skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is "and there's nothing you can do" true? The article clearly describes how the author solved the problem in the context of their app, which is a generally applicable solution (that is, applying the same kind of fix that active support did that caused the problem, but using a higher-performance JSON solution than the one active_support hacked in to fix the original bug whose fix caused the poor performance.)
Does anyone have a link to or know how he came up with his formula for the computation of pi in base-2?

I look at that and... I just want to know: how?
This is a very legitimate addition to CSS. I bet we will see it in a future release. It makes a lot of sense for headings. I hope it will not get abused for other text blocks (but I am sure it will).
Visible World Sued over Anti-Piracy Patents - Intellectual Property Insiders
Pomodoro was a popular technique for this, has it fallen out of fashion? I used Pomodoro a lot and liked it quite a bit. At my current job we pair program mostly, and Pomodoro doesn't work so well in that situation.
Aside from Linux, you mean?
It depends on how polished you are looking to get and how much experience you have with Photoshop/Illustrator and general front-end development.

If you are simply looking to get some iOS experience, you should be able to hack together the UX/UI yourself. If you are trying to launch a business, design will be imperative for success. Show me 1 poorly designed, truly successful App in the App Store.

Like everyone says now-a-days... I'd suggest focusing on the MVP concept and build just the core features, with excellent design and UX.

For inspiration:
http://pinterest.com/timoa
http://www.mobile-patterns.com
http://pttrns.com
http://www.lovelyui.com
http://iphone.meer.li
http://www.awwwards.com/inspirational-and-useful-resources-f...
http://uxarchive.com
> I'm very cynical about things like 'awareness', because it's all too easy for politicians and lobbyists, who think about these issues every day, to slip something else by eventually. Most of the policy changes that we deride today as regressive were themselves not a 'first attempt'.

Ironically, I'm even more cynical than you. I don't think that politicians think about these issues every day...I think they think about the "big" hot-button issues (health care, taxes) and otherwise spend most of their time campaigning to stay in office... and that is why the SOPA protest worked...SOPA would've sailed through considering it's extremely wide bipartisan support...but it's not because the politicians were in a backroom scheming about it. All it takes is a few politicians who agree with the lobbyists; the rest will go along with a given issue as long as there's no political fallout...because there is always political fallout in voting against an ally.

Once people started e-mobbing the offices en masse, then the just-go-with-it majority realized there was political fallout. And for better or worse, that legislation and virtually any similar legislation in the future, will not be seen as benign. That is a huge hurdle for lobbyists to overcome.
I like the general idea, if you want some "insurance", you could also set the database user that the application uses to SELECT only permission.

Have you ruled out using a router? (like https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/multi-db/#us... )
So do I.

Mostly I run away from GPL code, whatever I do I can't choose to make it available or not, I have to, I consider that a restriction of my freedom, and while I would like that everyone who makes changes or improvements to any of my code to contribute back, I think it's unfair to force them to it, because I don't want to be forced either.
Most of my stuff is BSD or MIT, and for some less serious things WTFPL.

GPL has that "viral" effect that I hate, you are free to change but you have to keep it GPL, I don't know if it is possible to change GPL software into non GPL, can anyone tell me more about that?
This is an elegant starting point for implementing read-only mode in a Django app.

The appearance of buggy behavior can be expected if this is used on a site that does not strictly implement a REST interface (ie. POST to /resource/new/ instead of /resource/), but that's a flaw resulting from the individual implementation, not from your library, and even with an appropriately RESTful interface you'll still need to display messaging to the logged-in user when GET_ONLY_MODE is set to True.

You mention wanting to provide a generalized means of providing messaging in the template, but I've found that library templates are almost always inappropriate for inclusion into an existing application except in the most trivial of cases. An alternative to generalized messaging might be to implement some crazy logic in process_response() to disable all forms.

I also wonder whether environmental variables are appropriate for this type of change, since administering environmental updates across multiple servers requires a deploy strategy outside of the traditional Git schemes that people set up.

That said, I'll be watching the project to see where it leads. Congrats on the launch.
Dan Bernstein, developing software without bugs and hardcore cryptographer: http://cr.yp.to/

Ricardo Quesada: https://github.com/ricardoquesada

- Cocos2D for iPhone (more used 2D game engine)

- Cocos2D Javascript Bindings

- Cocos2D for Python

- SqueakNOS: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5727

- Driver for an obscure wireless Lucene device (new protocol reverse engineering)

- TEG (Tenes Empanadas Graciela)

- Batalla Naval
Wonder how much of that is being spent on the Silk Road?
Exactly. My wife hates going to gas stations in the winter.

This could be a workplace option. Find a large business, present this as a benefit, sign up all the people too busy to stop by gas stations.
When a user starts working on that task he or she just have to click on it to let everyone know that he or she is working on that. Cool, but I can do that with Trello. Yes you can, but with Blimp if that task stays in the DOING state for more than 24 hours without being completed the system will email the user asking for an update on the task.

Sweet! automated micro-management!

Honestly I like a few things in concept with Blimp, but one of the things I tend to hate about most "Methodologies" is when they're not flexible to the realties of your team.
The article is really no better than its link-bait title would suggest. If you read it, you'll have a nagging feeling all along that you're not going to learn anything, and that feeling will be confirmed when you get to the end:

And from the article:

“When you understand this, what you’ll start doing is listening to advice in a different way. You won’t think about what people are saying to you. You’ll start thinking about what people are saying about themselves and how they think.”

The article speaks more about your post than your post speaks about the article.

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Dan, great post. Its a reality that few people ever realize. Learning how to listen, but also how to figure out what people are saying is a game changer. Its the difference between being broke and having money.
true that (but it is the title of the blog post)
I actually have read discussions of the such, but unfortunately don't remember where... :(

However, that being said, here are some of the points I've seen:

Pros:
Car sharing is easier, since you can pull out a smartphone and "order" a car to come pick you up at any point, there is less of a need to actually own a car. This should lessen the total number of vehicles manufactured/maintained/etc. The huge amounts of energy for making steel come to mind here. Also, if you are using a CaaS(car as a service) many would probably opt for a cheaper option where the car will stop and pick up other passengers on the way, offsetting the cost and therefore reducing price. A person doesn't have to arrange a carpool this way. If you make it easier and cheaper to carpool than to not (currently it is cheaper, but a hassle) then people will do it more.

Reduced traffic congestion: This sets the stage for the other benefits. Cars stopping and accelerating less equals less fuel used. Many, many more autonomous vehicles can share a roadway without reducing speed than human drivers.

Cons:

More suburbinazation/low population density: This is a big possibility. While living in a distant exurb would mean you probably have to own an autonomous vehicle, or schedule one to pick you up well in advance, car sharing suddenly works less.... but a 90 minute commute today would be much faster with autoomous vehicle roads, and people can read/chill/watch news/surf the net etc while cruising to work. Commuting is made more relaxing, so more people do it....

It's a very complex issue to try and understand the implications, but I really think that it would be an environmental net gain, due to the fact that, if everyone is using Car as a Service, then the CaaS providers will have cost minimization as a priority, and work to constantly increase efficiency. People only care about fast acceleration and performance when they are driving themselves. Computers don't have small penises to compensate for.
Check out workrave: http://www.workrave.org/

Same idea, easier to set up, and includes some animated exercises you can do at the start of your breaks
While developers surely are, game development companies are not fundamentally human. Now that Bobby Kotick has finished running Blizzard and the FPS genre into the ground, Valve is pretty much the only major publisher left that hasn't been overrun by IP lawyers and MBAs. Minecraft is a great game, but it's not a good representative of the average successful game. Developers make games because they want people to play them, but unfortunately, the only ones who have any control over what they are doing are the indie devs.

We already have indie / casual games on Linux. That's not enough to make Linux a legitimate platform.
No meaningful disussion can come from this.

Other students went to the same school I'm sure. Why are we not seing the same results from all of them or at least from the majority of them? The question whether you should get university education is not an easy one. I'm strugling with it all the time and I am going to an university.
You actually work 40h/w (usually) and then consolidate the 4 extra hours into a day (or days) off.
Associativity is very important in the case of IO. It guarantees that both

(print a; print b;)print c;

and

print a; (print b; print c;)

output abc.
I do the same with tea. I have a cup all day long and need to boil water, clean stuff, pee etc from time to time which forces me to disconnect my eyes from the screen.
...and now I understand today's XKCD [0] - I'd never heard this quote 'til today either. All is right with the world again :)

[0] - http://xkcd.com/1171/
What about systems with SSD?
In what way is MintChip superior? As far as I can see, it is a system for cryptographically signing transactions denominated in existing real-world currencies (eg CAD or USD), i.e. it's not really a currency at all. Seems terribly inferior to me.
> And for better or worse, that legislation and virtually any similar legislation in the future, will not be seen as benign.

That's simply not the case, though. It's trivial for them (lobbyists) to disguise it as an unrelated issue, using whatever common bogeyman is popular at the time (drugs, child porn, terrorism).

This is exactly what has happened time and again.
Or the other vice, SatoshiDice[1].

[1]: http://satoshidice.com/
How is MintChip a replacement for bitcoin? It isn't as anonympous and it isn't decentralized. It seems like they go for two entirely different goals.
Evidence points to a new breed of Chromebook
Except no company is going to want to buy enough cars to handle the demand during rush hour.
Rumors of Valve's Linux-Based console have been floating around for years.
Behind door #1 is a hungry tiger. If you choose door #1 it will jump out and eat you.

Behind door #2 is something else. There's no particular reason to think it will eat you, but who knows, it might.

Which door do you choose?

If there's a door #3 that will definitely not eat you, then choose it. But so far we don't seem to have found a door like that. Just "scaling back" to any realistic degree is unlikely to be sufficient to avoid door #1, unless we succeed soon in converting our energy supply to advanced fission or cheap fusion.

Geoengineering approaches that pull carbon back out of the atmosphere are another avenue, which I prefer to albedo adjustment since they simply return the atmosphere to its original state. But those are much bigger and more expensive, and in some cases have their own side effects.
It does not cover any of the interesting traits of Monads.

I could try to explain Monads in this comment, but others have already done it well.

Any explanation of Monads must at least cover the actual Monadic operations and the laws that relate them. Also, all of the examples he brings are not actually Monads, as explained by others.
One of the great things about a fleet like this would be that you could change your car depending on where you were going and what you were doing. For example you take a 1-seater to get around a city but if you go a longer drive you take a larger, more powerful car. This is one of the things I enjoy about using zipcar, you get to drive fancy cars some days but only pay for the cheaper ones most of the time.

The great thing about an automated fleet is that you could actually switch cars during the journey. Take a small car to leave the busy urban areas and than switch to a larger car when you get to the motorway.
Yawn. Another SAWCASM. Is this really the best we can do? Another straight, pasty cis dude?
Reassess Your 2013 Resolutions
Decline of Friendship?
You can't just stick a sign on your car and call yourself a taxi
I've started trying out the service, but coming from Basecamp, my team relies on their messages to keep ideas and project-related conversations archived with the rest of the project data. Any advice on how to do the same within Blimp?
As someone who is always fighting off an avalanche of emails asking of for business advice, I can definitely identify with this. Everyone wants to hear what they think is the right choice, but no one is ever paying attention when I tell them that they have to figure it out themselves. Seems people (specially programmers) are obsessed with finding the correct path to riches, but few ever manage to go out and follow along the path. Success is more about perspiration that about planification.
Given those cars make two reliable paying journeys per day, minimum, why wouldn't they?
I started on my TI-83+ and then later moved up to a TI-89, which was great for wannabe programmers because you could easily write programs in C (using TIGCC) instead of having to deal with the limitations of TI-BASIC.
Looks like that is still very much an open question (from a quick scan of wikipedia) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratite

--edit-- though not dodos, pretty sure they were a type of pigeon... or I could be making that up.
Under the principle of fallibility, OP is posting this because some of us might not have read it already. I had not.
Slides of all sessions of JFokus 2013
For those curious about the SFW-ness of the link it's the homepage for an online casino site accepting bitcoin.
I'm using moped since it first came out last year. It's nice to see it evolve. Hope more people in my network will join.
It's not that crazy, BTC will continue to have wild swings like any small market with a fixed supply. BTC was worth more for a short time in June 2011 and then crashed. Another crash wouldn't be surprising at all.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/chart.png?width=940&m=mt...;
I don't see how it could be any worse than some people's driving already. Compare the failure rate of embedded devices, software and servo hardware and that of a tired human being coming home after a long day's work and I'd take the "smart car" over the exhausted human any day.
The comments on this post are depressing.

Whatever your attitude about the White House's goofy petition site, the efficacy of 'online activism', or what-have-you, Aaron Swartz's grieving partner thinks signing this petition will help shed a little light into the circumstances that led to his death.

Maybe she's right, maybe she's wrong, but either way, it only takes a second to do - so just go sign the damn thing.
"Monads for JavaScript Programmers"

Just as the talk he refers to (I've seen it and it's ok)... It's for JavaScript programmers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc

So unless there's a 1-to-1 mapping between "Normal Programmers" and "JavaScript" programmers this title is quite misleading.
''Do you really believe that if all guns disappeared tomorow, those who want to kill themselves would not find another way?''

Strawman. "Banning all the guns" was never mentioned or advocated. Please rephrase.
Reminds me a little bit of tiles.ice.org, the old collaborative drawing site from the ANSI art group iCE, where you were each provided the edges of the neighboring tiles from which to extend your own piece of artwork. The site is down now, but some of the creations that came out of there were phenomenal.
>> Everyone is an asshole in someone's mind.

That's a nice one, have to remember that :-)
Installing Windows 8 on a Netbook - Does it Work?
The One Skill Startup Employees Need Most
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
Agreed. I take it a bit further: I have a dual-boot Windows/FreeBSD box, and use VirtualBox to run one OS inside the other, depending on what I'm doing (using a raw VMDK[1]). For me, this is helpful because using Windows as the primary gives me access to games (via working graphics drivers), and FreeBSD as a primary gives me access to a desktop environment that doesn't drive me crazy to work in (XMonad+xterm).

I'm probably risking huge dataloss, though.

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[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idp13208480
Plus one. I think it's really the total lack of selfishness that makes him so great.
I did consider using the router and actually inspecting form data as well, both felt far more convoluted and could result in tougher to bug situations should issues arise. While I'd love to have something more robust and safe this is currently just v0.1 and I generally am looking forward to more conversation around what users see as acceptable.
You are correct. The mainstream gaming industry would have absolutely no interest in developing for a VM, because developing games is kind of like a nuclear arms race.

Unless someone finds a way to get Next-Gen 3d Engines to run in a VM without a performance hit of even 1%, its not going to happen.
> the loss of more and more individual liberty

wait, what?

> giga-corporations

... wat. Google is at most a kilo-corp.
I can't see how it wouldn't be an improvement. Self-driving vehicles that automatically assess traffic conditions, reduce accidents will likely result in less gridlock, improved travel times, less wear on roads and other infrastructure etc.

I also don't see why this tech couldn't be used in public transit/shipping thereby reducing one of the largest cost factors (salaried drivers, poor lifestyle) and actually increase the amount of available public transit.
I agree with you on: "I tend to hate about most "Methodologies" is when they're not flexible to the realties of your team".

That's why we made Blimp in such a way that if you don't want to use the methodology you don't have to and you'll get a very nice task management app. But if you learn the simple process and use it, the app will become smarter and it will help you more, if you need that.

The more you use the process, the smarter Blimp gets.
Teaching network security with a board game
no, i sent them a scanned copy of the police document, in which i registered my kindle as lost device.
I hate the fact that most of the C standard library needs to be ignored due to buffer overflow/security issues. I nearly always use the cross platform "Safe C Library" anytime I do something in C:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/safeclib/
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-safe-c-library/214502214
It's only a dream when you don't have more than 1 connection, and even then you do have off-peak issues. Mass transit needs a lot more work even in the NYC metro area, for example.
> Do you really believe that if all guns disappeared tomorow, those who want to kill themselves would not find another way?

Yes, most people who would complete suicide by gun would not do so without a gun.
All the data in the world could be stored in 4 grams of DNA
All of the world's information, about 1.8 zettabytes, could be stored in about four grams of DNA
Re: People who think they never need help.

Zeus, I hate dealing with these people. Its just a waste of time. One of the key lessons about business is to learn to delegate.

"But orange, I don't have money to hire someone to help!" - is what I often hear. My answer is:

"Money is just a trading tool. There are always other options available. Always ask and explore those other options." You would not believe the amount of things I get from doing trades. You don't need money to get what you want. Money is more convenient, but its not the end.
Duh, blocks are evaluated in leftmost order. This is neither news, nor particularly profound in any number of popular curly brace languages. Rewritten with curly braces, so it's recognizable by most Blub programmers out there:

{ { print a; print b; } print c; }
{ print a; { print b; print c; } }
They would use trains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan#Suicide
Any word on when they'll support purchasing from a UK bank account? Most of the other options are a bit more convoluted than the straight-forward system Coinbase seems to use.
The Perils of Technical Debt in Software
I know next to nothing about dinosaurs, so someone correct my ignorance:

Don't we define Dinosaurs, in some sense, as "animals that were alive then and aren't alive now?". Obviously, some of the Dinosaur species were related, but aren't there lots of different families of Dinosaurs which aren't connected? Had the wolves died too, wouldn't they also be considered as just another family of Dinosaur?

(Again, I don't really know if this is how Dinosaurs are defined or not. One argument against is that people talk about "birds" being descended from Dinosaurs).
So why downvoted? Microsoft is not really supporting C#. No more Silverlight for that matter, and they are "born again natives" - ahem C++. Not that I would complain about it, it's just that they change their moods as if they had two party political system over there....
Great article. It seems very simplistic and shallow but if you really think about the points being made they are spot on. I've always said that success is not repeatable, however, the habits to success are. This article does a good job of supporting that theory.
"Speed"-dating ?
The buggy behavior can definitely occur for those that don't appropriately follow a RESTful interface.

With regards to displaying messaging, this is something I'm very much looking to add to both modes. In regards to templating the initial thought was some HTML that the user could include or would be default that would float as an overlay on a page to indicate the mode. Though I'm mostly curious as to what users would most want to see here before implementing something that people may not want.

As for the environment variables, I may be biased but being at Heroku we very much enjoy this approach. It reduces risk of having config included with code which can be hard to debug at times.
" I thought the issue here is to filter out anything spammy while not loosing any potentially valuable reports. "

Yes! But, in my comment I pointed out a specific example of where you lose a potentially valuable report.
I don't know about birds during these "dark" times, but todays birds are pretty resilient to wide change in temperature even on a daily basis. They are capable of generating and circulating fair amount of body heat. Their average temperature is typically much higher than mammals. They are also well insulated, more than humans, apes, dogs, cats...