skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about different things here. A more productive, disease-resistant strain of soybean (or maize, rice, sweet potato, etc.) is of obvious benefit to the whole of humanity, and could be the goal of any charitable organization, philanthropist, government, or corporation. (I imagine that the increased sales of Roundup herbicide would be at best a minor criterion in the reckoning of most such institutions.) Better diabetes treatment would allow fat old Westerners to keep stuffing their gobs in relative comfort for a few more decades. I agree that no other sort of funding mechanism would be likely to bring about that latter, more dubious benefit.

I have no quarrel with those who bring new airplanes, soybeans, or medicines to market. I do quarrel with those who want to undermine the rule of law in society to make those efforts more profitable. For millennia farmers have replanted seeds; the activity is the basis of agriculture. Monsanto didn't own the beans this farmer planted, nor did they own the plants that bore those beans nor the elevators that stored them. They might have sold him Roundup, but if they felt they should be better rewarded for that then they should have charged him more. The court system does not exist to salve the butthurt that Monsanto executives get when their schemes of control and coercion go awry. There's entirely too much control and coercion in modern agriculture in the USA already.

If as a result of these proceedings Monsanto were to find that it couldn't charge a premium for its bean varieties, it might very well decide to charge a premium for its Roundup herbicide. That would change incentives in modern agriculture for the better. Instead of committing every year to excessive sunk costs for the purchase of patented seeds, which later in the season induce additional purchase of Roundup to protect that investment, farmers would be more willing to "wait and see" and try different combinations of weed control methods. Roundup use wouldn't cease, but it would be seen more accurately as a more expensive option and so its use would probably decrease a bit. Monsanto would be welcome to bump prices even more if they thought that would help.

I don't support the government even having access to billions of dollars, let alone handing them out to anyone, and I struggle to see how my initial comment could have left such an impression. I do see the extant patent regime as a pillar of modern state capitalism, which tends to reinforce the power of state bureaucrats rather than undermining it.
Why? The PoC makes it easy to test your apps with tools like Metasploit. The blackhats don't care. They're going to build a sploit anyway, and they're not going to share it so we can use it to test.
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This actually calls for advances in analytics packages. If you could specify the threshold on a per page (or regular expression for complex requests), and have the system track and notify you of threshold exceptions, this wouldn't be too difficult to manage with some nice sliders.

Sounds like a good problem for an analytics startup to tackle.
from the creator (I'm not a programmer so I don't totally understand the comment, but it might be interesting to others)

Google uses a Mercator projection, so comparing areas that have drastically different latitudes will yield inaccurate conclusions. Not sure how to force it (or if you can force it) into Goode Homolosine. That would make me happy.
It takes a while for the scraper to kick in, but this is what you are looking for:
http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/
Yup. The most value we could provide, though, comes through the vulnerability feed which we'll compile and always provide for free.
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I think Phenoelit is doing more than anything else to motivate us right now.
nice one. simple and to the point.
Almost all popular IDEs are extremely slow. Intellij is unusable on my 8 core 8 GB ram laptop.
I'm a bit confused about "Jump to source" being such a big deal for a vim user. What exactly is wrong with tags or cscope ? No I'm not being facetious, I really want to know what extra functionality you get with your IDE that you were not getting with proper use of tags/cscope ?

I've used various versions of emacs over the years for most of my programming (mostly C/C++ with some sprinkling of python and java). I've recently had to use Eclipse for Android dev. I agree that it'd be almost impossible to integrate the entire GUI dev framework of Eclipse Android environment in emacs (not to mention continuous compiles and other java-firic features) and that's the reason I use Eclipse for Android.
But "Jump to Source" ? Emacs is a far better and faster experience for me when it comes to trolling around in big, unfamiliar code-bases. The small subtle lags with eclipse (it's not as bad now with my monster new dev machine with 16G of ram) still irritate me. And the Emacs keybindings are almost there but not quite.. which is another big reason I've resisted IDE's. They're just slower for actual editing of code. Always. Without fail.
My mistake, has jules pointed out below I was confusing the EU parliament for the European member states.
IMO RSS is one of the backbones of the social net. There are a lot of people out there that pull content into the social networks from their rss stream.

There is also this: From my experience, social networks as they exist today are totally useless for keeping up with a large number of information sources. It is just impossible to keep things sorted. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
This is really wonderful work, both from the investigators who've documented and described the vulnerabilities and the Rails folks for being quick to fix them.

My co-founder and I had talked about YAMLgate when it had happened--our conclusion was that Rails is going to be under very close scrutiny for a while, and that there will be a lot of these things found, but that the framework will be all the stronger for it.

Always bear in mind this: even if it means more work for admins and devs, this promptness of response and willingness to admit failings is a sign of a healthy ecosystem.
Oh thanks for posting that. It was pretty hard to search and find if someone had already asked that.
Larry Ellison has put virtually all of his assets into a trust with the intent of giving away 95% of his money to charitable causes when he dies.
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Here they are on gmane:

[CVE-2013-0276]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/9...

[CVE-2013-0277]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/9...
it means it was circumvented, i.e. you evaded the piece of code that was supposed to lock you out.

In this case, apparently it was possible to 'hide' your attribute behind a newline, making it invisible to the attr_protected code, but somehow the attribute could still be valid (for no reason rails calls #strip on it or something?).
Your post smacks of sarcasm, but you really should submit this idea to Google for consideration.
He has some pretty insightful responses in general, but I really enjoyed this gem:

Q: What's the cheapest thing that gives you most pleasure?
A: kids, cheeseburgers...
Q: where are you acquiring cheap kids?
A: the stork
This is just about my mix for Scala. I have keybindings in Intellij fairly close to what I use in Emacs, and both will update when files are edited. I drop into Emacs when I have heavy editing, need to bounce around multiple buffers, or trying things out in the REPL.

I also work in a number of non-JVM languages in Emacs, and have used it for quite a long time. For JVM work, IntelliJ is, as you say, 'a little more productive'.
I'm a Tracphone user. They're great! I spend about $100 per YEAR on my phone. Not per month, per YEAR.
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1. Most languages allow multiple public modifiers, which can make humorously confusing experiences where you think something is private, but in reality, it's in the second public block.

In denser structures, particularly dense all-lowercase structures, this is easy to miss.
Remember http://formspring.me?

I think there just aren't enough interesting people doing Q&As for a business model based on this to make much sense.

Reddit's AMA format is pretty bad, especially if it's a woman/girl answering questions, though.
How about when you want the majority of your attributes whitelisted? I understand the urge to whitelist, but lets be reasonable here.

If i have a table with 20 columns, 19 of which i want accessible (lets exclude a private UK). I also expect the schema for the table to be volatile. Why should i even consider while listing 19+ over blacklisting 1?
Bill Gates showing off his baller touchscreen is priceless: http://i.imgur.com/1JqrLVc.jpg
Unfortunately I wasn't able to find it when I was posting, otherwise I would have. It was really cool. Difficult to search for and I can't recall exactly where it was any more.

I don't have time to dig right now but you might want to have a look here;
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html

I know he's had some interesting results.
Here's a good write-up I found with a bit more searching;
http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Without controls in place, let's see how much "forgiveness" you receive from the SEC and Sarbox enforcers when things go awry and shareholders lose out.
the recent Bill Moyers interview of Susan Crawford(for those who didn't catch it yet):
http://billmoyers.com/segment/susan-crawford-on-why-u-s-inte...
actuators

I think you mean "actuaries". :-) Good post.
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> Not much. It's a more expressive and cleaner language, but on the other hand python has NLTK + scipy community.

Haskell's mechanisms for defining parsers, lexers, and other pattern match tools is so good it probably passes over the line from "pretty" to "objectively better".

A lot of people who need to lex and parse data and then act on it turn to Haskell. It has some really remarkable and efficient libraries. And even for "common" target languages it's reasonable to write extremely fast parsers. With tuning, projects like Aeson are among some of the fastest JSON parsers and writers out there (only a few projects exceed its speed and resource efficiency in ANY runtime).
I am just viewing his comments page: http://www.reddit.com/user/thisisbillgates/comments/

The context link will show the comment he is replying to.
This is one of those things which sounds great, implies 'get it done' kind of people, and can have profoundly bad outcomes. Engineer testing auto-image-upload from a friends phone. Bad idea. Creating a release system where everything you copy into a magic directory, goes to the web, bad idea.
Both sought forgiveness, both got fired. California being a 'right to work' state and all.

Asking permission might not be the right answer but checking your ideas out definitely beats just going for it.
Your comment doesn't make any sense. Of course the solution to something bad isn't promoting it with something bad. That's just ridiculous and I would never argue that.

You're automatically assuming that SEO is bad, or is all blackhat, or is just about promoting crap. I would argue vehemently that good SEOs only want to promote good content. I turn down many freelance gigs because the company is shit.

I think you're confusing legitimate SEO with crap affiliate marketing. Big difference there, buddy.
the syntax is much more regular and more verbose, but that can be a good thing. The regularity means that it's easier to remember what's supposed to come next/how to do something, and the verbosity means that there's less obfuscated phrases.

Granted, ruby and python aren't as bad as perl, but they definitely aren't as regular as java either.

Of course, once you start getting into advanced topics, all that can go out the window, but at that point we aren't talking about a newbie anymore, so what we/they will expect from a language will be different.
A few further notes on this, following some reading... The docs aren't very clear about it, either (http://flori.github.com/json/doc/index.html). There is a JSON.parse! method that they explicitly say is to be used only for trusted input, and it looks like JSON.load has some of the same default options.

To further confuse things, JSON.load has the very useful property that you can pass it a String or an IO (e.g. from Rack::Request#body), whereas JSON.parse only accepts a String.

edit: the docs will soon contain a warning about JSON.load; see https://github.com/flori/json/blob/master/lib/json/common.rb
Not to mention helping sites avoid crawl suicide like massively duplicating content across sites, implementing faceted nav and pagination wrong, putting core content in AJAX, generating thin pages, making Google guess which page is the canonical one, and product managers who think "hey let's republish this database of millions of items on our site with generate millions of pages."
Guys, make a twitter account so we can easily catch on with the updates.
Some popular Django third-party plugins had similar issues to the YAML problems back in 2011 (i.e. using YAML.load instead of safe_load). As noted in the sibling comment, the pickle module is well-known in the Python community for being susceptible to this as well.

Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. I'm sure that /someone/ has been looking at Django at least to see if there are similar issues.
I doubt it's an issue of Python community vs Ruby community. Instantiating arbitrary objects is the sort of feature I'd expect an object serialization library to have, but not a document serialization library. Pickle is clearly an object serialization library, and I would have naively assume that YAML is a document serialization format, but apparently either the authors of the Ruby YAML parser or the creators of YAML don't see it that way, and see YAML as an object serialization format that is by default permitted to specify arbitrary objects to instantiate.
Looks interesting, but this is just a landing page.
After watching a few Bezmenov videos, i wonder if your Group B is still trying to subvert the west?

My believe was that the KGB had degenerated into some sort of mafia and russia was now playing the capitalist game (by their own rules of course). But then again i don't know much about those things.
I have too many. I have many ideas for plugins as I'm getting into vimscripting (and have since released one) and I use vimrc as a staging area for those ideas to grow on me.

Just last week I put this to have modified buffers in my statusline:

set statusline+=%{GetModifiedBuffers()}
function! GetModifiedBuffers()
redir @b
silent! buffers
redir END
return system('echo "'.@b.'"' . " | awk '$3 ~ /\+/ {printf ".'" " $4 "*"'."}'")
endfunction

I also have something I'm calling Streamline, which allows you to navigate relative lines while seeing absolute lines.

Also just yesterday I hacked something which allows me to block hjkl for more than one consecutive press, while binding their double presses to some other action. So pressing j once gets me down one line, pressing a second consecutive time activates Streamline which then, without a count, takes me to lines multiple of ten, so it's my way of scrolling when I don't know the outlook of the file (given a count of 4 while on line 37, Streamline would take you to line 44). This is still not on my online vimrc, but the rest is at github.com/goldfeld/dotfiles.
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I sympathize, but take notice that this is part of the classic one-two strategy that capitalists, as a class, have historically used to gain a disproportionate amount of power in certain historical periods. Say, the 19th century, or the 80s/90s. Not with malice, or even consciously, of course, but it's worth to watch for it, lest we fall again, and again...

First, claim the reasonable principle that law should guard morality, and business should attend only to business. It's in principle correct, so it gets accepted by everyone. So, if child labor were allowed, business owners would be in no moral fault for hiring kids to mine ore -- to pick a extreme example.

Second, claim that economic progress is good for everyone. Again, very reasonable. Then, organize as a political class (say, in nowadays Republican party) to get some legal concessions that were morally abhorrent in the past legal framework, in more or less degree, but would bring economic progress (for some definition of it). Say, legalize child labor. Voilá.

Now, it's obvious that capitalists should be, of course, allowed to organize politically. But, I argue that we live in a world disproportionately controlled by capital (specially the US), for various reasons. It's disingenuous, thus, to be a capitalist and have your mindset. You, as member of a class, have certain privileges that other classes in our society would consider unfair. Our current legal framework is loaded in your favor, after all.
Actually you are more right than you think. Frankly I would rather do something else than SEO. Like real marketing. (I am the author of said site)
Even in "serious" professions, it still matters who you know.

Here's an anecdote: a good friend of mine studied and finished medicine in a foreign country (in English). He passed all the American exams, yet no school would take him. The path to becoming an American doctor is quite different and more difficult than if you were to study domestically.

However, he met a doctor from the same country who practices medicine in America. The doctor was able to secure a volunteering position for my friend, and because of that volunteering experience, he is now finishing his residency program in the top 90% of his class.

Long story short: having connections is not about creating shortcuts; it's about creating opportunities that would otherwise be impossible to obtain.
I was very surprised he said Basic.

Of course, he presume he doesn't do much hard core software engineering anymore, but I assumed that family was pretty much a thing of the past (and legacy code).
Problem is, once a law is used for a new use, no matter how virtuous it is, it will now be seen as one of the tools in the toolbox for prosecutors to punish people. Many of those new uses will not be looked on favorably, either.
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There have been other commits that made it into the 3-2-stable branch, and I would have expected that those fixes would have made it into the next 3.2.x release, but that's not the case. Is that normal for Rails updates?

For example, https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/8718 is a PR that was merged into 3-2-stable to deal with a regression in 3.2.8.
Im seeing a lot of "averages are bad" etc but I think you come closest to what I had in mind: there isnt anything inherently wrong with using simple metrics. The caveat is you just need to keep in mind and understand their limitations and where they fall down. I think a lot of people understand that using 99 or 95 percentiles and what not but just failed to lay the reasoning out.
Pretty cool. Wish I could print it, though.
The idea is to fail in the direction of being safer than unsafe, if for example someone adds a database column and forgets to write "attr_protected" in the Rails code.
I'm not sure I instantly see the use of this, but I am really impressed about the way GitHub is improving their discovery tools. Every new way opens up new possibilities for collaboration, and I love it!
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It is the nav app keeping the display lit up like a Times Square billboard that is sucking the majority of your battery life down, by the way. Your suggestion stands, however.
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It is my understanding that security updates are generally made by taking the last released version, applying the security patches, releasing, and then applying the patches to the end of 3-2-stable.

This makes it incredibly easy for people to upgrade, and minimizes chances of regressions.

The next non-security release of 3.2.x should include that change.
It was meant as humour, for other SEOs in reality. Kind of an in joke that took the hard part of our job and made it funny. Frankly, as in any industry, you have to adapt. (I am the Author of that site)
Cool, thanks for the clarification Steve.
> "This Nadim fellow is a suspicious guy doing suspicious things"

Nadim is a smart guy working in computer science. What would the reaction be if he were Dr. Kobeissi and a computer science professor?
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Honestly, of the two icons shown in the movie, I'd rather take Gates to dinner over Jobs. Sure, he's shown as being a conniving schemer, but at the same time much less of a reprehensible human being (PoSV was not kind in its depiction of Job's handling of his daughter).
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"if a site is built correctly" - right. That's far from a given.

I can show you dozens of examples of well-funded "A list" too-cool-for-SEO developers who have no idea whatsoever what "built correctly" entails from the POV of a search engine.

The role of SEO is a) Product Management to set requirements to optimize crawlability, indexing, and retrieval, or b) QA that arrives after the fact and highlights all the ways the site fails to be usable for bots.

My experience is if you design things right first, it costs much less than if you don't. Plus you see the upside of your efforts quickly.

But maybe some people take the attitude that "giving me traffic is Google's job" and then when they don't get organic traffic, they have to buy it. Hopefully they also enjoy raising money and giving up a big chunk of their company, too.
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I prefer http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html and http://www.workwithcolor.com/hsl-color-schemer-01.htm
I don't really. I do believe there is value in learning the dark side of this profession though. There aren't enough genuine SEOs that really understand both sides of the equation.
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That's my point! Because we put so much effort into "fixing" healthcare we drive the price up instead of when we leave commodities like technology largely alone and happily watch the prices go down.
As a founder who doesn't consider myself to be the "sales guy", this post changed my whole view. It showed me that sales is a problem to optimize and solve, not a genetically predetermined outcome.
> The Model S has the frunk, couldn't that be used to fit a removable fuel cell/small engine/whatever that can recharge the batteries while driving?

The frunk would have to be specifically designed as an engine compartment, both because of regulations, and because one wouldn't want fumes to harm the passengers. (Less of an issue with hydrogen fuel cells.)

I think that's a great idea, though. Something like that would greatly increase the utility of something like a Tesla Model S. Range, in particular range in winter driving, would be greatly improved by the power generation and the ability to use waste heat for passenger compartment heating.