skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also know nothing about Massachusetts politics; and you're right, it is a small win. Perhaps she would have made a future in national politics. Now she probably won't.

How she compares to the next guy (who won't make the same mistakes) I can't say. There are an infinite number of possible outcomes.
Feedback:
1) Uploaded signature via smartphone option, which is great! But cropping was very difficult. Can you make that window bigger? It was like.. 100x100

2) The bounding box for the select tool may have been imprecise -- my scan for my initials had lots of whitespace above it.

3) At one point I tried to do a rotate, and it failed, bringing me back to the screen to re-email my signature. But the Next button was gone

So far so good, this is awesome.
Remote Execution Flaws a Risk to Spring Framework Applications
>I'll be honest, I'm tired of "free".

I'm with you!

http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-landlord
Thanks for the clarification. I was recently surprised by the return value when:

z = x.y

z == x.y # => true

defined?(z) == defined?(x.y) # => false
Someone please write an algorithm that tests HN comment submissions against the transcripts of both Fox News and MSNBC. If your comment text appears in either, it doesn't get posted.
> That seems to both imply and endorse a convention.

Sure. The convention endorsed is "should, but not required". That's exactly what happens. A pattern I see often is something along the lines of

def ssl?(url)
url.match /^https/
end

which returns nil in the case the url doesn't start with https and a matchdata object if it does.

jruby-1.6.8 :092 > def ssl?(url)
jruby-1.6.8 :093?> url.match /^https/
jruby-1.6.8 :094?> end
=> nil
jruby-1.6.8 :095 > ssl? "https://google.com"
=> #<MatchData "https">
jruby-1.6.8 :096 > ssl? "http://google.com"
=> nil
Well, your link has 17 of these, why not one more?

Plus, this one is for meditation only, and has feedback, I doubt any of those links would give specific advice on meditation like this site does.

For people interested in meditation, I believe this is actually a great app.
The bot you posted is almost certainly tougher than the best FL heads up players in the world now. I have been a professional player in the game for 5 years now, i'm not the best in the world, but i have discussed strategy with some of them. I don't think any would sit down against this bot, and it is not the toughest (see: annual poker bot competition; rubot i believe is much stronger).

There is a HU FL cash game machine in casinos in Nevada. You can find it in the Aria and other places, i think.

It is rake free (i.e. the house doesn't have an 'advantage'), it is a fair deal. You can go and play it all day 24/7 if you wish. You can play up to $100/200 and $200/400 i believe, and hands are dealt very fast.

Despite some failed attempts, you won't find today any professionals sitting there "running rings" around these machines and making bank.
I just LOVE seeing things like this. From the perspective of another tinker of panoramic things, what you have done is really impressive.

I've probably seen (or answered) some of your questions on the Hugin google group....

Anyway, 2 years? I wish you had come out sooner, I or someone else out there would have been happy to help you speed things up a bit. I know the satisfaction of having done it all yourself though, of course!

And yes, I have been dreaming about doing the same thing for a few years.... so, my hat goes off to you for executing this really nicely.

cheers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess
There are many kinds of rational thinking, human and otherwise. And I find his arguments entirely unconvincing no matter what assumptions I put in his thinking. The difference Socrates claims is important - the difference between people's opinion of justice/injustice against him versus the "truth" does not exist in ancient Athens democratic period, after all trials were decided by majority vote.

So "people's" opinion of him and the idea of something being just or unjust - are the exact same thing according to the law of the Athenian state. The same goes for the contract. He does not disagree with Crito's argument that people would find it reasonable for him to flee given the chance - which makes it right under Athens' law. In the end, it is the law as interpreted by the court that determines what is lawful and/or right.

I think the rest of his argument does not make sense in this light. I do not see any indication that it made sense to him. Given his argument, and the attitudes of other Greek stories from that period - I would say that he simply wanted to die, wanted out, because people rejected him - not because he would be violating some ideal. Moving away was not an option since it would mean admitting defeat, it would mean saying he was wrong. There's more stories from that period involving suicide for social reasons or rejection.

I remember thinking like Socrates did when I was a child - that rules presented some absolute "background" standard of behavior that nobody could physically ever violate. Life taught me that I was simply misreading the situation, nothing more. I understand now that I remained stuck "believing" in this absolute law because it enormously simplified the world I had to deal with. I was perfectly aware it did not work, but I had to get into bad situations to get shocked enough to see reality for what it was.
What is the performance of that like? Wondering about getting one. I have the imx5.
I'm a bit confused. It is strongly implied that Ivanov cheated by using computer assistance. But I don't understand how he would have done this. He is playing at the same chessboard as another player, correct? How could he have received assistance unnoticed?
I'm missing the hilarity, but I'm British and everyone knows our sense of humour is slightly off.
Measuring success of online education -- Duolingo better than a college course
Interesting take on finances. I wouldn't have made the connection between these disorders and money.
It hurts my head to see people refer to a "sandbox" as if the term means anything in isolation. Sandboxing is a strategy that covers a broad spectrum of implementation quality. Take Java's "sandbox," which is just its VM layer employing a complicated stack inspection based permission model. In practice it's very porous, and has a very poor security history at various levels.

You also mentioned Flash, which has a VM "sandbox" for Actionscript, with a simpler, mostly origin-based security model. Depending on the platform there's also an outer Flash sandbox using OS-based security primitives to various degrees. Since Adobe built their own NPAPI sandbox on Windows (mostly for Firefox), it's a good one to point to. It prevents write-level access to most objects, and relies on a broker process to manage those actions. Most objects are readable from inside the sandbox, and various low-privilege objects can be directly controlled as well. Historically, Flash has a better security track record than Java, but has still had its share of issues.

Then there's the Chrome sandbox. Once again, there's a VM level "sandbox" for JavaScript and one for NaCl nexes, both using a strict origin-based security model. Then there's an outer sandbox using the OS-based primitives that deny access to all objects, requiring all resource access to be routed through a broker process. Chrome is generally considered to be very good on the security front, and has yet to be hit with an exploit in the wild.

I could actually into very deep detail on how these differ, and the effectiveness of each sandbox implementation, but I think the broad descriptions convey my point.
Awesome, works really nicely on my Nexus 4. I'll definitely be using it from now on. The comment view looks a lot like my 'Reddit Now' app so that's probably why I like it so much! The transition between comments and the article is a nice touch too. 5* from me.
Of course it is a valid argument. You just don't like it. That's your right. But claiming the argument is invalid is just dumb.

Your OS analogy is also poor. There's about two decades worth of discussions about memory protection in AmigaOS and it's spiritual successors (AROS, MorphOS etc.) for example, and while some people involved with those are strongly in favour of adding things like memory protection (though it is hard to do without severely breaking compatibility), there are also a lot of people for whom part of the appeal with these OS's still is that a user can hook into anything and everything:

For AmigaOS there are user-level applications that can replace the task (process) scheduler, for example. There are user-level applications adding virtual memory. There's a library that gives any user-level application free reign to more easily manipulate the MMU. There OS itself provides API calls to allow user applications to replace the code used for ever library call (system wide - the equivalent of being able to override syscalls in Linux...). There are assemblers with explicit support to muck around with hardware registeres and OS structures. There are applications designed to trace everything that happens at the OS level. And a lot of these capabilities are in fairly common use by the (admittedly few) users of these systems.

You might argue (and I'd agree with you) that this isn't a great basis for a modern OS. But that does not make it an invalid stance - most of these people don't want what we consider a modern OS. Many of them instead want something where they can do exactly those kind of things with nothing like a userland-kernel barrier to deal with etc.
> can run Ubuntu with hardware acceleration.

Interesting. With or without blobs?
I'm not sure why scrolling tends to be bad in some applications. Perhaps they aren't recycling views properly or something.

I'm working on adding that indicator, as well as logging in/replying.

I wasn't sure if I should even use ads, but I could take them out. And thanks for the crash report!
We Spotted An ‘Author’s Trick’ Today
How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
As was said elsewhere in the thread, they are safety fires and the whole operation would be incredibly dangerous without them.
I've been told that in northern New Mexico most of the mineral rights where sold off long ago, in the 20's and 50's, and sold off pretty comprehensively. Meaning there are parts of the state you just couldn't live in if you refused to live on land that no longer had its mineral rights. Also meaning those people there now where not directly compensated for them, thus have not thought of the issue. (Presumably, this is priced into the market and land values are lower, but with real estate pricing being so dynamic people probably don't consider this either)

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It should be noted that my sources are people I vaguely knew about 10 years ago, who where whinging about oil men. So not reliable. But if true, it makes a more compelling story for people complaining about oil men. Also it must be said - oil men are probably going to elicit complaints where ever they move in as their personalities, and manners, are not, as a rule, refined...
This looks awesome, but I'm sad that it requires android 4.x. I blame the phone manufacturer/carrier for never updating my phone (still stuck on 2.3)
In the past, securely storing and
transferring confidential information
required the installation of dedicated
software. The new Mega encrypts and
decrypts your data transparently in your
browser, on the fly.
You hold the keys to what you store in the
cloud, not us.

It seems a good idea to me, maybe because I thought of it before :-) I'm not sure how well they will monetize it. I've read that economies come from detecting duplicates and archiving contents just once. But from the customer POV, that would be a strong feature.
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This was exactly what i had in mind. Thanks :)
The american system is one of the worst in western society, granted, but the British one is not that much better at all.
Some claim is worst. I never had the misfortune of having to try that on my skin but heard from friends and family.

How's the system in Iceland ? Or Norway ?
US Attorney Ortiz defends Swartz prosecution
A system for functional synthesis of images and animations
Given the size of the organisation (aka you), there's really no difference between no-profit and paying yourself or for-profit - other than paperwork. I assume you will pay yourself, at least a little, given you say "as well as my time".

Not saying you shouldn't charge or that you don't deserve to be compensated for your effort - I'm just not a fan of chucking around non-profit status to seem less money-grabbing when it doesn't mean anything, and given nobody will consider you money-grabbing anyway it seems pointless in this case :)
No offense, but I think that's a pretty typical (and boring) statement that is probably less true than it is on "main street."

Wall Street trading firms have to adhere to some pretty stringent SEC regulations; regulations no other private company has to deal with. That inherently means they're required to disclose more than the average "Main St." company. We all like to cite the bad apples (aka the exceptions), but by in large financial firms are as "by the book" as you can get.

So no, I wouldn't say it's unusual.
Sorry, I should probably have been more clear: I was referring to no-limit games. I did not know that fixed-limit bots had become so advanced that they were beating the best human players, although I am not too surprised (I was paying more attention to this a few years ago). Do you happen to know what the current status of no-limit bots is, or the current status of multiple-player games?
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Ask and ye shall receive! http://rtigger.com/blog/2013/01/17/how-to-find-a-hacker/
It does tend to cut down on (but could never eliminate) a certain sort of back and forth "nuh uh!" bickering.
Part of the next release should be backporting it for 2.X, I just wanted to get something out and gather feedback. I didn't forget you!
How to Find a Hacker
There is no information in that article except generic language about injection.

I believe this is the actual advisory:
http://www.mindedsecurity.com/fileshare/ExpressionLanguageIn...

It appears that spring double evaluates the expressions, so you can send a request param that is an EL expression that references values present in the server environment.
This is a good article. One thing I've noticed is that ever since I started eating all my meals at the office cafeteria (not free, but sold at cost), my meal expenses have fallen by a factor of five. Especially in NYC it's very easy to blow $100 on dinner and $1000+ a month on eating out, without even going anywhere particularly fancy.
I believe that there are two, related problems in the American democratic process. The most basic one is the power of incumbency and lack of competitive elections.

Turnover is at a historic low and getting worse. It's lower than in the Soviet Politburo, and most districts never have competitive elections. The last mid term was at least partially a reaction to that. However en-mass replacement is no better than perpetual incumbency, and blindly voting against everything is no better than being a rubber stamp. I think they're equally bad. To those that say it's worse - would it really have been bad if there had been congressional opposition to the Patriot Act and Iraq war from someone other than Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul?

To get better people, there needs to be rotation in office in a regularized fashion. Yes, that means Term Limits. I think limits on consecutive terms is a better than absolute limits. I.E. you can't run for the same seat in the election immediately following 2 consecutive terms, but can in the election immediately following. This solves the problem of incumbency without permanently barring good people. It's the system that was used in Greece and Rome, and was favored by many of the founding fathers.

It's even more helpful considering that currently, power in Congress and Senate is essentially based entirely on seniority.

--

Regarding Democracy vs. Law/Rights:

How do you suggest law and rights be strengthened? The staleness of congress is just leading to more and more use of executive power, more arbitrary and king-like rule.

If you want laws that are better and more followed, you need better people to write them, which is congress.
But isn't fixed limit a much easier game, generally speaking, than PL or NL?
I think our sense of humour is dead on, its the rest of the world (America in particular) who's humour is a little bit off.
Crawling the Downvote Brigades of Reddit
Biohacking - you can do it, too (video)
I think we may be in more agreement than either is letting on. However, in most arguments on this matter, the "should" part seems to just get ignored.

Now in that whole Rails hoopla, it turned into "it's not required and neither defined? nor nonzero? do it," ignoring the whole "should" part. And now people are pointing at Rails as another example, reinforcing their own bias.
Agree with nick.

There's still the NL frontier, but FL seems to be done.
That's true. I know profile-guided-optimization is used for Windows builds; unsure on other platforms.

Actually, this sounds like a fairly interesting project to me: Given a tool chain and a source code base, can we prove this was a possible compilation? In the case of deterministic compilers this is trivial, but as you highlight, not all optimizers are.
Honestly, I think these rules apply to most employees, not just geeks. But there are some great tips here!
ANA said in a statement that their 787s are 21% more fuel efficient per seat than a 767
Kate Durbin Finds Virtual Moments of Adolescent Vulnerability in "Girls, Online"
I've been following the space pretty closely and I agree that there's a ton of opportunity. I'd love to pick your brain over beers - where are you guys located?
Great feedback. I need to clarify that.

Basically, the Zen Master provides an assessment form for your evaluator to fill out and sign.

The evaluator you choose is the one who decides at the end of the 30 day VOW of NOW whether you have achieved zen mind through diligent meditation practice - and get a refund (or not).

This system provides feedback from a trusted peer, as well as provides a money incentive (your own money).
I am not putting down other professions, I just think that designers should not have the same level of respect that engineers have.

for instance,
You (and I) would not be able to react here if it wasn't for engineers to calculate and refine the process of growing pure silicon and causing a revolution of large scale integrated logics. Or engineers creating the integrated computer network called internet.

The history of science is full of examples that show how engineers pave the roads of most areas to enable others (like designers) to build further.

I also lamented the fact that mostly designers and others, whos work is much more clear and in the open are celebrated much more than the people that do really important work to make the world go round.
A Real-Life "Holodeck" in 10 Years?
> ruby's conventions (weak typing)

No. "Weak Typing" doesn't mean jack shit, and there are very few under its thousands of different and incompatible identities which Ruby would match, save for the very least useful of them.
Except now you don't need to go install programs on someone else's computer if they have chrome installed.
How to Make 2013 Your Best Year Yet
Well encryption changes this.
Assuming the key is in the hand of the user (which if it isn't kind of breaks the full point of encryption in this case) then each file will have a different digest and won't be detected as a duplicate.

Is there a way to store files encrypted with different data and detect they are the same file ? If there was, wouldn't this allow LEO to verify this and issue DCMA notices ?
OK but Google and Yahoo's news sites do something similar, at least as far as I can tell (and I'm a pretty technical dude - most users won't even understand that much). Again, what's going to entice me away from them?
Well, I went through grad school in astrophysics, and I never really learned it. If I did particle, I would have had to know it cold; then again, those guys don't know anything about magnetohydrodynamics.

Presumably, if you're doing type theory, you know it cold. If you're doing crypto or machine learning or computability or databases or (god forbid) are just a working schmo programmer, do you?

It's a big world out there. Can't learn everything, although it's fun to try.
I am looking for a Developer with an eye for design, WHERE DO I FIND ONE?
I work for an agency specializing in online micro sites and info graphics, I have used sites such as elance.com and freelancer.com to find freelance developers, but none of them seem to have an eye for design, do they exist? If so how can I find them?
Very nice ! The app crash when i want to login or "remove the ads" (android 4.2.1 / Galaxy Nexus GSM)

I am currently using this one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glebpopov.... but yours is good enough to consider a switch :)
You can also use ScreenCloud too, and select to use your own FTP/SFTP server. They have clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc...
s/Backers/"People who just pre-ordered something that doesn't exist yet"

I thought the whole point of Kickstarter was to "kickstart" your project with an infusion of cash allowing you to quit your job/outsource more work/whatever to get to market?
I like the app, but shouldn't the default view of an article be the article, not the comments?
Pan north into Canada. I believe that northern-most bright dot is the tarsands in Fort McMurray.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/712130main_8246931247_e60...
He didn't say we should forgive the prosecutors. He said we should understand that the way the prosecutors handled this case was not an isolated incident. Maybe there are plenty of prosecutors that don't act this way, but there are also plenty that do.
> Right now there is a boom economy in western North Dakota, with extremely high wages, low unemployment, a shortage of single women

Choice quote.
All APIs are Web APIs, everything else is Bullshit
Apple Invests in China—Finally
My 4-minute speech about startups, pathetic failures & Simpsons. Did I nail it?
Great App!! However, I still like my iOS application Hacker Pulse... BTW, this is really the best hacker news application I have ever used on my XT535.
The real energy cost with obtaining orbit is the high transverse velocity, not the height. You need to reach velocity whereby the net motion ("falling") vector is towards the horizon. Gravity is only marginally less at higher altitudes even up to 100K feet.
False start, http://mega.co.nz/ will launch on January 19.
What's new about this exactly? This was posted a few months back.

Ps. You can access it here too, http://mega.co.nz/

Their me.ga domain was taken away from them.
"Rich people tend to buy things that appreciate in value. Poor people tend to buy things that depreciate in value".

Obviously not a universal truth, but applied to money and/or time it's something that I try to keep in the back of my mind.
NPR is not run by the government, though it is partially supported by government grants. It's not Voice of America.
A tumblr for the dev team
Great app! An indicator when refreshing would be nice, but overall this is definitely the best HN reader out there.
Sure, i get that—but thems're free fuels they be wasting.

That's the only point I think I've tried to get across, from when I was the first person to comment on this thread...
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