skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ezra Klein you might call a government watchdog. The Wonkblog is dedicated to data-driven investigative journalism of government policy and programs. I think you could read the article better as Ezra Klein wondering if Ezra Klein can be charged with a crime for doing his job (maybe it's more of a calling than a job, I don't know).

My view, the journalists are in a self-centered way raising the question of whether Greenwald should be charged with a crime because they see their faces in the mirror of his face.

The boundaries the national security state is setting on journalism are still very fluid. The Obama administration, unfortunately, has changed the status quo of what kinds of leaks and sources will be prosecuted. It is having a chilling effect on insider journalism. Naturally all the insiders are curious about who will be called an outsider and what the fate of the outsider will be.
Hey, it's a feature. We can "fund" the time spent on IE6 workarounds by selling data obtained from paste buffers.
So you haven't used it, then?
The companies behind an Investigative Journalist are ultimately responsible for the content they agree to publish through their respective channels. In the case of classified information, Greenwald received the information and ultimately it was vetted by others in his department what could and could not be published.
I wonder if his browsing habits have changed since 2007: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979
I'm down to wire for this reason as well. I use Reeder everywhere and no other client has come close to matching it.
Stanford's free iOS classes are a very good intro.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/developing-apps-for-ios...
Web based python teaching tool with full shell access
Cool. Thanks.

Does anyone know why the flames appear to "stutter" from the rocket in slow motion? Is that expected behavior?
Thanks for the feedback! Those keyboard shortcuts sound very helpful. I think, they're standard in some programs, too.
>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.

This is pure conjecture on my part, but I would presume that the government doesn't have to rely on civilian infrastructure to transmit data.
As a recovering alcoholic, current caffeine addict, occasional nicotine user, and porn user, here are my thoughts.

I had a complete physical, mental, and spiritual addiction to alcohol. Parts of my life were falling apart around me and I was completely powerless to put down the bottle. Everywhere I went I had to have a plan as to how I would drink, and the possibility of being away from alcohol for a day threw me in fits of panic. When I did quit (years ago), I suffered from acute alcohol withdrawal, including delirium tremens, and had to taper off with benzos to prevent seizures. For me to successfully quit, I had to go to rehab and attend AA meetings everyday for months.

Nowadays I'm a big coffee drinker. If I forget to drink some sort of caffeine on any given day, I will get a headache sometime in the afternoon. I suffer physical withdrawal which is somewhat uncomfortable, but the fact that I could forget to have caffeine in the first place indicates a different sort of addiction than my alcoholism. If I wanted to quit, I would just have to go through a couple unpleasant days and be done with it.

As for nicotine, I've gone weeks, even months without any and haven't suffered withdrawal symptoms, but I enjoy it, so I use it on a semi regular basis, and have been for the last 6 years.

"Addiction" is a term which can describe a wide variety of conditions. As an alcoholic, I have a tendency to downplay addictions that aren't to dangerous substances. However, the author obviously has some mental obsession with pornography, he saw a problem with his porn use, and he felt like he needed some sort of external support to cope with and curtail his use. I don't think the term addiction is wholly inappropriate in his case.

What I don't like as much is applying the label of addiction to other porn users. I think it's up to the individual to be honest with themselves and decide whether they need to take drastic measures to curtail their porn use, whether it's a bad habit, or whether it's just another outlet and presents no threat to their emotional well-being.
Agreed, this speaks well to the frontend that was built.
> Is it just me or are these things always several years away from clinical trials. (third paragraph)

Anything not in clinical trials (or prelims) is always "a few years" trials due to how the FDA works. 2cm growth in rats is pretty close to the maximal growth I would expect from this treatment...It accounts for ~30-40% of the length of a rat spine. From reading the paper [1] it would appear that for this to be effective in humans it would require, essentially, stitching several hundreds segments of new growth together

1: Full text for those without journal access: https://atc.io/files/10591.full.pdf
Ah, works fine for me now
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That's absolutely correct. There are a couple of other things about it that make it much more useful than that ssh command:

- You don't need to have access to a private server to use it.

- I've taken care of setting up SSL for you. So you can run your local server with just http but still have the entire public connection portion be encrypted.

- ngrok captures all of the http traffic over the tunnel, analyzes it and displays a local web interface for you to inspect the traffic.

- ngrok allows you to pick any request that happened over the tunnel and replay it to your local server. This is immensely useful for building webhook consumers.

- ngrok automatically reconnects if your internet connection is intermittent.

- It's written in Go so I can distribute it as a binary for all major platforms with zero dependenices.

I'll work on improving the copy. Thanks for the feedback!
All I see is Metro demos, which I want nothing to do with. Anyone have a list of the actual features?
> the frequency of a phone and the frequency of phones is quite similar

(I'm assuming you meant frequency of a phone and microwave oven.) That's not quite accurate. Cell phones use many frequency bands [1]. I only see one frequency on the list (2500 MHz) that is close to the frequency used by consumer microwave ovens (2.45 GHz) [2]. I don't think 2100 MHz is close enough to be attenuated by a microwave oven, but of course I'm just speculating because it depends on the design of the oven's shielding.

Don't forget that phones switch to a frequency on which they have signal. If you don't have 4G coverage, your phone will use 3G, etc. These operate at different frequencies. So attenuating one or two of the frequencies on the list is probably not good enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Principles
He belongs to Wall of Shame.
Pretty awesome. One of the more interesting developments in robotics of late, for me, has been huge leaps in the ability to image robot swarms and then communicate with the swarm in order to get it to do something. The quad-copters juggling, and now very small robots driving around inside an eye.

It suggests that a future treatment for cancers might be to "drive" a robot to a tumor cell where the end of the robot has a resonant cavity and them beam the patient with the required frequency radio signal which blows up the cell that the robot has inserted its resonant cavity into. I can't imagine yet how you could do that at the same time as imaging the cancer cells but clearly there are interesting opportunities here.
That is indirect, and is consistently ineffective.

For example, consider hypothetical state propositions limiting when elected officials can solicit donations, or providing for specific penalties to elected officials should they fail to do certain things (eg pass a budget on time). There are many such propositions that could be popular with voters, and would certainly be unpopular with any elected official.

For that class of proposition, the ability to vote in different elected officials does not actually give the public an effective tool to get the state to support the proposition.
I hope they do arrest him. If that doesn't start some sort of rebellion then nothing will.

We already allowed Obama's administration to create laws that stop whistleblower's from coming out of the shadows. Now the law is 'murky' on the people that would report it in the first place?

What the hell happened to the country we (as in US Citizens) love? I didn't pledge allegiance to this? If anything this sounds like a government that is threatening our freedoms more than any domestic or international terrorists ever could!
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As mentioned already you mean gene, but yes you can and he does already with the wheel density, giving the darker ones more mass than the lighter ones.
Same experience here. The guy even hotlinked our Javascript files. Little did he know that we could have controlled his website from where we were.
Sure. But I've seen these design elements all over the web before. Infininum is just as guilty as Kintek when it comes to copying.
When I was in high school, in an English class unit on journalism, I learned how the United Press caught a competing news organization (Hearst, as I recall) faking stories about the eastern front in World War I. The United Press reporters inserted details about a Russian government official named Nelotsky in their news stories, and watched the statements about Nelotsky get copied into reports from the competing wire service. There was just one problem with Hearst's journalistic procedure: there wasn't any such Russian official. The name "Nelotsky" came from reversing the spelling of the English word "stolen" and adding a Russian-looking "ky" ending.

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/246-dgb-uneasy-legac...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D16FF3B5B1...

Similarly, in the 1990s I noticed that a popular page on my personal website was being copied diligently by a college student for his personal website. I inserted a fake entry, based on the Greek word for "steal." I also put a link at that entry leading to the copyright notice page on my personal website, which has a distinctive filename unique to my site. When the student copied the page again, I was able to show the site administrator of his site that the student had plainly violated the site user agreement at that academic institution, which specifically required students not to plagiarize for their postings on the university site.

I didn't do a lot of public outing of that student--but you had better believe I still remember who he was. Teachers do well to teach students early and often to use their own noggins and to do their own writing, giving proper credit with correct citation form to sources they rely on. That's a better education than just letting students copy whatever they happen to see, without any analysis or thought at all.
According to this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5947276

feeds are synced by the server
indeed. I've dealt with, what feels like, every possible font rendering issue on linux. something of a pet peeve of mine. :)

that said: if you have a screenshot of your browser w/ the font showing and what desktop env+browser you're in, I can probably tell you what's wrong.
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Haste makes...something something.
The reason everyone should have ad blockers is to be free from exploitative coercion.

If someone could attach electrodes on your cranium and "reprogram" it so that it would permanently increase your propensity to buy product X by 10% in exchange for viewing an article on a website would you do it? Would you justify doing it by statements like "free websites and web services need revenue and I don't really mind the electrodes"?
The Verge has a rundown: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/26/4465888/windows-8-1-previe...

spoiler: it involves a lot of Metro, what with it being the Windows UI now, and all.
I figured from your post that you were complaining about some new thing you noticed in Windows 8.1 from the live stream. Looks like I was mistaken and you were actually complaining about how Windows 8 has been since a couple of years which has been rehashed thousands of times on HN.

You're right, however MS thinks it needs tablet apps to get on the tablet train and one way to increase exposure is to make desktop users look at live tiles, however misguided that it maybe.

There is a setting in Windows 8.1 to boot straight to desktop to make it better on boot.

http://microsoft-news.com/new-start-button-screenshot-disbab...
Yeah so it's a <pre> tag with text in it. You must be so proud, that's why you put HTML5 as a buzzword.
"But you make your own decisions in life. You're not an insect, you're a conscious human being."

Do you regard the human brain as belonging to the physical universe, or somehow apart from it? If the former, where and what is the "you" that is making the decision?
I got it by doing

> $('#land option[value=GB]')
[<option value=​"GB">​Verenigd Koninkrijk​</option>​]

..yeah, I would never have guessed that :p
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The thesis that porn worsens your sexual taste is probably the foundation for a lot of ideological campaigns...

Not saying it's proven -- but there's nothing terribly ideological about it either.

Kind of like listening to bad music (or pretty much any kind of music over and over again) can stunt your musical development... or eating too much junk food can leave you with a taste for more and more of the same... it wouldn't surprise me that too much bad porn leaves some people with bad, or just immature sexual tastes.

And to the production of... lots and lots and lots of bad, nasty and just shockingly dull commercial porn.
Why?

While I see the 0€ price-point and I understand there's a market segment for people who want some online presence and little bandwidth, what's the business model?
work in humans for what?

for example: i doubt that MS sufferers need a replacement for the entire spine. all they need is something that removes and "fixes" the scarring.

rock on, i say. i hope my betaferon keeps me walking til something like this is available...
Non-destructive ways of doing that, like what? Electing a new President who very believably promises to do the opposite of what the last one did?
The defense of advertising is the desire not be coerced.
No, you're wrong. You weren't around obviously, so you probably don't know it was in Beta for donkeys. I actually remember first using it in 2006.

Here's an article about the beta 1 refresh from Nov 2005, so it was out even earlier than that.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/11/01/487833.aspx

Your google-fu needs a lot of work as even my first search showed a lot of articles in 2006 and 2007 talking about the IE dev toolbar, e.g.:

http://betanews.com/2007/05/10/microsoft-releases-ie-develop...

EDIT: Interestingly reading through some of the comments on the first post, it seems people claim the IE dev toolbar was inspired by http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ and the initial release date for the IE Dev toolbar was Sept 2005 (see http://c82.net/posts.php?id=23)
I block all advertisements because the majority I've seen are manipulative and push us to constantly be purchasing shit we don't need by making us afraid we aren't good enough. Or they're just nakedly bold; "come spend your real dollars on this online game featuring this witch's breasts".

If websites have a problem with this they can just respond 402 to all my requests and I won't cry to anyone.

Some advertisers are just honest people trying to make money and I hope word-of-mouth will cover those. But for the rest of it, let's just say my life is much better without TV, radio, or magazines.
You mean you think there's a classified fiber network operated by the government that covers the entire country and transports about as much data as the real internet?

So, are those cables marked on maps or with signs (like legit cables are)? Or can any idiot with a backhoe cripple this secret network at any time? It seems that a secret network would have much much lower operational reliability because of how many idiots we let drive backhoes in this country.
How do you get to the place where you can give clients numbers like that though? (this will make you 20K).

Past clients would be reluctant to tell how much a new site has made them I would imagine (and it can be hard to pin down for certain markets).
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$query = "SELECT emailAddress, password, userID FROM users
WHERE emailAddress = '$email' AND password = '$password'";
$result = $db->query($query);

Um... not to digress but it looks to me like there's a SQL injection hole here.
Please use PDO and a bit more validation, this doesn't properly escape anything. You could validate the email address with filter_var, for instance.

Otherwise, it looks neat, good job. You might want to learn to code more defensively though. Especially if you're putting something up on Github.

Refer to:
- https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection_Prevention_Che...

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60174/how-to-prevent-sql-...

for some direction towards better practices.
Very cool work. I would echo the suggestion to fully support keyboard entry, and I would also suggest sharps and flats.
By my reckoning they haven't really converged anything, just duct-taped the two different paradigms together and given us the worst of both worlds.
How I got work as a freelancer in one month.

Created an on line presence/blog.
Wrote about skills I have on blog.
Posted some programming posts.
Went to Craigslist / Gumtree.
Emailed people looking for people with skills I had.
Navigated to Google.
Searched web agencies near my town.
Emailed web agencies.
Wrote more emails.
Answered phone and replied to emails.
Told customers my rate ( it was too low ).
Easily got work.
Did good work.
Got paid.
Increased rate.
Repeated.
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Midi?
Are you sure that wasn't intentional? In enterprise sales, it's fairly common to customize the demo to the client. I've been in situations where we deliberately made our software match the prospect's branding as closely as possible.
"There's no One True Definition of addiction"

I was under the impression that the definition used traditionally in medicine is that denial of the addictive substance results in physiological withdrawal symptoms; hence caffeine and heroin are addictive, but cocaine is not. [Edit: wrong about cocaine.]
The metro interface can and will continue to be jarring when its allowed to change the contextual relevance on screen in situations where I may not want that.

It's the same reason why you sometimes walk into another room and ask "now what was I coming in here for?"
It's relevant because if people only behave better because they're in a better environment, you haven't really changed them. The goal is then dislodged from getting people more freedom and converted into creating better environments. It is easy to see how a goal of creating better environments could be hijacked to justify all kinds of unsavory political actions. And indeed it has been.

Gray isn't implicitly granting premises of progress by saying this form of governance is better than that, for the same reason that accepting local optimality doesn't grant global optimality. In other words, having a greedy algorithm that improves things doesn't imply that the greedy algorithm always finds a most-optimal state, or even that such a most-optimal state exists. Gray is arguing that it is a fundamental assumption of progressivism that there is a most-optimal state and that progressive political behavior of implementing liberal political agenda items is believed to move one closer to it. I don't see how any of your points address either of these assumptions nor do I see how others debating you are conceding them.
Not sure about online, but yeah, this sentiment is not unique to softwre people.
This seems cool. But I'm still confused whether or not the name is insulting.
Oh that makes sense, I was thinking "really, it took until 2013 to get RMS in there?" It seems like the internet hall of fame would almost be specifically created to contain Stallman.
Recovering opiate addict here, I guess I'd fit your definition of having a "real addiction[sic]". I just want to chime in and say the defining attribute of addiction isn't whether or not something is physically addictive, but whether or not the behavior is negatively impacting your life and you can't stop on your own aka psychological addiction. I've been through opiate withdrawals dozens of times, while I had the urge to use my WANT to be clean was enough to bare the brunt of the pain. Physical withdrawals weren't the reason I relapsed after kicking (as I had obviously returned to a endogenous opioid (receptor) balance), it was the psychological dependence that crept back into my life when I was stressed. It's that pattern of addictive behavior in response to emotions that is the problem, not receptor downregulation and cessation of production endogenous neurotransmitters or what have you.

Remember your criteria for addiction doesn't match that of the medical community's, and for good reason.
If you (or anyone else with time...) want to be a true hero, figure out why font changes for text on canvas is a magnitude or more slower on Firefox than Chrome.

At least on the versions I've tested...

I have an app that places a few hundred text labels on a canvas, and on Chrome I can do that smoothly in a single callback. For firefox I had to use a hack with a queue that is processed a few items at a time with setTimeout() to prevent it from stalling the UI for many seconds... Even so, the experience is still worse on Firefox.
Ahh, ok. Thanks for the clarification!
>If you have 100 options at a strike price of $20, you have the right to buy 100 shares at $20 per share regardless of current market value of the stock

Not exactly. Maybe this isn't the same thing as an employer stock option. But a single call option, what I think you're referring to, gives you the right to buy 100 shares at x strike price. So 100 call options would be 10,000 shares at x price.
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Dont forget the national time laboratories. Out of curiosity do you know if Justervesenet, Norwegian Metrology and Accreditation Service falls under the same organization structure as the NWI?
Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps
REALLY hope I can turn off the start button.
Reality: nobody cares what you consider real and fake, and whatever those words mean to you.

If you're not examining it in a scientific way, then you have no business making conclusions.
Worse...they were the original developers of it.
I won't speak for Gexla, but from my experience getting into 'PHP' is far different than getting into 'Wordpress' or 'Drupal'. Unless you are subbing for another software dev, most clients don't care about the language, they care about what business value the software will deliver. For SMEs, I don't think there's any ecosystem out there that compares with Wordpress or Drupal in availability of talent (keeping prices reasonable) and free functionality (making it possible to build a very full featured site quickly).

To answer your question directly, I had a couple of years of Java when I did a PHP project (a CRUD system for my book club) and it probably took a few weeks. But I've also worked with Drupal and Wordpress and those take longer to get your head around (Wordpress to a lesser extent)--there are lots of moving pieces, and you have to try multiple plugins to know what will work (and the codebase moves quickly too). I'd budget two months for Drupal, six weeks for Wordpress, and I'd start out with simpler site proposals.