skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought it maybe they triggered the explosion to prevent it - guess not.
Looks pretty cool, but iOS only from what I can tell. Not sure I can seriously look at a technology that doesn't support Android at this point.
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From the writeup provided as a link in another comment, Russian launchers don't have such mechanism. Instead the engines are shut down after at least 42 seconds to allow the launcher to be further than the launch area. But here the launcher hit the ground after about 30 seconds.
If people are looking for other motivational songs, I can heartily recommend Poor Jack from nightmare before christmas. It seems like it was scientifically designed to pick up spirits, and Jacks role is quite entrepreneurial. It encapsulates recovering from failure.
Such a terrible commentary in the video.
On another board I would usually respond to something like this with "not your personal army"...
"how the heck does the accessory setting work (if at all)?"

In my wife's old Prius, tap the power switch without a foot on the brake and you get accessory mode. Tap the power switch with a foot on the brake and the car goes into run mode although its in park mode.

Confusing as hell precisely one time, especially if you're used to an automatic transmission. My regular tech car won't start unless its in park or neutral, why would I push on the brake? My left foot is already busy kicking the parking brake out... and the Prius does in fact have a parking brake for the left foot to kick out making the UI even more confusing. However it makes perfect sense to a manual transmission driver, because you always kick the parking brake out with your left foot and then hold the clutch in with left foot.

The confusing as hell part comes the first time you shut off the car and put your left foot on the parking brake to kick it out like you'd do with a normal car, and it boots up in accessory mode and won't move. WTF? Hopefully you try leaving the parking brake alone and press the regular brake before you ask for a tow.

This is all beside the point. If a bunch of crazy men in civilian clothes on a dark night waving guns rush my wife or daughter and start screaming at her, I want her to escape at all costs, run them over if necessary. Behaving like a pack of uncivilized wolves has consequences and she shouldn't feel sorry at all. Those officers should all be in jail.
He said that he is done through chapter 96, and implied that it might be the end (said at chapter 86 that there were "2 or 3" arcs left, and arcs tend to be about 4 chapters...).
Thanks for pointing that out, I've flagged that as inappropriate. Lets hope the WH removes it.
I speculate that the reason his Ecuador papers were revoked has more to do with Ecuador's dirty laundry than Snowden's. It's my view that this is the largest existential threat to the US Security Apparatus (e.g. Booz, et al. ) that has ever existed. Under that level, I could imagine they are pulling out all their stops.
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Compare with the ISRO launch on Monday that was a success - http://www.spaceflight101.com/pslv-c22-launch-updates-irnss-...
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I feel exactly the same way - wherever possible I run my own services on my own servers, so I know where my data's going, and I'm not at the mercy of someone else changing or removing a feature I like, or shutting it down completely. If I fall out with the hosting company, I can just get another server elsewhere.

I only switched to self hosted for RSS recently though - when google announced they were shutting reader, I figured I'd write my own for an existing django site. Quick shameless plug: I released it on Sunday, in case anyone's interested - https://github.com/radiac/django-yarr

Which brings me on to my main exception for self-hosting: public repositories on github. The collaborative features they provide seem worth the loss of control - although their recent UI enhancements (making it harder to check issue counts, find repo addresses etc) does rather prove my point.
> surely Obama and friends couldn't deal with the outrage that would follow? Their image is already shot.

I can't figure out how this would actually matter to Obama, more than a few speeches' worth. Except for a few thousand libertarians, the people most upset by this were Obama's most fervent supporters, who won't be voting for him again anyway. The administration's main political foes seem to recognize that there's a big issue here (after all, slightly more than half of their constituents think that the NSA actions are "hurting Americans"[1]), but don't quite know how to capitalize on it, since they were all in favor of things like this before the story broke. The outrage within the US about this is spread so evenly across the usual parties that it's not clear that there will be any actual fallout for future elections.

> The death of Snowden would put them on par with mafia.

I would suppose that if they choose to kill him, they'll try pretty hard to do it in a way where it's not provable that the US killed him. Future-leaks-wise, though, it might seem beneficial for people to suspect that the US killed him, since presumably that would deter future leaks to some extent.

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/25/fox-news-poll-mix...
That may be the single most blatant piece of PR I have ever seen!
Interesting note:

"Contrary to popular belief, since the act (that set the drinking age at 21) went into law, only a few states prohibit minors and young adults from consuming alcohol in private settings. As of January 1, 2010, 15 states and the District of Columbia ban underage consumption outright, 17 states do not ban underage consumption, and the remaining 18 states have family member and/or location exceptions to their underage consumption laws."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age#Americas
As someone who went to UVA, this isn't entirely surprising, but it still saddens me. The cops there are largely bored, and they put too much emphasis on the state sanctioned ABC monopoly over liquor.
To be fair, that’s the case in the UK as well. General age for drinking is 18 (with a few exceptions[1]), you can enlist at 16.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
I have never read any other fanfiction but I found this series a good primer on modern logic and fun idle reading.

Unfortunately, it has a few cringeworthy moments and tropes[1]. It is definitely precocious at parts and not hard to draw the parallels with the whole Übermensch/Singularity thing (though to my understanding, the author has distanced himself from the organization and is currently at MIRI).

My chief criticism would be that it is overly bashful of the original Harry Potter story logic but lacks a tight plot through the second half. (Admittedly something very difficult to do with serialized fiction.) Up until chapter 87 I got the feel the story went off the rails, but the last few updates have been very interesting (no spoilers.)

If you enjoyed Snow Crash and do not mind fantasy, you would probably be into this. Don't take it too seriously and keep in mind it is about 1000 pages now.

[1] In particular: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue / http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MartyStu
You can fly wherever you want. No international commercial airline will let you on their plane unless you have a valid passport / VISA for the destination. If you show up by private plane, you will have to show your passport to enter the country, or else you are denied entry.

Currently, Snowden is denied entry to Russia, and is stuck in the "Transportation Zone" of a Russian airport, unable to enter the country. Snowden was in discussions for asylum with Russia (who would issue papers allowing him in if granted), but Snowden has reconsidered this option and is seeking asylum elsewhere.
I helped fund the project (only $100), but I don't mind it being given away. I hope this is being continued though. I have seen a couple other similar APIs out there that are free(dom) and available on GitHub but I really liked this API.

Anyone know if there are plans on providing source in the future? Not that I really want to look at it, I've enough code to write. But, It's nice to have it so I can make sure I'm safe for the future.

Also, does anyone know if this decision was brought by the design changes in iOS 7?
How much is that company you started making per employee?
I have the opposite view - when I use Reader the folks at Google know how often I click on certain topics, and how long I spend reading each topic. My gut tells me that such information would be quite useful to their search product, even if they have already know my search history. And for some users Google will not know their search history and social information.

A similar logic applies to Google Checkout (aka Google Wallet). I would have thought that knowing my purchase history would be very useful to the search algorithm.

So I really don't understand Google's approach. Their search algorithm is their prime asset, but they seem willing to degrade it bit by bit.
And you would be downvoted on Reddit as well. Tesla is a distruption success story that can be repeated by other companies, and the only thing holding them back is out of date government lack-of-regulation.

Regulation merely means to make regular, and this "regulation" makes it so only the biggest and richest car companies be able to sell cars under the guise of "franchised dealerships that are local businesses", that really have very little ability to operate as an independent business.

The laws reguarding dealerships only drive prices up by forcing the existence of a middle man whos only job is to represent the interests of Detroit (ironic, seeing as our cars are made in China and Mexico now, instead of in the US).

tl;dr: Tesla may make cars, but they are the kind of disruption Silicon Valley yerns for.
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Here is an example though not related to the Snowden/NSA affair.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2013/06/a-gross-...
Yeah, pulling a gun on an underage buyer of alcohol seems like it shouldn't even be an option. You're essentially pulling a gun on a child. Not to mention the huge waste of money to have that many agents staked out to catch some petty criminal.
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The only thing programmers have to fear is... all of these things
You guys are considering bringing people from the US? Didn't imagine the engineer shortage was that great around here...

(I'm from Porto Alegre)
I wonder if anyone here actually used it. How much does it increase the size of executable?
Indeed. Who cares if he travels from Moscow to Ecuador in single trip or several. Seems like blatant advertisment which just screams "Call PrivateFly"
Well, it's the only mainstream alternative Chromium-based browser for Windows and Mac at this point? Also, only half jokingly, it also comes non-NSA-approved (because it's Norwegian).

Considering this is the first version of a product seemingly built from scratch it features a LOT more than any other browser had on their first public releases. I expect a lot of innovation here in the coming months based on Opera's track record. It has the makings of being a great browser.
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+1, but..

I'm not oblivious to the intelligence services here in Europe, although their focus hasn't exactly been the US. I'm aware of the political shenanigans, and of course they're trying to exploit the situation to their own benefit. As a European I'm furious, but right now I don't care about internal politics. I care about external threats, since that's what the USG just demoted their own country to.

I love the States, but it's a tough love right now.
"[S]omething bigger..." eh? That's conveniently non-specific.

All I can do is echo the other comments, that regardless of whether or not something "bigger" is going on, the response is absolutely disproportionate, and also remind you that Virginia does have actual police to handle "bigger" problems than busting underage alcohol possession.
Roll up, roll up and join the Edward Snowden publicity train (or plane)!
You don't think them fiction, then? ;)
"Someting going wrong here" +1 insightful.
At least this petition clearly asks for something within the remit of presidential power, unlike most other ones (including Tesla's).
In what sense there is no freedom of speech in Russia?
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How did you figure out how much you could/should charge your customers?

How did you determine how much you should spend on Marketing acquiring those customers?

Are there any useful tools to help!?
When you board a commercial airline you have to show that you have a valid visa/passport for your destination however that is not technically checked until you go through that country's immigration service.

So would it be possible for a private jet to pick up Snowden and drop him in Ecuador where he could officially apply for asylum? It sounds like the main issue is that he has to be in Ecuador to apply.
You could use mergesort instead:

merge :: Ord x => [x] -> [x] -> [x]
merge [] y = y
merge x [] = x
merge (x:xs) (y:ys) =
if x < y then
x:(merge xs (y:ys))
else
y:(merge (x:xs) ys)

odds :: [x] -> [x]
odds [] = []
odds (x:xs) = x:(evens xs)

evens :: [x] -> [x]
evens = odds . drop 1

mergesort :: Ord x => [x] -> [x]
mergesort [] = []
mergesort [x] = [x]
mergesort x = merge (mergesort (odds x)) (mergesort (evens x))
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Very tricky because any private jet isn't going to have the range to make that in one hop.
These were officers who, at short notice, were staking out a suspected terrorist's flat just days after a bombing and during a national hysteria. It was a horrid chain reaction of errors, but it was hardly officers waving guns around to apprehend a girl they thought had brought beer?
I'm using it right now, the ./PXEngine.framework directory which is what you import into your project is 5.2M.

Honestly, the framework is pretty awesome. It makes styling your application as easy as Apple should have made it.
20yo == child?
Ok, so I'm on about day 3 of trying to get a MS ASP.NET 4.5 environment set up, and I feel like killing myself. Every download is gigabytes and gigabytes. It feels like everything wants me to reboot my PC. Installations take hours at a time. On opening the project, half the references are gone, and I have to rebuild (takes ages) the solution to figure out what exactly is missing. Using NuGet doesn't seem to actually install many of the things and so I have to manually do it and wonder why some need me to put -pre on the end. SQL Server is a ~4GB download. Everything is hidden away in weird little dialogs and installation steps that if you mess up you have no idea how to fix. Windows is now taking up about 50GB and it's rising. Install steps appear to do nothing and then spring a window up after about five minutes. I don't know what is going on.

My co-worker and I just want to sob and have this nightmare finish. I never want to use Windows ever again. I need a fucking drink.

I miss being able to `apt-get install python-virtualenv postgresql-9.1 virtualenvwrapper; mkvirtualenv derp; pip -r requirements.txt` and be pretty much set up.

On the plus side I've read quite a lot of this book...
I think they say that in the way of a left bookmark pannel.

The new stash feature is IMHO a better way to do bookmarks as you get a quick glance at the page and you can even search for words inside the pages.

However, I do not currently use this release because it lacks a lot of important features:

->ability to stack tabs in expandables groups

->no opera link (bookmark sync), even if they do it with stash

->stash is not searchable via the address bar (huge step backward in my opinion)

->I use opera turbo daily (now called off road mode) and I miss the F12 menu to switch it on (you can also disable JS, accept popups, etc in the same menu)

In an unrelated note they could improve custom search engines to display a logo of the site (like they did for google, wikipedia yahoo bing and amazon) I have a lot of "custom search engines" and they just appear the same way as a magnifying glass

for the plus side: think it's a good thing that they got rid of the search bar as you can search in the address bar anyway

EDIT: typo
1. Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people.
(might edit after a while)
Well sometimes I read forums like ar15.com where lot´s of security officers post, and also some police forums in Spain (I got some police friends and I like commenting with them about these issues).
I have noticed that in the USA the policemen´s state of mind is much more violent (more movie style) and "shoot first ask questions later" than in Europe.
I think is logical under their point of view, because of the long campaign of fear and violence that´s been playing on the media.
Also it´s true that american criminals are more likely to just draw a handgun and start a confrontation with police. Maybe this is due to the difference in prison sentence for the same crime. Here in Spain, most criminals just walk away after they spend a night in prison, and even a hard sentence for drugs or a kill will have great discounts that effectively make stays longer than 10 years in prison very rare. Also live inside jails is much more humane than in the States.
Oppose that to the third strike rule, that will put you for live in jail even if the last offense is minor.(I don´t know if this law is still active)
Tesla's IS actually in the realm of Presdiential power.

One, he can have his people in Congress sponsor a bill forcing car companies to complete with Tesla instead of trying to lock Tesla out using antiquated laws.

Two, I'm pretty usre he can just use an executive order to make this work. Underhanded, but it can be done.
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Another news published on their site:

We've raised $3.8M from Accel Partners to expand Pixate's products and services
Today we're announcing our Series A round, and we're super excited about it!

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regarding "tab-screenshots": Opera calls them visual Tabs. The linked article says "Right now, we are focusing on synchronization (aka Opera Link), enhanced tab management (visual tabs and so on) and support for themes – and these are just a few of the features you can expect to find soon in our next releases!"
It's all very well saying she should have asked for ID, but lets face it - if you were suddenly faced with a bunch of armed strangers yelling at you, would you be thinking straight? The story did say that she panicked, and I can't say I blame her.
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According to their other news (which I've just posted here) the funding they've received will be used (also) for developing Android and Mac versions of their engine
shoot him, and then say "they thought he was drawing a weapon...as he fled".

Its worse than that. They wouldn't need to have worried about a gun to open fire. A vehicle is a deadly weapon. I think that if the agents thought the car was going to hit them, they'd be justified in shooting.
>I want some way to have word of mouth recommendations work over the net, without it being game-able. perhaps a system where you must pay (a very small token amount) to review?

That would make it even more of a money arms race. Ultimately you want something like personal recommendations where people attach their own reputations to their recommendations; google is trying to push something on these lines with google+.
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The inverse of half again is two thirds. Just sayin'. :)
It would be awesome if they also support Android (and other platforms), which I think they will eventually do. You would design once and get the same look across all the platforms.
Ah right, I thought you meant only 10k out of the whole force were armed! Yes, attitudes are different then.
If people get pissed off even when companies "do everything right" then companies won't try as hard in the future. Getting other people to accept changes like this from companies helps change the incentive structure so that there will be fewer cases where a free service disappears with no notice or data export.
"Well, it's not like it's rocket science ... oh, wait..."
What about being arrested for filming the police and getting your dog shot dead after getting out of the car and lunging at an officer?

http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/01/get-cuffed-for-filming-pol...
I read once a argument that is related to this...

I saw on a forum, a couple of people arguing that women should not be cops, I was confused, since the argument was filled with cop jargon and seemly started elsewhere.

Then someone posted a personal anecdote that I found interesting, about escalation.

The guy was a cop, returning home after work. He saw a female cop confronting a teenager (that the male cop knew personally) that was obviously not in the right state of the mind.

The male teenager, was obviously stronger than the female cop, and started to make a imposing pose (but not threatening, just "imposing" I am bigger than you), the female cop pulled her gun and threatened the guy, that obviously got shitless scared, and started to run toward her, the male cop also as soon he saw she pulling the gun, also run toward her (unseen by both of them), he shouted, and in the confusion she pointed the gun at him, he did some evasive movement and ended tackling her before the boy reached her.

Then he took her gun, and the boy stopped (not feeling threatened anymore), then he explained the boy he was a cop and was taking him to drug exams and he was free to go, and that noone would use violence against him. Immediately the boy turned around and allowed himself to be hand cuffed.

This guy was arguing that female officers in his apartment killed way more people with guns than male officers and this is why they should not be there...

But anyway, I brought this here, because I think it is a good example of a attitude to just bring up guns whenever they feel they can use it to impose power, and obviously this many times only result in dangerous escalations (like pulling a gun on a junkie, or a scared innocent), I doubt the pair (female cop, junkie boy) would leave intact if it was not outside intervention, or the junkie would have killed the cop, or the cop would have shot the junkie.