skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense to not forget that every government action IS backed up by threat of violence.

If the "no arial photography" law passes, flying a quadcopter around gathering imagery becomes illegal. When police show up to fine or arrest you for doing so, they do it in a manner & reputation implying physical violence will follow if you don't comply and persist in violating the law.

Ergo the question for legislators & citizens is: why is arial photography deemed harmful enough that doing so warrants threat, even invocation, of physical violence based on simple engaging in that activity outside of any other warranted factor? (To compare: why does NYC go so far as threaten, even carry out, physical violence against a restaurant owner for selling a 20oz soda?)

Viewed this way, one is reminded of the vital imperative of freedom & liberty. It makes sense to ask why a government is willing to resort to physical violence for enforcement, rather than "no harm done, let it go".
The last video must have been more then a year ago now, I've been waiting for more in this series to appear ever since.
Thanks for the added detail. With the specific prohibitions on photographs of residences that include people, this does seem like it might have grown out of privacy issues rather than from the secrecy and paranoia that produces doctored or inaccurate images of government buildings in online maps. I'd argue that the prohibition should specifically cover only people inside the residential structure, and have some concept of scale (so that a photo at a scale that has people as unidentifiable single pixels doesn't count), but the concept doesn't seem excessively unreasonable in the same spirit as "don't take pictures through people's windows".
It's an exaggeration, but maybe if the 2nd term doesn't go so well, this is what he could look like in 2016.

http://www.loop21.com/politics/how-obama-will-look-2016
Your first statement was that you need a degree to get a job. Having a degree gives you access to more jobs, but you can get a job just fine without a degree.
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The "rule of law"? The "rule of law" is frequently a corrupt regime intended to protect a special interest while oppressing many others. If you want a lesson in the illegitimacy of the "rule of law", take a look at the DMCA or the Patriot Act.

Citing the "rule of law" as if it's some kind of automatic validation is as ignorant as citing a patent as proof of legitimate intellectual property.
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I agree that the phrase is unlikely to occur apart from the context of porn sites.

But I'd like to be in control of whether emails are being deleted or not. (Or flagged as spam or not.)

Some people prefer to get everything; others don't care if stuff is silently dropped. But it's important that they get to choose.
This is all well and great, and my comment is meant in no way to belittle these efforts.

What good programmers have a lot of, though, is self-discipline, initiative, and patience. If we can teach kids those core skills, they can use them to learn programming later or excel in any other profession they choose.
I will put it in layman's terms for you.

Real property protection vs. Financial asset (contemporary legal constructs) loss allocation

Get it?
I got that so often I wrote a Greasemonkey script to retry the URL if I got that page.
Ugh! Let's just list a few reasons why we shouldn't be purchasing these things anymore. (Disclosure: Never owned one, but have played around with them a little.)

- Not upgradable
- Super overpriced
- Dictator-style company that seemingly caters to grandma
more than technical folk
- Obnoxious smug ethos created by marketing team
- Lots of people complaining about OSX going downhill
- The OP story and associated reports of mass censorship
- Just look at Objective C for 5 minutes

I'm perfectly happy with my beefy Win 7 box paired with a *nix machine that I can shell into when I need to do something that would suck in Powershell. Just don't install Java/Flash/ect and don't open JessicaAlbaBoob.jpg.exe and you will not get a virus.
Thanks for the links. Very funny piece...
I too have a cochlear implant with the 2.5mm jack adapter, and I actually prefer headphones to the jack adapter, mostly because the color of the sound seems to be a lot better with headphones than the 2.5mm jack - the direct audio signal seems harsh and not warm. I listen to a lot of classical rock, and this may be part of the reason, it just seems to translate better over headphones than direct input.
I believe that was his point, no?

That is one of the major issues preventing innovation in healthcare- the potential to lose a huge lawsuit. This article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/business/overcoming-obstac...

illustrated one of the main problems: the legal framework surrounding malpractice is completely screwed up. In the article, it is claimed that

"As it is now, a doctor or hospital can be sued if the plaintiff can show that “normal standards of care” were not followed, even if those normal standards of care are inappropriate."

Assuming that this is correct (I am neither a physician nor a lawyer), this basically freezes innovation, and makes it nigh impossible for innovation to occur.
True, plants have a defense mechanisms from microorganisms, yeasts et cetera, but these defenses can be disarmed to some degree by properly preparing grains: i.e. the old way - soaking, leavening.

I'll repeat a quote from Nassim Taleb:
"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
One thing that I don't see mentioned in the article is Samsung's (and EA's) new "100% Indie" initiative. They're pushing to get more game developers selling through Samsung's store instead of Google's, with the draw being six months of no royalties on sales. After that, it rises to 10%, 20%, and eventually the standard 30%, but if it goes as planned it should get a foot in the door for Samsung's marketplace.

PC magazine has more details: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415190,00.asp
I agree with your point, though I'd phrase it more along the lines of humility being an endearing quality (less emphasis on people's expectations). The word "great" was likely what turned most people off. A whole slew of other adjectives would have been a lot less grating: competent, good, capable, or even accomplished to name a few. Even better would have been to write the post about somebody else.

I also don't doubt that Godwin's Law kicked in after too long in the responses he might have gotten. And while I'm glad he seems to have overcome his self-esteem issue and doesn't let the negativity of others get him down, I can't help but observe that Internet can be a rough place if you're looking for catharsis.
Interesting! Do sounds and voices played through that headphone jack sound higher quality than sounds picked up by the local microphone and relayed to you? What's the frequency range that you can pick up with it? Can you hear sounds >20kHz or <20Hz?

Also, 2.5mm (like old headsets) or 3.5mm (like standard headphones)?
As a former Yahoo employee, I would say the answer is obvious: talent. Yahoo had an inconsistent talent bar: some teams had a very rigorous interview process and managed under-performers out, others did not do either.

Autonomy requires trusting your employees to do what's necessary even without direct supervision. That's not to say there weren't many strong engineers at Yahoo: indeed, I can think of one or two who have only remained at Yahoo due to ability to work from home -- so Mayer's policy will send them scuttling, while retaining those who are only at Yahoo because they can't find a comparable position (even sans the ability to work from home) elsewhere.
Apple has always been against Porn on their devices.

Heh. Wonder how much of it is produced with iMovie, or FinalCut.
Maybe it's Google Search biasing towards me (or at least my IP address), but Django, the framework, should be proud that it's keeping the top rank for that search term despite the buzz around Django, the movie (which, even though I love QT, was a pretty sloppy movie, IMO).

The real loser is Django Reindhardt, who Adrian Holovaty named the framework after, and is now bumped off the first page of Google results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)#History
I just came off a few years of small embedded systems programming and C is still firmly entrenched. Somewhat to my surprise I didn't really miss C++ all that much. I did have opportunity to program utilities in C++ and C# but all my day to day work was in C and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
When Doug Engelbart presented the Mother of All Demos back in 1968, he introduced both the mouse and the chorded keyboard, yet the chorded keyboard never caught on. And in 1968, the mouse was a new competitor to the light pen, which had been introduced in 1952. And just in case you don't think the light pen got a fair shake, remember that the IBM PC came with light pen support on both the CGA and EGA cards, and with support in the BIOS and in BASIC. There was no support for the mouse.
To be fair, in Windows it's called IESC and it is a joy to have when your an administrator. Like gatekeeper it's simple to deactivate if you know what you are doing.
My wife has done some research on this, and her belief is that ancient wheat was OK, but the modern wheat is engineered for very short plants, many planting cycles per year, and more gluten. I don't know if this is valid, but when I eat bread made with spelt for a few weeks, I seem to feel better but I am not sure if this isn't just a placebo effect. Fortunately spelt bread is very tasty, unlike things like brown rice bread that I don't like.

Also, no need to give up pizza (pardon a shameless plug: http://cookingspace.com/?detail=Cauliflower%20and%20Broccoli...)
I haven't really consider the US because without significant experience my chances of getting a job there would be much lower than in the EU, even without the visa bureaucracy.
Here in Seattle, the pedestrian signals are serious business. A colleagues dad was given a $70 ticket for crossing on Stop.

Going back to London / NYC, I always forget to just do it and walk across whenever the opportunity presents itself.
I'd like to add a few more options. First there is pat, by the Heroku / the guy that created Sinatra: https://github.com/bmizerany/pat

if you need simple routing and REST url parameters this is a great library to use. I've found it outperforms many of the other routing libraries. The best part is that it (mostly) uses the standard net.http library and you don't need to code against custom APIs.

there is also Gorilla Web Toolkit: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

this library has been around for a couple years, and is often recommended on the Go mailing list. It recently switched from Google Code to Github, so it doesn't have as many stars as the others. It provides routing, secure cookies, sessions, and more.

I personally would start with Gorilla or Pat, because they are very thin layers on top of the standard net.http library with little abstraction ... in many cases the standard library works great. If you end up needing a higher level framework you can always switch to something like Revel.
Looking pretty good. A few things that I noticed:

- "Read More" and "Seem n more viewpoint(s)" go to the topic page when I expected them to just load some additional information.

- "Read More" link is still present on individual topic page even though it goes nowhere.
It's not bullshit. I've seen entire communities, not just one person, object to initiatives that were under the control of their local representative, only to have that "representative" stab them in the back by voting for it anyway. Why? Because big business wanted it. See: the Playa Vista development on the west side of L.A.
From someone who is writing a game in his spare time, this looks promising, but not something that I will consider using.

* First, I am put off by the choice of a proprietary language. I can tell you right away that I am not going to use it, not ever. A proprietary language just won't cut it these days. Sure, Lua has its problems, but they are not big enough to warrant inventing your own ActionScript clone, in my opinion.

* Secondly, the front page says I can ignore LoomScript if I like, but it doesn't suggest what the alternative would be. I assume that it means writing directly to the C++ framework? If so, that's a crappy alternative. The attraction of engines like Moai is precisely that the scripting experience should so good that you could, up to a certain threshold of complexity, write an entire game without ever dipping into C++.

* Thirdly, I tried to find the API documentation, but apparently this requires me to not only download Loom, but install it. It's really important for me to have online docs I can browse anywhere without jumping through hoops to get it.

* Fourthly, the web site is very light on details. The Features page is very vague. It has a "gameplay framework", which I don't know what is. From the descriptions it's unclear exactly what Loom brings to the table; does it have support isometric games? Is it a scene graph engine? What about building 2D meshes, layers, asset loading, custom shaders, file formats, sound/audio?

From the vague description it looks like Loom is "just" some glue for tying various libraries together, centered on Cocos2Dx with LoomScript bindings -- unlike, say, Moai, which is an engine written from scratch that integrates some external libraries (Box2D and so on), but all abstracted through its own native API.

* Lastly, I didn't download it because the web site requires me to sign up. I just wanted to explore the code, not sign up for a license, so that's off the table.

I am currently on Moai. I don't love the APIs, I'm not a fan of Lua, and I was forced into writing C++ code way sooner than I expected (not a problem, but it's for fairly trivial stuff that Moai should have provided in the first place, and only because Lua is too slow at maths/vector stuff). On the other hand, Moai is free, open source, well-documented (with online docs), fairly mature, fast, has good APIs, an active community, and Moai Cloud (the hosted backend system) is reasonably priced.

In other words, I like Moai but I'm only something like 80% happy with it; it would not be terribly hard to entice me to switch to something better. If someone hacked up an engine on par with Moai, with slightly richer 2D features and a better language (Ruby! JavaScript/CoffeeScript with a JIT-based VM like V8 would also work) and a better physics engine, I would probably switch in a heartbeat. Superficial things like live reload I don't care much about.

Just my thoughts. I don't expect they are representative of game devs in general, although I suspect you will find that the choice of language will be a point of contention among more experienced devs.
Did anyone try to reproduce this? It doesn't replicate for me.
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If you still want to learn how to code, try with different languages. Python is a favourite for people starting out with programming, for example.
Have you looked into Rackspace Cloud? Full disclosure: I work at Rackspace, but I honestly believe that Cloud Servers + Cloud Database (hosted MySQL) at Rackspace is vastly superior choice for a reasonably large number of projects/products than AWS.

IMO, the perfect setup for most non-Facebook sized money-making web apps is nearly always dedicated SSD-powered database hardware connected to a cheap cloud of virtual boxes to serve requests. Spending engineering $$$ on scaling your data across unreliable virtual instances often is not a good idea.

Going all-dedicated, if you can afford it, is great for pretty good uptime at zero engineering cost. I recommend SoftLayer for this: they sell cheap and reliable dedicated servers connected to pretty good networks (just stay away from their older Dallas-based DCs, but DC5 is good).
RunRev crowd funds $530k open-sourcing of modern day HyperCard, LiveCode.
ActiveAdmin is actually pretty easy:

> rails generate active_admin:resource [MyModelName]
He asks how he can use his existing user base to promote the app - he never mentions a new app.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he wants to know how to use the users to promote the same app.
Humility only works internally.

Believing you can do anything often leads you find out it's only partly true.

But believing you can't do anything is often true all the time.

I blame my parents for misleading me there, but they meant well & it only took a decade to for me to find out.

http://notmysock.org/blog/philosophy/arrogance-of-essence
Well stupid, Apache ships with the default settings it does for historical expectations of its users. But the application's tuning is driven largely by how you use it, as there are several workers for Apache that all are useful in different situations and require vastly different configuration options. This is to say nothing of the kernel options which also need to be tuned to the application.

The defaults are just defaults. They need to be changed to improve performance.
Webkit/Chromium/Chrome's project development process is interesting. From what I've seen on the bug trackers, whenever a piece of code (no matter what size) causes any sort of stability/performance regression at all, the patches committing it are aggressively backed out and dropped on the floor, with the expectation that whoever cared enough to commit them in the first place will realize their code was pulled, fix it, and re-commit.

This causes features to sometimes just "go missing" for long periods of time, if the original committer (i.e. the code's only advocate with commit privs) A. works for some big company that's not Google or Apple, and thus has other responsibilities; B. was just "helpfully" pushing the code they wrote for their own private fork of Webkit/Chromium; and C. doesn't much care what happens to it in the OSS project after that.
"Find Your Way to Oz", a new Chrome Experiment
In fairness, there were a lot of other things named Django before the web framework came long: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(disambiguation)
>That is not what barely means at all. Barely means "only just".

Not at all? Well, it is possible my translator (leo) is wrong. I think i have a fairly good understanding of the english language, but i am not a native speaker, so i tried to check my understanding.

I still think it has in this case at least the connotation.
I missed the HN discussion that inspired the OP to write this. Here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278389

> I’m not really surprised at the extent of that response, either, but it is disappointing. I avoided the comments on Hacker News, which tend to attack the simplest parts of an article, to avoid getting into stupid arguments.

Hmm...I guess if he did read that HN thread, he would've seen that most of the comments sympathized with him about puzzles. But I guess a great engineer can just instinctively pre-judge things and be right without double checking.
sure does, because the threat of physical violence is what ensures the laws (that the government wishes to enforce) are enforced.
Thats awesome. (It is also awesome that when you right click and "Show video in new tab" it simply dowloads the MP4!

I hope that google glass has this level of stabilization (or that google buys this for that purpose)
Coffescript is an actual thing - no need to use "quotations". Besides, Messenger will work with plain js too (or any other compile-to-js lang) it's just the examples that are in coffeescript. You can write an example for alert in cs:

alert "Blammo! A coffeescript alert example"
Or a quad-copter tethered with a very long spool of fishing filament? :D
I started the RW article because LW readers distressed over the basilisk were emailing me (and other RW contributors) for help, because the matter is banned from discussion at LW. Even though the idea is utterly foolish, it would be inhuman to just tell them to go away; but individual emails don't scale. So, thinking that since secrecy hadn't worked the way out would be the way through, we quickly put that together. Then Warren Ellis and Charlie Stross publicised it and I've spent a coupla days getting it into fit condition for hits from the entire world ...

Frankly, the article is still insane. (Look at the talk page for my girlfriend's reaction. She felt like throwing my laptop across the room for wasting a second of her time on this inanity.) This is because this shit is almost impossible to explain to normal humans. I have found it easier explaining Scientology to normal humans.

Pretty much no-one on LessWrong endorses or believes in the basilisk ... they just advocate most of its component parts.

LessWrong are generally a pretty good bunch, but this will be their Xenu. Unfair as that may be. And they did it to themselves.

(gwern - if you're wondering why Dmytry can be quite such a dick at LW about this stuff, it's because he gets email from LW's distressed children too. He does his best to be a helpful, decent person.)
Monetary freedom.
> People have no obligation to include anyone in their writings.

Except this isn't the point I was making.

People in a privileged position are obligated to be more inclusive, because their position is different. This is why, for instance, it is problematic that the POTUS explicitly endorses Christianity as a matter of state. While I concede that it would waste political capital to be inclusive, it remains "immoral and wrong" for him to exclude non-Christians, atheist or Hindu or whatever, simply by weight of tradition.

In this case, males are in a privileged position. Failing to be inclusive, even by omission, is exclusive. We could make this about browser wars and point out how problematic it is that rendering engines are becoming monocultural. We could make this about the predominance of Windows and the implicit assumption that everyone who uses a computer must have a two-button mouse. We could make this about economics and ask why anyone would find it in their self-interest to not increase their disposable income.

It is a responsibility of those with the privilege of dominance to actively seek out ways to be inclusive. It is similarly the right of those who are disadvantaged to protect themselves when excluded, even if it's through exclusion themselves. Both actions are stepping stones towards a stronger egalitarianism.
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Which platform are you developing on? Wouldnt Ruby break your ability to ship on ios / android?
I'm sorry but vigilante justice and civil disobedience are quite different concepts.

My comment advocated neither. I merely pointed out that pubic prosecutions should only proceed if they are in the public interest. Hardly that radical.
Though I do find the choice of using Cinelerra to edit the video a bit odd. Apparently there was an update to the project less than a year ago but I have personally never even been able to even import a video without it crashing.

Using something like OpenShot, KDenLive or PiTiVi or even Blender only makes sense to me.

But Cinelerra obviously worked out for them; the productions are absolutely spectacular. Loved every bit of this one. The clearest explanation one could hope to get.
Totally agree and we have plans to fix both points :) Thanks for the feedback! Was there anything else you noticed that was confusing?
Sorry, No offense to what he built in the beginning, but I hate paypal. It took me 3 days to integrate paypal into my app. I won't be using some application the co-founder of paypal built because Stripe is still a much better service.
Thanks for the feedback. One of the projects that our front-end engineer is currently working on should fix this issue, though it may not be live for a few days. Very sorry for the inconvenience.
Facebook's Product Director Is Leaving And He Wrote A Really Funny Goodbye Note
I put together an experimental package based on express:
https://github.com/drone/routes/tree/master/exp
Yep, confirming it doesn't work for me either with Opera using the same version in Windows 7.