately and same ratings, but the dimensions were different and she explained which was more aesthetically pleasing.

They offer engraving too which is a nice touch.

Very nice experience overall. And not a bad startup idea on their part either.
The way it works on city desks of good newspapers is, long apprenticeships. It's amazing how deeply knowledgeable long-time reporters can be (not talking about op-ed writers -- talking about journalists and reporters). It's also amazing how much information is known by these reporters and editors, but does not make it into stories because there's no space or because an independent corroboration cannot be found. That background information can help to frame the way the story is written, but might never appear in print.
And you can also use it on EC2, to reduce costs of EBS I/O.
This really makes my blood boil, but I'm trying to remain impartial while reading.

The highlight of the article:

> Judge Paul A. Engelmayer wrote that while Starr’s complaint “paints a portrait of government treachery worthy of an Oliver Stone movie,” the company “voluntarily accepted the hard terms offered by the one and only rescuer that stood between it and imminent bankruptcy.”

Sure, the terms might have seemed "unfair" but what could they possibly expect? It was "accept some harsh terms for royally screwing up or go under." It's not like they were some innocent bystander; they made some really stupid decisions and paid the price.

Side note: those "thank you" commercials feel so terribly disingenuous;
I am an alum of a successful D1 school with no football program, an alum of a successful D1 school with a football program (UMich) and live in a town of a D1 school with a money pit of a football program (Eastern Michigan). For every big name program, there's a dozen that are a waste of time and money. For the record, college football is almost the only thing that will get me watching tv. I like it, but most schools shouldn't bother.
Don't give up on the idea.
Ha! Definitely can relate (except for the great dudes part lol), but I wonder what kind of deals these recruiters have with companies? Do they really care about finding the right people for positions, or do they just want a quick cut of whatever commission they're making? It's flattering sometimes to see a voicemail full of recruiters, but one has to wonder if their intentions are optimally in line with what companies need.
I love my jailbroken iPhone for this reason. Bash, SSH and SSHFS are really useful to have.
Because its a job posting and not a discussion thread. If you want to discuss the job posting then write a blog post, submit it here, and if people care about it you will get a discussion.
According to the channel on freenode, full, up-to-date, and prefix-free flexbox support is on track to be enabled in the stable version of Firefox that is released exactly 12 weeks from tomorrow.
That page says it's behind a developer flag, and only limited single-line support is provided. Is the page up to date, or is the feature fully implemented, and accessible to anyone, regardless of flags?
Or they could just use windows and shades. The lack of windows was an unnecessary constraint in the study.
One more thing: where's the legal info? Are the works in the public domain since so many people worked on them or do you keep all the rights?
Seems like the daughter will become a programmer.
With government contract work here in New Zealand I have noticed a willingness to call in the lawyers very early. If the contract were with a private enterprise there is no way a contract would get renewed, however the government is happy to deal with people even after after they have been sued recently. This may not we a world wide phenomenon.
Very cool!

The lecturer seems like a nice guy +into the subject, the videos looked entertaining (not just someone speaking), they have a very free textbook with lots of examples AND, perhaps best of all, they are using the khan-exercises framework for the exercises.

It is interesting that they use coursera credentials for the login but they don't seem to be part of coursera per se.
What is a hamburger button? I cannot download "the magazine" app (iOS6 req.).
I think the wiki article on corporate personhood should be read by everyone who is bothered by the "corporations are misnomer" meme.

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

--

The basis for allowing corporations to assert protection under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and that people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively.[5] In this view, treating corporations as "persons" is a convenient legal fiction that allows corporations to sue and to be sued, provides a single entity for easier taxation and regulation, simplifies complex transactions that would otherwise involve, in the case of large corporations, thousands of people, and that protects the individual rights of the shareholders as well as the right of association.
and yet, the razor blades are right next to them not locked up. I remember that specifically because it seemed really strange
I'm nowhere near the top, but get these emails all the time. Want some of your own? Put your resume on any of the big job sites; just one is all it takes. You'll get calls and emails daily, usually several a day. Almost all of them will be a total waste of time. This is the recruiter spam they alude to.

Maybe it's just the information we put online, or maybe it's just the business, but I don't think it's a minority who have bad experiences with recruiters. I'd actually be really interested in hearing peoples' positive experiences, as they seem to be a very rare thing. I'm not trying to be cynical, this has just been my experience, enforced by just about every other developer I've talked to.
I need to add it.

But here's what i'll be writing: "Users own what they write. I have no rights."
Panasonic’s TVs Can Recognize a Face
Great post, Cory! It's super awesome that you're open-sourcing all your players. I would have loved that when I was competing.
Look at who is buying technology companies now
The law has distinguished between Persons (which can include corporations) and Natural Persons (which does not) since corporations were invented. The latter is even a term of art in the law. Though I haven't researched it, it's probably even mentioned specifically in the California Vehicle Code.

The judge was probably just too busy and irritated by this complete waste of his time to even remember.
I started this course today (through Coursera) and so far it's great. Looks like they're using the Khan Academy software for the practice exercises and the videos are excellent. The instructor is high-energy and sort of eccentric and it's a real hoot watching at 1.25x speed. My only gripe is the textbook: it looks slick, but the weird Greek letters start on the first page and the prose is...laconic. The rest of the course materials seem geared specifically towards totally green beginners; the style of the textbook is a little divergent.
I would not disagree, except that there is the small detail that there actually is legal precedent on this one. A pregnant woman counts as one, a mother with a small baby, 2.

So this judge's line of reasoning flies in the face of existing precedent, and I wouldn't be surprised if a clever lawyer could make some hay out of that fact.
What if the passengers decline to produce drivers' licenses?

Should the driver be guilty of violating the carpool lane if it turns out one of the passengers had a suspended license or were uninsured?

What about a passenger who is validly licensed yet legally drunk? They couldn't legally drive a car.

What about passengers with valid licenses who have no car? What if they have a working car but its tank is empty and they have no money to buy gas. They're not reducing congestion either.
Firefox 20 will contain css3 flexbox unpreffed and unprefixed. Assuming nothing is found that would make us flip the pref to false during the Aurora or Beta cycles.
Sounds like you might enjoy the Nightly channel, in my experience it's been pretty stable.
LoL (Lines of Love) is inversely proportional to LoC
AIG is trying to get money out of the situation. That's what companies do, and apparently this is what companies are supposed to do.
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Clean URLs are just as useful and visible as the favicon, or custom error pages, or many other "unnecessary" features.

You need to backup production sites. A repo could do that, but it's just another backup system that needs to be implemented and verified.
"You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out."

-Warren Buffet
Theres a can of worms...
I agree with the emotion but I can also see the argument that the agreement was made under duress.

If you are about to die and the only person who could save you, offers to do so, but asks you to agree to something reprehensible in exchange for saving you, what do you do?

At the risk of creating a strawman (the goal is illustration not substitution) let us construct a scenario, you're hanging by a rope which is breaking, you have maybe 10 minutes before it breaks. And the only person who can save you says, "Ok, I'll save you on the condition that in the near future I will come to you and ask you to do something for me, and you must agree to do what ever I ask."

What if your savior asks you to blow up an airplane? Or sell your spouse into the sex trade? or any of a dozen things you would never do voluntarily and are counter to your values. This is the kind of thing that novelists use to create tension, its very effective.

So AIG claims here that the Government went too far in its ask, and has crossed some line into moral turpitude. Who is the bad guy? the good guy? Doesn't really matter though, its one of those chickens they talk about that come back to roost. Never a good thing.
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It's not like the government forced them to take the bailout. They could have declined and sunk into bankruptcy, they had a choice and they should live by that choice. If the company were run honestly and competently they wouldn't have ever been put into that situation in the first place. I'd like to call this whole scenario karma, ain't it a bitch?
Should Taxi's be allowed to drive in the Carpool lane with a single passenger? Here, we have a situation in which the driver wouldn't normally be on the road.
According to the California Highway Patrol, they cannot use the carpool: http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/answers.html

Arizona precedent follows the exact same lines as that FAQ answer: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2006/01/woman_womans_fe.html

I therefore expected the same reasoning to apply here. But the article doesn't say that the judge followed that line of reasoning. Which surprised me.
Wonder where autonomous cars will fit in.
However annoying this is, there is some truth to the claim that the takeover of AIG was a "backdoor bailout" of other firms. Somewhat like the IMF loaning money to countries like Thailand and South Korea during the Asian financial crisis. The bailout money went straight through the immediate recipients and on to their creditors.
I totally agree with you. I did that when I had physical access to my own servers. What do you if the firewall doesn't come up? That's my worry now that I don't have direct access to the servers. Won't you end up being locked out?
Code as poetry. Are there any other examples of this?
On surface, you're right.

However, I've never encountered a person who pays attention to details and can switch this on or off, depending at which stage the project is in. You either care about details (and you can't help yourself), or you don't.

When you are good but don't pay attention to details you end up with things like ... the Facebook website. You make a million bucks by some random chance and then you start writing crap articles like this one. And then all the cool under-30 kids start worshipping you.
Indeed, the California Vehicle Code does mention "Natural Person" as follows:

DIVISION 1. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
Application of Definitions
100. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, these definitions shall govern the construction of this code.

...

Person

470. "Person" includes a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation.

Amended Ch. 1010, Stats. 1994. Effective January 1, 1995.

[Edit: Full Vehicle Code here: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/veh_code.pdf ]
From the article:

"It contends that the onerous nature of the rescue — the taking of what became a 92 percent stake in the company, the deal’s high interest rates and the funneling of billions to the insurer’s Wall Street clients — deprived shareholders of tens of billions of dollars and violated the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits the taking of private property for “public use, without just compensation.”

From a different HuffPo article for context:

"When news first broke in 2009 that Goldman had been an indirect beneficiary of the AIG bailout, collecting the full value of some $14 billion in outstanding insurance polices it held with the firm, the officials who brokered the deal justified these terms as a necessary stabilizer for the broader financial system."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/goldman-sachs-aig-b...

Say what you will about A.I.G being a douche joining a lawsuit against the Gov. Some ex-Goldman Sachs people brokered a deal that made Goldman whole at the cost we-the-people and with bad terms to A.I.G.

There is some legitimacy to that claim -- whether or not in the public perception it looks like AIG biting the hand.
They really don't care about that. When they were very close to bankruptcy, they would've done whatever the government would've asked them to do. Soon after the bailouts, they weren't even going to meet with Obama to talk about further banking regulations. I'm talking about the top banks in general.
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+1 thanks for this!
"take" and "appropriate" imply that the original owner is no longer in possesion of the item.
I think 'barter' would be a better term to sub this up.

a) Why would anybody sell drugs? Answer: Money.

b) Why would anybody need money? Answer: To buy some thing useful called X. If X is something like detergent, sugar, wheat even more better.

a) and b) imply in many cases it makes more sense to trade drugs for X than directly with money.
DMTCP : Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing
Why do most public toilet doors open inwards?