skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not going to help.

But we now see how the fall out from this scandal will affect us. When I build my next API or service will people around the globe use it? Or will they be skeptical and decide to roll their own or go with an offshore competitor? Very irritating.
OpenGL and Qt both work fairly consistently on multiple platforms.
Such short-sighted outcries do not help. He should first consider asking people to stop using US-made, closed source operating systems. Then he should ask Germany's secret service (BND) what they are doing with the data from DE-CIX (e.g. sharing with the NSA ...).
Let's take it one level higher: is your question really "what is the fuss about RSS?" or is it your original? If you already understand RSS yet don't 'get' Google Reader, I understand that - I'm right there with you. There were/are far better ways to consume RSS for me and so GR was nothing special. If you don't 'get' RSS, then that's too big of a topic for here. You would want to search more about it.

Sorry if this comes across as pedantic - that's not my intent!
But where does this power come from? Now that other countries (and their citizens) see the "men behind the curtains", they will likely start taking steps to limit their exposure to this country and hopefully begin weakening its power.

The US gets away with much of what it does because of the enormous US market. But at some point other countries will realize that the cost of that market has gotten too high and then a large chunk of the the US' power will dissolve.
MYO Armband Control Device Launches Its Developer Program
So a link to a cosmetics company and a paid ad for backpacks is better?
Sierpinski! http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgXgB8AaYA2wJdANlWUlUCXgDZAg...

Welp, that was way better than being productive. Shame it doesn't save the exposure level in the share link.
Looks like he leveraged Snowden's asylum to get some convicted bankers back who are hiding in the U.S.. I wonder how long before they arrive in Ecuador.
Of course the IMT was a joint effort, it was unthinkable not to be; still, the initiative was mostly American (and from Soviets, to be honest, always sensitive to a bit of good propaganda). Churchill (with other "traditionalists") was much more inclined to old-school measures.

It turns out that the IMT was a fantastic idea, probably a bit too successful -- it made more difficult for nation states to (ab)use their military forces, at least until the end of the Cold War.
"Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache."

Chris Lea
Facebook Connect's Opportunity Cost
Make sure you get your twitter handle out there while you're railing against SEO. ;)
Some background reading...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4218178
Ironically, what they're actually doing is showing that leaking can cause them to make disastrous decisions. How many more Snowdens will it take before the US irreparably damages itself? From the looks of things, not that many more.
At first I thought it was a parody or satire. But then it never turned and I cringed torturously.
My problem with Google isn't that they behave like a business because they are. My problem is that they keep feeding us all this BS about being open and about doing it for our own good.
What does that have to do with the platform native widgets and UX?

In fact, GL and the native UX interacts poorly, consistently, on both platforms.
I notice you list persecution of investigative journalists. What case were you thinking about?
nginx is a good tool, and you should probably twiddle with it sometime so you know what it's about.

As far as I know, nginx can do anything Apache can do. nginx is generally faster than Apache. Apache can include modules without a recompile, nginx often requires you recompile to add features. nginx can be used as a reverse-proxy, a load balancer, or a thin SSL / SPDY layer, and succeed; Apache isn't as well suited to non-traditional web serving.

Personally, I find nginx's configuration syntax nicer to read and write than Apache's.

LAMP is fine for small experimental websites. Do what you're comfortable with! The scale at which the differences between nginx and Apache actually matters is pretty large.
"prostitution avoids rape" isn't blackmail, it's just ignorance since rape is about power, not someone desperate for a lay.
You're right. Unfortunately, I can't change my comment because of the editing time limit.
Oh, I see - yet another MongoDB.)
I agree with your statement. What i took issue with was his saying that the government is "incompetent" if they tried something like this.

With Stuxnet, Duqu and Mossad car bombings of scientists in Iran, my point was that I would not put the ability past them to be able to hijack a car in a method similar to the one described in the PDF.

Personally, I have no clue/opinion on if they actually killed Hastings.
The term "artificial intelligence" should not be used when what's meant is "optimization of a not terribly complicated function in a not terribly large number of dimensions".

[EDIT: I see someone disagrees with this, or with the fact that I said it out loud, or something, strongly enough to downvote it. I would be interested to know why, though I don't guarantee to be persuaded.]
Hi Michael, thanks for all your work.

About the second point (host specific information in Ansible roles): I was referring to this: http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks.html#roles -- I was (incorrectly) under the assumption that you could put host file variable overrides (as you would in host_vars) under the vars/ section, but it looks like that's more of a generic, non-host, non-group specific variable directory? I have edited my comment and removed the incorrect section.
I wish I didn't have to write my f##$@$ing apps in java and then again in objective-C and then again in C# said every developer, ever...

Edit, for your benefit: xamarin, unity.
I don't have a simple answer yet. We're still eliminating options. Right now our long list still stands at:

Foreman, Redhat's ManageIQ EMC, UrbanCode's Terraform, CloudBolt C2, vCloud Automation Center, BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Management, and IBM's SmartCloud Orchestrator.

Most of these use libvirt and one of Puppet, Chef, or Salt under the hood.
Fedora 19, Schrödinger's Cat, lives
The surveillance state has struck them with fear.
Exactly. Regimes use direct oppression, while democracies use terrorism against people.
It would only matter if it comes out in court, as that's the only place that claim would have any leverage. There's practically zero chance of that happening, they would settle faster than it would take for the ink to dry, so soft threats like these can be very effective.
I need to fly today; where do I look for tickets?
Indeed! Exactly to avoid that charge, Allied policymakers and judges went to great lengths to ground their accusations on solid and universalistic reasoning, that could be "reused" later. Without Nuremberg, international institutions like the UN would be even more powerless than they are now.
They would seem to not disprove it at all, seeing as they're "historical".
Internet of Things May Disrupt Predictive Analytics in Big Data Clouds
Love this one! My mind sees a cave with light at the end but I'm not skilled enough to bring it to life.
You can't actually buy "likes" on Facebook. You can advertise to people on Facebook, and some percentage of the people who see your ads will choose to "like" your page. Advertising is a tried and true way to increase the visibility of a product or service.
Hosters' Websites Uptime Stats - June 2013
To be completely fair, π turns up occasionally in statistics too, as a symbol for probability.
> went above and beyond by giving advance notice, having an API which allows feed exporting and allowing subscriptions to continue to be exported after they close it down for those who ignored the advance notice as well as linking to alternative products.

As a side note, I hate that this is seen as "above and beyond" instead of "standard industry practice"
Great work! Nice seeing QT actually trying to be relevant again, now it's escaped the clutches of Nokia.

Here's hoping that Google doesn't decide to depreciate the native apis on android now there are a few options to write apps that don't involve using their crazy lock-in java api.
I highly recommend you watch the "Fuck you. Pay me." talk - http://vimeo.com/22053820
@matt cutts - Are you listening to this?
Since 1.8.7 is retiring, will you continue using hash-rockets?
Open source doesn't imply trustworthiness.

(edit) That's unless you build every single piece of the OS from the source that you either proofread by hand or obtain from a trusted distributor. While you can be reasonably sure that Linux kernel you just built from kernel.org sources (after diligently verifying the .tgz sig, of course) is clean, any of the binary packages you install afterwards may be rooted all the same.
Yes. And users still don't care, and they're the ones that pay for the work.
I didn't chose nginx because of how the code looks. I doubt any program gets any kind of mainstream attention because of that. (Of course, it is good that the code is good.)

On the other hand, I use nginx as a reverse proxy in front of hypnotoad[1] so I might be unusual..

[1] http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook#Hypn...
13 Writing Tips For The Web
I found an outstanding resource on writing for the Web. It’s a new report from website usability expert Jakob Nielsen, “Website Reading: It (Sometimes) Does Happen.”

Using eye-tracking studies of hundreds of users interacting with websites, the report describes exactly how users read Web content.

Just writing your message on your website is not enough. In order to effectively inform and/or persuade your users, it is essential to understand how people consume text on websites. This is because of two contradictory truths:

Reading is the primary action people perform on websites, and

Many people strive to read as little as possible on most of the websites they hit.

The report details how effective page layout and good information architecture can guide users to your content. Once the user is there, though, the content must deliver. Using before-and-after case studies and examples from popular websites (such as The New York Times and Wikipedia), the report offers 83 guidelines for Web content.

Here are a few:

Put the most important words first.

Write clear and very descriptive titles for pages.

Heading content should be concise and descriptive and stand out from the rest of the text.

Lead with the most important messages.

Tell it like it is and people will want to read more.

Define technical terms in place.

Link to pages that have simplified explanations.

Spell out and define acronyms.

Employ illustrations, tables, lists, and charts to draw attention to important or related information.

When communicating on the Web, do not try to tease the user. Do not try to build excitement as you lead up to your point.

To increase credibility and to make people read more words, use balanced language, not over-the-top sales pitches.

Reconsider writing complex sentences, especially at the beginning of a paragraph.

Avoid leading with a subordinate clause, especially in a sentence at the beginning of a paragraph.
You're tinkering with an existing, working architecture and a company-maintained Vagrant VM?

Of course it's going well. But you should make sure to buy all the people who built all these well-engineered things a tasty drink at the next company get-together, because rest assured: Not every Puppet setup is easy to tinker with.
Nothing has ever happened to me in the past and I have no reason to believe I'm under investigation for anything I've ever said. Yet I've already made the decision to never go back. The "lose" position is simply too high to make it worth it. As it stands, if someone decided to "make an example" out of me for some bizarre reason I could be detained indefinitely with no realistic recourse. I can't think of anything the US has (that other countries don't) that makes that sort of risk, regardless of how unlikely it is, worth it (in case that's not clear, what I mean is, my expected odds for getting kidnapped by the US might be one in 100 trillion trillion, yet if it happens my life could be over).
The BBC runs the worlds largest news broadcasting organisation. It has 3,500 staff, has 44 foreign news bureaux, has correspondents in almost every country, produces 120hrs of radio and television output each day, is the largest news room in europe and runs on £350 million a year.

The BBC Natural history Unit produces 100 hours of television and 50 hours of radio every year, and is the largest wildlife production house in the world. It's work is watched by audiences around the globe and has won Emmys, BAFTAs and Prix Italias.

It's sports coverage (when it can get the rights) is second to none. The most long lasting and iconic comedies and dramas in British culture were created by and housed at the BBC.

The BBC runs for £4.8 Billion a year. Compare that with sky that runs at £5.9 Billion a year. Everything on the BBC is free to licence payers. To get the complete sky Package would cost you £66 per month AND you have to watch adverts AND they still have Pay Per View for anything worth watching. Neither ITV, Chanel 4 or 5 offer anything near the quality and quantity that the BBC offer (Although Chanel 4 news is my second choice). And every other digital channel is basically endless reruns of BBC programming (Switch on Dave, $5 says it's a Top Gear rerun).

I'll forgive them a few hiccups, and I expect a few hiccups considering it's size and reach. Overall, I think they're doing a sterling job.
MITM always unambiguously refers to an active attack. That's not what they do or have ever done. It stands for man-in-the-middle. They aren't in the middle when they tap fibers.

Lack of forward secrecy ciphersuites does allow for retroactive decryption upon server secret key compromise though, which is what I assume you meant.
Additive Manufacturing (3D printing): Going Mainstream
The site actually looks pretty good

I'm a little tempted to buy it even though I have absolutely no time to do anything with it.

Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to get it slightly profitable. I would just:

1. Make a cheaper tier of around $1/month (maybe for 1GB files, 1TB max or something)

2. Make the free tier better. 500mb files maybe

3. Make the non-logged in files last forever

Link rot is bad and makes you look bad. People using the free tier is free advertising. If the files last forever people are more likely to actually use it.
Paid ads are the only way they will make revenue and you know that. The cosmetics company technically should be the first result. The brand is based around the word.
Testimony in Zimmerman trial interrupted by errant Skype callers
Even for small scale stuff there are some benefits to using Nginx.

There is the ability to use Lua with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MemCache, Redis, Upstream etc to perform functions of an app server e.g. authenticate users, serve JSON from a database. It's fast and keeps your app layer focused on real business logic.
What techniques, tricks or otherwise have you used to get upgrades on flights?
I don't really see it as that terribly inconsistent to care more about open protocols and open content than about open source software for your personal use.
Coursera's Startup Engineering students getting charged by Amazon
There might actually be more to the "if it's niche, some people are more interested in it" mentality. It's anecdotal, yes, but I know that I have an odd tendency to prefer games that aren't hyper popular. New Call of Duty or Halo? I don't care how "well made" the game is, I won't play it. A tiny, unknown RPG/Rhythm game hybrid (Sequence)? I gobble it up. All my friends start playing one game? I play another. Etc. I wonder how many people might have some unconscious tendency to gravitate toward those games which are no very popular, or if I'm just an oddball.

Maybe DF being a niche helps in some way. I don't know. But I do know that the UI is, almost objectively, not good. I know it's why I stopped playing. Once you get more than 20 dwarfs or so, managing who does what is ridiculous. (at least without external tools. I think the popularity and almost necessity of some external tools really does show that the UI can be atrocious at some points. (also note this is not a comment on the ASCII nature of the game, that's fine))
Quick fix can be permanent fix. Those adjectives do not exclude each other out.

I think this article's biggest problem is that he's using running phrases too much, that are correct but without meaning: "If you skip work, you have to work more later" Obviously.

Also anything can be taken as art, even things not made by human! "Think of programming as an art". What does he mean?
I'm not so sure I agree with that. Nginx is actually pretty featureful these days.
+ Trial and Error

The most common error that I see is the programmer trying to make the code works, or trying to fix the error, using trail and error, instead of understanding the problem and make a better solution.
Sure, not 100%, but way more than closed source any day.

(edit) Now, for comparison's sake, you'd have to try and apply that same rigour to MS Windows or MacOS/iOS...
Your explanation hasn't helped me; I still don't understand the point of G+. Why can't my "YouTube comments" persona be different from my email persona? (Actually, it is: YouTube has asked me several times to retire my old YT username in favor of my @gmail, but it hasn't forced the issue yet.)
Why mobile payments will never take off
I love ansible. Very straightforward to use--only problem is it's moving so fast I can't keep up. :) Good problem to have though.

It's also the first open source project I've committed code to. Huge fan. I use it to run a small 8 node openstack system, as well as deploy Apache VCL.
Exploring the Calendar Metaphor on iOS
People are busy. If it takes too long to learn, it might not be that they're incapable, but rather that they're not willing to spend the time required to learn. Hence the rise of on-boarding tutorials.
The simplest one I've found other than Ansible that supports Windows is Saltstack. But it does require a master and isn't quite as intuitive as Ansible imo but close.
I know you were joking but actually in those web benchmarks that have been posted some of the JVM frameworks actually beat the Nginx based one (OpenResty).
You know many sites these days have various badges that you earn. I propose the addition of a badge that you admit to---the 'By Me' badge...
Weekend with Julia Lang
A nice summary of 3D printing today from the manufacturing engineering perspective. Unlike their myth #9 I think there will be fairly wide spread adoption of some form of 3D printing for 'home' use. Certainly as common as sewing machines once were.
I know it's cool to say good things about Nginx, and Nginx is good software, but your point (2) doesn't mean anything. I'd like to see some serious research and explanation into Nginx's code.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the authors behind the Phusion Passenger application server (https://www.phusionpassenger.com), built on Nginx. What I'm saying here is based on my experience with Nginx module development and research into Nginx code.

As far as I see, the main reason why Nginx is fast is because the programmer is brilliant. No, seriously. Look at the code. There are almost no comments, there are no unit tests, and yet Nginx has no well-known stability bugs, or even performance regressions. There are also tons of micro-optimizations, some of which are of questionable nature on modern CPUs (e.g. the huge switch statements in the HTTP parser). The Nginx code goes into great pain to ensure that there are no unnecessary copies or memory allocation. Everything assumes that you use static string structs that point to already-allocated memory instead of dynamically allocated strings. In return, writing an Nginx module requires extreme programmer discipline. Almost everything is hard.

Compared to Apache, Nginx's main reason for being faster is because (1) it's evented and (2) it has a lot less features than Apache. No .htaccess - implementing .htaccess is a huge performance penalty because suddenly on every request you have to perform additional filesystem operations. No dynamic spawning of processes (unless you use Phusion Passenger). No dynamic loadable modules, so if you want to add anything you have to recompile Nginx entirely.
Generate Image from Sourcecode?
A while ago there was a site posted that would allow me to paste in source code and it would apply effects to it and generate an image based off that.

I have been searching everywhere for this site, with no luck.

Any chance anybody remembers the link to a site that does this?
I was just describing what could already be done mostly via software, and that would be easily transferrable (read: sellable) to other subway systems and places with mugging problems.

The LAPD has a system that triangulates bullet shot sounds and dispatches police officers to the approximate location of the shot. This isn't that different.
Well first of all the Twitter channel of the president is a government propaganda channel, not a news channel. I don't disapprove of them doing that, they need to win another election and this is their stage.

> [a word which here evokes the memory of the last dictatorship, which exterminated some ten to thirty thousand of its political opponents, a crime that wasn't successfully prosecuted until Sra. Fernandez and her late husband did so in their presidencies]

That is a totally unnecessary glorifying addition not even present in the original tweets. Has little to do with the subject but hey let's drag it in. Happy to see those fuckers locked up though, no question about that.

> [This is a reference to the President's years-long struggle against preventative injunctions put in place by Argentine courts against her efforts to break up the big Argentine media trusts that are her strongest local political enemies.]

Another addition that tries to justify the pretty questionable action of limiting the powers of the Supreme Court.

I allow anybody to have an opinion but if this is clearly written by a staunch supporter of the government copying and adding to what I already consider propaganda I just want to let people know that it is what it is: propaganda.
They contain different points I noted, in the pace I discovered them. I can do as many posts as I want, do I?

Or did you mean that I can EDIT the single post, until it contains everything I want to tell? Sorry. I did not figure that out until now.
This is your fifth top-level reply. It becomes a bit overwhelming when one person is the entire comment screen. Please, in the future, collect your thoughts and put them into one comment.
How would we even know if something like this had already happened on a small scale?
But if free users get unlimited files that last forever, why would anyone pay?
I worked for a company developing cross-platform Qt applications(we deployed for Linux and Windows though) and all our clients were pretty happy, so I would refrain from the claim "That's never worked out well for anyone, ever, in the entire history of cross-platform widget library attempts.". My example is just one out of hundreds and hundreds of uses of Qt in industry.
Yeh that's brilliant.