skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whats somewhat sad about the western half of the empire is that the final 100-150 years were just riddled with things that were entirely avoidable and other stupidity like the treatment of the Gauls.

But they had a much harder time dealing with the huge influx of displaced Germanic tribes due to the (Mongols iirc?). The western half of the empire started down the road to things like castles and other behavior like large estates that directly fed into the middle ages. Diocletian and his division of things into dioceses also helped, but I think once they started down the path of dual Augustus/Caesar rule it was bound to fail due to the inevitable clashes of personality.

That said its a great story. A good overview of things is in the "History of Rome" podcast. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

Its long, but not as bad as The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. That book, the horrors.
The Surprisingly Simple Ways A Computer Virus Spreads Online (infographic)
>I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick, but in my mind, community-driven sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, are prone to the noise of do-nothing armchair experts (especially in this economy with the unemployment rate) who have nothing better to do than stir philosophical debates over nothing.

One man's "philosophical debate over nothing" is another man's passion.

And one man's "productivity" is another man's who gives a fuck.
sorry if this sounds stupid, but are all the effects done using only CSS?
That's much better implemented than I expected. Thanks for the link, I'll see if I can find a use for it.
I'm surprised Obama hasn't killed him with a drone yet.
Nice. Are you using the Tessaract OCR lib at the core of the extraction?
It would be interesting to see exactly what number of the community actually wants discussion posts and how many don't. Currently it is the community that votes to put a post "On Hold" before a mod comes around and verifies that it is a legit post that should be "closed." It is brought to their attention by the community who do not want it there. (And not just high rep members of the community.)
I posted an article recently about how the NSA tests young recruits in a military academy by hacking into their system. It's a great read.

"NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game (2008)"

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/05/nsa_cybe...

Attempting to defend a network against the NSA would be a fascinating experience. Probably much more challenging than this security companies PR stunt.
Not everyone can ride a bike. SV 20-somethings seem to not understand that we can't design the whole world around bikes. As you get older the appeal of a bike for transportation to all but the most devoted geriatric athlete diminishes.
Language and distance barriers are costs to outsourcing those folks. I don't care how skilled a developer is, or which direction the work is going (i.e. whether it's a US startup seeking to exploit, er, employ an Eastern European or vice versa). Unless you don't care about the quality of the code, those two factors matter a lot, and should be considered with much greater weight than they typically are (in my experience, at least), because the language and distance barriers will be additional factors in potential development that deviates from the requirements.
BT Releases 50TB Digital Archive of Company History Online (CC License)
Engelbart: Inventing the Mouse Was the Least of It
Is it enough to know one of for the backend and frontend or do you have to have a broader list of expertise?
I suspect that if he knew, he would not have signed it.
same here. I was hoping the story introduced a new paradigm of charging that eliminated 'suspending' accounts all together, such as pre-paid.
Foreign Exchange (FX)
Useless article is useless.
I'm having flashbacks to the Python trademark mess. From what I know of OVH, the CEO is the owner, so there's no effective oversight. He'll drag the company down with him.
I tried to translate some of his tweets. could somebody French check out what is he talking about there?

http://translate.google.com/#fr/en/%C3%A0%20nouveau%2C%20tu%....

again, you're not there. I do not have complained of losing "that guy." I said that it allowed us to see the real github

atrement: your tweet should be "not sharing code on github" "refusal to have legal investigations related to digital." is better?

No one yet who does not read what I wrote. I complain about legal investigations discrete causes. reread ..

Free pub wikileaks? shit to deal with? 6-month delay in the USA? takes your blackjack pub, not wants.

week we will publish pro .. but here on our servers. not on github.

a guy who tries to leave, leave. I have not, it is to fuel the bigdata from github
Effortless Two-Factor Authentication in Rails
Ban RT.com. They're a trashy linkbait tabloid like the dailymail.
The problem is our two party system is merely a distraction to keep us fighting with each other while massive changes are being made behind the scenes. Take any issue of importance (foreign policy, national debt, warrentless wire-taping, torture, personal liberty, free speech, etc) and you'll see both parties voting together to undermine our freedom and give themselves more power/money.
Apparently payola is alive & well at pandodaily.com.
Please keep the discussion constructive. No, there is no pun there.
Previous Discussion => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860755

If you've ever done a one person start-up... you might be a "full stack developer".
"Do you have one in green?"
The main job of any CEO is to destroy the career aspirations of his most talented employees.
Didn't experience that myself. It isn't native looking, but a good 80-90% of the transitions were acceptable. Lists were rough, but not unusable. [iPhone 4S]
No, you could go a million times faster. A million!

Here's an interesting resource:

http://www.endmemo.com/bio/grpm.php

Now, there might be reasons why a million g's might be a bad idea. Maybe 100K g's is a better choice. Someone with more expertise in centrifuge application could chip in and clarify this.
What does this relate to?

If it is kernel updates or anything installed on a customer's machine and he refuses the customer access to the code, he is in breach of the GPL.

I think it is time I looked for an alternate location to host the things I have on OVH servers, I don't want to be offering financial support to this sort of thing if I can help it.
I think the thing that really killed the Segway was the price. It's much more expensive than a bike or motorcycle and transports fewer people than a car.

If they were priced under $1000, Segways would probably be ubiquitous by now.
The idea of separation of power has, I believe, a flaw. Instead of considering the branches co-equal, it should be considered that the primary job of both the Legislative and Judicial is to limit the power of the Executive.

It should be obvious, but there was never any danger of the Judicial or Legislative to have too much power for itself.

At the moment, the Supreme Court/Judiciary is being usurped by by the use of secret FISA court as a sort of rival supreme court. The Legislature is essentially viewed with contempt and lied to with impunity by by the executive(Clapper, Alexander, etc.)
Hehe. Listen to yourself. So a plane crashing somewhere in the building, with a little help from gravity, can do the same as a prepared detonation that takes one month to plan, with carefully synchronized explosives around multiple central supports... Twice in a day.
OVH Salaries are known to be super low (25k-40k€) ... this is may be the reason why they do not want to stay in the first place.
Every linux distro has /dev/random as a good, cryptographically secure source of randomness that is refilled by as many sources as possible. It can and has been audited by many developers to ensure this. The main issue you will have is having multiple identical instances of a linux VM built from a single source, or something like that.

Alternatively, you suggest a sole remote source over a public internet connection. Assuming an eavesdropper, the source could be compromised or the strength of the resulting cipher be reduced. Assuming a malicious entity with network control, you're pretty much screwed.

If you don't trust your hardware, you can't be working with encryption.
Cool story. It sounds outrageous to anyone unfamiliar with blackberry, but from what I gather, _this is how blackberry works_. You dont check your email, BIS checks it for you.
http://forums.crackberry.com/native-blackberry-os-apps-f152/...
If it really is a "tube" it's a "big dig."
I definitely understand the sentiment in this comment, but if 60k annual is a good salary, think about 120k annually for just being a parasitic worm recruiter. Most folks at that "30 buck" rate have no idea that the employers would pay then much higher directly, and merely assume that the recruiter just took a flat fee. When it's understood that the recruiter took a percentage of the income, and that said percentage equates to double what the employee is actually getting paid... that's when the hatred starts.
I hear he's a godless traitor with a personality disorder!

By which I mean he's a good, well intentioned, honest man.
Going to a foreign land to plot against your home country isn't one of your freedoms.
Think of it as a kind of sacrificial metal. As it corrodes it prevents far worse corrosion. Totalitarian governments becoming corrupt cause an order of magnitude more damage per capita than rotting democracies.
Bluseed: startup community on a ship (easier visas)
As a follow up thought around this market perhaps the saturation is a good thing in the long run. Heroku definitely over charges, so having thought about it a little more I'll say I hope more of these come out and do a really cohesive job like this one is. It'll normalize the price over time and give more affordable options to the masses.
>It feels very prototype-ish and I can't help but feel that it's the precursor to something better Google might even be working on now as we try these.

^^ This is totally the point of this run of Google Glass. While this is a fair and worthwhile personal essay, I don't think it's a particularly impactful statement about the potential of the product. He's basically saying that, for $1500, he wants to be blown away now.

He doesn't want to pay a substantial premium "just" to be part of a privileged set of early-adopters. Everyone knows that this is still a beta, and improvements are on the way, so he's just saying the current iteration can't push him over the hump to hold onto the device (as opposed to recoup his cash).
Superhydrophobic Coating
> regulators in Europe have somehow managed to avoid this problem entirely

> Maybe if we had an organization equally responsible for both numbers we'd see better outcomes.

It's not a "somehow" -- you answered your own question! Add this to the long list of reasons why we should switch to single payer.
Measuring The Performance of Your Financial Portfolio
For a bit more background on the history of this experiment and why the previous drips were missed, check out this recent Radiolab podcast:

http://joshuafoer.com/radiolab-the-pitch-drop-experiment/
Thank God for a respite from the endless stories of the empire that have been on HN lately. I have very fond memories of Calvin & Hobbes, as well as Bloom County, and was sad to see those strips shut down in the 90s. I guess it's good for both artists that they quit before things got too tired, though.

Spaceman Spiff forever!
Oles is pretty much insane, having interacted with him (albeit indirectly) a couple times
A few corrections:

again, you're not there. I do not have complained of losing "that guy." I said that it allowed us to see the real github

atrement: your tweet should be "not sharing code on github" "refusal to have legal investigations related to TOR."

Yet another guy who does not read what I wrote. I complain about legal investigations TOR causes. reread ..

Free advertisement from wikileaks? shit to deal with? 6-month delay in the USA? keep your free advertisement, not wants.

next week we will publish them .. but here on our servers. not on github.

a guy who tries to leave, leave. What I forbidden, it is to fuel the bigdata from github

NB: It's forbidden to run a TOR node on OVH.
Let me be the first to say: if you don't want it, feel free to sell it to me (seriously, email in my profile). I tried some out when I was visiting the Bay Area and I did think they were amazing and magical; YMMV.

edit: The author mentions that he wasn't interested in developing an app for Glass anyways; I thought that was half the point of the Explorer program (unless you're a skydiver/ballerina/whatever who can produce awesome marketing content).
Class warfare is not so uncommon a plot device.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, just sit back and enjoy the ride.
The Global Religious Landscape
Oh, and can I get an "enterprise" version of the Transmogrifier? I'm gonna need that.
Leveling Up with HTML5 Games Contests
It would be ironic if this attack coincided with a real attack.
I will second this. I grew up in an old row-home in a town not far from Philadelphia. I have very vivid memories of laying on my bed at night sweating, box fan in the window set to "High" and just roasting. My father was in sales and would go on trips from time to time. I'd always hope for him to go during one of the heat spells because my mom would then let us sleep in their room which had an old window air conditioner.

In a detached house, you can at least get cross-currents going from whichever way the wind blows. But in a row-home, you are boxed in. Not to mention the fact that all the things in a city seem radiate heat: pavement, cars, trucks, the laundromat across the street, etc...

When my parents finally had enough money to move to the suburbs we got a brand new house with central A/C. I think it was 90+ degrees the day we moved in. I slept like a baby in the middle of the summer for the first time in my life. It was way more magical than any tech toy I've ever gotten since.
The wave won't push you along at the speed of sound; at any point on the wave from the wave's reference frame (the speed of sound) there is a net flow of particles heading the opposite direction, unless your amplitude gets so high that average particle velocity in some places starts to exceed the speed of sound, in which case you don't have a sound wave anymore I don't think.
Bradley Manning loses challenge to most serious charge
The reason we work is 1) to provide for the needs and desires of ourselves and our family, and 2) to perform meaningful tasks that give us structure, satisfaction, and self-actualization.

If a certain type of work is not providing you these, then do not pursue it.

Put equivalently, if doing tasks XYZ does not make you (or your family) happy, do not do them.

Put equivalently, pursue work-life balance. When you are 10 years older, and/or if/when you start a family, this will be vital to having a happy life.
As the caterpillar says, "a very good height."
The first paragraph says it all.

> "Yesterday I made the call to return my Google Glass. After months of anticipation, a trip to New York, and several weeks with the device, after much deliberation I decided the device wasn't ready for prime time and my $1,500 would be better spent elsewhere."

He shelled out for a beta product and was disappointed when it was, well, a beta product. More than that, even -- it was a beta version of a product which is the very first of its kind. I'm glad he was able to get his money back, but I'm not sure why he was surprised.
Men give us laws, 'God' gives us rights.

History is pretty clear that what's legal is not always what's right.
Do it for me is not a question. It is a demand and a lazy one.

> You make it sound like you got to where you are by yourself

Hardly. I ask questions. RTFM doesn't answer everything, nor does it explain, but you actually ask intelligent questions and are in a position to understand answers if you did some work before hand. Of course the referenced post wasn't looking for an answer to understand, they wanted 'use libfoo.'

> "Are we helping each other?" That's should always be the purpose of any community site

I have to write a script to install this thing here at work, would you mind doing it for me? That would be a BIG HELP to me.

See the problem yet? Technically it is a question, it would be a help to me. I suppose a community site would be more than happy to go about that then.

Oh and the response on any newsgroup for decades would be "Do your own damn homework, come back when you have a question."
#3 usually comes up on most "how to interview" guides as something you need to do, and so I used to ask a question just for the sake of it. I figured out late into my career why this is so important and why I always liked candidates who had a ton of questions for me:

Top performers usually have many career options and are very picky about the company they're going to join. Asking questions about the company shows that (a) you have other options and are "interviewing" the company for fit and also that (b) you care where you work. These are both very good indicators of a great employee.
Well, no, that's not the reason for suspending the 4th amendment. It may be a claimed reason, but searches are neither necessary nor sufficient to prevent planes from being used as weapons. Effective countermeasures are easy and don't require any constitutional violations: reinforce and lock cockpit doors, and convince passengers not to surrender to hijackers. This problem has been solved, and TSA checkpoints have absolutely nothing to do with it.
He is brave because he threw away his old life for something he believed in, and he is away from home because he is not stupid.
For some values of 'we' and 'all', maybe so.
I'm actually wearing Glass for my last day too.

First off, I do not have toys to communicate with Glass. I realize that Glass is too early. There are not enough data dumping devices available at decent prices. Withings, vehicle data, health data, all the things people try to keep private. That kind of data is what would be useful with Glassware.

The lack of a SDK and depending on RESTful services. I want to toy with sensors too. Delayed gratification does not work. Where are my long nights of programming?

Battery life and destroying my cell's data plan are also issues. I'll miss watching people's faces light up when they try it on.
Fun fact: if you start typing "Edward Sn..." into Google News, it will not auto-complete it. I don't know if there is an innocuous explanation, but it is consistent with a media that is trying to downplay stories like this.
The TOR discussion is totally unrelated ;D
yeah, the translation lost TOR, tx for the corrections.

I wonder what is it about 'fuel the bigdata from github'
That would only illustrate the same irony if the near deification of the mythologized version of the FFs by today's conservatives referred to in the grandparent post was also common in today's liberals.
> "2. You can challenge moderator decisions on Meta Stack Overflow, which is linked at the top of every single page on the site. (Or, if you have enough reputation, you can just vote counter to most moderator decisions directly on the site. It is democratic.)"

I had done that before, but it is not helpful nor democratic. For example I posted about a question I answered and that was closed as not a real question. Even when the issue was addressed, and it was accepted that the reason of closure didn't really apply to this case, it was reopened for a few minutes and then closed again for the same (invalid) reason.

At the end you can challenge whatever you want but the moderators that closed it on the beginning can close it again as many times as they want. They actually said that SO is not interested on generating new content since they already have a lot, so they will be really picky about what they consider a "good" question
One wonders if the tablet (or small tablet) isn't really just the last good form. We've spent decades building towards it. Time to stop and enjoy.

(That and make tablets cheap enough to be ubiquitous)
>So, to be clear, the first generation of polio vaccines did _not_ give polio to those who took them. The second generation, which has historically been more popular because people are more comfortable with oral than injected vaccines, occasionally does, though it's extremely rare.

My recollection of the details was mistaken. Thanks for the correction.
If internet memes were insects, I'd be breaking out the Raid for this one.
I believe it was a reference to the director's previous movie, District 9, which was set in the slums of South Africa.
Patch and diff mean the same thing in this context, AMHA the original translation is a legitimate clarification. But guy does work better.
Compose is even worse...
What I especially hate about it is that I expext no clutter around when composing new message, they just screwed up this for me totally. (Ok, I bet they can make it worse)
> doesn't Europe have similar regulations

The crucial difference is that Europe has primarily single-payer systems. They simply don't need a black market for legitimate drugs: even if you're poor, you can get them from the doctor.

To be fair, the government won't pay for any drug -- it decides how much it is willing to pay based on efficacy, and some drugs get priced out (arguably because they deserve to get priced out).
I agree with you that certain hard work is best done by one person, if we're talking considering problems with computationally deterministic solutions to be difficult (and ignoring 'standing on the shoulders of giants' effect) then you're probably right.

But, for the majority of difficult problems which don't have single fixed solutions, i.e. real-world problems, I wouldn't give a single expert working in isolation the time of day.

(The questions you suggest are straw men. I'll only say that I wouldn't want to see those on SE either, but I don't consider those are the style of questions under discussion here.)
I use POP because of inertia: When I first set up a Gmail account in 2004, I tried IMAP and it behaved in unexpected ways when organizing mail locally with my other POP accounts, so I switched it to POP and have never really had a reason to revisit that decision.

If I recall correctly, moving an IMAP email message into a local directory that the IMAP account didn't know about deleted it from the server, which I did not want. But I had this huge local organizational structure for all my emails from multiple accounts, so I could either choose to exclude Gmail from this organization, reconfigure everything so that my brand-new, unproven Gmail account was the master account that controlled everything, or just turn on Gmail's POP mode and maintain the status quo.

Honest question: If I have multiple email accounts, some of which are IMAP and some of which are POP, that I organize with a mail client on my local machine into directories that mix mail from all the accounts (is it even possible?), then if I change the directory structure on the server of one of the IMAP accounts, what is supposed to happen to my local directory structure and all the non-IMAP-mail or IMAP-mail-from-other-accounts, that used to be in those directories?
responded to your email. good luck.
Comparing traditional IT vs DevOps productivity
"Over several decades a number of drips did form in the funnel and fall into the jar, giving credence to the hypothesis that pitch is indeed viscous."

It sounds like the experiment, as designed, reached a conclusion in far less time than 69 years. It just took 69 years for someone to think about video taping it.
I'm trying to understand why or how he got it. Was he an #ifihadglass winner? Was he just a lucky individual at Google IO that decided to plop down the cash for what was definitely a developer-device?

I can understand that he doesn't think it's worth the price - because for a normal consumer it isn't. But I don't understand why he would have gotten it in the first place when it was so clearly limited in scope.