skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you be a little more specific, and point me as specifics how they were "serious". Serious is District of Columbia v. Heller which Scalia wrote and was joined by the other two. The opinion acknowledged the traditional restrictions on gun possession. (My Google fu wasn't up to the task, e.g. "federalist society" Scalia OR Thomas felons possession gun or firearm, and limited in time to before Heller came out.)

Also, were they talking about the serious traditional felonies, vs. the Three Felonies a Day (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...) that as the book description puts it, "The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day." ?

As for the preamble, it was a sop (in modern political terms, a blessed compromise) thrown to those who preferred militias to regulars; they lost that argument in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power ... To raise and support Armies...), in large part to the opinions of those like George Washington, who's professional opinion on this had particular weight.

He was again the indispensable man, without his influence the 1787 Constitution would have been a non-starter, but that said, the Bill of Rights was a condition by the Anti-Federalists for accepting it.

And in turn the Federalists were right when they said the Bill of Rights would just end up establishing high maximums to Federal power, as you acknowledge in your last sentence.
I think this speaks to conscientious language design combined with the use of LLVM as a backend.

Pretty excited about Rust, it's the best (virtually) no-compromise developing option for systems work.

Curious to see where it starts to actually bite people as popular use grows. I really wish they'd put more effort into community/outreach though.
Yeah, gh-pages has that problem. On a side note, I'd probably end up deploying Jekyll(or whatever I end up using) onto Amazon.

On another note - that's unrelated - apart from Github, there's no other platform that supports hosting static site generators, is there?
I hardly love the FBI, but I think it's fair to say that they're a far sight above Reddit and fucking 4chan.
That rings very true. But it needs to be taken further:

I would say that regardless of mood, it's still a worthwhile pursuit. Because to sometimes be unwilling to be one, whole, person is essential to finding who you are, eventually.

Once you have found who you are, you are less likely to see changing who you are as a top priority - granted that you like who you are. But it most likely took a lot of time to be who you are and during that time, it would have screwed you forever to be forced to stay who you were. Which is, I guess, why young people care about privacy. And who is to say that you will always like who you are? Which is probably why old people care about privacy.

Becoming a person in the first place has a lot to do with trying out traits or persons. I don't think Depression is necessarily a cause (although it may be) for pursuing privacy about that search, maybe it's just a symptom - that not being whole is depressing and thus searching for yourself deserves privacy. To protect your unfinished person to be finished by the outside world.

But it's also about the pressure we put on ourselves. Merlin Mann said somewhere that Procrastination is forgetting who you are for a certain period of time. I initially thought that that was an entirely negative statement. It just now occurred to me that it can be a positive statement as well. And that being depressed about not "getting things done" is entirely useless, because you're basically punishing yourself for trying harder to find out who you are (instead of finishing stuff that who you were cared about). Which stunts your development and leaves you more likely to procrastinate, kicking you back into a cycle of self loathing.
Actually, it's decreasing complexity and getting a happy side effect of a 12% smaller file. It was probably a mistake to add the file size difference as a benefit, as it has obviously confused a lot of people who appear to have perceived it as a primary design goal.
Well done jQuery team, nice work. Wether I can use it production before April 8, 2014 is going to be debatable. I dearly would love to delete the XP VM running IE8 however.
What are people really looking for when they type a name into a search engine?
Quit Building Mobile Apps
These decisions typically have much wider reaching ramifications, like an existing tech stack which relies on some quirk of IE6, or activeX. Yes, it's simple to upgrade a browser, but the potential impact must be evaluated, and this takes time (more than 10 mins to install a new browser).
SSN data isn't flawless. My brother and I somehow had the same SSN until I was in my teens (right as I started working but before he did so thankfully it wasn't too difficult to fix).
You might enjoy:

http://jacobian.org/writing/django-apps-with-buildout/

Which covers a lot of the same ground, but with buildout.
There's also a Spark Java web framework, too. Common name.
Every bank I've opened an account with has asked for photo id...
I can totally understand why github doesn't want people running ruby on their servers.

Not that I know of.
It is feasible to prevent Tor users from accessing your service. This is by design. (see https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#Bans)

It is much harder to stop your users from accessing Tor. You can make it less convenient, but there are countermeasures. (see https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en)
Or use a machine learning method that is fully invariant to all monotonic transformations, for instance random forest.
I believe that we humans can also detect fake and unnatural body language.

What I don't like about is when people try to be impressive and poses a fake and unnatural body language to convey a certain scenario or meaning.

Body language is all about the meaning of the messages they convey and the GENUINE emotion they are experiencing.

It should not be faked, for the purpose of conveying a meaning or a make believe scenario.

It should begin with the message itself, it should begin with the actual emotion itself.

- Focus first on having a meaningful means of being confident, before you actually become, convey and exudes great confidence.

- Focus first on having a meaningful message, before actually forcing people that you have a meaningful and convincing message.

Winners have a genuine emotion for winning, so they actually have a real winning body language. It is not fake, and it is very convincing, and people will be drawn by the same emotions the winner is experiencing via the winner's genuine body language.

I have encountered several people doing unnatural body language, they want people to believe that they are confident speakers but their message is so unconvincing, it does not gel and it is really annoying and is painful to watch.
You're missing an important part of this. There's a large number of companies whose web capabilities need to support people who use their website while working at the companies that have older versions of IE. The company I'm with has embedded video players on a large number of web retailer's pages (we're hiring a javascript+flash developer in Austin, TX right now, particularly around video players. If you're interested, drop me a line) and a significant portion of them have requirements to support IE6 or IE7 with analytics that back up the need based on percentage of their traffic and conversions from those users.

However, I (not speaking for the company, just me personally) strongly disagree with the focus on "identical experience" amongst browsers. Instead, I prefer the route of graceful degradation where not all features may be available for all browsers, but it's fully functional and aesthetically pleasing (not necessarily identical) in all browsers.

That being said, not all companies have the same browser support requirements...it's entirely based around what the site's individual traffic and conversion rates are.
I was serious...
Where's your sense of the romantic?
I cofounded a startup that had all of these issues! I was the technical founder along with 2 non-technical founders, they offered me 10% equity to develop a hardware product. Seemed like a good deal, nearly finished my work over 6 months. Then we get into techstars and I have to shut down my independent contractor practice and come on full time with a shitty salary to keep my equity. Also, I had to redesign the product in a way that added several magnitudes more work. Another problem was that one of the non-technical cofounders started calling himself the CTO and started ordering me around on technical issues that I have an education in and over a decade of experience on. After demanding to be an equal partner and CTO, I was kicked out with no equity and no nothing.
Satoshi's story is just the tip of the iceberg. In the last few years there have been many fascinating technical developments (CPU->GPU->FPGA->ASIC mining), grand heists, price manipulation schemes and even some unexplained events.*

I think the future analysis of the blockchain (all Bitcoin transactions are public record) will be a ripe area for economic research. Aside from the technical stuff, watching the growth and mistakes of the economic system is fascinating - like seeing 2000 years of banking/currency evolution packed into a few years. There is also the question of intrinsic worth and how to value a bitcoin - most online debates descend into chaos but the theoretical basis for projecting valuation is a real mind bender. There is no precedent.

I'm personally interested in what, if any, nation state involvment there has been with Bitcoin. Regardless of Bitcoin thriving or dying, the system has unequivocally demonstrated that cryptographic systems relying on decentralised trust can work. The theoretical underpinnings of Bitcoin solve the Byzantine's Generals' Problem. And it doesnt just apply to money, it can apply to anything. There is already a decentralised DNS (NameCoin) based on the same protocol.

I would have thought this type of system would be of keen interest to many nation states, as it could potentially undermine their own authority or be used as a weapon against other nation states.

So yeah, a book would be interesting :) I strongly believe the decentralisation technology underpinning Bitcoin will be a notable part of history.

*In 2011 a 'msytery miner' nearly doubled the total network's computing power for a short period only to disappear within a couple of days. The theories are this miner was a clever botnet utilising host GPUs,a supercomputer, or someone testing very early stage ASIC hardware, despite none of the known ASIC producers having working hardware at that point in time. http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html
Don't put your life on hold. I've been telling myself the exact same thing for years. I've reached my goals, and 100% of my income is from personal projects. However, I still put everything on hold, but now I tell myself once I expand, and finally sell out, I'll get out more.

Work 20% less, and invest that time in a life now.
All I can say is don't fake it. If you want to do a body language, feel it from within - instead of simply rearranging your arms and legs.
I don't understand why the smaller file size is such a big deal. The file is going to be cached, and with the use of CDNs, is more than likely already cached before the client ever visits my website.

So if the Query team is still going to support these browsers in 1.9, why even make the 2.0 version?
This seems like a fatal flaw for one of Tor's stated use cases: helping political dissidents living with highly repressive governments. How do you publicize a service and at the same time not allow the relevant authorities to discover it? What they're doing seems to make it harder, but in principle it will always be detectable. This would make me think twice if my life depended on my connection not being detected.
you can just just clone the git repo and step back in time if you missed any
/r/rust is great. Mozilla/#rust is great. I think a bit of it simply has to do with Rust's immaturity. For example, there are no real http libs client or server to speak of because the scheduler rewrite is blocking. Oh well, I get the impression that stuff is all simply a matter of time.

Pcwalton's blog is great if you're interested in more rust stuff.
Bring on some HTML5/JavaScript/Node.JS rap
Here are some free beats to spit some dev lyrics ;-)

https://my.doctape.com/s/EvP0IB
Maybe the time you spent doing it the way you used to do was not in vain at all. Security is not really something you can sell at a poor price.

If they can lower their prices, and if their business allows them to retain your money, maybe they want to target clients who are 120% cristal clear clean, because that's how most client are.

They're not bugged by that tiny percentage of people they prefer not to validate because paranoia can rule you out easily. You had the bad luck of having a bad smell even on all the paperwork you have them.

That's like calling brown people terrorists. That's not racist or mean. That's just unfortunate. Sometime security is a real bitch. That's just pickup up the pieces. That feels bad, but it's for a good cause.
And now HN is 4chan.
skimmed the linked article and was quite impressed with the thorough analysis. :)
Yeah. The sheer types of code they could run..
So..would such a service be useful? Sign up, choose what static generator you'd like to use(Jekyll, Hyde, Pelican, Octopress), and you have a functional dev console embedded in a web page, with a pretty editor, to edit your site?
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This is the actual definition of "cargo cult" behavior.

It's getting cause and effect backwards because you don't understand their relationship, and trying to imitate the effect in the futile hope that it will cause the cause.

People who sit all relaxed like that do so because they have power. They don't have power because they sit like that, and sitting like that will not magically confer power to you.
Speaking of old software, Windows XP is nearly a dozen years old.
"You can (and should) continue to use jQuery 1.9 (and the upcoming 1.10) on web sites that need to accommodate older browsers."
PyPi is Down
Its back up again now but its been sporadically down all day! Anyone know whats going on?
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I'm getting a 502 bad gateway!
In data compression, there is what is called the Karhunen-Loeve or Hotelling transform. It's essentially an alias for "Principal Component Analysis".

The Hotelling transform is interesting in that it achieves optimal energy compaction, but has little practical value since it needs to be constructed anew for each dataset (usually, images).

Just to pull your thoughts away from massive, unfiltered big data :)
I was with you right up until you tried to justify racial profiling. That's not security, that's racism.
I am somewhat surprised, given the content, that no one has posted _why's "Final words". I happen to have logged it, and given the content, it seems very relevant:

(08/13/2009 03:36:54 PM) twitter.com: _why: i thought that RIP was strictly for cremation.

(08/17/2009 10:22:45 AM) twitter.com: _why: burying myself feet first in the woods with the hope that this will lead to a career as a much beloved and sought after mouth-under-a-rock.

(08/18/2009 12:16:43 PM) twitter.com: _why: programming is rather thankless. you see your works become replaced by superior works in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.

(08/18/2009 12:32:21 PM) twitter.com: _why: if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

(08/18/2009 01:17:43 PM) twitter.com: _why: ahh i’m just so totally suspicious of anyone who claims to love progress but stridently defends the status quo!!

(08/18/2009 01:55:00 PM) twitter.com: _why: kafka would be a lot harder to get into if the trial only ran on a power pc.

(08/18/2009 07:50:07 PM) twitter.com: _why: nailing a small ornate gold shelf at arm’s height above the bed for my cat to sit on. i give you: norton’s perch.

(08/18/2009 07:54:20 PM) twitter.com: _why: i should probably have little teeny shelves all leading up to it. with their own miniature portraits or doll banisters or something.

(08/18/2009 08:06:21 PM) twitter.com: _why: an ascending homage to fish bones. culminating in a delicate canopy of mouse furs.
There are also other costs, other than only transmission losses. If you're crossing multiple countries (which would be the case in such a long cable), there needs to be a clear path for the cable to take(ie. pay people to use their land to put a power line on), multiple legal jurisdictions, a higher rate of failure because of the increased cable length, more maintenance, etc.

From speaking with an EE friend of mine, he mentioned that for long distances, DC is more appropriate and most of my (limited) knowledge revolves around AC. So it might technically be feasible, even though it would be politically hard to do so.
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I love org-mode. I have never found an online todo-list or task manager that I like to use... but plain-text lists fit my mental model perfectly. org-mode is plain text on steroids... also the clocking abilities while doing tasks is incredible.
I think you should add in a later chapter to the preview. For example, the chapter on Redis or Memcache. Basically, I want to know how in depth you explain each topic.
I've spent some time in their IRC channel and tried to use the language at a few points. They're nice people but not really interested in helping anybody use the language that isn't an intern working on it. Or at least, that was the case at the time I was on Mozilla's IRC server.

The language isn't positioned for wider use the way Go was when it was first announced.
> A month later his bank was allowed to pull that back out because he had overdrafted.

How is that even possible?
Go into a local small business with about [$|€|£]2-5m in turnover per year. A moderately successful veterinary practice comes to mind.

They have applications that need to be managed by what is undoubtedly an outsourced IT service, very likely related to some other system (practice management, diagnostic hardware, goofy industry-specific file formats, accounting, back-office, etc.).

They will stay on XP for ages because it works with everything they bought when they last "modernized" their practice ten years ago. Upgrading will be prohibitively expensive, on the order of making the decision to hire one junior staff member for a year.

The same upgrade will cost the same in a year, or five years, so there's no business purpose to upgrade until they need to migrate to another platform, either due to lack of support for modern hardware as the existing gear ends its lifecycle, or because of a strategically imperative application that requires an upgrade.

They may need enough "modernity" in their web browser for industry sites and (increasingly) wikipedia, but most uses of web 2.0 will be shrugged off as inessential, whether it's Facebook or Highrise/Salesforce/whatever.

Bigger companies have to refresh hardware due to failure at a higher rate. As a result, they can retain a permanent staff of people who manage OS images and upgrade on a next-to-last type cycle. Smaller companies are often using "personal" grade equipment and will take the accelerated depreciation when they need to buy one new laptop because the old one is too slow.
Here's the go-to article regarding equal equity splits. Solid reasoning, and extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445447
There's a large number of companies whose web capabilities need to support people who use their website while working at the companies that have older versions of IE.

Like who? Honest question. I know that not all users currently have modern browsers (which is total bullshit, by the way--with free, open-source browsers as well as Chrome and the like, there is no excuse for this) but this isn't something we should treat as anything but detestable and fixable.

As for "identical experience", I will have to disagree. I have no problem with gracefully degrading sites due to screen size or compute power, but there is no reason that desktop browsers should be permitted to render things differently from one another (and if the spec is ambiguous, we should fix the damn spec). Developers are lazy, or shortsighted, or both, and given the option of "Hey, works on my machine/browser/whatever", we should expect only annoying fragmentation.
Re: #2, My understanding of the experiment is that they simply had people assume poses, and then measured their hormone levels. If they really did tell them up front whether the pose was intended to make them feel powerful, that would certainly be an egregious mistake in the methodology, but that wasn't the impression I had from hearing the TED talk.

Actually, I wonder if you could even pull of that version of the experiment without the participants seeing through it ("No really, shrinking into your chair and looking at the floor is a great display of power!").
I am not too troubled by the drop of support of IE 6/7/8.

As long as they continue to support IE8 in 1.9 until Windows XP EOL next year I don't really see a problem.

Asking jQuery to support those browsers longer than Microsoft itself is willing do seems a bit harsh.
NDAA is a matter of international terrorism. It also heavily depends on how well the federal government does its job, no matter how distrusted the feds are. There is no sense in innocent individuals being locked, and even if it is, it will almost never happen.

CISPA won't kill anyone, it's a matter of top-notch economy for a top-notch sector. The choice is much more easy here.

And even if it passes, [REDACTED]
Today, Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.
So far, crowdsourcing has identified one high resolution image that shows both suspects running from the scene:

http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg

(Note the guy with the white polo hat on the left and his partner not far behind in khakis and black hat)

I'm a firm believer that crowdsourcing is going to find out the details on these guys much faster than a government agency trying to collect all this digital data and do it themselves.
I also now have a reasonable idea of the price range my dad paid for a house that we moved into when I was 7, which I never would have known or asked about otherwise.

It's a matter of public record. You can probably type the address into Google to find a site that shows you the full transaction history on the house. Here's the house where I spent most of my childhood:

http://www.redfin.com/IL/Third-Lake/186-Mainsail-Dr-60030/ho...
Yeah, it's ok to drop some lines on Ruby also ;-)
I was waiting this one a lot! Thanks!
Murdoch Block extension for Chrome works well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/murdoch-block/moep...
"I [...] strongly disagree with the focus on "identical experience" amongst browsers. Instead, I prefer [...] graceful degradation [...]"

I fully agree. This is what we have accepted with the mobile web since the 1990s.

This is a smashing opportunity for web application frameworks to provide that sort of accessible experience while permitting more "flashy" features on more capable platforms.

A js meta-library that abstracted 1.9 and 2.x as long as possible would be worth a licensing fee for many sites. The others would make the decision based on their own analytics.
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