skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these studies underestimate how lazy a well-fed cat is. Lots of annecdotes ahoy!

I feed (and fix and tame and try to place) a decent number of local strays. In the past five years I've only seen a cat really hunt twice - after being thrown out of his house (but before realizing I'd feed him) he killed and ate two squirrels. There has been maybe half a dozen mice and voles, and maybe twice as many cicadas. I've seen cats watch birds but I've never seen them pounce. Only very hungry cats bother with hunting fast moving prey, and our local bird population remains stable. (Counterpoint, I am pretty sure everything here nests in trees and out of reach of all but the most determined cat. Other areas with lots of ground-nesters are probably more vulnerable.)

What has been wrecked is the local snake population. The area used to have small, cute and harmless Northern Brown snakes everywhere. Adorible things, about 10 inches long and become tame after 15 minutes of handling and never bite. Every spring I'll pull a bunch of these snakes out of the jaws of a cat, maybe half survive. Snakes are too slow and irresistible to surive a bored cat.

Feed the cats and the birds will do fine.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storeria_dekayi
Imagine if you had a meeting scheduled at a place and when you arrived with some unannounced parties it was already known who your compatriots were because of your last calls and proximity to those phones prior to arrival. Wouldn't that be crazy if that happened, just plain non-nonchalantly, without any kind of checks or restrictions or restraints.

People are going to be lulled back into complacency by the same people who have exhibited their absolute lack of trustworthiness. There is something seriously wrong with the human condition as exhibited by the apparent inherent trust placed in those who one should trust least. If one is willing to lie to Congress with assurance of impunity, why would one ever tell the truth about anything to anyone.

Hate to break it to people, America is under a dome of propaganda little different than that of most other autocratic regimes, we simply are far more sophisticated about it due to several unique circumstances. Ever wonder how one could believe the propaganda in dictatorial regimes of the past and present? Well, you are living it right now.
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I just wanted to point out that, from the Ars Technica article above, "only one person can be playing the shared copy of a single game at any given time". That, to me, really sounds like its either you OR someone on your shared list, not you AND someone on your shared list.
How does one go about creating (and sending) a PDF from a web form (like Invoice-o-matic and billable.me)?
The $200,000 software developer: We can build him, we have the technology
Here is how I work on heroku, use a branch, rebase and force push to clean your commit logs:

git checkout -b heroku-setup
# make some commits
git push -u heroku heroku-setup:master
# oops, something was wrong
# make some more commits
git push
# ok, everything is working
git rebase -i origin/master
# squash/remove commits
git push -f
# test one last time
git checkout master
git merge --no-ff heroku-setup
git push
You can rewrite history. This is a bad idea if other people are collaborating on your project, as the new history will be mismatched with theirs. It can still be done safely when properly collaborated, or if you're alone just go for it.

http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/01/31/intro-to-rebase....
Content-based image classification in Python
With Azure websites (in preview) deployment of Mvc4 projects is in the matter of seconds (I have been using it for some months). If you fork a hosted service, yes deployment does take time if you use the official way. Afaik, you can also use the accelerator for web roles [1] to reduce this delay considerably [2].

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/07/12/now-...

[2]: accelerator is no longer being updated (afaik), chiefly because Azure websites are designed to handle the scenario it was developed for.
I'm pretty sure the $$profits are because of dna finger printing technologies. No cures have been found.
Ok thanks, I'd just wondered if i was missing something.
phantomjs could fix that for you.

http://phantomjs.org/
Excellent link! And the terms are explained, too.

EDIT: I just clicked the link 'simply rain' on that site- that is more like what I listen to.
This is awesome. Been waiting to use it!
It's built on node.js, there's a great command line tool called wkhtmltopdf:

https://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf
He now works at the Apple Genius bar?
Agree. I do not mind surveillance so far it is applied to all - bar none, and all the data is available to everyone. When police and judge label me sinner, I should be able to see how saintly they have been and only those who never sinned can throw stone at me.
You make some interesting points, but I don't think it really addresses the heart of the issue.

In terms of marketing, the Xbox One isn't as pleasing to many people as one would come to expect (but then again, Wii U isn't doing much better). I think the naming should have been given a little more consideration, but I don't think that's really anything more than a sub-issue with the platform.

The pricing, however, is. As a marketing team, what needed to be done was addressing the newer generation of consoles and "outdoing" the other competing consoles. The ps4, to be frank, is more superior. I think Microsoft did a splendid job on design and pricing given the time they had to compete with the ps4, so they'll be given credit here. But certainly no real "wins". All of these are foothold attempts, that didn't catch on as much as they expected.

THEN the real issues start. DRM is always considered poorly received. Region locking as well, especially given the prices that are adjusted for European countries. I think the move they made wasn't rash, but it did affect a minority. I'd like to highlight this wasn't the real issue.

Your real issue is
"It has always been Microsoft's strategy to encourage outside development of games."

This is the problem. They reason Xbox 360 has SO MANY fantastic games is the Xbox indie development groups. This has helped Google's Android, this has helped iOS. Creativity is what really fosters a community of gamers. But now that indie developers must get publishers for Xbox One, the market will not be as strong.

All in all, I could nitpick over calling windows 8 an "experiment" or the use of apps in the store, or any of that, but I don't think that's the key issue.

The key issue is that Microsoft is getting competition, and we just witnessed them losing quite a significant chunk of the gaming market. The businesses went from 5+ years of XP, and only about 2 years of Vista, 7, 8, and now 8.1 .

I don't think Microsoft should be punished for moving forward, but instead they should be punished for moving in the direction that people haven't liked.
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I am curious why something engaging your creative brain would prevent you from being creative - I would think it would do the opposite? *edit: Did you mean to say it "can kill your ability to think outside the box"?
They are engineering terms, not marketing terms. The 'colors' are to give you an analogy of sound frequencies in the spectrum: White is a blend of all (audio) frequencies with equal intensities; with pink noise, the intensity falls off at higher frequencies (1/f), and with brown noise the intensity falls off faster at higher frequencies (1/f^2).
Thanks for the heads up. We've got the spanners out and are tweaking her now.

Edit: We've had a look and there is already support for CNY. Are invoices normally specified in RMB ?
> "The question is: what health benefits have people got out of it, and what will they get in the future?"

Current health benefits have been largely minimal, relative to what was promised/expected (I'm actually not sure if anything was promised, so expected may be a more appropriate word). That being said, looking upon that as a failure is incredibly short sighted and one dimensional.

When the project was started, it was expected to bring about a semi-immediate revolution in medicine. As it turns out, many things relating to genes, genetic regulation, disease, etc. are more complicated than scientists had originally thought, which we discovered because of the human genome project, so this mini-renaissance hasn't really happened. However, to develop new techniques and approaches, new ways of thinking and understanding, we needed to know about this complexity.

Arguing that the HGP has failed patient care (in whatever metrics you choose) is the equivalent to punching a horse you bought to take you on an uncharted journey which turned out to be a lot longer than anticipated. You have to go the distance anyway, no one is to blame for the extra distance, and the horse got you a lot further than you would have on foot.
Also according to some sources he has been planning for years (according to some sources he held off in 2008 because he was hoping for action by Obama). He is uncommonly bright and prepared. I don't think the choice of regions or timing can be a coincidence at all. He announced he was in Hong Kong when the leaders of both Hong Kong and China were in the US, and he has managed to very skilfully play various groups off eachother.

He almost comes across as too prepared. Occasionally I have wondered if someone was coaching him, but if he has been planning for years, he could have half a million dollars stashed somewhere (or at least a sizeable fraction of that), and he may simply have spotted his opportunity and known it wouldn't come again.
Thank you for the comprehensive writeup...even if it can be done, there is still a good amount of skill and knowledge required to pull it off...too often, non-designers underestimate the work and design considerations involved.

That said, I wonder if you are going too far in being responsive? The 1000px+ size, IMO, takes the concept of whitespace too far. For example, the third most important datapoint -- the arrival date, is located as far as possible from the two critical datapoints (price and departure date)...in the narrower versions of the site, the listings are, IMO, significantly easier to scan. I wonder if you (or rather, your users) wouldn't benefit from keeping the listings no wider than they are in iPad portrait?

The other choice, of course, is to just move Arrival Date to the left side, but that's a consideration not related to the responsive design.
NFC is really fast, and a lot more convenient. wifi connections take a while. Plus, do you really want your "wallet" to have a non-zero radio range? Think about it.
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Ask HN: the best(s) web security book for web developers
What are, in your opinions, the best web security books available for a web developer today?

The kind you would have on your desk along your Rails/Django/JS classics when building a web app with your team?
Time to update some extensions!
We'll get them with "mind bullets" (that's telekinesis, Kyle!)
I know that Nintendo traditionally has been selling their consoles for a profit, though I'm not sure if this carries over to the WiiU.

I know Sony and MS have sold consoles at a loss before.
Child abuse is not happening on the internet or mobile phone though, but usually at home. No internet surveillance is going to change any of it. You'd have to start installing cameras in every child's living rooms.
Yes, he's expected to "take the financial hit." It is illegal for insiders to trade on secret information. You're not thinking it through carefully: Nacchio defrauded whomever bought his shares at their inflated price.
IMHO relying solely on the web platform (HTML5, etc) for your OS is a mistake. I don't see Firefox OS succeed in more than niche markets - it's just purely worse than stock android in every respect.
Well, there's the up-sell :). FreeAgent does these things of details in the pay-for tool, including setting the invoice language, which translates the VAT field, for example.
Html 5 gravity and sound demo
And it's illegal to smoke outside of designated areas.
"Know for a fact that there's no machine observer"

Using a hashtag, for a lot of people, isn't a deliberate indicator to effect a specific machine state at present time; it's an indicator that machine action may take place, not that it necessarily will. So, for example, people have been using non-functional hashtags on Facebook for a long time. Why would they do such a thing? They do so because the utility of the hashtag is dependent on the hashtag already being in widespread use. If you use it now, it may become useful later.

So it's not about saying "this text is definitely observed" or "this text is definitely not observed", it's about enabling the possibility under observation, either present observation or future observation.

Anyway, I think one of the articles linked to in your article (thanks for the link, btw), kinda misses the point:

“Sarah Palin for President??!? #Iwouldratherhaveamoose”

This usage totally subverts the original purpose of the hashtag, since the likelihood of anyone searching the term “Iwouldratherhaveamoose” is next to zero.

I would say the likelihood of anyone searching the term #Iwouldratherhaveamoose is not next to zero; it's probably closer to one. Firstly, the speaker. The speaker may have no prior knowledge of the hashtag, but having thought of it, knows that someone else had thought of it. After sending that tweet, what are the odds that the speaker's very next action will be to search #Iwouldratherhaveamoose, to see who else had thought of that tag and what they were doing. Secondly, the (human) audience. Part of this is to encourage someone else to make a new statement ending in #Iwouldratherhaveamoose; so the original speaker is incentivized to search this term sometime again in the future to see if their action has spawned a reaction.
> now might be a good time to support those that want a stronger data protection directive.

I already donate to Bits of Freedom and the Dutch Pirate Party (actually I need to double check the latter) since quite a while, but I'm not sure how that directly helps an EU directive being written right now.

Any ideas? EU stuff is notoriously "far away" and hard to reach or affect (which is the one thing I really dislike about the EU, they silently passed some ridiculous things that would never fly in NL).
Beyond the default Rails environments
So, how did they not know he had left the country? IIRC, the airlines now report departures to DHS as well as arrivals (another 9/11-era law).

I think it unlikely that he had a false passport.
> [...] teenagers could never drink a beer, [...]

Or you could just have decent laws. Most European states get the alcohol laws mostly right.
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She doesn't need a "public interest" defence: as a Representative, she can't be prosecuted for anything she says in the House.
I'm not sure why I'm expected to give a shit that lots of other CEOs are defrauding the public alongside people like Nacchio.
You think it's going to turn out to be likely that Snowden could have read Obama's emails?
Every Microsoft debacle peels off a few more users. I grew up on DOS as a kid and rode the Microsoft train through Windows 3.1, Win95, Win98SE, Win2K and WinXP but jumped ship to Ubuntu in 2008 after everyone had a chance to see just how bad Vista was. I was also increasingly conscious of the cultural shift in Microsoft: away from a legendary fidelity to API stability and toward an ever-shifting grab bag of disposable fashions and fads, starting with the compatibility break from VB6 to VB.NET.
Viewing the TV implications of Valve's Steam from 50,000 feet
Except the sysadmin is more like a housekeeper than a random guy with keys. Yes, they will see everything and can access just about everything.
School vs. Life
It's called civil disobedience. If a group of congresspeople decided to hold their own briefing with the press, not much could be done and they would be heroes.

Someone of color trying to attend a state university or even just sitting at the lunch counter with someone white 50 years ago was also very illegal in this country. Doesn't mean it was right no matter how many thought so at the time and all the arguments they gave for it to continue.
I tend to agree that domestic cats with owners are not really the problem (ours when I was a kid living a farm did kill some birds/snakes/rabbits, but not in large numbers). Although cats as pets might not be killing as much as their feral cousins, the impact of a bird being killed by a cat though is a bit worse than non-bird victims. The likelihood the offspring of the victim bird will not reach adulthood is near 100% versus only 50% (or less in animals that don't require parental rearing) with other animal victims[1].

The problem is more with feral cats that people dump and have no source of food other than what they catch. Combined with most of them not being spayed or neutered, the feral cat populations in many countries grows at an alarming rate as they tend to not have any natural predators. However, that has changed a bit here in the United States with the rise of the coyote populations recently and may help to stabilize the feral cat problem.

[1] near 100% since most birds need both parents to raise their young (and will likely abandon the nest if one is killed) and the 50% coming from the chance the animal killed was a female non-avian species.
What does "barely cogent" mean in this context?
" Universal retention of provenance without commensurate universal commercial rights would lead to a police/ surveillance state. Universal commercial provenance can instead lead to a balanced future, where a middle class can thrive with proportional political clout, and where individuals can invent their own lives without being unduly manipulated by unseen operators of Siren Servers. " [1]

[1] - Lanier, Jaron (2013-03-07). Who Owns The Future?. Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
You know, the thing that gets me most about all of this state surveillance that Bush initiated but has been in place for decades now to a lesser and more controlled extent, is that it is absolutely inefficient and inefficacious. The NSA claims they have disrupted "dozens" of terrorist plots, so why not publicize them once they are disrupted? They're disrupted, they're done. The "terrorists" would have surely realized their plan didn't go quite as planned.

So the NSA disrupted some plots and turned an asset that simply told their terror boss "bummer, XYZ didn't work because I lost the keys" and he's now snitching for us. That being said, there are surely "plots" that could easily be publicized. The thing people don't realize is that under the blanket of classification lies a heaping pile of shit, corruption, incompetence, and abject stupidity.

Secrecy can protect, but more often than not is simply obscures, disguises, compounds, and perpetuates failure and corruption. Case in point, the FISA "Court" that's rubber-stamping requests. 100% approval??? At the very least there is a far too close relationship, which is more common than not in Government and Military, and is a form of pernicious, systemic corruption, and FISA requests are simply being constructed so they are guaranteed to rationalize approval on technical terms. But I can assure you, there is deep, systemic, putrid rot below the new coat of paint.
> In the scientific world there are no spammers and there is no direct commercial advantage to creating a lot of nonsense paper that cite your own paper, also there is some oversight in the world of science and the people there have a reasonably high level of integrity.

Um...what? If it were anyone but the OP, who always writes with a lot of thoughtfulness and insight, I would've assumed the graf above is satire. Academic discovery and citation is very much being gamed; the only reason why we don't notice it more is because the academics don't have the same tools and infrastructure that web spammers do and, also, the world of academic research is not something the average person outside of academia closely parses.
Deploy Java Apps With Docker = Awesome
Rebranding a startup after a pivot
Sony is opening up SmartWatch. Create and flash alternative firmware.
UK Lawmaker accuses Google of dodging taxes
PHP Weekly for 13th June
Yes, I agree with you. It is even more difficult to develop applications in these langages.
However, these operating systems are still in beta version and will probably get updates...
Even on Office, people use it because it's pretty much the only thing they can use. Not because it's a great product.

You work on a company and they have office. You didn't choose, you can't change it. It's just there.
Can you clarify? Why is "great content" == "landing pages"?
How are landing pages spam?
Schmitz had fled several countries previously to avoid being jailed, why should this time be different? Because of his vast amount of funds and his loyalty to no one, he was a flight risk, so they decided to pick him up. However, they knew that was going to be tricky. Schmitz has an enormous mansion in a rural area. He has a large security staff and a private helicopter. In the end, police “neutralized locks and cut their way into a safe room, where Dotcom was found with what looked like a sawed-off shotgun”.
What on Earth did those police think they were doing? Playing Counter Strike??
Android is a cross platform technology that is used by many companies to create all kinds of device software.

Building an app for the Samsung Galaxy S is about as hard as making an app for the iPhone. But an App that runs on both the Galaxy S Software and the HTC One Software is much easier to build that one that runs on the Apple iPhone and the Blackberry Q10

Because Android is a cross platform technology, designing an app for Android is more like doing on for the web.
Hi, have you tried the AAHack plugin? It made a difference for me when running IDEA on Arch/Gnome.
I have an invoicing pipeline in the form of a Python command-line "wizard", which is effectively in interactive form, which then fills a restructured text document, which gets turned into HTML before becoming a PDF via wkhtml2pdf. However, wkhtml2pdf is kind of CPU hungry and not that fast. How did you make that scale?
What LeVar Burton can teach you about growth hacking
I've had really good luck with certain kinds of minimalist music. In particular, Simeon Ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" seems to actively help me focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCsOL2vBJc
Most performances are well over an hour, so a nice little side benefit is that you don't have to spend much time picking and changing music.
Some thoughts on iOS 7
This is cool, but you should delete this and submit a link to the specific post http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/06/improving-photo-s... instead of the whole site http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/
There is nothing "non-violent" about an armed police raid.

And his past convictions are irrelevant on every conceivable level -- not only is he not currently serving a sentence in relation to them, they provided no basis to believe he could be dangerous.
It seems that "pure web platform" is a foundational goal for Firefox OS; it's hard to see that changing in an update, but yeah, who knows.
What are some salient examples of gaming in the world of Academic discovery and citation?
Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett, by Bill Gates
Understanding Black Holes
Referencing my comment below. Here's a phnatomjs example that will render a webpage to pdf:

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/rast...
Not all raids, no.