skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I thought that was supposed to happen. Perhaps it was confusing because I didn't highlight all the squares:)
In high school, a friend of mine decided to kill himself. He wanted a painless, certain, instant death, so he drove down the freeway at 80mph, aimed his car at a giant (utterly immovable) concrete overpass piling and prepared to die. As soon as his car left the regular roadbed, it went out of control, sideswiped the bridge piling, flipped several times and came to rest upside down. Despite having gone through such violent acrobatics with no seatbelt or airbag, when his car came to a rest, he crawled out the window, dusted himself off, and cursed. A few scratches and small bruises.

He didn't try it again because, he later explained, he had discovered that an out-of-control car was just a random number generator, and he was terrified of a "partial" success that would leave him still alive but permanently incapacitated and forever dependent on others without the capacity to really live or really die.

I suspect that the powerful conspirators some people seem to suspect are well aware of my friend's lesson and are equally unwilling to tolerate a partial success. I don't believe they would risk so much on an out-of-control car and a simple tree.
From the article:

When news of the PRISM program was first revealed two weeks ago, officials at Facebook, Google and other tech firms informally conferred on a public response...
For people looking for an editor in which to try out TypeScript, I'll note that there's a neat looking community-written TypeScript extension[1] for Brackets[2]. (I work on Brackets).

I've been using dynamically typed languages consistently since 2005, but I'm curious to give TypeScript a try to see how it feels. The last statically typed language I used was Java (2004), and that was not a wholly pleasant experience.

[1]: https://github.com/tomsdev/brackets-typescript-code-intel
[2]: http://brackets.io/
I wonder if this is motivated by ZEV credits; I think rapid refill zero emission vehicles qualify for a lot more credits--possibly even if no owners take advantage of the feature. So just having a few rapid recharge stations that nobody uses could be a huge financial windfall for Tesla, allowing them more profit on each car sold--again, even if owners never once swap a battery.
It's not incorrect, just misleading. If I made a Python descendant named Monty and said, "Monty retains the functional goodness of Python", wouldn't you give me flack since that's not the main point of Python?

What if I said C++ retained the imperative goodness of C?
Sun/Oracle have been championing containers (Zones) for a long time now. They have their places. However, businesses still want full virtualised systems (LDOMs).

Businesses like treating applications like appliances. They want to start up a system and not touch it again. Migrating an application to a new OS release costs them a lot of money. A zone forces an upgrade - everything on the machine needs to be rolled forward to the new release.

Since businesses typically have a patchwork of software in various levels of support, continuous upgrades can be an expensive (and possibly impossible) task. For example, the application vendor may require a license purchase in order to get support for the new OS release. The vendor may even have gone out of business, and the replacement is still 6-12 months away.

In a full virtualised platform, you're not forced to continually pay that maintenance cost. You are free to store it as technical debt and pay it in a more managed fashion.
Tor can't monitor your data itself (and put it to an identity), so it is considerably more anonymous.
don't have time to play, contributing to LLVM...
C and C++ are still the dominant languages, by far. They're still actively "standing atop the world".

Almost everything truly important today is written in one of them, or both of them. The usable, production-grade implementations of PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lua and Perl depend on one or both, as well. Most JVM implementations depends heavily on them, too.

When they're providing the foundations necessary for even their competitors or alternatives, it inherently makes them even more valuable and effective.
Comedy on Glass (Jerry Seinfeld and Judah Friedlander joke about glass)
Ok so its a piano roll sequencer with nice chrome and a locked set of mildly acceptable instruments. Sorry but this just isn't overly exciting to me in its current state.

Unlock all the instruments, add MIDI and charge for it. Then we're talking
Wow. I do wish these filtering tools we have would give an indication of just how obnoxious the site is. I didn't see anything either, but I might have linked it on twitter or something if not for your parent comment.
God is perfectly just. I have no idea who's good and bad.

I'm relaxed, personally, knowing I cannot suffer abuse and not get rewarded in perfectly balanced amounts.

If you smack me. God smacks you. I'm 100% relaxed.
I disagree.
1. Coffeescript is far from ugly, and also not particularly similar to Ruby :p
2. Typescript includes types and brackets. Coffeescript does not.
3. Icedcoffescript includes async/defer keywords. I include this last point only as a result of a personal perspective that if you're going to use coffeescript, you might as well use icedcoffeescript.
Journalists have been killed by governments (and police) all over the world, including in Western countries. And lots have been murdered by unknown persons while investigating political corruption and similar matters. Those kind of things can vary from a targeted operation to a general "go get those troublemakers by any means necessary" attitude instilled to the police.

Stuff like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Salazar

Or several of the cases in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_t...

Of course they don't go advertising those kind of things. What sometimes gets known is only due to gross cases of incompetence or pure chance.

To a guy that's into the official versions of things it can sound ludicrous. But then again, worse things happened. He would have said the exact same thing for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
Both of those would be the proper thing to do. I don't know why Bush 41 refused to apologize so vehemently, but I believe it's a political issue (especially after Bush 43 included Iran on his "Axis of Evil"). Obama was pilloried by his Republican opponents for so much as saying he'd have talks and discussions with Iran.

The U.S. has at least paid reparations. Perhaps on the eve of the election of the new Iranian president it might be possible for Obama to make that apology.

I'd hate to see that linger on for years like the way Japan still refuses to accept ownership of some of the country's actions in WWII.
If I understand the idea correctly, you'd be swapping out your (depleted from a road trip) battery for someone else's (or Tesla's, if they shifted to a model where they provide some of the batteries at the swap-out stations), and then next time you wanted to swap again, you'd get another one. Doesn't seem to me to be a factor for resale. Seems like they're pitching it instead as a way to increase the range of a car while on the road, though I'm willing to say I've misunderstood based on my (twice) read of the article.

If they are planning to release further detail Thursday, though, that'll presumably clarify.
David Holden was believed to have been killed by the CIA (either on order via Egyptians or directly). Multiple car bombs have killed journalists in Iraq, but I seem to remember a case in the US (will look later) of the brake line cut variety.
But both Solaris and Linux let you run old userspace in a container on a newer kernel.
Most dictatorships and kingships are functional when the person in charge is. The problem is that when they go awry, they can go extremely awry, and many innocent people get caught in the twists; and so the lands that had been gradually accumulated during the centuries of the Republic gradually slipped away under the inconsistent rule of the Empire. Democracies have the great advantage that, while they don't function as efficiently at their best, they never go quite as awry as Caligula or Pol Pot.

Rome, of course, had many occasions where the military was no longer willing to follow a rogue commander (the literal translation of Latin imperator, usually translated as emperor). So they kicked him out and installed a new one, in what we now call a coup d'état. The problem is, it turns out that militaries are not particularly good at determining which commanders are acting in accordance with the commonweal of the nation and which are not. The values you need to run a successful regiment are not the same values you need to run a successful country, and in many ways, they are opposite.

So I don't think that encouraging mutinies in the military really solves the problem.
The coverup continues...
"Best" doesn't necessarily mean "perfect" or "optimal".

You can easily be given several choices that are all imperfect or suboptimal. But of those choices, there could very well be one that isn't as imperfect or suboptimal as the others are. This one can be considered the "best".

That's pretty much the situation here. Given that the major players in this arena are Java, Clojure and Scala, we often find Scala coming out ahead in most measures. In this context, it can be said to be "the best".
Getting Docker to run on Linode
> That's an over-simplification that obscures the important issues. What matters is in what way their interests diverge - espionage and whistle-blowing are of no more interest to a contract employer than to the government itsel

Whistleblowing, sure, generally. Espionage on behalf of a foreign power, probably; espionage on behalf of the company itself... heck, government contractors in non-security related fields not-infrequently expend considerable effort to gather non-public information about their current and potential employers and competitors.
Google reputation in shreds; funds transparent PR stunt
If they take my (say) brand-new Southern California battery and replace it with someone's two-year-old Salt Belt battery, that's going to decrease the value of my car.
NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
If you want a container with a specific stack that's usually called PaaS. Personally I hope that tools like Docker allow some companies to focus on hosting containers (hopefully not inside Xen VMs...) and others to focus on building great stacks and container templates.
It was a donkey! ;)

Speaking of beasts of burden, I've been atop my elephant (Postgres) for about 3+ years now and I feel it's harder and harder to deal with idiosyncrasies of MySQL.

MariaDB is better, much better. And at work, when we do have clients already on InnoDB, the first choice for upgrades is to move them off MySQL onto MariaDB. All fresh work starts with Postgres. Being BSD licensed, docs and all, it's the least painful legally and technically.

http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
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Am I the only one who sees a linguistic significance between "buy in the app store" and "download in the app store?" I've always felt as though the latter implied that the product was free. The act of downloading doesn't necessitate relinquishing money, so I tend to think that "purchasing" is a more appropriate verb when linking to paid apps.

"Downloading" is a fairly specific verb that generally doesn't involve money, which is why it feels so jarring when I see it used in relation to making a purchase.

Does anyone else feel as though "purchase" would be a more appropriate verb for their copy?
My initial reaction to all the positive actions by these companies is to be a cheerleader and urge them on for "fighting the good fight", but I can't help but then turn around and be cynical. After all, as far as we know they were not proactive at all until the leak happened.

Do they have the users' best interests in mind? I honestly can't say so.
Ksplice still supports many flavors Linux and, if you use desktop Ubuntu or Fedora, you are welcome to use it for free. What you can't do is purchase new licenses for non-Oracle Linux if you aren't a grandfathered customer.

Disclaimer/Source: I work on the Ksplice team.
I wasn't even aware of their existence, but now, I feel better knowing g+ will not become a place where you have to block each game or person individually if you don't play games - like on the other social network.
Any understanding of PRISM outside the classified world seems to be incomplete. Some people version of PRISM seems to involve caching the whole Internet. That might sound implausible, yes. But we won't know until or if the whole thing gets declassified.
The force restructuring wasn't simply to rename the Dept. of War. At the time the Navy was an entirely separate entity headed by its own Cabinet-level Secretary.

With the introduction of the USAF as a separate service it was decided that instead of having 3 Cabinet-level secretaries all relating to the military, that there would instead be a single military department led by a single Cabinet-level secretary. Each military service would have their own Secretary who reported to this new Secretary of Defense.

Since they were restructuring anyways the name change was easy to throw on in the process. Honestly, the name change conformed more to the existing thought of what the military was. Many military actions had been authorized outside of a formal war status since 1798, so the military services were clearly not only about the prosecution of war. That particular change was in fact long overdue.
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Well, presumably the swapping company would make sure the batteries are well maintained. If someone swaps out a damaged battery, the process should detect that and charge them extra, and not put the bad battery in the queue for swapping.
Because we don't get to unilaterally choose, is why.
Why? I'm actually pretty anti-sugar, and was opposed to Rob's formulations for a long time because he was using straight maltodextrin for all his carbs (200 g). But 25 g of sugar per meal, with tons of protein, fat, and fiber, dramatically reduces the effect on blood sugar compared to drinking Coke or eating candy.
Female academics pay a heavy baby penalty.
Allright, you are right, but some scrutiny is better than none at all.
I've done that many times, and cooked healthy meals for a living for two years (I mean, click around the blog). There is no contradiction between the two : )
Aaaand the AppStore basically destroys Open Source since it doesn't allow distribution of GPL programs. If that's not FOSS hostile, I don't know what is...
Core JavaScript Engineers: build something worth talking about at Disqus
Indexed subscripting is available down to iOS 4.x I think — definitely available on iOS 5. It's a compiler technology, not related to the SDK.
So - your idea of a salesperson, is an order taker/facilitator then. Fair enough, reasonable people can disagree.
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Yes, yes, the post you responded to made a minor factual error. The gun control legislation passed in the wake of Newtown was at the state rather than the federal level, which means that Obama wasn't the one to sign it.

Let's try it again: Obama advocated gun control legislation using the argument that if it saves one life it's worth it.
Who said everything had to be treated like code? I just think recipes benefit from version control, plus I plan to put other stuff in that repo eventually (like Ruby scripts to help you develop your own mixes).
To be fair the iPad shipped with iOS 3.2 and has seen upgrades through 4.x and 5.x. My iPad 1 from 2010 saw a good few years of use, rather than just barely a year.
Art0044:Fuzzy Logic in the Decision Making Process
HHmm reminds me of fruity loops
Wtf SEO: Single website on first 3 pages of Google search results
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I just timed a spin-up of a 16GB Fedora 18 instance on in the current-generation Rackspace Cloud's DFW data center. It took 7 minutes and 10 seconds to complete. Launching a somewhat larger-in-RAM instance on EC2 in Oregon took over 10 minutes; I stopped timing. In my experience running an infrastructure that's gone through thousands of cloud VM launches, those numbers are typical.
That opens up a whole can of worms. How do you quantify the damage? If my battery is degraded 10% do I pay $15,000 * .1 = $1,500 just to get back on the highway? Like I said, this is easy if the customers don't own the batteries, but right now they do, and those batteries are very expensive.

I think perfecting the whole supercharging system makes more sense.
Edit: Never mind the above. By the time I got around to that first reply, I had forgotten the rather important fact that the assets were coming from a cdn.
I'm not particularly interested in maltodextrin either – haven't used it in either of the two recipes I've written. That was a sort of rhetorical stand-in for "bulk ingredients I might not otherwise have access to".

Honestly I feel like a lot of soylent people are overengineering it, using obscure, industrial carbs like maltodextrin when there are plenty of varieties of flour, starch, and sugar already available at supermarkets everywhere.
I feel like Xamarin is in the uncanny valley of language / tooling features. Close enough to working to make the brokenness feel so much worse. If it was more raw, less IDE friendly (ala Go) that would be fine... or was more polished and had a better Xamarin IDE and plugin system, that would be fine as well.

Right now, they are stuck in the odd middle, but it is still an amazing value if you are building common code cross platform apps.
I think I've seen more aimlessness than overengineering, but otherwise, yes. Simple sometimes takes a second look, and a willingness to edit during that look.
What If PRISM existed during the Red Scare?
JRuby has for a long time been a usable, production grade Ruby, and, while CRuby has made big strides in recent version, is still ahead in many ways (including threading, due directly to the JVM.)

(I think MagLev is production ready -- and used in production -- and its based on Smalltalk.)

So at least in Ruby's case, its not the case that the usable, production-grade implementations depend on one or both of C and C++.
why does one need to be "inside" the community and have gained reputation before making valid criticism?

If somebody who has never posted came out of the blue, and listed some criticisms (which are well researched and valid), it should be taken just as seriously as Tony Morris's piece.
Agreed. Though I imagine it'd be a subscription model, where if you're in the program, you won't have to worry about battery capacity/depreciation at all.

The capacity of batteries in rotation would be maintained at a certain level, and the old batteries recycled or used as storage for the superchargers. I think it could potentially cost less than the monthly cost of gasoline for most people.
Tap on a panel and select the right circle. It'll give you more panels to choose from.
Depends on your age/industry

Aus minimum wage is as low as $5.87 (for a 15 yr old)
There is one metric where MySQL far surpasses Oracle's RDBMS: Developer mindshare in open-source projects. If I'm starting out learning PHP, you can bet that I'm going to be learning Maria/MySQL and not Oracle. This has the side effect that not many open source projects support Oracle. (Wordpress? Drupal? PhpBB?) In fact, I'm not aware of any PHP projects that do support Oracle's RDBMS.

There is another metric where MySQL shines: Ease of installation. On any server I come across, I can install and startup a new MySQL/MariaDB instance by just asking for `apt-get install mysql`, or whichever package manager my distribution is using. You can't install Oracle in a single command like that. I'm not aware of any distributions that carry Oracle in their repositories, making it a pain to update and manage.
Chipotle to label all genetically modified ingredients
I think the cats vs dogs ones were a bit more entertaining.

Why is it that computers can drive cars on a highway, but they can't discern a human from a Nigerian spam bot?

The whole necessity should be embarrassing to programmers w/ access to a powerful server.

If they put CAPTCHA's on the Xcode Build command, the whole problem would be solved within the week.

Eat your own dogfood, developers.
My guess is that they're writing off the full value of any bad loans, which reduces their taxable revenue from other sources. That must work out better for them then trying to get the loans paid back at reduced rates. Maybe they write off all of the high-rate interest for a 30 year loan period, which is way more than the likely income from a lower-rate loan over the same period. Nevermind that they could never actually collect the whole term's interest at the high rate.

Whenever you're trying to figure out BoA, you have to keep in mind a few rules: they cheat, they steal from their customers, they lie to everyone including the government, and they do whatever gives them the most profit. You can assume their actions make perfect sense in light of those rules, if you knew the the accounting.
High overhead, but if it can be done quickly and for a not exorbitant price, probably a winning idea. I imagine they'd charge people a yearly service to be in such a program.
Sounds like they are using the username as the key in their DBs, which sounds like the ultimate case of any pain:

Could the method for computing canonical usernames based on nodeprep.prepare() be salvaged? If not we would be in trouble since we use canonical usernames in various databases so that changing how to derive them in a non-backwards compatible way would be quite costly.
I once worked at a company which had a form of the two-person rule for production changes. The company's change control team thought that by requiring a second person on the development team to 'certify' that the change was 'good', they could cut down on some vaguely imagined problems.

What really happened:

Bob (via IM): Hey Mary, here's a change request link, can you hit 'approve' real quick?
Mary: Done

I bet that some slightly more sophisticated version of this will happen with this new 'two-person' rule.
Why would this be so? MariaDB started from the same source tree that MySQL had. In order for performance to drop, a Maria developer would have to intentionally commit changes that lower performance.
I was really sad to see BattleBots go... The only sport I could actually sit through.
Other instructions to get started with docker:

* Docker on Rackspace: http://blog.docker.io/2013/05/running-docker-on-rackspace/

* Docker on Digital Ocean: http://blog.docker.io/2013/06/running-docker-on-digital-ocea...

If you have installed docker on another hosting provider and want to share your notes, let me know.
Google Games failed because Google+ is really just not that popular.
I laughed for far too long at this picture: http://www.schneierfacts.com/images/bruce-schneier-4.jpg
> If that's true, you should be able to provide an example.

Are you saying you're not aware of any retribution killings for journalism? I'm all for skepticism, but I've always understood that to mean it's your own problem to dig into this stuff. Asking for citation on a common knowledge item does no one any favors most especially yourself.

http://cpj.org/reports/2005/05/murderous-05.php
maybe you are a robot................
References please? I want to know more about this.
Google much?

http://www.ire.org/about/history/
Thanks. I'm Australian, I just left very young and never really went back, and hold multiple other citizenships as well. Definitely going to hassle my local consulate about voting this election though.
Well that's nice. Now I know how they'll get to that yottabyte.