skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Eich: No one expects the rounding errors you get - powers of five aren't representable well. They round poorly in base-two. So dollars and cents, sums and differences, will get you strange long zeros with a nine at the end in JavaScript. There was a blog about this that blamed Safari and Mac for doing math wrong and it's IEEE double -- it's in everything, Java and C"

-Peter Seibel Interview with Brendan Eich "who under intense time pressure, created JavaScript", Coders at Work, p.136
Sub-reddit misspells name of site's deceased co-founder
Because in desktop apps we're expecting resizable windows, right-click ability, menus, mouse-over etc. Apps made for fullscreen touch devices would feel a bit crippled.
And let's not even get started on the problems if you're not a citizen.

Trivial example: at the 29c3, an NSA whistleblower was complaining that the NSA was now eavesdropping on US citizens, oh the outrage! And explicitly listed the UN human rights conventions...forgetting that those same human rights conventions apply to the people he'd been eavesdropping on for the last 30-40 years with no problems whatsoever, the very people he was giving this presentation to.
If the user deliberately puts in 0x it's probably because the number is more convenient in hex. Definitely get rid of octal though. The octal designation should have had a letter in it right from the start.
I dont belong to twitter or facebook or subscribe to many feeds. I filter my email. I dont answer my phone if the caller id is blocked or calls from 800 numbers or out of area numbers that I dont recognize. Presto, a manageable information flow.

I dont worry about being in a filer bubble. I sample other viewpoints, but I certainly dont want a flow of conservative or religious views. I like my bubble. After all, it includes HN.
I agree, sliders are for portfolios and that's about it. Every web design team has a portfolio, so they have a slider on their page, so their clients ask for a slider on their page for no reason.

I think sliders that clearly give the users control are awesome as shit though. Best example is from my company's direct competitors http://mobelux.com/

Great slider
Most SEO people will end up telling you that sub domains endup splitting your page rank up since they are considered different domains. We ended up keeping our different languages under different sub folders.
so:

whatever.com/

whatever.com/es/

whatever.com/de/
It causes the factories that are operating at a loss but being supported by subsidies to shut down, the cleanest technology of all.

Getting rid of the agricultural price supports in the US would probably help the runoff situation in the Gulf of Mexico, too.
>> He killed himself. Nobody else is responsible for that extraordinary action. We can only speculate on his exact reasoning for doing it, but I would suspect a man in that state of mind may not be acting completely rationally and just wanted to escape but sadly could not find a way out other than ending his own life.

Okay, I'll bite. Here's a hypothetical situation for you: Say I kidnap you and take you to a remote island or anywhere where you have almost no chance of escape. Now I offer you a deal - You can either commit suicide now, or I am going to torture you slowly over the next 10 years (or 35 yrs to make the parallel with Aaron). You only get one chance to commit suicide, I will take away that option once I start torturing you.

Under the above (admittedly hypothetical, but you see the parallels to Aaron's, don't you?), what would be your "rational" choice? Would you consider your _solely_ responsible for the decision if you chose the suicide option?
I'd say they should be more worried about ChromeOS, as the Samsung Chromebook is still #1 on Amazon laptops despite all the marketing money spent on Windows 8.

For Android, if Google added desktop mode and improved performance, and well-known OEMs released stick PCs with 4GB RAM and quad-core ARM A15, then Android could become a serious contender in the low-end market.
Bunnie Huang on Design for Manufacturing
Next big era? IRC had muting, banning, ignore, moderated discussion, voiced and unvoiced, ops only, password-protected rooms, etc. like decades ago.

Twitter should hire Khaled Mardam Bey and stfu
Suicide, especially for a person who has experienced episodes of depression in the past, is usually not what one would consider a rational choice
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048132
Too soon man
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I think the main problem there is that they render graphics on the cpu. Also, an android desktop machine would most likely use an ARM architecture, making the point moot.
Oh I know that, but whilst the count for less than 50% of GDP they're also one of the biggest customer sectors for Microsoft, and one that is unlikely to dry up and disappear. They'll have a market there for as long as the market is there, and that's dependent on enterprise developers wanting to move development platforms to whatever the new hotness is.

For consumers it's all a 'it depends'. It depends on whether it's good enough, rather than whether it does everything they could ever possibly need to.
That one concerns Carmen Ortiz -- not Steve Heymann.
I think that's a good example of how sliders can be used effectively. But most of the time, they're just not. Sliders definitely have a place, but right now they have far too big of a role in web design.

edit: and we, web professionals - suck at saying no. Especially when they're willing to pay for it. That's what we need to change.
We can all go for a vacation if the Internet is down.
Who cares about this DIY person, have you even heard of LegoLand?
> MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest currently serving as a Trustee of JSTOR parent Ithaka

I've met him a few times in the past: From what little interaction I've had, I find it hard to believe his attitude was "Teach that meddling kid a lesson!!1!". I'd also wonder if "trustee" borders on an ex-officio designation. (I forget his latest gig... NAS? Something like that.) Of course I could be wrong, but my money would be elsewhere.
What is wrong with you? You keep posting this article wanting it to say what you think it says, but it doesn't. Maybe you should read it. Better yet, read the actual indictments which are linked on that page.

* Computer Fraud (7 counts, for each time he 'deceived' JSTOR) "the defendent, knowingly and with intent to defraud, accessed a protected computer -- namely, a computer on MIT's network and a computer on JSTOR's network -- without authorization and in excess of authorized access"

* Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a Protected Computer (12 counts??? These weren't even protected computers!)

* Recklessly Damaging a Protected Computer (because he downloading the files fast enough to impact other users)

* Wire Fraud (because he was logged in as a guest on MIT's network and downloading JSTOR articles)

They throw in details like him using a mailinator email as if it's illegal to do that. It's ridiculous. You're ridiculous for trying to justify it.

And yes, all of these charges are basically 'hacking' charges. He was not charged with copyright infringement or anything of that nature.
I believe it's possible to do with AdBlock Plus and the Element Hiding Helper addons in Firefox, with a custom rule.

I use it to hide a few annoying toolbars and news bars on several sites.
Napoli calcio
Interesting. Thanks Jake. Going to check this out!
And they act on our (Americans) behalf and are funded by our tax dollars.
> If only to make people think twice about taking the "easy way" out for themselves.

Your understanding of the illness that causes this is sorely lacking.

I suggest reading Infinite Jest. It illustrated a lot for me.
Just out of curiosity, what are the other three of the top 4 most prestigious postings a lawyer can hold in the executive branch of the federal government?
I'm not saying it would be perfect, but it would definitely be better than no apps at all.
Very admirable, and I envy you. Any public online account of your journey?
Learn "rudimentary" programming..
Yet another reason to use JSLint (it makes the second parameter of parseInt not optional)
Researchers honor Swartz's memory with PDF protest
I agree. Using touch apps with a mouse is worse than using mouse apps with a touchscreen.
Will there be new subscription MMOs?
At root this is a philosophical problem. The professional philosophers have created a disarray in the field of values, claiming that they are subjective and arbitrary, and that's resulted in the inability of people to rally around common, objective values of right and wrong. And when you say something like this, you generally just get what these philosophers have said repeated back to you, and some weak-kneed alternative to saying "this is right, that is wrong", which is precisely why we are where we are.
Fascinating. As a current Mac OS X user I'm a bit envious.
> Whitey Bulger is just one case handled by the Boston office. Why is it so hard to understand that "the other side" has multiple facets?

It was a puff piece. It's also worth taking a look at the Bulger case: They froze his assets (the money found on-premises) asserting that he must have assets elsewhere.

Now, I'd bet that the money was ill-gotten but there is an unfortunate principle in the land that you are innocent until proven guilty. And proof of guilt requires a trial, which requires legal representation, which requires money.

Fortunately, he's old and therefore would not be able to live out until a trial about rightful representation is complete. So it was a terrific move on the part of prosecutors, because he won't be able to fight back and establish precendent.
I tried that as well to no avail. Downvoting people who keep going on about it seems to work though.
Suicide: Social and Physical Factors
I've been wanting this for a different reason than information overload: to hide spoilers. Whether for TV shows, movies, or sports, it's easy to come across a result you'd rather discover later on, and one shouldn't have to switch off all channels just to avoid coming across it. This affected a lot of Americans suffering under NBC's delayed Olympic coverage.

I see this tech being relatively dumb at first and saving you seeing results for a fresh event, but over time, becoming smart enough to, for example, automatically adding spoiler alerts for an old movie you haven't yet seen.
Businesses in 2000 managed just fine with that version of Office; as an occasional user at work I don't really see what's changed since then.
I wouldn't give much importance to it, the only problem I see is the amount of visibility this kind of contribution have. I think it should instead be only a small footnote.

It's an edit, we can't assume the editor contributed significantly to the answer. If the editor had a better answer, he should post an answer himself; if he had a minor but still significant contribution, he should post a comment complementing it. An edit is IMO the lesser of the contributions, only grammatical and spelling corrections, and a name attached to an answer as an edit means barely nothing to me.
Check out urlte.am, it is a bit similar to what you have described. (Disclaimer: I am a member of that team).

The history option sounds very interesting. For example, the owners of "ethical" URL shortener is.gd do just change shorturls if they like a particual shorturl (e.g is.gd/td leads to tweetdownload.net, a site owned by the same company as is.gd. I know for a fact it previously led to a different URL.)
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Is military Win8 computing the future of computing?
This is just why people like me with experience in living in east Asia (Taiwan from 1982 through 1985, followed later by 1998 through 2001) were appalled that China and India were granted an out from the Kyoto Protocol international convention rules on greenhouse gas emissions. I understood as well as anyone from my experience in Taiwan that China would need time to produce as little pollution per unit of primary energy as the United States does, but not setting up any system of incentives to bring that about seemed like madness to me at the time, and still does. The United States did more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the last year (by substituting natural gas for coal in electric power generation) than China ever has since the Kyoto Protocol was signed by many countries.
This is one reason I stick to statically typed languages. I do a lot of work with cash values and without an explicit decimal type, the shit hits the fan when you hit a float issue.

I get a lot of flak on here for that opinion which is odd.
Slightly less sinister hypothesis: aaronsw turned down a slap on the wrist plea bargain. The prosecutor charged the maximum because it is a waste of time to take a guy to federal court over a $20k fine and a year of probation.

You know that maximum about malice, incompetence, etc.? I'm not saying I _know_ for sure but it strikes me that most people think they are doing good in the world and I don't get why this prosecutor isn't getting the same benefit of doubt. Actually, I kind of do. Aaron was one of the community's favorites and to some degree that trumps truth-finding.
Muting is anti-growth. You're methodically reducing the content users may be exposed to.

The only benefit I could see is counter intuitive. People follow/friend people they have no intention of paying attention to, so maybe this is a socially acceptable way to ignore them.
How is your design affected?

For the case when the user isn't willing to give access to his/her twitter account.

The error returned is KeyError, since you are trying to access :

user = User.objects.get(username = authorized_tokens['screen_name'])

I see that you have put a try, except blocks. But you are not catching the KeyError exception. You are only making an exception when the user doesn't exist.

you should add a block : except KeyError. And figure out the logic for this particular case. (probably just redirecting the user to the home page)
> The real victims of suicide are the loved ones and close friends.

This is bullshit. And so fucking insensitive. This idea, that anybody owes it to their ‘friends’ to force themselves to stay alive when they want to die, just so those ‘friends’ can continue to feel good about themselves and don't have to deal with the reality that their friend wants to die, is completely fucked up. Have some empathy for the people dealing with those feelings, not their selfish ‘friends’.
Lead Wordpress Developer at http://infomedia.com/ and what's the first thing they have on their homepage? A slider. "What We Do" - slider. "How We Can Help You" - slider.

So why is your company using sliders? What was the "heck of an argument" that changed your mind on your own site?
Grieving Aaron Swartz
No offense, but I think I'll listen to systems thinkers and legal experts rather than philosophers for a little while.
Dynamically typed languages still have types. Such as BigNum.
Suicide is the catalyst, but it is not the reason for the protest. The reason is that no U.S. citizen should face 30 years in prison, $1,000,000 in fines, and a trial that would lead to financial ruin (no matter the outcome) for making publicly funded documents public. This reads like something that would happen in China, not here.
I don't think you undersstood my post. Its a justification for suicide, not a plea for special treatment.

There are few scenarios where I imagine killing myself and being given a long jail sentence is one of them. While this sounds dramatic, I have given this a lot of thought and accept it as something I would do.

>That is not how the law should work.

Lots of judges consider the crime and background of the convicted. There's a reason why a lot of white collar crime guys get minimum security or home incarceration.
Looking at those edits in particular, they do appear to make the post more readable. Nothing wrong with correcting some small grammar issues and adding a few links to explain the terms used.
Bullying has always existed; we'd just decided it matters more.

Suicide has also always existed; we just care more now.
I've worked there for a year and a half, and the site is older than that. I can assure you our designers and me all want it to go away. And there are 25 people in our company, so I don't get to do whatever I want whenever I want. If I had posted that on our company site, your point would be valid.

And we're actually in early stages of a redesign (it's not even in WordPress right now), so it'll get taken care of : )
OP comments further down "My mistake was from double-checking myself with my local paper which made the same mistake. The error is the post is mine alone, and no disrespect is intended."

I don't think this is a big deal.
> No one will hire you

Out of curiosity, why is this? I've heard similar statements from people who have found or worked in startups that they'd never hire a programmer who's over ~35 years of age or so, but I've never been able to figure out why.
It is important to note; we don't and should not punish citizens, civilian or government employed, for being vindictive. We punish/rehabilitate them so that they won't hurt another human again. Unfortunately the courtroom can be a vicious, painful environment--aggressive behavior is awarded there. I think many parties are to blame--a public Government apology of any kind and promises to do better would at least be a place to start.
You can't break a few eggs when they are so valuable. And how can they not realize how sad this is? It makes me feel sick.
It's not really about static typing or not, it's really about JS having some really strange and counter-intuitive behaviours in a lot of cases (numbers, default method scope, truthy values, ...).
Part of it is probably due to the fact that the syntax looks so much like C and Java that you'd except it to behave the same. Part of it seem to be that it's hard to fix things without breaking existing codebases.
Getting information about your users – using Localytics in your app
Fair enough. Thank you for the information.
Sure, he was in a tough situation, and I'll admit I don't know the entire backstory of what led up to this man's suicide(although there is no shortage of information on the HN front page as of late), but there is nobody that can be held responsible for his suicide other than himself.

He was an extremely dedicated political activist. I'm pretty sure that was a big reason for of his decision to end his life, and to end it on the 2nd anniversary of his arrest. His suicide has brought more attention to this case and corruption in the justice system than he probably would have been able to do if he were still alive. Of course he was struggling with depression and who knows what other problems, but his death seems strategically planned.
Suicide is still a taboo for many people. Reporting a death as a suicide is still problematic for some people. Not that long ago the common practice was to record deaths as accidental or misadventure rather than suicide unless it was unequivocally suicide.

Reported rates were lower because of this.

Newspapers understood better their responsibility to be careful about reporting suicide; the Werther effect is real and has killed people.

Children's rights are a relatively recent phenomenon. Bullying used to be seen as character forming or as an unstoppable part of childhood.

The extreme end of bullying is more severe now. And bullies have access to technology which extends the bullying from the school to the bullied person's wider life.

tl;dr yes, there is more awareness, and more reporting, and the bullying is worse, and more children choosing suicide.
If he made a bad choice, isn't that on him (and perhaps partly on his parents/educators for how they equipped him to deal with life), not on the Government?

If he made a bad, irrational choice in this matter, I see no particular reason to assume he wasn't doing an equally bad job with the rest of his life too. So I still don't see any reason to regard the suicide in particular as the tragedy. He didn't like his life, he took the "easy way out" which may well have been a selfish choice that sucked less for himself.

As to the link, if anti-suicide people want to be effective and moral they should A) be less sure they know what's best for someone else's complicated life B) never ever use force on people who ask for their help (this fear of violence is a big reason some people don't, e.g., call suicide helplines. note that perhaps this unsuitability of such lines arguably contributed to Aaron's death -- if the world was a better more helpful and nice place he might have gotten more help that he found helpful and preferred staying in it more)
Why not just drop the fucking case then? Jesus, how many millions of our tax dollars were spent doing our best to drive this kid to suicide?

JSTOR didn't want prosecution and arguably neither did MIT.

I can't stand these justifications that seem to make everyone a slave to the machine. Heck, you and I break hundreds of laws a day, maybe even a felony or two or three. Federal prosecutors can do whatever they want with us. We have no power over them. We can at least expect them to go after real crime with real victims instead of political activists.

If we lived by these "go by the letter of the law and prosecute everyone who breaks any law" ideals then literally everyone except newborns would be in prison.
If you use homebrew on osx, you can `brew install go --cross-compile-all` to get all of them built. Or `brew install go --cross-compile-common` to get the common ones (arm is in the common group).
When did slideshows become sliders, which used to mean something else?

Why does Android call its drop-down menus spinners?

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary."
And this is different from the status quo how? How does running to the same group of "experts" who have engineered our social systems help? Note how conditioned the response is: you see a problem with the system, you're conditioned to trust in the system (and its approved representatives) to give you answers.

You're part of the problem of course. You and everyone like you. By rejecting philosophy you reject ethics and therefore any possible means of addressing these systematic problems.
As Lessig reported, the plea bargain would have meant pleading guilty to a felony.

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bull...

In that world, the question this government needs to
answer is why it was so necessary that Aaron Swartz be
labeled a “felon.” For in the 18 months of negotiations,
that was what he was not willing to accept, and so that
was the reason he was facing a million dollar trial in
April — his wealth bled dry, yet unable to appeal openly
to us for the financial help he needed to fund his
defense, at least without risking the ire of a district
court judge. And so as wrong and misguided and fucking sad
as this is, I get how the prospect of this fight,
defenseless, made it make sense to this brilliant but
troubled boy to end it.

The prosecutor isn't getting the "benefit of the doubt" because even a cursory look into her history shows that her office and attorneys (like Steve Heymann) have been railroading defendants and pushing spurious cases (google "Ortiz Russ Caswell" or "Ortiz UIGEA"). Carmen M. Ortiz is a bad person who abused her authority and the public trust; with Steve Heymann she pushed for 35 years in federal prison for downloading pdfs even when JSTOR refused to press charges. She cannot be voted out, and she will not listen to reason, so she must be forced to resign in disgrace. This is what prosecutors call "deterrence".

Sign the petition if you don't want Aaron's death to be in vain. He helped start the movement against SOPA for us, it is the least we can do for him.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...
> Suicide is the one crime

Suicide is not a crime in the united states.