skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One doesn't generally quote something they disagree with as support for something because something they agree with can be found in the criticisms of that which they quoted.

As you aren't the OP, you can't answer the intended relevance. I do not think his reasons would match your rationalization of it. I agree with you, but doubt the OP does.
If you can explain to me how anarchism would work "in practice" so as to not be gang warfare, or point me to an explanation, I'd appreciate it. So far, nobody has ever taken me up on this. I'm pretty sure I'm right, but I'd like to see good arguments against my own position.
> A friend down the hall could learn a Caltech course in a few hours by flipping through the textbook. I was nowhere near as smart as him.

I very much doubt this, and I'm curious about the truth. I suspect that if you replaced 'smart' with 'well trained' it would be true. No one is born knowing support vector machines, but if you'd previously learned perceptrons and quadratic minimization you could understand them in an afternoon. My guess is that your friend was very very precocious - and well trained.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger gives epic smackdown to Ed Markey over privacy concerns.
Correct. I'd wager that "skirmish-tested" doesn't sound as good, though ;)

What i mean to say is that i'm very confident that it works good enough for a more-or-less public beta. Of course, much work still remains to make it compatible with every IMAP server out there, but as a single person i won't have the time nor the resources to get there.
Medieval Warming Period, when the Earth was warmer than it is now.

Not actually true, and in any case a much more gradual warming over a longer timescale; it's well summarized at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warming_Period

I can't help being struck by the contrast between climate skeptic's loud insistence on greater scientific rigor in discussions of the present climate, and their hand-waving invocations of the MWP as a general-purpose tool of dismissal. I mean, all you need to do is look at a graph of the temperature data to see how different the rate of change is between the MWP and today.
> Actually, I do use two news apps on my iPhone (aside from Safari and an RSS reader). They're the BBC, and The Guardian.

I'll also use the NPR app from time to time. Its design isn't bad, and I like being able to switch from print to streamed audio sometimes.

> it's not so much about providing a better service as it is about obtaining a monopoly lock-in on the user's eyeballs while you feed them ads.

Apps and mobile sites that make you wait five freaking seconds so they can load ads and all of the metrics for their sponsors -- who are they fooling? Have they even tried to use their own app?
Who are these people? I mean, really, what the fuck?

It seems hardly a week goes by without someone bringing forward a genuinely awful case of harassment, abuse, or worse, and that's only the stories horrible enough to make the front page of HN. So, who the fuck is doing this and how do we make them fuck the fuck off?

I kinda understand why some people's response is to doubt that this could really be happening, because it is pretty fucking unbelievable. But it seems that it really is happening, and it's undermining some pretty central notions of the meritocratic, no-bullshit character of the community. This kind of thing is pretty outrageous bullshit.

OK, to a certain extent we must accept that there will always be assholes, and the kind of spite and vindictiveness the OP relates sounds like the behaviour of a disturbed, obsessive individual, but there must be a way of deterring such behaviour. What more can we do here?
I'm glad you were able to clear up any misconceptions you had. Hopefully this has made what I was telling you more clear.
That's our tax dollars at work, we paid for the subsidies that built out these networks.
In theory you're right. Unfortunately in practice most webapps better stay in the browser on iOS. The Javascript engine on full-screen webapps is slower than the one in Safari (that's why the previous Facebook app was slow as hell).

Aside from that, offline app cache is a PITA to implement.

Things have got better though. Web audio works on iOS 6, and Chrome on Android finally delivers a proper browser. I hope in a few years time we'll actually be able to serve games in WebGL to the browsers on both platforms.
Jailbreak was smooth as can be on my iPhone 4S Sprint.
This post is about Connecticut, and Connecticut has five Costco's to cover the whole state. It's a small state, but that still ends up being a lot of people who are 20-30 miles from the nearest one (for me it's 17 miles). $4 of gas and 40 minutes of driving just to go shopping.

(And NEVER EVER short AMZN. It's a really good way to lose a lot of money.)
Wow, what an extensive list.

Alex, what are your top 5 (or so) resources? The best of the best for someone who wants to get a jumpstart, so to speak.
Encrypting data certainly increases the barrier to entry for spying.
There is another point:

* Don't make your label use the same style as user-entered text.

I remember encountering a website that failed to do this, while satisfying all the other points. It was super confusing to learn that the texts were just labels and not pre-filled values, since they had the exact same color as the text I entered (unlike HTML5 placeholders that are dimmed).
Really neat Bookmark. Commenting on this as a way of keeping my eye on it for later tonight.
If you mean the "have", that's not poor grammar – it's correct, though more common in Britain than in the U.S.
Learning iOS as an Android developer
Do you know if IE will implement it?
Discrimination based on employment status (for example, discriminating against people who aren't employed when applying for a new job). A few states have laws making it illegal already.
There is still a village in Himalays where the residents refuse to mix with other Indians claiming that they are descendants of
Alexander.
There is probably still going to be a need for a centralized server to see who is/isn't online.

Hopefully more features do end up in the browser and not within the walled gardens of Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.
An excellent question. For the first couple years at Caltech, I struggled a lot. The second two were easier, though I was learning more material faster.

I think what happened was I "learned how to learn". Part of that indeed was getting better at picking out what to focus on. I don't believe I got any smarter.

It was still a full time job to keep up, though. 33 years after I graduated, I still have "examination dreams" where I attend a class and have no idea what the prof is talking about. Fortunately, these dreams have become less and less frequent over the decades :-) But it was worth it. I'm glad I've never been in combat, I shudder to think about the nightmares vets must suffer.
> This is what happens when a market crowded with some shockingly bad app developers is combined with ignorant executive mandates

You may be a clueless pointy-haired boss if...
And the natural response of the incumbents, just like in any industry, unfortunately, will likely be legal blockades:

>For example, in 2011, after the city of Wilson, North Carolina, built its own fast network—competing with existing carriers—the North Carolina legislature, amid industry lobbying, passed a law that made it harder for local governments to build networks and prevented Wilson from expanding its network beyond a county line, she said
Well, we by and large don't say that people should be taxed more for spending their money. The US's main tax revenue comes from an income tax, not a consumption tax.

There are three basic ways to tax people:

1. On Income

This is the way that most tax revenue comes in to the US. It says, "When you make $100, the government takes, say, $20 of it. And then the remaining $80 is entirely yours."

2. On Wealth.

This is how, say, property taxes work. "When you make $100, the government takes, say, $10 of it this year. Next year, if you still have the $90, the government takes another $8 of that. The year after that, if you still have the remaining $82, the government takes another $7 of it. The year after that, if you still have the remaining $75, the government takes $6 of it..."

3. Consumption taxes.

This is how sales taxes and VAT taxes work. "If you get $100, it's all yours. But if you SPEND say $50 of it, the government takes $10 of that."

The common argument in favor of income taxes is that wealth taxes just make sure that people buy frivolous crap instead of saving, because saving is penalized, and that consumption taxes tend to be regressive because the rich just can't/don't spend all that much of their money (there's a limit to how richly it is possible to live), while the poor must spend all of their money. So the poor get taxed on a greater percentage of their income than the rich.
I think a lot about that, but I am yet to figure where I should go, and how to do it.

Emigrating sounds a lot easier when you find a job elsewhere and is invited.
Still.... need.... adoption.... on..... all..... clients. Killing off flash relies on the slowest chunk of the market getting its act together. I'm looking at you IE.
They certainly did on my iPhone 4 (as recently as 6 months ago). I haven't tried it on my iPhone 5, though, because I haven't jailbroken it yet. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
"Making encryption easy to use" (if they accomplished that) would be advance in cryptography since it would increase the sum total of data security in the world.
The moment I saw this news I thought false flag!

And I may have been right:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17v9zy/anonymous...

The feds have been investigating the bankers, and I'm sure they had access to all that information. The feds are having their own terrorist plots (that then they "uncover" themselves). Is it really that far fetched for this to have happened, too?
> doing something that obviously is and should be illegal?

I guess it depends on the intent of making something illegal. If the intent is to improve on the security of the internet, then making these kinds of acts illegal will not have any change on the actual security of the internet.

My feeling is that holding people responsible for an insecure system would be a better motivator for improving computer security: the opposite of what is happening now.
And frankly, I'm getting sick of people who don't even have a single scientific degree attacking scientists. It all reeks of the same attitude I was innundated with as a kid by my classmates because I believed in evolution and dinosaurs.

I actually sympathize with this point of view, because I've been in exactly the same position because I accept evolution as a scientific theory. I remember one discussion group (in a Sunday school class at a Unitarian church, of all places) with six kids plus the adult who was leading the group arguing for creationism, and me all by myself arguing for evolution. Not surprisingly, nobody convinced anybody to change their mind.

However, I do not accept the implied claim in your statement that climate science is in the same position as the theory of evolution. It isn't. We do not understand the climate well enough for that, but for political reasons it is impossible for "mainstream" climate scientists to admit that. That's not a good situation.

As far as reducing our use of fossil fuels, there are good reasons to do that anyway. IMO, we should have made that a national security priority back in the 1970's, when the economic and foreign policy consequences of buying oil from the Middle East became clear enough. But linking the argument for reducing fossil fuels to the argument for reducing CO2 does not help; it hinders, by muddying the waters of what should be a straightforward argument about foreign policy with a highly contentious argument about climate change.

These guys are basically saying "Don't cut carbon! The planet isn't getting warmer." Now they have changed their answer to "Don't cut carbon. It's not the reason the planet is getting warmer."

This may be a valid criticism of at least one faction in the climate change debate; but showing that that faction is wrong does not show that another faction must be right.

The way it looks to me, everybody is both right in part, and wrong in part: the climate is changing, humans are contributing to the change, but cutting CO2 emissions will not fix the problem, because there are too many other factors involved that we don't understand.
"the Company's normal policy of non-employment on the regular payroll of married women unless they are the support of the family"

That's a pretty twisted mindset. What in the world was IBM hoping to achieve by such policies? And how had they come into the business of supervising societal roles, instead of making money for their shareholders by hiring the most qualified people for the job?
You are saying google is irrelevant to chrome? I disagree.
We're trying to make that whole experience better. Thanks for the link.

Drop me a line if you want to chat danny (@) outlook.com.
I like how whoever wrote the samples is really not a fan of jquery selectors.
Hmm. The number of apologists is actually quite small, in my experience. I think the problem here is that most of the people here are men, who have no real idea what being on the receiving end of sexual or sexually-motivated harassment is like, but they also don't see what they can or should do about it. I think it goes something like this: "Stories like the OPs are terrible, I get that, but by saying that 'the tech community' is to blame, you're saying I'm to blame, and I've never been sexist to anyone!". Basically, they feel like something is being done or said in bad faith here. A lot of the people who wind up arguing on these threads aren't actually misogynists[1], they just feel they're being told something that doesn't make sense to them, and in a way they're not entirely wrong. There's not much reason to accept that "the tech community has a problem" if you and your friends are members of the tech community, and none of you are sexists, but you feel like you're being accused anyway. We need to make a clearer distinction between the average member of the tech community and, for want of a better word, the 'asshole contingent' who are the source of the problem.

[1] That some people arguing on the 'wrong' side here are not doing so for misogynistic reasons doesn't mean that nobody is; part of the problem is that you can't easily tell the difference.
I wouldn't have believed it either, had I not known him.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with GP, but some engineering disciplines require that you be licensed and are then called a "P.E.", Professional Engineer. Computer programmers don't, of course, and there are some that think we should be.

EDIT: Typo on "think"
I suspect that at least some of these "flaws" are intentional, and are meant to make programming easier, at the expense of some performance.

For example, three of the poster's points (not allowing device property querying, not allowing the programmer to choose where a kernel runs, and not exposting local memory to the programmer) all make programming easier, though they also disallow some types of performance tuning.

One big potential reason for doing GPGPU on a mobile device is to get better energy efficiency per gigaflop, rather than to get huge overall performance like on a desktop GPGPU. In this context, squeezing out all possible performance may not be as important.
I think that used to be my setup, except with mairix. It's a while ago and I don't recall now why I was unhappy with it. But seeing that offlineimap is still actively maintained and has seen plenty of updates in the meantime, maybe I should try again. Thanks for the heads up!
'Anonymous' bank leak - false flag?
Yes, please, please, please kill Skype. Kill it mercilessly. Using it has been the worst experience I've ever had with an application.

I've been in a long distance relationship for a few years now and Skype has sadly been our main mode of video communication. The app crashes when I search chat history, can take upwards of 90+% of my CPU, literally forcing me to shut down every other application I have running. The forums are full of complaints, all unanswered. We've tried gChat and the plugin either goes undetected or slows down my machine as well (although not as bad as Skype). I'm running a 2010 MBA, so I've got the resources.

So death to Skype, and open arms to WebRTC.
I can't tell if you're being purposefully obtuse or not.

iOS does not allow background downloading, unless your app is part of Newsstand. While it would seem to make sense to make your news delivery app appear in Newsstand, it does come with some trade-offs, most significantly that your app is locked inside the Newsstand shelf and can't be placed in a primary app slot.

And, even if your app is in Newsstand, you have to actively go into Settings and turn on background download on an app-by-app basis.

Finally, even then, the app will only background-download if you're on a WiFi connection. I agree, this makes sense in this age of metered WAN bandwidth.

So, if you're using iOS, there's a really good chance that you will not have that content before getting on the subway, unless you remember to click into it on the walk over to the station.
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Have you tried Google Hangouts? I've had some success with that lately over Skype.
Umm... you can also sftp. It's just as secure as ssh.
Having rolled my own infrastructure for an app I've built, I can certainly see the attraction of Heroku. But I can also see that now that I've done it once, I can do it far more easily for subsequent apps. I don't see much reason to switch to Heroku.
Chrome 26 shows the Android flag for this. Beta on Android is v25, so 6 weeks or less, hopefully ..
That's not the impression I get from reading the paper. I admit I'm lousy at sociology stuff.
Gluecon's non-CFP call-for-papers
Thank you for the explanation.

Yes, paying for a project which then fails would suck.

I'll send the binaries around and upload them once i get around to packaging them (probably tomorrow).

For the kickstarter i was planning on making the current state of the project open source as soon as the funding is reached. Do you think that would also work?

I mean if i open source the whole thing beforehand, why should someone participate in the kickstarter when they can get also get it for free (although unfinished) right away?

As for SaaS, i'd say that the client should run on the user's computer in any case, just to make stuff really fast :) Hosting the IMAP-Synchronization-Gateway might work, though.
Yeah, but what does it matter then? I can stand outside the bank safe all day and stare at it but unless I know the code I'm still just looking at a locked box. Strong encryption is the same way, feel free to stare at my VPN stream all day, it won't help you.
Obviously figuring out the magnitude is difficult.

In other words, you are punting at precisely the critical point in the analysis.

Fact: If you just calculate the effect of CO2 on its own, it's too small to be significant. To make CO2 significant, you have to assume large positive feedbacks elsewhere in the system that amplify the effect of CO2. That assumption has not been validated.
My use of the word 'fucking' was more of a casual, matter of fact nature, If this was verbal, it would be a soft spoken, rather than a shouted expletive. But to be fair, use of foul language clearly diminishes any written statement.
Your commment indicates that something I said has been contradicted in recent peer reviewed research. However, your statement is completely nebulous. What peer-reviewed research? What points in my statements prove I'm not aware of said research? Can you elaborate, or perhaps provide a link to said study? I am always interested in learning more facts about this topic.
I find that any amount of random pixel noise just makes my screen look dirty. Unfortunately, most of the patterns have pixel noise.

It kills compression too if you use large tiles.
Cool - will try it out!
I think most of it is off the shelf stuff, but everything packaged in one app, for all types of communication (e-mail, text, video-calls, etc). They may use new stuff, too, though.
"Hello, Mike."

"Hello, Joe! System working?"

"Seems to be."

"Okay, fine."
Get a life and get used to it.
Overall its just a design, you think its great, and at least a few agreed on it and copied it.

There is no copyright on web pages.
Web pages are there to be seen and thus their source to be copied. By even watching your page its in my cache now.
I could copy it and use it.

If you where a little bit smarter some .js code might have protected for easy copying, but you didnt do that, who to blame ? you perhaps?
I suspect that CAPTCHA will be viewed as a symptom of a mindset of bigoted superstition, and treated with the same disdain as witch hunts and cargo cults.
Depends how much hardware continues to remain on most machines. If the market eventually shifts towards dumber and dumber boxes (as people keep predicting) that centralised model will still be sweet for performing things like encoding.
I live on union square south but drive out once a month to get bulk items.

Depending on where you live, parking can be cheap (I'm paying 450/mo at union square and 300/mo at central park south)
Yes, I agree. However, I don't think website designs have as much of a smart cow problem as say pop music, so your "DRM" is more likely to succeed its goal.
Remember when we videochat with Grandma using Skype? Well, for that to happen she has to use Skype and so do we. There is no other use for that program but to videochat.

Now, we can videochat using the same program we use to play those silly Flash games instead. And we don't even have to be using the same program, she can use Firefox, and we can still use Chrome.

This also opens new things you can do that you couldn't before. Given that Chrome or Firefox do a lot more than just videochat, we can now embed videochat in all the other things the browsers can do, like in games or live support.
Here's another: hireup.net
I use Sococo's Teamspace, which I help write as my job. We're cognizant of cpu usage especially on laptops and pads. We're ok now, and our next release will use substantially less CPU.

Our codecs are WebRTC-derived, and its pretty stingy with memory and cpu so that's cool.
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"these more extreme forms of discrimination"

Oh kiss my ass.

In those days the men worked, and the women stayed home to take care of the children.

It's not like the returning soldiers could marry employed women and then be house-husbands.

And you know it.
I'm not being purposefully obtuse. I was not aware of this particular limitation of iOS (and probably numerous others). Permission-controlled background downloading would seem like a reasonable solution to this particular problem to me.
Not sure why they would give the students access to the raw Google Spreadsheet rather than using a write-only Google form.

1) Collect name, email address with Google form.
2) Run simple macro to assign to groups.
3) Sorted. As it were.
Can someone please explain to me the scientific(not political) justification for racial egalitarianism?

I'm sorry, but I look at you people like you people look at young earth creationists.
Really odd contrast, but even taking it as a given...

Vigilantes answer to the State. Secret police are the State, and the State answers to no one. (Except, maybe, vigilantes, who when successful always seem to become the State.)
That one was a bit odd in my mind, too. Maybe it re-uses some code or something?

I can't find a cached version of it anywhere that shows what it looked like an hour or so ago
May have been TIFF?
My original post:
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