skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find these comments naive. The political leaders of these countries derive significant political capital by whacking the US piñata to cover up for domestic issues. They already have poor/no relationship so there is no loss there. So this is just a cynical ploy to bolster or shore up domestic political support. Therefore we're cheering one sides actions for cynical political gain and criticism others who turn him down for domestic political reasons.
Sweden passed a pretty extensive wiretap law in 2008, it wouldn't come as a great surprise (in these days) if they share information from that program with the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
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ImageOptim has been my best buddy, been getting very agreeable results with it. It's just for compression but end results don't seem to have the need for sharpening. Using ImageMagick this way might be best for special cases...
http://imageoptim.com/
Boxee will be joining Samsung
And just like that, a new MacVim snapshot:

https://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/detail?name=MacVi...
Ask HN: An entrepreneur's travel guide?
I have written a technical book on DIY electronics before, which was successfully published. It's been a while and I am thinking of writing another book now.

I want to call it something like "100 Places to Disconnect", or "100 Places to Reboot". Basically, a global guide containing/highlighting the most inspirational places around the globe, with a bit of a backstory, some go-to places, possibly tech-hubs or co-working locations etc.

While working for Microsoft, as well as for other companies around the world, I have always had the benefit of traveling a lot and working in super noisy mega-cities as well as some of the most remote places on Earth, like the Gili Islands, street cafes in Kuala Lumpur, fishing docks in Seattle or on an almost empty island in Greece. And it's so inspiring to just disconnect from your daily life, exit to a different place/culture and bust out some code or come up with new ideas. Ideas that are often bigger than your day-in-day-out rhythm would allow you to come up with.

I want to revisit my most favorite places as well as those from other entrepreneurs (you guys would be a GREAT resource!).

Would you guys feel this makes sense? Is there a specific publisher that would be interested in, or does anyone have any contacts I could utilize for that?

Would this sound like an interesting book to have for you? I'm not much of a 120 page e-book type of person, I'd like to work through a real publisher for various reasons (revenue unfortunately is not one). It's harder to get the deal signed, but everything else is usually managed exceptionally well afterwards (royalties and such).

Anyways, would love to hear your thoughts.
Casual style ideeas for the summer
It sounds more crazy than cute to me.
GeoPeeker: A tool for viewing sites from different geographic locations
What short memories!

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa
What I really like about the search, is that it accounts for seasons on different hemispheres. E.g. it returns Lisboa and Cadiz as places similar to Sydney. Even though the months with hot weather are different in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

As a side note - clicking the name of a place shows an overlay in the graph. It was not obvious at first; the names are in black.
How to ruin a Kickstarter
Having trouble with "http://mikemcbrearty.com/climate/search?q=moscow"
You missed my point maybe - the fact that your hometown is bigger and not listed is exactly the problem. There are a number of small cities listed that do not have airports also. The key is that a listed city either lists as 'airport' (population 0), or is a very small city (low population). So my point is that the filtering is probably backwards, and it's filtering out big cities instead of filtering out small ones.

Maybe. ;)
Debuggex already covers 4 and 5.

Real-time unit testing is actually the next major feature planned (I expect the release to be in about 4-6 weeks). That will cover 2 and 3.

1 will be improved in the very near future.
You are not a large corporation - A manifiesto for the self-employed
An interesting Kickstarter to learn from is Planet Money's, which earned nearly $600K after only asking for $50K.

Even more remarkable, there was only one level of gift: a $25 t-shirt.

I'd say Planet Money, which is kind of like an "American Life" type brand focused on economics, would've made its goal simply by virtue of brand power. But I'd say its huge success is a result of a kickass product and more importantly, a compelling story. I would pay $25 for that t-shirt design simply to support NPR. But the story itself - that the t-shirt would be used as a starting place to investigate the global economy, was just too good to pass up. I didn't even watch the promo video though I imagine its production value is quite good.

Anyway, a little OT, but just wanted to bring up this example as it's the only Kickstarter I've backed where the product itself was ancillary to my desires...I mean, I think the shirt's neat, but I won't be heartbroken if it's a year late. I'm much more excited about the journalism that will be produced.
That doesn't sound very nice...
Mining PGP Key Servers
I think you miss the point. I don't think anything was attributed to gender. The two are unconnected, but they both stood out to the author. And if we're being frank, there is an underrepresenation of the female gender in programming. So I take it that, after being in the industry for years, the author is excited to see new developments on the technological, as well as the social, fronts of programming.
These decisions are being made in the Oval Office-- President Obama is directly supervising the manhunt. He's even talked publicly about his approach in a press conference.
Overall, this is pretty alright, though I'm looking at the climate results for Boston in the summertime right now, and as sweat pours down my face I really really wish that 25°C was the average temperature around here in June-July.
Why not do print on demand?

http://www.lulu.com/publish/
Why are the colours so similar?

What about a link to see cities that are the most opposite?
I feel this post has shown that many don't understand what AGPL is or just assumed that because the article is about Oracle and licensing then it got to be evil, let's bash Oracle!
Sigh... I'm sorry... I voted for these assholes a long time ago.
Phew, thanks, man.
It'd be great if you put two in this post so we can see the difference without having to run all of the commands first.
Seen this pop up a few times. I'll give it a shot. Anyone that's worked with it a bit want to comment on how it compares/what they like more between it and other Clojure web frameworks like Shoreleave or Pedestal?
I was glad to notice the lack of Johnny Cash drowning out the rocket sounds. I have nothing against Cash, but these rocket landings are impressive as they are, without treating them like an MTV video.
Yes, I understand there are buggy servers and proxies... and I use a browser that has settings to accomodate them. However... I do not know about HTTP bugs that affect <emphasis>pipelining<emphasis>. And... in addition, for pipelining, I do not use a browser to do the initial retrieval. I use something like netcat to fetch and then I view the results with a browser.

Can you give me a list of buggy servers where my HTTP/1.1 pipelining will not work as desired? I've been doing pipelining for 10 years (that's quite a few servers I've tried) with no problems.

The arguments made by SPDY fans (e.g. Google employees) all seem plausible. But I wonder why they are never supported by evidence? IOW, please show me, don't just tell me. SPDY seems to solve "problems" I'm not having. Where can I see these HTTP/1.1 pipelining problems (not just problems with browsers like Firefox or Chrome) in action? I'd love to try some of the buggy servers you allude to and see if they slow down pipelining with netcat.
Can you just list the cities you actually support instead of masquerading with a search box?
Also check perl's Regexp::Debugger module (which provides an rxrx command) for a nice console regex debugger.
After their hefty wiretap law of 2008, the strange circumstances of the 2010 allegations against Assange and now this, it seems to me that their ties with US intelligence and administration are tighter than many swedish citizens realize.
This also jumped out at me. My company (http://www.firebox.com) is built on having amazing looking images for products. No one could see any difference between the quality of images between 87 and 95, but it saved us roughly 50% in file size. Also for what it's worth, we spent a lot of time a/b testing 87 vs 95 with our users, but there was no conclusive difference
Very cool. I'm surprised that the turbulence/vibrations coming back from the pad on landing don't damage it.
I really didn't know they were so much aligned on US positions.
C++11 is years ahead of Java.
http://herbsutter.com/elements-of-modern-c-style/

I especially like the fact that you can specify which variables are captured by the closure:
http://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-lambda-closures.html

I use both C++ and Scala on daily basis and there are just a few things I wish C++ had from Scala. On the other hand it is a huge time saver not having to worry about the JVM GC freeze.
Sweden isn't alone in this - the UK also vetoed the investigation. This investigation is one of two, the other being into data protection and EU citizens' right to privacy, which will go ahead.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/05/us-blocks-espionag...
regexr is another of these - better, arguably
There's actually no adding. Just multiplying by two. That's what makes the result so surprising.

The key is the metric on the bi-infinite sequence space. Differing in the digit closest to the decimal point on either side gives a distance of 1/2, differing one digit further out is 1/4, then 1/8, 1/16, and so on (the total distance is the sum; the maximum distance between two sequences is 2 if they differ in every digit.) So two sequences are "close" to one another if their middle digits are all the same.

This gives you the key attributes of chaos:

(1) Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions. Two sequences can be identical for BIG_NUM digits on each side of the decimal point, and then completely different outside of that area. This means their initial distance apart is roughly 1/2^BIG_NUM. But after BIG_NUM multiply-by-two operations, the trajectories have diverged to a distance of around 2.

(2) Topological Mixing. A similar construction to above -- select the first N digits of a sequence to make it fall into a particular neighborhood, and the next M digits to make it fall into a different neighborhood after the appropriate number of bitshifts. This can be done for any pair of neighborhoods.

(3) Density of periodic orbits. Pick any point X in the space, and a distance epsilon. Construct a periodic orbit that gets within epsilon of X simply by taking the central digits of X (using log_2(epsilon) to select how many digits) and repeating those digits.

There you have it -- chaos as a result of a single bitshift operation on bi-infinite sequences, with no addition or other operations.
This is kind of like asking why there's more than one model of car on the road. Other than wanting to carry more people or go faster, what differences are there? Any automaker could just produce three vehicles: a sports coupe, a panel truck, and a bus. Maybe a motorcycle (again, just one model).

Depth of the sample buffer. Tradeoffs between sample speed and sample resolution. Triggering. Math (anything from sums/differences to FFTs). Bandwidth, including tricks like equivalent-time sampling. Various kinds of display. Various kinds of human interface. Various kinds of machine interface. Extra features like waveform generators.

Honestly you can figure this out yourself: go to some scope makers' websites (Tektronix, Agilent, B&K, Fluke, Instek, Teledyne Lecroy, etc etc) and see how their marketing department distinguishes their product lines.
Thanks for posting this, I know of lulu, but I'm sure others will be happy to learn about it. To address your question: It's a bit like with Indiegogo and Kickstarter. You will have a hard time getting funded if you don't have a good round of friends/supporters that are pushing you up in the first few days. Especially Indiegogo, where a lot of people (including me) quickly realize, it's just a mode to get funding, but it won't attract funding. Lulu is a mode to print a book, but the publishing process involves a whole lot more to reach your audience. I'm not a marketing genius, neither do I have great connections to book stores around the world. But publishing houses have, which is also why they only give you like 7% of the net price of a book and keep the rest.

It's also about reputation, which thankfully is shifting a lot now. I remember a few years back, when the first self-printed type of books showed up on Amazon and quality of content was hard to judge (especially for Kindle/ebooks). If this passes the eyes of a publisher, I know that there's likely a market for it - and most buyers (not always the case though) can somewhat rely on the quality of the book.

Just a few thoughts. If you're a known person, or know how to market really well, then Lulu would be a kick-ass option.
Quantum physics explains soul leaving body at death
What's the time-space complexity of destroying the universe?
Here are some I like:

* Bi-color the edges of a (countably) infinite complete graph. There is a mono-chromatic (countably) infinite complete induced sub-graph.

* Between any two rationals there are uncountably many irrationals, and between any two irrationals there are only countably many rationals.

* There is an extension of Lesbesgue measure on R^2 that is isometry invariant, finitely additive, and defined for all subsets. (This can't be extended to R^3 - that's the real point of Banach-Tarksi)

* There is a 3D object with infinite surface area but finite volume. You can't paint the surface, but you can fill it with paint, then empty it out.

* The 3D version of the Jordan–Schönflies Theorem (an "obvious" strengthening of the Jordan Curve Theorem) is wrong.

And just for fun:

* 2=4 (See http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TwoEqualsFour.html)

(Added in edit: I suspect this will shortly fall foul of PG's auto-detection of flame wars - it has many more comments than points)
This is very interesting, especially in the light of the coup-like conditions that surrounded legalizing the FRA mass surveillance.
However, this source is a populist extreme right newspaper. It has low credibility and regularly carries antagonism against the democratic parties. Can we have an independent, credible source verify the claims?
It makes one think that perhaps delivering content via a protocol such as BitTorrent is not such a bad idea, since often a limiting factor can be the upstream bandwidth of a site (although obviously this might not work too well for all use-cases, a Torrent-based CDN of some type might still have some kind of future).
Stasi vs NSA: A comparison of data storage
Photography and Programming
The is very interesting indeed.

Whenever I see old ICs like the 6502 I have this fantasy of going back 30 years and making my own computer from scratch.
Nintendo Won't Use Layoffs to Boost Financials
The thing about our pro-North viewpoint of the Civil War was that while Lincoln emancipated slaves, it was used more as a political weapon. Lincoln once said that if he could keep slavery and keep the union, he would have done it. However, during Lincoln's administration, the power of the US increased. In fact, it was called the "united States of America," before the Civil War, if it didn't appear in title case. Lincoln actually committed many constitutional wrongs and increased the size and scope of the federal government.
Time O(1). Space O(n).
False comparison. The biggest problem with your example is not lost customer good will but that you're breaking the law and risk getting fined/shut down.

No one says you don't have to be smart in picking the metrics you measure.
I'm surprised not to see my two favorite learning resources in the comments yet: reading code and getting code reviews.

Exercises are great, but unless you have a way of getting feedback on your solutions, you will progress slowly. Practice doesn't make perfect: perfect practice does.

There's a lot of good code to read. I'd recommend starting with Flask - you already have the context of using it. You might also consider checking out something that Kenneth Reitz has written. Whenever you don't understand why they chose to write something a certain way, ask! Both have very active irc channels.

Speaking of irc, #python is a great place to find reviewers. There are (mostly) friendly folks there at any time of day. You'll maximize your chances of a good review by:

1) having a concrete question to ask: "I'm not sure about my use of kwarg unpacking on line 12; would anyone have done it a different way?"

2) providing a small program (or section of a program) for review. People are generous, but likely won't spend an hour reviewing a few hundred lines of code =)

I hope that helps! Feel free to email me if you're having trouble finding reviewers; I'm no Armin Ronacher, but I've written a good amount of Python.
I loved Astrid. Deleted it as soon as I read this article and now I hate Yahoo just a little bit more.
The air conditioners are, to a good approximation, just pumping energy out of the train cars that would be released anyway (i.e. the 100 Watts per passenger discussed below), plus whatever power they require themselves to run. Thus it seems very unlikely to me that train car air conditioning is a substantial contribution.

One could argue that perhaps the passengers' metabolisms are increased slightly to make up for the extra heat loss due to a cooler environment. But this has got to be totally negligible with respect to the energy dumped by a stopping train.
Also, two more things that a publisher will give you:
- Editor
- Layouting done professionally
They send stuff from their FRA-wiretaps to NSA for decryption, and NSA has 'promised' to send back what the US think that sweden need to know.

This shit is absolutely disgusting, but the foreign minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, is known to cream his pants whenever he get attention from the US, so it's not surprising.
It's not (only) about that. These techniques are often used to help advertisers combat click fraud, so it's important to distinguish the users that just disable cookies (because they heard they are harmful) and those that are trying to skew the click-through rates. A few years ago Google boasted that they catch 99.97 % of click fraud on time, and I personally believe them.

Note that I am not trying to justify these techniques.
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden
Not sure I would call them the hardest. Stabilizing while traveling thousands of miles per hour in atmosphere to get to the point you can land like this seems much harder.
>Perhaps still helps, witting or unwitting, by advising use of PGP.

What exactly would the alternative be?
I remember reading into this topic a while ago. Here is a relevant Wikipedia article. I, for one, look forward to the day when we all can have all our problems solved by destroying the universe.

[]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
But... the intangible part of a project is often the person/team behind it, whether you trust them to actually deliver, and whether you trust their instincts, perhaps based on previous interactions (hence the popularity aspect coming in to play).

I've had numerous people I've counseled (can't think of a better term) over the last 6 months with an app or product idea. Almost always their first plan is "I'm gonna do a kickstarter". Terrible terrible approach, imo, precisely because it's mostly a popularity contest, or 'who you know'. None of these people who I've spoken with have large networks, and their kickstarters have generally been poor turnouts. Correlation or causation? I'm inclined to causation.
Might it not be likely that an application dependent on weather data is actually limited to locations for which weather data is available, regardless of population?
You can have return on investment without locking yourself into a closed platform. You don't have to lock yourself into a closed platform for ROI.
Concrete is a very good insulator.
I have always felt that Go was the perfect choice for docker. Statically compiled binary, fast, simple but powerful.
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Olof Palme was pretty outspoken against the US, but that was a long time ago. The government has been in bed with the US for as long as I've been alive at least; sometimes at odds with the general public.
> Money printing on a large scale leads to massive inflation

That depends on how you define "on a large scale". The UK government has printed £375 billion between 2009 and now (that's c. £6,000 per person) without causing inflation.
Cofee Illustrated 
Just wondering what is a programmers favorite coffee ???
obviously a political manhunt

Are you suggesting that Snowden was charged with a crime for his politics and not his actions?
I agree with your point. But I was just asking if you knew there was a difference between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET. I was curious because I said ASP.NET MVC and you responded with a criticism of ASP.NET. I find there are a lot of developers that moved away from technologies like ASP.NET (rightfully) and they believe that Microsoft's offering hasn't changed since then.
My Email List: 50% Open Rate, 23% CTR
I think you missed the point: image the filters should be applied before pictures are distributed rather than letting the browser do it. The reason to resize it and sharpen it is because browsers do a poor job resizing, where doing it yourself will result in a better looking photograph.

This shouldn't be automated by a plugin AT ALL, and should be done based on the type of image it is. (icons, clipart, logos, etc. would make poor subjects).
> not having to worry about the JVM GC freeze

Bad engineers blame their tools.
For those .net people out there, Microsoft added enhancements to the new Visual Studio 2013 for Angular such as intellisense.
Just wondering what is a programmers favorite coffee ???
I don't use anything except NERDTree. Is that close enough to vanilla to count?
I'm afraid I'm not a good enough logician to answer your objection properly, but there are, I believe, credible approaches to doing mathematics on a countable carrier set, for example:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0509245
Creating python command line applications with docopt
IMHO, unsharp mask can quickly look aggressive (as in the OPs example, but I expect that is to show the effect). A speedier one-shot solution is to simply use adaptive reduction, which works effectively on all types of image with minimal artifacts. There's a helpful down-sampling guide here: http://bvdwolf.home.xs4all.nl/main/foto/down_sample/example1...
Highs and lows balance.

Find someone who's been through hell, undeservedly and invest?

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I live in the land of Oz and when I pull the levers of my reality---baffling. Could be Alice in wonderland -- shit don't make sense.
I tried London, but it only gave me a place in South Africa or a canadian airport.
The Xbox could have been named 11-X, original codenames revealed
Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes at SFO
Vanilla, because I never have any idea what plugins are going to be installed on the systems I touch (probably none). It's the same argument for learning vi. It's there everywhere. Similarly, it probably has no plugins.