skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the person should be prosecuted for trespass. Still doesn't make it OK to violate their free speech rights...
He's not wrong. On the other hand, everybody works around limitations in their technology. It's the nature of the beast.
Facebook won't let you choose not to see Instagram updates
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My hope is that I'm able (though technology and/or social change) to remain truly helpful and connected to society as I become elderly. Playing games with young kids is great, but I'd also want to be able to pass along wisdom to teens and twenty-somethings. Elderly people have started businesses, spent decades in romantic relationships, raised children, attained their goals, lost it all, achieved self discipline, found personal enlightenment, gone through major illnesses and seen how all these parts of life can or can't be balanced. Popular culture gives young westerners a very unrealistic portrayal of what life will be like. Having access to real experience seems vastly undervalued in our current culture.
But nobody uses that, so it sounds strange ven for native speakers. I don't remember ever hearing it.

Heh, I was just curious as I hadn't seen that form anywhere :)

That said, the Polish Wiktionary wygrać entry (http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/wygra%C4%87) lists it and a couple of other new-to-me ones as "forma potencjalna", so I guess it's possible in theory, but as you say, just not used.
Decorators take a function and return a new function. 9 times out of 10 they're used as an easy way to create wrappers: do something and then execute the original function, or execute the original function and then process it before handing it off.

They're doubly useful in Python because Python has only limited support for functions as blocks.

In JavaScript you'd do:

var myFunction = addLogging(function(){ ... })

But in Python you'd do

@log
def my_function():
...
At risk of being down-voted out of existence, this isn't First Amendment material in the same way that defamation (e.g. slander, libel) isn't First Amendment material - or how breaking into a pharmaceutical and publishing their formulas aren't First Amendment material.

Although Minnesota's version of the ag-gag bill was certainly too far reaching and rightfully shut down (https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S1118.0.html...), I'm behind the core concept that guerrilla-style undercover videos belongs on the farm as much as it does in our offices. The biggest danger is confusing the "taping" discussed in this article with actual journalism - and in-depth analysis of the legislation definitively shows that these ag companies will grudgingly allow legitimate reporting of their facilities, but have a right to persecute unethical practices.

* Don't confuse the Humane Society of the United States with your local humane society. For example, their CEO is against the ownership of pets. More details are at http://www.humanewatch.org/, but take that with the same scepticism you would any documentary or online video:-)
TotalFinder and Divvy work for me. I get exactly what he's looking for.
For anyone fammilar with the US legal system, would you need to be tried for breaking this law before you can challenge it in court (where you would be on the hook for criminal penalties), or can you proactivly challenge such laws without breaking them?
This is pretty much what I do, except that I start with the medium difficulty/high importance-problems to establish a base architecture and then test that architecture for durability with the high difficulty/high importance problems. After that, it's usually smooth sailing because the architecture should just carry the project.
The message is hidden secretly by making very slight changes to the image. When used on Facebook you can receive the secret messages while looking at an image by pressing ctrl+alt+a. That example is just to show approximately how the new image will look compared to the old one.
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>This is, of course, a synonym for "don't bother to use me in anything but hobby projects". (Or stuff which is completely mobile-focused, I suppose.

Huh? Where did you get that impression?

If your service is valuable (instead of, say, just some news site fighting for eyeballs) you can pretty much demand users to use a modern browser.

Even more so, of course, for enterprise and hosted applications, where you can specify what browser the users have to use, take it or leave it. I work on a device front-end that supports all but IE, and it's very liberating -- not to mention no customer ever cared about it enough to complain, they just switched to what he told them to use (and most were using such browsers already).

Also for open source. E.g something like Wordpress (which is used very much professionally) can use it for its admin interface, and require it's users to use a compatible browser -- and nobody will care for the few that don't want to use Chrome/FF/Safari/IE10/Chrome Frame.

With adequately modern browsers being available for Linux/*BSD/etc and XP, and being free, faster, better and more secure, you don't have to have any sympathy for users sticking to old IE versions.

And it's not like you'll be alone in it. I remember when the first web shops started ditching IE6 circa 2008-9 (with a "A list apart" manifesto and everything). That was a huge step forward. And isn't jQuery ditching old IE in version 2.0? Not to mention widely succesful projects like D3 that never supported IE to begin with.
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That chart is cumulative. Of course it goes up over time, there isn't any way for it to go down.

The recent rate of BDD gives some fuzzy picture of current activity though:

http://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed?timespa...

You can see that hoarding increased slightly during March (a day destroying more than about 11 million bitcoin days should roughly reflect the market loosening up, destroying less should reflect the market tightening). Early April is also among the fastest periods (over the entire history of bitcoin) of BD destruction.
It's obvious. Animal rights activists are terrorists, and terrorists don't have rights because they are "attacking our way of life and they hate our freedom [to eat meat while ignoring how it gets to our tables]."
Forklift v2 will do this pretty well. Sure it costs $50 but it does a lot for a program.
China strangely at 26% but why is Japan (and India) at 2% still?
I don't understand what you mean (I'm not really good with English).

In Polish every noun changes with the number in the way I've show. When you count up, you use numbers in abstract wihout the noun, so no noun to change ending.

If you mean the ranges, it's strict in Polish - 1 has one ending for noun, 2-4, 22-24, 32-34, 42-44, etc have other, and all the others have another ending. I don't know how the ranges for "few", "a couple" etcare defined in English.

I've heard that this strange system in Polish comes from the times Polish had 3 possible pluralities: singular, dual and plural, but I might be wrong about that.
I'm not asserting that there's no other way to do it, just that getting rid of the popup that says the site is untrusted is not a solution, nor even a step in the right direction, IMHO.
Why did you build this for Facebook as opposed to other messaging clients or even email? It's pretty cool btw :)
The separator of TotalFinder and Xtrafinder is just too thin. I want to see right away which side is in focus. When you click on one of the two windows the other one becomes washed and is also covered by the shadow of the active one.

For me, that's better usability.
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Creepy? No. A clear violation of expected privacy? Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolistic_competition
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> It doesn't help that half the political spectrum has been arguing for decades non-stop to just spend more and more and more on education, without any concern for improving the low return on investment we currently have on education dollars.

Can you name even one person who has been arguing that?
The Committee for Public Safety says: Yes.
The multi rename (batch) rename feature is the best I've ever seen because you can use RegEx ! Yeah boi!!!!
You say this as if treating elections and voting as a market should be acceptable.
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| breaking into a pharmaceutical and
| publishing their formulas aren't First
| Amendment material

Are you really trying to claim that filming the way that animals are treated behind closed doors is a 'trade secret' in the same way that pharmaceutical formulas[1] are?

[1] Not to mention that most of these are published in the form of patents anyways...
The whole point is that the message isn't visible, and it's impossible to be able to tell if there even is a message.

The message is encoded in the image by very slightly changing the values of pixels (or some similar method). The message is only revealed with the browser extension
>Fravia died a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia

Yes, but 4 years are a considerable time on the web. Linkrot to and in some of the external resources can be felt.
The attracting teachers bit is crap. We have a huge surplus of fresh college graduates in this country with no jobs. You could get rid of pensions entirely and still have bright people lining up to fill positions.
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>At work I'm currently having to live with supporting IE8+ [1], which I'm looking forward to eventually moving on from. Alas, the traffic isn't there yet. Plus, we're being wary about dropping IE8 since it's the last official IE for Windows XP.

If the web property is successful enough, you can ditch IE support and they'll come with something else. Or you'll get new users to replace them eventually.
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I don't know where we're drawing the above little people, but didn't Alec Baldwin famously almost get kicked off for playing video games at the wrong time on a public flight?
RE: "These messages are hidden in photos so they cannot be detected by Facebook, Governments or prying friends."

I think this claim is overly broad and not particularly true. The NSA surely knows about steganography too. It's been around for a while.
If the materials were properly declassified and held for public browsing by the NARA then what Wikileaks is doing is fine. It would be the same as Google wrapping a much nicer search interface across an old dataset.

If the materials were still classified-but-leaked then I won't go near it until it is declassified. But I can't tell from this side of the window what's going on.
I agree – anything from Rich Hickey. Especially "Persistent Data Structures"[1] and "Are We There Yet?"[2].

Though related to Clojure, they make you think about development in different ways.

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich...

[2]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...
Facebook Home pre-release leaks
Dual Stack Lite has a single layer of NAT while NAT444 or 464 have two layers.
This sounds outrageous, but one should remain skeptical. Most people, in retrospect, will describe themselves as being "polite" or "calm." "No, I didn't raise my voice at all!" But these sorts of self-reports are prone to all sorts of subjectivity or bias, and I wouldn't simply take them at face value. My "calm and reasoned" could be another's "aggressive and threatening."

Not saying that the stories are necessarily inaccurate, rather, how can we really know for sure without some sort of independent confirmation? I file these under "troubling anecdotes in need of more data."
That would be approximately 50% of them, btw.
Many states do not allow ordinary citizens to record a phone call without the consent of both parties. This seems like it would have the same kind of justification.
The most recent law takes precedence, so this may remove Whistleblower protection.
I support free information. If "best practices" in animal slaughter gross people out, then maybe we need better "best practices" or maybe we need to rethink our agriculture system. Just because something has been decided upon by a group of experts does not make it socially just or appropriate. The treatment of slaves was, I'm sure, generally done according to what, at that time, would have been considered "best practices", and people wanted cotton. But that doesn't mean that slavery should have been ignored and "left to the professionals".
Citation needed.

I, for one, have switched tools (including browsers) several times to be compatible with stuff and services I care about.
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Why would BTC gains be subject to self-employment tax? Surely they would be treated like other forex gains?

Honestly if I had $10 million in BTC gains I'd get a tax professional and seek a private letter ruling from the IRS to clarify the situation. I imagine that misreporting $10 million of income would be an unpleasant experience.
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It's worth noting that swishing Listerine (which does contan real alcohol) will fool police breathalyzers, if you use it minutes before the test. This is why you do a long series of physical coordination tests before finally getting a breathalyzer test when being pulled over:

http://askville.amazon.com/Crest-mouthwash-make-fail-breatha...
Credit card transactions only appear to be reversible to the end user. If someone nicks your credit card and buys some gas, it may appear to you that the money just came back but someone in the chain (usually the gas station) is eating that cost.

So the only functional difference between bitcoin and a credit card in this respect is that there's someone big (the bank) sitting in between you and the transaction that has enough clout to force the loss off you and onto someone else. If a bank decided to build a bitcoin payment system, and signed merchants to a contract similar to the one they do on credit cards, there would be no functional difference from the consumer's standpoint.
I remember reading an article where Al Qaeda is using the same practices for sending messages to hidden members via eBay (and other sites). Here is an article (not the same one I read, but the same topic): http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.ht...

The article mentions government level detection software - but there is also open source software such as StegDetect (http://www.outguess.org/detection.php) which does a reasonable job of detecting steganography within images.
>The fact of the matter is that most people use the browser their computer came with.

No, they don't. Else it would be 90% IE.

Most people use Chrome and Firefox. And there are places in Europe where IE is almost non existent.

And even on the Mac, Chrome and Firefox users are as many or equal to Safari users.

So "most users stick to the browser the computer came with"?

Might have been true back in Windows XP days. Not for a long while.
the presence of steganography has long been detectable in images and audio. whether it can be decoded depends on the cipher (if any) that's used for the actual message, but this is a pretty poor way to hide your intent from anyone but the casual onlooker.
If you eat factory farmed meat, eggs, or dairy, you are almost guaranteed to be supporting animal cruelty. There are many fantastic books and documentaries detailing the horrors and dangers of factory farming and I've linked to a few below. This is an open secret.

I would be willing to bet that almost anybody here, once they've looked deeply into factory farming, would come out the other side and look at factory farmed animal products in a completely new light.

Do you truly want to stop farm animal cruelty? Investigate this industry and consider no longer buying factory farmed animal products.

http://www.amazon.com/Food-Inc-Participant-Industrial-Poorer...

http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animals-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp...
Care to elaborate? I assume you mean because owners are increasingly reliant on external labour to fulfill the demand, and, like with any business, labour does not always care about the level of quality in operation that the stakeholders, that have traditionally supplied the products, do?
Off topic... is this a correct ranking of preferred form in handling this situation?

blank page or other such confusing non-function : bad

"your browser sucks" - page still doesn't work : poor

"please enable scripts or get a newer browser" - page still doesn't work : fair

"please enable scripts or get a newer browser" - page works for non-js users but is somewhat crippled : good

page works perfectly without js : excellent (you could use headers to have it auto reload every few seconds?)
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In this case: "But a dozen or so state legislatures have had a different reaction: They proposed or enacted bills that would make it illegal to covertly videotape livestock farms..."
I don't know if I would consider commercial airlines and GA/charters the same industry. Malice is being ascribed where incompetence more than adequately explains the differences.
I don't have permission to view this?
There is some decent material here, but contrary to all the posts saying "great article", I would like to sound a note of caution. There are also quite a few half-truths, implicit assumptions and significant omissions in this article, and I would advise anyone who isn't already familiar with the field to seek out other material that is more comprehensive as well.

I hate it when people criticise without giving specifics, so here are some of the more obvious examples:

- The article mentions image sprites, complete with the trendy but semantically dubious hijacking of the <i> element for icons, but does not discuss data: URLs.

- The article talks about the performance implications using subdomains, but doesn't mention anything about cookies.

- The article makes many assumptions about how assets are loaded that may be true in the major browsers right now but tend to change very fast, and even then it doesn't mention that there are actual standards for how browsers are supposed to behave in this respect (which in turn not all browsers follow).

- The article promotes techniques that will achieve lower quality results, such as serving low-res assets to high-res devices and using CSS approximations of effects to avoid using image files at all, without considering techniques for serving some but not all assets depending on the nature of the requesting device. Crucially, there is also no hard data at all about what the relative costs actually are and therefore whether these implied optimisations are actually giving worthwhile savings.

In short, this article is a decent thought-provoker if you're new to front-end development and aren't necessarily aware of these kinds of issues, but it's not comprehensive (and there are other resources that are) and it does advocate some questionable practices.
Catalyst IT Services hires big data to do the job
Can you please show me the evidence you mention that shows that most Bitcoins are hoarded? I'm genuinely curious -- the main metric I'm aware of is Bitcoin Days Destroyed, and that metric seems to show that hoarding is actually steadily decreasing over time.
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What is the point of TDD if you are not allowed to code drunk? :D
Lee Howard from Time Warner Cable has run some numbers: http://asgard.org/documents.html
>If you consistently have the "last 20% takes 50% of the project" situation, then your scheduling is based on wishful thinking rather than past performance.

There is no "past performance" for most projects, because they are different enough to prohibit extrapolations.

The above holds for large IT projects and software construction of course.

For a small shop making indie games or for a web shop churning websites what you say is perfectly possible.
Indeed, this is exactly what we did in our demo! We just swished with Listerine and immediately breathalyzed on stage and it worked great.

We found that the Listerine effect seems to diminish quickly after several minutes.
You're right, my formula analogy was poor because of the reasons you mentioned. Breaking in and filming the testing facilities would have been more apt. Certainly those facilities need watch guard groups advocating for the protection of the tested, but pharmaceutical has proper channels for that oversight and we're denying ag that same benefit.
pootle is also an OK option, if you don't mind doing heavy customization
I don't think text files should have the same rights as animals. Yet.
You perhaps think the United States has some sort of generic whistleblower protection laws. This is not the case. What you may be thinking of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act

which only applies to Federal agency employees.
I can't help but sympathize with the Morozov rant on O'Reilly when bleeding-edge tooling like this get sold as services and not offered up as free software for all the community to move forward (and it's not like both can't coexist even.) It's all in the name of startups and "rockstar teams," when open source projects themselves could benefit so much from code analysis/review tools (possibly more so, given the more fractured nature of the contributions.)

To the OP, please don't take the Code Climate (and so many others') road, consider creating an open source community around your product and then offering enterprise service on top of THAT. If you don't, you're gonna face dire competition sooner or later, even if you are the first to market. If you do, you have the chance to establish yourself an ecosystem that'll keep on giving back, in both code and publicity.
Depends on who's stats you believe. According to this, IE6 in China has dropped quite a bit in the past year:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201203...

It's under 5%.

On another note, IE7 is probably under 1% in most of the world. IE8 is the new minimum browser for developers?
I found this alternative interesting: http://www.radare.org/y/?
although not nearly as powerful as IDA, it's open source nature makes it perfect..
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I am sure agriculture would love to work with the people concerned about current best practices to find new and better best practices. Agribusiness is always at the forefront of technology and is quick to adopt better ways.

The problem is that the people who come with concern tend to not take time to understand the situation. I recall a recent incident with a celebrity suggesting dairy farmers should breed their calves to not have horns. Great idea in theory. The genes do exist in some living cattle, but it is quite rare. Anyone with even a basic understanding of biology can see how that isn't going to work out so well, but we cannot even seem to find that level of understanding out there.
Video using flicker phosphenes to produce optical illusions.
Decorators by themselves are easy.

@foo
def bar:
...

is just syntactic sugar for

def bar:
...
bar = foo(bar)

The hard part is first-class functions and what you can do with them and what you should not do with them.
It's not responding. here's the google cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Jcrt8T...
If it had worked maybe they wouldn't have committed this project in the first place.
Depends on the country and your clearance. If you have a security clearance through the US DOD, you're expected to honor/treat allied (specifically NATO, although I think it applies across the board) classification of documents.
That is sort of fuzzy if you're in Intelligence though.