skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be the incentive for killing the guy, though? Since nobody knows who the criminals are, sending a message "don't mess with - uh, nevermind" isn't very useful?
Zurker Social Network adds Facebook API invite option
You can now officially invite facebook friends through the FB API to join alternative social network 'Zurker'.

More info: (You have to be logged in) https://my.zurker.com/referrals
This... Is... awesome.
I was thinking the same thing, except that I rarely find it tedious. One important thing about Eve Online is that there are hundreds if not thousands of viable ways to play the game - many of which bear little or no resemblance to the other ways of playing it.
Sure, and I've seen sidewalks made the same way, but you can't use concrete in the "salt belt" [0] because salt causes ridiculous amounts of pitting in concrete roads.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Belt
As an angeleno , a 1 hour window is way to long for me to sit around waiting for someone to pick up my laundry. With 99 cent fluff and fold being very plentiful in the areas you're targeting, its really hard to justify along with the extra price. Its much easier to just drop off during work and pick up after, but I do agree it is subjective. Best of luck.
I found the comments supporting the prosecution, implying Aaron expected to walk because he was rich and white, rather shocking. He expected to walk because he did nothing wrong (according to both MIT and JSTOR)
And ... even those who are producing "goods" aren't creating durable (physical) goods. We're selling each other more and more software, services, media, et cetera but if it all comes crashing down, you're going to worry about food, shelter and clothing.
Kickstarter-funded indie games and revivals led by '90s-era developer icons will be viable alternatives.
Note that these free certificates are considered non-commercial-use only.

"The "StartCom Certificate Policy & Practice Statements" document §3.1.2.1 is explicit that the Class 1 (free) certificates are for non-commercial uses only.[3] The previous version of the CPS did not include this restriction.[4]"

You can, however, pay $60 for a personal validation (and potentially an extra $60 for company validation) to use the certs commercially. Actually, this validation lets you generate any number of SSL certificates for sites you own, for two years. This also includes wildcard certs, which you pay through the nose for from everyone else.

These guys are so much cheaper than the rest of the SSL vendors it's not funny. I've got my wildcard StartSSL certificate up on codano.com, and I've generated a few more for internal use. The validation literally took about two hours from start to finish, and most of that was just waiting for an email response/validation phone call and me scanning my passport and business documentation.

Can't recommend them enough.
This article isn't about replacing symbols with words, ruby isn't about replacing symbols with words either, and there is no place in the article where the author states that

a = true and false

is prettier than

a = true && false

And if you would actually have read the article and paid close attention you would have learned that the two lines you just said are not functionally equivalent.

No ruby programmer would ever have a line that says

a = true and false

It just makes no sense.

Maybe a very experienced ninja ruby programmer would, but that programmer would know exactly what he was doing.

The beauty in ruby and in the 'and' keyword is that a ruby programmer intuitively knows when to use which. This article just clears up why exactly they work like you expect them to work.

edit: maybe a weird programmer would do something like this

@message = "We failed :(" and false

at the end of a function that has conditionals with return statements in them.
Kill Your Meeting Room — The Future's in Walking and Talking
SQL Injection [video]
Im on cr-48 and worked fine. Took a little bit while it said checking, but worked.
and and or are control-flow modifiers like if and unless.

http://devblog.avdi.org/2010/08/02/using-and-and-or-in-ruby/
Any input? Have you had any issues with Apple Developer in the past?
So why have both?
Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon
>>> It would seem to me that if you made all payroll eligible for taxation, you would only be impacting those well into the upper-middle class, and would ensure solvency for at least 75 years.

Assuming no change in economic behavior.

Incomes at that level can be restructured into a variety of vehicles (stock compensation, deferred compensation, stock options) that would not be a subject to SS.

You gain more by enabling job growth.
They picked a 60yr old dude because he was likely to fall for the scam. It's like the Nigerian 419 dudes -- their letters are barely literate because they're designed to snare only those most likely to fall for the later, lucrative stages of the scam. Any time spent making their appeals more realistic would only mean time wasted on people with functional bullshit filters. There was an interesting paper from a guy at Microsoft? I think? about this. I'll see if I can turn it up.

EDIT: Here's a mention at The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/21557726
I think the unique thing about this story is that we don't know for sure that he "fell" for it...or, at least we don't know what he fell for, exactly.

There's the simplest explanation: that he, like the archetypical older, single, naive man he seems to be, fell for an online scam.

But most online scams don't end up with people in a foreign prison. The prosecutors argued successfully that he knew what he was doing, and the texts shown as evidence seem to indicate that he knew something.

But how much was that something? Did he go through the scheme because he believed his online lover was real and that this was just a task to prove his worth to her (and get them some money)? Or did he know everything? That is, he needed money and he figured that, unlike all those other dumb drug mules, he could use his history of seeming like an aloof nerd and make the case that he "accidentally" smuggled drugs across the border.

Layered on top of this is that we're reading this after he's been sentenced. He of course doesn't want to say anything revealing until he's out of jail, but he's retelling this crazy story even after it's failed in court. Which seems to indicate that he actually was bamboozled...and yet, what about those text messages? What about all those days in the airport, waiting for the e-ticket to Brussels that arrived too late? He never once was curious what was in the bag? Even the idiots in Dumb and Dumber looked in the bag.

This story is fascinating because I'm sure anyone who knows the professor even on a casual basis could spend hours at the dinner table trying to untwist the WTFs. It's a particularly great story because there are so many loose ends, but they are ends that are loose for very understandable reasons.
I do not understand the gamer community. EA has been treating you guys like crap for years and you keep coming back for more. Just stop buying their products. I know it sucks not to have access to a new game, but make a stand for an industry you care about and stop supporting a lousy company that has distain for you.
I think the real mismatch for EA and Gamers is that EA is effectively selling a SaaS product but pricing it like it's an boxed product.

It's not just unlikely but, in fact, impossible for the operating costs of the servers to be worth keeping on forever since no (significant) additional income will be coming in from the title after some point X.

SaaS companies have been dealing with this for years quite successfully via their "pay as you go" monthly subscriptions. This keeps the money flowing in and motivation to keep the servers on. And, better yet, it gives the consumer confidence that the service provider is going to pay attention to the product long-term, not just during launch day.

My recommendation for EA moving forward would be to move to subscription pricing for any games that operate as online-only - single- or multi-player.

Exact pricing is important as well. My initial instinct was to say that they should prorate the cost, something like $5/month but I quickly realized why this wouldn't work. Obviously most gamers are fickle and have short attention spans. 90% of buyers probably wouldn't buy month two and it wouldn't work out.

Instead, I would recommend pricing the game at something like $60 for two years. Same price and clearer value to me as a customer. Suddenly I'm not worried if they are going to shut off the servers in four years because that's not what I'm paying for today (and really never was). I'm paying for the opportunity to play this week and, if I love it, play it over and over again for two full years. Is that worth $60? Absolutely! And what about in two years? If I'm still loving it, hopefully they let me renew for another two years, maybe even at a discount. And if the game ends up sucking and nobody renews, they can turn the servers off (or throttle them down) without feeling bad.

The real risk with the current system isn't in case the game is a flop and they turn the servers off prematurely. It's actually if the game is legendary, like SimCities of past, and the passion to play keeps momentum for decades. How can EA keep the lights on?
Why can't people just use regular HTML for markup? Coffeescript is beautiful when you are composing short succinct functions but this just looks like more work for my brain.
Certainly, I agree. The reason it doesn't exist is because it was just breezed over. This was an oversight on my part. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best one we've found so far.
Yes, there is going to be some overhead in administering most anything, I'm not sure I see the point you are trying to make.
We definitely need to revisit how much of this is "necessary" today. I will say this though, for the populace in Japan/South Korea/Eastern European countries, the necessity of the nuclear umbrella is not theoretical vis a vis China (in Asia Pacific) and Russia (in Eurasia, particularly after the events in Georgia a few years ago)
I honestly don't know. My gut feeling would be no - the rich people I know personally tend to be very conservative with the bulk of their wealth, and at least one of them does just pay someone else to grow it for him. I'd love to see more data though!
The general points on growth are well-put but the 'anti-science' examples are very poorly chosen. The anti-science population isn't the group of people who want to see GMO labels and drone restrictions, it's the group of people who don't believe in evolution. These groups are distinct, and I think it's very clear that the former isn't the one pushing budget cuts in alternative energy and technology. There are plenty of valid reasons to oppose GMOs in food and the chemical companies who aggressively defend their controversial patents.

"Technology magnifies differences in innate ability."

It also magnifies your inherited financial circumstances. The industry directs much attention to its gender gap, but there is an equally embarrassing lack of engineers from lower class & lower middle class backgrounds and this never gets enough attention.
Nice pun. For those who don't know, Java took his name from a Café's name or something like that.
"it should be a big red flag for growth when the brightest young people start going into finance, since they aren’t actually creating any more wealth, just redistributing it"

God I could not agree more. I absolutely hate the fact that the most lucrative jobs in our country go to those who move money around, not those who create anything of real, tangible value.
Having been required to defend undefensible companies policies in some customer service jobs I previously held, I feel really sorry for the customer service agent here. Probably somebody hoping to use this job as a leg up to something better, but now he is stuck in angry customer hell with nothing to do but quote policies that make them angrier. And his performance is probably being judged based on some customer satisfaction survey where even one unsatisfied customer is enough to lose a month's worth of bonuses.
Show HN: Program to help calculate taxes own on mtgox bitcoin trades
From what I've read, EA is directly refunding customers of physical disks -- I guess they're forced by some law or another. No such luck for digital downloads: EA is refusing all refunds for them. Amazon dipped into their pockets for a while, returning money to disgruntled customers and taking a hit for EA, but clearly it was getting too much.
SNI is a curious choice for a 'Universal' widget, especially when GAE offers dedicated(?) IP addresses. Carriers are still selling Android 2.x phones which will give a certificate error with the widget, and IE on XP isn't exactly a small target. Although i guess it depends on your market.

EDIT: Wow, GAE charges $39/mo[1] for an IP? I know IPv4 is scarce, but i charge my customers $10/mo for SSL, and even that is a big markup on the $1/mo Linode charge me. I would honestly suggest going the VPS route to improve browser compatibility.

1. https://cloud.google.com/pricing/
I was going to comment on how interesting it was that such a (Possibly?)smart person could be so naive in thinking a famous model would date him but then I see so many comments saying stuff like 'I think he knew about the drugs'

Of course he did! This was the point of the story!?!

Back to smart people, I'd be interested to see a write up on his work. Was he actually any good?

And also I'll say it, he is old, has his mind degraded? Or has he gone fk it, life's not what it used to be why not go crazy (With a little mental illness thrown in)
haters gon' hate. It's from a designer's perspective, I'm subject to my own biases.
Herding Code 160: Glimpse 1.0 and Semantic Release Notes
Is the creation of Java class files deterministic?
Your argument makes sense insofar as we as a society need to litigate/revisit what our positions are on these things, but, as is typically the case, the answers aren't all that clear. All the things you mention are things that reasonable people can disagree on.
I teach at University of Texas and introduced students to SQL injection (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QxOxGL1tI) but the production value on this video is way better. Thanks for posting this, I've bookmarked for my course.
Consider webfs too. It is even simpler than weborf.

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=webfs
This really works very well. Its much faster and stable than thinvnc I was using on my chromebook. My only issue would be that I have to scroll a lot. I wish I could resize as the computer I'm connecting to has a much higher resolution (I think is causing the issue)
http://blakemasters.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-...

The usual narrative is that capitalism and perfect competition are synonyms. No one is a monopoly. Firms compete and profits are competed away. But that’s a curious narrative. A better one frames capitalism and perfect competition as opposites; capitalism is about the accumulation of capital, whereas the world of perfect competition is one in which you can’t make any money. Why people tend to view capitalism and perfect competition as interchangeable is thus an interesting question that’s worth exploring from several different angles.
This didn't really seems like a comparison, more of a description. I was hoping for a bit more.

We're currently using supervisord but we've had to hack it to support more than 200 workers, and I'd like something with the ability to change the number of workers dynamically.
Is there a word to describe this sort of writing style?

> There was no Microsoft money, no Starbucksian gentrification, no post-grunge feelings of cultural inevitability—only the low-tide stench of marine oil and clams and the calcified class system of a small Western city built on lumber, Alaskan gold, and B-17s.

Every single paragraph of this opinion piece is built on a slightly more general version of this particular device: using particular weighty symbols or instances of a concept in action to refer to the concept (kind of like a metonym). The author's point here is that "Back before Seattle became what it is today, it was a small, boring industrial town." But the way he said it certainly has more punch and says more than my version, right?

I just get the feeling that the piece is so awash in this technique that it comes off as overwrought and preachy.

In any case, I'd like to be able to put a name to this style; it'd certainly help me in my own writing (having words for things helps me understand them: their benefits, their dangers).
Robert Scoble's behind-the-scenes SXSW schedule
I'm sure they had discussions about whether they should have called it "SimCity Online." I think they made the wrong decision, but maybe they thought that people would assume "online == free-to-play."
ZX Spectrum console emulator discovered as easter egg in GoldenEye for N64.
Not to acknowledge we are at war, but allow me to react to your act of war.

This article demonstrates one thing that Ruby does awesomely, and python does not at all. Wether that makes Ruby better than Python.. well yes it does, no point in being diplomatic now, we're at war!

In Ruby there is only one way to express a boolean and, it goes: &&. Besides the boolean and there is also a binary operator with the name `and` which evaluates its left child, _and_ when it is true returns the value of its right child.

In this way it mimics the way we build sentences, that's smart. That's intuitive. That's Ruby.
It's nowhere near as serious as the Mexican Narco gangs. No one is being dissolved in vats of lye for smuggled cigarettes.

But it is more serious than Joe Sixpack bringing in a few extra undeclared bottles of whisky.

Cigarettes are legal and regulated, but high tax, and it is the high tax that causes smuggling and counterfeiting.

Real cigarettes used to be exported from the UK, (thus avoiding UK duties) and then smuggled back in (again, to avoid the duty). The outward flow was stopped, but that means that counterfeiters stepped in. Now there's a more dangerous product, with less regulation, being smuggled in to the UK. Criminal gangs are involved in the production and distribution of counterfeit cigarettes. Raids on distribution find amounts in the order of ten million cigarettes. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-20297912)
The Beauty of Randomness (a small PHP experiment)
MIT settled the civil charges out of court. That's not the same as saying he did nothing wrong. Then, once the federal prosecutors got involved, MIT wouldn't accept a plea bargain that didn't include jail time.
Python's "and" is equivalent to Ruby's "&&". Python has no equivalent to Ruby's "and" which is copied from Perl. In other words, Ruby has only one way to express a boolean "and", "&&", but the existence of the flow-control modifier "and" trips up new users constantly. Which is why this topic lands on HN regularly.
Fantastic point. Everything the Government has is first taken from it's people.
It is possible he values his thoughts less than the traditional two cents.
Can you expand? I'll be evaluating casper.js soon and would like to hear the 'pitfalls' Thanx!
Posix Directory Listing - scandir API for Windows
To Make Mice Smarter, Add A Few Human Brain Cells
Wow, I must have missed the point. Because I could've sworn the OP was talking about how he thought that 'and' and 'or' could be stand-in's for && and ||, but he found out that they aren't quite equivalent. Because if they were equivalent, he would substitute words for symbols because, as I quoted, "[his] code became so much readable."

I'm not evaluating what he discovered at the end of the post. I'm evaluating his original intent for using 'and' and 'or' in the first place, which was readability. I'm simply stating my opinion on that comparison.

And yes, "a = true and false" doesn't make sense. I just copy-pasted his sample code as a quick example. I didn't expect people to take it literally, as if I were showing off a best practice.
Which is, from the Python mindset, a flaw in Ruby the language.
Yes! It's something that makes me twitch each time I see it.

I know other people have discussed it, but my search engine skills are too weak to find anything at the moment.
Question: What inputs does the US need that cannot be found or created in one form or the other in the US?

Is there some natural resource that the US does not have access to within its own borders?
Thanks. :) We'll get better. It's a lot tougher than I thought to organize/shoot/edit a show like this.
Perhaps, but companies like that are the exception, not the rule. I fully expect that companies like EA don't give a warm bucket of spit about anything past the initial phase during which a game will be sold.
I don't think the 99% believe that the 1% can lose incredible fortunes quickly. The perception is that the 1% prop each other up or are propped up/rescued by someone. Yeah, there was Bernie Madoff. But when Donald Trump is facing bankruptcy, the people holding the paper work with him because they can't afford his bankruptcy. That rarely happens in the 99%. The banks and auto companies were bailed out in ways that individuals rarely are. Yes, jobs were saved...but the fortunes of the top management were, too.
"Yet is there an international, violent, criminal cigarette mafia?"

Yes. The groups trafficking in bootleg (untaxed) cigarettes are quite violent.
No...she is friends with one of the startup founders. She wasn't hired, but did it as a favor. And the investigating was limited to electronic records...not the garbage-snooping, surveillance-from-car type :)
My point was that your choices presented an often-heard false dichotomy. Fundamentally, I think it's a mistake to equate "America" with the "Federal Government" or even "Government".
Altera to Build Next-Generation FPGAs on Intel's 14 nm Tri-Gate Technology
omni, here you go: http://twitter.com/almightycasey
I take your response as "no" to the question if you have lived in a small town.

I grew up in a small town and my Dad knew everybody in the county and the next one, whether they were in town or in the countryside. And likely a couple of generations back. Several families moved to California, and the social network reached there.

A cousin of mine had a brother that fled home. He eventually tracked him down using old shoe leather techniques.

My experience and that of my family does not match this theory of "loss of anonymity."

Now, modern suburbs are more likely to be anonymous, and perhaps that is where this theory comes from, but it does not come from small towns.
Could Intel's Altera Deal Pave the Way for Apple Chips?
When Diablo was released people complained about the same exact thing. Its amazing how these issues completely blow over once the product is stable.

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/19169-diablo-3-launch-marred-b...

Reddit's /r/gaming was filled with Diablo launch problems.
Wikipedia: "An explanation of this recent MRCA date is that, while humanity's MRCA was indeed a Paleolithic individual up to early modern times, the European explorers of the 16th and 17th centuries would have fathered enough offspring so that some "mainland" ancestry by today pervades remote habitats. The possibility remains that an isolated population with no recent "mainland" admixture persists somewhere, which would immediately push back the date of humanity's MRCA by many millennia. While simulations help estimate probabilities, the question can be resolved only by genetically testing every living human individual."
"In many (most?) mainstream languages" doesn't really agree with "anomaly". If it's in most mainstream languages, then it's not an anomaly, it's the norm.
Yeah, I just realized that myself as I was looking through a bunch of sites that use the effect. I think it's a great trend, for sure, but it's just been popping up everywhere.
Ceefs
Wish we had something like this at Georgia Tech
And from a Ruby mindset, is a limitation in the Python language. :)