skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is definitely not.

As you can see the prove in my other comments, Free Syrian Army was established by a NATO sponsored Libyan terrorist. As you can see in their videos, these fucking terrorists don't even speak the Syrian dialect of Arabic.

We are talking about a global terrorist organization and huge manipulations made by NATO countries to legalize this terrorism.

Please go to do some research.
Expecting people to say what they mean has absolutely nothing to do with weasel words or qualifiers. If you can't be bothered to communicate clearly, all you're doing is diluting your message. Hopefully you have nothing important to say, because if you do, everyone loses when you fail to say it clearly.
That's one argument for skeuomorphic interfaces.

In the way of etoys/scratch/other-alice/etc. programming environments, perhaps this approach would result in people scripting the making of pizzas or skull caps or whatever drudgery they have to do every day.

They could also go on ebay and pay an 11-year-old in Korea or Viet Nam to grind out their jobs.
I am glad to hear you are a fan of the blog, Cory.
I am somewhat surprised you are all over Meteor already :), and you probably think the same thing of me :)

There will be Meteor hysteria for sure, but I don't know if it will happen so soon, although this book will help quite a bit.
There a lot of reasons Kleiner was foolish without even touching the global warming debate. $100k electric sport cars aren't a real solution to global warming. There is cheap abundant politically connected dirty energy. There is abundant clean cheap natural gas. Even people who believe that global warming will have large undesirable effects aren't necessarily willing to spend more money to do something about it. It isn't necessarily rational to bet on people behaving rationally.

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edit: I am not arguing against electric cars, especially cheap ones. But fancy Fisker $100k electric cars were rich people's vanity toys, not global warming solutions.
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I don't mean to be rude, but that's terribly generalizing. At least at my university, the difficulty is comparable, and the largest difference between a Software Engineering degree, and a Computer Science (well, BSC in the department of CS) degree is that software engineering has a slightly larger emphasis on hardware.

Hell, many of the courses have huge overlaps in material, and both programs allow the courses in the other programs to be substituted for each other. I'm not arguing that CPSC majors should be allowed to call themselves engineers, but I believe you might be mistaken as to how different the two programs/fields may be.
Try loading the unpacked extension?

The crx file works for me in Chrome 26.0.1410.65.
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Bitcoin isn't to defend against the end of the world as we know it, its to defend against the end of your country as you know it.

This time when you end up at Ellis Island, you don't just have the shirt on your back.
I learned on C/C++, followed by Java, then PHP... I didn't even know what a REPL was until I started working with Python. Now it's just painful not to have one.

Which is not to say that every language can or should have one, but it's not hard to see how people who come from a background where that's normal could look at this and say "good holy mother of spaghetti, how on earth do these savages operate?"
@ruswick I agree. You said what I was attempting to say with a great deal more clarity.

Nearly $40 is a lot for an unknown quantity for someone like me who is convinced that Meteor is a big deal, but who is also learning web development from the ground-up. And yes, I should probably start with something a little easier for a beginner to rap their head around.

But there really are people like me out there who are interested in learning Meteor for whom $39 (or $30) represents a lot of money. I'm a grad student, working part-time for $14/hour, with a homemaker wife and baby. My allowance, when I can get it, is $50 a month. Yep, that's how some of us roll.

So maybe sharing that sheds some light on how and why someone (like me) might be price sensitive--even when it seems ridiculous to others who make a LOT more money.

That said, after getting the expense approved by my wife, I did actually take advantage of the $30 launch list price and am currently working my way through the book. The first 28 pages have been worthwhile. I like that, similar to the Hartl Rails Tutorial, it attempts to cover the whole development life cyle including deploying locally, to Meteor, to Heroku, and to EC2, etc. For beginners like me who really crave learning about the whole process, this is a boon.
One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000
The $50 Food Budget
Ok ok, the thing about the wobbling plate is that Feynman says the freedom to investigate a question that was only interesting to him was what led him to get the Nobel prize. Here's an excerpt from his book that's faster to process than the video I linked to:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

But otherwise, I think we basically agree. Mostly I thought you were talking about the SF vs. NY thing and this article, not about inane investigations into arbitrary correlations (e.g., Is there a relationship between the number of steps someone takes per day and the number of spoons in their apartment? - well, actually, there probably is, especially if you start taking away knives and forks too). The most important thing I guess is to have a question that the researcher is interested in answering.
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The about page [1] is very interesting. "3. Providing a foundation for uploading research .... If it can be done for a worm, the next steps are to attempt a zebrafish, then a fruit fly, then a honeybee, then a mouse, then a dog, then a macaque monkey, then a chimpanzee, and, ultimately, a human. " -- that really fascinate me.

Isn't that awesome? But ... "the philosophical assumptions fail, and human immortality through uploading is fundamentally impossible".

Could anybody explain this a little bit?

[1] http://nemaload.davidad.org/about
"a health system that can set prices with impunity because consumers rarely see them — and rarely shop for discounts"
I think that is an unnecessarily harsh view. Even if Nokia shifted to Android tomorrow, their hardware pipeline is still months behind HTC and Samsung. There is no way they can compete against them, let alone HG and Sony. Their short term thinking in the 2000s cause them to land in this mess in the first place, sticking with Microsoft and its war chest is probably the best chance they have right now, at least until they get their manufacturing cadence up to speed with the rest.
I think this is great, but the timing is strange. Many Node developers from around the country (world?) will be in the Bay Area from June 27-30 for NodeConf, a couple hours outside of SF. It seems like it would be better to put on a Node-related event in SF right before or after NodeConf.
Google Elevation API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/
It's great to see designers focusing on this issue. Interestingly, fonts that "assist" people with dyslexia have been around for quite a while. I wrote an article for Wired about the Read Regular font in 2003:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60834

You might also find this interesting:
http://www.iansyst.co.uk/about-us/resources/directory/articl...
Agree. I apply a commit that hacks magit-status to show only the essentials and thus be a bit faster (I believe; haven't timed it recently)

https://github.com/dandavison/magit/commit/a969463ff30e5e248...
Same problem but in Brazil. Now this one is a great idea.
This. I dislike clunky enterprise software as much as the next guy, but really sometimes customization is what you need, and the hip new basecamp-esque players more often than not aren't willing.

Salesforce is a great example. My startup (may she RIP) had very intricate sales channels, and we picked salesforce for our CRM because we could customize it how ever we wanted. This was also before the big "SaaS boom", so there were far fewer players in that space. Back then, salesforce was clunky, slow and expensive as hell (I don't know what it's like now), but we could manage our workflow end-to-end, all the way from trade show sales to automagically managing ads and landing page rings. I'm not sure anymore, but I would bet that's something that's still hard to come by.
There's already a very primitive version of "type holes" available, namely, undefined. I realize it's not as advanced as what's to come, but I find myself using it somewhat frequently.

(For non- or fledgling Haskellers, "undefined" has any type, so if you define a function that plugs into your code and make its return value "undefined", then you can look at the type signature of the function and learn what the compiler proved about the type of that function. Pretty handy!)
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Now I'm getting confused. I agree that it was an unknown quantity before I began reading it.

The main point I was attempting to make is that some of those (perhaps a very small minority) interested in learning Meteor operate on very tight budgets. On a good month I get a $50 "allowance." Most months I don't get an allowance. This month my wife agreed to take the cost of the Discover Meteor book out of our grocery budget. So when things are that tight, $30 or $40 is a lot to swing. It's roughly 10% of our grocery budget (for context).

For those who make their living as web developers and have sufficient disposable income, I'm sure the asking price of $39 isn't a problem.
Watch Elon explain why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsYT1rqW5w
I live in France. Firing fast is generally very illegal :)
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Obama punches you right in the face too. He just claims he's not punching you in the face when he does it.

In the process of acquiring the power to murder US citizens via targeted assassination, his verbalized position was that he would never abuse that power. That's a punch right to the face, while claiming it's not.

Obama was always obviously a big government politician. Who thought he was going to give back the massive expansion of power and spending that the Bush years delivered? Neither side wants to give anything up, they just want to fight over who gets to run it.

The only 'upside' I can see, is that the system is bankrupting itself. Police states are expensive and tend to destroy themselves (the only example I can think of that hasn't so far, is modern China, and that has required vast liberalization of their economy).
I remember seeing this on reddit a long time ago. Then a couple days later a redditor created a cheaper alternative: http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/ Then, when I was tring to find the link, I found an open-source alternative: http://opendyslexic.org/
Pretty cool, has a few glitches though.

Such as if you just click the ball and never move your paddle you can never be scored on unless you move your paddle
You can argue, even without Bitcoin, the motivation still equally exists for breaking cryto algorithms. Break SHA256 for example, and now the attacker can potentially break into many high-profile systems. So, bitcoin doesn't really change the potential risk that much. Unless, one can suddenly solve NP-complete problems, I don't think that's gonna happen.
Spam is unsolicited bulk email. Since too many services ask for an email address, and do not ask permission to email you anywhere in the sign up, many services are on the spammy end of just about acceptable. Really, it's a misuse of the "Emailing someone who has a business relationship to you is fine" clause. People creating an account out of curiosity do not have a business relationship and are not really giving you permission to email them.

People need to understand this because receivers will happily misuse spam reporting tools. Even when following best current practice some email will end up flagged as spam, but this can be improved by following bcp.

Just for extra clarity because I mangle this stuff sometimes.

> Spam is sending someone email when they've never contacted you before

That's why the email address needs to be confirmed; to prevent someone using another person's email address. That doesn't need to be malicious. There are examples of people mistyping domain names and having all their email sent somewhere else.

> or still sending someone messages when they've asked you to stop.

Really people need to include a checkbox, that defaults to [NO], asking for permission to send email when the account is created. Just being given an email address isn't enough, especially if one is needed to see anything about the product.
I'm definitely new at both, but I'll give you the newbie perspective.

Ember is a front-end framework which allows you to use whatever back-end you feel like to feed it. E.g., you could use Ember with Node, Rails, Django, etc.

Meteor is the whole package: front and back-end with a lot of glue built in that makes coordinating front and back-end easier.

At least that's the impression I get. I'm also very impressed by Ember--though it, like Meteor, is challenging to learn due to the dearth of learning materials.

This book is the second (as far as I know) Meteor book, and there's only one book I'm aware of available for Ember (Master Space and Time with Javascript: Ember).
The link in the sidebar offers a reasonable elaboration: http://nemaload.davidad.org/about/philosophy
It's on the FAQ and, without saying the exact price, is discussed on the application. It's an education program, so I don't think a "Pricing" tab would fit as well (it'd feel a bit cheap, like Phoenix College).

I personally think it's fine.
My comment above on magit-status contains a link to a commit that strips out some content and speeds it up somewhat.
This is great. I bike to work and I had kind of intuitively figured this out after a month, but pretty cool nonetheless!
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I wholeheartedly agree with you that CSS / Ajax design are jumping the shark. I've found myself for the past couple of years increasingly fighting websites and their design in the interests of simply being able to read content. I've flagged numerous submissions to HN on that basis alone. And joined the Contrast Rebellion (http://contrastrebellion.com/).

After using element editors to interactively correct issues, userContent.css to override settings (especially font face, and size), and other hacks, I stumbled across Readability. First the bookmarklets and browser plug-ins that simply reformatted pages to be more readable, then finally finding that the full-blown service, including saved reading lists and tags, was worthwhile to me.

Which addresses another failing of browsers: the insanely poor UI/UX of bookmarks management. It's not just the sharing aspect, but being able to enter, arrange, tag, annotate, deduplicate, etc., bookmarks.

I've been seeing a place increasingly for two modes of browser: an app-mode browser for highly interactive sites, and a content browser, whose aim is to provide access to, and management of, informational content.

One mode I've found Readability hugely useful for is in bookmarking, categorizing, prioritizing, and reading a large volume of literature related to research I'm doing. And presenting that information in a way that's tolerable to read. The only downside so far: a per-user limit of 500 tags.

I'd also love to have something resembling Readability (preferably itself) for PDFs, which are absolutely awful to read online, and impossible on mobile (yes, I've got Adobe's PDF reader for Android, it's freaking useless).

ePub and readers such as Calibre and Moon+Reader are another approach to online documents I very much appreciate.

Some associated G+ posts / rants:

Readability: two days in -- VERY nice
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/PhQR421e...

Dear Internet Desiners: We need to talk
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/NFEFMZdk...

Annoying Web annoyancs are annoying: CSS Interstitials
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/j357ACUs...
I've just finished chapters 1-3, and so far I agree: It's a concise guide to Meteor.
12 condoms per month is the most popular plan? Nice places to live, Australia and New Zealand!
Slaves to the algorithms
Now that is cool. Thanks for the link!
Readability, Instapaper, and Pocket all do a pretty good job of "as meant" for sites.

The do this through a server-based solution, with some reliance on standards, but also, I'll suspect, a large number of site-specific parsing and formatting rules.
I do not think funding is David's problem :-).
It can be both interesting and scary that algorithms are controlling every aspects of our lives. What are your thoughts on this?
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I really like that aspect of homebrew. I don't let anything else use /usr/local, and it means I can install things without using sudo, so no risk they are messing something up elsewhere in system directories.
We're tracking this and will be fighting it. Support groups like EFF and Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), the latter of which I consult for.

The gist is that the FBI push is a trial balloon—aka the changes proposed aren't expected to be introduced as legislation for many months. That said, if we push back hard through folks who agree with us in DC, like EFF and CDT, it may prevent the bad CALEA changes from ever getting introduced in the first place.
Yep. Again under the CALEA law. What's going on here is that the FBI wants to expand CALEA to the online world, for both VoIP and IM.

We can talk about this at the next PolitiHacks meetup if you want.
So cool! I've been waiting for a bunch of bike-apps-in-progress to come to fruition (415bike, I'm looking at you: https://github.com/415bike) but now the wait is made much easier with this!
Well I guess it doesn't really. The exchange could close shop and both parties could be left with nothing.
The funny thing is, growing up in silicon valley, I always understood it to be a locus of green/clean movements. Yet when I moved out of the state, on my trip to the mountain region I saw more renewable energy harvesting over the course of twenty hours than I did in twenty years in the silicon valley.

This left me with the impression, deserved or not, that the bay area is big on making headlines about green/clean energy, but not nearly as interested in actually producing significant amounts of green/clean energy.
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Could I please have the most hilly option for my legs?
As I have not used any such code formatting template but at first look, it seems interesting to me. However this concept does not seem to catch up lately in general text editor context as this video is pretty old.

I would like to see such templates in more editors such as sublime text2 etc. so that we devs can go ahead and customize as per our visual need. Thanks for the share.
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Another huge fan of your blog, Richard. Your blog represents one of the single best locations on the web for excellent road maps for learning web development. It is immensely helpful to go through the material that you've already vetted rather than waste time and energy finding and trying the plethora of books, tutorials, videos, sites, etc. For beginners it's incredibly overwhelming but your site helps show us the path and put us on it. It's still a lot of work, but at least we feel that as long as we follow your recommendations we'll make steady progress toward our goal of becoming Web Engineers. I can't wait to read your upcoming post about Meteor!
In the 2010 "aurora" attacks, it was Google's "lawful intercept" systems that were targeted by the attackers. Microsoft just recently revealed that it was the same in their case (http://www.cio.com/article/732122/_Aurora_Cyber_Attackers_We...).

The original CALEA has had serious ramifications for security world-wide: telecommunications equipment manufactured for compliance with the US market gets shipped everywhere, enabling smooth surveillance for countries like Iran and Egypt. It also becomes a major vulnerability vector, the most public case being the Greek wiretapping affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...).

It's interesting that the government is floating this with a straight face at the same time that they're seriously debating a nominal "cyber security" bill.
Yeah but 1000 years is different from 4000 etc, especially since we're talking about national identities.

Many if not most modern Greeks, for example, still feel special and superior because they believe that they're direct ancestors of the ancient Greeks.
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Not necessarily. The company could have been revalued in the process (since the market prospects clearly changed).

To some extent, this might be a deal for Viddy (aka as good as it gets). If the investors are in control of the company, they could have just closed the shop and returned all the funds.
A analysis of ethical violations committed by ringed versus non-ringed engineers may be in order.
Something doing the opposite would be cool. I'm training on my bike in SF and the hills are the best.
I'd love to see how they use it! Please don't hesitate to share any findings you have through github issues: https://github.com/jonobr1/two.js/issues?state=open

It's the fastest way to notify me without giving out my email on this thread.
A bit of all of that. During your 30's and 40's if you have kids you have a lot of obligations at home and so you don't spend a lot of time on outside projects. There is also a tendency to get curmudgeonly (which is fostered by having co-workers re-inventing the wheel and asking you to help). And lastly being an expert in Solaris internals isn't as useful as being an expert in Linux internals. It sums to smart guy, no longer hitting buzzword bingo on the recruiter's checklist, and somewhat off putting in their opinions of what is 'good' and what 'isn't good' in various designs.
Thanks but no need to worry, it's a browser API key.
We're working on open source mobile end-to-end encryption at Open Whisper Systems: http://www.whispersystems.org

We'd love it if more interested folks got involved.
The length of the route is affecting the slope of each segment.

For example, Bolinas, CA to Vacaville, CA has steeper segments than the Bolinas, CA to Dixon, CA even though they take the exact same route out of Marin and Sonoma.

The extreme example, Bolinas, CA to Boston, MA never gets above a four percent slope.
You can check out something similar in 3D here (needs WebGL):

http://bdon.org/bicycle.html