skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carter is a nice guy. My dad really likes him. His political views are actually quite consistent with the prevailing attitudes among my liberal friends and a lot of what I read on HN. So it's extremely telling that America dislikes him. The right has an intense hatred for him, and the left is at best ashamed of him. It's also extremely telling that America, on both sides of the aisle, loves Reagan, quite the opposite of Carter, someone who espoused a militarily powerful America that wasn't afraid to get its hands dirty abroad.

Obama seems, to me, to be a democrat for "Reagan's America." Socially liberal, but as willing to blow up random people in the Middle East as anyone who has come before him. When Obama killed Bin Laden and ran with that during the 2008 campaign, I could distinctly perceive democrats thinking: "we found our Reagan." It's no surprise then, that Obama's approval ratings on his handling of the war on terror are still in the black, and are surprisingly good overall for someone whose entire presidency has been mired in a terrible economy.

That doesn't seem to me to be a democracy that isn't functioning. It seems to me to be giving people what they want.
Did anyone else see that ESPN alone is only $6? But the "other" regional stations add the other $24?
You do know the Gruaniad is a far left socialist rag?
He's the reason we're in the Middle East.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine
Not really true, I have one that I wear regularly, and it could be used as one in limited fashion.

There's also a little Easter Egg in it that lets you see the entire Glass team, and look around at them, up, down, etc. and it's pretty engrossing, so you can use it as limited VR as well.
I know this is off topic, but how do I get one of those "<dev>" shirts?
the purpose of life is death. You were born to die. Everyone is.

SO its not the goal but the journey. Really is the journey
This might be an uncompressed version of the "?" script:

https://gist.github.com/ngs/4386450
You're the one that stood the Occupy strawman up, you shouldn't be surprised that someone came along to light it.
Right now we have soft limits- looks like it should stay that way.
I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS.

The "big" feature I would like to see is some kind of "super-easy" drag and drop feature where I could easily send video files to my iPad/iPhone without doing the whole Browser->IP:Port->Choose file, etc. A "video file right click -> VLC -> Send file to iPad (upload in background)" would put a smile on my face.
> There was no indication that Al Awalki's son was the target.

No, there was no indication. There was also no acknowledgement, apology, or explanation either. That's what the article is about.

What's done is done. The child is dead. What the government owes every citizen at this point is an explanation of what happened and a clear process to make sure it never happens again.

Instead, there's just silence.

Apparently you can just be killed by the US government for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, even though you're a citizen and deserve proper due process?

That's my take at this point. I wonder at what point the US government will start targeting individuals on US soil? We already have drones flying above our heads here at home. How soon until you're the collateral damage?
Interesting to watch how this plays out. As the per subscriber price rises the piracy rate will rise until you reach a point where any additional $ of price increase only increases piracy but not revenue. With somewhat more global knowledge one could plot that curve for a number of entertainment products.

Ultimately, I expect that things like Netflix (or Amazon video) will be the winner. Where small 'flooring' revenue (paid to keep the listing in the store) and incremental revenue from views, will dominate the distribution chain. The per-episode price will rise (perhaps Amazon will have a cap on total episodes + month like phone minutes but video minutes, with extra charges for overage) but the cable model is creaking, and I expect it to break.

Aero's win [1] is just going to push harder on that breakage.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/media/aereo-wins-...
So what about the questions pertaining to "obsolete" frameworks, should we scrap those too?
As exciting as this judgement of what is good information and bad information is its somewhat ironic that this categorisation is....... subjective. We have merely replaced flame wars with these debates. I don't think the time sink of productivity that you're evidently susceptible to (look at us both here!) is something that avoidable through censorship but a struggle that everyone must learn to deal with.

"How to create a while loop in C++03" is as you stated a terrible question become obviously this person hasn't even started on a project. Why don't they read a book? Is this their homework? ;)
Whereas when I found the closed question on javascript frameworks I was looking to make some major modifications to an existing web site. Problem is that its not as user-friendly as I'd like and the Javascript is becoming a mess so I think it would be a good call to go with backbone or knockout but I want a few sample opinions as part of my _research_.
But according to a response you gave me elsewhere, talking to peers that are probably more experienced in a given part of the field doesn't count as research. D:. According to the parent of this response my work related questions aren't even "real-world".

My issue with SO is they made a tool for developers who used it in many different ways. Then over the course of the next year and a half they started locking down on how _they_ wanted it used, (and by "they" I mean the most aggressive culture that prevailed amongst the owners/mods) I just find this a disappointment and a missed opportunity.

I had contributed over 10k's worth of rep there but after a while I just stopped going. It stopped being fun, it was no longer a community, we were no longer trying to help others as our primary goal. It made me sad.
I really want to see glass interact with your phone so that you can perform minute actions like pinching and zooming or turning on certain camera features with your phone still in your pocket.
This is an interesting wiki article on an ice baron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor#The_ice_business
The US gov't would pay $400k.
As for AMC and the like, I can't help but feel like their future is in allowing people to buy individual seasons of TV - like you can on DVD, but at broadcast. I don't watch 90% of AMC's output, but I'm glued to Breaking Bad and Mad Men.

AMC's a great example of why bundling "works" for content producers. They were a third or fourth tier network before Breaking Bad and Mad Men. But because they were on enough people's cable packages, they still had enough reach to bootstrap themselves to a point where they can charge the cable and satellite providers much more than they did before.

Imagine instead of letting almost anyone in America watch Mad Men for "free" after reading about it or hearing about it from a friend, AMC had to count on people calling up their cable company and tacking on their channel for a dollar a month. No way does that model make sense, and under it, Mad Men and Breaking Bad wouldn't have been made.

Obviously, there are alternative models that might work, but "paying for only the channels you watch" is a huge payoff to incumbents who already have shows you like.
> The alternative is to do the right

I recognize that you believe this alternative exists. I don't. I believe every action that could be taken is wrong, including no action. I believe that one of the core properties of any system is exploitability, including legal systems.

> As idealistic as that may be, society is far more organic than mere algorithms and functions; thus capable of being reformulated as necessary.

...how many instances of "reformulation" can you name of society, as compared to systems of algorithms and functions? Changing society in a meaningful and directed manner is damn near impossible. Algorithms get reformulated hourly.
Most GitHub projects had no open-source license, until now
"Peacock. Peacock."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_mF9e2svM
Ok... i've seen this a couple of times now.. someone please explain to me the point of base64 encoding parts of the page and saving them in hidden fields? It's not as if you can't decode, rewrite then re-encode that. Maybe it's just an Active Server thing?

Also, now I feel like an idiot for building Wordpress sites with custom themes and plugins for under a grand. Clearly I need to get me a government contract :/ .
I'm not sure that we're subsidising McDonalds as much as we are supporting people in a bad position. There will always be jobs that can't pay good wages and it's fine that these jobs don't pay well because these are jobs that require no skills and should only be worked by people new to working who are not dependant on their wages to live, teenagers or those in education. The real problem is that it's becoming more and more normal for people that should be in a career to work in a minimum wage job... forever.

My sister worked in a minimum wage job for a few years and that was fine, she was using it to gain work experience and the money she earned was enough to buy things she needed and to pay for her further education, now she has used that experience (and education) to start a career and hopefully within a couple of years she'll be well on her way to a lifetime of good earnings, all off of the back of minimum wage. The minimum wage being higher for her would have made no real difference, it was enough for her to justify working and to be able to afford to invest in her future. The problem lies entirely with the long term reliance on minimum wage, which is not a problem that McDonalds is responsible for.
I've only been to NYC a couple times but I remember seeing a lot of homeless people. I'm sure that there are resources you could use to find out where the unsheltered homeless population in NYC sleeps, if it isn't in the parks.
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IntelliJ will be the next editor we support, but we'll probably tidy up Vim and Emacs first.
> The system is utterly worthless if you don't believe it can correct egregious errors.

So, a system that corrects 99.9% of egregious errors, while alternatives correct 20%, is utterly worthless?
It's a tough situation to parse. On the one hand, if you stipulate that the US is going to engage "Al Qaeda" militarily, drone strikes probably save many lives; every alternative, from manned airstrikes through cruise missiles through (God forbid) boots on the ground --- every alternative is empirically worse.

On the other hand, the drone program in essence demands that the US conduct a long-running campaign of assassination. I might not have a moral problem with that in the specific case of actual, bona fide Al Qaeda personnel, but surely this can't be how we deal with all our adversaries moving forward?
> Apparently you can just be killed by the US government for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, even though you're a citizen and deserve proper due process?

You can't blame the government for not giving due process to someone killed in a military strike where the government didn't even know he was going to be there.

> I wonder at what point the US government will start targeting individuals on US soil?

The slippery slope argument here just doesn't hold up. It's not the first time in history an American has been killed collaterally in a military strike targeted at a foreign enemy. Thousands of American citizens, including POW's, were killed in Hiroshima: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20118397,00..... It's regrettable and unfortunate, but not a sign of some slippery slope leading to drone strikes on U.S. soil.

The fact is that the rules are different for engagements abroad versus engagements at home and always has been. Not just for the U.S., but for every country in the history of the world.
We're quite excited to be releasing this feature and would love to hear your thoughts! If you're an R user or do a lot of data analysis with R, while also collecting data online, do let us know! We'd love to chat.
You can put a train station mostly underground, with only a relatively small area aboveground. An airport is going to be 4 square miles, completely above ground, an entirely different story.

Currently with the only "fast" train in the US, you don't need to get on early, or go through special security. Why would this be different?
Cuba was a Spanish colony, and the U.S. gave them formal independence just four years after the war ended. It could easily have been permanently annexed.
I think it was more a:

"There are probably people out there who already know all of this information and are willing to share it" question.

I find it curious that you don't see asking peers for their opinion as a valid form of research.
In your iTunes model for AMC, producing high-quality shows like Breaking Bad or Mad Men suddenly takes on movie-like risk.

Undoubtedly. But sports are rarely going to be purchased after their live broadcast date, wheras high quality dramas will have a huge longtail of purchases- I just started watching The Wire, for example.

I think the reason that anyone has a bee in their bonnet about sports is that it commands far more money than other channels do. We are all subsidising sports fans far more than most other categories.
1. Shows how often I look at the path at the top. Bug filed. Probably will be fixed today.

2. Yeah... it turns out that one EC2 medium instance isn't the best thing to show HN with. I booted 4 servers to split out services, but I doubt we'll have everything moved until tonight.

Thank you for your feedback and your patience.
Sports is just one part of overall package that explains why I no longer subscribe to satellite or cable: I don't feel I'm getting good value for my money. Summarizing what started out as a much longer paragraph, we were paying $80/month for a lot of crap, crap we would never care to watch. Buried in that $80/month somewhere was ESPN.

AMC, however, continues to get our money. _Breaking Bad_ and _Mad Men_ are two shows that I just pre-pay for the seasons as soon as iTunes makes them available. I don't even know how much a season costs because I don't care; take my money, damn it. And we get episodes the day after they air. (_Walking Dead_, OTOH...meh, two season of that was enough.) TNT and _Falling Skies_, same thing: take my money. _House of Cards_ and _Arrested Development_ were enough to get me to come back to Netflix. I've got money, and a fair amount of it; I'm willing to pay for good programming.

But what I won't do is pay a bunch of money for reality shows and ESPN. I don't want to hear sob stories about how it's just not financially feasible to do it any other way. Figure out a way, because I can live just fine with the TV I've got, or none at all. And if I'm just not the kind of TV customer anyone wants, I'm fine with that, too.
"Few" is and understatement. Searching on Google News for "no functioning democracy" yields only two recognizable US outlets: Huffington Post and The Atlantic Wire.
Chris Dixon has a great post about this phenomenon:

http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...
You need to avoid drag losses if you are not using air in first place, because then any drag losses is wasted fuel and reaction mass.

But if you are using a air turbine, you can attempt to make it more economical than the losses from drag and extra machinery weight.

This is more for some type of missions though, if you wanted to make a rocket to pluto, then probably the extra weight is bad, but for a orbital space shuttle this is awesome.

I see the optimal path for long term exploration is use such turbine/rocket hybrids to build orbital shipyards, and then use those shipyards already in the orbit to build pure-rocket ships for missions that don't need to start on the planet (like a voyager-like exploration mission, or launching a hovercraft scout to gas giants...)
The Dropbox integration may very well make it that easy, simply drop into your Dropbox folder and hey presto. Although waiting for it to sync to AWS might be painful, I wonder if the iOS and Android clients do local syncing like the desktop clients do when on the same network?
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Thank you for that concept. I'm going to go have a drink and hold my head for a bit, but it's definitely a useful way to think about it.
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Yeah but don't forget what else was in that future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-wfcujaNE Wouldn't you at least want to try it out?
We are working on something related for OpenGlass, using your location, images, and sensor info to better understand your context. We'll be posting a new video this weekend with details. The new motorola phone is moving that way too (knows when you are driving, etc). Also related is https://ifttt.com/.
The main advantage of the Sabre concept is not only using outboard air as substitute for onboard oxidizer, but also as reaction mass. This allows to accelerate to over Mach 5 while still flying in airbreathing mode, using a fraction of the amount of fuel that would be required to reach the same speed on pure rocket power, and no onboard oxidizer. Once that speed is reached, the air becomes too thin for the air-breathing mode to continue functioning, and the engines switch to rocket mode, burning onboard oxidizer instead of air; but because the ship is nearly out of the atmosphere at this point, it doesn't take much to finish accelerating to orbital speed. Think of it basically as replacing the whole first stage of a conventional rocket with some jet engines and a sip of fuel for them.
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The TaskQueue API with RabbitMQ and Celery
Because filters and labels are so fun to manage.
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Really interesting idea guys, looking forward to giving it a try. If you're in San Francisco i'd love to hook up and talk remote collaboration :-)
There's also only one person who could single-handedly stop this from becoming law. And that one person, that one single point of failure who doesn't have a hive mind to hide behind, is Obama.

But to your point, congress certainly warrants equal rebuke.
> Not a great analogy.

Once upon a time, someone made a hammer. A year later, someone else took that hammer and used it to break someone's face in. Sad face.

Happy?
Right below the word "locked" it gives the reason why. The help center explains more.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask
Legit concern for a nuclear bomb on an American soil? Plug that into the decision matrix. It's the only possble justification I can come up with for kill lists and domestic spying. Not even the 9/11 attack justifies current scope of anti-terror programs, and the precedent for a 'new normal.'
We are just using Github for auth right now. One day it would be nice to be able to suck in private repos. We could probably add support for Mozilla Persona without much trouble. The real problem is presenting a sane UI.
I just don't see why anybody would bomb a valet-parked car. It would not make for very good terrorism.
Can't you basically do this in Firefox now (with the developer console and inspector)? What does this product do that you cannot do with current browser developer tools?
Reverse-engineering the flag circuits in the 8085 processor
'A drunk driver expedited our cloud migration.'
The DC Metro actually had "Stand to the right" signs many years ago, but they all disappeared one day.

Local legend has it that someone with a medical condition who couldn't stand right got tired of being berated by other passengers who would point to the signs as justification. This person raised the issue and Metro responded by removing the signs.

Given what I know of the system, it certainly seems plausible, but I think it a bit more likely that the signs were an unchecked code violation [0] from the start rather than their removal a knee-jerk reaction to an upset customer. Not to say that knee-jerk reactions would be out of character for them.

Apparently, there has been discussion about bringing the signs back [0].

0: http://www.welovedc.com/2010/07/20/dc-mythbusting-stand-to-t...
If anyone's curious, a long time ago I wrote about why I chose to make this: http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/10/19/cross-editor-real-time-coll...

I didn't realize it would be as hard as it's been. Operational transformation is hard. Persistent network connections in editor plugins are hard. OT + network connections in editor plugins is comically hard.
So how exactly has the licensing issue been resolved? Has the core VLC library been re-licensed or dual licensed under the Mozilla license?
Are you suggesting everyone write their own email client?
Definitely utility there, but I assume there's always room for bigger and conformable screens, gestural UIs, etc.

When you're walking around all the time, not having to hold something is a pretty huge selling point.
Agreed. This looks like an awesome tool but I(and others I work with) want the ability to try it privately.

I did try though and was very impressed.
> 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

No Stack Overflow moderator told you that.
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Yglesias on the same phenomenon:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/17/a_la_carte_es...
> The Segway was demonstrably inferior to commonplace alternatives on simple metrics alone: speed, capacity, cost, safety, comfort.

Metrics are like statistics, in that they can also mislead. It's really about the experience in specific contexts.

> It was only hyped because it was "cool".

Actually, it failed because it just looked dorky. (Which Steve Jobs predicted in his secret meeting with Dean Kamen.) Good tech badly marketed sometimes still doesn't sell.
So, on the other hand, that means that channels other than ESPN would be drastically cheaper, given that such a huge chunk of current cable subscription fees are currently subsidizing these two channels.
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Not that I don't like the Mythbusters (I do like them) but the math and physics are already beyond them.
I wish we could do that, but it is really annoying to do, since it almost needs a special desktop app to do so. And the iDevice must be in the listening mode...

Drag'n drop in the browser is the best we have so far. Maybe a later version with Bonjour will come... Patches welcome :)
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Android, at least here, does not sync the files to the device at all until you attempt to look at them
>it's been my default video app since I can remember.

Curious as to what you think about MPlayer, MPC-HC, or mpv, which have mostly taken the crown in nerd circles as being the de facto video players.
They already store systemd configuration in /usr/lib/systemd and symlink to /etc where you can override stuff, so you're not that far off.
>>>>>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.

Also keep in mind more and more places are banning them over privacy concerns. How bad would that suck you drop $1500 and you can't even use it most of the time since so many places are banning them?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3009432/tech-forecast/tracking-th...
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