skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is off topic, but in Japan it's not uncommon for people who commit serious crimes to turn themselves in at the nearest Koban. (There is also a large percentage of coerced guilty pleas --it's claimed that JP justice kind of mistreats (wears down people) to capitulate and assume responsibility) you can be held up to a month wihout charge or access to lawyers (formal arrest vs voluntary police custody). On the other hand JP police tend to only take on cases where they are very likely to win conviction --hence the very high conviction rate in Japan ~99% vs high 80s for the US. This habit leads to cases where police establish 'people fall down stairs' and die rather than pursue a murder conviction where the outcome is uncertain.
Yet more cheap computation can adjust for whatever motion/lighting variances are present.
Manning was just a kid, playing games, never thought he was doing something that these skeletors of society would pursue him in the future for.

And again, something that had no consequences gets a kid to suffer the rest of his life, just to keep military and courts and other "serious people" all of which that could also be seen as criminals of bigger crimes such as inflicting pain for a living (military instead of farmers and abundance, lawyers and judges instead of friendship and disputes in games and drinks). And these military go to war with the mote to spread freedom and democracy, what for ? to arrest kids for life ?

Skeletors of the world... grow up, relax, have a beer and life for the swords to plow shares or tanks to tractors, or drones to aerial seed planters!
Arch is very good if you run it as your main system and keep it updated very frequently. Forget it for six months (because it's an unused multiboot, or whatever) and try to do an upgrade, and it might be more painful.

I got burnt by the glibc mess last summer, where you had to run a specific set of --force things in a given order to get through and if you didn't, well, you lost your /lib (at which point it's game over, since freaking pacman isn't statically linked).

Response in forums or irc (I don't remember) was "It's rolling release, you had three whole months to update, too bad for you".

Atomic releases avoid the problem because everyone will do this kind of breaking changes at the same point, whereas with rolling releases, you can't force people to update all at the same time, so you'll always end up losing people, once your migration path inevitably becomes invalid because of the way everything goes forward.
I think "miscommunication" is a reasonable description of outdated documentation that should have been replaced but wasn't. How would you describe an oversight that led to communicating erroneous ideas like that?
Does anyone know how many employees Groupon has?
A sample set of one makes for a bad survey.
Perhaps it depends on the type of project?

I see two very different views here: one thing is to have technical jargon that looks like buzzwords to the uninitiated, another is to have to include, in the proposal, features that you won't implement so that the project is accepted, as mentioned in the original post.
AppFog has been working great for me (a couple of static sites, a rails app and a php/mysql app).

It still has some quirks, such as no persistent storage and issues with their admin interface, but you can use Amazon's S3 to solve the first and work with their command line utility for the second.
There is nothing wrong with the question you asked. Absolutely nothing. We are intelligent, educated people - if we ask these questions, it's not because we want to ridicule people or offend them,but because we are genuinely curious. The other option would be to remain ignorant and not ask in the fear that this question might offend someone, which in my brain is just sick and wrong.
Do you mean "developers and designers"?
Someone mistaking video journalists when they are peaking around a corner with a video camera as enemy combatants that recently shot at a convoy, is not "mass atrocities". Lets draw that line.
I do that all the time. They have a whole chicken at $0.99/lb at my local supermarket fairly regularly (every 2-3 weeks), so I usually buy one. I'll typically pan-roast it and get 2 meals (for 2 people, making 4) from that. Then I'll take the rest of the meat (that doesn't carve as nicely) and make a curry or some other stew. 8 meals from $20 doesn't sound like a stretch at all, and I'm not talking about tiny nouvelle cuisine portions either - I have a hearty appetite.
Apparently only gzip and zlib compatibility is included in the code.

Does anyone know if there are programs out there that allow recompressing zip or png format files with this library?
Double-win: Riding a Segway while wearing Google glasses.
Importantly, though, the decompression speed is the same as deflate (e.g, gzip). It's only slower during compression.
Yes, thank goodness for being broke.
It's always interesting how something that shouldn't be that big of a deal is a much bigger deal when experienced. I mean that using Markdown is not conceptually different than writing judiciously-placed block comments, but the ease of formatting for the coder -- and the most definite impact on reading for the reader -- is a huge impact. Thinking about it now, I sometimes skip self-documentation even when I know it's the right thing to do (given how much time we spend re-reading code compared to writing it) because it's annoying just enough to remember what my style/convention is to make long comments readable. Having Markdown provide the template removes that cognitive barrier, and hopefully makes it easier to ease into the documentation process.
... you can't be serious. What exact part of that sentence are you taking issue with? The corrupt-ness of the US military and/or government, or the fact that releasing this information was a challenging act?
Agreed, I've been using Django for a few years now and I've been learning new things from it.

Particularly helpful as I'm starting to transition to Class Based Generic Views in some of my projects.
I´m also interested... I can´t use it a work and I would love to have a good reason to learn more!
Zopfli can be used with nginx without code changes with the static gzip module [1].

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpGzipStaticModule
You can target them, write -webkit and then -apple, chrome will use webkit, safari will use apple due to the nature of css.
Ask HN: Google Glass and finding missing people
I've recently been interested in Google Glass and wondering whether it'll be widely adopted or not. Besides it's obvious applications, do you think it might be useful for finding kidnapped or missing individuals? This could be in form of an app that has access to some database that constantly scans in the background. It'll be up to the user to decide whether or not to turn it on as they go about their daily activities.How feasible or ridiculous is that?

Thanks.
Because most users will make a bad decision and continue to condition themselves to ignore security warnings. If, instead, a critical mass of users can't use a website at all, the site owner actually has to fix the problem.

I noticed that you said you "don't understand the error" yet you wanted to bypass it. This line of thinking is exactly the problem. I don't mean that in a condescending way. Disabling the last line of defense as a matter of routine is resulting in more and more attacks, so Google wants to move the problem to where it should be - the misconfigured website.

The short version is that during a previous visit to that site, it sent an HSTS HTTP header, which is really the only protection there is against SSL stripping attacks. Basically, it tells your browser, "My site will ALWAYS be SSL (and valid SSL) - if I ever tell you otherwise, it's not me, so do not communicate."

HSTS is relatively new, so browsers are handling it a bit differently and you don't see it often. A broken SSL chain on a site that did not give you HSTS would still allow you to ignore it.
The decision hasn't been made yet. Canonical's CTO may have decided he likes it, but the Ubuntu project hasn't yet given it a pass.

If you've got workflow-critical programs you don't want updating, use the LTS release. That's what it's for.
Meh. Old article and quotes like -

"Though productivity in France is higher than Germany's and close to that of the U.S. according to 2011 data "

"Can I remind you that Titan…is 20 times smaller than Michelin…and 35 times less profitable?"

Are a good comeback.

It just seems like a sore loser who wanted a cheap deal but didn't get it under his terms so he's crying. A sad story really.

When France is a laid back nation that values home life over work AND is poor and in crisis then these business leaders might have a point.
We both agree on two points, they need to do something about their support forum, and they don't definitely have a technical problem with their site/code/security.

They do seem to have a customer expectation and privacy problem though. If, as described by enough forum poster for it not to be a coincidence, email accounts created just for Dropbox's service and which are not trivially guessable are getting spammed - then Dropbox has somehow leaked customer data that customers had expectations of being private. If that were me, I'd consider myself to "certainly have a problem" - whether that problem is "my user database just got exposed via an SQLi attack", or "my contract with my newsletter emailing partner or customer support software service wasn't well thought through enough and they've used my clients email addresses without my/their permission".

While I agree that a 3rd party (or even a 3rd party app) uploading their addressbook is beyond Dropbox's control - that doesn't seem likely to be the cause from my reading of the first few pages of that forum thread this morning - I doubt the sort of person who creates "username.dropbox@example.com" style email addresses for Dropbox is likely to then add that address into a contact list where Facebook or Instagram style contact-mining apps are likely to find them.

It'll be interesting to see this as it pans out - I'm reasonably sure Dropbox or one of their partners (I'd put a small wager on Zendesk) or some malware targeting their client-app; is "leaking" username/emails.
I bet there are number of startups already working on it. We have tons of startups (in last couple of years) that are 'airbnb" and 'uber' for some different problem.
Won't disagree with you there! Though sometimes going outside your comfort zone can be a good thing.
So we should have updated detailed progress on our investigation of Osama Bin Laden and other criminals? Upload our latest nuclear technology as how-to videos on youtube?

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Look a Supreme Court justice agrees with that because I put an out of context quote from him.
"If you can't measure it you can't manage it" is a classic management platitude. I doubt Meg Whitman was the first person to say it.

Furthermore, it's completely untrue. Many things that must be managed are incompletely measurable, and almost everything in knowledge work falls into that category. See Robert Austin's excellent "Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" for a scientific exploration of the topic. (It's a more accessible version of his Ph.D. thesis.) His insights are applicable to more than just performance measurement.
Supposing that people are recruited into homosexuality by gay parents is not precisely described as "open-minded curiosity".

If we are going to be open-mindedly curious, then let's ask questions like what is the basis for imagining that being gay is a choice?
Not yet, but I should. Thanks for reminding me!
I would venture to guess it has something to do with blacks having historically been isolated from the opportunities that other races have had, and that even though things have improved, we're still seeing the lasting effects of centuries of prohibitive behavior.
I am offering an alternative suggestion to a person who is not happy with dropbox's customer service. He/she has the smarts to decide whether a new service is worth a try. My affiliation is irrelevant. Can u guarantee the readers who downvoted me are not affiliated with dropbox or positively biased towards dropbox. You are no different from the dropbox forum moderators.
> Pfc. Manning did none of this. He didn't alert U.S. Army CID, the U.S. Army Inspector General (IG), the DoD IG, an American friend back home, a fellow soldier, or even the American media (as the Pentagon papers had been revealed).

Actually, he did alert the American media. Specifically, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

http://gawker.com/5987634/bradley-manning-tried-to-leak-to-t...
Why would that be mentioned? I'm not too familiar with his ideas but I'm not aware that Marx is known for his ideas about monetary policy.
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Username charity sounds exciting to me. We are in early years of user driven web. Imagine what it would be 25 years down the line? I doubt people want to use their real names unless governments across the world regulate Internet and make it mandatory.
"On a side note, why the heck does dropbox have volunteers running their support forum?"

If I had to guess - I'd suspect three or four "nines" of their customer support workload comes from their "free tier" non-customers. (Having said that, there's evidence upthread in these HN discussions saying they're also dropping the support ball for paying, even team-account-sized paying customers - that's not OK...)
It's not like the cost of beef goes down per pound when I buy it from the grocery store -- I pay a fixed cost, regardless of my quantity.

I can't understand how you come to this conclusion. I definitely save money by buying larger cuts or bulk packs. Maybe you should come over for dinner :-)
Anyone who isn't being challenged.
It's a great philosophy to find and work with people smarter than you, it's the quickest most reliable way to get better at your craft. I take that thought into every interview I conduct with potential hires, and so far I haven't been let down.
> "sorry not interested in selling" bs

how is that bs ? I have a vanity domain that I'm not interested in selling.
Because of the nature of their businesses Zuckerberg and Pincus didn't need serious amounts of money nearly as early. Of course they took VC money, but they didn't need it so early, so desperately nor did need so much of it.
I personally think API design should be done by someone who has background in both UX and engineering. Even though you know your audience is going to technical, you'll eventually have people across the spectrum from noobs to pros using your APIs.
Why add the aside about Wall St. banking? You are perhaps doing exactly what you despise: "the narrative of the facts has been warped into something that isn't true".

If you aren't a Wall Street banker or have deep knowledge in that area, why even comment on it?
Check out Seamless (http://www.seamless.com/) or do a TaskRabbit/Exec to get somebody to pick up the food for you.

Edit: Verified that the seamless link worked; don't know why that caused problems for you.
I used to use Debian, and I'm not sure I'd go back. On one hand, the stability was wonderful (Debian was pretty much bulletproof for me), but packages were, for stable, quite old. Hardware compatibility isn't quite as good: hardware (including a USB Wi-Fi dongle) that Ubuntu autodetects and has no trouble with became an adventure to get working.

I tracked stable, so maybe testing would be better in terms of package outdating, but hardware compatibility is Debian's achilles heel right now.
Wnadering around skid row here in Los Angeles, I can certainly tell you I've never seen an Asian person pitching a sidewalk tent.
I'm honestly not trying to be dismissive, but why?

I would think that meteor is a terrible choice for a blogging engine. Perhaps for the admin tools it would be great, but a blog's main purpose is to disseminate static content. A technology that generate standard HTML is much more suited to the task rather than dynamically constructing the content with Javascript and data.

Also, can google crawl a site made with Meteor? Would this blogging engine be terrible from an SEO point of view?

Meteor looks pretty cool and the possibilities of creating amazingly dynamic web apps is exciting, but a blog is not very dynamic so it doesn't make much sense to me.

Right tool for the right job and all that.
I am baffled by what has you so offended here. I don't see anything disrespectful to the .NET community in that quote. He's not saying ".NET programmers aren't serious about their craft" — he's essentially saying "Ruby was really popular in the Silicon Valley startup culture, but other stacks were more popular in other places and among other demographics." The "middle-American dad using .NET" is more or less the complete opposite of Heroku's initial core audience, so he was essentially saying "How do we expand this to everybody?"

You even fit what he's talking about — you're not in Silicon Valley, and you're using a different technology stack. I don't see anything wrong with being you, and I don't think Teich does either.
Yeh, meat and vegetables can be expensive. But, for example, a bag of lentils, a bag of brown rice, some tinned tomatoes and spices. That stuff is so cheap, none of it requires refrigeration and it's easy to cook large amounts using a single pot on a plug-in stovetop. Sure, there's a process around it, but almost by definition, if you're poor, then you've got a low hourly rate. Even these days, as a "proper grown up", if someone suggests getting food out, my instinctive reaction is "No, I can't afford that". I think the problem more lies with the sort of idea that was in a front page article a couple of days back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279307) the bad stuff is just so tasty - what can make different kinds of people choose to eat super boring lentils and rice over super stimulating delicious fat/salt/sugar?
Why does EVERYTHING on HN have to be startup-related? I personally hate when the front page is nothing but startup-related news, especially when it's really pretentious.
If you can get to the point where your customers are getting "fucked", then you don't deserve them. You can't take pride in a job well done if you're screwing people over.
Did you even read the article you linked?

He talked in vague terms to a WaPo reporter.

He canceled leaking the helicopter video to Politico because of weather.

He "left a voicemail" with the public editor of the New York Times saying that he had something very important. How many of /those/ calls do they get in a day?

But let's say you're right, and we'll call "trying a wee little bit to alert the American media" good. That was #6 on my list (I didn't even count "inform your shrink", btw). What happened to #1-#5?

And why did he leak classified material that he didn't read, that was not evidence of war crimes?

If you're just going to chisel on a single point of my wall of text then by all means go for it. In the meantime I'll see if I can edit to include how he almost managed to work up the cojones to drop the bombshell at an American newspaper but couldn't muster enough motivation, because I certainly don't want to be even slighty non-factual on HN.
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I'm sympathetic with what your saying, but the types of things we learned about our military via these leaks were unbelievable. That our military is perfectly okay with opening fire on reporters and children should not be classified. I, for one, learned that my military's definition of 'atrocity' vastly differs from mine. Was it the right way of doing things? Probably not, but it doesn't seem like there is a way of showing these types of things to the public when most media outlet won't even show the coffins of the soldiers we've lost.
Almost never. The whole "companies have to maximise shareholder value or the board will get sued" thing isn't really true.

Shareholders get to vote for the board and they have a broad range of statutory protections that ensure company accounts are audited, compensation arrangements are disclosed, etc. But as far as a general right to make money? Nope. You'd only have a chance with that kind of lawsuit if the board made an obvious, colossal blunder that should have been obvious to anyone at the time.
Starch is a whole bunch of glucose molecules chained together. No fructose.
Is there any specific reason why you use Sanger instead of, let's say, Illumina?

Because in my experience Sanger is slower and more expensive than Illumina or any of the other 3rd-gen-sequencers...
What would a person need to say in order for a "not interested in selling" response be taken seriously?
One of the implications of this "question" relies on the common belief that gay men are pedophiles and/or will teach gay sex to the children. In some people's heads, it's a matter of wicked, unclean gays corrupting the innocent children.

If nobody had such beliefs, then it is virtually impossible to understand why we would suppose that gay people are unfit as parents.
Google Notes!

That would be heaven for me. I've been trying to do notes via Evernote and while it is fine and feature rich, it is not a good performer. There's no way to just open app and take notes!
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Great article, I should keep a similar list for the ideas I have
"CSS parsing is the same, though. Slurping up your CSS and turning it into CSSOM’s pretty standard. Yeah, though Chrome accepts just the -webkit- prefix whereas Apple and other ports accept legacy prefixes like -khtml- and -apple-."

Using this information, can you target Chrome with the webkit- prefix and Safari with the apple- prefix? Specifying the apple- prefix after webkit- will ensure that Safari uses that one, right?
Born and raised in Nepal,I ,am so sad and happy at the same time. And thanks 100000x to watsi.org. I know there are many such cases in Nepal and just a little help could save so many human lives in countries like ours. I am a computer science student myself at Silicon Valley, and if there is any technical help necessary for Watsi.org or any such organizations, I am more than ready to volunteer. In the mean time, Thanks again for saving Bageshwori's life.
No, your snark fails because you picked the wrong variables. Got Diabetes necessarily implies a population of Did Not Get Diabetes, so the r^2 would not be 1.0.

On the other hand, the r^2 between Have Diabetes and Water Exposure would be 1.0.
Ideally, you'd want a zlib-compatible zopfil library that you could just substitute for libz.so.1 when running an appropriate format-specific compressor that uses zlib.
I don't think that's it, so much as offering to implement, and actually implementing (at least in a half-assed way) features that you don't actually want, to make the proposal more attractive.
Please keep in mind that there is an ocean-sized gulf between "Manning did in fact leak classified material that he should not have" and "everything the U.S. military and government have ever done is A-OK".

This is also a common refrain among some of Manning's supporters, but I try to treat people and arguments on their own merits. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
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It doesn't seem too far off from distributed volunteer computing like BOINC or Folding@Home. It'd be interesting, but I'm sure people would gripe about privacy.
You've never spent time with people who were really poor

I've been really poor. On non-consecutive occasions.

Many of these kids do not watch TV

No offense, but you're just making shit up. You'd have to go to the most rural area of Mongolia before you find kids without ready access to television. That said, I'm not blaming children for anything--rather, most adults understand that a 99 cent can of pork and beans (available at any convenience mart) is healthier than fast food...and willingly ignore that fact.