skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There staff lawyers are the ones actually writing the legislation.
The author, Marvin Ammori has been an amazing friend to issues that matter in keeping the Internet free and open and transparent. Really lucky to have people like him on "our team."

He also works behind the scenes on a tremendous number of other important issues, and he's well-known as someone who connects entrepreneurs and technologists in the valley to the lobbyists and politicians in Washington DC to make sure the tech voice is heard.

The SOPA work done in DC in 2011 was a great example of an issue where he was connecting people left and right behind the scenes who ultimately made a huge difference in defeating SOPA.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Ammori
I'm going to use this to replace Paypal's "Buy now" button on my blog
Is it compatible with the three 3D Projects from the kickstarter?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1682938109/robo-3d-print...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affor...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/b9creations/b9creator-a-...
Your own desire (financial or otherwise) is absolutely key. It's an extremely competitive landscape, but the barrier to entry is low compared to other industries. You can do quite a lot on your own with an investment of mostly time and energy.
It's really only workable when authing to the device. Not over a network. I'd basically assume that anyone can forge your biometric info, so it's only applicable in scenarios where the forgery is hard to execute.
Can we get a journalist to cover the history of the copyright of this broadcast and the players who continue to profit from the doctor's fine words? I'd really like to know why his family ever felt entitled to keeping such a monumental event repressed.
Opera’s Upcoming "Ice" Mobile Browser Drops Presto For WebKit
Has anybody found / done a benchmark that would compare the scalability of a Cassandra cluster vs an ElasticSearch cluster the latter used as a NoSQL database (with stored fields)?

I am interested with 2 kinds of scalability:

- volume scalability with single concurrent user: average read / write query times vs stored-data and indexes size vs number of EC2 nodes
- concurrency scalability with a fixed size database: average read / write query times vs number of concurrent users vs number of EC2 nodes
Mobile app economy is exploding
The operative bit there is 'nakedly', without any pretense of decency or cover. Just do it and you can get away with it, nobody will lift a finger.
I understand this would be possible but then they are essentially lying about their privacy attributes.
How much salary is enough? Apparently, $75,000/year
It's inconceivable that he will end up regretting any of this. It shows him at his most vulnerable and most powerful at the same time. He can be justly proud of writing this, I wished I could put how all this makes me feel into words like that.
Is there a way I can dynamically change the data-amount, data-name, and data-description fields with Javascript depending on what the user clicks?

I'm picturing the user clicking a checkbox for an add-on product without having to make a round-trip back to the server.
> auction, where there aren't many bidders.

and where there are many bidders, there are likely people who do this for a living and know exactly how much the house is worth, how much it will cost them to fix it, how much they can rent it for etc. AND they have the professional network in place for all of that-- relationships with contractors, etc

as another poster pointed out, it essentially becomes a job. and you will be competing with people who do this as their full-time job, who will likely have more experience and better connections than you.
It bothers me to no end when people discuss "science" as if it were just one of many options available. Science is the pursuit of truth and the pursuit of truth is science. There are no alternatives.
The question raised in the title demonstrates a failure to understand what "civil disobedience" means. If you aren't breaking the law to protest the injustice of the law, you aren't committing civil disobedience. So, the two things posed as alternatives aren't actually alternatives; characterizing hacktivism as civil disobedience (given that it the "cyber" part is indisputable) requires first accepting that it is cybercrime, even if it shouldn't be, and any form of hacktivism that isn't cybercrime also isn't civil disobedience.
Which is better? Dropbox or Mega?
Your solution to not being able to login is to login and change settings?
Lots of non-tech companies utilize some form of gamification:

-Airlines: frequent flyer miles

-Hotels: reward/loyalty points

-Food/Beverage industry: punch cards, LevelUp, GoPago, McDonald's Monopoly games, Coca Cola's QR codes and cap rewards, etc.
From Aaron's Post: "Why did doctors so stubbornly reject Ignaz Semmelweis? Well, imagine being told you were responsible for the deaths of thousands of your patients. That you had been killing the people you were supposed to be protecting. That you were so bad at your job that you were actually worse than just giving birth in the street."

Why can't Ortiz admit fault? If her and her department have made it common practice to do heavy handed plea bargaining and getting people to accept disproportionate punishments, like was revealed in Aaron's case then they are guilty of much more injustice than what they did to Aaron.

They deny they did anything wrong in the face of evidence that says otherwise because it would make them culpable in a much wider scope. This is the core behavior described in Aaron's post.

As a prosecutor, especially a government prosecutor, they shouldn't use every methods a judge lets them get away with when they are clearly unethical and lead away from justice. If this is now business as usual for the DOJ then, like the doctors who didn't wash their hands in Aaron post, they have been guilty of grave misconduct for a while now.
Doesn't seem like an unreasonable assumption to me.
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Well, in most cases there are nine other digits you can use. That's probably a reasonable amount of redundancy.
Every "voxel engine" I've ever seen just draws polygons. One of my co-conspirators on a side project[1] used surface nets over voxels with density bits to create slope-friendly meshes that are also used for physics calculations. Each mesh is pretty large and there are some economies of scale for drawing larger meshes like these.

Minecraft for a long time just batched each visible side, I think even ignoring occlusion, and drew it; I don't know if they precompute larger meshes now.

[1] - http://static.largerussiangames.com/voxels/videos/rigidbodie... (Each 'companion cube' is really attached to a spherical physics body, the physics aren't mapped to the mesh.)
Sounds like Robert Kiyosaki too
You can also sing the happy birthday song for him on MLK's birthday, in defiance of copyright.

This is even more apt than you think:

"In the 1987 documentary Eyes on the Prize about the US Civil Rights Movement, there was a birthday party scene in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s discouragement began to lift. After its initial release, the film was unavailable for sale or broadcast for many years because of the cost of clearing many copyrights, of which "Happy Birthday to You" was one. Grants in 2005 for copyright clearances[15] have allowed PBS to rebroadcast the film as recently as February 2008.[16]"

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
not really, its just a native code wrapper and most games still require Windows
>If they refuse and insist that this is business as usual for them then it should be legislated by the government that all previous cases involving heavy handed plea bargaining under the current DOJ staff should be re-opened and re-negotiated under saner conditions.

That is never going to happen because it would involve entirely too many cases. You would have a better chance of just having them all freed and put back on the streets, because at least that wouldn't be cost prohibitive, and you can imagine about how likely that is. This is notwithstanding that you are entirely right: this is clearly not justice.

I think we need to look forward rather than back. We need to fix the laws. Cut the criminal penalties drastically for all non-violent non-financial offenses and outright repeal laws against things that don't need to be illegal. Then we can legitimately argue for the release of anyone in prison for violating the laws taken off the books, and the reduction in sentence for anyone previously convicted of anything with a lowered penalty.
Yeah, there's a full JavaScript API for setting these dynamically. Check out (no pun...) https://stripe.com/docs/checkout.
"It's important to find a good property manager in the area you are investing."

Also not as easy as implied.
Firing someone is still a step in the right direction if it forces other prosecutors to even think about the possibility of them being fired as well.
While I'm not opposed to speed improvements just happening. I'm somewhat curious to know how often the processing power of javascript is the limiting factor in an application.

That is, I can't see this being too compelling for the majority use case of browsers. Without that, I can't see not having Dart support being an issue for competing browsers.
This is kind of similar to Gumroad's Overlay: https://gumroad.com/overlay
I agree with Zoe Lofgren. Any DOJ apologies or measures would be insufficient. The 80s-era laws need to be changed to account for the modern world.
What I liked about LaLa is that you didn't have a monthly fee, and browser-only purchases were dirt cheap, $0.10 for most songs if I remember correctly. I don't listen to enough music to make Radio or Spotify worth it for me, but I could buy a couple of albums to listen in the browser for 2 or 3 dollars every now and then.
"I wonder if the privacy issue is a cover story"

I wish, them taking health concerns into consideration would be a great step forward. This is probably not a concern of theirs, sadly.
Thank you for mobile support! You guys are truly awesome. If only you would allow me to accept payments without a business and bank account number, like PayPal does...
Cool, but it doesn't handle the last example:

void (*signal(int, void (*fp)(int)))(int)

...claims there's a syntax error, and there might be, but I don't know off-hand.
Can you style it to match your page?
Do you not have a bank account?
"Shrug. Being assertive is what it's about."

Yes, "the man is not assertive enough to match the interest of the woman" is a pretty stupid initial assumption for every marriage on the rocks.
This may seem absurd, but I actually do use two sets of headphones for maximum noise protection. Why go through all this trouble? Sometimes you're forced to work in a noisy environment and there's no way around it. As a bonus, it's great for sleeping or watching movies on a plane.

I got the idea from this HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802118

Things I've tried:

- earphones (J2)

- inner ear phones (X10, e2c)

- noise canceling over ear headphones (QC2)

- earphones / earplug + ear muff (J2 + H10A)

The last option gives the best noise protection. I've experimented a bit, but J2 buds[0] or regular ear plugs are most comfortable with noise protection earmuffs[1] on the outside. The inner ear phones are not comfortable with an additional over ear headphone.

For $30 I can achieve a level of noise isolation where I can't hear myself typing, or someone speaking directly at me 12" away.

[0] J2 ear buds ($8): http://goo.gl/vQZb4

[1] 3M Peltor H10A 105 dBA ear muff($22): http://goo.gl/6P24g
There are few people I respect more than Larry Lessig, and stuff like this this is why.

Thank you for doing what you do.
Bush initially opposed the TSA, a bipartisan majority of Congress foisted that on him.
Steven Strogatz on the Elements of Math
The real question is will this become the ad-laden bastion of illegal movies and tv shows that MegaVideo was before it was taken down? While annoying to use, it sure was convenient when you wanted to watch a show or movie that was impossible to buy legally.
Not yet for my startup/side project, no :/. No business number either.
> "[The video is] copyrighted so what we are doing technically is illegal"

> "We think we have an excellent argument for Fair Use since it is clearly part of political speech and we are not making any money off it."

So which one is it, guys? Not illegal if it's fair use.
OK, as best as I can tell I simply used the online form to state my case. I don't have any outgoing emails pleading my case, so it must have been an online submission. I do have an internal email address that I got after the fact but it would not be cool to post that here.

I'd suggest perhaps emailing support@kickstarter.com and respectfully stating your case. Remember, this ain't Google-bots, there are people just like you at the other end of that email. Talk to a person, not to a machine.
Nobody these days, but one of my all-time favorite games is Outcast[1], which used voxels for the terrain and polygons for smaller details. All it needed was a good CPU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_%28video_game%29
I think that's thinking small. Congress should start over by repealing CFAA and by instituting character standards for federal prosecutors to deal with the problem of careerism in the nation's departments of justice.
In practice, nobody uses a "clockwise/spiral rule" to read C declarations; they typedef complex declarations into bite-sized components.

C declarations are hardest to understand when they involve (1) "arrays"† of "arrays" of "arrays", (2) function pointers, and (3) multiple layers of indirection.

In systems and networking code and in most application code, (1) "multi-level arrays" are uncommon, and they're uncommon in roughly the same way tuples of tuples of tuples are uncommon in Python: they're a symptom that you're missing a level of abstraction.

Function pointer declarations (2) are common and annoying to read. However, in virtually all cases, the core of what you're trying to express with a function pointer declaration is "what arguments does this function take" and "what does it return". More importantly, most idiomatic C code typedefs function pointers, so you're not looking at prototype decls with nested complex function pointer decls inside of them.

So instead of

void (*signal(int sig, void (*func)(int)))(int);

a modern C programmer would expect

typedef void (*sig_t) (int);

sig_t signal(int sig, sig_t func);

The qsort(3) man page is another example of an archaic declaration (its authors presumably think this is the clearest way to convey qsort to an experienced programmer); check out the man page for pcap_loop(3) for a better example.

In most C code, multiple layers of indirection (3) are one-step pointers-to-pointers used to work around call-by-value in C. If you store in your head the notion that a pointer to a pointer is just there to provide a return-value argument, that's probably all you'd need to remember about it. Pointers to pointers to pointers are rare.

† C pedants: I'm using "array" in an intentionally vague sense.
It's confused by the parameter name fp.

cdecl> explain void (*signal(int, void (*)(int)))(int) ;

declare signal as function (int, pointer to function (int) returning void) returning pointer to function (int) returning void
"I would expect a well-developed person to think about things like this"

Well, there's what you say and what you do/think. There are certainly neurotics who may choose to want partner on the extremes of weaker/stronger. Those play-games wouldn't make the interest or need healthy even with those "needs" met.

I should clarify that I am referring to dominance/submission of a different sense, not lifestyle fetishistic.
Yeah, FDR, LBJ and Nixon took the naked use of power to another level. The OP is a bunch of nonsense. Come to terms with it-- this is the action of the Obama DoJ.
This works:

void (*signal(int, void (*)(int)))(int)
It is also on Netflix.
If you log in with incognito mode, the cookies created in that session will be deleted at the end of that session (when you close your last incognito window) and will not be available to non-incognito browser windows.
Why not use your personal bank account?
I'd say it's a difference in degree, not in kind, but I would guess that political culture has taken a turn for the worse since GWB.

But... I'm not certain of it. Everyone has always complained about politicians. Are GWB's actions really that different from FDR or LBJ or RMN? In terms of respecting cultural/procedural niceties, not in terms of policy. How could that even be measured?
PayPal's PayFlow Pro product would return valid for 1XX, 2XX, 3XX CSCs and different errors (mostly CSC verification related) for 4XX, 5XX, 6XX, 7XX, 8XX, 9XX. Was quite useful for testing.
I do similar things with tab groups/stacks in Firefox and Opera (mainly to keep fewer than 20 tabs visible at once). Guess it just doesn't feel "right" to me to run my whole system that way.
I can't speak for the rest of the article, but this guy's take on low carb diets is a bit...odd:

>Unfortunately, it’s an approach [Low carb diets] that leaves the vast majority of frontline obesity experts gritting their teeth, because while the strategy sometimes appears to hold up in studies, in the real world such dieters are rarely able to keep the weight off—to say nothing of the potential health risks of eating too much fat.

So he's saying that studies do support low carb diets having high efficacy rates (for weight loss), but "in the real world" this doesn't pan out. What is this unbiased, statistically significant source of data on "the real world" that he's relying on? He's ruled out studies, and it's obviously not anecdotes because that would be even worse. That basically just leaves intuition. He then goes on to cite the risks of a high protein diet (while linking it as high fat only) by linking to a WebMD article which appears to be written by an unnamed author who has poorly collated the research on the issue and left out major advances of our understanding of issues like cholesterol levels.
> Why buy stocks and bonds when you can buy a house that pays $500/mo rent on a $5000 purchase?

500/mo * 12 mo = $6000 a year. At $5000 investment that's a return of 120%, as another commenter pointed out.

Why invest in anything at less than 120% return?

Either a) you've discovered some capital allocation inefficiency, i.e. trillions of $$$ are being foolishly allocated into places like stocks and bonds when higher returns obviously exist or b) you don't fully appreciate the risks that come with the 120% annual return

(I guess there is another option, that the scenario doesn't exist, but I'll take your post at face value and assume that it does.)
The "spiral rule" makes for pretty pictures, but unfortunately it isn't correct. One simple example:

int *foo[3][4];

The spiral rule would have us read this as "foo is an array [3] of pointers to array [4] of int". What it actually is is "foo is an array [3] of arrays [4] of pointers to int".

The correct rule* for parsing declarations is "Start from the thing being declared, and read right until you hit a closing parenthesis, then read left until you reach the matching paren, then go back to reading right, and always skip over any tokens you've already read." This is sometimes called the "right-left rule"; it's not as pretty as "spiral", but it actually works.

(*) the really correct rule is "follow the syntax and semantics specified in the language standard", but for some reason that confuses people.
Oh man, you're much braver than I.

FWIW I'm on Chrome 24.0.1312.52 OSX.

I tried to take a gander but it's such a jumbled mess of affiliate/ad bs that I doubt even they'd be able to fix it.
This won't do anything. Give the VIP box seats and season passholders the run-through, search them at orchestral events & the opera, maybe we'll see something. Maybe.
Poor hypertable is never included in nosql benchmarks
You get a mixed-content warning for HTTP on HTTPS, but not HTTPS on HTTP as you're already insecure on the original page anyways.
I went wifi-only last year and I've enjoyed the $70/mo in extra money each month. I don't call people often so I use Google Voice, and the GrooVe android app. which has great call quality everywhere but the office.

I have wifi at home, work, friends' places, and a lot of businesses, so I'm only really offline when I'm driving and maybe the grocery store.
"Alternative medicine" that works is called medicine.

You're trying to give quackery a respect it has not earned.
There's a full list of test cards available here: https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
The expiration must be in the future
I love the juxtaposition of using a computer to declare that you don't have a TV.
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I'm not sure switching to a document model with multiple indexes (MongoDB) to a key/value store (Redis) is something that can be done easily "later on".
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Assumptions:
- You can earn 5% investment returns after inflation during your saving years

That's a mighty assumptious assumption to make.
The rest of this article is a no-brainer, I think :)
I haven't used the checkout button yet, but here's what I learned from rolling my own: the form comes in with a token which you then charge with the stripe Python API, and on successful payment, you receive a callback at your webhooks url (which you set in the stripe settings). Take a look at the Django-Zebra app (https://github.com/GoodCloud/django-zebra).
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Overall, a good location.

The office will be a stone's throw from St Pancras station, where you can hop on the Eurostar and get to Paris or Brussels in a few hours.

Getting to Old Street (aka Tech City) and Shoreditch is pretty easy by bus or tube. Same for Soho (film, media, fashion) and Covent Garden, which you could walk to in 20-30 minutes.

There are some rough old pubs in the surrounding streets, which hopefully will survive gentrification, as they do add a bit of character to the area.
> Hopefully the VM will be easy to target from other languages.

I doubt that would help you. The Dart VM is tailored to the Dart language (which in turn was designed with the thought of compiling to JS in mind), it would be suboptimal for anything else. Exceptions happen, but they are very rare.
I genuinely wonder how much of these sorts of behavior problems can be traced to external factors such as too much sugar in the diet, lack of exercise, and the over-stimulation (or under, depending how you look at it) of watching hours and hours of TV. I don't want to sound like a luddite curmudgeon, but it seems like so much of the ADD realm is about using drugs to "correct" problems but little attention is paid to other factors. The author of this article does say that socio-economic status plays a part (or at least is correlated), but no mention of diet or activity.

Is anyone aware of any studies of ADD and related conditions that control for these factors?
"Although not as common, lawsuit may also refer to a criminal action, criminal proceeding, or criminal claim."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit