skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what is your actual point here? Research is useless? Academics are only about publishing and nothing more? Doesn't make sense.

How do you expect eg low-level brain research to be useful for your grandma? It can't, but that does not mean at all it cannot be innovative or that the researchers only care about the next paper.
That is rather what I am talking about. He posted 18 videos this week (I'm not counting the two from the last 24 hours) with an avg. of ~55,000 views.

There's a lot of noise and people have short attention spans, he also posts stuff willy nilly. So only some small fraction of his 700,000 subscribes see any one video, for the rest it disappears into their feeds.

His 360 Million views is still quite a lot, by definition there can only be so many accounts with such a high view count. And yet that translates to a check of only around a quarter million dollars.

This is great for a highly caffeinated individual sitting in underwear and recording his screen - it simply doesn't cover a cast and crew even if you improve the CPM by a factor of x10.

The truth is that TV advertising is very overpriced and just like newspapers trade physical print dollars for digital pennies the same thing applies here.
Thank YOU for trying it out! Much appreciated!
So should we change our ways and embrace a simpler life? Would hunting and gathering be sustainable for our population now?
That's sad. It's understandable, but I don't think she can keep her motivation going with that deal. I know I wouldn't be able to!
Interesting nobody mentioned CLOS. From an outsider perspective of somebody who only used R5RS Scheme, it seems like the one huge difference between Scheme and CL variants.
Sorry but that Ronaldinho video is a Nike ad and is obviously fake!
Node.js, redis backed guess the song app
Exactly. I don't want and can't store work documents on some 3rd party system in the cloud.
And my whole point is to have one piece of hardware and not half a dozen. Of course Apple would like you to buy all kinds of hardware instead of one :P

Currently, i am carrying my laptop from and to my workplace and i'd like to get rid of that.

My guess is that the current highend phones already suffice for most of my work. The one part that is missing is virtualization for the occasional VMWare use..
They're affiliate links, if you buy anything off amazon within 24 hours of clicking one of them, he gets a cut.
I don't care about two window managers (besides, Enlightenment seems to run on phones as well as PCs).
Why would you like to carry a second computer when it's not needed anymore!? I don't get that argument..
Samsung UE75ES9000S - 75 inches
Samsung UE65ES8000Z - 65 inches
Samsung UE32D6200W - 32 inches
LG 55LM960V - 55 inches
LG 47LM960V - 46 inches

Notice a pattern, yet?
It uses the Levenshtein distance algorithm to match guesses
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A few tech talks, a bit of networking and some good hacking. 26th January at Mozilla's London office
This is wrong on so many levels.

First and foremost, the idea that "elected representatives" get to pick who votes for them represents the anthesis of democratically elected representation. It's like a parachute that opens on impact.

Your second error is thinking that gerrymandering simply seeks to place voters from each party in their own districts. What it actually aims to do is advantage one party over the other by marginalizing the other entirely. This can be the case even when the marginalized party actually represents a clear majority of the voters, as happened in the last election.

The third problem is that once a party controls a district exclusively, it inevitably becomes more extreme. Since there's no danger that a firebrand zealot who goes too far will attract challenger from the other party, the contests in "safe" districts select for ideological purity rather that the ability to negotiate with others - which is what's actually the most important thing in people whose whole job is to identify workable compromises that both sides can live with.

An even more insidious effect of the "safe" seat is that it aligns the interests of a party and its donors against those of individual representatives and the represented. Under the current corruption-facilitating system, a politician that pisses off donors or party leadership by putting constituent's interests first can be safely challenged from within his own party without the party risking the loss of the seat. Enforcing "discipline" becomes a lot riskier when retaliating against a "wayward" member could hand the seat to the other party.

You're correct to note that open primaries in California have been a positive development. But you mustn't forget that they were introduced as part and parcel of a broader electoral reform effort that also ended partisan gerrymandering, first for statewide offices, then for national representatives. Of the two reforms, the end to gerrymandering was the more important, by a wide margin.

You may disagree, but that's just a reflection of your own limited understanding. The savviest politicians in the state (correctly) recognized and end to gerrymandering as the greatest thereat to their illegitimate power, and fought against that far harder than they opposed open primaries.

Of course when it comes to open primaries and an end to gerrymandering, electoral reform is not either / or. It's BOTH. And while we're at it, we need to bounce any Senators who block filibuster reform. Getting all three done together would give the people vastly more power over Congress, and by extension, the entire Federal government.
White House wins fight to keep drone killings of Americans secret
I actually ran into the same problem recently, when trying to get my minute by minute data. I even emailed their support team, but no luck.

I wonder if there's an easy way to scrape their flash charts on the dashboard...
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Depends if it gets shackled to a completely schizophrenic manufacturer or not.
I wish we'd stop that. There's the concept of a [Benefit Corporation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation) which is sadly underused. It's a corporation that, while not non-profit, exists to create something other than pure wealth/shareholder profit.

More immediately, I'd like to see several rulings at once that state that future sustainable profits are more important than immediate ones, and that the suing shareholders can be held liable for court fees and damages for negative press if they sue the company/board an lose. Companies and their executives should be allowed fairly broad strokes to make a company valuable, including value of goodwill and paying attention to/not exploiting loopholes in the law.
Design in iOS versus Ubuntu, Android and WP.
I really don't feel the pressure yet. The article is certainly right in that Google seems to try hard - it's just that I couldn't be ar.. - erm - bothered to resurrect my dormant, blocked ('real name..') G+ account.

What do I lose, even at this point?

- Youtube comments? That medium is 'watch only' for a long time already. Reading the comments hurts and was never funny or interesting. Writing comments didn't even cross my mind unless it's 4am and I had a beer or two too many.

- "Play" store reviews: That thing went basically into the direction of Youtube and was full of people that had no clue but liked to post stuff.

(Before anyone claims that G+ will make this better and so-called "real names" will fix that: Yeah, right. See HN. Twitter. Every other forum under the sun. I don't buy it)

Hangouts might be cool, but I couldn't care less about hangouts without people to hang out with. Since I never really joined G+ yet, this is a chicken and egg problem (public hangouts? Naah, not for me, I prefer text over video for most content). No G+ account, no G+ contacts, no need for that feature, period.

The only one time I felt I'm missing out was when my local Ingress resistance started organizing raids on G+. I'm mostly kidding, of course.

So, back to the point of the article: I see that they are trying really, really hard to sell G+ to the masses and integrate it everywhere. What I'd like to understand is: Do others feel that it works? That there really is 'no avoiding' G+?

I disagree.
Thank you very much for your feedback! Much appreciated!
Perhaps a more narrow and focussed protest can?
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> Maybe that's what the US is too already.

Well, yes. Given that the reason that Singapore scores poorly is due to low pluralism, low political participation, and a weak press. It's a democracy by the merits that most people prefer: legislators and executives are elected, there's a rule of law, etc. It's not a democracy in the same ways the US and virtually all non-Scandinavian countries aren't: too much authoritarianism, too little citizen participation, etc. The difference is in degree.

http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf (I didn't bother checking if 2011 would work; I expect Wikipedia would have updated it if it were upgraded to a flawed democracy.)
http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2012/singap...
http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2012/singap...
Hurrah, progress.
They'd be relying heavily on other phone designers including display adapters in their phones, which virtually nobody has done so far. Motorola have one model, but I can't remember seeing any others.
Thanks, I didn't know about "x not in D"! On the same note:

http://dacavtricks.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/python-default-v...
the thing that is different is that the raw sql facilities are made explicitly available not through the common methods that expect them, but through something else.

The orm supports building the sql piecemeal, e.g

find(select: "name, foo(bar) as baz",
conditions: 'x=y',
limit: 3)

this is a small step above a raw execute, and obviously ugly and low level. Also a somewhat obsolete practice, since for a few years you could write it as a composition of calls

select("name, foo(bar) as baz").
where('x=y').
limit(3)

Anyway the functionality is there to compose SQL via bits using an hash of parameters, moving on.

Now remember that ruby <2.0 does not support keyword arguments, so the common practice is to use one normal argument with an hash value wich contains the keyword args.

Rails has this (antipattern imo) of accepting arguments in a dozen way for some methods e.g.

find(1)
find(:first)
find([1])
find(1,limit: 1)

let us not argue whether this is good, it's there.

And AR has dynamically generated finders (which Django does not have AFAIR).

One would expect the dynamically generated finder to be doing

def find_by_foo arg
where(foo, arg).limit(1)
end

but in reality it does

def find_by_foo *args
many_options = args.extract_options!
opts = combine_with_foo_handling(many_options)
find(opts)
end

and here you get the problem that you may be unknowingly passing an hash object wich builds sql piecemeal.

Notice that, as others already pointed out, usually as a user you shouldn't be able to create custom objects of the kind that exploits this issue (an hash with symbols as keys) unless your have other vulnerabilities already.
It reminds me of a deal with a businessman (but willing to invest): http://blog.wiradikusuma.com/2011/07/on-using-new-technology...
This project hasn't been updated in a while but might be a good starting point for a roll-your-own solution:

https://github.com/loghound/Fitbit-for-Google-App-Script
MmHg, I like my fellow human beings, I prefer more of them than less of them, and therefore agriculture is positive, as are culture, cities, medical science, and so forth.
In item 3, the "boilerplate" and the "awesome way" are not equivalent. The boilerplate does the equivalent of setdefault, which is mentioned later

dct[key] = dct.setdefault(key, 0) + 1
I have no idea. zfs on linux [1] is a different approach: It's a kernel module, out of the official tree (due to the license issues).

FUSE should work as well, I .. just didn't try. So ZFS for me is now a ~normal~ kernel filesystem, with some caveats about the external dependency and ignoring the big 'solaris layer' it needs to provide before zfs even starts.

1: http://zfsonlinux.org/
The Evolution of Threads and I/O in Windows
My good friend, refactoring is sometimes good, but remember the ancient wisdom: don't fix what's not broken! Your old code may not be pythonic, but still it works...
PLT Games January 2013: "a language related to automated testing"
Just wait until a large health insurance company buys Fitbit (or Withings, or Garmin) - they will have your data.
Without using the website, I suspect you can use something like Fiddler to see what HTTP requests are being made. Chances are the charts are making an XML or JSON request to their servers.

If you're lucky, the URL requests will be in an easy to reverse engineer format so you could easily dump all the data you need by adjusting the URL.
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I'm assuming this is being posted (from 1987!) because of how hilariously wrong it was.
Maybe I am a bit of a wet towel. Part of this is because I work in science where funds are scare (and we're trying to do really helpful and good things). Part of it is because I've been in the situation where I've had managers invest in frivolous items and it's frustrating. It's made my peers and I lose confidence in our manager's ability to estimate value in the workplace. It reminds me of the days when I would hang out at SGI as a kid and they'd throw endless amounts of money down the drain.

Plus, that kind of money could get you a nice espresso machine. Try to print that.
"I guess it is true, if you aren’t paying for it, you are the product."

But according to the author, even the $50 option doesn't let you download the data so it has nothing to do with you being the product.
Was it listed on the result page or did you get it as an auto-completion result?

This first is unlikely, the second is normal as Chrome mixes in local results from the history store and the bookmark store.
Nah, I was thinking it was the Chinese that came up with it. Maybe I'm thinking of a component of bicycles. Considering they have relatively few novel components- sprockets?
Just wait until a large health insurance company breaks into your house at night and installs cameras - they will have your data.
This just goes to show that democracy and transparency / non-corruption do not march in lockstep. (By the way, I just moved to Singapore from Britain. It's nice here.)
Violent protest.
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More than that, you have to pay for the device in the first place, so on that front you're absolutely the customer.
Searching for "sqlalchemy sql injection" brings up this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783305
If a FitBit is just a pedometer, I have an Omron HJ-720IT that syncs with my Linux box (uploading a week's worth of hourly step counts). It's $30 on Amazon.
The headline should read "everywhere _in the US_".

Your comment should read "all public gatherings _in the US_".

There is indeed something you can do about it. You can go live in a country where there is no TSA. (This has the added benefit of your productive energies no longer helping fund the TSA, as well, for incomes below about $92,000.)

A dozen countries have a similar standard of living as the US, and many of those are substantially more free.
What's the history behind the runtime.txt file?
I think not. This is very much in line with what I know from cultural anthropology, and the writer is Jared Diamond, who you might know as the author of "Guns, Germs and Steel" and "Collapse".
Indeed. Everyone likes to think missing features are some scam that the company that owns the project is perpetrating upon their users, but in reality they probably want to lock you in for the sake of locking you in. They don't know why, but making the data open would be extra work, would help their competitors, and might hurt their chances of being bought. They can always be more open later, but they can't ever un-open. So they're closed.

Don't buy their products. That's what I did.
c.f. Milgram experiment. It's human nature.

Germany is way more rule-following and is way more free than the USA.
Scrolling on my N7 was a hit and miss experience
"To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn't the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren't specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."

Science, astronomy, biology and archaeology -- all advanced culture -- cannot happen without the critical mass of population provided by cities, fed by agriculture. This article is such nonsense.
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It's now (finally) possible to inline with newest actionscript compiler and it's included in the recently released FlashBuilder 4.7: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=4789

Just compile with the -inline argument. The compiler sometimes chokes in some rare cases where it can't inline, and it makes debugging much harder as the line offsets don't match the source code anymore. But the performance gains can be huge as function calls are rather expensive in Flash, and you can just debug without the -inline argument.
Review my startup idea: Catering most relevant information
The app will analyse users social network(facebook/twitter) data and identify the preferences of the user. It will recommend the most relevant information based on the location to the user.
Original source FOR the "orders of magnitude" claim seem to usually point back to Fred Brooks Mythical Man Month (5-10x) or Robert Glass (Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering) 28x. I don't think either of these multipliers are accurately expressed as "orders of magnitude", regardless of them being supported by evidence.

There is some discussion of the topic in "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It."
You could not be more correct.

I took this photo yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/ilLp1.jpg
Only when switching between them requires an ounce of thought, OR they interact in some way.

Like if you're recording your screen, you want to be able to see the controls, the viewport, and the recorded region all at once, typically on many monitors.
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That would be a bad move. That way you're basically stopping average joe from enjoying the same privileges as large corporations.
If you live in the EU you can send them a data access request, which means they have to provide you with all your personally identifiable information that they keep, in this case that means pretty much everything.

I hate it when companies think that they can get away with making you pay for your data.
It's a matter of tradeoffs. Yes, agriculture had some severe disavantages, but the advantages were also huge. Without the stability that agriculture gave us, we wouldn't be what we are now.
My Mom has one like that, and frankly I'm a little jealous. Her usage seems to be sitting as the default, then after a few hours, raises it to stand for a few hours. Alternating between seems more natural (and no stool required). Do you intend to alternate, or just stand all the time?
It would help in cases like this if:

a.) the litigant was not allowed to dismiss the suit without the consent of the defendant, and

b.) there was some mechanism whereby anybody who was subsequently sued on the basis of the same basic claims of infringement of the same patent could use the result of the first case as part of their defense. (E.g., unless the original verdict was overturned on appeal, the plaintiff would have to make some new novel claims that were not part of the original case when suing their next victim.)

This would require changes to the law, but not nearly such drastic change as abolishing the patent system entirely (which I think is scheduled to happen right around the time the USA switches to the metric system).

I was the victim of a very similar shakedown tactic at the hands of DirecTV in 2002. They had hired (sorry, "successfully lobbied to obtain the services of") the US Marshals to raid some small companies that sold smart card programming gear. DirecTV then got their marshal pals to copy the companies' customer databases, and then systematically went after the end users, threatening to sue unless the users paid up $5k to 'settle'.

In my case, our company had indeed bought some smart card programming gear, but I was incensed and inclined to fight (as it sounds like the protagonist of this Ars story was). But the only "fight" we were able to effect was to have our lawyers write a letter (basically, "fuck you, we program smart cards, bring it on") to make them go away for us. They abandoned their threat to sue us, but this didn't affect any of the thousands of other people they were going after with the same exact scam.

Our patent system would be better if the law forced the litigant to a conclusion once a patent suit was brought, and also made it much harder to repeat the same shakedown once one victim had successfully fought it and won.

That's not to say it would fix the problem of patent trolls, but since it would weaken the patent itself (once somebody had the balls and money to fight a bullshit patent shakedown and win) we wouldn't have to give a shit how many shell companies Myrvhold and similar parasites have. (We'd only have to give a shit that they have millions of unique B.S. patents.)
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Nor would you confuse "App Store" if it was on Apple or if it was on Amazon. It's short for Application Store, which it always has been - whether Apple would admit that or not.

I don't think "Candy Store" was ever copyrightable ...
Funny, I like my modern, high-tech lifestyle.
How much of the web is archived?
Also breaks with the expression to check whether a number is divisible by 7 from https://raw.github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7/master/regex7 . Though perhaps because that expression is in grep style, and that may differ from Javascript style.
Why not try to intercept the data as it comes through the USB port instead?
It wasn't as hard as I expected to make the switch in my mid-twenties. I know that is not the same, but it is not entirely different.
Thankfully I have a trackball mouse, or that scrolling probably would have been really awkward. (It didn't feel right with arrow keys, too much latency.)
Their plans look surprisingly like a Motorola Atrix! It runs Android normally but also has an old Ubuntu ARM system on it which it runs when docked. Having said this, it needed a severe amount of hacking around and rooting to get it to a usable state and to fix the repositories and broken dependencies and horrible window manager.
I have one and its dock plugged into the TV. I also have the Lapdock. It isn't a massively powerful phone but alright for compiling this and that, word processing and SSHing to more powerful machines. Sadly, Motorola have announced that they will make no more of this type of phone as it wasn't overly popular (and the Lapdock and accessories were stupidly expensive)

So, with the Ubuntu phone I can see this being popular with a few geeks but not with the mass market. If they stop making Unity behave like it is on a tablet when it is really on a PC, that'd be great. That is one good thing that could come from this, right?
You really, really don't want to be resident there ifwhen it actually comes to that, brother.

Consider emigrating. It's much better, safer, and more effective than violence.