skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that was not what I had heard, so I'll assume I'm mistaken and apologize.

And then go read the damn law for myself. (Perhaps it's a good thing I mentioned Obama wasn't President at that time. :O)
The link for the IE Developer Toolbar in the original article carries a date of September 19, 2005 in the URL. Which makes sense, because it was demonstrated at PDC 2005, which was the previous week.

Link: http://betanews.com/2005/09/19/microsoft-issues-ie-developer...

Note also that the release notes for Firebug v0.2 state: "This is a very early release - the code is only a few days old." Whereas the IE Developer Toolbar probably began a couple of months before its first release. So even by looking at the first mention on the web, we're comparing a days-old Firebug to a fairly-complete IE Developer Toolbar.
Thats a whole different discussion though.
if you lean more towards web dev...then you most deffeintly dont need school..web programming is dead easy even for a beginner who has never touched programming. application/desktop programming is a little more involved...the main difference being web dev is mostly more cosmetic(eg change something a refresh to see its output) compared to the compile-link and run phase of application dev... I honestly think if your passionate about w/e your learning then your employer(if he/she actually cares about the quality of your work) will hire you without a degree/diploma (im not suggesting you drop out of hs)
Anything that pushed native over web in my mind is a step backwards. Let's think about the challenges that come along with native ios apps:

- Less accessible. Objective C is a strange, low-level, difficult-to-learn, niche language used only for mac development.

- More work. See above explanation of Objective C. You need an IDE to even be remotely efficient, an IDE that Apple also controls.

- More work to port anywhere else. Popular app on iOS and want it on android? Time to rebuild the entire thing from scratch in another language!

- More expensive. Want to sell your app? Better give Apple their 30% cut, in addition to the yearly fee in order to have an app of any sort.

The common theme of these points being that Apple wants control over everything, and has control over everything. But that's a point for a separate rant. My point here is that the web has none of these drawbacks. The web is a uniform interface across devices, the languages are fairly simple and widely used, and the environment is open.

Apple could still take control and sell web apps, but they seem to be very purposely not doing that, and pushing native as hard as they can while occasionally implementing a buggy web app feature here or there. It just makes me sad. We don't need parallax when we move our phones around. We don't need blur effects everywhere. We need an easy, clear, open, and accessible way to develop apps for mobile devices.
I have a shiny new DNSimple account I need to add some records to. This might be the time to do just that
Thanks. That's why I was considering contacting them first about it, before going the legal route.
You are being obtuse; Einstein, Mandela, and gay marriage are not religious topics. I would expect that they would tread lightly around Mother Teresa, being not only a religious figure but a particularly controversial one (read: accusations of human rights issues. Proper heavyweight controversy.)
Frankly, I have no idea why it's not being served over HTTP (there must be a technical reason, Wladimir is a HTTPS zealot), and I'm not sure why the corrections URL is not configurable. I bet we discussed that in the blog or the forum, but unfortunately the site's down right now :(

As for correcting URLs that do exist, I think the idea was to avoid phishing sites and parking sites. But IIRC we did have a considerable number of false positives, so it's a questionable approach.

I'll argue for removing it from ABP now. URL Fixer is from us as well (it's the same code we have in ABP), so anyone who liked it can just install that. I'd rather have ABP do one thing, and do it well, feature creep is a thing...

Edit: It's decided, we'll remove the feature.
To add more anecdotal evidence, I too had childhood asthma (was on a ventilator when very young, inhalers until ~16) and am a "natural" stomach breather.
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13 years in prison for scribbling stuff in chalk.
Yeah.

Just wondering who, exactly, will be going to jail, and how much time they'll be serving to account for the various mortgage fraud & other abusive practices BoA has been engaged in systematically over the years, e.g.:

- http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/24/bank...

- http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-forec...

The answer, of course, is almost certainly no one.
I've done both. Although I registered the domain first. I'll look around some place that offers a free consultation. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Personally I wouldn't want to do the instance plumbing by hand.
You last claim is simply not true. There have never in the history of human history been so many artists out there. If anything it's the amount of competition amongst musicians that is pushing the returns down.
It's a first-party add-on. Support doesn't come in the box (as far as I know), but it is developed by Microsoft.
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I think this is what emscripten is for: You have some _great_ code and want to port it to the browser platform. But I'm afraid Git relies heavily on the "Posix runtime" that is not supported by emscripten, since emscripten does not try to emulate an os.
I do have the twitter handle. The problem is that they are using their Twitter name as the same as my trademarked name. So while my twitter is: twitter.com/ActualTrademarkName their twitter is twitter.com/NotRelatedToTrademarkName but what they call themselves on twitter is ActualTrademarkName. Does that make any sense?
>I'd rephrase that as ios7 was clearly made to catch up with android 4 and holo, but maybe that's just me.

Catch up? Actually it was more of a "let's go another 100 miles ahead, Android seems to be catching up finally to were we've been the last 3 years".
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I love the new streams API. A 0.8 based Node project I had had to have a messy, callback-filled ad-hoc flow control system because advisory I/O pauses weren't enough to give bounded memory usage (in practice, not just in theory) and the general lameness of the old streams meant I minimized their use.

I was able to re-write the I/O pipeline into a handful of Streams2 transforms, I was able to ditch a few hundred lines of ugly code and what's left is vastly less complicated.

I agree with the author that it's kind of lame that objectMode streams appear to be second-class, I guess the Node people think everything should be a raw data pipeline annotated with events for a data channel, like 'npm tar' does? I can't quite wrap my brain around the object-hate.
Disproportionate would be more than 100%. As you said: the consumers are willing to pay a certain amount. A share of that amount can never be "disproportionate". Are you demanding the same humbleness of yourself when you negotiate your salary?
This is what happens to graffiti artists, though. If you get busted you get charged for every instance of graffiti that looks similar to what you got caught doing.
"Seymour" is a character counter extension for Google Chrome. Extremely useful
I hate mention of marriages failing due to "compatibility issues". It's a total mockery of the intent of the institution. When you marry, you covenant to society that you will make yourself compatible with your spouse, even when it's difficult to do so, as long as these terms do not breach a handful of fundamental contractual obligations implied by the marital covenant.

If one is "sexually incompatible" with his/her spouse, they should talk about it, recognize the issues, make compromises, and move forward. They should also recognize that while sex is meaningful and important, it can't be a deal-breaker for a marriage -- what happens when a partner contracts a medical condition that precludes their participation in intercourse? This should be recognized as a possibility going in, and people should realize that they can't allow sexuality to overwhelm and consume larger, more important pieces of their relationship. Pornography can cloud this crucial perspective.
This advice is wrong. Try turning off an older feature phone's regular operating system, and then plugging it in to charge. Many of them will immediately come alive with a "charging" indicator on the screen, even when supposedly powered off. This pre-boot mode is perfectly capable of turning on the mic and recording what's going on.

Combine this kind of thing with a database of phone remote expoits and it's easy for the NSA to "upgrade" your phone's software and turn it into a bug. This is what Snowden means when he talks about "poor endpoint security." It doesn't matter how secure your fancy encryption applications are when the phone itself can easily be hacked.

Sometimes they don't even have to remotely push software. There was a recent scandal about Carrier IQ, a system on smartphones (Android players and iPhone) that by default was recording every tap, every virtual key pressed, every incoming/outgoing SMS, and more. Anyone with the device connected to a PC could take the forensic log off the phone and see basically everything, even in the past. With per IP logging and billing on mobile plans, as Snowden's Verizon leaks showed, the NSA can just have your phone upload that log anytime they like, without a trace on your bill or data usage.

It's a scary world of surveillance in 2013.
link submissions net a lot more points them comments, and for a lot less investment. I wish I could have the option only look at points people got for comments, or to split the two, or to show a ratio.
Clef launches, offering a replacement to passwords on the Web
I'm sorry, I assumed that it was common knowledge that getting printers setup, especially in a team or enterprise environment, was some of the fucking worst and most annoying work you'll ever run into in IT. That it was common knowledge that proprietary driver bundles and features and whatnot are the bane of any consumer, and that interoperability was a fucking joke beyond the most basic of printing features (if then).

I figured it was also plainly obvious that the article suggests strategic partnerships creating this support, which very strongly indicates that the print support will be either some gnarly plug-and-play driver nonsense or weird stilted API defined by Microsoft.

I'm rather fond of the current "give me g-code I'll emit parts" model, as it is very open and hackable.

EDIT: By all means, downvote me. We all know printing sucks.
Well if you use the system package manager, and it doesn't support and use differential updates, then you have to download the whole package from your distribution's repository.
Sure, but it took him a while to get to the stage of accepting what he considers "the lesser evil" (talking about Steam from his point of view).
What you say may be true, but it's only relevant to the question of what we do with that part of the discussion. It doesn't, by any means, mean it's not something we should be aware of.
I'm not saying "omitting Easter is inclusive because not everyone is Christian". I'm saying allowing Easter to be overshadowed by something else occasionally is inclusive. If it has to be about you every time, year after year, that's not inclusive.
No sarcasm at all.

For the majority of the population, they have either never heard of echelon, never took it seriously or have outright dismissed it as a crazy conspiracy irrespective of the previous proof.

I think of all these things are coming out now as an opportunity to have a serious discussion about wtf the US (and humanity) is doing.

It's time to work as a global civilization. Our resources are squandered on creating truly a prison planet (no reference or credit to Alex jones).
The stats are the same for Scala and Python ...
A GUI widget then.
So did the mad doctor in the Human Centipede. With similar results.
I think you meant 'performance' instead of 'capability'.

As far as 'performance', Apple has never been one to put performance numbers up as a selling point. Macs have never been marketed as an X (M|G)hz machine with Y (M|G)B RAM. Those were details Steve felt should be abstracted away from the user. So, I'd agree with you that the success of iPhone has never really been driven by 'hardware performance', as that is the popular habit of Apple.

That said, it remains that iPhone is still a fairly powerful smartphone, as they come, and the author seems to be arguing (rightfully so, IMO) that Apple is cashing in on that fact through leveraging that for the aesthetic design of their software.

Arguably, all mobile OSs have to be built with some amount of mindfulness to the performance of the lowest common denominator device. Android could be pretty low, whereas Apple's lowest common denominator device for iOS 7 still has moderately powerful specs.
FWIW: https://github.com/mannkind/IMAPEncrypt

It works, but it's cobbled together and still has some issues I haven't been able to resolve.
Right? I feel like for the first 4-5 years it was whining that Android stole everything from Apple (arguable) and then after that it was whining about iOS leaching Android features.

But now... who cares? Or has the effort to care? Look at both of the latest platform releases. It's new APIs. It's new services. It's new ways of giving them more data to improve their services. They're working on UI and UX issues and small features.

We've reached such feature parity - I honestly believe a choice between iOS/Android/WP8/RIM is going to give you a good, fairly polished experience. (The biggest differentiator left isn't bullshit gradients and transparencies; if anything it's personal preferences or App availability [I need my Google Voice!])
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If you sit still, exhale a little, and let go of any conscious effort to breathe but also don't hold your breath, you will eventually start stomach breathing automatically. Or at least you will if you're me. It's kind of interesting.
I disagree with this, strongly.

I was a double english and math (cs-emphasis) major. I went to grad school in Industrial Engineering/Operations research because I wanted to study a field where engineering type thinking is applied outside the traditional engineering fields.

The things I've learned in engineering and science classes constantly influence my thinking outside these fields. For example, I recently did a computer science programming assignment (coursera data structures) about percolation and phase transitions. Immediately, I started seeing the model in so many things - vaccine coverage in a population where people start to opt out, availability of housing, the dating scene as people start to pair off and get married. Any probabilistic process where things seem steady state until the last moment, and then a sudden shift occurs. I know my example may be a little trivial, but that's the point - some of these are silly, and probably very misapplied, but other times, they lead to extraordinary insight. My thinking about a very wide range of things is deeply influenced by may background in math and engineering. I constantly build math models in my head when I read the news. I see it as a basic form of literacy - and you only get it if you really engage with the kind of difficult math typical of STEM fields.

I really think that humanities students are in greater danger of ending up narrowly focused than science students. Even if I hadn't majored in literature, I (like most STEM students) would have had to take a substantial amount of history, art, literature, foreign languages, and so forth as part of my GE requirements in college. The math and science requirements are typically far less rigorous for humanities majors.

It's a terrible mistake to think that math, science and engineering aren't essential components of a broad, liberal education.
> Similarly, children can draw a hammer and sickle for fun if they want. However, should you put it on a flag and fly it in front of your house, don't be surprised if people draw conclusions.

Even more extreme: Swastikas in the decorative masonry in a government building? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greca_a_svastica_-_palazzo...) Don't expect much controversy. Swastikas on a flag in the same building? Expect an issue. Something being in a flag or not is an incredibly important context that must be considered.
Oh, but isn't that just a failure of their business model? If I can only survive by offering cakes for $5 and buying them for $1 the "threat" would be wholly self inflicted (At least, that is the song which is sung on HN to artists, the "too bad your business model sucks")
Responding to iOS 7
If, simultaneously, congress removed the compulsory licensing radio had to pay (or, alternately, raised it to match Pandora's on a per-listener basis) and the FCC also removed restrictions around Payola, record labels big and small would probably be happy to subsidize the difference for radio stations because radio (unlike Pandora) is super-effective at advertising higher-revenue-generating products like local concerts and physical CDs.
Just flag it if you think it's off-topic.
I'm not seeing the connection between the asofterworld post you linked, and this topic.

However, I do think that the page behind the hidden heart is most adorable.
I think people are missing a big point here, in the age internet pornography a lot of us can be exposed to some pretty weird shit potentially at some really young ages. We don't get a chance to talk about those things rationally and reasonably because of societal pressures and psychologically that's not a great thing.
"Which is why women find it so threatening."

I would add that women also don't understand it because they don't operate visually as men do (with respect to sexual images).

Now, I'm not sure that's the best way to put it but the fact is that there is only a fraction of porn for women vs. porn for men. No market apparently?

If there was an innate need in women for porn and sexual images there would be a market created for it and there would be much more porn targeted to the female market.

Back in the day there was pretty much only 1 printed magazine with images of naked men "Play Girl". And some would argue that that was actually read quite a bit by gay men as opposed to women. But there were dozens of magazines which a man could buy. On a newstand at least.

If women were stimulated the same way as men someone would have exploited that, right? But they didn't.

Same with the internet. (Wouldn't want to guess at the ratio if anyone knows please post.)
That's the old Google Maps. In the new version no plugin is required because it uses WebGL, and Earth mode replaces satellite mode entirely.
Oh thank you for making that but I meant a guided tutorial within the UI itself to explain all of the elements of the page and whatnot.

Something like http://try.kendoui.com/
This is why we have trial by jury and Jury Nullification.
You miss the point of what software freedom is supposed to be about -- it is supposed to give everyone the same ability to understand and modify the software that the original author has. The source code is almost always the most convenient and preferred form of software for authors to read and edit, so it follows that to have the same freedom they do, you should be able to read and edit the source code.
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Huh, so that's where the term comes from. Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
> Surely not in ease of development?

Nope. Building a complex application in JS+HTML+CSS is still an enormously painful undertaking.

> Ease of learning?

Also nope. Complex applications are still complex.

> Ease/portability/availability of tools?

Compared to the development tools for other platforms (IDEs, profilers, etc), the web tools are far, far, far more limited.

> Portability of the end app itself?

Portability is a cost-cutting measure, but never a user-appreciated feature. The web would need to stand alone as a first-tier platform for this to be a net gain; as it is, web-only experience is subpar.

> Available developer pool?

Quality engineers capable of producing first-class applications for your users still cost a lot and are rare on the ground.

> Open source code to look at and use?

This is not even remotely unique to the web.

> You're probably right, but oh wait, if only you'd investigated Shadow DOM and Polymers like I recommended you'd see that web technologies are rapidly advancing on that front as well.

Catching up to 1990s application architecture is not really a cause to celebrate. The technology stack that drives desktop and mobile devices is massive. We don't build custom interfaces directly on top of OpenGL and call it a day.
The personal side of taking on the NSA: emerging smears
> praises the use of porn by women (independent, empowered, sexy).

I haven't personally observed this, but our society certainly shames the women who perform in pornography.
d3.js is getting more and more popular, and journalism isn't getting less data-based.

Consider the last time there was an election. Those dynamically updated maps use this kind of file.

And without this support, shape files can't be viewed at all in a GitHub project, which is actually kind of ridiculous in 2013.

Furthermore, it encourages shape file providers to move their content to GitHub so we don't have the standard scenario of "download this .zip file and compile it to your preferred format to see if it's worth your time". It streamlines the process significantly.

It also gives them an edge over BitBucket. :)
>multiple stop directions

Every time I fire up a private browsing session to do a multiple stop route I am a bit amazed that they released it as beta with that feature missing. Obviously we're in a minority though.
It's working. "Perfect forward secrecy" is not a specific feature you turn on, it's actually an implicit consequence of certain ways key exchange can be implemented.

Chrome says, for the blog mentioned in your profile:

"The connection is encrypted using AES_256_CBC, with SHA1 for message authentication and ECDHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism."

"ECDHE" means elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman exchange. This means your server, whatever it is, is configured to support perfect forward secrecy. If you're running your own server, you're probably using some recent distribution or Apache release that defaults to enabling ECDHE. Otherwise, your host may have done such configuration themselves.
Well, there's always women like Helen of Troy in history.

You never know, Marilyn could go that way. Everyone knows her name, but I'd bet already many people don't even really remember how she looked, sounded like, or what she acted in.
There were so many "they copied us" threads on HN, that I am starting to think that the tactic is being used to promote author's own services, rather than to serve as something else.
If your favorite language isn't here, another trick you could use is adding 'site:github.com' to your Google searches.
None of what goes into modern battery is notably radioactive, unless your'e suggesting a battery that's similar to a RTG?
Yes. Entire generations of songwriters made their living from writing songs which were played on the radio.
It is likely not a coincidence that it is also the least secularized of those.
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It's delightful to see things like this whenever anybody champions Cali over my state in flyover country for being conservative.
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