skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well on the one hand you have to draw the "customs/immigration enforcement" line somewhere. And "defense in depth" certainly makes as much sense in the real world as it does in computer security.

But on the other hand I don't see a way for this to actually appreciably positively affect U.S. border security without stripping away most of what it means to be an American at all.

Even random checks at a high enough interval to give a good chance at making it too risky to attempt a terrorist plot would be tremendously impacting on day-to-day life. The effect of the DHS would be much more severe than the effect of any supposed terrorists themselves!

Better instead to use any such resources on things more beneficial to the common welfare, and to get rid of the extraneous legal authority.
Thank you for expressing this. My first thought when trying out a travel booking website is always "Am I missing out on something?"
This article has more than a little shadenfruede, methinks. But there's an interesting thesis lurking in there, that Porter's theories have lead directly to the enshrinement of C-level executives as a kind of upper-class:

first, that strategy is a decision-making sport involving
the selection of markets and products; second, that the
decisions are responsible for all of the value creation
of a firm (or at least the “excess profits,” in Porter’s
model); and, third, that the decider is the CEO. Strategy,
says Porter, speaking for all the strategists, is thus
‘the ultimate act of choice.’

The article doesn't go on to talk about what a C-level exec actually is but makes an emphatic case that, since Porter is responsible for the crowning of these kings, and now Porter is proven wrong, then perhaps it's time to take the crowns away.

I'm terribly biased, but I like this line of argument very much.
That's assuming you don't normally eat more calories than you need. Probably an incorrect assumption for most people.
Indeed. Go ahead and get the BIG slice of chocolate cake.
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Lots of services firms failed in the recession...
I'd like to see, if not both the up votes and down votes of a particular comment, a score of how "diverging" the ups and downs are. I think it would be very interesting to see when a particular comment is "divisive", (borrowing a common political buzzword)
I randomly stumbled across this gist by tenderlove https://gist.github.com/tenderlove/4576780 that displays references as a tree view using d3.js. I think that this gist in particular is pointing out a bug in that the "references" for Fixnums (also Symbols) in an array aren't returned by ObjectSpace.find_references.
Three million methods? Having both programmed for Android and having used the Facebook App for Android, I find it very difficult to believe that app has anywhere near 3 million methods, even if each one is basically a one-liner. If the number is correct, that really is some kind of crazytown code.
Why the ad-hominem? How about trying some civilised discussion?

>I think what you're missing is that the flat design principles relying on crafty use of shading and visual hierarchy to structure elements.

And what you are missing is that obviously the shading was NOT used in this UI examples.

As for the faux-leather stitching etc, this has been discussed to death. Those use of this kind of ornaments depend on the design fashions of the day -- Apple was universally lauded for introduced some of those back in the day, before flat become the new fad again. And we had that going back and forth several times in the design world (even going as far as from Ancient Greece to Rome, or from classical to baroque to modernism etc). And to clear another misconception some people have, faux leather stitchings have nothing to do with "skeuomorphism".
>The federal government we have today is based on a reasonable reading of the Commerce Clause, which was always intended to be a very broad power and was a key piece of what the federalists wanted out of the new constitution.

Do you really think the current size of the federal government is reasonable? It is getting out of control.

I think the real mistake here is on the part of the left though. Social spending programs as a general rule belong at the state level. Making so many of them federal causes them to become the driving force in federal elections, which provides cover for corruption and waste in legitimately federal issues like immigration and the defense budget. So they spend their political capital keeping the Department of Education and the NIH open for business at the federal level while we spend billions of dollars that New York and California and Massachusetts could have used for public education and publicly funded research to instead develop a fighter jet that doesn't fly and let stand massive failures like the TSA, to say nothing of the War in Iraq. Is it really worth all that just so the bureaucracy printing the checks is run by the feds instead of the states?
Thanks for the link. Hazel definitely seems cool.

But I do think that there is a room for improvement. For example : instead of making you setup custom rules, it could have an "automagic" mode where it analyzes the behavior of it's current users and learns which rules suit which kind of people.

I imagine it would ask you a few questions upon install (age, etc ...) to get a grasp of which kind of user you are. And then thanks to the data from it's users it could apply some machine learning to work which rules would suit you best.

But Hazel is still a lot better than the defacto solution (which is just leaving your Download folder in a mess).
Not the best case for the original issue then.
Welcome to Facebook engineering.
I run mine in a PhantomJS environment, which works just fine for headless browser testing.
See my top-level comment.

* Graphics issues are fixed in 10.8.3 (still in beta). It appears that the drivers have been rewritten from scratch, this was the worst beta seed series I can recall for any OS X release, ever, with new seeds days apart, seeds that were completely broken, kernel and graphics driver instabilities, etc. The latest seed is much improved and should address this issue.

* LG panel ghosting: I had my clamshell replaced a few months ago. There was a new part number, it has been officially "fixed."

* I have hisses and pops when listening via headphones, but not over the speakers

* Power management: Finally fixed with latest firmware updates + 10.8.3 + reset NVRAM/PRAM and SMC. Firmware updates plus NVRAM [0] and SMC [1] reset will likely fix it for you.

0: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

1: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
A domain registrar is going to have a fairly technically literate customer base, but bitcoin is edging towards the mainstream faster than I'd expected.
Indeed. And property taxes. And spending from general funds. Etc, etc.

40% of spending on roads comes from funds completely unrelated to gas or vehicle taxes. This amounts to about $180 per person per year in funds unrelated to taxing automobiles or gas. [1]

To contrast this, per capita spending on cycling infrastructure, while significantly improved in recent years, peaked at $3.95 per person per year. [2]

Quite simply, looking at the actual numbers, it is hard to support the argument that cyclists are being subsidized by drivers.

[1] http://www.transalt.org/files/newsroom/magazine/032Spring/02...

[2] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/the-bicycle-div...
I wonder what could be the ratification of the agent to request that she deletes 2 photos. It seems like an insignificant act.
Funny that your startup's website (http://mediashock.me/) looks exactly like bootstrap and everything else. You're doing an awesome job representing dropout 20 year olds (http://codefoe.com/).
> Yes, it makes a difference, but intent cannot heal the basic violation.

Only if the basic violation was physical (my example of manslaughter, for instance). Absolutely it can for emotional issues (where intent is really the only thing that matters). In fact, if someone takes something in a way that it wasn't intended, gets offended, and then stays offended after you explain that real non-offensive intent, then they are just holding onto something that doesn't exist (and never existed!). The entire reason for the offense in the first place has been annulled, yet they are hanging onto the anger/resentment because... Well I have no idea—this concept has never made sense to me at all. That is the selfishness I speak of.

It's just insane to me, too. But I understand all too well that certain people are wired to think that way. In fact, I believe this particular incompatibility was one of the fundamental reasons my marriage failed. Luckily, that life lesson has taught me to avoid those kinds of people in my personal life—I find them very difficult to deal with in the long run.
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Just as a joke, I'd like to see someone do a Skeu UI, the polar opposite, one with such ridiculous degrees of skeuomorphism, that you want to laugh. Maybe have it look like a WW2 era Navy Cockpit.
I had an 06 MacBook that was an absolute lemon. Had to bring it in for randomly turning off and go through two motherboard replacements before they sent it away for 4 weeks to redesign the motherboard. Then it still had to go back in several times before they finally just gave me a new one almost a year newer because of how troublesome it was. I don't think this is a sign of getting worse!

(I now have a 2012 rMBP and absolutely love it)
The two statements are orthogonal. Eighties electro music has also been around for decades, but 5-6 years back in made a comeback.
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>It's the first Apple product I've bought but I can't shake the feeling that this frequency of bad hardware is becoming normal.

Probably because you haven't experienced the overheating G4 Cubes, the liquid cooling dripping G5 Pros, the frequently crapping out on the motherboards iBook G3, the wheezing MacBook Pros, and tons of similar stuff.

There's even a saying that goes as far back as 2002: NEVER buy Apple 1gen product (like the Retina was) --or at least be cautions. Wait till the put the second generation in the market.

So nothing to do with "declining quality" as such. All new models have some ironing out of issues to do, and all models will have some problematic runs. Same thing in the PC world, be assured, just that noone buys 3 million of the exact same PC model, whereas in the Mac world they do.
I had the same issue, they fixed it without 2 days without discussion though. A motherboard replacement was required there, billed out for about $800 (of course for me it was free).

After all I'm still glad having a macbook. Friend of mine bought a $2.5k lenovo that bricked itself after a month, after having serious thermal management problems (the GPU would suddenly clock down). It took them more than six weeks to get him a replacement.
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Wikipedia is not the beginning and the end. The English has a profound ability to change. And yes, I used the term in an appropriate manner that many who debate politics understand it.

Also, go argue that decimate means to destroy 10% versus what it is perceived as to mean today (more than 10%.)

Words change.
For the longest time, I was convinced it was an abomination that Linux did not succeed on the desktop. Now, I am not so sure.
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Wow, that's great. And merely a week since 1.5!
Aah... Wish my country(India - the largest family owned 'democracy' on this planet) had something like this. Here we get arrested for posting things on Internet. Maybe starting such a petition would attract life imprisonment.

Congratulation Americans! Glad for you. Don't loose this freedom, don't let them take this away from you and wish us luck and support so that we can get/snatch it too. One day, maybe :-)
Why is the global government being built behind closed doors?

Because only a miniscule minority would be in favor of what is being constructed.
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At Apple minimalism is a black hole that sucks everything into a point. This adapter is more like a hobby project than something of real utility.
Hours to settle into $? Or hours to confirm the Bitcoin transaction at all?
Considering the ever impending IPv4 exhaustion, couldn't we just "re-use" NK's IP range, since they're unlikely to need them soon?
It gets worse on something like Windows 8's Metro where you get to see like 20 different square blocks, each with a different color, that may update all the time too. Try not to get a brain seizure from that.
Some reason like traveling overseas.
Not to mention that a bike's wear and tear on the road is exponentially less than the damage incurred by a passenger car or SUV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_axle_weight_rating
Somebody pissed on your cornflakes?

>The world doesn't need another build system.

Oh, but it does. Maybe not this one, but it sure needs a new build system.
AnthonyMouse, your above posts and analysis of the US political system are reasoned and logical. Thank you for sharing your views - which inspire me to become more involved in making change happen.

If you're not already aware, I would encourage you to check out Lawrence Lessig and the Rootstrikers organization which is aiming to reduce the influence that money currently has on elections.

Question: Can you recommend any particular organizations that are employing your above strategy of targeting primaries of contested districts to defeat soulless "bought and paid" incumbents?
This can be a little annoying in the scenario you described, but I personally think organizing files is an easy task and relying on an application to do just that makes this a bigger issue than it really is.

I periodically reorganize my files, mainly my desktop and downloads folder. This helps me take this habit to the real world and keep my life organized as well.

I'd welcome an app that automates the process just for the sake of choice but I think I'll keep doing this particular task manually.
He's only including the extra calories, not the baseline.
"ADD can't be a real condition if suddenly everybody is diagnosed with it, can it?"

Sure it can be a real condition, one that is superficially easier to treat by giving everyone meds rather than admit that the modern "American" society we've created is full of all manner of unnatural stressors that we haven't evolved to deal with.
To confirm the Bitcoin transaction at all. That's just how Bitcoin works - you have to wait for X new blocks to get confirmations from other peers. How long you wait determines your risk level.
>Hell no. They'll add features. So the cake of 2019 will, assuming a still-robust coffeescript community, look a lot more like rake or ant or scons or cmake. It won't be tiny. It won't be easy to read. It will be yet another ridiculous build system.

Which you will be free not to use. Along with not using Coffeescript.
Right so Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page ... all empty figureheads, deserving little credit for the success of their companies?
I think in five years, the idea of using credit or debit cards for electronic transactions will seem slightly ridiculous, sort of the way using snail mail to pay bills by check seems now.
This is a rant against Michael Porter, his theories, and the practice of business strategy generally, but has nothing to do with why Monitor actually failed. Most of the rest of the industry is doing fairly well, especially since the end of the recession, and Monitor moved away from the five forces model decades ago to tackle the same types of business strategy projects other top-tier consulting firms help with.

Monitor failed for A LOT of reasons. It had a strange debt/equity structure that paid large sums to former partners who were no longer involved in the business, an issue that has caused other notable firms to struggle as well. They were a mid-sized player in a market increasingly split between boutiques and large global firms. They were a pure play strategy firm in a market where clients were looking for help with implementation. They did brand-damaging work with former dictators.

The list could go on, but executives wising up that they didn't want to buy strategy consulting wasn't why Monitor failed. Executives are going to buy the same projects, probably from the same consultants, they're just going to buy them from Deloitte now.
I suppose that's kinda bad for drop catching, but regular domains take 24 hours to be useful anyways. So its not that bad :)
Yep, this is definitely a tricky part of it. Trying to figure this out with the EFF at the moment. Will try and elaborate soon, on a really tight deadline at the moment.
What are you even talking about? I was thanking the poster for doing something I didnt do myself. This is the x-post I was talking about.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19gnki/legacycc...

I am not seeking any sort of recognition for the post whatsoever.
Going cold turkey off 40 mg of adderall a day and calling it addiction is a slap in the face to people who have dealt with real addiction. As someone who has used Adderall at this level and stopped cold turkey and someone who has also been a heroin addict, stopping adderall cold turkey is a fucking joke compared to heroin addiction. Alcohol addiction also has the potential to be unbearably uncomfortable, not to mention deadly.

The author is a poseur, and doesn't realize how lucky she is.
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To be honest, I don't think it's something that could be sold for a recurring fee but more a one time purchase.

I personally would pay 10$ for an app which would do the job for me in a smart and evolved manner.

I'm not sure I'm really the target user, since I really use my computer as a dumb terminal to access web/cloud services, but I know a lot of friends and family who struggle managing their downloads effectively.

They forget that they can actually access what they've already downloaded, so instead they co and download again (and waist 15mn searching for the link online).

So I do believe that such a tool would improve the entire computer user experience for elderly and non savy users.

(To gain mass adoption I think such a solution should be bundled with the OS)
That's a great hypothetical, but it falls flat in reality. The cost differential between bicycle infrastructure and car infrastructure is orders of magnitude.
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Iceweasel is Debian's, not Ubuntu's; it is a patched version of Firefox. It is not called Firefox, because the license of Firefox doesn't allow you to patch it and call it Firefox. Icedove, likewise, but Thunderbird instead of Firefox. LibreOffice was OpenOffice which was StarOffice, which was developed as a commercial project, bought (along with its developers) by Sun, and released as FLOSS in 2000. The project has been through renamings and possibly reorganizations since, and I can't say whether Ubuntu has had any involvement, but to say it's an attempt by Ubuntu to develop their own office suite is grossly disconnected from reality.
The price of Bitcoin is currently hovering around 37 USD. I remember when Bitcoin was $2.00 after the first crash, I never expected it to rebound so quickly. Announcements such as Namecheap's lend credence to the current price, but I would not be surprised if a correction brought Bitcoin below $30.

Regardless, I am excited that there are more places to spend Bitcoin each and every day.
I would leap at the chance to contribute freely to the HN site to make fellow developers happy, yes.
That whole essay is eminently quotable. You've picked up one of my two favorite sections (with "Ronald Reagan is your Web browser" being a close third).

Describing operating systems, using the inevitable automobile analogy. Windows (mopeds, crappy station wagons, and lumbering SUVs), Apple (stylish Euro-sedans), BeOS (batmobiles), and ...

"Linux ... is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free."
I don't think that this is really a major issue, I just find it silly that in 2013 we're still dealing with the burden of a messy download folder when at the same time we're building brilliant technology such as self driving cars, etc ...
>The only people I hear complaining are typically people who expect the Linux desktop to remain static and unchanging the way it was when they first used it.

Or who are stuck on older hardware (why was 2d retired, again?)...

Or who think it's utterly silly you have to write a INI (.desktop) file to put arbitrary links in the "dock"..

Or who think that the interface wastes a lot of space...

You've went and generalized a lot of people with legitimate complaints about that DE. Kind of like Ubuntu's developers do.
It doesn't require hours at the protocol level, it's just a social standard. Typically, the first confirmation would occur in ~10 minutes. At the moment, the convention is 6 blocks / 1 hour is sufficient to prevent double-spending, but any merchant could have its own standard.

Also, for something revocable like a domain name, there's nothing preventing Namecheap from giving you the domain name immediately, and then revoking your access to it later if the transaction ultimately fails.
For me the best motivator has been witnessing the success of a good friend's side project [1]. That, and I've also found that it's really important to commit to imperfection. It's better to have something small out there garnering feedback than it is to build something in a vacuum for months at a time.

Try taking a planned weekend to scrap together the absolute minimum features of your project that might be useful to another individual, and publish them. Commit to actually publishing by the end of the weekend so long as at least one other person might find usefulness in your work. Publish no matter how imperfect it is. My side project's [1] plan is a gazillion times bigger and more interactive than what's implemented today, but what finally got it out the door was the exercise I just described.

[1]: http://corkboard.me
[2]: https://threadcheck.me
Your logic is completely faulty.

Paying bills over the internet was easier and simpler than paying by check. Paying by credit and debit cards are easier, safer and simpler than using say Bitcoin.

There is zero chance that those cards are going anywhere. If anything the popularity of PayWave and other NFC technologies should see their use increase.