skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KDP is kindle-only, and I think that is terrible, I dislike kindle DRM, dislike digital-only stuff that you cannot download if the content server get shutdown, and dislike even more digital-only stuff that can be deleted remotely, and finally, Kindle is so expensive here in Brazil that if I saw 5 of them on my whole life, it is already a lot.

But the terms are fair I guess...

Oh, traditional publishing also can pay you advance royalties, I don't think you get that with self-publishing :)
This is an important distinction.

To the best of my knowledge, individuals who are not Federal employees that engage in whistleblowing do so with the very real possibility that there will be permanent professional retribution.
He is not describing good people. Good people can reason that hurting others is not how to improve mood.
That reads to me as 'can you go and ask the captain?' I think the complaint/request was unreasonable (tell your kids not to look at the screen), but not the mere request that the captain be the arbiter of the dispute.
1) What you're quoting "directly from the article" is paraphrasing what I posted - the source.

2) Asking if the "captain might be consulted" and "asking to speak to the captain" are not the same thing. The claim that they were "demanding to see the pilot" is something you apparently imagined.

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>Critical reading lesson here, if you look at the quote from the article you will notice that it says "they were told, they’d have to wait until the plane landed."

The fact that you're continuing to argue based on second/third hand language chosen by the writer of the article, against a direct quote from the source makes this "critical reading" quip particularly ironic.
IE6 is still the standard browser in my place of employment. vomit
United airlines is like a greyhound bus with wings. It attracts all sorts of crazy people who complain if they get kicked out.
How Internet fighting works
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As you say, it is very possible to build or use detectors for systems such as this. The advantage in this case is that 300+ million new photos are uploaded to Facebook every day so scanning them all would be highly computationally intensive. Governments also do not have access to privately shared Facebook albums so the risk of steganography being detected in a walled garden such as Facebook is much lower than for images shared on public websites such as eBay in the case of Al Qaeda in the past. In the past walled gardens have always recompressed JPEGs rendering previous steganography tools unusable - that is the true innovation this extension brings.
Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Perhaps I'm just cynical, but I would assume to make it less pleasurable to vote against. It's not tough to imagine a blurb come election cycle along the lines of "Senator X voted against anti-terrorism bills designed to keep us safe! Senator Y strongly cares about your safety, and the safety of the Nation. Vote Y. Vote America."
I like the idea but my opinion is that you need to clarify how the action of shrinking a link gets monetized.
Because `> 100` is missing from the condition? Other than an example of poor copy-pasting of code, how do you conclude that it is "[n]ot a great advert for Perl"?

For the record, this would be the code with missing part included:

my @large_orders = sort { $a->{items} <=> $b->{items} } grep { $_->{total} > 100 } @orders;
WhatsDownToday.com is a scam
'Simple Made Easy'[1] is one of my favorite Hickey talks.

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Canada jailing people for 'just denying something'? Do tell.
Seems backwards. Why are we justifying the cruelty that results from a mindset necessary to witness cruelty? Perhaps the workers won't strike; let's ask the animals.
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Here's a better idea. Engineer meat from animal stem cells. More energy efficient and less cruel (although maybe less tasty). Plants take less energy but provide less energy to humans (meat is more power efficient). Think of plant and animal like 1.5V batteries vs. 3V batteries.
Ditto, but I don't get it. Isn't it a massive security risk?
When Everyone Wants To Buy And Nobody Wants To Sell.. -
Two great ones by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure -

Are We There Yet? - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...

Simple Made Easy - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
The Myth of the Genius Programmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ
Simple Made Easy changed how I think about constructing software systems of any kind. It provided me with a strong vocabulary and mental model to identify coupling and design with a more clear separation of concerns and focus on the output rather than the ease of development.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
80% is Yahoo's assertion
Private business or some kind of government run office?
Good point. I've rephrased this sentence to be less strong. The gist is that although they could theoretically be detected it would be computationally infeasible for Facebook to do the scanning since they receive 300+ million new photos a day and with a database of about 250 billion photos even if the NSA could get access, they could never feasibly scan them all.
not to be cliché, but, Steve Jobs.
The sibling poster does a good job explaining SNI. The shorter version is that without SNI all you know when establishing the secure connection is the IP address, so you can't do name based virtual hosts.

I'm not an expert on DNSSEC, but the idea is that there is a chain of trust going back to the domain registrar. If a receive a signed DNS response, and everything verifies, then I know that it comes from the person who registered the domain. I can't add a signed entry for example.com, so if I received a signed DNS response for example.com, I know it ultimately originated (with possible caching like normal DNS) from whomever registered example.com.

You can then add what is essentially a TXT record to the DNS entries for a domain that is the fingerprint of an SSL cert. If you receive that as a valid dnssec response, you know it can be trusted.

Essentially the dnssec infrastructure replaces the CA infrastructure.

You can do the same thing with ssh key fingerprints too.
Its too early on a Monday for people to pick up sarcasm.
You should be using file backup on any system with code on it. It is so cheap to do this today, it is a no brainer. Apple Time Capsule, Crashplan Pro, etc.
I am totally for people being able to expose farm cruelty if the goal is an open debate to enact political change. I wonder, however, if sometimes people use their free speech rights to terrorize potential supporters and advocates, folks who are unfamiliar with reality and context, in order to raise money through FUD. That doesn't mean I don't support their right to free speech. Just means that the speaking part and the recording part need to be considered separately.

I added that caveat because what we're going to see is all sorts of people with all kinds of interests taping things, especially with drone technology and ubiquitous surveillance. This isn't somebody writing a play, novel, or an editorial. It's somebody taking something that you thought was private and displaying it for the world to see, inside their own editorial frame. It's something we should think about carefully. While I am completely in support of MLK's right to make the speech "I have a dream", I'm not so sure I'd be in favor of somebody secretly taping him with a drone while he was creating it. And then creating their own political content around that tape.

Case in point: here's an article I was going to research and rewrite last week but didn't have time. In Australia, animal activists are planning on using drones to tape farmers looking for cruelty.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/02/animal_liberation_au...

Would you want anybody with a political cause access to your property whenever they wanted to make recordings to support their political point?
Using ZNC, an IRC bouncer
I think everybody here would agree with your correction to that claim. Unless, however, we'd interpret that a bit differently. My take on this approach (coming from developing a similar extension to the one by Owen) - and what I believe Owen meant there - is that you might be relatively save as long as you 'fly under the radar'. It might be based on the naive believe if that if you aren't yet directly targeted, attempts like these can go unnoticed.
My farm-fresh dozens cost $6 in the greater NYC area. I'm only in my first year of farming as a startup but I'm finding that it is profitable and enjoyable to serve fresh, local food to people without gouging them for it.
Not any more, but then financial products have always been regulated rather loosely, given the FSA's vague guidelines. That does sound pretty strange, but I was thinking more of regular consumer goods.

I do frequently miss the media landscape in the UK grabs lapels you don't know what the TV here is like!!
I guess a better example of what I'm saying is that a plantation owner in the Confederate South wouldn't have been unbiased about slavery. You can't claim that bias only works in one direction (i.e. AR activists are biased, but farmers are not).
That's exactly the opposite of my point.
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If price is an issue, consider the freeware version: [1]. It disallows commercial use, and lacks recent features, but it should be great for a hobbyist. If you need more than this feature set, $1199 is a bargain for what you get with IDA Pro, as others have mentioned.

[1] https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...
It's going to be a difficult challenge. But I think this bill proves how terrified the Meat Industry is of people finding out what it's really like inside of a factory farm. So many people truly think that their meat and eggs comes from local farmer Bob who loves his chickens and the farm has been in his family for 100 years. The reason for that is that that is how it really was for centuries. People think that now the big companies just buy it from the local farmer and serve as middle man.

Only in the last 30 - 40 years has it changed over to being 99% big aggro (at least in US).

Big Farm definitely thinks the word getting out will hurt their profits so I think fighting this bill and getting the word out is the first step.

I'm all ears for other ideas.
Encryption provides the ability to communicate without any intercepter being able to read the content. In many cases this is fine, but in some cases using encryption software is enough to incriminate you (e.g. spies).

Hence steganography means that not only can your messages not be decoded, they can't be detected.

Specifically, this extension's innovation is allowing steganography on walled gardens such as Facebook which recompress images after uploading them.
That's a valid point. People are missing the fact that Bitcoin is just the underlaying currency. Exactly like cash. Cash can be stolen if stored in your house. That's why banks exist. In Bitcoin-land banks will not look and behave like banks do in the current world.
Burying your head in the sand was always an excellent survival strategy.
> So even with raised voices, why were they considered a threat.

They asked to get near the pilot.. and if you think there aren't parents crazy enough to pull that in front of their kids you probably haven't heard of the westboro baptist church
My point was not that I do not watch US produced TV shows (though I only watch TV on Sunday) but that it is not highly likely that I watch some of the shows with "fuck" in them, because I mostly watch UK shows which makes it highly unlikely that I watch one of those.
I very strongly recommend the book "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer in relation to this topic.

He covers the desensitization of abattoir workers, as well as documenting some of the cruelties (and just day-to-day work) that is involved throughout the life of the animals we eat (with a particular emphasis on factory farming).

From the article: > "The videos may seem troubling to someone unfamiliar with farming, said Kelli Ludlum, the group’s director of Congressional relations, but they can be like seeing open-heart surgery for the first time."

I completely disagree with using this as a reason not to show what is really going on. Personally, I think people should know exactly what goes on to produce the food they eat - and at that point decide whether you think it's ok or not.
BTW I just realized that site is actually owned and operated by Microsoft.

Have there been other products where companies practically beg people to stop using it and fund initiatives to that end?
Wikileaks releases 1.7 million new U.S intel docs
The talk about strange machines by Sergey Bratus.
The key thing to remember is they want you a lot more than you want them. This is true even if you're desperate to write a book with a major publisher, simply because there are so few talented people saying "yes" to writing programming books right now and there are enough publishers to take them on.

Now for the bad news.. in my experience, while you can certainly try and negotiate, you won't get a particularly long way on things like royalties and rights (i.e. if their starting rate is 10%, don't expect to negotiate up to 20%). You might do better on the advance, timeline, title/content, and 'softer' areas.

If you think writing a book for a respected publisher is a good idea, I advise writing your own proposal and submitting it to publishers who are known for offering good deals out of the gate (such as Pragmatic Bookshelf and No Starch) or publishers who are both good and of a level of prestige you might be willing to compromise for (potentially O'Reilly or Addison-Wesley types).

You need to be careful with signing away your copyright. It's "done" but it's not universal. Also, look out for non-compete clauses. You might be able to get those changed.

Last but not least, some reading on the topic from O'Reilly: http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch03.html
There are a lot of ways to raise meat for human consumption with care, mindfulness, and free of cruelty. We often say that the animals we eat have a great day, every day, and then it ends with one very bad instant. True, the modern agricultural system is stacked against the average consumer, but we can't condemn meat eating as a whole. On a well-planned small farm or homestead it's actually quite easy to do.
Recruiters check you up on social networks. What should you do?
Mobile Is The First Screen
Vote to have the Lobste.rs HN clone as a Bitnami stack
I mention it because legally, most of these pension contracts stand on a similar footing in California. I'm not arguing for broad or general defunding of education, but I do think that sector needs root-and-branch reform from the federal level down. I'd need several pages to go into how though.
Arnold Schwartzenegger just did an AMA from a plane that stopped because the wifi cuts out at 10k feet, which I presume also places him on a commercial flight.
but it would be more of a hassle to upgrade all the computers to IE7, and make sure all their software is still compatible. And then what? You'll just need to upgrade to IE8 in a few years anyway.
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40 Years of Music Industry Change, In 40 Seconds or Less...
How far I take it depends largely on feedback I receive. I have now completed this research project so in that capacity it is complete.

I considered a number of flows but eventually decided this was most discrete. Check out the paper I link to at the bottom of my post to read all about the options I considered and why I selected this one.
Puppet in a rush
Not being able to boast ie6 support will be a huge blow to the egos of anal-retentive front-end engineers everywhere.
"You need permission to access this item"
Git koans
This visualization challenges the claim that Yahoo! mail has a very strong user base in Asia. The volume of email delivered in Asia, Australia, South America and Africa looks negligible compared to the volume delivered in the USA. Email volume is an indirect indicator of users, but it is a good indicator of "usage" - spam or otherwise. It's not a stretch that there wouldn't be usage without users, ergo "indirect".

If I were a number of the Yahoo! mail BizDev or Accounts teams, I would ramp up my marketing efforts in the areas that are sans bubbles on this visualization. This is a great tool for marketing and marketers (of the service) alike. Kudos to Yahoo! for making it without Flash.
Depends on the state. Some states cap the sales tax on an auto purchase. IIRC, in SC it's capped at $350. Then of course you get the property tax bill about a month later assuming you didn't transfer tags.
I don't think you're exaggerating at all.

If you do anything that anyone employed by an airline, airport, or relevant Federal agency doesn't like, you're gonna have a bad time. They can and will irritate, inconvenience and humiliate you. Flying in a plane or being in an airport is not a right and they can pretty much do whatever they want to whomever they want.

This is why if it's less than 12-14 hours, I'll just drive.
Maybe not the 'best', but there's a great short presentation called "Wat" that I really enjoyed that talks about weird behavior in programming languages when operations are performed on variables of different types.

Definitely worth a watch

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
3 awesome videos on very specific topics:

Dr James Grime / Numberphile - Encryption and HUGE numbers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kEpw1tn50

Les Hazlewood - Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXYw4J4QOU

classic: Douglas Crockford - JavaScript: The Good Parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
Regarding debeaking, it IS not removal of the whole beak. It is the technique of rounding off the beak.

We've raised chickens before, starting from chicks/eggs. The chicks will peck at anything, including other chicks. We lost 2 chicks that way, because one had a bloodspot, and we don't know about the other one. Having rounded beaks (and the tools to do that) would have saved us 2 animals.

I also saw on Facebook someone moaning about Cannulized cows and the "evil trauma" it must be. Let alone, it is a great way to monitor the herd (cows) along with providing rapid response to bad plants causing problems, like jimpson weed.

If most people had to go through the process of raise animal; slaughter animal; clean carcass; package meat: Most people would be vegetarians. I've done it, and would do it again if I had to.
I'm not justifying the cruelty. At least that wasn't my intent. My intent was to outline how horrifying that cruelty is that human beings cannot even witness it for a 6 month time frame without suffering strong emotional trauma.
Similar project from last year from my friend Adam: https://github.com/akdetrick/ballmer
If you also want to talk about the quality of life of the animal, it gets more complicated. Even "free range"/"cage free"/etc animals live in stressful and crowded environments, just less stressful and crowded then other farms animals that are not <insert label here>.
We've got two dogs at turntable.fm: my chihuahua, Miss Cleo, and a corgi puppy named Newton. Having them around is probably one of the best things about working in our office. They're both well-behaved (although Miss Cleo does bark at the food delivery people to let them know she's in charge), and they add a lot to the fun atmosphere of the office. I also am extremely grateful that I can bring her to work with me each day, because I always felt bad about leaving her at home at past jobs, especially since startup employees tend to work long hours. The relief of not having to worry about leaving her at home actually adds substantially to my own productivity.
A Creative's Brief Guide to Productivity
Is this the same thing as the cables from about 2 years before, or something new?

edit: oh OK, those are cablegate + some new cables from seventies. Well.... all right, I guess.
Qt 5.1 Alpha Available
Real Software Engineering, by Glenn Vandenburg. Not a perfect talk (especially the conclusions IMO), but a very good exploration of how some of the common beliefs in the field of software "engineering" came to be, and how something resembling actual engineering practice might be beneficial and practical.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP9AIUT9nos

Abstract: "Software engineering as it's taught in universities simply doesn't work. It doesn't produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn't produce them for low cost. Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn't produce systems at all.

That's odd, because in every other field, the term "engineering" is reserved for methods that work.

What then, does real software engineering look like? How can we consistently deliver high-quality systems to our customers and employers in a timely fashion and for a reasonable cost? In this session, we'll discuss where software engineering went wrong, and build the case that disciplined Agile methods, far from being "anti-engineering" (as they are often described), actually represent the best of engineering principles applied to the task of software development."
Baruco 2012 Keynote: The Top 10 Ways To Scam The Modern American Programmer, by Zed A. Shaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neI_Pj558CY
H-1B article a cautionary tale for media on lobbyists
You mean this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5510201

Because mods = gods I suppose.
How much does maintaining this infrastructure cost? I'd guess that spending a bit more on (virtual) hardware would have been a much cheaper solution. Only when the service proves to be popular and you want to save money you should invest in an architecture like this.
The Stock Market vs. the Labor Market
> Curtis Poe's Beginning Perl

The online (draft) version of Beginning Perl is available at http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781118013847/
Google Close to Acquiring WhatsApp for $1 Billion?
"But a dozen or so state legislatures have had a different reaction"

May we know them by names? "state legislatures" is a body, not a actual person. I want to know the names so next time they knock at my door asking for a vote, I know what to say.
"Never" is a long time, and it's plausible the NSA might be interested in a list of names of people who have gone to extremes to hide from them. Is the detection process so difficult that Facebook couldn't integrate it into the upload processing of all new images? There's obviously no need to retroactively check images that were uploaded before your algorithm was written.
How the CloudFlare Team Got Into Bondage (It's Not What You Think)
I wish more people would be this open:

"As one of the main authors of Chaplin, I may be biased. But I do see weaknesses and room for improvement."

instead of the bashing that we see in many comparisons.
Microsoft has all the power in the world to stop this. They won't do it because they want money.
I'd be really interested in seeing if you benchmarked fsync at every query vs your fsync every second policy.

My main beef with fsync every second is just that you will never, ever get a "this is what the server looked like when it went down". If the fsync at every query was only worse by a relatively small factor, and if you used write transactions for the majority of your writes (meaning fewer times needed to fsync for every query) which I'm guessing you are to protect integrity on writes, I don't see why this wouldn't be more appealing than fsync at every second?
Which is why I'm trying to argue down the middle, free of as much bias as possible. The video ban is ridiculous, just as the videos that we will lose due to the ban were ridiculous. We should be looking for real education, not petty fights between interest groups.
This command has a mistake in it:

ours = "!f() { git commit --ours $@ && git add $@; }; f"

it should be

ours = "!f() { git checkout --ours $@ && git add $@; }; f"