skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the hypothetical future tech I had in mind. AFAIK, it does not exist. It would also need to integrate with the audio, while still letting DRM-unprivileged processes manipulate the location on the screen, volume, pause, fast forward, etc etc etc. It's a pretty tall order to make all this work on a system where the user is controlling the entire rest of the software stack, and absolutely, positively ensuring that there is no way whatsoever to get the audio or the video, even though the user has every other bit of hardware at their disposal, in what are presumably numerous distinct hardware configurations. It's certainly theoretically possible but it would take numerous released-to-the-public iterations to get right and probably a few more for this to be remotely stable.
Why I'm thankful Moz didn't move to the Bay Area
1387 days ago Matt Asked HN for help on his elevator pitch.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814685

Since then, they got told "No" by several hundred people, switched business models, landed President Freaking Obama as an anchor client, and have created more actual value than a thousand mobifotosocialgames without ever once being in TechCrunch. And things are starting to work for them, in a serious way.

Drinks are on me when they IPO. (Which, disclosure, if they IPO I will probably be able to afford, since I invested in an earlier round.)
Exercise / Sports (participating) - mountain biking is my main thing, and I sometimes dabble with a little trail running. In the past, I wrestled, practiced jiu-jitsu, and messed around with some amateur powerlifting. I still lift weights from time to time, but not so seriously these days.

Sports (spectator) - I am a huge NFL football fan, and I make it a point to watch all the Miami Dolphins games that I can. #PHINSUP

Reading - I read a lot: fiction, nonfiction, whatever. I read everything from pulp-fiction crap like those Jack Reacher novels, to more "serious literature" like Dostoevsky, Melville, Pynchon, etc.; non-fiction spanning topics from Arduino, to electronics, to string theory and cosmology, from philosophy and mathematics to history and folklore... biographies, etc., etc.. Right now I'm working on the 3 James Bamford books on the NSA.

Movies: I watch movies from time to time, whether it means going out to the theater or just bit-torrenting something, or watching something I own on DVD. My movie tastes are fairly typical male hacker fare, I suppose.

Music: Going to live concerts is something I enjoy, but don't do nearly enough of. I think the last live show I saw was Steel Panther at the House of Blues in Chicago last summer. If all goes well, I hope to catch the Iron Maiden show in Raleigh in a couple of months. I'll go take in a performance of the NC Symphony Orchestra every now and again.

Comedy: I'll go to somewhere like DSI Comedy Theatre in Carrboro for some live improv on occasion.

Political stuff: I attend LPNC meetings every once in a while, but not nearly often enough these days. In the past I've done crazy shit like running for Lieutenant Governor of NC as the Libertarian Party candidate. Right now I'm working on getting a Cypherpunk meetup organized in the Raleigh/Durham area, and doing some education/advocacy work around crypto and anonymity tools.

Hackerspace: I hang out at SplatSpace (Durham, NC) sometimes and work on various projects. Sometimes I go there to work on the startup, but other times I'll go up there and tinker with other shit... I started building a coilgun, but that's kinda paused right now. I keep planning to start a Mantis PCB mill, but never seem to have time. Eventually I want to build one of those, then a 3D printer. Right now I'm looking into starting on a project to build a neat case to house about 8 Beaglebone Black boards, so I can make a nice small, self-contained HPC/Hadoop cluster to play around with.

TV: Doctor Who. I also like Grimm and a couple other series, but don't really have much time for watching television. :-(
The point is that you can't access str from elsewhere, which is why it is surprising.
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How to create a web application using struts annotations
FWIW, admin2 is under active development and moving forward. I don't know if the intention is to replace the existing admin, but as it's not backwards compatible there will be some effort to upgrade if you've completed any serious customization.

https://github.com/twoscoops/django-admin2
"During the GEMINI procedure, the surgeons will cut the cooled spinal cords with an ultra-sharp blade: This is of course totally different from what happens in clinical spinal cord injury, where gross damage and scarring hinder regeneration. It is this "clean cut" the key to spinal cord fusion, in that it allows proximally severed axons to be "fused" with their distal counterparts. This fusion exploits so-called fusogens/sealants."
To be clear: when you say "removing the call to doSomethingWithStr() doesn't change the unbounded memory growth" you do literally mean "removing the call" and not "removing the function definition", right? That matches what I see.
"it has to do with the zeal of some to follow the rule to the letter, even when it makes no sense."

Without context it sounds like that phrase describes religious fundamentalists.
You really think many people care about openness? People care about $99 consoles, and $1 games.
Apple announced their controller standard as well so we will see more and more iOS games come out that support the controller.

I have been saying this same thing for about 2 years now- the age of consoles is almost over. A Sony/MS box is not going to be the thing that delivers your living room entertainment, it will be a mobile device, ipad, or set top box from that same ecosystem.

Disc based games need to die but Sony/MS won't let them quite yet. Android/Apple are coming into the living room gaming arena from a completely different perspective that fits better into the current times. 100% downloadable, integrated with your smart phone / tablet, no more 5 year product cycles, etc. The advantages for being able to just ignore 3 generations of past consoles and come up with something completely new are huge.

Now we just need to see what the Steam Box is going to do.
> therapy, community service and probation.

Joking about eating schoolchildren's beating hearts does not make someone insane. Teenagers make those kinds of jokes all the time.
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Just a small quibble, if you're typing in the textarea the website or any other extensions you have in your browser could spy on the plaintext as it is being typed. A secure browser extension would have to call an external program, let you type and encrypt your message in there, and then deposit the encrypted message back into the textarea.
Yeah, you could patch seesaw-kit to not delete local data. Note that greader-grab just gets a random work item from the tracker.

There's an ISO spec for WARC and tools linked at http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosyste...
The other thing that is so worrying about the US having the communications of people around the world indiscriminately is that it basically means that the NSA is in a position to blackmail any citizen of any country that enters into a position of power in that country.

Forget installing a shah of Iran or propping some dictator in a South American country. They can now do the same at an arms length. Just collect dirt on all foreigners, wait until they get into power, then use whatever dirt you collected over many years to blackmail that person to do things that are in the self interest of the people at the NSA instead of the self interest of the people that duly elected that representative.

This whole situation is a legitimate threat to democracy in this country, but Congress may try to put checks and balances in place to slow the rate at which it erodes democracy at home. However, of more immediate importance is how this is a legitimate threat to democracy everywhere outside the US.

Many Americans may hear the NSA say things like "We don't do anything illegal and coercive with this information at home" and may believe them. But do most Americans think it is reasonable to coerce elected officials or other countries using any information gathered by the NSA? Should we not be asking the NSA if they actually do that?

This is one of the questions I most want to see asked:

"General Keith B. Alexander, has the NSA ever wittingly used collected information on any foreigner elected to office by his or her citizens to coerce or blackmail that duly elected official to pursue policies that may not be in the interest of the citizens that elected them?"
"in that anyone with enough discipline to meditate for long enough will have them, or do you think that these experiences are the result of Goenka's guidance?"

I think they are specific to the technique, but not the teacher. E.g. someone doing concentration meditation (as opposed to insight meditation) is going to have very different experiences.

I don't think the fact that different spiritual techniques yield different experiences says much about their validity though. After all, you could easily consider normal everyday life to be a spiritual technique that yields a certain set of experiences.

"To further the question, are you saying that the 'counterintuitive claims' are something at which (again given enough practice/discipline) we all would arrive, or just that we would all share something similar to the experiences that they were born from?"

I think that for every technique there is a set (in the mathematical sense) of experiences that can be experienced via that technique. And every time you practice the technique, you're basically picking out an experience from that set at random (though certain experiences need certain requisite skill levels). So if you were skilled enough and had enough practice then your odds of having a given experience would increase, but they'd probably never be 100%.

You can see that though, for example, with the Johns Hopkins psilocybin trials, the odds of having some mystical experience over the course of two high-dose sessions are about 80%. Some people might be floating through the universe, others might experience the sum total of everything that ever can and will and has happened from every perspective, others might life a life review, others might relive their birth, etc. But the more times you do it, the more of these experiences you will eventually have.
Exactly. Spend an hour on xbox live and I guarantee you will hear things worse than what that kid said. My gosh, watch some R rated movies and I guarantee you will see things much worse than what that kid said.
Perhaps python unittest is wrong, and tearDown should always ru
"You know, in case you want a redundant signal for...redundancy...reasons."
Correct. I'm actually a little surprised that an identity statement like "str;" isn't optimized out.

Edit: removing the function definition eliminates the problem, so I'd say that your diagnosis of the problem is spot on.
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In this specific case I think the analog to shouting fire in a a theater here would be to actually call in a bomb threat (or other threats). Which I believe the vast majority of HNers will agree should be a crime.

I'm honestly confused how people can see the situation described in the article as anything other than insane.
I find this attitude dismaying because to me it just screams out "I AM SCARED!!!" You are suggesting that society place a permanent mark on this young man's criminal record and force him into course of treatment designed to change who he is because one sentence he wrote puts him in the category of "different than you ever were." You know nothing about this person except that he is in jail for one sentence which was a joke; this is not right even if you feel the joke was in poor taste. If you think that a person's making one joke you don't like is enough information about that person to prescribe such dire consequences then you should seriously reevaluate the way you think about the world around you. Supposing a heckler had shouted to George Carlin that he was insane in the middle of a performance, and he responded the same way this young man did -- would you be calling for the same consequences as you are for the young man in the article? A disproportionate reaction to something like this is the grown-up equivalent of being frightened of monsters under your bed at night, and nobody deserves to have his or her life ruined because of it.
I'm sorry but:

1) if it is a health problem, it is not a police issue.

2) if you cannot use history as a means to exaggerating, we have a problem. Ever watched "to be or not to be" by E. Lubitz? There is a joke there "listening to Wagner makes me wish to invade Poland." That is MUCH WORSE than any school shoot in the USA. But then cannot you make that joke?
Is it possible to build AMIs offline? Why is it starting an instance for the source AMI?
any idea when his talk will be published (youtube/pyvideo)?
Think of it as an optimization: Previously, each request meant a new db connection had to be opened. Now a prior connection can be reused.
As cliché as it sounds, does this mean the terrorist have actually won? Isn't the point of terrorism to produce a crippling climate of fear within a certain society?
Yes, everything is usable.
It just so happens that the government is more powerful than Google.

Also public companies are less at risk to abuse power because there is a separation of powers. Lots of diverse stock holders usually.
I've been in and out of vim, but never reached the 'extension' point. Probably due to lack of necessity, and Java work has pushed me further away :/ But mind if I ask why you select instead of e.g. "5yy"? Used to thinking visually, or does it do something different with buffers, or...?
The intro actually has a decent step-by-step getting started guide: http://www.packer.io/intro I welcome any feedback!
>The congress/president are so scared of having another terrorist attach

This is an excuse. I'm more inclined to think it is the fantastical amounts of money they get to play with, spoils for their districts and such.
It's pretty amazing the bullish sentiment with BBRY with day traders on StockTwits, http://stocktwits.com/symbol/BBRY#sentiment. 90%+ were bullish and a ton of them were expecting a huge short squeeze today because they were "sure" earnings would be better than expected. Numerous analysts had raised their price targets.

It's tough when a company has been out-innovated to regain that innovation edge, especially again companies like Google and Apple.
Yes, yes you will. The Vagrant boxes are now being built with Packer (but not uploaded yet).
>or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Guess who defines "enemies"...The Government has the power to define individuals and non-state organizations as enemies. I am willing to bet you (without looking it up), nor a single politician in DC could give an exhaustive list of who our enemies are in the war on terror. So in reality you do not know who you can give or not give aid to without committing treason. In fact to the best of my knowledge the US charges do not specifically identify what enemy Snowden has aided.

The reality is even when you look up the list of known enemy combatants or the list of designated terrorist organizations, guess what there is still a secret list, that a.) the public does not know who is on that list (meaning the US citizens, in limited instances, are not even allowed to know who we are at war with, or who our enemies are); b.) US citizens are not even allowed to know the criteria that can get someone on the list. So I ask when we have enemies who are secret how do you know who you can and can not assist? In the case of Al Qaeda, the reality is the US Government was the most responsible for aiding (financing, training, and arming) than any other State I can think of.
"Could some of this security state, zero-day-exploits and such already be available on the open market? My money says it will eventually, but right now, based on this piece, this still looks like a lot of hand-wavy speculation."

Purchase and sale of zero-day exploits is already common: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppin...

Also: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/21/meet-th...
Maybe my perceptions were wrong. I went to a Swedish university, and I suppose there is a lot of research going on, but I would guess there's not nearly the same amount of money in it. The US also tends to attract the smartest people, while Sweden is less attractive (not being an English language country) and with less money for doctoral students. Also, international rankings seems to favor US universities, probably because they produce good research, not that the education is in any way superior.
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Ok, let's err on the side of Google for now (although, still not sure I can fully trust them, esp with all this news).

Still, great work and thanks for the additional info. Here's to hoping one day EVERYTHING will be encrypted by default!
It depends on what works best for you. In big organizations, I prefer to take the Veewee approach (although in this case replacing Veewee with Packer). If you use Veewee, see: http://www.packer.io/docs/templates/veewee-to-packer.html
Something to keep in mind is that the crime of "terroristic threat" has been around far longer than the current "war on terror". (speaking of Texas here) As early as 1994 I know of someone who was arrested for it (for saying they were going to hurt someone).

Whether or not this is a reasonable thing to be arrested for, the fact that it's online is irrelevant. If the social standards or laws need to be changed, let's do that. Let's not, however, act as if those standards should apply differently online. (or on the phone, or in our car, etc...)
You choose what you want in the final images, so you can exclude whatever you'd like. You basically have complete control over what gets installed, it doesn't hold your hand in any way, really.
OOI why did you choose F# rather than Haskell, OCaml or Scala? I mean sure, it's a perfectly good language for the more general case (leaving aside the poor tool support outside Windows and limited deployment options - but conversely if you're already committed to Windows the tooling is very good), but there are plenty of comparable options there; the unique selling point is the .net integration.
Complete tangent, but I love how the NeoCities ico image is a brutally rendered globe, probably in 256 colors. When you view it directly, it even rotates. Let the GIF march begin! Again!

http://neocities.org/favicon.ico
Is that how it works now? Microsoft store would equivalent of Telsa's showrooms and Frys,BestBuy,Walmart would be the dealerships.
1.5 was the first release after moving to git - they freeze the release branch and let the rest of development continue on master, so now releases will tend to be quicker (we all hope) hence the surprise with 'early' 1.6. now, since we have an alpha, 1.6 is bugfixed on branch, and 1.7 features can be developped on master like now during the 1.6 release schedule.
Google's going to manufacture smart watches and consoles?

Another wannabe-knee-jerk-lets-copy-Apple product from Google. Why am I not surprised.
It is missing a single crucial feature, but yes it will be ABLE to. The next release. It can currently build OS X machines fine though.
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Disc based games need to die but Sony/MS won't let them quite yet.

No, the gamer demographic won't let them die.

Microsoft had a push in the right direction with the moves they were experimenting with for the Xbox One: unfortunately, they had to backpedal on them because people were too outraged.
But removing the ability to kill oneself by installing a net removes the possibility. If you're going to kill yourself, you don't try to do it via a means that has no chance of success. With a net installed, all the chance of success is removed, so people aren't going to try it there. You don't hear about failed suicide attempts jumping off a car onto grass. And I've battled with severe depression and alcoholism in my past. I spent nearly half a year thinking I was going to end my life every day and instead crawled into a bottle. You're right in that we're not thinking rationally, but at the same time, irrational "I must escape" thoughts also don't drive you to say "hey, I know, let me go way out of my way to attempt suicide in a way that I know will not work."

edit: if anything, more people will probably jump, but not to kill themselves. thrillseekers might do it just for the hell of it (despite the fact there will likely be a big penalty)
thanks, I was so puzzled how she found address of LOL account knowing that Riot doesn't have that information
Moz is one of many companies in Seattle making some noise while doing it with the transparency; we don't traditionally see in startups. Rand is a heck of a thought leader on Inbound/SEO/Speaking and they are poised to do some big things. Thanks for staying.
Insecure content warnings - Kickstarter is available over SSL.
I wonder if a metaphor for sign-on services would help disambiguate this?

Would using your "Facebook Card", perhaps signified with a little "ID card" icon be more comprehensible than the "Connect with..." or "Sign in with..." which look very much like a sign-in to the source.

I'd expect many people already have a mental model of an ID card or badge granting "local" access to different things.
I'm a GaTech senior who is just getting serious about web development (used to dream of doing game development but have had a change of heart). If I buy you a beer would you mind giving me a tour on the technical side of the site?
I don't think anything proves this point more than the "This is a webpage" post that hit 1 on HN a few days ago.
Well, if you're talking about alternatives that do asynchronism, Comet and Web Sockets well, the most convenient framework I ever used is Play 2.1

The framework is said to be reactive, meaning that you can build components that react to events asynchronously. The architecture is completely awesome, as Akka actors are baked in and the protocols are modelled with Futures and Iteratees, an FP concept for sane I/O. Things like serving unending streams of data and responding to client events using async I/O are in the very foundations of the framework, instead of being taked on later. People using Node.js or Tornado or whatever, don't know what they are missing.

See their docs on the subject:

- for Scala: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.1/ScalaAsync

- for Java: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.1/JavaAsync
Power by definition, is something you can't reject. Otherwise you technically don't have the power...

I'd say the Mexican drug cartels are de-facto examples of private corporations when they don't or can't rely on government to give them their power.
It is explained in the opening paragraphs here[1] but I'll explain.

There are two ways to make AMIs: EBS-backed or instance-store. For instance-store, you basically need to debootstrap a chroot or something like that. You can do this offline, technically. EBS-backed you just launch a source AMI, build on that, then re-snapshot it.

For the purposes of a 0.1, Packer currently only supports the EBS-backed approach. This is not a technical limitation, however, and in a future version I do want to add the ability to make instance store.

[1]: http://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html