skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You put words in my mouth, I never said stupid. If you believe that you have to be stupid so you may be influenced by other people, you have a flawed view of human mind based on XVIII century philosophy. And it is not an opinion, it is a neurological fact.

And of course you (and me) like grilled cheese sandwiches because of influence, but it might be a different kind of influence. I remember the sandwiches from my childhood and they had nothing to do with the gross multi-pound monsters presented in (sorry) Man vs Food and other glutony glorifying TV shows.

No matter how high your IQ, if you think yourself immune to any sort of influence, you have proven yourself a mark. But if you recognize the possibility of influence and learn at least a bit of the compliance techniques, you make yourself at least partially resistant.
"The sky's the limit if the industry can learn to treat their customers with respect."

Fucking shame it is then that the customers do not extend the same courtesy.

Are you familiar with the phrase "pearls before swine"?
Almost forgot about that.
Ah... those memories!
What makes you think we can legislate our way out of this?
Enabling Google App Engine to run in the Private Cloud with CapeDwarf
Looks like my college dorm room...
Belgian.
I think that if you replace "words" with "story" then he hit the nail on the head.

The web is about a story (not just words) and those can be told through a variety of mediums, but in this case, the author used words.
And this is a good point, but I wish to add some crazy ideas

Maybe the absence of HMW-HA is boosting the metabolism in this rodents? what if those animals living in low oxigen habitats could exchange more or less oxigen by its skins HMW-HA mediated? more oxigen, more metabolic rates, more sun exposition in captive animals... cancer appears?.

Just wild speculation about a very interesting discovery; I'm not saying that this is the role of HMW-HA, I will be really very happy with the idea of a safer replacement for chemotherapy, but I wish to read studies about other possible reasons for the development of a cancer-proof system in an animal living in an apparently "not cancer prone" environment. And I'd like a lot also to have data about cancer rates in queens/kings and the other animals. There are different rates?, the same probability of having cancer in both groups?
Definitely give Inc a try. We've been using it at Scoutzie for a while and it's great to share links and knowledge among the team in a secure and intimate way.
Most likely the statement was not meant to be taken to seriously but falls a bit short of being funny.
Surely this can't come as a surprise to you.

You started a business in the same industry as freelancer.com, leveraged off their service and have an almost identical name; how did you think they would respond?
Part of PSR-0 is a standard for autoloading namespaced classes, so, if you write you're own autoloader, implementing PSR-0 is neccessary to support loading libraries using that standard.

The situation before PSR-0 was a mess of different, incompatible directory layouts for loadable libraries.
Looks like I'm in the minority for being mostly excited about a solid book on homotopy type theory!
I have no idea how criticisms over only allowing logins to a service through facebook could ever possibly be construed as trolling.
You might want to check out combosaurus.com . It's by the same people who run OkCupid and quite interesting. They are also quite good at predicting things I like based on the things I've already told it I like. What they don't have is a focus on actually meeting people.
Also based on his figures if you increase the complexity by 50x and simply its usage by 10x...you still made it 5x harder to use!.
"Poison was used unsuccessfully in the assassination of Rasputin and Kolohan"

Rasputin, most everybody knows about, but the second name is unfamiliar. I suppose it is this WW2 episode: "When an attempt to poison Holohan's soup failed, a toss of a coin selected LoDolce to go to Holohan's room where LoDolce shot him twice in the head.", in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holohan_Murder_Case
You might double check your source. Lawn fertilizer is a $5B industry, but it is usually priced at a dollar a pound, and a 50 lb bag might have 5-10 lb of N and 5-10 lb of P. USDA numbers for fertilizer use by crop are available, and based on those it looks to me like lawns account for less than 10% of the national fertilizer consumption. Corn uses 50%.

http://www.epa.gov/greenacres/wildones/handbk/wo8.html
http://www.lowes.com/cd_Fertilize+Your+Lawn_624094472_
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/fertilizer-use-and-price.aspx#26720
Steve Gibson's take on PRISM: optical backbone tapping
Less opportunity for guessing games and amateur sleuthing though. Seriously Bourbaki was the first thing that came into my head when reading the blog post about the book linked to in these comments.
There are already plenty of equally viable options for cheaper. I hear good things about https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/ , and it is about 1/3rd the price.
The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant
Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in 2006. I'm not sure why you are focused on "alerting the coroner." The dead body is also a easy way to alert the coroner that somebody's life was taken. The same can be said for a slit throat, giant hole in skull, ligature marks, etc. I imagine that in most situations the goal is a covert assassination not a clandestine assassination.
That's interesting. How did it improve for her?
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Maybe you are right, but maybe we can be extremist and it will still work:

http://weinzierlweb.com/words.txt

ASCII text, copied from Firefox, added links and emphasis manually and formatted with par in vim.
If you'd like to cite any examples of gamers needlessly disrespecting the games industry, in whole or in part, I'm all ears.

As for this particular instance, the DRM scheme proposed was clearly anti-consumer in nature. The disrespect the gaming community showed Microsoft as a result of it was entirely justified.

It will be some time before Microsoft regains the respect of the majority of gamers, if at all.
I found this new book surprisingly readable, but agree with your general criticism - I hope others will be inspired by this project to do more elementary open-source affordable books aimed at a more general audience. Imagine if kids could afford to buy their own maths books instead of having them dispensed by the school district with all the corruption that entails.

I quite like this book that you linked, BTW.
I am not sure about different keys. The AES key usage is always the same for encrypting individual blocks. AES is nothing but about encrypting a single 16-byte block of data. The cipher block modes build on top of AES to span encryption over multiple blocks. Some cipher modes can take in additional parameters to customize its usage. E.g. CCM can take in 64-bit to 128-bit authentication codes.
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You can't really compare Steam's DRM to what Microsoft was proposing. Steam doesn't have the online checks and it isn't your only option if you want to buy PC games. A lot of the DRM Microsoft was going to implement simply didn't make sense for a platform that was supposedly closed to begin with.
Why virtual isn’t real to your brain: judder
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The DPRK is east asian, like Japan. Southeast asia is Indonesia, Thailand etc.

Also Kim is basically Korean "Smith."
I don't get why it has to be such a big, all-or-nothing deal. Offer the same new games as downloads with the new terms and as discs.

If you want the more modern terms with their conveniences and downsides, buy it online through the console and have it tied to your account.

If you want to buy a disc, you follow the old rules. You must have the disc to play, but you can also loan it to friends or play it offline.

It has worked that way with the existing Xbox 360, except you can't find the newest games online.
I don't think it really subverts the message. The default browser style is simply unusable given the widths most people have their browser set to. A minimal stylesheet to bring it back to usability is reasonable.

The point is that people have, at times, become a bit too obsessed with style, interactivity, pictures, colors, fonts, video, audio, etc. Sometimes, you just need to focus on the content. If a minimal stylesheet helps with that (just keeping a reasonable column width, and reasonable font size, to make the text readable), that doesn't really affect that message at all.
Users don't want complexity, either.

This is not true. Users want a manageable and appropriate amount of complexity. Sane defaults, reasonable options.

In the sitcom 'Allo 'Allo, a woman is trying to set up a date with a character who's a stickler: "What if I am late?" > "Don't be late" > "What if I am early?" > "Don't be early. Be punctual."

I'm reminded of this whenever I see something on the minimalist vs flexibility wars. The answer is in neither camp, it's in the 'be appropriate' camp.
Is that just a driver limitation, or is there a problem with the hardware so the driver is written that way? It also doesn't do DMA, so I've heard bad things about performance with it for small packets.
As an engineer, my personal experience is that most feature creep actually comes from engineers. Marketing usually have the least idea, but engineers usually cause the "death by 1000 cuts".
That would be understandable if they actually hosted the content, but they don't. It's just a link aggregator.
Not sure how you think a <1MP highly filtered IG photo is better than a 8MP+ smartphone camera photo. It isn't.

The "default" smartphone photos are leaps and bounds better than IG, the only thing that will "improve" them is higher res cameras, I'm sure the iPhone 5S will see an 18MP camera with better software. Just look at panorama - that's a serious achievement in smartphone cameras.

Sharing photos is a different question/issue all together.

500px is a perfect example of an application that takes advantage of high-quality images, whether taken with a dSLR or not.
I highlight and leave marginalia in my books for the same reason.
Steam phones homes given the opportunity--Microsoft saying, hey, once a day the box phones home is completely reasonable, especially if it enables certain other features as it seems it would.
Kim Dotcom Comes to Chicago
> Drones .. are just tools, and themselves not inherently evil.

The tools aren't evil, but our authoritarian corporatocracy might be.
Apologies for the sarcasm. I was merely trying to point out that navigation may not be worth the ridiculous roaming charges, and instead just using it as a static map is possible.
I think it will take more than legislate alone but I think it would be a step in the right direction. I just really want some transparency. Recording where everyone is going and having a mass database of it and then PRISM collecting all information about who you call and your online activities is a very worrying idea and it is 70% implemented.
you broke #1 rule of the internet: "Logo in header must point to the homepage."
First time my in-laws saw "the book" they were trying to find information about vacation spots in Brazil but their grandpa's diaries were obsolete, I found a printed book a monk had written up about where the best places to stay and see were in Brazil.

I could almost see the dots connect when they realized that someone they didn't know, in Brazil, had written up a piece of information at some point that they were now seeing and using, and many people could do that. It was like looking into the darkness and suddenly seeing a firefly blinking :-)

...

My point here is, the printing press had it's impact, nobody denies that. Seeing the times changing is what leaved ChuckMcM's in-laws astounded.
Reducing either form of complexity certainly costs resources, but I think the point is that they are not necessarily antagonistic goals- they might even come as a package deal, to some degree.
It doesn't really matter because Instagram photos are generally just viewed within Instagram, and they look fine there.
In Defense of Floppy Disks: The Vocabulary of the Interface
The technology isn't going away, and public key crypto to protect your identity doesn't exist (visually) so...
Lawns in general? Damn stupid idea. Lawns in Arizona? Maybe the stupidest idea.
Building Pinterest in the Cloud
But Craigslist can be a huge pain some times. It doesn't matter how low you price something, 5 people will try to get it for half that. I've had people arrange a time to come by & buy... and then never show up or respond again. Some times people really suck. lol
It appears in the movie Small Soldiers - http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0015025/
At least the text next to it does, but will fix -- the traditional error is "blog header links back to blog vs. corp site" which we've solved for now (by not having a blog).
Some quick googling shows 45 million acres of turf of which 25 million are tended[1]. Compared to 408 million acres for crops[2]. Not definitive but it seems like agriculture is the bigger culprit. Though lawns are definitively stupid.

1. http://www.thelawninstitute.org/faqs/?c=183313
2. http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/landuse.html
Don't ascribe malice to what can be adequately explained by righteous and shortsighted self-preservation.
I don't know about the others, but the reason I didn't comment was precisely because I didn't want to log in using Facebook. Your giant trees were blocking my view of the forest.

Giving the choice between a third-party and a classic profile is the best way to go. It complicates things a bit but no one has a reason not to try your service out.
I get a different version checking now - MtGox isn't even the most demanding of Bitcoin:

icbitUSD 100
bitstampUSD 103
btceUSD 106
cbxUSD Camp 107
mtgoxUSD 109
rockUSD 109
bitboxUSD 118

It's tied with rock, and as I said, below BitBox. Looks like Bitstamp has diverged more, though.
Paying technical debt in Rust's compiler
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/diatribe.html
NSA Claims Broad Authority to Monitor Americans' International Calls and Emails
What a ridiculous article.

The statement "70% [are] on prescription drugs" is devoid of moral content. If the title had been "70% are on prescription drugs unnecessarily" or indeed "70% misuse prescription drugs", we would have had a story. As it is, the implicit title "70% are currently being treated for medical conditions, using drugs that have passed several rounds of peer-reviewed trial" is a testament to our healthcare system.

I'm not at all surprised by the statement that prescription opioid usage 'outstrips' heroin usage by a factor of 14. I'm glad these people are getting pain relief. Indeed, if the number of heroin users was anywhere near the number of people with badly broken bones or chronic pain, I would be alarmed.

This article very much prompts the question "What alternative would you suggest?"
And as I explained already, that complicates, and probably lengthens, the parsing and semantic analysis. (Instead of establishing the contents of a package before processing the current package, you have to track what symbols this packages has used from other packages, and then verify they are used correctly, or exist at all.) Which goes against their design goal.
I think its a nice idea, the core problem is what others have identified: people will send crap.

What about charging people $120 / year to sign up? and then they get their $10 /month back. No one will make money, but if you're motivated by helping out, and by relieving yourself of crap, it still could be worthwhile. And there's still tax write-offs (if it's made as a charitable org).
Would it be reasonable for a developer to ask, I want to devote 1 year of my time to open source project X, please fund me on Kickstarter to accomplish Y & Z?
You should look into this, because although it isn't advertised, you can in fact opt out of your employer's plan in a large majority of cases. There could be exceptions if your employer is smaller and/or several people have already opted out.

Couple of things to note first however:

1. It's not impossible, but it isn't likely that you'll be able to find the same coverage on an individual plan for the same price. You could choose to opt for less/different coverage of course that is more to your liking.

2. Talk to your employer... they may be quite interested in learning why you don't care for the plan. One of the reasons I so like HCSA's is that you aren't limited to such a narrow scope of services... it is basically your company saying "Hey, for medical and dental here's $2K a year. Spend it on whatever CRA figures is a medical expense." A good benefit consultant should be able to work with your employer to make their plan something that is attractive to employees.

3. Pay attention to the things your employer pays for beyond health and dental. They're probably paying for Life Insurance, Dependent Life, ADD, LTD etc etc. Some of these benefits can be a lot cheaper in the plan, and are nothing to top up. Life Insurance for example you can buy as much as you want.

4. Make sure you qualify health wise. Apply for some optional life through your employer before you go out on your own. It would really suck to be rejected privately, then not qualify for re-entry in your employers plan either.

5. I'll say this to anyone - Buy Critical Illness insurance. As much as you can afford. This benefit is such a gimmie it's not even funny. It is basically free money to you (for anything) if you contract a major illness. Buy a house with it if you want. Take a vacation. No restrictions, no caveats. With cancer rates approaching 50%, it sure would be nice to temper your chemo treatment with a new Porche or a trip to Europe wouldn't it?
I appreciate where you're coming from and I'm sorry if my earlier comments came off as snippy. But I do think the influence of design on the web has been too heavily tilted towards the publisher end and not enough towards enabling the consumer.

I have the skills and experience to retool my browsing experience for my more minimalist aesthetic, but most consumers experience the web as something more like an animated version of a supermarket checkout magazine. Since getting a smartphone a few years back, I've been especially struck by how much bandwidth is consumed on transmitting cruft on things like news stories, where the actual text is only a few kilobytes and relevant photographs take up no more than a few hundred kb; but after you pile on all the trackers, divs, ads, etc. etc. the page ends up being many megabytes and can easily take 30 seconds over a typical 3g connection.

To me that's enormously consumer-hostile to very little real publisher benefit; the more shit I have to download to see a page the less likely I am to consume news from that source and the more likely I am to reinforce my ad blockers etc. (whereas I will make exceptions for site that make restrained use of such things so they can get a little extra ad revenue or tracking data value in return for the service they provide).
For the transcript, Firefox can wrap the text with Ctrl+U and View/Wrap Long lines.

Video/audio can be found here: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/408

The details of the former occurrence at AT&T: https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager...
It takes a long time to transfer money into MtGox and with the wild price fluctuations it might be prudent to wait for a better price instead of buying at the current market price the second the transfer clears.
Sounds like Hitchcock knew what he was doing after all!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest#Plot
Twenty bucks says Soylent is a viral marketing campaign
Also, Am I the only one who now has Macklemore stuck in his head?
Good design facilitates the function and purpose of the message you want to communicate. Your example is just a handful of paragraphs, so it's easy to interpret such simple information. When you have text, images, lists, objects and dynamic content your argument falls apart.

All of the elements I just described are made up of words and/or represent words.

Sure designers can lose their way and become engrossed in decorating elements (which in some cases becomes a USP), but that's not typically the end goal.
BlackBerry and Alicia Keys Promote Women in STEM, Six Days Left to Apply
In context, I was part of the group that would eventually become the Java group (at that time it had transitioned from being the Oak group to being the 'Liveoak' group[1]) Patrick Chan had written a web spider in Java, we marvelled that it seemed like it could visit every site on the web over night :-) But mostly what it found were the 'big' web sites (computer companies, early movers in the Internet space) and students who had downloaded X-mosaic and the httpd from CERN and were playing around with early HTML.

[1] The name was a somewhat morbid joke on James Gosling's part as Sun was cancelling the Java project at the end of the fiscal year and had been split into the "part that the hardware guys liked" (Sun Interactive) and "the part no one knew what to do with." (Liveoak)
In my experience, this is usually the project managers. The engineers would love to remove the unused cruft, but the project managers don't see it as beneficial and always make other priorities.
I have to say that two man-weeks in 5 years for a feature with pretty high utility doesn't seem that much of a burden. However, I'm quibbling over words- I agree with the general thrust of his argument.
>All I'm saying is I wish employers were not involved in buying it for me.

I still don't understand this. What difference does it make? In most cases, you're getting a deal.

It's a benefit. The same way free coffee is a benefit. What you are suggesting is akin to saying that because you aren't a coffee drinker, there's something fundamentally wrong with employers providing coffee a little/no cost. Nothing is stopping you from paying for better coverage on your own the same way nothing is stopping you from going to Starbucks.

It might not matter that much to you, which is certainly fair. Tell your employer as much. I can tell you that most would relish not having to fork out as much cash as they do for their plans if they didn't have to.
Recent hire and long-time community member here. Salt has been a very fun project on which to work. Very proud of our team.
All it will do is make life difficult for autonomous vehicle startups, while the incumbent drone manufacturers will continue to design, produce, and sell drones to the FBI, for a massively lucrative markup.

Edit: just saw your edit. Technology essentially prevents physical anonymity, and if it doesn't today, it will within the next decade for sure.

I agree that what we all need is transparency.
>It's simply a question of where you want your government to spend the tax dollars it collects. Currently, they spend it blowing things up while tens of millions of it's citizens are without basic healthcare.

62% of the US federal budget goes to entitlements (Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security). That's ONLY $2 Trillion. 18.7% goes to the defense spending. [1]

Implementing Obamacare will cost $4-$6 Trillion. WHERE DO YOU SUGGEST WE GET $4-6 TRILLION? Even if you cut 100% of the defense budget it won't be not enough to pay for Obamacare.

[1]http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spe...
Average user engagement (for users who were on the site last year) is higher this year? Really?
As far as I can tell, Mueller didn't say the FBI uses drones to spy* on us. There may be specific reasons why/where drones are useful... don't really understand why this is news.

Law enforcement has been using airplanes and helicopters for decades for various purposes. What is so odious about unmanned versions of the same thing? As long as the missions are lawful, not sure why this is any different.