skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In your country, police officers don’t carry guns?

Correct. UK.
Go Kim! Stick it to those dirty MAFIAA copyright gangsters! I hope Mega takes off and helps us share even more culture.

Information wants to be free, man!

Except when it's my information. Then it's just a terrible invasion of privacy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Cat-Secret-Life-Ca...
I started my freelancing career with billable.me. Moved on to complexer tools by now, but I definitely made a few thousand euro with the help of your free tool.

Thanks!
What about something like a disavow.txt file that site owners could use to list domains or URLs with unwanted inbound links. It would be similar to the Google Disavow Links tool, but more open and standardized.

We could write a simple spec around it. I'd see it being similar to robots.txt in form and function... easy for a human to write, easy for a search engine to parse, easy to generate programmatically if you need to scale it up.

Also, it avoids the black-hat SEO problem since only folks with access to the site could control the content of the disavow.txt file.

Thoughts?
What tools did you start using after billlableme?
BTW is such a great name for a value added tax: "Oh, by the way, here's x more!"
Chris Coyier talked about it last year:
http://chriscoyier.net/2012/08/17/sweet-spammer-justice/
Traffic calming can be an issue though, because it reduces traffic speeds, which can actually increase overall risk when it slows down emergency vehicles. Especially in residential areas, you can end up reducing the number of minor traffic accidents at the expense of increasing the number of non-traffic-related fatalities by increasing the emergency response time of fire trucks and ambulances.
The different IPs are for SSL and they are hosted here: https://vps.net
I can guess what the video is about (not really wanting to watch it) and I saw it quite a bit of it living on a farm when I was younger where we kept cats to take care of the rodent problem.

I like cats well enough, but I never really got used to seeing the results of their "sadistic side" (if you can call it that) and what they left behind. Kind of silly, but I would avoid them for a period of time after one of them decided to make a cardinal, rabbit or goldfinch its living play toy. We fed them well on top of the rodents they caught, but cats being cats, can't help themselves[1]. I know it's the way they are, but I like pretty much all animals, so seeing senseless killing was just somewhat irritating.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Anonymous
Here I was thinking this was about "werkkzeug" by Farbrausch
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White and brown noises are slightly different.

You could check them out here http://simplynoise.com/
Minor detail someone might not know: a part of the Inception soundtrack (which is also great ambient) was made with that technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM

Those who have seen the movie and its plot device will know why this is a brilliant idea on so many levels.
I've been there and although it has its things, the fear of the government, its agencies and police pretty much ruin it for me.

Last time I visited the airport experience was atrocious, enough to keep me outside of the US forever if I can help it.
Just use git push -f. Or just push from a branch.
You can make complex web apps responsive
it's just one step instead of 2,3, etc

better mousetrap :)
I guess this is not intended to be your "main" repository? Something about the idea of deploying on push to master seems off to me. I have been thinking about doing this myself, but it would either be a special release branch or a tag that would trigger the deployment. However, I'm still not convinced it's a good idea; I think it's the wrong tool for the job. My preference is to have a continuous integration server produce and archive builds, and a separate tool for promoting those builds through the development/qa/staging/production pipeline. Using your source control tool for deployment is like a badly structured class that tries to do multiple unrelated things and suffers from tight coupling. Source control, build systems, and deployment tools should be independent, with clean interfaces between them. The component responsible for deploying a build shouldn't care where it came from or how it was built.
Adding another suggestion, a little late:

Helios (Keith Kenniff, aka Goldmund) - Caesura
I noticed a while ago that some music needs active listening[1], while other kinds[2] don't distract me.

1 - Rock, various kinds of progressive music, anything with nontrivial melody

2 - ambient, more monotonous music, music with uniform volume

I'd love to say I've started dividing my music collection according to this criteria - but I've been too lazy so far. Sorry about that. I'll try once again.
Yes, you're right. I tend to use "SEOd" as being a bit sleazy, rather than just following best current practice.
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It's possible, but it's probably more indirect. E.g. the Democratic leadership is playing damage control, and the media that panders to Democrats plays along, so the Democratic public see the played-down version in the media they watch.
Google webmaster tools already verify if the owner is for real. The disavow tool is 'safe' in this sense, and requests to remove links sent via email are definitely not safe in this sense (that's why I never comply with those, for all I know I'm aiding some black hat by killing backlinks of a legitimate site).
This could have been invented by Raymond Smullyan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan#Logic_problems
Visualising the 'incidents' in Australian migrant detention centres
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> As far as I know, none of the works of Peyton-Jones fit into that category.

This is incorrect. Looking at his list publications [1], a good deal of his publications are about programming language theory and a lot fewer are about practical implementations. Some of the theory papers are quite Haskell-centric (or use Haskell as an example language) but others are more general.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
See http://www.theglobalmail.org/blog/day-by-day-in-detention/63... for additional context.
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They smoke pay checks and bonuses for an army of bone-headed managers, doing paper-pushing and finger-pointing to keep one's position, while the bulk of money comes from licensing to those idiots, who are too stupid to unhook themselves from MS in 2013 and would pay for any "new" even bigger (in terms of man-hours and LOCs) bloatware MS would "manage" to create..)
> ... did they point a gun at any of the suspects ...

This may seem a minor point, but the housekeeper and other staff were not "suspects", they're innocent members of the public.
>You can break the law. You just can't avoid punishment. Difference is subtle, but important.

Yes and no. If you can break the law and the penalty is tolerable then you can get the same result as if enforcement is less than completely effective: People break the law and just take their lumps.

The trouble is that when a movement is only just getting started and doesn't yet have popular support, the first thing the government will try to do in the face of people taking their lumps is to ratchet up the penalties to try to deter them. And then, against perfect enforcement, the number of people willing to break the law falls off a cliff because it isn't worth spending decades in prison for the vast majority of would-be supporters -- or if it is then all the supporters end up imprisoned indefinitely or executed and the movement fails.
The norm is that police officers wear guns, the UK is an exception. But even in the UK, police carry guns and rifles during raids – especially if they suspect to be met with armed resistance (as was the case with Kim Schmitz).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorised_Firearms_Officer
Don't use it as your main repository, that's all. Store your true history in another location, and use this as a way to reliably sync your files to the hosting environment. Setting up a CI environment with automated deploys is probably better, but this is great for small projects that don't warrant that level of configuration. Also, if you do go the CI route, this could just be how the final step of copying files works, rather than rsync or something.
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I scanned over the list once or twice, but I did not see in the currency list RMB (Renminbi, Kuai), China's main currency.

Just wanted to give you a heads up.
Note that pretty much everyone has a PDF printer driver installed nowadays.
The U.S. job market is still worse than at any point during the last downturn
#fireballmer???

Microsoft is so out of touch with what people want and how to respect their current users. They're like old people trying to mix in with hip adolescents.

They remind me more of a bank than an IT industry leader.

Seriously, how can a collective group of people decide that enabling publishers/developers to manipulate the users of the their platform a GOOD IDEA?

I have no use for MSFT anymore except Windows/Office. Hope the day comes that MSFT wakes up, or someone actually competes against those products.
just going wild here, but what if say, i create a license agreement with a third-party such that anytime data is retrieved from my backend system, it trips a wire, and this third party will receive the notification that this wire is tripped.

When the NSL comes, this system will disclose information, violating the NSL. So you are compelled by law to remove the trip wire. The third party periodically requests data from me, and notices the wire didn't trip.

What law was broken by the above scenario?
What's wrong with the name 'XBox One'? Makes as much sense as 'xbox' or 'xbox 360.' Considerably more sense than Atari or Wii... And a focus on TV makes a good deal of business sense as more and more people are dropping cable in favor of streaming shows and movies. Something is going to replace that, for the most part people don't drop a service without replacing it. As far as where the games are...the XBox had 17 games on Nov. 14th (public release date). When it was retired it had 967 games. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games). It has always been Microsoft's strategy to encourage outside development of games.

The announced pricing is indeed high compared to previous releases. I don't worry that it won't come down though. The XBox and 360 did. Furthermore, since the release isn't until November I wouldn't worry about it until we have reality. There's a million reasons to announce a price early knowing you might change it.

DRM and region locking are your strongest points yet, and yet I'm inclined not to worry about DRM until the product is out and irate would-be-sellers have been emailing microsoft for a few weeks. As for region locking being a reason not to buy it at all that doesn't hold up: if you're in the US, Europe, or any of the 21 countries they've enabled you've got no reason not to buy it because of region locking. Do you seriously take your XBOX with you abroad!?

It's a bold move calling the Windows 8 experiment (yes; that's what it is) a failure given the number of copy cat interfaces we've seen. (iOS7 anyone?). Their implementation had kinks to work out, and yet we're already seeing other people improving on it. If someone as big as Microsoft can't afford to experiment with UIs we're in trouble. Forward motion! App development depends on platform adoption, and it doesn't look like W8 tablets have much adoption yet. No sense wasting development hours on something no one will pay for or through. I really don't understand your problem with this: "... the Apps sold in the Windows Store are fullscreen apps ..." Tablets are designed for fullscreen. If they weren't fullscreen would you complain the opposite? Right now all I'm hearing is that you don't like windows changing...not a coherent argument.

In your last paragraph you finally get to what I think is the main point: Windows is your 'home' operating system. And it's changing. And you don't like those changes. You liked Windows development on XP through W7. (Although I'm willing to bet you ignored Vista: changes are hard to get right, and from what I can observe Microsoft usually just goes for it and then adapts in the next version). Experiments aren't always successful, but let's give Microsoft some credit for doing them.

Thank you for sharing your frustrations, but let's be a bit more positive here: we're making leaps and bounds forward, and experiments are the quanta of those leaps and bounds.
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Show HN: iOS7 Icon Generator (webkit only (Chrome,Opera,Safari..))
Looks pretty promising!
True, but that still leaves other search engines in the dark about which links should be ignored. I thought disavow.txt might be a better solution to help us avoid The Destruction of the Web.
Let's say the inspectors would come from the countries represented in the Security Council. Would you really believe that Russians or Chinese would appoint truly impartial inspectors with no agenda?

Frankly, as bad as this whole situation sounds, I trust the US government far more than Russia or China.
The subcommittee met last Friday and unanimously recommended the motion be accepted. See http://www.gewerblicher-rechtsschutz.jurion.de/news/?user_ak... (in German). Since Die Linke have said they will abstain, the motion should pass overwhelmingly.
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I use:

sox -r 48000 -n -d synth pink

with noise canceling headphones and a relatively low volume.

I also tend to listen to:

sox -n -d synth sine %-5 sine %-14 vol 0.5

...but everyone else seems to think it's incredibly annoying.
This just sounds like a case of reality setting in. When people know a little about something, they often think they are at a far higher level than they really are. There is a word for this, but it's evading me ATM.
it may be a honeypot. I sometimes set up a bogus form under /admin/ which logs attempts. adrian holovaty on the other hand, redirects /admin/ to django docs http://www.holovaty.com/writing/admin-easter-egg/

//edit: oh, now I see somebody thought of my idea too https://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot
"Machine masters" is a bit strong, IMHO. Hashtag use is strictly opt-in. Using a hashtag isn't about machines having power over humans, or humans having power over machines; it is about the harmony of human and machine language. It's a structure that bridges the divide, opening up the possibility of more fruitful communication between man and machine. I wouldn't say it's dystopic much in the same reason that I wouldn't say it's utopic; the existence of such structures is without virtue, because virtue is a byproduct of intent, and only the speaker can decide the intent of a hashtag (or the observer and the intent of the observation), not the hashtag itself. One could use hashtags for good or for evil, but it is not the hashtag itself that decides which is which.

As to the classification of the referent case, I don't have quite enough linguistic knowledge to engage that argument properly, but that's the first time I've heard it put that way.
Good point, of course there are other search engines too and in a way a 'webmaster / search engine' interface that requires webmasters to have direct contact with a search engine when the same thing could be fixed by something the crawler could pick up is less elegant. I had not thought this through when I wrote my reply to you, you are absolutely right.
His associates Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were also arrested and are suspects.
I would venture to guess on this issue those voting in favor of PRISM and such programs are not more informed. They are most likely unaware of the consequences of such programs and what it means about our government and how they view their constituents and their power.
It'll pass in time I'm sure, but everytime I hear 'Xbox One' i think 'Xbox 1'. Some people are going to think they get some pretty good deals on ebay..

I don't know why they just couldnt have gone with 'Xbox'. Not like there is one coming out every year (let alone every decade) , like the iPad people will just say 'the new xbox'.

"Xbox One" just seems like some marketing guys idea of a good thing to patronise people and make them think it's 'the only one', 'the single device to do it all' etc.
Since the list is a lot about typing I wanted to see Liskov-Wing "A Behavioral Notion of Subtyping" in there.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=213...

I found that pretty interesting and it caused a lot of discussion.
its not as simple as that imho.

What if you had a security vulnerability on a server which contains a record of NSL's/subpoenas (for administration purposes), which is conveniently exposed on the internet. A customer could "hack" your server, and obtain the information, thus it isn't the ISP's fault - in fact, the isp claims no knowledge of this vulnerability at all.
It's different for everyone and you should try out different things. For me, a 2 disc collection of Willie Nelson helps the most since it is a moderate tempo and I have heard it so many times that it is not distracting. Also, when the 2 CDs are done, I know that I should stand up and stretch.
That's really great to hear! :)
Heh, that reminds me of all the bad scanner software I've ever dealt with in my time, and wondering how dead inside that person truly must be to have had to write it in the first place.
"For me as developer, Windows is my "home" operating system"

This is your big problem. Liberate yourself - you won't look back.
I agree I would have thought well over 70% would have found this horrific. Yet we have been "wussified" so much that many people feel anything that "keeps them safe" is worth it. So the terror propaganda has worked.....
Once upon a time Red Alert (1), one of first RTS games, won Game Music of the Year award from multiple magazines.

I was initially a bit puzzled by it: there's nothing in the music that immediately jumps at you as great. It's nice, it resembles Nine Inch Nails in some places, that's it. But then I noticed I can listen to it for extended lengths of time without problem. It's relatively subtle, and it grows on you. It doesn't resemble the "epic" movie-style soundtracks that are so common these days.

And I guess that's the point... ? Game music, especially in replayable games like RTS, need to be good in the long run or it inevitably ends up being turned off in game settings. "Epic" music makes good first impression, and in trailers, but it's short-sighted in the long run.

I'm arguing along these lines on Age of Wonders 3 forums (upcoming fantasy TBS game similar to Heroes of Might and Magic), but without success.
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The worst thing that could happen to Microsoft in the next 10 years is that they become the next IBM. MS is in danger of becoming irrelevant in the consumer electronics space, but they are deeply entrenched in enterprise IT, where they can make lots of money for years to come.

I don't think the Xbox One is that bad. No one has figured out the formula of owning the living room yet (or taking it away from cable providers) and MS is giving it a shot. I applaud them for that.

Microsoft's strategy is to own the living room.

Sony's strategy is to take the enthusiast gamers back from MS.

Nintendo's strategy is to...well frankly I don't know what the hell Nintendo is trying to do.
Ok. I can see that. Thanks for explaining.
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What technology did you use to build it? Or generate the PDF that fast?
Once I started I couldn't stop. This is my therapy for the last three 16 hour days I've done debugging our Azure-based service. My compatriot (an ex-Microsoftie) has been working with it fully for the last two months, and I have no idea how he maintained his sanity.
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What was the opinion poll of the republicans creating these things (patriot act, etc) in the first place?

$50 says that no matter what the issue is, each group would be in favour of it if their own party did it, and against it if someone else did it :P
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> For the people who got introduced to the web before me, how was "web browsing" done in the earlier decade of the Web? I'm assuming Google is not the first search engine available, but I'm pretty sure search engines were not the only way to go around.

Yahoo! used to have humans looking at websites and adding them to an index. Yes, someone would send in a link to a porn website, and someone on the porn indexing team would view the site and add it to an index.

Curation efforts like this were important. People built web-rings for similar content; Usenet FAQs listed useful sites.

But people didn't just use WWW. They used Usenet, sometimes Gopher or telnet, ftp, and email. Or they were part of some other online community that had a www gateway. The prices now seem eye-watering.

The electronic landscape in 1988 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3087928)

(http://i53.tinypic.com/2janfrd.jpg)

Compuserve - $11 per hour.

The Source - $8 per hour

Delphi - $6 per hour

BIX $9 per hour

And this is at a time when people had slow modems and usually paid for the telephone calls too. Thus, offline readers (things like BlueWave for email and fidonet) were popular.

Your last paragraph: I'd have a look through the newsgroup lists for relevant groups. I'd subscribe, fetch headers, look for a faq, retrieve the faq, and read that. I'd lurk the group for a bit, and try to do my own work. Then, after I'd learnt the group for a bit and participated in other stuff I'd try to ask a good question, with links to how far I'd got and an attempt at a correct reply.

Yahoo! was pretty good once you got the hang of rules. HotBot, dogpile, altavista (and astalavista) were also handy. But Google really was revolutionarily good.
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For what it's worth, the internals of Bottle are very clean (and extremely simple - the entire library/framework is just one file).
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Thanks! I found this bookmarlet someone already made [1] and I found a page to test it out on [2].

But it doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas why it wouldn't be working?

[1] https://gist.github.com/beastaugh/725354
[2] http://davidwalsh.name/demo/mobile-viewport.php
cybernuts?
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The thing is, RDJ is legendary for self-mythologising. As a result of this, everyone else mythologises him too. He's obsessed with messing with his fans' heads. He has openly stated in interviews that he lies about himself all the time.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-...

To be fair he could have written that stuff as a teenager. But then maybe he also owns one of Kraftwerk's original vocoders, modified to produce output in Cornish.

Apparently he also has a lookalike that walks around at his shows to divert the attention of fans.

Etc etc.