skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really loved the book, and I would really love to see the movie adaption, especially since OSC waited so long to personally pick a director he though would portray it well.

It's interesting because I remember in a later book in the series (Xenocide?), there were many off-planet colonies, and on those homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were seen as "weird". I don't recall any aggressive stance against gays in the entire series. Maybe I missed something?

I think as long as the book series doesn't mirror the authors perspective, it shouldn't play that big of a role.
In the end I figure most people use it in exactly that way: it just presents a nice (big) header picture. (Based on actual content) And less in some idle hope of getting CTR's.

But: that would mean you could probably do without a carousel as well. (Think about just the header picture of your latest article, the most popular one or just a random one)
Poul henning kamp's thoughts on HTTP/2.0
Weird is an euphemism here. It's totally incomprehensible change.

My wild guess it's targeting voice commanding, which I practically never use as voice recognition is still not reliable enough (and I'm not always comfortable with shouting at my phone in public).
Well, one could argue that Star Wars-like battles are completely unrealistic, because in the future aiming systems will become so good that it will be nearly impossible to miss, so a battle might as well take place like it does in Eve, where the only thing that counts is the strength of your weapons vs. strength of their shields. It's not like you can do a quick evasive maneuver in a super carrier like that - although I am pretty sure that fighter battles still have them moving around since it's on a much smaller scale.
And that doesn't even consider pre-university studies, where having less than an A/B average certainly does make you unattractive to all decent universities!

Our entire educational system is geared around "Produce excellence or die trying, there is no place for mediocrity." Predictably, this causes students to look for ways to easy apparent excellence.

The fact that actual excellence comes from a philosophy that's more like "Do the impossible, see the invisible" than "successfully regurgitate 100% of what you were told" doesn't even show up in the educational system until the grad-school level.
That number should be less than 20%, no?
Many (most?) US cities lack provisions for bicycles like dedicated lanes, etc., though I don't know about Durham specifically. The situation is worse outside major cities, too.

Another thing I've noticed is that many US drivers don't know how to, or are uncomfortable dealing with, driving near cyclists. Sometimes they're just careless and hostile toward cyclists - in one instance, I saw a driver attempt to drive a person on bike off the road with his car in an apparent fit of rage.
Nobody's going to sit and watch your movie one frame at a time. People go there for information, not static pictures. Making you wait to see things serves no purpose.
Yes, theorem-proving stuff sounds very clever, but no one said that it is at the cost of inability to make a heterogeneous list or even have tuples of different kind in it.) It is, perhaps, possible to prove lots of theorems about very restricted code, I have no idea.

Static analyzers exist for many languages. Clang toolset has a nice one.

As for testing, keeping functions small and doing just one thing will keep amount of tests small-enough.

Let's say that systematic approach of HtDP/Racket guys allows you write decent programs without necessity of proving any theorems about it.)
The idea you can bore tunnels and seal them with vacuum for cheaper than high speed rail is totally bonkers. I assume hyperloop involves flinging vehicles through the air and thus avoiding the biggest expenditure.
Did other players of Eve gain $9000-worth of resources as a result of destroying that ship? Genuine question, never played that game.
The point should be "don't use a bad carousel" then. It frustrated me that it didn't paused when my mouse was over the slide and that the timing was badly done (on purpose, I guess).

I've used them and my clients and the customers of those clients were happy with them. I did not through paragraphs of text on them, just pretty images and headlines (featured content).
While I agree with the sentiment, gay marriage is not legal in most of the US.
My current job apparently had a probation period. My manager didn't tell me about it until he's like "It's been 90 days, you've passed!" I thought because I was in a right to work state it really didn't matter if I was in probation or not if they wanted to fire me.

Can anyone explain the probation period in a non-unionized state?
Free Flat UI Icon Packs & Design Elements
I actually was at one point pushed hard by the CEO at a company I worked at to use EC2 because it "had to" be cheap, despite the fact I had put together numbers for him that clearly demonstrated it was between twice as expensive (purely managed servers with enough headroom to handle short term spikes) to three times expensive (managed servers loaded at 80%-90% of typical daily peak loads plus set up to use EC2 to handle peaks in emergencies). Amazon has done an amazing job in marketing and PR for AWS.

The latter is what EC2 is most useful for for me: You can cut costs of your dedicated hosting by going much closer to the wire with the knowledge you can spin up instances at EC2 (and/or other cloud providers) if you should happen to hit the front page somewhere that can drive massive traffic faster / on more transient basis than you can or want to scale up your dedicated setup.

Hetzner is great, but fully integrated providers like Softlayer is another growing threat - many providers now offer a sliding scale of some or all from colo, to managed bare metal, to "dedicated virtual" (single VM per physical server, automatically deployed in minutes or hours as a "halfway house" to cloud setups), to cloud images billed similarly to EC2. It'll be interesting to see what IBM tries to do with Softlayer...
You only have a few short seconds to keep a user's attention. So optimally probably not to have anything that requires clicking or scrolling or is out of view or hard to read.
Considering the amount of energy we use, it's barely a drop in the ocean.
This is a common misrepresentation. Given a unit, reserved instances might be price competitive, but that unit won't be performance competitive. Even with reserved instances, you're talking about 2-4x worse price/performance at the minimum (much, much worse if SSDs are involved). Not to mention the upfront cost...

Using reserved instances is the exact opposite of what anyone should be doing. The only way to get price competitive with EC2 is to go the absolute other direction: establish a baseline with dedicated/colo and use spot instances for tasks or to handle peaks.
One would think why Digital Ocean is first to come to my mind.
Chrome's notification API is not available from web pages as well.
I really really tried to on a recent trip overseas. It totally didn't do what I needed (I don't remember the exact details but I think it didn't allow for offline searching or something).

As a backup I had two other free nav apps on my phone (well, on my phone and also installed on an older phone and my tablet just in case) and one of them worked well enough that my wife could just watch it and yell out turns.

The hardest part was finding destinations on the map in a country without a proper addressing system (I'm looking at you Ireland). Before the trip, I had to go to google maps, find the place and get the coordinates, then save that waypoint in the app (I think it was Navfree) as a destination.

It was fussy, but functional and better than a paper map or nothing. The thing I really need from these kinds of apps is a good offline point of interest search. Unless you just happen to have the address (or coordinates!) of every place you might want to go, you end up missing this feature really quick. And even if the app has it, the data quality can by a major issue.
So conflicted. I love Ender's Game yet I hate its bigoted author.

:(
Iam not sure, but you should definitely use a faster Webserver ;-)
More lies..
The Wild School: guerilla / gorilla education
Using Trello For Idea Management
This is really cool. I hate drawing these diagrams but customers just love to them in their specifications!
You've never gotten one of these emails?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp

People boycott in America for political reasons all the time. I don't particularly care about this boycott, but I'm not going to ridicule them for exercising their right to free association. If they don't want their money going to a bigot, that's their prerogative. If a person wants to boycott Chick Filet because of their stance on gay marriage, Heinz Ketchup because John Kerry's wife owns it, or any other good or service where someone their money will go to political views they do not support, then that is their Constitutional right.

It's also your right to ridicule them, but maybe you should try and come up with some concrete examples instead of just flinging random, unsupported assumptions about moral inconsistencies you think they exhibit.
Soulver groks magnitudes of bits and bytes, and carries units or denominations over, making it invaluable for quick scalability planning or bandwidth estimates and sharing the templates with teams via Dropbox. Love this tool.
You can find the details of the front end architecture in one of our older blog posts:

http://blog.cleartrip.com/2012/04/10/cleartrip-account-gets-...
Of course he is comparing apples and oranges, yet it is how a substantial number of people actually use AWS. Dedicated instances goes some way towards mitigating it, but for a lot of people the short term billing makes AWS look cheap, and their dedicated servers were definitively still not cheap prior to this even just looking at the cost of the instances.

A lot of people are completely blinkered when it comes to the cost of using AWS.
Google Latitude will be retired on August 9th
The person who hosts this product is still king, he just now gets to wield power via proxy. This seems to be a closed source application as well with single corporate ownership?

The idea that mob-rule, a popularity contest, is significantly better than motivated, educated moderators is nonsense. Unless you gate the communities with "proof of worth" any number of random people can flood into any community and hijack it, no matter how specialized it intends to be. IF you allow 'proof of worth' -- then you just shifted the moderation to whomever decides if that person is worthy to be in this group.

You could try to make a plurality of existing members accept all new members, but then the system would degenerate into just constant voting on new membership issues.

Web Monarchies might be a bad idea, but this one is worse.
"I remember in a later book in the series (Xenocide?), there were many off-planet colonies, and on those homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were seen as "weird"."

I don't have a copy of Xenocide at the moment to check but are sure you're not thinking of 'The Forever War' by Joe Haldeman?
Sorry, I understood what you mean by a firewall. I'm curious as to why you think it's necessary.
Encryption is just one (important) piece of the privacy puzzle. Another important piece is steganography.[1]

Effective steganography could hide the fact that you're using encryption at all, and could make traffic analysis[2] more difficult. Widespread use of effective steganography could make wholesale digital spying a lot more difficult.

The use of anonymous remailers[3] also needs to become much more popular; in particular, the mixminion[4] remailer, which was designed to address many weaknesses in earlier remailers.

Traditionally much more difficult, but as or even more important than the technological solutions mentioned above, is educating the general public about the need for and value of privacy enhancing technologies. Fortunately, the massive publicity around the recent spying scandals is doing a lot of the hard work for us in this area.

Finally, there's a great need for educating the general public on how to use these privacy enhancing technologies properly, and making them easier to use. There's still a lot to be done on this front, but the challenges are not insurmountable, and they are getting easier as the general public becomes more computer literate and more privacy- and security-conscious.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion
Sure, but it's a lot more effective to roll it onto someone's head from the top of the hill than from the bottom.
The Generosity of Strangers (or The Impact of Social Media)
I don't understand why wouldn't F# fit. And C#, if I'm not mistaken, wouldn't fit because of null-pointer problem.
sorry, to clarify: I'd like something web-based for the people viewing.
Have been on Heroku for about two years and can't recall a single price reduction in anything. I think it's pretty clear that pocketing the difference in the steady AWS price reductions is exactly what Heroku does.
Secunia has in my eyes never been a particly nice company.
This just seams silly.
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Prices are still ridiculous. Compare it with something like Hetzner:

https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4

https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex10
I don't even care who's right about the vulnerability, threatening legal action in a case like this is so beyond the pale that the VLC project has just lost all credibility with me.

Even worse, while attacking Secunia for supposed "lies", they confess to a lie of their own:

https://twitter.com/videolan/status/354861344710864896

Unbelievable.
The why:

In a separate article for this website Professor Antony
Glees wrote: "Sky News itself is having a field day with
the eurozone crisis. Of course, Murdoch never liked the
euro or the EU for that matter." Murdoch's anti-EU stance
could quite possibly stem from the desire to avoid
regulation of his media empire, from Brussels. We know for
sure that he had plans for even greater penetration and
influence in the UK media market. I mean, whether you are
a Europhile or a Eurosceptic, do we really believe that
Murdoch is interested only in defending British institutions
like the pound rather than expanding News Corporation's
portfolio in mainland Europe and beyond?

Read more: http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/editor-blog/162/just-why-...
I have a small open source project called Termbeamer (termbeamer.com) that lets two or more people share a terminal session over the internet.

I started the project because screen sharing services don't work well for pair programming (for me at least).
Another site fixed by noscript. I just read a vertically arranged set of scrollable statements. Although there was an orange bar stuck across one of them as the footer didn't move.
> To me it's uncomfortable how much Google's tactics with Chrome resemble Microsoft's "embrace and extend" from the late 90s

They're no better than 90s MS at this point, look at what Reader did to the RSS market.
I just finished a rather excellent (if slightly depressing) book on the links between the US government and Saudi Arabia that suggests those links are rather deeper than you might suspect:

http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/...

[NB: From what I can tell the author, Bob Baer, is fairly credible - he is a former CIA field officer with a lot of experience in the Middle East.]
I 2nd this...
and also screen
Most people have a free router from their ISP, the ISP will just send out new ones
-shrug- As far as I'm aware, it's generally considered bad style to use the same words twice in a sentence.
The promotion of yes-men and buddies of leaders is something that happens just as well in structured organizations. I've seen incapable people promoted to a position of power, and talented, hard working people held back despite their merits.

In structured organizations there may be rules and processes to handle promotion and management, but I've seen them being gamed by people in power more than I've seen them being used for improving anything.

I've seen a lot of bad decisions being made, but speaking out about them is often not appreciated, so by now I've given up on trying to fix those problems and I just occasionally lament them in the coffee room.

(Note: I work for a formerly large multinational, whose structure and processes have mostly been rusted in place. I, and many of my colleagues, are leaving the company for the lack of a clear direction, which is a result of poor management over more than a decade.)
License change on Movable Type 6
> It was fussy, but functional and better than a paper map or nothing.

Were you using the aforementioned free apps because there aren't paid nav apps on Android, or because said apps aren't any good/not suitable for you purposes? Not that your strategy is terribly bad, just wondering why it was necessary.
That's a description of an evacuated tube.
That screenshots doesn't really prove anything. I mean....i can't even tell is it's the latest vlc version.

Anyway....interesting debate about statically linked libraries. Seems like the original vulnerability was in ffmpeg (vlc statically links to it). So in this case what should/can videolan do ?
Well you see. If anyone screams boycott, I am inclined to investigate. And then my findings are used to decide, what I am going to do.

And after investigating, I have to say, that I would not watch the movie.

The same for me is, if someone staring/directing was a know member of say scientology. As someone promoting an organization, that clearly goes against every value I honor should not earn money from me, that would then help said organization.

So I would not want my money to help someone that intolerant.

If people I know would go there, I would ask them, if they knew, that with going, they support someone that intolerant, someone being that derogative to gays.

But this would then be their decision to make.
It seems like a terrible thing to do to the hundreds of potentially nice people that worked hard on this movie.

People will boycott this because of peer pressure, and to follow the crowd. People don't boycott the countless movies based on Roald Dahl books, even though it's very common knowledge that he held strong anti-semitic views.

Yes, I think his views are terrible, but that's not going to stop me enjoying his work. His literary output has nothing to do with his views. Enders Game is a fantastic book and I have high hopes for this movie; not just that it'll be a good port to the big screen, but that it'll help the careers of a number of young actors.
Nope.

Total cost of lease/purchase of all land in the right-of-way is estimated at $1.5 billion for the initial operating section and $4 billion (inclusive) for the full phase 1 system (this is only about 6-7% of the total cost), by far the biggest expenditures are for construction and in operational overhead.
Unsurprising, the application doesn't fit in with the new styles, doesn't behave correctly with less-than-perfect location data, doesn't understand multiple location sources.

I was quite a fan of finding how far I'd walked, but Google Now tells me that once a month now.
But it's still supported by Firefox extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/developers/docs/reference

Chrome apps are like Firefox addons, they have their own non-standard APIs. So complaining that Chrome Apps have their own non-standard APIs is not a valid argument when compared to Firefox.
> Choosing EC2 and other Amazon offerings

Do you have any data on how pure S3 storage is priced relative to other solutions?
Conferam - Collaborative Truth Discovery (Kickstarter)
How I (quickly) evaluate the quality of a data science project
Isn't it kinda weird to quote yourself?

"It's kinda weird to quote yourself." -rschmitty
Microsoft purposefully built the add/remove applications list using the IE control despite it being a poor use for the job just so European courts couldn't force them to decouple IE from Windows
I've often presented offline map as one of the best (or only) reasons to own an Android over an iPhone. That and the keyboard.
I would be mad to see it go.
I haven't been to a movie theater in years. I think I will go this time just to tell the religious assholes "go fuck yourself".

Sorry for the language.
What do you do when you don't like someone's use of freedom of speech? Try recruiting a mob to bully them.
Sigh. Latitude was easy to use and quite handy to track (flight following mode) friends and relatives on long distance trips. G+ is nice, but a huge amount of overkill just to get that back.
I half suspect that might be construed as some sort of terrorist activity/behaviour.
What's really interesting is that even in highly organized and structured work environments (e.g. the military), similar ad hoc power structures emerge, usually along the same lines. The formal power structure then usually ends up seeming like it just gets in the way of the informal one that appears to be getting things done.
The funny thing is that the rebuttal is not even denying the claims by Secunia. He is reiterating multiple times "But the PoC didn't work anymore!" while this is something the Secunia post explicitly admits (while saying that the fix that broke the PoC just did make it harded to exploit the ffmpeg-issue, not impossible). Feels like a lot of emotion involved in this one, and a little bit too much shouting "Lies! Lies! Lies!" again and again for my taste.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432110

Including this alternative, built in AngularJS: http://sullerandras.github.io/SVG-Sequence-Diagram/
Yeah, some of the filters are cut off. The rest of the site works fine though.
The Incredible Space Art of Russian Magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi
Yeah, I'm just saying that referential transparency and immutability often turn into a lie, since this code:

https://gist.github.com/k-bx/594a415a06fdd0fc3841

could easily put 2 different values into `a` on each line. Of course, technically everything is still correct, and getA still returns same result for each call.
Ah, the old "why aren't they doing this instead" argument against activism. There should be an internet law for that one.
Well it's the employers who claim they need fresh workers with all that academic training!
To provide some context on the author, Tim is the Senior Architect at the company I work for. Technically brilliant as well as an exceptionally nice bloke.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
"Medieval Iceland and the Absence of Government"
http://mises.org/daily/1121

Distributed dispute resolution services, a market for justice, as the foundation for a society free from most of the issues that plague the stationary-bandit state characterized by attempted monopolies on violence, law, and coercion. A system that lasted many times longer than the US did as a free society before falling to cartelization.