skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CodeAcademy will teach you the basics of object oriented programming.

Once you master OOP/ the basic concepts....for loop, output statements, switch statements, arrays, etc....

The original poster will need to start doing web development which is a different ball game. I've been using onemonthrails.com and it has been pretty effective especially if coupled with a programming mentor.
TLDR: This is nothing like Prism. Prism (illegally) accesses private data, NDEU legally accesses data made public.
I started blocking ads less than a year ago because of YouTube's pre-roll advertisements, since I'm perfectly capable of filtering out text based ads but a format that requires me to watch the ad to be able to view the content without letting me pay them is a deal-breaker for me.

Is it really that hard to let me pay a monthly fee to turn ads off?

Google is serving the vast majority of ads online and they already have the infrastructure in place to channel part of that fee to the content creators including knowing whom I visit and when.
It twas a joke.
I would have been more surprised if they WEREN'T doing this.
US Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
Linux-on-the-desktop superiority complexes are usually annoying- but this one is especially amusing to me, since you're replying to a thread about discovering a major deficiency in your font rendering.
I paid for my undergraduate education (97-03) by dropping out to work as a full time consultant. Because I did this twice, it took several extra years to graduate. For grad school, I worked a full time night job and missed out on the quintessential grad student experience of being a TA, getting to know the faculty, making friends, and being a part of the grad student and research community. I did manage to finish grad school with no debt, but I'll never know whether it was worth missing out on the social academic experience. It may technically be possible to pay for higher education through hard work, but the opportunity cost is hard to appreciate for those who do.
Eclipse Keplar (v4.3) released
That Jupiter one scared the crap out of me. Having watched Melancholia just recently might have helped as well:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/
> A good thing is that everything is modular, so you don't have to use all those add-ons if you don't want.

That my friend is the essence of the philosophy of Unix. It has nothing to do with re-implementing things or actual operating systems - do one thing, do it well, and build complexity via composition.
This is a really good thing. Not because I want everybody to marry their same gender [1] (each has the right to choose whom adult to love)], but rather because if they can get protection it means that we as a nation are moving in the right direction. It means we are becoming less judgmental and prejudiced for the sake of it. At least I hope so.

[1] Personally though I think two woman having sex is kinky and quite erotic. Two guys, not so much but to each their own. I'm male by the way.
Not my problem. The entire point of HTML is that the server sends files and I have a client that decides how to interpret them. I may be using a browser that is set to display larger fonts for my poor eyesight, or I may be using a mobile browser that decides to use different CSS, or I may be using Lynx that doesn't show images, or I may be using a browser that displays some images and not others based on a blacklist. It's not up to the server to determine.
The next Mark Zuckerberg
I think number of pages is a good metric for pricing plans. Maybe the numbers could use some tweaking (e.g. something between 200 and 50k), but this seems like a good differentiator among people and how much money they have to spend.

It also seems like a good way to divide people by their scale. You want a metric that means something to a customer, and one that they will bump into eventually.

What you could do to add value to the upper plans, is also offer hourly scans/on-demand scans/scans invokable by an API for the big customers.
Remember the Russian spies in New York who were posing as startup founders? :D
It is constantly surprising to me how nearly-deterministic these votes are: each respective quartet of the court votes along what's seen as party lines, with Kennedy being the swing vote. Is it because the court really is that partisan, or because the technicalities and details in each case fall sharply along judicial philosophical lines? With life terms, it's not as if the justices need to vote a certain way to keep office.
Here's a table of the past 20 years of UW tuition rates.

http://opb.washington.edu/sites/default/files/opb/Tuition/20...

Though not at double digits, I suspect rates went up throughout the 10 years prior (at 48, the article's author probably entered college around 1983). Rates certainly increased at the public universities I attended between 1983 and 1993.

If belief that there is benefit in funding public education makes me a liberal, then that I am. One side of my family moved into the middle class because a paratrooper attended Ohio State on the GI Bill.
Facebook releases statement on requests made by the Turkish government.
Start the video in a dark room with fullscreen. Awesome experience.
You can opt-out of retargeting. Seems that would solve your problem.
How to properly plagiarize a website
Okay. It seems that if I enable the typo feature (which is disabled by default, I've just checked in a clean profile) and go to amazon.comm, I get redirected to http://amazon.com/?tag=uf024-20

ABP notifies me of the redirection, and I can accept or blacklist it.
Anecdotally, Yr.no's data [1] is good for most of northern Europe. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute's simulation domain [2] seems to cover most of Germany.

[1] http://om.yr.no/verdata/free-weather-data/

[2] http://www.yr.no/kart/#lat=67.73265&lon=5.44686&zoom=3&laga=...
That's very useful info; I had no idea. I thought the Google crawlers were basically headless Chrome bots so I wouldn't have expected this.

Do you mention this on your site? Seems like a good endorsement, "This is the correct way to get indexed, as per Google!"
Looking nice, hope they continue to improve performance and stability too.

Having a huge amount of issues with the flash plugin at the moment, not sure if that's their fault or Adobe's though.
The OdinMonkey engine performance is impressive. The Lua VM benchmark[1] jumped from 110 points in Firefox 21 to 318 points in Firefox 22! Not to mention poor performance of Chrome.

Next, have a look at the Epic Citadel[2], which runs very smoothly in Firefox 22. Well done!

[1] http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html
[2] http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/
Oh, I thought you meant that the faraday cage would interfere with the wires conducting electrical signals
First, advice:

Like many people here, I agree that there is nothing more important than building things that you can show people. However, the process of getting to that level of capability can often be somewhat mystifying. There are a few tools I recommend for that. First of all, interactive tutorials, like those at Code School, are fantastic introductions to web frameworks, if you're just getting started. I first learned Ruby on Rails with Rails for Zombies. However, these tutorials will not give you the skills to actually build anything—rather, they are a good primer. From there, find a good book, preferably one that focuses on actually building something, like Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial. Finally, I really love to use screencasts (a la Railscasts) for picking up domain specific information for particular tasks. Hope that helps!

Second, a relevant question:

I've just recently started freelancing myself, and I see a variety of advice. "No Rails developer should make under $75/hour!", "Take what you can get, work your way up slowly!" "You probably charge too little!", etc. How do you actually evaluate how much your skills are worth as a freelancer? How do you match with clients who need and are willing to pay for your particular skill level? If anyone has any links to relevant advice, those would be great to.
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I compared before clicking, and the final page I ended up on at Amazon's site. Both were the same.
What's the thought process behind voiding his passport? Wouldn't it be easier for the CIA to kidnap him from South America compared to Russia?
Not in the same way; during the Cold War, the Russia would always be interested in interrogating Americans should they be near them. Today Russia maintains diplomatic relations with the United States and is a trade partner, a massive change from the Cold War, where both blocs could sustain isolated.

This changes in focus and ways of how espionage in both countries is conducted. Russia does not unwittingly wish to provoke the Americans; and for what? Snowden is hardly a high target in terms of intelligence, as he was merely working for a contractor to the NSA.

Russia wins by doing nothing.
I guess I should have specified that I meant the smart ones were at the top, I assumed an understanding of this in there somewhere. My bad.

I agree, the weak links are almost always at bottom of the chain. Sometimes you can get a middle guy that's working his way up but that's luck. In the end, these things are done by getting someone to give someone else up in terms of turning or gathering info. So far from what I've read, I see no indication that the programs in discussion would actually have helped in the matters they cover. I'm sure it helps identify some of the lower links of the chain but all that does is point the way to people to use the traditional methods on.

The way I look at it is that the police could put a tap on every phone in the city but I seriously doubt that would help them arrest the local crime boss. It would point the way to find people to lean on to get the information you need to pursue him, but I doubt you'd get real evidence that way. You'd probably have to end up planting bugs to overhear conversations in private homes and businesses. In that case tapping everybody's phone is probably not needed as you could simply ask the cop that's been on the beat for twenty years who they should be looking at as the low-level flunkies and he could probably name ten of them of the top of his head.

I also agree that the leak of such programs most likely harmed national security in some way. As you say, there's a reason to keep things secret. The thing is, for programs like this there is supposed to be oversight and so far it appears that oversight has failed. To me, the biggest issue isn't that the existence of such programs were confirmed, it was that they existed to the extent that they do without apparently any real oversight. If we've lost a bit of security then I'm fine with that if it means our liberties are intact, or in some cases we're now finding about, if it means our liberties are restored.
Nah, it's propaganda. Careful use of biased words throughout. The vast majority of print and broadcast news in the US is now propaganda - it's painfully obvious to an outsider, but if you're embedded in it, it's harder to see.

The Cold War angle is a deliberate ploy to paint snowden as a "commie" - a handy Pre-made five-minutes-hate figure for the over-40s.
Kind of off topic, but I didn't get what your company was doing. How does it fit in the ecosystem? Are you a replacement for tools like Chef and Puppet? To give you a little bit of background, I recently set up my Linode VPS from scratch, complete with upstart processes, a custom CI server, node staging and production environments, python and virtualenv, mongodb with daily backups via dropbox. Didn't find it too difficult even though I knew nothing before. I'm sure I made some mistakes and my infrastructure is far from flawless or scalable, but it seemed like I should be in your target market and I wasn't able to understand what you were doing after reading your website thrice.
Is there some mistake in your NoScript item? Installing the plug-in and then using "allow scripts globally" is the equivalent of never installing the plug-in. It provides almost no value at all when run that way.
The idea is that from day to day, agencies interpret the Acts that govern them in order to correctly give them effect. When someone challenges an agency, a US Court presumes in the first instance the agency's interpretation is correct because they are the experts in its administration.

An Australian court does not make that presumption.

It's a big deal because if you go to court against a US agency over the content of its relevant laws, you have to overcome that presumption. In practice that gives US agencies de facto interpretive powers that Australian agencies don't usually have.

IANAL, TINLA.
Ad blockers are trying to fix a symptom of the disease and in doing so they only help spreading and growing that disease.

They are like antibiotics creating stronger bacteria?
We are not those sorts of hackers.
I actually see one good use of Klout. If I have a critical information I'd like to be shared across to most people in a short span (in such a manner it has the most impact), I'll simply choose one of my friends who has the highest Klout score, simply because people really take him seriously. They might not take myself that seriously :P.
Here is the text of the ruling. Supreme Court rulings always start out with a very readable syllabus which provides an overview of the ruling, recommended read:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf
Again the conversation shifts away from the bureaucracy and towards those who threaten it. While TFA brings up an important and interesting subject, we would as a nation be better served by focusing energies on the NSA and the various other intelligence agencies.
To interact more deeply with apps of the same nature.
Without doing this, features like native clustering can't be created.
I wonder if somewhere there's a forum where electricians or plumbers discuss things like these... "Most people don't know the first thing about how wiring works." On second thought, maybe I don't want to know!
Independent of whether this is a good decision, I thought that the Supreme Court's mandate was to decide whether a law violates the Constitution and little more. Doesn't this sort of judicial activism weaken the separation of powers, or is there a legitimate argument to be made that this law violated a constitutional right of gay couples? If there is, it doesn't seem that the court quotes it.

“The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others.”
I should think Snowden is savvy enough to encrypt his hard drives and files.
It's not a typo. Here is a manual translation of the paragraph containing the allegation:

Schaut man sich den Quellcode von Adblock Plus an, dann stolpert man ueber die “typoRules.js”" welche Vertipper in der Adresszeile des Browsers ueber eine dann nachgeladene Datei http://urlfixer.org/download/rules.json korrigiert. Den Spass gibt es uebrigens auch als separates Add-On http://urlfixer.org, ebenfalls vom feinen Herrn Palant!

Und jetzt anschnallen, denn dabei werden fuer alle internationalen Amazon-Shops automatisch die eigenen Amazon-IDs angehaengt!

"If you take a look into Adblock Plus' source code, you will trip over a "typoRules.js", which corrects typos made in your browsers' URL bar with the help of the subsequently loaded file http://urlfixer.org/download/rules.json. By the way, you can obtain this funny little gadget as a standalone add-on from http://urlfixer.org as well, from the same honorable Mr. Palant!

Now fasten your seatbelts, because this automatically adds their own Amazon IDs for all international Amazon shops!
Very low. Ergo Snowden is of more interest as a political football than as an intel source - he likely knows nothing the FSB doesn't already.
We're killing it, bro
> aiming away from my requirements

Out of curiosity, what are your requirements?

It's hard for me to imagine that LT is really aiming away from anyone :) It's a platform for building whatever workflow you could want, integrated with any system/language/service you can find. That particular aspect of it hasn't been released quite yet, but it will be the major focus of the beta.
How to Catch a Cyber Criminal
Glad I'm not the only one who found the images a little freaky, for some reason I can't quite place!
Prop 8 appeal did not have standing (link to decision)
"the issue of losing JavaScript state upon reload"

Is this really that desirable? I can imagine a lot of scenarios where this would cause unexpected behavior.

Most other platforms don't support this, do they?
This is seriously promising. When i first read the description at Github i was like "AHA, this is it.". The only thing holding me from using PM2 is the Coffeescript support. If you put CS support in this than it's a clear winner over forever.
Their primary income is from the support organisation. It costs 100 Danish kroner a month (roughly $20) and there are around 700 members. So they live on roughly $14.000 a month, or $170.000 a year.

Needless to say there is a lot of ingenuity in costcutting, a lot of parts from home-depot....
I would suggest that with 6-9 months of dedicated learning you could absolutely put yourself in a position where you could charge for freelance web development services.

A few important things to note from my (limited) experience:

- How much you are worth (per hour) as a freelancer is largely based on your existing body of work and your network of contacts. As such, you might not be able to make your stated figure straight away - instead as an average when your earning potential rises with each completed job.

- Go around your local community first. A lot of people say that you shouldn't work for friends/people you know, but when you're starting out you need portfolio pieces and people are far more likely to take the risk on someone 'green' if they get some face-face time now and then. Local restaurants and clubs was where I started.

- Contract up ... always >.<

- Specialise a bit. There seems to be a commonly held belief that freelancers should be full-stack engineers - largely because you are likely to be working solo on projects. Not only is this not realistic given your learning timescale, but I've also found it to be untrue. If a project needs work that you can't do then you sub-contract to another freelancer. They will be happy for the work and there is always the possibility of payment in kind. One caveat is that you obviously take on the risk of the contractor messing up.
Kennedy isn't always the swing vote. Sometimes Roberts is the swing vote.
Yes, the workflow is broken, and that's why I've been working on LIVEditor (http://liveditor.com) and the past 2 years!

I'm so glad that Kenneth's post just proved my concept!

LIVEditor combines a Scintilla-powered code editor together with a Chromium-powered browser, it's very deeply integrated since it's a same software.
I can vividly imagine this conversation:

'We have a lot of stateful frontend code that's hard to debug and test.'

'Maybe you should strive for less stateful frontend code?'

'Nonsense! We should completely reingeneer our workflows and toolchains to accommodate whatever we're doing right now, because everything else is stupid and outdated.'
I imagine the culture shock after graduation for virtually all grads must be interesting.

Unless they think that they cannot possibly go through a reduction in their standard of living and borrow to keep up with what is, in their mind, "normal."

College used to be rare and ascetic. Now it's required and expensive. I don't think either of those are a good trend.
Actually, the biggest single difference in time/convenience IMHO was that there was a single security checkpoint for all flights in SFO in contrast with Schiphol where the security checkpoint was just prior to boarding the plane.

The guys checking my papers, the guy in Schiphol was more thorough, slightly less friendly than the one in SFO. The security guys when going through the scanners were definitely more friendly in Schiphol than SFO.
There's a growing segment of users that just don't want advertising in their faces, period. Thankfully a not-insignificant portion of these are willing to pay for it through subscriptions on sites that offer this. Not enough sites offer this.

I envision an "ad network" appearing eventually that doesn't display any ads, just distributes revenues from an aggregate subscription. Then sites can still be supported by spontaneous visitors and users can control their exposure to advertisements online.
I've had some issues with internal sites I use at work that are auto-generated Microsoft stuff. And for a while I couldn't get the new Google Maps to load every time on Firefox. It seems to be have been fixed at some point since it runs fine in Nightly now though.
User Experience: It’s The Little Things That Count
Statistical Process Control Rules That Can Detect Anomalies in Your System
Good point.

And it IS indeed one of the coolest things a human being can do - I'm quite envious.

I just wanted to make a point, so people don't start thinking that the next step is to strap a microsatellite on that thing :)
What is missing for you that makes it "incomplete"? We're always trying to make sure we have the necessities taken care of and I'm happy to say quite a lot of people are doing their work in LT these days - so if there's stuff we're missing that keeps you away entirely, it helps us to hear about it!
From the opinion (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf)

DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment. Pp. 13–26.
Thoughts on using asm.js for performance bottlenecks in browser extensions
I opt-out by preventing the browser from emitting that HTTP requests. Why will I trust the ad-server from doing evil things?
Is this a joke? American INDIVIDUALISM works because you were able to afford college with your parents paying for half? Not to mention that the ENTIRE POINT is that tuition costs have gone up past the level most students can afford, which you seem to be confirming, as you say you can only afford to pay half.

Good god man, I cannot imagine typing this and not having my self awareness alarm going off like crazy.
Google Changes How It Hires, Calls GPAs 'Worthless'
Well I hope they find one who isn't so keen on repression of communication, on game and film censorship, secret blocklists and all the other stuff.

The NBN thing is good. Pretty much everything else out of the mans mouth has been "We know what's best for you"
Yeah it seems to be default off, and they're not hiding the fact that this is a monetization source:
https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adbl...

However it appears to add that tag only if I typo the name, if I follow a good Amazon link (with or without the affiliate) then it doesn't get 'corrected'.

Although since the rewrite rules are downloaded from a remote location (over HTTP, not even HTTPS!) they could in theory decide to rewrite any links in the future, without many people noticing.
> so getting it from him would require torture.

Or keyloggers, or sensitive listening devices, or hidden cameras, et cetera.

Even Snowden himself admits that security at the endpoints is incredibly weak.