skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good timing too as I assume IAP is an off peak time for people's work getting disrupted.
May I suggest you create an OKC account in a big city, set to female?

I tried this, and it was an enlightening experience; women's experiences on OKC are completely different from men's.
What on earth bank is this?
We don't modify the apps. We run the installers in a hidden window and simulate the clicks to install them without toolbars.

Thanks for using Ninite!
> Books are more like a fluid than individual objects. It's not especially inconvenient to own several thousand books,

Only thing I disagree with in this essay (I have many many bookcases that have gone back and forth across the US multiple times.)

I am quite jealous of the younger gen: Their bookcases will be an iPad.
Wow. That really sucks man. I hope something changes where you don't have to do this forever.

I told my Dad's wife to download VLC and she ended up with the crapware version too. I didn't even realize they existed until then. I was shocked =(

You have my sympathies.
Your personal politics seem reasonable. However, I think you're underestimating the amount of consideration the case has received here. Law enforcement, the prosecutor, and the individuals involved at MIT certainly should have learned about Swartz' character during the legal fight, and indeed they had the opportunity to do so if Swartz' attorneys are to be believed; sharing his politics is not necessary for a just outcome; they really ought to be familiar with the "hacker culture", given this occurred at MIT, an institution whose primary notable achievement is the celebration of hacker culture; and the target was not MIT, it was JSTOR. MIT was merely the vessel.

It's not that some people here are "unwilling to explore the situation in good faith", it's that we have done so, and still cannot justify the actions of the prosecution in a reasonable way.
Only if you hoard them. Once you're done, pass them on to someone else who can use them (friend, resell on amazon, used book store, donate).
This is the reason I resigned from a mgmt position. I was delegating all the interesting work (learning experiences). The team was too big for me to be hands on. If you can keep the team small you can still be the "manager/boss/lead". Hiring the right people can make it feel less bossy. I would do it again with a smaller group.
I'm guessing that a non trivial number of people heard about it and decided to join the attack, regardless of whether or not it was actually an attack to begin with.
There's a lot going on during IAP… see for example http://student.mit.edu/iap/fc6.html
I was 50/50 on posting this, because contrary to the point of the article it wouldn't work if stuff was universally valueless, but I made FreelyWheely (http://www.freelywheely.com) precisely as a means of getting rid of completely usable but, to me, less than worthless stuff.

What I have discovered is that there are some things that are almost universally worthless (e.g. CRT tvs and monitors), not so surprising, but there are also a lot of people out there who really are quite desperate for very basic things, front yard full of cars or not.
Thank you for not caving into their offers.

Also, good luck with your Windows 8 project!
It's not supposed to be a hardened network that freaks out whenever anyone connects to it.

Or is that the goal? To make MIT stop being so open?
Sorry, I understood it wrong. It's being referred to as "the next Halo", which is kinda silly.
Those opening sentences have a particular kind of urgency. By contrast, the equally memorable openings of Lolita and Moby Dick could never be called urgent, but they do instantly establish an unusual first-person narrator. What they all share is density. If instead you want to fill up the page with ink while wasting the time of your readers, you start your book like Dickens did in A Tale of Two Cities.
If you read the article, make sure you watch the video. It's a rather hilarious take down of a state senator.
Maybe we need an open-source Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha, but I don't think Wolfram would benefit of either being open-source.
I haven't been following the news on the Atlantic's sponsored Scientology story, so I dont' know what the actual parody here is.

However, as a side note, I had a chance to visit North Korea in 2005 with a friend of mine, whose father was (and still is) running an orphanage there (my friend and I are both Koreans - South, but both have overseas citizenship).

(The city we stayed was not Pyoung Yang - the capital city of NK, but a much smaller & poorer place)

Seeing the state of the people was quite heart-breaking. Because of the shortage in electricity and water, the entire city was pitch black by 9pm.

As a programmer myself, the technological dark age that they are in is also a huge concern. At school, students most of the time either do not have computers or use a set of donated computers from foreign aids.

It would take a huge shift in almost all aspects of NK regime to make the Internet available to the people of NK. My heart aches.
Report: Detained ARMA devs released by Greece
Do you know if the Intel App-Up site is legit or do they also bundle the crapware installers?

http://www.appup.com/app-details/vlc?edgSrcID=398114176

It's the first thing I see for "VLC" when I turned off Ad Block.
Do you use desktop linux?
Not entirely convincing. I personally prefer Falkenstein as my Chomsky critic:

The spread is a debating tactic where you present a set of supporting arguments so wide and particular 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. A champion spreader is Noam Chomsky, who selectively recites facts of world history from Indonesia, Russia, to El Salvadore and 200 places in between, which no one but a professional in Comparative Economic Systems would be familiar with (indeed, comparative economic systems was a flourishing economic subdiscipline precisely because it couldn't be easily refuted because those communist countries didn't have a free press and made up their production data, but after 1989 it was obvious this field was simple wishful thinking dominated by deluded Marxists-note:of the ones I knew!).

http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/economists-love-sprea...
There's no minimum on either account. I've got a whopping $187 in my Schwab checking account and nothing in the brokerage account.
If it wasn't for the shitty DRM situation, books would be the easiest thing to own digitally instead of physically.
I write and use alot of software. Normally number crunching on servers. However, I recently started seriously learning javascript. I had avoided HTML/javascript for years as they were horrible systems to develop in compared to every other type of software system in existence. However, with HTML 5 + cloud computing platforms I thought these systems are probably mature enough to start using. Anyway, so I learnt javascript and have now built 2 cloud apps. The first was to learn the basic ropes of GAE with JS. The second one is much nearer to to what I would consider complicated (but still one hop from my final target app). I realised plain JS wasn't scaling (regarding software entropy) so I looked at frameworks that could tidy things up. Note I have plenty of experience choosing software APIs to connect different systems together, but next to no experience of JS specifically. Anyway I tried backbone and I was like "is that it? the JS community is blown away by a fricking event model?". It seems trivial to me.

Then I tried AngularJS and I was blown away. "Yes!" I exclaimed "JS/HTML5 has truly come of age". It is a beautiful thing that saves shit tons of time. And as I have got deeper into it, I hardly write JS anymore, YOU CAN DO 95% OF PRESENTATION LOGIC IN THE HTML. You can modularise. You can ... test! Its amazing. IT WILL ENABLE YOU TO STRUCTURE REALLY REALLY BIG PROJECTS!
I hear similar evangelism from the knockoutJS community, so I am keen to try that out too, although I am getting pretty proficient with AngularJS and I personally think its got more chance of survival given its googly backers, and its more likely that chrome will start supporting AngularJS features natively. So I am betting on longevity as well as functionality with NG.
I'd say it's even more counterproductive then. No one at mit hadn't heard of the scandal at this point, but a few people's minds might get changed on hacktivists in general.

Putting up the messages on those department sites won't inconvenience a bunch of people, but this might.
Well, part of the reason they designed their search this way is probably to encourage people to like more things. Because now when you like things, you're also helping out your friends, by giving them a recommendation some time in the future. If Facebook advertised that bit in some way, or just if they design the user experience right so that you continue to be encouraged to like things or enhance your profile, then they should be able to adjust user behavior a bit.
the really sad thing is i was aware (and appreciative) of noether's theorem for years before i learnt she was a woman. she was only ever referred to as "noether" in the textbooks.
You have a vague idea of what you want to do. I am a double major computer science and business management. I am disabled, but I can contribute to something.

orionblastar @ gmail.com
Are there any special conditions needed to have a schwab checking account - or can anyone just sign up for one?
There's always a lot, but just on sheer number of people around there has to be less than say, late November.
Love it or hate it, PHP is here to stay.
Reference from a hilarious British 90s comedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgnuxd0tiHk
Replace every occurrence of stuff with shit and the article works even better.
A stacking context is analogous to a frame buffer object in OpenGL or a render target in Direct3D. (I'm reasonably sure this is what at least some browsers do for rendering elements with partial opacity.) The difference in opacity (generally) necessitates rendering the content in its own buffer and then rendering it into the viewport.

It's fairly prohibitive to try to correctly break up the differing Z-indexes and do the right thing when rendering, and was probably easier, with no real loss of functionality, to introduce stacking contexts.
So I can load up your web app on my phone, do some work, then switch over to my laptop and pick up where I left off without noticing that your app server is down? I'd like to know how that works.
I have read some amount of Chomsky and do not find these to be strawman arguments. An "us vs them" attitude pervades his writing. One common pattern is overweening assumption backed by laser-guided cherry picking of examples.

You can see the above pattern all throughout this thread, in fact. Broad assumptions that seem true enough at first, but are overwhelmingly applied in a toxic way. Meanwhile people are sick of this proselytizing attitude, only to be accused of setting up "strawmen" or "not understanding Chomsky" or something. There is something dangerous about an ideology that causes people to devalue the opinions of those who don't understand it.

But one of the characteristic features of this kind of position is that the people who live in a world of "good vs ignorance" are generally unable to self-examine, at least for that particular facet of their ideology.
Phone Tracking Tool Leads Authorities to Wrong Home, Constantly
So maybe we should punch random strangers in the face in hopes of locating their weaknesses at stopping punches?
It's interesting how some groups are actively trying to hold humanity back.

-edit, and by those groups I mean creationists. I don't know why this was downvoted.
No companies of importance are threatened by Facebook's announcement. So far the announced product is vaporware; it remains to be seen what kind of uptake that feature has from Facebook users when it is actually rolled out to users. I'm old, and I have seen predictions come and go over the years, but this is my prediction about Facebook, and I'm sticking to it: "Facebook will go the way of AOL, still being a factor in the industry years from now, but also serving as an example of a company that could never monetize up to the level of the hype surrounding it."
MIT politics is, and has long been, that the students of today hate the administration of today. This might be correlated to the number of folks in the MIT administration who are not MIT alums, incidentally. Fix that, and everything else follows.
A lot of people just have a workaround--their parents have a house, so they'll stash all their stuff that they want to keep but don't actually use at their parents' house. The last laugh is on them, though--when their parents die, not only do they have to deal with all that stuff again, but also all their parents' stuff, and that can be the hardest stuff to worry about.
Pretty, but it's a shame that there are a few inconsistencies in the data.

The most glaring one is that they have users in the Vatican City, but apparently no visitors from there.

There are two other things that don't quite add up that I've spotted. Exercise for the reader.

That all said, mailchimp is a great product.
I'm actually in Houston but I've been heavily involved with some of Geekdom's efforts in San Antonio. Great stuff going on there.
I documented the Facebook GraphSearch API preview
The new blogger does not let me to zoom in by the means of ctrl+.
It's so pathetic that I don't understand why people use it. You can turn that off can't you?

Back to the content of an article: Aaron suffered for nothing, but the student thinks that he should be extempt from suffering for nothing. What makes him think so? Life is pain.

He should be feeling shame right now, excruciating one, but instead he tells other people what to do and don't.
In short, they are trying to bring CAPPS II back.
That was me, I think, and I believe we now know that they are uncorrelated (although I'm not paying as much attention to all of this as I should). If I recall correctly, the symptoms from a few weeks ago were with the ISPs MIT connects to, not internal to MIT's own network.
I didn't say Christianity, so why did you attribute that to me? The comments on this article have drawn out some extreme vitriol about Scientology and I believe it is relevant that this is incredibly specific to Scientology, giving exceptions for other organizations which may simply be older.
I use Ubuntu and I can't stand unity. It's far too easy to do `sudo apt-get install gnome-shell` and do `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install cinammon` and still enjoy the Ubuntu base (community, font patches, etc). I've bounced around between many DEs lately. Elementary is really great, especially when I was just coming from OS X, but I've been shocked at how nice Cinnamon is.
One step closer to full support for Redis on Windows
It's odd that you're hilighting MIT's status as a defense contractor, when their primary role should be as a university. MIT is also able to draw remarkable talent in part because they have fostered a culture that challenges the concept of boundaries; if MIT now lacks the technical fortitude to deal with their network security in anything other than a litigious fashion, then they have fallen very far indeed from their reputation.

Further, if the cost of MIT's status as a defense contractor has indirectly been the death of one of the bright individuals in the very field that MIT holds the most prestige, then I think the cost is too great.
I said it's a silver lining, not a net positive.
California's New Privacy Laws Stop Employers From Social Snooping
Notification Center Woes
The link to the torrent for Manufacturing Consent at the end of his piece no longer works, but the full film is up on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU
no arrow in ff (firebug 1.11.1) nor in chromium (firebug lite).
How often do you really have multiple third-party apps using multiple copies of the same third-party framework? How many third-party frameworks maintain binary compatibility between versions so that apps linked against different versions could still share a single installation of it?
In the federal system good time credits are only available for sentences over a year.
Don't Let Your Boss Hold You Back
As a first guess, MIT students are very unlikely to react to someone causing them trouble by become more sympathetic with the people causing them trouble.

Especially if the message of the attackers is "people who break into the network shouldn't have the cops called on them." (Although we should wait for Hal Abelson's report to find out what happened behind the scenes.)
I dunno. Camping can be pretty boring, you should probably bring something to read. A VAX architecture manual sounds interesting.
How to be a great pair
Exactly the question I had yesterday.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6548826/angular-js-vs-bac...
You did and I read your whole post.
Fair point. To be more specific, I would like to write software. Web, Mobile, or Desktop. My goal is allow myself to scratch that itch without quitting my job.
Form Follows Function -  HTML5 Demos
Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.
Things That Feel Ancient
Honestly, if a book is good enough that you'll want to read it again after some indeterminate DRM expired/download limit exceeded threshold, it's probably good enough to pay for twice. I bought Kindle versions of all my favorite paperbacks, even though the paperbacks were sitting about ten feet away. It wasn't a hard decision to make.
Why NTLM is still very relevant and heavily used
Finding a Developer
I think that's the eternal position. The complaint in my day was "the administration ignores the students," so the administration asked for student input on the next controversial decision, and then did what they were going to do anyway.
I don't think I have any value to add to that space. I would consider blogging about my experience, if I can get something off the ground.
I pretty much agree with this analysis, minus the dig against atheism. I haven't read Chomsky in detail, but this seems to be an accurate description of what he claims on the surface (e.g. in public interviews).

It seems likely that hatemongerers like Chomsky were an influence in leading to Aaron Schwarz's eventual suicide.

I apologize for the insensitivity towards Aaron here, but it seems worth saying.
Because those groups would rather attempt to silence a viewpoint that disagrees with theirs than to address it directly and civilly.
My first reaction is more like "okay, so it's one o'clock". I never really noticed that it was weird before, though now it's pointed out I can see that it is.
America fares badly in a comparison of health measures in rich countries
Yes, but you're in control of your own stupidity. My tax dollars, which I have no control over, went into this particular witch-hunt. Asking for a refund is not out of the question - even though I know it's never going to happen, the idea is to send the message that I do not approve.
I upvoted you because you're quite right. (That said, 2 points make a line and at the time there were 2 comments with the same sentiment just cordially agreeing with each other, and it didn't look like anyone was going to disagree.)
Who do you think should fix it if not the MIT students?

Why don't they go and physically remove administration from the MIT and never let it back?

It seems impossibly unlawful when I write this but you know, there were times when students had a political agendas and they used to run over campuses, barricade them and battle the police. And now it's like "we're gonna hate them for life and not do a thing".

I understand I'm telling other people what to do but then again, the OP tells other people what to do[n't].
So this load-balancer is balancing between A&B. Now A gives back a few 503's, you are going to send everything over to B ?

[edit] I do get your point, I was just saying: don't start implementing a naive load-balancer :-)
A New Chapter? A Launch Of The Bookless Library
How powerful a computer can a chemical reaction network be?
i seriously don't get it.

myself and around me, people (early 30ies now) all use FB primarily to "stay in touch" with people that are not really close anymore. old colleagues from school, uni, whatever. co-workers? not so much, for that you have linkedin.

so:

1., who exactly should i want to meet out of these people's connections?

2., as no one is using the like button, what exactly is it supposed to data mine?

3., why would i go to FB to search, if my browser automatically searches in google if i start typing in the URL bar? or the search box on iOS.

social search? i want to know which restaurants are recommended by people with taste, not my friends. movie recommendations? i prefer ebert over the people i know.

crowdsourcing is mob rule.
Also, don't expect Z-Index to work in IE6 with <select>. It's broken
well, there is absolutely nothing wrong with conjecturing, when one presents it as such.
Thanks for making a case against what I said, I may give Chomsky a second chance.

Edit: by the way, I'm a bit suspicious of your phrasing in "mathematical formalism in his linguistics". Mathematical verbalism does not qualify as sane. I know a case of a person who does speak as a mathematician (very convincing!), even uses mathematics in his expositions, yet he is completely insane and what he says makes no sense whatsoever. I can share a recording of one of his lectures if you wish, but unfortunately he speaks in Romanian.
The public's taxes also fund the military. Extending your principle to this case implies that the public owns the countries nuclear arsenal. Can you advise what this ownership should practically entail? Should I get access to the weapons? Should I be able to use them? Or am I limited to indirectly benefitting from their existence?
Course topics look lucrative, but the introductory survey is only accessible from desktop, not from tablet or mobile. Strange to see this happening, taking into account the huge population of folks at Stanford who are capable to write on the Internet.
Wait, so in previous versions, when you destroy a view, event listeners weren't destroyed? I haven't noticed any issues in my Backbone app but this seems like it could spiral into a memory issue.
I was thinking the same things, but I just took about half hour to map out my books/tvshows/movies/sports/activities and enter them all because they are now potentially searchable. For example, if one of my friends also read a book I liked, that's something I'd be happy to know.
Been using AngularJS to reproduce a Backbone App :

markme (in AngularJS) : http://markme.alwaysdata.net/

which is a clone bookmarly.com , done with backbone.

The source is here :

https://github.com/Mparaiso/silex-bookmarkly

AngularJS is great , it doesnt do everything so you still need to build your own stack, as for backbone ( jquery ,bootstrap, and even requirejs as it doesnt do AMD out of the box ... ). It comes with a lot of testing tools , make it easy to mock backends , DOM elements ...

It is the best frontend framework for LOB , period. It has builtin form support , filtering , validation , is easy to integrate with bootstrap , and extend , and produce sane code , unlike ExtJS for instance( SenchaTouch is however very good for mobile apps , it is blazing fast. ).

If you are doing some animation heavy stuff ,where you need total control over dom elements lifecycle , i would not recommand it, backbone is better for that , i still use backbone for data light apps.