skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the political points were stronger: the revolutionary war was clearly unlawful. The constitutional convention was, well, perhaps not quite unlawful, but a sort of de facto coup-de-etat that a lot of powerful people thought was necessary. Civil rights demonstrations? Unlawful. Pretty much every political innovation, by definition, is unlawful at the time of conception. It's hard to see how it could be otherwise.

That's why democracies, if they are true to their ideological roots, need to be very cautious and tolerant of peaceful forms of civil disobedience. That's why it's absolutely justifiable to object to prosecutorial overreach in such cases. Status quo pressures, if deployed with the full might of the law, are the ones that are anti-democratic, and that's what seems to have happened here, for political (or, worse, narcissistic) reasons.
Looking for where someone mentions http://www.opentransact.org but can't find it so I'll mention it.
Secure Shell FAQ - http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/assets...
Is this news? I have been using this for 6 months.
EUROPA - Die Geschichte der Europäischen Union
What would be the advantage of such a service?
Why remote teams are more effective
I didn't get the impression at all that Facebook was "dumping" Xeon, merely that they were adding ARM.

Throughput is not really relevant. Throughput per unit power is better. ARM manufacturers have been optimizing for power consumption and unit cost for a long time, Intel has been optimizing for throughput and speed for a long time. Both sides are aiming for the same target, from different angles. A "low power" Xeon might be 40W for four cores, but the typical range is 60W - 140W. Calxeda sells a sixteen-core, 20W ARM board. By these numbers, Xeon needs to have 8x throughput of the ARM to beat it in throughput per watt.

Now, this is not entirely unreasonable. I've done benchmarking of my Core i5 against my Atom on an audio sample rate conversion library I wrote, and the Core i5 has 6-7x the throughput of the Atom. So, I would believe you if you said that a Xeon core is more than 8x as fast as an ARM core, and therefore the throughput per watt is better. This is all guessing, based on one benchmark I did for a library I wrote. I'm sure that Facebook has done some experiments with the applications they'll actually be running on the ARM.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that these ARM computers will be centered around specialized hardware, Calxeda's website only mentions general-purpose hardware built around ARM cores.
For clarification on most of the keys related concerns, please read the FAQ - http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/assets...
Calxeda launches Project Knockout for Open Vault storage platform
Hobby RC flying is fun! If you haven't watched them doing it, go on a weekend to one of the parks near you where hobbyists gather and just watch... only be prepared to get hooked.

Back on topic: lithium-chemistry cells are known for their potential to explode for good reason. It doesn't have to happen very often before the bad press really kicks into gear. This is unfortunate, as lithium is really a pretty good foundation for green energy initiatives like electric cars.

If the bad press really gets bad enough even cell phone and laptop batteries could become significantly more bulky and less powerful, just "for safety."

Lithium cells can explode when overcharged – a tightly controlled charger is a must. (This is most likely what happened on the 787, though no official sources are out yet.)

Lithium cells can also catch fire if the cell voltage drops too low. Cell voltage is a measurement of the amount of energy stored in the cell. The wikipedia page is a good place to start, but the practical effect of this is that the cell _must_ have a good regulator at all times!

The same regulator circuit can do charging and discharging; that's how cell phones and laptops work. Hobbyists commonly use a ground-based charger/discharger for when the cells are not in use and a very small circuit on the vehicle.

The voltage on a lithium cell drops much faster as the cell approaches empty, so the protection against too deep of a discharge must be sensitive and react quickly.
The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Guest Blogging
Truly ultimate guide on advanced guest blogging i've ever read.
Ninja IDE for Python is trying to match up to ST2 (and it feels more IDE-like than ST). Until it succeeds, SublimeText remains a very attractive option.
If you are using Rails, have a look at this plugin: http://say26.com/rails-file-switcher-plugin-for-sublime-text...

It allows you to switch between your models, controllers and views really fast.
It is a nice alternative to Putty on Windows
I wasn't comparing to Japan, merely stating how it took an effort to change.

America may be in the middle confrontation-wise, but when you add in the ease of obtaining a handgun, you get the current problem.
Not only that, it's an official part of our Oncall toolkit. I've got coworkers for whom a chromebook is now the primary (and only) laptop, even when oncall.
That's a slightly odd article. It seems to concentrate on the form-factor of the screen, and ignore the most interesting parts of mobile strategy; the ability to react to the changing location and orientation of the user.
How to create a Blog in Portofino 4 - part 5
I can't stand the mob, sometimes I feel that they are insulting my intelligence. But no revolution is possible without them. When intelligent people come together and try to make a deal, that's called dirty politics.
What Graph Search means for enterprise networks
Open Source Technology based micro satellite fly in Space for almost year
Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry
Compared with virtualization, it would be more secure. If a dedicated ARM (or Atom) microserver were competitive with mid-range VPS, people would buy it.

Virtualization is "leaky", there are esoteric attacks against other guests on the same host that allow attackers to obtain encryption keys. Last time I checked, the mitigation strategy was to move to dedicated hardware.

I doubt dedicated microservers will be competetive with VPS for a while yet because you can't oversell them.
> your opponents are unable to rebut them all because
> 1) they have day jobs and 2) they have limited space
> or time to address them in any particular forum.

There are plenty of people on the right whose day jobs involve addressing the issues that Chomsky addresses.
They do not lack space, either in terms of disk storage on Web servers, and column-inches on hard copy publications. What they lack are logic, facts, and a cohesive conceptual framework.
Provoking an arrest to gain publicity and highlight a law's unjustness is one civil-disobedience tactic, but I don't see it as the only one, or a particularly canonical form. Thoreau's original essay on the subject focused on the moral imperative to ignore unjust laws through noncompliance. That might result in an arrest, or it might not; the important part was noncompliance, and provoking an arrest was simply a necessary evil that might result, not the point of civil disobedience, or something to actively seek.

I hadn't thought of Al Capone as an example of civil disobedience, but that's an interesting point, and I'll admit that example does strengthen your point, because he isn't what people usually think of as civil disobedience. There are many more examples than Al Capone of aiming primarily to change the situation directly, rather than mainly aimed at provoking a symbolic arrest, though. Would you consider the Underground Railroad an example of civil disobedience, or of something else?

Even in cases where there is a desire to provoke a high-profile, symbolic arrest, widespread flouting to render the law unenforceable is often part of the strategy as well. For example, Gandhi's famous Salt March had two components. On the one hand, Gandhi personally, very publicly and openly, announced his intention to make salt, and began a march to the sea where he'd do so, in a symbolic gesture to violate the British salt laws and provoke arrest. But equally importantly, the Salt March was intended to kick off millions of Indians making their own salt, rendering the law so widely violated that it became completely unenforceable. You (and Kerr) seem to be thinking of the first part of that as the only thing that counts as "civil disobedience", but the second part was critically important to the success of the Salt March, and I think it's fair to call it an example of widespread civil disobedience.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not just trolling.

Multiple cursors can be useful for doing things like quick renames, which itself is already useful in a general text editor that is used with many different file formats.

However, for me, they are often more useful because you can pick out general patterns of text/symbols and do the same thing to all of them. Want an extra <th></th> just after each <tr> in four lines of an HTML file? No problem. Want to split a list of function parameters onto separate lines when they don't fit on one any more, or the other way around? No problem.

Sure, in many cases you could do these things with a find-and-replace as well, but that might involve making a selection to limit the scope of the replace operation, setting up some sort of regex to make sure you only find the copies of the original text you actually want, setting up another regex to do the replacement without disrupting anything else nearby, and so on. Using multiple cursors is often much more efficient.
rdtsc unfortunately as our faq says, "EDDM" (Every Door Direct Mail) or most mail addressed to "Current Resident" cannot be stopped. These are carpet bombed on a zip code/route basis (and a huge money maker for the USPS). Only legislation can stop it. But if your name appears on the junk mail, chances are reasonably good that it can be stopped.
>> walnut guru

Calling myself a "javascript rockstar" was funny when I was 20. Now it's ridiculous. Let's all grow up.

Guys seriously, what is wrong with something that most of us here would define as "art"? How can we, as programmers, let ourselves be hired by people like that, or even try to hire programmers that way? The situation only goes on because we allow it to go on.

And that "You don't use X much, so you don't WANT to use X for your work" attitude is complete bullshit, though it's a good way to spot a bad employer from the get-go (last one who did this to me kinda told me "Hey kid, sometimes you have to bow down and take jobs you don't want to take. Even if we don't even pay you minimum wage because we make profit skimming the intern's salaries". Poor guy's still posting ads asking for a programmer one year later).
The last couple of examples appear to be offset by one (with a middle example apparently missing), and thus the last one tries to run nothing.
No, you are not ‘running late’ – you are rude and selfish
No, quite to the contrary: Once you do this, you'll push it in the next commit. But in the case of an OS app you'd probably want to create a private repo for the app since all your configuration would be public otherwise. If you deploy to heroku, you'll have at least one private git repo on heroku.
I would guess it's actually the opposite effect causing these results: companies that take a shotgun approach to filing patents, which is typical of public companies, will rank lower on this patent-quality metric. The researchers ranked companies by average citations per patent, as a proxy measure for quality of their innovation. That would typically be higher for companies that only file a handful of key patents, like Pixar does, rather than companies like IBM that file tens of thousands of patents. But it still doesn't really say much about innovation either way. If company A files 2 high-profile and 0 obscure patents, while company B files 10 high-profile and 50 obscure patents, company A will have more citations per patent on average, but it's not clear that's measuring anything about innovation. If the proxy is useful for anything, it's a measure of how selective a company is in filing patents.
It's annoying when people assume that something that might apply to their own business is applicable to all businesses. Not every type of business needs to be ubiquitous to be successful; it depends on the market. For example, if your business is leasing virtual servers, it's not likely that you'd need to have a mobile app to do so. If you're Apple (or Microsoft or IBM), your software doesn't have to run on every computer architecture to be successful. If you have a successful game that runs on iOS and Android, you might not get a proportional return from investing the resources to make it run on Windows 8.
Yes, but it's a pain to use in comparison to this.
Not sure about google but Its definitely going to kill Forbes. I can now get all news from Facebook with simple search like 'what is happening in Paraguay?'. Or 'which news site should I not read since its filled with hyperbole s?'
Everyone rejoice! The blackest of all nights has ended ╰( ^ ㅂ ^)╯
Would really appreciate it if you've still got it.

chris.p.freeman@live.co.uk
Live reload is also an awesome plugin, it automatically refreshes the content in your browser when it changes.

https://github.com/dz0ny/LiveReload-sublimetext2
I once spilled some coffee (like 50 milliliters or so) on a top of the line Macbook Pro. The keyboard and the DVD drive simply stopped functioning. I got lucky too, because I shut it down immediately, pulled the battery out and then I let it dry for a whole day.

Right now I own a cheap Asus for instance and it has swallowed tea, coffee and water. Besides the keyboard getting a little sticky, nothing happened. I probably got lucky, since I am talking about a piece of shit low-end laptop.

But Thinkpads are designed for accidents. The T line has to pass military tests. Soldiers used Thinkpads in Irak. That plastic brick from the 80s can take abuse like no other laptop on the market.

And besides, I do not care about how shinny and good looking my laptop is. I do care about functionality. Macbooks are great for their touchpad and their high resolution screens. But thinkpads are great in this regard - great keyboard, awesome pointing stick, HD+ available on all models, not to mention things I wish Macbooks had, like the Ultrabay, which allows you to easily put something else in place of your DVD drive. Something like an SSD, or maybe an extra battery.

Something else I love about Thinkpads and HP EliteBooks, something which even low-end models have (ThinkPad L series, Thinkpad Edge, HP ProBook), is the easy access to the internals, without voiding the warranty. On Thinkpads, even the low-end ones, it's really easy to change the hard drive or to add an extra memory stick. On ProBook you don't even need a screwdriver. This is useful not just for upgrading it, but also for cleaning the internal fan and other maintenance stuff. This allows businesses to have in-house hardware support, without having issues with the provided warranty.

There's a lot of things I like about MacBooks. But IMHO, if I were operating a business, I would give MacBooks only to developers that know what they are doing and really want one.
One thing they couldn't do is profit from the materials -- as they'd then have seizable assets.

But, yeah, a bunch of broke-ass teenagers sharing music amonst themselves? I'm down with that.
The public wants economists to be astrologers or heretics, not scientists
So uhm, how does it handle sockets?

I'm thinking of writing some kind of p2p as a webapp that would be universal but right now it seems my best option is webRTC that, if I understand what I've read correctly, will require a complete handling of the streams on a server...

EDIT:
Or how does NaCl differ from FirefoxOS goals and why?
>I find the anti-democratic sentiment on here disquieting, especially the constant attempts to discredit the democratic process at every turn by unsubstantiated hand waving about how the system is "bought."

I think a lot of that comes from the decentralized nature of this industry. The status quo in Washington doesn't mesh with that very well. Normally when two industries have a trade disagreement over legislation, they both send their lobbyists to Congress to advocate their interests and then it gets hashed out and usually something mutually agreeable (or at least balanced) comes about. But decentralized entrepreneurs don't have lobbyists or official spokesmen, as a general rule. So we can't easily participate in that process in the "traditional" way, and then the process repeatedly fails to arrive at results that satisfy us and we rail against it.

Which is probably not very productive in the long run. What we need is to find a way to interface with Washington as a decentralized group. Because in many cases we all largely agree and have similar interests, it's just that no one can go there and claim official representation of the entire group and Congress is not currently equipped to negotiate with a million semi-independent individuals.
Has Mobile Eliminated The Desktop Computer? Think Again…
With most “predictions for 2013” blog posts hopefully out of the way (myself included), a look at some technology usage comparisons is in order. Harris Interactive, known for the “Harris Poll”, recently completed a commissioned research study concerning priorities for usage between smartphones and computers.
Tips for Hacking Photoshop CS5 Panels
Horde of space GIFs
Can't even look at the extension using Firefox. Nice work Google.
To be honest, new, from-scratch airliner designs generally are always delayed entering service and generally always have problems initially. This is not new, and is not unique to the 787.

The Airbus A380 went through a multiply-delayed process, for example, and had some pains entering into service (a pattern of engine problems revealed after a Qantas A380 had an oil leak followed by fire and disintegration of a turbine disk in one of its engines). The Boeing 777 had to have a heat exchanger in its engines redesigned. Airbus' timetable for the A350 is all out of whack. And I could go on and on...

You're hearing about "problem after problem" because new airliners are high-profile media targets, and most reporting treats delays and post-launch problems as being somehow unprecedented, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
> If we don’t want a world in which prosecutors have these powers, we shouldn’t just object when the defendant in the crosshairs is a genius who went to Stanford, hangs out with Larry Lessig, and is represented by the extremely expensive lawyers at Keker & Van Nest. We should object just as much — or even more — when the defendant is poor, unknown, and unconnected to the powerful. To do otherwise sends an extremely troubling message to prosecutors that they need to be extra sensitive when considering charges against defendants with connections.

This is exactly what bothers me with this whole affair. 4 million people are behind bars in the US and no one cares; most of those people have committed "crimes" with no victims but themselves (if even that)... and no one cares.

And suddenly the same prosecutorial tactics are used on one of us (one of us hackers, not one of us geniuses, obviously) and ends in tragedy, and we ask for the removal of the prosecutor.

This one prosecutor is not the problem; the US criminal system is the problem.
And driving in the carpool lane alone is exactly like stealing too.
Everybody knows financial engineers at investment banks use cocaine on a daily basis.

Should you use it if you want to become one?
Xkcd: Hand Sanitizer
Seriously? This article was written yesterday and javascript is still seen as "the only way to deliver code on demand to a browser". Sorry, but I love javascript and it's all been running in my console for the last 6 months.

So yeah, blabla "no offense intended", yadda "it's all good fun" yadda,... But most of those beers are pretty american-centric and thus...most of this article is not even remotely funny.

But still, programming language fanboyism CAN be funny, as evidenced with this Quora answer regarding "Programming languages in Layman's terms": http://qr.ae/1tlQs
That is one of the reasons I prefer Mac.
I considered this possibility but I think it is false because this kind of fallacy just doesn't occur in real life. I find it more believable that the author was just trying to ridicule the exaggerated rhetoric of both sides.
Why I’ve also joined the good guys
This I can understand.
I haven't seen this comment before and took something useful from it, so it seems ok to repost it. Your suggestion to link to the previous posting and it's discussion seems like the best approach.
I agree so much with what you're saying, I wonder if you are me.
This is really neat. How do you make money from this?

I see you are from Seattle, cool!
I said, "the articles he downloaded and intended to distribute". There is some suggestion he only intended to distribute the public domain ones. Of course, this might be hard to prove in court.
guys, what are practical use cases for spoofing your MAC address?
They could have made it more pictury like http://jquer.in
Data - Library of Congress
Ditto. It's a great alternative to iTerm when not at my Mac.
Tablets are conspicuous by their absence from this article.
As much as I am interested in the topic. I could only read a few paragraphs, due to being irritated by the cheesy couple picture in the corner.
Politicking of a Mash Up [music]
after the 30 Years War one would have hoped more would realize that widespread rifle ownership was an existential issue.

That's a complete non sequitur of an argument. You migth as well argue for conscription on that basis. I think you're confused.
but please, not as slow as that website. that site takes me 8 seconds to load.
NaCl executes native code in a sandbox, while FirefoxOS gives a plethora of APIs to Javascript.

The end is similar (web pages have access to much more) but the mean is different.
the Chrome Apps can call chrome.socket, which can listen/connect any tcp/udp connections http://developer.chrome.com/apps/socket.html

So no, private key is still private.
It's certainly possible, as you said, but it takes a philosophically aligned company to do it, and those are a rare breed indeed - very much the exception to the norm. By default I'd assume any traditional profit-oriented company that acquires an open resource to be likely to mess things up as it tries to extract revenue. (This is directed at @mmahemoff too - StackOverflow is a good counterexample, but again an exception.)

I look forward to location-enabled WV guides/maps on mobile, if that ever becomes available - that would be amazingly useful. I'm often tempted to look towards tourist-oriented functionality in my own web/app project, but would like it if the market winner turned out to be an open resource rather than a crowdsourced-yet-profit-driven one.

'welcome :)
Finding that out, I've increasingly been prone to putting little drawings next to my name.
By using this

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/socket.html

I played with this API for a few days and here are my conclusions:

1. the socket.listen can not handle much concurrency. It's very easily DoS'd

2. javascript String and ArrayBuffer is PITA to mess with. I tried to write a partially working HTTP/1.1 server, all the encodings and string parsing made me give up.

3. calback style programming is the new GOTO
Frankly, I do care that many people are jailed in a degree which I consider excessive - and I imagine most of us here do as well. We just haven't had a concrete rallying point until now.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910649
There's a nice interactive guide to the 787's reported problems on the Guardian's site today:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2013/jan/11/b...
Opus (audio format)
Silent Circle CEO plans on releasing all application source code
Our civilization? No. Boeing? Almost definitely.