skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true; when I finally quit smoking after a decade of being a heavy smoker I have found that it only took a me few days to get through the physical addiction but it took me months to get over my psychological addiction (e.g. not think of smoking after eating). Adjusting my behaviour was really the hard part and it required a lot of willpower.
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>> For what it's worth, I've been watching porn now an then and it didn't spiral into more and more kinky and what not stuff for me. I still prefer "playboy style" most of the time.

yeah, and I drink alcohol from time to time, and it doesn't spiral into binging and/or addiction. But just because that is the case for me, doesn't mean it's the case for others as well...
Hah! I was hoping it would be something like that.

Even better would be something like "the password 'X' is now completely insecure, because you just typed it in a website you know nothing about, and it could now be in every password list in the world. Assuming you've done something like this before, it's time to change it."
I honestly don't much care what the courts say on this. My own personal opinion is that the 4th amendment is clear enough, and that "spy on everybody all the time" is not allowed, not even with a court order. If approval of a court were enough to allow this kind of thing, then why do police bother with specific warrants like "search address X for evidence of crime Y"? They could just get a single warrant that says "search everything for everything" and be done.

I fully expect this program to be upheld by the courts if it ever gets that far, but that's because I think the courts are largely corrupt, not because I think it's actually being done in a legal and constitutional manner.
Live video of the keynote at BUILD http://channel9.msdn.com/

Live blog http://live.theverge.com/live-microsoft-build-2013/

Ballmer being his usual trademark excitable self. http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/130...
The scary part about this is that I had two race conditions in my code, and they never manifested themselves when the code was live. They were just sort of lurking there. Now I'm paranoid about my non-Go code. Turns out I don't understand concurrent programming as well as I thought I did. Even when I thought I was being really disciplined and organized about my concurrency, I actually wasn't.
Hi, I'm one of the 2 developers, can you add an issue on GitHub and join your XML, so we can fix this?
Nix/NixOS (http://nixos.org/) is a more modern package manager/distro with many goals similar to GoboLinux, but that is actively maintained and has a number of other benefits.
You don't have to like new art, but understand it
I think he's referring to how they are arrogant for threatening them, sending them "design tips", and playing themselves up as sexy and dangerous all in the same message.

They definitely have a valid point about the plagiarism but they're being really cocky and showy about it.

Edit: Ya, they might have been trying to be funny or venting, I can understand that. But they really shouldn't have ANY kind of physical threat in there at all. Its childish and just pointless posturing.
But where does the feeds reside, local or remote?
Flexbox. It's finally almost here. I cannot tell you how long I've waited for this to be supported by default in all of these browsers... as soon as Safari 7 is released, us developer sites will actually be able to make the switch. I honestly think wrangling the hacky current layout solutions is 25% or more of my time spent with CSS on a project, so hopefully we'll be able to build things much more quickly.

Happy day.
Obama, the ‘big data’ president
Given that M$ was the first to collaborate ... cough ... err ... I mean "cooperate" with the NSA, then I guess we should consider the possibility that xbox 360 hardware has been compromised in some way ... although I think it unlikely.

(Mind you, no more unlikely than I considered some of the other stuff that has come to light).
Thank you, I have just fix the issue on Debian packaging
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Sure, there is a theming system, so you can fully customize the CSS
Have you actually used Windows Phone or Windows 8 for any length of time? The animations are very subtle on actual devices and work very well with the flat look.

Can't speak for the animations being screencasted across the internet via streaming video though which can introduce lag, jitter, FPS drops and artifacts, especially for fast moving scenes like animations. I'll reserve my judgment till I install the preview.
If anyone finds the UK in the non-sorted list of country names in Dutch with double-escaped unicode characters, could you please let me know the first two letters so that I can type it in?
I thought they were just trying to be slightly funny.
There are some incredible statistics available at the states Medical Examiner's website . http://www.ok.gov/ocme/Statistics/index.html

Just in 2010 there were thirty five thousand cases of which five thousand were examined or autopsied. Staff information is also available on the site.

I would recommend following up with whichever part of the governor's office this agency reports too. Find your local State office Senator (not the US Congressional one) as they may be more in tune with your community.
Will increasing staff make the system more effective? If so, could that money be used elsewhere to greater benefit?

Perhaps we should learn what the issue is before offering suggestions.
Ask HN: How can I learn to create an iOS application over the summer?
I am a 14 year old living in St. Louis, MO. I will be entering high school when this summer is over. I really want to create some kind of application so I figured iOS would be the best option but I am willing to try to create a web app or desktop app if that could be easier to learn.

Keeping in mind that I have no money and can't drive anywhere, what is the best free option for me to learn how to program and create an actual working application.

The public high school I am going to attend to will have some CS courses that I can take ( I think using BASIC ) but I would like to create some kind "real" of application over the summer.

What is the best language for me to learn ( iOS - Objective-C, Website - HTML/CSS/JS, etc )?
Did you guys write an article about that? That sounds supremely interesting.
Keyboard shortcuts should be in the next release (there is an issue about it on GitHub)
See Hulu, which says they still have ads in order to lower the subscription price.

http://www.hulu.com/support/article/20356372
Author here.

You're entirely correct that this part of the SMTP spec does potentially allow for dubious behavior -- and that's one of the reasons I wanted to publish this article. I have a feeling this is one of the little-known secrets of email sending which we should all be aware of.

EDIT: Also, I'd like to point one that the real textual content of a message can't differ when sending through Close.io so the scenario you explained above isn't possible within our app.
Hi! I'm part of the Ranker.io team. We use the same endpoints that the Android and iOS apps do.
I wonder if the Apple TV hardware supports AirDrop/WiFi Direct (I know the software currently doesn't) so that you wouldn't even need to have the two devices on a WiFi network for them to see each other over AirPlay.
Because rioting is an immature, knee-jerk reaction people in countries without proper avenues of political expression, e.g. the poor or uneducated, take? Riots are a way to signal the elites that the population feels some way. The U.S. has non-destructive ways of doing that, even if less emotionally satisfying than burning shit to make a point.

Note that present polling indicates Americans, while holding a positive opinion of Snowden, still feel he should be prosecuted.
The iPhone 4 fiasco
We use CSS media queries to adapt the UI with the screen size
They can't ask Udall and Wyden in private about it?

Besides, I think they already knew where the "mistakes" were, otherwise they wouldn't have retracted them if they didn't think something was wrong with them themselves.
I think they are a bit angry and venting a bit..
If classification is preventing meaningful discourse, it is time to remove the classification.
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Not technically, as they only get to search collected data with a warrant from the FISC. Now we're getting into the territory of strict vs. liberal interpretations of the Bill of Rights. In a world that could not have foreseen the ability of the US government to quite literally record everything, and thusly didn't include in the 4th amendment a protection against ex post facto search and seizure, something beyond even sci-fi at that point.
If you haven't had a chance to check out the Developer Tools in Chrome Canary, you're missing out!

Check this out: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/ti...
The feeds are remotely synchronized on the server, so you will see the same since whatever your client is (mobile or desktop)
No, because it combines cars to generate new ones. Better performing cars have a larger chance to become a 'parent'. You should check out the source, it's suprisingly readable
"best possible representation" - or you know, "least untruthful".
You're not alone. In fact, at first I thought their sites were standard Wordpress templates. I was kind of surprised they actually built them by hand. They both consist solely of what I would consider standard elements and layouts.
You don't see anything wrong with

"""
"Sentiment analysis" that can determine your mood; "horizon scanning" that tries to pre-empt disorder and crime; facial recognition software that can track down individuals; geo-location that is able to pinpoint your whereabouts, and profiling that can map who you are and what circles you move in.
"""
Of course they are :)
My condolences.

You might be able to get a more timely response by hiring a private medical-examiner/coroner.
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Man these guys are tripping. I see some resemblance but really how can you complain about someone following the same design trends that you are. Sorry to say if this is plagiarism, then so is 90% of the web.
I'm not sure about what OP was thinking, but I felt the same way. The article seemed to have mixed messages. One was, "how dare you steal from us" and the other was "Everyone steals".

Looking at the two sites, they were both using such common web design styles these days, that I would have assumed they both based their site off of someone else's.

If I were them, I would have stuck to the second argument, realized that no idea or design is a unique snowflake and everyone steals constantly.
Can you please create a better description of what this is and how we use it? I've read all the pages and it's still murky. Is this a reverse proxy from your server to our local machines? Is it essentially a hosted version of "ssh -R HostedServerIP:HostedServerPort:127.0.0.1:80 ngrok.com" ?

If so, the very first thing on the page should say: "Inspect the traffic to your web server with our free service", and then provide a little more detail like "We provide the public website. You just run our tool to connect your development site to us and watch the traffic flow in."
Yeah. Also disappointing is the tendency to be completely oblivious (it would seem) to the difference between correlation and causality. For example:

At the 2003 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers meeting, two-thirds of lawyers reported that compulsive Internet use played a significant role in divorces over that year, and 56 percent of those divorce cases included a partner who had an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.

i.e. one of the partners was using porn as a band-aid to ease the pain of a much deeper problem -- which typically takes one of 3 forms: (1) both partners love each other and are doing "everything right" but one has discovered, before the other it would seem, that they just aren't really compatible sexually; (2) they're still hot for each other, but other distractions (fighting, money, kids) are getting in the way; or (3) one of the other parts has "discovered" that they have a different chromosomal preference.

Nasty and potentially intractable issues, indeed. But porn watching by itself -- even excessively so? In comparison, not so much.
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Glad to hear my efforts have helped you out; let me know if there are any other fundamental workflow / webdev topics that you would be interested in learning more about and I will add them to my screencast backlog :)
This is true there isn't a standard for RSS feeds synchronizer, but Sismics Reader provide an open JSON API, so you can write whatever client you want, on any platform you prefer
An RSS reader that won't use the "j" and "K" keys to iterate forward and backwards through the articles is useless to me.
This is an article designed to generate rage-views. Greenwald isn't going to jail.

Tim B Lee is HN's Rush Limbaugh, getting people into a lather about things that might happen (in the sense that they wouldn't violate any laws of physics) and getting them to freak out about that.
Except that it's not, even.
The full screen, multi-colored tile metro screen is subtle and not jarring? The one that pops up whenever you want to launch a new program, completely removing any context of what you are currently working on? Is that what you're actually saying?

The strange rotating 'subtle' animation you are trying to say makes up for this just makes it all the worse by putting completely unnecessary 'bling' all over a workstation.
this renders as a map for me:

https://github.com/johan/world.geo.json/blob/master/countrie...
Incorrect.

Fair and balanced does not mean you have to mix facts and conjecture; that's what editorials are for. The problem is that journalism today blurs the lines between the two.

Halfway between the truth and a lie is still a lie.
Ok, share your hard drive with us, let us download something you've worked on for 6 months and then complain.
Thumbnails and go-faster stripes
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Suggesting and optimizing your shell aliases, programtically.
Direct HDMI is higher resolution than the Apple TV's AirPlay, which is still capped at 720p. You can work around this by streaming to a computer directly plugged into the screen (e.g., a Mac Mini) running something like Air Server (http://www.airserver.com/), which will allow a 1080p signal.
Quit Firefox, vi into pentadactyl.xpi in your profile, edit install.rdf inside the xpi file (it's just a ZIP file) and modify the max supported version to 23. Save the install.rdf file, quit vi and start Firefox.

Pentadactyl will work, with some minor regressions (e.g. Google home page search box now steals focus) and 's' (google search) command prints error message: Error: TypeError: keywords in null, but the search works.

But otherwise everything else seems to work.
You're correct. Airplane Mode by default turns off Wi-Fi, but if you manually enable it, you can be in Airplane Mode and have Wi-Fi. This works well.
My disagreement was with the following part of what you said earlier:

...if you assume justices are outcome-seeking based on ideology, then there is no reason that procedural justifications for a preferred outcome would be treated any differently than any other justification.

My point is that the connection between the specific outcome of the case, and the outcomes that the justices care about, tends to be weaker for procedural decisions than merits decisions. Therefore we should treat procedural decisions differently from merits decisions. In particular, we should be more cautious about assuming that the underlying ideology matches the obvious headline.
I guess I don't see how 20 installations would be nearly enough to track all or even most internet communications in the US. Given that core routers are on the very edge of feasible performance, I don't see how you could do substantial spying there, which means your spying has to be closer to the edges, which means a lot more than 20 installations.

Moreover, such a large scale program really wouldn't centralize data in giant data center in Utah. When you're dealing with this much data, you need to process locally because the costs of transmitting data volumes that large is prohibitive.
I worked at an AV company where I wrote a small video capture application that feature some basic CMS features. After a while it started to become a pain to maintain, so we decided to look for something off the shelf. The first vendor to come in and demo a product showed us a UI that was our design, pixel for pixel, with only the name changed.
California is an entirely different level of crazy. You guys are steadfastly determined to pay way more than you need to for services that usually kinda suck.

Hell, there was a reality show that visited people doing jobs that made things in the US when they visited the San Francisco fire department's ladder factory. Yes, the SFFD manufactures it's own ladders. (http://www.sf-fire.org/index.aspx?page=1004)

I live in NY, which is similarly insane. The per-pupil costs to send a kid in my small-city school district (plus fund the gaggle of Charter schools) is over $26k/year per student. I could literally send my child to a catholic school for 50% of that, or an elite non-religious private school for about 75% of that sum.
> Stallman had this to say upon his induction: "Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy."

The man never misses an opportunity to try and get people thinking about the issues that matter.
You can trampoline in JavaScript too. I showed how the performance may not be as you expect: http://taylodl.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/functional-javascrip...
I'd say I'm design blind. From the examples in the post I would say, yes the sites have a passing similarity, but many, many company webpages look very similar to those two. The color schemes and layout details are different, the logos are quite different and the wording is different. So, to me, this is not plagiarism. Perhaps a telling comment on the sameness of a lot of design on the web.
This stuff is defn in books ... check out the O Reilly book on MySQL. I think they have a few chapters on this topic.
This is incorrect, there have been successfully flown, actively stabilised, passively unstable model rockets made by amateurs before. E.g. Gyroc in the UK.

michael.sdf-eu.org/Gyroc/

There have also been a few in the states. All passively unstable too.
You have to be viewing the file itself, not the repo
Yes, I just posted the same sentiments before I saw your comment.
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No, outing the plagiarizer was appropriate. The tone of the post was what was arrogant.
Correct. But you can start with the low-hanging fruit, i.e. use http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ as your new social network & secure communication.
"Adequate" is an interesting word :-) We don't consider DRBD in anything other than synchronous replication mode to be reliable, which puts a fair performance penalty on it.
I'd take a step back, and ask: Do you enjoy coding? If you do, then just keep doing it. The rate at which your skill progresses really depends on you, subjectively.
Not to speak out of turn here but my read is that Rayiner seems capable of holding two thoughts in his head at the same time: that robust policing is important and necessary, and that like most things it can be abused.

It's you I'm having trouble understanding in this thread. What point are you trying to make? Could you try distilling it into a sentence or two, instead of writing allegories about "Orwell Camp"?
Who's been using Adblock Plus after they whitelisted sites behind your back? It jumped the shark. Move on to one of the dozens of lightweight, superior forks.
And, don't forget all the shortwave radio stations that have constantly been broadcasting forecasts and alerts for decades.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrrcvr.htm

And let's not forget NIST...

http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm
I was thinking the same until I saw the run through. It seems quite obvious that they copied, to the extent that even minor details are there. However, I still think that the design is a trend, and it's a common pattern that you'll find hundreds (thousands?) of sites follow, not to say copy. And it's obvious that Infinium did not come up with the style.

I would like to see if they used similar CSS classes (which anyone probably can check in 5 minutes, but we can't be bothered... it's a common design pattern, yeah).
72% Think NSA May Have Monitored Congress, Military Leaders, Judges
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Make the age to enter the military and the age to drink alcohol the same
I wanted to shout "Get your touch screen shit out of my server rack." Then I realize that I can run Server 2012 without a GUI or not. (evil smile)

The one good thing about Windows 8 in my world is that it's forcing people to make decisions they have been putting off for years.
There is no "best" language. Developing an iPhone app would be fun and maybe impress some girls (or boys) :)

Learning Python/JavaScript and building a web app is probably more useful if all you have is one summer. It can take a while to get really good with Objective-C. That said, Objective-C is a superset of C, which is used in many computer science classes. If you're going that route, there is no better time to start learning than now!

Personally, I like the Big Nerd Ranch books. They might be carried by your local library. The Apress books are also good. Any of the beginner books are suitable learning tools; you just need the self-discipline to work through the entire book.
An HTML5 version of the Portal end credits
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No, but what does that have to do with whether or not this article is a smear (which is the context of my comment, where the person I was responding to thought the article was a smear).

Shitty, lazy reporting? Sure.
If you are familiar with another programming language, and able to DO programming, then, on average, it wouldn't take longer than a month. That would be sufficient, I GUESS. I built a social networking site in PHP in the last semester. And it was my first PHP web-application! I did learn PHP (and Relational databases) in a month before that.
I made a post about it, if you want to see (http://xworkspace.blogspot.in/2013/01/build-your-own-social-...)

But it all really depends on the amount of time (with brain) you spend on learning. :)
Ah, as long as you know when you're going to get out if it goes sideways I feel a lot better about your sitch :)

Best of luck!
The capacity to aggregate the capabilities of individual humans is greatly improved, but the way we vote has not been adapted accordingly.

All voting systems currently assume the capability of a voter to aggregate all the knowledge in the world into asingle rational decision. This is impossible, one person can never know enough to rationally vote on anyone or anything.

We need a whole different kind of democracy, one which aggregates individual knowledge instead of reducing it to insignificance. I don't know what it should look like, but i do know i've not seen it yet.
Related talk at the last HOPE conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az7txN0599M