skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blah, blah, blah.

The problem isn't some vague platitude about how there is "too much government". This wasn't caused by Social Security or other defined benefit programs (which make up most of "government"), or by the Veterans Administration, or by the Postal Service, or by FDA.

It was caused by one specific agency, created by W, which should never have been created, is duplicative by its very nature, and which has run amok. Homeland Security.

And no, this isn't evidence that we are heading for a Gestapo society. No. The Gestapo was highly organized, disciplined, and effective. Homeland Security, by contrast, is a bunch of minimum-wage flunkies, unable to get a job anywhere else because of malfeasance, complete lack of job skills, illiteracy, or a combination of these, which fails to accomplish anything of note whatsoever.

Continuing the pablum, you feed us a line about how fishing licenses are evil. I'm sorry, but we've had dozens of large world fisheries be over-fished to extinction. Mark me down in the columns as being in favor of responsible management of wildlife; this is another example of an area in which we need government.

Off-topic comparisons to Argentina, similiarly, do not really convince one that the entire US government is inherently bad. I know libertarians seek any and all excuses to drone on about this, but spare us.

Just fix or abolish Homeland Security.
GameSpy Arcade and GameSpy are different creatures.
Bind 10 released
Well, it is certainly possible.

It can go from "too big to fail" to "too big to rescue".

When that happens these banks, it would be disaster for many countries, not just companies.
Nielsen Adjusts Its Ratings to Add Web-Linked TVs
I got pointed to https://www.bountysource.com/ recently
Unless they hold power over you, don't be nice to anybody who isn't nice to you. Iterated prisoners dilemma: if you aren't willing to defect, they will every time.

If they hold power over you, smile until you stab them in the back.
When you own the hardware you can also get a tax break on hardware depreciation.
> Right now I would not trust any sensitive, personal information to any website or cloud service.

A friend of mine put together an open source project that uses cryptography to store your data in the cloud securely, so it's certainly possible. [1]

It's also possible to write complex software and not be vulnerable, though 99.999% of the time companies (start-ups and otherwise) seem more concerned with an MVP and new features than security. If you design a system from the ground up with security as a core feature, then you have a CHANCE of having a system that won't be vulnerable to script kiddies every other week. On top of that you need to be sure to protect against social engineering, but that's another discussion.

I don't even know if it's possible to use something like Rails (or Ruby, even) and be secure for the long term without having to deal with constant updates and patches. On the other hand, I HAVE used complex systems that were designed from the ground up to be secure and that simply NEVER turned out to have a security vulnerability after the first few releases. (Anything by DJB, for example. [2] Some of those tools have gone 15+ years with no vulnerabilities. Compare the constant sendmail or bind security exploits, numbering in the hundreds at this point, to DJB's qmail and djbdns.)

Until it's a priority, it's always going to be an afterthought, by definition. People will use Rails or the framework du jour, despite the fact that such frameworks are designed with the same "get it done and release ASAP" philosophy that most commercial sites are developed with, and then everyone wonders at security holes. Sigh.

[1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

[2] http://cr.yp.to/
Alloy - a lightweight hierarchical MVC PHP framework
Is my understanding correct that LaTex can not handle UTF-8?
We just got Meteor compiling on Pogoapp (using a buildpack which uses meteor's git/master, so incorporates these updates[1]), and I booted up open source demo apps whipped up by a couple London developers after a chat in #meteor IRC:

https://github.com/alanshaw/meteor-blackboard

https://github.com/olizilla/goto-meteor

here's live demos (you can use zoom in both):

http://blackboard.pogoapp.com

http://meteor-goto.pogoapp.com/

Be sure to check go take a look at the code, or lack thereof - really impressive stuff. Since looking just a few months ago, the whole meteor ecosystem seems to have expanded and matured at a pretty incredible clip.

[1]: https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite
Google that and you'll find a blog post by their CEO about their product strategy - enterprise deployment tools for purchase.
Is Quake still alive?
I've got these nephews (-in-law) that play this weird variant that has to do with guns and shields and badges and a few other things... wish I could find the rules.
I can't read this and not think Quidditch-minus-Snitch.
Meteor is moving quickly in part to the large GitHub following and involvement.
> I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure).

It seems to go around in cycles. There is a very heavy anti-LaTeX movement that I occasionally run into. There are also a lot of people who use it and would not recommend anything else.

> My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is.

This is very true. And what I find more annoying is the argument that we need to move to DocBook because somehow that's more accessible (and yet it isn't either as accessible or as powerful).

There are a few things that hurt LaTeX adoption in some environments though and I want to mention here. These are generally from my experiences participating on various TeXLive-related email lists.

There is an expectation at least in the XeTeX community from what I have seen that everyone will manually upgrade to the latest and greatest quickly. With many of the TeX distribution, there isn't a lot of thought given to long-term support. This makes things like running hosted services for mission critical apps which use LaTeX somewhat problematic.

I ran into the dreaded "we can't start because you are using something 7 years old" message and the only help I could get was "upgrade." Not helpful when trying to package software that people are running on production services. Not helpful at all.

I will follow up with you on email (from my personal account, chris.travers@gmail.com). I think that one of the things that LaTeX really needs to get wider support is a set of community resources for longer-term support, for people who are happy to accept workarounds if it means being able to support earlier versions etc.

I am in the process of trying to get a hosting service up for LedgerSMB and we use LaTeX for a lot of stuff internally (the hosting solution will use XeTeX). I think a rising tide here would help both us and the community out.

> Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption.

I think it may help. It certainly comes along at a good time.
The Clunky Early Days
Chromebook Pixel is Microsoft's worst nightmare come true -- and Apple's, too

Maybe one day. But certainly not on $1300-$1500 browsers. I got a WIN 7 Laptop for around $600 last year, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of hard-drive and use Photoshop, my decade old Windows programs and everything else I can think of with it.

Now with Chrome one can browse the web--at just $900 more.
I cannot access the page from germany: it immediately redirects me to the (german) front page. (Firefox 19, german edition)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, because you're absolutely right. In fact, the parent's anecdote is just that: an anecdote. The reality of the matter however is that you should never, ever admit wrong-doing under any circumstances. Use the minimum amount of words for basic communication with the cop, be polite, and then deal with whatever ticket is written (either pay it or contest it in court).
That six degrees of desperation bullshit was cringe inducing.

Edit: I meant separation, but desperation is funnier.
There's nothing whatsoever wrong with conservation and responsible fishing or hunting. That has nothing whatsoever to do with me not being able to fish without a license. I should be able to fish any time I want without having to have a license as a prerequisite.

Now, we can debate ideas on how to prevent over-fishing and over-hunting. And that's OK. I am all for that. I won't put forth any proposals here because it is a complex subject. Licenses don't stop over-fishing. I've seen people take fish species, sizes and quantities that they are not supposed to.

See, here's the difference. I firmly believe that people --outside of extreme circumstances-- are good, not evil. For me at least, published guidance on such things as what species, sized and quantities to take would be enough. I don't need a law and a guy with a uniform and a gun to make me abide by reasonably justified social guidelines. Maybe some people do. I think most don't. A license, a background check or a permit and a set of laws will never prevent bad actors to, well, act badly.

I am using this idea of fishing licenses as an example of how much control government has over you. I live near a lake. I also live in earthquake country. Let's say we have an earthquake that takes down our infrastructure for a few weeks. If I need to walk over to the lake and fish in order to feed my family for a couple of weeks I should not need a government permit to do so. It is a fundamental right as a human animal on this planet to be able to feed yourself and yours. What's more basic than that? We have taken it to the level where you could be arrested for providing for your family. Not gonna happen? It's up to the thug with the gun isn't it. And, by the way, you are driving with one hand.

What? Politicians and officials don't twist things their way in the US like in places like South America?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST-eE4Ud7nw

Right.

I wonder how much of that goes on that we never become aware of.
If that's the case maybe he can become visibly active in political circles and demand that the public be educated as to what is being done to our country.
DHS is a problem but it is not the problem. It's a symptom of the problem of excessive government control over our lives. For the most part the DHS is just an amalgam of other agencies anyway, and those would still exist even if the DHS did not.
"memory access is extremely limited (essentially one DWORD per page" – referring to non-code addresses, yes? In the current (simplest) implementation, each instruction (a TSS) must be aligned across a page boundary. You do comment below that altering alignment could increase the available code space.

I'm wondering what method PFLA uses to read/write non-code addresses. Only one address per page can be addressed? I'll take a look at the compiler.

By simply expanding the addressing capability, a very tiny program could emulate an instruction stream from memory, overcoming the limited code space (at the cost of execution speed).

Cheers!
In such situations I usually reply with "Sure, sounds like a great feature, make a pull request if you want that." (https://github.com/manmal/hn-android/issues/4), or I go and add the feature, of course. I also do quality assurance - if I don't like the way the pull request solves the problem, then it won't even hit the upstream.
If you dont mind me asking, where did you go to school?
Thanks for the insights. But, why not Scooter http://www.scooterframework.com/ or ActiveWeb https://code.google.com/p/activeweb/ ? Both look quite comparable with RoR than Play!
William Gibson is a strange person. I remember him making a comment at a convention once where he said he was shocked at what computers looked like on the inside, he expected them to be weird crystalline contraptions.
DHS behaved in a morally indefensible manner. I don't care if Arrington is telling a one-sided story and was actually a total asshole: DHS works for the American public and my tax dollars pay for the pain of putting up with jerks for the public good.

Hence, they stole his boat. If the President were to show up at my parents' doorstep without a warrant or probable cause and shoot my little sister because he was having a bad day, would you call it a lawful execution? No, it's murder.

That's an extreme exaggeration to prove my point. But that's where your logic ends up. Having a badge that reads "Government Agent" does not mean all your actions are moral or legal.
you realize that they dont have your private key right? and that you can verify the javascript wasnt poisoned by having a hash of the legit javascript and comparing it? with a handy toolbar?
Well, here's an actual quote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson

"On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision. When I was writing Neuromancer, it was wonderful to be able to tie a lot of these interests into the computer metaphor. It wasn't until I could finally afford a computer of my own that I found out there's a drive mechanism inside — this little thing that spins around. I'd been expecting an exotic crystalline thing, a cyberspace deck or something, and what I got was a little piece of a Victorian engine that made noises like a scratchy old record player. That noise took away some of the mystique for me; it made computers less sexy. My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them."
I have 8 GB of Ram and SSD and compilation speed hasn't been an issue with me in Play. The refresh process in Play is also a lot better than a JRebel-based solution or something similar, because in case of compilation errors Play generates a nice error page.

The refresh speed may indeed be annoying and could be better, but it's less of an issue with Play than in Rails or Django or whatever, because you're working with a static language and while writing code you feel less of a need to see what your new lines of code produce. In Scala, if you're using it as a functional language, all the code you write tends to be correct if it compiles and Play itself uses many functional idioms making it very suitable for a functional style.

It's worth noting what Play gives you when compared to Rails, Django and the like.

Remember that Rap Genius article from a few days ago, in which people complained about Heroku's Bamboo stack and having to work with over 70 Heroku dynos? I have a Scala module on top of Heroku that's processing 25,000 requests per second in under 100ms per request and that's running with just 8 Heroku dynos. And I'm actually dissatisfied because a high-CPU server on top of EC2 would be able to handle all 25K.

With Play you get the best of both worlds. A productive framework and the full power of the JVM. It's not easy to describe how it feels to get this combination, but it feels great, trust me.
Barely. Check out http://www.quakeservers.net/ for server lists.

Seeing this thread actually inspired me to get Quake running on my Mac. Just left a free-for-all deathmatch that I won handily using a trackpad. Still got it :).
Conveniently ignoring the hardware advantages is convenient.

I like SSDs

I like high PPI displays.

I like glass touchpads.

I like a metal body.

I like free cloud storage.
I'm not sure the author is well aware of the open source community. There is a large body of very large software projects that really only go in this "Type 0" but are nonetheless much bigger than little plugins. I seem to recall a project started by ... oh was it ... I believe it was someone from Finland ...

Anyway, I think this misses the spirit of the community. There's also this idea that I've heard Joel Spolsky talk about, such as once you introduce money, you change the situation drastically. Imagine an kernel module programmer building the module for the usual reasons, now say someone provided the programmer a method to pay some trivial amounts, like $5 or $10 ... Now, you introduce a very small amount of money and it can give the programmer a feeling of "this is a waste of time" because, say, someone working at MS doing a similar job is making much more money doing basically the same thing. This is not to say the programmer doesn't deserve or that making $20 is not better than $0 but it changes the dynamic in an odd way.
Because there is a functioning Macy's mall on the first few floors, they still play mall music. However, they never disconnected the upper floors from the PA system, so music still plays through these floors 24 hours a day.

Wow. Eerie as hell.

The main thing on my mind as I was going through the pictures and their descriptions was, "this is what everything is going to look like after World War 3. Except with more dust, ash and perhaps dead bodies."
What's that JS from yandex.ru?
Warning Graphic: Suicide by Train - Headless Torso
How to add database addin to xamarin studio to get database access ?
No, it isn't.

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
Do you have any opinion about Scooter http://www.scooterframework.com/ which looks more RoRish and productive?
USCG's role in the drug war is IMO fairly unconscionable as well. It's horrible that they take what would otherwise be an essentially purely good and morally unquestionable agency (saving people's lives on the water, navigation, environmental protection, defense of the coast during wartime) and turn it into one of the leading edges on the war on freedom.
You can use Crowdtilt for it :)

We'd love to help, and if it's for open source - use this promo code, and we'll waive the Crowdtilt fee: ctdevs123
Just a quick note from and old military avionics tech: "Tape, Lacing and Tying, Aramid" (sorry, can't remember the NATO Stock Number offhand, but I used to order a couple of skeins a week at one time) will cut you up badly until you develop the appropriate scars and calluses. It's basically 25-pound test waxed flat dental floss. Because the knots (a clove hitch secured with a reef/square knot) are quick, easy and repeatable, you'll be through the skin before you notice the beginnings of the damage. (And taking a month off of lacing is enough for the toughened skin to get back to its ordinary, weak self.)
This conversation has been up for over 2 hours, and nobody has noted that this fails the Open Source Definition at item 1? You can verify that at http://opensource.org/osd.

More generally, when you sign a contract, or release something under a license, you should understand what you are doing, why you're doing it. If the legal agreement doesn't accomplish what you want, then don't do it. That goes whether you're a hobbyist, a business, are releasing open source for free, or are selling incredibly expensive per CPU licenses. In general, releasing software for free is not the best way to get paid for the act of writing it. That's common sense, and if that is a problem for you, then you really shouldn't be releasing your software as open source. But you have no grounds to complain that other people choose to.

So why do people release software as open source?

- Fun. It can be nice to say, "Here, look what I did!" Why not give it away for free?

- Learning. Participating in open source software is a good way to get feedback from experienced developers you could never learn from otherwise.

- Marketing. At the worst, you wind up with software to show people that has your name on it. At its best, an individual will wind up with a network of connections who can get you jobs that you like. Then for companies you get into dual licensing business models, ease of attracting developers, etc.

- Gratitude. A lot of developers gained a tremendous amount from using and reading other people's open source software, and feel like they are paying that gift forward.

- License requirement. Some open source software is only available under licenses that say you cannot restrict redistribution of your changes. (The GPL is an example.) Thus you can find that you can get a lot of what you're looking for already done, and the cost is reciprocity. (Hey, if you don't like the license, don't use the software...)

- Maintenance costs. Many companies find that they need something "almost the same as" something out there. But maintaining a fork over time gets expensive as you have to track future improvements, security advisories, and so on. But if you contribute your changes back into the project, then you avoid this cost. (Supporters of the BSD license prefer motivating people this way.)

- Reducing the price of complements. Customers often want to buy a solution, and have a price they are willing to pay. That solution will include multiple pieces of software. If you make other pieces of software cost less, then your piece can cost more. As a concrete example, for many years Oracle pushed customers towards Linux, and then charged a higher price to run on Linux than to run on Solaris.

...and so on and so forth. There are many valid reasons to give away open source software for everyone from individual hobbyists to big companies. But the fact that there are lots of reasons that lots of other people want to do it doesn't mean that it makes sense for you. If it doesn't make sense for you, then don't do it. But don't try to tell everyone else that they shouldn't do what they want to do for their own reasons..
Hailing from Kerala, really happy to see this happening. This is indeed a great achievement, and hope there will be more initiatives of such kind which will help to bring together the vast amount of information scattered around in the sub continent.
Happy Puppy -> GameSpy -> ???

Guess time to check out IGN unless anyone have other suggestions.
Remind me of Alexis Sellier's awesome micro blog engine toto(https://github.com/cloudhead/toto), created 3 years ago.
Knockout-bootstrap Twitter bootstrap js for knockout
Knockout-bootstrap is a small collection of custom Knockoutjs bindings that allow people to create Twitter Bootstrap widgets using the data-bind attribute. This started when I needed to do a two way binding in a bootstrap popover and now I am trying to add components that make sense. Please offer feedback, fork, and contribute. Thanks.
...That guarantees you the right to drive at any speed you want?

Sorry, laws are important, as are taxes. And while you may not use roads, the rest of us do. I don't have children, but I pay taxes for schools. I'm okay with it because education is important. While you may be able to afford health care, many cannot. You reap the benefit of healthy citizens as well. Healthy people, and people out of debt, promotes a better economy.
Is the games industry doing a lot worse? I read this article: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/22/ign-layoffs-and-sayin...

Although they don't say it outright, it strongly implies that the game industry is not as profitable as it once was.

I haven't been a gamer for years, so it's shocking that these sites/publications are shutting down.

Can someone enlighten me as far as what's going on in the gaming industry?
Good to know we will let you go this time. Next time you will be required to remove the Facebook login.