skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came to say this. Ideally, my computer would do what I want and only what I want. This doesn't always work out, such as in the cases of multiple users or malware, but it's an ideal we should strive for.

I classify any case of a computer that's solely mine doing something I don't want as either a bug or malware.

Email clients block HTTP images for a reason. That reason is so that people can't use them to implement read receipts.
Just because a library exists for the JVM or CLR doesn't mean a person familiar with Node knows that it exists or the advantages/disadvantages of the 15 libraries that will show up for any given thing they are trying to do. The libraries, profiling tools, performance tuning details. These are the things that make up a platform. Knowing the syntax of Clojure and nothing about the JVM ecosystem isn't going to help you ship any faster. Should a developer in this situation bite the bullet and learn a better supported platform? Maybe. Does everyone have time to do so? Probably not.
Your comments on your own blog are not evidence, just your opinion. as for your one-sentence argument:

Because the means of production are still locked down.

Garbage. It has never been cheaper or easier to make a movie. It's what I do for a living, and I find your complaint laughably ignorant.
When you elect a president, you're also electing the leaders of the DoJ, DoD and NSA.

This is such a fundamental concept in our system of government that the Constitution spells out a check and balance system for principal officers of the USG.
But then people wouldn't have their XBox.

An earlier comment about how better it would have been for Microsoft to just do nothing. Maybe, from a money perspective. But meanwhile they did research, tried out designs, products, services. It's not all loss.

There's more to the trip than the destination. There's a whole ride where things happen and have a value in themselves. Unless we only value the shareholders' money.
The worlds earlies email
He said Windows 7 was the dominant Enterprise Windows operating system, not 8. And this is correct, 7 is the domant enterprise windows deployment, XP having been recently retired in most Fortune 500 companies. Ask around any IT dept and you'll learn this first hand.
At the 2010 company meeting, Balmer said "Last time I told you do good things and the stock price will follow [LONG PUASE] Do good things and the stock price will follow." That was when I decided Balmer could say one thing as CEO that would positively impact the stock price and by definition it would be the last thing he could ever say as CEO. (Sometimes I wonder if that pause was him coming to the same conclusion)

That line, coupled with the fact that it was preceded by a cheesy line form a TV show about high-school football that most SDE's wouldn't get caught watching let alone bye into the sentiment when applied to a software company, really didn't make me think he was in touch with ... well anything.
We've got a rendering issue on iOS7, we knew about it from the numerous non-devs who demanded a fix immediately!
Well, we already have a lot of formulaic web designs thanks to Bootstrap.
With the traffic on and off the island, I'd imagine the modern native population has a much higher resistance to Asian and European pathogens than even a generation ago.
Read receipts are, at least in Outlook, optional to respond to. So...I don't see a problem. People send mail asking for them because for whatever reasons they have because they want to know if you've read the email. So what? It's not terribly effective as a practice, because the recipient can just ignore them but some people want to send them anyway. Nice to have the option.

Ars continues to discuss the most important topics in tech...
Does this take 3 stock splits in to account as well?
Clojure currently needs to be implemented and extended in another language: Java. The Clojure compiler is written in Java. The runtime is written in C. Its core is written in Java.

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...

Most Common Lisp implementations have their compiler written Common Lisp. The language is implemented and extended in Common Lisp.
Well, the three-act structure basically just describes conflicts. There is a pre-conflict phase (Act 1), an event at the end of Act 1 that sparks a full-on confrontation for the duration of Act 2, and another event at the end of Act 2 that shifts the conflict into a climax in Act 3, wherein the conflict is resolved. You even see it in non-human animals, and not just in violent conflicts. For example, if you consider mammalian sex, there is foreplay (Act 1), penetration (first transition), intercourse (Act 2), first urethra contraction (second transition), and ejaculation (Act 3). You don't need language for that story to play out; you just need language to communicate it.
Technically yes, and so is Reddit. I need a better word to describe organizations like CNN, MSNBC and Fox that make concerted efforts to divide and distract. Maybe I should have just said "cable news".
The week in big data on Twitter, visualized with ScraperWiki
Apparently Michael Moorcock swears by the Lester Dent Master Plot Formula: http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html
Reading the Administration's statements made my brain start screaming Ayn Rand quotes about "the public interest" at me.
I tried it but it was very slow.
This is not about email. This is mostly about Facebook. Facebook has mandatory "seen" notifications.
In Japan, this is even more pronounced. MFGs seek to ride the wave of teen uptake of new fast-moving products. These products tend to enjoy a short-lived, but intense attention by consumers.
> The problem is that this is exactly the type of issue a court should decide.

Historically, policies relating to national security have not been within the purview of the federal courts. It's not some new phenomenon: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-schuck/national-securi....

The Supreme Court didn't intervene when Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. It didn't intervene when Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. It didn't intervene in Japanese internment.
A lot of people use Excel for making lists and doing very simple calculations. You can do that just fine in Google Apps.
Will be or is? How can we use it to replicate Dropbox/BT Sync?
The person you are replying to appears to have been going for sarcasm, not seriousness.
If by graphs you mean charts, these are the tools I use:

- d3js + nvd3 [0] - if the charts have to be online for consumption of people outside the company. Not so much a fan of using this because I have to do extra work to convert the data into json, and then write the scripts to generate the chart.

- ggplot2 [1] - if the charts are static and need to somewhat be shown (internal analysis, internal reports, client-facing presentation, etc). Of late, I've been using ggplot2 for xkcd-style charts and nobody seem to mind :P - so I don't think people are actually looking closely into the charts

- plot (from R) - if the chart is only for my consumption - I don't need a fancy beautiful chart to read a PCA output for example.

As for high quality, the charts are only as high quality as the way you use them. If you use the wrong charts for the wrong data, it's not going to be high quality.

[0] - http://nvd3.org/‎

[1] - http://ggplot2.org
I liked Barbara (Germany) and Lore (Australia/Germany), both from last year. The former reminds me of a verse from Pink Floyd's Time.
There are a lot of tropes - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NarrativeTropes

sort of think anyone who is going by a formula wasn't going to do a masterpiece in the first place.
After seeing the article about North Sentinel island, I wondered how long until a similar one about Ni'ihau. It is typically dubbed the "Forbidden Island" in the tourist literature, so it was bound to come up in someone's searches.

BTW, there are 2 significant "forbidden" islands in Hawai'i, and numerous small ones. The other large one is Kaho'olawe (due to unexploded ordinance and nominally belonging to native Hawaiians now). The small ones (around several islands) are bird sanctuaries. In fact another island near Ni'ihau is both a sanctuary and an active bombing range: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%CA%BBula

Yes, I find islands fascinating.
I don't think it's acceptable either, but really it's an impossible question from either direction.

Consider the alternative ruling; all covert surveillance at all including (including legitimate, warranted intelligence collection) would become impossible. Classification itself would only be a matter of nobody bothering to ask.

Of course, such total transparency is a viable philosophical viewpoint, but unfortunately it's not really on the table in any of the current discussions.
"So apparently the government cannot break the law, by definition. What the hell?!"

history/explanation in the 'introductory' section:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/FedSovereign_21....
I know what the academic experience is like for the majority of students, it was me my first year of college. I realized that almost all teachers are dogshit after that and only attended class when it was required, studying on my own. Most people don't come to that realization until it's too late, though.
You shouldn't assume the social dynamics of everyone else's relationships are the same as yours.
Woman reports rape and gets arrested
Part of the demise of MSFT has nothing to do with MSFT, the landscape in which they operate is just changing. I haven't used Windows in years, yet I used to develop on the Win32 API, I gave up with it when they released all that OLE nonsense. Now that world is largely one big IUnknown interface. The web has democratized the consumer interface to technology, Apple has risen up from the days when MSFT loaned them $100M to keep going. The world is nolonger a Windows and Intel one. In the consumer world things have shifted, while in the backend world, any IT person that's using Windows over a Unix variant is laughed at. I remember the early days of IIS and even though NT had I/O completion ports, it still couldn't keep up with the Unix offerings. Today there are some viable server side offerings, Share Point is a decent product (especially when compared to Lotus Notes) but Linux has eaten the server side market, and Apple and Samsung have eaten the consumer side. I know nothing about gaming, so maybe the xbox is the best product ever, who knows...
They can do extraordinary renditions and indefinite detention without trial. I say take the axes and budozers and excavators to buildings of NSA and deliver citizen's disconnection service.
The image does convey the concept, but adding a short description of it would definitely help. For me personally, this:

it's a chrome extension that adds a sidebar onto every page and let's you drag any useful content from web pages and organize them into visual stacks

... communicated better than the image did. It is saving links? Shortcuts? Copies of the content? Does it automatically update or synchronize with the remote content? Does this mean you'll be keeping a database of whatever I put into the stack? Does it save or track passwords? What about images, and form field text, and history? If I login to Facebook, is your app going to attempt to correlate my social media account and harvest my data?

Given how intrusive some apps can be, I just personally have come to mistrust minimalist approaches like this, though I understand it's something of a standard practice. It may be an unfair bias but there you are. I'm not accusing you of anything, and it seems like a neat app, but it's not hard to feel like a sheep being led up a chute lately.
Time for a revolution!
How would they exactly block you from doing business? Unless you have a physical presence, if all your transcations take place online, how would it be different from doing in the US and outside?
That press release is very odd. It negatively impacts the standing arguments in the pending litigation, and it's also just flat strange for the government to release information about classified surveillance programs.

It almost reads as a personal message to Snowden, which fits with the generally ham-fisted manner in which the affair thus far has been handled.

There was a legitimate chance to get him to come back and stand trial in Hawaii, but the government instead went into full bore attack mode.

Threatening powerful nations like China and Russia, grounding the plane of a sitting head of state, and having an NGO deliver a personal message that said essentially "we consider you a traitor, so expect to be treated as such..." The list goes on.

The most frustrating part is that these tactics had the exact opposite of the intended effect. When other countries ignored our threats, it made us look impotent. When Snowden was not on Morales's plane, it made us look inept. When we delivered a threat to Snowden, it underscored exactly how beyond our reach he really is.

Morality aside, this is just bad tradecraft.
I see a lot of potential for this. Who did you have in mind as the initial user when you came up with it?
I didn't even realize that Tumblr had community editors that curated their hash tags, is there some place with more information on this, besides this page? http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/editor_guidelines
it's probably silly to ask for an artistic critique of an action film

Far from it; action films are extremely interesting from an artistic POV because they are often so uncontrived that they offer an unusually direct insight into the society that made them. John McTiernan's Predator is a superb film, for example - it's 30 years old and still plays well on TV or the big screen.
This game is launching on the 24th.
I was disputing your claim that this wasn't a first amendment violation because Congress didn't make a relevant law. Now you're arguing that this wasn't a first amendment violation because there was no infringement on the freedom of the press, which is a much more tenable argument.
Tahoe-LAFS is a mature project of this nature: https://tahoe-lafs.org/

I am writing a similar project which is fairly immature: https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere
They should indeed. Courts of law should rule on what the law says; the court of public opinion is the proper venue for determining what what the law ought to say.
You stated explicitly that you thought it was a quality film due to its wide popularity.

(As an aside the article itself never criticizes Dark Knight for being poor only for being formulaic).
I read about the mimivirus it mentions in the article a few years ago, and it mentioned that was one hypothesis. Another is that it went the other way around; before cells were invented life was just increasingly complicated self-replicating molecules and cellular life evolved out of them. In that case the virus-like ancestors would have evolved to prey on their self-sustaining descendents.

I think the uniqueness of this virus' genes suggests that whichever direction it happened, it happened very early in the history of life.
Here are some numbers, in case either of you would prefer to use evidence to back up your statements.

http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
It doesn't, App Store is all about impulse purchases. Anything remotely casual should be .99c or free, use ingame purchases to capture extra value. If the game plays half decent and is shiny(has non-amateur art), it should have a pop up sometime ingame reminding players to review and it will have no problem getting a 4-5 star rating. All of which doesn't actually matter if you get right because you still need a hook or angles that gets people playing YOUR game instead of the 1000s of other similairly polished and entertaining games(many of which are going to be better known, by virtue of branding/bigger marketing budget/connections/whatever)
I didn't say that the freedom of the press was infringed. I said "If the freedom of the press is infringed..."
New Cryptocurrency Wants To Capture The Wasted Energy Of Bitcoin's Algorithm
.. or illegal immoral and so forth.
An alternate pricing strategy that's worked well for me: charge by the "sprint" (roughly 80 hours) and peg it to an hourly rate. Now hire developers to help you with implementing the brilliant strategies you help come up with and make a reliable spread on the cost of your junior developers. Key: don't hire people to do things you can't do yourself, hire them to do things so you don't have to do them yourself.

When I sell, I'm still linking it to business value--I just make sure it's pegged to hours, which is my most direct cost (other than my time, which I make sure ends up being a very high number if calculated as an hourly rate + profit on developers) Clients know it's typically not me doing the actual implementation work, but because I've linked the overall solution to business value and presented it as an investment--which it is--it doesn't matter.

The problem I have with fixed bid projects is overages and who pays for them. In this business, they're quite common and quite often not the fault of an idiot programmer--but if you do fixed bid, you'll have to eat these costs sooner or later unless you are very good at estimating (I don't know anyone that is...)
Rocket Engine Pulled From the Ocean Definitely Belonged to Apollo 11
You hold a rather unusual view of how the iPhone progressed. The subsidy model already existed for numerous other smartphones -- but they sucked. Apple sold ~4 million iPhones from launch to end of 2007. Those were unsubsidized purchases and they captured >20% of smartphone market share (http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/01/the-truth-about-the-iph...). It seems pretty clear-cut that it wasn't a new carrier sales model that made the iPhone a success.
I actually use iCloud because the Google Calendar -> Calendar.app syncing was pretty flakey. Obviously that's a bad choice if you're not all on Apple devices, but if you are I think it works pretty well.

Based on this excellent post (https://kkinder.com/2013/05/21/leaving-googles-silo-alternat...) it seems like there isn't a great drop-in replacement for Google Calendar (except for iCloud).
Pave: Buy stock in someone's future career.
It appears my reference was too oblique...
Mean ranking of ~22.6, I think I'll allow it.
I want to search by filename but also limit by repository's stars or similar.
Just use an existing rendering engine and you'll be fine
How would you know, though? I personally found it Good Fun, but some other films such as The Dark Knight mentioned above are masterpeices, comic origin or not.

Incidentally, Joss Whedon's latest film (which he made in his spare time between shooting and editin g The Avengers) is a fantastic rendition of Shakespeare's Much Ado about nothing, and stars some of the same actors.
Poor HN, thought they were being all contrarian and then wham, RTFA'd (don't worry guys it was a #slatepitch so turns out you were being contrarian!).

By the way here's a list of the beats:

http://jordanmccollum.com/2012/08/blake-snyders-save-cat/

About half of them are non-trivial, the rest amount to something like:

1. Title sequence.

2. Stuff happens.

3. Things quiet down a bit.

<repeat steps 2 & 3 as needed>

4. Roll credits.
That press release is very odd. It negatively impacts the standing arguments in the pending litigation, and it's also just flat strange for the government to release information about classified surveillance programs.

I don't mean this as a criticism of you, as I know everyone has different opinions, but it frustrates me because criticizing the United States for being more transparent about their surveillance programs while also previously criticizing the US for lack of transparency seems unfairly hypocritical.

I think a lot of commenters have made the United States into a villain; it doesn't matter what they do now, it'll be construed as the wrong move.
Masterpiece != originality. Originality is extremely overrated.
I've heard the same thing, but it hasn't really been a problem for me.

If it was, I'd try http://mailroute.net. Apparently it's supposed to be pretty good at handling spam.
Another positive thing about pricing it above the .99 min is that if you do, you can't have sales or reduce the price of your game. Starting at 1.99 gives you some freedom to bend your price a bit.
Thanks!

That's a lot of email...how much does it cost to store on gmail?
Apple buys HopStop
Will 5G Mobile be based on Vandermonde Modulation
So... this doesn't really seem to add anything. They admit to having a Adult flag which removes the blog from all site listings and from google searches. This effectively kills the blog. What they don't deny is recently and massively increasing the scope of the flagging. This is what people are worried about. People are claiming non-spam nsfw blogs are being flagged. Blogs that wouldn't have been banned before.

Blocking tags on the mobile app is a separate issue, they don't really have a choice here. Apple will pull their app if they don't.
Nah, being able to develop applications for the largest growing and well known ecosystem since Windows 95 is not a big deal if you live under a rock and eat grubs. In fact, I can't remember the last time software had a significant impact on the greater physical world since 0.223μs ago. Too bad mobile applications on walled garden platforms never caught on, I was hoping to witness all the fun drama and obvious security and trust implications play out inside the most complicated civilized social structure in recorded human history. But that won't happen now that Apple got bored with all the profit they get from being the new masters of the information universe and decided to shut down iTunes app store thingy.
What happened in Chinatown?
Really? King "Kamehameha"?

Am I supposed to believe that a Super Saiyan was once the King of Hawaii?

edit: This article is crazy interesting.
This is just funny and awesome I will have to try this myself when I go there again.
Rainer, are you seriously complaining that Clojure is not a Lisp because it spells "car" as "first", "cdr" as "rest", and "append" as "concat"? That makes as much sense as complaining that Interlisp is not a Lisp because it doesn't have FEXPR.

In Clojure, your examples are spelled:

(first '(1 2))
(concat '(1 2) '(3 4))
(get {:foo 3} :foo) ; or (get {'foo 3} 'foo)
(symbol? 'foo) ; or (not (coll? 'foo))

And lots of things in the world irritate me for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they are Lisp or not.

I'd like to point out that your examples wouldn't have worked in Lisp 1.5 either. You would have had to type, for example,

CAR (QUOTE (1 2))

interactively.
The transparency argument rings hollow to me. Either you believe it's permissible for them to conduct this surveillance, or you don't. If you don't, then the solution is to stop the programs. If you do, then it helps that the programs remain secret.

How does it help anyone if the government tells me they're spying on me?

As an aside, look through my comment history. I doubt you'll feel that I'm making the US into a villain in this scenario.
My design is divine intellect on top of shit, uncompably brilliant.

I have an india-nigger call center prison guard.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\DARWIN.TXT

sewhere published on this curious
subject; but to show how singular the laws are which determine the
reproduction of animals under confinement, I may mention that carnivorous
animals, even from the tropics, breed in this country pretty freely under
confinement, with the exception of the plantigrades or bear family, which
seldom produce young; whereas, carnivorous birds, with the rarest
exception, hardly ever lay fertile eggs. Many exotic plants have pollen
utterly worthless, in the same condition a
Is there an equivalent popular/influential book for modern fiction?
You could have designed a language like that, but Brendan didn't.
anonymous has been hitting targets listed in Prism presentation of late - could be one of the anonymous' casualties?
https://github.com/fog/fog

I haven't used it much but fog seems to be a nice gem that can manage not just Rackspace clouds but AWS and Digital Ocean too I believe (and perhaps more).
Only, what, 6 hours late?