skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted. It depends where you live. If transit is a priority, you want to live near the Canada line, which is fast, clean and has really good security.

If you live out in the burbs, transit is okay, but not better than most European cities.

Downtown Vancouver and false creek were designed with density and walking in mind. Every condo tower must have street level retail, and they make sure to have essential things like good grocery stores every few blocks. Check out the walk score for Yaletown: http://www.walkscore.com/score/davie-st-and-pacific-boulevar...
Show HN: Introducing mdoc
I specifically don't understand it when it comes to Linux distros. You can be labelled as "non-free" simply for having non-free packages available to download, even if they're clearly marked as such and it's easy to put an installation in free-only mode.

> would rather see them fail than succeed on non-FSF terms

I went to a presentation by RMS at a local university a few years ago, and this is almost exactly what he said - even when a questioner applied it to cases like charities and orphanages that might theoretically rely on Windows-only software to do their work. If it's not 100% FSF pure, it's evil, end of discussion, damn the consequences.
Google Drive pages very slow to load using Chrome
Was the Android content bundled? Could the app download it to work around the rule?
would this be a good fit for storing and serving lots of images?
I am experiencing the same on high end PCs.
See the difference between two versions of code/text
Lexing has been a bottleneck in every compiler I've built. The only answer I have is that ASTs are a lot smaller than source code.

Templates are stored as ASTs. They are not re-lexed.
IIRC it only took me an hour or two to read the book.
This is neither productive or substantive - so will Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

If we keep saying "the sky is going to fall - just you wait" with no data/analysis to back this up, eventually we all will be proven right. But you're not really saying anything.
I clicked Google login, and then it autopopulated my name and email (I assume from my Google data).
Unhygienic ("anaphoric") Clojure macros for fun and profit
One of the neat things about dollars is that they are convertible into [someone else] getting up at 4AM, [someone else] waiting in a three-hour queue, and [someone else] writing a bot.
Dinosaur. We're moving towards minimal formatting, and web-based solutions (like Google Docs).

The ones who need typesetting are stuck with LaTeX anyway.
Twitter Streaming API + SignalR + Google Maps = Powerful Stuff
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

The folks looking to increase their power at the expense of the citizenry are relentless. They spend their nights and weekends thinking up new ways to be more dominant. As citizens, we can't expect to combat their never-ending efforts with luke-warm responses or apologetics for our favorite political leaders.

When it comes to privacy/liberty/freedom, the only reasonable response to government incursion is a strong and unequivocal one.
Flagged and others should, also. I don't think we need to feed TC any more clicks for worthless content.

Edit: if you need any more evidence to flag it, just witness the quality of the comments this "article" inspired.
According to Shuttleworth, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut... the best way to get hardware manufacturers to open their code is to show that there's demand. It's not that Ubuntu is putting the "last 1%" off until later, but they are putting pressure on those closed systems by succeeding now!
I wonder how best to use this with a local Plex Media Server. I only really have one projector/ht directly attached to the media server right now, but in a future where I have N TVs throughout the house, it would be nice to have a $35 device on each to stream content. AppleTV support is pretty weak for PMS.

I'd really prefer wired gig-e, though. 802.11n is borderline for a busy network with several video streams. At that point I'd end up running a bunch of separate wifi APs, which raises the cost to where real wired devices start to be cheaper again.
> What guideline is being broken?

The guideline where when you sign up as a developer with Apple, you agree to a contract that says they can remove your content at any time if they feel like it.
You shouldn't worry too much about "way less than you".

Think, for example, about the food you buy. For most people, there are alternatives available that are much cheaper. E.g., you could be buying beans and rice in 10 lb sacks. Or you could be haunting grocery stores for scratch-n-dent sales on generic food.

Now think of a specific purchase you made and ask yourself: Why do you pay more than the minimum? What are your motivations, and how do you make your choices?

Sometimes price matters a lot, and it always matters a little. But it's rarely the biggest factor in a purchasing decision.
No, I believe that we do not understand how far nature has taken us. We assume that genetic material moving around is accidental. I assume that most of the movement is intentional within the evolved system. I assume that we should not move it around without first at least considering that nature could be more advanced that we think it is. We should quarantine our changes.
I'm curious who you have switched to. Mind sharing?
Watch the Professor: On Aaron Lecklider's 'Inventing the Egghead'
I wouldn't be so sure - if anything the UK is more monitored by our own agencies than the NSA monitoring America. We just don't know about it so much. I guess the only difference is the lack of 'backdoors', but I highly doubt Digital Ocean has such a 'backdoor' as well.

Assuming this is the case it is likely both services will be under as much surveillance as each other.
Basic Google search:

Graph Search,
Site Re-design on all platforms,
Newsfeed algorithm changes that increased engagement,
Significant growth and mobile penetration in international markets (now over 1.1+ BILLION people) -- i.e. making it easier for people on dumb phones to access Facebook,
messaging improvements and stickers (which is HUGELY popular),
...etc.etc.
Do you use the same metric for everyone else?

By your reasoning would designers, lawyers, graphics folk, accountants, managers and marketers not be contributing to a software company?
>For example a RAM stick breaks and has to be switched out, I guess it takes a systems engineer in the NOC at least 30 minutes to locate the server, disconnect it, replace the stick, mount the server

These servers run without cases, using water cooling. Hardware failure automatically notifies the NOC with the location of the failed hardware and replacement parts are already waiting on the desk.

>handful of these gimmick servers

OVH is one of the largest ISPs in the world, and is well known for disruptive pricing and services, such as 100/100 Mbps broadband to the home for $20/month.
Fake memory implanted in mice with a beam of light
The absolute hardest part I have when donating on this site is having to choose who gets your money. It hurts me a lot realizing just how much help people in poverty need, and it hurts even more knowing that I (or anyone else for that matter) lack the resources to help everyone in need.

That said, congrats to the team for tackling such a worthy cause.
Actually, the article I wanted to see was mentioned above: http://tech.co/treehouse-ipad-app-2013-07. Coming from a press release, or a quote from the CEO. TNW however did not relay who the quote was coming from, and some random guy at treehouse may not have all the facts. But apparently, Apple is up to it's old tricks.
Top tip: don't use "Micro$oft" if you want people to take you seriously.
"The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish" is incompatible with the security and proper functioning of the cellular RF spectrum.

Other people want to use the airwaves, too. In fact some people have come to rely on the availability of voice calls such that it would be a Very Bad Thing if an amateur's typo took out voice and data for several city blocks. Also the carriers will never in a million years authorize people to transmit as they wish on cellular networks.

The radio firmware, at the very least, has to be closed source.
For backup, you could use duplicity or obnam, both of which gpg encrypt incremental backups.

For file storage, you can use git-annex which gpg encrypts data stored on rsync special remotes. I hope to add gpg encrypted git repositories to it soon too.

Or tahoe-lafs, which encrypts files and allows sharing them by sharing a special url.
I consider Separation of Concerns, Dependency Injection, and TDD to be basic software engineering principles. Sure if you have a mostly static page with a few dynamic components jQuery will work fine, but with a larger project that you really need to consider a more maintainable architecture.
The post you linked to was stupid. I did, in fact, read it, and I feel dumber for having done so. I award its author (and you) -1 point, and may God have mercy on both your souls.
That could help. But right now i found out that elections are held in the first week of November for house of representatives every two years, and any elections outside of that are due to edge cases like resignation or death. It could be done for 2014 though. Would that be valuable?
What? Encrypt it on your system, store the encrypted blob there. Add a simple web server to host them.

If you do any crypto on these servers, obviously anyone with physical access could compromise it (although potentially not without alerting you that it had been).
First, I think FSF is right to ask for clarifications since nowadays the "open source mark" is confusing and companies are using it in ambiguous ways. And I copy a comment I did today in another thread:

Ubuntu Edge or not, at the end we will have a free open source solution for mobiles running Linux or any other operating system.
I am not "blaming" Ubuntu/Mark for the late start, I am blaming GNU for not pushing hard enough. While they were discussing and criticizing Microsoft's push of a newer boot system the main vendors in the mobile space were closing our freedom to install what we like in our devices. For example, with the slow update cycles of Android on fully capable mobile devices I would rather prefer to install a good Linux distribution there.
The rule of thumb is that you get a 10% boost if you use the LLVM or the GCC backend compared to DMD.

I googled a little for a go vs gccgo comparison, but found no general numbers. The situation is similar.
They're pretty sure it's the same light because (in other experiments with stopped light, not sure about this paper in particular) it maintained the same quantum information as the input light. Stopped light maintains superpositions etc.
These are all in GRA. I get 10ms from London.
When and Why You Should Use C++
Some people are born to be klutzy -- but there may be a 'cure'
RAID isn't backup anyway -- it's for uptime.
They may want to license their software later as a revenue stream, in furtherance of their mission.
Seed Repo: Angular, Coffee-Script, Grunt, Karma, Stylus + more
Indeed. For the uninitiated, I would venture to guess a majority of OVH network traffic is BitTorrent.
Don't get me wrong, this is an awesome offer but because I believe that these may be not available for a long time I am currently in the check out process, ordering one of these for a year even though I don't have an immediate use.

Edit: Order placed, eagerly awaiting my Isgenug (that is what they are called for the German market) :)
Jive CEO: Yammer is 'dead'
Did you listen to the phone call? It's possible that she was subtly threatening an innocent autistic man for the thrill of power that comes from shutting them up. It's more likely that after receiving a complaint from some angry citizen about "this crazy autistic guy online that keeps posting stuff on the internet about me even though it gets deleted" she decided to try to satisfy both parties by defusing the whole thing. Especially if she sympathized with the autistic guy after reading the post and suspected (i) he probably wasn't doing much harm and definitely wasn't intending to but (ii) probably wouldn't stand a chance in a courtroom if the angry citizen that kept badgering her followed through with his legal threats.

It actually scans better if you assume the policewoman was exceeding her authority and legal knowledge in an attempt to prevent the needless harm of a disabled citizen being sued into oblivion by some over-litiguous asshole. And I'm generally in favour of police exercising that sort of discretion.
What field are you in, if you don't mind my asking?

I work with multiple small businesses, one of which is a vehicle for consultancy/freelance work, so we have some diversity. Everything we do is using creative technologies, whether it's software development, web sites, etc.

That means we deal with a lot of technical files (but things like source code or HTML/CSS are all plain text) and a lot of client-facing documentation (but that would typically be done with software like TeX or Creative Suite and probably supplied as a PDF). That doesn't leave a lot for the middle ground where tools like Word are useful, so while we do keep LibreOffice around, it's mostly so we can read word processor documents sent to us and create the occasional simple spreadsheet, not for any of our serious creative work.
Cool. I hope they do make it an extra-cost option, because +1 for price discrimination.
I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this information. On the one hand, I would applaud any ISP that tried to make a stand against the NSA or any other organization that tries to collect data unconstitutionally, but then the NSA can show up with a legal order and their own equipment and shoehorn them in wherever and however they please. On the other hand, if they do cooperate then if that information got out it could be very damaging to their reputation.

Sort of a Catch-22 for the ISPs.
Actually what the article says is that we have been using genetic modifications since the dawn of agriculture. Four hundred years ago carrots were not orange, broccoli did not exist. Countless varieties were produced using aggressive methods inducing mutations as well as selection by humans over the accidental mutations.

None of these new breeds were subjected to the same rigorous standards of verification and safety as the produce labeled as 'GMO' today. Worse all new varieties produced with the same forced shuffling are similarly not tested with the same standards as GMOs are.

There have yet to been someone poisoned by 'GMO' varieties whilst there are plenty of such accidents in case of 'classic' breeding. A very good book on this subject is "Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Food", that by no accident was written by a scientist and not an activist.
page isn't accessible at this time. does anyone have a short copy or something?
At This Startup, the (Incredibly Stylish) Inmates Run the Asylum
I know you are probably far too far down that rabbit hole to hear me, but herd immunity is vital for those who do not have the option of getting vaccinated.
Like the sibling commenter asked, do you have any sources that break this down further? Your response there had too much on the attack/defense angle for campaigns. What exactly is the relationship between a whip, the passage of legislation, and the dollar valuation of voting yes/no? How are votes quantified into dollars in such a way that a whip figures out if a bill will pass, then lets reps vote 'however will get them more money'?
Key point:

"To say that there is a major sea change underway - not just in terms of surveillance policy but broader issues of secrecy, trust in national security institutions, and civil liberties - is to state the obvious. But perhaps the most significant and enduring change will be the erosion of the trite, tired prism of partisan simplicity through which American politics has been understood over the last decade. What one sees in this debate is not Democrat v. Republican or left v. right. One sees authoritarianism v. individualism, fealty to The National Security State v. a belief in the need to constrain and check it, insider Washington loyalty v. outsider independence.

That's why the only defenders of the NSA at this point are the decaying establishment leadership of both political parties whose allegiance is to the sprawling permanent power faction in Washington and the private industry that owns and controls it. They're aligned against long-time liberals, the new breed of small government conservatives, the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, many of their own members, and increasingly the American people, who have grown tired of, and immune to, the relentless fear-mongering."
Funny, our Muslim friends have a rather more "conservative" definition. Are you saying that yours is the definition that should apply across all cultures and creeds, suitable for enshrinement in national law?
Experimenting With Babies: Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid
Not to mention binary blobs are at least slightly more free than having the firmware built in to the device, which the FSF doesn't object to.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100614#feature
4 Overlooked Effects that Could Drive Mac Sales Higher
Oh gosh, come off it. I agree with wellington's subsequent post that such contextual information is worth knowing because anyone looking to learn programming from scratch will probably be demotivated by this post. I mean, Github by itself will confuse from-scratch beginners! Imagine seeing that as your benchmark, and looking at your own work on day 10.

It's an amazing feat, and she clearly has much more aptitude (and dedication) for the skills than I do. I applaud what she's done. But I'm hard-pressed to believe she started with a blank slate, and I wouldn't want any true beginner to believe that either. I'm not saying that she knew even one programming language before starting, or that she had any sort of expertise whatsoever. But a rudimentary understanding of some key terms and concepts? Seems plausible-to-likely.

I don't think that diminishes the work in any way whatsoever. The work and the effort are amazing.
James, which is why when you do an acquisition of a public company, you py a significant premium - because you don't need to consider just the spot investor; rather, you have to consider what those who think its undervalued believe as well. The spot price / market cap is a good way of getting the marginal value, so to speak of the company - in an acquisition, you're paying a premium to convince others to sell even if it is a significant surplus to what the marginal investor believes.
Look into the Green Revolution, e.g. start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution ; if you're growing or using a cereal that's from a dwarf/semi-dwarf plant variety, before modern genetic engineering it probably had untold horrors committed on it to achieve higher yields.
Wow that's awesome. Although most of my IE users are still on IE8.

I'm sure this will be great when IE14 is out and my users have moved on to IE11.
That's a fair point, but yes, I think market cap is the best way to measure the value of a company.

One problem with the "how much would you have to spend to buy the company" is that it gives you a much larger answer than the "how much would you collect if you sold the company," but it's hard to see why one measure should be preferred over the other.

It's true that the spot price only measures the valuation at the margin, but the margin is set by the consensus of the market participants (if anyone disagrees with it, they are free to buy or sell until they agree). The price at the margin of trading also reflects expectations of the company without any change in management (which is one reason that trying to buy or sell a whole company can cost much more or less than the spot price).
I would hazard a guess that it's an HDTV, and Alex just hooked his laptop up to it for awesomeness purposes when the reporters were over.
Nice joke! But I think the current "state of the union" regarding open source and mobile is depressing. I am not a fundamentalist but I want to be able to modify my mobile operating system like I did with my PC twenty years ago. Twenty years later I use many different devices and operating systems but I am "frustrated" by the mobile world.
iOS is user-friendlier in the start, that's true.

Android indeed has a "bigger" learning curve which make people more efficient in a short time for doing things with their phone/tablet.

Easy example, Tasker, Gravity screen, NFC and Autovoice...
That is actually an incredible idea.
> A novel concept that people may want to attempt to grasp is that there could be no rulers, and as such, there's no need to make up a fictitious "new ruler".

Do you want to run the country? Do you think you have the time to run every aspect of the country? If you don't, then you need to delegate the authority to run those things to others. And then the people who are doing those jobs become the rulers in those areas.

And those areas are going to have to work together, at which point you get hierarchies and people similar to managers and fairly rapidly you end up with what we'd call a government.

If you believe there's a better way to run things, then start a company that works in a more egalitarian manner and scale it. As I understand it though, companies that work even vaguely like that have never scaled well beyond a few hundred people at most - i.e. Dunbar's number.

If you want to solve the problem of people needing a government there are serious questions about complexity and conscientiousness (do people even want to run their own affairs?) and how people are meant to work together when they can't know everything about all the areas they'd have to oversee without empowering others even if they just did that as their full time job.

So, my answer to why do I think people need rulers is, essentially, that equality doesn't seem to scale well to the sorts of problems that a country would have to address at the moment - and, implicitly, that anywhere that decides not to be a country anymore is going to get walked all over by anyone that decides to still be a country.
Additional information: You can't add ip failover on your server. i ordered one 3€ server
There is something to be desired about an attitude that conflates people having different values and priorities with their being "idiots."
11 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 111.052/116.042/120.117/3.412 ms

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I agree. 90% of my IE users are still on IE8. By the time they get IE11 I'm sure it will give me just as many issues as IE8 gives me now.
tangential but has anyone been to state bird provisions? I keep meaning to go, but don't because of the reservation saga.
position of power

As I said, the law enforcement involvement is wrong, but I don't blame the parlor owner for trying to do SOMETHING.

Not everyone owns a business, especially one that takes the hard work and makes as little money as something like a typical pizza parlor (there's a reason why they're notorious for not lasting long).

So imagine you hire someone to do some work for you, say just odd jobs around your house like fixing faucets, repairing some shutters. You go out of your way to hire someone who could use a break. For some reason it doesn't work out, say he ends up breaking more shutters than he fixes -- so you let him know that you no longer want him to do odd jobs for you.

Now the guy gets pissed and makes it his mission to start messing with you. He's calling your boss/employer, he's driving by your house and telling your neighbors what an a-hole you are, and all around trying to make your life hell because you didn't like the work he was doing for you. It begins to impact your job, maybe costs you a raise or promotion because it's viewed that you're now part of the problem.

So you do nothing?
How big do 100km bundles of fiber get?