skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically this is correct. However, an attorney will be paid by the state to represent a defendant and the defendant will be billed for the services, even if s/he can not pay.
Have you ever been to a website that prompted you for your name to make an account or have temporary access, and you put in a fake name? Perhaps some forum that wanted you to register?

One of the charges against Aaron was Wire Fraud, because he did just that - entering the name "Gary Host" into a captive portal to register for wifi access.

Congratulations, you're a felon too.
It's not that it fades in, it's that the way it does so loads the sidebar information first, and then awkwardly displays all of the main information staggered, but still quickly enough that the animation has no purpose. If you're going to fade content in, do so in a manner that makes it a non-issue for me to know which content is most important.

As it stands, the primary content page has no visual hierarchy. Everything is the same size and loads at approximately the same exact time. On refresh, sometimes everything under ul.breakout flashes first before hiding again. The border-radius on the images is also giving them some awful-looking jagged edges which appear to be coming from the filter property.

I haven't taken an extensive look at the current unlocked lessons, but as someone with extensive CSS experience, these little things are what makes me hesitant about the rest of the information contained therein. Additionally, as others have pointed out, the palette is bland if not going to be hard for a lot of people to see, so I don't think a little skepticism is snobby.
> One message I'd like people to understand when they're starting out with Rails is that it really is confusing, and that being confused and maybe even feeling stupid is normal!

Why is that normal?

I can say with some certainty that when I was deciding between Django and Rails, (and, subsequently Python/Ruby) there was a clear and obvious superior choice. (Hint: not Rails)
Except that it's near impossible to have a 'small and agile' team that interfaces with a government contract in any way. You need at least one person to just sit in meetings, at least one architect to draw up powerpoint charts that people will buy into, a project manager, a change order coordinator, and an accounts payable/receivable type person to do battle with getting the government to pay you (it is a full time job). On top of that, you need to have had experience doing government work in the past with good recommendations (for which many smaller shops pair up with bigger shops to act as prime contractors, which inflates the price enormously), and you need to have an ITIL or CMMI (depending on the customer) to make sure that all those processes are being followed.

In addition to the two or three people you need to actually do the work, you need a head count of at least 6 more just to manage customer expectations.
Finally... Real keyword arguments.
Are sign-ups intended exclusively for people listing their gear? Perhaps you can have sign-ups for people trying to rent, too, and request additional information that would help you hone the site, such as equipment sought. For example:

Email: xxx@yyy.com

Equipment Sought: <text field or drop down listing camera lenses>

This could be done under the guise that you will send them an e-mail notification when the requested equipment is posted to the site. This would help identify whether:

1. Users are camera-savvy at all or are indeed random people "stumbling" upon the site

2. Get more detailed user needs
Hackathons for Week of January 14th, 2013
"At the time of entry into the Earth’s atmosphere on 29 December 2012, the parent body of the Polonnaruwa meteorite would have had most of its interior porous volume filled with water, volatile organics and possibly viable living cells"

Begs the question...

"A few percent carbon as revealed by EDX analysis confirms the status of a carbonaceous meteorite."

Does something that sounds about as scientific as "point and guess"...

"The intricacy of the regular patterns of “holes”, ridges and indentations are again unquestionably biological, and this is impossible to interpret rationally as arising from an inorganic crystallisation process."

Argument from personal incredulity...

...etc...

I won't be celebrating this discovery just yet...
Looking at the wikipedia page [1] for this journal, not only do they have a bad reputation, but they have a bad reputation for publishing papers about precisely this topic. The general consensus seems to be that the papers' evidence have been too weak and not thorough enough for the claims they make.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology#Hoover_pap...
Which is why it seems to make more sense to use a standard USB connector. (I forget the legalities of shipping things with an iPhone connector included, but I remember there being a hubbub about it.)
Actually, being very un-scientific and subjective. I've not seen that.

Most things I've seen spreading are already infected executables of pirate code. Or exploits.

Now we can talk about the fact running as Admin is stupid, and UAC is just a way to allow bad habbits to continue. But, just look how complex (and sometimes elegant) the average entry in pwn2own web browsers are. Side stepping ASLR, breaking the sandbox, privlidge escalation.

All of those things can and are possible on any operating system, this includes linux.
This is truly awesome. What's even more awesome for me as a noob is to see what the web design/dev community is like out there. People really and truly care about educating others and sharing the knowledge they have...now imagine if the people in every industry were as open and awesome?!
There's no gatekeeper on linux systems. You're free to ship .deb, .rpm, .ebuild if you choose to. If you don't feel like rolling packages, a tar of the sources and a shell script that drops the right stuff in the right places will do in pretty much every case - you can even combine the two, as for example the wowza installer does. It's a tgz with the installer prepended. On the other side, if you want to get fancy, you can provide your own package repository and get dependency tracking for all your software and its OS dependencies as free addon.

So the package repositories are nothing but convenience for the end-user.
I did one with a friend while in DeAnza College, it was made for that specific college. But as people pointed out, its seasonal.
http://zepply.com
GAS: To set signature block for users automatically in a Google Apps Domain
Yeah, but Linux sucks on the desktop for reasons that are completely different than the types of reasons that are being enumerated here for Windows. For instance: Fragmentation. Relatively low quality desktop software. Unavailability of certain types of software. Lack of certain features altogether like file "created date" for files, on most distributions.
Which is one of the reasons to avoid proprietary connectors like the plague.
Why you should Stop using A/B Tests
How I Sold Gaslight On Our New Brand
How one designer achieved organizational buy-in on a total company rebranding project.
Because hedge funds will bid up a stock that no one else is allowed to buy? I thought they like to make money.

Markets are often undervalued due to restrictions on buyers. The bull case for the stock is that AAPL will make itself the buyer of last resort, as I expect them to do this earnings announcement. Knowing that the stock is undervalued and that any price increase due to their purchases will be maintained by the market, they can confidently buy the stock back.

Dividends can have a similar effect to a buyback, and also expose the stock to dividend focused funds.

Large cap companies often must resort to these tactics to increase the number of available buyers when their stock is widely owned.
> twitter-bootstrap-rails, therubyracer, and libv8

Those three gems recently caused me a world of pain. I've been in and out of Rails development since the 1.x versions (more hobby projects than professional development), and once getting going was as simple as 'gem install rails'. Getting the asset pipeline to work changed that totally - I get the advantages of the asset pipeline, and once you get it working and all your gem dependencies sorted it is fine, but it took me a while to get there.
What does the syntax server unix:/tmp/backend; do? Does that serve from the local filesystem without going through another http daemon?
That old, warm, fuzzy feeling
Explain to me why what Bradley Manning did should be legal.
NYTimes Blog-safe links, thanks aaronsw
I think I get what you're asking here. I work for a startup as the sole front-end guy and we have a mess of SASS/JS. It was never really rebased since the beginnings and definitely wasn't structured for performance, reusability, or neatness. I'm going to be reorganizing it soon and I'm reading up on things like this, object oriented CSS, and SASS best practices.

There's a big difference from creating a simple/moderate website vs an application that has many facets but same styles. It's a tough chore to get everything right but I'm excited to do it.
New year's resolution: quit Facebook.
Totally agree. The idea seems to be a good one, but the fact that it's limited to iOS and using the old connector is a big letdown.
thanks for posting the data.
heads up: you left out the .com in the "price is free" link.
Doing Truly Important Work: The Life of Aaron Swartz
"nobody lost a dime because he never redistributed it"

Because he was caught?
New nanotech fiber: Robust handling, shocking performance
Sounds a lot like ramaze or sinatra where you can BYO ORM, testing, layout, etc...
Thank you for the analysis. I opened the comments expecting at least one with something more in-depth than the article itself, and wasn't disappointed.
That seems like a reasonable argument.

I mailed his attorney a couple days ago. Part of the tragedy is his attorney would have won this case.

Maybe what is needed is some kind of "legal counselor" to guide defendants in cases like this. Especially if a defendant is irrational or depressed, it's probably an inherently hellish process.
Neither are Linux package repositories always up to date.
I'm currently working on a project of turning a TON of data into something less of an eye sore than a ppt slide...you good sir have given me one hell of a jolt of inspiration with this post.

Thank you!!!
Uber Launches Its Taxi Service In The Nation’s Capital
"The system in which systemic overcharging is used to coerce a plea bargain out of everyone needs to be reformed"

That is much easier to type that the effect. Any ideas on moving forward? #OWS taught me social change takes a decade.

I am not trolling, I would like to see change. I hope you spread the word.
(n.b. They're called soroban here -- mentioned so that folks would be able to look it up more easily.) One is generally exposed to them as a curiosity in math classes, but if you want to get good with them, you go to an after-school cram school. There exist many, even in Ogaki, which specialize in nothing other than abaci. The secret to good abacus use is, again, to drill the "'()#'% out of it.
It was used just as an example that you can use anything as an upstream.
Its just a unix socket that can be listened by php-fpm for example.
Ivy League is not supposed to scale, it is supposed to be scarce. Its purpose is credentialing for differential social status. If an Ivy League education were widely accessible and no longer scarce, it would lose its value as a credential. And then the companies that hire only Ivy League grads would need to choose another indicator of pedigree. (Actually they are already starting to do this, by asking applicants what prep school they went to, a more reliable indicator of social pedigree than what university they went to.)

I would consider this a highly desirable outcome, as it would help finalize the divorce between access to higher learning and social pedigree, putting the lie to the official fiction that we are living in a "meritocracy."
Web 3.0 is a Fiction, Let's Move On.
really great tool, thanks for sharing!
How so? What was preventing him from setting up a legal defense fund and accepting contributions?

Hell, what if the judge had thrown out the charges?
You can use py3k with CPython, so there is no reason to make two jumps at once. It's like saying you might buy a Porche now that the roads are better. But you can enjoy nice roads without a Porche just as well!
Supply-chain error or stock manipulation?
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I assure you, these people were not interested in your life savings. Having never met the author of this piece, I can still confidently say that he and everyone else in that culture, then and now, would have opposed anyone hacking to raid some poor bystander's bank account.

It's this sort of fear mongering that got us here.
my rails stack:

- erb for view templates
- postgresql for database
- rspec/cucumber for testing
- skinny models, controllers, and a service layer
Please fork repo and contribute to Aaron's memorial website
Perhaps this illustrates how much of an effect a film's director can have on it's perception.

As Stanley Kubrick once said, "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."
I can't tell from your response if you think that Betteridge's Law applies here or not. Betteridge's Law describes articles where an author wants to write a specific story but doesn't have the information to back up the point, and/or doesn't want to do the research to get that information.

That doesn't apply here, because "if he does something about it" is a different cause than not having enough information.

It looks like you say that it "happens to apply here" because 1) the answer is no, and 2) it's "childish link bait." Why not then just say "No. This is childish link bait."?

Suppose the NM governor wrote an op-ed piece "Should I stay the death penalty?", which outlines her ongoing thoughts both for and against commuting the sentence for the last two people on NM's death row. Suppose you are ardently pro-death penalty, support RepealTheRepeal, and believe that only fools would be against it. You could quite justifiably answer "no" to that headline and believe the title to be "childish link bait." But you would be wrong to say that Betteridge's Law applies.
I desagree completely. It's not a trick. This is exactly how multiplication works. The idea behind 2x3=6 is

| | |
-+--+--+-
-+--+--+-
| | |

In this method the number are decomposed using it's decimal representation, so 23x12 = (2 * 10+3) * (1 * 10+2) = 2 * 1 * 10^2+2 * 2 * 10 + 3 * 1 * 10 + 3 * 2 = 2 * 10^2+ (4+3) * 10 + 6 = 2 * 10^2+ 7 * 10 + 6 = 276

(I'd like to use bigger lines for the dozens.) This is exactly what happens in the method. See: http://imgur.com/S5nOh

If I had to use that in a class I would first use the "all graphical" representation, then the "mixed" representation and finally the "algebraic" representation. The lines are still there, but almost invisible.

--

I understand that most of the times nobody should use any hand method to multiply two four or five digit numbers. But some properties of the hand method are important, for example:

* Why to use approximated calculation you use the first digit and no the last digit?

* Why is possible to calculate the last digit of the result using only the original last digits of each number to multiply?

* How is this method related to polynomials multiplication?

* How is this related to the casting out nines check?

* Can you imagine the multiplication of a large number by 2 using this method? 3?

Most of these topics are not explored in a usual K-12 math course, and perhaps it's a good idea because some of them are a little tricky. But the proof of how this method works lies in the structure of the decimal representations of the numbers and the algebraic relations between the sum and multiplications. I think that for small children a graphic method like this one can give some insight of these properties, without all the details and formalizations.
I used the examples from the original article. I think the OP ported an EventMachine code to Node.

When I said 'Java' I really meant JVM. Specifically I'm using Scala.

Regardless, I have a different Clojure based project, with it as well, I prefer doing what clojure has to offer in terms of concurrency (pmap, etc).

I have dipped a toe in Go. Loved the fact that you get a compiled binary, ecosystem still feels skinny. Ended up concluding that in a year or two it'll be worth revisiting.
Objects and the Prototype Chain
Apple did a silly thing by locking themselves to one single design.

The iPhone is instantly recognizable, sure, but it's also old at this point. Something like the galaxy s3 has a bigger screen, feels more pleasant in my hands than my iPhones, and is something that apple would have a tough time changing to.

Yes, they made it a little tiny bit longer, but it's still more-or-less the same design.
I find it interesting that the Economist managed to figure out that Swartz's cause was open access to public documents, while the New York Times (even in a second article published today) is still writing about him as a purist all-information-must-be-free ideologue.
The Six People You Must Find Today
If you host on a service like Heroku, server-side proxying ties up a dyno needlessly. If you can get the host to enable CORs, you can save a lot of hosting money. I'm not sure if it's as worthwhile for self-hosted/VPS setups.
The thing that's going to disappoint me is if Kerr strictly analyzes whether the prosecutor choosing to bring the charges was unlawful, which I imagine it probably wasn't -- it's standard operating procedure.

Which is its own problem. But the problem with what prosecutors did is that prosecutors are allowed not to bring the charges and did anyway, notwithstanding the epic disproportionality of the charged penalties to the acts.

In other words, the problem is that the law is defective, and prosecutors could have had a conscience and not abused that fact to break this kid, but they failed at being human, and for that they are culpable. Morally and ethically if not legally.
Go2Geo Launched Today - new simple but useful service
If there's a github repo attached to this, I'd love to contribute.
The FBI's Scientology investigation
You are X. Someone else is Y.
The key is defining "the best you" as X++, not Y.

Taking inspiration from someone you perceive as Y and defining X++ in the pursuit of Y is fine. Just so long as you recognize success and failure are X++ and X--.
Ask twitter...
Commenting on the state of OS X right now: There's this 'Gatekeeper' feature (which can be disabled, but starts enabled) that makes it so a developer has to have a signed certificate from apple in order to run on OS X. If someone starts releasing malware with a previously obtained certificate, Apple will send an update that disables that certificate.

I think that, once smaller developers start getting their apps signed (I'm not sure how hard it is to do this) then this will be a wonderful tool, and already probably is nice for non-power users. I currently leave it disabled because enough of the stuff I use isn't signed, but in the future it might be a nice step forwards for security.
"Everyone knows" that you need to reboot your computer when it starts acting up, or not reacting.

"Everyone knows" that you need to defragment your hard drive to improve its performance.

"Everyone knows" that you need to keep your anti virus up to date if you want to keep using your computer.

etc.
People need to talk about their struggles with depression so that others can be educated. It is a very hard illness to understand. It is incredibly important.

http://youcantmakelemonadeoutofthisshit.wordpress.com/
You might want to fix the link to http://www.cameralends/rent?promo=launch to actually include the TLD.

Quick response: I would like to see a different color button from the default bootstrap info button.
Will this device do any better than the apps that already measure these things using the camera on the iPhone?
Their mistake was a marketing one, where each version of the phone is perfectly designed, but "the next phone is just more perfect than the previous one". This went on for an unsustainable period of time, particularly when "iPhone 5" isn't the fifth iPhone.
"I guess the problem with us identifying with Bradley Manning in comparison is he didn't do things like contribute to RSS and Markdown."

No, my problem identifying with Manning was that he exposed private communications involving the State Department, which could have consequences for our foreign relations and national security. Swartz was downloading scientific journals, which is an entirely different ballgame.

Very few people believe that State Department communications should be public. So, even if you convince everyone that some injustice was done to Manning because of specific situations that called for whistle-blowing, it does not reveal any general problem in the federal justice system.

With Swartz, I think just telling his story will cause many people to realize how broken the federal justice system is.
Microsoft SkyDrive detected child porn on its service and lead arrest of a man
First, you need to define 'fast'.
Whats your workload and usecase?
Why is python slow for you?
Have you tried active python? Pypm install has many libraries compiled for windows.
Justice Department drops charges against Internet activist Swartz
Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good
I think its the software itself that feels ancient. The home screen is basically identical to the first iPhone's. The navigation is clunky, too, compared to most of its competitors.

(Note: iPhone user since 3G, iPhone app developer too)
Increasing the number of engines can also decrease the reliability, for example if one of the engines explodes or catches on fire. The Falcon 9 has an armored tub around each engine to hopefully reduce the risk of a single engine problem becoming catastrophic.
I honestly see the end of some prohibition fixing many of these issues, so I think supporting that will neuter some of the drug prosecutions.

As it becomes more "good" that prohibition ends, prosecutors who are still fighting for it to not will look worse then will become more easy to reform.

Also, the president can change policy on this pretty quickly. Overcharging isn't required by law, merely enforcing the law.
Blogging With Jekyll
You can't really fire a Congressman, only vote them out at the next election. But that comes after you push them to fix it and they falter. First we push them to fix it. Hard.
I'm pretty stunned this is being downvoted. Mr. Kerr may well be an excellent professor, and a good man, but in my world, it's important to disclose your ties and connections when you write about a divisive matter. Even if it was a decade ago, Mr. Kerr worked for the entity that is under fire for its actions against Aaron Swartz. I'm not suggesting that he is some type of agent working behind the scenes for the DOJ, but the fact that he did work for the organization, and likely still maintains some ties with it, is very relevant to this piece and should be taken into account by readers. In science, at least, these types of ties must be disclosed when you write an article for most peer-reviewed journals. Is it not the same in law? This is an honest question. If it's not, I'm surprised.

Downvoters, do you not believe that bloggers should disclose their ties to an employer or former employer when writing about that employer?
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I don't even use therubyracer at all any more, personally. It's not generally neccesary; just {brew,apt-get} install nodejs and be done with it.
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Bluetooth would have been a much better solution.
US government tells computer users to disable Java.
I don't feel that what he did was legal. On the other hand, the way he has been incarcerated and treated while in military prison seems excessively cruel.