skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not trying to pass meta-information, but to sell to a prospect. The last thing you want them to do is go to another site rather than clicking on your call-to-action.
I cannot say how I know this, but I can assure you that this is a perfect example of Hanlon's razor at work. I am 100% sure that it is not intentional.
Simple Recipe for Healthy Ageing
To me the major difference is that the 'crazy ones' commercial makes you feel inspired whether or not you like Apple at all. It gives a sense of, maybe these people feel the way I do and I want to be a part of that group.

The new ads, to me, come across as pretentious. My GF and I watched the new ad recently when it was on TV and when it was done she just said "I don't get it", with no prompting from me.

The new ad just reeks of 'look how cool we are, you arent this cool'
The last Incan suspension bridge is made entirely of grass and woven by hand
The NSA FOIA Office Sent Me Someone Else's Private Document By Mistake
Why We Chose To HQ our Startup in Las Vegas
Why would you want to lose your reader's attention by sending them to another page? That kills how much you sell with that ad. The prospect may choose to learn more about your ad, but you don't want to lose their attention like that.

Getting a half-sold prospect out of your page is just losing a customer.

Just look at an informercial for example, the copy can easily take over an hour of narration.

Also, widespread testing of ads has been done for a very long time, it's not like research in marketing has never been done before. Long-copy always sells more than short copy. The trick is to write long copy well, which is not something that everyone can do.
But it sold lots of Samsung phones.
>Audit able and recount able is better than online.

Because databases and computer systems aren't audit able?
How do dba's and computer forensics ever solve any problems?

>The fact that there were votes to argue in court about is still a step above "computer says Bush".

A step above because you say so? I guess all those punch card machines that accepted and counted votes during the election probably were dismissed then since a computer gave an answer.
Great analysis - I've been struggling with finding the right server to use for concurrency as I have very long-running requests to a third party API, and this looks like the right choice for us.
Please tell me you see the irony in this post.
Yuhong is correct, Mac 128 era keyboards have no Control key. Weird. Option also hay the word and no logo. Command is just the clover, no text.
Because the Crazy Ones was a salute to those people. This new ad sounds like Apple saluting itself.
It did, it's one of the most successful ads in existence. The trick is that the headline and picture grabbed your attention, and then they sold nothing but facts about the product.
Smart scientist know all to well to be very very careful in this country (US) when using one of the "A" words. You may find yourself having difficulty in finding a job or funding if you ever admit to it in an out right way. But let's face it, 99% of scientist understand that an invisible man in the sky did not create the universe.
Men are pigs!
If you are going to write long-copy, first make sure it's readable. This low-contrast stuff is just never going to work.
One petition for the NSA, and one for GCHQ.
It is generally a bad idea to make your own, since you won't be aware of international issues. Similarly since your license is non-standard, anyone using the code now has to a do legal review to make sure things are ok, instead of looking in their list of standard approved ones.

Pick one from the top of http://opensource.org/licenses At the bottom of my LICENSE file I add "Alternatively you may strike the license above and use it under any OSI approved open source license such as those listed at http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical"

See also http://creativecommons.org/choose/ although they are rarely used for code.
Let's make No Such Agency, no such agency.
Aeroscraft: An Adjustable-Buoyancy "Flying Submarine"
The Missoula, MT protest was sparsely attended (I think we had sixteen people at the peak, perhaps 20 individuals altogether), but the passersby were all enthusiastic and supportive, honking their horns and shouting their support.
Many hybrids are infertile. There are some documented cases of fertile hybrids in very related animals and very related plants (plants are weird!). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)#Hybrid_species

But and hybrid between a chimp and a pig: simply no way! Even creating a live pig-chimp hybrid is probably almost impossible, a fertile pig-chimp hybrid would be a miracle.
I was always under the understanding that running (potentially) ruins your knees by damaging your cartilage - bone thickness or density isn't the issue. That's why swimming is often recommended because there is no impact on your cartilage.
It's been reported that it was in runescape. Some kid told him to kill himself and his response was not only would he kill himself, he'd take a kindergarten with him columbine style.

I'm not sure if I'd actually say it was a joke rather than him just lashing out, but I highly doubt he was even remotly serious and disagree with him being held on that alone.

Obviously I accept I don't know all the facts of the case but I wouldn't be suprised if it really was that stupid. We've had similar cases in the UK.
The thing I find most depressing about these crackpots is that some otherwise productive scientist has to spend an evening debunking their nonsense. And it still doesn't stop.

I taught evolution for undergrads, and occasionally had to deal with these issues from students. It takes time to look into them, and no matter how thoroughly debunked the theory, some kids find them too irresistible to let go of. It undermines real education in the end.
>I'm not sure where to go with this.

Technical cofounder
Long Copy ads were especially successful in the days of print magazines and mail order.

Here are classic examples:
http://robertrosenthal.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c511c53ef0120...

http://www.perrymarshall.com/images/micro_tv_breakthrough.jp...

http://copyquickstart.com/call/sugarman/homework/home_comput...

Sorry that the last one has just one of two-paged spread. All I got via Google.

EDIT to add: Oh, look at this, from the JS of JS&A fame:

http://succeedinyourpajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/J...
I believe a Dr Krieger tried several times with mixed success.

Poor pigley.
Please tell me you see the pun in your comment.
Using a KDF with a decent encryption algorithm (ie. AES) doesn't really help much, (it doesn't make it worse, either). Considering you'll be using something like AES-CBC, you will already have a salt/IV as part of the encryption process, and you are safe against people finding your key from multiple ciphertexts.

So there are no real problems that adding scrypt solves, besides "making it slower".
Michael Pollan on human microbiome
> What I think could be argued as an illusion is that this period of safety has been due to increased surveillance and espionage, especially domestic surveillance.

Exactly. As we all should know by now, 'Correlation != Causation'. This increase in safety could just as easily be attributed to the Flynn Effect[1] as it can to spying.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
>* Bullshit. You said Bush v Gore had made recounts, plural, moot. I pointed out that this was not the case. So you're saying it made that one moot. Not the same thing, and you know it.*

I didn't say Bush v Gore had made recounts. You said that.

The recounts were underway before the supreme court stopped them in Bush v Gore.[0]

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), is the United States Supreme Court decision that effectively resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election. Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70 (2000), and only three days earlier, had preliminarily halted a recount that was occurring.

See the last part: had preliminarily halted a recount that was occurring

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

>And I thought you wanted to have a serious conversation. Oh well, more fool me.

Only as serious as one can converse with a state apologist. ;)
It's much easier to move Earth to a higher orbit than it would be to refuel the Sun. In fact, we should de-fuel the Sun to prolong its life and move the Earth closer to it. One could move the Earth with a collection of bodies orbiting the Sun pulling the Earth in the right direction with gravity. Those bodies could obtain their own momentum from solar sails. It's not fancy technology beyond major bruteforce work (we'd need to disassemble the Moon, at least)

Remember the timeframes involved are of many million years. The Sun will change very slowly until the very end and moving the Earth any faster would create climate problems of their very own.

BTW, we'll have some problems before that, when the Milky Way merges with Andromeda. I imagine lots of stars will gain excessive mass from fast moving gas clouds and may decide to go nova/supernova in the millennia it will take for both galaxies to pass through each other.
This. The author makes the absurd claim that because many hybrids are fertile, any hybrid could be fertile. Using hybridization between two closely related birds to support the notion that pigs and apes could breed is ridiculous.
I know articles like this bring out the trolls, but I can't get over the sheer number of commenters (on the target site) happy to see Justin being 'taught a lesson', or claiming that his speech was truly criminal.

What hits me the hardest about this story is that, what if an HN post of mine strikes the wrong nerve and next thing they're coming for me? Maybe next they'll be coming for you. Or 15 years from now my kid makes a dumb post and they come for him.

The Supreme Court was pretty clear this kind of speech is protected, and yet here we are with Justin behind bars. By the way, how the hell does bail get set at $500,000 for a single Facebook comment, no matter how insensitive or inciteful?

You might be interested in contacting the DA who filed the charges, Jennifer Tharp, http://tharpda.com/. Apparently she made her first comment on the case yesterday, although I can't find a direct link to her written statement: "Comal County District Attorney Jennifer Tharp says in a statement that Justin Carter could get 'community supervision or probation' if that is determined to be in the 'best interest of the defendant and society."

What Justin should get is sent home with an apology, and perhaps a nice settlement check down the road. I hope while Jennifer is out enjoying her 4th of July, celebrating our independence day, she can spare a moment to think about how she's managed to trample the constitutional freedoms that so many Americans have given their lives to defend.

I better be careful not to wish any ill will upon her for her role in this travesty of justice, since, you know, I wouldn't want to be accused of making 'terroristic threats'. So let's just say I hope it's raining in Comal County today.
I would try taking classes on Udacity and Coursera first. If you really want to do something, you'll make the time.
So colour me skeptical. As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this theory is making several extraordinary claims:

1) A hybridization event indeed occurred in the relatively recent genetic history of homo sapiens (rather than the unusual anatomic features being produced some other way).

2) The hybridization was with a close relative of pigs (rather than another family that has some similar characteristics, or multiple hybridizations that together gave us the unusual characteristics).

3) The hybridization marks the point at which hominids split from the other primates (rather than occurring later in one branch of the hominid family tree).

4) That the genes introduced by hybridization gives hominids their unique characteristics (rather than being inconsequential).

In return, the theory presents evidence (anatomic oddities and low fertility) that I would characterize as "interesting" and perhaps "worthy of further study", but certainly not extraordinary. For this to be plausible, there needs to be a second avenue of evidence, one not based on anatomic similarities...

That second avenue could be genetic, but they specifically dismiss it, presupposing a mechanism, backcrossing, that leaves little genetic evidence that it occurred. Now, I'm no geneticist, but that sounds a bit fishy to me.
Please, it's incorrect to draw "mentally ill" from this.

Mental illness is a very common, serious problem of society which deserves genuine attention. What you described are not symptoms of mental illness.
Of course. But it's interesting to see in the video that there were also a lot of other cameras there, including some huge DSLRs with pro optics. Also, the protest was very peaceful and positive.
VPNs aren't just used for anonymizing, connecting to public/untrusted WiFi for example.
Like no one would be wiser if the American electoral process was rigged by a couple extremely wealthy people.
The strange conceit of this article is that all sysadmins apparently want to be programmers

Speaking of conceit, the article didn't actually say or even imply this. You're projecting. It mentioned a line 'most' sysadmins use, then talked about some strategies you can pursue if you want to 'become a programmer'.
Heh. I wasn't offering my approval so don't go jumping the gun there and assuming things.

I was just offering a perspective on effective methods of communication. Whether it means anything to anyone other than myself, it has no effect on my continued meager offerings in the future.

Anyways...
I wouldn't count on it. It was some uptight woman who saw the comment and told the police in the first place, and you can bet its the fear of uptight parents that's causing the prosecution. Can you imagine how the shit would hit the fan if the kid had said something like that, the police had been notified, and the police had done nothing, and the kid had shot up some school?
How could you think that's a remotely credible threat?
But capital gains aren't taxed as income.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/06/05/why-capital...
Tip: It's written with a lower-case k. Capital K in front of B means 1024 to some people (including me), but 1000 is always written as k.
It reminds me of Michael Diana, convicted for drawing comics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana
I remember seeing similar behavior trying to do testing in a cafe using a Verizon MiFi over LTE. I called up their support staff and they tried to blame the problem on me saying they don't block anything, it must be on my end...typical.
Amazon hires goats to landscape their Japanese office
Short answer: Use PGP, TLS/SSL or KeyCzar.
> It's no accident that as the federal government has taken more power from the states that it has gone to shit.

At which point in the process did this happen? The Civil War and Reconstruction, when the federal government took power from the states and abolished slavery? Or the Civil Rights Act, when the federal government took power from the states and abolished Jim Crow?
How I slowly moved to Linux
There is also a modification patch for Lua 5.1 called Cocos that fixes this. It was written by Mike Pall, better known as the author of LuaJIT.
http://coco.luajit.org
"True non-violence" also means nobody eats, ever.

Not even Ghandi's movement was non-violent by your definition.
It doesn't matter that fertile hybrids are unusual. For evaluating this theory, it only has to be possible to produce a fertile chimp-pig hybrid. Then, given a large number of chimp-pig... interactions, you can then assume that eventually one would be successful.

(That said, before you interpret this as me supporting the theory, please read my top-level comment)
Google privacy policy criticised by data watchdog
It was just a brief way of saying, "All you've communicated is that the equation of the two doesn't feel right, without giving anyone a reason to deem your view more persuasive."

This is basically what happened:

A: That seems dangerously close to eugenics, in that it's weeding out people with bad genes.

B: Oh yeah? If you distorted your view by listening to crying moms who agree with me (and not similar weepers on the other side), you'd agree with me.

Me: Argument from emotion.
No...

People can expect secure communications, just like they can expect lung transplants. They should should not expect either done by an amature rejecting supervision.

There was nothing wrong with what they wanted done, only with who was doing it and how.
That's tough and I hope you find a way to manage this.

Regular exercise has all sorts of benefits including (in general) reducing anxiety, but single sessions of exercise often feel like they have negative consequences.
This passage gives a nice summary:

Engelbart's 1951 epiphany focused on a basic predicament -- his perception that the world's complexity was increasing at a faster rate than humanity's ability to cope. The computer, he decided, offered the best chance to "augment" human intelligence as a defensive measure. In opposition to the artificial-intelligence researchers clustered at MIT, Engelbart never cared particularly about making machines smarter -- his dream has always been to give us a wisdom upgrade.
> But let's not act like crypto's main usage is as righteous as helping a rebellion against an oppressive regime.

You realise that cryptocat isn't marketing itself as a chat client for paedophiles and drug users, but for activists in oppressive regimes, right?

Here's one example from their blog:

> In working with young and middle-aged professionals in the Middle East region, we have discovered that desktop OTR clients suffer from serious usability issues which are sometimes further exacerbated due to language differences and lack of cultural integration (the technology was frequently described as “foreign”). In one case, an activist who was fully trained to use Pidgin-OTR neglected to do so citing usability difficulties, and as a direct consequence encountered a life-threatening situation at the hands of a national military in the Middle East and North Africa region.

That's why people keep talking about the risk from foreign governments - because the cryptocat hype keeps mentioning governments.
> Little did I know that Singapore doesn’t have the same freedom of speech laws we take for granted in America.

> In other words, you can get in big trouble in Singapore just for saying or writing something.

whoa... sounds like my country.
"You ever noticed how there are no abortion doctors, only 'reproductive health physicians'?" -> no comedian's routine
Crowds across America protest NSA in 'Restore the Fourth' movement
Sure, but a government with a habit of ignoring (or paying some minimal lip-service while weaving a web of bullshit about how flagrantly violating it isn't really violating it) the Constitution is a threat in the medium- to long-term (if not the short-). Complaining that behavior is a problem because it is unconstitutional does not necessarily mean we'd oppose an amendment that permits it (after thorough consideration and discussion).

Arguing against a proposed amendment on the grounds that the proposed change allows something currently prohibited would be silly, obviously, but that's not what anyone is doing I think.
I don't have the study, but I do have my own experience. About 5 years ago I was lucky to survive being hit by the propellor of a speedboat. I was struck across the sacrum, crushing nerves and fracturing both the sacrum and tailbones, as well as a deal of laceration for good measure. There is always a pressure, stiffness and dull spinal ache and occasional acute pain - though fortunately not too often for the latter.

Anyway, I find now that if I do any duration of impact-based activity that I will pay for it; I feel each impact in my spine, though that is bearable for a while, but the next day my lower spine and sacral area will be stiff and sore. Whereas when I swim there is neither immediate nor consequential pain relating to the injury.

It's lucky that I'm a lazy bastard and didn't intend on running anyway :p
Do we have a designed ornithologist here to comment about the book?

My guess is that all the cases in the book are hybrids between very related bird species. For example, in the PowerPoint presentation, there is a hybrid between two types of crows, other cases are not so obvious, but IANAO. But I didn't see any hybrid between two obvious distant species, for example between an ostrich and a stork.
Of course I'm not in a position to diagnose anyone with anything specifically, however I think erratic self-destructive behavior is in that realm.

"A mental disorder or psychiatric disorder is a psychological pattern or anomaly, potentially reflected in behavior, that is generally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development in a person's culture. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder

Regardless, my assessment of his mental health is irrelevant to my argument that he has no credibility for other substantial reasons.
Git branch in cmd.exe prompt
I have to admit, I didn't realize before this how explicitly the Bill of Rights forbids fishing expeditions. If I were working at the NSA I'd be worried about that. It may be inconvenient to be restrained by the constitution, but violating it seems the policy equivalent of selling one's soul to the devil. Once you've started down that road, where do you stop?
Why are there no new photos of Snowden?
Why are there no new photos of Snowden?
It's not just that it's cheating, it's that it's less portable as well. A self-contained script can be thrown anywhere. One that needs a library needs to have the library taken with it. One thing that 'sysadmins' encounter than 'programmers' don't is a wide variety of systems with a varied install base. The more portable your coding, the easier time you have as you progress.

Throw in that programmers work on more monolithic projects, getting the libraries for those is (kind of) a one-time affair, but with sysadmins working on smaller, multitudinous projects, you can end up with a raft of different libraries to manage.

The real answer, as always, is 'be appropriate'. Often libraries are called for, but sometimes they're to be avoided. It depends on the use case, or even the library itself (we're currently using an abandoned one in production... and there's some crossing-fingers going on as we don't have the resources to fix it if there's breakage...)
because he's not in Russia
Grenada makes it a crime to offend people on Facebook, Twitter
Unless the coder is doing something in the network space, it shouldn't really matter. But there is a special place in hell for those professional coders who can't take a virgin machine and install their own environment on it.
I'm more of a cyclist than a runner, but my limited experience has been that when I consistently cycle longer distances each week (100km+) I feel better, my brain is clearer and I sleep longer and more soundly at night. Historically I've been a night owl, but during the times when I was consistently riding I could hardly stay awake past 10pm.

Cycling, running, rowing, whatever - just get out there and do it. As the article noted, exercise is not only good for the body but the brain as well.
> it makes programmers have to do sysadmin work (which in a two-person company without a specialised sysadmin can be difficult)

If you're a two-person company without a specialized sysadmin, programmers having to do sysadmin work should be inevitable, normal, and expected, not "difficult".