skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... which is a fairly terrible percentage rate. Even a small processor should be able to get under 2%, provided you don't have a lot of fraud/chargebacks.

There's a tremendous amount of froth in those rates.
Looks like the author rushes his articles, too.

"Ubuntu Rushes Mir, XMir Into Ubuntu 13.04"

13.04 is already released, and is not being updated.
Funny lion always feasible, innovative policies hatred assured.

Seems like commentary on the fall of ancient reddit.
> Family and friends for me always come first.

You would be amazed how quickly friends lose their place in your life when you have your own family (significant one), and how they are completely irrelevant when you get kids. You might think now that friendship is forever, but it quickly fades away with every new child.

It's not that friends are not important anymore. They are, the same as before, but that's insignificant compared to the importance of your own children and own family.
I sense that the backlash, well-informed or not, was fueled more by the extravagance of the event than its environmental impact.
I'm not going to read his article - but why is he still fanning this fire? People get worked up over things, then they move on. This is likely to just extend the time-period over which this will fade.
So why does it matter that his wedding sounds like an extravagant affair to you? There are plenty of people who want to spend a lot of money on their weddings or other events and have a vision of it that pleases them.

I think we should all expect the right to spend our money the way we choose (within legal and ethical boundaries) without being second guessed and attacked by a public mob.

Now, if you had wanted to, you could have penned an editorial exploring whether there's hypocrisy in his decision to "manufacture" the scenery. But the real issue is why so many people who call themselves members of "the media" get to publish scathing blog posts that they pass off as news articles without doing any actual journalistic research.
...seemingly uninformed judgement...

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." The apparatus has been at work too long and has been too heavy-handed in its operations for us to just blithely pretend that it's telling us the truth. If, with all the resources and rights we've handed over to them, this is the best job they can do, then they're just not very good at it.

...why on earth wasn't 9/11 the final straw? Several orders of magnitude worse...

9/11 was a failure of imagination, on the part of the self-appointed security "experts" who told us we should obey without question terrorists' every command, and oh by the way we should leave the cockpit door unlocked because the pilot might have a heart attack and then some M$ Flight Simulator enthusiast could save the day if you happened to be flying to that one airport by the shore of Lake Michigan and also the weather happened to be very pixelated at the time. I scarcely have to point out that the "experts" were quite wrong. "Another 9/11" wouldn't happen today, because we Americans know in our heads what we always knew in our hearts: when some foreign goat enthusiast threatens you with a knife, you pound the shit out of him. You don't wait for the gub'ment to send help. I mean, they might send the ATF or something.

On the other hand, when the Russian FSB calls to identify a known terrorist living in Cambridge Mass, it would be nice if somebody picked up the phone.
The idea that you could be required to identify yourself is probably what seems strange to them. In (at least) several US states the police can require you to identify yourself, but telling them your name is all that is required. Americans have an aversion to "papers please", because for decades that is one of the things that we felt distinguished ourselves from certain other countries.
Haha good idea. >: D
Tried it here at the office, Yes it is challenging indeed.
Including, in my estimation, most of software engineering.
This looks like it may work out! Looking into it a bit more.
Bruce Schneier wrote an article recently on his blog about what a show trial plea bargaining has become.

Another problem is the insane US prison system with an exploding reoffender rate. Even National Geographic is considered contraband.

Prison racial segregation also doesnt need to happen, and is mainly a weird American thing. I know this because if anybody has done time at D Ray fed prison where they keep incarcerated foreigners the first thing you notice is there is no racial problems because there arent any American inmates.
>Minix was first released in 87, three years before development on HURD even began.

Minix wasn't an attempt at a production kernel in 1987. Minix 1 and Minix 2 were purely for teaching. Minix 3 was a completely new project, and wasn't started until 2005.

>but perhaps it will be decently soon

The history of the project and its current state suggest that is unlikely.

>Development on HURD has really surged in the past year or two, I'd like to say.

You might very well like to say that, but that doesn't mean it is true. There are no competent systems programmers working for/with GNU, it is highly unlikely that the random assortment of people chosen for their politics rather than their skillset will be able to turn the longest festering mess of code ever into a production ready kernel.
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And how, with money polluting politics so badly, do you fight this type of situation? A public scandal. And how do you get a scandal? Wait for the inevitable government overreach and someone to leak it, the bigger the better. There are to many people for it not to leak out, no matter how much you try to squash them.

The current situation has been a foregone conclusion for the last decade. This is how the government has worked for years. I'm surprised so many people act shocked by both the government's actions and the leaks.
Reading disturbing articles like this, my thoughts race to the conclusion that the federal government has grown too large. It now seems only interested in crushing opposition and growing larger.

The fact that the executive (Obama) administration was cited does not seem to me to be inappropriate: they are the face and mouthpiece of government.

Perhaps consider the possible negatives (tyranny) that can come with a growing central government
Peter,

First of all, can't tell you how awesome it feels to get a response from someone working on the library.

Your fix won't work for me unfortunately, changing id's to classes in your CSS inherently changes the "weight" of the selectors, which can cause the wrong CSS rules to be applied (especially if you have old rules hanging around from iterating on your interface a couple times).

Another thing that you guys might have missed about why writing IDs are shitty: They pollute window's namespace. If I have an element with id "narc", then window.narc returns that element. Which can lead to confusing JS situations.

Anyways, glad to hear you guys are moving ahead and improving your library! I will try it out again in a few months, love the work so far.
proven correct with a mechanically verifiable proof is an L4 variant

seL4, which is microkernel of course

http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/klein-sosp09.pdf
You either have an ancient version of chrome, or have disabled some pref in chrome to allow these sites to get rendered.
"Simplifying a style doesn’t always mean bringing it down to basic geometric shapes and solid colors."

Cough... cough... iOS7
After some improvements on the multiplayer aspects we are starting to see better generations being created and breading between champions.
Immigration Overhaul Passes in Senate
I'm getting it from the article...

In a cheeky jab at the U.S. spying program that Snowden unveiled through leaks to the media, the South American nation offered $23 million per year to finance human rights training.

The funding would be destined to help "avoid violations of privacy, torture and other actions that are denigrating to humanity," Alvarado said. He said the amount was the equivalent of what Ecuador gained each year from the trade benefits.
Right. I'm a paramedic, and if I hold someone of sound mind against their will, that's kidnapping.

Even more so, these people.
Can't find anything about chargebacks, wonder if they are free :)
Using colons to denote types is still ugly and feels unnecessary.

Your last annotation example confuses the @field and $annotation syntax-- string $0 :Text $qux;
A Productive Android Development Environment
The issue is there's already accurate words to describe these extensions; DRM.

But the accurate words have negative connotations so they avoid them on purpose and try to use positive ones which may be technically accurate but wouldn't be how anyone would normally choose to describe them. This is the definition of spin.
Ostensibly, a "a low-key ceremony in an actual beautiful natural area" (that can support 360 guests) would have a far greater ecological impact than manufacturing such a place in an already developed campground.

To make such a suggestion, you'd have to claim that they shouldn't have invited nearly so many people, which is an uncomfortable claim to make.
I hadn't heard of Lastpass Enterprise or Meldium before.

At previous companies I've used Passpack (http://www.passpack.com/en/home/) but didn't really like it. The sharing model is a real pain and doesn't scale. Team members create passwords in their individual accounts, then transfer ownership to a company account. Now the person who administers the company account gets an email, logs in, accepts the transfer, and shares the password to the appropriate team members.

Now that I'm in a simpler environment where veryone has access to all the passwords, I just use pass (http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/) and a central git repository.
To paraphrase you... what was Parker really supposed to do? Every time he wants to have an event on private property, he has to check that the owner isn't violating any of a myriad regulations imposed by countless regulatory bodies? That doesn't seem feasible.
Exactly. It's one thing to jump on Google Hangouts or Skype on a whim, but it's entirely different to ask employees to be monitored like animals at their desks. I'm envisioning management questioning why an employee is away from their desk if they went to the bathroom or to get something from the kitchen. It would seem to cast more doubt than assurance in my opinion.
The time you have in life in jellybeans (3 min video)
I guess they had it right the first time.
Hopefully they have plenty of checks and tests to make sure this isn't the case, but having no knowledge of the details and simply reading this article, my thoughts at several points ran to "conspicuous instrumentation failure."

Granted, it's totally reasonable that we should either not know what to expect or simply expect the wrong thing, having never been out that far. I just can't help wondering how much we can do to confirm what's being reported is based on valid readings (and, of course, whether that confirmation is being done before the PR people send it out into the media microcosm).
Yeah, I tried not to be overly judgmental, it is his wedding and his money, but it's pretty common for people to react poorly to opulent displays of personal wealth. I said "faked" because they literally trucked in a fake castle and forest, among other things to the tune of a few million dollars. It just seems inconsistent with a professed love of nature, and hardly "the antithesis of the technology-infested world we live in."
What? Samsung TouchWiz still looks like an iOS 6 and below (ugly) clone.

I'm hoping they try to copy iOS 7 in their next devices - then maybe their devices will look as nice as AOSP.
You might like http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/...
Psychologically main problem for my mind is that "arm" looks like tentacle, and body looks like snail's foot. But it's probably my own fault.
I wouldn't trust anything that comes from Mastercard or Visa directly. I would much rather have the companies' idiosyncrasies and politics abstracted through a 3rd-party service like stripe or balanced. That's just my kneejerk reaction, take it or leave it.
The goals section in the design doc provides a high-level comparison (and motivation behind "why QUIC"): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs...
Opera Mini supports a shitload of platforms, offering a bandwidth-saving, smooth (well..), fast browsing experience.
What other browser offers this?

I'm not much of a Opera fan, but we need to give credit where credit is due.
Region 2 in the article is the back of the fox -- they removed all the fur, which I think is an important detail. There's some color variation up by the shoulder/neck area that sort-of looks like it, but it's too subtle.

Thumbs-up on removing the high gloss, though.

(yeah yeah, everyone's a critic)
I've used many of the top VPS providers: Slicehost, Rackspace, Linode, Digital Ocean and AWS. I don't think anyone could beat Amazon at making the process of provisioning a fresh server instance more complex. Granted, this is from the perspective of someone using their web interface to do so. Digital Ocean has made that same process incredibly easy and kinda fun.
It's been announced that Voyager 1 has left the solar system so many times, I didn't expect to read an article that said Voyager 1 hadn't even left the solar system at all yet!
> "it may even be arguable" (though I think you're seriously stretching there)

He's not stretching - it's one of the very textbook definitions of kidnapping, forcibly preventing someone from leaving a situation. Put it this way, if I, as a paramedic, am on scene of someone who has a medical need, but is of sound mind, if they say "no, I want to get out of this ambulance" - even if we are going lights and sirens to the hospital - for me to refuse leads me to charges of assault, kidnapping, and malpractice.
A rather stretched poetic usage of Schwarzschild radius, and it seems the author simply stumbled away from the denotational meaning. Nonetheless the metaphor worked for me.

I am unaware of a specific name for the concept that a larger rocket has diminishing returns because of the disproportionate addition of fuel weight. Like the article suggests, one has to wrestle with the payload requirements to get out of this trap.
It would be overreaching of us to do something like that. We're not the VCs' adversaries. We need to cooperate with them, because they have expertise in later-stage problems that the startups need.
Xconomy XSITE 2013
It lost a lot of depth on the left hand side. Instead of looking like the back of a fox, it just looks like an amorphous shape with a tail. 2009-2013 was the best on the left hand side.
9600 words!

The very rich are different from you and me... no one dare edit them for length.

That said, I am sympathetic to Parker's point that social media/journalism has, with all its benefits, also introduced certain pathologies for which we haven't yet evolved countermeasures.
I started reading this article with a burning prejudice against overly nitpicky designers, but I have to say, each change here makes perfect sense and contributes to a more cohesive whole. Never thought Firefox of all places would be a good place to read about design. Great work!

In regards to the flatness and lack of detail that some people are complaining about: when I look at the Firefox icon in my taskbar, I don't parse it as a fox and a globe but rather as an abstract red/blue circle. The simplified design will make this easier to read -- much more in line with, for example, the Chrome logo.
Yes! We'll save 0.05%! That's 500$ for every million in sales. You must have huge sales to justify a switch.
Sounds like solid logic to me. Glad to have that one explicitly worked out :)
Watch out for the XSS in the chat.
crap, copied a wrong link, i meant this https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Dilijan,+Tavush,+Armenia&hl=e...
Freakanomics did a good podcast on suicide. This question was addressed at least a little, by talking about the apparent rareness of suicide in some cultures: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new-freakonomics-radi...

Some Googling turned up this study, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16420711, "The association between suicide and the socio-economic characteristics of geographical areas: a systematic review". At first I thought their conclusions were clear, but I find I have difficulty understanding subsequent sentences with respect to each other. I'm afraid I would need to read the whole paper to understand exactly what their conclusions are.
I like it. Looks great on my BlackBerry Z10. I haven't made a decision yet on a reader but this has a great responsive design and I may stay with this.
Another victory for Tesla - this time in NC
Here's the fox all on his lonesome, though not exactly in logo form: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/mozilla_...
> Using colons to denote types is still ugly and feels
> unnecessary.

Yeah, I hear you. My personal experience is that when I look at Go code, I find it hard to parse variable definitions since the type has no separator. But I'm sure if I wrote more Go, it would get easier. I worry that there is a bit more need for Cap'n Proto schemas to be easily readable to newcomers compared to Go code. On the other hand, in Cap'n Proto there is usually an ordinal number separating the name and type anyway (though not always).

So far not many people have complained, but I could definitely be convinced to drop the colon if that's what people want.

> Your last annotation example confuses the @field and
> $annotation syntax-- string $0 :Text $qux;

Eek, fix pushed. Thanks!
IceLeaf, a lightweight lexing , parsing and AST handling library for Python.
I rather liked the graphs, made up as they were. It clarified something observable in real life projects gone wrong: in order to partially cover up for a badly slipped schedule, new business requirements get added on. "We were late, but we did so to release an even better product to our customers." Unfortunately the inability to scope a project correlates with an inability to manage ad hoc requirements and the ensuing arbitrarily raised expectation.
As far as I'm aware (correct me if I'm wrong), there is an ID card or a functional equivalent thereof in most if not all countries, as the ability to verify someone's identity is pretty much a requirement for a modern society. Whether it's an actual "ID card" or a passport, birth certificate, driver's license, social security number, whatever doesn't really matter IMO.

As for having to reveal/prove my identity to the police: I could do without that, but I consider it mostly a non-issue. In practice it happens rarely, and if it does the police officers tend to be pretty friendly and reasonable. Case in point, one of the two or three times this has happend to me in my life, my ID was invalid as it had expired several months before. They were basically like "Well you better get a new one soon, m'kay?" and then sent me on my way. YMMV of course.

The big difference though between the ID card thing and privacy violations by spying is that the spying happens behind people's backs, and they may never know how broadly their rights are violated until one day the gathered information is used against them. There can be no effective oversight and that's why it must not be allowed to happen in the first place.

If on the other hand the police started abusing their authority – acting like dicks, grabbing people en masse to check their IDs on every street corner, it would be immediately obvious to everyone and could presumably be corrected (by vote, protest, civil disobedience, etc).
If anyone is looking to play around with PuSH, http://superfeedr.com/ has been a joy to work with. There's also a reference implementation available at https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/.

It handles all the "dirty" parts of feed reading (checking for new items, normalizing fields) and adds near instant updates for sites that ping hubs.

When I finally get around to writing my own feed reader, I definitely plan on using it.
Relevant xkcd http://xkcd.com/1189/
I think your feelings and assertions are valid, but I can't really blame Netflix here, which was my reaction, and I don't really think you meant to paint them in that light. I feel they are hamstrung between staying profitable and trying to court the dinosaurs that are content providers.

It always strikes me as odd that it would appear the "internet crowd" would both like to abolish advertising (re: commercials) _and_ DRM (re: subscriptions). I don't know that Netflix or Steam exists without the later, and I much prefer the "price" I pay for that "burden" over the alternative(s?).

And I have to say, it's hard for me to cast stones at MS for the innovations IE5 brought to market, in the late 90s. It's pretty crummy to subject MS to feelings that only manifested many years later and only because of things they didn't do -- continue supporting and innovating in the browser space. We're just pissed it was so good that people could hold onto it until pried from the cold, dead hands.
Couldn't have said it better :)
Do any of the hosting providers bake Chef or Puppet or the like right into their management consoles? I just use a custom bash file that I wrote, borrowing from some Linode Stack Scripts, to get my bare instances up to speed. An improvement on Stack Scripts, that were more up to date, and didn't feel like drinking the puppet-chef-cool-aid would be a cool feature.
From what I have heard and read (see the Freakanomics podcast I link to in this thread), suicide is seen among those that study it as having a large impulse component.
I noted the OP's blog has a job post for a content manager that states Anywhere,USA. Why limit yourself to USA? I figure if it is remote it should be remote anywhere.
A friend of mine said something very profound over beers the other night in reference to an algorithms II course he took at the local university

"You can have a career after taking just that course."

Now, it isn't quite that simple—the statement isn't 100% correct, but it does touch on something special. With a basic algorithms course passed, (i.e., you did the homework, participated, and didn't just watch all the lectures in a weekend binge) you can probably get a basic career these days. You won't work for Facebook or Google, but the knowledge learned in just an algorithms course combined with our modern society's demand for those skills means you can find work and even a career.

That's amazing.
Sometimes I wonder if Amazon is purposely limiting their target audience to technical users by implementing their AWS UI in a manner that the average person cannot understand.
You can do better than 2.9% for sure but I'm not sure about under 2% for a small merchant in CNP.
It has a long history, starting even before DuckDuckGo. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=watrcoolr

Perhaps I should do a post on it on the DDG blog.
Thordarson reached out to the FBI for "the adventure" and then continued pinging them for cash. I'm not sure if this is a case of "how far the government is willing to go" as much as 'how widely feelings on loyalty can vary'.
HR and legal compliance is much easier when dealing with domestic vs. international employees.
But that doesn't seem to be tuition stuff. Room & Board is a separate set of fees, and most sports programs more than pay for themselves.
To play diplomat, I see a lot of Stripe loyalty / Mastercard hate already brewing here, and I think that's a bit unwarranted. Stripe has certainly earned their place as a cherished service, but I would venture to bet a lot of devs worked quite hard on Simplify as well, so it'd be nice to see discussion on the merits of the offering rather than preconceived notions of the provider.

If nothing else, even if 0.05% isn't much, I'm happy to see if they can start a bit of a pricing war here. If it drives payment costs down across the board, all the better.