skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any reason to think the result would be radically different than for blood? (E.g., hemoglobin). As the first comment points out, the lungs need about 70 m^2 of surface area.

So as long as the surface area of the trapped bubble-seawater interface was at least that size, perhaps you could survive indefinitely, down to the limit of air-breathing depths.

In smaller bubbles, perhaps you could keep yourself alive by splashing. Like an aquarium bubbler in reverse.
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Possibly because his example encourages citizens to take a stand and act against those who like to work in the shadows.
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I was under the impression that he also leaked the Boundless Informant program (though this is not directly attributed to him in the story):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-in...

and the secret Verizon order on phone records:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-record...

although again this is unattributed and simply 'obtained by the Guardian', but the story was written by Glen Greenwald just before the Snowdon video, and I seriously doubt they have two sources with top secret clearance in the NSA.

And of course there are the assertions in his video, which I also consider a leak (though so far without details to back it up).
They probably mean detrimental to the governments good. They wouldn't want to say no to US requests but they would been seen as the bad guys while the extradition (and/or asylum) proceedings dragged on for months.

They are also trying to pass legislation (Communications Data Bill) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22891845 to allow[1] communications logging of metadata. Having him in the country would make it even more newsworthy as there would be a human interest angle.

[1] Whether they are doing it now without legal standing is an interesting question. My guess is yes and the former Labour home secretaries are aware and complicit and would really like it legitimised.
The problem is that the diffusion coefficient in the lungs is different than that for an air-water interface. Consider (as an extreme example) a bubble surrounded by steel with a surface area of 70 m^2. Yes, there is still diffusion of oxygen through the steel, but it's at a vastly lower rate than it is through water.
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Great link, I will write to mine now. Any ideas what kind of thing to write and how to structure it? I've never done this kind of thing before so any help would be great :-)
he had to stay on at oracle for a year
The word crowdsourcing added to the OED - No hyphen.
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"The ship of state, dear Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top" - Sir Humphrey Appleby
So this means that Linux is just as bad as Windows when it comes to installing software from a random website.
It's pretty similar to the Hudson/Jenkins situation (also something acquired by Oracle). Kind of sad when the original author has to fork his own project to keep evolving it, but I'm glad they're apparently able to take a considerable amount of users with them.

We also switched to MariaDB in production a while ago. Was absolutely seamless.
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It's not just the US government - many national governments have been known to keep lists like that over the year.

In Norway it turned into a major scandal in the 90's when it was revealed the security services had lists of people to be considered detained in the case of war (implicitly the assumption was a war with the Soviet Union, since the list only had left wing activists though it indiscriminately included left wing activists who where aggressively anti-Soviet, which tells you something of the mindset), and plans for using sports arenas or other suitably large enclosed spaces to lock in such high risk people as Berge Furre, a lecturer in theology, historian and MP for the Socialist Left party ("left wing" reformists/social democrats rather than revolutionaries) - not exactly a hardened revolutionary.

When the government started investigating this along with widespread illegal surveillance, he was a member of the commission in charge of the investigation (the Lund commission), and it was soon uncovered that the security services again started illegally investigating him while he was investigating them. Shows just how little respect you can expect organisations like this to have for law and democracy.
In British/International English air quotes are often used to emphasise something, and not necessarily as a sarcasm or BS indicator.

Also what the hell do the protests in Gezi park have to do with PHP? Turkey's about more than just protests.
Even for those who don't accept it, the fact that so many others do means your data do effectively live in the cloud (at least to a significant extent). Particularly in the case of email. So ... it still matters.
Putting real effort into developing an awesome product. Then nobody would have seen the need for a fork.

Of course they are afraid of cannibalizing their other overpriced stuff. So they wanted to let it die a slow and painful death.

In he grand scheme of things getting rid of the pesky competitor MySQL was only an afterthought in the decision to buy Sun, that was probably driven by the legal department.

Also Oracle is pretty strong in the corporate Java space and has some great products there.

So MySQL did never get the attention it deserved and needed to thrive.
The original purchaser was Sun and they presumably bought it, in part, to compete with Oracle in the lower-end market, to ensure MySQL runs well on Sun hardware (which, in turn, sells more hardware), to sell MySQL related support and professional services and so on.

Not long after this, Oracle acquired Sun and along with it, MySQL. One of the MySQL founders didn't like this and started a fork of MySQL, based on the GPL'ed source. There's not a great deal Oracle could have done about this. But they weren't just buying MySQL, they were buying all of Sun. Additionally, the fork wasn't exactly a commercial threat for years - it's only now that we're starting to see movement towards adoption of MariaDB by high-profile, large users.
MariaDB right now has working Multi-Source replication and GTID failover in the MariaDB 10.0.3+ alphas.

They are also working on a new table discovery engine, which will bring Transactional DDL to MariaDB, this to me makes MariaDB far more superior to MySQL. They are innovating, and they are open about it.
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3808

Oracle have only innovated on the niggles of Mysql, like the unencrypted ~/.my.cnf files to appease their "Enterprise" customers.
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I am planning to set up some kind of gamification through a scoring system. I am resisting putting in a lot of features though.
That is fun. But they do have the right according to wikipedia.

The treaty has been claimed to be one-sided[3] because it allows the US to extradite UK citizens and others for offences committed against US law, even though the alleged offence may have been committed in the UK by a person living and working in the UK (see for example the NatWest Three), and there being no reciprocal right; and issues about the level of proof required being less to extradite from the UK to the US rather than vice-versa.[4]

So basically Toni Blair has bent over, spreaded cheeks and prelubed himself.
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I'm sorry, I don't buy it. Maybe internally they look at it like this. But I honestly think the reasoning behind the always online policy is so they can collect analytics from the kinect.

From an advertisers perspective, it's the holy grail. Imagine being able to see the viewers heart rate, where they were looking, how they were sitting, how the move and body language. All of that data would be very useful. I'm sure there are systems like this already, but to my understanding they are in a controlled environment. If you sat me in a room and told me to look at an advert after having to travel etc I'd act a lot differently to just sitting on my couch.
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Or it's a way for humans to communicate better with other humans. For example hashtags are often used in another way, like more verbose emoticons. Someone saying "Canteen out of coffee ☹" is telling you about their canteen and also how they feel about it. In "Canteen out of coffee #fail", the "#fail" hashtag is used like an emoticon here, but you have access to more "emoticon-hashtags" than before.

Hashtags in the original sense allowed people on twitter to communicate with strangers about a topic. This is humans talking to humans, not humans talking to machines.
This doesn't mean that at all. This is the first time I've seen the domain that hosted a trustworthy repo go bye-bye.
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Hi there, guy who made this here. There's a disclaimer at the bottom of the landing page for general context, but here is the technical side of the story

I took a shot at building something in my spare time (weekends and such), while having a fully engaging full-time job. It spanned over almost 6 months, but there were weeks when I had not even a single commit.

Besides having an idea to believe in, Meteor.js was also a big part of making this happen. It's the first time I'm building anything with it, but after a few weeks of setting the tone and a few small in-house lib files, the productivity of having it all in one place became unbeatable. I could write some more about my experience with Meteor if other people are curious to try it but never had the chance.

Meteor wasn't the only productivity booster though, I used as many out-of-the box services and technologies as possible. Not to mention organizing yourself as if you were in a team is a key ingredient in keeping a project together for so long with so many breaks. I used a private Github repo, but using Bitbucket or other similar tools is just as well

Technologies

- Meteor.js

- CoffeeScript (If you don't hate it you will eventually learn to use it to your advantage)

- Bootstrap (It helped a lot, but I would drop it completely by the time the app could be considered out of the "MVP" state)

- Underscore + Backbone Router (Models wouldn't fit with Meteor, I made something lighter by hand)

- CSS3 (Go for it)

Services

- Rackspace VPS for hosting

- MongoHQ for data storage

- Filepicker.io for image upload and processing

- Mixpanel for stats

Code

- 2068 lines of CoffeeScript (Including comments!)

- 927 lines of LESS CSS (Here too, including comments---Yes,
I add comments to CSS)

- 583 lines of Handlebars HTML

- 73 lines of Bash scripts

Project

- 403 Git commits

- 35 closed Github issues (the ones that made it through the
"MVP" milestone)
Well hypothetically say he wanted to go to Iceland, you can't fly from HK to Iceland so you'd have to change in Europe.

The obvious route is changing via London Heathrow, this stops him doing that.
However the legislative branch pays for those guns (and the men who hold them, the ammunition that goes in them, the vehicles which transport them, and the fuel which powers those).

It's called checks and balances for a reason.

There is no center of power, though the balance may shift over time (and yes, the executive has a great deal of power).
After looking at both, I agree and apologize for connecting the two. Despite the similarities in titles, they are different beasts. In summary, your post deals with loading of modules based on device capabilities, while the post about Adios deals mostly with responsive visual adjustments.

I have to say that while your approach to responsive web applications makes sense, it is geared toward bigger web applications. The users of the application I'm currently building need to see everything on all platforms they use, the information just needs to be displayed in a different manner. The app is also small enough that loading something only to then hide it with a media query is not really an issue. It's obvious that building bigger apps you need to take conditional loading into account, but I'm not sure where the tipping point (in terms of app size) for that is. It's also true that the tipping point is moving as mobile internet speed and general performance increases.
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I'd not put intelligence as the most important factor to predictability, the amount of shared "experiences" and similarity of context ("history") would be at the top of my list.
Maybe it is a warning for him. Don't come here, or we may be forced to hand you over. We are too weak to protect anyone, so just stay away? Can I be that optimistic?
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His purges, yes. But that is far more extreme than keeping a file on someone, so I don't think it's a good comparison.

But consider the political monitoring - certainly a vastly higher number were likely considered potential risks to be registered "just in case" under Stalins regime as wel.

I don't know if there are any estimates of the number of people under active surveillance and "on lists" in the Soviet Union, but consider the East German Stasi, which at one point at least had 2.5% of the population of DDR acting as informants (this is a reasonably conservative estimate), and had files on about 1/3 of the total population of the DDR.
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We use github + markdown + wiki. Is there anything which offer collaboration on document (documentation to be specific) which allows all team members to edit/comment/iterate the docs?
Related: "Senior politicians from across the political divide have united to call for UK security services to be given greater internet monitoring powers" [1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22891845
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He would have a lot of options in Europe, and even from Canada on certain days.

http://www.kefairport.is/English/Timetables/Arrivals/Yesterd...

http://www.kefairport.is/English/Timetables/Arrivals/
Decentralization is the only way.

It seems the only way to solve this is to force all big companies to have servers in every country they offer their services to and limit all local traffic to these servers only and be made to comply with local law.

Completely impractical from the internet architectural point of view but that would make information on foreign citizens quite hard to get

That way any information retrieved from these servers and sent to Americans can be considered and act of treason in that country.

Everybody seems to be forgetting that the internet is global and if they are going to comply with one countries laws then they should be forced to comply with every countries laws.
FWIW it's also available in zsh and ksh93.
"He" who? Monty was already gone when Oracle bought Sun.
So its really about trust then? You trust this website to provide what you want and nothing more. You may also trust other websites that provide up-to-date packages when your distro won't. You may also trust a website to provide software that your distro doesn't.

Why is this any safer for the clueless user?
The FBI refers to the Occupy protesters as terrorists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/23/fbi-occupy-wall-str...
He did: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/06/02/f...

He's worth following, particularly if you're interested in Things Media, and you like his stream-of-consciousness style.
Edward Snowden: 45th President of the United States
Great video. I hope the lessons from gov.uk encourage adoption in all government departments and councils.

Open government is great, but I hope open journalism is not too far away (e.g. http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html...). We either need existing newspapers to be more open or open journalists to become more mainstream.
Why would you use Chrome if you have privacy concerns and want to use DuckDuckGo? Google isn't exactly known for respecting privacy.

Install Firefox instead.
Possibly, but I doubt if the warning is intended for his benefit - I would suspect it is meant more along the lines of "Don't you dare come here and cause an embarrassing political mess".
There were some mixed opinions on it, though; the U.S. founders also didn't necessarily oppose measures to put down civil unrest. For example, they explicitly wrote into the Constitution a provision that the federal government may suspend habeas corpus "when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it".

Of course, not everyone agreed: Jefferson opposed that clause in the Constitution. But Samuel Adams would've gone further and prescribed the death penalty for anyone rebelling against the United States, drawing a distinction between rebellion against monarchical governments, which he felt was justified, and rebellion against republics, which he felt was not.
Doesn't matter in the long run, Mongo had similar issues in the early days. "Mongo? What?" -- just pretend the name was chosen by Steve Jobs or whoever and it will add the "weight" to your voice next time you're pitching.
Not sued, threatened with putting Sweden on the list of "Special 301 Report".

So it would impact Sweden's economy if they wouldn't do anything about Piratebay / piracy.

Ever since piratebay moved away from Sweden (stricter rules), it has gotten much worse.

See it's description (from Wikipedia):
Impact of Special 301 Reports [edit]

According to the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) the Special 301 Report and the Watchlists is used to pressure other nations to adopt stricter copyright laws and take a more active role in combating Copyright infringements.[12]
The clueless user won't be using debian.
The clueless user who's somehow found themselves in possession of a debian system won't be adding third party repos to debian.
The clueless user who's somehow found themselves with a debian system with third party repos installed will be informed when the repository keys change and warned not to install the software because it can't be verified.

This is not a case of google->download->double click->virus like windows has had for so long.
"Bzzt! You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute."
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No? In my case, it didn't text, I selected some of Twitter friends for it to send invites.
Only 5-10 years? That's the other end of the extreme. I don't want extremes here, just something fair. If you made a video game or movie that took 200 million dollars to make you'd only have 5-10 years before it would go into public domain and others could rip and use all your assets.

Other people could take everything you own and created 5-10 years ago. If you have a regular 9-5 job at a big corporation you might not care but for content creators who make content once, then collect payments years down the line (Music/VideoGames/Films/Authors) that would devastate them.
He claims to be a Microsoft Engineer, but talks like a Microsoft PR. "Consumer delight"? "Sick second screen"? I don't know any technical person who uses this kind of doublespeak.
A few weeks ago I was on a navy submarine. They explained the escape procedure and I asked how survivable it was. Apparently nobody has much faith in it, but its better to try than certain death by drowning.

... I did wonder how painful a fast ascent from the bottom of the ocean would be once the bends kicked in, but had enough sense not to raise this question with about a quarter of the crew in earshot.
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Likewise in the UK. 95%+ of speed checks are automated cameras with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anpr
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If the overwhelming pattern is that the members of a single party change their views on multiple issues in concert, particularly of those shifts involve disavowal of prior views (or even diametric opposition to views previously held), while those of other parties (not just the primary opposing one), or persons outside that political system (e.g., in other countries) don't, and there's an expressed policy of opposing a party or its head, then I think the suspicion that the shift is largely partisan is rather well founded.
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I wonder: The "#Iwouldratherhaveamoose" example shows hashtags being used not to indicate a topic, but as a more advanced form of emoticons, i.e. to indicate the tone of the 'speaker'. "☹" or ":(" gives the general tone, but it's not precise enough.
"people will perceive both versions as having the same value and be willing to pay the same amount for them both."

If they can resell one game but not the other, they're not necessarily going to perceive them as being of the same value. If they use the money they get from reselling the PS4 game to buy more games, they're not only not going to be willing to pay the same for both, they won't be able (except for the segment of the population that is able to increase its total spending on games).

It's hard to make a comparison with Steam, because there is pretty much no used market for PC games, so necessarily the economics are going to be different.
Fox News is commonly regarded as the propaganda arm of the Republican Party.

MSNBC doesn't seem to have fully earned the complementary title, though it certainly leans that way.
I didn't say that, but some countries have more power than others.. (obviously)

Although i'd rather have Europe then America to "trust" (their no saints either, don't get me wrong - but it's more democraticly and corporations have less influence).

My second choice would be America though..

And unless there is freedom of speech, i can still say what i want. You don't have to listen.
Because Google learns what your preferences are, DDG don't. This is why there is no "search bubble", unfortunately it comes at a price.
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I like to use [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/), stored in the project repository.

It uses reStructuredText (which is more extensible than Markdown) and was written for the Python documentation.
I'm aware that the claimed patent was on BRCA1/2 cDNA, and not a process. I can see how my references to process patents might have confused you, but if you ignore those asides, that should take care of your complaints.

Your wooden machine is different from cDNA. cDNA is an obvious 1:1 mapping of something that already exists: mRNA. It's obvious because that's exactly what retroviruses do. (Ignoring here the negative vs positive sense distinction in viral RNA because it's irrelevant once the RNA is converted to double-stranded DNA.)

If the gene information previously exists in nature, ALL equivalent forms (DNA, mRNA, cDNA, even tRNA) should be excluded from patentability, because they are beyond obvious once you know the nucleotide sequence, and they are equivalent (in terms of information theory). The equivalence (ignoring introns) of all forms of DNA and RNA is universally known (barring strange cases where DNA/RNA structure might interfere with transcription).

Novel synthesis methods might be patentable. Novel enzymes that can translate between the forms, also might be patentable. But that's not this case. Often when something obvious or preexisting is patented, a retort is that while the thing may not be patentable, the process to create it might be. I was trying to head off that argument that Myriad might have something patentable here even if the cDNA itself is not patentable.
HMRPR hard at work to avoid Assange 2.0
Europe isn't "sponsored" by multinationals for their elections, bribes are probably happening, but the impact is pretty low, i suppose.

Haven't suspected much "multinational sponsorship" (except for the EU Commissioner for Trade named Karel De Gucht)