skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The American public is becoming docile and complacent. We’re obese and entitled. When we travel, we look for giant hotels that will insulate us and pamper us rather than for legitimate cultural experiences that may challenge our perspectives or help us grow as individuals."

I am lame like this. I go on a vacation and then look for chain restaurants and hotels I have across the street back home. I have no idea how to bust out of this. It pegged me. It got me right. Sigh.
Also, sometimes, doing the experiment is extremely hard. I know a guy who only slightly jokingly claims he got his Ph.D. on one brain cell. He spent a couple of years building a setup to measure electrical activity of neurons, and 'had' one cell for half an hour or so (you stick an electrode in a cell, hope it doesn't die in the process, and then hope your subject animal remains perfectly subdued, and that there will not be external vibrations that make your electrode move, thus losing contact with the cell or killing it)

Reproducible? Many people could do it, if they made the effort, but how long it would take is anybody's guess.

Experiments like that require a lot of fingerspitzengefühl from those performing them. Worse, that doesn't readily translate between labs. For example, an experimental setup in a small lab might force an experimenter in a body posture that makes his hand vibrate less when doing the experiment. If he isn't aware of that advantage, he will not be able to repeat his experiment in a better lab (I also know guys who jokingly stated they got best results with a slight hangover; there might have been some truth in that)
Much the same as it's been for the last 20-odd years I'd guess, since the advent of RAD tools.

Anyway, although it's pretty cliche, everyone's a beginner at some point. What you did before you got your first "real" programming job tends to matter a lot less than what you do subsequently.
Why does this seem so scary/amazing?

It's basically taking what computers already do really well today and adding a language "mask" onto it. Yet it still blows me away.
I remember when people here said UEFI is nothing to worry about since it "only" really affects ARM devices. But what happens when the ARM devices are the most used "computers" are the most used by far in a few years?
Apple: Google is no "friend of the court"
I think we all don't want to admit that we look up ex-girlfriends, neighbors, college roommates, etc. when we're on these social networks and we're bored (or lonely).

I searched for an ex once on LinkedIn and found nothing...until a year later when she finally signed on and there she was in my "you might know" suggestion list.
Okay, I see what you mean there. I thought people were suggesting that the $2mm in kickstarter money was enough to buy a fancy place to live. Yes, sure it would but it's getting spent to make the movie.

Considering how many people have spent their personal fortunes on something they were passionate about and ended up bankrupt dying penniless, it seems prudent to not put a personal fortune at stake.

Furthermore it sounds like he's going to give people their $10 or $25 or whatever's worth so it's not as though they're straight up donating. They're getting the behind the scenes and directors commentary before the movie is even done.
I routinely get suggested to connect with people I've never even emailed or who used email account I closed a decade ago.

It's reasons like this I wish someone would do a Public/Private key based p2p social network. Essentially you digitally sign a key that you know someone and that's how you derive connections. Seems like you could implement browsable profiles as well.
good idea to help people gauge how well (or not) they're doing salary wise.

is there a control to prevent too few minimum participants, which would make it more obvious whose numbers are whose?

the interface could be more graphical, less text heavy.
The Onion is the Mad Magazine of adults. I'd love to see them release a bunch of small joke JS libs like this.
I'm a young programmer and this is a goal of mine. It doesn't mean I will stop building things, but it would be nice if I didn't have to do it for other people and didn't have to do it for at least 40 hours a week if I didn't want to. With the salaries we get, this is very possible if we can avoid lifestyle bloat.
The American Dream is connected to our frontier culture, so it's a few hundred years old. I think even a century ago, places like Europe has prosperity but still very strong class systems (some might argue they still do.) The promise of America was freedom, that hard work would mean prosperity (not riches, but prosperity), and that your kids could do better than you did. We take all this for granted but I think in some ways we now struggle to still offer this; in particular, it's not clear that the new generation today will have to opportunities that the last one did.
This is because he is only extracting the noun phrases from the sentence. If you adapted his code to tag verb phrases as well (by modifying the semi-CFG and the normalize_tags method) then you could also extract "discovering" and "curating" as well.
There's something that's been bothering me about this whole thing. Not the Tesla, but the rest of the market. Is that it? Is it that easy? A guy who made his money selling a phonebook and then an online payment processor can read a few books, hire a few people out of the same industry he's disrupting and build a goddamn amazing car (electric or not)?

Why can't the existing industry do this? Why all the mediocre product that's the tail end of pumping billions of dollars into R&D staffed by largely the same folks Tesla has been hiring?

edit to be clear I'm not just talking about electric cars, but cars in general. There's a few Model S's in my area, and they're beautiful.
Cookies? From marketting networks?

It's amazing how much the marketting networks can figure out about you, and keep track of you with a cookie.
How Internet Explorer 10 was inspired by iPad users
> the "fake" e-mail address is a "real-user-part+something@gmail.com" address

If not the machine, then surely this.
Part of that freedom (a very important part, for immigrants) was freedom from oppressing poverty and a class system that kept you in poverty.
You haven't worked for an enterprise software firm, have you? ;-)
Tesla is hard at work taking the knowledge they've gained developing the Model S and applying it to create a ~$30k car, which will be meant for the every man.

Until then, though, I think they deserve some recognition for beating out every car Consumer Reports has tested in their very first attempt at a sedan.
Google Earth Engine - Platform for environmental data & analysis
Thanks artax77. At the moment it does require at least 3 people to participate and/or to reveal the end values. I think mathematically that's the minimum, though it probably should be pushed up to 4 or 5, you're right.

I agree that the UI could be more graphical... unfortunately I totally suck at the UI side of things. That, I think, I'm going to just have to let slide for now :(

Thanks!
I used to get really upset at the large number of local recruiting firms that used a revolving door of attractive women fresh out of college to work as external recruiters. They were energetic, friendly, and it's a lot harder to say no to a sales pitch when they're at your office door and smiling.

Now I can see that there's a secondary use for an attractive LinkedIn profile picture as well. That might have a lot more leverage than cold-calling offices these days.
What confuses me is that I've had the correct contacts show up in Facebook for an email address no one else should know about.
You're completely right on that, and I couldn't agree more; the mystery of the global states is frustrating to a new WP developer.

Additionally, Wordpress has tons and tons of bad functions. If so many themes weren't dependent on them, I'd advocate for entirely stripping out a good chunk of them. Someone needs to write Wordpress: The Good Parts, or at least a really canonical good practise guide. I guess it could be a good weekend project.

For the functions you mention, you're actually not too far off what they really do. the_title() [1] is just slightly formatting get_the_title [2], which is mostly just returning $post->post_title.

Unfortunately, skipping the built-in functions means also skipping the slightly obtuse but powerful filter system. However, if you're not interested in the built in WP stuff, then there's no harm in outputting the titles directly.

Btw, yes, I realise this is mostly academic in the context we're talking about.

[1]: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-include...
[2]: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-include...
Its a great idea, but I think everyone who has had it is stopped when they look at just how unwilling people are to exchange keys (or understand them) and how unwilling browser companies are to put effort into interfaces for managing keys (both of these obviously feed into each other).
Web Design Trends Found in Startup Homepages
I'm usually pretty careful about picking technologies and websites to use. I've steered clear of linkedin and as time goes on, I'm pretty happy with that decision.
I agree. Prefacing with 'current economic theory' was a poor choice on my part.

A few of my friends are heavily left-leaning, and anytime the topic of flat taxation or 'the fair tax' comes up they start foaming at the mouth about how it's regressive. The two concepts are paired in my mind.
Marvels and a Few Mysteries in Cicadas’ 17 Years
No matter what interface the user uses, they still "follow" links, and "press" buttons.
I think you are entirely corerct.

The macro problem with most photo library software is that it's trying to do far too many things and ends up doing none particularly well. A photo library software suite generally enables:

1. Photo storage,
2. Light photo editing (either of metadata or image data or both),
3. Photo viewing (including basic slideshow functions, etc.),
4. Photo organization (creation of albums, tagging people, and so on),
5. Photo sharing ("post this album to Facebook", etc.)

The problem is that no two of these tasks have a particularly logical relationship to one another. And as to most of them, there are better ways to do it.

As you note, we have put _enormous_ effort as a society into developing a very particular way to store blobs of data: the filesystem. It is a stable way. It is a well documented way. It is a way that has lots of tools that are also stable and well documented and mature. And best of all, it's really, really easy to back up. You can make copies of data on the filesystem in a trivial fashion. Back it up to an external drive! Back it up to a remote server, either owned by you or someone else! Encrypt the backups! Don't! It's easy. The same is true of photo editing, photo viewing, and many other things.

The one problem that photo libraries really solve is organization. It's nice to be able to make albums. It's nice to see all the photos taken around a similar time, or at a particular place, or with certain people in them. In fact, it's what makes huge collections workable. So I'm not knocking that. But what I am proposing is that there's got to be a way to disaggregate that singularly useful function from the mess of other things that photo library software doesn't need to do.

Note also that photos ought to be uncommonly easy to write organizational software for, because so many of them have built-in, well-documented metadata. Take a picture with your iPhone sometime and then dump the full EXIF info. There's a lot in there, way more than most people realize. And yet it's common to begin building photo library software by recreating all of that same information inside a proprietary and undocumented database. EXIF data includes a place for a description field---why doesn't photo library software _write to that?_ And files can have titles (or 'file names,' as they're called in the business)---why would you recreate, in some hidden-away SQLite database or something, the "title" attribute?
And it escalates.
Also, animated gifs of some regions over time ->
https://plus.google.com/photos/+GoogleEarth/albums/587582297...
Sucks to require a lawsuit to settle a bad breakup. The filing actually includes direct quotations that Arrington contests are defamation which at least means the suit potentially has substance (versus a scare-suit just to stifle Allen's discussion of the relationship).
There's a more benign answer to the creepy connection suggestions. LOTS of people import their email address books into linkedin. It's not a stretch to think that his girlfriend's mother (or some other relative) imported her address book that contained the names of both the OP and the girlfriend's stepfather.

As far as the creepier name mismatches go, my oldest email address list has tons of maiden names and unused/defunct email addresses. It's likely that some high school friend of the OP uploaded an old address book and LinkedIn's algorithm made a best effort match on some of the rarer names even if the email addresses don't match. I mean, how many Lucy Hatsbaughs do you think there are on linked in? Two? LinkedIn may as well gamble on odds like that.
Snapchat is not deleting the photos
As a hacker, I consider seeing

Error establishing a database connection

as more creepy :)
I found most of the points either to be well known or somewhat false:

1. Obvious toward an individual. Though most of the world familiar is interested in America.

2. Obvious

3. Obvious and applies to all countries. How many people in X country would know where Sudan is?

4. "Poor" is highly opinionated; that we are on the "cold" side of affection is also comparing America to a limited set of cultures. I could find plenty of cultures (Middle East, East Asia come to mind) where telling a random women " a) I wanted to meet her, and b) she’s beautiful" would creep the hell out of her.

5. By world standards, the qualify of life for the average American is awesome. I'll admit it looks less great compared to other developed nations.

6. No one in the US thinks other developed nations are crap. But it's being intellectually dishonest to claim that the quality of life for the average person in a developing nation (e.g. Cambodia) is on par with America.

7. Maybe. Another case of selecting certain examples. Counties like say China are on par with or less friendly than America. A stranger in China inviting you to a BBQ? 50% chance trying to scam you.

8. As someone who's spent time in East Asia, the idea that America has some insane consumer culture is laughable.

9. Sure, by developed country standards, the US looks bad. By world standards? pretty good.

10. Hardly unique to America
Define “performance“ and “cacheability”.
In my experience, when talking about software development, "just" is almost always a dirty word.

Sometimes, "just" really means "just swap plugins".

Sometimes, "just" really means "completely re-implement functionality".

I'm just saying, be careful how you use "just".
I would still say no, because such metalogic will still be reducable to a type elevated logic and thus be reducable to 'core rules' operating on a lesser logic. Computability dictates what a computer can be instructed to do, leaving the 'meaning' to also have to conform to what can be computed.

If it runs on a computer it can be reduced to a simple set of core rules that is a logic, no matter how complex, by virtue that it is running on a computer.

Real math doesn't have to follow such rules.
That's kind of an absurd statement - that logic implies that MI5 and CIA use everything that is secure.

As it happens, we have a number of Fortune-50 banks and financial institutions as clients who host their WordPress with us <shrugs>
The difference between a consulting client and an irrational toddler
Why does that disagree with what he said? Netscape understood the same protocols all future browsers did, with only some feature misalignment, yet eventually disappeared.

I think he is saying the same thing to could happen to Bitcoin, the current use cases of the currency may be only the beginning.
I see LinkedIn as something akin to going to networking events. They really really want you to network, and they make some reasonable assumptions about your inhibitions. That's what their paying customers are there for.
he's painting it like a business, which the mafia is. they just happen to do nothing but illegal projects.
Step 1: Have a fortune

Step 2: Take fortune, hire people to build your vision

Step 3: Possibly profit.
Microsoft paying $1-billion for Nook: E-readers dying, but content is forever
There is a lot of money in prolonging the status quo.
It's 2013 and we are using a floppy drive to simulate high network latency. If that's not convoluted, I'm not sure what else could be.
Old or not, I think this document's value is to help demystify some of how detective/research/surveillance work is done in highly secret institutions. They still rely in part on the hackery and technology that everyone else is capable of doing.
I'm not sure how much one should read into that. I mean, ok, there are probably some guys (and some women, as far as that goes) who click on profiles solely due to the attractiveness of the picture. BUT... there are other reasonable reasons to explain a picture like shown above. For example, note that all of the people listed appear to work in related domains (marketing, event management of some sort). Given the nature of linkedin (business networking, with a heavy emphasis on recruiting) it makes sense that somebody looking to, say, poach an event planner or marketing person, would look at those profiles. And, from what I've seen, those are a couple of domains where women are heavily represented. Recruiting is another one.

Anyway, just as a little anecdotal test, I just logged into LinkedIn and looked at two profiles, both attractive women, where one is a recruiter and the other is a developer. In the recruiter case, every single entry in the "people also viewed" list was female (and also a recruiter), in the case of the developer they were almost completely male (with two exceptions) and are either developers or work for the same company.

I don't know... maybe this is indicative of something that should be considered "creepy" but I have my doubts.
The only sad thing around here is You.
Which is a real scandal, by the way. It's utterly surreal that a file format with some of the most well-documented metadata on the planet is organized into libraries that begin by creating an entirely new, entirely redundant library of metadata on top.
Yes, I believe it is easier to listen to 4M people than 300 M people.
Benchmark SMB share through VPN vs SSH Tunnel
Obligatory xkcd demonstrating p-value shenanigans: http://xkcd.com/882/
That just doesn't make any sense. That's a problem with and without regulation. First of all, some medical procedures have risks. That's just how it works. Second of all, someone could die in a world with a ton of regulations by a problem that could have been "solved" by a regulation. So you're emotional retort applies here too: "Now go elect a new representative to pass a different law."
Google Earth enters fourth dimension, highlights humanity’s heavy hand
True. Having learned a couple of other languages I can, however, place myself in the shoes of a non-native or less fluent speaker, and, to them, these words sound pretty much the same. It's like me with Chinese, it all sounds the same right now.

So, "lose" should really be spelled "looze", "looz" or some variant of that. Writing "lose" and pronouncing it \ˈlüz\ makes as much sense as writing "lost" and pronouncing it \ˈlüzt\.
Page says ‘Closed’. Too bad, title piqued my interest.
Well I made a small intercepting proxy which inserts this JS if you want to try..

Use http proxy 92.163.21.52 port 9990 and start browsing :)

I'll let the VM opened for a few hours

edit: port 9999
edit2: port 9990

(changed the port because some botnet is using it to target a website and maybe that's because I used an online proxy checker to test it)
> The only thing connecting the two is that the "fake" e-mail address is a "real-user-part+something@gmail.com" address, and that I've logged in to them from the same machine.

So, to summarize, a simple regular expression matching emails against /\+[^@]+/ and replacing with '' is some 1984-level creepiness?

Come on.
This isn't aimed at people whose job it is to write Wordpress themes. It's aimed at people who want to learn to write Wordpress themes, for fun or profit.

No need to hate on new, useful teaching aids. Everyone needs to start somewhere!
You can use the one I just set up on 92.163.21.52 port 9990

edit : port 9999
edit 2 : port 9990
Ha, I didn't know that! Where is the Developer panel on iPhone?
My theory: it all comes down to the maturation of the underlying technology. Tesla has been around for ten years. Why is their mainstream car only coming to market now, after all that time? Part of it is that creating a new car company takes a lot of time, but most of it is that the battery and other technologies have only recently matured enough to make EVs practical. Tesla has been waiting and waiting until this occurred and has a small jump on the other manufacturers. If this is true, I expect other manufacturers to ramp up pretty quickly. Both GM and Nissan both have electric cars that outsell the Model S (at least for now).

Another aspect of the Model S worth mentioning is that EVs are heavily subsidized with a $7.5K federal tax credit a huge pile of cash from California--so Tesla has extra money to apply to the fit and finish of the car vis a vis non-electric luxury cars. In fact, as of last quarter all of Tesla's profits came from selling ZEV credits to other auto manufacturers, not from the actual car itself. Take out the $70M from selling ZEV credits and Tesla's gross margin is only 6%--much less than other luxury manufacturers. In fact they'd be running at a $50M quarterly loss without them. So it's easier to make a great car if you don't have to make as much money at it. If Tesla manages to get their gross margin to 25% without these incentives, however, it will be a different story, and a remarkable feat.
Profitable.
I was talking about private sector unions.
Microsoft YouTube App Is A Rule Breaker; It Strips Ads, Downloads Video
SNMP C++ client implementation
Federal Government issues Open Data Policy guidance/tools on Github
This is a neat idea. I like that you didn't choose to implement another todo list in order to experiment with a new framework.

I think the wording of "continue a secret" is a little confusing. I appreciate the brevity but maybe "participate in a secret" would be more accurate. "Share a secret" sounds nice -- because that's what we do with secrets :-) But, it might get confused with the sharing of that particular secret code instead.

On a UI note, having to click on the help icon to dismiss the pop-up was a little annoying.