skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was meant more as a joke more than as a beratement, anyway. Thanks!
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> tiny fraction of them are going to be ones that Facebook can resolve

maybe the rest they are going to forward/proxy to Bing.
"William Gibson's Neuromancer: 'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.'"

That is one of my favorite openers, too, but it has seemed weirdly anachronistic for a while. Does anyone under the age of 30 remember television static? Will anyone in Gibson's future?
It's more of an issue that startups can not get those licenses - at least not early on. It's simply too expensive and too time-consuming - we're talking multiple millions of dollars over probably at least two years. Unsurprisingly, the people that hand them out (state governments) are a bit inflexible when it comes to presenting them with any business model less than fifty years old, although it's slowly improving in at least a few states.
Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor's Husband defends his wife
September 11 and Oklahoma are listed in a different category (terrorism). I guess I should have used the matching terminology better and said "mass shooting".

Prohibition era violence had a whole lot of bystanders killed. 1929 had the most in number according to Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has done a lot of research in the area.

He also point out that although there was a rise in mass shootings from 1960 to 1990, a decline started in 2000.

I should also point out that neither incident you cited had guns involved.
It seems like your skills are sturdy enough to create viable products. Have you thought about contract work or getting a job as an engineer? When I feel like books/SO/etc. are not working for me, I tackle an existing idea that I have.
It's 'unbalanced' for a woman to spend time with a guy if she doesn't explicitly say "we'll never sleep together"? There's certainly something unbalanced in your worldview, but it isn't the relationship - it's the guy who appears to constantly think he has a chance with anyone who hasn't explicitly told him that she'd rather see humanity die out.

I also don't want to date either a doormat or a stalker, but I have no idea what that has to do with anything.
I think this is describing exactly why I feel like a grumpy cynical jerk about this right now. The internet loves it causes. It loves to pontificate on forums and sign petitions to change things, just as long as these changes don't involve anything more than clicking buttons and typing things from laptops while sitting on the couch.

I'd rather people calmly review the facts about the people and things involved with the situation rather than do the standard internet mob thing and call for heads to roll and people to be fired. Wait to learn the details rather than rely on emotions before you get angry.
Another framework worth checking out if you're into JavaScript MVC is AngularJS (http://angularjs.org).
And it looks like he deleted his twitter account already: https://twitter.com/tomjdolan
Offering deferred benefits is the thing that is "stupid" - it should be all cash to state employees so that their cost is correctly accounted for as part of the current budget.

Yes, I understand this might mean we have to pay higher salaries, but it will be far less than these crazy benefits they are getting.
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> everything else can be solved with web apps.

Key word there is can. You sure cab try and sometimes succeed in replicating native specialized components with html, js and css cobled together, and maybe even to get it to work more or less OK. But why?

> the ease of web development

You gotta be kidding. Developing web apps is not easy. Developing cross-platform mobile web apps is even harder. Developing mobile web apps of comparable to native performance is extremely difficult. I wonder is there anyone who after spending some time to properly learn either native SDK still prefers builng mobile apps with the web stack.

> The web will win.

The web will win what? Is there a war? A race? What I think will eventually win is understanding what the web is for, what the apps are for and what is the best tool for the job.
Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole cannot win.
Wordpress 3.5 includes Underscore.js and Backbone.js
It's more a cheaper Gotham.
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Youtube shows static when there's been some kind of error.

Which is kind a funny, considering nobody will understand that. :)
Sounds like an online version of the TV dating game shows. Would this only apply to the heterosexual crowd?
What's the marginal improvement under Bloomberg vs. Giuliani's last year in '01? I remember NYC as being in pretty good shape by that point. Has livability improved substantially because of the Bloomberg Nanny State stuff? Smoking bans are pleasant for some, but most everywhere has those now.

Though I do have the impression that Bloomberg has done yeoman's work on public education.
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he wasn't accepting admitting to being a felon so it was very likely he was in fact going to get 35 years in prison for a TOS violation.

Also, the practice of "admit you're guilty, else go to prison for (life|35 years)" is a common practice of totalitarian states used to crush dissenters and activists.
Ok, that's true, and could potentially have the side effect that matches presented to women are more random (more noise in the data).

Even then, it seems like the effect would be kinda weak, no? And no individual guy loses out, except possibly to someone who was just about as attractive as him anyway (and he's equally as likely to gain).
It can and it is preffered. Especially if you dont care about iOS < 5.
This would be great - where do we sign up?
Data roaming? French Connection solves what carriers couldn’t
Let alone what his posting habits may be, this management behavior is atrocious. If someone came to my desk and presented me with ideas to moderate a community that related to these hellbanned/shadowbanned methodologies, I’d flip my lid. It’s cowardly, plain and simple. It reminds me of some cruel school yard tactics that bettered no one.
If someone is harming the community (spamming), then ban them blatantly. Stand up to it and stand by your decision to do so. Don’t hide behind a cowardly veil of secretly isolating the person. So childish and weak…
Facebook supposedly gets serious about search, unveils "Graph"
Are we responsible for the emotions of others? If so, are others responsible for Swartz's depression? Then how is it selfish for him to act out the emotions put onto him by others?

I don't buy the idea that a suicide victim "forces" people to feel guilt. That implies we are not responsible for our own emotions and that we expect others to live for our own personal welfare. Believing someone else is obligated to make us happy, despite his own incredible pain, is truly selfish.
There's also the issue that classifying Ortiz's handling of this case as "prosecutorial abuse" is a subjective opinion that there is a notable segment of the population that will see it as anything but.
No, the difference is that you apparently believe that violating those fences, boundaries, or rules should cost one their life (for this is what a decade in prison is). You may be a techie, but if you think that digital misdemeanors are worthy of such stiff penalties, I guarantee that you are not a hacker.
I get it, but I thought it would map the occurences in my code, not just list the functions.
I took this course in Fall 2011. I learned quite a bit about many facets of SQL. At the time, it didn't offer much in terms of NoSQL, except to explain what NoSQL systems don't offer.

I've been a web developer for 7 years, and although I write SQL every day, I never took a DB course during my CS degree.

This course taught me about the database features which had always been mysterious, such as transactions, triggers, and relations. It also gave me some formal knowledge, which was the hardest part of the course.

Their online exercise system was fun to use and the tests were reasonable.
"Most importantly, Backbone events have two new methods: listenTo and stopListening... When you destroy Views with view.remove(), this will now be done automatically"

Well that seems incredibly useful.
Party Pooper mode in MailChimp is where the MailChimp monkey doesn't tell any jokes. By default, the mode is on so I guess these 39,975 went out of their way to turn off the jokes.
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FB search as it is not capable to become kickass end-user-oriented product yet, it's more like a set of technologies that could be used by app developers to create cool dating\hiring\recommendation services and widgets using real-time api requests. The best apps will be acquired by Fb or just copied :)
"The statute is discriminatory on its face and cannot stand under the commerce clause."

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1745098991866615...

It's at the end of section 3 (pagination doesn't work properly on GS at present). Seems pretty unambiguous to me.

PS: I think the least you could do is update your blog post to remove the factual inaccuracies and correct the misapprehensions of your readers; most of the commenters at the blog page appear to have taken your explanation at face value.
You can also make a lot of money today by selling your manufacturing off and watching it relocate to China.

There's a balance between monetizing before the next quarterly earnings call and developing a real product.

I believe free software is an industry-wide sea change and any company that fails to adapt will go the way of the dinosaur.

I've also seen plenty of people try to argue that you can't make money on free software. I'd like to discuss it – anyone around here feel that way?
From all accounts I've heard, he's pretty focused on the details. And the petitions site is one of the few direct feedback channels from the electorate to him. That said he is a busy man who will delegate the research to others. If he does decide that telling her to resign will get him in the good graces of an important constituency; things will probably happen rather quickly.
Honest question: why would I want to ask Facebook a question about my friends, when I can just ... ask my friends?
Oh of course, it's far from trivial to switch to a new language. But if you're writing code you'll still be using in 10 years, the maintainability benefits of a safer language like Rust could be pretty huge. Also, Carmack switched from C to C++ not too long ago.
Uh. Hi. Facebook seems to think we should date. Wanna go out sometime?
This was added in December with 0.9.9 - but yes, it's very useful :)
It's not the job of women to cater to every guy's unrealistic expectations of having an intimate relationship with them. This puts the onus on women to police the behavior of men instead of having men simply treat people with respect and heed boundaries.
Oh, I think I kind of get it now :)
"Everyone on Facebook who isn't blocked by you can search for you, but what they can see in search results about you depends on what's shared with them.

Search results respect your privacy settings, whether it's info you’ve shared, or posts with tags of you that others have shared."

My Facebook profile is currently set to not be visible in search, because I don't want people who I didn't explicitly give my Facebook link to be able to find me. Will Facebook continue to respect this setting?
I can also recommend Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1). It is an absurdly trenchant look at how power is derived from and maintained in a society. Gene Sharp is unparalleled in his research into effecting change through non-violent action and should be required reading for activists of all kinds.
The Bath School disaster, which you referred to, may have had a gun involved, but was very much not a mass shooting.

There may have been a decline in mass shootings since 2000, but in the last several years there has been a cluster. Whether this is an anomaly or a trend is too early to tell.

I agree that Prohibition era violence had a whole lot of bystanders killed. But compared to the number of gangsters killed, the proportion was much lower than the massacres that I pointed to. For example in 9/11, hijackers and armed military personnel were under 2.5% of the fatalities.
Crowds are fickle and fatigue easily. We become indifferent to things which previously affronted us. It is a natural coping mechanism to prevent the monopolization of our limited attention spans.

For example, gun violence has been a constant thing in the US. The crowds get tired of hearing about it and the drive for legislation goes no where. However, when something out of the "ordinary" happens, such as the grievous Newtown murders, the attention of the crowd has been once again achieved. Politicians know this and the ones pushing legislation know they need to act fast before fatigue and indifference kick in, and the ones against the legislation know it's a waiting game.

My point is that the process of crowds demanding the removal of an out of control prosecutor isn't going to get easier (aka more likely to happen) just because it happened this time.

We have a limited window to act based on the attention of the crowd that has resulted form Aaron's suicide. I believe when people say something to the effect of "your missing the point" when removing a specific prosecutor, they are trying to get this point across.

In our limited window of action, we can remove someone specific, or find away to address the more general problem of prosecutorial overreach while we still have the mic. Ideally that more general approach would not depend on the continual outrage of the crowds.
Now explain to the world why you think that his politics is adolescent without the world thinking that you are behaving adolescent.
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The Mint app supports an additional passcode lock, as do many other banking apps with a semi-persistent login. I haven't tried GoBank's app but they probably have something similar.

I wish more apps support multi-level authentication to support this at-a-glance information. I'm perfectly fine with my balance being only behind a 4-digit passcode, but transfers should require a recent full password auth. That being said, designing and implementing such a system securely is easier said than done.
IOS fully clickable annotation view for maps
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I would argue better standard of living.
I am 23 and I think it's pretty cool. It makes sure that the attractive people are not swamped with messages and driven off the site.
Self-pity never goes over well.
>No overdraft fees.

I already have this and have had it for 5 years, through my credit union.

In fact, just yesterday I overdrafted (first time in years) and was delighted to see it automatically transferred the amount to my credit card. So, it's basically the same as if I had made a purchase of that amount on my credit card.
Our startup is very excited about this part, since we let people earn bounties based on the intelligent connections they can make between people they know and a business offering a particular service or deal. We are curious whether it will be open enough for us to suggest or run searches for an authenticated user to suggest who they should share a particular offer with.
Sympy (written in python) also provides a number of features.
He's investigating now
Two things:

- "The interface fundamentally determines the behavior" and this thing has a real great interface. I just don't see how this could be integrated into the facebook home screen (newsfeed).

- I wonder how long does it take google to copycat this thing.
I apologize for the vague post but I saw an article earlier on about how some supposedly fantastic (wiggles?) widget company was unable to pay their hosting costs and was having to scale back and shut down, hopefully someone seeing this post can point you in the right direction but I'm sure that you guys could come to an amicable and affordable solution!

----- EDIT -----

Just spent 15 minutes searching furiously and managed to find this: http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=8457 - that's the page which the HN link led to, here is the link to the HN page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058788

Quite surprised I managed to remember and find that but hopefully I've helped to create something good today!
With Android 4.1+ (4.0? can't remember) if you long-press on the notification it will tell you which application is responsible for it.
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> Yes, that may have cost them some $$$, but probably not as much as you think,

Why didn't you report this number?
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No, it's not a marginal tax, I was just referring to the fact that total tax burden has to include more than just income tax.
Same here, went to the bay area for a few years and came back to Austin. It's just a better area, so many things to do and better quality of life.
If we're all recommending states, then how about ND. Yeah it gets cold and hot, but we have a budget surplus, wicked fast fiber, and low taxes. Fargo(1) is an ok town (Microsoft has a place there).

1) Fargo in no way resembles anything from the movie of the same name. That would be MN home of high taxes and no off-sale after 8pm.
I like how people forget to check that when saying. "This argument is invalid, it's main support is a fictional character". Obviously the adventures were not real, but the person was. And the advice given, pay attention and be mindful, keep your mind organized, etc. are all good pieces of advice.
Aaron Swartz, Hero and Martyr
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Six months offer? There were no conditions? No "no computer" three year supervised release? Sentencing cap? Stipulation as to the guidelines? Then why the insistence on a plea to 13 counts? Why hasn't the US Attorney released their last plea offer letter? The case is over, there is no pending investigation. Someone needs to clear up the confusion.
Side note: caching at a fixed interval is a great way to save CPU cycles. If you're serving 100req/s and you had to grab the current time within 1sec accuracy for them, you could have 1/100th the amount of Date calls by getting the time each second instead of each request.
This is crazy, you're already using closed source when you link with the SDK, which links with numerous other closed source components.
Man people really are looking for an excuse to hate on PG. One of the 200 companies they've funded does something spammy and all of a sudden it's "YC this", "PG that".

It's great to bring it to his attention, but these dudes are the ones building the spam engine, PG was just one of many investors in the company. We can't know how much of this he knew beforehand, but he says he's investigating, which isn't even the point. I'm sure PG was keen on investigating this without everyone pointing fingers at him like he made the decision to create this spamware.
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I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular.

I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and their dependencies, and the RequireJS text plugin to load templates from other files in the project, and now it all just seems like a mess. The promise of a framework with everything you need, right out of the box, is tempting.

Edit: Most of the alternatives (e.g. Ember, Angular, Knockout, Meteor, etc.) are already in my bookmarks. I'm looking for reports from people who actually used the things, not links.
Thanks for the explanation, those look like good solutions.
Don't forget to factor in the savings from not needing a car.
Agree and w/o doubt FB will beyond just friend of a friend - e.g. not too long before they expose three or four degrees of separation?
It seems to me that letting the computer calculate when it's in trouble is preferable to have a human guessing.
I mostly agree.

Especially consider dropping lines like "5 years in X required." - you're just filtering out the fast learners.
Aaron Swartz: Lean into the pain
Didn't think of that! Would be a really smart move.
The key takeaway:

> New stacking contexts can be formed [… w]hen an element has an
> opacity value less than 1.

I had no idea that was the case. The CSS 2.1 spec [1] notes that "other properties may introduce stacking contexts, for example
'opacity'". The CSS 3 spec [2] elaborates:

> Since an element with opacity less than 1 is composited from a
> single offscreen image, content outside of it cannot be layered
> in z-order between pieces of content inside of it.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#z-index
[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-css3-color-20101028/#transparen...
After Aaron Swartz: The Tech World Must Talk About Depression
If you know of any commercial operating systems where those "fringe packages" receive greater testing than they do in debian I would love to hear about them.
Certainly the current corrupt system of publishers who give free samples blah blah blah is totally screwed up. But there's certainly room for a "thin" publishing layer like iBooks, Lulu, Nook, KDP, etc. where the only thing the "publisher" does is free the authors from dealing with the nuts and bolts of ecommerce.
These guys raised eyebrows a couple years back on Joel Splosky's Business of Software blog: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.837817.1...
She tagged her sister and her sister's friend tweeted it. Not the same.
> Ubuntu 12.04 server edition. I chose server edition because it has an option for disk encryption,

Ubuntu 12.10 has options for disk and home folder encryption in the regular, GUI, desktop installer.
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I used to be a nuclear submarine officer, but left the US Navy as a complete pacifist and conscientious objector. What the pacifist movement needs is books willing to engage nonviolent strategy in the same way that military tacticians do it. That's what Gene Sharp's books claim to be, but IMHO they fail. They paint nonviolence in a little bit too good of a light, without fully acknowledging its limitations.
I think the Jx9 license is correct and acceptable for open source softwares since many open source projects embed BerkeleyDB which use this kind of license.
This page opens on Hurricane Sandy, but you can browse around the whole world. We're currently working on a small SDK for pressureNET that will allow other developers to include pressureNET inside their weather apps. We're also about to release an API let us share our data with weather organizations so that we'll be better able to improve weather prediction. We keep a blog at http://cumulonimbus.ca if you're interested. Also note that this project is fully open source!
Oh so they finally noticed Quora and Google+. Good on them.

Interest based social networks will replace the hodge podge of specialty forums using anonymous names you see all over the web.
"Siri, set me up on a Facebook Blind Date."
When I read statements like this, I am reminded why it's a good idea that we are a representative democracy, and not a direct one.
It's all relative, no?

Long ago, when I moved to the US from Canada, I figure out what I'd owe in tax in Canada vs. what I was paying in the US.

Keep in mind that I owed a home (mortgage interest deduction) and maxed out my 401k (which isn't a % of income like Canada).

I was only making $50K/yr, but I was taking home an extra $5K by living in the US and not Canada. 10% more income is pretty good, no?
That's exactly the kind of thing that makes sense! Hopefully this will get us connected.