skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long for the government-industrial complex to clamp down on the open internet, and even this is weak compared to the possibility space (internet driver's licenses, etc), though it's obviously a "boiling frog" situation.

But it was, and is, inevitable that this clash happens. Democracy is not achieved and then chiseled into stone permanently; it must continually be earned and fought for by real humans, every damn day.

In this case, that means getting regular people on board with encrypted communication. Yes, it's an uphill battle, but we all got our friends and family to migrate from IE to Firefox. Now it's time to get them on PGP email, VPNs, etc. As geeks, we need to be educating users, creating one-click auto-privacy tools, and doing whatever else we can as Binary Minutemen to maintain a balance of power against threats to open communication.
Hello everyone! I am MEGA EXCITED for this release, as it's the first version in which I'm a committer. Wooo! In addition, 954 other intrepid Rubyists in total contributed to this release: http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/edge/contributors

Please note that this is a beta, not an rc, so some things may be a bit wonky. Please file an issue on GitHub and I will do everything I can to help you help us iron out all the kinks.

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(Also, I am on a plane and my battery is almost dead, so I may drop out of this thread soon. Ill read it when I'm home.)
Couple of things:

1) Does this actually exist? The video looks SWEET, but feels like it's way to computer generated and too flawless (in the video) to be true.

2) I believe gesture control will never full take over our computing needs. Reason being, the feedback response from our skin's nerve endings are quicker than the feedback from our eyes. In other words - 'gorilla arm' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22 Furthermore, we'll continue to assume that touch-based and gesture-based systems will replace all machines and computers, when I believe this is simply not true. Our muscles were not built to work efficiently by "waving into the air". For some applications this is true, but not all.
I had a very heated argument with a friend on saterday about 0 indexed arrays. God damn I hate them.
We have open source software. Why not open source content? I do not have the chops to do it, but I would like to see software/start-ups that helps me, you and everyone else create content - muzak, movies, games, etc - free for anyone to download, sample, modify, sell, give away, with open source styled licenses - just like open source software. Like the linux ecosystem. Surely this is possible? We the consumers of content, should create the content. I am tired of being treated like a thief, although I have never stolen anything.
It sounds like you used it after the initial critical modifications were made, e.g. did your barrels have handles? If so, and if you managed to avoid the assembly problem---which you have to admit could be rather lethal in combat---and replaced the sear before firing 20,000 rounds, it sounds like it wasn't awful.

Unless compared to its competition. In many ways its infamy is that while everyone else got it right (the Germans in 1942!) or at least a lot better, we didn't.... And I'd like to see what you say about the even longer list of problems in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_machine_gun#Design_flaws ; I not that it doesn't mention the barrel handle and bipod fixes, or the assembly problem.
Both players are aware that the opportunity comes from just being lucky enough to be chosen to dictate the terms. I know you didn't earn the 10,000 so by you offering 100 dollars and you keeping 9,900 is insulting to some people and they do want to punish the 'lucky' player. It's not that they don't value the money they value punishing them to teach them a lesson at $100.

Would your answer be the same if I said I'd keep 9,999,999.99 and gave you only a penny. Would the value of punishing me be so low that now you'd consider to do so, or is it still free money and the absolute value doesn't affect you personally?
I know! Art from other cultures can be so confusing!

I grew up in the pacific northwest, surrounded by a lot of examples of Inuit art. The captions always said something like, "This one is an orca," and I always thought, "If you say so!"

But I think Mickey is even more distorted! I can easily imagine someone from another culture reacting that way to the claim that he was a mouse.

I don't have a problem recognizing real mice because I've interacted with them a lot. But animals for which my only frame of reference is cartoons, well . . . my expectations of the real animals can be downright embarrassing.

I'd imagine my mental models of them would fare better if I weren't surrounded by miles and miles of endless civilization.
As a lightweight alternative, I've started using the All Autocomplete package for SublimeText (installable through Package Control). It simply sets your autocomplete to the union of all autocomplete terms from open tabs/views. So if you already have, say, a module's source code (or a demo/test from a module) open in the background, all those terms will be included. I'm such a perfectionist that I could spend hours just setting up/annotating my source code to autocomplete perfectly with CC+; it's better to have something that Just Works (TM). Still, this is quite an accomplishment, and will certainly be useful to many!
Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family
"whether psychological research relies too much on people from just one kind of cultural background"

Or, as someone years ago suggested, "Psychology is the study of the psychology of Psychology undergraduates."
I thought it was better than regular tetris. Much more intuitive once you're in the zone.
> Why? Do you really consider it worth $100 to you just to prevent someone else from getting $9900, or do you just value $100 so little that you are willing to round it down to $0?

Not the original commenter. But yes to both.

Look up multi-round games. Strategies fit for single-round games don't work in multi-round ones. Many of our strategies and heuristics are meant for multiround games, which is what most life interactions are.

By overanalyzing the experiment and treating it "just" as a experiment, imho, you are actually defeating the point of the experiment. ymmv, just my 2 cents and other disclaimers.
The Pirate Bay leaves Sweden for friendlier waters
Why do you assume theism is a purely hereditary trait? A strong culture can influence other people's children.
They are therefore already taking advantage of it, but I wonder when it will be removed it the growth differential will equalize.

My guess is that it won't, and the religious represent a very significant percentage of the population - until they become the majority.

Without willing to insult anyone, I wonder if a human group growth with religion, they reach decadence with atheism - then stats again, eventually with a different religion, in a loop.

EDIT: the point is not about "cultural group" but religion. Are these minorities becoming atheist, or do they keep some religious self identification? I guess they still identify as such, even if they don't practice. Culture is hard to bring back, but religion can grow back very quickly
It turns out that there are very few services for which this is the case (imagine if you had to log back in to everything every time you switched wifi networks). Having said that, we have some innovative ideas for supporting the few services that have this restriction - stay tuned to http://blog.meldium.com for details.
Cool hack, but you're going to confuse the hell out of my mom... "why did the screen just twirl?!? Did I just lose all of my information?!"
Yeah, I was going to say... "I have no doubt that women in the field face unique challenges and prejudices, but this article doesn't really even scratch the surface of them. If you did s/female/male/ on that headline the statement would cover the vast majority of CS students at Stanford. Heck, I'm sure most people around her age fight impostor syndrome --it kind of comes with that stage of development."
Unless I've missed something important, please help me out in making the connection between the strategy of monitoring torrents to "Government became a listening party to every data transmission."

I've been doing what I can, but so far I've discovered no significantly new monitoring techniques that are being introduced.
*Chocolat
Funny thing about unicorn is, forking is core to its design. It may handle threading now, but when I last looked at its code fork() and traditional IPC via signals were core to its operation. Puma looks like the more thread-oriented choice these days.
Would you take a penny if you knew the other guy was keeping $9999.99?
Firing people left and right and taking away perks is a fantastic way to run morale that's probably already pretty low. I see what you are saying with regards to the need to light fires under people, but there's other, more positive and more productive ways to go about it.
I agree that this part is obvious.

But why would people without contact to "food animals" anthropomorphise them out of all things, not think of them as dumb food containers like plants? In the end, both end up shrink-wrapped in a supermarket. I know that my non-farmer, omnivore friends are basically saying this. Have I just picked friends that are more resistant to Disney movies than the general population? :)
Ruby 2.0 still has the GIL so if you want to run a threaded web server you'll still need to be using rubinius or jruby.
Last I looked Puma and jruby were the go-to options for threaded stuff.
We love that neat little "pull to refresh" feature on our devices

We do? I might prefer lots of little buttons and scroll wheels, DSLR style :P
> Are you suggesting that if I eat some grass fed beef that hasn't been elisa tested, there's a good chance I'm eating gluten?

Yes, because it's been handled in a food chain that deals with a lot of wheat products.

> The elisa test is also flawed - there are situations in which it can't detect hydrolized gluten.

Yes, but it's the best available for wide-scale screening.

> Trace amounts of gluten due to cross contamination may not be enough to cause people significant problems.

The standard is ten parts per million.

> You don't have to be 100% gluten free to derive benefits from it.

If you want to claim to be gluten free you do.
Yeah, the relative value of the money matters a lot. To make it even more extreme, if the total was 100 million dollars and I was offered 1 million, I would take it. But if the total was $100 and I was offered $10, I'd probably refuse.

The bit about offering more than 60% in gift-giving cultures and having the other player still reject them is surprising. What would explain that?
Heh, I smell a hack at least slightly in the spirit of this article.

I'm not familiar with working on finished (anodized?) aluminum; did the stamp appear to have been applied after the original finish? Were these perhaps refurbished lowers, allowing an armorer perhaps unenamored of the design and/or round to apply the stamp and then properly refinish it? (Were M16s refurbished in such a way?)
Expurgate: serve HTTP images over HTTPS
We actually have a security FAQ up here: https://www.meldium.com/security. The link is currently buried in our TOS, thanks for pointing out that we need to give it more exposure! We're definitely open to feedback as to what's not adequately covered.
Poor neighborhoods, especially urban ones, get pretty familiar with scams and money games. This is that "cultural inheritance" the authors are talking about.

This is not a zero-sum game for the neighborhood. So if you don't conduct the study quickly, you risk the participants identifying each other and agreeing to collaborate to extract the maximum possible gain from the outsider.

On the other hand, if you plan to show up and run the game quickly, you'll need to have a lot of cash on hand to pay out. (You are paying out on-the-spot, aren't you?) You're going to risk drawing a crowd. The police will likely take an interest in what's drawing the crowd and this scheme will look a whole lot like gambling.
> I’ve been on over 30 flights, and never has a company come close to this.

As some one who has been on over 100 flights in 2012 alone I can tell you that your experience is not unique.

The one factor that I think you are over looking is you need to speak up about things and not have such a passive aggressive attitude.

If the seat sucks, simply find an empty seat somewhere else on the plane.

Good luck with your future flights.
> Questioning it now, when there is clearly no real confusion [...] is prescriptivist and hair-splitting.

Probably. But it was the first thing that sprang to my mind while reading the article. In an article titled "We Aren't The World" i would have expected a bit more caution.
People from the United States of America are called (in English) "Americans" for about the same reason that people from Estados Unidos Mexicanos are called "Mexicans"--that is the most suitable general designation for those people that is distinctive from how people from other countries are designated. The usage in Spanish is a little bit more complicated, but there isn't much confusion about how to write English on this point.
Tech & Templeton: Bridging Engineering and Design (SF, Feb 27)
"I checked in weekly to post a track, but no longer considered it in active development."

If you check the site only once a week, why should other users bother?

The site infrastructure is I believe valuable. One can pivot into a different idea using the same infrastructure and simply move on, re-using the code base.
I'm curious to know if these examples of potential SQL injection tested against 3.2.11 have been dealt with in 4.0? Would be great to see these possible problems tidied up.

http://rails-sqli.org/
> "But I am female and inherently am untrusting of most praise that comes from men"

So on the one hand, male engineers are creating a hostile environment by not recognizing the achievements of female colleagues (the 'she just got hired because they wanted a woman' phenomenon) but now male engineers are creating a hostile environment by recognizing the achievements of female engineers because of the inherit biases of the engineer receiving the praise.
Blacklist app to react on consumer experience
Hello guys
I'm coming to you to talk about a bold web startup with a potentially pretty disruptive approach.
It's a web app called Blacklist, where users can Blacklist the brands and products they dislike or had a bad experience with.
The concept is pretty simple, yet very powerful: It’s about giving the power to the people to have a voice to react after a bad consumer experience in order to get heard and impact accordingly.
The vision behind the product is to bring brands and companies closer for more aligned interactions with consumers. It’s all about more transparency in the interactions consumers-companies.
You can have a look on Twitter @Blacklist, on Facebook: apps.facebook.com/blacklist-app and on AngelList angel.co/blacklist
We are currently building the beta version starting in London.
If you want to get a glance you can check out the blog @ blog.blacklistapp.co
And for those who like reading and are interested by the vision and opportunity that is tackled you can read the book, published this fall on amazon: 'The power to the People' by Val Lefebvre.

Best,
Val Lefebvre founder of Blacklist
One should also consider other implications. If the money came from nothing, I'd probably take the penny; but I'd rather let whoever funded the research keep the money than give it to such an uncharitable person.

I know this might destroy the purpose of the experiment, but frankly, they just need to take that into account.
If they could have curated the best of the Android experience, they could have come up with a compelling, differentiated product.
Trying backstitch now. So far it just seems to make the internet more boring.
Are We Eliminating The Open From the Internet By Using APIs?
Look up their GSA schedule. Find your job title. A few years back I was making a little over $100K/yr for an offence contractor and they were billing around 3x that per year for my services.
Apple Now a Bit Easier to Deal With - France Telecom’s CEO
It would be pretty ironic if Apple were actually annoyed that Chrome was developed in secret considering they forked KHTML and developed it into Safari & WebKit in secret in essentially the same way.
I think the transition in human history from the age of Gilgamesh to the Homeric Epics and The Old Testament was very abrupt. Gilgamesh described a relatively peaceful society without much focus on lineage and vengeance where the characters were at times remorseful for being violent toward monsters they met in the forest for example. The Homeric epics and The Old Testament in contrast are filled with constant warfare, and brutality and a pathological focus on lineage. Has anyone else noticed this? It's not something that would have ever occurred to me without actually reading a lot of ancient literature.
Just a shout out for forcefeed - a javascript bookmarklet that lets you read any web page without moving your eyes. I think it's incredibly helpful.
Six Strikes Anti-Piracy System Makes Its Debut
Just a shout out for forcefeed - a javascript bookmarklet that lets you read any web page without moving your eyes. I think it's incredibly helpful, even if my comprehension isn't 100%.
I agree with you 100%. However, I gotta say that the bit about pushing to increase Coke consumption on the extremely poor didn't sit right with me.

So they have this model called "drinks and drinkers" which tells them that heavy drinkers are their bread and butter because it is more efficient to get existing users to drink more than it is to find new 'drinkers.' OK, I get that. But how do they use this information? They identify poor people as potential heavy users and start targeting them by aggressively marketing to vulnerable areas and making smaller bottles that cost only 20 cents. Sure they'll have somewhat lower profit percentages but they can make up the difference in volume.

I follow the logic but here is my problem: is hawking the stuff off on Brazilians living in favelas really ok? You could make the case that it's a win/win scenario (Coke gets more money and poor people get Coke for cheaper than water) but the fact that they are being targeted because they are more susceptible to becoming 'heavy users' (read: addicts) seems nefarious to me.
multiplayer next?
Great advice. Thanks for sharing. I'm working on my own project and know that the failures you note are universal. It's helpful to hear them again and use it to channel my efforts on building an audience especially when development is slow.
"Justice Department lawyers believed Swartz's "Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto" justified their bringing of felony charges because it demonstrated his "malicious intent"

This is insane. Absolutely insane...I know this was intimated before, but to hear it confirmed... You can be convicted of a felony for expressing an opinion about how to improve goverment? I have stayed mostly silent about this until now, but this is just beyond the pale.

Forget impeachment- Ortiz and the other prosecutor (forget his name) should be perp-walking for this. Their punishment should be public and severe enough that no one else in their position will think they can do this with impunity.
Lemnos Labs: San Francisco's Premier Hardware Incubator
I agree that it's possible to scale a large company working remotely. I think in the next 20 years we are going to see some significant breakthroughs in the scale of companies that operate virtually. I think we will see companies with 10,000 employees that are 90% virtual (working from home or meeting in an office only one day per week). The whole notion of driving to work each day to sit in an office is such an antiquated 20th century concept.
I wonder what would happen if you spend as much time on marketing as you spent on development. I am not sure which would be the best: perhaps blog posts, facebook activity, small ads, or guest posts on different sites.

Or, what if you spent as much time on 'biz dev' as you spent on development. Perhaps talking to some music communities online and having them link to you guys in exchange for highlighting their music or providing some service to them.

I am not saying that the above would work. I likely would have had similar biases as you. But as I grow up as an entrepreneur I am beginning to realize all the hats that I need to wear (and that when I get lucky one of these hats makes a huge difference).
Really? I haven't heard a single thing about Electrolysis in a long time, except I remember reading somewhere recently that it was abandoned. I'm happy to hear that Firefox OS is using it; still, keeping legacy add-ons working seems like a bad reason to stop pursuing such an important security feature on the desktop.
I am not a member of the security team, but it's my understanding that all security patches were also applied against master where appropriate.

(The security team is a subset of the core team, in accordance with least privilege and all that.)
I think you are making the correct choice. What you built is an app. And it seems that it is a good one. But building the business behind this app is a challenge that you do not want to pursue. So don't do it. Don't listen to those who say "get a co-founder". That wont fix anything. Your focus is not it. Sell it, move on.

I'm not even sure it is a viable business itself. Aside from advertising, it has very few options as it stands. You would need to modify the platform in order to introduce other profit channels. But you already said you don't want any more of it.
In the article they mentioned later that in gift-giving cultures receiving a gift make one indebted. They are rejecting the offers, not because they are too small, but because they are too big. The people offering as much as 60% are doing so to gain favours.
I don't understand why the author comes across as having a serious axe to grind. What is aptiverse's horse in the race?

Also this: This is not the case for Chrome: the browser keeps all the cached information indefinitely; perhaps this is driven by some hypothetical assumptions about browsing performance, and perhaps it simply is driven by the desire to collect more information to provide you with more relevant ads.

I don't know about him, but I LOVE the fact that Chrome will show me if a link in purple or whatever if I visited it 2 years ago. Completely, totally, absolutely love. Other browsers can be (the last time I checked) configured to behave similarly. When you browse hundreds of web pages a day, catalog only a few of them, and then research a topic you once looked up over a year ago again, it helps to know which pages you've seen and which you haven't.
Facebook blocks Vintage Camera app
This is completely irrelevant. How about you post something on your blog about how things like clear, considered prose are no longer required of media organizations like NPR? Is pointing out something like that wrong? It would seem that pointing out a mistake in public is some kind of ultimate wrong, even if it is a highly regarded, internationally known media outlet.
Cool idea, but this is a total anti-pattern. People do not expect this behavior from scrolling on a desktop and without a proper ajax implementation the result is far from ideal.
hey, would love to talk with you a bit more as a fellow med/tech enthusiast.
Agreed. The only reason I ever started on http://searchco.de/ was because I wanted something I would use on a day to day basis. Because its something I use as part of my daily workflow I still keep adding things modifying and tweaking.

Will it ever go anywhere? Probably not, but that's not the point. If I can get it to the point where it pays for itself I will be happy to keep running it as my forever project. Of course, if someone wants to invest money in it and myself...