skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how the overreaction mostly comes from foreigners or people involved with Wikimedia activities.

It may have been handled abruptly (if it were properly handled, there wouldn't be any significant article about the event anywhere), but the DCRI is perfectly within its rights and was right to have the info taken down.
No, information isn't free or benign. The right info in the right hands can be destructive, and I'm glad there are people watching out so that our national soil remains more or less safe. Knowing about very sensitive compounds _isn't_ a right nor a liberty.

Furthermore, it's not for the Wikimedia Fondation to assess the sensitivity of information, they merely provide efficient ways of spreading it and should stick to that.
> 1 - what do you think about users paying in advance?

I guess it depends on your attitude to risk and the sort of service you think people will pay for. If you don't you presumably need more working capital, which has a cost, and you're taking on the risk that people won't pay but you're stuck with the goods. You're basically getting into traditional retail.

> 2 - what do you thin about the 5%?

I wouldn't pay it, but I don't have a problem paying for things online. You need to figure out what your target market will pay.

> 3 - do you think the buisness model is broken in anway?

It sounds like something which will need careful risk management, and may require a lot of capital. (Edit: Basically this isn't anything new - you're proposing becoming a retailer of 'stuff from ebay' as far as I can tell.)
Moztrap - Open Source Test Case Management
Written by Mozilla on django.
I remember when I worked for a company that made hospital computer software. They were on top of the industry and growing, yet at one point totally geeked out about the fact that their software was going to appear on a show like Gray's Anatomy. Hollywood is the greatest.
I was thinking specifically of waiving permit fees, outsourced inspections, and colocated staff with authority to make decisions on the spot. If at least the first two aren't requirements I'd be surprised.

Permit pile-on has killed quite a few nascent populist telecom infrastructure projects in recent memory. Commercial projects generally have enough revenue involved to be worth working around the issues.
Using Asana From a Cheap Nokia Phone
Lessons learned: a failed side project
"Driving without due care and attention" is a catch-all violation that covers everything. There is no need and it is a waste of legislative resources to define all these specific things you can't do while driving.
I wondering if they meant "Cyprus" but then my reaction is simply "Huh?" instead of "Who?".
The economic problem is that flying near the ocean surface is quite dangerous. You can have swells as high as 50 feet and rogue waves even higher than that. This means that erkranoplan either to be built as sturdy enough boats to wait out storms and incur the economic penalty of waiting, or as capable enough aircraft to be able to fly over them. Either prospect makes them less desirable economically.
If you weren't an American, sometimes even if you are, and American Intelligence is interested in you...

I doubt you'd need to worry about receiving a summons.
Designing Hardware for the Internet of Things
He's just being modest. Anyone who's seen his coding livestreams could tell you that.

He's also in Mensa, not that it means much nowadays, but I think it moves him out of the 'klutz' category regardless.
Best scam I've ever seen
The Robot Sex Revolution
Sure, that makes complete sense. I develop on Linux about 30% of the time and OSX 70%, so it's useful to be able to use the same editor on both, but I'd definitely consider it if I was only using OSX.
seconding the Alix. They're AWESOME.

I got plain Ubuntu working on it, you just have to set it to serial boot.
Minefold (YC W12) - Adding Subscriptions, Removing pay-as-you-play
You're wrong. It's not that current games suck overall; it's that the proportion of genres and styles has hugely changed to favour the lowest common denominator.

That lowest common denominator is: Sports; war; first-person shooter; music/singing/party (eg., Guitar Hero) games; fantasy RPGs; and various simplistic puzzle/physics games such as Bejeweled and Angry Birds. There is also a smattering of strategy such as Civilization and Starcraft II, but the golden age of real-time strategy (Command & Conquer, Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, Homeworld) is over; the last semi-classic, Age of Empires III, came out 8 years ago.

I am an adventure game enthusiast. LucasArts, Sierra and so on are some of my favourite games. Believe me when I tell you there is a huge hole in the current games market. During the last decade, my single great game experience has been Machinarium. Before then, the last classical point and click game I really liked was, I think, Silver in 1999.

There have been a few blips. The Syberiad games were decent. The Book of Unwritten Tales, a German game, was quite decent. Not great, just decent. I hear Vampyre Story was OK. I liked Hector from Telltale Games; it had that kind of rowdy, satiric tone that Sierra was famous for. I honestly did not very much like Telltale's other recent point and clicks, such as Back to the Future and Sam & Max and the new Monkey Island episodes. Overall, some OK games, but nothing great.

Games like these -- slow, difficult, fairly literary, full of dialogue, patience-demanding -- just do not sell well enough anymore. It's not that they don't sell, obviously there is a fairly large market for adventure games. Machinarium sold well, I think, but counted in thousands, not millions, of copies. That's not the sort of sales figures the games business is interested in.

Sure, Portal, Braid, Fez and Limbo are fine games. But they are platform puzzles; comparing them to the types of games that LucasArts produced is apples and oranges. Ron Gilbert, an ex-LucasArts genius, recently released The Cave, which disappointingly turned out to be yet another plattform puzzle game, and a fairly boring one at that. And actually, they are few and far apart. There are years between each game that is as good as Braid. A tiny game like Limbo took six years to create.
Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim [video]
after April 20th the only options will be subscription based

Looks like they are dropping their innovating pricing and switching to the same pay-monthly model that every other mc host uses.
And a cow is a uniform sphere full of milk.

There's a difference between real life and academic experiments.
> every single small'ish gym believes that they are somehow safer than regular squat racks

They're worried about a different kind of injury than you are.
I think one of the most underrated way to learn how to code is YouTube videos -- you hear a lot about books or interactive websites, both of which are great -- but I love following along with random heroes who document the start-to-finish process through video. Cherno's Java game lessons have been amazing thus far -- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1A2E956F00ECC48
sorry, i meant to 'reply' to VexXtreme - i figured you were simply being light hearted.
Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed in on 5x5 a little in his Reddit AMA yesterday:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1brg0z/im_back_ama_...
I have one of those rice cookers. It's the single best piece of cooking equipment I've ever owned. It has a Teflon pot, so flavours don't linger. We cook chilli in it, wok-style fried rice dishes, baked fish, breakfast fry ups, and a lot of boiled rice-based dishes. Awesome piece of kit.
I wrote something similar a couple years back: https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/abrouter
Of those, XCOM is the only game that exists. Star Citizen, Project Infinity, Torment Tides and Wasteland 2 are all Kickstarter-funded games in development. Kerbal is available, but not finished, and as you say, not really a game.

Sure, there are some interesting games in development (I'd add the Elite remake and Double Fine's untitled adventure game to the list), but who knows what they will be like. We don't know if they will be "quality".
That seems like one of the most extreme cases of a programmer being a slave to his tools that I have ever heard.
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Ah, but we didn't have the same tools either ;)

I imagine the ancient Egyptians would have used laser levels, micrometers and CNC machines if they had them.
eh? It's all about context, isn't it?

‘Life after x’ never refers to a life sentence—neither I nor anyone will have a statistical reference to back them up on this assertion—it's just not needed.

shrugs

- ed

well, i suppose 'faces life after quadruple homicide' would.
The question asked for a description, not a law.
Thanks. ;) I’m already asking and bothering people with all these “stupid” questions, especially when we are adding something new, but still it just tells me what we are doing, but I still doesn’t how to do it. It’s like selling the best cake in the world – you know it tastes perfect, but you don’t know how to bake it. I want to understand the recipe ;)
"GovSchwarzenegger The Real Arnold[S] 1946 points 21 hours ago

You probably won't like this... When I was gaining strength, I liked to warm up with 10,8,6,4 and then stay at 2 reps for five sets, and then back to 4, then 6, and then use the stripping method and just drop plates and keep doing 4 reps until I couldn't."
Half-OT: does anyone know a DD-WRT/OpenWRT compatible WiFi router with support for 2.4/5 GHz WiFi, as well as VLAN on the ports? Bonus points for individual VLAN assignment to the individual ports.
Is re-reading group file really that bad? OK it's pretty stupid but the file will be cached after the first read so it's not like the disk is being hammered constantly.
Ok. That was not my interpretation of his long essay which includes no context of existing literature on the subject the absence of which leads me to believe the author believes the term or concept is novel.

Your interpretation is equally fair and interesting but seems off-topic because isn't the efficient creation of correct source code almost exclusively the domain of human work? I probably misunderstand you.
I would still see a lawyer, though I would neglect to tell people that I did that if the letter turned out to be real.

How could I possibly justify not contacting a lawyer? I'm not qualified to read such a letter in the first place!
Great advise – thanks ;)
Tracking minor versions was part of the LTS policy at the time as we had minor updates before the shit version got thrown at us. This is 10.04 for ref.

Were talking v5.0.30 -> v5.0.31 here (these aren't the actual versions as I don't have them in front of me).

Also it says in our support contract what the policy is. We no longer have any support contract - waste of money.
I get that there are different levels of quality regardless of the type of code. I was more interested in the security effects of hiding code after the open source community has had a chance to deal with vulnerabilities. None of the examples you gave were specific to code which has transitioned between open to closed.

What I've gotten from your answer so far is that it isn't an effect which is general, and it'll depend on the project in question. Am I on the mark?
Breaking Down the "Value" of a Viral Hit on Social Media
You're right. I'm guilty of caring about the experiences people have when they read my code.
The long log problem I experienced as well in Chrome, didn't know it was JS related though, I also assumed the DOM to be culpable!
Live stream with interpretation into 61 different languages
To be honest this is the least of our problems. We can reboot parts of our cluster without affecting overall capacity much. You just chuck the machines out of the load balancer pool and reboot them.

The issue is versions being pinned on LTS packages to broken versions. This includes svn, MySQL and a notable gcc problem which is a PITA.
Oh I agree that macros are a daily use thing for me and I haven't used sublimetext more than a handful of times; I was merely playing devils advocate to see if vim had an interesting feature I was unaware of that I could use in my day to day editing.
They were doing it, they being the embezzling acct.
> It runs OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and Tomato variants really well

You're sure about that? I've had an rt-n16 sitting on a shelf for over a year waiting for OpenWrt support. Your message caused me to go check their website, and all it says is:

"The Asus RT-N16 has early support in Barrier Breaker (trunk) only!"
Exactly my point. Just because someone else is doing the work (or, in this case, something else) doesn't mean that the work isn't the first person's art. And yes, I suppose, anything can be technically art. But this is veritably the same kind of art we've already come to accept.
I would also add that there are plenty of compound dumbbell exercises. A compound lift is simply one that uses more than one joint.
A thousand times yes. I'm using Vim keybindings in most of my editors, and every time it is something somebody implemented anew which is kinda like vim, but not really like vim. It would be great to take the complete set of keybindings > actions out of vim, abstract it away, and put it into a library.
I looked into the vim code a bit, and it seems that this is a lot of work.
> you can't claim innocence

If you read very carefully, you'll notice that person you're replying to was delineating between evil and culpable.
I think we are doing ourselves a disservice by creating open source software that automates the job of the programmer.

That will never happen. Compilers automate the tedious parts of code, and we still have jobs. There's almost limitless demand, at least now, for the use of technology to improve business processes.

It eliminates a lot of programming jobs.

It does. And it creates others.

Many programmers learn to be "modifiers" instead of creators and so they never really learn...

Well, if their bosses take too much out of them and they're stripped of the energy to learn, then they should demand higher salaries or change jobs. If they choose not to learn because they don't have the curiosity, then they don't really belong in technology because curiosity is the one inflexible requirement.

Is the plumber, the carpenter, the doctor, the lawyer giving you some service for free?

Fixed vs. variable costs. The marginal cost for a doctor to see a patient (in her time) is non-zero. The marginal cost for someone's repository to be copied is (effectively) zero. Different situation.

Programmers eat the fixed costs (mostly, time) because they enjoy the problem, want to learn something, or what to build something cool. They're not going to do ongoing support (variable costs) for free, though-- at least, not at scale.
I have got to ask the obvious here, why not just switch?
Ctrl+cmd+g is cmd+d for all occurrences on the page.
H1B and O1 are the common visa options, there may also be some canadian specific ones.
Thank you, I missed that (I'm an idiot, it explains why the DCRI went after Wikimedia and not Wikimedia France at first).
Wikimedia seems to think the law is with them. I'm not entirely sure but contrary to their layers, I'm not a specialist. What I wanted to convey is how silly the law is and how it makes Wikipedia French administrators easy targets .
Let’s talk about Social Media and Digital Reputation Management…
I am LDS, but I'm honestly not trying to proselyte by posting this (so let's not make this into a comment thread about religion, please?). As an armchair linguist, I just think it's really neat to be able to hear the same material in this many different languages, live.

Does anyone know of any other events like this, where speech is interpreted into tens of languages live (and broadcast)? It looks like the UN General Assembly is only interpreted into ~10 languages.
This would be easily done by recording a macro and replaying it numlines/2-1 times. Possibly if starting on the first line:
q,a,j,$,i, odd,esc,j,q,4@a

qa // start recording into 'a' register
j // move down
$ // move last char on line
i // insert mode
odd //
esc // back to command mode
j // move down
4@a // replay macro 4 times (if there are 8 more lines)
The API is very similar to the one Aaron Brethorts (cocoacontrols) wrote.
Seems pretty cool though, but I am not sure how it handles deep hierarchies of vc´s.

What if I route to a particular controller, what happens when I tap <back/dismiss> or how about segue animations?

Not complaining! Just curious. Will give it a shot now.
have a look at
https://github.com/paradigm/vim-multicursor
Because we can do it.

I understand the saying "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should", but really, we do anything because it can be done (or someone said it couldn't be and we had to prove them wrong). Within sane limits, it's amusing, without sane limits...

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my life living away from a cave thanks to this same delightful aspect of human nature.
well yes... just not from a browser.
No talking to the driver in California then I guess.

Can we at least get billboards banned with this mentality though? Put it to some good use at least.
Good points.

Most requirements do not include error or exception handling requirements, so when developers write their test cases (in the very few cases when they do so), they usually do not write negative test cases.

Obviously, NFRs need to cover those, but in many organizations, they're seen as being "in the way of getting work done," just like comprehensive automated tests.
Graph Theory

Basic design of any solutions become real graceful.
Really neat stuff, but knowing how paranoid TFL and our current overlords are and the hysteria around 7/7, I'm sure someone will get rattled about this (even though its of no use to terrorists).
As you can see, the French Gov't took great pains to disguise this one. Were it not for some traitorous Wikipedia editor, then casual passers-by may have never suspected that it was anything other than a dairy farm, (perhaps owned by an eccentric architect). The terrorists are probably already en-route. Any minute now, we can expect free peoples of the world to fall under the iron hands of our enemies. Despite the heroic efforts of the DCRI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_radio_station_of_Pier...
Oh, wow. That was stunning. Heart in my mouth the entire time, I cannot imagine what it was like to watch that in real time.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html

Always worth a read for more context and 'Moonshot' is pretty good for Apollo 11.
New things that distract you are bad. Old things that distract you are just the way things are.
how will users trust me for not stealing their money ?
Agreed: once you are used to a tiling WM (I use dwm), OSX and similar windowing systems seem slow and clumsy - and OSX is hard to customize. In answer to the GP, running OSX as a host means you are using closed-source software, which some people prefer not to do.
Strength coaches call this the "novice effect." It's why you can see an untrained person's squat increase if they ride the exercise bike a few times a week.

If your goal is optimality, the question is: is your training program the most effective use of your time?

On the other hand, not everybody cares about optimality, but more whether they can actually show up regularly. It takes a certain craziness to follow linear progressions, especially since it can take a mental toll (fuzzy headed all day) if you push too hard, which is sub-optimal in this field.
Ask HN: Replacement for Google Apps Email (free edition)
I've been using the free version of Google apps for my emails, but I realize that it's no longer an option. I'm looking for something with minimal tech configuration as I am non-technical administrator. What are you using for hosting emails for your domain?
This is why bans should start with a warning - hellbanning may be efficient from an administration perspective, but among other issues, without the possibility of appeal it's fundamentally unfair and prone to mistakes. (The ability of users to appeal after noticing something you're explicitly trying to hide from them isn't really adequate.)

But yes, this ban is probably deserved.
Remember when FogCreek wasn't allowed to keep their generator going because they were not using union folks? Assume something similar for Google Fibre. The willing, streamlined governments will get it first. Cities like NYC usually want tons of concessions (It must be guaranteed in neighborhoods, not just rich ones! It must use union workers! You need to pay a telecom tax! Etc Etc).
> I don't see how taking an unemotional look at the facts

If only it were so! We'd be talking about actual facts, instead you're doing this, posturing. You think because you say you're being objective makes it so? Nothing you said had any content besides an aggressive statement about your preferences badly hidden behind what you assert to be the objective truth. Listen, I tried. I don't know what else to say except repeating myself. I'm also not quite sure if you're not just trolling, so I think we should both spend our energy on something more rewarding.
Frankly I don't even see the point of explicitly banning drunk driving. All of the other laws covering reckless driving should more than cover any drunk driving scenerio.

I guess pointing out that laws already cover things is not as politically savy as passing new laws.
So what this law says is that by reading the Wikipedia article, I have unknowingly acquired classified information. Therefore, under French law I am now a criminal.

Guess I had better cancel my trip to Paris...
Because this is what happens when you try to build something in the Bay Area:

http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2011/11/15/no-att-lightspeed-inter...
I do. It looks like a robot in a suit, it's lifting its legs too high.
>to rank 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime

What I don't understand about these studies is what mathematical basis they use for comparing the relative impact of these various factors. I would assume that these would all be completely different, and as a consequence, incommensurable. However, studies like this seem to have found appropriate relative weights for these factors, and were able to add them all together. I would be interested in knowing if it's really possible to do this without producing a figure that's totally bogus, and if so, how.
I'm not sure that I understand your line of questioning. Are you agreeing that there seems to be foul play here? Or are you saying that everyone is honest, but our systems are woefully insufficient? Or both?

Because either would be unacceptable in my view. Yet your point seems to be that it's the best we have, so we should make do. In fact, if you agree that the system as-is is very much less than ideal, then it seems that you would join me in calling for remedy, perhaps using the starting points I've already identified as a basis.

Instead the very nature of your questioning seems to suggest that people who call attention to the problem are somehow in the wrong because they don't have a set of concrete legislation for regulatory change at the ready. It's a bit of a red herring, wherein you agree with me on principle, but rather than demanding answers or solutions from those who are at fault, you instead immediately turn to me and demand solutions, essentially letting those responsible off the hook.

Odd.
Sorry, evil (bribes in this case) is the only answer for when Google does something an HN commenter doesn't like.
> “I have the ability to get code done, but I’m impatient and it’s scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with Minecraft, as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I’d like to actually become a good programmer.”

It's amazing that he doesn't consider himself to be a good programmer. In what other profession would someone as accomplished as Persson say that?